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Hervé

10th April 2014, 21:13

Russia not to restore Ukraine’s economy single-handedly - Putin in letter to EU leaders. FULL TEXT (http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_04_10/Russia-not-to-restore-Ukraine-s-economy-single-handedly-Putin-in-letter-to-EU-leaders-FULL-TEXT-0349/)

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© Photo: RIA Novosti/Mikhail Klementyev

Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed possible mechanisms to European leaders for urgent discussion of the situation with Ukraine's debt for Russian gas, Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a statement. Putin's letter was sent on Thursday to the leaders of Moldova, Romania, Turkey, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Macedonia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria, Austria, and Italy. Here is the full text of it:

Ukraine’s economy in the past several months has been plummeting. Its industrial and construction sectors have also been declining sharply. Its budget deficit is mounting. The condition of its currency system is becoming more and more deplorable. The negative trade balance is accompanied by the flight of capital from the country. Ukraine’s economy is steadfastly heading towards a default, a halt in production and skyrocketing unemployment.

Russia and the EU member states are Ukraine’s major trading partners. Proceeding from this, at the Russia-EU Summit at the end of January, we came to an agreement with our European partners to hold consultations on the subject of developing Ukraine’s economy, bearing in mind the interests of Ukraine and our countries while forming integration alliances with Ukraine’s participation. However, all attempts on Russia’s part to begin real consultations failed to produce any results.

Instead of consultations, we hear appeals to lower contractual prices on Russian natural gas – prices which are allegedly of a "political" nature. One gets the impression that the European partners want to unilaterally blame Russia for the consequences of Ukraine’s economic crisis.

Right from day one of Ukraine’s existence as an independent state, Russia has supported the stability of the Ukrainian economy by supplying it with natural gas at cut-rate prices. In January 2009, with the participation of the then-premier Yulia Tymoshenko, a purchase-and-sale contract on supplying natural gas for the period of 2009-2019 was signed. The contract regulated questions concerning the delivery of and payment for the product, and it also provided guarantees for its uninterrupted transit through the territory of Ukraine. What is more, Russia has been fulfilling the contract according to the letter and spirit of the document. Incidentally, Ukrainian Minister of Fuel and Energy at that time was Yuriy Prodan, who today holds a similar post in Kiev’s government.

The total volume of natural gas delivered to Ukraine, as stipulated in the contract during the period of 2009-2014 (first quarter), stands at 147.2 billion cubic meters. Here, I would like to emphasize that the price formula that had been set down in the contract had NOT been altered since that moment. And Ukraine, right up till August 2013, made regular payments for the natural gas in accordance with that formula.

However, the fact that after signing that contract, Russia granted Ukraine a whole string of unprecedented privileges and discounts on the price of natural gas, is quite another matter. This applies to the discount stemming from the 2010 Kharkiv Agreement, which was provided as advance payment for the future lease payments for the presence of the (Russian) Black Sea Fleet after 2017. This also refers to discounts on the prices for natural gas purchased by Ukraine’s chemical companies. This also concerns the discount granted in December 2013 for the duration of three months due to the critical state of Ukraine’s economy. Beginning with 2009,the total sum of these discounts stands at 17 billion US dollars. To this, we should add another 18.4 billion US dollars incurred by the Ukrainian side as a minimal take-or-pay fine.

In this manner, during the past four years, Russia has been subsidizing Ukraine’s economy by offering slashed natural gas prices worth 35.4 billion US dollars. In addition, in December 2013, Russia granted Ukraine a loan of 3 billion US dollars. These very significant sums were directed towards maintaining the stability and creditability of the Ukrainian economy and preservation of jobs. No other country provided such support except Russia.

What about the European partners? Instead of offering Ukraine real support, there is talk about a declaration of intent. There are only promises that are not backed by any real actions. The European Union is using Ukraine’s economy as a source of raw foodstuffs, metal and mineral resources, and at the same time, as a market for selling its highly-processed ready-made commodities (machine engineering and chemicals), thereby creating a deficit in Ukraine’s trade balance amounting to more than 10 billion US dollars. This comes to almost two-thirds of Ukraine’s overall deficit for 2013.

To a large extent, the crisis in Ukraine’s economy has been precipitated by the unbalanced trade with the EU member states, and this, in turn has had a sharply negative impact on Ukraine’s fulfillment of its contractual obligations to pay for deliveries of natural gas supplied by Russia. Gazprom neither has intentions except for those stipulated in the 2009 contract nor plans to set any additional conditions. This also concerns the contractual price for natural gas, which is calculated in strict accordance with the agreed formula. However, Russia cannot and should not unilaterally bear the burden of supporting Ukraine’s economy by way of providing discounts and forgiving debts, and in fact, using these subsidies to cover Ukraine’s deficit in its trade with the EU member states.

The debt of NAK Naftogaz Ukraine for delivered gas has been growing monthly this year. In November-December 2013 this debt stood at 1.451,5 billion US dollars; in February 2014 it increased by a further 260.3 million and in March by another 526.1 million US dollars. Here I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in March there was still a discount price applied, i.e., 268.5 US dollars per 1,000 cubic meters of gas. And even at that price, Ukraine did not pay a single dollar.

In such conditions, in accordance with Articles 5.15, 5.8 and 5.3 of the contract, Gazprom is compelled to switch over to advance payment for gas delivery, and in the event of further violation of the conditions of payment, will completely or partially cease gas deliveries. In other words, only the volume of natural gas will be delivered to Ukraine as was paid for one month in advance of delivery.

Undoubtedly, this is an extreme measure. We fully realize that this increases the risk of siphoning off natural gas passing through Ukraine’s territory and heading to European consumers. We also realize that this may make it difficult for Ukraine to accumulate sufficient gas reserves for use in the autumn and winter period. In order to guarantee uninterrupted transit, it will be necessary, in the nearest future, to supply 11.5 billion cubic meters of gas that will be pumped into Ukraine’s underground storage facilities, and this will require a payment of about 5 billion US dollars.

However, the fact that our European partners have unilaterally withdrawn from the concerted efforts to resolve the Ukrainian crisis, and even from holding consultations with the Russian side, leaves Russia no alternative.

There can be only one way out of the situation that has developed. We believe it is vital to hold, without delay, consultations at the level of ministers of economics, finances and energy in order to work out concerted actions to stabilize Ukraine’s economy and to ensure delivery and transit of Russian natural gas in accordance with the terms and conditions set down in the contract. We must lose no time in beginning to coordinate concrete steps. It is towards this end that we appeal to our European partners.

It goes without saying that Russia is prepared to participate in the effort to stabilize and restore Ukraine’s economy. However, not in a unilateral way, but on equal conditions with our European partners. It is also essential to take into account the actual investments, contributions and expenditures that Russia has shouldered by itself alone for such a long time in supporting Ukraine. As we see it, only such an approach would be fair and balanced, and only such an approach can lead to success.

Deficit of trade balance with EU keeps Ukraine from fulfilling its obligations under gas contracts with Russia - Putin (http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_04_10/EU-is-creating-trade-balance-deficit-in-Ukraine-which-is-negatively-impacting-fulfilment-of-its-obligations-under-gas-contracts-with-Russia-Putins-letter-to-EU-leaders-7113/)

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the European Union has created a deficit of Ukraine's trade balance, which is negatively impacting the fulfillment by Ukraine of its obligations under the gas supply contracts with Russia. Putin's letter was sent to the leaders of Moldova, Romania, Turkey, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Macedonia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria, Austria, and Italy.

"To a large extent, the crisis in Ukraine's economy has been precipitated by the unbalanced trade with the EU member states, and this, in turn has had a sharply negative impact on Ukraine's fulfillment of its contractual obligations to pay for deliveries of natural gas supplied by Russia," Putin said in his letter to the leaders of the European countries receiving Russian gas through Ukraine.

Putin said that, instead of providing real support to Ukraine, European partners "talk about a declaration of intent," which is "only promises that are not backed up by any real actions."

"The European Union is using Ukraine's economy as a source of raw foodstuffs, metal and mineral resources, and at the same time, as a market for selling its highly-processed ready-made commodities (machine engineering and chemicals), thereby creating a deficit in Ukraine's trade balance amounting to more than 10 billion US dollars. This comes to almost two-thirds of Ukraine's overall deficit for 2013," the letter says.

Russia is ready to participate in restoring Ukraine's economy but only on parity conditions with EU partners - Putin (http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_04_10/Russia-is-ready-to-participate-in-restoring-Ukraines-economy-but-only-partity-conditions-with-EU-partners-Putin-3041/)

Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_04_10/Russia-not-to-restore-Ukraine-s-economy-single-handedly-Putin-in-letter-to-EU-leaders-FULL-TEXT-0349/

Hervé

17th April 2014, 00:29

Mega oil field discovered in southern Russia (http://rt.com/business/oil-field-astrakhan-discovery-948/)

Published time: April 16, 2014 16:05

A new oil field with roughly 300 million tons of oil and 90 billion cubic meters of gas has been discovered in the Astrakhan region of Russia.

“The field’s reserves are unprecedented, this discovery confirms the high potential of the Astrakhan region in terms of these major discoveries,” Sergey Donskoy, Russia’s Natural Resources Minister said on Wednesday.

The field, called “Velikoe” (The Great) was discovered by the AFB Oil and Gas Company, which will likely seek out larger partners to develop it.

Two likely candidates are Rosneft, Russia’s state-owned and largest producer, and Lukoil, the country’s second biggest producer.

"According to experts, given the lack of large land deposits, project participation will likely come from all major industry players. The most probable partners are Rosneft and Lukoil, which already have projects in neighboring regions,” Uralsib Capital analyst Aleksey Kokin told mail.ru.

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Kokin estimates the deposits could be worth nearly $1 billion.

Rosneft has projects in the neighboring Vanqor oil field, which has a capacity of 140 million tons.

The last major land hydrocarbon deposit discovery was the Vanqor field in 1988, which has over 500 million tons of oil in estimated reserves.

Another Astrakhan region field is Lukoil’s Filanovsky field, which has more than 150 million tons of recoverable oil in the Caspian Sea.

In 2012, the company opened the neighboring Tambov field, also located in the Astrakhan oil field, which is the world’s fifth largest.

Rocky_Shorz

17th April 2014, 19:44

now for some good news,

Report: Oman FM says Gulf rift has ended

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The recent crisis between Qatar and its neighboring Gulf states has ended and is now “part of the past,” Oman’s Foreign Affairs Minister Yusuf bin Alawi was quoted as saying by a pan-Arab newspaper.

Pan-Arab al-Hayat quoted Oman’s Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi as saying the crisis was resolved internally between the Gulf states “without allowing for anyone to intervene.”

“What happened between brothers has ended,” Alawi reportedly told the paper. He said the relationship now between the Gulf neighbors is “all clear.”

The paper said Alawi’s statement was part of a long interview it will publish in the next two days.

Both Oman and Kuwait have reportedly worked to mend the rift between Qatar and its neighbors Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

In an unprecedented split between Gulf Arab allies, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain withdrew their ambassadors from Qatar, saying Doha had not implemented an agreement among Gulf Arab states to avoid interfering in each other’s affairs.

The nations also asked Qatar, a backer of the Muslim Brotherhood movement banned in most Gulf states, “not to support any party aiming to threaten security and stability of any GCC member.”

A security agreement signed last year by the GCC focused on cooperation in the exchange of information and tracking down of criminals and those who violate the law... link (http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/04/17/Report-Oman-FM-says-Gulf-rift-has-ended.html)

Rocky_Shorz

18th April 2014, 21:43

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naf1lKPvUbo

Hervé

19th April 2014, 01:31

The thing which everybody seems to be missing (http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.fr/2014/04/the-thing-which-everybody-seems-to-be.html)
Friday, April 18, 2014

Okay, I decided to squeeze in one more post before taking time off for Holy Paskha, this is well worth it.

Some of you have asked about China's role in all this, in what the real interests of the USA are, how the EU is positioning itself and what Russia does or does not want. And, somehow, bogged down by the minutiae of the unfolding events I managed to never mention something which Putin, Lavrov and many other top Russian politicians have repeatedly said:

What is happening today before our eyes is the end of one international system and the birth of a qualitatively different one.

Interestingly, Putin has declared that for him the point of no return was reached when the USA and its allies at the UNSC and NATO clearly and grossly twisted the intention of the UNSC on Libya and "upgraded" what should have been a "no fly" zone to a free-fire zone to attack and bomb Libya [of course, it was pretty darn clear to Putin that the "all necessary means to protect civilians" of the resolution was an open ended invitation for the AngloZionists to "interpret" it in any way they wanted; now his say that Russia was "lied to" in order to not blame Medvedev for walking into a 10 foot wide hole. But that is irrelevant here]. Putin says that from then on he had acquired the conviction that the West could not be negotiated with and had to be simply stopped. Then Syria happened: for the first time since the end of WWII the USA had decided to do something and was stopped by an outside power in the most humiliating way possible.

The Russian stance on Syria was an overt challenge to US world hegemony. It was clearly understood as such in Washington and now, following the crisis in the Ukraine, the Russians have openly admitted this.

So this is the real stake of the civil war in the Ukraine: for the USA it is to punish Russia for daring to challenge the world hegemon; for Russia it is to unseat this hegemon and replace it by a multi-polar international system in which sovereign countries act within the bounds of international law. You could say that even though most of the Security Council is vehemently opposed to that, Russia is trying to show to the world that the USA does not own the UN and that it only represents 1/5th of the P5 and 1/15th of the UNSC.

The West has slouched into a position of total submission to the USA and its domination tools over Europe: the EU and NATO. The central Europeans have even volunteered to become a US protectorate, a territory to house US missile systems and secret CIA prisons.

With the exception of Iran and Syria, the Arab and Muslim world has sold out, some to the USA, others to Saudi Arabia, most to both at the same time. Latin America tries hard, but is still heavily dependent on the USA while Africa just wants to survive the best it can. As for Asia, some parts are as sold out as Europe (Japan, Korea), others are trying to keep a low profile, while China is clearly quietly standing behind Russia but in an externally undeniable way even though China stands to benefit more than any other country on the planet from a change in the international order.

The Russians would have much preferred to wait, to buy time, but the US determination to punish it for daring to oppose it on Syria literally forced them to fold and surrender or openly accept the US challenge and stand firm.

I will repeat that again and again - Putin had no other choice.

And now that this is all in the open, you can be absolutely sure that Russia is not playing to return to the status quo ante. With an amazing candidness both Putin and Lavrov have openly spelled out their goal on Russian TV (Lavrov on the show "Sunday Evening with Vladimir Soloviev" and Putin during his 4 hours long Q&A yesterday).

So this is the Russian end-goal: to unseat the USA from its role as a world hegemon. And that goal implies a much longer, bigger and more sustained effort than just force the freaks in Kiev to the negotiating table. Among other things, this goal implies that Russia must:

1) Force the Europeans to fully realize the outrageous price they are paying for being the obedient and silent vassals of the USA and slowly drive a wedge between the USA and Europe.

2) Force the USA to admit that it does not have the military might to punish or, even less so, "regime change" anybody they don't like.

3) Encourage China and other Asian powers to openly stand with Russia in demanding that international law be adhered to by the West.

4) Gradually replace the dollar with other currencies in international trade and thereby slow down the financing of the US debts by the rest of the planet.

5) Create the conditions for Latin America and Africa to be able to make choices about its future and replace the current monopoly enjoyed by the West in setting the terms of North-South relations.

6) Present another civilizational model which openly reject the current Western paradigm of a society run by small and arrogant minorities.

7) Challenge the current liberal and capitalist economic order embodied in the Washington Consensus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Consensus) and replace it by a model of social and international solidarity (call it "21 century socialism" if you want).
All of the above can be summed up in one word: re-sovereignization.

Since he got elected, Putin mentioned many times the need for a re-sovereignization of Russia. The Ukrainian crisis has forced him to reveal the real end goal of his agenda: to re-sovereignize the entire planet.

This is a tall order and it will take many years, possibly decades, to achieve this goal, though my personal feeling is that the total incompetence and infinite arrogance of the 1%ers plutocrats which rules over the western world will continue to accelerate that process.

The big question now is this: can the AngloZionist Empire follow the example of the Soviet Empire and collapse without triggering a massive bloodbath on its way down?

There will be violence, for sure, as has been with the former Soviet Union. But if we can avoid a global conflagration or even a large scale massive war then that would have to be considered as success because it is when they collapse that empires become the most dangerous and unpredictable.

I hope that the above answers many of the questions which have been posted here.

Many thanks and kind regards,

The Saker

PS: I just got this amazing video of a woman stopping an APC in Kramatorsk with her bare hands. I guess she could be seen as a symbol of what Russia wants to do with the AngloZionist Empire:

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araucaria

19th April 2014, 07:12

sygh

19th April 2014, 14:14

I watched this video Kerry Cassidy posted yesterday and wrote down my thoughts. I have every reason to believe that these are more than just my own direct thoughts. Saying that, I will post it here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH0eHekt84g
Putin's current role is to create identification of the population with one leader and by that to deepen the polarity as well as to keep us in the never ending loop of a ping pong game that is known to be played by (and with) our 'leaders'. They use Putin to express what's going on and put it on the surface for the sake of their future moves and future spins. the illusions of sides is always working well and is a known trap that was made to answer our secret wishes that there is someone there in a position to make an impact who is caring for us. From one testimony young Putin was being trained by CIA, who knows, for what it matters, he is not a white dove carrying an olive branch in his mouth. These political actors, knowingly or not, are programmed to give their replicas, to take a stand which is all part of the intricacy of the Matrix we live in. his expression of support in the UN is the same old game play as was orchastrated with the public in the times of Obama's first elections. We need to spot that and disattach our energy from their energy ciruitory, since more than anything it is a frequency battle. It will all be rising to the surface in the near future to allow us to see where we live in, what is the nature of this reality and the deception involved in most of the aspects of our lives, from the tiniest to the grandest so we can get outside of our limited situation to the broader perspective where we have the potential to be equal participants. The reason they are pushing people's buttons is because it is so easy to be pushed. this is our (collective) program to be released from.

A story was published in the Israeli media last week, (there are many former Russian citizens in this country) about Putin's childhood teacher - an old and quite lovely lady who was Putin's high school teacher ("he was a shy, quiet and serious high school senior") who now resides in Israel, she had not only met with him when he was in Israel, but he also 'secretly' bought her a new flat to live in which made the public opinion about him conditioned to it's favour. The timing of this news item does not leave any room for doubt about the political games going on.

We must remember that these energies who are pulling the strings are not only a masters in technology, but masters in human psychology, in manipulations of perceptions and behaviour. Very few at this time can understand this to the core.

With regards to the NWO plans for WWIII that about to tie the global reality into one bundle, Russia is putting a facade that - 'we don't want to participate and be armed with destructive weapon, but as others do then we also must..' This is done again for the sake of further conditioning of the public opinion towards WWIII as simply being 'inevitable'. They are using some psychological means on the mainstream public as much as on the alternative media which are all working too well. That is, unless we somehow manage to internalize and disattach.

Blessings ~

Limor

I really like Putin but you are not alone in the interpretation you have laid out. Before Obama's second term, Obama whispered to Putin that he would be able do more after he was re-elected. That small sentence speaks more than a thousand words. Yet, I also believe the U.S. has much to learn from Russia and the Russian people, what a great bunch of people they are! I also remember Edgar Cayce's take on Russia. Cayce said America should learn from Russia and embrace the kind of socialism that Christ would have us practice. Interesting mosh, isn't it.

So many lies, so many manipulations, so much deceit coming from the U.S. The War on Terror must end. We must demand the U.S. stop interceding and usurping, and infiltrating. The U.S. spends almost 50% of it's non-existent budget on the military complex and another 15% on we have no idea.

Those of us who pay attention see the writing on the wall. But honestly, we all would know a lot more if we read, or at least attempted to read the voluminous Agenda number 21.

Rocky_Shorz

19th April 2014, 18:16

exposure of false flag to prevent it...

“We have hacked e-mail correspondence of US Army Attache Assistant in Kiev Jason Gresh and a high ranking official from Ukrainian General Staff Igor Protsyk.

It appears that they are planning to conduct a series of attacks on Ukrainian military bases in order to destabilize the situation in Ukraine.

Particularly, Jason Gresh writes to Igor Protsyk that it’s time to implement a plan that implies “causing problems to the transport hubs in the south-east of Ukraine in order to frame-up the neighbor. It will create favorable conditions for Pentagon to act”, says Jason Gresh.

In his turn, Protsyk writes to some Vasil and tells him to arrange an attack on an airbase of 25 aviation brigade of Ukrainian air force stationed in Melitopol.

This Vasil is responsible for arranging the details of the attack, gathering of the gunmen and providing them with a map of sites that are chosen to be attacked.

We strongly recommend everyone to look through these documents. There you will find all the details. (Anon)”

Though when one tries to click the documents, uploaded to 2 very different file sharing websites, Mediafire and Sendspace, both of them have already been ‘removed for violation’.

The authenticity of this information needs to be verified. One would need to do something such as find out if the anonymous hacker could have known what he said, had the hacker not truly taken the info from hacked emails, or see the emails themselves, but the documents with the details of the emails have already been taken down.

However, if the documents were fake, or non-existent, how could they have already been ‘removed for violation’, from 2 different file sharing sites?

It has not even been 24 hours since the original posting of this information.

It seems someone needs to connect the dots and see if the alleged contents of these hacked emails match up with reality.

If these events actually become reality (or this being leaked prevents this from even happening), maybe we have finally entered into an age where citizen hackers can reveal the psychopathic plans of powerful people, before they execute them and ruin the lives of innocent people.

Please share this with as many people as possible, so that anyone who wants to know what is going on can stumble upon this, to verify or debunk this information, to interpret it however with the full picture of what is happening in Ukraine and the world.

Below are the screen-capped images of the documents ‘removed for violation’ not even 24 hours after being posted-link to downloads (http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/04/anonymous-releases-email-allegedly-detailing-western-backed-false-flag-in-ukraine-2941302.html)

"Here is a link to the Russian site containing the links to the documents: http://depositfiles.com/files/nsj5poqlb , http://sporaw.livejournal.com/258830.html

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US Spy Drone shot down over Russia's Military base...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EcjeFqxv6Y#t=34

Flash

20th April 2014, 00:41

Thank you Amzer Zo.

One strand of the Libyan business is the likely financing of Sarkozy’s 2007 presidential campaign by Gaddafi, who that same year literally pitched his tent at the Hôtel Marigny in Paris for his first visit in 34 years . When he started threatening to talk, he had to be taken out.

http://www.20minutes.fr/monde/1014049-kadhafi-trahi-al-assad-execute-demande-elysee
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_Sarkozy-Kadhafi
http://owni.fr/2011/02/22/photo-de-kadhafi-a-paris-lelysee-a-menti/
http://archives-lepost.huffingtonpost.fr/article/2011/02/22/2413833_l-elysee-a-t-il-supprime-des-photos-de-nicolas-sarkozy-et-mouammar-kadhafi.html

This reveals a whole new angle on the notion of regime change. The west gets to change leaders of other countries, who in turn get to subvert the democratic process by imposing the western leaders of their ‘choice’ (not the right word). But as these relations are not built upon mutual trust, but upon mutual distrust, there can come a time when the whole system comes undone.

Interesting and Worth a description here:

Sarkozy, ex French President, who is of Sepharadic Jewish origins, would have gotten 50 millions Euros (about 65 millions dollars) to finance his election campain for Gadaffi, the Muslim supposedly murdered, and Sarkozy would have fooled him of those Euros, not rendering the services expected to Gaddaffi, but not only that, would have ordered the death of Gaddaffi, the head of Lybia, once the American had invaded it and Gaddaffi was caught.

We do not do better in thrillers movies really. And all this seems to be based on real documents that were kept by the GAddaffi regime, documents for which Sarkozy is suing the newspaper and also. on a personal basis, the journalists that wrote the articles.

No Wonder French people want to do the Quenelle to the French governments and even to French Zionists.

If I understand well, the American would not ony have serviced themselves by invading Lybia but would also have rendered a service to the usurpating French government at the time.

Very interesting indeed.

You can also see in the articles a picture of Gaddaffi, the supposedly murderer murdered, shaking hand with Sarkozy in a masonic handshake.

They are litterally putting knife on each others back at high échelons illuminatis.

This is just to tell that at those levels, Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and most probably Russians, Chinese, Americans, British are in fact all the same, only one gang putting knifes on each other backs.

Eram

20th April 2014, 15:01

I don't know if this has been posted here before, but it's well worth to watch.

dr. Paul Craig Roberts (former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury) gives his opinion on the current events in Ukrain, the agenda of the US and how it changed into the police state that it has become .

Stefan Molyneux speaks with Dr. Paul Craig Roberts about the violent protests in Ukraine, evidence that the United States is fueling the conflict with taxpayer dollars and the dangerous game that is being played in the attempt to install military and missile bases on the Russian border.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under Ronald Regan and is a former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Roberts is the author of "How America Was Lost: From 9/11 to the Police/Warfare State" .

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Hervé

20th April 2014, 15:04

Ukraine Jew registration hoax traced (http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/04/19/359181/ukraine-jew-registration-hoax-traced/)

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Riot police confronting peaceful protesters in Ukraine

Sat Apr 19, 2014 5:11AM GMT

By Gordon Duff' (http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/04/18/359107/ukraine-crisis-echoes-cold-war/)

Email intercepts that included the original copies of anti-Semitic leaflets distributed in Eastern Ukraine have now been shown to be part of an elaborate false flag hoax to sabotage recent US-Russian talks.

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http://benswann.com/who-is-really-behind-jews-being-told-to-register-in-ukrainian-province/: A report by the Israel’s Ynet News (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4510688,00.html), that has been widely circulated, claims that leaflets are being handed out in the eastern Ukrainian province of Donetsk, demanding Jews register, pay a $50 registration fee, and provide a list of property they own or face revocation of citizenship, deportation, and asset seizure.

The hoax, a “game theory warfare” operation, was meant to “sucker punch” both Russia and the US. If those responsible, in this case the New York based ADL, were caught, and they have been, there would be no consequences.

The ADL is “untouchable.” When Secretary of State Kerry expressed his revulsion at Nazi leaflets demanding that Jews in Ukraine “register” with a non-existent government agency, little did he know he was the victim of an elaborate and highly dangerous false flag hoax.

Anonymous Ukraine, the group that intercepted emails outlining false flag terror attack plans made by the US Embassy in Kiev in March, has done it again. Emails intercepted between Washington DC offices tied to the Anti-Defamation League sent to neo-Nazi extremists in the Ukraine were the sources of the outrageous materials.

Earlier intercepted emails outlined plans for an attack on Melitopol Airport scheduled for March 10, 2014. When those plans and the attached maps showing where explosives were to be planted were leaked, the planned attack failed to materialize.

Those emails showed direct ties between the US State Department and terrorist groups within the Ukrainian military. According to Anonymous, the current intercepted emails included several attachments, each different version of the anti-Semitic leaflets passed out in the pro-Russian Eastern Ukraine, particularly in the city on Donetsk.

Representatives of separatist groups reputed to have issued the edicts not only denied any involvement but pointed out that the documents themselves were photoshopped and included seals from the previous government and imaginary titles for offices that simply don’t exist.

From an April 18, 2014 article in Russia Today:
“A letter urging the Jews of Donetsk to get registered, which the US Secretary of State cited in Geneva, is a fake, says a man whose signature appears on the communication.”
Following the four-side meeting on the Ukrainian crisis in Geneva on Wednesday, John Kerry lashed out at a letter that was allegedly sent to Jewish citizens in Ukraine’s eastern town of Donetsk, asking them to register and report all their property, or be stripped of citizenship and face expulsion.

“In year 2014, after all of the miles traveled in all the journey of history, this is not just intolerable, it's grotesque… beyond unacceptable,’ he stated.”

BACKGROUND
There is a long-established tradition within the Zionist community of staging false flag “anti-Semitic” incidents in order to promote immigration to Israel or mobilize financial support.

According to the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish organization Neturie Karta, Mossad units bombed North African synagogues during the 1950s in a highly successful operation that “chased” Jews who had been living peacefully in North Africa for hundreds of years into Israel.

In the US and across Europe, anti-Semitic attacks, Swastikas on synagogues and “leaflet” campaigns have been tied to Jewish support groups. These events were quickly followed up by fund raising campaigns, at times bringing in millions from corporations, many of which had supported Hitler during World War II.

NOT JUST A “HOAX”
This is far from the first time neo-Nazi hoaxes have been perpetrated to create a sympathetic environment for Zionist causes, particularly at times when Israel has been under criticism.

This time is different. There are no Jews in Eastern Ukraine that can be frightened as they are highly integrated into the Russian community there and enjoy broad support and trust.

From USA Today:
“Olga Reznikova, 32, a Jewish resident of Donetsk, told Ynet she never experienced anti-Semitism in the city until she saw this leaflet.
“We don't know if these notifications were distributed by pro-Russian activists or someone else, but it's serious that it exists,” she said.
“The text reminds me of the fascists in 1941,” she said referring to the Nazis who occupied Ukraine during World War II.”
What is particularly noteworthy is that, unlike most other “spoofs” or “hoaxes” perpetrated by the ADL, this one has nothing to do with “raising Jewish consciousness.” This one is about pushing the US and Russia into a world war.

COORDINATED OFFENSIVE
The offending email attachments were sent to the Ukraine from the United States in a series of emails dated April 10 and 11, 2014, according to Anonymous. Within hours of their distribution to those leaving Passover services, copies were distributed to news media.

“Our good friends in the press,” as one email stated, had been briefed in advance with “talking points.” An unconfirmed source indicates these to have been included:
- Accusations of imaginary “historical anti-Semitism” to be made against the Eastern Ukrainian Russian population than the heavily neo-Nazi Western Ukraine (formerly Eastern Poland), a major recruiting ground for Nazi Germany during World War II

- Stories should be concocted to show that those responsible for anti-Semitism are under orders from President Putin

- Secretary of State Kerry’s reaction is to be purposefully mischaracterized, not only to blame Russia, but to do so in a threatening manner
“THE ABE FOXMAN ‘SCHMEAR’”
American extremist group expert Laird Wilcox was a hound dog when it came to sniffing out the ADL’s long history of manipulating hate crime statistics and fabricating threats to get media headlines.

In Laird’s 1998 The Watchdogs he revealed that the annual ADL anti-Semitism statistics were compiled from polling its own mailing list. To make the process quick and easy in 1997, members could quickly check off the various abuse boxes to generate the needed statistics to falsely charge their fellow Americans with hate.

About the ADL Wilcox says, “Less well known are its espionage, disinformation and destabilization operations, not only against Neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen, but against leftist and progressive groups as well.”

The ADL’s espionage operations became a scandal in 1993 when their San Francisco operations were raided where thousands of Intel files were found not only on individuals about also groups, and where much or the information had been obtained illegally by having paid agents steal police records. At Veterans Today we call this a classic espionage operation.

What was Abe Foxman’s response to these critics at the time? He went on the attack, calling them “anti-Semites, undemocratic, and anti-American bastards.” Southern heritage activist Jim W. Dean refers to Abe Foxman as “the hate crime energizer bunny, having perpetrated more hate crimes than anyone in America, and with total support of American media in the process, a dark stain on American media.

A longstanding tactic of the ADL has been to use smear tactics to vilify those unwilling to submit to bribery or blackmail. With the immense influence that the ADL and its sister organizations, AIPAC and the Mossad have on the media, no matter how thoroughly a false flag is debunked, as it will never be reported in the controlled press, the only thing the public will remember is the ADL/Foxman “smear.”

This is how it had been until the “meltdown” of the “mainstream media” and the wild growth in influence the independent press has enjoyed. What has made this more interesting, by far, has been the ability of organizations like the “Anonymous” groups along with national intelligence agencies to intercept embarrassing phone calls and emails.

Thus far, so much of what has gone so very wrong for the Ukraine and its people has originated from sources in the US and within the EU. Unheard of officials like “Ashton” or “Nuland” have become household names as their involvement in manipulating the Ukrainian coup has come to light.

Now we see what may well be the oldest card in the deck, passing out the proverbial “yellow star” as though it were a joke. It is not.

GD/NN

Related:

'Ukraine crisis echoes Cold War' (http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/04/18/359107/ukraine-crisis-echoes-cold-war/)

‘EU presents austerity to Ukraine’ (http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/04/18/359072/eu-presents-austerity-to-ukraine/)

loungelizard

20th April 2014, 16:45

Rocky_Shorz

20th April 2014, 23:07

Emails intercepted between Washington DC offices tied to the Anti-Defamation League sent to neo-Nazi extremists in the Ukraine were the sources of the outrageous materials.

Anyone know where I can find evidence of these alleged emails?

looks like they pissed off the wrong group, I wonder if Anon tracked down flight 370 in Tel Aviv yet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARPusQd6tKE

Greetings citizens of the world. We are Anonymous.

To the government of Israel:

For too long we have tolerated your crimes against humanity during the ceasefire and allowed your sins to go unpunished.
Through the use of media deception and political bribery, you have amassed the sympathies of many. You claim to want peace, yet the reality on the ground speaks differently. In fact your only goal is to better the lives of a select few while carelessly trampling the liberties of the many. You can NOT hide a demolished home. You can NOT hide the barrage of bullets you use to kill and maim Palestinians. You can NOT hide apartheid roads. The further assault on the people of Gaza, who have been flooded by your sewage, terrorized by your military apparatus, and left to die at the border while waiting for medical attention will NOT be tolerated anymore. Your vicious campaigns to attack Palestinian solidarity groups worldwide through censorship and legal wrangling has also NOT gone unnoticed.

We see through the propaganda that you circulate through the main stream media and lobby through the political establishment. We will NOT allow you to maintain these attacks on a sovereign country based upon a campaign of lies. Your games of deception will now be met by the wrath of elite cyber squadrons from around the world Your grip over humanity will weaken and man will be closer to freedom.

Israel, it is in your best interest to cease and desist any further military action and illegal settlements or the consequences will become worse with each passing hour.

Israel, We will treat each additional death as a personal attack on Anonymous and you will be dealt with swiftly and without warning.

This is a message from Anonymous Operation Israel, Anonymous Special Operations, Pillars of Anonymous, the Anonymous Collective of the cyber warriors from across the planet: on April 7, 2014, we call upon our brothers and sisters to hack, deface, hijack, database leak, admin takeover, and DNS terminate the Israeli Cyberspace by any means necessary.

We will not stop until the police state becomes a free state and Palestine is free.

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not Forgive.
We do not Forget.
Israel, Expect us...

The offending email attachments were sent to the Ukraine from the United States in a series of emails dated April 10 and 11, 2014, according to Anonymous. Within hours of their distribution to those leaving Passover services, copies were distributed to news media.

"Our good friends in the press," as one email stated, had been briefed in advance with "talking points." An unconfirmed source indicates these to have been included:

- Accusations of imaginary "historical anti-Semitism" to be made against the Eastern Ukrainian Russian population than the heavily neo-Nazi Western Ukraine (formerly Eastern Poland), a major recruiting ground for Nazi Germany during World War II

- Stories should be concocted to show that those responsible for anti-Semitism are under orders from President Putin

- Secretary of State Kerry's reaction is to be purposefully mischaracterized, not only to blame Russia, but to do so in a threatening manner...

"There is a long-established tradition within the Zionist community of staging false flag "anti-Semitic" incidents in order to promote immigration to Israel or mobilize financial support.

According to the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish organization Neturie Karta, Mossad units bombed North African synagogues during the 1950s in a highly successful operation that "chased" Jews who had been living peacefully in North Africa for hundreds of years into Israel.

In the US and across Europe, anti-Semitic attacks, Swastikas on synagogues and "leaflet" campaigns have been tied to Jewish support groups. These events were quickly followed up by fund raising campaigns, at times bringing in millions from corporations, many of which had supported Hitler during World War II... link (http://www.sott.net/article/277737-Ukraine-Jew-registration-hoax-traced-to-ADL)

Anon won't be releasing the emails, showing where the vulnerability and who is involved until they finish putting the whole package together... they will release with names on everyone involved from top to bottom... If ADL suddenly gives a huge donation to a Palestine Charity, you'll know they are finished and moving on... ;)

Eram

21st April 2014, 06:46

Here's Paul Craig Roberts again, being interviewed by Greg Hunter.

He talks about the rising to power of the NeoCon's and how they ran the country from the time of Bill Clinton's presidency.
He talks about their aims (hegemony of the US) and how they want to achieve it by means of war.
It is not necessarily news for most, but it is so interesting to hear it from the mouth of someone who witnessed it all from up close.
imo, a very intelligent analyses by a man who knows politics from the inside out.

AhxZxL56B00

GoodETxSG

21st April 2014, 12:19

Excellent Post Bill,
It is AMAZING how dedicated these people have been to A PLAN or PLANS...

Plans that were thought up and written by wild haired big bearded CABAL Prophets from the 1700's, 1800's and 1900's have been followed, manipulated and hammered into place with AMAZING DEVOTION! Do these plans come from these people in these old black and white photographs or "another power"?

When it does come time for all of these people and their dark secrets and "LORDS" to be exposed it will be chilling for each of us... How will the general population react at first? We will be forced to face our dark side so our consciousness can be expanded enough to give us full hands on access to our "Free Will" again.

We have free will now, as much as any slave or prisoner can anyway. IMHO.

AlaBil

21st April 2014, 14:25

It's certainly not over yet. Here are competing headlines just today.

From the Russian side:

Lavrov: US should face responsibility for powers it installed in Kiev
http://rt.com/news/us-responsibility-kiev-lavrov-788/

From the US side:

Photos Link Masked Men in East Ukraine to Russia
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/21/world/europe/photos-link-masked-men-in-east-ukraine-to-russia.html?_r=0

and from the Washington Times this headline:

Tactical advantage: Russian military shows off impressive new gear

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/20/tactical-advantage-russian-military-shows-off-impr/

Rocky_Shorz

21st April 2014, 20:22

the head of ADL acknowledged this was a false flag...

Foxman, likely an expert in such things, smelled a rat: the pro-Western faction that had recently gained the upper hand in Kiev, might very well have fabricated this Nazi-redolent tactic in order to discredit its opponents, who are frequently the targets of smears as Neo-Nazis and other flavors of anti-Semites.

Foxman’s decrying of this tactic is very much to his credit. What he may have failed to mention is that the pro-Western faction he implicates is itself subject to analyses that reveal it to be suffused with Jews and even foreign Jewish (e.g., Victoria Nuland of the US) influence... link (http://revblog.codoh.com/2014/04/adl-outs-another-false-flag-attack/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter)

GoodETxSG

22nd April 2014, 12:40

Sorry if already posted...

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Flash

23rd April 2014, 14:42

From Goode T in this thread below, very pertinent information on how and why a war is being fomented to get Central Asia Under one world government control, and pretty much how they will try to get it. So you have two fronts, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Turkey, more in the Middle East, and then Ukraine, Crimea, and going into Central Asia by both routes, therefore cutting off both China and Russia from an incredible wealth of mineral and other resources, as well as a global hand on the world if controlling this. A plan prepared a long time ago.

You will probably see a huge effort in destabilising Russia government if they do not get in line with the plan, and an effort to throw Putin out, in parallel with lots of local wars to end up into something global.

Thanks Goode for this very pertinent information, A MUST READ.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?65952-Why-Are-the-Bankers-and-Ex-Intel-Types-Running-For-Their-Lives--Confirmed-for-MONTHS-by-my-vanishing-sources-&p=826128&viewfull=1#post826128

Another interesting one from a writer from Pakistan... one of the "Targets" in a pearl string I saw on a list that the Cabal wants War against. I believe the info in this article is pretty important... The BRICS Nations know exactly what they are up against, the average person like you and I do NOT! But that too is changing... As you will see these plans have been in place and in progress since at least the early 1700's (I am certain much earlier!). IMHO.
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-eli...-war-iii/25160

The Elite, the ‘Great Game’ and World War III

By Prof. Mujahid Kamran
Global Research, April 21, 2014
New Dawn Special Issue 16, Global Research 7 June 2011
Region: Asia
Theme: US NATO War Agenda

This article was originally published in June 2011

The control of the US, and of global politics, by the wealthiest families of the planet is exercised in a powerful, profound and clandestine manner. This control began in Europe and has a continuity that can be traced back to the time when the bankers discovered it was more profitable to give loans to governments than to needy individuals.

These banking families and their subservient beneficiaries have come to own most major businesses over the two centuries during which they have secretly and increasingly organised themselves as controllers of governments worldwide and as arbiters of war and peace.

Unless we understand this we will be unable to understand the real reasons for the two world wars and the impending Third World War, a war that is almost certain to begin as a consequence of the US attempt to seize and control Central Asia. The only way out is for the US to back off – something the people of the US and the world want, but the elite does not.

The US is a country controlled through the privately owned Federal Reserve, which in turn is controlled by the handful of banking families that established it by deception in the first place.

In his interesting book The Secret Team, Col. Fletcher Prouty, briefing officer of the US President from 1955-63, narrates a remarkable incident in which Winston Churchill made a most revealing utterance during World War II:

“On this particular night there had been a heavy raid on Rotterdam. He sat there, meditating, and then, as if to himself, he said, ‘Unrestricted submarine warfare, unrestricted air bombing – this is total war.’ He continued sitting there, gazing at a large map, and then said, ‘Time and the Ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are’.”

Prouty further states:

“This was a most memorable scene and a revelation of reality that is infrequent, at best. If for the great Winston Churchill, there is a ‘High Cabal’ that has made us what we are, our definition is complete. Who could know better than Churchill himself during the darkest days of World War II, that there exists, beyond doubt, an international High Cabal? This was true then. It is true today, especially in these times of the One World Order. This all-powerful group has remained superior because it had learned the value of anonymity.” This “High Cabal” is the “One World Cabal” of today, also called the elite by various writers.

The High Cabal and What They Control

The elite owns the media, banks, defence and oil industry. In his book Who’s Who of the Elite Robert Gaylon Ross Sr. states: “It is my opinion that they own the US military, NATO, the Secret Service, the CIA, the Supreme Court, and many of the lower courts. They appear to control, either directly or indirectly, most of the state, county, and local law enforcement agencies.”

The elite is intent on conquering the world through the use of the abilities of the people of the United States. It was as far back as 1774 that Amschel Mayer Rothschild stated at a gathering of the twelve richest men of Prussia in Frankfurt: “Wars should be directed so that the nations on both sides should be further in our debt.” He further enunciated at the same meeting: “Panics and financial depressions would ultimately result in World Government, a new order of one world government.”

The elite owns numerous “think tanks” that work for expanding, consolidating and perpetuating its hold on the globe. The Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, and many other similar organisations are all funded by the elite and work for it. These think tanks publish journals, such as Foreign Affairs, in which these imperialist and anti-mankind ideas are edified as publications, and then, if need be, expanded in the form of books that are given wide publicity.

Zbigniew Brzezinski and Henry Kissinger et al, as well as the neo-con “thinkers,” owe their positions and good living standards to the largesse of the elite. This is an important point that must be kept in full view at all times. These thinkers and writers are on the payroll of the elite and work for them. In case someone has any doubts about such a statement, it might help to read the following quotes from Professor Peter Dale Scott’s comprehensively researched book The Road to 9/11 – Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America (University of California Press, 2007):

…Bundy’s Harvard protégé Kissinger was named to be national security adviser after having chaired an important “study group” at the Council on Foreign Relations. As a former assistant to Nelson Rockefeller, Kissinger had been paid by Rockefeller to write a book on limited warfare for the CFR. He had also campaigned hard in Rockefeller’s losing campaign for the Presidential nomination in 1968. Thus Rockefeller and the CFR might have been excluded from control of the Republican Party, but not from the Republican White House. (Page 22)

The following quote from page 38 of the book is also very revealing:

The Kissinger-Rockefeller relationship was complex and certainly intense. As investigative reporter Jim Hougan wrote: “Kissinger, married to a former Rockefeller aide, owner of a Georgetown mansion whose purchase was enabled only by Rockefeller gifts and loans, was always a protégé of his patron Nelson Rockefeller, even when he wasn’t directly employed by him.”

Professor Scott adds:

Nixon’s and Kissinger’s arrival in the White House in 1969 coincided with David Rockefeller’s becoming CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank. The Nixon-Kissinger foreign policy of detente was highly congruous with Rockefeller’s push to internationalise Chase Manhattan banking operations. Thus in 1973 Chase Manhattan became the first American bank to open an office in Moscow. A few months later, thanks to an invitation arranged by Kissinger, Rockefeller became the first US banker to talk with Chinese Communist leaders in Beijing.

How They Manipulate Public Opinion

In addition to these strategic “think tanks” the elite has set up a chain of research institutes devoted to manipulating public opinion in a manner the elite desires. As pointed out by John Coleman in his eye opening book The Tavistock Institute on Human Relations – Shaping the Moral, Spiritual, Cultural, Political and Economic Decline of the United States of America, it was in 1913 that an institute was established at Wellington House, London for manipulation of public opinion. According to Coleman:

The modern science of mass manipulation was born at Wellington House London, the lusty infant being midwifed by Lord Northcliffe and Lord Rothmere. The British monarchy, Lord Rothschild, and the Rockefellers were responsible for funding the venture… the purpose of those at Wellington House was to effect a change in the opinions of British people who were adamantly opposed to war with Germany, a formidable task that was accomplished by “opinion making” through polling. The staff consisted of Arnold Toynbee, a future director of studies at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), Lord Northcliffe, and the Americans, Walter Lippmann and Edward Bernays. Lord Northcliffe was related to the Rothschilds through marriage.

Bernays was a nephew of Sigmund Freud, a fact never mentioned, and developed the technique of “engineering consent.” When Sigmund Freud moved to Britain he also, secretly, became associated with this institute through the Tavistock Institute. According to Coleman, Bernays “pioneered the use of psychology and other social sciences to shape and form public opinion so that the public thought such manufactured opinions were their own.”

The Tavistock Institute has a 6 billion dollar fund and 400 subsidiary organisations are under its control along with 3,000 think tanks, mostly in the USA. The Stanford Research Institute, the Hoover Institute, the Aspen Institute of Colorado, and many others, devoted to manipulation of US as well as global public opinion, are Tavistock offshoots. This helps explain why the US public, by and large, is so mesmerised as to be unable to see things clearly and to react.

Bilderberg researcher Daniel Estulin quotes from Mary Scobey’s book To Nurture Humanness a statement attributed to Professor Raymond Houghton, that the CFR has been clear for a very long time that “absolute behaviour control is imminent… without mankind’s self realisation that a crisis is at hand.”

Also keep in mind that currently 80% of US electronic and print media is owned by only six large corporations. This development has taken place in the past two decades. These corporations are elite owned. It is almost impossible for anyone who is acquainted with what is going on at the global level to watch, even for a few minutes, the distortions, lies and fabrications, incessantly pouring out of this media, a propaganda and brainwashing organ of the elite.

Once your picture is clear it is also easy to notice the criminal silence of the media on crimes being perpetrated against humanity at the behest of the elite. How many people know that the cancer rates in Fallujah, Iraq are higher than those in Hiroshima and Nagasaki because of the use of depleted uranium, and maybe other secret nuclear devices, by US forces? Fallujah was punished for its heroic resistance against the American forces.

The Importance of Eurasia

Why is the US in Central Asia? In order to understand this, one has to look at the writings of the stooges of the elite – Brzezinski, Kissinger, Samuel P Huntington, and their likes. It is important to note that members of these elite paid think tanks publish books as part of a strategy to give respectability to subsequent illegal, immoral and predatory actions that are to be taken at the behest of the elite. The views are not necessarily their own – they are the views of the think tanks. These stooges formulate and pronounce policies and plans at the behest of their masters, through bodies like the Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg Group, etc.

In his infinitely arrogant book The Grand Chessboard, published in 1997, Brzezinski spelled out the philosophy behind the current US military eruption. He starts by quoting the well-known views of the British geographer Sir Halford J Mackinder (1861–1947), another worker for the elite. Mackinder was a member of the ‘Coefficients Dining Club’ established by members of the Fabian Society in 1902. The continuity of the policies of the elite is indicated by the fact Brzezinski starts from Mackinder’s thesis first propounded in 1904:

“Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland: Who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island: who commands the World-Island commands the world.”

Brzezinski argues that for the first time in human history a non-Eurasian power has become preeminent and it must hold sway over the Eurasian continent if it is to remain the preeminent global power: “For America the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia… About 75 percent of the world’s people live in Eurasia… Eurasia accounts for about 60 percent of the world’s GNP and about three fourths of the world’s known energy resources.”

It is not just the geostrategic location of this region – it is also its wealth, “both in its enterprises and beneath its soil,” that holds such attraction for the elite whose greed for money, and lust for power, remain insatiable, as if there was a sickness afflicting it.

Brzezinski writes:

“But it is on the globe’s most important playing field – Eurasia – that a potential rival to America might at some point arise. This focusing on the key players and properly assessing the terrain has to be a point of departure for the formulation of American geostrategy for the long-term management of America’s Eurasian geopolitical interests.”

These lines were published in 1997. Millions of people have died in the past two decades and millions have been rendered homeless in this region but it remains a “playing” field for Brzezinski and his likes! In his book Brzezinski has drawn two very interesting maps – one of these has the caption The Global Zone of Percolating Violence (page 53) and the other (page 124) is captioned The Eurasian Balkans. The first of these encircles a region which includes the following countries: Sudan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, all Central Asian states, Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of Russia as well as India. The second one has two circles, an inner circle and a wider circle – the outer circle encloses the same countries as in the first map but the inner circle covers Iran, Afghanistan, eastern Turkey and the former Soviet Republics in Central Asia.

“This huge region, torn by volatile hatreds and surrounded by competing powerful neighbours, is likely to be a major battlefield…” writes Brzezinski.

He further writes:

“A possible challenge to American primacy from Islamic fundamentalism could be part of the problem of this unstable region.”

These lines were written at a time when this kind of fundamentalism was not a problem – subsequently the US manipulated things and chose to make it one by its provocative and deceptive tactics. According to its strategic thinkers, the US might face a serious challenge from a coalition of China, Russia and Iran and must do whatever it can to prevent such a coalition from forming.

For Brzezinski, “terrorism” – a Tavistock-type concept – is just a well planned and well thought out strategy, a lie and a deception, to provide cover for a military presence in the Central Eurasian region and elsewhere. It is being used to keep the US public in a state of fear, to keep Russia in a state of insecurity about further breakup (the US has trained and supported Chechen fighters, “terrorists,” throughout) and to justify presence of US troops in and around Central Asia.

The Concocted War on Terrorism

Terrorism provides justification for transforming the United States into a police state. According to the Washington Post of 20 & 21 December 2010, the US now has 4,058 anti-terrorism organisations! These are certainly not meant for those so-called terrorists who operate in Central Asia – the number far exceeds the number of so-called terrorists in the entire world. Unbridled domestic spying by US agencies is now a fact of life and the US public, as always, has accepted this because of the collusion of media and Tavistock type institutes owned by the elite.

The US historian Howard Zinn puts it very well: “The so-called war on terrorism is not only a war against innocent people in other countries, but also a war on the people of the United States: a war on our liberties, a war on our standard of living. The wealth of the country is being stolen from the people and handed over to the superrich. The lives of our young are being stolen. And the thieves are in the White House.” Actually the thieves control the White House and have been doing so for a very long time.

In his outstanding book Crossing the Rubicon, Michael Ruppert points out that much of the violence in the Central Asian region as well as in Pakistan, which has been encircled in two maps in Brzezinski’s book, was “initiated by the US proxies.” “Given that these maps were published a full four years before the first plane hit the World Trade Centre, they would fall in a category of evidence I learned about at LAPD [Los Angeles Police Department]. We called them ‘clues’.” This means that the eruption of US militarism after 9/11, and the event itself, were part of a pre-planned and coherent strategy of global domination in which the people of the US were also “conquered” through totalitarian legislation carried out in the wake of 9/11.

As Brzezinski puts it:

America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America’s power, especially its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a popular democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public’s sense of domestic well-being… The economic self-denial (that is, defence spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilisation.

Certainly post 9/11 legislation, the extraordinary expansion of agencies and surveillance of the US public is a cause of great satisfaction for the elite – the US can hardly be called a democracy now. As reported by the Washington Post, the National Security Agency intercepts over 1.7 billion emails, phone calls and other communications every day and stores them. No wonder Bush called 9/11 “a great opportunity” and Rumsfeld saw it analogous to World War II to “refashion the world.”

In order to achieve the objectives of the elite, the US destroyed Yugoslavia while Russia stood by mesmerised and impotent, carried out regime changes in Central Asia, set up military bases in East Europe and Central Asia, and staged highly provocative military exercises testing Russia’s and China’s will. It set up a military base in Kyrgyzstan that has a 500 mile or so border with China. When the Chinese protested recent naval exercises with South Korea were too close to Chinese territory, a US spokesman responded: “Those determinations are made by us, and us alone… Where we exercise, when we exercise, with whom and how, with what assets and so forth are determinations that are made by the United States Navy, by the Department of Defence, by the United States government.” As journalist Rick Rozoff notes: “There is no way such confrontational, arrogant and vulgar language was not understood at its proper value in Beijing.”

The US has acquired bases in Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, and the Czech Republic – and set up the largest military base ever built in the region, Camp Bondsteel, in Kosovo. According to a report in the Russian Kommersant newspaper on 3 March 2011, a four-phase plan for deployment of a US missile system in Europe is to be fully implemented by the end of 2020. The US is also busy setting up bilateral military ties in Russia’s backyard with Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and is pursuing the goal of a “Greater Central Asia” from Afghanistan right up to the Middle East, a great corridor from where the oil, gas, and great mineral wealth of this region will flow to the coffers of the US elite, at bloody expense to the local people.

As remarked by the Indian career diplomat M.K. Bhadrakumar: “The time is not far off before they begin to sense that ‘the war on terror’ is providing a convenient rubric under which the US is incrementally securing for itself a permanent abode in the highlands of Hindu Kush, the Pamirs, Central Asian steppes and the Caucasus that form the strategic hub overlooking Russia, China, India and Iran.” The scene for a great war involving the great powers of the time – US, Russia and China – is now set, by design of the elite. It is just a matter of time.

Time and again the US elite has taken its good people into great wars through documented and proven deceptions – the sinking of the Lusitania during World War I, Pearl Harbour in World War II, and so on. The elite considers us “human garbage” – a term first used by the French in Indo-China. It is also generating a good deal of “human garbage” in the US. A World Bank report points out that in 2005, 28 million Americans were “insecure” – in 2007 the number had risen to 46 million! One in every five Americans is faced with the possibility of becoming “destitute” – 38 million people receive food coupons!

Michael Ruppert laments:

My country is dead. Its people have surrendered to tyranny and in so doing, they have become tyranny’s primary support group; its base; its defender. Every day they offer their endorsement of tyranny by banking in its banks and spending their borrowed money with the corporations that run it. The great Neocon strategy of George H.W. Bush has triumphed. Convince the America people that they can’t live without the ‘good things’, then sit back and watch as they endorse the progressively more outrageous crimes you commit as you throw them bones with ever less meat on them. All the while lock them into debt. Destroy the middle class, the only political base that need be feared. Make them accept, because of their shared guilt, ever-more repressive police state measures. Do whatever you want.

A global economic system erected on inhuman and predatory values, where a few possess more wealth than the billions of hungry put together, will end, but the end will be painful and bloody. It is a system in which the elite thrives on war and widespread human misery, on death and destruction by design. As Einstein said, “I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth – sticks and stones!”

Prof. Mujahid Kamran is Vice Chancellor, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, and his book The Grand Deception – Corporate America and Perpetual War has just been published (April 2011) by Sang e Meel Publications, Lahore, Pakistan.

Rocky_Shorz

23rd April 2014, 19:06

Observer1964

24th April 2014, 21:24

Russian Su -24 scores off against the American "USS Donald Cook"

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Russian Sukhoi Su -24 with the newest jamming complex paralyzed in the Black Sea the most modern American combat management system "Aegis" installed on the destroyer "USS Donald Cook". Pavel Zolotarev, Deputy Director, Institute of USA and Canada, shares details about this version which is being actively discussed in the Russian media and by bloggers.

US destroyer "Donald Cook" with cruise missiles "Tomahawk" entered the neutral waters of the Black Sea on April 10. The purpose was a demonstration of force and intimidation in connection with the position of Russia in Ukraine and Crimea. The appearance of American warships in these waters is in contradiction of the Montreux Convention about the nature and duration of stay in the Black Sea by the military ships of countries not washed by this sea.
In response, Russia sent an unarmed bomber Su- 24 to fly around the U.S. destroyer. However, experts say that this plane was equipped with the latest Russian electronic warfare complex. According to this version, "Aegis" spotted from afar the approaching aircraft, and sounded alarm. Everything went normally, American radars calculated the speed of the approaching target. And suddenly all the screens went blank. "Aegis" was not working any more, and the rockets could not get target information. Meanwhile, Su-24 flew over the deck of the destroyer, did battle turn and simulated missile attack on the target. Then it turned and repeated the maneuver. And did so 12 times.
Read more: http://indian.ruvr.ru/2014_04_21/Russian-Su-24-scores-off-against-the-American-USS-Donald-Cook-5786/

CivilDawn

24th April 2014, 23:11

Here is Jim Self's Planetary Update:

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In it he explains how examples of power and control are being played out in our external reality, as our internal realities are responding to a shift in consciousness that is generally unseen by the massive global population and in which we are inwardly and outwardly evolving away from the current fallible power structure. Interesting how he relates the evolution of our third chakra to the changes in finance, war and politics.

He starts talking about international affairs (Crimea, Russia, US, China) at 8:16.

Rocky_Shorz

25th April 2014, 06:41

Israel is furious Palestine reunited, in a 1 state solution Israelis will be the minority...

Israel has already put their US congress in motion...

"Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), chair of House ME panel, calls for immediate suspension of Palestinian aid over Hamas deal..."

"Likud, Bayit Yehudi MKs: Labor MKs visit to Abbas crossed line into post-Zionism...

The delegation to Ramallah of five lawmakers was led by Knesset Caucus for a Solution to the Israeli-Arab Conflict chairman Hilik Bar.

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YONI CHETBOUN sits in his office at the Knesset. Photo: Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post

Several politicians on the Right took the opportunity of the end of peace talks and the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation to turn their arrows on the Left on Thursday.

Communications Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) took to Facebook to criticize Labor and Meretz MKs for visiting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas last week.
Related:

MKs to meet Abbas in Ramallah despite terrorist attacks

The delegation of five lawmakers was led by Knesset Caucus for a Solution to the Israeli-Arab Conflict chairman Hilik Bar (Labor).

Erdan wrote: “I’m on my way to the cabinet meeting on the implications of the agreement between Abbas and the terrorist organization Hamas, and I remembered that a few days ago, MKs from the Left visited Abbas. They talked, they embraced, they took a selfie.

“They didn’t get a chance to ask about Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is near. Abbas tried to minimize the Holocaust in the past. I’m interested in how they felt when they heard about the reconciliation,” Erdan said.

A Bayit Yehudi spokesman said opposition leader Isaac Herzog (Labor) is “challenging Peace Now from the Left” and that his party’s MKs’ visit to Ramallah during the funeral of Baruch Mizrahi, whom Palestinian terrorists killed days earlier, crossed a redline from Zionism to post-Zionism.

Coalition chairman Yariv Levin (Likud) said, “This is the time for the Left to publicly back the prime minister and allow the formation of a united front against Palestinian terrorism.”

MK Yoni Chetboun (Bayit Yehudi) went further with his demands of the Left, saying that it should give up on the two-state solution.

“There is no choice but to find a sane diplomatic alternative that doesn’t react to what Palestinians declare but progresses with what Israel does,” he said.

Bar, who is abroad, responded to those who criticized the delegation last week, calling them “right-wing extremists” who should “stop taking [advantage of] the bereaved families to promote narrow interests. It’s shameful and embarrassing.

“I’m not going to be lectured by the extreme Right, which is sitting and getting budgets from a government that promotes a two-state solution but does everything to sabotage talks,” he said." link (http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Likud-Bayit-Yehudi-MKs-Labor-MKs-visit-to-Abbas-crossed-line-into-post-Zionism-350415)

Rocky_Shorz

26th April 2014, 01:23

Top U.S. Diplomat: Russia Has Betrayed the “New World Order”

"Top diplomat Christopher R. Hill says that Russia’s response to the Ukraine crisis means that Moscow has betrayed the “new world order” it has been a part of for the last 25 years.

In a piece for the influential Project Syndicate publication, Hill, a former US ambassador to Iraq and Korea, writes that Russia’s annexation of Crimea and “intimidation” campaign against Kiev has brought an end to a 25-year historical period, accusing Moscow of engaging in “regression, recidivism, and revanchism”.

Hill’s definition of the “new world order” is Russia’s post-Glasnost involvement in “Western institutions, a market economy, and a multi-party parliamentary democracy.”

“This new world order held for almost 25 years. Except for Russia’s brief war with Georgia in August 2008 (a conflict generally seen as instigated by reckless Georgian leadership), Russia’s acquiescence and commitment to the “new world order,” however problematic, was one of the great accomplishments of the post-Cold War era,” writes Hill.

Hill, who is an advisor with the Albright Stonebridge Group, a “global strategy company” with tentacles deep within the White House and the State Department, goes on to accuse Moscow of reviving the days of the Soviet empire, adding that, “Russia….no longer seems interested in what the West has been offering for the last 25 years: special status with NATO, a privileged relationship with the European Union, and partnership in international diplomatic endeavors.”

Arguing that western sanctions are unlikely to have any impact, Hill asserts that NATO should prepare itself for the long haul, warning that Russia “will seek to make similar trouble among former Soviet “allies,” invoking the German invasion of Poland in 1939 to suggest that Moscow may launch aggression against other eastern European nations.

Hill’s assertion that Russia has turned its back on the “new world order” illustrates how Moscow is seeking to lead an alternate BRICS-aligned faction that will pose a major threat to the unipolar future envisaged by the United States and NATO.

In other words, whether Russia wants one or not, the western elite is digging in for a new Cold War and the world may be entering the most dangerous period of history since the Cuban missile crisis."

http://www.infowars.com/top-u-s-diplomat-russia-has-betrayed-the-new-world-order/

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as for Israel...

State of Palestine & the @WorldBank signed an agreement yesterday to implement a solid waste management project in #Gaza, worth $32 million
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Jordan, Palestine sign 8 cooperation agreements

"AMMAN — Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour on Wednesday reiterated Jordan’s support for the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, foremost of which the establishment of an independent state.

During a meeting in Ramallah with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Ensour also voiced the Kingdom’s keenness on furthering cooperation with Palestine in all fields.

Abbas briefed Ensour on the latest political developments concerning the US-brokered Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations.

The Palestinian president also said that more openness with Arab and Islamic nations, mainly Jordan, is a priority for Palestinians in the next stage.

The two sides stressed the vital role of the private sectors in exploring prospects for further cooperation between the two countries.

Also on Wednesday, Ensour co-chaired the meetings of the fourth session of the Joint Jordanian-Palestinian Higher Committee with his Palestinian counterpart Rami Hamdallah, which concluded with signing eight agreements, memoranda of understanding and executive programmes in the fields of industry, protection of national products, agriculture, health, civil defence and meteorology.

In the presence of Abbas, Ensour and Hamdallah signed the minutes of the meetings before they held a joint press conference.

Ensour stressed, in his remarks to the press, on the efforts His Majesty King Abdullah exerts to promote and garner international support for the Palestinian cause, noting that a significant part of His Majesty’s international contacts, speeches and discussions are dedicated to this cause.

“Our visit to Palestine sends an unmistakable signal that we support you and every effort that would ensure Palestinians a normal life,” the premier told the Palestinian officials.

He said that deals signed Wednesday serve that purpose.

On a different note, Ensour urged the Palestinian Authority, “which is the legitimate and sole representative of the Palestinian people”, to take moves towards national concord and called on other Palestinian factions to “join the PA as it crosses this threshold”.

He criticised the Israeli siege of Palestinian land, in Gaza and the West Bank, as a violation to international law and humanitarian principles.

He said that the agreements signed between the two sides would be followed by others, which are in the pipeline.

Jerusalem

In response to a question, Ensour stressed that Jordan recognises Palestinians sovereignty over “every square millimetre” in East Jerusalem, including Al Haram Al Sharif compound, which is under the custodianship of Jordan according to an agreement the King signed with Abbas last year, renewing a role the Kingdom has assumed since 1923.

The administration of the holy Muslim sites in the Old City is also stipulated in the 1994 Jordan-Israel peace treaty.

“Jordan does not compete with the Palestinians for sovereignty over East Jerusalem,” he said, asserting that the Hashemite custodianship of the Islamic third holiest shrine and other sacred sites in the occupied city will stay “and be passed over from a generation to another”.

Peace process

Ensour reiterated that Jordan is constantly kept abreast of developments in the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, indicating that Amman and Ramallah are keeping channels open for consultations, while Jordan and the US are also coordinating regarding the peace process.

He voiced regret that the negotiators would not reach a peace agreement before the April 29 deadline, according to a schedule set by US Secretary of State John Kerry. " link (http://jordantimes.com/jordan-palestine-sign-8-cooperation-agreements)

Rocky_Shorz

27th April 2014, 17:09

Crimean Residents To Face Russian-Style Repression
Posted by Tom Malinowski April 25, 2014

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A View of the City of Bakhchysarai, Crimea

"One unfortunate effect – and perhaps intent – of the Russian government’s threats against eastern Ukraine has been to divert the world’s attention from the part of Ukraine it has already seized.

On April 15, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a report on Crimea documenting what the Russian government has tried to hide by denying international monitors access to Crimea: the imprisonment, torture, and killings of Crimean citizens who opposed Russia’s illegal annexation of the peninsula prior to the March referendum.

The world is already familiar with some of the more horrific reports that have emerged in recent weeks, such as the discovery on March 18 of the body of Crimean Tatar activist Reshat Ametov two weeks after he had been abducted, bearing clear evidence of abuse. On March 25, Human Rights Watch reported that two Euromaidan activists in Crimea had been kidnapped and brutally tortured by Russian and local forces in secret facilities for 11 days. link (http://blogs.state.gov/stories/2014/04/25/crimean-residents-face-russian-style-repression#sthash.Ivrkssl4.dpuf)

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A Tatar woman cries during the funeral of Reshat Ametov, a Tatar pro-Ukrainian activist and father of three, who disappeared after attending a rally on March 3 in Simferopol, Crimea, on March 18, 2014.

After spinning a fictitious tale of protecting members of the ethnic Russian minority in Ukraine, the Russian government and its proxies are subjecting members of ethnic minorities in Crimea to the very abuses they pretend to oppose. On March 31, pro-Russian thugs beat a 14-year-old Tatar boy for speaking Tatar in public. On March 18, Crimean Deputy Prime Minister Temirgaliyev announced that Tatars must give up their land to be used for other purposes. On March 15 and 16, pro-Russia thugs kidnapped Ukrainian Greek Catholic priests, interrogated them, and had local “authorities” charge some of them with “extremism.” Following anonymous death threats, the Chief Reform Rabbi of Crimea has fled. All told, international organizations report that around 5,000 people, including minority Christians, Jews, and at least 3,000 Tatars, have fled Crimea and sought refuge elsewhere in Ukraine.

If the Russian government begins to impose through its occupation and purported annexation of Crimea the repressive laws it is increasingly implementing in Russia, Crimean residents may experience surprising restrictions on the rights they once freely exercised. Among these are:

A Loss of Autonomy. Even as President Putin demands decentralization in Ukraine, he is abolishing it in Russia. A new bill in the Duma could cancel direct mayoral elections in Russia, stripping citizens of their ability to elect their local leaders.
Censorship and Propaganda. As has already been done within Russia, Russian authorities have tried to limit Crimean residents’ access to TV channels that are not Kremlin-controlled. From Russia’s internet space, Crimean residents could find themselves unable to access certain independent news sites.
Criminalization of Dissent. The Russian government could attempt to subject Crimean residents who wish to express dissent to its arsenal of laws unduly restricting freedom of expression, including Russian-style prosecutions of journalists and activists for “extremism” and “hooliganism” simply for expressing independent views.
"Foreign Agent" Hysteria. Following the xenophobic trend encouraged by authorities in Russia, lists of local “traitors” and “foreign agents” have already begun to appear in Crimea. Crimean non-governmental organizations (NGOs), like Russian ones, may find themselves subjected to a range of new burdensome regulations, including the notorious Russian “Foreign Agents” NGO law. Many Crimean human rights defenders have already fled Crimea, and many of those who stayed are considering a principled stance to avoid taking on the false and stigmatizing label of “foreign agent.”
Limits on Freedom of Assembly. Recent Russian laws instituting harsh fines (over $9000) for participating in peaceful unsanctioned protest, if imposed in Crimea, may have a chilling effect on public demonstrations. We’ve already seen evidence in Sevastopol – on April 15, the city banned an LGBT pride parade, citing Russia’s ban on LGBT “propaganda.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jshAX9ialok

Russia will continue to pay a high price if it continues to occupy Crimea. Sanctions imposed because of its actions in Crimea will remain so long as those actions continue. And we will increase these costs if Russia does not follow through on the commitments it made in Geneva on April 17 to de-escalate the crisis it has manufactured in eastern Ukraine. We will also continue to empower Ukraine to withstand Russian pressure and move towards a prosperous and democratic future. In recent days, the United States has signed a loan guarantee agreement with Ukraine to unlock $1 billion in financing, which will help the Ukrainian Government to provide critical services and protect vulnerable citizens as the government implements necessary economic reforms. We are providing additional assistance to support those reforms, as well as free and fair elections, anti-corruption initiatives, recovery of stolen assets, and helping Ukraine withstand politically-motivated trade actions by Russia.

As we look to what has happened in Crimea, and seek to diffuse tensions in eastern Ukraine, we are reminded what is at stake. This is not a dispute between different parts of Ukraine. It is a contest, as President Obama has said, between two competing ideals: “the belief that through conscience and free will, each of us has the right to live as we choose,” and an “older, more traditional view of power” which holds that “order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign.” The desire to live in freedom, under a state that serves its citizens, not the other way around, is universal. Ukrainians don’t want to lose their freedom. Their fellow citizens in Crimea, and neighbors in Russia, deserve to reclaim it."

About the Author: Tom Malinowki serves as Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.

Frank V

27th April 2014, 17:31

Crimean Residents To Face Russian-Style Repression
Posted by Tom Malinowski April 25, 2014

[...]

About the Author: Tom Malinowki serves as Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.

Even though Putin and the Russian military are definitely no saints, that article sounds like a well-written and well-contemplated piece of spin doctoring to me. But then again, we already knew that The Powers That Be were going to be playing out this card, didn't we?

They did the same thing with regard to alleged atrocities committed by Saddam in Kuwait and Gaddafi in Libya. Undoubtedly, some of that will have been real, but most of it was just spin and propaganda. I expect no different here.

Rocky_Shorz

27th April 2014, 17:56

Frank V

27th April 2014, 18:04

Rocky_Shorz

27th April 2014, 18:25

These anti-Russian leaflets are being dropped from helicopters over eastern Ukraine

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Strange things have been happening in eastern Ukraine, a place swirling with rumors of imminent invasion by the "Little Green Men" (what the suspected Russian troops without insignia are being called).

A couple of British journalists and I were driving back to our hotel after a day of chasing news on the outskirts of Slovyansk when Boris, our intrepid taxi driver, pointed out the window and shouted, “Look at that!”

We, or at least I, ducked -- but then we looked. It was a large gray military-style helicopter. And something was falling out of the sky.

It was dropping leaflets, which fluttered toward the highway to Kramatorsk, then drifted in the spring breeze into a cow field and apple orchard.

Mission accomplished. A couple of locals pulled over, and so did we, to grab a handful out of the trees.

“Dear Peaceful Citizens of Kramatorsk and Slovyansk!” The leaflets read. “Here are your instructions on how to SURVIVE in the territories where Russian terrorists act.”

There was a black and white image of a masked man with a Kalashnikov and then what appears to be the Ukrainian Security Service version of a listicle. The first point:

1. “Don’t go close to the occupied buildings. You can become a human shield or hostage. It is a good picture for Russian media.”

Russian media are generally seen by the government in Kiev as instruments of the Russian state, especially President Vladimir Putin.

2. “Don’t listen to those who spout propaganda for federalization. They're being paid 1000 UAH per day.”

That would be about $80 a day, which is real money in eastern Ukraine, where in July 2013 the average monthly salary was 3901 UAH, or about $312 at today’s rates.

The instructions continue: They ask peace-loving citizens to inform law enforcement about suspicious people and groups of people carrying bags. They ask, please, don't join any self-defense groups: They're anti-Ukrainian.

Also: Avoid participating in mass rallies.

The leaflet warns that there are Russian GRU assets circulating in the crowds (GRU is Russia's military intelligence directorate) and that “they might liquidate those who criticize Russian politics.”

On that note, the instructions also warn the peaceful citizens to keep themselves and loved ones away from terrorists and anti-Ukrainian actions. Why? Because "all those who participate in anti-Ukrainian actions are potential victims.”

You can see the full leaflet below: link (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/04/24/these-anti-russian-leaflets-are-being-dropped-from-helicopters-over-eastern-ukraine/)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2014/04/Bill2photo-e1398360010637.jpg

this old video suddenly is on the top play list...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQzkMoEGDGE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmIUm1E4OcI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwBZObfp24c&feature=player_detailpage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzn90P_4q4g

Rocky_Shorz

27th April 2014, 23:57

"Exclusive: Kerry Warns Israel Could Become ‘An Apartheid State’

The secretary of state said that if Israel doesn’t make peace soon, it could become ‘an apartheid state,’ like the old South Africa. Jewish leaders are fuming over the comparison.

If there’s no two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict soon, Israel risks becoming “an apartheid state,” Secretary of State John Kerry told a room of influential world leaders in a closed-door meeting Friday.

Senior American officials have rarely, if ever, used the term "apartheid" in reference to Israel, and President Obama has previously rejected the idea that the word should apply to Jewish State. Kerry's use of the loaded term is already rankling Jewish leaders in America—and is almost certain to do the same to Israeli leaders abroad.

It wasn't the only controversial comment on the Middle East that Kerry made during his remarks to the Trilateral Commission, a recording of which was obtained by The Daily Beast. Kerry also repeated his warning that a failure of Middle East peace talks could lead to a resumption of Palestinian violence against Israeli citizens. He suggested that a change in either the Israeli or Palestinian leadership could make achieving a peace deal more feasible. He lashed out against Israeli settlement-building. And Kerry said that both Israeli and Palestinian leaders share the blame for the current impasse in the talks.

Kerry also said that at some point, he might unveil his own peace deal and tell both sides to “take it or leave it.”

“A two-state solution will be clearly underscored as the only real alternative. Because a unitary state winds up either being an apartheid state with second class citizens—or it ends up being a state that destroys the capacity of Israel to be a Jewish state,” Kerry told the group of senior officials and experts from the U.S., Western Europe, Russia, and Japan. “Once you put that frame in your mind, that reality, which is the bottom line, you understand how imperative it is to get to the two state solution, which both leaders, even yesterday, said they remain deeply committed to.”

According to the 1998 Rome Statute, the “crime of apartheid” is defined as “inhumane acts… committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime.” The term is most often used in reference to the system of racial segregation and oppression that governed South Africa from 1948 until 1994.

Former president Jimmy Carter came under fire in 2007 for titling his book on Middle East peace Palestine: Peace or Apartheid. Carter has said publicly that his views on Israeli treatment of the Palestinians are a main cause of his poor relationship with President Obama and his lack of current communication with the White House. But Carter explained after publishing the book that he was referring to apartheid type policies in the West Bank, not Israel proper, and he was not accusing Israel of institutionalized racism.

“Apartheid is a word that is an accurate description of what has been going on in the West Bank, and it's based on the desire or avarice of a minority of Israelis for Palestinian land,” Carter said.

Leading experts, including Richard Goldstone, a former justice of the South African Constitutional Court who led the United Nations fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict of 2008 and 2009, have argued that comparisons between the Israeli treatment of the Palestinians and “apartheid” are offensive and wrong.

“One particularly pernicious and enduring canard that is surfacing again is that Israel pursues ‘apartheid’ policies,” Goldstone wrote in The New York Times in 2011. “It is an unfair and inaccurate slander against Israel, calculated to retard rather than advance peace negotiations.”

In a 2008 interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, then-Sen. Barack Obama shot down the notion that the word “apartheid” was acceptable in a discussion about Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians:

“There’s no doubt that Israel and the Palestinians have tough issues to work out to get to the goal of two states living side by side in peace and security, but injecting a term like apartheid into the discussion doesn’t advance that goal,” Obama said. “It’s emotionally loaded, historically inaccurate, and it’s not what I believe.”

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told The Daily Beast that Kerry was simply repeating his view, shared by others, that a two-state solution is the only way for Israel to remain a Jewish state in peace with the Palestinians.

“Secretary Kerry, like Justice Minister Livni, and previous Israeli Prime Ministers Olmert and Barak, was reiterating why there's no such thing as a one-state solution if you believe, as he does, in the principle of a Jewish State. He was talking about the kind of future Israel wants and the kind of future both Israelis and Palestinians would want to envision,” she said. “The only way to have two nations and two peoples living side by side in peace and security is through a two-state solution. And without a two-state solution, the level of prosperity and security the Israeli and Palestinian people deserve isn't possible.”

But leaders of pro-Israel organizations told The Daily Beast that Kerry’s reference to “apartheid” was appalling and inappropriately alarmist because of its racial connotations and historical context.

“While we’ve heard Secretary Kerry express his understandable fears about alternative prospects for Israel to a two-state deal and we understand the stakes involved in reaching that deal, the use of the word ‘apartheid’ is not helpful at all. It takes the discussion to an entirely different dimension,” said David Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Committee, an organization that has been supportive of Kerry’s peace process initiative. “In trying to make his point, Kerry reaches into diplomatic vocabulary to raise the stakes, but in doing so he invokes notions that have no place in the discussion.”

Kerry has used dire warnings twice in the past to paint a picture of doom for Israel if the current peace process fails. Last November, Kerry warned of a third intifada of Palestinian violence and increased isolation of Israel if the peace process failed. In March, Democrats and Republican alike criticized Kerry for suggesting that if peace talks fail, it would bolster the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

“It’s in the Palestinian playbook to tie Israel to these extreme notions of time being on the Palestinian side, that demographics are on the Palestinian side, and that Israel has to confront notions of the Jewishness of the state,” he said.

Kerry on Friday repeated his warning that a dissolution of the peace process might lead to more Palestinian violence. “People grow so frustrated with their lot in life that they begin to take other choices and go to dark places they’ve been before, which forces confrontation,” he said.

The secretary of state also implied, but did not say outright, that if the governments of Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu or Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas left power, there could be a change in the prospects for peace. If “there is a change of government or a change of heart,” Kerry said, “something will happen.”

Kerry criticized Israeli settlement construction as being unhelpful to the peace process and he also criticized Palestinian leaders for making statements that declined to recognize the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state.

“There is a fundamental confrontation and it is over settlements. Fourteen thousand new settlement units announced since we began negotiations. It’s very difficult for any leader to deal under that cloud,” Kerry said.

He acknowledged that the formal negotiating process that he initiated and led since last summer may soon stop. But he maintained that his efforts to push for a final settlement will continue in one form or another.

“The reports of the demise of the peace process have consistently been misunderstood and misreported. And even we are now getting to the moment of obvious confrontation and hiatus, but I would far from declare it dead,” Kerry said. “You would say this thing is going to hell in a hand basket, and who knows, it might at some point, but I don’t think it is right now, yet.”

Kerry gave both Israeli and Palestinian leaders credit for sticking with the peace process for this long. But he added that both sides were to blame for the current impasse in the talks; neither leader was ready to make the tough decisions necessary for achieving peace.

“There’s a period here where there needs to be some regrouping. I don’t think it’s unhealthy for both of them to have to stare over the abyss and understand where the real tensions are and what the real critical decisions are that have to be made,” he said. “Neither party is quite ready to make it at this point in time. That doesn’t mean they don’t have to make these decisions.”

Kerry said that he was considering, at some point, publicly laying out a comprehensive U.S. plan for a final agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, in a last ditch effort to forge a deal before the Obama administration leaves office in 2017.

“We have enough time to do any number of things, including the potential at some point in time that we will just put something out there. ‘Here it is folks. This is what it looks like. Take it or leave it,’” Kerry said." link (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/27/exclusive-kerry-warns-israel-could-become-an-apartheid-state.html)

This is over a year old, but exactly how most Jews feel...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etXAm-OylQQ

" Published on Dec 2, 2012

Miko Peled was born in Jersusalem into a famous and influential Israeli Zionist family. His father was a famous General in the Israeli Army, of which Miko also served his time. When Miko's niece was killed by Palestinian suicide bombers, you may have expected the family to put Palestinians at fault, but surprisingly they blamed the state of Israel, and their violent torturing and persecution for driving people to such sadness that they would take their own lives.

Through his father's deep knowledge of the Israeli war of terror, together with his own research, Miko Peled ruins the myths surrounding the Israel and Palestine situation, and delivers a truth so damning that many Jews and Israel supporters will not be able to bear it. He reveals facts such as the original expelled Jews are not the ones returning, and they are not their descendants either, covers the double standards regarding the right of return, which doesn't apply to Palestinians, and dispels the myth that there has been a conflict for ages by producing proof that it was peaceful up until 1947 when Israel launched their illegal attacks.

Miko is just one of the many modern day Jews against Zionism and the state of Israel, and with the information he delivers in this astounding talk, it is not difficult to see why more and more Jews are rejecting Zionism and calling for the dismantling of Israel. It is a true eye-opener for anyone who has for too long been blinded by the fake misinformation given by the mainstream media, and the truths come straight from the heartland where he has spent many years documenting the real story."

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This letter, is from top Christian Leaders in the US to Congress...

"Fifteen religious leaders representing many major faith groups in the country, have written a letter to Congress seeking to make U.S. military aid to Israel contingent upon its government’s “compliance with applicable U.S. laws and policies.”

Signers of the letter include Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly Stated Clerk Gradye Parsons.

The signers say they “have worked for decades to support both Israelis and Palestinians in their desire to live in peace and well-being” and “have witnessed the pain and suffering of Israelis as a result of Palestinian actions and of Palestinians as a result of Israeli actions.”

Though they recognize that both Israelis and Palestinians bear responsibility for the prolonged violence in the region, “unconditional U.S. military assistance to Israel has contributed to deteriorating conditions in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories which threaten to lead the region further away from the realization of a just peace. Furthermore, such aid sustains the conflict and undermines the long-term security interests of both Israelis and Palestinians.”

The signers urge an immediate investigation into possible violations by Israel of the U.S. Foreign Assistance Act and the U.S. Arms Export Control Act, which respectively prohibit assistance to any country which engages in a consistent pattern of human rights violations and limit the use of U.S. weapons to “internal security” or “legitimate self-defense.”

They urge Congress to hold hearings to examine Israel’s compliance, and request regular reporting on compliance and the withholding of military aid for non-compliance.

The signers see a troubling and consistent pattern of disregard by the government of Israel for U.S. policies that support a just and lasting peace..." link (http://www.pcusa.org/news/2012/10/5/religious-leaders-ask-congress-condition-israel-mi/)

Aid Restrictions and Possible Violations

Although U.S. assistance to Israel has remained high for several decades, the United States has sometimes restricted aid or rebuked Israel...

Some U.S. citizens and interest groups periodically call upon Congress to ensure that U.S. military assistance to Israel is conditioned on the Israeli government’s “compliance with applicable U.S. laws and policies.” link (http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf)

Octavusprime

28th April 2014, 01:22

The last video is very powerful. For what it is worth, I very much recommend it.

Limor Wolf

29th April 2014, 08:20

Thanks Rocky, I think that posting Miko Peled's video is very fitting here and suitable for this conversation, he speakes about Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and touches all the points that we all identify as defective, immoral, and in stark contrast to human rights. Of course, he does so in the frame of the allowable and non-risky range of the political- human rights arena and not exposing the one dominating force that rules our world.

In a way, I find that there is a parallelism between Miko Peled and Noam Chomsky, They both deal with the 'nitty gritty' of political life, U.S.A, Israel, Palestinians relations, the imbalance of power, injustice, the distorted vision of our leaders and the diseases of the government, an incredible and courageous and wise analysis which does not threaten the cabal's empire, and so the carousel continues to move around and the door of the cage is about to be closed. Such is also the keeping up with what happens in Russia, Ukraine and the U.S as is reflected in the public discourse, It's all mostly moving around the central nucleus of the inside game perspective and without an understanding of the main cause of the problem and the need to disconnect from it, sticking a nail in the wheels of the system and stopping it from moving. In this sense, it was good to hear Chomsky points to the problem this last week, after all, without waking up to the real on-goings of this reality and calling a spade a spade, there is no way to reach a solution.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/america-is-running-the-worlds-largest-terrorist-operation/5339835

Both sides, the three or four of them are checkers in the same game, the more rational directive of our thoughts need to be on how is it possible for us to disembark from them.

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For those who still like to dwell in analysis, here is a good character judgment of Putin by Fritz Springmeier who has a good eye for these guys

http://plazilla.com/page/4295131337/king-of-the-kremlin-analyzed-by-fritz-springmeier

Very Best,

Limor

Wind

29th April 2014, 09:01

The latest from Clif High and a summary from some listener.

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"War in ukraine. major warfare near end of june. summer solstice. short. ukraine joins back to russia

Has profounds effects. extensive crosslinks. leads to greater financial war that is overhead. the financial war is the war. the fighting on the ground is not the real war compared to the financial war. the financial war is causing the elements on the ground. the war has over 1000 resulting crosslinks and sets. crosslinks over to silver. crack up boom. desparate drunken intoxicated out of mind feverish hallucinating state of brain and desperate attempt to bail on dollar. spend it all before its useless.

Gold selloff tied to central banks and ukraine war. populace invested in gold will get very worried as gold tanks and driven down by people trying to unload metals to pay for the war. price of gold will drop down low due to massive unloading of gold into the market. announced gold sale amidst outburst of activity around ukraine. emotion crushing blow to gold bugs so distressed over the sale of the gold announcement.

The results are not what the central banksters want. This one gold sale alone at an active auction and fist to cuffs battle to get a seat. undermining of bidders. Nasty brutal situation. its over sold. a panic buying situation where the sellers get the wrong affect and this actually drives gold up massively. the news around this sale and how crazy it was actually drives the price up for demand for gold. after auction is over none of gold is sold and people are given money back.

Escalation in financial war. Certain events occur connected to diaspora. Not sure What it is. an announced gold sale. some gold may be antique. some jewelry. some panic buy. unanticipated side effect. has large human interest points. wide audience. causes a price spike.

Ukraine war june 20ish - transformative. advent of war at the time ends up with positive impact from data sets on large amount of populace. transformative for populace. in the end brings a boost in investment capital into ukraine and a rebuilding there. cross connects from start of war to beginning of transformation.

The cabal thats controlling everything are running into a number of walls.
transformation goes back to dollar. at initial stage till end of june.end up with dollar transformation that began with the war. terminates in set. a very small error will start to bring about the dispersion of presumed assets of debt of the FED. sets show that nothing the FED does works anymore. dispersion of presumed assets of FED is caused by their mistake. emotional indicators already over 59% of the emotional response range. staggering success for hph was the concordia falling over at just 35% so this is a really good hit. small error really starts building. it might have already occurred. cant tell if it has or not.

FED will be forced to do something that exposes them. Shows that they are an expired dead corpse. Paper tiger is dead.

when dispersion occurs that is heavily crosslinked to beginning of period of Grand Confusion that exists within the anglo western countries. not limited. its all of the anglo american empire as dollar takes a spike thru the heart. vampies back to the grave.

crossliks over to precious metals control or suppression. crosslinks back to gold panic which occurr later. panic buy creates an emotional wave around planet. sets off new price evaluation for gold and silver world wide.

silver supression ends with small error from FED when it finally manifests out. boots on ground in ukraine is liberation and silver is free from suppression. lots of people welcome it. they are victors of financial war when ukraine is freed. new stage of global politics.

when silver supression cracks the price rockets up. descriptors are springs let loose. shooting to moon. rising super fast. energy so long restrained knows no bounds. relative to dollar dying. dispersion of assets vaporization of their assets. might be before june solstice.

dispersion set of dollar - silver skyrockets when dollar is dispersed and FED looses all of its fake assets. they are vaporized instantly.

4 major sets point to the solstice as linked to silver and the dollar.

other sets about silver independent of gold are linked to ukraine war on or before the solstice.

extreme weather all the way thru spring into summer. out of season wind and rain conditions. battering of california coast all down into Baja. clif has winter storms in spring in his area. expects those in california soon as well.

wind pattern is key. lots of winds causing issues. hurricanes in mediterranean and red sea maybe. so much weather everywhere.

a potention-ometer - able to predict amount of certainty in predictions. percentages.

thinks he has a way figured out to be more accurate with predictions for certain things. maybe. might be able to fine tune it by looking at certain events and monitoring them to see how valid the predictions are based on a known event. watching decreasing and increasing emotional components shift over time to hope to have some certainty at the 3 to 7 day level.

going to try it out with some data target dates to see if it works. will start to track towards the solstice as a known date and will see how it shifts and see how it trends and see how forecasts pan out to this.

he says that he has two things that have worked with this potention-ometer. so is hopeful for some other things to work.

by the summer the suppression of metals will be gone. not sure how long it will take to see it take effect but it will be in summer."

animovado

30th April 2014, 08:43

Here's an excerpt of the remarks of Secretary of State John Kerry at the Atlantic Council's Toward a Europe Whole and Free Conference in Washington, D.C., yesterday:

So my friends, I'd just close by saying to all of you that this moment -- without reaching for any hyperbole because the moment is serious enough that it doesn't require that
-- this moment is about more than just ourselves. The fact is that our entire model of global leadership is at stake. (http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/news/transcripts/remarks-by-secretary-of-state-john-kerry-at-the-atlantic-council-s-toward-a-europe-whole-and-free-conference)

Flash

30th April 2014, 14:20

Rocky_Shorz

30th April 2014, 16:29

Rocky_Shorz

1st May 2014, 03:12

Military Purge Continues As Another General Is Ousted From Pentagon

The head of the Defense Intelligence Agency is being pushed out of the job after a series of clashes over his leadership at an agency that is under pressure to shift focus following more than a decade of war, current and former U.S. officials said.
Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn is expected to announce Wednesday that he is leaving his job as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency more than a year before he was scheduled to depart, according to officials who said that Flynn faced mounting pressure from Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. and others in recent

link (http://stateofglobe.com/2014/05/01/military-purge-continues-as-another-general-is-ousted-from-pentagon/)

I guess we know who directed Ukraine's propaganda program...

"One former official told The Washington Post that Flynn attempted to push DIA analyses and operators into the field and other high-intensity operations. This ran counter to how the DIA saw itself, leading many to believe that Flynn's vision for the agency was disruptive.

Flynn's critics also maintained that his management style was chaotic and that his aggressive push for changes often did not include an adequate follow-through..."
link (http://www.businessinsider.com/michael-t-flynn-fired-from-dia-2014-4)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPX0F-UqF-k&feature=player_detailpage

Rocky_Shorz

2nd May 2014, 00:09

this is too important with what is going on in the World of War without peace and exposing those behind it... AIPAC is on my wall of shame...

I remember the news medias making this guy out to be a real scumbag. And, fool that I was, I believed the medias. But just listen to him and see what he says after almost 8 years in prison.... He still believes what he did was right.

Whose damn country is America anyway? Those treacherous politicians in DC need to be reminded that America is who they're SUPPOSED to be serving not Israel.

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And please remind me WHY every man, woman and child in Israel get money from us? That's our money that would best be used for Americans in this critical time in our nation.

Things like this irks me to no end!

Carmody

2nd May 2014, 00:33

I posted author info just to quietly point that out, but thanks for putting it into words of understanding...

no one wins in war, but we need to watch the manipulation from all sides...

expect a lot of you can't say Putin without poo...

What annoys me about this issue at the moment is how the mainstream media are playing it as if there already is a war going on between the West and Russia. I hold the mainstream media just as accountable for war mongering as I do Obama, the EU and all of their cronies.

University of Ohio study:

85% of all American Major media is in the hands of, literally controlled by (they all share the same stories)... 6-7 people, 5 of which (and a 6th suspected) are ethically Jewish.

(I am of Jewish extraction, enough so to get to Israel as a 'Jew', so none of the anti-semitic crap can stick on me. The above is just a fact, nothing more.)

Those laws regulations and procedures were on the books to PREVENT this now existing situation from occurring, so that no small group could ever end up in a position to be controlling public opinion via total media control.

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Bush Jr, in 2000, IIRC, tore apart the federal offices that would prevent such media consolidation from happening. In this case, infiltration and plants of nasty people put into the FTC, in order to drive out the long term civil servants who cared for America and it's freedoms and laws. Those departments heads he appointed brought in even more nasty people (while firing and driving out the real civil servants), people who are still there, still controlling those federal offices, and infecting them. Basically, nasty fascist neocon plants, who've spent the last 14 years burning down the public approx 71 federal departments of the USA federal government. And that's the least of it.

I even got corroboration from a deputy director of one of the biggest federal departments, that this is exactly what was done, in order to break the back of America. Not that the democratic party (hah!) was/is any better.

You are looking at a systematic plan that was enacted and held to, all the way down the line. A unilateral plan via all political (and other) avenues.

The question, is what are they doing now? As..what you are seeing now, is just a step, a stage, a marker, on an enforced and directed path and plan.

Rocky_Shorz

2nd May 2014, 01:22

and Anonymous stepped forward...

we are at the world's free media, we can share everything while we still have the right and ability...

the group behind Anon, is willing to stand against the media mogels, shredding their security to expose secrets...

Asia said no to floating the Fed Reserve...

earthquake weapons turned on the ring of fire, the whole world was shaking...

weather weapons turned on the heartland, 100+ tornadoes, largest outbreak in a decade...

following the storms, 2 trains derailed, one with oil, the other with coal and southern California's airport computer system crashed shutting down air transportation. all in 24 hours...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmgqQXfIgAAGXsb.jpg

the sun and quakes are quiet... the warnings sent...

as for the BRICS, China currency has dropped 2% against USD in a few weeks...

what is the next move and from whom?... I hear their whispers...

a United Palestine must "NEVER" happen

as in: time for a Hamas flight 370 air attack on Tel Aviv... :nono:

something big is up right now...

if I worked in a sky rise in Tel Aviv and walked in wondering why no one told me it was a Jewish Holiday...

I'd turn around and go home...

ThePythonicCow

2nd May 2014, 02:34

I even got corroboration from a deputy director of one of the biggest federal departments, that this is exactly what was done, in order to break the back of America. Not that the democratic party (hah!) was/is any better.

You are looking at a systematic plan that was enacted and held to, all the way down the line. A unilateral plan via all political (and other) avenues.
Nor did it begin with Bush Junior.

During Bush Junior's term, a lawyer for (at that time) the U.S. Department of Justice, Jesselyn Radack (http://www.whistleblower.org/jesselyn-radack), co-authored the paper "PIERCING THE “HISTORICAL MISTS”…AND LOOKING TOWARD THE FUTURE" which described in the sort of detail only available to people who were there at the time, the destruction of the U.S. Department of Justice, during the Clinton administration (1993-2001), using similar techniques, including the suspicious deaths of key people who were getting in the way.

Jesselyn Radack has since left the U.S. government, and is now with the Government Accountability Project (whistleblower.org) (http://www.whistleblower.org/), where she has served as attorney for various whistle blowers, including Thomas Drake and Edward Snowden.

See my original post on Avalon, describing her "Piercing the "Historical Mists"" paper, with a link to the pre-publication, pre-censored version of that paper, at Millions Against Monsanto -- Post #6 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?49051-Millions-Against-Monsanto&p=544905&viewfull=1#post544905).

See the more recent record of Radack's work by searching this Avalon forum for the word "Radack".

The destruction of the U.S. government (its subordination to some other authority than the informed will of the American people) is a project that has been on going for a long time. A key early step was obviously the passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, one dark and stormy night (actually, I don't know the weather, but surely it could have been none other.)

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“Give me control over a nations currency, and I care not who makes its laws” – Baron M.A. Rothschild.

We are now manifesting the reality that will justify a new version of that famous quote:

“Give me control over a planets currency, and I care not who makes its laws”

ThePythonicCow

2nd May 2014, 03:13

Two important background pieces on the current events in the Ukraine have come to my attention.

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The first, with a tip-of-the-hat to ZeroHedge (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-30/battleground-ukraine-comprehensive-summary-russian-perspective), is from WikiSpooks.com. It is a lecture by Andrei Fursov (Director of Russian Studies, Moscow University. Member of the International Academy of Sciences) dated 2014/04/14, that provides a "wide ranging analysis of the 2013-2014 situation in Ukraine, its antecedents and consequences from the perspective of a senior Russian academic".

You can find the lecture, including video of him speaking in Russian, and an English transcript, at Battleground Ukraine (WikiSpooks) (https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:Battleground_Ukraine).

WikiSpooks describes this lecture:

This is an impressive, comprehensive analysis of the February 2014 Ukraine coup from the perspective of a senior Russian academic. It details the interests and affiliations of the main Ukrainian domestic players - oligarchical clans many of whose leaders have dual nationality - with some shocking and little known detail. It exposes the glaring hypocrisies and double standards of the western sponsors of the coup and their Russian/Ukrainian '5th Column traitors'. It sees the coup and Russia's successful incorporation of Crimea as major game-changing events in the on-going, US-lead post-WWII machinations of the West to subdue Russia to its own agenda and outlines how Russia should now respond.

All-in-all a must-read for westerners needing to understand what is really happening in both the Ukraine and the wider Anglo-US-NATO globalisation drive which it brings into sharp focus
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The second is a documentary video of the war of 08-08-08, when Georgia invaded Ossetia, followed by Russia's defense of Ossetia in the following days. Contrary to the blame placed on Ossetia and Russia for this brief war (see for example the Georgian–Ossetian conflict (Wikipedia) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian%E2%80%93Ossetian_conflict)), this documentary provides strong evidence that it was the Georgian government, working with the substantial support of NATO and turn-coat Ossetian leaders, who intended to slaughter the Ossetian people and claim the land for Georgia.

Here is the documentary:OYhLmPMIru4

WAR 08.08.08. The Art of Betrayal
There are many similarities between the War of 08.08.08, with Georgia and Ossetia, and the current tensions in the Ukraine.

Once again, NATO, working in part through various traitors, cut-outs, rabble rousers, controlled international groups, and violent thugs, is seeking bloodshed, turmoil and division along Russia's south-western border.

ThePythonicCow

2nd May 2014, 03:32

During Bush Junior's term, a lawyer for (at that time) the U.S. Department of Justice, Jesselyn Radack (http://www.whistleblower.org/jesselyn-radack), co-authored ...

Jesselyn Radack has been a thorn in the side of the U.S. Dept. of Justice (DoJ) since at least the months following 9/11. In December of 2001, when she was employed at DoJ, she objected to their interrogation of 'American Talib' John Walker Lindh without a lawyer being present. Jesselyn Radack tells her story of these events in A Whistle-Blower's Inside View of the Homeland Security Nominee (http://www.sikhtimes.com/news_020405a.html).

Also, she has provided a publicly available version of her report that I mentioned above, on the systemic destruction of DoJ investigations during the Clinton administration. You can find it at the New York University Journal of Law & Liberty: THEFISA WALL AND FEDERAL INVESTIGATIONS (pdf) (http://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/ECM_PRO_062708.pdf).

Rocky_Shorz

2nd May 2014, 05:06

Major battle going on in Ukraine...

"pro-#Kremlin coordinators in #Sloviansk #Ukraine are telling their ppl to call Russian president's hotline (8-495-625-35-81) to ask for help" ever wanted to say hi to Putin? it might be his cell... text him...

"Tymchuk: pro-#Kremlin forces in #Sloviansk #Ukraine are now concentrated in the southeast corner of the city"

"Tymchuk: #Ukraine's forces have captured most of #Sloviansk. All separatist checkpoints have been cleared."

"We're getting more information that #Sloviansk #Ukraine is being stormed and that heavy armor is being deployed in addition to air power"

"#Sloviansk 20 helicopters are attacking the city, 3 choppers are down ,its all in for #War

after a large explosion in the Capitol of Nigeria, today...

"The U.S. has offered to help Nigeria in hunt for 200 girls abducted by Islamist militants: http://reut.rs/1rKexuE pic.twitter.com/B0iDNM2k6Y"

US Troops?

noxon medem

2nd May 2014, 23:24

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If this have been posted before,
then it needs to be again, and fit
well on this volumous thread :

Thanks to Uncle Zook on United People (ha ha) forum.
A video recording of a speach made by a just voice of
a decent human being with empathy and conscience,
Benjamin Freedman exposes the Zionist conspiracy :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXBcyX97jGM
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXBcyX97jGM )

A Jewish Defector Warns America.
Benjamin Freedman Speaks on Zionism !

This belong in this thread somehow.
Please listen ( for about 45 minutes )

Be well, all -

nm

naste.de.lumina

3rd May 2014, 00:57

West has cut all paths to peace by supporting Kiev crackdown Vitaly Churkin

kH2aSoklupI

http://rt.com/news/156468-russia-ukraine-crisis-crackdown/

The West has cut all paths to a peaceful solution of the Ukrainian crisis by supporting the Kiev authorities and their violent crackdown on protests in the eastern part of the country, Russia’s envoy Vitaly Churkin told the UN Security Council.

Catastrophic consequences are inevitable if Kiev authorities do not stop their “criminal venture,” Churkin stressed at the emergency UNSC meeting summoned by Moscow on Friday.

He pointed out that Kiev has flagrantly violated its obligations that were established under the Geneva agreement on April 17. The "punitive measures" carried out by the government are evidence of Kiev’s inability and unwillingness to fulfill these obligations, he added.

“Particular concern is raised by data that, during the punitive operation of the Ukrainian military and illegal ultra-nationalist groups, English speech was heard on air, and among the assailants on Slavyansk, English speaking foreigners were seen,” the Russian UN envoy said.

He stressed that Moscow “insists on avoiding any external interference in what is happening in Ukraine.”

“Kiev regime, encouraged by its Western sponsors, used massive use of military force, practically destroying the last hope for the viability of the Geneva agreement,” Churkin said.

The Russian envoy to the UN has urged Kiev and all sides who took part in the Geneva deal – the US and EU – to “refrain from making grave mistakes” and “soberly assess the full responsibility of the possible consequences of their actions."

“Supporting the organizers of the Kiev government coup and their military crackdown on protesters, the US and EU take great responsibility practically cutting all paths to resolve the crisis peacefully,” Churkin concluded.

Against this background, “Washington’s flat refusal” to support the proposal on organizing an OSCE-supported dialogue between Kiev and southeastern Ukraine looks “not coincidental,” Churkin said.

Kiev has intensified its military operation in eastern Ukraine, with the country's new authorities unleashing heavy weaponry on Slavyansk (http://rt.com/usa/156448-obama-merkel-ukraine-russia/) on Friday morning. Helicopters and APCs blockaded the city, preventing the evacuation of civilians. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has urged for the creation of humanitarian corridors.

In response, Russia summoned an emergency UNSC meeting aimed at ending the violence and bloodshed.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he is very concerned about the events in eastern Ukraine and urged all sides of the conflict to show “restraint.”

"The escalation of violence and reports of further casualties in Slavyansk today is a vivid reminder of how dangerous the situation has become," Ban said in a statement, adding that he "calls on all parties to exercise maximum restraint and to express dissatisfaction peacefully to avoid further bloodshed."

In turn, Russia’s envoy called on the UN to publish a statement urging an end to all violence, including the use of military force in eastern Ukraine.

Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com.br/2014/05/west-has-cut-all-paths-to-peace-by.html

Tesseract

3rd May 2014, 03:03

Significant probability of Russian military action in the next few days, not necessarily an invasion though. Part of me hopes those troops near the border are a deliberate distraction.

Incidentally, the 9th of May, Victory Day, is the day the Soviet Union (and now Russia) celebrated the final defeat of the Nazis in 1945, it is a very important national day.

Hervé

3rd May 2014, 17:32

Battleground Ukraine: A comprehensive summary (https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:Battleground_Ukraine)

Andrei Fursov
WikiSpooks (https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:Battleground_Ukraine)
Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:00 CDT

This is an impressive, comprehensive analysis of the February 2014 Ukraine coup from the perspective of a senior Russian academic. It details the interests and affiliations of the main Ukrainian domestic players - oligarchical clans many of whose leaders have dual nationality - with some shocking and little known detail. It exposes the glaring hypocrisies and double standards of the western sponsors of the coup and their Russian/Ukrainian '5th Column traitors'. It sees the coup and Russia's successful incorporation of Crimea as major game-changing events in the on-going, US-lead post-WWII machinations of the West to subdue Russia to its own agenda and outlines how Russia should now respond.

All-in-all a must-read for westerners needing to understand what is really happening in both the Ukraine and the wider Anglo-US-NATO globalisation drive which it brings into sharp focus

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Transcript below:

Introduction
Firstly, let me say that sometimes it's pleasant to be wrong. Well, I got it wrong. At the beginning of February my colleague, Elena Ponomarëva, and I discussed the question, could we take Crimea? I was a pessimist and said, 10% chance that we'll take Crimea. We won't get it because the West will react aggressively, and our authorities lack the courage. She said, on the contrary 90% chance that we take Crimea, and 10% chance that it doesn't happen. She was right. I was wrong.

Without doubt, the re-unification with Crimea is a very important landmark. In a recent TV interview I said that this is genuinely the end of the disgraceful era which began in Malta on the 2-3rd Dec 1989, when Gorbachev surrendered absolutely everything to Bush, even what wasn't asked for.

After that everything possible was given up. Rays of hope began to appear later, during the Putin administration. There was the war of 08.08.08. But later we failed to support Libya. Although we did put the foot down at Syria. But this is all far away from Russian lands. But Ukraine and Crimea - this is a completely new situation. We started to re-take our territory, little by little. Started doing as the Muscovite princes did in the 14th, 15th century, what the first Romanovs did, and the Stalin system in the 1930s, all of which was: leaving the historical zone of defeat.

But leaving the historical zone of defeat means not only external matters, we are now tearing up the global status quo, which took shape in 1991-94. Meaning: disintegration of the Soviet Union, the uranium deal, the shooting at the Moscow White House, the Budapest Memorandum.

But overcoming defeat has not only an external aspect but also a domestic aspect, Yeltsinism gave raise to a whole stratum of people, whom our president called national-traitors. That is, the fifth column - in the authorities, in business and in the media. In particular, they revealed themselves during the events in Crimea. That was a real moment of truth, moment of choice. People's true colors became apparent, in various spheres. And it was an very import experience for this reason: One could clearly observe the application of double-standards.

What do we mean by double-standards? For example: There was a time when the Brits annexed the Falkland Islands. They said: "Well, why not. There was a referendum in the Falkland Islands and the residents came out in favor of joining up with Britain, and that's sufficient."

"Crimea is a different matter altogether ..." -- although the situation is analogous.

Today we're talking about the Ukraine situation from a number of angles. It's a multi-faceted situation, like all big situations. Many different aspects have led to what happened. Concerning not only the clash between Russia and the West. There's a lot else going on too.

Firstly, it all began with a conflict within the Ukrainian oligarchic class. A great analyst is Vladimir Matveev. I very much recommend you look him up. A number of his analyses are out on the net. Moreover you don't need to be erudite to read his books. Anyone with higher education can read them. He's been very active on the subject of Mossad in Ukraine. He gets continuously threatened. Now he needs to get out of Ukraine and is having problems with that.

We are talking about the oligarchs.
Later we'll talk about the interests of the West - The Europeans and the Americans have different interests.
Next, the interests of Israel.
Then we'll run through the key events originating from the Banderite-American coup in Kiev, which continue to unfold.

The Ukrainian oligarchs

Firstly - the Ukrainian business clans.

[...]

Full transcript: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:Battleground_Ukraine

Rocky_Shorz

3rd May 2014, 18:33

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofEQRKFzs2c

RUSSIAN NUCLEAR BOMBERS SEEN FLYING TODAY OVER CRIMEA'S SIMFEROPOL...

Live tweet, Russian troops are flooding into Ukraine...

"#OSCE #UN #US #EU #NATO! #Russia+#Belarus #troops crossed border #Ukraine!Tank attack #Kiev!Landing #Odessa #Nikolaev! http://m-v-reshetnikov.livejournal.com

Rocky_Shorz

3rd May 2014, 18:43

I REPEAT!!!

Russian Troops and Tanks are rolling into Ukraine...

sounds like they were testing US response, planes scrambled from local bases, US is not going to let Russia carve any more land off Ukraine...

they rolled back from the border to the perm bases...

two cities they are still parked at the border Donetsk and Luhansk

Rocky_Shorz

4th May 2014, 05:31

troubling video watching one after another running up and tossing molitov cocktails into the building, a fire that killed 33...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH5TuaO6H9w

did everyone notice in the news today?

Pro-Russian is now called Anti-Kiev

Russia's military positions...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/world/images/w-RUSIv5.jpg

seko

4th May 2014, 17:05

I'm bumping this post about the analysis of the situation in Ukraine by this senior russian academic.

Battleground Ukraine: A comprehensive summary (https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:Battleground_Ukraine)

Andrei Fursov
WikiSpooks (https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:Battleground_Ukraine)
Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:00 CDT

This is an impressive, comprehensive analysis of the February 2014 Ukraine coup from the perspective of a senior Russian academic. It details the interests and affiliations of the main Ukrainian domestic players - oligarchical clans many of whose leaders have dual nationality - with some shocking and little known detail. It exposes the glaring hypocrisies and double standards of the western sponsors of the coup and their Russian/Ukrainian '5th Column traitors'. It sees the coup and Russia's successful incorporation of Crimea as major game-changing events in the on-going, US-lead post-WWII machinations of the West to subdue Russia to its own agenda and outlines how Russia should now respond.

All-in-all a must-read for westerners needing to understand what is really happening in both the Ukraine and the wider Anglo-US-NATO globalisation drive which it brings into sharp focus

GXLUJpqaQpY

Transcript below:

Introduction
Firstly, let me say that sometimes it's pleasant to be wrong. Well, I got it wrong. At the beginning of February my colleague, Elena Ponomarëva, and I discussed the question, could we take Crimea? I was a pessimist and said, 10% chance that we'll take Crimea. We won't get it because the West will react aggressively, and our authorities lack the courage. She said, on the contrary 90% chance that we take Crimea, and 10% chance that it doesn't happen. She was right. I was wrong.

Without doubt, the re-unification with Crimea is a very important landmark. In a recent TV interview I said that this is genuinely the end of the disgraceful era which began in Malta on the 2-3rd Dec 1989, when Gorbachev surrendered absolutely everything to Bush, even what wasn't asked for.

After that everything possible was given up. Rays of hope began to appear later, during the Putin administration. There was the war of 08.08.08. But later we failed to support Libya. Although we did put the foot down at Syria. But this is all far away from Russian lands. But Ukraine and Crimea - this is a completely new situation. We started to re-take our territory, little by little. Started doing as the Muscovite princes did in the 14th, 15th century, what the first Romanovs did, and the Stalin system in the 1930s, all of which was: leaving the historical zone of defeat.

But leaving the historical zone of defeat means not only external matters, we are now tearing up the global status quo, which took shape in 1991-94. Meaning: disintegration of the Soviet Union, the uranium deal, the shooting at the Moscow White House, the Budapest Memorandum.

But overcoming defeat has not only an external aspect but also a domestic aspect, Yeltsinism gave raise to a whole stratum of people, whom our president called national-traitors. That is, the fifth column - in the authorities, in business and in the media. In particular, they revealed themselves during the events in Crimea. That was a real moment of truth, moment of choice. People's true colors became apparent, in various spheres. And it was an very import experience for this reason: One could clearly observe the application of double-standards.

What do we mean by double-standards? For example: There was a time when the Brits annexed the Falkland Islands. They said: "Well, why not. There was a referendum in the Falkland Islands and the residents came out in favor of joining up with Britain, and that's sufficient."

"Crimea is a different matter altogether ..." -- although the situation is analogous.

Today we're talking about the Ukraine situation from a number of angles. It's a multi-faceted situation, like all big situations. Many different aspects have led to what happened. Concerning not only the clash between Russia and the West. There's a lot else going on too.

Firstly, it all began with a conflict within the Ukrainian oligarchic class. A great analyst is Vladimir Matveev. I very much recommend you look him up. A number of his analyses are out on the net. Moreover you don't need to be erudite to read his books. Anyone with higher education can read them. He's been very active on the subject of Mossad in Ukraine. He gets continuously threatened. Now he needs to get out of Ukraine and is having problems with that.

We are talking about the oligarchs.
Later we'll talk about the interests of the West - The Europeans and the Americans have different interests.
Next, the interests of Israel.
Then we'll run through the key events originating from the Banderite-American coup in Kiev, which continue to unfold.

The Ukrainian oligarchs

Firstly - the Ukrainian business clans.

[...]

Full transcript: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:Battleground_Ukraine

Zaya

5th May 2014, 13:33

New Report: Odessa Jewish Community Mulls Emergency Evacuation
Source: http://www.jpost.com/International/Odessa-Jewish-community-mulls-emergency-evacuation-351334

‘Future looking very violent,’ fears local rabbi; Jewish community hunkers down, tries to ride out the storm.

Odessa’s Jews are prepared to evacuate should the violence in the western Ukrainian city get significantly worse, several community leaders told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. Odessa’s Jewish community numbers some 30,000, down from nearly 40 percent of the city’s population before the Holocaust.

Running street battles between pro-Russian and nationalist forces claimed dozens of lives in the Black Sea port this weekend, culminating in the burning of dozens of pro-Russian protesters in the city’s trade union building on Friday evening.

The Odessa bloodshed came on the same day that Kiev launched its biggest push yet to reassert its control over separatist areas in the east, hundreds of kilometers away, where armed pro-Russian rebels have proclaimed a “People’s Republic of Donetsk.”

While Jewish community leaders are unanimous in asserting that the violence is unconnected to the Jewish community and that they do not feel specially targeted, they agreed that, should the situation deteriorate, it would be easy for the spillover to affect their constituents.

According to Rabbi Refael Kruskal – the head of the Tikva organization, which runs a network of orphanages and schools and provides social services to the city’s elderly – several of the wounded from Friday’s clashes were Jews, and the community is taking all necessary precautions.

“Over the weekend we closed the [Great Choral] Synagogue,” Kruskal said. “We took all the students out of the center of the city where the violence was, because we were worried it was going to spread. We sent a text message to everybody in the community on WhatsApp that they should stay at home over the weekend.”

While the synagogue, which is located close to the site of Friday’s clashes, was reopened Sunday morning, Kruskal said he planned on closing it again later in the day.

The Jewish community, he added, is hunkering down and trying to ride out the storm.

“When there is shooting in the streets, the first plan is to take [the children] out of the center of the city,” Kruskal said. “If it gets worse, then we’ll take them out of the city. We have plans to take them both out of the city and even to a different country if necessary, plans which we prefer not to talk about which we have in place.”

Fearful of further “provocations” on Friday, which marks the anniversary of Soviet Russia’s victory over Germany in the Second World War, Kruskal said that he was considering renting a holiday camp to house 600 Jews away from the fighting he expects next week.

“The next weekend is going to be very violent,” he said.

While other communal leaders are more sanguine, all have evacuation plans in place.

Communal activities are continuing normally, Kira Verkhovsky, head of the Migdal International Center of Jewish Community Programs, told the Post.

No programming has been stopped as a result of the violence, she said, stating that she intends to continue serving the more than 1,000 families affiliated with her organization.

However, “If the situation will be worse, we are planning to move,” she added.

The Chabad hassidic community also has plans for evacuation ready, local emissary Rabbi Avraham Wolf said.

While the situation has not deteriorated to the point where an evacuation is necessary, he said, “we have a number of plans.”

Chabad institutions remained open over the weekend but with extra security measures, such as armed guards.

“We are in touch with authorities and with security services, and we do a situation check every half hour,” he said.

The Jewish community, together with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, has prepared a fleet of 70 buses, fueled and ready to go, “if, God forbid, we have to evacuate” the community’s children and any adults who want to leave, he said.

During Friday’s clashes, 20 buses were parked outside of Chabad’s school, but went unused.

There are a number of evacuation plans, ranging from relocating within the city to sending community members to Kishinev, two-and-a-half hours away in neighboring Moldova.

“We are doing everything to strengthen the Jewish community in its normal life. We are responsible for [the children of the community] and we will do everything not to leave and not to evacuate and give them the best life possible,” he said. “We really hope [that] it doesn’t get to that and that all will be okay.”

“Obviously, Jews in Odessa need security,” Eduard Dolinsky, executive director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee in Kiev, told the Post.

Blaming Russia for the unrest, he added that violent clashes “may happen also in Kiev” come Victory Day.

Zaya

5th May 2014, 13:43

"Spy Plane Fries Air Traffic Control Computers, Shuts Down LAX"
Source:http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/spy-plane-fries-air-traffic-control-computers-shuts-down-lax-n95886

A relic from the Cold War appears to have triggered a software glitch at a major air traffic control center in California Wednesday that led to delays and cancellations of hundreds of flights across the country, sources familiar with the incident told NBC News.

On Wednesday at about 2 p.m., according to sources, a U-2 spy plane, the same type of aircraft that flew high-altitude spy missions over Russia 50 years ago, passed through the airspace monitored by the L.A. Air Route Traffic Control Center in Palmdale, Calif. The L.A. Center handles landings and departures at the region’s major airports, including Los Angeles International (LAX), San Diego and Las Vegas.

The computers at the L.A. Center are programmed to keep commercial airliners and other aircraft from colliding with each other. The U-2 was flying at 60,000 feet, but the computers were attempting to keep it from colliding with planes that were actually miles beneath it.

Though the exact technical causes are not known, the spy plane’s altitude and route apparently overloaded a computer system called ERAM, which generates display data for air-traffic controllers. Back-up computer systems also failed.

As a result, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had to stop accepting flights into airspace managed by the L.A. Center, issuing a nationwide ground stop that lasted for about an hour and affected thousands of passengers.

At LAX, one of the nation’s busiest airports, there were 27 cancellations of arriving flights, as well as 212 delays and 27 diversions to other airports. Twenty-three departing flights were cancelled, while 216 were delayed. There were also delays at the airports in Burbank, Long Beach, Ontario and Orange County and at other airports across the Southwestern U.S.

In a statement to NBC News, the FAA said that it was “investigating a flight-plan processing issue” at the L.A. Air Route Traffic Control Center, but did not elaborate on the reasons for the glitch and did not confirm that it was related to the U-2’s flight.

“FAA technical specialists resolved the specific issue that triggered the problem on Wednesday, and the FAA has put in place mitigation measures as engineers complete development of software changes,” said the agency in a statement. “The FAA will fully analyze the event to resolve any underlying issues that contributed to the incident and prevent a reoccurrence.”

Sources told NBC News that the plane was a U-2 with a Defense Department flight plan. “It was a ‘Dragon Lady,’” said one source, using the nickname for the plane. Edwards Air Force Base is 30 miles north of the L.A. Center. Both Edwards and NASA’s Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center, which is located at Edwards, have been known to host U-2s and similar, successor aircraft.

The U.S. Air Force is still flying U-2s, but plans to retire them within the next few years.

Gary Hatch, spokesman for Edwards Air Force Base, would not comment on the Wednesday incident, but said, “There are no U-2 planes assigned to Edwards.”

A spokesperson for the Armstrong Flight Research Center did not immediately return a call for comment.

Developed more than a half-century ago, the U-2 was once a workhorse of U.S. airborne surveillance. The plane’s “operational ceiling” is 70,000 feet. In 1960, Francis Gary Powers was flying a U-2 for the CIA over the Soviet Union when he was shot down. He was held captive by the Russians for two years before being exchanged for a KGB colonel in U.S. custody. A second U.S. U-2 was shot down over Cuba in 1962, killing the pilot.

Very interesting... I'm not sure what it means, but it seems important. Why would we be flying U-2's around now if this was not in same way relevant? Very curious...

Rocky_Shorz

5th May 2014, 17:00

I called it right, and the same day as the trains derailed...

interesting report from Sorcha...

Benghazigate 2
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/zuz3.jpg

"A stunning Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the United States has refused to repatriate the bodies of 13 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) military operatives killed when their helicopters were shot down by pro-federalist forces on the outskirts of Slavyansk, eastern Ukraine this past Friday.

According to this report, on 2 May the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion of the 25th Separate Dnipropetrovsk Airborne Brigade of the Ukrainian Army, which had defected to the side of the pro-federalists in April, fired upon and downed two Russian made Mil Mi-17 transport helicopters belonging to the Ukrainian Air Force that had been attempting to land CIA military “command and control” operatives into the battle zone of Slavyansk.

Of the 14 CIA military operatives aboard the two Mil Mi-17’s, this report continues, only one survived, who was initially identified as Captain Savuilov [http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/zuz2.jpg],
but whose subsequent questioning revealed him to be an employee of the American mercenary company named Greystone Ltd.

Greystone Ltd, this report notes, states that it “provides the skilled professionals and program management services necessary to deliver rotary wing, protective security and training solutions to customers in challenging environments”, but had previously been warned about by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov who stated last month: “There were reports, as you know, that some several hundreds of [agents from] the private military organization called Greystone were detected to arrive in Ukraine from the US. We'd like this also to be investigated.”

Sadly, this report says, this CIA/Greystone survivor of these two Mil Mi-17’s being shot down, like his 13 dead compatriots, was, likewise, abandoned, and as reported from the scene by a member of the self-defense forces in Slavyansk who stated: “His troops abandoned him. I thought they would take him away in another helicopter, but they just took his pistol from him and flew away.”

As to the CIA directing the war operations against pro-federalist forces in eastern Ukraine, this MoD report says, their remains no doubt as a representative from Slavyansk's self-defense movement reporting from the battle zone said, “When using radios, activists have heard English several times on the air…this is direct proof of the participation of foreigners in the retaliatory operations against Slavyansk.”

Germany’s highly influential Bild Newspaper this morning further confirmed the CIA operating in Ukraine, this report says, noting that in the middle of last month, CIA Director John Brennan arrived in Kiev on a top secret visit that Washington initially denied. The following day, Verkhovna Rada interim Speaker Alexander Turchynov announced a large-scale counter-terrorist operation in Ukraine's southeast.

As to the CIA’s “strategy” in eastern Ukraine, MoD analysts in this report note, is to “instill complete terror” among the peoples in this region as they and their Greystone counterparts are deploying feared Right Sector neo-Nazi forces into the battle zone that pro-federalist forces say are acting strangely, as if they are under the influence of some drugs.

To the success of this CIA “strategy”, this report says, one need look no further then the events in Odessa this past Friday when Right Sector forces firebombed the House of Trade Unions killing dozens of pro-federalist activists, but which the Western media is still refusing to allow their people to know the full and brutal knowledge of.

And with Vasyl Krutov, head of the Ukraine’s anti-terrorist center, stating earlier today that the increased fighting in the east did not appear to be short-term, but “essentially a war,” this report warns, it “remains a fact” that the CIA will order more atrocities to occur as the Obama regime has done in all of their other war zones.

And as to the Obama regimes repeated “lies” that Russia is directing the pro-federalist forces in eastern Ukraine, this report concludes, even the New York Times was forced to admit yesterday that resistance fighters defending Slavyansk in eastern Ukraine are armed with weapons identical to those in the hands of Ukrainian soldiers, and they are all citizens of Ukraine.

And as quoted from the New York Times reporter, who spent a week at the headquarter of the 12th Company, part of People's Militia of the Donetsk People's Republic: “Much of their stock was identical to the weapons seen in the hands of Ukrainian soldiers and Interior Ministry special forces troops at government positions outside the city. These included 9-millimeter Makarov pistols, Kalashnikov assault rifles and a few Dragunov sniper rifles, RPK light machine guns and portable antitank rockets, including some with production stamps from the 1980s and early 1990s. Many of the weapons show signs of long service. Militia members said their weapons had either been taken from seized police buildings and a column of captured Ukrainian armored vehicles, or bought from corrupt Ukrainian soldiers.”

With forces in the east of Ukraine fighting for the federalization of the country having regained control over the cities and townships of Konstantinovka, Slavyansk, Andreyevka, and Kramatorsk today it, and sadly, remains a fact that more Americans will die in this conflict…but who will claim their bodies still remains a mystery." link (http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1767.htm)

AlaBil

5th May 2014, 18:00

I want to bump this again and urge a reading of the full transcript, I'm not saying I buy into his full analysis but for me it gives a real understanding of the different factions involved in the Ukraine and a lot of insight into the US, European, and Israel positions int he country.

Full transcript here: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:Battleground_Ukraine

Battleground Ukraine: A comprehensive summary (https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:Battleground_Ukraine)

Andrei Fursov
WikiSpooks (https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:Battleground_Ukraine)
Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:00 CDT

This is an impressive, comprehensive analysis of the February 2014 Ukraine coup from the perspective of a senior Russian academic. It details the interests and affiliations of the main Ukrainian domestic players - oligarchical clans many of whose leaders have dual nationality - with some shocking and little known detail. It exposes the glaring hypocrisies and double standards of the western sponsors of the coup and their Russian/Ukrainian '5th Column traitors'. It sees the coup and Russia's successful incorporation of Crimea as major game-changing events in the on-going, US-lead post-WWII machinations of the West to subdue Russia to its own agenda and outlines how Russia should now respond.

All-in-all a must-read for westerners needing to understand what is really happening in both the Ukraine and the wider Anglo-US-NATO globalisation drive which it brings into sharp focus

GXLUJpqaQpY

Transcript below:

Introduction
Firstly, let me say that sometimes it's pleasant to be wrong. Well, I got it wrong. At the beginning of February my colleague, Elena Ponomarëva, and I discussed the question, could we take Crimea? I was a pessimist and said, 10% chance that we'll take Crimea. We won't get it because the West will react aggressively, and our authorities lack the courage. She said, on the contrary 90% chance that we take Crimea, and 10% chance that it doesn't happen. She was right. I was wrong.

Without doubt, the re-unification with Crimea is a very important landmark. In a recent TV interview I said that this is genuinely the end of the disgraceful era which began in Malta on the 2-3rd Dec 1989, when Gorbachev surrendered absolutely everything to Bush, even what wasn't asked for.

After that everything possible was given up. Rays of hope began to appear later, during the Putin administration. There was the war of 08.08.08. But later we failed to support Libya. Although we did put the foot down at Syria. But this is all far away from Russian lands. But Ukraine and Crimea - this is a completely new situation. We started to re-take our territory, little by little. Started doing as the Muscovite princes did in the 14th, 15th century, what the first Romanovs did, and the Stalin system in the 1930s, all of which was: leaving the historical zone of defeat.

But leaving the historical zone of defeat means not only external matters, we are now tearing up the global status quo, which took shape in 1991-94. Meaning: disintegration of the Soviet Union, the uranium deal, the shooting at the Moscow White House, the Budapest Memorandum.

But overcoming defeat has not only an external aspect but also a domestic aspect, Yeltsinism gave raise to a whole stratum of people, whom our president called national-traitors. That is, the fifth column - in the authorities, in business and in the media. In particular, they revealed themselves during the events in Crimea. That was a real moment of truth, moment of choice. People's true colors became apparent, in various spheres. And it was an very import experience for this reason: One could clearly observe the application of double-standards.

What do we mean by double-standards? For example: There was a time when the Brits annexed the Falkland Islands. They said: "Well, why not. There was a referendum in the Falkland Islands and the residents came out in favor of joining up with Britain, and that's sufficient."

"Crimea is a different matter altogether ..." -- although the situation is analogous.

Today we're talking about the Ukraine situation from a number of angles. It's a multi-faceted situation, like all big situations. Many different aspects have led to what happened. Concerning not only the clash between Russia and the West. There's a lot else going on too.

Firstly, it all began with a conflict within the Ukrainian oligarchic class. A great analyst is Vladimir Matveev. I very much recommend you look him up. A number of his analyses are out on the net. Moreover you don't need to be erudite to read his books. Anyone with higher education can read them. He's been very active on the subject of Mossad in Ukraine. He gets continuously threatened. Now he needs to get out of Ukraine and is having problems with that.

We are talking about the oligarchs.
Later we'll talk about the interests of the West - The Europeans and the Americans have different interests.
Next, the interests of Israel.
Then we'll run through the key events originating from the Banderite-American coup in Kiev, which continue to unfold.

The Ukrainian oligarchs

Firstly - the Ukrainian business clans.

[...]

Full transcript: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:Battleground_Ukraine

¤=[Post Update]=¤

I'm bumping this again because I have just gotten around to reading the full transcript. I recommend it to all for reading. I'm not saying I buy all of his position, but it gives a clear description of all the factions involved in the Ukraine, including those of the US, Europe, and Israel. It's a long read, but worth the effort IMO.

Battleground Ukraine: A comprehensive summary (https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:Battleground_Ukraine)

Andrei Fursov
WikiSpooks (https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:Battleground_Ukraine)
Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:00 CDT

This is an impressive, comprehensive analysis of the February 2014 Ukraine coup from the perspective of a senior Russian academic. It details the interests and affiliations of the main Ukrainian domestic players - oligarchical clans many of whose leaders have dual nationality - with some shocking and little known detail. It exposes the glaring hypocrisies and double standards of the western sponsors of the coup and their Russian/Ukrainian '5th Column traitors'. It sees the coup and Russia's successful incorporation of Crimea as major game-changing events in the on-going, US-lead post-WWII machinations of the West to subdue Russia to its own agenda and outlines how Russia should now respond.

All-in-all a must-read for westerners needing to understand what is really happening in both the Ukraine and the wider Anglo-US-NATO globalisation drive which it brings into sharp focus

GXLUJpqaQpY

Full transcript: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:Battleground_Ukraine

Hervé

5th May 2014, 18:35

http://www.sott.net/image/image/s9/184253/full/newspaper_lies.jpg

New York Times Admits that Russia Is NOT Sending Pro-Russian Fighters Into Ukraine (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/05/new-york-times-admits-russia-sending-pro-russian-fighters-ukraine.html)

Posted on May 5, 2014 (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/05/new-york-times-admits-russia-sending-pro-russian-fighters-ukraine.html) by WashingtonsBlog (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/author/washingtonsblog)

Mainstream Media Is Being Forced to Retract Its Propaganda More and More Quickly

The New York Times pushed fabricated evidence (http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/world/threats-responses-iraqis-us-says-hussein-intensifies-quest-for-bomb-parts.html) in the run up to the Iraq war. A year later, the newspaper apologized for its inaccurate, one-sided coverage (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/international/middleeast/26FTE_NOTE.html).

The U.S. and the New York Times pretended that Syria’s government was responsible for the chemical weapons attack … but that claim was debunked (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/12/head-un-mission-investigating-syrian-chemical-weapons-debunks-one-americas-main-arguments.html), and even the New York Times was forced to retract it (http://consortiumnews.com/2013/12/29/nyt-backs-off-its-syria-sarin-analysis/) several months later. (The alternative media, including Pulitzer prize winning reporter Seymour Hersh, has also pointed out that it was the Syrians rebels – with the help of the Turkish government (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/04/nato-member-conducts-false-flag-terror-try-whip-war.html) – did it).

Then the U.S. and the New York Times pretended that they had proof (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/04/iraq-war-propagandists-push-lies-urkaine-drum-confrontation-russia.html) that Russian soldiers were the mysterious “masked men” seizing government buildings in Ukraine. But a couple of days later, they were forced reporting from the alternative media – especially Robert Parry, winner of the George Polk Award for National Reporting – into retracting that claim (http://consortiumnews.com/2014/04/23/nyt-retracts-russian-photo-scoop/), and admitting that their “proof” was almost as flimsy as proof of Saddam’s “weapons of mass destruction”.

Indeed, even the New York Times now admits (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/world/europe/behind-the-masks-in-ukraine-many-faces-of-rebellion.html?hpw&rref=world&_r=2) that the Russian army is not directly responsible for the anti-government protests in Ukraine. As Parry notes (http://consortiumnews.com/2014/05/04/another-nyt-sort-of-retraction-on-ukraine/):
The New York Times, which has asserted for weeks that the Russian government is behind the unrest in Ukraine’s east, finally sent some reporters to the region to dig up the proof, but all they found were eastern Ukrainians upset by the coup regime in Kiev that replaced President Viktor Yanukovych.

The Times … has recently been promoting the “theme” that Ukrainians would be happy with their new unelected government if only the Russians weren’t “destabilizing eastern Ukraine.”

***
the Times belatedly dispatched reporters C.J. Chivers and Noah Sneider to Slovyansk in eastern Ukraine to talk with the militants who are opposing the coup regime in Kiev. To their credit, the two reporters actually seem to have recounted (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/world/europe/behind-the-masks-in-ukraine-many-faces-of-rebellion.html?hp)what they found, albeit with some of the anti-Russian bias that is now deeply embedded in the Western media narrative.

Noting that Moscow says the Ukrainian militants are not part of the Russian armed forces while “Western officials and the Ukrainian government insist that Russians have led, organized and equipped the fighters,” the reporters write:

“A deeper look at the 12th Company [of the People’s Militia] — during more than a week of visiting its checkpoints, interviewing its fighters and observing them in action against a Ukrainian military advance here on Friday — shows that in its case neither portrayal captures the full story.

“The rebels of the 12th Company appear to be Ukrainians but, like many in the region, have deep ties to and affinity for Russia. They are veterans of the Soviet, Ukrainian or Russian Armies, and some have families on the other side of the border. Theirs is a tangled mix of identities and loyalties.

“Further complicating the picture, while the fighters share a passionate distrust of Ukraine’s government and the Western powers that support it, they disagree among themselves about their ultimate goals. They argue about whether Ukraine should redistribute power via greater federalization or whether the region should be annexed by Russia, and they harbor different views about which side might claim Kiev, the capital, and even about where the border of a divided Ukraine might lie.”

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The Times reporters cited one unit leader named Yuri as chuckling “at the claims by officials in Kiev and the West that his operations had been guided by Russian military intelligence officers. There is no Russian master, he said. ‘We have no Muscovites here,’ he said. ‘I have experience enough.’ That experience, he and his fighters say, includes four years as a Soviet small-unit commander in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in the 1980s.

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The reporters also discovered mostly well-worn and dated weaponry, not the newer and more sophisticated equipment that is available to Russian forces.

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Other Western journalists, who have bothered to report from eastern Ukraine rather than just accept handouts from the U.S. Embassy in Kiev or the State Department in Washington, discovered a similar reality.

For instance, on April 17, Washington Post correspondent Anthony Faiola reported (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2014/04/16/4d36b1b6-c532-11e3-b574-f8748871856a_story.html) from Donetsk that many of the eastern Ukrainians whom he interviewed said the unrest in their region was driven by fear over “economic hardship” and the IMF austerity plan that will make their lives even harder.
It seems like the alternative media is forcing the New York Times to retract half-baked, pro-war, propaganda claims more and more quickly.

Rocky_Shorz

5th May 2014, 18:53

Ukraine moves special forces to Odessa, helicopter downed in east

http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20140505&t=2&i=894373395&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=700&pl=378&r=CBREA441EXM00

"(Reuters) - Pro-Russian rebels shot down a Ukrainian helicopter in fierce fighting near the eastern town of Slaviansk on Monday, and Kiev drafted police special forces to the southwestern port city of Odessa to halt a feared westward spread of rebellion.

Ukraine said the Odessa force, based on "civil activists", would replace local police who had failed to tackle rebel actions at the weekend. Its dispatch was a clear signal from Kiev that, while tackling rebellion in the east, it would vigorously resist any sign of a slide to a broader civil war.

Odessa, with its ethnic mix from Russians to Ukrainians, Georgians to Tatars a cultural contrast to the pro-Russian east, was quiet on Monday. Ukrainian flags flew at half mast for funerals of some of the dozens killed in clashes on Friday.

But in the east, fighting intensified around the pro-Russian stronghold of Slaviansk, a city of 118,000, where rebel fighters ambushed Ukrainian forces early in the day.

The Interior Ministry said five paramilitary police were killed. Separatists said four of their number had also died.

The sound of an air-raid siren could be heard in the center of Slaviansk, and a church bell rang in the main square.

Russia's foreign ministry called on Kiev to "stop the bloodshed, withdraw forces and finally sit down at the negotiating table". It also published an 80-page report detailing "widespread and gross human rights violations" in Ukraine over the past six months for which it blamed the new government and its Western allies.

CONCERNS FOR KIEV

Russia denies Ukrainian and Western charges it is seeking to undermine the country of 45 million and using special forces to lead the insurgency, as it did before annexing Crimea in March.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he feared neither side could now control forces unleashed.

"I'm convinced we are struggling against a situation that has taken on a dynamic of its own. There are groups in eastern Ukraine that are not listening to either Kiev ... or Moscow."..." link (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/05/us-ukraine-crisis-idUSBREA400LI20140505)

Rocky_Shorz

5th May 2014, 19:43

"TEHRAN: Saudi Arabia has sent a large number of Takfiri fighters in Syria to Ukraine to fight the pro-Russian protesters in the European country.

“A large number of terrorist Takfiri fighters in Syria, who bear Saudi and Chechnian nationalities and receive financial and military backup from the Saudi intelligence agency, have been transferred to the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, on several planes to help the Ukrainian army in its fight against the pro-Russian population,” an Arab security official told FNA on Sunday on the condition of anonymity due to the secrecy of the issue.

“The forces have been immediately dispatched to Kramatosk city in Eastern Ukraine, and are now fighting beside the Ukrainian army forces against the pro-Russians under the name of militias who support the government,” the source added.

The source explained that Saudi Arabia seeks to take revenge from Russia and pro-Russian people in Ukraine due to Moscow’s support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the war on rebel groups." link (http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2014/05/04/iranian-media-saudi-arabia-transferring-fighters-from-syria-to-ukraine/)

Rocky_Shorz

6th May 2014, 03:35

5/05/2014 @ 4:44PM 59,780 views
Putin's Human Rights Council Accidentally Posts Real Crimean Election Results; Only 15% Voted For Annexation

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The website of the “President of Russia’s Council on Civil Society and Human Rights” posted a blog that was quickly taken down as if it were toxic radioactive waste. According to the Council’s report about the March referendum to annex Crimea, the turnout was a maximum 30%. And of these, only half voted for annexation – meaning only 15 percent of Crimean citizens voted for annexation.

The fate of Crimea, therefore, was decided by the 15 percent of Crimeans, who voted in favor of unification with Russia (under the watchful eye of Kalashnikov-toting soldiers).

The official Crimean election results, as reported widely in the Western press, showed a 97 percent vote in favor of annexation with a turnout of 83 percent. No international observers were allowed. This pro-Russia election pressure would have raised the already weak vote in favor of annexation.

To make sure no one misses this:

Official Kremlin results: 97% for annexation, turnout 83 percent, and percent of Crimeans voting in favor 82%.

President’s Human Rights Council results: 50% for annexation, turnout 30%, percent of Crimeans voting in favor 15%.

Putin’s people pulled this “rather unfortunate” report from the President’s Human Rights Council website, but council member Svetlana Gannushkina talked about this subject on Kanal 24 (as reproduced on Ukrainian television), declaring that the Crimean vote “discredited Russia more than could be dreamed up by a foreign agent.”

Putin plans to repeat the Crimean election farce in the May 11 referendum on the status of the so-called People’s Republic of Donetsk. He will use the same tricks to produce an overwhelming vote for “independence” and a high turnout. The few international election monitors will object, but Putin counts on repetition of his Big Lie to convince his own people and sympathetic politicians and press in the West that the people of east Ukraine actually want to separate from Ukraine.

Will the West let Putin get away with it again?" link (http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2014/05/05/putins-human-rights-council-accidentally-posts-real-crimean-election-results-only-15-voted-for-annexation/)

Tesseract

6th May 2014, 03:39

If they do decide to invade, it will probably be before the election which is on the 25th of May. The election, if it goes ahead, may well see a pro-west candidate elected, now that Crimea is out of the picture. Back in Vietnam, there was to be an election to unify the country, which everyone knew Ho Chi Minh would win in a landslide - so the Americans upped their involvement to make sure the election never happened.

On the other hand, it seems like the revolt against Kiev is gaining strength without Russian interference, so they may be happy sitting on the sidelines.

Eram

6th May 2014, 08:53

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What blind hatred.

How Neo-Nazi Thugs Supported by Kiev Regime Killed Odessa Inhabitants.
Graphic Photographic Evidence

The following text and photos were sent to Global Research. They indicate a carefully planned agenda to incinerate people inside the Trade Unions building.

The images as well as reports suggest that the death toll was significantly higher than that published by the media.

The Western media has been involved in acts of coverup and distortion, describing the self-proclaimed Neo-Nazi Brown shirts as nationalists and “honest patriots”. Western governments have casually blamed the atrocities in Odessa on “pro-Russian paramilitaries”.

The Neo-Nazi thugs are directly supported by the Right Sector and Svoboda which play a central role in the coalition government. The Right Sector is supported by Washington.

The Neo-Nazi mobs in Odessa bear the hallmarks of US sponsored terrorism (e.g Syria) trained to commit atrocities against civilians. America’s Neo-Nazi Government in Kiev is a reality. Confirmed by Germany’s Bild: “Dozens of specialists from the US Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation are advising the Ukrainian government”

commentary by Michel Chossudovsky:

globalresearch (http://www.globalresearch.ca/how-neo-nazi-thugs-supported-by-kiev-regime-killed-odessa-inhabitants-photographic-evidence/5380504)

Akasha

6th May 2014, 12:26

Eram

8th May 2014, 08:16

Eram

8th May 2014, 15:18

On the other hand...
If you take this eyewitness's report into account, all people with red bands might just be separatists in the city, confronting the right sector and maiden group. The police with red bands might just be sympathetic with the separatists, since they live in Odessa too.

All in all, I would say that there is no conclusive evidence that the red banded people were false flag operatives.
Not that I would put it passed those in charge in kiev.

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Rocky_Shorz

8th May 2014, 18:10

$1 Billion of the IMF loan is being used to buy Gold in Ukraine...

As ITAR-TASS reports,
Kiev will use the first portion of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan for augmenting its gold and currency reserves in order to stabilize the financial situation in the country, National Bank Chairman Stepan Kubiv said on Monday, May 5.

“Over $1 billion from the first portion of the loan will go into the gold and currency reserves of Ukraine, which will strengthen the financial system of the country. The remainder will go to the budget to stabilize the macroeconomic and financial situation in Ukraine,” he said.

Kubiv believes that the IMF loan “will send a positive signal to foreign investors and domestic entrepreneurs, improve the investment climate in the country and stabilize the hryvnia”.

On April 30, the IMF Board of Governors approved a two-year standby credit facility of $17 billion for Ukraine. The first portion will amount to around $3.2 billion.

What is odd is that Ukraine’s gold reserves have been soaring in recent years – so it’s hardly been a confidence-inspiring move for Ukrainian entrepreneurs and foreign investors so far?

http://i1.wp.com/www.hangthebankers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Ukraine-gold-reserves1.jpg?fit=597%2C300

Hang the Bankers (http://www.hangthebankers.com/ukraine-to-buy-1-billion-of-gold-with-imf-money/)

Octavusprime

8th May 2014, 20:06

When the radicals come out in force the line quickly gets a little blurry. It is very hard to tell what the sides are from that 2 hour video. Perhaps those involved don't even know who they are fighting against. The fog of war quickly makes everyone an enemy. Unfortunately, it is way too easy to incite violence manipulating "mob mentality". A few rocks thrown can quickly escalate a situation to all out civil war.

This is why the US is so "successful" at justifying it's industrial war machine. The use of radicals (Contra rebels, Al Qaeda, Right Sector, etc.) to spur violence and create division is very effective. Once the nation is in turmoil it is easy for the US to move to action in the name of "humanity". Once this is complete new governments are installed and big corporations move in to exploit the natural resources. This has been going on for a long time.

I'm hoping this information becomes mainstream so that the people of the Ukraine can realize that they are being provoked and stop the violence in favor of negotiation and dialogue.

The ones that suffer the most in the end are always the same citizens that were tricked into initiating the violence. A leader needs to emerge, one that is wholeheartedly against war and violence. Where is a spiritual leader like Gandhi when you need him?!

Octavusprime

8th May 2014, 21:48

Russia flexes its muscles through military excercises:

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Commentary on the events. Russian bomber jams US warship, Russian bombers on the West Coast, Russian fleet with aircraft carrier off English coast, Russian military displays of strength...

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Britain has deployed a destroyer to track an unusually large Russian naval task force transiting the English Channel, it said on Thursday and also noted a "resurgence" in Russian air activity close to its airspace.

The Ministry of Defence said the decision to despatch HMS Dragon, one of Britain's newest and most sophisticated ships, to track the Russian naval force was routine and that the Russians had notified it of their transit plans in advance.

"What is different here is that a Russian task group of this size has not passed by our shores in some time," Captain Rex Cox, HMS Dragon's commanding officer, said in a statement.

Diplomatic relations between Russia and the West have been strained by the crisis in Ukraine, which has revived memories of the Cold War when the military forces of Western Europe were ranged against those of the Soviet Union.

The task force included Russia's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, the Ministry of Defence said, as well as a nuclear-powered battle cruiser, a landing support ship, three tankers and a tug.

A Russian naval spokesman said last month that the Kuznetsov had completed a deployment in the Mediterranean and was on its way back to its base of Severomorsk in northwest Russia.

Defence Secretary Philip Hammond played down the deployment of HMS Dragon, which was despatched in similar circumstances last month to shadow another Russian warship.

But when asked by Reuters whether he had noticed an increase in Russian military activity around Britain, he said he had.

"We have over the last few years seen a resurgence in Russian air activity," he told reporters at a lunch in parliament, saying the amount of long-range flying the Russians were doing close to Britain was on the increase.

"That's a reflection of something which a lot of people have missed or have chosen to miss which is that Russia has been investing very substantially for many years in renewing its fleets, in rebuilding its military capability," said Hammond.

Britain scrambled Typhoon fighter jets last month to see off Russian military planes flying close to its airspace off the coast of Scotland, one of a number of such incidents.

During the drills, it was demonstrated how the missile corps, artillery, aviation and anti-aircraft defenses can be used -- for instance, to destroy troops on the ground or to counter massive missile, aviation or nuclear strikes by an enemy. The planned drills come ahead of the May 9 celebrations dedicated to victory in World War II

ThePythonicCow

9th May 2014, 04:36

The evil carnage in the massacre in Odessa’s House of Trade Unions fire is worse than most of us realize.

From Fascist Massacre in Odessa: Shocking Details Unveiled (Pravda) (http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/crimes/06-05-2014/127515-fascist_massacre_odessa-0/):

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The death toll from the massacre in Odessa's House of Trade Unions is said to be 116, not 46, as it was reported earlier. Some were burned alive, others suffocated in toxic smoke, some others jumped to their deaths out of the windows of the burning building, or were shot in the head. On May 6th, Odessa held the first funeral ceremony for the victims of the terrible tragedy.

While the people of Odessa are mourning the victims, the head of Ukraine's Security Bureau, Nalivaychenko, says the protests of federalization supporters should be suppressed in a few days. Interior Minister Avakov is sending a special purpose battalion to "help" Odessa.

"There was some kind of gas, from which it was simply impossible to breathe. That is, the airways would be clogged to such an extent that people would just lose consciousness. There was something else in the air, not just carbon monoxide, that created the strangling effect. They wanted us to suffocate and burn," one of the few survivors named only as Yuri said.

Medics said that many of the victims died without receiving any skin burns: their lungs burnt from inside.

"We were knocked down on the floor, all men, and they told us: "Everybody down!" Then they started beating us with bats, on our heads and backs. We did not know what to do. Then they took us out to the hallway, to the fire escape and through the back door. They threw us in to a puddle, and Right Sector militants continued to beat us there," a survivor of the horrific attack said.

In Odessa, people do not believe the official information, which says that the number of victims is 46. Many charred bodies were found on the floor of the House of Trade Unions. Some of them had only upper part of the body and hands burnt, while the lower part was left untouched by the fire. This may mean that the raging militants would pour fuel on the heads of the people and then set them on fire. The hands of such victims are charred to the bone, which means that the victims were trying to put down the fire on their heads and torsos. There are women and young people among the killed.

Illegitimate Prime Minister Yatsenyuk did not come to the House of Trade Unions to lay flowers in memory of those who died there terrible deaths. He came to Odessa to replace the administration of the local Ministry for Internal Affairs.

Not less than a thousand militants of the Right Sector nationalist movement have reportedly arrived in Odessa from Dnepropetrovsk. The brutal clashes in Odessa may continue.
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Some images from the massacre in Odessa's House of Trade Unions:

http://thepythoniccow.us/Odessa_2.jpeg

http://thepythoniccow.us/Odessa_3.jpeg

http://thepythoniccow.us/Odessa_4.jpeg

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http://thepythoniccow.us/Odessa_11.jpeg

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Elsewhere, in one of the Youtube videos I watched on this yesterday, I saw clear video, covering perhaps 30 seconds, of a ring leader of the "right wing", in a bullet proof vest, outside in the crowd around the burning building, close to the building, shooting with a pistol at the people trying to get air to breath in the broken windows.

Eram

9th May 2014, 09:45

The death toll from the massacre in Odessa's House of Trade Unions is said to be 116, not 46, as it was reported earlier.

This is the man who claims that at least 116 people were slaughtered.
Many of them taken away 6 km outside of Odessa to be killed and buried there.

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I have watched about 8 hours of footage yesterday and I've seen video's of right sector "paramilitary" people in uniform taking separatists people from the street and put them in vans. Maybe these were some of those people that were lead away and killed?

Also, I have seen several video's of people that were "rescued" from the trade union building and then being lead away by people who I know for sure are amongst those who are the most violent ones, because some of those, I have seen throwing molotov cocktails into the building when the building was already in flames and others were trying to rescue people inside the building. Also seen them fight in the front lines in several videos.
These "rescued" people were being lead away from the crowd and camera's and I fear for their lives.

Here you see one man being taken away by two people. The one with the red trainer on is one of those that I saw in at least three videos at the front lines, fighting.
I don't think that the man in the middle is still alive. starting at 0:12 min.
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Further in that video, you see a group of wounded people on the ground. I've seen some of them walking out of the building unharmed, so they have been seriously beaten after that.

Elsewhere, in one of the Youtube videos I watched on this yesterday, I saw clear video, covering perhaps 30 seconds, of a ring leader of the "right wing", in a bullet proof vest, outside in the crowd around the burning building, close to the building, shooting with a pistol at the people trying to get air to breath in the broken windows.

starting at 6:08 min. Mister Mykala

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I've also seen footage of this man on the telephone with a minister, explaining that they themselves were attacked severely and that he himself was shot in the leg (clearly lying).

yelik

9th May 2014, 10:12

Hi Everyone
The way the 'elites' think never ceases to boggle the mind. We need to think the very worst them make it even worse to get close. I was wondering if you were aware of how such dastardly plans are designed, do they come from military intelligence psychopaths within the control groups. There must be some sort of overall control group that has cross country support and power that would implement the plans, or are the shadow governments own resources and military capability suitable?

We can all recall Prince Philip, a dangerous person in my opinion, views about overpopulation and being reincarnated as a virus to reduce it, a strange comment coming from a member of the Royal family who owns some 385,000 acres. The rest of land is effectively owned government related institutions, utilities and banks.

From what I know we have a number of control groups including illuminati, freemasons, Bilderbergers etc. I've attached link to an image below. I am new so not sure how to embed in the message.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/imagenes_sociopol/round_table05_01.jpg

regards
Ian

ThePythonicCow

9th May 2014, 11:13

From what I know we have a number of control groups including illuminati, freemasons, Bilderbergers etc. I've attached link to an image below. I am new so not sure how to embed in the message.
Welcome :).

Embedding images directly from a Google drive or Google docs doesn't work very well, so I found a similar image that could be embedded directly.

naste.de.lumina

9th May 2014, 11:40

A summary diagram

There would be internal power struggles between Zionism/islam and Jesuits/Conservative Vatican. At the top there is no conflict (tension) between Freemasonry and illuminati.

A diagram in the shape of a triangle on each vertex shows two powers associated, especially in conflict or tension. This is a historiography and historical theory of the last three centuries that seeks to identify what is the New World Order and what the power at stake.

According to the Brazilian author of this diagram (Sorry, Portuguese only) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9byhxLZPQgA), Specialist in the Jesuits history, after the Vatican II council, the Jesuits (with a very strong communist bias) took complete control of the Vatican.

And the major objectives are the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Globalism, and the enthronement of Lucifer.

NOM = NWO
BANCOS = BANKs
PODER = POWER

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HZsqDgNjMdI/UoFCOQixoBI/AAAAAAAABXM/QWy3UaO6hDg/s640/NOVA+ORDEM+MUNDIAL+CARLOS+REIS.jpg

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRL3n9euuB5WMRktbDlB_YCB3Bmcxt--BhyRyTZTQ7zkCxMogU

OBS.: If we think of Zionism as an ideology, we realize that the USA and Europe (many countries in the world actually), and Israel, are infested with people in power with this ideology (or corrupted / blackmailed by).

ThePythonicCow

10th May 2014, 03:02

More proof of a carefully planned massacre in Odessa, aimed to destabilize the region even further. Maybe in order to get Russia physically involved in the conflict.

This video suggests that there were not two parties present in the clash between "right sector" and "separatists", but a third party also.
Men with red bands on their arms were firing molotov cocktails, broken pieces of glass and bullets into the "right sector/maiden camp before the real fights broke out.
Here's more on the men with red arm bands, from The Odessa Massacre (Veterans Today) (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/05/09/301316/):

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Odessa after the loss of the Crimea and the people’s revolution in Mariupol remained the only maritime gateway of Ukraine and acquired the status of the most important city after Kiev. Appointed head of the junta RSA Vladimir Nemirovsky showed complete political impotence – for two months, he could neither disperse popular camp on Kulikovo field, nor to control the police, nor to establish contact with local small but active Ukrainian nationalists.

Preparatory meeting for the false flag terror attacks took place in Odessa 10 days before the tragedy. Turchinov personally presided. The discussion was attended by Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, SBU head Valentyn Nalyvaychenko and NSDC Secretary Andrew Paruby. By Advice on operations was drawn as the head of RSA Dnipropetrovsk region Igor Kolomoisky.

The concept, using in the operation football “Special Ops” belonged to Arsen Avakov. Ever since the head of Kharkiv regional state administration, it had team support coordinators, whom he even living in Italy, continued to provide sponsorship. Kolomoysky passed under the leadership of law enforcement battalion Odessa Dnipro.

He also established a cash prize for each dead “Russian” – $ 5,000. Preparing to perform the operation were also involved Fascist militia gunmen Korchinskiy. They wore red armbands. Korchinskiy followers play a key role in organizing provocations they were allegedly as defenders of the tent city on the Kulikovo field, and then lured members to the House of Trade Unions, where there was a massacre.
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The above is part of a Google translation of a report in Russian sent to Gordon Duff. There's more at the above link.

Eram

10th May 2014, 07:35

He also established a cash prize for each dead “Russian” – $ 5,000. Preparing to perform the operation were also involved Fascist militia gunmen Korchinskiy. They wore red armbands. Korchinskiy followers play a key role in organizing provocations they were allegedly as defenders of the tent city on the Kulikovo field, and then lured members to the House of Trade Unions, where there was a massacre.

Hi Paul,

After watching so many video's the main arguments of proof (the ones that would make it stick) that point toward double agents with red bands who provoked the unionists don't hold imo.

These are the main arguments of proof in the 2 1/2 hour video:

Only double agents with the intent to provoke wore red bands.
The red banded agents were the only ones on the roof, with locked doors so no one else could find refuge there.
The police was in on it and conspiring with the double agents.

1. There is much footage where the most aggressive red banded people (the ones with fire arms, shooting at the unionists) are seen in much larger groups were most of the people wore red bands. So not only were they not the only ones with red bands, they also mingled with all the other separatists in the centre of the city who were confronting the unionists.

2. Many eyewitnesses (woman and elderly people) claimed to have been on the roof for the larger part of the siege, finding refuge there, until it was safe enough to come down again. This clearly contradicts the claim that the roof was unaccessible to the regular people in the trade union building.

3. Much footage indicates that the police was indeed on the hand of the red bands, but in my opinion, they were sympathetic with the separatists in general and not so much with so called double agents. For instance, the police forces made a lot of effort to protect the separatists and to a much lesser degree the unionists. If you take into account that much of the police forces are residents of Odessa, this would make sense.

4. Another thing to specifically refute the claim made by the "source" of Gordon Duff:
It was a well known and established fact that the "right sector & ultra's" made it very clear that it was their intent to come to Odessa and sweep the Trade Union building clear of separatists. They didn't have to be lured there at all. It was already in their agenda to do so.

This is how I see it at the moment:
Unionists (consisting of the right sector and Ultra's) came to Odessa with 2500 to 4000 people with the intent to sweep the city clear of separatists.
The separatists split themselves up into two groups: The ones that would sit it out and remain in the Trade building, hoping that things would stay somewhat in control (Mostly woman and elderly people with no intent to seek a confrontation or a fight). The ones that would confront the unionists in the city centre. these are the ones who wore red bands as a sign that they belonged to the separatists, just as many of the unionists wore yellow bands on their arms. This group consisted mostly of younger people with a lust to fight and confront the unionists.
Some police forces were sympathetic with the separatists and some small groups even wore their red bands.

The separatists were roughly outnumbered about 1:8.
They were the ones that opened the confrontation very aggressively with use of fire arms, Molotov cocktails and broken peaces of glass in the hope that it would scare the unionists off. It didn't and soon they were overwhelmed and fled the scene. Some of them retreated to the Trade union building.
Then the large group of unionists walked over to the trade union building and besieged it with the now known gruesome result.

Imo, all arguments and claims that there were double agents in the play are refuted by the video evidence.

So, was the confrontation brutal and horrific? yes, but both parties were guilty of this aggressiveness.
Most people in the trade union building had no intention to fight it out, but were surprised and overwhelmed by how things unfolded.
I'm not saying that there were no double agents there, but the footage doesn't provide evidence for that, if at all, it provides evidence for the contrary.

I think that the whole campaign (assault on the separatists in Odessa) was set up with the knowledge of high up people in the "putch" government and there was a definite intent to kill people there in Odessa. The Right sector and ultra's have been used as a battering ram to do the dirty work of th putchists.

In the following two videos you can see how the separatists got overwhelmed, while heavy protected by the (hero) police and within the ranks of the separatists clear evidence of the shooters who are supposed to be the "red band double agents". For instance, you can see here the "big guy" with the kalashnikov, who is supposed to be one of these double agents/provokers.
(btw: in the second video, you can also see one of the ultra leaders, the one that I pointed out in my previous post, with the red trainer on, who lead the "rescued" man away from the camera's and people.)

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Eram

10th May 2014, 09:26

Here is an analyses that is in favor of a conspiracy with staged double agents.
Lots of interesting footage. You can also see this Mycola character (the one that was shooting at the building) talking on the phone, explaining that he was hurt, while he was clearly in good condition.

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Maybe the main reason why I don't believe in double agents is that it was not necessary to place them there.
The football match together with the march of the right sector was all that was needed to set Odessa ablaze that day.
No need for staged provokers.
There are a lot of indications that the whole event was planned and conducted with the consent of the putchists and high level commanders within the police and right sector, so a lot of conspiring going on, just not a conspiracy with staged double agents.

Here is footage of the right sector people entering the trade union building through a door on the right/back side of the building:

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sigma6

11th May 2014, 22:32

sigma6

11th May 2014, 22:35

UKRAINE: SEVERE VIOLATION AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS BY THE WEST
http://terranovavoice.tamera.org/2014/05/ukraine-severe-violation-against-human-rights-by-the-west/1901

...Is the international law more important than human lives? Aside from this, what is actually the commitment of the West to international law? What happened in Iraq or Libya? It is a feigned righteousness beyond compare happening on the global stage...

For good reasons, the first soldiers sent to the east by Kiev have refused the war. They refused to shoot at their compatriots. One must imagine this situation. Young men receive the order from a government, which actually isn’t one, to shoot at mostly young people their own age without being given any understandable reason for this. This alone is an outrageous injustice.

Question is who is advising this new "government" We have it on audio the West has got their hand shoved right up there...

meeradas

12th May 2014, 06:50

Sorry if posted already [no time to search or browse here]:

Ron Paul Responds to Ukrainian Assault Launched on Pro-Russian Forces (http://www.voltairenet.org/article183620.html)

&

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation's White Book on Violations of Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Ukraine (http://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/White_Book_Voltaire_Network_-2.pdf)

ThePythonicCow

13th May 2014, 05:06

StormCloudsGathering (SGC News) has a thorough, albeit provocative, report on what really happened in the Trade Union Building Fire In Odessa Ukraine, May 2 2014: The Odessa Massacre - What REALLY Happened (http://scgnews.com/the-odessa-massacre-what-really-happened).

This report begins:

============

ontrary to what the mainstream media has tried to convince you, it's not at all a mystery how the fire started in Odessa, Ukraine and it's not at all a mystery who started it. We owe it to the victims to expose what really happened.

On May 2nd 2014 over 40 people were murdered in Odessa Ukraine. Some eyewitnesses claim the real number is over a hundred.

Some of them were burned alive. Others were strangled or beaten to death. A pregnant woman was among those killed.
============

This report concludes:

============

The West doesn't care about Ukraine. They're certainly not concerned for the welfare of their people. Ukraine is just a pawn. It's just a pivot point on the board. The real target is Russia. At this point they aren't even hiding it.

If you pay attention you'll notice that the politicians and the media are doing everything in their power to turn the public against Russia. They are working hard to make you hate them and fear them. They are trying to create a boogie man in your mind. Kind of like how they did in the cold war.

Little details like the facts aren't an obstacle. They're just making stuff up at this point. Claiming to have evidence of Russian troops in eastern Ukraine, but never correcting themselves after the evidence was debunked. Claiming that the rebels in the East were ordering Jews to register and pay a special tax, never correcting themselves after a Jewish organization with connections in the region came forward to debunk the claim. And of course they blamed the violence in Odessa on the Russians too. They're not going to correct themselves.

You've heard the saying "History is written by the winners". That's not poetic, that's a literal truth. Don't let these people win.============

If you prefer, here's the Youtube video version of this report:
H4dJRnI-X8Q

ThePythonicCow

13th May 2014, 05:11

RT.com reports on voting results in eastern Ukraine:
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Officials from the self-proclaimed governments in Donetsk and Lugansk are declaring victory after Sunday's referendum on autonomy from Ukraine. In Donetsk, 89.7 percent of voters backed autonomy, while the figure stands at 96.2 percent in Lugansk, according to local election committees. Voter turnout appeared to be high, with lines at many polling stations stretching for blocks. RT's Paula Slier is in Donetsk, Ukraine with more details on the controversial vote.

sigma6

13th May 2014, 08:11

Hi Everyone

We can all recall Prince Philip, a dangerous person in my opinion, views about overpopulation and being reincarnated as a virus to reduce it, a strange comment coming from a member of the Royal family who owns some 385,000 acres.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/imagenes_sociopol/round_table05_01.jpg

regards
Ian

then again his son wanted to be a tampon.... ;o

meeradas

13th May 2014, 08:21

RT.com reports US' reaction on voting results in eastern Ukraine:

M0nkJcBudus

sigma6

13th May 2014, 08:21

H4dJRnI-X8Q

giovonni

13th May 2014, 08:36

defined ...

NAZIS ~ a person who holds and acts brutally in accordance with extreme racist or authoritarian views ...

Tesla_WTC_Solution

13th May 2014, 08:41

thanks to you both for being brave.

unfortunately for us it looks like the Ratlines are still running.

:(

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/The_Odessa_File_-_Frederick_Forsyth.jpg

http://nuclearnuttery.blogspot.com/2012/12/retrieved-from-nuclearnutterycom-tesla.html

http://nuclearnuttery.com/2012/02/02/when-nazis-take-over-nice-countries-comparing-the-first-actions-of-george-bush-jr-to-those-of-the-paraguay-dictator-alfredo-stroessner-matiauda-also-looking-at-odessa-and-the-great-nazi-ratlines-p/

http://nuclearnuttery.wordpress.com/tag/odessa-assassination-plot/
"Putin Claims “Assassination Plot Foiled” Originated in City of ODESSA. Ring any Bells? It might be “just a name”, but “911″ is “just a number” after all. Also Looking at Operation Barbarossa and Why We Should Always Thank Russia for Fighting the Nazis"

"I wrote about ODESSA ratlines weeks ago, LOL! Around the time of the Super-Bowl, I started thinking about ODESSA a lot. Why would that be? It’s subconscious, I guess:"

year written: 2012 ^ lmao. maybe around the time we got hit by a cosmic wave from galactic center (!) that wasn't spoken of for about 5 months after haha.

the above is why you maybe shouldn't do drugs. at home kid. and all that. lol

ThePythonicCow

13th May 2014, 09:50

If you prefer, here's the Youtube video version of this report:

H4dJRnI-X8Q
I merged your posting of this video, sigma6, in with the "Ukraine" thread, where I had already posted the same video.

Operator

13th May 2014, 13:10

defined ...

NAZIS ~ a person who holds and acts brutally in accordance with extreme racist or authoritarian views ...

Did anyone here ever consider what Na Zi stands for? Abbreviation of Nationalistic Socialism doesn't fit at all (NaSo ;)) !
It rather fits Nationalistic Zionism .... :whistle:

loungelizard

13th May 2014, 13:21

Operator

13th May 2014, 14:17

Did anyone here ever consider what Na Zi stands for? Abbreviation of Nationalistic Socialism doesn't fit at all (NaSo ;)) !
It rather fits Nationalistic Zionism .... :whistle:

"National Socialism" is the English translation of Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (which translates as National Socialist German Workers' Party).

The word "Nazi" is derived from the German pronunciation of the first two syllables of "National".

I know it is often explained like that ... but it still doesn't fit. I am Dutch by the way, so besides English we get to
learn also French and German ... I am therefor familiar with the German language.

It's not logical to take only Na-tio-nal and make that into NaZi

There is another attempt/explanation:

Take the German word Nationalsozialismus en parts of it could be
glued to Nazi too ... but that would still be forced/strange.

Added:
=====
Apparently the abbreviation Sozi was commonly used for socialist in that time. Nazi would be derived from that to include/reflect the National part.

meeradas

13th May 2014, 18:41

Isn't that (http://burisma.com/hunter-biden-joins-the-team-of-burisma-holdings/)amazing (http://burisma.com/production/)?

http://burisma.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/RD0CJYdL.jpeg

Hunter Biden Joins the Ukraine Gas Conglomerate’s Board (http://www.redstate.com/2014/05/13/hunter-biden-joins-the-ukraine-gas-conglomerates-board/)

Corncrake

14th May 2014, 10:48

Excellent thought provoking article by John Pilger

In Ukraine, the US is dragging us towards war with Russia

Washington's role in Ukraine, and its backing for the regime's neo-Nazis, has huge implications for the rest of the world

Why do we tolerate the threat of another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a "brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis", as if the truth "never happened even while it was happening".

Every year the American historian William Blum publishes his "updated summary of the record of US foreign policy" which shows that, since 1945, the US has tried to overthrow more than 50 governments, many of them democratically elected; grossly interfered in elections in 30 countries; bombed the civilian populations of 30 countries; used chemical and biological weapons; and attempted to assassinate foreign leaders.

In many cases Britain has been a collaborator. The degree of human suffering, let alone criminality, is little acknowledged in the west, despite the presence of the world's most advanced communications and nominally most free journalism. That the most numerous victims of terrorism – "our" terrorism – are Muslims, is unsayable. That extreme jihadism, which led to 9/11, was nurtured as a weapon of Anglo-American policy (Operation Cyclone in Afghanistan) is suppressed. In April the US state department noted that, following Nato's campaign in 2011, "Libya has become a terrorist safe haven".

Read the rest here:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/ukraine-us-war-russia-john-pilger?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

Flash

14th May 2014, 11:18

a very good article indeed and another reporter on a black list most probably. Every American should read this.

Excellent thought provoking article by John Pilger

In Ukraine, the US is dragging us towards war with Russia

Washington's role in Ukraine, and its backing for the regime's neo-Nazis, has huge implications for the rest of the world

Why do we tolerate the threat of another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a "brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis", as if the truth "never happened even while it was happening".

Every year the American historian William Blum publishes his "updated summary of the record of US foreign policy" which shows that, since 1945, the US has tried to overthrow more than 50 governments, many of them democratically elected; grossly interfered in elections in 30 countries; bombed the civilian populations of 30 countries; used chemical and biological weapons; and attempted to assassinate foreign leaders.

In many cases Britain has been a collaborator. The degree of human suffering, let alone criminality, is little acknowledged in the west, despite the presence of the world's most advanced communications and nominally most free journalism. That the most numerous victims of terrorism – "our" terrorism – are Muslims, is unsayable. That extreme jihadism, which led to 9/11, was nurtured as a weapon of Anglo-American policy (Operation Cyclone in Afghanistan) is suppressed. In April the US state department noted that, following Nato's campaign in 2011, "Libya has become a terrorist safe haven".

Read the rest here:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/ukraine-us-war-russia-john-pilger?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

araucaria

14th May 2014, 11:36

Harold Pinter's brilliant Nobel acceptance speech:

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Wind

14th May 2014, 13:32

Hunter Biden Joins the Ukraine Gas Conglomerate’s Board (http://www.redstate.com/2014/05/13/hunter-biden-joins-the-ukraine-gas-conglomerates-board/)

Coincidences, are there ever any? It always comes down to the fight for natural resources and power... "What do all men with power want? More power."

http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Barack+Obama+Hunter+Biden+Duke+v+Georgetown+vQAMeragIQql.jpg

Flash

14th May 2014, 17:43

Wind, this article is Worth publishing for all our American friends, and also for worldwide understanding

If you go there now you may get a 404 error like I just did. But if you go to the Google cache you’ll find that while Vice President Biden was visiting Ukraine, the country decided to put Hunter Biden on the board of Burisma.

According to the press release of Ukraine’s largest gas provider,

R. Hunter Biden will be in charge of the Holdings’ legal unit and will provide support for the Company among international organizations. On his new appointment, he commented: “Burisma’s track record of innovations and industry leadership in the field of natural gas means that it can be a strong driver of a strong economy in Ukraine. As a new member of the Board, I believe that my assistance in consulting the Company on matters of transparency, corporate governance and responsibility, international expansion and other priorities will contribute to the economy and benefit the people of Ukraine.”

Also now getting a 404 error is this press release, which states that Devon Archer, a business partner of Hunter Biden’s, was also put on the board on or around April 22, 2014.

Isn’t this what third world kleptocracies do? They reward the friends and family of the powerful? This doesn’t smell right. Ukraine is already reeling from a series of corruption scandals. And now this. We are an American kleptocracy where only the chosen few can profit.

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By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | May 13th, 2014 at 10:36 AM

original article
is not available anymore it seems.

What is says is that Russia will have to deal directley with USA Cabal, Under the table of course, for their gaz going in Europe. Tightening the rope around Russia's neck.

I have shown some friends a map of the world, where oïl and gaz are amongst other richness, and how USA was trying to access it while cutting the road to China and Russia. Once on a world map, it is obvious. Afghanistanwere to be roads towards the very oïl rich countries or Turkmenisan, Tajakistan, etc., Iraq owning oïl itself was a taken plus a road as well towards central Asia, while Syria is at Centra Asia's door. Central Asia is considered to be probably the richest in the world in terms of oïl, gaz, and minerals.

Of course, China wants its share and Russia wants to keep its foot on it.

Ukraine is used to divert attention to the west, so that Russia becomes divided in military power. Never before were the USA able to play this chess game so near Central Asia.

It is sooooo obvious that a 19 years old here told me "it cannot be, this is much too obvious". But yes, it is. And no Americans, nor Urkrainians, sees the strategy.

This is a very dangerous game. Nor China nor Russia will let go and the USA do not care on the damages done to Europe, and less elsewhere.

meeradas

14th May 2014, 18:39

"When you have no ethics, how could they be an issue?" (http://rt.com/news/158800-us-biden-ukraine-gas/)

GTg4WLhi1So

Meanwhile, ... (http://www.globalresearch.ca/russias-petro-ruble-challenges-us-dollar-hegemony-china-seeks-development-of-eurasian-trade/5377086)

noxon medem

14th May 2014, 21:32

What more can one say ?

- It is a farce, and an irony , and
hard to take some of those "leaders"
claiming to represent "the free" world,
or even more megalomanic when some
person acts as "the leader of the free world"
- realy seriously ..?..

- ha ah
Ha ha ha ...

A floating clue :
- Be You .

PS.
This post will most probably be
edited within a day or so ...
( or right now )

Be true
.

nm

Rocky_Shorz

15th May 2014, 20:10

WOW...

rebels blew a tunnel up under a Syrian army base...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bns8PHRCQAEJOdf.jpg

click second Pic to see the video, the cameraman knew what was coming...

http://vid.alarabiya.net/images/2014/05/15/6bdb719b-c4e8-45e2-804c-7a81a136ad94/6bdb719b-c4e8-45e2-804c-7a81a136ad94_16x9_600x338.jpg (http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/05/15/syria-tunnel-bomb-story.html)

betoobig

15th May 2014, 21:14

Thanks for keeping my eyes wide open, and my mouth too... just one question:
we all know that there are different "forces" behind the scene supporting here or there (and a bunch of gray areas), depending on their different agendas....and, since we know it seams that TPUB (The Power that Used to Be) are dividing ... here is the question. Could you explain me which "forces" are here or there? and, in your opinion... Wich direction this issue will take?
I send my intention to support you...
Thanks in advance

Rocky_Shorz

15th May 2014, 21:47

the Syrian war will continue until all the extremist who might become leaders wanting to go after Israel are dead...

al Queda fighting al Queda... mowing them down by the sound of it, this is to divide and conquer the movement...

imagine a Satellite broad beaming the region, turning off all reasons of why not to go fight...

TODD & NORA

15th May 2014, 23:17

..........

Redstar Kachina

16th May 2014, 09:58

..........

ThePythonicCow

16th May 2014, 12:27

...
All I see is:
You've reached the bandwidth limit for viewing or downloading files that aren't in Google Docs format. Please try again later.
You can also try to download the original document by clicking here.
I was however able to download the document from the provided URL: www.wonksmedia.com/555plan.pdf

Do you have any brief statement of what is in this document, or how it has changed since it was previously posted?

Octavusprime

16th May 2014, 22:35

www.wonksmedia.com/555plan.pdf

As Paul has stated, it is very difficult to tell all that has changed in that document. Could you provide revision notes when posting? I end up having to read the entire thing over each time you post it just to find what has been changed. Just a suggestion.

I like the format and information but I feel like the huge elephant in the room hasn't arrived yet... Where does the Ukraine situation fit into it all? This seems like it would be an extremely high risk situation and catalyst for a worldwide financial failure due to the standoff between the US and Russia. I enjoyed the 2006 document "Closing the collapse gap" on learning from the Soviet collapse as it seems only a matter of time before the great US of A falls from world juggernaut status. However some of the comparisons are extreme and highly generalized. The Russian vs US comparison lists is almost to the point of extreme stereotyping for both sides. I would have to agree with the conclusion though, the Soviet people were more prepared for collapse then the US is now. The US population/infrastructure will have a much harder time coping with the hardships.

The Jubilee has been on my mind recently. Once the crash happens there will be a reset. We must have a plan in place for a suitable replacement system as to avoid falling into the same flawed economic system. How to break the cycle is the question.

meeradas

17th May 2014, 08:41

Swedish phantasmagoria (Carl Bildt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Bildt)):

Mr Bildt [...] has no doubt that free and fair elections can be held across the vast territory of Ukraine. (http://uacrisis.org/carl-bildt/)

Amazing, once again.

Rocky_Shorz

18th May 2014, 17:59

Breaking News Libya update:

Meet Khalifah Haftar, again...

http://lyvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/MzYaH.WiPh_.91.jpg

"Today, Libyans awoke to the news that General Haftar is “at it” once again. He has reportedly assumed command of 8,000 men, including some deserters from the army and other civilian volunteers, launching Operation Karamah, Arabic for dignity.

General Haftar is neither new to nor unfamiliar with controversy. The former Libyan army commander during the Libyan Chadian war, General Khalifah Haftar served for a number of years in the military before his capture in Chad in 1986. Repatriation for the defeated general and his troops back to Libya was hopeless since Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, as he did in Uganda in 1979, refused to acknowledge defeat or presence of any Libyan POWs (prisoners of war) in Chadian custody. The relentless General needed a way out of Chad preferably in a leadership role, and Libyan opposition needed an already-trained army to go back and finish its daring attack against Qaddafi’s barracks two years prior. Haftar formed the National Liberation Army, what became the military wing of the political dissident group National Front for Salvation of Libya (NFSL) with the aim of launching sustained military attacks using neighboring borders. However, regional politics and Qaddafi’s success in consolidating rapprochement with neighbors prompted a speedy exit of Libyan opposition army with its commander to the United States.

Within years, divisions amongst the ranks of NFSL weakened the opposition group and prompted General Haftar to resign his membership and, for the years that followed, he kept a very low profile in exile. Rumors circulated about secret deals with his former boss, Colonel Qaddafi, in exchange for return of his properties and repatriation of family members to the United States but none were confirmed.

Following Libya’s revolution, General Haftar returned to Libya to take part. However, his aspirations to lead the nascent army were dashed. General Abdul-Fatah Younis was promptly appointed commander-in-chief of rebel forces. Omar Hariri was his deputy, and Haftar had to contend with third most senior military post. Members of National Transitional Council (NTC) recall personality clashes with stubborn Haftar who did not see eye to eye with his colleagues, many of whom disliked and mistrusted him. The end of the NTC mandate witnessed a peaceful transition of power to the country’s highest authority, the General National Congress (GNC) in August of 2012. However, laws governing elections of GNC forbid any former NTC members from running for office. Thus many were conveniently granted diplomatic appointments abroad as a reward. Haftar was noticeably left out.

Any further political ambitions of Haftar were put to an end as the Political Isolation Law of 2013 successfully, albeit forcibly, passed. It effectively prevented any Libyan who formerly assumed senior posts under Qaddafi’s regime, or aided in his infamous 1969 coup, from serving in any government post for ten years. Haftar, it would seem, ran out of options.

So why now?

If there is anything Haftar is most known for, it is persistence. This was not his first attempt at a military take over since the end of the war and conclusion of NTC. On February 14th of this year, Haftar appeared in a pre-recorded video message, alone on a podium somewhere in Tunisia, reading from a piece of paper. The charade was soon mocked by the Libyan public dubbing it a “valentine” revolution. It was not only ill-timed but also poorly prepared. Haftar took notice.

The extent of Haftar’s mass support remains unclear and difficult to gauge at this point, but it has undoubtedly increased since February. In the months since his valentine revolution, Haftar has put himself to use campaigning on the ground in his hometown of Benghazi. He is enjoying considerable support from the Eastern part of the country, which has traditionally felt willfully neglected by Qaddafi’s regime for decades. This collective feeling of neglect was only exacerbated further by lack of any progress in addressing spiralling wave of violence and assassinations in the city.

Furthermore, Libya’s neighboring countries especially Egypt and Algeria-two countries with very strong military establishments-have adopted an alarmingly stronger rhetoric in recent weeks about regional threat posed by Libya’s lack of security. Has General Haftar taken this as a cue for an implicit approval of Operation Karamah? Is he trying to mimic General Sisi’s “benevolent” intervention for the sake of the country?

From assisting Qaddafi in his 1969 coup and fighting on his behalf in Chad, to joining opposition ranks in 1980’s before abandoning the cause in 1990’s, and joining the 2011 uprising against his former boss, it is safe to assume that over the years, Haftar has succeeded at reinventing himself. More importantly, he has marketed a very powerful message to a very disenchanted populace today: that he is the alternative to jihadists who have been blamed for endless killing spree in the East.

A man of shifting loyalties, secretive alliances and convenient exits may seem as the least likely choice for leadership. However, in a country where a stagnant, if not crippled, political will has paved way to mistrust of democratic process, Haftar potentially embodies salvation for the desperate. If there are any chances of success for General Khalifah Haftar’s military coup, they are not due to love for him, but out of despise for a state which has failed miserably at protecting its citizens.

The views presented in this article belong solely to the author and do not necessarily represent the Libyan Youth Voices." link (http://lyvoices.org/oped-meet-khalifah-haftar-again/)

this General from Benghazi suddenly steps forward to retake the country and make it safe for the population? CIA must have found their man to take over by military coup...

"Two car bombs hit Derna, Sharia Sheikh assassinated in Benghazi"

the war on extremist in Libya has begun

Rocky_Shorz

19th May 2014, 22:08

another film release to upset Israel against Iran... public manipulation at its finest when Iran is trying to negotiate peace...

Persian film shows nuke war with Israel
Video titled ‘Point of No Return’ and peppered with Islamic themes shows Iran ‘emptying’ Haifa, Tel Aviv of population

http://cdn.timesofisrael.com/uploads/2014/05/planes-e1400516970199-635x357.jpg

"Persian-language animated film shows an Iranian invasion of Tel Aviv, the word “Holocaust” being trampled, and a nuclear attack.

The film, called “The Rachel Corrie Message 2: The Point of No Return,” purports to show an Iranian reprisal for a failed Israeli nuclear attack on Iran.

The approximately four explosive-laden-minute long clip depicts Israelis surrendering en masse to invading Iranian troops and Israel’s airport being renamed as “Martyr Rachel Corrie Airport.”

Corrie was an American pro-Palestinian activist killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza in 2003.

The film, which reportedly first surfaced on Iranian hard-line websites earlier this year, was made by an animation company named Fatimah al-Zahra, a likely reference to the daughter of Islam’s prophet Muhammad and an important figure in Shi’ite Islam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAj7OSfo3Vs

The movie opens with shots depicting Iranian fighter planes over Israeli cities.

A caption in Persian then reads, “Iran will act on its promises on the nuclear issue.”

The action largely takes place in the sky, with a niqab-clad Iranian girl looking up from a field, where an Iranian tank lies abandoned, to observe Iranian planes racing to intercept Israel Air Force jets.

In the background, a female Iranian news presenter announces that Israel has shot several nuclear missiles at Iran during the course of the war, but all have been intercepted by defense systems built by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-controlled Khatam al-Anbia engineering firm, named after the prophet Muhammad.

Though the Iranian defense systems try to intercept the Israeli invasion, eventually a nuclear bomb explodes in the desert, presumably in Iranian territory.

Undeterred by Western entreaties to “show self-restraint,” Iranian forces advance on Israel in retaliation for the nuclear attack.

The Iranian attack is visualized both literally and symbolically in the film, with the symbolic rendition showing a man in a cloak — possibly a cleric who symbolizes Iran and the “resistance” movement, which includes Hezbollah — stepping on a piece of a downed Israeli plane bearing the word “Holocaust” and a Star of David.

The plane also bears the word “Palmachim,” the location of the IAF airbase from which anti-ballistic Arrow missiles are launched.

The film then shows Iranian planes and air defense systems attacking Israeli jets, and Iranian tanks rolling through smoke-filled Israeli streets. About two minutes into the film, the news presenter announces that units of the “Armored Corps of Islam” — presumably a joint Iranian-Lebanese Shi’ite force — have started advancing toward the al-Aqsa Mosque, with Haifa and Tel Aviv “practically emptied of their population.”

The words “victory” and “resistance” flash on the screen in Persian as the news presenter announces that over 2,500 “Zionist soldiers” have surrendered to the force.

The film, one of several animations depicting wars with Israel or the US to appear in recent years on Iranian websites, implicitly criticizes the West for failing to honor its commitments towards Iran, suggesting that Iran cannot be held accountable for acting against Israel independently.

link (http://www.timesofisrael.com/persian-clip-shows-nuclear-war-with-israel/)

Rocky_Shorz

20th May 2014, 19:37

Part 2 of Libya...

House is passing a bill to allow start of war with those responsible for the Benghazi attack, without a vote...

"Dangerous Amendment Amounting to Declaration of War on Track for House Vote

Ari Rabin-Havt

May 20, 2014

Fox News furnished the pictures, and it looks like Representative Duncan Hunter wants to furnish the war.

"Representative Duncan Hunter of California submitted an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would authorize the “use of force against those responsible for the attack against United States personnel in Benghazi, Libya.” The amendment will likely come up for a vote in the House of Representatives this week.

Hunter's legislation represents an official Authorization for the Use of Military Force [AUMF] under the War Powers Act permitting the president of the United States “to use all necessary and appropriate force against those organizations or persons the President determines planned, authorized, or committed the attacks against the United States facilities in Benghazi, Libya that occurred on September 11 and 12, 2012, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such organizations or persons.”

This dangerous AUMF is the functional equivalent of a declaration of war in response to the Benghazi attack. It cites no specific enemy and its open-ended nature means that any future president, not only Barack Obama, could use it as a pretext for military action. It is also unnecessary; under the War Powers Act the president, if necessary, can launch an offensive for up to 60 days without congressional authorization.

No serious legislator would so flippantly bring such an expansive bill to the floor without so much as a congressional hearing. But House Speaker John Boehner, who through the Rules Committee has final say over what amendments are voted on by the chamber, has shown an inclination to take a different path. After resisting its creation for months, he formed the Benghazi Select Committee, knowing it is a waste of time and resources. If this amendment is voted on in the House of Representatives it will be yet another gift from Boehner to the Tea Party wing of his caucus in the hope they will allow him to keep his gavel after the 2014 elections.

A direct line can be drawn from Benghazi bonanza Fox News has offered its audience over the past 21 months, feeding it lies about the attack in Libya, riling viewers to believe no foreign policy crisis is more important. Now comes this latest stunt. It is no surprise that Duncan Hunter senses an opportunity to legislatively demagogue this issue in the hope of becoming the next conservative Benghazi media darling.

If the Republican leadership allows a vote on such a broad, sweeping measure without even a hearing in the Foreign Affairs Committee, that is more evidence of how irresponsible and uninterested in governing the party has become. While the Benghazi Select Committee will waste millions of dollars, this latest action has the potential to waste thousands of lives." link (http://prospect.org/article/dangerous-amendment-amounting-declaration-war-track-house-vote)

what would have happened if Obama had launched a strike against Libya without this declaration after the CIA outpost attack?

Rocky_Shorz

21st May 2014, 04:38

The Vatican isn't the only thing going to Israel... US Mid-East Command center...

"Informed Jewish sources added, however, that the suspension of the Senate’s consideration of the act – passed in March by the House of Representatives by a whopping 410-1 majority – was only temporary and that a compromise will likely be reached. The sources added however that the standoff is another manifestation of the ongoing distrust of both the Israeli government and its supporters in Washington of the P5+1 talks with Tehran over Iran’s nuclear program.

To the ongoing tensions over the Iran deal – which previously peaked in February when an AIPAC –backed effort to legislate new sanctions on Iran fell through – one must now add the approaching election campaign and the Republican effort to embarrass the Democrats – even at Israel’s expense. “They’re stuck between a rock and a hard place,” a senior Jewish official said yesterday of Democratic senators, “They don’t want to cross the White House in public but they certainly don’t want to vote against a pro-Israel bill at a time when they are struggling not to lose control of the Senate altogether.”

The proposed bill would designate Israel as a “major strategic partner” for the United State. It would expand authority to deploy U.S weapons stockpiles in Israel as well as the ability to transfer weapons and ammunition to Israel itself, would direct the secretary of commerce to take steps to make Israel eligible for a Strategic Trade Authorization (STA) license exemption for certain items subject to export controls, would call for increased collaboration on a wide variety of areas such as energy water and homeland security and would lay the foundation for the establishment of a joint United States-Israel Cyber Security Center... " link (http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/west-of-eden/.premium-1.591864?utm_content=buffer12cfd&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer)

Rocky_Shorz

22nd May 2014, 03:19

1.9 Million Gulf war vets are disabled the VA Health care system can't handle them.

urgent procedures taking up to 2 years is unacceptable...

Rob contacted me today and asked to help get the word out...

Veterans Administration problems

"The VA Scandal is new to you? Not to Vets...

Credentials and the beginning

Let's get this out of the way first shall we? I can already hear: "What the hell do you know about the VA, huh? What have you done about it? What gives you the right to tell us anything?" Hello, my name is Rob Plunkett from Deer Park, Texas; I was a Marine from September 11, 1983 to June 26, 1989 honorably discharged early due to overabundance in my MOS. My MOS was 6324/6344 or Avionics/Electrician for AH1 and UH1 helicopters for HMLA 369, 367, 169, and 775. I served aboard the USS Okinawa, USS Belleau Wood, on Okinawa at Futenma base, Korea in tent city near Pusan and my stuff stayed at Camp Pendleton. If that doesn't establish my credentials as an actual member of the USMC for you, then there isn't much more I can do from here.

When I got out in 1989, my dad who is a World War II veteran told me I needed to go to the Houston Veterans Hospital off Old Spanish Trail because if something happened at least I would have health care no matter where I went and so I did. I took my DD214 to the VA, waited around most of one day and I was issued a card that said I was eligible for benefits. And that's the moment my troubles began with the VA. My dad, my brother, my Grand Father and I have all served and used the VA system. But let's start with a statement. The Veterans Administration "scandal" is nothing new. It's been going on for decades in various places though perhaps not everywhere. Welcome to our party members of the first civdiv. I hope you brought a bag lunch because it's going to be a long haul. I'd like to share a few stories. It's anecdotal but then again, some of these stories come from people I know and trust, some I was there to witness. I didn't just get upset because I heard about someone who said that they heard something happened.

Let's start with the good. A friend of mine, let's call him JJ Gunfighter in deference to the squadron we both served together from 1984 to 1985, says his VA is great. JJ has a problem which causes him to have to use the VA more than a few times a year. When we were arguing about how "bad" the VA is back in the last of the Bush administration, he told me his VA was excellent. They were nice, they always waited on him and they never put him off. He also said he never heard them use a cross word to vets. That's in Los Angeles. So evidently, the VA takes good care of him and the people there in the LA area. The VA clinic that was in Galveston, and is now in Texas City, Texas is a great location run by one of the absolute best people I have ever met since being a part of the system. I can't mention his name because I didn't ask permission but he and I had a long conversation 6 years ago about the problems in the system. He told me that he would not allow any employee in his clinic to treat any veteran with anything but ultimate respect. I have never had an issue at his clinic since he took over. I am sure that there are more locations like this or at least I like to think so. The VA in Palestine Texas is pretty good according to my brother, for instance. When I had to get my CPAP replaced, that actually went fairly smoothly at the VA in Houston. Right up until the time where it came to get me the unit everything was aces. That's the good that I know. I'm sure that other Vets have stories they can share about the good.

The bad is overwhelming and I am not even sure I remember it all. When I first joined the system, I joined in Houston. I had to go through triage because I had some issue or other. The emergency room, where triage was attached at the time was full. I don't mean oh every seat was full, I mean standing room only plus. There were men and women of varying ages scattered throughout the waiting area in all stages of waning health. I was facing the patient check in watching a World War II vet trying to talk to a very nasty young man about what was going on and why he needed to be there this day. The veteran was old, had been in artillery, was hard of hearing and had his daughter with him to help. He was having a lot of trouble hearing the man because of the ambient noise in the waiting room, his hearing issues associated with service and the kid was mumbling. Every time he was told something, he had to ask several times and of course the worker was getting frustrated, belligerent and angry. The daughter was helping, but the worker was speaking directly to the vet and Ignoring her as best he could. The Vet told the young man several times that he couldn't hear and that he needed to speak to his daughter who knew what all was going on. The youngster screamed, yelled and berated the man saying "She's not a vet and I'm not here to help her, you need to answer the questions." And that's when my mouth got away from me and my Irish rose. I probably questioned the youth's heritage, his mother's marital status and I may have accused him of sleeping with his own mother. Not helpful, I know but I was young and I don't deal well with fools. The director of the facility came out and led me back to his room so we could speak in quiet. I'm pretty sure he just wanted me to shut up, but I've never been real good at just shutting up. I explained to him what was going on and that I didn't appreciate this young man who had never served going after a man who did serve. He told me he would resolve the issue and talk to the guy doing check in. I didn't get seen that day for whatever reason. I don't know if it was because I was loud or because it was so full, but either way it happened. It was worth it no matter the reason. I will not allow some punk who never served to disrespect a veteran while I can still yell.

The next time I tried to use the VA; I had an appointment with a doctor for a specific time and date that had been set weeks before. It was more than necessary that I see someone by the time I got to the doctor's office that day. This was an appointment at the downtown Houston hospital, set up in the system and with a doctor three months before and confirmed many times. I arrived at 0800 hours in the morning to a waiting room full of veterans. Some of the vets were waiting on the same doctor I was and others were waiting on another doctor to see them. One group was moving, but the one waiting on my doctor never moved. From 0800 to 1500 not one of us moved back to see the doctor. This wasn't unheard of so we all sat patiently and waited but at 1500, I finally had enough. The room had perhaps one hundred chairs in total and about half were still full. There was a reception area up front where you checked in so I approached and asked what was going on. I'm not going to lie; I probably added some words into that sentence that were not particularly kind. But it had been 7 hours without one of us getting seen by the doctor? I hope you can understand why. The lady at the desk told me she would check right away and see what was going on. Perhaps her right away and mine are different, but an hour later when I approached again, she told me the doctor had called in sick that morning and never showed up. I asked if any of us could see someone else and she said no. That's your doctor; you will just have to make another appointment or go to the emergency room. I let the other guys know, she was amazingly silent. By the way, this was just a visit to get put on a waiting list to have something else done. Eventually I went to regular doctor and got it taken care of rather than wait another 3 months.

Yet another time I went to the emergency room because I had fallen and done a number on my arm. I wasn't sure if it was broken or not, but I knew I needed to find out. I got to the emergency room in the late afternoon about 1800 or so, sat down and waited. It was busy but not too busy really. Maybe thirty or so of us in there and it was moving at a medium pace. At about 2030, an older vet came in with a broken arm. There was no question that he had a broken arm. It was an obvious break and I mean obvious. He was a black man but he was paler than I am and his arm was swelling up and angry looking. I kept talking to him, making sure he was okay. I even made sure he was warm or cool enough. When it was down to just him and me, the workers came in and told me "you are our last patient of the night." I said "what do you mean". They told me that the other man would have to go to another area and wait again. They never told the other man a thing. They said this to me. Yes, my inner DI came out again and I got the man taken care of, but I had to point out that he was in shock, his arm was broken and he was ashen. When they got me to the back room, I was understandably nervous. They took care of me, but I can't say they were happy with me.

About ten years ago or so, I thought I was having a heart attack. I couldn't breathe, my ribs hurt and I was convinced this was it. I went to the Texas City clinic (pre-goodguy) and told them what was going on. They told me I had to go downtown to the emergency room. I wasn't happy because I knew what the chances were of me being seen, but I went. The technician did his thing and it was all relatively quick and painless, but in the end he said "I don't think you are having a heart attack but you need to go to your doctor." Of course I told him that the clinic had sent me down town to see him. He shrugged and said you have to see your doctor because there is nothing I can do for you. I laughed this off and said "thanks buddy." It turned out to be a torn muscle in my ribs, but he couldn't tell me that. My childhood doctor told me a few days later.

The saga continues

I told "my" VA doctor one day that I was having some issues with my lower portion. She looked at me from the corner of her eye but never examined me, hurumphed and said "Mister Plunkett, you are fat. Lose some weight. That's your only problem other than soon you'll have high blood pressure and diabetes. You lose some weight and I'm sure that will help and if it doesn't then we'll talk about it." I tried to tell her more about what had happened but she cut me off. "I'm telling you, it's your weight." Why thank you Miss Wizard. I was shown the door. I was about thirty to fifty pounds overweight at the time. It wasn't weight by the way; I had done something to myself that eventually healed on its own.

When I lived in Alabama, I went to the VA with my card from Houston. I told them I would like to be seen by a doctor and make sure I was still in the system. She laughed and said that my card meant nothing to her. She told me that our National VA administration was not all connected and that I had to get put in the Alabama system and it would take several weeks. I told her I was already in the system to which she replied with a smoldering look.

Each of these incidents I reported to several people. I told two Texas congressmen who are no longer in office but were at the time, three Texas senators, a governor, the VA director at the time, three news people in Houston . . . I'm sure others. I'm not the quiet type. Know what I got in return? Crickets. Bubkiss. Nada. Oh, not true, I got a form letter from one Senator about how we should take care of our veterans. Woohoo! He is still a Senator in Texas but I won't mention his name. (He is the elder Senator)

If you are a veteran and use the system, shout if you know there is a waiting list between 3 months and 2 years for many procedures. Bet that made some people jump if we all did it at the same time. Shout if you have ever waited at a main hospital. Shout if the doctor ignored what you told them. Shout if you feel like the system is broken. Shout if you believe the system has killed a vet purposely or inadvertently by ignoring them or putting them on a waiting list so that they didn't hurt their precious record. This isn't something new. My dad has experienced it, my Grand Father experienced it and I have seen it firsthand. So why now, all of a sudden do civilians give half a damn about a bunch of vets you didn't even think about before now? Did you care last year? Ten years ago? Forty years ago? You probably had no clue it was going on, did you? That's because every veteran knew it was happening and we kept it to ourselves. We handled it on the spot like we always have. We took care of each other because that is the only way things get done for us.

If you are a democrat, you are probably saying the whole thing is a conspiracy theory made up to hurt Obama and the democrats and just being stretched out of proportion by a few mad veterans. You might be right about that but what if you are wrong? Does that matter to you that you may be wrong? I doubt it. If you are a republican, you are probably saying it's a travesty and why isn't Obama doing something about it since it happened on his watch? That's probably right as well and half the story. It didn't just start happening on Obama's watch. Where were you ten, fifteen, twenty and fifty years ago? If you are tea party, you are probably going on and on about how this is Obama's fault and how you could do better and how your guy would fix it or how you wish you were in charge of the government's health care so you could give them the same health care they give vets. That is great bravado, wonderful piety, amazing hubris and completely unhelpful and wrong. It was just his watch it finally came out on. Is his administration trying to cover it up? Oh you bet. Let's face it, any administration would. It's horrible, but let's not pretend like anyone cared about it before a couple of days ago, shall we?

It seems to me some of us have an agenda other than helping vets. It appears that more than a few would like to get veterans into their clutches and turn our pain into their gain. We have all served and we don't need to be your pawns anymore so please save your sanctimony, pity and faux regrets or half solutions. We don't need that kind of help. Oh and if you are just upset because you suddenly get that ACA is going to bring our misery to you? Well that's just too bad. Some of us tried to warn you and no one listened.

Veterans, I am going to just talk to you. These are our people, these other vets are us and we are them. This is our job. I know we did our time in hell and just want to live but when we are at the VA, it becomes our job again to take care of each other. Remember what your drill instructors taught you. Leave no one behind. We take care of our own. If they tell you they are putting you on a waiting list, get in their face. "When will I be helped?" If they tell the guy next to you and he is too sick to do it, ask for him. Don't be rude, just be firm. Don't let it go unanswered. Hound them. Make them tell you. Partner up with someone and make sure they get taken care of and vice versa. We can't just leave it to civilians to help us because they will go back to sleep in short order. They will forget us again when their party gets in or when they think the right guy quits or is fired. Or when they are too overwhelmed to help us and that day is coming. Remember, we are part of a huge fraternity/sorority. We are all brothers / sisters no matter our skin tone or sex or the service. Let others try to fix the VA, let's just make sure we take care of each other when we are there." link (http://www.squidoo.com/veterrans-administration-problems)

Benghazi is all a distraction to ignore a National Emergency, I've been trying to wake people up and get moving to fix this, and thought it would be good to share here.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=25909

Operator

22nd May 2014, 12:30

Dennis Leahy

22nd May 2014, 13:15

I'm still not sure if this is real or a hoax, but it was found on a site called "CurrencyMuseum.net"

http://currencymuseum.net/images/ukraineNEW500-2006r.JPG

http://currencymuseum.net/images/ukraineNEW500-2006r.JPG

(Supposedly) new Ukrainian money, with the pyramid and all-seeing eye of the international central bankers.

If true, any doubt who is calling the shots?

Dennis
p.s. Please vet this as true before repeating it. I'm placing it here so it CAN be vetted.

Rocky_Shorz

22nd May 2014, 15:38

Perhaps add Korea to the title of this thread ?

Korea's open fire
PYONGYANG -

North and South Korea have shelled each other with artillery fire on Thursday. South Korean media report said Thursday.

North Korea would have started by firing projectiles at a South Korean naval vessel. South Korea responded to that by firing at a navy ship from the northern neighbor.

Translated by Google
http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/22654529/__Korea_s_openen_vuur__.html

Nigeria, and now state department is warning of travel to Kenya...

Thailand just had a military coupe still under martial law...

yesterday I saw a video they were claiming was a nuke explosion in the ocean off shore of a Japanese Island

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekvXQb7UOGM&feature=player_detailpage&list=UUPxD1oyWWnpn6JBtfdYXrwA

UPDATE:

first an earthquake rocked Virginia, in a non fracking location...

now today... #TORNADO WARNINGs near Dover, Delaware and southeast of Bowie, mD moving southeast!! Very dangerous

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BoRL9OtCcAApAl0.jpg

would anyone in Virginia have anything to do with all these wars breaking out?

Flash

26th May 2014, 14:19

New developments in Ukraine. In today French newspaper in Québec, an attack in Donetsk airport, in the eastern part where the Citizen had voted for separation from Ukraine and overtook the airport during the night, are now Under the Ukrainian army's attack - it seem that the revolutionary ones came to the airport and ask the Ukrainian army to leave, which they did, to come back later with artillery.

I do not know if this is in English yet, but when it will be, I can assure you there will be a twist to the story and now it will be terrorist in Donetsk and not revolutionaries and separatists. The separatists want Russia to mediate a peace talk with Ukraine on their behalf. We will see...

http://www.lapresse.ca/international/dossiers/ukraine/201405/26/01-4769802-offensive-de-larmee-ukrainienne-a-laeroport-de-donetsk.php

Rocky_Shorz

28th May 2014, 22:00

Syrian insurgents say an American suicide bomber detonated massive explosion at a checkpoint in Syria on Sunday...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bo1K9wYCUAEpqd0.jpg

"WASHINGTON—U.S. authorities are investigating whether an American carried out a suicide bombing in Syria on behalf of an al-Qaeda affiliate in what would be the first known attack in Syria carried out by U.S. citizen, two U.S. officials said.

The officials, who are not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said preliminary reports of the person, identified on social media as Abu Hurayra al-Amriki or Abu Hurayra the American, are likely accurate but efforts are being made to locate his family for a more conclusive identification.

The bombing, carried out over the weekend, killed about four people, including the bomber, one of the officials said. He said the bomber is believed to have been in the region for perhaps a year.

FBI Director James Comey has expressed repeated concerns about possibly dozens of Americans who have traveled to Syria to take up arms in the Syrian civil war." link (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/05/28/american-suicide-bomber/9684307/)

http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2014_22/470076/140527-mrsadaljihad-jms-2124_0027859d0e17d4783005d201db5d52fa.nbcnews-ux-800-700.jpg

"This photo, originally tweeted by the al Nasra Front, an al Qaeda-linked terror group, purportedly shows an American citizen, at right, wearing what appears to be a suicide vest. The other men in the picture were his fellow suicide bombers, according to the tweet.

Separately, a video circulating on jihadi forums showed what appears to be the same man loading artillery shells into a truck bomb and then the bomb exploding in the city.

Syrian rebel sources based in London tell NBC News that other jihadi tweets suggest the American was of Palestinian descent.

Agence France Presse, citing the monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, published a report on the spate of bombings, saying they caused dozens of casualties.

The incident is believed to be the first suicide bombing by a U.S. citizen in the Syrian civil war. Three Americans were confirmed to have carried suicide attacks in Somalia on behalf of another al Qaeda linked group, al Shabab, between 2009 and 2011.

Laith Alkhouri, an NBC News counterterrrorism analyst who found the material online, said reports indicated that "the truck used in the suicide bombing allegedly carried over 16 tons of explosives."

Alkhouri said that if the account is proven accurate, it would almost certainly be used in future propaganda by the al-Nasra Front, which is on the U.S. terrorist watch list. " link (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/american-died-suicide-bombing-syria-u-s-officials-say-n116491)

Rocky_Shorz

30th May 2014, 02:44

Saudi King's daughters under house arrest for 13 years, download before it disappears, they are most likely going to lose internet access after this communications

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0VRsWtblmQ

Roisin

31st May 2014, 00:45

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/03/09/article-2576600-02B218AB000004B0-191_634x417.jpg

These women came of age during a transitional period in Saudi Arabia... especially for royalty. He's hiding them from the public but good that they finally posted that You Tube video.

I will keep them in my prayers.

----------------------------
From his wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_of_Saudi_Arabia#cite_note-107

Daughters

King Abdullah's daughter Princess Adila is married to Faisal bin Abdullah.[101] She is one of the few Saudi princesses with a semi-public role, and a known advocate of women's right to drive.[102] She is also known as "her father's public face".[19] Another daughter, Princess Aliya, is the chairperson of the Social Service Program, a Jeddah based initiative.[citation needed] A third daughter, Princess Maryam, is a Europe-based doctor who leads a very private life.[citation needed] One of Abdullah's younger daughters, Princess Sahab, was born in 1993.[103] Sahab bint Abdullah married Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa, son of Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, on 6 June 2011.[104] Princess Sahab is the daughter of the king from his wife of the Al-Jarbah tribe.

From his marriage to Princess Alanoud Al Fayez (arranged when she was 15, without her having ever met him), whom he has now divorced, he has four daughters - princesses Sahar, Maha, Hala and Jawaher.[105] The four princesses have been under house arrest for the last 13 years, and are not allowed to leave the country.[106] After media releases in March 2014, Sahar and Jawaher received no food or clean water for 65 days, lost 10 kilos each and their mother carried out weekly protests in front of the Saudi Arabian embassy in London.[107]

This is barbaric.

Rocky_Shorz

2nd June 2014, 08:09

I was joking with the princess about applying for permits to open a Women's Driving school in Saudi Arabia a few years back, she said she couldn't remember the last time she laughed so hard... she was silenced last year on twitter...

Israel strikes Gaza and Syria - Israeli military launches bombing raids on Gaza just hours before swearing in of new Palestinian government

The exchanges took place as the Palestinian president, Mahmud Abbas, was to unveil a new government pieced together as part of a surprise April reconciliation agreement between leaders in the West Bank and the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, which has been fiercely opposed by Israel.

Early on Monday, Israeli warplanes staged two bombing raids on targets in central and southern Gaza following rocket fire on southern Israel, a spokesman said.

"After two rockets were fired at Israeli territory over the last two days, the Israeli airforce attacked two terrorist sites in central and southern Gaza," he said, noting the raids were successful.

Since the start of the year, about 150 rockets have struck Israeli territory, but the border has been relatively calm for the past few weeks.

Meanwhile in the north, Israeli troops fired across the Syrian ceasefire line in the occupied Golan Heights after a projectile struck Israeli territory, the military said.

"Earlier this morning, a projectile fired from Syria exploded near an Israeli position on Mount Hermon," a military spokesman told AFP, saying troops had responded with artillery fire towards the area from which it came.

Army radio said three mortar shells had been fired from Syria, although only one had struck inside Israeli-held territory.

Israel, which is technically at war with Syria, seized 460 sq miles of the Golan Heights plateau during the 1967 six-day war and later annexed it in a move never recognized by the international community. link (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/02/israel-strikes-gaza-syria-rocket-attacks)

Rocky_Shorz

8th June 2014, 22:20

Major Blast at Pakistan airport...

Terrorist carrying Indian made weapons...

multiple explosions tanks moving in.
they had night vision goggles, a brief report passed that a CIA office is located in this airport across the hall from the explosions...

false flag op to get Pakistan to attack India to stir up a war...

Fracking NEOcons...

Rocky_Shorz

12th June 2014, 07:17

Iraq story the media isn't telling all of you...

Saddam and Assad's Baath party. is the backbone of ISIS, this was planned for over 2 years, that's why city by city the army commanders have told their men to lay down their weapons and escape with their lives...

Kurds drew a line in the sand saying no further, they have mobilized now bringing the whole country together to battle for their homes...

ISIS attempted to attack the Kurds twice and are turning to roll into Baghdad

Iran has Revolutionary guards on the ground with Iraq's military and special forces guarding Baghdad...

Iraq government invited US to join in air attacks...

Iran wants the Sunnis wiped out, Saudis want to protect them...

Iran and US fighting on the same side of a battle against ISIS?

ISIS is backed by Qatar

anyone care to guess where the drones will be controlled from?

Kari Lynn

14th June 2014, 16:46

Very interesting Bill, thanks for this information. I do wish I had time to read every page, but will have to wait till I have more time, (or my own computer)

Working where I do, I have to be careful what I say for my own safety of my work place. But I will say, the last time I saw practice maneuvers like this here, and heard from military personnel about preparations they are making, was shortly after 911 before our troops went to war. It has me very concerned.

Rocky_Shorz

21st June 2014, 01:21

jerry

23rd June 2014, 01:23

I cant figure it out
Iran is backing Assad. Gulf states are against Assad!
Assad is against the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood and Obama are against [Egypt’s] General Sisi.
But Gulf states are pro-Sisi! Which means they are against the Muslim Brotherhood!
Iran is pro-Hamas, but Hamas is backing the Muslim Brotherhood!
Obama is backing the Muslim Brotherhood, yet Hamas is against the U.S.!
Gulf states are pro-U.S. But Turkey is with Gulf states against Assad; yet Turkey is pro-Muslim Brotherhood against General Sisi. And General Sisi is being backed by the Gulf states!
Welcome to the Middle East and have a nice day.

Rocky_Shorz

23rd June 2014, 20:34

and you didn't even attempt to map out

#ISIS Salafi are the extremist wing of the Sunni, They want to bring the World back to the stone age...

ISIL was under agreement with Irán for their supply chain from Talibánuntil recently, when they decided #Irán is next

Violet

23rd June 2014, 20:50

uh oh instead of hearing the drums of war...

it's the humming of drones of war, looks like patience has run out with ISIS

when the extremist are suddenly fighting beside the US because they think the new guys are crazy...

things get confusing...

They sure do. So, how real is all that unmapped stuff? I hear ISIS isn't called ISIS in Arabic, for instance, but Daysh or something. So, then, who was creative enough to hint that they might go for this acronym, for a translation.

Can't see how a well-informed (monotheistic) muslim radical would consciously choose to be associated with polytheistic ideas.

TODD & NORA

23rd June 2014, 21:19

..........

Rocky_Shorz

3rd July 2014, 19:49

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ3UZxWAcfw

israel has moved troops to surround Gaza

they named the ops and are prepared to storm guns blaring if one more rocket is fired...

Net&Yahoo has blood on his hands from this one...

The Media is ignoring it...

following twitters from Gaza will drop back with updates

gun boats are shelling Gaza shores right now.

now, the silence waiting for Gazans to go to sleep...

you land on your feet when one of these drop in the neighborhood, it continues all night...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Brmte4jIMAA2PLG.jpg

they keep bombing the same location just to terrorize the population...

this has nothing to do with the 3 boys, this brutal treatment was for uniting Palestine after Israel warned they would be punished for doing it.

Saudi Arabia just moved 30,000 troops to the border to face off with #iSiS

161803398

7th July 2014, 09:31

https://www.youtube.com/watch?NEuJ5v3AbJg

Zaya

7th July 2014, 14:27

From: http://news.yahoo.com/two-palestinians-killed-israeli-drone-gaza-211626613.html

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Two Palestinian fighters were killed and another wounded Sunday by an Israeli drone strike in the Gaza Strip, emergency services said.

The victims were among a group of armed men who targeted by the Israeli drone east of Al-Bureij refugee camp, near central Gaza's border with the Jewish state, witnesses said.

Rocky_Shorz

9th July 2014, 06:05

in the 9/11 thread i was looking at different mini nuke blasts... the dreadlocks, the only explosions that create the effect...

look at this recent picture of a bombing in Gaza

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BsE9y3lCAAAR6sV.jpg:large

http://www.pakalertpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/9-11-WTC-Collapses-Compared-To-Nuke-Detonations.jpg

"First fact is that the collapse sequence was an hour after planes hit,

and fires were being managed and it seemed stable until the tower that was hit second, off center through the corner, detonated in a huge symmetrical engulfing fireball at approximately the same weakened floors. turning the building into amazing huge chunks of flying shrapnel. Exterior sections and hundreds of 20 foot I beams blown outwards hundreds of feet, showering other buildings and it FELL Straight Down, not over on the smashed out corner.

A huge dense gray cloud burst outward while a dense black cloud continued upwards. The two clouds separated in a few seconds and the upper cloud formed a large black mushroom cloud while the lower gray cloud formed a huge, hundreds of feet wide, “Dreadlock Cloud” all around the building, filled with molten hot I beams.

Small dusty blasts came from windows just below, which some claim were smaller timed controlled detonations but they also could be air bursts from the over pressure of the collapsing floors. It all quickly merged into one huge dredlock cloud and then when it hit ground, it billowed upwards into a 20+ story lighter colored pyroclastic cloud that engulfed the streets and buildings and proceedd horizonatally outwards.

By then the upper black mushroom cloud was well developed and drifting and a void opened to view where the buildings used to stand. The clouds enveloped Manhattan and adjacent waterways for miles. There was absolutely no evidence of any type of “Pancaking Floors” as it was all transformed into gray dust and flying beams. It fell with such velocity that it had No Resistance, as proven by analysis of the timing and gravity, a pure free fall showing total disintegration of all structural strength, with only jagged fragments of the exterior still standing a few floors above ground, The debris piles were only a few floors high with only a small fraction of the total building materials and weight, the vast majority being turned into black mushroom clouds and and even larger gray pyroclastic clouds, across the Island. As I recall, over 2/3rds of the buildings totally vanished!

This close up photo clearly show the incredible violence of the ripping open of the building near the upper floors. Only chunks of the exterior remain as the interior portions are dusted along with fully separated i Beams. Every molecular bond broken, every rivet busted out.

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/sep1109_09_11/s03_2H469386.jpg final blast rips sides open

This is the Dreadlocks Cloud, early in the collapse. and almost identical on each building all the way down.

http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/05/71/63/1547459/5/628×471.jpg Dredlock wtc

This is a photo of the clouds, quite distinct from the earlier fire clouds which never mushroomed and drifted orderly and horizontally away for an hour."

http://sharing.wwlp.com/sharewlin//photo/2010/02/10/Attacks-World-Trade-C_Gree(2)_20100210074332_640_480.JPG Cloud

http://www.rense.com/general96/SD_html_237dda03.jpg
link (http://www.pakalertpress.com/2014/05/25/911-wtc-collapses-compared-to-nuke-detonations/?utm_source=PakAlertPress&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=PakAlertPress)

Would Israel really nuke their own people trapped in Gaza, 75% are women and children...

or does Hamas have nukes hidden in their weapons stashes...

has Iran been quietly making and shipping them to Hamas? or has Putin opened up what they will sell to iran since the sanctions began...

another picture of the Gaza blast showing the nuclear dreadlocks

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BsH5Mf4CYAASQeE.jpg

Rocky_Shorz

9th July 2014, 23:29

More evidence...

"Israel using banned weapons in Gaza: Medical sources"

"GAZA CITY

Horrific images of the Palestinian victims of recent Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip have revealed that the self-proclaimed Jewish state is using internationally-proscribed weapons, according to Palestinian doctors and rights activists.

Palestinian Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qodra said the bodies of most victims had been incinerated, while others had been completely torn apart.

He said Israel was deploying weapons that destroy the bodies of their victims, noting that a preliminary survey of victims' bodies revealed the horrific nature of the weapons being used in Israel's ongoing onslaught on Gaza.

"Israel used internationally-banned weapons in its two previous wars on Gaza," al-Qodra told Anadolu Agency. "The same weapons are being used now."

He called on international rights organizations to bring Israel to account for what he called "its continual violations" against the Palestinian people.

Eyewitnesses, meanwhile, have reported that Israeli airstrikes had incinerated the bodies of Palestinians who happened to be near targeted sites.

Israeli warplanes, they added, were using missiles that destroy their victims' bodies, often cutting them to pieces.

Some activists posted photos of victims online, advising the fainthearted not to look at them.

Photos showed Palestinians whose limbs had been blown off and others whose bodies looked as if they had been subject to chemical attack.

Palestinian doctors say the Israeli airstrikes had incinerated the bodies of a large number of Palestinians, while a number of others had lost limbs..."

link (http://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/356451--israel-using-banned-weapons-in-gaza-medical-sources)

Rocky_Shorz

12th July 2014, 20:30

UN demands immediate ceasefire, Israel is about to start the ground invasion, they are going in to capture or kill anyone related to Hamas...

150 dead 1000 injured since bombings began, 75% of victims are woman and children

they just bombed a professors house from the University

all of this is to enrage the Palestine population after forming unity government...

anyone see UN declaring Palestine a state after this?

jerry

15th July 2014, 02:16

The world tonight is going to hell in a hand basket and Obamas off on a golf outing

Hervé

24th July 2014, 19:28

Russian Sovereignty Under Attack- Putin (http://henrymakow.com/2014/07/russian-sovereignty-under-attack.html)

July 24, 2014

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"The very notion of state sovereignty is being washed out."

WHAT YOU WON'T HEAR IN THE ILLUMINATI-CONTROLLED MASS MEDIA:

A reader tipped me to an important statement (http://eng.kremlin.ru/transcripts/22714) made by Vladimir Putin Tuesday to the Russian Security Council at the Kremlin.

He said Russia is under attack by the globalists who wish to exploit internal divisions to destabilize Russia and install a puppet, as they have done in so many places. He says Russia cannot be expected to turn its back on fellow Russians living in E. Ukraine. The ABM system installed by NATO in Poland and inevitably in Ukraine is an offensive system. Russia must be prepared for war.

I think his opposition to the Illuminati banker-controlled NWO (or "unipolar world" as he puts it) is credible. The Illuminati Jews and their Masonic proxies are sowing the seeds for WW3. We in the West will get what we deserve for allowing them to subvert our countries.

Here are key excerpts from his statement:

However, ever more frequently today we hear of ultimatums and sanctions. The very notion of state sovereignty is being washed out. Undesirable regimes, countries that conduct an independent policy or that simply stand in the way of somebody's interests get destabilized. Tools used for this purpose are the so-called colour revolutions, or, in simple terms - takeovers instigated and financed from the outside.

The focus is of course on internal problems. Any country always has plenty of problems, especially the more unstable states, or states with a complicated regime. Problems do exist, still it is not clear why they should be used to destabilize and break down a country - something we see rather frequently in various parts of the world.

Frequently the forces used here are radical, nationalist, often even neo-fascist, fundamental forces, as was the case, unfortunately, in many post-Soviet states, and as is the case with Ukraine now. What we see is practically the same thing.

People came to power through the use of armed force and by unconstitutional means. True, they held elections after the takeover, however, for some strange reason, power ended up again in the hands of those who either funded or carried out this takeover. Meanwhile, without any attempt at negotiations, they are trying to suppress by force that part of the population that does not agree with such a turn of events.

At the same time, they present Russia with an ultimatum: either you let us destroy the part of the population that is ethnically, culturally and historically close to Russia, or we introduce sanctions against you. This is a strange logic, and absolutely unacceptable, of course.

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Undoubtedly, such methods will not work with Russia. The recipes used regarding weaker states fraught with internal conflict will not work with us. Our people, the citizens of Russia will not let this happen and will never accept this.

However, attempts are clearly being made to destabilize the social and economic situation, to weaken Russia in one way or another or to strike at our weaker spots, and they will continue primarily to make us more agreeable in resolving international issues.

So-called international competition mechanisms are being used as well (this applies to both politics and the economy); for this purpose the special services' capabilities are used, along with modern information and communication technologies and dependent, puppet non-governmental organizations - so-called soft force mechanisms. This, obviously, is how some countries understand democracy.

We have to give an adequate response to such challenges, and, most importantly, to continue working in a systematic way to resolve the issues that carry a potential risk for the unity of our country and our society.

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http://henrymakow.com/upload_images/NATOexpansion%20%282%29.jpg

I also feel that we must think about additional steps to decrease the dependence of the national economy and financial system on negative external factors. I am not just referring to instability in global markets, but possible political risks as well.

Fourth, our Armed Forces remain the most important guarantor of our sovereignty and Russia's territorial integrity. We will react appropriately and proportionately to the approach of NATO's military infrastructure toward our borders, and we will not fail to notice the expansion of global missile defence systems and increases in the reserves of strategic non-nuclear precision weaponry.

We are often told that the ABM system is a defence system. But that's not the case. This is an offensive system; it is part of the offensive defence system of the United States on the periphery. Regardless of what our foreign colleagues say, we can clearly see what is actually happening: groups of NATO troops are clearly being reinforced in Eastern European states, including in the Black and Baltic seas. And the scale and intensity of operational and combat training is growing. In this regard, it is imperative to implement all planned measures to strength our nation's defence capacity fully and on schedule, including, of course, in Crimea and Sevastopol, where essentially we need to fully recreate the military infrastructure.
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Related- MH-17 Atrocity is Another Illuminati False Flag (http://henrymakow.com/2014/07/Airliner-Atrocity-is-Illuminati-False-Flag.html)
---------NATO Poland base may be prepared for blitz against Russia (http://rt.com/news/175292-nato-poland-supply-base/)

araucaria

25th July 2014, 14:50

Cidersomerset

25th July 2014, 15:35

I have not been following this thread as I have been on the Ukraine thread
most of the time, this post came about as the discussion broadens and
worth putting on threads about the current Isreal threads. If this has already
been covered on this thread I apologise...Cheers...

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Where have the Rothschilds disappeared to?

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Good presentation by David about the Rothchild Zionists. Mainstream
press and academics ignore him or laugh , but Where does David get
most of his information ? Research connecting the dots. He may ad
his own interpretations on his findings which is open to debate, but
the basic facts he presents are available to any one to research.

The difference between Jews and Zionism is not what David made up.

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Talk to Al Jazeera - Rabbi Dovid Weiss: Zionism has created 'rivers of blood'

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Published on 10 Mar 2012

The Jewish scholar explains why Zionism and Judaism are not necessarily the
same thing and why he believes that Israel as a state is not legitimate.

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The David Icke Videocast: Exposing The Lie On Israel’s Fake History – ‘The Cruellest Hoax’

Sunday 20 July 2014

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The David Icke Videocast: Exposing The Lie On Israel's Fake History - 'The Cruellest Hoax'

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An honest Israeli Jew tells the Real Truth about Israel

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Published on 2 Dec 2012

Miko Peled was born in Jersusalem into a famous and influential Israeli Zionist
family. His father was a famous General in the Israeli Army, of which Miko also
served his time. When Miko's niece was killed by Palestinian suicide bombers, you
may have expected the family to put Palestinians at fault, but surprisingly they
blamed the state of Israel, and their violent torturing and persecution for driving
people to such sadness that they would take their own lives.

Through his father's deep knowledge of the Israeli war of terror, together with his
own research, Miko Peled ruins the myths surrounding the Israel and Palestine
situation, and delivers a truth so damning that many Jews and Israel supporters
will not be able to bear it. He reveals facts such as the original expelled Jews are
not the ones returning, and they are not their descendants either, covers the
double standards regarding the right of return, which doesn't apply to Palestinians,
and dispels the myth that there has been a conflict for ages by producing proof that
it was peaceful up until 1947 when Israel launched their illegal attacks.

Miko is just one of the many modern day Jews against Zionism and the state of
Israel, and with the information he delivers in this astounding talk, it is not difficult
to see why more and more Jews are rejecting Zionism and calling for the
dismantling of Israel. It is a true eye-opener for anyone who has for too long been
blinded by the fake misinformation given by the mainstream media, and the truths
come straight from the heartland where he has spent many years documenting the real story.

Sophocles

28th July 2014, 06:15

I really like this song, "Referendum" by Vo1, even though I don`t understand much of the lyrics.

Vo1 (Черный Пояс) - Референдум

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Enjoy!

A.Steinberg

29th July 2014, 13:20

The powers that be are doing their best to create as many potential trigger points so as to initiate Armageddon! These insane megalomaniacs believe that it is their duty to bring this prophesied event to fruition. Deluded as this may be, they believe it; this makes the probability of success a danger that can't be ignored! Our only hope of negating or stopping this eventuality is to relentlessly make this knowledge available to as many people as possible. I applaud Bill and everyone on this mission, and pray that we win or at least turn their evil machinations against them. For a have to believe that the truth will win out, and that their NWO plans fall on Stoney ground.

Sophocles

2nd August 2014, 15:04

TV Ukraine - Propositions de génocide (Donbass gens inutiles)

English subtitle: Bogdan Boutkevitch: You need to kill 1.5 million people in Donbass

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Translated from Ukrainian by Valentina Lisitsa

Bogdan Boutkevitch: Ok, you ask me “How can this be happening?” Well, it happens because Donbass, in general, is not simply a region in a very depressed condition, it has got a whole number of problems, the biggest of which is that it is severely overpopulated with people nobody has any use for. Trust me I know perfectly well what I am saying.

If we take, for example, just the Donetsk oblast, there are approximately 4 million inhabitants, at least 1.5 million of which are superfluous. That’s what I mean: we don’t need to [try to] “understand” Donbass, we need to understand Ukrainian national interests.

Donbass must be exploited as a resource, which it is. I don’t claim to have a quick solution recipe, but the most important thing that must be done – no matter how cruel it may sound – is that there is a certain category of people that must be exterminated.

Translation: http://slavyangrad.org/2014/08/01/ukrainian-journalist-openly-calls-for-genocide-on-hromadske-tv-financed-by-us-and-netherlands/

araucaria

2nd August 2014, 15:52

Hervé

2nd August 2014, 17:14

All's not well for Merkel either:

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Hervé

4th August 2014, 20:01

Soldiers Abandon the Donbass Battlefield: Over 400 Ukrainian Troops Cross into Russia for Refuge (http://www.globalresearch.ca/soldiers-abandon-the-donbass-battlefield-over-400-ukrainian-troops-cross-into-russia-for-refuge/5394728)

By RT (http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/russia-today)
Global Research, August 04, 2014
RT (http://rt.com/news/177740-ukrainian-military-russia-refuge/)

Region: Russia and FSU (http://www.globalresearch.ca/region/russia-and-fsu)
Theme: Militarization and WMD (http://www.globalresearch.ca/theme/militarization-and-wmd), Police State & Civil Rights (http://www.globalresearch.ca/theme/police-state-civil-rights)
In-depth Report: UKRAINE REPORT (http://www.globalresearch.ca/indepthreport/ukraine-report)

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More than 400 Ukrainian troops have been allowed to cross into Russia after requesting sanctuary. It’s the largest, but not the first, case of desertion into Russia by Ukrainian soldiers involved in Kiev’s military crackdown in the east of the country.

According to the Rostov Region’s border guard spokesman Vasily Malaev, a total of 438 soldiers, including 164 Ukrainian border guards, have been allowed into Russia on Sunday night.

One of the Ukrainians was seriously injured on his arrival in Russia. He was taken to the hospital for surgery, the officials added.

The other Ukrainian soldiers have been housed in a tent camp deployed near the checkpoint via which they entered Russian territory. The Russian border guards are providing them with food and bedding.

Footage taken by the Russian media at the scene showed the Ukrainian soldiers being handed ration packs and resting in their temporary shelter. Those who agreed to speak on camera said they were relieved to be in safety for the first time in weeks.
Over 400 Ukrainian soldiers flee to Russia, ask for refuge http://t.co/b2v91q3FwI @MKosareva (https://twitter.com/MKosareva)
— RT (@RT_com) August 4, 2014 (https://twitter.com/RT_com/statuses/496243876622262272)
“We were given an order to leave out positions and go to Russia trough a corridor. We were told it would be safe. Of course they, I would say, made us go fast from behind,” one of the soldiers, a BMP driver who would not reveal his name or even show his face on camera, said.

“It was so bad back there. Hot, and so many deaths and bad things,” another one, Dmitry, said.

“Folks can rest here. They gave us a chance to wash, gave us new clothes. We are thankful.”

“We have been in those fields for more than six months and are very tired,” he added.

Another one, Yaroslav, said he wishes to go back to his family in Ukraine. “I want to do something peaceful. My contract expired four months ago,” he explained.

http://rt.com/files/news/2b/64/c0/00/ua-1.jpg
Image: RIA Novosti/Yulia Nasulina

On Sunday, the Ukrainian anti-government militia reported that it was in negotiations with a large contingent of Ukrainian troops they encircled in Lugansk region on a possible surrender. The negotiations were being hampered by the troops’ intention to destroy some 70 armored vehicles in their possession before laying down arms, which the militia wanted to capture intact.

The Gukovo border checkpoint, through which the Ukrainian troops crossed into the Russian territory, is located on Russia’s border with the Lugansk Region of Ukraine, indicating that these are the same troops that were negotiating with the militia. If so, it was not immediately clear whether the vehicles they had were really destroyed.

OSCE monitors and journos come under shelling from Ukraine at Russian border (http://rt.com/news/177692-ukraine-russia-checkpoint-shelling/)

The flow of deserters from the ranks of Ukrainian Army and National Guard seems to be increasing amid the escalating violence in Donets and Lugansk Regions, where Kiev is fighting against armed anti-government militias.

In late July 41 Ukrainian troops fled to Russia (http://rt.com/news/175888-ukrainian-soldiers-border-russia/) to escape fighting in eastern Ukraine. They are now being prosecuted in Ukraine for deserting in the heat of battle.

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Image: RIA Novosti

Several Ukrainian units have been reported to recently to be cut off from supply lines after attempted offensive operations, which brought them behind the militia-controlled territories and close to the Russian border.

The Ukrainian troops, while far superior to the militia in terms of heavy weapons, suffer from poor logistics. Many soldiers complain about lacking even basic supplies like food and water on the frontline. The situation is aggravated by cases of apparent negligence from the command, with units being supplied with faulty equipment, coming under friendly fire (http://rt.com/news/161044-ukraine-helicopter-checkpoint-attack/) and simply left behind while retreating from militia counter-attacks.

HEfjqnlPuL4A YouTube video allegedly shows a Ukrainian soldier explaining how he has to catch and cook snakes because his unit receives no rations.

Kiev’s National Guard unit mutiny: ‘We’ve been discarded like trash’ (http://rt.com/news/165472-ukraine-national-guard-mutiny/)

This causes serious morale problems in the army, with more critical voices saying the Ukraine de facto has no infantry troops and has no other way to fight but by leveling militia-held cities to the ground with artillery and air strikes.

There is a growing resistance to the military campaign among Ukrainian population, with several cases of mass protests against the latest mobilization drive, as mothers and wives of conscripts took to the streets to demand that their loved once not be drafted into the army.

Operator

4th August 2014, 20:23

All's not well for Merkel either:

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Boy, I heard way too many interviews in the past days ... But if I remember correctly it was
Jim Willie who talked about an early departure of Angela Merkel ...

Yep, here's a reference to such a statement:

By Jim Willie, GoldenJackass.com

The grand stage leans East for the European players, with steps taken to the right, the weight having shifted, the messages suddenly more angry, more filled with disgust, more loaded with open confrontation. The commercial forces aligned with Russia are coming to the fore. The departure after a recent re-election by Chancellor Merkel should serve as the final slam of the hammer. She stood in the wrong camp, the banker and politician camp. They do not run Germany.

http://www.silverdoctors.com/jim-willie-bombshell-it-has-begun-germany-to-break-from-usuk-join-russiachina-alliance/

I think the interview I was listening to was this one ... Unintended Consequences with Jim Willie
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Hervé

6th August 2014, 22:40

Vladimir Putin signs historic $20bn oil deal with Iran to bypass Western sanctions (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/11014604/Vladimir-Putin-signs-historic-20bn-oil-deal-with-Iran-to-bypass-Western-sanctions.html)

Five-year accord will see Russia help Iran organise oil sales, but government denies it has violated international obligations

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Despite the sanctions, Iran has been looking to boost oil production in recent months, setting a new output target of 5.7m barrels per day (bpd) of crude by 2018 Photo: AP

By Andrew Trotman (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/andrew-trotman/)
4:40PM BST 06 Aug 2014

Vladimir Putin has agreed a $20bn (£11.8bn) trade deal with Iran that will see Russia sidestep Western sanctions on its energy sector.

Under the terms of a five-year accord, Russia will help Iran organise oil sales as well as “cooperate in the oil-gas industry, construction of power plants, grids, supply of machinery, consumer goods and agriculture products”, according to a statement by the Energy Ministry in Moscow.

The Russian government issued a new statement on Wednesday after mysteriously withdrawing a similar release on Tuesday.

Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Wednesday that his government will help Iran bring its oil to market. In return, Iran wants to imort power and pump equipment, steel products such as pipes, machinery for its leather and textile industries, wood, wheat, pulses, oilseeds and meat.

Iran "is also interested in the joint construction of power generation and development of coal deposits", Mr Novak added.

Further talks between the two countries will take place next month, he said.

A deal could see Russia buying 500,000 barrels of Iranian oil a day, the Moscow-based Kommersant newspaper has previously reported. That would be about a fifth of Iran’s output in June and half its exports.

There’s a question over “how substantive this memorandum is”, Richard Mallinson, an analyst at Energy Aspects in London, told Bloomberg. “There would be various practical limitations in terms of Iran’s current production capacity, geography and shipping logistics, as well as US sanctions.”

The move is a win-win for both nations after they were hit with Western sanctions aimed at limiting their energy sectors.

The European Union recently unveiled a raft of measures to restrict certain oil exploration and oil drilling related products in Russia after what President Barack Obama called the country's "illegal actions" in Ukraine. Russia's prescence in the Eastern European country reached a watershed moment last month when Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was allegedly shot down (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/11006814/Experts-finally-gather-more-remains-at-MH17-site-in-Ukraine.html) by rebels sympathetic to Mr Putin's government, killing all 298 people on board.

On Tuesday, the Russian President told regional leaders that “the political tools of economic pressure are unacceptable and run counter to all norms and rules”, adding that he had given orders to boost domestic manufacturers at the expense of non-Russian ones.

Meanwhile, Iran has faced sanctions due to its reluctance to end a controversial nuclear programme. The country has been locked in talks with six world powers - Britain, China, France, Russia, the US and Germany - to reach an understanding, with an interim deal to lift a ban on sales to the EU and limiting them to Asia agreed in November. However, since then talks have stalled, causing Iran's petroleum exports to halve in the past two years, according to OPEC.

Despite the sanctions, Iran has been looking to boost oil production in recent months (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/commodities/10763813/Commodities-Iran-challenges-US-sanctions-with-plans-to-double-oil-output-by-2018.html), setting a new output target of 5.7m barrels per day (bpd) of crude by 2018 - OPEC believes Iran is currently pumping about 3m bpd of crude. However, it needs the help of international oil companies, and Russian energy firms have repeatedly expressed an interest in teaming up with Iran.

Alexander Novak, Russia's minister of energy, said an agreement would not violate international obligations and is important given the current "reality".

The White House has previously said that reports of talks between Russia and Iran were a matter of "serious concern" (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10570147/White-House-concerned-about-Russias-oil-for-goods-deal-with-Iran.html).

"If the reports are true, such a deal would raise serious concerns as it would be inconsistent with the terms of the agreement with Iran," Caitlin Hayden, spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council, said in January.

Hervé

6th August 2014, 22:55

Putin signs decree on countermeasures to Western sanctions (http://en.itar-tass.com/world/743798)

August 06, 19:12 UTC+4

The document entitled “On the Application of Certain Special Economic Measures to Ensure the Security of Russia

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Putin orders government to consider retaliation to western sanctions (http://en.itar-tass.com/world/743656)

MOSCOW, August 06. /ITAR-TASS/. President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed a decree on countermeasures to Western sanctions. The document entitled “On the Application of Certain Special Economic Measures to Ensure the Security of the Russian Federation” prohibits or restricts, for one year, the import of certain kinds of agricultural products, raw materials and food originating in a country that has imposed economic sanctions against Russian companies and (or) individuals or has joined such sanctions.

A list of goods the import of which may be restricted in response to the Western sanctions is being prepared and will be approved by the Russian government, its spokeswoman Natalya Timakova said on Wednesday.

“The document is being prepared for signing,” she told ITAR-TASS.

WTO claims against Russia over agricultural import restrictions possible, Russia’s position legally sound, well considered — Ministry.

Infographics (http://en.itar-tass.com/infographics/7239)
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Economical sanctions against Russia (http://en.itar-tass.com/infographics/7239)

The USA, EU, Canada and Australia have introduced sanctions against Russia over its involvement in the Ukrainian crisis. Infographics by ITAR-TASS

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the government on Tuesday to consider measures in retaliation to western sanctions against Russia. ‘I have formulated this instruction today,” Putin said.

“Political instruments of pressure on the economy are unacceptable and contradict all norms and rules. In this connection, the Russian government has already proposed a number of measures in retaliation to the so-called sanctions by some countries,” Putin said.

“I believe we could quite think about it in the current conditions to secure the interests of domestic commodity producers,” the head of the Russian state said.

The Russian president also said that Russia’s response to western sanctions should be “accurate.”

Cidersomerset

7th August 2014, 10:02

This is one of the escalations that was expected
ISIS attacking Lebanon, which has a large
Christian ratio in the national population. With
reports of ISIS murdering and mistreating all
other sects including muslim. The UN will have
to step in soon I would have thought,,,,

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Sophocles

9th August 2014, 01:45

Dispatch 68, from Vice. The Revolution Turns Against Itself
Simon Ostrovsky: And once again we got a situation where former members of the Maidan -now armed gunmen mostly fighting in the east- are fighting against the current protesters on Maidan.

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heyokah

9th August 2014, 06:04

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Ukraine pact may deal blow to dollar
By Chris Cook

The shape of a German/Russian energy security for land security deal - a "Resolution Trade" - is becoming clearer by the day.

As reported in the Independent, a "peace plan" for Ukraine being discussed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin aims to stabilize Ukraine's borders and boost the country economically, with an energy agreement to ensure gas supplies. If Merkel’s deal "were to be acceptable to the Russians, the international community would need to recognize Crimea's independence and its annexation by Russia", the report says.

Having achieved resolution, a broader future energy diplomacy based on the "Transition Trade" - the exchange of the value of knowledge and knowhow (IP) for the value of carbon fuel saved - is then possible.

- End of dollar diplomacy
In my analysis, US dollar hegemony came to an end in Iraq in 2007 in a "Suez Moment" - when China exercised a similar economic veto over US energy adventurism to that exercised in 1956 by the US over the UK over Suez. From that point on, I believe, the world has been militarily unipolar and economically bipolar.

Since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, the global dollar economy has been functionally dead and in zombie mode. Those who believe that the BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - are capable of creating an alternative bank-centric global reserve currency simply do not understand how deficit-based money creation systems work.

In relation to the Ukraine, there are two key factors to consider. Firstly, the US is no position to intervene militarily. Secondly, the trusting relationship between Chancellor Merkel and the US was terminally destroyed by the Snowden and subsequent US spying revelations.

As a result, Germany is now both politically willing and economically able to pursue its own energy diplomacy on whatever terms Merkel thinks fit. Crimea is ethnically Russian; was the subject of an internal transfer to Ukraine within the USSR by Khrushchev; and whatever the US and UK choose to make of it, Merkel is quite prepared to cede it to Russia in exchange for suitable guarantees.

Ukraine politics has only ever been about control of gas resources and flows, and battles between oligarchic factions seeking control of the revenues. What we have been seeing in eastern Ukraine is what happens when the Mafia gets tanks.

A political deal between Russia and Germany along the lines of that reported in the Independent will definitely occur and will provide at least a temporary resolution. What is less clear is exactly how the current oligarchic structures will transition into the emerging networked economy. Some fear a 1930s-style outbreak of fascism and nationalism, but in my analysis global politics is making the very concept of nation states obsolete in favor of more fluid and border-less institutions based upon mobile communications and pervasive direct instantaneous connections.

- Energy cooperation
The sheer scale of the opportunities for energy co-operation in the Ukraine were illustrated in a presentation by top Ukraine gas officials at an oil and gas conference in Istanbul last year.

One of them made the staggering admission that of the Russian natural gas which enters the east of Ukraine only 50% exits western Ukraine to European Union buyers. While some is diverted who knows where, most is either used profligately by a population used to free Soviet era gas, with the rest wasted in enormously inefficient - but reliable - Soviet-era gas transmission infrastructure.

An EU funded report by the global engineering consultants Mott MacDonald demonstrated how 3.2 billion euro (US$4.3 billion) investment in upgrading Ukraine's pipeline infrastructure would pay for itself in a minimal time-frame, and this was just the beginning. The problem for technology providers such as Siemens - whose state-of-the-art gas compressor technology was on show in Istanbul - is how to successfully engage and be paid in countries like Ukraine with problematic legal and financial infrastructure.

The current gas market model is for Russian gas to be sold as a commodity through a chain of Ukrainian and EU intermediary middlemen who extract profits either opaquely or relatively transparently.

This is no longer sustainable, and the solution is now for a market model - "Gas-as-a-Service" - whereby neutral gas market service providers receive an agreed payment for developing and operating the necessary infrastructure and market platform.

The enabling financing and funding comes not from conventional equity and debt finance capital - which are useless where the rule of law is weak - but rather from the use of prepay credit instruments issued by suppliers like Gazprom and returnable in payment for natural gas supplied.

Through this simple but radical mechanism - which has already been the subject of a direct US$85 billion crude oil transaction between Russia's Rosneft and China's Sinochem - it is possible for producers to financially engage directly with end-user consumers.

This then opens the way firstly to networked Eurasian physical energy markets and pricing hub benchmarks and secondly to a financial "Energy Clearing Union" agreement whereby energy producers and consumers engage in mutually guaranteed generic energy and value exchanges.

The use of generic energy credit instruments for financial settlement enables bank-manufactured currencies such as dollars and euros to be dispensed with other than as a unit of account or numeraire.

There is no reason why such a unit of account must necessarily be the dollar: and Chancellor Merkel would appreciate the possibility of euro pricing.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/CEN-01-010814.html

Here's what Joseph P. Farrell says about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYzcsKtYXkI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

meeradas

11th August 2014, 17:59

A rare* beacon of reason in german [main stream] media:

The West on the wrong path (http://www.handelsblatt.com/meinung/kommentare/essay-in-englisch-the-west-on-the-wrong-path/10308406.html)

in german (http://www.handelsblatt.com/meinung/kommentare/politik-der-eskalation-der-irrweg-des-westens-seite-all/10308844-all.html); in russian (http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/essay-in-russisch-/10309542.html)

*: "rare" says it all... it's sickening

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from Dr Joseph P Farrell:

http://gizadeathstar.com/2014/08/nyu-professor-mystified-us-foreign-policy-ukraine/

and the video/audio link from the article:

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Operator

13th August 2014, 17:37

Remarkable issue playing out in the Netherlands:

http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/22961151/__Haifi_blijft_bij_uitspraken__.html

Haifi won't take back her statements
AMSTERDAM -

Officer Yasmina Haifi continues to support her statement that terrorist organization ISIS a preconceived plan by Zionists to discredit
Islam. Haifi said this in an interview with Radio 1. I stand by what I have twittered and do not know why I have to take my ISIS
tweet back.

,, I did not invent it myself, I've read articles about it. There is enough evidence for a link between ISIS and Israel, "said Haifi in The News BV.
She would not comment on whether her theory is not just a hoax.,, I don't want to play yes-no games."

http://images0.tcdn.nl/feed/article22961284.ece/BINARY/d/eRtErKlQd58n_7.jpg

Freedom of speech

Haifi invoked the freedom of speech:,, certain things obviously should not be said. I have taken the liberty to express myself.
I'm not someone who runs away from my own opinion. I stand for what I say. An officer also has the right to express his opinion
"Haifi is shocked by what has come down on her since her infamous tweet:,, I had no idea that my tweet would cause such reactions.".

Haifi has been suspended with immediate effect by her employer 'the Ministry of Security and Justice'. On Radio 1 she said she was not
informed about the suspension by the Ministry. Haifi works at the National Cyber Security Center.

Google translate ...

Talking about Zionism is taboo ... :tape2:

Added: see a complete thread on this issue here:
Dutch official from Ministry of Security and Justice banned for tweeting about ISIS being staged by Zionists (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?73837-Dutch-official-from-Ministry-of-Security-and-Justice-banned-for-tweeting-about-ISIS-being-staged-by-Zionists)

Rocky_Shorz

13th August 2014, 20:43

yesterday Russian special forces attempted an assassination on the grand Poopa of iSis...

an ISis force that moved into Gaza was blown to bits by israel navy

us and Britain are running 100 bombing missions over iraq daily

They saved Erbil, my capital of Kurdistan...

Maliki attempted to arrest the President of Iraq for choosing his replacement, but the military surrounding his home had a pershmerga force rise up and offered them life to walk and they did, he is losing all of his power in the country and is being offered a step down without having a rope waiting... military is no longer under his control.

i called on obama to do what was right and within hours, the bombing happened followed by humanitarian air drops

US, Britain and France are moving heavy fighting equipment to the Kurds today...

leader of ISIS said their biggest mistake was attacking the Kurds, they are getting decimated on every front, they did not want to stir up western military into joining...

Russian humanitarian convoy for Ukraine suddenly diverted from intended route, still following...

exciting ride, will update with more when i can...

Flash

13th August 2014, 23:58

helping the Kurds in Iraq is also helping the Kurds in Turkey. I Wonder what the Turks think of this.

Hervé

14th August 2014, 10:33

See this post (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?72799-ISIS-The-Start-of-World-War-III-David-Icke&p=861278&viewfull=1#post861278) (<---) about IS/ISIS/ISIL leader being a MOSSAD agent!

Hervé

19th August 2014, 16:30

Always the same guys...

ISIS are Sunni Impostors & Saudi-CIA Shills (http://henrymakow.com/2014/08/ISIS-are-Sunni-Impostors%20.html)

August 19, 2014

ISIS to America: "We Will Drown all of you in Blood!" (http://news.yahoo.com/islamic-state-message-america-drown-blood-004418744.html)

http://henrymakow.com/upload_images/mkh3.jpg
John McCain meets with Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of ISIS in Aleppo in April 2013. Source (http://www.contrainjerencia.com/?p=91701)

ISIS pretends to lead a Sunni resurgence but in fact they are not Sunnis.
David Livingstone explains they are Salafis, a longstanding Illuminati proxy aimed at dividing and conquering the Muslim world.

by David Livingstone (Abridged by henrymakow. com (http://www.terrorism-illuminati.com/blog/isis-are-not-sunnis-they-are-british-and-salafi-plot-create-neo-calihpate))

An effort is being made to paint ISIS as a "Sunni" movement in order to suggest that they may have a far larger following and can ignite a major conflict.

http://henrymakow.com/upload_images/AbuBakr.jpg
(America's latest Bin Laden, after meeting with handler John McCain)

But nothing could be further from the truth. ISIS are Salafis, a manifestation of a modern phenomenon in Islam which scholars have referred to as "Revivalism." The Islamic revivalists have two important things in common: they have always been British-sponsored, and are marked by a rejection of Islamic legal tradition.

The communal effort to codify the intricacies of Islamic law is one of the great intellectual achievements of history. And by the ninth century, it was decided that four leading schools would be recognized as representative of Sunni orthodoxy. The schools, known as a Maddhabs, differed on minor points, but were considered mutually compatible.

Therefore, Islamic law was essentially incorruptible. From that point forward, the Doors of Ijtihad ("independent reasoning") were considered closed.

This posed a challenge to the British "Divide and Conquer" strategy of creating sects based on corruptions of the religion. Therefore they sponsored a wave of these so-called "Revivalists" who all demanded a re-opening of the Doors of Ijtihad, beginning with Mohammed Abdul Wahhab, in the mid-1700s.

http://henrymakow.com/upload_images/muhammad-bin-abdul-wahab-a.jpg

Wahhab, [above], a crypto Jew, was sponsored by another crypto-Jew, Ibn Saud (http://www.terrorism-illuminati.com/blog/2002-iraqi-intel-reported-wahhabis-are-jewish-origin), the progenitor of Saudi Arabia. He denounced the Maddhabs and called for a return to the sources, the Quran and Sunnah, undefiled by "human" opinion. He also called a "Jihad" against the Muslims, first within Arabia, and ultimately against the Ottoman Empire.

In 1932, again with British support, the Saud clan seized control of Arabia, which they proceeded to name after themselves. They also seized al Haramain, the sacred precincts of Mecca and Medina and masqueraded as defenders of Sunni Islam.

In 1933, they signed away oil concessions to the Rockefellers' Standard Oil, now Exxon Mobil, the world's third largest company by revenue, and the second largest publicly traded company by market cap. 90% of Saudi revenues from from oil, largely managed by the Rockefellers' Exxon Mobil.

The extraordinary Saudi wealth was a key factor in their support for the spread of Wahhabism, as well as the related Salafi movement, which have since essentially become one.

http://henrymakow.com/upload_images/jamaluddin.jpg

Salafism began in the eighteenth century, headed by a notorious imposter and British agent by the name of Jamal ud Din al Afghani. Afghani was not only the Grand Master of the Freemasons of Egypt, but also a pivotal figure in the European Occult Revival, which included H. P. Blavatsky and Aleister Crowley. Afghani was also an original source of the Masonic teachings of the wayward Nation of Islam (http://henrymakow.com/2014/05/Strange-Bedfellows-Nation-of-Islam-and-Scientology.html) in the US.

Afghani's British handler, Wilfred Scawen Blunt, was the first to propose the establishment of a British controlled "Caliphate" (leader of the entire Muslim community) to replace the Ottoman Empire. The idea of a neo-caliphate was later actively pursued by T. E. Lawrence, aka "Lawrence of Arabia," who managed the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire on behalf of the Illuminati Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA), the sister organization of the Rockefellers' CFR.

ISIS IS AN ILLUMINATI TOOL
The ISIS' handlers (Mossad, CIA, MI5 or all of the above) have learned a lot over the years. They made a mistake in choosing bin Laden who was an engineer by education and profession, and therefore failed to convince the Islamic world of his qualifications as a Jihad leader.

http://henrymakow.com/upload_images/BvXYXTMCQAAJslC.jpg

But now the situation seems to be more timely for ISI's hidden manipulators. ISIS' leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who has now dared to declare himself "Caliph" of the world's Muslims, earned a master's degree and a PhD in Islamic studies from the Islamic University of Baghdad.

The re-establishment of a Caliph over the world of Islam is the universal aspiration of the Muslims. Every Muslim despairs at the ravages of Western Imperialism, as well as its blind sponsorship of rapacious Zionism. But this makes them vulnerable to deception by their enemies, who dare to prop up false oppositions, or Pied Pipers like al Baghdadi.

But they've made one colossal mistake: they have mistakenly claimed that ISIS is a "Sunni organization."

Since the absence of true Sunni authority, the Saudis have funded their aberrant interpretations, and fooled the world into believing that Wahhabism and Salafism are merely reform trends within Sunnism.

For the most part, many Muslims are duped. They are prone to extremism and lapses mistakenly identified as "Shariah" because they have been estranged from their true Islamic legal tradition found in the Maddhabs. But once they recognize that truth, they will reject imposters like ISIS and rediscover their true heritage, which made them an incorruptible and an indomitable force in the past.

CONCLUSION
The Saudis are the Illuminati's partners-in-crime. Saudi royalty are crypto-Jews. Their state was created to hijack Islam, with the intent of annihilating it in a WWIII showdown. Saudi Arabia is also one of Israel's most important allies in the Middle East, in addition to Turkey. Their wealth was also created by Kissinger's devious orchestration of the Oil Crisis, after which Saudi Arabia became one of the CIA's most important conduits for covert operations, starting with Iran contra, and eventually the so-called Mujahideen in Afghanistan.

Saudi Arabia's continued support for the ISIS on the CIA's behalf is just a perpetuation of the same story.

Long story short, the ISIS are Salafis, so that completely denies the fact that they could be Sunnis, and why Muslims need to reject them.

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David Livingstone (http://www.terrorism-illuminati.com/) is the author of Black Terror White Soldier: Islam, Fascism & The New Age (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1481226509?_encoding=UTF8&camp=15041&creative=373501&linkCode=as3&tag=thedyinggodthehi)

Related - ISIS Vows to "Drown America in Blood" (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-18/isis-gets-angrier-america-we-will-drown-all-you-blood)
----------- ISIS-Salafists Menace My Homeland (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/16/isis-salafi-menace-jihadist-homeland-syria)Syria
--------- Christian-killing ISIS Advance War of Civilization Paradigm (http://www.globalresearch.ca/wiping-out-the-christians-of-syria-and-iraq-to-remap-the-mid-east-prerequisite-to-a-clash-of-civilizations-ii/5394356)
------------- John McCain - Organizer of Arab Spring
(http://www.voltairenet.org/article185085.html)-------------- Wahhabis are of Jewish Origin - Iraq Intel (http://www.terrorism-illuminati.com/blog/2002-iraqi-intel-reported-wahhabis-are-jewish-origin)

meeradas

26th August 2014, 07:31

"According to the prevailing wisdom in the West, the Ukraine crisis can be blamed almost entirely on Russian aggression. [...]
But this account is wrong: the United States and its European allies share most of the responsibility for the crisis."

You won't believe where this comes from:

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141769/john-j-mearsheimer/why-the-ukraine-crisis-is-the-wests-fault

Amazing!?

And: No need to register to read this one full article!

cuitlahuac

27th August 2014, 04:47

Even if Russia is working in cahoots with the US in creating a New World Order, as described in the publications of Capt. Bill Robertson (UFO Lecture and Alternative 3 video) The following statements remain valid.

And even if there is a prohibition to use atomic weapons on Earth, it remains true that the false flags like the Fukushima disaster have subjected Earth to atomic radiation.

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The intention there is to provoke Russia to strike the US first. The US will then respond (as the "victim"). This will be used by the Americans and their western allies to persuade the citizens that there must be a One World Government (The "New World Order") in order to make sure that this can never happen again.
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As a result of this planned war,

all freedoms will be sacrificed,
all people will be totally monitored,
all financial transactions and travel will be heavily restricted,
any dissidents (people who disagree or protest) will be locked up in camps as "anti-social, dangerous, anti-government terrorists".

At that point, their goal of total world control will have been reached.

I salute, honor and thank you all for all the good work that you do.

(At this point I asked my friends to organize themselves to take whatever steps they could to mitigate and ameliorate the situation.)

Rocky_Shorz

28th August 2014, 00:20

a US pilot commented while on a bombing mission, he flew close enough to an Iranian fighter jet to see the pilot waving before dropping his load...

ISis was created by #israel to raise the Sunnis for a proxy army to attack iran, now that mossad's agent was critically injured and might not survive, how long until they turn around and storm israel...

ISIS downfall was attacking the Kurds, but it brought together all 4 parts of Kurdistan, the leaders of Iran understand the Kurdish sacrifice to once again protect them, so sounds like they are willing to talk autonomous region...

Turkey has moved to a friendly relationship so most likely will agree to Kurdistan's rise to a Nation...

loungelizard

28th August 2014, 09:36

cuitlahuac

28th August 2014, 18:22

ISis was created by #israel...

Hello Rocky - could you please explain this theory further?
(I'm aware of the claims that Snowden is supposed to have exposed the IS leader as being an agent for Mossad, but that's never been substantiated and appears to be a hoax that was traced back to http://www.shababek.de/pw3/?p=3332)

ISIS came out of the Syrian rebels supported and trained by the US. The Syrian conflict is part of the policy to turn the Middle East into a Muslim fundamentalist bastion and that policy comes out of the US/UK/Israel military elites and more specifically from the City of London, that is British Israel. The most conspicuous example of British Israel creating Muslim fundamentalism in the Middle East is the fact that the UK, British Israel, deposed the Sha of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi from power to put the British educated Ayatollah Jomeini in Iran.

Why the West Created Iran & Wants to Destroy it Now
July 18, 2012

Ayatollah Khomeini, left, was a Western agent for 25 years before the Illuminati placed him in power in 1979.

He belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood. The "Iranian Revolution" was similar to the "Arab Spring" revolutions in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and now Syria.

Iran is run by the Illuminati and is being used as an excuse for war.

http://www.henrymakow.com/why_the_west_created_iran_want.html

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi himself asserted that, "If you lift up Khomeini's beard, you will find MADE IN ENGLAND written under his chin," in the later days of his reign as monarch.[12] This statement by Pahlavi was an adaptation of another saying, "If you lift a mullah's beard, you will find 'Made in Britain' stamped on his chin."[13]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British–Ruhollah_Khomeini_conspiracy_theory

http://www.discoveringislam.org/290619.jpg

Cidersomerset

28th August 2014, 21:30

Tensions Ramping up days after meeting with Putin and on the Eve of the Cardiff NATO summit......

Poroshenko triggers 'invasion' alarm as Kiev crumbles under militia offensive

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Published on 28 Aug 2014

Ukraine's President has said Russia's invading East Ukraine - although the statement has already been
rejected by Moscow. The strong rhetoric comes amid a powerful counter-offensive by anti-government
forces in Ukraine's restive Eastern regions.

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‘Cuban missile crisis 2.0 - NATO approaches Russian border’

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Ring of Steel: Cardiff turns into ‘open air prison’ ahead of NATO summit

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Published on 27 Aug 2014

Cardiff city center has been turned into a high security "prison" with 16 kilometers (10 miles)
of fencing ahead of the NATO conference next week. The almost three-meter tall (9 foot 8 inches)
fencing crosses parks, roads and even rings Cardiff Castle's walls. More than 9,000 officers from
across the UK have been drafted to ensure security at the event which will be attended by 150
heads of state. An additional crew of 10,000 support staff and 2,000 journalists are also expected.
The world leaders will meet on September 4 and 5.

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28 August 2014 Last updated at 20:32
Ukraine crisis: Nato images 'show Russia troops'

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This satellite image provided by the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe shows what
Nato identifies as Russian self-propelled artillery in Ukraine Continue reading the main story

Nato has released satellite images it says show Russian armed forces inside Ukrainian territory
to help rebels fight government forces.

Ukraine's president held a security council meeting on Thursday over the "sharp aggravation of
the situation". Russia has denied the claims.

Earlier, rebels opened a new front in the south by seizing the coastal town of Novoazovsk.

At least 2,119 people have been killed in four months of fighting.

Amid condemnation from Western powers, the United Nations Security Council has held an
emergency meeting in New York to discuss the crisis.

"Russia has to stop lying and stop fuelling this conflict," the US ambassador to the UN
, Samantha Power, told the council.

Britain's ambassador Sir Mark Lyall Grant said Russia was guilty of "a clear violation of
sovereign Ukrainian territory", adding that the conflict would "no longer exist" without
Russia's direct support for separatists.

Meanwhile Russia's ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, said the crisis was a "direct
consequence of the reckless policy of Kiev, which is conducting a war against its own people".

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/77207000/jpg/_77207450_023649275.jpg

Ukrainian forces are being deployed to help defend the southern city of Mariupol
'Significant escalation'

Nato Brigadier General Niko Tak said more than 1,000 Russian troops were operating
inside Ukraine, both supporting the separatists and fighting on their side.

He told the BBC there had been a "significant escalation in the level and sophistication
of Russia's military interference in Ukraine" over the past two weeks.

"[Nato has] detected large quantities of advanced weapons, including air defence systems
, artillery, tanks, and armoured personnel carriers being transferred to separatist forces
in eastern Ukraine," he said.

"Russia is reinforcing and resupplying separatist forces in a blatant attempt to change the
momentum of the fighting, which is currently favouring the Ukrainian military."

Short vid on link....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28972878

Russian ambassador to the EU: Only 10 Russian soldiers in eastern Ukraine

But Russia's ambassador to the European Union, Vladimir Chizhov, said Nato had "never
produced a single piece of evidence" for its accusations.

He said the only Russian soldiers on Ukrainian soil were 10 paratroopers captured earlier this week.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced the European Council will discuss taking
further sanctions against Russia during a summit on Saturday.

Other European leaders echoed her sentiments:

British Prime Minister David Cameron warned that if Russia failed to find a political solution
, "she should be in no doubt that there will be further consequences"
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski called the deployment of Russian troops an "aggression
" and said international action was needed
French President Francois Hollande said it would be "intolerable" if Russian troops were in Ukraine
, and demanded Russia stop sending aid to the rebels.

Read More.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28972878

Hervé

2nd September 2014, 15:52

Warning Merkel on Russian ‘Invasion’ Intel (http://consortiumnews.com/2014/09/01/warning-merkel-on-russian-invasion-intel/)

September 1, 2014

Alarmed at the anti-Russian hysteria sweeping Official Washington – and the specter of a new Cold War – U.S. intelligence veterans took the unusual step of sending this Aug. 30 memo to German Chancellor Merkel challenging the reliability of Ukrainian and U.S. media claims about a Russian “invasion.”

MEMORANDUM FOR: Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
SUBJECT: Ukraine and NATO

We the undersigned are long-time veterans of U.S. intelligence. We take the unusual step of writing this open letter to you to ensure that you have an opportunity to be briefed on our views prior to the NATO summit on Sept. 4-5.

You need to know, for example, that accusations of a major Russian “invasion” of Ukraine appear not to be supported by reliable intelligence. Rather, the “intelligence” seems to be of the same dubious, politically “fixed” kind used 12 years ago to “justify” the U.S.-led attack on Iraq.

http://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/angelamerkel-%D7%90-Aleph-300x224.jpg (http://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/angelamerkel-%D7%90-Aleph.jpg)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel. (Photo credit: א (Aleph))

We saw no credible evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq then; we see no credible evidence of a Russian invasion now. Twelve years ago, former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, mindful of the flimsiness of the evidence on Iraqi WMD, refused to join in the attack on Iraq. In our view, you should be appropriately suspicious of charges made by the U.S. State Department and NATO officials alleging a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

President Barack Obama tried on Aug. 29 to cool the rhetoric of his own senior diplomats and the corporate media, when he publicly described recent activity in the Ukraine, as “a continuation of what’s been taking place for months now … it’s not really a shift.”

Obama, however, has only tenuous control over the policymakers in his administration – who, sadly, lack much sense of history, know little of war, and substitute anti-Russian invective for a policy. One year ago, hawkish State Department officials and their friends in the media very nearly got Mr. Obama to launch a major attack on Syria based, once again, on “intelligence” that was dubious, at best.

Largely because of the growing prominence of, and apparent reliance on, intelligence we believe to be spurious, we think the possibility of hostilities escalating beyond the borders of Ukraine has increased significantly over the past several days. More important, we believe that this likelihood can be avoided, depending on the degree of judicious skepticism you and other European leaders bring to the NATO summit next week.

Experience With Untruth
Hopefully, your advisers have reminded you of NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s checkered record for credibility. It appears to us that Rasmussen’s speeches continue to be drafted by Washington. This was abundantly clear on the day before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq when, as Danish Prime Minister, he told his Parliament: “Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. This is not something we just believe. We know.”

Photos can be worth a thousand words; they can also deceive. We have considerable experience collecting, analyzing, and reporting on all kinds of satellite and other imagery, as well as other kinds of intelligence. Suffice it to say that the images released by NATO on Aug. 28 provide a very flimsy basis on which to charge Russia with invading Ukraine. Sadly, they bear a strong resemblance to the images shown by Colin Powell at the UN on Feb. 5, 2003, that, likewise, proved nothing.

That same day, we warned President Bush that our former colleague analysts were “increasingly distressed at the politicization of intelligence” and told him flatly, “Powell’s presentation does not come close” to justifying war. We urged Mr. Bush to “widen the discussion … beyond the circle of those advisers clearly bent on a war for which we see no compelling reason and from which we believe the unintended consequences are likely to be catastrophic.”

Consider Iraq today. Worse than catastrophic.

Although President Vladimir Putin has until now showed considerable reserve on the conflict in the Ukraine, it behooves us to remember that Russia, too, can “shock and awe.” In our view, if there is the slightest chance of that kind of thing eventually happening to Europe because of Ukraine, sober-minded leaders need to think this through very carefully.

If the photos that NATO and the U.S. have released represent the best available “proof” of an invasion from Russia, our suspicions increase that a major effort is under way to fortify arguments for the NATO summit to approve actions that Russia is sure to regard as provocative. Caveat emptor is an expression with which you are no doubt familiar. Suffice it to add that one should be very cautious regarding what Mr. Rasmussen, or even Secretary of State John Kerry, are peddling.

We trust that your advisers have kept you informed regarding the crisis in Ukraine from the beginning of 2014, and how the possibility that Ukraine would become a member of NATO is anathema to the Kremlin. According to a Feb. 1, 2008 cable (published by WikiLeaks) from the U.S. embassy in Moscow to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, U.S. Ambassador William Burns was called in by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who explained Russia’s strong opposition to NATO membership for Ukraine.

Lavrov warned pointedly of “fears that the issue could potentially split the country in two, leading to violence or even, some claim, civil war, which would force Russia to decide whether to intervene.” Burns gave his cable the unusual title, “NYET MEANS NYET: RUSSIA’S NATO ENLARGEMENT REDLINES,” and sent it off to Washington with IMMEDIATE precedence. Two months later, at their summit in Bucharest NATO leaders issued a formal declaration that “Georgia and Ukraine will be in NATO.”

On Aug. 29, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk used his Facebook page to claim that, with the approval of Parliament that he has requested, the path to NATO membership is open. Yatsenyuk, of course, was Washington’s favorite pick to become prime minister after the Feb. 22 coup d’etat in Kiev.

“Yats is the guy,” said Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland a few weeks before the coup, in an intercepted telephone conversation with U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt. You may recall that this is the same conversation in which Nuland said, “**** the EU.”

Timing of the Russian “Invasion”
The conventional wisdom promoted by Kiev just a few weeks ago was that Ukrainian forces had the upper hand in fighting the anti-coup federalists in southeastern Ukraine, in what was largely portrayed as a mop-up operation. But that picture of the offensive originated almost solely from official government sources in Kiev. There were very few reports coming from the ground in southeastern Ukraine. There was one, however, quoting Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, that raised doubt about the reliability of the government’s portrayal.

According to the “press service of the President of Ukraine” on Aug. 18, Poroshenko called for a “regrouping of Ukrainian military units involved in the operation of power in the East of the country. … Today we need to do the rearrangement of forces that will defend our territory and continued army offensives,” said Poroshenko, adding, “we need to consider a new military operation in the new circumstances.”

If the “new circumstances” meant successful advances by Ukrainian government forces, why would it be necessary to “regroup,” to “rearrange” the forces? At about this time, sources on the ground began to report a string of successful attacks by the anti-coup federalists against government forces. According to these sources, it was the government army that was starting to take heavy casualties and lose ground, largely because of ineptitude and poor leadership.

Ten days later, as they became encircled and/or retreated, a ready-made excuse for this was to be found in the “Russian invasion.” That is precisely when the fuzzy photos were released by NATO and reporters like the New York Times’ Michael Gordon were set loose to spread the word that “the Russians are coming.” (Michael Gordon was one of the most egregious propagandists promoting the war on Iraq.)

No Invasion – But Plenty Other Russian Support
The anti-coup federalists in southeastern Ukraine enjoy considerable local support, partly as a result of government artillery strikes on major population centers. And we believe that Russian support probably has been pouring across the border and includes, significantly, excellent battlefield intelligence. But it is far from clear that this support includes tanks and artillery at this point – mostly because the federalists have been better led and surprisingly successful in pinning down government forces.

At the same time, we have little doubt that, if and when the federalists need them, the Russian tanks will come.

This is precisely why the situation demands a concerted effort for a ceasefire, which you know Kiev has so far been delaying. What is to be done at this point? In our view, Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk need to be told flat-out that membership in NATO is not in the cards – and that NATO has no intention of waging a proxy war with Russia – and especially not in support of the rag-tag army of Ukraine. Other members of NATO need to be told the same thing.

For the Steering Group, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity:

William Binney, former Technical Director, World Geopolitical & Military Analysis, NSA; co-founder, SIGINT Automation Research Center (ret.)

Larry Johnson, CIA & State Department (ret.)

David MacMichael, National Intelligence Council (ret.)

Ray McGovern, former US Army infantry/intelligence officer & CIA analyst (ret.)

Elizabeth Murray, Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Middle East (ret.)

Todd E. Pierce, MAJ, US Army Judge Advocate (Ret.)

Coleen Rowley, Division Counsel & Special Agent, FBI (ret.)

Ann Wright, Col., US Army (ret.); Foreign Service Officer (resigned)

Hervé

2nd September 2014, 21:19

NATO’s Options in Ukraine (http://journal-neo.org/2014/09/01/nato-s-options-in-ukraine/)

Column: Politics (http://journal-neo.org/category/columns/politics/)
Region: Ukraine in the world (http://journal-neo.org/category/locations/ukraine-in-the-world/)

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After provoking what is increasingly a devastating and expanding conflict in Ukraine, NATO appears to be out of options as its proxy regime loses its grip on both its military campaign against its own population in eastern Ukraine, as well as political control in the capital of Kiev itself. However, despite the turn of events, with NATO apparently rudderless, those seeking to undo and reverse the damage the West has created in Eastern Europe must not become complacent.

NATO still possesses several options with which it can respond to its deteriorating proxy regime and the eroding of its interests both in the region, and around the world.

Propaganda Retrenchment Before Aggressive Military Aid

As the West has done in Syria, it now seeks to do in Ukraine – a complete retrenchment of the official narrative regarding the nature of the ongoing conflict.

Previously, the Western media has gone through great lengths to obscure overt Nazism running throughout both the political front (http://journal-neo.org/2014/03/07/bbc-now-admits-armed-nazis-led/) it is propping up in Kiev, as well as across the irregular forces sent alongside what remains of Ukraine’s national army (http://journal-neo.org/2014/08/25/nazis-splitting-with-kiev-regime-2/). Western media outlets have briefly touched on the issue in attempts to mitigate and manage growing public concern.

Regarding the formation by the Interior Ministry in Kiev of a battalion of Nazis – the Azov Battalion – the BBC would publish, “Ukraine conflict: ‘White power’ warrior from Sweden (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28329329),” the Telegraph would publish, “Ukraine crisis: the neo-Nazi brigade fighting pro-Russian separatists (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/11025137/Ukraine-crisis-the-neo-Nazi-brigade-fighting-pro-Russian-separatists.html),” and Al Jazeera would publish, “Driven by far-right ideology, Azov Battalion mans Ukraine’s front line (http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/24/ukraine-azov-battalion.html).” Each would in turn, admit that literal Nazis are fighting on behalf of the NATO-backed regime in Kiev – with the regime itself raising ultra-right, Neo-Nazi battle formations. But each would also attempt to downplay the implications and role of Nazism within the ongoing conflict.

That was until Foreign Policy magazine published its article, praising what it called, “fascist defenders of freedom.” It’s article titled, “Preparing For War with Ukraine’s Fascist Defenders of Freedom (http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/08/30/preparing_for_war_with_ukraine_s_fascist_defenders_of_freedom),” claims:
The Azov Battalion — so named for the Sea of Azov on which this industrial city is located — is one of dozens of volunteer battalions fighting alongside pro-government forces in eastern Ukraine. After separatist troops and armor attacked from the nearby Russian border and took the neighboring town of Novoazovsk, this openly neo-Nazi unit has suddenly found itself defending the city against what Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called a Russian invasion.

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Pro-Russian forces have said they are fighting against Ukrainian nationalists and “fascists” in the conflict, and in the case of Azov and other battalions, these claims are essentially true.
Effectively, Foreign Policy finally admits that indeed, warnings that NATO was backing literal Nazis in Ukraine were more than mere “Kremlin propaganda,” but rather the unequivocal truth. Foreign Policy would continue by reporting:
Besides a strong defense, Ukraine needs the support of the West to defeat the invaders, Odnorozhenko argued. He called for Europe and the United States to take a more aggressive stance on Russia and begin shipping weapons to Ukrainian pro-government forces.
And that is precisely what the United States and Europe are attempting to do – begin shipping more weapons and other forms of lethal aid to continue propping up the regime in Kiev. By embracing the Nazi militants fighting on behalf of Kiev, and simply claiming Russia is “worse,” the West can repeat the strategy it used in Syria after it became apparent that militants fighting the government in Damascus were hardcore terrorists driven by sectarian extremism and aligned to Al Qaeda.

In fact, it was also Foreign Policy who, in mid-2012, published an article titled, “Two Cheers for Syrian Islamists: So the rebels aren’t secular Jeffersonians. As far as America is concerned, it doesn’t much matter (http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/08/23/two_cheers_for_syrian_islamists).”

The FP article also attempted to create a narrative that portrayed the Syrian government as a more pressing issue than revelations that NATO-backed militants were sectarian extremists, not the “pro-democracy freedom fighters” they were portrayed as being during and directly after the so-called “Arab Spring.” Foreign Policy would also create an array of excuses explaining why militants were extremists – a strategy expected to play out again as Kiev’s Nazism continues to emerge into greater public view.

By embracing and excusing two abhorrent ideologies and the heavily armed militant groups espousing them, NATO is able to continue backing both terrorists in Syria and Nazis in Ukraine. With the burden of covering up Nazism in Ukraine “off NATO’s chest,” it can commit to a more aggressive strategy of arming and aiding them.

Direct NATO Intervention

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The self-destructive fleeing forward of the West generally takes the form of political destabilizations, terrorism, false-flag attacks, incremental mission creep, and covert proxy wars. What it has learned from Russia in both 2008 in Georgia and again this year in Crimea, is that direct, unpredictable, bold moves can pay off.

NATO recently has been very public in stating it has no intention of intervening in Ukraine. Since NATO perpetually keeps the threat of military intervention “on the table” for all other conceivable conflicts across the planet, it is strange that both it, and its proxy regime in Kiev, have gone through extra efforts (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/29/us-ukraine-crisis-nato-arms-idUSKBN0GT1UC20140829) to insist such a scenario in Ukraine is neither desired, nor even “on the table.”

With NATO building up troops in Eastern Europe, and its attempts to lull Russia into a false sense of security, planners in Moscow, eastern Ukrainians confronting NATO-backed troops on the battlefield in Ukraine, and in theaters across the region, sudden NATO intervention must be accounted for, as well as a swift counterstroke to disrupt what will be a precarious proposition for Western interests unaccustomed to such a risky move, and merely depending on shock, awe, and surprise to follow it through.

Incremental Escalation
Barring a negotiated settlement brokered by Kiev that sees its forces withdrawn from eastern Ukraine and contested provinces forfeited to rebels, it is likely NATO will continue incremental escalation combining both an increasingly aggressive strategy of arming and aiding Kiev’s forces regardless of their overt Nazism, as well as an incremental NATO build-up along Ukraine’s borders and covertly within them.

Whether NATO commits to a more desperate strategy entirely depends on whether or not this incremental escalation can continue at a quicker pace than the regime in Kiev can collapse.

With NATO and the special interests driving its agenda failing in Ukraine and floundering in Syria, the West has exhibited signs of dangerous desperation causing lapses in judgement and an overall lack of deep, coherent, strategic planning. It has gone from forcing its enemies to react to its provocations in 2011, to a series of backpedaling reactions in the face of formidable counterstrokes made in return ever since. An enemy that is desperate, is an enemy that is dangerous. Feeling it has nothing to lose, it may commit to an increasingly reckless strategy of provocations in hopes that its enemies’ caution and reason force them to back down.

Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine “ (http://journal-neo.org/)New Eastern Outlook” (http://journal-neo.org/).

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Who in Hell or High-heavens would dream up that kind of sh*t:

Ukraine’s Fascist Defenders of Freedom

meeradas

3rd September 2014, 09:52

Who in Hell or High-heavens would dream up that kind of sh*t:

Ukraine’s Fascist Defenders of Freedom

Unbelievable indeed.

Have a look at their background/ history and their idea of freedom?
[Warning: Contains some extremely graphic content - potentially unbearable]

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Part Two (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mjUDqXYMiE)

Cidersomerset

3rd September 2014, 15:04

New World Order Rothschild Enforcer – NATO Threatens WW3

Wednesday 3rd September 2014 at 08:11 By david-icke

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‘The New World Order has been in place for centuries. Is it not time to start calling the
NWO by another name? A descriptive term that encapsulates the essence of the beast
would be a Nefarious Warrior Organism. Such a phrase strips away the ridiculous notion
that there is any order in the malevolent organization of the parasitic global structure,
based upon perpetual and permanent warfare.

This depiction more closely resembles reality, even if the master mass media refuses
to acknowledge How the World Really Works. Discard any condemnation that criticism
of the established order rests upon conspiratorial fantasy or pre-medieval prejudices.
Explaining away or ignoring basic human nature in a “PC” culture ultimately requires
the adoption of a depraved Totalitarian Collectivism system.’

Read more: New World Order Rothschild Enforcer – NATO Threatens WW3

http://www.batr.org/totalitariancollectivism/090114.html

Cidersomerset

3rd September 2014, 15:10

Unbelievable indeed.

Have a look at their background/ history and their idea of freedom?
[Warning: Contains some extremely graphic content - potentially unbearable]

Its sad when people say these events never happened. It does not excuse what
the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians and what they went thru in WW11 ,
you would of thought they would not be the group to attack the minority .
in Gaza so savagely. We seem to be repeating history over and over again.

Israeli Security Forces Spray Raw Sewage on Palestinian Homes

Wednesday 3rd September 2014 at 07:36 By david-icke

-FySiR-eexs

Published on 31 Aug 2014

Palestinian homes sprayed with sewage as a punishment for organising protests against the Apartheid Wall .

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Report: Netanyahu says will not send delegation to Cairo talks

Wednesday 3rd September 2014 at 07:37 By david-icke

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‘Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not plan to send a delegation for
negotiations in Cairo as stipulated by the ceasefire agreement that ended seven
weeks of fighting in Gaza, Israeli media reported Monday.

Channel 10 said in a TV report that Netanyahu told his cabinet in a closed session
that he would not send as agreed a delegation to Egypt for further talks regarding a
seaport and airport in Gaza, the release of Palestinian prisoners, the
demilitarization of Gaza factions, and the delivery of bodies of Israeli soldiers
presumed held by Hamas, among other unresolved issues.

Netanyahu spoke proudly to his cabinet about the Gaza offensive, saying Hamas
had not achieved any of its demands, according to the report.’

Read more: Report: Netanyahu says will not send delegation to Cairo talks

http://maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=724767

Hervé

4th September 2014, 10:52

Illuminati Promote Both Sides of Ukraine Crisis? (http://henrymakow.com/2014/09/Illuminati%20Promote%20Both-Sides-of-Ukraine-Crisis.html)

September 3, 2014

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Above, Ukraine Truth Where You'd Least Expect It - The Sept-Oct issue of Foreign Affairs

Since its inception in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations has been a key instrument of Illuminati control. From the start, Foreign Affairs has been
its house organ.

When Illuminati errand boys David Cameron and Barack Obama compare Vladimir Putin to Hitler (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/wwii-anniversary-david-cameron-warns-dont-make-same-mistake-putin-we-made-hitler-1463795?utm_medium=social) and castigate Russia for "its aggression," (http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-crisis-obama-lashes-out-at-russian-aggression-ahead-of-nato-summit-1.2753912) an article in Foreign Affairs, Why the Ukraine Crisis is the West's Fault, totally discredits them.

Is the Illuminati promoting both sides of this conflict?

John Mearsheimer, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mearsheimer)a West Point grad and US Air Force veteran, is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

His 2007 book with Stephen Walt, The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy was a best seller.

by John Mearsheimer
Why the Ukraine Crisis is the West's Fault (http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141769/john-j-mearsheimer/why-the-ukraine-crisis-is-the-wests-fault)
excerpt by henrymakow.com

According to the prevailing wisdom in the West, the Ukraine crisis can be blamed almost entirely on Russian aggression. Russian President Vladimir Putin, the argument goes, annexed Crimea out of a long-standing desire to resuscitate the Soviet empire, and he may eventually go after the rest of Ukraine, as well as other countries in eastern Europe. In this view, the ouster of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014 merely provided a pretext for Putin's decision to order Russian forces to seize part of Ukraine.

But this account is wrong: the United States and its European allies share most of the responsibility for the crisis. The taproot of the trouble is NATO enlargement, the central element of a larger strategy to move Ukraine out of Russia's orbit and integrate it into the West. At the same time, the EU's expansion eastward and the West's backing of the pro-democracy movement in Ukraine -- beginning with the Orange Revolution in 2004 -- were critical elements, too.

Since the mid-1990s, Russian leaders have adamantly opposed NATO enlargement, and in recent years, they have made it clear that they would not stand by while their strategically important neighbor turned into a Western bastion. For Putin, the illegal overthrow of Ukraine's democratically elected and pro-Russian president -- which he rightly labeled a "coup" -- was the final straw. He responded by taking Crimea, a peninsula he feared would host a NATO naval base, and by working to destabilize Ukraine until it abandoned its efforts to join the West.

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(Putin greeting Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko last week. What's with the obsequious expression on Putin's face? Is Petro a 35 degree Mason and Putin only 32?)

Putin's pushback should have come as no surprise. After all, the West had been moving into Russia's backyard and threatening its core strategic interests, a point Putin made emphatically and repeatedly. Elites in the United States and Europe have been blindsided by events only because they subscribe to a flawed view of international politics. They tend to believe that the logic of realism holds little relevance in the twenty-first century and that Europe can be kept whole and free on the basis of such liberal principles as the rule of law, economic interdependence, and democracy.

But this grand scheme went awry in Ukraine. The crisis there shows that realpolitik remains relevant -- and states that ignore it do so at their own peril. U.S. and European leaders blundered in attempting to turn Ukraine into a Western stronghold on Russia's border. Now that the consequences have been laid bare, it would be an even greater mistake to continue this misbegotten policy.

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U.S. and European leaders blundered in attempting to turn Ukraine into a Western stronghold on Russia's border. Imagine the American outrage if China built an impressive military alliance and tried to include Canada and Mexico.

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The United States and its allies should abandon their plan to westernize Ukraine and instead aim to make it a neutral buffer.

Hervé

7th September 2014, 13:27

Minsk ceasefire protocol: Ukraine to be decentralized, special status for Lugansk, Donetsk
(http://rt.com/news/185700-lugansk-donetsk-special-status/)
Published time: September 07, 2014 04:46 Edited time: September 07, 2014 05:24 Get short URL (http://rt.com/news/185700-lugansk-donetsk-special-status/)

[video at: http://rt.com/news/185700-lugansk-donetsk-special-status/]

(From L) Russian ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov, Prime minister of Ukraine's self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Alexander Zakharchenko, Ukraine's self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic leader Andrei Purgin and member of the self-proclaimed "Lugansk People's Republic" Igor Plotnitsky attend talks in Minsk on September 5, 2014. (AFP Photo / Vasily Maksimov)

Download video (http://img.rt.com/files/news/2d/56/40/00/ukraine0900_480p.mp4?event=download) (32.07 MB)

The OSCE has revealed the 12-point roadmap behind the September 5 truce signed in Minsk. It says that Ukraine must adopt a new law, allowing for a special status for Lugansk and Donetsk regions, and hold early elections there.

READ MORE: Kiev, E. Ukraine militia agree on ceasefire starting 1500 GMT Friday (http://rt.com/news/185396-ukraine-ceasefire-russia-militia/)

The document (http://www.osce.org/ru/home/123258?download=true), titled ‘Protocol on the results of consultations of the Trilateral Contact Group’ and signed in Minsk on September 5, outlines what needs to be done for the ceasefire to stay in place.

“To decentralize power, including through the adoption by Ukraine of law 'on provisional procedure for local government in parts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions (law on special status),'” states one of the provisions in the document.

Another point emphasizes that “early local elections” are to be held in light of the special status of both regions. The early elections must be held in accordance with the same proposed law, it says.

Kiev must then continue an “inclusive nationwide dialogue,” the document stresses.

The roadmap also implies an amnesty for anti-government forces in Donbass: “To adopt a law, prohibiting prosecution or punishment of people in relation to the events that took place in individual areas of Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine.”

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Anti-government rebels rest outside a house in the eastern Ukrainian town of Ilovaysk, September 5, 2014. (Reuters / Maxim Shemetov)

At the same time, it notes that all “illegal military formations, military equipment, as well as militants and mercenaries” have to be withdrawn from Ukraine.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) published a copy of the protocol early on Sunday, with only a PDF document in Russian available so far.

During the meeting on September 5, Kiev officials and representatives of the two self-proclaimed republics in southeastern Ukraine have agreed to a ceasefire.

READ MORE: Ukraine ceasefire: Putin lays out 7-step plan to stop hostilities in E. Ukraine (http://rt.com/news/184791-putin-ukraine-kiev-militia/)

Some of the other provisions of the truce include monitoring of the ceasefire inside Ukraine and on the Russia-Ukraine border by international OSCE observers, the freeing of all prisoners of war, and the opening of humanitarian corridors.

A “safety zone” is to be created with the participation of the OSCE on the Russia-Ukraine border, the document says.

It also calls for measures to improve the dire humanitarian situation in eastern Ukraine, and urges in a separate point that a program for Donbass’ economic development is to be adopted.

Since the conflict significantly deteriorated in mid-April, 2,593 people have died in fighting in the east of the country, according to the UN's latest data. More than 6,033 others have been wounded in the turmoil.

The number of internally displaced Ukrainians has reached 260,000, with another 814,000 finding refuge in Russia.

READ MORE: Ukraine’s killing fields in 10 stories: RT reporter goes to Lugansk and Donetsk (http://rt.com/news/185280-eastern-ukraine-crisis-stories/)

Cidersomerset

7th September 2014, 14:05

miscellaneous articles.....More military $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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Published on 7 Sep 2014

US has been spending hundreds of billions of dollars on its nuclear arsenal. But the spate of
scandals surrounding those responsible for the thousands of warheads and the infrastructure
raise questions over the security of the world's deadliest weapons. RT's Gayane Chichakyan reports

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Vladimir Putin on western propaganda and media lies ...from 2008 same in 2014

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Published on 5 Sep 2014

Prasident of Russia Vladimir Putin on on western propaganda and media lies.
Pressconference about Georgia war in 2008, 14.09.2008

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Although this article is a couple days old the discussion is relevant......

'NATO spearhead force shows turn from defense to offense'

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Published on 5 Sep 2014

To discuss the latest developments in Ukraine and at NATO’s summit in Wales, RT
is joined live by British investigative journalist Tony Gosling and political analyst
Chris Bambery.

Hervé

8th September 2014, 15:29

Price of fish going up...

MI-6 Hired Nazi who Killed 100-300 British Agents (http://henrymakow.com/2014/09/%20MI-6%20Hired-Nazi-Killer-of-British-Agents.html)
September 8, 2014

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Horst Kopkow whose death was faked by the British

(SS Sturmbannfuehrer Horst Kopkow, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Kopkow)1910-1996. This account mentions 300 agents killed.)

Wonder why NATO is trying to start a war with Russia? Or why the West created ISIS?

All wars are really between the Illuminati on one hand, and all combatants on the other. This is why they finance both sides of every war.

The Illuminati arrange wars so that patriots of every nationality -- British, German, Russian, American etc. -- kill each other.

This is again proven by the fact that, after WW2, MI-6 protected and then hired the mass murderer of its own agents.

The "Secret Masonry" is setting up "our own, to all appearance, off position, which in at least one of its organs will present what looks like the very antipodes to us. Our real opponents at heart will accept this simulated opposition as their own and will show us their cards." (Protocols of Zion 12.11)

The author of the Protocols writes that if any state raises an objection to Rothschild domination, "it is only pro forma, at our discretion, and by our direction, for their anti-Semitism is indispensable to us for the management of our lesser brethren." (Protocols of Zion 9)

"The Kopkow case is uniquely chilling because the MI6 men who spared him were colleagues and "handlers" of his victims. Among those whose torture and death he sanctioned were men and women of the SOE and MI6 agents."

London Times May 15, 2005 (http://www.infowars.net/Pages/May05/150505MI6_Nazi.html)

"ONE of Hitler's top intelligence officers, who ordered the murders of more than 100 British secret agents in concentration camps, was spared execution as a war criminal and selected to work for MI6.

Newly opened papers contain startling evidence that in the postwar scramble to secure information about Russian communists, British Intelligence "turned" Horst Kopkow, faked his death and used him to fight the Cold War.

Evidence emerged in the 1980s that Britain had become a refuge for suspected war criminals, but few would have believed that the Government had gone even further and put a man like Kopkow on its books.

Details of how MI6 snatched Kopkow, 35, from war crimes investigators, inventing his fake death from "bronchopneumonia", are revealed in private papers made public only now. The papers belonged to Vera Atkins, a senior officer of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), Britain 's secret wartime body. After the war she mounted a one-woman investigation into the fate of her agents behind enemy lines.

The Atkins documents have been corroborated by newly declassified secret papers in the British and American National Archives. MI6 declined to comment on the Kopkow case.

However, intelligence sources indicated yesterday that the service itself was taken aback by the evidence. To date, Britain has denied that it engaged in the dark arts used by the Americans, whose employment of Nazis to catch Communists has been well-documented. British intelligence sources pointed out that Kopkow was not in the league of "the butcher of Lyons", a reference to Klaus Barbie, the most notorious war criminal employed by the Americans.

The Kopkow case is uniquely chilling because the MI6 men who spared him were colleagues and "handlers" of his victims. Among those whose torture and death he sanctioned were men and women of the SOE and MI6 agents.

While Kopkow's information may have been considered valuable, it was in fact useless. The head of MI6's Russian desk when Kopkow was captured was Kim Philby, exposed as a Soviet spy more than 15 years later.

Precisely how long Kopkow was employed by British Intelligence remains murky. German records state that he adopted the name Cordes and died in Gelsenkirchen in 1996."

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Illuminati British and Nazis Collaborated
by Henry Makow Ph.D.

In the wake of D-Day June 6, 1944, hundreds of acts of sabotage were committed by the French Resistance --- with one exception.

There were none in the north and north west where they mattered most.

There, the "Prosper" and related "Scientist" networks had been mopped by the Gestapo in 1943. Prosper's courageous young leader, Francis Anthony Suttill, 34, was languishing in a concentration camp.

He and scores of British agents were later executed, along with over 10,000 members of the French Resistance. One hundred and sixty plane loads of armaments --2600 containers -- including tons of sten guns and explosives, were seized by the Nazis. (193)

Who was responsible for this debacle?

According to BBC Producer Robert Marshall's thoroughly documented book, "All The King's Men" (Collins, 1988) the culprit was none other than the homosexual and Freemason, Deputy Head of MI-6, Sir Claude Edward Marjoribanks Dansey (1876-1947.)

Dansey deliberately placed a double agent, Henri Dericourt, at the heart of the Prosper organization. Dericourt, a French pilot, was responsible for organizing the nighttime shuttling of agents and materiel in and out of France.

He kept his handler, SS Sturmbannfuhrer Karl Baumelburg, head of counter sabotage in France, apprised of all the comings and goings, including the mail that passed back and forth. In return, the Gestapo allowed the operation to unfold which made Dericourt look very good indeed.

MI-6 placed their own man Nicolas Bodington in SOE to vouch for Dericourt and block all efforts by SOE to uncover the traitor. Bodington actually met with Baumelburg on a visit to Paris in 1943. They all had known each other before the war. It was Bodington who introduced Baumelburg to Delicourt.

After the war, Dericourt confirmed that he worked for Dansey. (151)

Why would MI-6 engage in this kind of treason?

Continues (http://www.henrymakow.com/illuminati_betrayed_british_ag.html)

Related-
Makow- Hitler a Traitor? Testimony of his Closest Aides (http://henrymakow.com/2014/08/Testimony-of-Hitlers-Closest-Aides.html)
Makow- Hitler and Bormann Were Traitors (http://henrymakow.com/hitler_and_bormann_were_traito.html)

Thanks to Hamad Subani's [I]The World War Deception (http://www.cabaltimes.com/2013/08/22/wwd/) for alerting me to Horst Kopkow.

Hervé

10th September 2014, 13:18

Nazis In Ukraine? German TV Shows Ukrainian Soldiers Displaying Nazi Symbols (http://www.ibtimes.com/nazis-ukraine-german-tv-shows-ukrainian-soldiers-displaying-nazi-symbols-1682784)

By Dennis Lynch (http://www.ibtimes.com/reporters/dennis-lynch)@neato_itsdennis (http://www.twitter.com/neato_itsdennis)
on September 09 2014 9:23 AM

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A man holds a sign during a ceremony commemorating the 69th anniversary of the end of World War II at an Allied Forces cemetery in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, May 9, 2014. Reuters/Alexandros Avramidis

A German television station Monday night showed video of Ukrainian volunteer soldiers with Nazi symbols, which are outlawed in Germany, on their helmets. One soldier was seen with a Nazi swastika (http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/german-tv-shows-nazi-symbols-helmets-ukraine-soldiers-n198961) on his helmet and another had the distinctive lightning bolt-like runic symbol of the SS, which carried out the Holocaust and many other atrocities under Hitler.

The soldiers depicted are reportedly part of the Azov battalion, a volunteer force with a strong nationalist base. Oysten Bogen, a correspondent for Norway’s TV2, which shot the piece, said he asked a spokesman if there were any fascist elements in the volunteer forces just prior to taping the men and the spokesman replied:

“Absolutely not, we are just Ukrainian nationalists.”

Pro-government Russian media repeatedly have focused on Ukraine’s far right nationalism as a means of discrediting President Petro Poroshenko’s pro-European government and European integration supporters, known as the Euromaidan movement. Many ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine have cited what they call Kiev's Nazism as a reason to take up arms and fight to break from Ukraine.
RT @Novorossiyan (https://twitter.com/Novorossiyan): #USA (https://twitter.com/hashtag/USA?src=hash) supports #Ukraine (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ukraine?src=hash)'s NAZI AZov battalion. Helmet with swastika. What wd our grandfathers say? pic.twitter.com/0c7sjotu5i (http://t.co/0c7sjotu5i) [<--- click]
â€” Ricardo Montero R. (@R_Montero_R) September 9, 2014 (https://twitter.com/R_Montero_R/status/509171545697423360)

reminder: Ukraine isn't clean cut good v. bad. These are who Russia is fighting against http://t.co/8jsf9yKxmp pic.twitter.com/GshdYFhyiO (http://t.co/GshdYFhyiO) [<--- click]
— weldon kennedy (@weldonwk) September 9, 2014 (https://twitter.com/weldonwk/status/509323347503509504)
See a full list of Ukraine's volunteer battalions here (http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/know-your-volunteer-battalions-infographic-363944.html).

The Azov battalion is one of the more prominent volunteer units fighting separatist rebels in the east. It was founded by the Social-National Assembly, an alliance of far right and nationalist parties. Many Azov battalion members are openly nationalist and have been accused of being neo-Nazi (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/11025137/Ukraine-crisis-the-neo-Nazi-brigade-fighting-pro-Russian-separatists.html), but most deny their ideology is fascist. The Azov battalion flag prominently displays a symbol resembling the Wolfsangel, or Wolf’s Hook, a prominent symbol within Nazism.

Hervé

14th September 2014, 15:57

Strelkov: from swimming with Piranhas to swimming with Great White sharks (http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.fr/2014/09/strelkov-from-swimming-with-piranhas-to.html)

INTRODUCTION:
Yesterday's press conference by Strelkov is, I believe, a historical moment because it marks the move of Strelkov from the Novorussian military struggle into the much larger, and far more dangerous struggle, the struggle for the political future of Russia. This in itself is no necessarily unexpected, but the way he did it was a surprise, at least for me. But before I zoom out to the bigger picture, I think that it would be helpful to try to summarize some of the key points of his presentation (thanks to Marina, you can download the full English transcript by clicking here (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByibNV3SiUoodXhWTHJab2RJWk9xQzUyaXF3alEwaGpDSGVn/edit?usp=sharing) and the Q&A is here (http://pastebin.com/JH9YjPqD)). Here is how I summarized what I saw as the key elements of his presentation:

External factors (staging) - symbolic message:

He is clearly alive and well
The reason for his departure was infighting inside the Novorussian leadership and the fact that he was told that supplies would only be delivered if he left.
The photo of Putin in the back on the wall
He is sitting behind a Russian monarchist flag on the table (and a Russian and Novorussian flag in the back (no Soviet or Communists symbols)

His view about the ceasefire agreement:

This ceasefire has now created military situation is now worse than this spring
What is disgraceful is not the ceasefire by itself but "the conditions which are now being discussed in Minks"
There is plan to blame the betrayal of Novorussia on Putin
There are powerful interests which want a never ending war which would create a bleeding ulcer for Russia

His description of the 5th column:

The roots of this 5th column go back to the Eltsin years
The liberation of Crimea took the 5th column by surprise
The 5th column is around President
There is a local 5th column in Donbass which has been and still is negotiating with Ukie oligarchs
The 5th column is composed of "liberals"
Putin is a moral threat to them because he has massive popular support
They want to overthrow Putin
They want to dismember Russia (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39638.htm)
This will be a long war on Russia
We are dealing with another 1905 and 1917 like situation
By saving Novorussia Russia can save itself
Western sanctions will hurt Russia and they will use them to discredit Putin

Strelkov's plans

Strelkov wants to fight inside Russia in support of Putin (only option)
Strelkov's main objective is to denounce the real traitors inside Russia

This is my personal rendition of the key elements of Strelkov's presentation, and I might have missed or misunderstood something, so I therefore encourage everybody to watch to the video again (http://youtu.be/0oRcrAasjGY) and read the transcript (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByibNV3SiUoodXhWTHJab2RJWk9xQzUyaXF3alEwaGpDSGVn/edit?usp=sharing).

ZOOMING OUT TO THE GREATER CONTEXT:
Before going further into my analysis of Strelkov's statements, I think that it is crucial to keep the bigger context in mind. His words are not just the words of a man speaking for the Novorussian Armed Forces (NAF) or a Novorussia hero, this time Strelkov is diving straight into the big and dangerous world of Russian "deep state" politics (though the term "deep state" does not really apply to Russia). So I will now return to a topic I have been covering for many years now.

Long-time readers will probably recall that I often spoke of a behind-the-scenes struggle between what I called the "Eurasian Sovereignists" (ES) and the "Atlantic Integrationists" (AI). I will not repeat it all here, but I do encourage you to read the following articles:

http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2013/02/russia-and-islam-part-three-internal.html
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2013/03/russia-and-islam-part-six-kremlin.html
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-power-struggle-inside-kremlin-is.html
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2013/10/1993-2013-is-twenty-years-long-pas-de.html
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2014/04/a-new-cold-war-has-begun-let-us-embrace.html

The two first articles are part of a much longer seven-part series on Islam, but they introduce the historical context of the development of the ES and AI factions. The next two I would consider mandatory reading if you are not familiar with the topic and the last one is just a more recent discussion of the role of these two factions in the current Cold War v2. Having said that, my key thesis is this:

The "5th column" Strelkov refers to are the very same people I call Atlantic Integrationists.
Strelkov names no names, but he describes them very accurately (see above) and he adds that they only value "money and other material resources". They are the Russian equivalent of the AngloZionist 1%ers. Their main political goal is to fully integrate Russia into the AngloZionist international system on a financial, political, economic and cultural levels. They see Russia as "European" and they believe that "the West" (i.e. the AngloZionist Empire) and Russia need to stand together against Islam, China and any other non-imperial ideology, religion, nation or alliance. They believe in capitalism and they are opposed to a "social state" (to use Putin's description of modern Russia) and they are systematically contemptuous of the "masses" though they try hard not to show this aspect of their worldview. These are the folks who gradually took power during the 1980s and who had the predatory instincts to seize the moment in the early 1990s to rapidly and ruthlessly acquire an absolutely unimaginable amount of wealth, stolen from the Russian people.

Now, it is true that due to an absolutely brilliant move by the Russian security services during the late 1990s and thanks to the chaos in which Russia was plunged, these AI (aka 5th columnists) did make a fatal mistake. Their plan was to put forward a rather uninspiring and dull bureaucrat into power and surround him by men coming from their own circles. What they did not foresee is that this rather uninspiring and dull bureaucrat would turn into one of the most formidable statesmen in Russian history - Putin - and that he would immediately set out to decapitate the top layers of the AI - the so-called "oligarchs" and the thugs who enforced their rule - and their armed branch- the Chechen Wahabi insurgency. Putin acted so fast that he rapidly ended up in full control of the so-called "power ministries" (state security, presidential security, internal affairs, armed forces, emergency services) and, which is crucial, an immense popular support. In a way, this combination of state power and popular support made Putin untouchable, but that also limited his power.

While the top and most notorious AI columnists either left Russia (Berezovsky) or were put in jail (Khodorkovsky) or died, the system they had created was still very much in place. Banking, the natural resources industry, the weapons trade, financial services and, of course, the media were still very much in their hands. So when the most arrogant one of them, Khodorkovsky, was jailed the two factions (ES and AI) achieved something of a compromise, a temporary ceasefire if you wish. The deal was this: first, as long as they don't try to take over the Kremlin and generally stay out of politics, the AI would be allowed to keep their wealth and continue to make huge profits; second, the top power would be shared between the ES (Putin, Rogozin, Patrushev, etc.) and the AI (Medvedev, Kudrin, Surkov, etc.).

The first big blow which Putin delivered against the AI was the firing of Serdiukov and, even "worse", his replacement with Shoigu. The second massive blow was, according to Strelkov (and I agree), the operation to liberate Crimea. According to Strelkov, this operation was a huge blow to the interests of these 5th columnist because they immediately realized that it would set Russia and the AngloZionists on a collision course. They therefore gathered all their forces to a) prevent a Russian military intervention in the Donbass and b) make a deal with the oligarchs now in power in Kiev. I fully share this analysis.

Russian vs Novorussian strategic interests
Here comes the tricky part. There are a few assumption made by many bloggers which are the result of a fundamental flaws in logic:

Russian and Novorussian interests are one and the same
Anything supported by the AI is bad for Russia
Putin is in full control and can do whatever he wants
Novorussian leaders are always right by virtue of their heroic struggle
Disagreeing with Novorussian leader is a sign of stupidity, betrayal or dishonesty (including for Putin himself)

Reality is not quite that simple. For one thing, Russian and Novorussian interests are not only one and the same, they are in direct opposition on a crucial matter: Novorussia wants full independence from Kiev (whoever is in power) while Russia wants regime change in Kiev and maintain a unitary Ukraine. Second, while the fact that Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs are trying to hammer out a deal to stop the war and maintain a unitary Ukraine this might or might not be bad for Russia. Now, before I get accused of God only knows what, let me explain:

During the late 1980s and the 1990s a bizarre kind of "partial fusion" took place between the Russian mob and the KGB. I know, sounds crazy, but it is nonetheless true and yours truly has personally seen it and personally met ex-KGB officers working in the Russian mob. However, as some say, there is no such thing as an "ex-KGB" officer. Well, in reality there is, but in most cases, at least informal contacts are maintained. So here is how I would very roughly summarize this bizarre association:

In the 1980s: corrupt KGB officers realize that a lot of money can be made in the underworld and some official of the internal security branch of the KGB (2nd Main Directorate) found ways to profit from tight contacts with the mob.

In the early 1990: a lot of young and smart KGB officers realize that their skills are useless in the KGB, they resign and immediately find very good positions in the "New Russian" world (at that time 100% mobsters) and use their skills (language, education, work capability, courage) to make loads of money

These were terrible years for the KGB/FSB, but they also had one positive impact: the more corrupt and less patriotic officers left leaving many idealists behind them, idealists which would, with time, climb up the ranks.

Now here comes the really interesting part:

In the mid 1990s-2000: the successor to the KGB, the SVR and FSB came to realize that they had a fantastic network of potential collaborators in the newly created world of Russian business, finance, commerce, tourism, etc. They act on this and begin use this mostly "ex-mob now turned legit" worldwide network for state security purposes and industrial/commercial espionage. Even the military intelligence service, the GRU, begins to do the same with ex-officers now working in aerospace, electronics, communications, etc.

[Off-topic but interesting sidebar: there is another most valuable network which the SVR/FSB/GRU also began to use during this period: the huge number of Jews from Russia who emigrated to the USA and Israel. Keep that in mind when you think about Russian-Israeli relations]

2000-today: Putin and his backers begin their behind the scenes secret but ruthless war on the Atlantic Integrationists who are fundamentally oppose to the Eurasian Sovereignists who are now firmly behind Putin. Most importantly the security services who are controlled by Putin allies develop a network of potential supporters inside the basis of power of the Atlantic Integrationists. See how complex that becomes?

So while some superficial analysts are correct when they say that the Russian oligarchs are generally 5th columnists and dangerous enemies of Putin, what they are missing is that a) not all oligarchs fall into this category and b) that Putin has the means to influence or even coerce some anti-Putin oligarchs thanks to his control of the security services and their network inside the oligarchs power base.

So here is the crucial point: the relationship between the Kremlin and the Russian oligarchy is a very complex one. Yes, by and large, it is correct to say that we have Putin, the security services, the military, the common Russian people on one side and the oligarchs, the liberal intelligentsia, big business, banking, finance and CIA agents on the other. But in reality, this is a primitive model, the reality is infinitely more complex. I know I am going to get even more hate coming my way for saying that, but some oligarchs are (for whatever reason) Putin allies or Putin controlled-individuals. I have met some personally in the late 1990s and I am quite sure that they are still there. Why?

Because there is a lot of money to be made in Russia by being on Putin's side. For one thing, if you are in good terms with the Kremlin, you become untouchable for the rest of the more-or-less legal "business" world. You also get juicy contracts. And the tax authorities might not be as meticulous when you file for taxes. Again, the black-and-white Putin vs oligarchs image is generally true, but only as a primitive model.

ZOOMING BACK IN TO STRELKOV'S PRESS CONFERENCE
Let's remember where Strelkov came from. While little is certain about him, he appears to be an ex-FSB Colonel (in anti-terrorism), who fought as a volunteer in Yugoslavia, Transnistria and Chechnia. He is also a historian, a columnist and he likes to participate in military recreations. He is a monarchist, an Orthodox Christian and and admirer of the White movement during the civil war. In Novorussia, however, he entered a totally different level jumping in one rapid, gigantic most successful leap from anti-terrorism Colonel to what could be roughly described as an divisional or even army corp commander who turned a volunteer militia force into a more or less regular army. That is a huge feat: From almost nobody he became the #1 hero and commander of the entire Novorussian resistance. And yet, Novorussia is tiny compared to Russia and big Novorussian politics are tiny compared to big Russian politics. And yet, in yesterday's press conference Strelkov made yet another huge leap - he jumped from Novorussian military issues straight into the single most complex and dangerous struggle I can imagine: the secret behind-the-scenes struggle for power in the Kremlin. It is far too early to tell if this move will be as successful as his previous one, Strelkov went from swimming with Piranhas to swimming with Great White sharks, but I am cautiously optimistic. Here is why:

Strelkov's potential in the Russian struggle for power
Putin is acutely aware of the fact that his official power base (the state apparatus) is chock-full of 5th columnists. The best proof for that is that he did two very interesting things:

a) He created the All-Russia People's Front (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Front_for_Russia) (ARPF) which unlike the official party in power, United Russia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Russia), was not created with a strong Medvedev/Atlantic Integrationist component, but was created by Putin alone. Officially, the ARPF is not a party but a "political-social movement" which is supposed to bring together a large segment of generally pro-Kremlin organizations and individuals and to provide a way for the common people to convey their concerns to Putin. In reality, however, it is also a "political party in waiting", very large, very well connected and which Putin can "turn on" at any time, especially if challenged from inside United Russia.

b) Putin's security services have contributed to the creation of a plethora of "near-Kremlin entities" (околокремлевские круги) which officially have no subordination to the Kremlin, but which can get a lot of things done without the government involved or, even, informed. These near-Kremlin entities include some news outlets, some commercial entities, a number of clubs, some youth organizations, news agencies, etc. There is no formal list, no admission procedure, no one leader. But somehow, there are always people with contacts to the security agencies near or in these circles.

This is were Strelkov fits in.

Strelkov will first and foremost represent the interests of the people of Novorussia, but since he correctly identified the Russian 5th column as the main threat to Novorussia, he also is objectively becoming an ally of Putin in a common struggle against the Atlantic Integrationists. Now, let us be clear here. Strelkov and Putin will not agree on a number of issues. Strelkov clearly indicated that when he said
"No matter how critical I am about certain internal or external policy decision of president in conditions of war started against us, I consider it necessary to support him as the only legitimate superior commander the main guarantor of freedom and independence of the state"
The fact that he concluded that Putin must be supported does not change the fact that he is clearly very critical of some Putin decisions. My guess is that the obvious areas of disagreement are:

a) The ceasefire and subsequent negotiations
b) The fact that Putin does with with some Russian oligarchs
c) That Putin wants a united Ukraine

These disagreements are normal and should not be interpreted as the sign of some kind of opposition. Again, Novorussia and Russia simply have different interests.

But where Strelkov and Putin are in full agreement is the need to crush the 5th column. Putin was the first to speak about a "Russian 5th column" (when he addressed the Federal Assembly) and Strelkov picked up his expression. This 5th column of Atlantic Integrationists are a mortal danger to both Putin and Strelkov and, as Strelkov correctly points out, Putin is a mortal danger to them. When Strelkov speaks of a "Putin revolution" and of a "Russian Spring" he is referring to the very same struggle which I in the past described as a struggle of Atlantic Integrationists against the Eurasian Sovereignists. The labels are different, but the process described is the same one.

In this context Strelkov could become a very powerful ally for Putin. By speaking up for Novorussia Strelkov is also very clearly promoting the same ideology, the same worldview, as Putin. In fact, I recommend to you all to take the time and listen to (or read)

Putin's Address to the Federal Assembly (http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2014/03/president-putins-speech-to-federal.html) (March 18th)
The press conference by by Alexander V. Zakharchenko (http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2014/08/watershed-press-conference-by-top.html) (August 26th)
Yesterday's Strelkov's press conference (http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2014/09/strelkov-press-conference-translated.html) (September 11th)

Putin, Zakharchenko and Strelkov all three fully realize that what is going on is nothing shot of a war on Russia, but waged, at least for the time being, by non-military means. All three know that the biggest threat to Russia is an internal one. But all three can claim that the other two do not speak for him. After all, one is the President of Russia, the second one is a top representative of Donetsk and Novorussia, while the third one is, technically speaking, a retired officer and a private individual. Yet all three together are politically encircling the Russian 5th column into a "political cauldron" in which they either support Putin or look like traitors. A potentially very effective technique.

The second role of Strelkov is to denounce and discredit the Putin-bashers who are constantly declaring that "Putin is backstabbing or betraying Novorussia". I predict that in a near future the very same circles who until now had taken the position that Putin is a villain and Strelkov a hero will declare that Strelkov is a villain and a traitor too. Some of these guys are manipulated by western PSYOP specialists, others are simply paid by them, but their goal is to convince the world that Putin is the bad guy and that a "real" patriot needs to replace him. In other words, that Russia can only be saved by making the AngloZionist dream of a regime change in Russia come true. But then, these are the very same people who wanted to save Novorussia by making the other AngloZionist dream, of having an overt Russian military intervention in the Donbass, also come true. My advice in regards to such "sorrow-patriots" as they are called in Russia is simple: beware of those who want to save Russia by making an AngloZionist dream come true. If you keep that in mind, the enemies of Russia will be fairly easy to spot :-)

CONCLUSION
I was amazed and tremendously encouraged by Strelkov's very sophisticated presentation of his position yesterday. Though this might be too early to conclude, and I might be uncharacteristically optimistic about this, I believe that Strelkov has the potential to become the Novorussian leader I was hoping would emerge. If that is so, then I will gladly plead guilty of having underestimated him. Still, I will also admit that I am very concerned for him. The fact that apparently the Russia media has given his press conference little or no attention combined with the rumor that he had killed himself is a powerful message sent to him by the 5th column who is showing how powerful it still is. In particular, I consider the rumor about his suicide as a very serious death threat. Even worse, and maybe these are my paranoid inclination speaking here, there are a lot of people on both sides who might be interested in seeing Strelkov killed. The Atlantic Integrationists and their 5th column would want him dead because he is so openly denouncing them, but make no mistake, there could also be Eurasian Sovereignists who might want him dead to have him as a martyr and symbol of Russian heroism. Is that cynical and ugly? Yes. And so is the struggle for power in Russia. Most people in the West have no idea how ruthless this struggle can be. Unlike Putin, Strelkov is not protected by an extremely powerful state security apparatus and, considering that he can be hit from either side. He better be very *very* careful.

Just for accepting to play the role he is playing now (and he, being an ex-FSB colonel, fully knows the risks) I consider him a hero and he has my sincere admiration. "They" will try to use him, threaten him, manipulate him, discredit him and use every dirty trick possible to either control him or crush him. Truly, his fate is already a tragic one and his courage remarkable. Fighting the Ukie Nazis, the Chechen Wahabis or the Croat Ustashe was a relaxing vacation compared to the kind of "warfare" going on in the struggle for the control of Russia. Since Russia is the de-facto leader of both the BRICS and the SCO the struggle for Russia is really a struggle for the future of the planet. I believe that Strelkov understands that.

The Saker

cuitlahuac

17th September 2014, 08:31

I wonder if this Islamic State craziness has to do with mind control and programming of people under MK-Ultra type of mind control. Whether it is mind control described (true or false) by James Casbolt in the Janus-End-Times programing (given that program is real) or if it is mind control as described by Hubbard in the Philadelphia Doctorate Course lectures, of hypnotizing a person and make him be a "target person" and manipulate the target person as instructed by the hypnotizer. In this case, the US military would have whole armies of this mind control operatives to stage the ISIS threat mainly staffed by people from France, the UK, the US and even some spaniards.

Baby Steps

17th September 2014, 13:25

Dear All,
I am sorry if I sound dispirited but I have just been listening to some wise individual on George Noory’s show who is advocating use of overwhelming force including nuclear weapons against ISIS. I despair. Surely we have learned by now that violence begets violence. We are currently facing about ten thousand nutters in a patch of desert who are doing everything they can to outrage us. We British have a long history of responding to Terror in a restrained, intelligent and moderate way and so hopefully we would not fall into the trap of reacting to atrocities by perpetrating far worse atrocities, as is being proposed.

If you subscribe to the theory that the actions of the USA are fundamentally evil and destabilising, it would appear that the strategy rather than being extremely incompetent is in fact to do everything possible to help ISIS.
Firstly I regard it as very suspicious beyond negligence that so many modern weapons have found their way into their hands. The CIA etc employs legions of highly trained analysts who should have been able to prevent this happening.
The strategy appears to be to morph ISIS from a near insignificant group into a pan-Sunni army and therefore trigger the great sectarian conflict that has been building in the Middle East.
How to achieve this from such a small starting point?
a) We have Mr O pledging that he will bomb Syria without consultation with the Assad regime. We can expect to hear whistle blowers stating that they were secretly given Syrian Government targets. The strategy will be to decimate any group offering local resistance to ISIS while pretending to help them.
b) IF western troops go in, which appears to be starting, this fact alone will begin the process of tipping a large part of the Sunni world into the ISIS camp because these troops will be ‘invaders’ or ‘crusaders’.
c) IF there are any air strikes that demonstrably kill innocent people, it will be that much harder for a Sunni to deny that they are facing a Satanic enemy. I fear that the scale of the murder would not need to be as much as Gaza or Donetsk. In the fog of war these things inevitably happen and could be characterised as accidental.
My concern is that we are drifting into catastrophe, and people do not realize that should regimes like Saudi or Egypt deploy their (Sunni) troops , they may prove as ineffective as the Iraqis have. We could witness a re-enactment of the conquests of the 7th century. Do not forget that the Saudi army is largely foreign mercenary, and the Saudi people know in their hearts that their rulers are corrupt. Saudi is a huge arms dump.
HOW TO ARREST THIS PROCESS?
1. We need to step up and admit that trying to destroy Syria was an error. If Assad pledges elections we should help him, and advocate a truce with non ISIS rebels and an amnesty.
2. We need to try to encourage the Iraqis to bring as many Sunnis into their forces and government as possible.
3. We need to include the message that rising to provocations from terrorists is a sign of weakness into our Media propaganda
4. We need a rapprochement & consultation with the Russians and Iranians.
5. Any air strikes in support of local allies should be small and pin point. Avoid human shielded targets.
6. We need to try and stop ISIS benefitting from Oil income.
7. We need clarity in countries like the UK in terms of their stance towards returning lapsed Jihadis. We need to encourage them to return-even rescue them-and maximise them as a propaganda asset.
8. We need to remember that we are still facing a small problem. The only way it could become a large one is if we make mistakes.

Hervé

20th September 2014, 17:13

15 Syrian children dead following UN measles vaccination campaign (http://rt.com/news/188580-syria-children-dead-vaccinations/)

Published time: September 18, 2014 02:00
Edited time: September 20, 2014 14:59
Get short URL (http://rt.com/news/188580-syria-children-dead-vaccinations/)

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The UN has halted a measles vaccination campaign in northern Syria after at least 15 children died after receiving shots, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed in a joint statement.

“UNICEF and WHO have been shocked and saddened to learn of the deaths of at least 15 young children in Idlib, Syria,” the statement said. “The deaths of the children occurred in areas where a measles immunization campaign had been under way.”

The children were all under the age of two, Reuters reported, citing aid workers.

Around one hour after being given a second round of the measles vaccine in Idlib on Tuesday, the children demonstrated signs of “severe allergic shock,” said Abdullah Ajaj, a physician administering the vaccinations at a medical center in Jarjanaz, according to AP. The second round of vaccinations began in Idlib and Deir Ezzour on Monday.

Following the vaccine, some of the children’s bodies swelled and they suffocated to death.

“There was shouting and screaming, it was hard for the parents. You get your child vaccinated and then you find your child dying, it’s very hard,” Ajaj said.

Conflicting statements from the Syrian opposition and reports from rights groups have put the number of vaccine-related deaths between 34 and 50.

The WHO said it is sending a team of experts to investigate the incidents, adding that “establishing the precise cause of the children’s deaths is vital.”

The immunization campaign has been suspended in both Idlib and Deir Ezzour provinces. However, UNICEF and the WHO are hopeful that the campaign could resume “as soon as possible.”

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Reuters / Hosam Katan

While it is believed that measles outbreaks can effectively be contained by vaccinations, they can be very dangerous in undeveloped areas. The disease is transmitted through bodily fluids, coughing, and tears from the eyes.

UN agencies and other non-government organizations have been providing medical services in Syria since the uprising against President Bashar Assad began in March 2011.

The Syrian conflict has since turned into a full-scale civil war, with more than 190,000 people killed, according to UN.

On Tuesday, Assad said the fight against terrorism must begin by placing more pressure on countries which are supporting and financing insurgents in Syria and Iraq.

Meanwhile, the US announced that it has plans to take “targeted actions against ISIS (Islamic State/ISIL) safe havens in Syria,” including striking infrastructure. US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel unveiled a plan to boost Iraqi forces with 1,600 US “military advisers.”

The US will also train and equip 5,000 members of the Syrian opposition to fight militants from the Islamic State group.

ThePythonicCow

20th September 2014, 22:41

http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com
I missed this when it was posted here, and only happened on to it by some other mention. Excellent!

That blog, The Vineyard of the Saker (vineyardsaker.blogspot.com) (http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com) appears to me to be the finest commentary on what's going on with Russia and areas near by that I've ever seen. I am presently enjoying reading this post of April 2014 from that site: A new Cold War has begun - let us embrace it with relief! (http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2014/04/a-new-cold-war-has-begun-let-us-embrace.html) (one of the ones linked from your post as well.)

Granted, I have no Russian heritage, and hardly any more Russian expertise, so my recommendation carries little weight. If there any member with more Russian expertise happens by here, I'd like their perspective on this blog and these matters.

naste.de.lumina

21st September 2014, 17:04

Senate Passes Bill Declaring Israel as ‘Major Strategic Partner’
SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

American Israel Public Affairs CommitteeBarbara BoxerIslamic stateIsrael relationshipMissourian Harry S. TrumanSenate IsraelU.S. Israel Alliance

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The United States Senate.

JNS.org (http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2014/9/19/senate-passes-bill-declaring-israel-as-major-strategic-partner#.VByVtfmwLwo=) – The U.S. Senate unanimously adopted the United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act on Thursday evening. The bipartisan bill, which declares Israel to be a “major strategic partner,” was authored by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) and had 81 co-sponsors.

“America’s long-standing relationship and strong cooperation with Israel dates back to the presidency of fellow Missourian Harry S. Truman,” Blunt said in a statement.

Besides generally elevating the status of the U.S.-Israel relationship, the bill expands the Jewish state’s trade status to expedite export licensing, increases cooperation on energy and other technologies, maintains Israel’s qualitative military edge in the Middle East, and increases U.S. weapons stockpiles in Israel as well as Israeli access to them.

But notably left out of the bill is Israel’s inclusion into the U.S. visa waiver program, which has been held up over concerns about Israelis overstaying visas in the U.S. as well as objections by the U.S. State Department over Israeli border policies, which State has called “discriminatory.”

At the same time, a congressional source told the Jerusalem Post that the visa waiver program has become controversial in Congress in recent weeks for reasons “entirely unrelated to Israel,” but instead “because of what is going on with ISIS (Islamic State).”

The “major strategic partner” bill has been promoted by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and a similar bill was passed by the U.S. House in March.

“This bill will dramatically strengthen and expand the U.S.-Israel alliance as a way to confront new threats and challenges in the Middle East,” AIPAC said in a statement.

Source: http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/09/19/senate-passes-bill-declaring-israel-as-%E2%80%98major-strategic-partner%E2%80%99/

animovado

23rd September 2014, 15:28

The author of the article has for sure a non western/nato/us-perspective on the unfoldings around him, but I found it worth reading.
Another article on GlobalResearch gives maybe a greater outlook on the unfolding
plans: http://www.globalresearch.ca/plans-for-redrawing-the-middle-east-the-project-for-a-new-middle-east/3882

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Source : “Who Makes Up the "Islamic Emirate"?”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Roger Lagassé, Voltaire Network, 22 September 2014, http://www.voltairenet.org/article185364.html

Who Makes Up the "Islamic Emirate"?

by Thierry Meyssan

While Western public opinion is fed information about the constitution of a purported international coalition to fight against the "Islamic Emirate", the latter changes shape discreetly. Its principal officers are no longer Arab, but Georgian and Chinese. For Thierry Meyssan, this mutation shows that NATO ultimately intends to use the "Islamic Emirate" in Russia and in China. Therefore, both countries must act now against the jihadists before they return to sow chaos in their countries of origin.

VOLTAIRE NETWORK | BEIRUT (LEBANON) | 22 SEPTEMBER 2014

The "Islamic Emirate" initially displayed its Arab origin. This organization sprang from "Al-Qaeda in Iraq" who fought not the US invaders, but Iraqi Shiites. It became the "Islamic Emirate in Iraq" and the "Islamic Emirate in Iraq and the Levant." In October 2007, the US Army seized 606 records of foreign members of this organization near Sinjar. The records were inventoried and examined by experts from the Military Academy at West Point.

However, a few days after the seizure, Emir al-Baghdadi said his organization included only 200 fighters and they were all Iraqis. This lie is comparable to that of other terrorist organizations in Syria who say they enrol only incidentally a few foreigners, while the Syrian Arab Army estimated at at least 250,000 the number of foreign jihadists who fought in Syria over the past three years. Moreover, Caliph Ibrahim (the new name of Amir al-Baghdadi) now claims that his organization is composed largely of foreigners and that Syrian territory is no longer for the Syrians and the Iraqi territory is no longer for Iraqis, but they are for his jihadists.

According to records seized in Sinjar, 41% of foreign terrorists members of the "Islamic Emirate of Iraq" were Saudi nationals, 18.8% were Libyans, and only 8.2% were Syrians. If these figures are related to the population of each country, the people of Libya provided proportionately 2 times more fighters than that of Saudi Arabia and five times more than that of Syria.

Regarding Syrian jihadists, their origin was dispersed in the country, but 34, 3% came from the city of Deir ez-Zor, which since the withdrawal of the "Islamic Emirate" of Raqqa, became the capital of the Caliphate.

In Syria, Deir ez-Zor has the distinction of being populated predominantly by Sunni Arabs organized into tribes, and by Kurdish and Armenian minorities. However, until now, the United States has been only able to destroy states in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, that is to say, countries where the population is organised into tribes. They have failed elsewhere. From this point of view, Deir ez-Zor in particular and the North East of Syria in general can therefore potentially be conquered, but not the rest of the country, as seen over the past three years.

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Tarkhan Batirashvili, Sergeant of Georgian military intelligence, has become one of the main leaders of the "Islamic Emirate" under the assumed name of Abu Omar al-Shishani.
For the past two weeks, a purge is affecting Maghreb officers. Thus, Tunisians who took the Raqqa military airport on August 25 were arrested for disobedience, judged and executed by their superiors. The "Islamic Emirate" means to put its Arab fighters in their place and promote Chechen officers kindly provided by the Georgian secret services.

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Abu al-Khazakhi Anisah, first Chinese jihadist of the "Islamic Emirate" killed in action (center of photo) was not Uighur, but Kazakh.
Another category of jihadist has emerged: the Chinese. Since June, the United States and Turkey have transported hundreds of Chinese fighters and their families to northeastern Syria. Some of them immediately became officers. They are mostly Uighurs, Chinese from the Peoples Republic, but Sunni Muslims and speakers of Turk.

Therefore, it is clear that, ultimately, the "Islamic Emirate" will expand its operations to Russia and to China, both countries are its ultimate targets.

We will definitely see a new NATO publicity campaign: its aviation will push the jihadists out of Iraq and leave them to settle in Deir ez-Zor. The CIA will provide money, weapons, ammunition and information to "revolutionary Syrian moderates" (sic) of the FSA, which will then change hats for use under the banner of the "Islamic Emirate", as has been the case since May of 2013.

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John McCain and the chiefs of the Free Syrian Army. In the left foreground, Ibrahim al-Badri, with which the Senator is talking. Next, Brigadier General Salim Idris (with glasses).
At the time, Senator John McCain came to Syria illegally to meet the chiefs of staff of the FSA. According to the photograph then distributed to attest to the meeting, the staff included a certain Abu Youssef, officially sought by the US State Department under the name Abu Du’a, in reality the current Caliph Ibrahim. Thus, the same man was - both and at the same time - a moderate leader in the FSA and an extremist leader in the "Islamic Emirate".

With this information, one can appreciate at its true value the document presented to the Security Council on July 14 by the Syrian Ambassador, Bashar Jaafari. This is a letter from the commander-in-chief of the FSA, Salim Idriss and dated January 17, 2014. It reads: "I hereby inform you that this ammunition sent by the chiefs of staff to leaders of the revolutionary military councils of the Eastern Region must be distributed in accordance with what was agreed upon: two-thirds to the warlords of the el-Nosra front, the remaining third to be distributed between the military and the revolutionary elements in the fight against the bands of IEIL (Islamic Emirate in Iraq and the Levant). We thank you for sending us the proof of delivery of all ammunition, specifying the quantities and qualities, duly signed by the leaders and warlords in person, so we can forward them to the Turkish and French partners. "In other words, two NATO powers (Turkey and France) have delivered ammunition for two thirds to the Al-Nosra Front (classified as a member of al-Qaeda by the Security Council) and one third to the FSA so that it can fight against the "Islamic Emirate", headed by one of its senior officers. In fact, the FSA has disappeared on the ground and the munitions were therefore intended for two-thirds to al-Qaeda and one third to the "Islamic Emirate".

With this dual role device, NATO will be able to continue to launch its hordes of jihadists against Syria while claiming to fight them.

However, when NATO has installed chaos everywhere in the Arab world, including its Saudi ally, it will turn the "Islamic Emirate" against the two great developing powers, Russia and China. That is why these two powers should intervene now and nip in the bud this private army being constituted and trained by NATO in the Arab world. Otherwise, Moscow and Beijing will soon have to confront it on their own soil.

GrnEggsNHam

23rd September 2014, 16:50

This seems relevant for this thread even though it's currently in a different section on Avalon.
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?75196-Arrest-Senator-John-McCain-For-ISIS-ArrestMcCain4ISIS----Webster-Tarpley&p=879735&viewfull=1#post879735

Hervé

23rd September 2014, 20:18

U.S. enters Syrian civil war without Congressional approval (http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/us-enters-syrian-civil-war/)

The president takes imperial action to make war without the approval of the country or their representatives.

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Site Staff (http://www.policestateusa.com/author/psusa/) in Foreign Policy (http://www.policestateusa.com/category/foreign-policy/)

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Launching of a U.S. ship-based missile. (Source: U.S. Navy / Patrick Grieco)

Last night, at the sole discretion of President Barack Obama, the United States officially entered the Syrian civil war and launched attacks in that sovereign nation. The president had neither obtained authorization from the U.S. Congress, nor permission from the Syrian state’s current government.

The offensive, launched in secret on , included a mix of fighter jets and bomber aircraft, accompanied by a barrage of ship-launched Tomahawk missiles, confirmed Pentagon press secretary John Kirby.

Military commanders intended to strike as many as 20 targets in the operation, primarily belonging to the Islamic State group, or “ISIS.” The U.S. began attacking that group (http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/usa-reenters-war-in-iraq/) on August 8th, 2014 — but in Iraq, not Syria.

While the U.S. Congress recently voted to provide armaments to Syrian rebels, it did not vote for direct military strikes. Nonetheless, President Obama acted without reservation and said he would not hesitate to commit more attacks in the future.

“It’s irresponsible and immoral that instead of debating and voting on war, congressional leaders chose to recess Congress for nearly two months,” said Congressman Justin Amash (R-MI), following the breaking news of the offensive. “ISIS is evil, but that fact alone doesn’t give the president authority to launch offensive strikes in Syria or Iraq. Under our Constitution, it is the responsibility of Congress to commence war.”

“Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Reid should immediately call Congress back into session,” Rep. Amash added (https://www.facebook.com/repjustinamash/posts/774238582615550).

The president’s actions represent a glaring case of hypocrisy when compared to his own stance taken while campaigning for the office of president. According to him, before being elected, it would be illegal to launch an attack without Congressional approval.

“The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation,” said Obama in 2007.

It appears that President Obama has either changed his mind, or perhaps has been coerced by some external influence (http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/mcgovern-obama-afraid-of-cia/). His actions put him squarely in line with a number of other U.S. presidents that have ignored the law and acted unilaterally.

The constitution is clear regarding the requirement of Congressional approval before the President can make war. Americans that tolerate this usurpation of power do so at their own peril, as the presidency becomes more imperious, particularly when it comes to ending thousands of lives using the military.

GoodETxSG

23rd September 2014, 20:24

Volitile, Crazy & Complicated Mix of People & Ideologies fightng in Syria/Iraq...

TIC... TIC... TIC... :boom:

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cuitlahuac

25th September 2014, 15:42

US taxpayers funding the war (willingly or unwillingly) must be deemed accomplices to the crime. US taxpayers protesting the use of their taxes for war should be released of the charges on war crimes.

Report: U.S. Air Strike in Syria Kills Six Children, Zero ISIS Members
“There are no ISIS members here”

http://www.prisonplanet.com/report-u-s-air-strike-in-syria-kills-six-children-zero-isis-members.html

Hervé

28th September 2014, 11:55

The Russian response to a double declaration of war (http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.ch/2014/09/the-russian-response-to-double.html)
(http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.ch/2014/09/the-russian-response-to-double.html)
Saturday, September 27, 2014

I am sorry that it took me over 6400 words to explain all that, but in a society were most "thoughts" are expressed as "tweets" and analyses as Facebook posts, it was a daunting task to try to shed some light to what is turning to be a deluge of misunderstandings and misconceptions, all made worse by the manipulation of the social media. I feel that 60'000 words would be more adequate to this task as it is far easier to just throw out a short and simple slogan than to refute its assumptions and implications.
The Saker
The context: a double declaration of war
Listening to Poroshenko a few days ago and then to Obama at the UNGA can leave no doubt whatsoever about the fact that the AngloZionist Empire is at war with Russia. Yet many believe that the Russian response to this reality is inadequate. Likewise, there is a steady stream of accusations made against Putin about Russia's policy towards the crisis in the Ukraine. What I propose to do here is to offer a few basic reminders about Putin, his obligations and his options.

First and foremost, Putin was never elected to be the world's policeman or savior, he was only elected to be president of Russia. Seems obvious, but yet many seem to assume that somehow Putin is morally obliged to do something to protect Syria, Novorussia or any other part of our harassed world. This is not so. Yes, Russia is the de facto leader of the BRICS and SCO countries, and Russia accepts that fact, but Putin has the moral and legal obligation to care for his own people first.

Second, Russia is now officially in the crosshairs of the AngloZionist Empire which includes not only 3 nuclear countries (US, UK, FR) but also the most powerful military force (US+NATO) and the world's biggest economies (US+EU). I think that we can all agree that the threat posed by such an Empire is not trivial and that Russia is right in dealing with it very carefully.

Sniping at Putin and missing the point
Now, amazingly, many of those who accuse Putin of being a wimp, a sellout or a naive Pollyanna also claim that the West is preparing nuclear war on Russia. If that is really the case, this begs the question: if that is really the case, if there is a real risk of war, nuclear or not, is Putin not doing the right thing by not acting tough or threatening? Some would say that the West is bent on a war no matter what Putin does. Okay, fair enough, but in that case is his buying as much time as possible before the inevitable not the right thing to do?!

Third, on the issue of the USA vs ISIL, several comment here accused Putin of back-stabbing Assad because Russia supported the US Resolution at the UNSC.

And what was Putin supposed to do?! Fly the Russian Air Force to Syria to protect the Syrian border? What about Assad? Did he scramble his own air force to try to stop the US or has he quietly made a deal: bomb "them" not us, and I shall protest and do nothing about it? Most obviously the latter.

In fact, Putin and Assad have exactly the same position: protest the unilateral nature of the strikes, demand a UN Resolution while quietly watching how Uncle Sam turned on his own progeny and now tries to destroy them.

I would add that Lavrov quite logically stated that there are no "good terrorists". He knows that ISIL is nothing but a continuation of the US-created Syrian insurgency, itself a continuation of the US-created al-Qaeda. From a Russian point of view, the choice is simple: what is better, for the US to use its forces and men to kill crazed Wahabis or have Assad do it? And if ISIL is successful in Iraq, how long before they come back to Chechnia? Or Crimea? Or Tatarstan? Why should any Russian or Syria soldier risk death when the USAF is willing to do that for them?

While there is a sweet irony in the fact that the US now has to bomb it's own creation, let them do that. Even Assad was clearly forewarned and he obviously is quite happy about that.

Finally, UN or no UN, the US had already taken the decision to bomb ISIL. So what is the point of blocking a perfectly good UN Resolution? That would be self-defeating. In fact, this Resolution can even be used by Russia to prevent the US and UK from serving as a rear base for Wahabi extremists (this resolution bans that, and we are talking about a mandatory, Chapter VII, UNSC Resolution).

And yet, some still say that Putin threw Assad under the bus. How crazy and stupid can one get to have that kind of notion about warfare or politics? And if Putin wanted to toss Assad under the bus, why did he not do that last year?

Sincere frustration or intellectual dishonesty?
But that kind of nonsense about the Syria is absolutely dwarfed by the kind of truly crazy stuff some people post about Novorussia. Here are my favorite ones. The author begins by quoting me:
"This war has never been about Novorussia or about the Ukraine." and then continues:
That statement is too vacuous and convenient as a copout. Do you really mean to say that the thousands of people murdered by shelling, the thousands of young Ukrainian conscripts put through the meat grinder, the thousands of homes destroyed, the more than 1 million people who have turned into refugees... NONE of that has anything to do with Novorussia and Ukraine? That this is only about Russia? Really, one would wish you'd refrain from making silly statements like that.The only problem being, of course, that I never made it in the first place :-)

Of course, it is rather obvious that I meant that FOR THE ANGLOZIONIST EMPIRE the goal has never been the Ukraine or Novorussia, but a war on Russia. All Russia did was to recognize this reality. Again, the words "do you really mean to say that" clearly show that the author is going to twist what I said, make yet another strawman, and then indignantly denounce me for being a monster who does not care about the Ukraine or Novorussia (the rest of the comment was in the same vein: indignant denunciations of statements I never made and conclusions I never reached).

I have already grown used to the truly remarkable level of dishonesty of the Putin-bashing crowd and by now I consider it par for the course. But I wanted to illustrate that one more time just to show that at least in certain cases an honest discussion is not the purpose at all. But I don't want to bring it all down to just a few dishonest and vociferous individuals. There are also many who are sincerely baffled, frustrated and even disappointed with Russia's apparent passivity. Here is an excerpt of an email I got this morning:
I guess I was really hoping that perhaps Russia, China The BRICS would be a counter force. What I fail to understand is why after all the demonisation by the U.S and Europe doesn't Russia retaliate. The sanctions imposed by the West is hurting Russia and yet they still trade oil in euros/dollars and are bending over backwards to accommodate Europe. I do not understand why they do not say lift all sanctions or no gas. China also says very little against the U.S , even though they fully understand that if Russian is weakened they are next on the list. As for all the talk of lifting the sanctions on Iran that is farcical as we all know Israel will never allow them to be lifted. So why do China and Russia go along with the whole charade. Sometimes I wonder if we are all being played, and this is all one big game , which no chance of anything changing.In this case the author correctly sees that Russia and China follow a very similar policy which sure looks like an attempt to appease the US. In contrast to the previous comment, here the author is both sincere and truly distressed.

In fact, I believe that what I am observing are three very different phenomena all manifesting themselves at the same time:

1) An organized Putin-bashing campaign initiated by US/UK government branches tasked with manipulating the social media.

2) A spontaneous Putin-bashing campaign lead by certain Russian National-Bolshevik circles (Limonov, Dugin & Co.).

3) The expression of a sincere bafflement, distress and frustration by honest and well-intentioned people to whom the current Russian stance really makes no sense at all.

The rest of this post will be entirely dedicated to try to explain the Russian stance to those in this third group (any dialog with the 2 first ones just makes no sense).

Trying to make sense of an apparently illogical policy
In my introduction above I stated that what is taking place is a war on Russia, not hot war (yet?) and not quite an old-style Cold War. In essence, what the AngloZionists are doing is pretty clear and a lot of Russian commentators have already reached that conclusion: the US are engaged into a war against Russia for which the US will fight to the last Ukrainian. Thus, for the Empire, "success" can never be defined as an outcome in the Ukraine because, as I said previously, this war is not about the Ukraine. For the Empire "success" is a specific outcome in Russia: regime change. Let's us look at how the Empire plans to achieve this result.

The original plan was simplistic in a typically US Neocon way: overthrow Yanukovich, get the Ukraine into the EU and NATO, politically move NATO to the Russian border and militarily move it into Crimea. That plan failed. Russia accepted Crimea and the Ukraine collapsed into a vicious civil war combined with a terminal economic crisis. Then the US Neocons fell-back to plan B.

Plan B was also simple: get Russia to intervene militarily in the Donbass and use that as a pretext for a full-scale Cold War v2 which would create 1950's style tensions between East and West, justify fear-induced policies in the West, and completely sever the growing economic ties between Russia and the EU. Except that plan also failed - Russia did not take the bait and instead of intervening directly in the Donbass, she began a massive covert operation to support the anti-Nazi forces in Novorussia. The Russian plan worked, and the Junta Repression Forces (JRF) were soundly defeated by the Novorussian Armed Forces (NAF) even though the latter was suffering a huge deficit in firepower, armor, specialists and men (gradually, Russian covert aid turned all these around).

At this point in time the AngloZionist plutocracy truly freaked out under the combined realization that their plan was falling apart and that there was nothing they could really do to rescue it (a military option was totally impossible as I explained it in the past (http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2014/07/thinking-unthinkable.html)). They did try economic sanctions, but that only helped Putin to engage in long overdue reforms. But the worst part of it all was that each time the West expected Putin to do something, he did the exact opposite:

Nobody expected that Putin would use military force in Crimea in a lightening-fast take-over operation which will go down in history as at least as amazing as Storm-333 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Storm-333).
Everybody (including myself) expected Putin to send forces into Novorussia. He did not.
Nobody expected Russian counter-sanctions to hit the EU agricultural sector.
Everybody expected that Putin would retaliate after the latest round of sanctions. He did not.

There is a pattern here and it is one basic to all martial arts: first, never signal your intentions, second use feints and third, hit when and where your opponent doesn't expect it.

Conversely, there are two things which are deeply ingrained in the western political mindset which Putin never does: he never threatens and he never postures. For example, while the US is basically at war with Russia, Russia will gladly support a US resolution on ISIL if it is to Russia's advantage. And Russian diplomats will speak of "our American partners" or "our American friends" while, at the same time, doing more than the rest of the planet combined to bring down the AngloZionist Empire.

A quick look at Putin's record
As I have written in the past, unlike some other bloggers and commentators, I am neither a psychic not a prophet and I cannot tell you what Putin thinks or what he will do tomorrow. But what I can tell you is that which Putin has already done in the past: (in no particular order)

broken the back of the AngloZionist-backed oligarchy in Russia.
achieved a truly miraculous success in Chechnia (one which nobody, prophets included, had foreseen).
literally resurrected the Russian economy.
rebuilt the Russian military, security and intelligences forces.
severely disrupted the ability of foreign NGOs to subvert Russia.
done more for the de-dollarization of the planet than anybody before.
made Russia the clear leader of both BRICS and SCO.
openly challenged the informational monopoly of the western propaganda machine (with projects like RussiaToday).
stopped an imminent US/NATO strike on Syria by sending in a Russian Navy Expeditionary Force (which gave Syria a full radar coverage of the entire region).
made it possible for Assad to prevail in the Syrian civil war.
openly rejected the Western "universal civilizational model" and declared his support for another, a religion and tradition based one.
openly rejected a unipolar "New World Order" lead by the AngloZionists and declared his support for a multi-polar world order.
supported Assange (through RussiaToday) and protected Snowden
created and promoted a new alliance model between Christianity and Islam thus undermining the "clash of civilization" paradigm.
booted the AngloZionists out of key locations in the Caucasus (Chechnia, Ossetia).
booted the AngloZionists out of key locations in Central Asia (Manas base in Kyrgyzstan)
gave Russia the means to defend her interest in the Arctic region, including military means.
established a full-spectrum strategic alliance with China which is at the core of both SCO and BRICS.
is currently passing laws barring foreign interests from controlling the Russian media.
gave Iran the means to develop a much needed civilian nuclear program.
is working with China to create a financial system fully separated form the current AngloZionist controlled one (including trade in Rubles or Renminbi).
re-establised Russian political and economic support for Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil, Nicaragua and Argentina.
very effectively deflated the pro-US color-coded revolution in Russia.
organized the "Voentorg" which armed the NAF.
gave refuge to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees.
sent in vitally needed humanitarian aid to Novorussia.
provided direct Russian fire support and possibly even air cover to NAF in key locations (the "southern cauldron" for example).
last but not least, he openly spoke of the need for Russia to "sovereignize" herself and to prevail over the pro-US 5th column.

and that list goes on and on. All I am trying to illustrate is that there is a very good reason for the AngloZionist's hatred for Putin: his long record of very effectively fighting them. So unless we assume that Putin had a sudden change of heart or that he simply ran out of energy or courage, I submit that the notion that he suddenly made a 180 makes no sense. His current policies, however, do make sense, as I will try to explain now.

If you are a "Putin betrayed Novorussia" person, please set that hypothesis aside for a moment, just for argument's sake and assume that Putin is both principled and logical. What could he be doing in the Ukraine? Can we make sense of what we observe?

Imperatives Russia cannot ignore
First, I consider the following sequence indisputable:

First, Russia must prevail over the current AngloZionist war against her. What the Empire wants in Russia is regime change followed by complete absorption into the Western sphere of influence including a likely break-up of Russia. What is threatened is the very existence of the Russian civilization.

Second, Russia will never be safe with a neo-Nazi russophobic regime in power in Kiev. The Ukie nationalist freaks have proven that it is impossible to negotiate with them (they have broken literally every single agreement signed so far), their hatred for Russia is total (as shown with their constant references to the use of - hypothetical - nuclear weapons against Russia). Therefore,

Third, regime change in Kiev followed by a full de-Nazification is the only possible way for Russia to achieve her vital objectives.

Again, and at the risk of having my words twisted and misrepresented, I have to repeat here that Novorussia is not what is at stake here. It's not even the future of the Ukraine. What is at stake here is a planetary confrontation (this is the one thesis of Dugin which I fully agree with). The future of the planet depends on the capability of the BRICS/SCO countries to replace the AngloZionist Empire with a very different, multi-polar, international order. Russia is crucial and indispensable in this effort (any such effort without Russia is doomed to fail), and the future of Russia is now decided by what Russia will do in the Ukraine. As for the future of the Ukraine, it largely depends on what will happen to Novorussia, but not exclusively. In a paradoxical way, Novorussia is more important to Russia than to the Ukraine. Here is why:

For the rest of the Ukraine, Novorussia is lost. Forever (http://russia-insider.com/en/politics_ukraine_opinion/2014/09/25/09-19-53pm/ukraine_will_never_again_be_united_country_get_used). Not even a joint Putin-Obama effort could prevent that. In fact, the Ukies know that and this is why they make no effort to win the hearts and minds of the local population. If fact, I am convinced that the so-called "random" or "wanton" destruction of the Novorussian industrial, economic, scientific and cultural infrastructure has been intentional act of hateful vengeance similar to the way the AngloZionists always turn to killing civilians when they fail to overcome military forces (the examples of Yugoslavia and Lebanon come to mind). Of course, Moscow can probably force the local Novorussian political leaders to sign some kind of document accepting Kiev's sovereignty, but that will be a fiction, it is way too late for that. If not de jure, then de facto, Novorussia is never going to accept Kiev's rule again and everybody knows that, in Kiev, in Novorussia and in Russia.

What could a de facto but not de jure independence look like?

No Ukrainian military, national guard, oligarch battalion or SBU, full economic, cultural, religious, linguistic and educational independence, locally elected officials and local media, but all that with Ukie flags, no official independence status, no Novorussian Armed Forces (they will be called something like "regional security force" or even "police force") and no Novorussian currency (though the Ruble - along with the Dollar and Euro - will be used on a daily basis). The top officials will have to be officially approved by Kiev (which Kiev will, of course, lest its impotence becomes visible). This will be a temporary, transitional and unstable arrangement, but it will be good enough to provide a face-saving way out to Kiev.

This said, I would argue that both Kiev and Moscow have an interest in maintaining the fiction of a unitary Ukraine. For Kiev this is a way to not appear completely defeated by the accursed Moskals. But what about Russia?

What if you were in Putin's place?
Ask yourself the following question: if you were Putin and your goal was regime change in Kiev, would you prefer Novorussia to be part of the Ukraine or not? I would submit that having Novorussia inside is much better for the following reasons:

it makes it part, even on a macro-level, of the Ukrainian processes, like national elections or national media.
it begs the comparison with the conditions in the rest of the Ukraine.
it makes it far easier to influence commerce, business, transportation, etc.
it creates an alternative (Nazi-free) political center to Kiev.
it makes it easier for Russian interests (of all kind) to penetrate into the Ukraine.
it removes the possibility to put up a Cold War like "wall" or barrier on some geographical marker.
it removes the accusation that Russian wants to partition the Ukraine.

In other words, to keep Novorussia de jure, nominally, part of the Ukraine is the best way to appear to be complying with AngloZionist demands while subverting the Nazi junta in power. In a recent article (http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2014/09/september-21-ukraine-and-russia-mini.html) I outlined what Russia could do without incurring any major consequences:

Politically oppose the regime everywhere: UN, media, public opinion, etc.
Express political support for Novorussia and any Ukrainian oppositionContinue the informational war (Russian media does a great job)
Prevent Novorussia from falling (covert military aid)
Mercilessly keep up the economic pressure on the Ukraine
Disrupt as much as possible the US-EU "axis of kindness"
Help Crimea and Novorussia prosper economically and financially

In other words - give the appearance of staying out while very much staying in.

What is the alternative anyway?
I already hear the chorus of indignant "hurray-patriots" (that is what these folks are called in Russia) accusing me of only seeing Novorussia as a tool for Russian political goals and of ignoring the death and suffering endured by the people of Novorussia. To this I will simply reply the following:

Does anybody seriously believe that an independent Novorussia can live in even minimal peace and security without a regime change in Kiev? If Russia cannot afford a Nazi junta in power in Kiev, can Novorussia?!

In general, the hurray-patriots are long on what should be done now and very short any kind of mid or long term vision. Just like those who believe that Syria can be saved by sending in the Russian Air Force, the hurray-patriots believe that the crisis in the Ukraine can be solved by sending in tanks. They are a perfect example of the mindset H. L. Mencken was referring to when he wrote "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong".

The sad reality is that the mindset behind such "simple" solutions is always the same one: never negotiate, never compromise, never look long term but only to the immediate future and use force in all cases.

But the facts are here: the US/NATO block is powerful, militarily, economically and politically and it can hurt Russia, especially over time. Furthermore, while Russia can easily defeat the Ukrainian military, this hardly would be a very meaningful "victory". Externally it would trigger a massive deterioration of the international political climate, while internally the Russians would have to suppress the Ukrainian nationalists (not all of them Nazi) by force. Could Russia do that? Again, the answer is that yes - but at what cost?

I good friend of mine was a Colonel in the KGB Special Forces unit called "Kaskad" (which later was renamed "Vympel"). One day he told me how his father, himself a special operator for the GRU, fought against Ukrainian insurgents from the end of WWII in 1945 up to 1958: that is thirteen years! It took Stalin and Krushchev 13 years to finally crush the Ukrainian nationalist insurgents. Does anybody in his/her right mind sincerely believe that modern Russia should repeat that policies and spend years hunting down Ukrainian insurgents again?

By the way, if the Ukrainian nationalists could fight the Soviet rule under Stalin and Krushchev for a full 13 years after the end of the war - how is it that there is no visible anti-Nazi resistance in Zaporozhie, Dnepropetrivsk or Kharkov? Yes, Luganks and Donetsk did rise up and take arms, very successfully - but the rest of the Ukraine? If you were Putin, would you be confident that Russian forces liberating these cities would receive the same welcome that they did in Crimea?

And yet, the hurray-patriots keep pushing for more Russian intervention and further Novorussian military operations against Ukie forces. Is it not about time we begin asking who would benefit from such policies?

It has been an old trick of the US CIA to use the social media and the blogosphere to push for nationalist extremism in Russia. A well know and respected Russian patriot and journalist - Maksim Shevchenko - had a group of people organized to track down the IP numbers of some of the most influential radical nationalist organizations, website, blogs and individual posters on the Russian Internet. Turns out that most were based in the USA, Canada and Israel. Surprise, surprise. Or, maybe, no surprise at all?

For the AngloZionists, supporting extremists and rabid nationalists in Russia makes perfectly good sense. Either they get to influence the public opinion or they at the very least can be used to bash the regime in power. I personally see no difference between an Udaltsov or a Navalnii on one hand and a Limonov or a Dugin on the other. Their sole effect is to get people mad at the Kremlin. What the pretext for the anger is does not matter - for Navalnyi its "stolen elections" for Dugin it's "back-stabbed Novorussia". And it does not matter which of them are actually paid agents or just "useful idiots" - God be their judge - but what does matter is that the solutions they advocate are no solutions at all, just pious pretexts to bash the regime in power.

In the meantime, not only had Putin not sold-out, back-stabbed, traded away or otherwise abandoned Novorussia, it's Poroshenko who is barely holding on to power and Banderastan which is going down the tubes. There are also plenty of people who see through this doom and gloom nonsense, both in Russia (Yuri Baranchik (http://www.iarex.ru/articles/50896.html)) and abroad (M. K. Bhadrakumar (http://blogs.rediff.com/mkbhadrakumar/2014/09/24/west-beats-retreat-in-ukraine/)).

But what about the oligarchs?
I already addressed this issue in a recent post (http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2014/09/strelkov-from-swimming-with-piranhas-to.html), but I think that it is important to return to this topic here and the first thing which is crucial to understand in the Russian or Ukrainian context is that oligarchs are a fact of life. This is not to say that their presence is a good thing, only that Putin and Poroshenko and, for that matter, anybody trying to get anything done over there needs to take them into account. The big difference is that while in Kiev a regime controlled by the oligarchs has been replaced by a regime of oligarchs, in Russia the oligarchy can only influence, but not control, the Kremlin. The examples, of Khodorkovsky or Evtushenkov show that the Kremlin still can, and does, smack down an oligarch when needed.

Still, it is one thing to pick on one or two oligarchs and quite another to remove them from the Ukrainian equation: the latter is just not going to happen. So for Putin any Ukrainian strategy has to take into account the presence and, frankly, power of the Ukrainian oligarchs and their Russian counterparts.

Putin knows that oligarchs have their true loyalty only to themselves and that their only "country" is wherever their assets happen to be. As a former KGB foreign intelligence officer for Putin this is an obvious plus, because that mindset potentially allows him to manipulate them. Any intelligence officer knows that people can be manipulated by a finite list of approaches: ideology, ego, resentment, sex, a skeleton in the closet and, of course, money. From Putin's point of view, Rinat Akhmetov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinat_Akhmetov), for example, is a guy who used to employ something like 200'000 people in the Donbass, who clearly can get things done, and whose official loyalty Kiev and the Ukraine is just a camouflage for his real loyalty: his money. Now, Putin does not have to like or respect Akhmetov, most intelligence officers will quietly despise that kind of person, but that also means that for Putin Akhmetov is an absolutely crucial person to talk to, explore options with and, possibly, use to achieve a Russian national strategic objective in the Donbass.

I have already written this many times here: Russians do talk to their enemies. With a friendly smile. This is even more true for a former intelligence officer who is trained to always communicate, smile, appear to be engaging and understanding. For Putin Akhmetov is not a friend or an ally, but he is a powerful figure which can be manipulated in Russia's advantage. What I am trying to explain here is the following:

There are numerous rumors of secret negotiations between Rinat Akhmetov and various Russian officials. Some say that Khodakovski is involved. Others mention Surkov. There is no doubt in my mind that such secret negotiations are taking place. In fact, I am sure that all the parties involved talk to all other other parties involved. Even with a disgusting, evil and vile creature like Kolomoiski. In fact, the sure signal that somebody has finally decided to take him out would be that nobody would be speaking with him any more. That will probably happen, with time, but most definitely not until his power base is sufficiently eroded.

One Russian blogger believes (http://www.iarex.ru/articles/50896.html) that Akhmetov has already been "persuaded" (read: bought off) by Putin and that he is willing to play by the new rules which now say "Putin is boss". Maybe. Maybe not yet, but soon. Maybe never. All I am suggesting is that negotiations between the Kremlin and local Ukie oligarchs are as logical and inevitable as the US contacts with the Italian Mafia before the US armed forces entered Italy.

But is there a 5th column in Russia?
Yes, absolutely. First and foremost, it is found inside the Medvedev government itself and even inside the Presidential administration. Always remember that Putin was put into power by two competing forces: the secret services and big money. And yes, while it is true that Putin has tremendously weakened the "big money" component (what I call the "Atlantic Integrationists") they are still very much there, though they are more subdued, more careful and less arrogant than during the time when Medvedev was formally in charge. The big change in the recent years is that the struggle between patriots (the "Eurasian Sovereignists") and the 5th column now is in the open, but it if far from over. And we should never underestimate these people: they have a lot of power, a lot of money and a fantastic capability to corrupt, threaten, discredit, sabotage, cover-up, smear, etc. They are also very smart, they can hire the best professionals in the field, and they are very, very good at ugly political campaigns. For example, the 5th columnists try hard to give a voice to the National-Bolshevik opposition (both Limonov and Dugin regularly get airtime on Russian TV) and rumor has it that they finance a lot of the National-Bolshevik media (just like the Koch brothers paid for the Tea Party in the USA).

Another problem is that while these guys are objectively doing the US CIA's bidding, there is no proof of it. As I was told many times by a wise friend: most conspiracies are really collusions and the latter are very hard to prove. But the community of interests between the US CIA and the Russian and Ukrainian oligarchy is so obvious as to be undeniable.

The real danger for Russia
So now we have the full picture. Again, Putin has to simultaneously contend with

1) a strategic psyop campaign run by the US/UK & Co. which combines the corporate media's demonization of Putin and a campaign in the social media to discredit him for his passivity and lack of appropriate response to the West.
2) a small but very vociferous group of (mostly) National-Bolsheviks (Limonov, Dugin & Co.) who have found in the Novorussian cause a perfect opportunity to bash Putin for not sharing their ideology and their "clear, simple, and wrong" "solutions".
3) a network of powerful oligarchs who want to use the opportunity presented by the actions of first two groups to promote their own interests.
4) a 5th column for whom all of the above is a fantastic opportunity to weaken the Eurasian Sovereignists
5) a sense of disappointment by many sincere people who feel that Russia is acting like a passive punching-ball.
6) an overwhelming majority of people in Novorussia who want complete (de facto and de jure) independence from Kiev and who are sincerely convinced that any negotiations with Kiev are a prelude to a betrayal by Russia of Novorussian interest.
7) the objective reality that Russian and Novorussian interests are not the same.
8) the objective reality that the AngloZionist Empire is still very powerful and even potentially dangerous.

It is very, very, hard for Putin to try to balance these forces in such a way that the resulting vector is one which is in the strategic interest of Russia. I would argue that there is simply no other solution to this conundrum other than to completely separate Russia's official (declaratory) police and Russia's real actions. The covert help to Novorussia - the Voentorg - is an example of that, but only a limited one because what Russia must do now goes beyond covert actions: Russia must appear to be doing one thing while doing exactly the opposite. It is in Russia's strategic interest at this point in time to appear to:

1) Support a negotiated solution along the lines of: a unitary non-aligned Ukraine, with large regional right for all regions while, at the same time, politically opposing the regime everywhere: UN, media, public opinion, etc. and supporting both Novorussia and any Ukrainian opposition.
2) Give Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs a reason to if not support, then at least not oppose such a solution (for ex: by not nationalizing Akhmetov's assets in the Donbass), while at the same time making sure that there is literally enough "firepower" to keep the oligarch under control.
3) Negotiate with the EU on the actual implementation of Ukraine's Agreement with the EU while at the same time helping the Ukraine commit economic suicide by making sure that there is just the right amount of economic strangulation applied to prevent the regime from bouncing back.
4) Negotiate with the EU and the Junta in Kiev over the delivery of gas while at the same time making sure that the regime pays enough for it to be broke.
5) Appear generally non-confrontational towards the USA while at the same time trying as hard as possible to create tensions between the US and the EU.
6) Appear to be generally available and willing to do business with the AngoZionist Empire while at the same time building an alternative international systems not centered on the USA or the Dollar.

As you see, this goes far beyond a regular covert action program. What we are dealing with is a very complex, multi-layered, program to achieve the Russian most important goal in the Ukraine (regime change and de-Nazification) while inhibiting as much as possible the AngloZionists attempts to re-created a severe and long lasting East-West crisis in which the EU would basically fuse with the USA.

Conclusion: a key to Russian policies?
Most of us are used to think in terms of super-power categories. After all, US President from Reagan on to Obama have all served us a diet of grand statements, almost constant military operations followed by Pentagon briefings, threats, sanctions, boycotts, etc. I would argue that this has always been the hallmark of western "diplomacy" from the Crusades to the latest bombing campaign against ISIL. Russia and China have a diametrically opposed tradition. For example, in terms of methodology Lavrov always repeats the same principle: "we want to turn our enemies into neutrals, we want to turn neutrals into partner and we want to turn partners into friends". The role of Russian diplomats is not to prepare for war, but to avoid it. Yes, Russia will fight, but only when diplomacy has failed. If for the US diplomacy is solely a means to deliver threats, for Russia it is a the primary tool to defuse them. It is therefore no wonder at all the the US diplomacy is primitive to the point of bordering on the comical. After all, how much sophistication is needed to say "comply or else". Any petty street thug know how to do that. Russian diplomats are much more akin to explosives disposal specialist or a mine clearance officer: they have to be extremely patient, very careful and fully focused. But most importantly, they cannot allow anybody to rush them lest the entire thing blows up.

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Russia is fully aware that the AngloZionist Empire is at war with her and that surrender is simply not an option any more (assuming it ever was). Russia also understands that she is not a real super-power or, even less so, an empire. Russia is only a very powerful country which is trying to de-fang the Empire without triggering a frontal confrontation with it. In the Ukraine, Russia sees no other solution than regime change in Kiev. To achieve this goal Russia will always prefer a negotiated solution to one obtained by force, even though if not other choice is left to her, she will use force.

In other words:

Russia's long term end goal is to bring down the AngloZionis Empire. Russia's mid term goal is to create the conditions for regime change in Kiev. Russia's short term goal is to prevent the junta from over-running Novorussia. Russia's preferred method to achieve these goals is negotiation with all parties involved. A prerequisite to achieve these goals by negotiations is to prevent the Empire from succeeding in creating an acute continental crisis (conversely, the imperial "deep state" fully understands all this, hence the double declaration of war by Obama and Poroshenko.)

As long as you keep these basic principles in mind, the apparent zig-zags, contradictions and passivity of Russian policies will begin to make sense.

It is an open question whether Russia will succeed in her goals. In theory, a successful Junta attack on Novorussia could force Russia to intervene. Likewise, there is always the possibility of yet another "false flag", possibly a nuclear one. I think that the Russian policy is sound and the best realistically achievable under the current set of circumstances, but only time will tell.

I am sorry that it took me over 6400 words to explain all that, but in a society were most "thoughts" are expressed as "tweets" and analyses as Facebook posts, it was a daunting task to try to shed some light to what is turning to be a deluge of misunderstandings and misconceptions, all made worse by the manipulation of the social media. I feel that 60'000 words would be more adequate to this task as it is far easier to just throw out a short and simple slogan than to refute its assumptions and implications.

My hope that at least those of you who sincerely were confused by Russia's apparently illogical stance can now connect the dots and make better sense of it all.

Kind regards to all,

The Saker
Posted by VINEYARDSAKER: at 16:00 (http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.ch/2014/09/the-russian-response-to-double.html)

Hervé

28th September 2014, 14:04

If that wasn't enough, here is more:

Russia Discovers Massive Arctic Oil Field Which May Be Larger Than Gulf Of Mexico (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-27/russia-discovers-massive-arctic-oil-field-which-may-be-larger-gulf-mexico)

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In a dramatic stroke of luck for the Kremlin, this morning there is hardly a person in the world who is happier than Russian president Vladimir Putin because overnight state-run run OAO Rosneft announced it has discovered what may be a treasure trove of black oil, one which could boost Russia's coffers by hundreds of billions if not more, when a vast pool of crude was discovered in the Kara Sea region of the Arctic Ocean, showing the region has the potential to become one of the world’s most important crude-producing areas, arguably bigger than the Gulf Of Mexico. The announcement was made by Igor Sechin, Rosneft’s chief executive officer, who spent two days sailing on a Russian research ship to the drilling rig where the find was unveiled today.

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The oil production platform at the Sakhalin-I field in Russia, partly owned by ONGC Videsh Ltd., Rosneft Oil Co., Exxon Mobil Corp. and Japan's Sakhalin Oil and Gas Development Co. on June 9, 2009.

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Well, one person who may have been as happy as Putin is the CEO of Exxon Mobil, since the well was discovered with the help of America's biggest energy company (and second largest by market cap after AAPL). Then again, maybe not: as Bloomberg explains (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-27/rosneft-says-exxon-arctic-well-strikes-oil.html)"the well was drilled before the Oct. 10 deadline Exxon was granted by the U.S. government under sanctions barring American companies from working in Russia’s Arctic offshore. Rosneft and Exxon won’t be able to do more drilling, putting the exploration and development of the area on hold despite the find announced today."

Which means instead of generating billions in E&P revenue, XOM could end up with, well, nothing. And that would be quite a shock to the US company because the unveiled Arctic field may hold about 1 billion barrels of oil and similar geology nearby means the surrounding area may hold more than the U.S. part of the Gulf or Mexico, he said.

For a sense of how big the spoils are we go to another piece by Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-28/exxon-s-900-billion-arctic-prize-at-risk-after-ukraine.html), which tells us that "Universitetskaya, the geological structure being drilled, is the size of the city of Moscow and large enough to contain more than 9 billion barrels, a trove worth more than $900 billion at today’s prices."

The only way to reach the prospect is a four-day voyage from Murmansk, the largest city north of the Arctic circle. Everything will have to shipped in — workers, supplies, equipment — for a few months of drilling, then evacuated before winter renders the sea icebound. Even in the short Arctic summer, a flotilla is needed to keep drifting ice from the rig.

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Sadly, said bonanza may be non-recourse to Exxon after Obama made it quite clear that all western companies will have to wind down operations in Russia or else feel the wrath of the DOJ against sanctions breakers. Which leaves XOM two options: ignore Obama's orders (something which many have been doing of late), or throw in the towel on what may be the largest oil discovery in years.

And while the Exxon C-suite contemplates its choices, here is some more on today's finding from Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-27/rosneft-says-exxon-arctic-well-strikes-oil.html):
“It exceeded our expectations,” Sechin said in an interview. This discovery is of “exceptional significance in showing the presence of hydrocarbons in the Arctic.”

The development of Arctic oil reserves, an undertaking that will cost hundreds of billions of dollars and take decades, is one of Putin’s grandest ambitions. As Russia’s existing fields in Siberia run dry, the country needs to develop new reserves as it vies with the U.S. to be the world’s largest oil and gas producer.

Output from the Kara Sea field could begin within five to seven years, Sechin said, adding the field discovered today would be named “Victory.”
Duh.
The Kara Sea well -- the most expensive in Russian history -- targeted a subsea structure named Universitetskaya and its success has been seen as pivotal to that strategy. The start of drilling, which reached a depth of more than 2,000 meters (6,500 feet), was marked with a ceremony involving Putin and Sechin.

The importance of Arctic drilling was one reason that offshore oil exploration was included in the most recent round of U.S. sanctions. Exxon and Rosneft have a venture to explore millions of acres of the Arctic Ocean.
But what's worse for Exxon is that now that the hard work is done, Rosneft may not need its Western partner much longer:
“Once the well is plugged, there will be a lot of work to do in interpreting the results and this is probably something that Rosneft can do,” Julian Lee, an oil strategist at Bloomberg First Word in London, said before today’s announcement. “Both parties are probably hoping that by the time they are ready to start the next well the sanctions will have been lifted.”
And here is why there is nothing Exxon would like more than to put all the western sanctions against Moscow in the rearview mirror: "The stakes are high for Exxon, whose $408 billion market valuation makes it the world’s largest energy producer. Russia represents the second-biggest exploration prospect worldwide. The Irving, Texas-based company holds drilling rights across 11.4 million acres in Russia, only eclipsed by its 15.1 million U.S. acres."

Proving just how major this finding is, and how it may have tipped the balance of power that much more in Russia's favor is the emergence of paid experts, desperate to talk down the relevance of the Russian discovery:
More drilling and geological analysis will be needed before a reliable estimate can be tallied for the size of the oil resources in the Universitetskaya area and the Russian Arctic as a whole, said Frances Hudson, a global thematic strategist who helps manage $305 billion at Standard Life Investments Ltd. in Edinburgh. Sanctions forbidding U.S. and European cooperation with Russian entities mean that country’s nascent Arctic exploration will be stillborn because Rosneft and its state-controlled sister companies don’t know how to drill in cold offshore conditions alone, she said.

“Extrapolating from a small data sample is perhaps not going to give you the best information,” Hudson said in a telephone interview. “And because of sanctions, it looks like there’s going to be less exploration rather than more.” In addition, the expense and difficulty of operating in such a remote part of the world, where hazards include icebergs and sub-zero temperatures, mean that the developing discoveries may not be economic at today’s oil prices.
Maybe. Then again perhaps the experts' time is better suited to estimating just how much longer the US shale miracle has left before the US is once again at the mercy of offshore sellers of crude.

In any event one country is sure to have a big smile on its face: China, since today's finding simply means that as Russia has to ultimately sell the final product to someone, that someone will almost certainly be the Middle Kingdom, which if the "Holy Gas Grail" deal is any indication, will be done at whatever terms Beijing chooses.

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I hear it's real close to GULF OF TONKINSKI, to which the US has Exceptional Rights.

Hervé

28th September 2014, 22:58

Me think, you, dear reader, should know:

From Sue Arrigo's Case 28 DCI Robert Gates, Torture, and Ashes of Children (http://pauljackson.us/sue_arrigo/)

The GAO Has the Evidence on Who Ordered the Burning Alive of the Children
When I gave a talk at the CIA in 2004, I showed 7 documents to prove each point I made and the whole talk lasted a grueling 5 hours. More people kept showing up until it was standing room only; though perhaps some came just to see how long it would be before I was pulled off the stage into a basement torture chamber again.

For each slide I speak about, the document, photo, or evidence is sitting in the Government Accounting Office (GAO's) files since the Dept of Justice was corrupted beyond use. Since I was tortured and stripped of all of my possessions when I was outed from the CIA by Cheney in 2004, clearly I do not have any of these documents in my personal possession. But I still remember the talks I gave at the CIA and the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) in 2004, recalling parts of them here to tell you what evidence the GAO has in its possession, if Congress will but request it from them.

In the rest of this article I am going to address the question of who was responsible for MKULTRA and its related CIA programs. Who turned the children into ashes and what did they do with them? Remember that this reminiscence by recounting a slideshow details the evidence sitting at the GAO.

The Coverup of the Rockefeller Satanic Rituals
There has been a conspiracy to keep the public, and even intelligence people in the dark. On this slide you see a letter from Nelson Rockefeller thanking the owner of the New York Times for his discretion in not covering a lurid crime. Note the date which is two weeks after this Upstate New York police report was made. The victim was a young boy who was sodomized and then killed.

Here is the last notes in the police report made by the detective. He says he is making progress in the case and the evidence is strong and growing. Then the next day he writes suddenly that the case is “unfounded” and is being closed.

Here is the KGB’s report on that murder. Note that it lists the people that the Rockefeller thank you letter goes to--about 20 media owners. It also shows the earlier letter Nelson Rockefeller wrote them asking them to kill this story. All except one of them did. Here is the letter from a KBG officer to Nelson Rockefeller asking for hush money in exchange for the evidence in the KGB’s files.

Here is a copy of the financial transaction from Rockefeller’s hush money account to the KGB officer for about $86,000 in 1970’s money. What exactly was Rockefeller worried about that he paid out the money? Here is the flak-assessment of likely blowback by the CIA if the money was not paid. Note that this flak report was sent to Nelson at his Upstate New York Estate, where it was found in the Rockefeller Archives with this envelop attached to it. The date it was received is one day before the money was ordered transferred. Here is the journal entry of Nelson on that day saying, “Our side business has caused me $86,000 in extra expenses today. I have asked the DCI to tighten up our security procedures so that there is less risk of exposure. The last thing we want is the headlines “Boy’s rape and murder linked to the Rockefeller’s Estate”. Fortunately, the body was off my property by the time the car was stopped. Had I not gotten the warning of the raid on the ritual from my men inside Police enforcement, this could have been quite serious... Billions of dollars hang in the balance. I have scheduled a Policemen’s Ball here next month so as to ensure cooperation...New hidden cameras will be installed.”

Here is the KGB’s list of who was invited to the “Policeman’s Ball”. It looks like a “Who’s who” of Police, FBI and media VIPs. Here are some of the photos from that event from the Rockefeller Archive’s blackmail files on the left side of the following slides with the KGB’s photos of the same event. That gives you an idea of the accuracy of the KGB files; the KGB actually was better at taking blackmail photos. Here is the letter from that same KBG officer laying out the evidence he has. He claims that he has the evidence on all of the Rockefeller’s global sex slave trafficking. That is a little hard to believe, but he sent with the letter an organizational chart listing the addresses of the branch offices of Rockefeller’s sex slave trade by country. Here is the CIA’s own organizational chart of the sex slave trade that they are engaged in with the profits going to the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, and Skull and Bones members.

If you read my Case 22C Hot Sodas Courtesy of those who Brought You Auschwitz? (http://avalonlibrary.net/Sue_Arrigo/) you will see that the Rockefellers and Bonesman Prescott Bush were major players funding Hitler, building Auschwitz, using the slave labor, and paying the SS guards.

Those families have been major players in the New World Orders plans to enslave the world using torture, mind control, and rape as their modus operandi for over a century. There were some minor discrepancies between the KGB and CIA charts on Rockefeller’s sex slave trade, but overall the charts agree. Here is the transaction from the Rockefeller’s hush money account which paid the Russian to destroy the KGB’s files. Note the sum of about $150,000.

Next is a handwritten note of the DDO shortly thereafter in which he is preparing to advise the DCI on how that particular Russian KGB officer can be assassinated. Due to a delay in the Russian banks clearing the transaction and delivering the money to the Russian in cash, the CIA accidentally killed him before he destroyed the KGB’s files on Rockefeller’s sex slave trade which are quite extensive.

The CIA’s and KGB’s Sex Slave Trade Make Profits for the Same NWO Bosses
Here is a breakdown of the recipients of the profits on the sex slave trade run by the CIA and that run by the KGB. Note that due to the Rothschilds and Rockefellers funding of the Bolshevik Revolution, that they are the major recipients of the KGB’s sex slave running operations. In fact, the Rothschilds and Rockefellers were major forces behind the scenes setting up both the KGB and OSS/CIA intelligence agencies to run their illegal drug, trafficking in humans, weapons, and war-profiteering businesses. Throughout the Cold War and before, they were giving orders to the OSS/CIA and the KBG and getting those orders followed with a high degree of reliability. Here is a late 1930’s letter from a Rockefeller to Stalin ordering him to purge KGB people and depts. which have displeased Rothschild. Here is the letter back from Stalin saying that he has done as requested. In fact, the KGB followed the Rothschild and Rockefeller orders better than US intelligence which was less efficient.

The Rothschilds and Rockefellers used MI6 and the CIA to check up on whether the KGB was doing what they wanted and vice versa. Here is a 1990’s CIA report on the KGB sex slave trade which was found in the Rockefeller Archives. Note the handwritten note in David Rockefeller’s handwriting which says that some of the profits are being diverted to people which are not part of his operations and that this problem must be eliminated.

Here is a CIA report from 2 months later in that same Rockefeller file, detailing what steps have been taken to “stem the losses”. One of the recommendations is to start a war in Chechnya to cover up the deaths in eliminating the competition to the Rockefeller and Rothschild sex slave trade. The next month the Russians launched a seminal invasion of Chechnya.

Here, also from the same Rockefeller file is a private think tank report on the effect of the Russian invasion into Chechnya in terms of whether it has succeeded in covering up the early Chechen deaths as related to “the global” sex slave trade. It concludes that it was a successful cover-up. Note at the bottom of the report David Rockefeller has written “All copies of this report are to be destroyed.” However, in Rockefeller Archive jargon that means all copies outside of the Rockefeller and Rothschild Archives.

Here is a letter from David Rockefeller to the Rothschilds saying in abbreviated form what steps he has taken to secure that the Chechens do not interfere with their profits anymore. Inserted in the letter was an accounting sheet giving the profits from the sex slaves made “from the Russians quelling the Chechen uprising”.

An ordinary person following the news has no way to know the real causes of the events they are told about. They swallow the official propaganda lies of which every side they are sitting on. That means that the war-profiteers can endlessly threaten them with external enemies and force them into wars. In those wars, the costs are borne by the taxpayers and the profits all go into the same private hands.

Here is how the profits flowed in the 1980’s Russian war in Afghanistan. Note that we are looking at the global profits from that war. Both the Russian and the US govt. forced their taxpayers to buy billions of dollars worth of armaments to use in Afghanistan without ever asking them if that was how they wanted their money spent.

Here is how the profits are flowing in the 2000’s US war in Afghanistan. There is very little difference, most of the profits are going into the pockets of the Rothschilds and their downline, like the Rockefellers, and Skull and Bones members.

Both wars started when the Afghanis attempted to shut down the Rockefellers and Rothschilds using their country to grow opium for their illegal drug trade. In May 2000, the Taliban outlawed the growing of opium poppies. The CIA verified that 95% of the poppy fields were gone, see The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred McCoy.

The Taliban went from being supported by the US to being public enemy number 1 over that issue. One of the first things the US did when it invaded Afghanistan was to let the drug war lords out of the Taliban’s prisons and put them back in business as their downline.

Nelson Rockefeller Ordered JFK Assassinated
In this first slide in this next section, you see the first premise that we are going to prove through examining these documents---'All those not making decisions at the level of David Rockefeller, or above, in the New World Order are expendable slaves from the point of view of the elite in it.'

Here in the second slide you see a planning document in the John F. Kennedy Assassination. Note that it is a CIA document discussing how to manage the cover-up of the assassination and is dated about 5 weeks before the assassination. The signature at the bottom is John McCone's, the director of CIA that JFK appointed under pressure from Nelson Rockefeller, after firing DCI Allen Dulles for the Bay of Pigs fiasco.

This document comes from the blackmail files of the Rockefeller Achives. Nelson Rockefeller requested the cover-up White Paper from McCone and had the power to compel McCone to sign it. Clearly, it was against McCone's interests to prove he was part of the conspiracy to kill JFK.

... etc... [...]

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So... Putin... ex KGB... means that, to the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, he might KNOW a bit too much...

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Now, have another look at this OP (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?75343-Inside-911-An-aristocratic-genocidal-construction.&p=881546&viewfull=1#post881546) (<--- click)

... let us know if something "clicked" about "the Devil's" sole interest for "doing it"?

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Then, have a look at this thread: Kevin Annett: Euro Police join ITCCS take down of Satanic networks in Vatican, Monarchies, Cargill (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?12514-Canadas-Hidden-History-Kevin-Annett&p=876050&viewfull=1#post876050)

... never mind the "Jimmy fixing it" thread...

... any light bulbs going off?

Baby Steps

29th September 2014, 09:53

The following article clarifies alot. USA wants to invade Syria to profit from Saudi & Qatari oil pipelines to Europe. Assad wants to pipe Iraqi & Iranian oil to Europe. Russia is looking to charge Europe in Roubles for gas. If the Brics bite the bullet and embrace this abandonment of the petro-dollar then it's goodbye Dollar. But its also goodbye Chinese boom. Their huge dollar denominated holdings collapse. Their biggest market disappears. They are only comtemplating this hard road because they are finding the West increasingly intolerable. So they are putting new structures in place in order to survive, and the USA establishment knows its only a matter of time.

http://www.eutimes.net/2014/09/world-in-shock-after-america-lies-its-way-into-war-again/

Billy

29th September 2014, 19:56

Syria President Assad's take on Gaza, Attacks Saudi Arabia and Arab Spring (English Subtitles)

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Hervé

29th September 2014, 20:22

Moscow accuses Kiev officials of targeting Russian speakers in E. Ukraine, launches criminal case
(http://rt.com/news/191616-ukraine-russia-investigation-people/)
Published time: September 29, 2014 17:35
Get short URL (http://rt.com/news/191616-ukraine-russia-investigation-people/)

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A shopping center damaged by artillery shelling in Lugansk. (RIA Novosti / Evgeny Biyatov)

Russia’s Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case against Ukraine’s military and civilian leadership, accusing top officials of “genocide” against the Russian-speaking population in southeast Ukraine during this year’s conflict.

According to Russian investigators, “unidentified people from the country’s highest political and military leadership of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine and Right Sector gave the orders aimed at the complete destruction of Russian-speaking citizens living on the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk republics."

As a result of those actions about 2,500 people died, said Vladimir Markin, spokesman for the Russian Investigative Committee.

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A gas station damaged by shelling in the Lugansk region. (RIA Novosti / Evgeny Biyatov)

“The investigation has found that Russian-speaking citizens were killed during attacks with multiple launch rocket systems Grad and Uragan, aviation rockets, tactical missiles Tochka-U and other kinds of heavy offensive weapons,” he said.

A total of more than 500 residential buildings as well as local social facilities, including hospitals and schools, were damaged since April 12, the Investigative Committee said.

It estimated that over 300,000 local residents have been forced to leave and seek asylum in Russia.

Ukraine’s southeastern regions historically have a Russian-speaking majority, many of whom have cultural and family ties with Russia.

Billy

29th September 2014, 21:34

Israel Is Put on Trial for War Crimes

http://www.alternet.org/world/israel-put-trial-war-crimes

September 26, 2014 |

On September 25, in Brussels, Belgium, the Russell Tribunal gathered to examine allegations of war crimes and genocidal intent by the Israeli military against residents of the Gaza Strip during Operation Protective Edge. I was among those invited to provide testimony before a jury that included Michael Mansfield, John Dugard, Roger Waters, Ken Loach, Vandana Shiva, Richard Falk, Ahdaf Soueif, and Ronnie Kasrils. The following day, I presented testimony in the European Parliament alongside Israeli journalist David Sheen and Mohammed Omer, a journalist from the Gaza Strip. (Two other invitees from the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Committee on Human Rights director Raji Sourani and filmmaker Ashraf Mashharawi, were prevented from leaving the besieged coastal enclave by the Egyptian regime.)

Read full article here. http://www.alternet.org/world/israel-put-trial-war-crimes

Hervé

29th September 2014, 23:22

Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Commander: "The US is Training and Funding Us"
(http://russia-insider.com/en/politics_ukraine/2014/09/26/06-54-29pm/ukrainian_neo-nazi_commander_us_training_and_funding_us)
http://russia-insider.com/sites/insider/files/styles/thumbnail/public/pictures/picture-124-1409060111.png?itok=YBvnZIxc (http://russia-insider.com/en/users/federico_pieraccini#profile-main) War Update Fri, Sep 26 Federico Pieraccini (http://russia-insider.com/user/124)

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Semyonchenko in visit at the International Repubblican Institute. Behind him, on the right, Tennessee Senator Robert Corker.

A commander of one of the Ukrainian neo-nazi battalions, the Donbass, Semyon Semyonchenko, has just returned from the US, where he met with senior senators from both parties, and received commitments of material support.

He posted a comment on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/dostali.hvatit?fref=nf)in which he gives a detailed explanation of this assistance.

He was also received by IRI (International Republican Institute) and NDI (National Democratic Institute), the international branches of the two main American political parties, and met with democratic Senator Robert Menendez and republican senator Robert Corker.

"Menendez and Corker are the two senators who have sponsored the Ukraine Freedom Support Act, a bill that will allocate money to provide assistance to Ukraine, including the supply of weapons. Radar, anti-tank weapons, drones, communications systems and many other useful things for our army. "

One of the main goals of his trip was to get training and much more from the US military. Judging by his FB post, it seems he has accomplished this.

"Yesterday I signed a contract to organize training courses for the fighters and officers of the battalion Donbass by mobile groups of instructors from the United States, held by military that are not currently in service.

They will work under the traditional training system used by the Navy Seals and Delta Force. Standards have been developed for each department (reconnaissance, special forces, security, etc.) and for each non-commissioned officer.

Particular attention will be paid to the individual training and teamwork. We will use the maximum number of practical exercises.

Another important point is the training of sergeants (NCOs) to allow it to act independently and managing a team.

The instructors will also be used to prepare the internal security forces, and that training is one of the forms of indirect assistance that Ukraine is receiving."

After his meeting with NDI and IRI he also added:

"They were very useful talks. We explained to them the situation in Ukraine as objectively as possible. We are confident that everything will go according to plan as we hoped."

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Right... Ukraine's economy is in free fall and they gonna get more weapons and trainings to feed on and heat their homes this winter:

Ukraine on the brink of economic collapse (http://soberlook.com/2014/09/ukraine-on-brink.html)
Sunday, September 21, 2014

While we see a great deal of media coverage of Ukraine-related geopolitical risks, there hasn't been sufficient discussion about the dire economic and fiscal conditions the nation is facing. Writing about men in masks fighting in eastern Ukraine sells far more advertising than covering the nation's economic activity. However it's the economy, not the Russian army that has brought Ukraine close to the brink. And just to be clear, some of Kiev's economic and fiscal problems were visible long before the spat with Russia (see post from 2012 (http://soberlook.com/2012/03/ukrainians-learning-from-greece-about.html)).

Ukraine is now in recession. Deep economic ties with Russia have resulted in painful adjustments in recent months. The nation's exports are down some 19% from last year in dollar terms and expected to fall further. A great example of Ukraine's export challenges is the Antonov aircraft company known for its Soviet era large transport planes as well as other types of aircraft.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZWRacpsTHDY/VB5TRXbCLsI/AAAAAAAAiv8/A4yHkfqmKS8/s1600/Antonov.PNG (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZWRacpsTHDY/VB5TRXbCLsI/AAAAAAAAiv8/A4yHkfqmKS8/s1600/Antonov.PNG)

As the military cooperation with Russia ended, Antonov was in trouble. It had to take a $150 million hit recently by not delivering the medium-range An-148 planes to the Russian Air Force. The Russians will find a replacement for this aircraft, but in the highly competitive global aircraft market, it's far less likely that Antonov will find another client.

Here are some key indicators of Ukraine's worsening situation:

1. The nation's GDP is down almost 5% from a year ago and growth is expected to worsen.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WjEfPXT6Kgg/VB4-oRtM5SI/AAAAAAAAivw/gHHKpdnAqUo/s1600/Ukraine%2BGDP.PNG (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WjEfPXT6Kgg/VB4-oRtM5SI/AAAAAAAAivw/gHHKpdnAqUo/s1600/Ukraine%2BGDP.PNG)

2. Ukraine's retail sales are falling at the rate we haven't seen since the financial crisis.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZJw0WZIvNcQ/VByp8r9TY1I/AAAAAAAAisw/Ebh1UcUDASA/s1600/Retail%2Bsales.PNG (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZJw0WZIvNcQ/VByp8r9TY1I/AAAAAAAAisw/Ebh1UcUDASA/s1600/Retail%2Bsales.PNG)

3. And industrial production is collapsing.

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4. The most immediate concern however is the nation's currency, which has been trading near record lows in spite of currency controls. In fact Friday's fall in hryvnia was unprecedented (over 11%), as Kiev fails to stem capital outflows.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d5YLvfmOW9c/VB5e_COmd5I/AAAAAAAAiwQ/0x5sKQujfrU/s1600/EURUAH.PNG (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d5YLvfmOW9c/VB5e_COmd5I/AAAAAAAAiwQ/0x5sKQujfrU/s1600/EURUAH.PNG)
Intraday exchange rate (source: Bloomberg)

Those who have spend any time in Ukraine during the winter know how harsh the weather can get. And at these valuations, hryvnia isn't going to buy much heating fuel from abroad. Furthermore, it's not clear if the government will have the wherewithal to provide sufficient assistance to the population.

5. Inflation rate is running above 14% and will spike sharply from here in the next few months if the currency weakness persists. Real wages are collapsing.

6. Finally, Ukraine's fiscal situation is unraveling. In its attempts to defend the currency, Kiev has been using up its foreign exchange reserves. It is only the access to some IMF funding that has allowed Ukraine's government to maintain some semblance of order in its FX markets.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FncHgHHGT8g/VB5inaEU6cI/AAAAAAAAiwY/z_9QUL3rooc/s1600/Foreign%2Breserves.PNG (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FncHgHHGT8g/VB5inaEU6cI/AAAAAAAAiwY/z_9QUL3rooc/s1600/Foreign%2Breserves.PNG)

Moreover, public debt levels continue to rise as the government attempts to keep the Ukrainian banking system afloat.
Fitch Ratings: - Government debt (including guarantees such as NBU liabilities to the IMF) to GDP has quadrupled since 2008, reflecting exchange rate depreciation, fiscal deficits, low growth and below-the-line costs such as recapitalisation of banks and Naftogaz. There is high dollarisation and foreign-currency exposure, making government solvency, banks' balance sheets and the overall economy vulnerable to sharp depreciation. A number of economists now believe that given worsening economic crisis, the country's public debt problem is simply unsustainable and default is becoming increasingly likely.
Goldman: - We continue to see downside risks to activity and to our forecast for a contraction of output of 8% this year and for growth of 1% next year. As we recently argued, this severe economic weakness is likely to cause public debt to rise to 70% this year and 77% next year, above the IMF’s “high-risk threshold” for debt sustainability. These downside risks to our forecasts further call into question the sustainability of Ukraine’s debt trajectory.

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... in other words, ripe for the plucking by the IMF!

zakkyD1302

3rd October 2014, 23:16

Does anyone know why they want a one world government and be able to control and watch people I think that might be where an alien cause comes into play everyone does something for a reason they don't wanna just control people for the fun of it. I bet all major governments are already aware of this plan and are already promised a powerful position on the out come to some extent

zakkyD1302

7th October 2014, 16:58

I was thinking about it and u know Russia and China have to be involved in this plan u don't just sent one tactical nuke to a super power or use one on a battle field that is just dumb cuz u know u there would be retaliation with multiple nukes from them u would send multiple ones at once hitting Texas Paris island san Diego nasa pentagon DC places were misses r held and even industrial places like mines and huge forges and cripple a whole country in a matter of minutes just doesn't make sense the way that's laid out there is more involved

meeradas

13th October 2014, 12:27

"Donbass Genocide", Oct 12,2014.
62 mins docu; graphic.

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http://free21.org/content/pdf-children-donetsk

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Donetsk airport livecam

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Hervé

14th October 2014, 16:33

Prize-Winning US Documentary: West Implicated in January Massacre Which Started Ukraine Crisis (http://russia-insider.com/en/tv_ukraine_media_watch/2014/10/14/12-11-11pm/prize-winning_us_documentary_west_implicated_january)

We don't agree with everything in it, but its very well done, and worth watching if you don't know much about the issue. Full video below.

http://russia-insider.com/sites/insider/files/styles/thumbnail/public/pictures/picture-167-1409410238.jpg?itok=GlUZCXep (http://russia-insider.com/en/users/damir_marinovic#profile-main)

TV 7 hours ago Damir Marinovic (http://russia-insider.com/user/167)

http://russia-insider.com/sites/insider/files/styles/s400/public/field/image/1514255.jpg?itok=XpCcMHYj

A new prize-winning American documemtary film has been released which suggests that the snipers who killed 100 demonstrators on Kiev's central square in January and February of this year may have been working for pro-western groups seeking to overthrow the then president, who was pro-Russian. The full video can be seen at the end of this article.

This is precisely the opposite of what the western media reported at the time.
Even though it sounds like old news, it is very interesting to have a look back at some of the events that caused the bloody civil war we are witnessing right now in Ukraine.

We all remember leaked conversation of Estonian Foreign Minister and his claims that snipers that killed protestors were most likely hired by Maidan protest leaders. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5zyOSsIiYM)

A few days ago, even Reuters, which usually has a strong anti-Russian bias when covering Russia, ran a special report in which they expose "serious flaws" in Maidan massacre probe. (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/10/us-ukraine-killings-probe-special-report-idUSKCN0HZ0UH20141010)

At the time of the sniper killings, although no thorough investigation had been conducted, the blame was immediately placed on the officers who served under Yanukovich and Russia.

http://russia-insider.com/sites/insider/files/styles/s400/public/pictures_photos_from_maidan_massacre_2014_-_imdb_2014-10-10_14-02-53.png?itok=v383QKM5

In the film, we hear opinions of several experts (professional snipers, FBI and a number of interesting people) about the scene of the crime and who, indeed, could have killed the so-called "Heavenly Hundred" mostly members of neo-Nazi militant groups.

The documentary doesn't discuss who killed more than 50 policeman since that is already known -members of Ukrainian militant groups, many of them also killed during Maidan riots.

The documentary doesn't take sides and we disagree with some of what it says, but still, it is a worthwhile 50 minutes if you've been getting your info about the massacre from the western mainstream media.

-nxCGWhHP-Y

Published on Oct 10, 2014
Maidan Massacre Documentary

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Camouflaged Israeli soldiers on Maidan Square
(http://www.sott.net/article/275238-Camouflaged-Israeli-soldiers-on-Maidan-Square)
Burning Ukraine's protesters alive: Neo-Nazi 'shock troops' supported by U.S.
(http://www.sott.net/article/275238-Camouflaged-Israeli-soldiers-on-Maidan-Square)
Government decrees Maidan neo-nazi squads are now Ukraine "National Guard" (http://www.sott.net/article/275668-Government-decrees-Maidan-neo-nazi-squads-are-now-Ukraine-National-Guard-fears-raised-they-will-be-used-to-crack-down-on-pro-Russian-dissidents)

Rocky_Shorz

17th October 2014, 03:13

the plan of having ISIS control the border with Turkey was stopped in Kobane, in only a week, every top commander of Isis has been killed.

the rag tag bunch that are left are pulling out defeated...

watch this video, someone in Isis figured out how to get a tank to move so drove it into Kobane...

Kurdish fighters are standing on the street behind it wondering what they are doing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Nc77Z0Sqs

Rocky_Shorz

22nd October 2014, 02:22

How many of you have ever looked into the Yezidi who Islamic state is attacking in Kurdistan?

http://www.yeziditruth.org/yezidi_religious_tradition

Do you know why these cavemen are taking Yezidi women for their brides?

27700

"The Kocheks

The Kocheks, or “seers,” are servants of the Sanctuary of Lalish. Because they are blessed with spiritual gifts, such as clairvoyance, they can psychically diagnose illness and they even know the fate of a soul after leaving the body of the deceased. There are only a few Kocheks left, and they mostly reside in the Sinjar Mountains of northern Iraq. The female counterpart of Kocheks are known as Faqras. They are recognized as holy women with supernatural power. Kocheks and Faqras can come from any of the three main castes..."

they are the gifted ones, I almost wonder if these are the living Essenes...

#isis is slaughtering the men, considering gifts to be evil magic...

they say there are very few of the gifted ones left...

glances around Avalon and smiles...

will isis kill their gifted sons?

is this a DNA upgrade for the Islamic State of Ignorant Sociopaths?

maybe a generation of peace will be born to lead the middle east forward...

Hervé

22nd October 2014, 18:47

Ukraine mini-SITREP: very ominous developments (http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.ch/2014/10/ukraine-mini-sitrep-very-ominous.html)
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

This short post is just to inform you of the latest developments in the war in the Ukraine.

Following the use of a tactical ballistic missile against Donetsk by the Ukies, Zakharchenko has declared that the ceasefire was basically over.

Strelkov has made an official appeal warning that according to this information the Ukies were massing troops in preparation for an attack. According to Strelkov, the Ukie plan is for a very short and very rapid "push" towards Donestk and the Russian border to make any Novorussian state non-viable and thus to negotiate from a position of force. True, Strelkov does have a record of exaggerating threats in order to minimize them, but this time there are some strong signs that his analysis is shared by the Russian military, and these signs are the most ominous signs of all.

Russian sources - including the excellent Colonel Cassad blog - report that the voentorg aid-spigot has been fully re-opened including for some major deliveries. While, of course, I am very happy that the Novorussian resistance is getting much needed equipment (and specialists), this kind of full reopening of the voentorg also indicates to me that the Russian intelligence services have concluded that an attack is very likely, possibly very soon.

I have been following the situation in Banderastan pretty closely and I can only say that the cracks in the regime are visible all over the place. Whether Poroshenko and his US master's really believe that an attack can succeed (I doubt it) or whether they really want to force Russia into openly intervening (which I see as almost inevitable), the fact is that starting a major war might well be the only way to save the Poroshenko regime which currently is in free fall.

It is quite possible that Strelkov's blunt warning and, even more so, the reopening of the voentorg will convince the Ukies that Russia is ready to intervene and that their attack will not be allowed to succeed. What concerns me is that the Poroshenko regime (and his CIA patrons) might decide that even a defeat at the hand of the Russian military is preferable to the current death spiral: not only can a war save the regime, a Russian intervention would finally make the AngloZionist dream come true. Putin will try his utmost to avoid falling into this trap, and that means that Russia will have to provide massive covert support and aid to Novorussia. As for the Novorussians, they have to be strong enough to stop the initial assault. If they succeed, then the offensive will be effectively dead. But Strelkov is right, if the Ukie break through the Novorussian lines, then Russia will have to intervene.

This is an extremely dangerous situation.

The Saker

Posted by VINEYARDSAKER: at 15:36 (http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.ch/2014/10/ukraine-mini-sitrep-very-ominous.html)

Baby Steps

27th October 2014, 13:26

27781Just read in my City Freebie Paper- could it be a misprint: "the annexation of Crimea by pro-Russian separatists". Wow history according to the establishment appears to have been re-written from 'Russia invaded Crimea' to 'Separatists took over and voted to join Russia'. To me that is a huge change and maybe a signal that USA is accepting that they have been out manoeuvred on this occasion

Hervé

30th October 2014, 15:13

Putin to Western elites: Play-time is over (http://cluborlov.blogspot.fr/2014/10/putin-to-western-elites-play-time-is.html)

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Most people in the English-speaking parts of the world missed Putin's speech at the Valdai conference in Sochi a few days ago, and, chances are, those of you who have heard of the speech didn't get a chance to read it, and missed its importance. (For your convenience, I am pasting in the full transcript of his speech below.) Western media did their best to ignore it or to twist its meaning. Regardless of what you think or don't think of Putin (like the sun and the moon, he does not exist for you to cultivate an opinion) this is probably the most important political speech since Churchill's “Iron Curtain” speech of March 5, 1946.

In this speech, Putin abruptly changed the rules of the game. Previously, the game of international politics was played as follows: politicians made public pronouncements, for the sake of maintaining a pleasant fiction of national sovereignty, but they were strictly for show and had nothing to do with the substance of international politics; in the meantime, they engaged in secret back-room negotiations, in which the actual deals were hammered out. Previously, Putin tried to play this game, expecting only that Russia be treated as an equal. But these hopes have been dashed, and at this conference he declared the game to be over, explicitly violating Western taboo by speaking directly to the people over the heads of elite clans and political leaders.

The Russian blogger chipstone (http://chipstone.livejournal.com/1219546.html) summarized the most salient points from Putin speech as follows:

1. Russia will no longer play games and engage in back-room negotiations over trifles. But Russia is prepared for serious conversations and agreements, if these are conducive to collective security, are based on fairness and take into account the interests of each side.

2. All systems of global collective security now lie in ruins. There are no longer any international security guarantees at all. And the entity that destroyed them has a name: The United States of America.

3. The builders of the New World Order have failed, having built a sand castle. Whether or not a new world order of any sort is to be built is not just Russia's decision, but it is a decision that will not be made without Russia.

4. Russia favors a conservative approach to introducing innovations into the social order, but is not opposed to investigating and discussing such innovations, to see if introducing any of them might be justified.

5. Russia has no intention of going fishing in the murky waters created by America's ever-expanding “empire of chaos,” and has no interest in building a new empire of her own (this is unnecessary; Russia's challenges lie in developing her already vast territory). Neither is Russia willing to act as a savior of the world, as she had in the past.

6. Russia will not attempt to reformat the world in her own image, but neither will she allow anyone to reformat her in their image. Russia will not close herself off from the world, but anyone who tries to close her off from the world will be sure to reap a whirlwind.

7. Russia does not wish for the chaos to spread, does not want war, and has no intention of starting one. However, today Russia sees the outbreak of global war as almost inevitable, is prepared for it, and is continuing to prepare for it. Russia does not war—nor does she fear it.

8. Russia does not intend to take an active role in thwarting those who are still attempting to construct their New World Order—until their efforts start to impinge on Russia's key interests. Russia would prefer to stand by and watch them give themselves as many lumps as their poor heads can take. But those who manage to drag Russia into this process, through disregard for her interests, will be taught the true meaning of pain.

9. In her external, and, even more so, internal politics, Russia's power will rely not on the elites and their back-room dealing, but on the will of the people.

To these nine points I would like to add a tenth:

10. There is still a chance to construct a new world order that will avoid a world war. This new world order must of necessity include the United States—but can only do so on the same terms as everyone else: subject to international law and international agreements; refraining from all unilateral action; in full respect of the sovereignty of other nations.

To sum it all up: play-time is over. Children, put away your toys. Now is the time for the adults to make decisions. Russia is ready for this; is the world?

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Full article with Putin's speech translated: http://cluborlov.blogspot.fr/2014/10/putin-to-western-elites-play-time-is.html

Hervé

4th November 2014, 17:13

105 Israeli ex-generals, spy chiefs call on Netanyahu to make peace with Palestinians (http://rt.com/news/202047-israel-generals-spy-peace/)

Published time: November 04, 2014 11:22
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Palestinian boy sits outside his family's house that witnesses said was damaged by Israeli shelling during the most recent conflict between Israel and Hamas, on a rainy day in the east of Gaza City. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)

The largest-ever protest by Israeli top brass has taken place, with at least 105 retired generals and intelligence chiefs writing a letter to premier Benjamin Netanyahu, urging him to “initiate a diplomatic process” for peace with Palestine.

"We, the undersigned, reserve IDF commanders and retired police officers, who have fought in Israel’s military campaigns, know firsthand of the heavy and painful price exacted by wars…. Here we are again sending our children out onto the battlefield, watching them don their uniforms and combat vests and go out to fight in Operation Protective Edge,” the letter read.

A few of those who signed the letter told the state Mako-Channel 2 News that, in their opinion, Israel had the strength and means to come to a two-state roadmap to get out of the current crisis.

The agreement wasn’t reached due to “weak leadership,” the country’s top brass added.

“We’re on a steep slope toward an increasingly polarized society and moral decline, due to the need to keep millions of people under occupation on claims that are presented as security-related,” reserve Major General Eyal Ben-Reuven told the channel.

“I have no doubt that the prime minister seeks Israel’s welfare, but I think he suffers from some sort of political blindness that drives him to scare himself and us,” he added, Haaretz reported.

The idea of writing the letter belonged to reserve Major General Amnon Reshef, who said in an interview he was “sick and tired of a reality of rounds of fighting every few years, instead of a genuine effort to adopt the Saudi initiative,” Ynetnews.com quoted him as saying.

He referred to the Saudi peace plan adopted in 2002 that offered full peace for Arab states and Israel. Tel Aviv, in turn, was to withdraw to borders based on the pre-1967 armistice lines.

Among the signatories to the protest, 101 are IDF veterans with the rank of brigadier or major general, two are ex-chiefs of the Mossad intelligence agency and three former commanders of Israel’s National Police, Haaretz reported.

It’s not the first collective effort of the Israeli top brass to urge the country’s leadership to step up the peace drive.

For instance, almost three years ago, 52 former generals signed a petition calling for a law to make military or equivalent national service compulsory for men who practice Haredi Judaism.

And in November 2011, 19 ex-top brass urged the IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz to fight against increasing religious extremism in the military forces.

The latest letter comes a week after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans for around 1,000 new settler homes to be built on occupied Palestinian land. This triggered an alarmed response from the Palestinian authorities.

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meeradas

12th November 2014, 08:40

Ukraine: "A genocide is going on, [...] it’s supported by the West (http://www.globalresearch.ca/nazi-nato-atrocities-committed-in-eastern-ukraine-but-no-war-crimes-tribunals-why/5413150)"

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Daily Update (http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukrainian-neo-nazi-commander-the-us-is-training-and-funding-us/5413538)s in globalresearch.ca's Ukraine Report (http://www.globalresearch.ca/indepthreport/ukraine-report)

naste.de.lumina

14th November 2014, 18:24

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Descrition - 12/11/2014

Iran's New RQ-170 Sentinel Stealth Drone: Flight footage of Iranian version of US drone released
The footage of the Iranian version of a US drone which was brought down some three years ago and later reverse-engineered by Iranian experts has been released.
Iran recently put into operation a final version of the sophisticated US RQ-170 stealth aircraft, which was downed with minimal damage by the Iranian Armed Forces’ electronic warfare unit in December, 2011, while flying over the Iranian city of Kashmar, some 225 kilometers (140 miles) from the Afghan border.
The domestically produced version of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) made a successful maiden flight a few days ago the footage of which has just been released.
At the time when the American drone was captured, US military officials tried to play the incident down, saying Iran did not have the technology to decipher the data stored on the UAV. However, the aircraft was successfully reverse-engineered by IRGC experts in about two years.
In May, the Islamic Republic unveiled a copy of the American UAV originally designed and developed by the Lockheed Martin Company.
The drone is one of the United States’ most advanced spy aircraft and its loss is considered a major embarrassment for Washington.
In recent years, Iran has made major breakthroughs in its defense sector and attained self-sufficiency in producing important military equipment and systems.
PressTV: http://www.presstv.com

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Hervé

22nd November 2014, 13:27

US, Canada & Ukraine vote against Russia’s anti-Nazism resolution at UN (http://rt.com/news/207899-un-anti-nazism-resolution/)

Published time: November 22, 2014 07:59
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UN General Assembly’s Third Committee passed a Russia-proposed resolution condemning attempts to glorify Nazism ideology and denial of German Nazi war crimes. The US, Canada and Ukraine were the only countries to vote against it.

The resolution was passed (http://www.un.org/en/ga/third/69/docs/voting_sheets/L56.Rev1.pdf) on Friday by the committee, which is tasked with tackling social and humanitarian issues and human rights abuses, by 115 votes against three, with 55 nations abstaining, Tass news agency reported.

The document voiced concern over the rise of racism-driven crimes around the world and the influence that parties with extremist agendas are gaining.

It called for a universal adoption of the International Convention (http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CERD.aspx) on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Many nations including the US, the UK, China and India, signed the convention but did not recognize a mechanism resolving individual complaints it establishes, which makes the convention unenforceable in their jurisdictions.

The resolution also decried attempts to whitewash Nazi collaborators by depicting them as fighters of nationalist resistance movements and honoring them as such.

It condemned any form of denial of Nazi war crimes, including the Jewish Holocaust.

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Azov battalion soldiers take an oath of allegiance to Ukraine in Kiev's Sophia Square before being sent to the Donbass region. (RIA Novosti / Alexandr Maksimenko)

Russia, which submitted the draft resolution, said it regretted that it could not be adopted anonymously.

“The fact that the US, Canada and Ukraine voted against, while delegations from EU member states abstained in the vote on this draft resolution, which was supported by an overwhelming majority of the UN member states, is extremely regrettable,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

“Ukraine’s position is particularly dispiriting and alarming. One can hardly understand how a country, the people of which suffered their full share of the horrors of Nazism and contributed significantly to our common victory against it, can vote against a resolution condemning its glorification,” the ministry said.

Moscow proposes similar documents to the UN General Assembly annually, but the US and Canada have consistently voted against them. Ukraine is a new nation among the opponents, as in previous years it has abstained.

Kiev’s representative at the session, Andrey Tsymbalyuk, said that while Ukraine did condemn Nazism and neo-Nazism, it could not endorse the Russian resolution, because it suffered not only from Nazism, but also from Stalinism in the past.

“As long as Stalinism and neo-Stalinism are not condemned as strongly as Nazism, neo-Nazism and other forms of hatred, Ukraine would not be able to back this document,” the diplomat said.

The resolution is to be formally adopted by the UN General Assembly as a body in December.

Hervé

24th November 2014, 19:42

3 Ex-Security Chiefs Slam Bibi for Caving to Right (http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/209761/-ex-security-chiefs-slam-bibi-for-caving-to-right/)

By J.J. Goldberg (http://blogs.forward.com/authors/jj-goldberg/) November 24, 2014, 3:52am

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Three of Israel’s most senior ex-defense officials came out last week, almost simultaneously, with blistering attacks on the security policies of the Netanyahu coalition. Appearing in separate forums, the three — former Mossad director Shabtai Shavit, former Shin Bet director Yuval Diskin and former IDF chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi — each charged that the government is endangering Israel’s future by allowing right-wing extremists to sabotage prospects for a two-state solution, putting the country on a path toward a single, binational state that will be plagued by continuing ethnic strife.

Two of the attacks appeared as op-ed essays in last Friday newspapers. One, by Diskin, appeared in the mass-circulation Yediot Ahronot. Titled “What lies ahead for Israel” (in English here (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4594539,00.html)), it argues that the current “Jerusalem intifada” is a “microcosm” of what awaits Israel if it does not resume serious peace negotiations with the Palestinian leadership. Diskin is particularly critical of the “inflammatory propaganda” and “brainwashing” that depicts Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas as an obstacle rather than a partner, when in fact, he writes, Abbas is strongly opposed to terrorism and maintains a “clear policy” of security cooperation with Israel.

The second, by Shavit, appeared in the liberal-leaning Haaretz. Titled “Blindness, Stupidity, Cause for Concern” (here (http://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/.premium-1.2491235), Hebrew only), it worries about the “haughtiness and arrogance” among “central factors in religious Zionism,”

together with more than a bit of the messianic thinking that rushes to turn the conflict into a holy war. If this has been, so far, a local political conflict that two small nations have been waging over a small and defined piece of territory, major forces in the religious Zionist movement are foolishly doing everything they can to turn it into the most horrific of wars, in which the entire Muslim world will stand against us.

I also see, to the same extent, detachment and lack of understanding of international processes and their significance for us. This right wing, in its blindness and stupidity, is pushing the nation of Israel into the dishonorable position of “the nation shall dwell alone and not be reckoned among the nations”
(Numbers 23:9). [Postscript: An English version (http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.628038) appeared Monday morning under a different title: “Former Mossad chief: For the first time, I fear for the future of Zionism.” I’ve replaced some of my translations with Haaretz’s text.]

Shavit worries that as hope of a peace agreement dissipates, increasing numbers of Israelis are seeking foreign passports. He urges Israel to signal a willingness to enter a peace negotiation under joint U.S.-Saudi sponsorship, based on the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, and to turn away from the “foolish” and “destructive” policies of the far right, which threaten “the destruction of the Zionist vision.”

The third attack came in a speech to a forum of insurance executives on Wednesday by Ashkenazi, the former IDF chief of staff. The speech was behind closed doors, but portions were leaked by members of the audience to columnist Ben Caspit of the conservative daily Maariv (here (http://www.maariv.co.il/news/new.aspx?pn6Vq=E&0r9VQ=GJEJF), Hebrew only).

Ashkenazi is quoted as saying that Israel’s internal, socioeconomic problems pose a greater threat to the country’s future than its security problems. “They’re scaring us unnecessarily,” he said, apparently referring to the parties of the right. “There’s no reason to be afraid. Israel is not under an existential threat. We’ve faced much worse threats before. Israel is the neighborhood bully. Nobody comes close to her military and social strength.”

“The target solution to the conflict is two states for two peoples, and an extremist minority on both sides should not have the right to veto progress toward this target, which is in the interests of both peoples.”

The three frontal attacks come less than a week after the bloody attack on Jewish worshippers in a West Jerusalem synagogue by two East Jerusalem Palestinians armed with a gun and butcher knives, that left five Israelis dead. Prime Minister Netanyahu immediately blamed the atrocity on “incitement” by Abbas, but hours later the current head of the Shin Bet, Yoram Cohen, appeared before a Knesset committee and denied that Abbas was promoting terrorism.

They also come three weeks after the publication of an advertisement (http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/208408/idf-generals-letter-embrace-saudi-plan/?) in Israeli newspapers, signed by more than 100 retired IDF generals as well as two former Mossad chiefs and three former national police commissioners, calling on the prime minister to embrace the Arab Peace Initiative and work for a regional peace conference. The ad’s initiator, retired Major General Amnon Reshef, addressing an informal press briefing in New York last Wednesday, said more retirees had signed the statement since it first appeared and the number of generals and intelligence chiefs now topped 150, including Shabtai Shavit.

Diskin, 58, headed the Shin Bet security service from 2005 to 2011. He and Ashkenazi, who headed the IDF 2007-2011, were known to have worked quietly with then-Mossad chief Meir Dagan (served 2002-2011) to block a military strike against Iran, which they viewed as reckless and counterproductive. All three were replaced by Netanyahu months later.

Since retiring both Diskin and Dagan have repeatedly accused Netanyahu of recklessness, undue alarmism and unwillingness to seize existing diplomatic openings. Diskin has been talked about as a possible leader of a united leftist bloc in upcoming elections, but he announced (http://www.timesofisrael.com/diskin-dispels-rumors-he-intends-to-run-for-office/) in early November that he will not run for office in the upcoming cycle.

Ashkenazi, 60, was once considered a future contender for Labor Party leadership, but his star has been dimmed by ongoing fallout from the so-called Harpaz Affair (http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Police-recommend-that-former-IDF-chief-Ashkenazi-be-indicted-in-Harpaz-Affair-374190), a dirty-tricks scandal related to a feud between Ashkenazi and then-defense minister Ehud Barak.

Shavit, 75, headed the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, from 1989 to 1996. Since retirement he’s emerged as one of the most respected elder statesman of the Israeli security community, informally advising governments on defense and intelligence matters and serving on military investigative commissions. His current critique is a sharp departure from his past practice; just last June he told me in an interview that former security heads should not publicly criticize the government on defense policy. Apparently circumstances have led him to reconsider.

MESHUGENE

24th November 2014, 21:09

In preparation for WW3, at the G20 meetings down here in Brisbane this month, during Putin's speech, the Western media was NOT allowed in! Police was at the door blocking all information from Australians!
(only journalists with Russian passports were allowed in).
This is the first time in the history of Australia, that most current news has been so blatantly blocked from Australians.

Putin is vilified here daily, if not hourly, on all radio and TV stations. The media hysteria/propaganda is amazing!
The Australian public is told daily by our zionist controlled press that: PUTIN=HITLER.

Police block was reported here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-15/live-g20-blog-saturday/5892850

PS;
If you want to estimate the timing of NWO planing for WW3, just listen daily to 7:00am news on ABC radio, Australia.
It is amazing that the media down here behaves as if the internet does not exist, and we do not realize that 90% of what they tell us are lies.

It is hilarious for someone like me who reads the Israeli press daily, to read the same "news"/information/disinformation in the Australian press the next day, sometimes copied precisely word for word.

MESHUGENE

25th November 2014, 01:15

WW3-CONNECTING THE DOTS:

An outstanding 'mile stone' in the history of WW3 videos, was posted today:
ISIS Will Take Over Pakistan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTf8vg_MvQA

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before you watch this video, please consider some of the facts that have already been accumulated by the internet research community:

Since Vietnam War, practically All international conflicts have been produced by Freemasons, banksters, intelligence agencies' false flags.....actually I should say SINCE WW1.

NO! NO!! NO!!! ITS AT LEAST SINCE WATERLOO!
http://www.rense.com/general81/3juu.htm

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ALL recent 'Islamic terrorist' organization have been created and supported by USA+ISRAEL to forcibly create the 'Armageddon' requested/ordered by the Jewish/Jesuits/ Freemasons.
It is now so blatant, that we, “BY MISTAKE” are dropping from the air, food ,weapons, and supply to ISIS in the middle of the desert......”by mistake”!!!
Down here in Australia, we are told euphemistically that “we are bombing ISIS”.......
IMHO, ISIS could not exist one week without our help and support.

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All major western media and intelligence agencies are controlled by the Rothschild family, the NSA and Israel.
911 was a spectacular example.
NEVER FORGET! BUILDING #7 !!!

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The Pakistani intelligence agency, was ALWAYS under CIA control. This is why they assassinated their own PM Benazir Bhutto , after she declared that CIA agent Bin Laden, died already from kidney complications in 2001.

We now know that shortly before that, Bin Laden was treated by US military in a CIA/military hospital in Qatar, for kidney problems.
Similarly, The Israel PM Yitshak Rabin was assassinated by his own secret service, Shabak.
Need I mention that JFK was assassinated by his own secret service?

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The Mumbai bombing was a coordinated false flag by Israel, the US, the Pakistani AND Indian governments.
this is the reason that while the Mumbai police chief declared the day after the false flag that he has arrested 8 of the terrorists.... Later he was forced to say that ONLY one terrorist was arrested.!!!
Could it be that the other 7 terrorists are now enjoying eating felafel on Dizengof st in Tel Aviv? :-)

Keep in mind that a MOST IMPORTANT detail which never showed up in western media 'reporting':

The Indian news media interviewed repeatedly the neighbors of the CHABAD HOUSE in Mumbai, who reported that during the two weeks before the Mumbai attack, many Israelis have been seen moving equipment into Chabad House!!!
two weeks before Mumbai attack?
“equipment”??
EXCUSE ME!!!

As usual, we cannot interview the rabbi or his wife, as they have been both assassinated!

OK!
that’s enough for all these “unsubstantiated conspiracy theories.”

So,
listen to Bill few times AND get ready for WW3....the freemasons are coming!
Bill Ryan Explains the Anglo-Saxon Mission
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzydpQaPYd8

Hervé

3rd December 2014, 22:38

Ouch! Aye-yayaye-yayaye...

The Importance Of The Cancellation Of South Stream (http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.fr/2014/12/the-importance-of-cancellation-of-south.html)

Wednesday, December 3, 2014
by Alexander Mercouris

The reaction to the cancellation of the Sound Stream project has been a wonder to behold and needs to be explained very carefully.

In order to understand what has happened it is first necessary to go back to the way Russian-European relations were developing in the 1990s.

Briefly, at that period, the assumption was that Russia would become the great supplier of energy and raw materials to Europe. This was the period of Europe's great “rush for gas” as the Europeans looked forward to unlimited and unending Russian supplies. It was the increase in the role of Russian gas in the European energy mix which made it possible for Europe to run down its coal industry and cut its carbon emissions and bully and lecture everyone else to do the same.

However the Europeans did not envisage that Russia would just supply them with energy. Rather they always supposed this energy would be extracted for them in Russia by Western energy companies. This after all is the pattern in most of the developing world. The EU calls this “energy security” - a euphemism for the extraction of energy in other countries by its own companies under its own control.

It never happened that way. Though the Russian oil industry was privatised it mostly remained in Russian hands. After Putin came to power in 2000 the trend towards privatisation in the oil industry was reversed. One of the major reasons for western anger at the arrest of Khodorkovsky and the closure of Yukos and the transfer of its assets to the state oil company Rosneft was precisely because is reversed this trend of privatisation in the oil industry.

In the gas industry the process of privatisation never really got started. Gas export continued to be controlled by Gazprom, maintaining its position as a state owned monopoly gas exporter. Since Putin came to power Gazprom’s position as a state owned Russian monopoly has been made fully secure.

Much of the anger that exists in the west towards Putin can be explained by European and western resentment at his refusal and that of the Russian government to the break up of Russia's energy monopolies and to the “opening up” (as it is euphemistically called) of the Russian energy industry to the advantage of western companies. Many of the allegations of corruption that are routinely made against Putin personally are intended to insinuate that he opposes the “opening up” of the Russian energy industry and the break up and privatisation of Gazprom and Rosneft because he has a personal stake in them (in the case of Gazprom, that he is actually its owner). If one examines in detail the specific allegations of corruption made against Putin (as I have done) this quickly becomes obvious.

His agenda of forcing Russia to privatise and break up its energy monopolies has never gone away. This is why Gazprom, despite the vital and reliable service it provides to its European customers, comes in for so much criticism. When Europeans complain about Europe's energy dependence upon Russia, they express their resentment at having to buy gas from a single Russian state owned company (Gazprom) as opposed to their own western companies operating in Russia.

This resentment exists simultaneously with a belief, very entrenched in Europe, that Russia is somehow dependent upon Europe as a customer for its gas and as a supplier of finance and technology.

This combination of resentment and overconfidence is what lies behind the repeated European attempts to legislate in Europe on energy questions in a way that is intended to force Russia to “open up” its the energy industry there.

The first attempt was the so-called Energy Charter, which Russia signed but ultimately refused to ratify. The latest attempt is the EU's so-called Third Energy Package.

This is presented as a development of EU anti-competition and anti-monopoly law. In reality, as everyone knows, it is targeted at Gazprom, which is a monopoly, though obviously not a European one.

This is the background to the conflict over South Stream. The EU authorities have insisted that South Stream must comply with the Third Energy Package even though the Third Energy Package came into existence only after the outline agreements for South Stream had been already reached.

Compliance with the Third Energy Package would have meant that though Gazprom supplied the gas it could not own or control the pipeline through which gas was supplied.

Were Gazprom to agree to this, it would acknowledge the EU’s authority over its operations. It would in that case undoubtedly face down the line more demands for more changes to its operating methods. Ultimately this would lead to demands for changes in the structure of the energy industry in Russia itself.

What has just happened is that the Russians have said no. Rather than proceed with the project by submitting to European demands, which is what the Europeans expected, the Russians have to everyone’s astonishment instead pulled out of the whole project.

This decision was completely unexpected. As I write this, the air is of full of angry complaints from south-eastern Europe that they were not consulted or informed of this decision in advance. Several politicians in south-eastern Europe (Bulgaria especially) are desperately clinging to the idea that the Russian announcement is a bluff (it isn’t) and that the project can still be saved. Since the Europeans cling to the belief that the Russians have no alternative to them as a customer, they were unable to anticipate and cannot now explain this decision.

Here it is important to explain why South Stream is important to the countries of south-eastern Europe and to the European economy as a whole.

All the south eastern European economies are in bad shape. For these countries South Stream was a vital investment and infrastructure project, securing their energy future. Moreover the transit fees that it promised would have been a major foreign currency earner.

For the EU, the essential point is that it depends on Russian gas. There has been a vast amount of talk in Europe about seeking alternative supplies. Progress in that direction had been to put it mildly small. Quite simply alternative supplies do not exist in anything like the quantity needed to replace the gas Europe gets from Russia.

There has been some brave talk of supplies of US liquefied natural gas replacing gas supplied by pipeline from Russia. Not only is such US gas inherently more expensive than Russian pipeline gas, hitting European consumers hard and hurting European competitiveness. It is unlikely to be available in anything like the necessary quantity. Quite apart from the probable dampening effects of the recent oil price fall on the US shale industry, on past record the US as a voracious consumer of energy will consume most or all of the energy from shales it produces. It is unlikely to be in a position to export much to Europe. The facilities to do this anyway do not exist, and are unlikely to exist for some time if ever.

Other possible sources of gas are problematic to say the least. Production of North Sea gas is falling. Imports of gas from north Africa and the Arabian Gulf are unlikely to be available in anything like the necessary quantity. Gas from Iran is not available for political reasons. Whilst that might eventually change, the probability is when it does that the Iranians (like the Russians) will decide to direct their energy flow eastwards, towards India and China, rather than to Europe.

For obvious reasons of geography Russia is the logical and most economic source of Europe’s gas. All alternatives come with economic and political costs that make them in the end unattractive.

The EU's difficulties in finding alternative sources of gas were cruelly exposed by the debacle of the so-called another Nabucco pipeline project to bring Europe gas from the Caucasus and Central Asia. Though talked about for years in the end it never got off the ground because it never made economic sense.

Meanwhile, whilst Europe talks about diversifying its supplies, it is Russia which is actually cutting the deals.

Russia has sealed a key deal with Iran to swap Iranian oil for Russian industrial goods. Russia has also agreed to invest heavily in the Iranian nuclear industry. If and when sanctions on Iran are lifted the Europeans will find the Russians already there. Russia has just agreed a massive deal to supply gas to Turkey (about which more below). Overshadowing these deals are the two huge deals Russia has made this year to supply gas to China.

Russia's energy resources are enormous but they are not infinite. The second deal done with China and the deal just done with Turkey redirect to these two countries gas that had previously been earmarked for Europe. The gas volumes involved in the Turkish deal almost exactly match those previously intended for South Stream. The Turkish deal replaces South Stream.

These deals show that Russia had made a strategic decision this year to redirect its energy flow away from Europe. Though it will take time for the full effect to become clear, the consequences of that for Europe are grim. Europe is looking at a serious energy shortfall, which it will only be able to make up by buying energy at a much higher price.

These Russian deals with China and Turkey have been criticised or even ridiculed for providing Russia with a lower price for its gas than that paid by Europe.

The actual difference in price is not as great as some allege. Such criticism anyway overlooks the fact that price is only one part in a business relationship.

By redirecting gas to China, Russia cements economic links with the country that it now considers its key strategic ally and which has (or which soon will have) the world’s biggest and fastest growing economy. By redirecting gas to Turkey, Russia consolidates a burgeoning relationship with Turkey of which it is now the biggest trading partner.

Turkey is a key potential ally for Russia, consolidating Russia's position in the Caucasus and the Black Sea. It is also a country of 76 million people with a $1.5 trillion rapidly growing economy, which over the last two decades has become increasingly alienated and distanced from the EU and the West.

By redirecting gas away from Europe, Russia by contrast leaves behind a market for its gas which is economically stagnant and which (as the events of this year have shown) is irremediably hostile. No one should be surprised that Russia has given up on a relationship from which it gets from its erstwhile partner an endless stream of threats and abuse, combined with moralising lectures, political meddling and now sanctions. No relationship, business or otherwise, can work that way and the one between Russia and Europe is no exception.

I have said nothing about the Ukraine since in my opinion this has little bearing on this issue.

South Stream was first conceived because of the Ukraine's continuous abuse of its position as a transit state - something which is likely to continue. It is important to say that this fact was acknowledged in Europe as much as in Russia. It was because the Ukraine perennially abuses its position as a transit state that the South Stream project had the grudging formal endorsement of the EU. Basically, the EU needs to circumvent the Ukraine to secure its energy supplies every bit as much as Russia wanted a route around the Ukraine to avoid it.

The Ukraine’s friends in Washington and Brussels have never been happy about this, and have constantly lobbied against South Stream.

The point is it was Russia which pulled the plug on South Stream when it had the option of going ahead with it by accepting the Europeans’ conditions. In other words the Russians consider the problems posed by the Ukraine as a transit state to be a lesser evil than the conditions the EU was attaching to South Stream .

South Stream would take years to build and its cancellation therefore has no bearing on the current Ukrainian crisis. The Russians decided they could afford to cancel it is because they have decided Russia’s future is in selling its energy to China and Turkey and other states in Asia (more gas deals are pending with Korea and Japan and possibly also with Pakistan and India) than to Europe. Given that this is so, for Russia South Stream has lost its point. That is why in their characteristically direct way, rather than accept the Europeans’ conditions, the Russians pulled the plug on it.

In doing so the Russians have called the Europeans’ bluff. So far from Russia being dependent on Europe as its energy customer, it is Europe which has antagonised, probably irreparably, its key economic partner and energy supplier.

Before finishing I would however first say something about those who have come out worst of all from this affair. These are the corrupt and incompetent political pygmies who pretend to be the government of Bulgaria. Had these people had a modicum of dignity and self respect they would have told the EU Commission when it brought up the Third Energy Package to take a running jump. If Bulgaria had made clear its intention to press ahead with the South Stream project, there is no doubt it would have been built. There would of course have been an almighty row within the EU as Bulgaria openly flouted the Third Energy Package, but Bulgaria would have been acting in its national interests and would have had within the EU no shortage of friends. In the end it would have won through.

Instead, under pressure from individuals like Senator John McCain, the Bulgarian leadership behaved like the provincial politicians they are, and tried to run at the same time with both the EU hare and the Russian hounds. The result of this imbecile policy is to offend Russia, Bulgaria's historic ally, whilst ensuring that the Russian gas which might have flown to Bulgaria and transformed the country, will instead flow to Turkey, Bulgaria's historic enemy.

The Bulgarians are not the only ones to have acted in this craven fashion. All the EU countries, even those with historic ties to Russia, have supported the EU's various sanctions packages against Russia notwithstanding the doubts they have expressed about the policy. Last year Greece, another country with strong ties to Russia, pulled out of a deal to sell its natural gas company to Gazprom because the EU disapproved of it, even though it was Gazprom that offered the best price.

This points to a larger moral. Whenever the Russians act in the way they have just done, the Europeans respond bafflement and anger, of which there is plenty around at the moment. The EU politicians who make the decisions that provoke these Russian actions seem to have this strange assumption that whilst it is fine for the EU to sanction Russia as much as it wishes, Russia will never do the same to the EU. When Russia does, there is astonishment, accompanied always by a flood of mendacious commentary about how Russia is behaving “aggressively” or “contrary to its interests” or has “suffered a defeat”. None of this is true as the rage and recriminations currently sweeping through the EU’s corridors (of which I am well informed) bear witness.

In July the EU sought to cripple Russia’s oil industry by sanctioning the export of oil drilling technology to Russia. That attempt will certainly fail as Russia and the countries it trades with (including China and South Korea) are certainly capable of producing this technology themselves.

By contrast through the deals it has made this year with China, Turkey and Iran, Russia has dealt a devastating blow to the energy future of the EU. A few years down the line Europeans will start to discover that moralising and bluff comes with a price. Regardless, by cancelling South Stream, Russia has imposed upon Europe the most effective of the sanctions we have seen this year.

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meeradas

4th December 2014, 05:39

Poroshenko's sell out of Ukraine goes on: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-03/ukraines-truly-foreign-ministers

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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-04/fight-breaks-out-parliament-when-ukraine-learns-it-has-quietly-become-newest-us-stat

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For the first time since WW II, overt fascists hold real power in Europe (http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-fascist-dictatorship-masquerading-as-democracy/5418412).

Sophocles

17th December 2014, 17:42

Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014 was passed this month.

Link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/2828

«Section 3. Statement of policy regarding Ukraine.

It is the policy of the United States to further assist the Government of Ukraine in restoring its sovereignty and territorial integrity to deter the Government of the Russian Federation from further destabilizing and invading Ukraine and other independent countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. That policy shall be carried into effect, among other things, through a comprehensive effort, in coordination with allies and partners of the United States where appropriate, that includes economic sanctions, diplomacy, assistance for the people of Ukraine, and the provision of military capabilities to the Government of Ukraine that will enhance the ability of that Government to defend itself and to restore its sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of unlawful actions by the Government of the Russian Federation.»

Link: http://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/UFSA_Bill_Text.pdf

If someone (lets say psychopaths in the USA and their friends in NATO, EU, Norway etc.) really wants a war with Russia, I think «to further assist the Government of Ukraine in restoring its sovereignty and territorial integrity» could be the way to do it; by for example reclaiming Crimea back from Russia.

And this: http://novorossia.today/?p=8802

"Ukrainian forces are preparing large-scale attack

Armoured Forces of Ukraine are preparing for the storm of Donbass. Due to the results of the 15th December, proves of it have been found. The concentration of Ukrainian troops on so-called the second frontline have been going on, the part of which has been building, reports the militia with a sign call Samur.

According to the information of the resource, different military subdivisions are concentrating to the West of Mariinka in the Kurahovo region, behind Krasnogorovka, to the North-West of Karlovka water basin, and near Mariupol."

Sophocles

18th December 2014, 18:56

U.S. Gov’t. Seeks Excuse to Attack Russia

By Eric Zuesse

"December 17, 2014 "ICH" - The world is more nervous about the drift toward nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia than at any time since 1962’s Cuban Missile Crisis. When French President Francois Hollande urgently side-tracked his return-flight from a diplomatic mission recently, in order to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport, at a private room that had been scoured ahead of time to eliminate any possible bugging devices, there was speculation as to what had caused Hollande’s sudden detour, and there were even rumors of a possible cause being an American “false-flag” event in the works to be blamed on Russia as a pretext for going to war against Russia, just as Russia had been falsely blamed for the Ukrainian military’s downing of Malaysia’s airliner MH17 on July 17th. All that was publicly released about the two-hour meeting were platitudes, hardly anything that would have justified side-tracking Hollande’s flight so as to surprise intelligence agencies and be able to meet the Russian leader in an untapped room.

The level of fear is certainly rising on both sides. On the U.S. side, the CBS News Poll in summer 2007 found 6% of Americans calling Russia an “enemy”; seven years later, that same figure was 22%. However, what is not rumor nor fear, but proven fact, by Obama’s own actions as will be documented here, is that he wants a war against Russia and is trying hard to get Europe (including Hollande) onboard with this goal in order to win it; and that America’s Republican Party want this at least as much as he does, though the American public do not.

The Democratic Party (in the House and Senate) are staying as quiet as possible about a ‘Democratic’ President pushing them toward World War III, which is a goal that Republicans have always been far more eager for than Democrats. (Republicans are famous for “Speak softly but carry a big stick,” and for swinging it as hard as they can, especially against Russians.) In fact, one of the reasons why Obama won the Presidency is that he criticized his 2012 Republican opponent Mitt Romney for saying of Russia, “This is without question our No. 1 geopolitical foe.”

That dissent by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Obama appealed to the U.S. public at the time, but not to America’s aristocracy, who are a mix of people some of whom hate Russians and others of whom don’t care about Russians, but none of whom are passionate opponents of nuclear war (a diverse group that they lump contemptuously with “peaceniks”).

For example, one major mouthpiece of Democratic Party aristocrats has always been The New Republic, and on 17 September 2014 they headlined “Obama Can’t Admit That Romney Was Right: Russia Is Our ‘Top Geopolitical Threat’.” Another one is the National Journal, the aristocracy’s version of its companion propaganda-operation (owned by the same aristocrat as) The Atlantic. On 7 May 2014 (just five days after Obama’s people had massacred pro-Russians in the House of Trade Unions in Odessa and thereby started the extermination-campaign against them, or “civil war” that’s still raging), the National Journal headlined “Mitt Romney Was Right: Russia Is Our Biggest Geopolitical Foe.” Conservative ‘Democrats’ are just Republicans spelled with a “D”; but, when it’s an aristocrat, they know how to spell, and are just trying to deceive the ones who don’t. This is why ‘liberal’ magazines are prized possessions of the aristocracy — to deceive the ones who don’t know the difference and who think that it’s fine in a democracy for politics to be merely a choice between two conservative parties, one of which is called by a meaningless adjective ‘liberal.’

The people who fund both political Parties are virtually united in that fascist belief: they don’t even mind backing racist facists or “nazis”; many of them are precisely that themselves.

Obama is with them (and with Wall Street, and with Big Ag, and Big Oil, and Big Military), against the public. But he’s smart enough a politician to pretend otherwise, and his aristocratic funders respect this. (There were no hard feelings for his exploiting Romney’s politically stupid public assertion; they knew that it was an Obama pose: he’s a ‘Democrat,’ after all.)

For America’s elite, the Cold War never ended, because it was never really about communism versus capitalism — not for them. They are fascists, and they want global dominance. Capitalism, shmapitalism; all they really care about is dominating the world, destroying enemies, which means anyone who refuses to be controlled by them.

Aristocracy hasn’t changed since, well, long before the Bible began. Domination is the big thing, for the aristocracy. Russia threatens the vaunted global control by America’s aristocracy, their dominance over all other aristocracies, because Russia is the second-most-powerful military nation. Russia is the only nation that can say no to U.S. aristocrats and (maybe) get away with it. That’s what this conflict is all about. It’s why they ratcheted up the “enemy” figure for Russia from 6% to 22% in just the past seven years.

As President Obama’s speech at West Point, on 28 May 2014, propagandized for (i.e., rationalized) this conquer-Russia view on the part of America’s aristocracy: “Russia’s aggression toward former Soviet states unnerves capitals in Europe, while China’s economic rise and military reach worries its neighbors. From Brazil to India, rising middle classes compete with us.” So, Obama made clear to the graduating West Point cadets that the BRIC countries are the enemy (Russia and its leading supporters of international independence, the enemies against a mono-polar or “hegemonic” world), from the standpoint of America’s aristocracy, whom the U.S. military now serves to the exclusion of any public interest. Ours want to crush the aristocrats in Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Though it’s alright for those other countries to produce more, that’s true only if American aristocrats control the local ones there, like in any other international empire — not if the local nation’s aristocrats control the country. That’s not the way aristocrats in banana republics are supposed to behave. They’re not supposed to beindependent countries. Not really.

The President who had invaded Libya and Syria, and re-invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, and who perpetrated a violent overthrow and installed racist fascists (nazis) in control of Ukraine, is lecturing the world against “Russia’s aggression,” for its having accepted back into Russia’s traditional fold little Crimea, which craved to return to Russia.

He’s got some gall to do that, but in order to be a cadet at West Point (and thus be there hearing his speech) one needed to be either a sucker or else a cravenous tool of the aristocracy, as the military has traditionally served; so, Obama played them for being both, and they evidently liked it.

Obama knows how to speak down to an audience and fool them into thinking he respects them. But, to aristocrats, his respect is no mere act at all; he not only respects them, he lies for them, and he protects them, because he self-identifies with them, and not with the public (who just provide his voters, the people that are forced to choose between him versus Romney, or else to go for a mere token protest-vote or non-vote, such as American ‘democracy’ has degenerated into being).

Obama was enemy-izing (turning into enemies) nations that don’t want to serve as America’s banana republics. Similarly, for example, the British Empire didn’t wish for local aristocrats in India to be in control, but only for those client aristocrats to be of use. That’s what it means to be a client nation (or, in the American case, a banana republic).

Obama, in his speech, added, placing a clear hyper-nationalistic coloration on his promotion of America’s empire: “The United States is and remains the one indispensable nation.” (Hitler thought the same thing of Germany.) He promised to keep it that way: “That has been true for the century passed [sp.: past [[somebody at the White House didn’t know the difference between ‘past’ and ‘passed’]] and it will be true for the century to come.” (At least he wasn’t predicting there a Thousand-Year Reich.)

So: that’s historical background to Obama’s plan for using Ukraine as a stepping-stone toward conquering Russia — one of the few favors he hasn’t yet achieved for his sponsors, after having protected them from what he contemptuously calls (in private) the “pitchforks”; a.k.a., the public. (And he really did call us “pitchforks” there, in private. To him, the public were like the KKK; and the mega-bank CEOs whom he was confiding to were like the people KKKers lynched. That’s the type of ‘Black’ he actually is. Blacks should loathe him, but most people, black and white, can’t see beyond his skin-color and liberal platitudes. They’ve got their categories wrong, and the aristocracy-controlled media like that just fine. Stereotypes help aristocrats control political outcomes. It’s button-pushing for them.)

On December 11th, the U.S. Senate voted 100% (unanimously) to donate U.S. weapons to the Ukrainian Government in its war against Russia. On December 4th, 98% of the U.S. House had done likewise. Both bills also accuse Russia of having invaded Ukraine, and this accusation of an aggressive Russia provides a pretext for the U.S. to attack Russia, now that the Ukrainian Government has flipped from neutral (according to some estimations) or pro-Russian (according to others) to being clearly and publicly anti-Russian, by means of their U.S.-engineered coup that occurred in February of this year, when masked gunmen, who were actually hired mercenaries, dressed themselves as if they were instead Ukrainian security forces, and fired into a crowd of “Maidan” anti-corruption protesters and police, and the U.S. Government immediately blamed Ukraine’s then-President for doing that, and Ukraine’s parliament or “Rada,” who weren’t in on the scheme and didn’t know about it, promptly elected “Yats” Yatsenyuk, who had secretly been appointed 18 days prior to lead the country, by Victoria Nuland of the U.S. State Department. “Yats” immediately installed a far-right Government, filled with people who had already committed themselves to a Ukrainian war against Russia. They then promptly set about terminating Russia’s 42-year Crimean lease for Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, which is key to Russia’s security. Crimeans, who had always overwhelmingly considered themselves to be Russians and not Ukrainians, demonstrated against that Ukrainian move against them and against Russia, and Russian troops came into Crimea, to local applause, but to the condemnation from Washington and its allies.

Russia’s taking back Crimea was not aggression at all, though America’s noise-media say it was; it was instead protection of Crimeans against the CIA’s American invasion of Ukraine. When the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev donated Crimea from Russia to Ukraine in 1954, it was much to the consternation of Crimeans at the time, and ever since. Yet, one of the explicit alleged ‘justifications’ for war against Russia, that are listed in the Republican House’s bill (“Whereas the Russian Federation’s forcible occupation and illegal annexation of Crimea. …”) is a blatant lie, because Crimeans overwhelmingly wanted Russia’s protection against the new, Obama-imposed, Ukrainian regime, which Obama’s State Department and CIA had just installed when overthrowing the President for whom nearly 80% of Crimeans had voted. In fact, a poll that was issued by Gallup in June 2014 showed then that 71.3% of Crimeans viewed as “Mostly positive” the role of Russia there, and 4.0% viewed it as “Mostly negative”; by contrast, only 2.8% viewed the role of the United States there as “Mostly positive,” and a whopping 76.2% viewed it as “Mostly negative.” This wasn’t much changed from a year-earlier Gallup poll. The Republican Party (and thus the Republican-controlled House) is willing to lie blatantly (about this and other crucial matters) in order to justify invading Russia, as it did in invading Iraq in 2003 (and even in 1991); and Barack Obama is willing to lie blatantly too for the same reasons — such as about the sourceof the sarin gas attack in Libya, etc. — but there were enough Democrats in the U.S. Senate to block Obama’s getting such blatant lies into the Senate’s bill on Ukraine, so it’s much milder, even though it does give the Ukrainian Government $450 million of U.S. taxpayers’ money. However, when Republicans take over the Senate in January, their bill will match the House’s in its warmongering lies, and Obama will get all he wants for his planned war against Russia (not just the $450 million that the Democratic-controlled Senate bill has provided).

So, now, both the Senate and the House, plus the U.S. President (via his State Department, CIA, FBI, and entire Administration), are actually at war, a hot war not a cold war, against Russia, through their proxy, their made-in-Washington, racist-fascist or nazi, Government of Ukraine, which currently is doing the fighting and the killing and the dying, but which couldn’t do it but for that Western backing.

This should be analogized to Fidel Castro’s takeover of Cuba and his and Soviet leader Khrushchev’s attempt to base near the U.S., Soviet nuclear missiles aimed against America. At that time, in 1962, U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy said that we’d go to war against the USSR if necessary to prevent this; and today Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has implied, but not yet said, that his country will likewise go to war against the United States if necessary to stop its attempt to do against Russia what Khrushchev had been stopped from doing against the U.S. in 1962.

However, the U.S. is now already farther along the warpath than the USSR had been in 1962. Already, many thousands of deaths have resulted from Ukraine’s war against Russia and against its supporters inside what had previously been parts of Ukraine. In 1962, Cuba was at peace, except for a few bands of U.S.-backed Cubans, who were trying to overthrow Fidel Castro. Ukraine is today’s Cuba, but even more of a danger. And, this time, the United States Government is trying to impose nuclear supremacy; the Soviet Union and its communism no longer even exist, and Russia is up against the mortal threat that is being wrongfully perpetrated by the U.S. against them.

Clearly, U.S. President Obama was serious when he tossed out Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych; and clearly he has the full backing of the U.S. Congress (though with some hesitation on the part of Democrats) to go to war against Russia and finish the job that he has begun.

If it weren’t for the ongoing donations — officially loans, but ‘loans’ to an already-bankrupt Government are donations — by both U.S. taxpayers and EU taxpayers, that are channeled mainly through the U.S. and EU and IMF, Ukraine would simply stop its hot war against Russia and against its own ethnic Russians; and the Ukrainian Government that we installed in February would just collapse. The IMF and EU seem likely now to have ended their donations, but U.S. taxpayers certainly haven’t ended ours.We’ve barely even started, though, ever since 1991, U.S. taxpayers have already invested “over five billion dollars” in this scheme to bring ‘democracy’ to Ukraine, even before Obama’s successful February coup provided the capstone to that entire Orwellian effort: America’s aristocracy and its hired hands call this‘democracy.’

The investigative journalist Wayne Madsen has published his analysis of the American aristocrats, ranging from the Kochs on the right to the Soroses on the left, who are lobbying for this campaign to get taxpayers to fund the American aristocracy’s military take-over of other nations’ aristocracies and resources. Madsen sees as being the few politicians in Washington who are resisting that, both Ron Paul (and definitely not his son Rand Paul) libertarians, and Dennis Kucinich progressives.
Madsen doesn’t note, however, that both of those men are now retired; so, they can afford to speak the truth without losing their jobs, since they’ve already lost them. Among the U.S. aristocracy that finances politicians into federal offices, there is no visible support whatsoever for such dissidents challenging the aristocracy: when one of them somehow manages to get into the political system, they’re removed from it, in one way or another, before they can do any damage to the U.S. aristocracy.

This is how it came to be that 98% of the House and 100% of the Senate voted for war against Russia, even though at least 67% of the American public who expressed an opinion about that in a Pew poll were opposed (and this 67% figure might have been far higher if the question had been more directly asked, such as: “Should the U.S. go to war against Russia in order to enable Ukraine to get back Crimea and conquer the rebelling regions in Ukraine’s own former southeast?”).
This America is supposed to be a ‘democracy,’ in which 99% of Congress and the President want taxpayers to be required to donate to the Ukrainian military, but less than one-third of the American public want to make those donations. Is it instead actually taxation without representation — a modern fascist form of the very oligarchy that America’s Founders went to war against and defeated in order to create America? How much more of a demonstration needs to be made that today’s America is a dictatorship, not a representative democracy or republic? Only media pretend it’s not a dictatorship, because they’re part of it, owned by the same people who heisted our Government and who trade favors with one-another against us. Clearly, this is an us-versus-them situation in which oligarchs are the aggressors, who destroyed American democracy, and from which a democracy now must again be seized, because it has been stolen from us and will not be retaken without a fight.

Madsen also has an interesting explanation as to why Israel is so passionately supportive of the racist-fascist, or nazi, Ukrainian political parties that the Obama Administration has placed in control of Ukraine.

Regardless of such speculations and evidence, however, there is nothing speculative about the American Government’s drive to nuclear war.

It’s part and parcel of the same deal that just passed in the U.S. Congress and was signed by the President, that in the event of any future U.S. financial crash, FDIC-insured bank accounts won’t be paid until and unless the mega-banks that hold derivatives contracts get full payment on all of those gambling policies they had bought — i.e, never. Granny’s savings account will get emptied out to pay Wall Street’s gambling-debts. (Not that the U.S. ‘news’ media ever made such things clear to the public. But how do you think we had managed to obtain a Congress and a President like these are? The public had to be fooled by the aristocrats’ propaganda, and the ‘news’ media had to help aristocrats fool them about it, because the ‘news’ media receive their funding from aristocrats, both as their owners and as their advertisers. The public are just pawns on their chessboard. This is what became of democracy: it’s merely the residual verbal shell — ‘democracy’ — an Orwellian opposite of the original meaning.)

As Obama told the mega-bank chiefs on 27 March 2009 in private, “I’m protecting you … My Administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”

He’s going to teach those granny-bank-account “pitchforks,” and such, a thing or two about “the one indispensable nation.” Namely: those people in it, the public, are dispensable, even if not quite as much so as are the people his forces are slaughtering (ethnically cleansing) in southeast Ukraine and other such places, where the ‘real riffraff’ live. The people in those areas are punished and killed for the crime of living where “the right people” want them simply to be gone (preferably
dead, but otherwise refugees in Russia, until the ICBMs kill them).

“Sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.” But it’s long since gone, and is now aiming to clear out land elsewhere, especially southeast Ukraine, to place nuclear missiles there.

America’s ‘entrepreneurs’ have work to do, across the globe; and all the charred remains of the nuclear ‘victory’ will be passed on to their proud heirs.

It’s the new American way, the way of ‘entrepreneurs’ — a.k.a. “the aristocracy” — but actually only the ‘entrepreneurs’ who have been able to grab the most, who are billionaires. Only insiders can apply for admission. Outsiders can apply for a job, nothing more.

Obama had it all figured out. Everything else from him was just an act. He is the personification of cynicism, and of lies.

If you don’t think so, then how do you explain his, and this, and this, and this? Are those just innocent tragedies; and, if not, then who was the most indispensable person toward causing them to happen — causing them to be imposed by the Ukrainian Government that Obama’s coup imposed upon Ukraine? Obama’s decisions were essential in order to empower the people who are perpetrating this extermination-campaign, which is the bait intended to draw Vladimir Putin into a Ukrainian conflict so as to provide a pretext for an American nuclear attack against Russia — as if Russia doesn’t have even more of a legitimate national-security interest in its Ukrainian neighbor than the U.S. had in its Cuban neighbor in 1962, when we rightly threatened nuclear war over that type of provocation.

If the next U.S. President protects Obama from criminal prosecution for Ukraine like Obama protected Bush from criminal prosecution for Iraq, then the U.S. is hopelessly a lawless nation, no democracy at all.

Unfortunately, the nuclear bombs in the war that Obama and the other stooges of America’s aristocracy are building up to, will not be targeted against themselves and their psychopathic (often billionaire) sponsors. Those people will instead have their bomb-shelters, and their corporate jets.

Oligarchs are foreign to a democracy. Consequently, their servants in government, especially America’s current and former President, are foreign to the U.S. Constitution, and to their Oath of Office, and thus to this country, irrespective of their technical citizenship as ‘American.’ They should both be brought up on charges of treason against the United States of America; for, if they are not, then truly democracy is ended in this country, with no hope of restoration, and America’s Presidents are not subject to American Law, but instead stand above it, beyond it, and immune from it. That makes them dictators, but for whom, and against whom? The record speaks for itself.

Reader-comments to this commentary, pro-and-con, are invited regarding this conclusion, especially because a public forum to discuss this severe matter is needed now — a turning-point in American, and (sad to say), perhaps also (if a nuclear attack occurs) a turning-point in global history. That’s the case regardless of which side of this debate one is on. The fundamental character of this country is at stake now. The public should have a say in it (if that’s still even possible, given that 99% of the media are in the hands of oligarchs — the very same aristocrats who benefit from the status-quo).

Nuclear war is a serious matter, and the American Government must immediately halt their plan to provoke it. The time to force a halt to that is now, or else it will be never. Every step we get closer to nuclear war makes reversing the direction, which is toward war, even more difficult, and less likely, and makes nuclear war even likelier than it was before.If the public is to take charge (assuming that doing so is still possible), it will happen sooner rather than later.

The public discussion will begin now, if it begins at all.

We’re close to the precipice. Will the public remain quiet?"

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.

Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40502.htm

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Sophocles

3rd January 2015, 02:38

Documentary: «Donbass under fire: Separatists»

«Max Fadeyev documentary.

People surviving, living, fighting in Donetsk. November-December 2014»

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11.20 mark: (Fighter speaking)

-No one has filmed here, you`re the first one to film these exclusive shots.

-That`s the new terminal, you can film it if you want.

11.39: (Fighter speaking)

-This (weapon) was taken from the Ukranian separatists. They are separatists, not us.

-And we speak Ukranian language perfectly. And they are saying something about «terrorists», «separatists»...

15.10: (Woman speaking)

-We`ve only restored the roof two weeks ago. «Grad» fell at us, both halves of house broken and today the mortar shell fell here. Thanks to these guys, they extinguished the fire. They shell us every day, every day. Lots, lots of residental houses suffered damage. Not just many, lots of...

I`d like to address people who live in Kiev; stop donating money for your army. Your support for them only destroyed everything for us. We`re the same people as you are, we haven`t done anything wrong. We all are just pawns in someone else`s game. We have children too, who are now hiding in the basements, for nothing. Shells fall at us every day. Kievans, please, hear me. I`m a mother...

16.13: (Man speaking)

-I used to study in the 69th school. It got bombed, people died too. There, right near my yard, 4 shells fell. One hit the bus, 2 persons were killed there too, 6 injured, another fell in the yard next to mine, one fell right in my yard and one in the house.

28.00: (Fighter speaking)

-Russian people are not only ethnic russians, it`s a mutli-ethnic country, right, bruh? I`m ethnic german, and my callsign is Nyemets («German»). And he over there has another ethnicity, right? Greek. See? Greek, you see?

28.52: (Fighter speaking)

-We leave our families to be here. We love freedom so much that we have to abanbon something sacred, something dear to us. I came here so I could freely speak my language.

36.28: (Man at the opera speaking)

-They will never calm down, the Anglo-Saxons don`t want to leave us alone, you see? It has always been like that. Russia is like a thorn in their side.

46.34: (Fighter speaking)

-Who started it? Everyone knows who started this. America... The same thing happened with Georgia. And now here, in Ukraine.

47.36: (Teacher Vladislav Rusanov speaking)

-More than 80% of professors have stayed, they did not leave. Professors with academic degrees and colossal experience, 50 years of teaching. And we are all ready to teach students, provide them education. And nonetheless, they say that our diplomas wouldn`t be recognized in.. at least Ukraine, for example. Well, they scare us with that they won`t be recognized around the world, but it`s hardly going to be so. Because we already have negotiations with Russia, and completely serious, we are supported by the Council of Rectors of Russian Federation. And the diplomas of at least our university will be recognized on the territory of the Russian Federation, that`s for sure.

jackovesk

3rd January 2015, 04:16

:attention: I have come to the following ((CONCLUSION))

The ((UNDERLYING REASON)) as to WHY? Al Qaeda - ISIS - ISIL & IS were created is simply this.....

They are just a ((FRONT)) to create a ((DIVERSIONARY COVER)) to enable the CABAL to secretly ((STRIP)) the Middle-East of their RICHES/ASSETS both monetary & archeological...

That's it in a ((NUTSHELL))...:yes4:

...as ((CRAZY)) :crazy: as it sounds, it all boils down to ((MONEY, POWER & GREED))...:wizard:

:focus:

Sophocles

15th January 2015, 03:05

IS announces execution of Russian intelligence agents
Publication time: 13 January 2015, 23:28

"The press service of the Dawla al-Islamiyya/Islamic State (IS) circulated on the Internet a video of the execution of two men who were called Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti/Federal Security Service (FSS) agents. The video has been removed from the YouTube, but it remained at the other video sharing service.

The video shows how two men introduced themselves as Dzhambulat Mamayev, born in 1976, and Sergei Ashimov, born in 1984, admit that they worked for the FSB. They pronounce the names of their supervisors and talk about their tasks in the Middle East.

Conversation on video with Mamayev and Ashimov was conducted in Russian and subtitled in English and Arabic. Mamayev said that his task was to gather information about Russian-speaking members of the IS. Ashimov, in turn, said that he had to find and kill Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

After that, an armed man, who does not hide his face, makes a short speech and warns all future spies. Then a boy, previously standing near the man, shot both men, who had their hands tied behind and were kneeling, at point blank to the backs of their heads.

FSS does not comment on the video."

Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center

Link: http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2015/01/13/19874.shtml

And then, from buzzfeed.com:

"The video, which appeared to be staged, is directed at audiences in Russia and Russian-speaking Central Asian countries where ISIS is said to be gaining a foothold."

Link: http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/new-isis-video-shows-child-soldier-executing-russian-spies

PS! I know kavkazcenter.com is anti-russia, so everything from that site has to be taken with a grain of salt.

Sophocles

19th January 2015, 19:42

"It's the biggest, even strategic mistake of the Ukrainian authorities to bank on a military solution to the crisis in Ukrainian society and to all of southeast Ukraine's problems. This can lead to irreversible consequences for Ukrainian statehood," Grigory Karasin, Russia’s deputy foreign minister, was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency.

Link: http://rt.com/news/224119-eastern-ukraine-arms-pullout/

Hervé

28th January 2015, 03:36

Ukrainian deputy exposes plans for civil unrest and war in 2013 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=84838260&feature=player_embedded&x-yt-ts=1422327029&v=y9hOl8TuBUM)

YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=84838260&feature=player_embedded&x-yt-ts=1422327029&v=y9hOl8TuBUM)
Wed, 28 Jan 2015 02:55 CET

This video, from November 20, 2013, shows People's Deputy of Ukraine Oleg Tsarov explaining in the Ukrainian parliament U.S. plans for civil unrest and civil war in Ukraine. This was the night before the protests began (on November 21).

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See below for the transcript.
Deputy Oleg Tsarov has the word.

Honourable colleagues, Honourable Vladimir Vasiljevitch,

In my role as a representative of the Ukrainian people, activists of the public organisation "Volya" turned to me, providing clear evidence that within our territory, with support and direct participation of the US Embassy in Kiev, the "TechCamp" project is realised, under which preparations are being made for a civil war in Ukraine.

The "TechCamp" project prepares specialists for information warfare and the discrediting of state institutions using modern media, potential revolutionaries for organising protests, and the toppling of the State Order.

The project is currently overseen and under the responsibility of the US ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey R. Pyatt.

After the conversation with the organisation "Volya" I have learned that they succeeded to access facilities in the project "TechCamp" disguised as a team of IT specialists. To their surprise, briefings on peculiarities of modern media were held.

American instructors explained how social networks and Internet technologies can be used for targeted manipulation of public opinion as well as to activate protest potential to provoke violent unrest on the territory of Ukraine, radicalization of the population, and triggering of infighting.

American instructors show examples of successful use of social networks used to organise protests in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.

"TechCamp" representatives currently hold conferences throughout Ukraine. A total of five events have been held so far. About 300 people were trained as operatives, which are now active throughout Ukraine. The last conference "TechCamp" took place on 14 and 15 November 2013 in the Heart of Kiev on the territory of the US Embassy!

You tell me which country in the world would allow an NGO to operate out of the US Embassy?

This is disrespectful to the Ukrainian government, and against the Ukrainian People!

I appeal to the Constitutional Authorities of Ukraine with the following question:

Is it conceivable that representatives of the US Embassy which organise the "TechCamp" conferences misuse their diplomatic mission?

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UN Resolution of 21 December 1965 regulates inadmissibility of interference in the internal affairs of a state to protect its independence and its sovereignty in accordance with paragraphs one, two and five.

I ask you to consider this as an official beseech to pursue an investigation of this case.

Thank You!

Sophocles

28th January 2015, 17:16

U.S. Embassy Hosted TechCamp Kyiv 2.0 to Build Technological Capacity of Civil Society

March 1, 2013

The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv in partnership with Microsoft Ukraine hosted TechCamp Kyiv 2.0 on March 1, 2013 at the Microsoft Ukraine Headquarters. TechCamps support the U.S. State Department’s Civil Society 2.0 initiative that builds the technological and digital capacity of civil society organizations around the world...

To date, State Department sponsored TechCamps in Ukraine have trained more than 200 civil society organizers from throughout the country and Belarus. The technologies and approaches presented help to build new networks of relationships, enhance skill development, and create new avenues for communication. Adoption of these technologies by civil society organizations will help support the missions of these groups as well as broader social goals of democracy, transparency and good governance in the 21st Century...

Source; ukraine.usembassy.gov

Link: http://ukraine.usembassy.gov/events/techcamp-2013-kyiv.html

Pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/usembassykyiv/collections/72157633190416346/ and https://www.flickr.com/photos/usembassykyiv/sets/

Calz

28th January 2015, 19:17

It's time for Iran to turn away from the West

Paul Craig Roberts
paulcraigroberts.org
Mon, 26 Jan 2015 18:08 CET

Comment: As Roberts notes below, the U.S. is using the nuclear issue as a propaganda measure to demonize Iran to the public. The mainstream media is all too willing to be the mouthpiece of this propaganda campaign, providing no balance or objectivity. The U.S. is only interested in controlling nation-states so as to further enrich themselves and further their goals of a global fascist dictatorship. Iran's best chance to keep sovereign control of their country is to embrace the multi-polar ideology that Russia and China are attempting to spread around the world.

From all appearances, the Obama regime's negotiations with Iran, overseen by Russia, were on the verge of ending the contrived nuclear issue. An end to the confrontation is unacceptable to the Zionist Israeli government and to their neocon agents in America. The Republicans, a political party owned lock, stock, and barrel by the Israel Lobby, hastily invited Netanyahu, the crazed ruler of both Israel and America, to quickly come to tell the Republican Congress, which the insouciant American voters put in place, how to prohibit any accommodation with Iran.

Observing the Israeli-controlled Republican Congress, a collection of warmongers, taking steps to prevent any peaceful resolution of a fabricated issue, Iran's leader, Seyyed Ali Khamenei sent a letter to Western youth advising the youth of the Western world of the mischaracterization of Islam by Western propagandists.

I respect Khamenei's effort to reach out to Western youth in order to help them differentiate the reality of Islam from the demonized portrait painted of Islam by Western politicians and media.

The question is: How much impact can Khamenei have? Khamenei's voice is important, but it is small in comparison to the Western liars and propagandists. Even an important representative, such as Khamenei, of a demonized country and a demonized religion can hardly be heard over the din of propaganda against Iran and Islam.

Moreover, secret Western black op organizations can conduct terrorist operations in the name of Islam, such as possibly occurred with 9/11, the Boston Marathon Bombing, and Charlie Hebdo. The world is told that Islam is behind these attacks, but experts note that no real evidence is ever supplied. Just official assertions, such as those that proved incorrect about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Assad's use of chemical weapons in Syria, the false accusations against Gaddafi in Libya, and the false accusations against Russia in Ukraine. The makers of this propaganda have many voices, and their trumpets overwhelm the voice of Iran's leader.

Instead of appealing to the West, Iran needs to turn away from the West. The historical time of the West has passed.

The West has devolved into a police state in which government is no longer accountable to law or to the people. There are no jobs for young people, and no income security for the elderly. The West is actually in the process of looting itself. Just look at what is happening in Greece. In order to guarantee the profits of the private banks from outside Greece, the Greek people have had their pensions cut, their employment cut, their social services cut, and they have had to sell their valuable public properties at low prices to private purchasers from outside their country. The same looting is now going on in Ukraine, and Italy, Spain, and Portugal face the identical fate.

In America the entire economic policy of the country is conducted only for the benefit of the super-rich One Percent.

If we use J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings as a metaphor for the West, the West is Mordor and Washington is Sauron.

It is pointless for Iran to negotiate with the West in hopes of gaining acceptance. Iran is on the same list as Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, and Assad. The only way Iran can be accepted by the West is to consent to being an American puppet state. Suspicion about Iran's nuclear energy program is a contrived issue. If it were not the nuclear issue, it would be some other contrived issue, such as weapons of mass destruction, use of chemical weapons, terrorism, and so forth. Iran's leaders should understand that the real problem is Iran's independence of Washington's foreign and economic policies. Washington cannot say that the US wants regime change in Iran because Washington wants a puppet state, so Washington pretends that Iran represents a threat that must be overcome.

If Iran so much admires the decadent and corrupt West that it is willing to be a servile vassal in order to enjoy Western acceptance, all Iran needs to do is to capitulate and align with Washington's hegemonic policies.

If Iran, one of the two oldest civilizations and cultures on the planet, wishes to continue its existence without coming under the rule of the "exceptional" Americans, Iran must turn its back to the West, ally with Russia, China, India, and the other BRICS countries, and have nothing whatsoever to do with the Western criminals. It is beyond explanation why a civilization as old as the Iranian one would see anything in the West worthy of being associated with.

Above all, Iran should stop fighting other Muslims, even extreme ones who betray the Prophet Mohammed and soil Islam. Iran should not accept the role of being Washington's mercenary in the fight against the Islamic State. Iran should never help Washington kill Muslims, even misguided ones who betray the Prophet. Instead, Iran should understand that the Islamic State, even if it should be a creation of Washington, is enjoying its success because Muslim peoples are tired of being ruled by the West, which uses the antagonism between Sunni and Shi'ite to rule them both.

If the Islamic State is a Western creation, the Muslims who support it are not. The Islamic state is supported by Muslims because the Muslim people are tired of being ruled and ruined by America, Great Britain, and the French.

Khamenei should forget about America, where evil has taken hold and about which Khamenei can do nothing. Khamenei should try to unify the Muslim peoples and turn them in a new direction.

Islam is weak because it is not unified. For centuries Muslims, divided by ancient political claims, have permitted their religious differences to make them pawns of other powers. It requires leadership to repair a sectarian split, and that is the leadership Iran should attempt to provide. Iran cannot provide leadership by imposing its view. A unifying compromise among Muslims must be made. Fighting on the side of the Americans against the Islamic State perpetuates the split and seals the fate of Muslim peoples as colonies of the West.

The problems that Muslims face might be too large for leadership to rectify. Not only are Muslims afflicted by their internal split, Muslim populations in the West are now positioned by propaganda such that their leaders are compelled to support war against the Islamic State and Iran in order to protect Muslim communities from pogroms. Have history and propaganda made Muslims forever a colonized people?

http://www.sott.net/article/291966-Its-time-for-Iran-to-turn-away-from-the-West

Hervé

28th January 2015, 22:17

UAF launches two Tochka-U ballistic missiles on Donetsk and Gorlovka, but they break apart midflight (http://fortruss.blogspot.fr/2015/01/uaf-launches-two-tochka-u-ballistic.html)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AGW0unVkWzk/VMlAtx2fv4I/AAAAAAAAKsU/zlI2ZllgZEY/s1600/4e0332822266.jpg (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AGW0unVkWzk/VMlAtx2fv4I/AAAAAAAAKsU/zlI2ZllgZEY/s1600/4e0332822266.jpg)
January 28, 2015
Cassad (http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2016106.html)
Translated by Kristina Rus

Two installations of "Tochka U" today left the airfield at Kramatorsk, in the direction of Druzhkovka. Firing positions were between Kramatorsk and Druzhkovka near the village of Kamyshevakha.

Rumble at startup and the flying missiles were seen and heard by the residents of Konstantinovka, Druzhkovka, Alekseev-Druzhkovka and several other settlements.

The direction of launch: Donetsk, Gorlovka. The first launch was made at 16:00, the second at 18:30.

Due to outdated components of the missiles and not without the help of providence (God is still with us!), both missiles had not reached their targets, having broken off in the sky in the vicinity of Gorlovka.

Exact time of launch and location of the explosion of the missiles in the air need to be verified further.

The main targets for Tochka short-range ballistic missile system (http://www.military-today.com/missiles/ss21_scarab.htm) (NATO Designation SS-21 Scarab) are airfields, command posts, support facilities, air defense batteries, bridges and troops concentrations.

The Tochka can carry conventional, nuclear or chemical warheads. Maximum range of fire is 70 km. It has a CEP of 160 m. A standard missile is 6.4 m long and weights 2 000 kg. Warhead weights about 480 kg, depending on the type.
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Maybe "they" were trying to provide "evidence" the Russians did it and is proof of a Russian invasion of Ukraine...

:doh:

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Ukrainian Parliament declares Russia as an agressor

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-20bIoGVqMsc/VMhuY1OesBI/AAAAAAAAKsE/GSu-Nf96Fy0/s1600/310129.jpeg (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-20bIoGVqMsc/VMhuY1OesBI/AAAAAAAAKsE/GSu-Nf96Fy0/s1600/310129.jpeg)
Photo: Pravda January 27, 2015

Rostislav Ishchenko - Pravda.ru (http://www.pravda.ru/news/expert/27-01-2015/1245905-ishenko-0/)
Translated by Krisitna Rus

The Verkhovna Rada with 271 votes officially recognized Russia as an aggressor. The MPs also called on the international community for the implementation of all measures to stop the military aggression against Ukraine, for strengthening of sanctions against the Russian Federation as a country that supports aggression on the territory of Ukraine, and declare DPR and LPR terrorist organizations. What is the reason of this decision, what it means and what the consequences might be, spoke the President of the Center of System Analysis and Forecasting, Rostislav Ishchenko in an interview to Pravda.Ru.

"Rada not only recognized Russia as an aggressor, but also recommended that the President actually declares war on Russia. That is, in this situation, Kiev regime, except for individuals looking for a personal gain, seeks to formalize the state of war with Russia. Ukraine has long said that it is at war with Russia," - said Rostislav Ishchenko.
"But as the Russian army did not show up on the battlefield, Rada is trying to formalize it, believes the expert. "I understand that during the meeting of the Security and Defense Council, Poroshenko was pressured to declare martial law. When he resisted, they continued to push. Either they will force him, or else without him the Parliament or government of Ukraine will somehow formalize a state of war with Russia."Responding to the question, whether he expects NATO to help Ukraine, Rostislav Ishchenko told Pravda.Ru that the alliance is unlikely to be involved in the fighting in Ukraine. "By the way, to declare war on Russia - does not mean that Russia will go to war. So far, Novorossia army can cope with the Ukrainian troops. Another thing is that Ukraine and the United States want to have an additional trump card for international organizations, in their discussions with the European Union, to represent Russia as an aggressor," - said Rostislav Ishchenko.

Therefore, he said, it is "actually a gesture of despair." "Because they were trying to force Russia to take an active part in the hostilities on the territory of Ukraine for the entire year. Because it didn't work, now the Parliament declares that Russia is the aggressor, Rada might as well vote for the fact that the sun rises in the West and sets in the East," - finished Rostislav Ishchenko.

Translators Note:

Now we know the reason for Mariupol provocation.

Hervé

29th January 2015, 18:37

Putin's Unexpected Victory: Europe Furious That Greece Is Now A Russian Sanctions Veto (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-29/putins-unexpected-victory-germany-furious-greece-now-russian-sanctions-veto)

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/pictures/picture-5.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden) Submitted by Tyler Durden (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden) on 01/29/2015 09:57 -0500

Two days ago, Zero Hedge first, and shortly thereafter everyone else, pointed out something stunning (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-27/greece-begins-great-pivot-toward-russia): the biggest surprise to emerge so far out of the new anti-Troika/austerity Greek government was not so much its intention to proceed with the first test of "Odious Debt (http://www.zerohedge.com/article/odious-debt-definition)" - this was largely known in advance - but its dramatic pivot away from Germany and Europe, and toward Russia.

As we noted before, not only has Greece already blocked all ongoing privatization processes, a clear snub of Merkel and the Troika which demands the piecemeal blue light special sale of Greece to western buyers as part of the "bailout", but is also looking at plans to reinstate public sector employees and announce increased pensions for those on low incomes: further clear breaches of the Troika's austerity terms.

But the most important message that Tsipras is sending to Europe is that (after meeting the Russian ambassador first upon his election) Greece is now effectively a veto power when it comes to future Russian sanctions!

This was first hinted when the Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias, who arrives in Brussels today to discuss possible additional sanctions on Russia over the conflict in Ukraine, said a few days ago that the Greek government disagreed with an EU statement in which President Donald Tusk raised the prospect of “further restrictive measures” on Russia. As Bloomberg observed before (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-27/tsipras-names-cabinet-heading-for-clash-over-bailout-and-russia), in recent months, Kotzias wrote on Twitter that sanctions against Russia weren’t in Greece’s interests. He said in a blog that a new foreign policy for Greece should be focused on stopping the ongoing transformation of the EU “into an idiosyncratic empire, under the rule of Germany.”

And Europe, shocked that one of its own has dared to question its "unanimous" policy toward Russia, a policy driven by the US foreign state department whose opinion of Europe is best captured by the hacked and intercepted "**** the EU (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-06/****-eu-us-state-department-blasts-europe-revealed-alleged-mastermind-behind-ukraine)" outburst by Victoria Nuland in February 2014, has been forced to backtrack. From DPA (http://www.dpa-international.com/news/international/eudenies-sidestepping-greece-on-russia-sanctions-warning-a-44004731.html):
The European Union denied Wednesday that it ignored Greek objections when it issued a statement raising the prospects of new sanctions against Russia.

The row is the first of several clashes expected between Brussels and Greece's new prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, who was elected Sunday on promises to renegotiate the bailout granted to Greece by its European neighbours and the International Monetary Fund.

Tsipras has in the past also spoken out against sanctions on Russia, rejecting the use of "Cold War language."

The EU has imposed several rounds of sanctions on Russia for its role in the Ukraine crisis, notably economic measures restricting Russian access to European credit markets and European exports. On Tuesday morning, EU leaders in a joint statement tasked their foreign ministers with considering "further restrictive measures" when they meet on Thursday.

But Tsipras complained to Greek media that his country had not been consulted on the statement. "Greece do not consent," a statement by Tsipras' office said on Tuesday evening, adding that the announcement from Brussels violated "proper procedure."

A spokesman for EU President Donald Tusk, who issued the statement on behalf of the leaders, denied that Athens had been sidelined during the preparation of the text.

"We consulted everybody, as we always do, and we didn't ignore or sidestep Greece in any way - quite to the contrary," Preben Aamann told dpa. "We tried to find a special solution that would accommodate them."
Actually what the EU "always does" is to ignore the voices and interest of everyone but the most powerful. And as for "not ignoring" Greece, apparently the EU failed. Only this time Greece, its government no longer a Eurozone lackey, will no longer let it slide: "Greek broadcaster Skai said newly appointed Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias would bring up the issue at Thursday's meeting in Brussels. Tsipras is also expected in the Belgian capital on February 12 for an EU summit that will touch upon the situation in Ukraine."

And here is how Russia just won another completely unexpected victory in Europe: "EU sanctions require unanimity to be implemented, so a Greek veto could block any further measures." And all thanks to the epic blunder by Brussels to allow a European nation to voice its opinion in a democratic fashion.

It wasn't just Zero Hedge who first suggested the Greek Russian pivot: here is RBS' Greg Gibbs who says that there are now "concerns Greek government may threaten to veto further Russian sanctions in exchange for debt relief fuels fear of conflict."

To be sure, Germany, whose theatrical opposition to money printing folded like Boehner's lawn chair last week, as it is now all too clear the preservation of German export dominance (and hence aversion to the DEM) and the sanctity of Deutsche Bank is what it is all about no matter the hyperinflationary concerns of the people, is quite furious that the grand ambitions of Europe's economic powerhouse - which as we reported moments ago has now officially entered deflation - have been crushed by tiny, depression-ridden Greece.

Here is Germany's economy minister Gabriel, who was on the tape earlier, casting fire and brimstone at Greece (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/29/greece-europe-germany-idUSB4N0PT00S20150129). From Reuters:
Greece should not burden the rest of Europe with its internal political debates, German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Thursday, adding that Greece's own inequalities were to blame for problems that it tried to blame on its multilateral lenders.

Gabriel told parliament Greece should stay in the euro but the new leftist leader Alexis Tsipras must respect the terms of its bailout. Greece could not blame the "troika" of multilateral lenders for its own unfair distribution of wealth, he said.

"All democratic people must respect the democratic decision of voters and a newly-elected government's right to decide its course - but the rest of Europe's citizens should not have to expect changes in Greek politics to burden them," he said.
Of course, as long as the changes in Greek politics allowed the rest of Europe's citizens to continue to benefit at Greek expense, nobody batted an eyelid. But change the equation and all hell breaks loose.

And the final confirmation that suddenly tiny Greece may have all the leverage in Europe is that moments ago Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that European sanctions on Russia are complicated by the "new Greek government."

The good news for Greece, of course, is that it now has all the optionality: it can use its veto power as a bargaining chip to unblock US foreign policy in Ukraine (because at the end of the day, Europe is merely losing as a result of the Russian sanctions) and demand a debt haircut in exchange for siding with John Kerry on further Russian "punishment." Or he may simply hold the line and hold off for a competing, better offer from Russia and the BRICs, whose leverage may be nominal now that crude is plummeting, but if and when the last shale junk bond investor blows up and the US shale renaissance is over sending crude soaring right back to $100, then watch as the oil exporters are back with a bang, and dictating geopolitical terms.

And whatever happens, please don't remind Brussels that point 40 of Syriza's 40 Point Manifesto (http://www.greanvillepost.com/2012/05/27/the-european-situation-syrizas-program/), aka the "nuclear option", is "Closure of all foreign bases in Greece and withdrawal from NATO."

It is so bad that Business New Europe went so far as to ask if the New Greek Government is "Russia's Trojan horse inside the EU (http://www.bne.eu/content/story/new-greek-government-russias-trojan-horse-inside-eu)?"

In any event, the European balance of power has just shifted and in a way that nobody anticipated:

The biggest winners: if only for now: Greece and Russia (and, while it will never be admitted, all those Europeans who desperately need the Russian import market).

The biggest losers: all the unelected Eurocrats in Brussels who at this moment are scratching their heads how to bring the bad news that there is no longer unanimity on Russian sanctions to John Kerry, and all thanks to a country nobody thought would dare to speak up.

Sophocles

1st February 2015, 15:27

Is the New Greek Government a Trojan?

Tempest in a Teacup

by Nebojsa Malic, January 31, 2015

The Greek parliamentary election of January 25 was won by the "Coalition of the Radical Left," better known by the acronym SYRIZA (Synaspismós Rizospastikís Aristerás). It was not an altogether unexpected development, as both the mainstream Greek parties had lost the faith of the electorate by slavishly following the dictates of Brussels and Berlin to (mis)handle the Greek economic crisis. Yet speculation that Greece might leave the Eurozone, or even the EU, is at best premature. There might be more to the Greek situation than meets the eye.

That October Spirit

On the face of it, Syriza promises a clean break from the Berlin-dictated policy of "austerity" – in effect, laying waste to Greece to feed the European and American bankers. Its original 40-point manifesto is an eclectic mixture of leftist causes, from the nationalization of banks and utilities (#18 and #19, respectively), subsidized mortgages (#15) and nationalized health care (#14, 25, 26), to raising taxes (#3, 5, 6) and prohibiting "speculative financial derivatives" (#7). Syriza also wants to demilitarize the police (#29), open the borders (#30, 31) and withdraw from NATO (#37, 40). But it’s the very first item in the manifesto that gives the banksters of the West nightmares:

"Audit of the public debt and renegotiation of interest due, and suspension of payments until the economy has revived and growth and employment return."

While much of the media attention has been on Syriza’s leader and the new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, the party’s focus on Greece’s finances will mean the man to watch would be the minister of finance in the new cabinet, Yanis Varoufakis. And in his words:

"The real deficit in Greece, it is a dignity deficit. It is because of this lack of dignity that we have accepted stupid measures and this has fueled a vicious cycle of indignity which itself maintains discontent, fear and resentment. All this is not good."

Varoufakis sees the solution in invoking the "spirit of October 28"; this is the date on which, in 1940, Greece laconically rejected the ultimatum by Mussolini’s Italy. The resulting Italian invasion turned into a fiasco, leading to Hitler’s invasion of Greece in April 1941.

The invocation of World War Two is not accidental: the fact that the Eurozone’s oppressive fiscal policy – more on that in a bit – is basically dictated by German bankers has caused comparisons with Nazi occupation for years, ever since the 2010 economic meltdown.

But will Syriza tell Berlin and Brussels "No," or is this just populist posturing?

Confusion in Athens

Twelve days before the vote, Syriza’s leader Alexis Tsipras wrote an open letter to the German public, published by the business journal Handelsblatt. In it, he explained that the fraudulent "bailouts" of the Greek state – in effect, of its Western creditors – were costing the German taxpayers money, and the Greeks their dignity. "What is even worse," Tsipras wrote, "in this manner, before long the Germans turn against the Greeks, the Greeks against the Germans, and unsurprisingly, the European Ideal suffers catastrophic losses." He concluded by saying that Germans had "nothing to fear from a SYRIZA victory."

Given Syriza’s proclaimed foreign policy goals – and the disastrous effects of EU’s "sanctions" (and Russian countermeasures) on the already moribund Greek economy, the new government was expected to oppose new anti-Russian measures in the EU. According to Reuters, however, Greece backed (!) extending the existing measures at a meeting on January 29. The aforementioned finance minister Varoufakis protested the news coverage, citing Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias that the Greeks were not even consulted, let alone consenting.

Reuters reported differently:

"We are not against every sanction," Kotzias said later. "We are in the mainstream, we are not the bad boys."

And while the German FM Steinmeier had "expressed frustration with the ambiguity of the Greek position" earlier, after meeting with Kotzias in private he "said he was less concerned".

Somebody’s lying here – but whether it’s Reuters, Kotzias, Varoufakis or the Germans, is almost impossible to ascertain.

Murky Business

There are other tidbits of information out there, pertaining to the new government in Athens. The departing cabinet left the offices without power, Internet service and even toilet soap, suggesting genuine animosity. However, Tsipras snubbed the Greek Orthodox Church in refusing to swear the oath of office before the clergy, as is custom.

Then there is the matter of Tsipras visiting Washington two years ago, discussing such issues as "the ultra-right Golden Dawn party and anti-Semitism… Greek-Turkish relations, the Cyprus issue and Greece-FYROM differences." Let’s recall that Golden Dawn (Chrysi Avgi) was the party giving EU and US officials major heartburn at the time, after winning 21 seats (Syriza had won 52) in the 2012 parliamentary election.

At the time, the Western media raised a storm over Golden Dawn’s "Nazi" nature. By September 2013, the party’s leadership was jailed on charges of criminal conspiracy, and the party was considered moribund. It is perhaps worth noting, then, that Golden Dawn won 17 seats in last weekend’s election – but nobody is worried about them any more. Why?

Last week, news came that the well-known "philanthropist" George Soros – currency speculator notorious for funding "civil society" and "democracy" groups acting as Trojan horses of the Atlantic Empire – was opening a "solidarity center" in Greece. To what end? Nobody knows for sure.

A Problem Called Euro

While there is no denying that past Greek governments have been terribly corrupt, their far greater sin was partnering up with Goldman Sachs to hide its bad debt – and letting the banksters profit from the arrangement, while the Greek taxpayers were saddled with the impossible bill.

You won’t hear any of it in the mainstream media, of course. They are peddling the bankster-promoted myth of the "lazy southerners" – not just the Greeks, but the Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese, in similar economic straits. By contrast, the "northerners" – Germans, Frenchmen, Brits, Balts and Scandinavians – are supposed to be the epitome of hard work and discipline.

However, one analysis, comparing the economic performance of Spain, Italy, Greece, France, and Germany for a decade before and after the implementation of the Euro, suggests that the currency standards are to blame, and the myth of "southern laziness" is pure bigotry. Others have argued likewise.

All of this raises the question whether the self-proclaimed "radical left" in Greece will follow its own manifesto and execute a "Grexit" from the Eurozone, or will it be unmasked as yet another Trojan horse of the Empire, seeking to fit into the increasingly impossible "mainstream". One suspects we won’t have to wait too long to find out.

Link: http://original.antiwar.com/malic/2015/01/30/is-the-new-greek-government-a-trojan/

Sophocles

5th February 2015, 00:55

Putin prefers a bad peace
By Israel Shamir

In February, it is a long way to the spring, lamented Joseph Brodsky, the poet. Indeed, snow still falls heavily in Moscow and Kiev as well as in the rolling steppes that form Russian-Ukrainian borderlands, but there it is tinted with red. Soldiers are loth to fight in the winter, when life is difficult anyway in these latitudes, but fighting already flared up in war-torn Donbass, and the US prepares to escalate by supplying sophisticated weapons to Kiev. Tired by the siege and by intermittent shelling, the rebels disregarded snow and took the strategic Donetsk airport. This airport with its Stalin-built tunnels, a symbol of solid Soviet defence work, presented a huge challenge for underequipped militia. Its many-leveled underground facilities were built to sustain a nuclear attack; still, the rebels, after months of fighting, flushed the enemy out and took it.

In a bigger offensive, they trapped Kiev’s troops in Debaltsevo pocket, and Kiev already sued for a cease-fire. The rebels hope to dislodge the enemy from their lands altogether; as now they hold only about one third of Donbass; but Russia’s president still gropes for brakes. He prefers a bad peace to a good war. For him, the Ukraine is important, but not a sine qua non, the only problem in the world. This attitude he shares with the American leader. There is a big difference: Russia wants peaceful Ukraine, Americans prefer one at war.

Russia would prefer to see Ukraine united, federal, peaceful and prosperous. The alternative of splitting Donbass is not very tempting: Donbass is strongly connected to the rest of Ukraine, and it is not easy to sever its ties. The war already had sent millions of refugees from Donbass and from rump Ukraine to Russia and overloaded its systems. Putin can’t cut loose and forget about Donbass – his people would not allow him anyway. A cautious man, he does not want to go to an open-ended war. So he has to navigate towards some sort of peace.

I had a meeting with a well-informed and highly-placed Russian source who shared with me, for your benefit, some inner thoughts on condition of his anonymity. Though the West is certain that Putin wants to restore the Soviet Union, actually the Russian president did everything he could to save the Ukraine from disintegration, said the source. That’s what Russia did in order to bring peace to Ukraine:

Russia supported the West-brokered agreement of February 21, 2014, but the US still pushed for the next day (February 22) coup, or “had brokered a deal to transition power in Ukraine" , in Obama’s words.
After the coup, the South-East Ukraine did not submit to the new Kiev regime and seceded. Still, Moscow asked the Donbass rebels to refrain from carrying out their May referendum. (They disregarded Putin’s appeal).
Moscow recognised the results of sham May elections carried out by Kiev regime after the coup, and recognised Poroshenko as the president of the whole Ukraine – though there were no elections in the South East and opposition parties were banned from participating.
Moscow did not officially recognise the results of November elections in Donbass, to the chagrin of many Russian nationalists.

These steps were quite unpopular in Russian society, but Putin made them to promote a peaceful solution for Ukraine. Some warlike Donbass leaders were convinced to retire. In vain: Putin’s actions and intentions were disregarded by the US and EC. They encouraged the ‘war part‎y’ in Kiev. “They never found a fault with Kiev, whatever they do”, said the source.

Peace in Ukraine can be reached through federalisation, my source told me. That’s why two most important parameters of Minsk accords (between Kiev and Donetsk) were those we never hear about: constitutional and socio-economic reforms. Russia wants to secure territorial integrity of the Ukraine (minus Crimea) but it can be achieved only through federalisation of Ukraine with a degree of autonomy being given to its regions. Its west and east speak different languages, worship different heroes, have different aspirations. They could manage together, just, if the Ukraine were a federal state, like the US or Switzerland or India.

In Minsk, the sides agreed to establish a joint commission for constitutional reforms, but Kiev regime reneged on it. Instead, they created a small and secretive constitutional committee of the Rada (Parliament). This was condemned by the Venice Commission, a European advisory body on constitutional matters. Donetsk people wouldn’t accept it, either, and it is not what was agreed upon in Minsk.

As for integration, it was agreed in Minsk to reintegrate Donbass within Ukraine. This was disappointing for Donbass (they would prefer to join Russia), but they accepted it, - while Kiev laid siege to Donbass, cut off its banks, ceased buying Donbass coal, stopped to pay pensions. Kiev troops daily shell Donetsk, a city of a million inhabitants (in peaceful times!). Instead of amnesty for rebels, as agreed in Minsk, there are more government troops pouring eastwards.

The Russians did not give up on Minsk accords. The Minsk agreements could bring peace, but they have to be implemented. Perhaps president Poroshenko of Kiev would like to, but Kiev war party with its western support will unseat Poroshenko if he goes too far. Paradoxically, the only way to force him to peace is war, - though Russia would prefer the West to put pressure on its clients in Kiev. The rebels and their Russian supporters used warfare to force him to sign Minsk accords: their offensive on Mariupol on the Black Sea was hugely successful, and Poroshenko preferred to go to Minsk in order to keep Mariupol. Since then, Kiev and Donetsk had a few cease-fires, they exchanged POWs, but Kiev refuses to implement constitutional and socio-economic demands of Minsk accord.

It does not make sense to cease fire, if Kiev uses it to regroup and attack again. Cease fire should lead to a constitutional reform, said my source, a reform negotiated in an open and transparent dialogue of the regions and Kiev. Without a reform, Donbass (or Novorussia) will go to war. So the Debaltsevo operation can be considered as a way to force Poroshenko to sue for peace.

Russia does not intend to take part in the war, or in peace negotiations, said the source. The Russians are adamant to stay out, while the Americans are equally adamant to present Russia as a side to conflict.

Meanwhile, the Russian-American relations were moved forty years back to Jackson-Vanik amendment of 1974 by the Ukraine Freedom [Support Act of 2014]. The US Secretary of State John Kerry considered this act an unfortunate development, but a temporary one. The Russians are not that optimistic: for them, the Act codified anti-Russian sanctions. The US tries to turn other states against Russia, with some success. In one sweep the German Kanzlerin Angela Merkel eliminated all organisations, structures and ties built between Germany and Russia for many years. Every visit of Joe Biden causes a conflagration.

The Russians are upset with the story of the Malaysian Boeing. In every high-level encounter with the Americans, they remind of the hysterical accusations and claims that the liner was downed by the rebels using Russian missiles. Six months passed since the tragedy; still the Americans did not present a single proof of Russian and/or rebel involvement. They did not present photos of their satellites, nor records of their AWACS aircraft hovering over Eastern Europe. My source told me that the American high-ranking officials do not insist anymore that Russians/rebels are involved, but they stubbornly refuse to apologise for their previous baseless accusations. They never say they are sorry.

Still the Americans want to play the ball. They insist that they do not seek Russian ‘surrender’, that they find the confrontation costly and unwelcome, while the US needs Russian support for dealing with Iranian nuclear programme, with removal of Syrian chemical weapons, with Palestinian problem. The Russians retort they have heard it all during the Libyan affair and aren’t impressed.

Differences of opinion between Russia and the US are big in practically every area. There is one common feature: from Syria to Donbass, Russians endorse peace, Americans push for war. Now the Russians invited some opposition figures and the government representatives from Syria for talks in Moscow. They came, talked, went away and will come again. They could probably settle but the US representatives say that they will never reconcile to Bashar Assad presidency and will fight to the last Syrian for his dismissal. It is not that Americans are bloodthirsty; war makes sense for them: every war on the globe supports the US dollar and invigorates Dow Jones, as capital seeks safe haven and finds it in the US.

They do not think about fate of Syrians who flee to Jordan - or of Ukrainians who escape to Russia in ever increasing numbers. What a shame for two wonderful countries! Syria was peaceful and prosperous, the diamond of the Middle East until ruined by the US-supported islamists; the Ukraine was the wealthiest part of the USSR, until being ruined by the US-supported far-right and oligarchs. Joseph Brodsky bitterly predicted in 1994, as the Ukraine declared its independence from Russia, that the shifty Ukrainians will still evoke Russian poetry in their mortal hour. This prophesy is about to be fulfilled.

Link: http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.no/

Sophocles

5th February 2015, 01:13

Deputy Oleg Tsarov was threatened by Igor Kolomoisky last year before his house was burned down. I guess it`s understandable why he then withdrew his candidacy last April.

The conversation (in russian): XILeF78gRew

KIEV, May 21. /ITAR-TASS/. Unidentified assailants attacked and burnt down the house of Oleh Tsariov, a member of the Ukrainian parliament and former presidential candidate, overnight on Wednesday in the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk.

“My house in Dnipropetrovsk was burnt down at night,” Tsariov wrote on his Facebook page. “Two buses with armed people arrived at 2.00 am and showered the house with Molotov cocktails. The assailants acted confidently. They were filming the arson, probably to report later on their job."

Link: http://itar-tass.com/en/world/732440

Sophocles

5th February 2015, 03:06

According to Edward Basorin in the stab (or something) of the Donetsk Republic:

WOFO9ep4mik

The Donetsk People`s Republic leadership has evidences of preparations for the provocation against the peaceful cilvilians in Debaltsevo planned on the eve of Munich Security Conference on 6-8 feruary, being conducted by the Ukrainian military command.

In order to accomplish this, he said, a bus evacuating people from Debaltsevo area is planned to be destroyed with artillery fire of one of the Ukranian Armed Forces units in the next few days.

The information was recieved as a result of the interrogation of the senior lieutenant Marchenko Alexandr Sergeyevich who was serving in the military unit number 0676, 25th territorial defense battalion «Kievskaya Rus», who surrendered to the DPR army on february 2nd in the Redkodub settlement area.

Ukrainian leadership plans to spread the fact of the shelling and deaths of civilians in Ukrainian and international mass media, to be used on Munich Security Conference in purpose of discrediting the Donetsk People`s Republic with following recognition of it as a terrorist organization by the world community.

Sophocles

6th February 2015, 03:18

Friday, February 6, 2015

Ukraine SITREP: *Extremely* dangerous situation in Debaltsevo

The Novorussian and the junta have agreed to a cease-fire to allow the civilian population to leave Debaltsevo. In theory, each civilian will get to chose whether he/she wants to be evacuated to Novorussia or to the Nazi-occupied Ukraine. The convoy of refugees will be escorted by senior OSCE officials. Both sides to the conflict have pledged not to open fire during the time needed for this operation. Now consider this:

1) The only thing protecting the junta forces are, precisely, these civilians. If these civilians leave, then Debaltsevo will turn into Saur Mogila. Until now, the Novorussians have advanced rather slowly precisely because they could not use the full power of their artillery to soften up the well dug-in junta forces. But thanks to the Voentorg, the Novorussians now have plenty of firepower now and if they decide to really open up upon the junta forces the latter will suffer the same devastating consequences as their (now dead) colleagues in Saur Mogila. Everybody understands that.

2) Tonight the junta has used white phosphorus again, and in the recent days they have used both ballistic missiles and cluster munitions. Why this sudden concern with the Debaltsevo civilians (whom the Nazis consider as "bugs" anyway)? Does anybody really believe that the Nazi freaks in Kiev care for Novorussian civilians?!

3) Kerry, Hollande and Merkel were in Kiev today. The latter two will be in Moscow tomorrow. In Germany, the Munich Security Conference is meeting. NATO is still claiming that "hundreds and hundreds" of Russian Federation soldiers are operating in Novorussia. While some US officials speak of sending "lethal aid" to the junta, others seem to oppose it.

What does that all tell you?

Me - it tells me that this is the PERFECT opportunity for the kind of false flag massacres NATO and the US are so good at. That is how the "Empire of Kindness" justified bombing the Bosnian Serbs, that is how the "Empire of Kindness" justified bombing Kosovo and that is how the "Empire of Kindness" justified bombing Libya.

Tomorrow, such an attack will be very easy to organize. Just send a group of men to post a Claymore mine anywhere along the convoy's route, plant a 152mm shell with a remote under the road where the bus will collect the refugees, pay some patsy to hide in the ditch with an RPG, or use a regular Grad strike at any time - and, voilà, you will have exactly the kind of atrocity which was used to justify all the previous wars of the "Empire of Kindness".

Except that this time around, the goal will not be to bomb or invade Novorussia (that is something the US/NATO simply cannot do), but to create the kind if hysteria which might make it possible to save the junta forces in the Debaltsevo cauldron. That, at least, could be the plan. Also, if a massacre happens at the evacuation of refugees, then this will "prove" that the Novorussians don't care about civilians and create a "Sarajavo-like" situation in which the surrounded force gets to shoot as much as it wants while the surrounding force is crucified by the imperial propaganda for every shell fired.

I sure hope that I am wrong, but I won't breathe normally again until tomorrow evening because if no false flag happens tomorrow this will be a real miracle.

The Saker

Link: http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.no/

Roberta

6th February 2015, 18:08

As far as Herve's post above (the South stream cancelled project) is concerned: It is a perfect analysis of a failed politics and I do appreciate it a lot!

Sophocles

7th February 2015, 00:18

Interview with Dmitry Rogozin, Deputy PM of Russia, february 4, 2015:

We have already shown several types of robotic technology, including a miltary avatar which can be controlled at a distance...All the tiny movements -the joints of the fingers, movements of the hands- are transferred in their entirety over a distance to this avatar, and it copies the movement of a person.

And it (bullet) allows the soldier from a pretty long range (I won`t disclose how far, but it is measured in a lot of kilometres) to hit any moving target. It`s neither a gun nor a shell, nor a rocket, it`s an extremely light device from which no enemy can escape.

Our missile development has reached a point where both the current and feature American anti-ballistic-missile capabilities are incapable of impacting the Russian strategic missile potential.

Everything which they have done and are doing is aimed at destroying our economy through the application of sanctions targeted at particular sectors of our economy. And once the standard of living has fallen to nothing, the expectation is that then popular anger will erupt against Putin. The events in the Ukraine simply provide a necessery pretext.

And the reason for all this is that we are independently developing our country and taking an independent role in the world, and we are rebuilding the economic power of our country.

Link: http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.no/2015/02/interview-with-dmitry-rogozin-deputy-pm.html

Hervé

8th February 2015, 14:22

Did one ever thought s/he was alone?

Here is an expression of the "silent" majority:

There is hope and there is "another West" (http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.fr/2015/02/there-is-hope-and-there-is-another-west.html)

I have said that many times on this blog and I will say that today: there is "another West" which we, all those who oppose the Empire, should never forget. This is a West which you will never *ever* see in the corporate media and it is formed a innumerable individuals who don't go into politics, don't organize demonstrations and who simply live a life of spiritual freedom, away from the degenerate, ugly, deceptive and evil order which the so-called "elites" have imposed upon us all. I mentioned this "other West" in my Submarines in the Desert (http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2014/11/submarines-in-desert-as-my-deepest.html) post and I won't repeat it all here. I will just say that I get amazing letters from that "other West" almost every day.

Letter which, if I posted them here, nobody would believe are genuine and I would be accused of making them up. I show some of them to my wife, but even to her I say that "if I showed you how many such letters I get you would probably have a hard time believing me". I can sincerely say this: these letters have changed my view of humanity, quite literally, and now know, I really *know* something crucial: we are truly everywhere (as David Rovics put it (https://soundcloud.com/davidrovics/we-are-everywhere)) and there is a lot of us (even if we often feel isolated).

Yesterday I got such a letter and it deeply moved me. I replied to it's author and ask for his permission to share it with you (without revealing any personal details). He agreed. So here it is:
Dear Saker,
I am sorry to write you because I know that you are very busy and you provide such a valuable service to me and so many others that are seeking the truth about Ukraine. I hope my message does not burden you and disturb your work or leisure.

I am an American, so totally disgusted with my country and it's leadership. What lies and propaganda that are directed at Russia, Novorussia, it's citizens and its determined and honorable soldiers makes me ashamed of my country. In addition when I try to explain the truth to people just how the war in Ukraine started with our usual coup tactics I get blank stares of disbelief. No one wants to hear that our government is driven by evil desires that is ruining the lives of so many innocent people. It is so very sad.

I have been reading your site for a long time and just now have added Fort Russ, Novorussia Today, Colonel Cassad, and some others that are speaking and showing the truth.
I am a carpenter, but have no work now. I have not had work in many months and am on the verge of losing my home. I have no savings and feel sad that I can not contribute to your site or to the victims in East Ukraine that my country is helping to kill and destroy. Often at night as I try to sleep I think about those who are suffering so, that are being attacked by our stooge government in Kiev. It eats at me and makes me so sad for humanity, I have no way to help and my fellow Americans, or at least most of them seem to not care at all.
Please forgive me for reading your precious truth and insight and not sending you your rightful due. I promise, if I shall get work or become employed I will not forget you and never will I forget my brothers and sisters in East Ukraine. May God bless you always and may he distribute justice to my evil American government.
Sincerely your eternal friend,
"Carpenter"I also want to share with you a part of my reply to "Carpenter" because beyond him, this is what I want to say to all those, especially Americans, who have written to me with the same anguish and pain:
Dear "Carpenter"

Your beautiful letter moved me to tears but also filled me with joy because it showed me something I already knew: that nationalities and borders are not really real, that there is a brotherhood of mankind which goes much, MUCH deeper than the language we speak or the passport we carry. I knew that - but your letter still felt like an explosion of humanity in a world gone crazy. I have one favor to ask of you:

Never be ashamed of your country or your people. They are the first victims of a worldwide system of evil which enslaves us all. For decades Russia was ruled by the Soviets and I often felt ashamed for my people, but now I see how much good they are capable of. Don't ever allow your shame about the regime in power in DC make you lose your respect for the millions of innocent Americans who are no more guilty for what their rulers do then I was for what the Soviet regime did. Always remember the words of Saint Paul "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms". The people of Russia and the people of the USA have the same enemy and that makes them allies. We are all struggling together against the same evil.

When I wrote that I was moved to tears and that Carpenter's letter felt like an "explosion of humanity" I was not exaggerating. To be very honest, I often get this horrible feeling in my stomach that the psychos ruling the West are, whether they realize it or not, cheerfully walking on a path which will lead them into a war with Russia. Yesterday I felt particularly distressed by all the ridiculous rhetoric coming out of the western capitals. And, as if so often the case, in these moments of anguish I felt very alone. Carpenter reminded me that my loneliness was an illusion and that there were Americans out there who were very close to my own, Russian, heart and mind and even though I dare not hope that some of them are in positions of power high enough to prevent a war from happening, I cannot rule that out either. In truth, whether we all - Russians and Westerners - can prevent a war from happening I don't know, but what I do know is that I feel that it is a vital task in my life to show the world that there is "another West" and that, in reality, our struggle is "against the rulers" only, and never the people.

I have to confess that I am still under the shock of what happened with Lavrov in Munich. I told my wife that I simply *cannot* imagine that the western leaders really, seriously, truly and deliberately want to go to war with Russia. Call me naive, but I cannot conceive that. But when I look at what these so-called "leaders" are actually saying and doing then, to my own horror, I come to the conclusion that they are doing exactly that: cheerfully walking down a path which will lead them to war. A war which they will lose - that I can guarantee you 100%.

I cannot think of something more stupid: triggering a war which Russia most definitely and categorically does not want, and a war which the West will most definitely and completely lose. How evil and crazy is that?

The tragedy is that western analysts and politicians are completely misreading Russia: they see Russia's efforts to avoid a war as a sign of fear.

Somehow, these idiots in the US and NATO have convinced themselves that their own propaganda is true and that Russia can be bullied by its putative fear of NATO. They are getting something very, very wrong here: Russia does not fear the US or NATO, Russia fears war as such. Unlike western politicians, Russian know that there is no such thing as a "good war", but at the same time, they are also willing to fight, really fight, if forced to defend themselves. No offense to anybody here, but the West as long lost this capability to truly fight to the end. It is one thing to "fight" in a cockpit or with drones, and quite another to really fight like Russians do when forced to. NATO generals cannot even *imagine* the kind of resolve, rage and determination a Russian 3rd class construction battalion solider will muster if he becomes convinced that he is standing up for his Motherland. Folks in the West have that illusion that a "real warrior" is some kind of Navy SEAL. In Russia everybody knows that wars are not won by photogenic Rambos, but by the "makhra" - the regular skinny and inelegant kids of the infantry who, when push comes to shove, will show a courage, determination and self-sacrifice no Navy SEAL can even imagine (I know, many American readers will shake their heads in disbelief at my words, but every single Russian who actually saw combat in his life knows that what I say is 100% true).

And yet, the western 1%ers apparently also believe that their fancy military toys will defeat the Russian "makhra". They have apparently forgotten the warning of one of the greatest generals in British history, General Montgomery who told the Lords (http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1962/may/30/the-army-estimates#S5LV0241P0-00791) "Rule 1, on page I of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow". Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good."

The people of Russia don't want and don't need this war but if give no choice they will fight. To the end, even if that means a global nuclear war (which Russia is much better prepared to survive then Europe of North America). I warned about that almost a year ago, and I will repeat it here: Russia is ready for war (http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2014/03/obama-just-made-things-much-much-worse.html).

Of course, the vast majority of the people in the West also don't want and and don't need this war. The problem is that while in Russia most people are acutely aware that war has now become a real possibility (this is regularly discussed on TV and by senior politicians, including Putin himself), folks in the West are never told that war is coming closer and closer to us all. Those who like "Carpenter" fully see where this is all heading and are horrified are isolated form the mainstream public discourse. So there most definitely is "another West" but it is a silenced, suppressed and, I would argue, even an oppressed one.

We are living in extremely dangerous times. I would argue that Obama the worst and most incompetent President in US history: he failed at literally everything he did and he betrayed every promise he made. I would not trust him with any task - he seems to screw-up everything he touches. As for EU politicians, they are just spineless imbeciles who don't even have the lucidity to admit to themselves that they are playing with fire and for whom I have less respect than for used toiled paper. But my heart goes out to the "other West" whose people are treated like serfs by the 1%ers and whom I will always see are allies of Russia and of any other country or group of people who are opposing the kind of 'in your face' evil the AngloZionist Empire now embodies.

I suppose that the "West" can really be divided into three groups: the 1%ers at the top, the "Charlies" who have been zombified by the elites and the "Carpenters" who see through the smokescreen and understand it all. I don't know which group will prevail, but I will keep hoping that by some kind of miracle the "other West" will prevail and save us all.

The Saker

Posted by VINEYARDSAKER: at 00:08 (http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.fr/2015/02/there-is-hope-and-there-is-another-west.html)

meeradas

9th February 2015, 09:02

Here's Poroshenko's speech at the "Munich Security Conference".
I better abstain from commenting on that [...] - see and feel for yourself.

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Breaking: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?79716-Huge-Explosion-in-Donetsk-the-Ukraine&p=930958&viewfull=1#post930958

So far, zero coverage of this in Germoney's state-run media outlets.

Hervé

9th February 2015, 18:58

About those passports:

Kiev 'unable' to provide copies of 'Russian soldier' passports (http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150208/1017972745.html)

Sputnik (http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150208/1017972745.html)
Sun, 08 Feb 2015 21:27 CET

http://www.sott.net/image/s11/227643/large/Sputnik_2B_2015_02_08_13_22_07.jpg (http://www.sott.net/image/s11/227643/full/Sputnik_2B_2015_02_08_13_22_07.jpg)

Kiev has failed to provide Moscow with copies of documents, allegedly belonging to Russian servicemen fighting in Ukraine, a Russian foreign ministry official told RIA Novosti on Sunday.

Addressing the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko showed off covers of Russian passports and military IDs, claiming they prove "Russian presence" in the conflict-torn East Ukraine.

Moscow then asked Kiev to provide copies of the documents on Saturday evening, as "document covers like the ones shown yesterday can easily be bought on the street market," Viktor Sorokin, head of the Second CIS Department at Russia's foreign ministry, said.

"Currently, there is no real evidence, the Ukrainian side failed to provide copies of these documents," Sorokin said.

Kiev has been blaming Moscow of assisting the mostly Russian-speaking independence supporters in eastern Ukraine, where government forces have carried out a military operation since April 2014.

Moscow has repeatedly stated that it is not involved in the Ukrainian conflict in any way, rejecting claims that Russia provides Ukrainian pro-independence militia with military assistance.

Poroshenko wants us to believe, that Russian special-ops carry passports with them while on covert mission... okay.
- Olivier Fehr (@ofehr_en) February 8, 2015 (https://twitter.com/ofehr_en/status/564376970835009537)

.@27khv (https://twitter.com/27khv): "Russian soldiers cannot use their passports while on active service - they must hand them in." http://t.co/l5UM6ZyRBc
- Christoph Germann (@newgreatgame) February 8, 2015 (https://twitter.com/newgreatgame/status/564420582339801088)

@ofehr_en (https://twitter.com/ofehr_en) And also passports found in a warzone are in mint condition and look brand new
- Alex_T (@Altook) February 8, 2015 (https://twitter.com/Altook/status/564377184283152384)

"Если с паспортами не прокатит, то в следующий раз принесу балалайки" - подумал Порошенко. pic.twitter.com/Brie3tkhLP (http://t.co/Brie3tkhLP)
- 50Megatonn (@50megatonn) February 7, 2015 (https://twitter.com/50megatonn/status/564134398447345664)
["If they don't buy the passports, next time I'll bring balalaykas," thought Poroshenko.]

:) pic.twitter.com/GVySW3llJA (http://t.co/GVySW3llJA)
- НОВОРОССИЯ (@NOVORUSSIA2015) February 7, 2015 (https://twitter.com/NOVORUSSIA2015/status/564151499950149632)

Here's the data page of one of those Russian passports Willy Wonka/Poroshenko was waving in Munich. pic.twitter.com/AvOoS5hFqV (http://t.co/AvOoS5hFqV)
- Bryan MacDonald (@27khv) February 7, 2015 (https://twitter.com/27khv/status/564211026615619586)

Oh! Poroshenko's Iron proof - Russian passport! @dagensnyheter (https://twitter.com/dagensnyheter) #svpol (https://twitter.com/hashtag/svpol?src=hash) #Sweden (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sweden?src=hash) @SR_utrikes (https://twitter.com/SR_utrikes) @SvD (https://twitter.com/SvD) pic.twitter.com/jor4d2qN1C (http://t.co/jor4d2qN1C)
- DeviatePress (@Deviatepress) February 8, 2015 (https://twitter.com/Deviatepress/status/564359657486315521)

SOTT Comments: (http://www.sott.net/article/292406-Kiev-unable-to-provide-copies-of-Russian-soldier-passports)

Matt Damon!? (http://www.sott.net/article/292406-Kiev-unable-to-provide-copies-of-Russian-soldier-passports#comment123247)
By: davidcarswell (http://www.sott.net/user/9342-davidcarswell)
the first passport looks like Matt Damon. I've even asked numerous people by cropping just the photo and without hesitation when asked to identify the person they immediately declare Matt Damon. When asked to look again just to be sure- the assure me that they are absolutely confident. Then for the last time - is that your final answer? Yes!
Just thought I'd share. I am not sure it is but damn he's sure a doppelgänger if it isn't.
Mon, 09 Feb 2015 12:43 CET
Re: Matt Damon!? (http://www.sott.net/article/292406-Kiev-unable-to-provide-copies-of-Russian-soldier-passports#reply25664)
By: Niall (http://www.sott.net/user/85-Niall)
http://www.sott.net/avatar/image/1562/thumb/Caesar_bust_Arles_small.jpg (http://www.sott.net/user/85-Niall) It is Matt Damon (as in 'Jason Bourne'), and the second one's Dolph Lundgren in Rocky IV.
The Russians are taking the piss out of the Hollywood fantasy world Americans live in.
Mon, 09 Feb 2015 14:56 CET

Sophocles

9th February 2015, 21:53

Cyprus will offer Russia military facilities on its soil, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday.

In an interview with a local newspaper, Anastasiades said that a pact strengthening defense relations between the two countries will be signed when he visits Moscow on Feb. 25.

"There is an old (defense) agreement which is to be renewed as it is. At the same time, some additional facilities will be provided just like we do with other countries - France and Germany for example," Anastasiades said.

Cyprus is currently providing facilities to French planes, such as refueling and maintenance at an air force base near the western city of Paphos and port facilities to German ships supporting the United Nations peace operations in Lebanon.

The air force base at which Russian planes will use is about 40 kilometers from Britain's sovereign Air Force base at Akrotiri, on the south shores of Cyprus, which provides support to NATO operations in the Middle and Near East regions.

Cyprus and Russia traditionally enjoy close relations based on cultural ties and a common religious tradition.

Russia has been one of the main supporters of Cyprus in its decades old dispute with Turkey, providing both political and military support in the form of arms sales.

Anastasiades said in his interview that Cyprus opposes additional sanctions against Russia by the European Union over Ukraine.

"We want to avoid further deterioration in relations between Russia and Europe," said Anastasiades.

He added that a positive aspect is that many countries within the European Union are feeling the same way, supporting the diplomatic way rather than additional sanctions against Russia.

"Cyprus and Russia enjoy traditionally good relations and that is not going to change," Anastasiades said.

He said that the current Russian economic crisis will probably affect some sectors of the Cypriot economy which is struggling to return to growth following the eastern Mediterranean island's bailout in a 10-billion-euro deal with the Eurogroup and the International Monetary Fund early in 2013.

"Tourism, services, investments in property ... the crisis certainly affects our economy negatively," Anastasiades said.

Link: http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2015-02/07/content_34758866.htm

Sophocles

10th February 2015, 14:14

Why Arming Kiev Is a Really, Really Bad Idea

Washington pundits are jumping on a proposal to send weapons to Ukraine. Here's why they all need to take a deep breath.

By Stephen M. Walt, foreignpolicy.com
February 9, 2015

Should the United States start arming Ukraine, so it can better resist and maybe even defeat the Russian-backed rebels in its eastern provinces? A lot of seasoned American diplomats and foreign policy experts seem to think so; a task force assembled by the Brookings Institution, the Atlantic Council, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs wants the United States to send Ukraine $1 billion in military assistance as soon as possible, with more to come. The Obama administration is rethinking its earlier reluctance, and secretary of defense nominee Ash Carter told a Senate hearing he was “very much inclined” to favor this course as well.

Unless cooler heads prevail, therefore, the United States seems to be moving toward raising the stakes in Ukraine. This decision is somewhat surprising, however, because few experts think this bankrupt and divided country is a vital strategic interest and no one is talking about sending U.S. troops to fight on Kiev’s behalf. So the question is: does sending Ukraine a bunch of advanced weaponry make sense?

The answer is no.

One reason to be skeptical of the report from the three think tanks is the track record of its like-minded members. The task force wasn’t made up of a diverse set of experts seeking to explore a wide range of options and find some creative common ground. On the contrary, its members were all people who have long backed NATO expansion and have an obvious desire to defend that policy, which has played a central role in creating the present crisis. After all, these are the same people who have been telling us since the late 1990s that expanding NATO eastwards posed no threat to Russia and would instead create a vast and enduring zone of peace in Europe. That prediction is now in tatters, alas, but these experts are now doubling down to defend a policy that was questionable from the beginning and clearly taken much too far. As the critics warned it would, open-ended NATO expansion has done more to poison relations with Russia than any other single Western policy.

Those who favor arming Ukraine are also applying “deterrence model” remedies to what is almost certainly a “spiral model” situation. In his classic book Perception and Misperception in International Politics, political scientist Robert Jervis pointed out that states may undertake what appear to be threatening actions for two very different reasons.

Sometimes states act aggressively because their leaders are greedy, seeking some sort of personal glory, or ideologically driven to expand, and are not reacting to perceived threats from others. The classic example, of course, is Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, and in such cases accommodation won’t work. Here the “deterrence model” applies: the only thing to do is issue warnings and credible threats so that the potential aggressor is deterred from pursuing its irrevocably revisionist aims.

By contrast, the “spiral model” applies when a state’s seemingly aggressive policy is motivated primarily by fear or insecurity. Making threats and trying to deter or coerce them will only reinforce their fears and make them even more aggressive, in effect triggering an action-reaction spiral of growing hostility. When insecurity is the taproot of a state’s revisionist actions, making threats just makes the situation worse. When the “spiral model” applies, the proper response is a diplomatic process of accommodation and appeasement (yes, appeasement) to allay the insecure state’s concerns. Such efforts do not require giving an opponent everything it might want or removing every one of its worries, but it does require a serious effort to address the insecurities that are motivating the other side’s objectionable behavior.

The problem, of course, is that responses that work well in one situation tend to fail badly in the other. Applying the deterrence model to an insecure adversary will heighten its paranoia and fuel its defensive reactions, while appeasing an incorrigible aggressor is likely to whet its appetite and make it harder to deter it in the future.

Those who now favor arming Ukraine clearly believe the “deterrence model” is the right way to think about this problem. In this view, Vladimir Putin is a relentless aggressor who is trying to recreate something akin to the old Soviet empire, and thus not confronting him over Ukraine will lead him to take aggressive actions elsewhere. The only thing to do, therefore, is increase the costs until Russia backs down and leaves Ukraine free to pursue its own foreign policy. This is precisely the course of action the report from the three think tanks recommends: in addition to “bolstering deterrence,” its authors believe arming Ukraine will help “produce conditions in which Moscow decides to negotiate a genuine settlement that allows Ukraine to reestablish full sovereignty.” In addition to bolstering deterrence, in short, giving arms to Kiev is intended to coerce Moscow into doing what we want.

Yet the evidence in this case suggests the spiral model is far more applicable. Russia is not an ambitious rising power like Nazi Germany or contemporary China; it is an aging, depopulating, and declining great power trying to cling to whatever international influence it still possesses and preserve a modest sphere of influence near its borders, so that stronger states — and especially the United States — cannot take advantage of its growing vulnerabilities. Putin & Co. are also genuinely worried about America’s efforts to promote “regime change” around the world — including Ukraine — a policy that could eventually threaten their own positions. It is lingering fear, rather than relentless ambition, that underpins Russia’s response in Ukraine.

Moreover, the Ukraine crisis did not begin with a bold Russian move or even a series of illegitimate Russian demands; it began when the United States and European Union tried to move Ukraine out of Russia’s orbit and into the West’s sphere of influence. That objective may be desirable in the abstract, but Moscow made it abundantly clear it would fight this process tooth and nail. U.S. leaders blithely ignored these warnings — which clearly stemmed from Russian insecurity rather than territorial greed — and not surprisingly they have been blindsided by Moscow’s reaction. The failure of U.S. diplomats to anticipate Putin’s heavy-handed response was an act of remarkable diplomatic incompetence, and one can only wonder why the individuals who helped produce this train wreck still have their jobs.

If we are in a “spiral model” situation, arming Ukraine will only make things worse. It certainly will not enable Ukraine to defeat the far stronger Russian army; it will simply intensify the conflict and add to the suffering of the Ukrainian people.

Nor is arming Ukraine likely to convince Putin to cave in and give Washington what it wants. Ukraine is historically linked to Russia, they are right next door to each other, Russian intelligence has long-standing links inside Ukraine’s own security institutions, and Russia is far stronger militarily. Even massive arms shipments from the United States won’t tip the balance in Kiev’s favor, and Moscow can always escalate if the fighting turns against the rebels, as it did last summer.

Most importantly, Ukraine’s fate is much more important to Moscow than it is to us, which means that Putin and Russia will be willing to pay a bigger price to achieve their aims than we will. The balance of resolve as well as the local balance of power strongly favors Moscow in this conflict. Before starting down an escalatory path, therefore, Americans should ask themselves just how far they are willing to go. If Moscow has more options, is willing to endure more pain, and run more risks than we are, then it makes no sense to begin a competition in resolve we are unlikely to win. And no, that doesn’t show the West is irresolute, craven, or spineless; it simply means Ukraine is a vital strategic interest for Russia but not for us.

Efforts to resolve this crisis are also handicapped by the U.S. tendency to indulge in “take-it-or-leave it” diplomacy. Instead of engaging in genuine bargaining, American officials tend to tell others what to do and then ramp up the pressure if they do not comply. Today, those who want to arm Ukraine are demanding that Russia cease all of its activities in Ukraine, withdraw from Crimea, and let Ukraine join the EU and/or NATO if it wants and if it meets the membership requirements. In other words, they expect Moscow to abandon its own interests in Ukraine, full stop. It would be wonderful if Western diplomacy could pull off this miracle, but how likely is it? Given Russia’s history, its proximity to Ukraine, and its long-term security concerns, it is hard to imagine Putin capitulating to our demands without a long and costly struggle that will do enormous additional damage to Ukraine.

And let’s not forget the broader costs of this feckless policy. We are pushing Russia closer to China, which is not in the long-term U.S. interest. We have brought cooperation on nuclear security with Russia to an end, even though there are still large quantities of inadequately secured nuclear material on Russian soil. And we are surely prolonging the suffering of the Ukrainian people.

The solution to this crisis is for the United States and its allies to abandon the dangerous and unnecessary goal of endless NATO expansion and do whatever it takes to convince Russia that we want Ukraine to be a neutral buffer state in perpetuity. We should then work with Russia, the EU, and the IMF to develop an economic program that puts that unfortunate country back on its feet.

Arming Ukraine, on the other hand, is a recipe for a longer and more destructive conflict. It’s easy to prescribe such actions when you’re safely located in a Washington think tank, but destroying Ukraine in order to save it is hardly smart or morally correct diplomacy.

Link: http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/02/09/how-not-to-save-ukraine-arming-kiev-is-a-bad-idea/

Sophocles

11th February 2015, 19:29

In this clip the speaker says that the building had been hit by rocketfire from pro-russian rebels:

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But according to Patrick Lancaster this is wrong as it was the government forces who`s behind the attack. And he should know, because he was the one filming it: https://mobile.twitter.com/PLnewstoday/status/565231080631177216

Sophocles

11th February 2015, 20:03

Debaltsevo cauldron cut off with 8 000 UAF soldiers trapped. The hope is that they will surrender.

Debaltsevo fully cut off by DPR self-defense militia spetsnaz: combat footage

Link: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a34_1423557332

Apparently, this morning DPR recon teams have taken a village on the last road linking Debaltsevo battlegroup with Artemovsk supply base. Due to typical UAF confusion, several vehicles with artillery shells and personnel were destroyed or captured before this fact was recognized. Now the countdown starts: if Debaltsevo is not relieved and no diplomatic settlement is reached, the encircled troops will rapidly lose combat capability due to running out of ammunition and supplies.

And time will tell what -if anything- comes out of the talks in Minsk today.

Added:

Just read in the norwegian msm regarding the Minsk talks that an ukranian source says that Ukraine, Russia, France, and Germany agreed upon a statement that support Ukraine`s independence and territorial integrity.

Sophocles

13th February 2015, 01:40

Friday, February 13, 2015

The useless agreement which everybody wanted

I have to say that I am both amused and appalled at the completely over-the-top reaction of most commentators to what we might as well call the Mink-2 Agreement (M2A). Apparently, analysis has been abandoned altogether and has now been replaced with hyperbole and vociferous but empty statement. Reading some of the comments made here one could be forgiven for thinking that somehow the war in the Ukraine was over and that the AngloZionist Empire, aided by Putin, Surkov and an anonymous but sinister army of Russian oligarchs, has just inflicted a terrible and final blow to the Novorussian dream.

What is going on here? Has everybody just gone crazy?

In part, this is due that one could read anything, everything and its opposite into this agreement (more about that later) and also to the fact that the western media simply had to present any agreement as a triumph of western willpower, diplomacy and sanctions. This is all utter nonsense, of course, but that is what you get for exposing yourself to the corporate media. So let's set aside all the loud clamoring and use our brains to actually *think*.

First, I would remind everybody that the junta has broken every single agreement it committed to. Every single one. And there is absolutely no reasons at all to believe that this time around this will change.

Second, Poroshenko can promise all he wants, but the real power in the "independent Ukraine" is held by Uncle Sam and by the "Maidanites" he controls.

Third, why do you think that Merkel and Hollande suddenly felt a powerful urge to "scratch their diplomatic itch" and decided to intervene? Could that sudden urge to negotiate have a little something to do with a place called Debaltsevo? If yes, what does the M2A say about Debaltsevo? Exactly. *Nothing*.

Fourth, the agreement not even signed by Poroshenko, but by Kuchma on behalf of the Ukraine.

Fifth, check out this section:

9. Restoration of full control over the state border of Ukraine by the government throughout the conflict zone, which should begin on the first day after the local elections and be completed after a comprehensive political settlement (local elections in some areas of Donetsk and Lugansk regions on the basis of the Law of Ukraine and constitutional reform) at the end of 2015, subject to paragraph 11 — in consultation and agreement with the representatives of individual areas of Donetsk and Lugansk regions in the framework of the Three-Party Contact Group.

Do you see what I see? Nevermind that the border is supposed to get back under Kiev's control only after "something" happens, but check out the "something" itself: constitutional reform in consultation and agreement with Novorussian leaders!!!! Does anybody seriously believe that the Rada will participate in anything even remotely looking like this? Liashko? Farion? Tsiagnibok and Iarosh all working together with the "subhuman colorads" from the Donbass to change the Ukrainian Constitution? Of course not!

So so far, let's sum this up. M2A was:

1) signed by a person with no authority
2) on behalf of a junta with no powers
3) it does not say a word about the main reason for the meeting in Minsk
4) it contains clearly impossible sections

How is that for a brilliant text?

In truth, there is a short section of the document which does contain one realistic elements: a ceasefire followed by a withdrawal of heavy weapons. That's it. The rest is nonsense. See for yourself

#4: local elections organized by the junta and Novorussians together. Nonsense
#5: pardons and amnesties. Blanket amnesty for all the war crimes (including MH-17 and Odessa "barbecue"). Disgusting.
#6: exchange of "all for all". Except that most folks in the junta hands are long dead.
#7: humanitarian assistance. Empty statement, the assistance is already coming in.
#8: payment of pensions: the junta does not have the money anyway. Will not happen.
#9: Constitutional reform. Will not happen
#10: Withdrawal of all foreign forces. Nonsense: those who are there (NATO countries) will stay, those who are not there (9000 Russian soldiers) cannot "leave" since they are not there to begin with.
#11: Constitutional reform including the creation of "The creation of people’s militia". LOL - apparently, that will be the new name for the Novorussian armed forces.
#12: Elections if all of the above happens first. Since it ain't, they won't.
#13: Creation of "working groups". Right. Keep dreaming.

The fact is that what is the most interesting about M2A is not what it says, but what it does NOT say:

1) not a word about Debaltsevo
2) not a word about the junta actually sitting down to negotiate with the Novorussian authorities
3) not a word about the future status of the Ukraine
4) not a word about the Ukrainian economy (which is still in free fall)
5) not a word about any peacekeepers (which are indispensible to make any ceasefire stick)
6) not even a word about the fact that the Novorussians are not "terrorist" but people seeking national independence. Poroshenko has still not spoken to them directly.

It is possible that these issues were, in fact, discussed, but that this will not be revealed to the general public. There might be secret clauses to M2A. However, it is at least as likely that these issues were discussed and that no agreement whatsoever was found, hence they were set aside.

But if nothing really important was decided, why did everybody participate to this exercise? Simple: everybody got something from it (assuming any parts M2A are actually implemented):

1) The Novorussians:
a) a stop of the terror attacks by the junta on Novorussian cities.
b) the recognition of the line of contact
c) the assurance that Voentorg remains open (control of border)
d) time to mobilize and train their planned 100'000 extra men
e) the recognition by all parties (including the Europeans) that they deserve a special status

2) Poroshenko:
a) the apparent and symbolic support for world leaders
b) a stop of the Novorussian advance
c) a vague hope that junta forces will be allowed to leave the Debaltsevo cauldron
d) money from the IMF (not nearly enough, but better than none).

3) Merkel and Hollande:
a) the illusion of relevance of a EU foreign policy
b) the (probably misguided) hope to stop the crazy Americans
c) the hope to an easing of the economic war with Russia (Mistrals?)

4) Putin:
a) the right to control the border until the constitutional reforms are made, in other words ad aeternam.
b) the recognition that without him no solution can be found
c) the hope for some easing of sanctions

Everybody got what they wanted and left with a smile on their face. Good for them, but none of that does anything to really settle the conflict or even begin to seek a solution.

The reality is that nothing at all happened in Minsk, at least nothing of any importance. The Novorussians won the latest battle (yet again) so they came in a position of strength and they got the junta to promise to stop the crazy shelling, and since Debaltsevo was not even mentioned, it looks to me that the junta forces there will be allowed to quietly withdraw as long as they leave their weapons behind. So the Debaltsevo cauldron will be controlled by Novorussia. Putin got political recognition and the hope of at least no more sanctions (remember after Minsk 1 the EU immediately imposed more sanctions on Russia). The Europeans got a little something too, mainly some good PR, and the big loser is most definitely Poroshenko who will now have the highly unenviable task of "selling" M2A to a totally crazy Rada (which, by the way, is currently considering an law proposed by Poroshenko's party to make the denial of the Russian aggression against the Ukraine a criminal offense).

Conclusion:

Just like in a chess game, time is a critical factor. M2A gave everybody a little time-out, but the conflict will resume and the only thing which will stop this conflict will be a double collapse of the Ukrainian economy and armed forces which I believe will most probably happen this summer. Until then, the conflict will be more or less frozen, though I will believe in a junta withdrawal of heavy weapons systems only if/when I see it. Also - remember that one can very well fight with tanks, mortars and infantry.

Nazi Baderastan and Novorussia are two civilizationally different project which cannot and will never coexist under one roof. Yes, for tactical reasons there might be the need to pretend that this is possible, but the reality is that it will not. The only way to keep Novorussia inside the Ukraine is to denazify the latter and until that is done, Novorussia will never really return to the Ukraine. That is a hard fact which nobody in the West is willing to accept. In Kiev, they fully understand that, but their "solution" is to empty Novorussia form Novorussians and to give this much needed Lebensraum to the "Ukr" Master Race of western Ukraine. And that is something which Russia will never allow. Which leaves only two possible outcomes: the EU gives up and the Ukraine is denazified, or the US starts a full-scale war against Russia in a desperate attempt to prevent that outcome.

Two more things I want to mention here:

In purely military terms the withdrawal of heavy systems is entirely to the Novorussian advantage. Remember that Kiev used these systems to try to terrorize the Novorussian population while the Novorussians used their artillery to try to suppress the junta's artillery. The Novorussians could never use their artillery to attack because they were liberating their own land and did not want to murder their own civilians. So, in other words, if both sides really withdraw their heavy guns the junta will lose a crucial capability while the Novorussians will lose an almost useless one.

Short message to the "Putin sold out" folks: guys, I have been ignoring your mantric repetition of unsubstantiated slogans about Putin "selling out" and "backstabbing" and all the rest, but I will tell you that not a single one of you has ever been capable of making a coherent, fact based and logically supported analysis proving your point. I think that mantras are great for yoga, but on this blog, they don't make you look any smarter. I let you post them here "because why not?" but please don't mistake that with a sign of respect for the nonsense you have spewing. The main reason why I don't debunk your nonsense is that time will do a much better job then I could, and that it will hurt you more when you are proven wrong not by my reasoning, but by undisputed facts on the ground (just like those who screamed that Putin betrayed Assad and Syria by making them, quote, "give up their only deterrence against Israeli nuclear weapons"). Anyway, if you must, keep on with the mantra but please be aware that they only make you look very sophomoric. And considering that there are still a few blogs out there taking the same position (though less and less), you might want to consider posting there. There each slogan, especially when expressed with a virile and categorical lack of nuances, will get you a standing ovation. Why suffer here when there are those "heavens of consensus" out there? Just think about it :-)

Okay, that's it for now. I am going to be on the road all day tomorrow, so please take this also as an "open thread" and "see you" all on Saturday, God willing.

Cheers,

The Saker

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