I kinda feel the opposite, I don’t see how Russia is in charge or at advantage at all.
Russia wants peace, Donbass wants peace. But it can’t happen without the approval of USA that controls Ukraine, even without the approva of the Ukrainian rada, which might even be beyond USA control. The side that would benefit from peace is Russia, Russia would have the sanctions removed, she would no longer need to spend 80 million + Euro every month giving pensions and food to the people of Donbass — So what would happen for USA and Ukraine if there was peace? Well, popular dissent would not longer be distracted by the war-propaganda, and the popular anger of the Ukrainian people would turn on the government in full-force. What else would happen? Russia would be free from sanctions, what else would happen? Ukraine would have to deal with rebuilding Donbass. None of these are in the interests of the Ukrainian elites nor in USA.
So why is there no peace? As I said, Russia and the rebels have no influence over Kiev, and without Kiev and USA approval, there can be no peace.
There is also the issue that it would be totally legal for USA to transfer 3000 MBT and all kinds of advance military technology to Ukraine, and within 2-3 years they could not only attack and defeat Donbass but attack Russia and deal serious damage as well. And this is totally within the legal rights of USA and Russia can’t do anything about it.
As for attacking Donbass, that is legally doubtful. Contrary to the garbage from Kiev, those people are absolutely not “terrorists” in any sense. They are civilians who have had to learn to fight to defend themselves against murderous attacks from what is supposed to be their own government. In other words, what Kiev has been doing is exactly what the Americans have (quite falsely) accused Assad of doing – killing his own people. For the Americans to join in that attack might well be the last straw for decent people all around the world.
As for attacking Russia, there is absolutely no reason or justification for that. To start with, that would be an illegal war of aggression (pronounced “the supreme international crime” by the Nuremberg Tribunal set up by the USA and its allies, but frequently committed by the USA ever since).
But it’s how it would finish that is more important from a practical point of view. Any serious war between the USA and Russia that has even the potential to cross the boundaries of Russia by so much as one meter could very easily lead to the destruction of all human life. As Bertrand Russell wittily, and devastatingly, put it, “War does not determine who is right – only who is left”.
Donbass is internationally recognized Ukraine territory, it is fully legal for Ukraine to attack Donbass, and they are attacking Donbass. Same with Crimea. No country would have any problem if Ukraine invaded Crimea because legally and internationally it belongs to Ukraine.
They could legally attack Russia by attacking Crimea.
USA wouldn’t need to get invovled, Russia can’t occupy all of Ukraine anyway, all that would happen is that NATO media would hammer “Russia invades tiny democracy” more countries would join NATO, more sanctions would be slapped on Russia, and if Russia occupied Ukraine they would be fighting a USA backed nazi insurgency.
Liz, I think you have a rather tenuous grip on recent and and not so recent history.
The ‘government’ sitting in Kiev is an illegal and violently installed coup d’etat group who were financed and assisted by the United States of America with the active and visible support of the sitting US Ambassador to Ukraine, G. R. Piatt, ergo anything this ‘government’ has done since then is also illegal.
The giving of the administration of Krimea to the Ukraine SSR in the ’50’s was also illegal in that the deed was done with no referendum by the citizens of Krimea which was against SSSR law. After the announced donation Krushchov went to Politboro for approval, again against SSSR law.
I will not get in to your statements about the legal rights of the United States of America to attack Russia, LNR/DNR, Krimea and The Federal City of Sevastopol, those rights simply do not exist.
If you feel so strongly about the rights to attack for instance Krimu and Sevastopol then by all means put on your uniform, climb in to your battle harness, position yourself in the lead of your 3000 main battle tanks and come on down. We’ll be waiting for you. When the dust settles we’ll negotiate with Poland about where they can put their border check points near Warsaw and whether or not Hungary gets to keep Pest.
Some say that Donbass is the Russian hook in Ukraine, but I see it more as the american hook in Russia, one Russia cannot disconnect from without approval from USA, who would rather see Ukraine and Russia go to full-out-war.
Russia cannot back down in Donbass, because then USA would put missiles right at Russia’s border, but Russia cannot win either without USA approval, as USA controls the Kiev government and it is the Kiev government that needs to forfill the Minsk 2 agreement, which of course they refuse to do.
The Ukraine is the American hook in Russia.
Donbass is Russia’s hook in America’s Ukraine.
No winner, all losers. All parties suffering badly, but most of course the people of Donbass, and even more so the poor Ukrainians.
My left little finger tells me: the Parasites misjudged the situation badly. The Kiev coup will never bring a smile on their faces. There is too much Russian blood in the Ukrainian gene pool for that to happen.
Yes, that seems true, it is hard to determine how successfull USA or Russia is because they starting goal was never stated by any of them.
If USA was correct and USA mainly wanted Ukraine for the Crimean navalbase, then USA main plan failed, if USA plan was to take the Crimea and flood Ukraine with money and make it a economically successfullf anti-Russian bastion, then I believe that has failed as well. So far the only thing USA seem to have succeeded in is making Ukraine anti-Russian, the mood in Ukraine has really turned on Russia, I believe something like 70% of Ukrainian view Russia disfavorably now, compared to 70% that viewed Russia favorably before. So that is a big win for USA, USA also has the sanctions on Russia, and the propaganda material “Russia invades”.
But I believe the pro-Russian mood in Ukraine will likely return if the war ends and Donbass returns with broad autonomy inside Ukraine, at that point Donbass will become a pro-Russian fortress inside of Ukraine and a cultural war between the west and Donbass will begin, which Donbass will win.
How can Ukraine go to full out war with Russia. Every military asset is already targeted for destruction now. Those would be gone in 5 minutes and the East could march in and restore order. It will be the East that returns Ukraine to Russia after they take out Kiev and majority in many oblasts would join them. So would many more in the Ukraine Military who haven’t already. No fair election has ever been held in the Ukraine since this coup happened. Political opponents have been shut down. All of those forces are still on the ground. Those who couldn’t flee to Russia.
It would be more like, tens of thousands will die, Russia will get so heavy sanctions slapped on her the economy would return to the stone age for 3 decades, and she would be figthing an USA backed nazi insurgency.
If the Ukranians can gather some 200.000 well trained troops,well equipped and armed with sufficient tanks and artillery,and make a good coordinated piercing attack in german blitzkrig-style,they have a chance put Russia in a very delicate position.Then that will be an open confrontation between Russia and Ukraine.The question is on how deep the russian military will go onto Ukrainean territory,only till the actual Donbass (Novorussian borders) or beyond,including Kiev.Anything is possible and I’m sure that on the russian side everything is on the agenda.Only the circumstances and the time will tell us more.Till then have a good sleep.
not sure what that implies apart from more rubbish………
another / view here
he inability to resolve the question of “the status of Donbass” parliamentary means, forced Kiev to talk about a national referendum. It initiates even Radical party Oleg Lyashko. On Monday he said Lyashko during the conciliatory council of parliament.
“We propose a referendum in March on a question:” Does the Ukrainian people with a special status for the Donbass? “- Said the chief” vilonosets “Ukraine. In his opinion, it is an item on the status of Donbass prevent the adoption of changes to the constitution in terms of decentralization, which is required for the implementation of the Minsk Agreement. The legislative body of Ukraine, according to the radical Lyashko not reach the required “300 traitors who are ready to vote in favor of these changes to the constitution.”
On the eve of the head of government and Arseniy Yatsenyuk called to put the question of changes to the constitution to a national referendum. “It is time for the Ukrainian people has spoken, what should be a new constitution in the new European Ukraine”, – he said. The Prime Minister also expressed confidence that his position is shared by the president of Ukraine Poroshenko.
The last time a national referendum was held under President Kuchma in 2000 on the reform of public administration. However, changes in the legislation of Ukraine, who voted for the then citizens of the country have not been made.”
“Prices in Ukraine are growing by leaps and bounds. Over the past year they have risen by an average of two to three times. Analysts predict that this year the prices for essentials even jump to 20 percent. But this would be the case if the dollar will cost no more than 26 hryvnia, and is already on the black market are selling the US currency at the rate of 27.”
no-one wants ukrainian economic migrants…..
Ukr cannot pay fees to international organisations
“”There are organizations to whom we have a long-term debt. Most organizations operate in such a way that in the case of debt may lose the right to vote, which significantly narrows the possibilities to influence the adoption of the necessary decisions “, – said Pristayko, without specifying the amount of the debt and the name of the organization.
Ukrainian diplomat added that the payment of arrears from the budget of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. And if the past few years, these flagrant violations of international rules lowered the brakes, it is now a question of principle. Ukraine is insolvent and undisciplined state, going to deny the right to vote in the UN.” http://www.anna-news.info/node/51649
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MOSCOW, January 25. /TASS/. Russia’s Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights continues registreing violations of the Minsk agreements in persecution of dissidents in Ukraine, member of the council, director of the Moscow Human Rights Bureau Alexander Brod told TASS on Monday. “We continue to register violations of the Minsk agreements by the Ukrainian authorities, the persecution of dissidents and journalists,” he said. According to Brod, the situation in the Donbas region “remains alarming”. “Observers see amassment of Ukrainian military equipment,” the human rights activists noted. READ ALSO Russia seeks to draw UNESCO attention to Ukraine infringing journalists rights The annual report of the Moscow Human Rights Bureau (obtained by TASS) says that “the Ukrainian state remains one of the most dangerous places in Europe for media representatives – both its own journalists and foreign correspondents” and gives facts of journalists’ rights violations. “At the international level, massive and systematic violations concerning the respect for freedom of speech and protection of journalists’ rights remained unnoticed throughout 2015. No pressure was exerted on the country’s authorities to ensure compliance with international obligations in this area, which was perceived by official Kiev as a kind of carte blanche,” the document says. The report also mentions facts when massive political actions were prohibited and activists arrested, and the law on decommunization passed in Ukraine is described as “anti-democratic and anti-European.”.
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PARIS, January 25. / TASS /. The Council of Europe has sent a delegation to Crimea to assess the situation in the peninsula, Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland said on Monday. “The mission will be conducted with full independence and will not deal with any issue related to the territorial status of Crimea,” Jagland said. “More than 2.5 million people live in Crimea, they are all covered by the European Convention on Human Rights and should be able to benefit from it,” he said, adding that, however, “for more than a year, no delegation from an international organization has been able to go there. ” “It will help us receive clear and comprehensive information on the human rights situation and make sure the people of Crimea are not forgotten,” Jagland said.
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“Member of the International Committee of the UK House of Commons Daniel Cochin proposes to organize a cross-party group on Russia, which in his opinion could influence in the fight against anti-Russian hysteria. “Our country needs fundamental rethinking relations with Russia. Unfortunately, anti-Russian hysteria has captured not only the country, but the West as a whole. And in many ways the reason for this is rooted in a reluctance to penetrate into Russia’s problems and motives”, – said the Cochin in an interview with RIA Novosti .”
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Deputy Chief of Staff of the Corps of the People’s Militia LC Igor Yaschenko at the briefing said that this week Ukrainian law enforcers twice shelled the territory of the Republic of mortars, and also drew attention to the commitment of NATO to speed up the recovery of the combat capability of the APU in the area of so-called “ATO”, including involving mercenaries.
“By the number of parties Ukraine, certainly it ranks first in the world. After the so-called Ukrainian euromaidan “activists” and “patriots” imagined themselves politicians, and began to create their own games, in addition to those before and bred like rabbits.
For the vulgar year registered a record number of them – 79. This was announced by director of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine Alexey Pouch.
According to him, another 38 political parties appeared in 2014. In general, over the past two years have been reported more parties than in the previous 10 years. Prior to that, the largest number of parties were created in 2005 – 24, which was the result of the first Maidan.
Total in Ukraine today officially registered 316 political parties. For comparison, in Russia 75 political parties, and this number is also considered large. And in the US, which prays current Kiev, there are only two major parties and 40 Federal.
From established in Ukraine in 2015, the parties that could participate in the local elections, only less than half of the nominated their candidates – 22 parties from 50. Another 8 political parties expressed their desire to take part in local elections, but did not put forward a single candidate.
“In fact, we have the absurd situation where every four days, including weekends, Ukraine recorded a new political force. This not only undermines public confidence in the political parties, but also to the representative bodies of power “, – said the director of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine Oleksiy Pouch.” http://www.anna-news.info/node/51659
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yats privatises customs
Perhaps in the Ukraine will soon be nothing left Ukrainian: not trusting their own personnel, Kiev rapidly gives the ownership or control of not only the company but also the entire state structure. It came even before the customs.
Part of the Ukrainian customs checkpoints will come under the control of foreign companies, and only with good intentions – in order to fight corruption. This was stated by Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk in the weekly program “10 minutes with Prime Minister.” He had previously stated about this at the final press conference in Kiev in late December.
“A few Ukrainian customs go into management leading foreign companies as an emergency way to counter corruption and abuse,” – he said.
According to Yatsenyuk, the transfer of customs offices will be held in the framework of the reform of state fiscal service, which is a priority for the Ukrainian government in 2016.”
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According to intelligence DNI foreign mercenaries who are fighting on the side of the APU, kidnap women in Mariupol, which is now under the control of Kiev. On Monday, January 25 at the briefing said the speaker of the Ministry of Defense DNI Eduard Eduard Basurin.
resident of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko attended to the development of such industries as metallurgy. Who are some of the country’s largest steel companies, which are the private property of the oligarchs, in particular, Rinat Akhmetov.
Airfield Kramatorsk remains one of the main bases of deployment and logistics group of Ukrainian troops involved in the “TAU”. Therefore Kramatorsk at the airport, which was built for the use of both civil and military purposes, arranged a helicopter unit of the Air Force of Ukraine.
According to statistics, up to 70 percent of Ukrainian citizens who are languishing in jail for “separatism”, were arrested for telephone conversations in which impartially spoke about politics neofashistkoy Ukraine denounced by or for posts on the social network.
Consumer debt for consumed in Kiev in 2015, thermal energy before “Kyivenergo” has increased by 172 million. UAH. and as of January 1, 2016 exceeded 1.9 billion. hryvnia.
This is stated in the message “Kyivenergo”.
The most critical situation with payments for heat and hot water heating is observed among consumers of Shevchenko (416.6 million. UAH) Goloseevskogo (240.9 million. UAH.) and the Pechersk district (227.7 million. UAH.).’
Saakashvili calls for legalization of gambling in Ukraine.
According to him, today the money “leaked to clandestine places, in neighboring Belarus and Georgia and other neighboring countries, which drive the Ukrainians, who like to play.”
Saakashvili on his Facebook page said that ” Odessa police yesterday for the umpteenth time in the city covered an illegal casino, and many other places in Ukraine at all “roof” state authorities. This is the question of what the state is losing huge profits without legalizing gambling. ”
The delegation from Kiev did not accept the participants of the summit, which appeared several MEPs supporting Russia.
The Forum “Europe-Ukraine” entitled “Strategy of reform and modernization – whether there has been a breakthrough?” in the Polish city of Lodz, there was a scandal. Participating in the work of the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Yegor Sobolev Tatiana Chornovol boycotted participation in one of the discussions.”
“Live Stream. Polish journalists Mateusz Piskorski, Wojciech Gzhymala and Jan Vsul holding a press conference on the results of their visit to Russia. During the visit, they met with the authorities of the Republic of Crimea and representatives of the Russian mass media got acquainted with the situation in the field of interethnic and interfaith relations on the Crimean peninsula.”
President in two years of fighting did not understand – the Donbas is not for sale. His comments in an interview with three Ukrainian television channels that the Crimea and the Donbass should remain priorities and are partners of Ukraine smack ravings of a maniac. In the partner, he is likely to see overseas and European corporations that offer investment programs to revive the infrastructure of Donbass.”
this last section is compilation from anna-news various, google translate.
Anyone note or mention that the annual psycho plutocrat love-in at Davos just concluded.
Course, Mr. Ed was there badmouthing the evil Iran for wanting to build the bomb.
Anyway, you can bet it was some last-hour get together to tie up loose ends before the Really Big Show rips. They don’t go there just to play poker.
They’ve been planning it since before 911, but especially since that was successful, since the 2008 cave-in.
Syria et al just ranks to them as another minor side plot.
Another of their pet projects, hollywood, has just come out making big splash with the 6-episode I think mini-TV series X-Files, detailing with their usual sickening smugness what they have planned these next few years (likely into 2021 area).
Published on Jan 25, 2016
XFILES EXPOSES ELITE’S GENOCIDAL PLAN: FROM GLOBAL BIOSPHERE & BANKING COLLAPSE TO ALIEN DECEPTION
From the January 24, 2015 broadcast of the 2016 X Files premiere.
Jan 24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgj_wlW-Ty4
Anyone see this?
I don’t like quoting anything from there because of their tabloid style sensationalist hysteria BS they put up all day long.
Amid the so-called “ceasefire” in Ukraine, yet ongoing shelling in many regions, the Donbass news agency reports that more than 20 Ukrainian solders have died and over 200 soldiers are hospitalized after an apparent leak of a deadly virus called “California Flu” from a US lab near the city of Kharkov.
NSC 10/2 directed CIA to conduct “covert” rather than merely “psychological” operations, defining them as all activities “which are conducted or sponsored by this Government against hostile foreign states or groups or in support of friendly foreign states or groups but which are so planned and executed that any US Government responsibility for them is not evident to unauthorized persons and that if uncovered the US Government can plausibly disclaim any responsibility for them.” – Furthermore, in order to preempt such uncovering, to continually seed red herrings and false theories; to delegitimize their unraveling by labeling them as kookish “conspiracy theories”; to defocus public energies by introducing “beneficial cognitive diversity”, fabricated leaks of half-truths which retain core-lies, and “Limited Hangout” mea culpae, all fed through the “Mighty Wurlitzer” messaging machinery; to brand the few daring and persistent unravellers of “truth’s protective layers” as deniers of reality suffering from “emotional or mental illness”, an “oppositional defiant disorder” exhibiting a pattern of “negativistic, defiant, disobedient and hostile behavior toward authority figures” and therefore a threat to themselves and to society; and when all else fails, to eliminate these ‘malcontents’ who refuse to tow the official line by branding them “domestic terrorists”.
The first breach of the Minsk truce agreement by Kiev.
On Friday April 10th 2014, before Russian Orthodox Easter, the Poroshenko-Yatsenyuk U.S-coup-installed Ukrainian Government attacked the people of the Donbass on all fronts, they were continuing their extermination-campaign against the residents that refused to accept the coup-government, that was installed by the U.S. with a US proxy Ukrainian President. Over 90% of those residents in Donbass had voted for a President that was overthrown by the U.S in a violent fascist coup.
This bare-faced violation of the Merkel-Hollande-arranged Minsk truce would not happen without Obama’s approval. He is choosing to have this done on Russian holy days in order to intensify the provocation against Russia. Obama went all-out to provoke Russia into sending-in Russian army troops and air power in order for Obama to have a pretext to go to war against Russia, his real target “in order to defend an ally”
The second breach of the Minsk truce agreement by Kiev.
The Kiev authorities ordered a massive assault on militia held territories on Jan 18th 2015. Using Western supply commitments and funding, Kiev gave their last big shot at retaking the airport — a full armored brigade counterattack that was completely destroyed, most of it the first day.
Unfortunately though for Kiev the airport armor brigade attack destruction, and the eight thousand fighters cut off and surrounded at Debaltsevo was the result.
The third breach of the Minsk truce agreement by Kiev.
Ukraine’s far-right government, backed by Washington, launched a new military offensive against the independent Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics on the night of June 2-3 2015. The Donbass people’s militia responded quickly, first sending Kiev’s forces scurrying in panic, and now digging in for the hard battle for control of Marinka, a city southwest of Donetsk’s capital, against a Ukrainian military increasingly funded by the U.S. and armed with NATO weaponry.
June 3rd 2015 The commander of Pyatnashka Interbrigade on line stated, attack began at 4.30am, there was no second pause. Under cover of artillery there infantry tried to storm Donetsk, our guys cast away the infantry. The Minsk agreements are a piece of paper to them they are using tanks, grads and something heavier. It was a planned offensive, wave after wave, in direct contravention of the Minsk agreement. Also Ukrainian forces suffered heavy losses in the fighting near Maryinka on the 3rd of June, the head of the DPR Alexander Zakharchenko told journalists. “According to our estimates, around 400 Ukrainian soldiers were killed, and up to 1,000 were injured,” – Alexander Zakharchenko said.
The fourth breach of the now Minsk2 truce agreement by Kiev.
From 5:00 to 5:30 August 10 2015 Kiev attacked Petrovskoe, Belaya Kamenka and Novolaspa with tanks, mortars and artillery, including “Grad” MLRS. From 7:00 to 10:00 a unit from the 72nd mechanized brigade of AFU consisting of two companies, of the 41-st independent motorized infantry battalion reinforced with tanks, with artillery support attempted to advance in the direction of the village of Belaya Kamenka.
DPR units stopped the enemy and forced them to retreat to their original positions. Kiev losses amounted to 2 tanks, 1 infantry fighting vehicles, 1 anti-tank guided missile launcher and up to 18 soldiers of AFU, 7 of them are dead.
Kiev cynically shelled their own positions on the southern and eastern outskirts of the village of Staroignatovka in order to blame the DPR army as a provocation to restart the war by blaming the DPR.
In many countries the US wants influence to loot and pillage the place and create bases, the problem is they can not find nationalists who love their country, so instead they put up criminals into power. Who only look after their own interests and because the US is paying them, follow the empires dictates… And as such there is no law and order or even betterment of their community, after all how can they better their community when these are criminals of the community? We have seen this ever since the US started on their empire building. How S.Korea and Japan or even Germany managed to get past this is just amazing. But we do know that honor amongst Germans and Japanese had a lot to do with it, the true fanatics were all killed but a lot of nationalists remained in positions of power to carry on. S.Korea was the exception in this to flourish but we can still see the corruption there. You do have to give the Japanese and Germans credit to keep their country successful.. But in other places where divisions were present and criminals had taken control, it has been a house of cards..
When Money Can’t Buy An Army. For over a decade, the U.S. has spent billions on Afghanistan’s security forces—with little to show for it.
Despite what the U.S. Institute for Peace calls “remarkable progress,” the police as an institution remain prone to “corruption, incompetence, abuse of power, and pervasive illiteracy.” As of May 2014, despite a total of $15 billion spent, thousands of cops on the books remained untrained. And the $300 million a year the U.S. forks over for their salaries? Much of it is unaccounted for, according to SIGAR.
“Our track record at building security forces over the past 15 years is miserable,” Eikenberry told the New York Times recently, changing his earlier tune. Today, he writes about the failures of counterinsurgency in Afghanistan. As though anyone was listening.
The Afghan Local Police system, on the other hand, is a corrupt, destabilizing, dangerous hot mess, thanks in part to the U.S. military, which put ex-warlords and militiamen in control of many constabularies across the country. As always, little consideration was given to local tribal interests and communities, many of whom have since turned to the Taliban as an alternative. But this seems to be the case with the training of all security forces, with little accounting for Afghanistan’s ethnic, tribal, and sectarian culture. As a result, the Afghan resistance to the Western template has resulted in fraud, failure, and widespread mistrust between the international and Afghan forces.
“A lot of this was about imposing outside systems that in many ways do not conform to local [culture], taking existing structures and breaking them,” said Cordesman.
“The real key is that you have to be able and willing to fight and die for your country,” added Korb. But is there an Afghan “nation” that local security forces believe in enough to die for? If not, should the U.S. continue to send thousands of soldiers and contractors into harm’s way for nothing?
Afghanistan should nationalize it’s poppy fields. Most countries should legalize smoking opium. Keep it from turning into heroin. And keep the price cheap. Those who become habituated are only self medicating-they can be more easily identified and attended to by mental health specialists. Take all the cultural baggage and myth making out of it. It will cause less harm and fed fewer covert activities. It would take longer to progress to IVDU with this stop gap as well. If you want to talk about gateway drugs, caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, marijuana….probably in that order.
RR
Yes but legalising Opium would run up against Multinational Pharmaceutical Corporations desire for wealth extraction through their peddling synthetic variants of Opium. Variants that are more addictive and worse off for the patient.
Drug criminalisation has nothing to do with protecting public health, it is all for money extraction and corruption.
The US’s vassal AKA the UK and it’s bloviator mouthpiece (plus the US treasury) are ramping up the propaganda against Putin personally. Other media filth like the WP too.
To what end?
What’s coming down the pipe? Another swing at Russia via the Kiev junta and the Bandera Boys?
….Tensions between communist Vietnam and its giant communist neighbour China over the disputed waters have also accelerated Hanoi’s efforts to improve relations with its former enemy the United States and other global powers over the past several years….
…Vietnam has granted oil exploration blocks to India in waters that are disputed with China, while India has extended a US$100 million credit line for Hanoi to buy patrol boats….
The US stock market IS the US economy. With 80% being the service sector. And a lot there just swapping paper back and forth, The entire US GDP rests on this financial wizardry where money and wealth are created out of thin air.. By just trading paper they create wealth.. Take it away and the US$ crashes.. The market looks very dangerous.. So dangerous that decades of wealth creation can just go poof in a very short period of time.
The thing with a n economy based on good feelings is, when things go south, everyone starts feeling not so good.. The worse you feel the further south things go. Just like alcohol and drugs.. feel sooooooo goud..
If you have any wealth in the markets or money in the bank you need to read this.. We cant do much about our retirement in things like the IRA or other retirement schemes.. Which would become mostly worthless.. But we are not allowed to touch it.. Because that is the government backup slush fund. To be used to save the banks and such as a last resort..
Putin : “Transfer of Donbass to Ukraine in the USSR Was Unjustified”
The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin at the Interregional forum of the popular front stated the groundlessness of the transfer of Donbass to Ukraine during Soviet times.
“Moreover, that at a border of multi-ethnicity, in fact, of a unitary state, with borders remotely determined arbitrarily are not always justified. Well, so they put Donbass into Ukraine. Under what pretext? The rising interest of the proletariat in Ukraine for there to be more social support there. Well just look at such nonsense! And this is not the only example,” he said.
well to me, that sounds as if he is inviting a referendum internationally or locally recognised to secceede from Ukr especially as Donbass is still being bombed, people killed……………..
it’s hard to interpretate Putin’s words, but maybe there is a strong sign that keeping Dombass in Ukraine is worthlesss… that would be very worrying.. what has changed since Minsk 1 and 2?
The United States, over the past two years, has provided equipment and military training totalling more than $266 million, according to the US ambassador to Ukraine – Geoffrey R. Pyatt.
“Since 2014 we have provided equipment and training for the military to the sum of more than $266 million to help the Ukrainian forces to improve the control and security of the border, making it more efficient and safer to operate and defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country”, – quotes RIA Novosti from the statement of Pyatt. http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/pyatt-funding-ukrainian-army-for-2.html
explains why 8000 soldiers have defected to Donbass then…………corruption.inefficiency….and amazing Donbass has been able to hold out…………….
and read—–funding Ukr to attack Russia, genocide, war crimes…….extend NATO threatenings……
MOSCOW, January 27. /TASS/. The self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) submits to the Contact Group for consideration draft amendments to Ukrainian Constitution, DPR’s envoy at the negotiations Denis Pushilin said on Wednesday. “DPR proposes to the Contact Group to consider compromise draft amendments to Ukrainian Constitution prepared by our lawyers,” Donetsk News Agency quoted Pushilin as saying. “it provides real guarantees for special status of Donbas, political rights of our people,” he added. Pushilin added that Kiev’s proposals on amendments to the Ukrainian Constitution are a “legal fake.” “DPR officially states that Article 18 of amendments to the Ukrainian Constitution, submitted by Kiev to the [Verkhovna] Rada for voting, has not been coordinated with the republic [DPR]. This is the flagrant violation of the Minsk Agreements,” he explained adding that “this is a legal fake fabricated to deceive the people of Donbas and international community.” DPR once again “calls on Russia and Western countries to exert pressure on Kiev and make it implement the Minsk Agreements,” he noted.
extract “But the reason why Washington has come to “love” the Minsk agreements, making a deal with Moscow to gain a timeout for Kiev, is that, according to the master plan, the army will have to strike one very powerful blow against the Armed Forces of Novorossiya, or draw the Russian Federation into the war. But the Ukrainian Army could only achieve this by bringing them into the Donbass in a win for the US that would eliminate Ukraine as we know it.”
hmmm VP seems to be subtly putting the pressure on
MOSCOW, January 28. /TASS/. The Kremlin sees no need for making any comments regarding the Ukrainian delegation’s intention to initiate a discussion in the UN Security Council over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent statements about the past of Donbas. READ ALSO Putin explains his remarks about Vladimir Lenin “We have no attitude to this at all,” presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, when asked about the Kremlin’s attitude to this idea. Kiev’s angry reaction followed shortly after Putin at a meeting of the inter-regional forum of the All-Russia People’s Front on January 25 dropped a remark on Vladimir Lenin’s nationalities policy. Putin said that when the Soviet Union was established, the administrative borders separating republics were drawn arbitrarily and quite often unreasonably. He recalled that the coal-mining and industrial area Donbas had been handed over to Ukraine for the sake of increasing the percentage of the working class in Ukraine’s population. The press-service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry quoted Ukraine’s UN envoy as saying it was “impermissible to rewrite history and call in question the territorial integrity, sovereignty and political independence of Ukraine.”
I kinda feel the opposite, I don’t see how Russia is in charge or at advantage at all.
Russia wants peace, Donbass wants peace. But it can’t happen without the approval of USA that controls Ukraine, even without the approva of the Ukrainian rada, which might even be beyond USA control. The side that would benefit from peace is Russia, Russia would have the sanctions removed, she would no longer need to spend 80 million + Euro every month giving pensions and food to the people of Donbass — So what would happen for USA and Ukraine if there was peace? Well, popular dissent would not longer be distracted by the war-propaganda, and the popular anger of the Ukrainian people would turn on the government in full-force. What else would happen? Russia would be free from sanctions, what else would happen? Ukraine would have to deal with rebuilding Donbass. None of these are in the interests of the Ukrainian elites nor in USA.
So why is there no peace? As I said, Russia and the rebels have no influence over Kiev, and without Kiev and USA approval, there can be no peace.
There is also the issue that it would be totally legal for USA to transfer 3000 MBT and all kinds of advance military technology to Ukraine, and within 2-3 years they could not only attack and defeat Donbass but attack Russia and deal serious damage as well. And this is totally within the legal rights of USA and Russia can’t do anything about it.
As for attacking Donbass, that is legally doubtful. Contrary to the garbage from Kiev, those people are absolutely not “terrorists” in any sense. They are civilians who have had to learn to fight to defend themselves against murderous attacks from what is supposed to be their own government. In other words, what Kiev has been doing is exactly what the Americans have (quite falsely) accused Assad of doing – killing his own people. For the Americans to join in that attack might well be the last straw for decent people all around the world.
As for attacking Russia, there is absolutely no reason or justification for that. To start with, that would be an illegal war of aggression (pronounced “the supreme international crime” by the Nuremberg Tribunal set up by the USA and its allies, but frequently committed by the USA ever since).
But it’s how it would finish that is more important from a practical point of view. Any serious war between the USA and Russia that has even the potential to cross the boundaries of Russia by so much as one meter could very easily lead to the destruction of all human life. As Bertrand Russell wittily, and devastatingly, put it, “War does not determine who is right – only who is left”.
In this case that would be, “no one”.
Donbass is internationally recognized Ukraine territory, it is fully legal for Ukraine to attack Donbass, and they are attacking Donbass. Same with Crimea. No country would have any problem if Ukraine invaded Crimea because legally and internationally it belongs to Ukraine.
They could legally attack Russia by attacking Crimea.
USA wouldn’t need to get invovled, Russia can’t occupy all of Ukraine anyway, all that would happen is that NATO media would hammer “Russia invades tiny democracy” more countries would join NATO, more sanctions would be slapped on Russia, and if Russia occupied Ukraine they would be fighting a USA backed nazi insurgency.
Liz, I think you have a rather tenuous grip on recent and and not so recent history.
The ‘government’ sitting in Kiev is an illegal and violently installed coup d’etat group who were financed and assisted by the United States of America with the active and visible support of the sitting US Ambassador to Ukraine, G. R. Piatt, ergo anything this ‘government’ has done since then is also illegal.
The giving of the administration of Krimea to the Ukraine SSR in the ’50’s was also illegal in that the deed was done with no referendum by the citizens of Krimea which was against SSSR law. After the announced donation Krushchov went to Politboro for approval, again against SSSR law.
I will not get in to your statements about the legal rights of the United States of America to attack Russia, LNR/DNR, Krimea and The Federal City of Sevastopol, those rights simply do not exist.
If you feel so strongly about the rights to attack for instance Krimu and Sevastopol then by all means put on your uniform, climb in to your battle harness, position yourself in the lead of your 3000 main battle tanks and come on down. We’ll be waiting for you. When the dust settles we’ll negotiate with Poland about where they can put their border check points near Warsaw and whether or not Hungary gets to keep Pest.
Auslander, author Never The Last One Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZGCY8KK
In process The Struggle For Krimea 2014
Some say that Donbass is the Russian hook in Ukraine, but I see it more as the american hook in Russia, one Russia cannot disconnect from without approval from USA, who would rather see Ukraine and Russia go to full-out-war.
Russia cannot back down in Donbass, because then USA would put missiles right at Russia’s border, but Russia cannot win either without USA approval, as USA controls the Kiev government and it is the Kiev government that needs to forfill the Minsk 2 agreement, which of course they refuse to do.
The Ukraine is the American hook in Russia.
Donbass is Russia’s hook in America’s Ukraine.
No winner, all losers. All parties suffering badly, but most of course the people of Donbass, and even more so the poor Ukrainians.
My left little finger tells me: the Parasites misjudged the situation badly. The Kiev coup will never bring a smile on their faces. There is too much Russian blood in the Ukrainian gene pool for that to happen.
Yes, that seems true, it is hard to determine how successfull USA or Russia is because they starting goal was never stated by any of them.
If USA was correct and USA mainly wanted Ukraine for the Crimean navalbase, then USA main plan failed, if USA plan was to take the Crimea and flood Ukraine with money and make it a economically successfullf anti-Russian bastion, then I believe that has failed as well. So far the only thing USA seem to have succeeded in is making Ukraine anti-Russian, the mood in Ukraine has really turned on Russia, I believe something like 70% of Ukrainian view Russia disfavorably now, compared to 70% that viewed Russia favorably before. So that is a big win for USA, USA also has the sanctions on Russia, and the propaganda material “Russia invades”.
But I believe the pro-Russian mood in Ukraine will likely return if the war ends and Donbass returns with broad autonomy inside Ukraine, at that point Donbass will become a pro-Russian fortress inside of Ukraine and a cultural war between the west and Donbass will begin, which Donbass will win.
How can Ukraine go to full out war with Russia. Every military asset is already targeted for destruction now. Those would be gone in 5 minutes and the East could march in and restore order. It will be the East that returns Ukraine to Russia after they take out Kiev and majority in many oblasts would join them. So would many more in the Ukraine Military who haven’t already. No fair election has ever been held in the Ukraine since this coup happened. Political opponents have been shut down. All of those forces are still on the ground. Those who couldn’t flee to Russia.
It would be more like, tens of thousands will die, Russia will get so heavy sanctions slapped on her the economy would return to the stone age for 3 decades, and she would be figthing an USA backed nazi insurgency.
If the Ukranians can gather some 200.000 well trained troops,well equipped and armed with sufficient tanks and artillery,and make a good coordinated piercing attack in german blitzkrig-style,they have a chance put Russia in a very delicate position.Then that will be an open confrontation between Russia and Ukraine.The question is on how deep the russian military will go onto Ukrainean territory,only till the actual Donbass (Novorussian borders) or beyond,including Kiev.Anything is possible and I’m sure that on the russian side everything is on the agenda.Only the circumstances and the time will tell us more.Till then have a good sleep.
Biological weapons in Ukraine.
Just a deadly flu killing Ukies, threatening Donbass, Russia, Crimea.
Just the US Army again with deadly biologics.
Just the American government exposed.
Just the American public in the dark.
Just the UN and all the big nose NGOs nowhere to be seen or heard.
Just the same thing we’ve seen for more than 70 years. Same people, same “accidents”.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-25/20-dead-200-hospitalized-after-reports-us-lab-leaks-deadly-virus-ukraine
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2016/01/flu-epidemic-in-ukraine-us-bioweapon-of.html
Thanks for posting:
http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/yatsenyuk-calls-for-referendum-on.html
not sure what that implies apart from more rubbish………
another / view here
he inability to resolve the question of “the status of Donbass” parliamentary means, forced Kiev to talk about a national referendum. It initiates even Radical party Oleg Lyashko. On Monday he said Lyashko during the conciliatory council of parliament.
“We propose a referendum in March on a question:” Does the Ukrainian people with a special status for the Donbass? “- Said the chief” vilonosets “Ukraine. In his opinion, it is an item on the status of Donbass prevent the adoption of changes to the constitution in terms of decentralization, which is required for the implementation of the Minsk Agreement. The legislative body of Ukraine, according to the radical Lyashko not reach the required “300 traitors who are ready to vote in favor of these changes to the constitution.”
On the eve of the head of government and Arseniy Yatsenyuk called to put the question of changes to the constitution to a national referendum. “It is time for the Ukrainian people has spoken, what should be a new constitution in the new European Ukraine”, – he said. The Prime Minister also expressed confidence that his position is shared by the president of Ukraine Poroshenko.
The last time a national referendum was held under President Kuchma in 2000 on the reform of public administration. However, changes in the legislation of Ukraine, who voted for the then citizens of the country have not been made.”
http://www.anna-news.info/node/51662
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http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160125/1033682894/ukraine-eu-free-trade-futility.html
can’t sell, not enough money to buy….
“Prices in Ukraine are growing by leaps and bounds. Over the past year they have risen by an average of two to three times. Analysts predict that this year the prices for essentials even jump to 20 percent. But this would be the case if the dollar will cost no more than 26 hryvnia, and is already on the black market are selling the US currency at the rate of 27.”
no-one wants ukrainian economic migrants…..
Ukr cannot pay fees to international organisations
“”There are organizations to whom we have a long-term debt. Most organizations operate in such a way that in the case of debt may lose the right to vote, which significantly narrows the possibilities to influence the adoption of the necessary decisions “, – said Pristayko, without specifying the amount of the debt and the name of the organization.
Ukrainian diplomat added that the payment of arrears from the budget of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. And if the past few years, these flagrant violations of international rules lowered the brakes, it is now a question of principle. Ukraine is insolvent and undisciplined state, going to deny the right to vote in the UN.”
http://www.anna-news.info/node/51649
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MOSCOW, January 25. /TASS/. Russia’s Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights continues registreing violations of the Minsk agreements in persecution of dissidents in Ukraine, member of the council, director of the Moscow Human Rights Bureau Alexander Brod told TASS on Monday. “We continue to register violations of the Minsk agreements by the Ukrainian authorities, the persecution of dissidents and journalists,” he said. According to Brod, the situation in the Donbas region “remains alarming”. “Observers see amassment of Ukrainian military equipment,” the human rights activists noted. READ ALSO Russia seeks to draw UNESCO attention to Ukraine infringing journalists rights The annual report of the Moscow Human Rights Bureau (obtained by TASS) says that “the Ukrainian state remains one of the most dangerous places in Europe for media representatives – both its own journalists and foreign correspondents” and gives facts of journalists’ rights violations. “At the international level, massive and systematic violations concerning the respect for freedom of speech and protection of journalists’ rights remained unnoticed throughout 2015. No pressure was exerted on the country’s authorities to ensure compliance with international obligations in this area, which was perceived by official Kiev as a kind of carte blanche,” the document says. The report also mentions facts when massive political actions were prohibited and activists arrested, and the law on decommunization passed in Ukraine is described as “anti-democratic and anti-European.”.
More:
http://tass.ru/en/politics/852022
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PARIS, January 25. / TASS /. The Council of Europe has sent a delegation to Crimea to assess the situation in the peninsula, Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland said on Monday. “The mission will be conducted with full independence and will not deal with any issue related to the territorial status of Crimea,” Jagland said. “More than 2.5 million people live in Crimea, they are all covered by the European Convention on Human Rights and should be able to benefit from it,” he said, adding that, however, “for more than a year, no delegation from an international organization has been able to go there. ” “It will help us receive clear and comprehensive information on the human rights situation and make sure the people of Crimea are not forgotten,” Jagland said.
More:
http://tass.ru/en/world/851970
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tide turning a little?
Thierry Mariani, a French delegate to PACE said that the number of PACE representatives who support Russia is growing.
Pedro Agramunt
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PACE to Focus on Terrorism, Frozen Conflicts in 2016
STRASBOURG (Sputnik) Daria Chernyshova — The newly-elected president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will positively affect the relations between the Assembly and Moscow, a French delegate to PACE told Sputnik on Monday.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160125/1033684662/pace-russia-france-relations.html#ixzz3yH5d7vyR
and
“Member of the International Committee of the UK House of Commons Daniel Cochin proposes to organize a cross-party group on Russia, which in his opinion could influence in the fight against anti-Russian hysteria. “Our country needs fundamental rethinking relations with Russia. Unfortunately, anti-Russian hysteria has captured not only the country, but the West as a whole. And in many ways the reason for this is rooted in a reluctance to penetrate into Russia’s problems and motives”, – said the Cochin in an interview with RIA Novosti .”
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Deputy Chief of Staff of the Corps of the People’s Militia LC Igor Yaschenko at the briefing said that this week Ukrainian law enforcers twice shelled the territory of the Republic of mortars, and also drew attention to the commitment of NATO to speed up the recovery of the combat capability of the APU in the area of so-called “ATO”, including involving mercenaries.
http://www.anna-news.info/node/51541
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“By the number of parties Ukraine, certainly it ranks first in the world. After the so-called Ukrainian euromaidan “activists” and “patriots” imagined themselves politicians, and began to create their own games, in addition to those before and bred like rabbits.
For the vulgar year registered a record number of them – 79. This was announced by director of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine Alexey Pouch.
According to him, another 38 political parties appeared in 2014. In general, over the past two years have been reported more parties than in the previous 10 years. Prior to that, the largest number of parties were created in 2005 – 24, which was the result of the first Maidan.
Total in Ukraine today officially registered 316 political parties. For comparison, in Russia 75 political parties, and this number is also considered large. And in the US, which prays current Kiev, there are only two major parties and 40 Federal.
From established in Ukraine in 2015, the parties that could participate in the local elections, only less than half of the nominated their candidates – 22 parties from 50. Another 8 political parties expressed their desire to take part in local elections, but did not put forward a single candidate.
“In fact, we have the absurd situation where every four days, including weekends, Ukraine recorded a new political force. This not only undermines public confidence in the political parties, but also to the representative bodies of power “, – said the director of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine Oleksiy Pouch.”
http://www.anna-news.info/node/51659
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yats privatises customs
Perhaps in the Ukraine will soon be nothing left Ukrainian: not trusting their own personnel, Kiev rapidly gives the ownership or control of not only the company but also the entire state structure. It came even before the customs.
Part of the Ukrainian customs checkpoints will come under the control of foreign companies, and only with good intentions – in order to fight corruption. This was stated by Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk in the weekly program “10 minutes with Prime Minister.” He had previously stated about this at the final press conference in Kiev in late December.
“A few Ukrainian customs go into management leading foreign companies as an emergency way to counter corruption and abuse,” – he said.
According to Yatsenyuk, the transfer of customs offices will be held in the framework of the reform of state fiscal service, which is a priority for the Ukrainian government in 2016.”
http://www.anna-news.info/node/51660
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According to intelligence DNI foreign mercenaries who are fighting on the side of the APU, kidnap women in Mariupol, which is now under the control of Kiev. On Monday, January 25 at the briefing said the speaker of the Ministry of Defense DNI Eduard Eduard Basurin.
resident of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko attended to the development of such industries as metallurgy. Who are some of the country’s largest steel companies, which are the private property of the oligarchs, in particular, Rinat Akhmetov.
Airfield Kramatorsk remains one of the main bases of deployment and logistics group of Ukrainian troops involved in the “TAU”. Therefore Kramatorsk at the airport, which was built for the use of both civil and military purposes, arranged a helicopter unit of the Air Force of Ukraine.
According to statistics, up to 70 percent of Ukrainian citizens who are languishing in jail for “separatism”, were arrested for telephone conversations in which impartially spoke about politics neofashistkoy Ukraine denounced by or for posts on the social network.
Consumer debt for consumed in Kiev in 2015, thermal energy before “Kyivenergo” has increased by 172 million. UAH. and as of January 1, 2016 exceeded 1.9 billion. hryvnia.
This is stated in the message “Kyivenergo”.
The most critical situation with payments for heat and hot water heating is observed among consumers of Shevchenko (416.6 million. UAH) Goloseevskogo (240.9 million. UAH.) and the Pechersk district (227.7 million. UAH.).’
Saakashvili calls for legalization of gambling in Ukraine.
According to him, today the money “leaked to clandestine places, in neighboring Belarus and Georgia and other neighboring countries, which drive the Ukrainians, who like to play.”
Saakashvili on his Facebook page said that ” Odessa police yesterday for the umpteenth time in the city covered an illegal casino, and many other places in Ukraine at all “roof” state authorities. This is the question of what the state is losing huge profits without legalizing gambling. ”
The delegation from Kiev did not accept the participants of the summit, which appeared several MEPs supporting Russia.
The Forum “Europe-Ukraine” entitled “Strategy of reform and modernization – whether there has been a breakthrough?” in the Polish city of Lodz, there was a scandal. Participating in the work of the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Yegor Sobolev Tatiana Chornovol boycotted participation in one of the discussions.”
“Live Stream. Polish journalists Mateusz Piskorski, Wojciech Gzhymala and Jan Vsul holding a press conference on the results of their visit to Russia. During the visit, they met with the authorities of the Republic of Crimea and representatives of the Russian mass media got acquainted with the situation in the field of interethnic and interfaith relations on the Crimean peninsula.”
President in two years of fighting did not understand – the Donbas is not for sale. His comments in an interview with three Ukrainian television channels that the Crimea and the Donbass should remain priorities and are partners of Ukraine smack ravings of a maniac. In the partner, he is likely to see overseas and European corporations that offer investment programs to revive the infrastructure of Donbass.”
this last section is compilation from anna-news various, google translate.
‘Member of the International Committee of the UK House of Commons Daniel Cochin’ – who??? Spelling? Can’t find him in Parliament.
Could be Daniel Kawczynski
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kawczynski
Anyone note or mention that the annual psycho plutocrat love-in at Davos just concluded.
Course, Mr. Ed was there badmouthing the evil Iran for wanting to build the bomb.
Anyway, you can bet it was some last-hour get together to tie up loose ends before the Really Big Show rips. They don’t go there just to play poker.
They’ve been planning it since before 911, but especially since that was successful, since the 2008 cave-in.
Syria et al just ranks to them as another minor side plot.
Another of their pet projects, hollywood, has just come out making big splash with the 6-episode I think mini-TV series X-Files, detailing with their usual sickening smugness what they have planned these next few years (likely into 2021 area).
Published on Jan 25, 2016
XFILES EXPOSES ELITE’S GENOCIDAL PLAN: FROM GLOBAL BIOSPHERE & BANKING COLLAPSE TO ALIEN DECEPTION
From the January 24, 2015 broadcast of the 2016 X Files premiere.
Jan 24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgj_wlW-Ty4
I knew this was coming. Loved the show though. Anyway, key thing from first episode, “It is men doing this. ” Not off planet reptilian and greys.
RR
Anyone see this?
I don’t like quoting anything from there because of their tabloid style sensationalist hysteria BS they put up all day long.
Amid the so-called “ceasefire” in Ukraine, yet ongoing shelling in many regions, the Donbass news agency reports that more than 20 Ukrainian solders have died and over 200 soldiers are hospitalized after an apparent leak of a deadly virus called “California Flu” from a US lab near the city of Kharkov.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-25/20-dead-200-hospitalized-after-reports-us-lab-leaks-deadly-virus-ukraine
Yes, and this thread on the story may explain further:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-25/20-dead-200-hospitalized-after-reports-us-lab-leaks-deadly-virus-ukraine#comment-7093197
The Pentagon building in Ukraine laboratory for the study of anthrax and plague
http://survincity.com/2013/04/the-pentagon-building-in-ukraine-laboratory-for/
Might be a weaponized version of HIN1 or SARS, according to the commenter above.
And more background here, under the subheading “Pentagon active in Ukraine”:
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2013/09/12/does-us-comply-with-international-bio-weapons-ban.html
And didn’t the Pentagon just get 900million for bioweapons?
That Rapture loon Carter will be pleased.
@Anonymous’ 5:03 & 5:17
Re: X-files/bio warfare in Ukraine:
Anatomy of Conspiracy Theory
by Zahir Ebrahim
NSC 10/2 directed CIA to conduct “covert” rather than merely “psychological” operations, defining them as all activities “which are conducted or sponsored by this Government against hostile foreign states or groups or in support of friendly foreign states or groups but which are so planned and executed that any US Government responsibility for them is not evident to unauthorized persons and that if uncovered the US Government can plausibly disclaim any responsibility for them.” – Furthermore, in order to preempt such uncovering, to continually seed red herrings and false theories; to delegitimize their unraveling by labeling them as kookish “conspiracy theories”; to defocus public energies by introducing “beneficial cognitive diversity”, fabricated leaks of half-truths which retain core-lies, and “Limited Hangout” mea culpae, all fed through the “Mighty Wurlitzer” messaging machinery; to brand the few daring and persistent unravellers of “truth’s protective layers” as deniers of reality suffering from “emotional or mental illness”, an “oppositional defiant disorder” exhibiting a pattern of “negativistic, defiant, disobedient and hostile behavior toward authority figures” and therefore a threat to themselves and to society; and when all else fails, to eliminate these ‘malcontents’ who refuse to tow the official line by branding them “domestic terrorists”.
http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.ca/p/conspiracy.html
The first breach of the Minsk truce agreement by Kiev.
On Friday April 10th 2014, before Russian Orthodox Easter, the Poroshenko-Yatsenyuk U.S-coup-installed Ukrainian Government attacked the people of the Donbass on all fronts, they were continuing their extermination-campaign against the residents that refused to accept the coup-government, that was installed by the U.S. with a US proxy Ukrainian President. Over 90% of those residents in Donbass had voted for a President that was overthrown by the U.S in a violent fascist coup.
This bare-faced violation of the Merkel-Hollande-arranged Minsk truce would not happen without Obama’s approval. He is choosing to have this done on Russian holy days in order to intensify the provocation against Russia. Obama went all-out to provoke Russia into sending-in Russian army troops and air power in order for Obama to have a pretext to go to war against Russia, his real target “in order to defend an ally”
The second breach of the Minsk truce agreement by Kiev.
The Kiev authorities ordered a massive assault on militia held territories on Jan 18th 2015. Using Western supply commitments and funding, Kiev gave their last big shot at retaking the airport — a full armored brigade counterattack that was completely destroyed, most of it the first day.
Unfortunately though for Kiev the airport armor brigade attack destruction, and the eight thousand fighters cut off and surrounded at Debaltsevo was the result.
The third breach of the Minsk truce agreement by Kiev.
Ukraine’s far-right government, backed by Washington, launched a new military offensive against the independent Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics on the night of June 2-3 2015. The Donbass people’s militia responded quickly, first sending Kiev’s forces scurrying in panic, and now digging in for the hard battle for control of Marinka, a city southwest of Donetsk’s capital, against a Ukrainian military increasingly funded by the U.S. and armed with NATO weaponry.
June 3rd 2015 The commander of Pyatnashka Interbrigade on line stated, attack began at 4.30am, there was no second pause. Under cover of artillery there infantry tried to storm Donetsk, our guys cast away the infantry. The Minsk agreements are a piece of paper to them they are using tanks, grads and something heavier. It was a planned offensive, wave after wave, in direct contravention of the Minsk agreement. Also Ukrainian forces suffered heavy losses in the fighting near Maryinka on the 3rd of June, the head of the DPR Alexander Zakharchenko told journalists. “According to our estimates, around 400 Ukrainian soldiers were killed, and up to 1,000 were injured,” – Alexander Zakharchenko said.
The fourth breach of the now Minsk2 truce agreement by Kiev.
From 5:00 to 5:30 August 10 2015 Kiev attacked Petrovskoe, Belaya Kamenka and Novolaspa with tanks, mortars and artillery, including “Grad” MLRS. From 7:00 to 10:00 a unit from the 72nd mechanized brigade of AFU consisting of two companies, of the 41-st independent motorized infantry battalion reinforced with tanks, with artillery support attempted to advance in the direction of the village of Belaya Kamenka.
DPR units stopped the enemy and forced them to retreat to their original positions. Kiev losses amounted to 2 tanks, 1 infantry fighting vehicles, 1 anti-tank guided missile launcher and up to 18 soldiers of AFU, 7 of them are dead.
Kiev cynically shelled their own positions on the southern and eastern outskirts of the village of Staroignatovka in order to blame the DPR army as a provocation to restart the war by blaming the DPR.
In many countries the US wants influence to loot and pillage the place and create bases, the problem is they can not find nationalists who love their country, so instead they put up criminals into power. Who only look after their own interests and because the US is paying them, follow the empires dictates… And as such there is no law and order or even betterment of their community, after all how can they better their community when these are criminals of the community? We have seen this ever since the US started on their empire building. How S.Korea and Japan or even Germany managed to get past this is just amazing. But we do know that honor amongst Germans and Japanese had a lot to do with it, the true fanatics were all killed but a lot of nationalists remained in positions of power to carry on. S.Korea was the exception in this to flourish but we can still see the corruption there. You do have to give the Japanese and Germans credit to keep their country successful.. But in other places where divisions were present and criminals had taken control, it has been a house of cards..
When Money Can’t Buy An Army. For over a decade, the U.S. has spent billions on Afghanistan’s security forces—with little to show for it.
Despite what the U.S. Institute for Peace calls “remarkable progress,” the police as an institution remain prone to “corruption, incompetence, abuse of power, and pervasive illiteracy.” As of May 2014, despite a total of $15 billion spent, thousands of cops on the books remained untrained. And the $300 million a year the U.S. forks over for their salaries? Much of it is unaccounted for, according to SIGAR.
“Our track record at building security forces over the past 15 years is miserable,” Eikenberry told the New York Times recently, changing his earlier tune. Today, he writes about the failures of counterinsurgency in Afghanistan. As though anyone was listening.
The Afghan Local Police system, on the other hand, is a corrupt, destabilizing, dangerous hot mess, thanks in part to the U.S. military, which put ex-warlords and militiamen in control of many constabularies across the country. As always, little consideration was given to local tribal interests and communities, many of whom have since turned to the Taliban as an alternative. But this seems to be the case with the training of all security forces, with little accounting for Afghanistan’s ethnic, tribal, and sectarian culture. As a result, the Afghan resistance to the Western template has resulted in fraud, failure, and widespread mistrust between the international and Afghan forces.
“A lot of this was about imposing outside systems that in many ways do not conform to local [culture], taking existing structures and breaking them,” said Cordesman.
“The real key is that you have to be able and willing to fight and die for your country,” added Korb. But is there an Afghan “nation” that local security forces believe in enough to die for? If not, should the U.S. continue to send thousands of soldiers and contractors into harm’s way for nothing?
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/nation-building-fails-again/
Afghanistan should nationalize it’s poppy fields. Most countries should legalize smoking opium. Keep it from turning into heroin. And keep the price cheap. Those who become habituated are only self medicating-they can be more easily identified and attended to by mental health specialists. Take all the cultural baggage and myth making out of it. It will cause less harm and fed fewer covert activities. It would take longer to progress to IVDU with this stop gap as well. If you want to talk about gateway drugs, caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, marijuana….probably in that order.
RR
Yes but legalising Opium would run up against Multinational Pharmaceutical Corporations desire for wealth extraction through their peddling synthetic variants of Opium. Variants that are more addictive and worse off for the patient.
Drug criminalisation has nothing to do with protecting public health, it is all for money extraction and corruption.
The US’s vassal AKA the UK and it’s bloviator mouthpiece (plus the US treasury) are ramping up the propaganda against Putin personally. Other media filth like the WP too.
To what end?
What’s coming down the pipe? Another swing at Russia via the Kiev junta and the Bandera Boys?
‘Putin is corrupt’ says US Treasury
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35385445
OT. Divide and conquer.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/vietnam-to-gain-satellite-views-of-south-china-sea-thanks-to-indian-agreement-20160126-gme23v.html
Bonds between India and Vietnam are strengthening as territorial disputes with China ratchet up.
….Tensions between communist Vietnam and its giant communist neighbour China over the disputed waters have also accelerated Hanoi’s efforts to improve relations with its former enemy the United States and other global powers over the past several years….
…Vietnam has granted oil exploration blocks to India in waters that are disputed with China, while India has extended a US$100 million credit line for Hanoi to buy patrol boats….
Does Putin know this? I am sure he does..
The US stock market IS the US economy. With 80% being the service sector. And a lot there just swapping paper back and forth, The entire US GDP rests on this financial wizardry where money and wealth are created out of thin air.. By just trading paper they create wealth.. Take it away and the US$ crashes.. The market looks very dangerous.. So dangerous that decades of wealth creation can just go poof in a very short period of time.
The thing with a n economy based on good feelings is, when things go south, everyone starts feeling not so good.. The worse you feel the further south things go. Just like alcohol and drugs.. feel sooooooo goud..
If you have any wealth in the markets or money in the bank you need to read this.. We cant do much about our retirement in things like the IRA or other retirement schemes.. Which would become mostly worthless.. But we are not allowed to touch it.. Because that is the government backup slush fund. To be used to save the banks and such as a last resort..
http://www.clivemaund.com/article.php?art_id=3694
https://www.rt.com/on-air/lavrov-annual-address-moscow/
live at this moment
Lavrov reviews his year to the media with q and a
hope whole session can be posted………….
there seems to be an immediate summary here
https://www.rt.com/news/330139-lavrov-global-policy-russia/
from the bit I heard Lavrov was quite strongly coming over re NATO, USA etc causing many of the problems that they need to wake up to……….
http://sputniknews.com/russia/20160126/1033705275/lavrov-press-conference-diplomacy.html
another summary here-
would be great if we could get an analysis too……………anyone volunteering?
link to radio show with Stephen Cohen discussing/explaining Nuland Surkov meeting etc
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/secret-deal-ukraine/ri12437
Putin : “Transfer of Donbass to Ukraine in the USSR Was Unjustified”
The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin at the Interregional forum of the popular front stated the groundlessness of the transfer of Donbass to Ukraine during Soviet times.
“Moreover, that at a border of multi-ethnicity, in fact, of a unitary state, with borders remotely determined arbitrarily are not always justified. Well, so they put Donbass into Ukraine. Under what pretext? The rising interest of the proletariat in Ukraine for there to be more social support there. Well just look at such nonsense! And this is not the only example,” he said.
http://fortruss.blogspot.com.br/2016/01/putin-transfer-of-donbass-to-ukraine-in.html
well to me, that sounds as if he is inviting a referendum internationally or locally recognised to secceede from Ukr especially as Donbass is still being bombed, people killed……………..
it’s hard to interpretate Putin’s words, but maybe there is a strong sign that keeping Dombass in Ukraine is worthlesss… that would be very worrying.. what has changed since Minsk 1 and 2?
The United States, over the past two years, has provided equipment and military training totalling more than $266 million, according to the US ambassador to Ukraine – Geoffrey R. Pyatt.
“Since 2014 we have provided equipment and training for the military to the sum of more than $266 million to help the Ukrainian forces to improve the control and security of the border, making it more efficient and safer to operate and defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country”, – quotes RIA Novosti from the statement of Pyatt.
http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/pyatt-funding-ukrainian-army-for-2.html
explains why 8000 soldiers have defected to Donbass then…………corruption.inefficiency….and amazing Donbass has been able to hold out…………….
and read—–funding Ukr to attack Russia, genocide, war crimes…….extend NATO threatenings……
MOSCOW, January 27. /TASS/. The self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) submits to the Contact Group for consideration draft amendments to Ukrainian Constitution, DPR’s envoy at the negotiations Denis Pushilin said on Wednesday. “DPR proposes to the Contact Group to consider compromise draft amendments to Ukrainian Constitution prepared by our lawyers,” Donetsk News Agency quoted Pushilin as saying. “it provides real guarantees for special status of Donbas, political rights of our people,” he added. Pushilin added that Kiev’s proposals on amendments to the Ukrainian Constitution are a “legal fake.” “DPR officially states that Article 18 of amendments to the Ukrainian Constitution, submitted by Kiev to the [Verkhovna] Rada for voting, has not been coordinated with the republic [DPR]. This is the flagrant violation of the Minsk Agreements,” he explained adding that “this is a legal fake fabricated to deceive the people of Donbas and international community.” DPR once again “calls on Russia and Western countries to exert pressure on Kiev and make it implement the Minsk Agreements,” he noted.
More:
http://tass.ru/en/world/852510
extract “But the reason why Washington has come to “love” the Minsk agreements, making a deal with Moscow to gain a timeout for Kiev, is that, according to the master plan, the army will have to strike one very powerful blow against the Armed Forces of Novorossiya, or draw the Russian Federation into the war. But the Ukrainian Army could only achieve this by bringing them into the Donbass in a win for the US that would eliminate Ukraine as we know it.”
http://russia-insider.com/en/military/ukraine-builds-one-strike-army/ri12408
hmmm VP seems to be subtly putting the pressure on
MOSCOW, January 28. /TASS/. The Kremlin sees no need for making any comments regarding the Ukrainian delegation’s intention to initiate a discussion in the UN Security Council over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent statements about the past of Donbas. READ ALSO Putin explains his remarks about Vladimir Lenin “We have no attitude to this at all,” presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, when asked about the Kremlin’s attitude to this idea. Kiev’s angry reaction followed shortly after Putin at a meeting of the inter-regional forum of the All-Russia People’s Front on January 25 dropped a remark on Vladimir Lenin’s nationalities policy. Putin said that when the Soviet Union was established, the administrative borders separating republics were drawn arbitrarily and quite often unreasonably. He recalled that the coal-mining and industrial area Donbas had been handed over to Ukraine for the sake of increasing the percentage of the working class in Ukraine’s population. The press-service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry quoted Ukraine’s UN envoy as saying it was “impermissible to rewrite history and call in question the territorial integrity, sovereignty and political independence of Ukraine.”
More:
http://tass.ru/en/politics/852780