After an evening spent indulging in a whole lot of Jacques Brel, and listening and humming and singing and remembering, I come here, Saker — to THAT?????
Brain bleach, PULEEZE!!! From the (grittily, marvelously, on-target) sublime, to the (disgustingly) absurd! What a trip!
“Russia Wraps Its Tentacles Around the Energy Market to Become Unsanctionable”
That’s the headline from Motley Fools investing site (not known for any pro-Russian bias). Confirms my thesis about the utter futility of US efforts to isolate Russia. It’s fun to watch them try, though.
Coming back to the issue of U.S. mercs, and whether SE Ukraine is a ‘proving ground’ for cadres that may some day be called up against ‘right wing neo-Confederate insurrectionists’ or ‘Occupy radicals’ closer to home…
This version of the infamous ‘captured American’ video contains narration and points to the FedBizOps public soliciations of 2012 and 2013 (the latter reported by ‘Infowars’ and spread around the web from there) concerning Stateside training and acquisition in AK/Soviet Bloc weaponry. This was later corroborated with the use of AKs in training at a major hub outside San Antonio, an alternative to Blackwater/Academi’s sprawling facility in North Carolina.
At the time (particularly pre Aug 2013 when the drumbeat for direct U.S. intervention in Syria reached its culmination in the East Gouta sarin gas attack) many people simply assumed that the U.S. government was acquiring this Soviet-standard ammo in plain sight for the Syrian rebels, or perhaps U.S.-backed forces in Libya or other parts of Africa where Kalashnikovs/Soviet legacy weapons are the mainstays. But perhaps there was a direct connection with Ukraine in planning for civil war there.
Nonetheless — and this was brought up in the New Insight videostream another commenter linked to…
if there really are US mercs operating in combat roles in Ukraine operating helos or jets in non language/facing roles…
…and if this American really was caught wearing a UKR Interior Ministry special police troops Sokol uniform in Kharkov (rather than a GRU fake using perhaps an American actor in Russia who thought he was doing a movie, in the vein of the CIA production ‘Innocence of Muslims’ that provided cover for Benghazi, the accent defnitely sounds authentically American)
it stands to reason several things should be true.
1) This captured ‘Sokol’ American is still being held somewhere in Novorossiya or across the border, unless he was quietly released/exchanged already for Moscow or Novorossiya personnel. Recall also this Duma member Evgeny Fedorov mentioning 20 U.S. mercs ‘missing’ in SE Ukraine in one of those New Insights videos.
I think the American was most likely handed back if the video is real. But I maintain it was a fake filmed in Russia either using a Russian who lived in the U.S. long enough to sound authentically American or an American expat actor who thought he was just filming a movie and got paid well to keep his mouth shut. Covering up the face of the actor would be consistent with this theory as GRU wouldn’t want the U.S. Embassy to be able to ID the actor among Americans in Moscow or St. Pete. Unless NSA has some awesome Bourne movie-worthy audio recognition capability Snowden didn’t disclose yet, doing voice analysis on it would probably prove inconclusive as all can notice that the American doesn’t talk for very long.
2) Any American losses in these shot down helos would most likely be covered up by saying a security contractor either ‘died in a training accident’ Stateside or was killed in some other place, maybe acting as a bodyguard for foreign businessmen in Libya or Iraq. Anything to maintain the illusion that an American didn’t die in Kiev’s war.
If we see obit/s for U.S. veteran helicopter pilot or artillerymen Iraq/Afghan vet/s with almost no info on how they died, and then a relative comes out and says their brother, uncle or son was incommunicado for weeks and couldn’t or wouldn’t say where he was headed next after signing on with Academi or a subcontractor firm, that’s a suspicious report to flag for potential US UKR KIA.
3) If Kiev is in fact hiding 650+ KIA (as opposed to say, 1/3rd of that), while even the Tymchuk SBU disinfo site is hinting at rumors about mass graves around Slavyiansk and Donetsk where either side is hiding bodies, sooner or later specific relatives are going to come out. Since SBU and CIA now work hand in glove and people have noticed how EuroMaidanPR and other Ukrainian sites such as InfoResist have somehow found near-native Ukrainian or native English editors since NATO promised a stepped up PR effort in the Daily Beast, I think CIA is trying to put out disinfo via its SBU proxies to obfuscate the losses and prepare Ukrainians to accept the higher casulties inevitable from urban combat.
Maybe the authorities in Crimea can arrange safe passage and resettlement for the families of these killed Ukrainian servicemen who speak out to protect them from Pravy Sektor/SBU reprisals. Given that possibility it’s difficult for me to believe, even in a country of 45 million like Ukraine, that the truth can be literally buried with the dead soldiers for too much longer.
Last comment of the evening for me: I would really like to believe that Snowden’s entirely for real, that he was a true patriot who acted entirely alone and for the highest of reasons.
But I have to admit his behavior in the Brian Williams interview was odd. So has been the MSM’s tendency to give Snowden such an extended hearing — while according to RT cutting out the most damning portions of what he’s said about the NSA, including that their bulk ‘collect everything’ approach actually makes US intelligence LESS effective because of the massive noise to signals ratio (in other words, Gen. Alexander’s ‘we have to collect every haystack’ to find the needles approach = too many haystacks for even 10 or 100 times as many personnel as NSA has now to actually review at current AI/auto sorting levels). Snowden told NBC, but they didn’t air it, ‘no wonder NSA missed the Boston Bombers even after FSB gave the FBI their names’ (the Boston Charlie Foxtrot is yet another fiasco the NSA fanatics refuse to discuss or throw the FBI under the bus for).
Snowden’s fanatical haters (or at least those who play that role on TV like the celebrity/Twitter trolling Profs at the U.S. [NSA] Naval War College) do have a point however. Despite the feds failure to find a single piece of evidence showing Russian recruitment prior to Ed landing at Sheremetyevo after examining every aspect of Ed’s life up until May 2013 in the past year…it is true that Ed now lives in an FSB fishbowl. A very nice Moscow and dacha fishbowl where he can live without fear of being beaten, attacked by NSA agents fantasizing about his death or tortured. Where Ed probably has a Russian girlfriend assigned to him (is that too cynical?) or more likely at least a beautiful girl from a ‘loyal’ FSB family who won’t mind suspecting or knowing all of her interactions with Ed in ALL situations are logged/recorded. Just as surely as Ed’s encrypted laptop brought to him by Sarah Harrison is keystroked to defeat his encryption and log every chat he has with the outside world.
End of posting for tonight and OT posts for a while.
Sorry, I nearly missed your question; no, I’ve never been to Syria. I’ve watched Youtube vids in which truck-mounted AAs open fire and in return are attacked/destroyed in a heartbeat [both SAA and ‘FSA’]. I do agree with the fact that their firepower is devastating.
@ Nora,
A bit of a sidestep, but perhaps it makes you feel better. Some expats here [Japan] pretend to be Canadian so they don’t have to answer all those pesky questions [about wars/governments/etc.]
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Sometimes is see the mentioning of Alex Jones’ Infowars. I don’t trust the man. My dad told to only raise my voice when there’s a lot of noise.
saker , the blog niqnaq stole content from your site, just a heads up, it getting worse nowadays , the whole content of your blog practically copy pasted.
When the earthquake struck, I happened to be in a sports center. The moment I saw 7 TV screens display one and the same image [the contours of Japan with a blinking red light around it] I knew something serious had happened. The tsunami was still underway and had not hit land [or the nuclear plant – more about that below].
Although Japan is a mostly mountainous country, most people refuse to go back to where they came from, no matter how much money the government throws at them.
The government itself has told nothing but lies and I would say they created an even bigger clusterf*** in their feeble attempts to stem the radioactive leaks.
By not informing the public properly, they exposed many to radiation and by lying about the amount of radiation [downplaying it] and ‘fixing’ the numbers, have done more harm than good.
For example, suppose constant artillery bombardments create a flood of refuges entering Russia, leaving behind the “freedom fighters” who are then mopped up by superior Ukrainian Army force.
Fantasy, pure fantasy.
Sicker alternative. The artillery bombardments actually exterminate the civilian population. Etc.
Weird fantasy.
The only non-pure fantasy option is a huge influx of regular Russian troops to protect the Eastern population, and it ain’t going to happen.
What is happening is an influx of some particularly nasty people and weapons that are giving the brown shirts and the teenage recruits controlled by the freaks fits.
I think Obama realizes and has been told that he has a losing hand and that the only hope is enough news cycles and mass murders in the US to take everyone’s mind off Ukraine.
But there are those pesky Nazi heirs in Eastern Europe who really want American troops invading (protecting?) Ukraine. Good luck.
Flag of the sodomites, occupied Palestine, €USSR/Titanic and the US, priceless.
About the Nazi onslaught:
According to Chocolate-Hitler the new Kippa wearing “President” of Banderastan, today is the “dead line” for the anti Nazi Novorossiya resistance to “give up”. Well it seems that the objective (and US order) still is to terrorize and kill enough civilians to force Russia into play, despite the lack of will among sane Ukie “army” to do so, even with a Nazi death threat breathing down their neck´s. Can´t see the point of this from a Nazi perspective. They have a US order but nobody to fully carry it out. The only thing that could cause enough damage and bloodbath to do so are the ready-to-fire Grad´s which are pointed at the city center as it seems. Who control those triggers?
above Anonymous says Poroshenko, the chocolate king, wears a kippah. Actually from everything I read, he is Christian Orthodox, as is the Gas Princess. “Alma mater National University of Kyiv Religion Ukrainian Orthodoxy” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poroshenko
Slighty off-topic, Saker, but very interesting and important. An English translation of the transcript of a German investigative reporting show on the truth about Maidan is now ready. I completed and uploaded just a few days ago:
It originally aired on the program ‘Monitor’ on April 10th and went viral on the German social media. I thought for sure that some English-language source would pick it up, but it has yet to happen. Even so, some alt sources (such as Naked Capitalism and CounterPunch) have referred to it, so I think your readers would benefit from reading it for themselves.
Gawd…she is so ugly even her mother could not bring herself to bitch-slap this changeling when she was born. Arseniy isn’t that bad-looking – for a Nazi. The shar-pei-faced Ashton(even the neck!) is his fitting punishment, for all eternity.
Some Tel Aviv Hasbara willy nilly gatekeeper above went hysteric on the Jewishness of Willy “Chokolate-Hitler” Wonka aka PETRO VALTZMAN. Say it again please: PETRO VALTZMAN.
Well there you have it and check your facts better will you? Generally i dont have any problem with that at all but if we connect the dots and get Nudelman,Kagan Pyatt, “Yats”, klitchko AND Valtzman/Poroshenko,in this blood soaked 5 billion soup, well…
These couple when the god was giving away the natural beauty they just simply forgot to stay in the line and now they want this ungliness sprad around the world. We can just feel sorry for them, what else?
I definitely had a very good laugh, thank you Saker you have made my day
To Crossvader: When the proverbial chit hit the fan and Crimea went east — Jay Carney told American’s to boycott Russia and Soros told everyone to dump Gazprom. Then I read a succinct comment on Zero-Hedge that went: “Is Gazprom<$7 a buying opportunity? Calling the First Ministry of Fuck-Yea”. I don’t invest based on ZH as people tend to talk their book. This time was different. I ignored Carney’s mewlings and Soros warnings to short Russia and I bought Gazprom — for the first time EVER — under $7. It felt REALLY good. Hope to hell others did the same. AGS
Bericht: Stephan Stuchlik, Olga Sviridenko, Philipp Jahn
Mikola (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Ja, am zwanzigsten wurden wir von hinten beschossen, vom Hotel Ukraina, vom 8. oder 9. Stock aus.“
Reporterin (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Von der achten oder neunten Etage?“
Mikola (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Ja, auf jeden Fall fast von ganz oben.“
Reporterin (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Von da oben?“
Mikola (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Ja, da standen Leute oben und haben geschossen und aus der anderen Richtung hier wurden wir auch beschossen.“
Reporter (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Und wer hat von oben geschossen?“
Mikola (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Das weiß ich nicht.“
Reporterin (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Haben Sie eine Ahnung?“
Mikola (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Das waren Söldner, auf jeden Fall Profis.“
Das Ukraina-Hotel hier war das damalige Zentrum der Demonstranten. Hat sich der Augenzeuge geirrt? Wir sind nachts unterwegs mit Ermittler Sergej. Er zeigt uns mit einem Laser, dass es nicht nur Schusskanäle aus Richtung der Regierungsgebäude gibt. Einige Kanäle in den Bäumen deuten in die entgegengesetzte Richtung, wenn man durch Austrittsloch und Einschussloch leuchtet, oben ins Hotel Ukraina, damals die Zentrale der Opposition. Das aber passt schlecht zur Version des Generalstaatsanwalts, der uns nach Tagen Überzeugungsarbeit endlich empfängt. Er ist von der neuen Regierung eingesetzt, gehört dem rechtsnationalen Flügel der damaligen Opposition an, der umstrittenen Svobóda-Partei.
Oleg Machnitzki, Generalstaatsanwalt, Ukraine (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Wir können wirklich heute schon sagen, nach allen Beweismitteln und Expertisen, die wir in der Hand haben, wer prinzipiell Schuld an den Sniper-Attacken ist: der damalige Präsident Viktor Janukowitsch, der ehemalige Verwaltungschef und der ehemalige Innenminister Sacharchenko.“
Reporter (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Sie wissen auch, dass es Sniper vom Hotel Ukraina gab?“
Wer immer vom Hotel Ukraina schießt, hat – so legt dieses Video nahe – auch diese Milizionäre getroffen. Dass Janukowitsch auf die eigenen Leute hat schießen lassen, ist unwahrscheinlich.
Gab es also Scharfschützen der damaligen Opposition? Fest steht, es gab neben den vielen friedlichen Demonstranten durchaus eine Gruppe Radikaler mit professionellen Waffen, wie diese Aufnahmen zeigen.
Und, das Hotel am Morgen des 20. Februar war fest in der Hand der Opposition. Wir sprechen mit Augenzeugen aus dem Hotel Ukraina, Journalisten, Oppositionelle. Sie alle bestätigen uns, am 20. Februar war das Hotel von der Opposition schwer bewacht. Es hätte sich also schwerlich ein Scharfschütze der Regierung einschleichen können.
Haben also radikale Oppositionelle am Ende selbst geschossen, um Chaos zu erzeugen? Um Janukowitsch die Schuld anzuhängen? Die russischen Fernsehsender verbreiten Bilder, auf denen genau das zu sehen sein soll. Unsere Recherchen bestätigen, dass die Aufnahmen tatsächlich im Hotel Ukraina gemacht wurden. Aber wer da genau auf wen schießt, lässt sich nicht endgültig klären.
Fest steht nur, es wurde nicht nur auf Oppositionelle, sondern auch auf die Milizen der Regierung geschossen. Vielleicht sogar von denselben Leuten? Wir treffen einen der wenigen Ärzte, der die Verwundeten beider Seiten versorgt hat.
Oleksandr Lisowoi, Krankenhaus Nr. 6, Kiew (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Die Verwundeten, die wir behandelt haben, hatten denselben Typ Schussverletzungen, ich spreche jetzt von dem Typ Kugeln, die wir aus den Körpern herausoperiert haben, die waren identisch. Mehr kann ich nicht sagen.“
Basically The Right sector, Svoboda & US sponsored are all more likely to have used snipers against both Yanukovich and Maidan
Zitat: „Das, was mir an Ergebnissen meiner Untersuchung vorliegt, stimmt nicht mit dem überein, was die Staatsanwaltschaft erklärt.“
Wurden also Beweismittel unterdrückt oder sogar unterschlagen? Auch die Rechtsanwälte, die die Angehörigen der Toten vertreten, alle eigentlich auf Seiten der neuen Regierung, beklagen sich, dass sie überhaupt nicht darüber informiert werden, womit genau sich die Staatsanwaltschaft beschäftige.
Roman Titikalo, Anwalt der Nebenklage (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Wir haben nicht gesagt bekommen, welcher Typ Waffen, wir bekommen keinen Zugang zu den Gutachten, wir bekommen die Einsatzpläne nicht. Die anderen Ermittlungsdokumente haben wir auch nicht, die Staatsanwaltschaft zeigt uns einfach keine Papiere.“
Reporter (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Haben Sie ballistische Gutachten?“
Roman Titikalo, Anwalt der Nebenklage (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Nein.“
Roman Titikalo, Anwalt der Nebenklage (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Ich durfte in den Obduktionsbericht reingucken, aber nicht kopieren, ballistische Gutachten habe ich nicht bekommen.“
Ein Anwalt der Verletzten geht sogar noch weiter:
Oleksandr Baschuk, Anwalt der Geschädigten (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Wir kommen alle an keine Ermittlungsprotokolle ran und wenn Sie mich fragen, gibt es dafür einen einfachen Grund, es wird nicht richtig ermittelt. Ich als Anwalt der Verletzten sage Ihnen, die Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt nicht richtig, die decken ihre Leute, die sind parteiisch, so wie früher. Die wollen wie in der Sowjetunion oder unter Janukowitsch alles unter der Decke halten, so ist das.“
Der blutige Donnerstag: Über 30 Menschen werden an diesem Tag in Kiew ermordet, ein Blutbad im Zentrum einer europäischen Großstadt. Unsere Recherchen zeigen, dass in Kiew schon Schuldige präsentiert werden, obwohl es auch zahlreiche Hinweise gibt, die in Richtung Opposition weisen. Spuren, die nicht verfolgt werden. Und möglicherweise gibt es auch noch andere Kräfte, die an den Schießereien beteiligt waren. Die Kiewer Generalstaatsanwaltschaft ist sich in ihrer Einschätzung sicher, wir sind es nicht.
Georg Restle: „Bei allen offenen Fragen, dass ein Vertreter der nationalistischen Svoboda-Partei als Generalstaatsanwalt die Aufklärung des Kiewer Blutbads ganz offensichtlich behindert, wirft ein schlechtes Bild auf die neue Übergangsregierung – und damit auch auf all jene westlichen Regierungen, die die neuen Machthaber in Kiew unterstützen.“
Lovely photo. Lasha Darkmoon cites Jewish sources specifying that Vitali Klitschko, Petro Poroshenko, John Kerry and Arsiniy Yatsenuk are all Jews, though I would describe them as Goy-hating hunchbacks to spare innocent Jews the injustice of being associated with these “right sektor” terrorists.
Outstanding!
OMG!
After an evening spent indulging in a whole lot of Jacques Brel, and listening and humming and singing and remembering, I come here, Saker — to THAT?????
Brain bleach, PULEEZE!!! From the (grittily, marvelously, on-target) sublime, to the (disgustingly) absurd! What a trip!
can’t… stop… laughing…
Thought at first that it was a warning about the consequences of inbreeding.
Which, of course, it was!
“Russia Wraps Its Tentacles Around the Energy Market to Become Unsanctionable”
That’s the headline from Motley Fools investing site (not known for any pro-Russian bias).
Confirms my thesis about the utter futility of US efforts to isolate Russia.
It’s fun to watch them try, though.
Coming back to the issue of U.S. mercs, and whether SE Ukraine is a ‘proving ground’ for cadres that may some day be called up against ‘right wing neo-Confederate insurrectionists’ or ‘Occupy radicals’ closer to home…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPfUio8d3kc
This version of the infamous ‘captured American’ video contains narration and points to the FedBizOps public soliciations of 2012 and 2013 (the latter reported by ‘Infowars’ and spread around the web from there) concerning Stateside training and acquisition in AK/Soviet Bloc weaponry. This was later corroborated with the use of AKs in training at a major hub outside San Antonio, an alternative to Blackwater/Academi’s sprawling facility in North Carolina.
At the time (particularly pre Aug 2013 when the drumbeat for direct U.S. intervention in Syria reached its culmination in the East Gouta sarin gas attack) many people simply assumed that the U.S. government was acquiring this Soviet-standard ammo in plain sight for the Syrian rebels, or perhaps U.S.-backed forces in Libya or other parts of Africa where Kalashnikovs/Soviet legacy weapons are the mainstays. But perhaps there was a direct connection with Ukraine in planning for civil war there.
Nonetheless — and this was brought up in the New Insight videostream another commenter linked to…
if there really are US mercs operating in combat roles in Ukraine operating helos or jets in non language/facing roles…
…and if this American really was caught wearing a UKR Interior Ministry special police troops Sokol uniform in Kharkov (rather than a GRU fake using perhaps an American actor in Russia who thought he was doing a movie, in the vein of the CIA production ‘Innocence of Muslims’ that provided cover for Benghazi, the accent defnitely sounds authentically American)
it stands to reason several things should be true.
American Kulak
1) This captured ‘Sokol’ American is still being held somewhere in Novorossiya or across the border, unless he was quietly released/exchanged already for Moscow or Novorossiya personnel. Recall also this Duma member Evgeny Fedorov mentioning 20 U.S. mercs ‘missing’ in SE Ukraine in one of those New Insights videos.
I think the American was most likely handed back if the video is real. But I maintain it was a fake filmed in Russia either using a Russian who lived in the U.S. long enough to sound authentically American or an American expat actor who thought he was just filming a movie and got paid well to keep his mouth shut. Covering up the face of the actor would be consistent with this theory as GRU wouldn’t want the U.S. Embassy to be able to ID the actor among Americans in Moscow or St. Pete. Unless NSA has some awesome Bourne movie-worthy audio recognition capability Snowden didn’t disclose yet, doing voice analysis on it would probably prove inconclusive as all can notice that the American doesn’t talk for very long.
2) Any American losses in these shot down helos would most likely be covered up by saying a security contractor either ‘died in a training accident’ Stateside or was killed in some other place, maybe acting as a bodyguard for foreign businessmen in Libya or Iraq. Anything to maintain the illusion that an American didn’t die in Kiev’s war.
If we see obit/s for U.S. veteran helicopter pilot or artillerymen Iraq/Afghan vet/s with almost no info on how they died, and then a relative comes out and says their brother, uncle or son was incommunicado for weeks and couldn’t or wouldn’t say where he was headed next after signing on with Academi or a subcontractor firm, that’s a suspicious report to flag for potential US UKR KIA.
3) If Kiev is in fact hiding 650+ KIA (as opposed to say, 1/3rd of that), while even the Tymchuk SBU disinfo site is hinting at rumors about mass graves around Slavyiansk and Donetsk where either side is hiding bodies, sooner or later specific relatives are going to come out. Since SBU and CIA now work hand in glove and people have noticed how EuroMaidanPR and other Ukrainian sites such as InfoResist have somehow found near-native Ukrainian or native English editors since NATO promised a stepped up PR effort in the Daily Beast, I think CIA is trying to put out disinfo via its SBU proxies to obfuscate the losses and prepare Ukrainians to accept the higher casulties inevitable from urban combat.
Maybe the authorities in Crimea can arrange safe passage and resettlement for the families of these killed Ukrainian servicemen who speak out to protect them from Pravy Sektor/SBU reprisals. Given that possibility it’s difficult for me to believe, even in a country of 45 million like Ukraine, that the truth can be literally buried with the dead soldiers for too much longer.
American Kulak
Last comment of the evening for me: I would really like to believe that Snowden’s entirely for real, that he was a true patriot who acted entirely alone and for the highest of reasons.
But I have to admit his behavior in the Brian Williams interview was odd. So has been the MSM’s tendency to give Snowden such an extended hearing — while according to RT cutting out the most damning portions of what he’s said about the NSA, including that their bulk ‘collect everything’ approach actually makes US intelligence LESS effective because of the massive noise to signals ratio (in other words, Gen. Alexander’s ‘we have to collect every haystack’ to find the needles approach = too many haystacks for even 10 or 100 times as many personnel as NSA has now to actually review at current AI/auto sorting levels). Snowden told NBC, but they didn’t air it, ‘no wonder NSA missed the Boston Bombers even after FSB gave the FBI their names’ (the Boston Charlie Foxtrot is yet another fiasco the NSA fanatics refuse to discuss or throw the FBI under the bus for).
Snowden’s fanatical haters (or at least those who play that role on TV like the celebrity/Twitter trolling Profs at the U.S. [NSA] Naval War College) do have a point however. Despite the feds failure to find a single piece of evidence showing Russian recruitment prior to Ed landing at Sheremetyevo after examining every aspect of Ed’s life up until May 2013 in the past year…it is true that Ed now lives in an FSB fishbowl. A very nice Moscow and dacha fishbowl where he can live without fear of being beaten, attacked by NSA agents fantasizing about his death or tortured. Where Ed probably has a Russian girlfriend assigned to him (is that too cynical?) or more likely at least a beautiful girl from a ‘loyal’ FSB family who won’t mind suspecting or knowing all of her interactions with Ed in ALL situations are logged/recorded. Just as surely as Ed’s encrypted laptop brought to him by Sarah Harrison is keystroked to defeat his encryption and log every chat he has with the outside world.
End of posting for tonight and OT posts for a while.
American Kulak
@ Saker,
Sorry, I nearly missed your question; no, I’ve never been to Syria. I’ve watched Youtube vids in which truck-mounted AAs open fire and in return are attacked/destroyed in a heartbeat [both SAA and ‘FSA’]. I do agree with the fact that their firepower is devastating.
@ Nora,
A bit of a sidestep, but perhaps it makes you feel better. Some expats here [Japan] pretend to be Canadian so they don’t have to answer all those pesky questions [about wars/governments/etc.]
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Sometimes is see the mentioning of Alex Jones’ Infowars. I don’t trust the man. My dad told to only raise my voice when there’s a lot of noise.
Here’s a link to Alex Jones – “I Support Israel Its Their Land” Zionism. Many more links on that page. As per usual, judge for yourself.
Daniel Rich, since you are in Japan, can you share how the Fukushima triple nuclear meltdown is felt there?
Brilliant… thank you, Saker- I needed a good laugh.
saker , the blog niqnaq stole content from your site, just a heads up, it getting worse nowadays , the whole content of your blog practically copy pasted.
@ Anonymous,
Off topic!
Answer to your question about Fukushima:
When the earthquake struck, I happened to be in a sports center. The moment I saw 7 TV screens display one and the same image [the contours of Japan with a blinking red light around it] I knew something serious had happened. The tsunami was still underway and had not hit land [or the nuclear plant – more about that below].
Although Japan is a mostly mountainous country, most people refuse to go back to where they came from, no matter how much money the government throws at them.
The government itself has told nothing but lies and I would say they created an even bigger clusterf*** in their feeble attempts to stem the radioactive leaks.
By not informing the public properly, they exposed many to radiation and by lying about the amount of radiation [downplaying it] and ‘fixing’ the numbers, have done more harm than good.
Did the tsunami cause the meltdown? Of course not.
More links:
Nuclear News
Children of Japan
I live Kagoshima [Southern Kyushu], but have to fly to Tokyo this Wednesday and I am not pleased with all with the nearby radiation.
On a positive note, it will be my first flight on a ‘Dreamliner.’
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Saker, if this is not to your liking, I’ll understand it when you delete this reply..
Plume-gate…
Indeed brilliant — including Ashton’s “Do you really love me, Arseni?” look.
And now also to be seen here.
All OSCE monitors in Donetsk region released – ‘people’s mayor’ of Sloviansk
(Interfax, 10:22)
the Alex Jones youtube link above is bogus
this is the real Alex Jones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSGgguP9cHI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones_(radio_host)
Here’s my problem…
I don’t see how the “West” wins this one.
For example, suppose constant artillery bombardments create a flood of refuges entering Russia, leaving behind the “freedom fighters” who are then mopped up by superior Ukrainian Army force.
Fantasy, pure fantasy.
Sicker alternative. The artillery bombardments actually exterminate the civilian population. Etc.
Weird fantasy.
The only non-pure fantasy option is a huge influx of regular Russian troops to protect the Eastern population, and it ain’t going to happen.
What is happening is an influx of some particularly nasty people and weapons that are giving the brown shirts and the teenage recruits controlled by the freaks fits.
I think Obama realizes and has been told that he has a losing hand and that the only hope is enough news cycles and mass murders in the US to take everyone’s mind off Ukraine.
But there are those pesky Nazi heirs in Eastern Europe who really want American troops invading (protecting?) Ukraine. Good luck.
The pic replaces a million words. Tanks for making my day.
Flag of the sodomites, occupied Palestine, €USSR/Titanic and the US, priceless.
About the Nazi onslaught:
According to Chocolate-Hitler the new Kippa wearing “President” of Banderastan, today is the “dead line” for the anti Nazi Novorossiya resistance to “give up”. Well it seems that the objective (and US order) still is to terrorize and kill enough civilians to force Russia into play, despite the lack of will among sane Ukie “army” to do so, even with a Nazi death threat breathing down their neck´s. Can´t see the point of this from a Nazi perspective. They have a US order but nobody to fully carry it out. The only thing that could cause enough damage and bloodbath to do so are the ready-to-fire Grad´s which are pointed at the city center as it seems. Who control those triggers?
Mikhas.
not everyone is laughing and not all are in the same satisfaction you censor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KUnbtHa3CI
@der einzige: right, my callous indifference to the plight of the people of Slaviansk is well known and attested by every post on this blog.
The Saker
above Anonymous says Poroshenko, the chocolate king, wears a kippah. Actually from everything I read, he is Christian Orthodox, as is the Gas Princess.
“Alma mater National University of Kyiv
Religion Ukrainian Orthodoxy”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poroshenko
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kippah
Hey guys- do a little research before throwing the little things out. It detracts from the part of your narrative that is accurate.
take care!
Slighty off-topic, Saker, but very interesting and important. An English translation of the transcript of a German investigative reporting show on the truth about Maidan is now ready. I completed and uploaded just a few days ago:
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/File:Maidan_snipers.pdf
It originally aired on the program ‘Monitor’ on April 10th and went viral on the German social media. I thought for sure that some English-language source would pick it up, but it has yet to happen. Even so, some alt sources (such as Naked Capitalism and CounterPunch) have referred to it, so I think your readers would benefit from reading it for themselves.
Keep up the good work, Saker!
-Seamus Padraig
@Daniel Rich,
thanks for your reply to someone’s question re Fukashima.
I’d be very interested in your link “Did the tsunami cause the meltdown? Of course not” but it is broken. Any chance of fixing it?
Cheers
Gawd…she is so ugly even her mother could not bring herself to bitch-slap this changeling when she was born.
Arseniy isn’t that bad-looking – for a Nazi. The shar-pei-faced Ashton(even the neck!) is his fitting punishment, for all eternity.
Classic :)
Two of the most unattractive, unpleasant people in everyway – suit each other to a T.
Rgds,
Veritas
Some Tel Aviv Hasbara willy nilly gatekeeper above went hysteric on the Jewishness of Willy “Chokolate-Hitler” Wonka aka PETRO VALTZMAN. Say it again please:
PETRO VALTZMAN.
Well there you have it and check your facts better will you? Generally i dont have any problem with that at all but if we connect the dots and get Nudelman,Kagan Pyatt, “Yats”, klitchko AND Valtzman/Poroshenko,in this blood soaked 5 billion soup, well…
http://forward.com/articles/198758/ukraine-presidential-frontrunner-petro-poroshenko/
http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/willy-wonka-becomes-president.html
Mikhas.
These couple when the god was giving away the natural beauty they just simply forgot to stay in the line and now they want this ungliness sprad around the world.
We can just feel sorry for them, what else?
I definitely had a very good laugh, thank you Saker you have made my day
To Crossvader: When the proverbial chit hit the fan and Crimea went east — Jay Carney told American’s to boycott Russia and Soros told everyone to dump Gazprom. Then I read a succinct comment on Zero-Hedge that went: “Is Gazprom<$7 a buying opportunity? Calling the First Ministry of Fuck-Yea”. I don’t invest based on ZH as people tend to talk their book. This time was different. I ignored Carney’s mewlings and Soros warnings to short Russia and I bought Gazprom — for the first time EVER — under $7. It felt REALLY good. Hope to hell others did the same. AGS
http://www.wdr.de/tv/monitor//sendungen/2014/0410/maidan.php5
Bericht: Stephan Stuchlik, Olga Sviridenko, Philipp Jahn
Mikola (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Ja, am zwanzigsten wurden wir von hinten beschossen, vom Hotel Ukraina, vom 8. oder 9. Stock aus.“
Reporterin (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Von der achten oder neunten Etage?“
Mikola (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Ja, auf jeden Fall fast von ganz oben.“
Reporterin (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Von da oben?“
Mikola (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Ja, da standen Leute oben und haben geschossen und aus der anderen Richtung hier wurden wir auch beschossen.“
Reporter (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Und wer hat von oben geschossen?“
Mikola (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Das weiß ich nicht.“
Reporterin (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Haben Sie eine Ahnung?“
Mikola (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Das waren Söldner, auf jeden Fall Profis.“
Das Ukraina-Hotel hier war das damalige Zentrum der Demonstranten. Hat sich der Augenzeuge geirrt? Wir sind nachts unterwegs mit Ermittler Sergej. Er zeigt uns mit einem Laser, dass es nicht nur Schusskanäle aus Richtung der Regierungsgebäude gibt. Einige Kanäle in den Bäumen deuten in die entgegengesetzte Richtung, wenn man durch Austrittsloch und Einschussloch leuchtet, oben ins Hotel Ukraina, damals die Zentrale der Opposition. Das aber passt schlecht zur Version des Generalstaatsanwalts, der uns nach Tagen Überzeugungsarbeit endlich empfängt. Er ist von der neuen Regierung eingesetzt, gehört dem rechtsnationalen Flügel der damaligen Opposition an, der umstrittenen Svobóda-Partei.
Oleg Machnitzki, Generalstaatsanwalt, Ukraine (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Wir können wirklich heute schon sagen, nach allen Beweismitteln und Expertisen, die wir in der Hand haben, wer prinzipiell Schuld an den Sniper-Attacken ist: der damalige Präsident Viktor Janukowitsch, der ehemalige Verwaltungschef und der ehemalige Innenminister Sacharchenko.“
Reporter (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Sie wissen auch, dass es Sniper vom Hotel Ukraina gab?“
Oleg Machnitzki, Generalstaatsanwalt, Ukraine (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Wir untersuchen das.“
Wer immer vom Hotel Ukraina schießt, hat – so legt dieses Video nahe – auch diese Milizionäre getroffen. Dass Janukowitsch auf die eigenen Leute hat schießen lassen, ist unwahrscheinlich.
Gab es also Scharfschützen der damaligen Opposition? Fest steht, es gab neben den vielen friedlichen Demonstranten durchaus eine Gruppe Radikaler mit professionellen Waffen, wie diese Aufnahmen zeigen.
Und, das Hotel am Morgen des 20. Februar war fest in der Hand der Opposition. Wir sprechen mit Augenzeugen aus dem Hotel Ukraina, Journalisten, Oppositionelle. Sie alle bestätigen uns, am 20. Februar war das Hotel von der Opposition schwer bewacht. Es hätte sich also schwerlich ein Scharfschütze der Regierung einschleichen können.
Haben also radikale Oppositionelle am Ende selbst geschossen, um Chaos zu erzeugen? Um Janukowitsch die Schuld anzuhängen? Die russischen Fernsehsender verbreiten Bilder, auf denen genau das zu sehen sein soll. Unsere Recherchen bestätigen, dass die Aufnahmen tatsächlich im Hotel Ukraina gemacht wurden. Aber wer da genau auf wen schießt, lässt sich nicht endgültig klären.
Fest steht nur, es wurde nicht nur auf Oppositionelle, sondern auch auf die Milizen der Regierung geschossen. Vielleicht sogar von denselben Leuten? Wir treffen einen der wenigen Ärzte, der die Verwundeten beider Seiten versorgt hat.
Oleksandr Lisowoi, Krankenhaus Nr. 6, Kiew (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Die Verwundeten, die wir behandelt haben, hatten denselben Typ Schussverletzungen, ich spreche jetzt von dem Typ Kugeln, die wir aus den Körpern herausoperiert haben, die waren identisch. Mehr kann ich nicht sagen.“
Basically The Right sector, Svoboda & US sponsored are all more likely to have used snipers against both Yanukovich and Maidan
Zitat: „Das, was mir an Ergebnissen meiner Untersuchung vorliegt, stimmt nicht mit dem überein, was die Staatsanwaltschaft erklärt.“
Wurden also Beweismittel unterdrückt oder sogar unterschlagen? Auch die Rechtsanwälte, die die Angehörigen der Toten vertreten, alle eigentlich auf Seiten der neuen Regierung, beklagen sich, dass sie überhaupt nicht darüber informiert werden, womit genau sich die Staatsanwaltschaft beschäftige.
Roman Titikalo, Anwalt der Nebenklage (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Wir haben nicht gesagt bekommen, welcher Typ Waffen, wir bekommen keinen Zugang zu den Gutachten, wir bekommen die Einsatzpläne nicht. Die anderen Ermittlungsdokumente haben wir auch nicht, die Staatsanwaltschaft zeigt uns einfach keine Papiere.“
Reporter (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Haben Sie ballistische Gutachten?“
Roman Titikalo, Anwalt der Nebenklage (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Nein.“
Reporter (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Rechtsmedizinische Gutachten?“
Roman Titikalo, Anwalt der Nebenklage (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Ich durfte in den Obduktionsbericht reingucken, aber nicht kopieren, ballistische Gutachten habe ich nicht bekommen.“
Ein Anwalt der Verletzten geht sogar noch weiter:
Oleksandr Baschuk, Anwalt der Geschädigten (Übersetzung MONITOR): „Wir kommen alle an keine Ermittlungsprotokolle ran und wenn Sie mich fragen, gibt es dafür einen einfachen Grund, es wird nicht richtig ermittelt. Ich als Anwalt der Verletzten sage Ihnen, die Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt nicht richtig, die decken ihre Leute, die sind parteiisch, so wie früher. Die wollen wie in der Sowjetunion oder unter Janukowitsch alles unter der Decke halten, so ist das.“
Der blutige Donnerstag: Über 30 Menschen werden an diesem Tag in Kiew ermordet, ein Blutbad im Zentrum einer europäischen Großstadt. Unsere Recherchen zeigen, dass in Kiew schon Schuldige präsentiert werden, obwohl es auch zahlreiche Hinweise gibt, die in Richtung Opposition weisen. Spuren, die nicht verfolgt werden. Und möglicherweise gibt es auch noch andere Kräfte, die an den Schießereien beteiligt waren. Die Kiewer Generalstaatsanwaltschaft ist sich in ihrer Einschätzung sicher, wir sind es nicht.
Georg Restle: „Bei allen offenen Fragen, dass ein Vertreter der nationalistischen Svoboda-Partei als Generalstaatsanwalt die Aufklärung des Kiewer Blutbads ganz offensichtlich behindert, wirft ein schlechtes Bild auf die neue Übergangsregierung – und damit auch auf all jene westlichen Regierungen, die die neuen Machthaber in Kiew unterstützen.“
Lovely photo.
Lasha Darkmoon cites Jewish sources specifying that Vitali Klitschko, Petro Poroshenko, John Kerry and Arsiniy Yatsenuk are all Jews, though I would describe them as Goy-hating hunchbacks to spare innocent Jews the injustice of being associated with these “right sektor” terrorists.