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HI Saker. The force known as Spearhead. Which is that ? The NATO force in eastern europe ?
Satan gets his claws stronger and stronger on our planet here.
Swedish foreign minister in Ukraine, promises around 5 millions euro in humanitarian aid “to people affected by the war int the east”. “But you must do something to stop the corruption” hahahaha
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/wallstrom-lovar-fler-miljoner-i-nodhjalp/
Actions and declamations of the opponents have their uses.
EU take war against Russia to Moldova
http://www.moldova.org/anti-putin-protest-at-russian-embassy-in-moldova/
War on Russia is coming from different fronts….
For those interested, semblance of Ramzán Kadýrov, President of Chechnya.
At the end, singing Hada Hamzatova
(For me, having traveled almost all over the Middle East and having explored their music,it sounds really Arabic!).
http://euskalherriasozialista.blogspot.com.es/2014/11/ramzan-kadyrov-presidente-de-chechenia.html
If Ukraine wants in NATO,
I think it is the time for Russia to take everything from Odessa to Kharkov.
I supported that option from the beginning and I still think it is the best one.
The Wend.
Anonymous said…
EU take war against Russia to Moldova
http://www.moldova.org/anti-putin-protest-at-russian-embassy-in-moldova/
30 November, 2014 12:38
Bah, four cats!
Note the burly guys behind the singer, seem Pravyi Sektor. I wonder why all wear the same “uniform”, denim shorts and T-shirts with slogans, often black. At one time they meet four or five, some with backpacks, take a look. This “uniform” was also very common among people who burned the Unions House in Odessa. Look back videos. I remember it perfectly ( I think it´s a case of photographic memory )
Ladies on the side of the singer are typical middle class who think that, when their country’s became membership of the EU and NATO, their husbands will be the new oligarchs.
In these protests will only find opportunists, anyone who is interested in the common good.
Quote of the week (in wanafrica.net):
“The language of those who criticize are like the legs of flies landing on anything they find” (Douala).
Very revealing…..as usually are African sayings…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWht8vGLRCY&list=PL1838EAFA3BD7C8CC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lTHiObYX1o&list=PL1838EAFA3BD7C8CC&index=2
Not sure my previous comment came through. In case it didn’t…
The Nazification experiment was successful in Croatia and established the precedent, a template for Ukraine. Why do you think it won’t work in Kiev? The only variable seems to be the proximity and strength (if so) of Russia.
I am sure many people saw the article. But not many read it. It explains pretty clearly that most Americans dont want to shake the boat because it might upset their life style. After all, if they did not live in the empire they would not have the chance to become the next bill gates.
Noam Chomsky said that americans dont want to think because the crimes committed in their names against so many millions is so monstrous that no one could accept it. And as long as they keep quite the empire will use fodder to wage their wars. But they do pay for those wars in some way. But as long as all that is not inconvenient, its great to be exceptional.
When code pink asked people if they would do something like withholding $1 from the RS to stop the war, they got 2000 signatures.. In a population of over 300 million.. Which shows the same thing that Germans showed during the Nazi rule.. As long as life is good, better not to shake the cart.. All the rotten apples might fall off it..
As you read these words, the empire is busy doing its work in Ukraine. Here is how that works. First, it overthrows the elected government in a US-backed coup. Next, it directs its local puppet regime to unleash a military attack and organize death squads to deal with the population in the east that won’t go along with the US-backed coup, in this case using actual Nazi-branded death squads, complete with Nazi SS Insignias. (Anyone can verify these facts with the most cursory internet search.) And for the final, consummate imperialist touch, it votes in the UN (together with Canada) against a resolution condemning the Ukrainian Nazis and other racist murderers, while the Europeans shamefacedly abstain. This sort of plan used to work really well, and so the empire keeps repeating it over and over again, even though the results are worse every time.
Vast numbers of Americans support the empire’s wars of conquest because they help maintain their lavish lifestyles. They bother some of us more than others. Many of us are adamantly against them, but only a few find it emotionally unbearable to countenance the destruction of millions of lives in our names and with our money. What makes them different? Who knows, you would have to ask a psychologist.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-28/only-way-stop-empire
Mercouris: 9 stories the Western presstitutes ignore or twist
http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20141130/1015316066.html
Here is a really awesome article about Why President Putin is Winning the New Cold War 2.0 and the heart and imaginations of peoples everywhere!
bit.ly/1FI5nHT
Saker: you should post this baby as a new blog!
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Once Nazi, today Natoist
The new Ukrainian government ministers, being chosen and sworn in since the new parliament first met on Thursday, have to deal with a collapsing currency, a corrupt energy pricing scheme that has helped bankrupt the state, and large imminent hard-currency payments to enterprises owned by the very state violating its borders with tanks and “volunteer” troops.
Once Nazi, today Natoist
Happened sometime in the past 72 hours:
Two computer hard drives, a motherboard, and a graphics card contained within two central processing units were stolen from the Mistral helicopter carrier ordered by Russia and currently under construction in the Atlantic port of Saint-Nazaire.
Magistrate Fabienne Bonnet also clarified that the theft took place aboard the Sevastopol – the second of two Mistral-class vessels France is scheduled to deliver to Russia.
http://www.msn.com/en-za/news/featured/non-sensitive-theft-from-mistral-warship-earmarked-for-russia/ar-BBg9PPp
interesting coincidence–note the second later ship is the Sevastopol; don’t know when the name is officially ascribed to the vessel, but maybe NATO could have sensed something was up then.
yes spearhead is new rapid reaction force eastern europe
299th Squadron ukraine AF Su-25/MH-17 JUL 17
Channel 5 TV docu russia gives out details
pilot Lt. col. dmitro yaketsuts (sp)? shot it down
go to 3:30 mark
Current Economic Collapse News Brief – Episode 529
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfg2Ktc7WLc&index=1&list=UUB1o7_gbFp2PLsamWxFenBg
Oxana Volchinok is a very kind and sympathetic interviewer, you may recall her sitting at the bedside of injured people and asking them about their experiences of the war in Ukraine.
Here is “The Ukrainian Guest” a chat with a pleasant young Ukrainian soldier who fell asleep on a bus and woke up in the hands of a NAF checkpoint.
The comment of the military police officer at the end of the video are cause for hope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qEQDlWJuN4
Czar’s 1897 census infographic shows total ethnic demographics of Russia. There were no “ukrainians”:
https://twitter.com/NinaByzantina/status/538849002268028928/photo/1
The US population of dunces have deniability of the crimes of the US government.
They are human mushrooms, kept in the dark and covered with shit.
How are citizens culpable for a government they can’t freely elect, change or challenge?
Stop blaming America for its war crimes.
Tyranny runs America.
The Global Hegemony causing military chaos everywhere crushes any citizen group or individuals.
Were Russians responsible for Stalin’s crimes?
Not even all Germans were responsible for Hitler.
Those who are responsible are those who know and can do something to expose it, stop it or alter its course. That excludes most citizens.
However, those who can expose, stop or alter its course are doing nothing or little.
Perhaps, it is time to have a global movement of exposure, resistance and alternative action.
World Action against the Hegemony and its vassal states:
Expose the corruption and deviance of government and NGO leadership.
Mount an anti-psyops Media and Social Media awareness and permanent presence.
Defy authority and its command and control over the Internet.
Publish the presence and movement of the banksters, and the known activist Elites like Soros, Nuland, etc.
Publish what media memes are perpetuated throughout the region or around the globe.
Make lists of sycophant press, columnists, talking heads, experts. Tie them to NGO, governments and educational institutions.
Expose budgets that fund the hegemony and chaos.
Keep death and injury totals and photos and videos in archives on many servers. Document disappearances. Document torture. Document mass burials.
Qualify leaders and operations of the Hegemon and vassals as war crimes and crimes against humanity by international standards of law.
Trust no volunteer. Double check and certify, audit all reports. There will be infiltrators and saboteurs.
Keep activity away from groups and organizations that form. It is best to work independently but in concert with others.
This is a war of resistance, not challenge.
This is a war of education.
This is a war of communication.
Safeguard the truth.
The facts are sufficient. Do not embellish.
Don’t engage in time-wasting bouts answering back trolls.
“When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
“Spearhead” to become operational by 2016.
14 months minimum, not bad for a rapid response unit.
“Dear Russia please don’t attack until Feb 2016 because we can’t respond until then..”
HHAHAHAHAHAHA
NATO’s greatest weakness is that it is not a single force. Many of their forces don’t even speak a common language. Every “co-operation” has to be separately negotiated re who is in charge, who does what, who pays what….
Russia is one military under one command.
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Sevastopol was to be the name of one of the French-built ships, Russia said so at the time of ordering. Yet to see if they will be given them, but it is to their advantage to wait.
Sure to be no great secrets on the computers, so the theft is no danger to anyone. IF there was a theft at all. Why announce it? isn’t the shipyard smart enough to even cover up a simple theft? There is something behind this announcement.
Considering the total news blackout of that followup (intentional leak?) announcement of details of MH-17 JULY 17 with far more detail than the first 2 weeks ago nov 14, i’d say it’s real-er than the first one!
y has no one even mentioned this?
even the site that was first NOV 14 with the “drone photo” or whatever has had zero mention of this followup.
the TV5 referenced is St Petersburg (site says ‘Peterburg?), which supposedly was Putin’s old haunts.
http://www.freeintertv.com/view/id-3327/1-1-0-1
@ Peak Prosperity via ZH: Putting things in perspective.
Listen to interview with Dimitri Orlov
The Ukraine scoundrels. Russia’s Patience wearing thin
What Alien Tech said needs to be highlighted:
///I am sure many people saw the article. But not many read it. It explains pretty clearly that most Americans dont want to shake the boat because it might upset their life style. After all, if they did not live in the empire they would not have the chance to become the next bill gates.
Noam Chomsky said that americans dont want to think because the crimes committed in their names against so many millions is so monstrous that no one could accept it. And as long as they keep quite the empire will use fodder to wage their wars. But they do pay for those wars in some way. But as long as all that is not inconvenient, its great to be exceptional.
When code pink asked people if they would do something like withholding $1 from the RS to stop the war, they got 2000 signatures.. In a population of over 300 million.. Which shows the same thing that Germans showed during the Nazi rule.. As long as life is good, better not to shake the cart.. All the rotten apples might fall off it..///
Time to acknowledge the reality: Yankee sheeple’s ARE 100% responsible for their Genocidal Empire. And one day very soon, they will get their just desserts. As they have literally murdered tens of millions of people from the air (bombings), their Karma will return as such…
Hahahahaha.
Sometimes this guy’s heavy accent actually reveals the true meaning of things, like in “NATO’s newly agreed rabid reaction force”
Honk
Poland must have seen that video of the 100’s of Ukrainians pushing and shoving to cross the border.
Creating a visa-free zone length of 100 km on the border of Poland and Ukraine suspended, Polish Ambassador to Russia Katarzyna Pełczyński-Nałęcz said in an interview.
“I tell you frankly that there details related to EU legislation. It has a specific technical question, but it seems to me, then the complexity of a legal nature, “- said the ambassador.
Regulations are excellent, a technical issue can always be found in them when needed.
She said in a separate interview
that Poland will not accept Ukrainian refugees, due to the fact that they can live safely in the country. This was reported by RIA “Novosti”.
She noted that at the present time it is necessary to focus on humanitarian assistance. She said that Warsaw “has provided and will provide humanitarian assistance to Ukraine at the call of the United Nations”
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US Congress starts to investigate Ukraine corruption
http://en.ukraina.ru/news/20141129/1011329047.html
wonder what it costs for them to find nothing?
Elsi, that’s a fantastic link for that singer and all those photos of the president of Chechnya…I love that guy !!!
Herr Harper’s™ (of the former Canada) rag:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/large-unauthorized-convoy-enters-east-ukraine-from-russia/article21838700/
Given that they know that Kiev has cut off ‘government’ funding to Eastern Ukraine and that no UN or Red Cross aid will escape infinite border red tape delays, Harperites obviously feel that eastern Ukrainians should freeze and starve.
Erdogan pimping for more war.
http://nsnbc.me/2014/11/30/ground-operations-and-no-fly-zone-over-iraq-and-syria-necessary-to-stop-isil-erdogan/
Iran asks Russia to help it join WTO
Wait, what? There are still tickets for the Titanic and there are still takers after forecast is screaming: “ICEBERGS!”!?
I wondered back in the day why “Putin’s Russia” was begging to become a member. Now I’m wondering even more that Iran is trying to get in.
Can someone please shed a light on the advantages of WTO membership that seem to so outweigh the strings attached?
Honk
Vote counting starts soon, and it looks like Moldova (despite the ban on the pro-Russia Fatherland party) is going to parrot the Nuland bitch and say “Fuck the EU”.
Sasha
Massive Ukrainian Grad barrage against #NAF positions in eastern #Ukraine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96PnH1HiB9U …
Today was a bold EAST vs. WEST parliamentary election in the former Soviet Republic of Moldova (bordering Ukraine and Romania, speaking mostly the Romanian language). 2 days ago 1 of the 3 pro-Russia parties WERE EXCLUDED from taking part. Nevertheless, even ZioNazi “news” agency Reuters.com cannot deny the outcome (according to the votes so far counted) : Moldova’s pro-Moscow ANTI-EU Socialists and Communists hold lead after partial vote count http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/30/us-moldova-election-idUSKCN0JE0WD20141130
And here Russia’s state news agency about the outcome: Parties supporting Eurasian integration leading in Moldova parliamentary elections
World
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/764410
Correction/addition:
former Soviet Republic of Moldova (bordering Ukraine and Romania, speaking mostly the Romanian language [except in the unrecognized Soviet Republic of TRANSNISTRIA where you have about 1/3 Russians, 1/3 Ukrainians {== the same as Russians!} and 1/3 of Romanian speaking Moldovans}, but I guess the election did not take place east of the Dniestr river]). So for west of the Dniepr this result is quite positively surprising if not _remarkable_!!!
Thucydides :
“
However, those who can expose, stop or alter its course are doing nothing or little.
Perhaps, it is time to have a global movement of exposure, resistance and alternative action.
World Action against the Hegemony and its vassal states”
Buddy, what do you think this is? Yet you complain…
Deprived of Coal, Kiev Increasingly Desperate. Blackouts Imminent
Coal is used to produce 40% of Ukraine electricity
State of emergency in electricity market proclaimed
Yet another lever Moscow has over Kiev – we’ve lost count, there are so many…
Another obvious thing the EU and US completely overlooked
http://russia-insider.com/en/2014/11/27/11-19-12pm/coal_shortage_portends_dark_freezing_winter_ukraine
Well, whether we like it or not it has become clear that Russia has essentially 2 options: (1) either occupy S-SE Ukraine up to Transnistria as a “peacekeeping” force, face the NATO music and way more sanctions or (2) fold, bow to the Master of the Universe, forget Donbas, leave Ukraine, give asylum to the heroic Novorussian army and expect attacks on Crimea.
Waiting for the ordinary Ukies to wake up leads to nowhere. Same for ordinary EU-ians. Unfortunately Russia has no powerful allies, even the Russian elite looks like the enemy.
Nothing short of a devastating nuclear war will cause some damage to the hegemon.
Like many others on this blog I had high hopes we are witnessing the dawn of a new era. Sadly I don’t think this will happen in the foreseeable future.
Does the Minsk hastily prepared accord look good in retrospect ?
David Chu said…
Here is a really awesome article about Why President Putin is Winning the New Cold War 2.0 and the heart and imaginations of peoples everywhere!
bit.ly/1FI5nHT
Saker: you should post this baby as a new blog!
30 November, 2014 17:09
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This article is super
Thanks
david Chu about the article about Putin. Yes that’s a good article…send it to Russia Insider.
BBC story re. Moldovan elections changed, original not to be found.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30265985
The original had the pro-Russia block leading 43% to 40% for the pro-EU block, with the Liberals at 5.2%, now they’ve almost doubled their vote to 9%, surpassing, miraculously, the 6% necessary to be recognized! Try as I might, I can’t load the page with the original count (and headline) despite going to my browser history. I smell a rat…
Sasha
Rome was not built in a day.
Or, to get to 2050 we have to go through 2105, 2106, 2107……
We can only dream and guess what will happen in the distant future, if we don’t look at how that is going to come about STEP BY STEP. We make a huge mistake if we regard any country, any organisation, even any bunch if oligarchs, as being monolithic or homogenized and of one mind. This is absolutely not so.
If all people are equally brainwashed, who’s reading blogs like this? Martians? If all oligarchs/0.1%ers are in cahoots, how come they rob each other when they can? (the whole futures and stock market casino is based on trying to rob the other guy). If both/all political parties are the same with the same aims why do the fight? aren’t there personal pay-offs also involved?
So to Ukraine at a current and discrete level –
* in postwar Soviet times they were better off than since independence; it is doubly Russia’s fault for USSR having broken up and for not improving their conditions while they remained closely aligned
* Europe looks rich and they’d love to travel/work there, and nobody’s explained to them what joining the EU costs in austerity
* anyone who support closeness with Russia is treading on their dreams, so is bad and has to be resisted. This is the main reason for hating the ethnic Russians. If Donbass had shut up and accepted the decision to join EU, there would be no trouble today.
Being Nazi is not an anti-Jewish thing. It is a supremacist thing. WE are the best, everyone else is not even really human. If they just look like harming us we are entitled to defend ourselves. Having ready made symbols, flags, slogans, is a fast way to unite an assortment of anti-social elements, who suddenly have a chance to be “somebody” for behaviour that 2 years ago would have landed them in prison. Another time or place they’d be Bloods and Crips.
The ordinary population is NOT NAZI. A bit brainwashed, TV only shows them one thing, but they’re not Nazis. They are not stupid, either. TV can tell them the “Russians” are marauding raping and robbing in Donbass…..but they can ALL see marauding and raping and robbing going on where there are NO RUSSIANS, only the Nazi “self-defence” (or in some cases official police) groups….the same ones being the most vocal about Slava Ukrajna…there must be a LOT of normal people thinking if that’s what it takes to be a Ukrainian I’m not sure I want to be one.
Add to that their own government taking their own sons/husbands, sometimes just grabbed off the street, to be cannon-fodder (which they’re increasingly unable to hide)…and enough coming back to tell of getting no supplies, not even food and water….except those lucky enough to be captured by the hated Russians.
But today they already cannot say anything, because the vocal “real Ukrainian” squads will disappear them.
A lot of people just want to go to work and earn enough to pay for their house and heating and food on the table. They had that in Soviet times, actually, even if they had to queue sometimes.
By January, I can see a lot of villages and small towns that would happily trade the marauding storm troopers for a separatist tank that rounds them all up (and is followed by a truck full of coal).
At latest count Kiev is moving some 8000 prisoners out of Donbass prisons, so there will be somewhere to keep them.
Meanwhile some of the Sektors have threatened to move onto Kiev. The Kiev forces in that case will split 3 ways – one third will go home, one 3rd join the Nazis, one 3rd the Novorossiyans. Kiev will have nobody. Someone needs to take over the airports so the oligarchs can’t escape.
USA? guess what, we just put on a Maidan that didn’t cost you. So keep out of it.
Anonymous posted this link and it has an excellent explination to many things..
There are 7.2 billion people on this planet but the United States fears only one man — Vladimir Putin. That’s because on virtually every front of the new Cold War, the Russian president is walloping the collective challenge of the West. Fear can make you do strange things — for the second year running, Forbes magazine has named Putin as the world’s most powerful person.
More than any other leader, the Russian president by virtue of his KGB experience understands how the US operates. The American modus operandi — in sync with the British — is to organise coups, rebellions and counter-revolutions in countries where nationalist leaders come to power. Iran, Chile, Ecuador, Venezuela, Panama and Ukraine are the classic examples.
John Perkins writes in Confessions of an Economic Hitman (2004) how he and other ‘hitmen’ like him were sent to developing countries as consultants to bribe or coerce diplomats, economists, administrators and politicians to do the bidding of the US. Often they succeeded, but if they failed then the CIA would send in the ‘jackals’ — professionally trained assassins who would engineer the deaths of those who stood in the way of complete American domination.
This one-two punch by economic hitmen and assassins was so effective in creating banana republics that the US rarely had to up the ante.
Putin knows the US has attempted — and will continue to attempt — regime change in Russia. As a former KGB official stationed in East Germany, he knows the hitmen are looking for an opportunity. That’s precisely why he kicked out rogue agencies such as USAID and the British Council, both of which are fronts for Anglo-American secret services.
“One of the things to understand is that he in particular studied counter-intelligence which is key in understanding why he’s the critical player,” writes Joaquin Flores in the Center For Syncretic Studies website. “Counter-intelligence is not just finding spies, but it’s actually countering the work of other agents who are embedded or whose work involves embedding themselves to destroy institutions from within.”
http://www.4thmedia.org/2014/11/why-putin-is-winning-the-new-cold-war/
Quote [Just like Judaism is, in historical, cultural and religious terms, nothing but an anti-Christianity, so is “Ukrainianism” just an “anti-Russism”. You think that I am kidding?]
I fail to understand how Judaism can be anti-Christianity, since Judaism was existence well over a thousand years before Christianity. Historically and culturally, Christianity is a branch of Judaism. This is why they call it “the Judeo-Christian tradition”. Those Jews who did not become Christian but maintained their traditional ways became objects of Christian anti-Semitism, another common tradition that is well represented on this blog.
We already know this wont happen because of the number of traitors in high places who place the value of the western financial institutions instead of the population.
The hypothesis that follows, if carried through, is certain to have a significant effect on gold and the relationship between gold and all government-issued currencies.
The successful remonetisation of gold by a major power such as Russia would draw attention to the fault-lines between fiat currencies issued by governments unable or unwilling to do the same and those that can follow in due course. It would be a schism in the world’s dollar-based monetary order.
Russia has made plain her overriding monetary objective: to do away with the US dollar for all her trade, an ambition she shares with China and their Asian partners. Furthermore, in the short-term the rouble’s weakness is undermining the Russian economy by forcing the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) to impose high interest rates to defend the currency and by increasing the burden of foreign currency debt. There is little doubt that one objective of NATO’s economic sanctions is to harm the Russian economy by undermining the currency, and this policy is working with the rouble having fallen 30% against the US dollar this year so far with the prospect of further falls to come.
Professor Hanke has successfully advised several governments to introduce currency boards over the years, but we can probably rule it out as an option for Russia because of her desire to ditch US dollar relationships. However, on further examination Butler’s idea of fixing the rouble to gold is certainly feasible. Russia’s public sector external debt is the equivalent of only $378bn in a $2 trillion economy, her foreign exchange reserves total $429bn of which over $45bn is in physical gold, and the budget deficit this year is likely to be roughly $10bn, considerably less than 1% of GDP. These relationships suggest that a rouble to gold exchange standard could work so long as fiscal discipline is maintained and credit expansion moderated.
In short, the central bank could easily counter any tendency for roubles to be cashed in for gold by withdrawing roubles from circulation and by restricting credit. Consideration would also have to be given to roubles in foreign ownership, but the current situation for foreign-owned roubles is favourable as well.
http://www.goldmoney.com/research/analysis/russia-s-monetary-solution#
The latest IGOR STELKOV interview
say how the Kremlin betrayed Novorossija.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGyIeXEatfM
elsi said…@ 30 November, 2014 13:35
“In these protests will only find opportunists, anyone who is interested in the common good.”
It depends on how you define opportunists.
Try not to be so disgusted; disgust is a method of control much encouraged.
Demonstrations have many uses as you have partly highlighted.
It is not the truck owners “strike” of 1972.
It is snowing in Novorossiya. Quiet fluffy shallow snow.
It does nothing to put out the incendiaries they’re being shelled with again.
The really need one stealth helicopter to go around and zap those rocket launchers.
Neb Radic said…@ 30 November, 2014 15:23
“The only variable seems to be the proximity and strength (if so) of Russia.”
There are many.
Try time as a starter.
Thucydides said…@ 30 November, 2014 20:49
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This is a war of resistance, not challenge. “
This is a war of transcendence.
Regards to Heraclitus and friends.
Alien Tech said…@ 30 November, 2014 15:25 plus
David Chu said…@ 30 November, 2014 22:47
“When code pink asked people if they would do something like withholding $1 from the RS to stop the war, they got 2000 signatures.”
A successful athlete knows that the most dangerous opponent is her/himself.
Sampling and sampling in moments are forms of obfuscation and self-inflicted blindness.
Your extrapolations there on are strategically naive, since even if your bases are correct they are not necessarily significant or detrimental.
Article written by By Dylan Murphy and Jo Murphy for “Free Ukraine Now”
I recently spoke with Russian blogger Rozhin Boris, otherwise known as Colonel Cassad, whose indepth reports from the front lines of Novorossia shed a lot of light on military/political developments in this war torn region.
The United Nations has recently estimated that over 3,660 people have been killed in the fighting in Eastern Ukraine. Could you describe the extent of the humanitarian crisis facing ordinary people in Novorossia?
This assessment is very far from the reality. The armed forces of the Kiev junta have lost 12 to 18 thousand dead. They are responsible for the deaths of thousands of civilians. The militias of Novorossia have lost 5-6,000 dead. The total number of deaths is approximately 25-30 thousand with of tens of thousands of wounded militia members, civilians and junta soldiers. Officially more than 250,000 civilians have fled the Donbass, unofficially its over a million. The Donbass is facing a humanitarian catastrophe.
The Poroshenko regime launched an ATO (Anti-Terrorist Operation) in June designed to eliminate the “terrorists” in Lugansk and Donetsk. Throughout the summer it made numerous claims that it was defeating the self-defence militias of Novorossia and that by 24 August 2014 the ‘separatist forces’ would have been crushed. However, it is obvious this has not happened. Can you tell us why Poroshenko has failed in his military objectives?
The Ukrainian army had the overwhelming superiority in numbers of men and technology. Despite some tactical successes the Ukrainian army has suffered a series of disastrous military defeats, which lost thousands of soldiers, dozens of fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, and hundreds of pieces of armour. The main causes of defeat were: low morale of the Ukrainian army and punitive battalions of the National Guard, poor condition of its logistics and intelligence, resilience of the infantry militia of Novorossia, military-technical assistance on the part of Russia, and the incompetent command of the Ukrainian minister of defence.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s Concern for the Poor Got Him Destroyed
Strauss-Kahn was moved out of the way for two reasons. One is that he was the most likely winner over the American puppet president of France in the upcoming French presidential election. The other is that he was using his position as the head of the IMF to block the austerity that the European and New York banksters were determined to impose on the peoples of those countries, such as Greece, that had sovereign debt troubles disadvantageous for the large banks.
In other words, Strauss-Kahn had announced his opposition to making ordinary poor citizens pay in reduced pensions, layoffs, and reduced social services for the mistakes of reckless and greedy banksters.
What’s so disingenuous about the IMF’s apology, is that the bank knew exactly what the effects of its policy would be, but stuck with its recommendations to reward its constituents. That’s what really happened. The only reason it’s trying to distance itself from those decisions now, is to make the public think it was all just a big mistake.
But it wasn’t a mistake. It was deliberate and here’s the chart that proves it:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/25/trotsky-at-the-imf/
Grandmaster Putin’s Golden Trap
http://www.gold-eagle.com/article/grandmaster-putins-golden-trap
Ukrainian pilot who’s plane was close to MH17 is Dmitriy Yakacud
http://antifashist.com/item/ukrainskij-su-25-unichtozhivshij-boing-pilotiroval-dmitrij-yakacud.html#ixzz3KVFRavvW
To Anon @ 08.54 1-12-14
Thank you for the video link.
at the end he is saying…the young at the maidan were betrayed,finding themselves in a totally different country,
i.e. ‘state’ and that the militias were sabotaged by the 5th column,those that hide in shadows, but it is Putin who gets the blame.
cheers.
Prepare for changes at the United Nations, too. The put out a report saying the solution to world hunger is small holder farms, not monolithic multinationals planting GMOs.
http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/09/23/un-report-says-organic-sustainable-agriculture-key-feeding-world
interesting comments in this article from the GMO proponents. You’ll also notice the Bill.*Melinda Gates Foundation contributes to this cause — most of their billions go to northern hemisphere researchers, not the poor farmers.
No big business, of course, in smallholder farming — but it keeps the farmer and his village and nearby towns in food….which is the basic reason for growing food, isn’t it?
Anonymous said at 01 December, 2014 08:59,
-“Try not to be so disgusted; disgust is a method of control much encouraged.”
Russian friend senior strategist? (If so wink me one eye).
But …. you’re talking about the 1972 truckers strike…. in Chile?
I do not know why have you taken the impression that I’m very disgusted, because it is not.
I am really having a great time, especially in this blog.
For years I learned to disgust me the right and necessary, and above all, to detect quickly when someone wants to get me upset and to propose myself not to get me. I also learned that there are people who really enjoys creating discomfort, because then they feel they have control.I try to avoid them like the plague; if I can, remove them from my life, if not, try not give them the satisfaction.
Do not worry. I am having so much fun.
Kat Kan, Bill Gates says Linux is communist. Says a lot.
elsi said…@ 01 December, 2014 19:29
“you’re talking about the 1972 truckers strike”
Precision is a virtue – it was a strike of the truck owners encouraged/financed by the present opponents.
Granted a few owners were also drivers.
The road to the Moneda passed through disgust, naivete – the prevailing song being the prime example of that -, and romanticism encapsulated in representative democracy.
“Historically and culturally, Christianity is a branch of Judaism.”
Wicher, you got that backwards.
“I didn’t come to abolish the Law, I came to fulfil it”
Stick that in your yarmulke.
Alien Tech said…@ 01 December, 2014 12:04
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s Concern for the Poor Got Him Destroyed”
In certain circles the purpose of the IMF is no secret, especially to those who head it.
Some report that Dominique Strauss-Kahn was sacked for being naive.
The particular clothes used to cloak the naivete was the housemaid.
The concern for the poor apparently was ex post facto, unless the concern was limited to the sexual.
Many in supposed high office are so addicted, the banking district in Frankfurt being conveniently located if lunchtime whipping is sought.
Observers who insist (because many depend upon), stoking the fires of hysteria with regard to a nuclear stand-off between the old enemies are as guilty of perpetuating Orwellian double-think as are the perpetrators, War (even “Cold War”), is not peace! As in the-meat-grinder of Stalingrad you are likely to be shot by your own side if you refuse to fight. Our former evolutionary and environmental concerns have metamorphosed but are still driven by capital’s “Exceptional Manifest Destiny”, however I’m sure Orwell would have appreciated the counter-intuitive nature of the transformation especially as we witness the creation of the faux-hegemonic totalitarian oligarchies he so feared (but they are vital to monetarism’s survival and not the product of The International!). Go to; “The Omerta’s Deceivers”: gkhales.blogspot.co.uk
SORRY previous comment from: “A New Cold War”
This is from: “The Omerta’s Deceivers”, quote: “That R.T should begin to screen documentaries on; “the true nature of The Yugoslavian Conflict” following the denouement of The First Act of this “gripping” drama is therefore hardly surprising; the scene has moved on, the wheels are in motion….Our “soft-fascism” continues too with “The Omerta” in full-force regarding The Greater Europe for once again both Left and Right Wings in Britain have failed to grasp-the-nettle with regard to European immigration. Quote: “How has Pallas Athena offended us so badly as to provoke us to perpetrate these obscenities? Well for one thing The European Union is too big ( http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/oder.htm ), as Schumacher intimated in “Small is Beautiful”; “a “Greater Europe” will represent an unsupported socio-economic structure and must collapse” (and now the NATO agenda has created precisely the dangerous leviathan necessary to do the demolition work)!
Why should not The Poles (who “don’t like” The Germans and consistently produce the lowest turn out of any E.U nation in European elections), The Western Ukrainians (bye bye Crimea!), and the other recently assimilated Eastern European States attend to their own business? Such would surely be both socially and financially better for all of us.
Take the debacle over the Shengen agreement. Really Mr.Major? Your country’s citizens got nothing out of that, is Europe only for the businessmen then? It seems so (quote; “The free movement of persons was a core part of the original Treaty of Rome” go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement ). One would think that it would be the job of our country’s “liberal-left” to point out the “diminishment of persons” that not becoming signatories to The Shengen Agreement represented but noooo as so often where European politics is concerned there was a terrible silence in the “oppositional barn”.” Go to: “”The European Arrest Warrant” Should be Applied to this Bunch!”: http://gkhales.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/the-european-arrest-warrant-should-be.html .
According to both our politicians and the Mainstream Media The British people are faced with a stark choice; either remain in The Greater Europe and go-down-with-the-ship or abandon the vessel completely and take our chances on the open sea! The trouble is a two-state-solution does not suit the monetarised NATO/Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agenda which now drives European politics ( one reason Cameron would really like to see us in rather than out of Europe**). Cameron’s attempted “bi-partisan” stance has already had it’s consequences for British democracy” gkhales.blogspot.co.uk