I really love the BBC. Love to hate it, that is. They just posted an article about the fact that Russia will now demand pre-payment for the gas it will sell the Ukraine which concluded with this great sentence:
There is a danger for EU nations that Ukraine will start taking the gas Russia had earmarked for its European clients, something it did when it was cut off from Russian gas during previous disputes in 2006 and 2009.
Wouldn’t they make Psaki proud? Instead of writing that the Ukraine will start robbing, hijacking, siphoning-off, stealing, diverting, embezzling, plundering, looting or misappropriating the gas Russia is selling to the EU, they wrote “taking”.
As if the energy market was some kind of all-u-can eat buffet where each guest is invited to help himself to whatever he wants.
There is a gang of Nazi thugs in Kiev who came to power by an illegal armed insurrection, they are massacring civilians using what counts for a military in their pathetic Banderastan, and this gang of thugs and freaks is about to rob the EU from gas the EU has paid top-Euros for, and the BBC calls it “taking”.
I really love to hate them.
Good nite,
The Saker
There was a time I used to look for BBC wherever I travelled to along with how clean the toilets were. Now I just stick to the toilets.
Mindfriedo
BBC appoints Danny Cohen as new director of television.
All the news there is or…
Well, BBC showed unbelievable restraint then.
Slovak SME has a headline “Putin hrozí od júna zastavením dodávok plynu pre Európu” (Putin threats to stop delivering gas for Europe by June). Nowhere in text is, that it is because Ukraine could steal it. No, just Putin threatens.
Subtititle is “Ukraina chce platiť” (Ukraine wants to pay). It is basically good, good Ukraine wants to be everything OK, but bad, bad Russia is causing trouble.
It is really nauseating, what some media are able to produce. The Rudé právo (Czechoslovak equivalent to russian Pravda during communism) is nothing, compared to today’s media.
Hilarious. The BBC is also from a country whose gas the Ukrainians will ‘take’. Yet it still doesn’t have the courage to call it what it really is.
In addition, BBC is implying through this article that the thugs placed by the Anglo-Zionist Empire are out of control and are about to unleash their thuggery on their own sympathizers.
sorry, off-topic, but I think the resurgence of neo-Nazism is not just a Ukrainian localized affair. These supremacist state actors and their supporters are now taking root in India, where the neo-fascist Modi has massively won the elections. The Wahabbists (also a fascist supremacist ideology effectively stalled because of Iran and Russia, but they are not at all to be underestimated. We have Ukraine, Wahabbists in Syria, and BJBists in India – these are critical areas of the planet. And, given the state of affairs, I find it difficult to share your assessment that the empire is in decline. The western zio-imperialists have plenty of cesspools to feed from.
Now Ukraine is EUrope,s probllem and this problème will grow.
Rincewind, excellent! Thanks for posting.
I hope their ridiculous propaganda makes some people wake up!
Dear Saker,
I just stopped watching mainstream tvs regularly! I do a zapping only to check the lye of the day! So much so that sometimes I’m afraid of losing objectivity …
It seems to me that all the propaganda is for the public (us) and in the top the talk is completely different. The main thing for me is the way RT manages to counteract all this.
Please check this link. If true it’s very important in my opinion: http://isape.wordpress.com/2014/04/27/como-um-su-24-russo-paralisou-destroier-americano/
It’s in Portuguese, but I think you can manage a quick translation. I never saw anything about this elsewhere, but the source comes from Brazilian Navy
Ana
The BBC has been forced down the typical neoliberal drain of greed and plundering as so many things in live before. Everything societey has built up as commonly owned infrastructure accessible for and to all at moderate prices. Water, Electricity, Transport, Education, Kindergardens, Parcs, Food health Standards, Medication, Hospitals, Doctors, Public Places free of the need to generate Profits and so much more… It is a time of greed, a kind of greed that leaves everybody without a healthy sense of what is good… it is dance around the golden calf with countless victims along its way already. It is not something i want and i am sure that i am not alone.
And for the pleasure of reading or watching the BBC News/propaganda British citizens (i.e. me)have to pay £145 a year or we risk being taken to court and if convicted we have a criminal record.
Hmmm, I have an idea. Russia could build a gas pipeline through the south bypassing Ukraine and going to customers such as Austria, Italy, Bulgaria and Hungary. That way, any conflict with Ukraine would not affect European supplies.
Oh wait, Russia is doing that and it is called South Stream.
Wait,what! Brussels does not want it built but wants central and south European to have its gas supplies to be reliant on the vagaries of Ukrainian politics.
Oh wait, those same countries are now telling Brussels like hell they will stop that project and what they can do with the horse that they rode on in.
Why be annoyed, BBC has always spun. Is this a reflection of your disappointed expectations?
Pinocchio’s nose is growing.
Not only is this data suggesting the opposition is getting more desperate, but it gives more opportunity for dissonance; the longer its continuation the greater the ensuing bathos.
Study Lavrov’s reaction.
A well known mafia technique was not to do the hit themselves but truss up their enemy, hand their enemy to his enemy, who will do the hit for them.
At certain levels of stress rats devour even their apparent “own”, but then to “elites” own is a variable concept based on present utility and future vulnerability.
The spin on the hit can be done in many ways including silence.
If your opponent unleashes on his “sympathisers”, whats not to like? Its happened already in Ukraine.
To Rincewind: Greetings to fellow Slovakian and apparently fan of Terry Pratchet as well ;-)
Now back to topic. For the rest of the readers of the Saker’s insightfull blog, who don’t speak slovak I must confirm the validity of Rincewind’s statement. I have been monitoring these newspapers called “SME” quite closely for a long period of time, thus knowing a lot about their chronic and purposeful distortion of all the news about international affairs considering not only Russia, but Middle East and North Africa respectively. Biased propaganda would still be very mild term to describe it at best. It is more than evident, that they are just another brick in the wall of corporate media prop machine in the west. In comparison with it, BBC would seem as pretty serious journalism for many readers used to this, even though it is just the same propaganda albeit in more sophisticated and covert manner.
will someone clarify what is going on in mariopul and the role of akhmetov steel workers in it?
I actually find ‘take’ to be a perfectly neutral, non-judging word, even in the case of theft.
The problem with the BBC writing this however is that they wouldn’t use the same word for an officially designated enemy like Russia.
Honk
This might be of interest:
In Ukraine, Joe Biden’s son mixes business with pleasure.
Again, the Jewish connection has to be coincidence.
Voting in the Rada:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH-5fgY3lPw
The New York Times reports that steelworkers are battling separatists in the East and defeating them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/16/world/europe/ukraine-workers-take-to-streets-to-calm-Mariupol.html
Dear Saker,
I’ve been reading your blog for a few months now, very much appreciating your writing. There is something that I would like to mention, which is a kind of meta-issue that I believe faces many of us who are trying to inform ourselves about the current situation. Your post about the BBC made me think of this again.
I say “meta-issue” but I feel it’s really quite important for reaching a much larger audience of like-minded people.
It’s probably fair to say that many of us frequently have exactly the reaction that you described today. That is, we read an article in the mainstream media — the BBC, CNN, etc. — and we are struck by just how distorted the language is. We are stuck by how much it reads not like journalism, but like PR for whatever Kerry and the State Department are saying this week. This has been especially glaring in the case of the Ukraine crisis, in which many of the journalists writing for the MSM seem to be completely unaware of what is actually happening in Kiev. They uncritically repeat whatever the US, UK, and EU spokespeople say, and of course this contributes to the creation of a kind of “consensus”. (Many people have studied how mass media works, and tried to shed light of the conflicts of interest that produce this “consensus”).
Meanwhile, closer to home, we talk about global politics with our friends, but many of them are either not so engaged, don’t read so much about specific crises (because, often, they feel “it’s just too depressing”) or for whatever reason they don’t want to stray too far from what the MSM is telling them. If we are talking about the US, our liberal American friends may be telling themselves: “well, I’m listening to NPR and reading Harpers and Salon and The Nation and the NYRB, so I’m fairly well-informed — not like those idiotic rednecks who are brainwashed by Fox News.” But as we know, many journalists who write for the putatively “liberal media” still want to believe that Obama is a good man who means well, etc. etc. In the heart of hearts, they really do believe in American exceptionalism. So, if our liberal friends wander outside the comfort zone of this media, if they come into contact with a really contrarian view of the US — such as what is on offer in your blog — for example, many of them will become immediately skeptical and likely soon click onward to some other page.
For example, I mentioned your blog to a friend, who looked at it and was struck by “Russia stands for Freedom!” and a bunch of links to videos from RT. This jars just enough with his general view of the world — in which RT is just as partisan as the Western media, and Russia is just as much of an Empire as the US — and so I’m pretty sure he bailed after a few minutes. Now, you might be saying: “so what? good riddance.” but to my mind this is really the battle line that many people face. We’re not in the Ukraine facing off with neo-Nazis. We’re talking with people we know who are well educated and critical of Western policy, but nonetheless they basically go along with much of what the media tells them. On the one hand, they sort of “already know” that their tax dollars are sponsoring imperial projects around the world, but on the other hand they are skeptical when they read the people who actually name these projects for what they are.
This is a longish post, but I am wondering if you could try to address to situation. That is: how should we speak with people who, for example, are intelligent but nonetheless simply repeat the anti-Putin narrative that is being fed to them by the Western media? My feeling here is that it’s perhaps not so much a question of giving people “facts”, or telling them who owns the media, etc., but it’s maybe something else that might work better. I’m wondering what insight you have on this problem.
Any thoughts about this?
Hello,
just read 2 very interesting pieces.
See:
http://www.voltairenet.org/article183807.html
and;
http://journal-neo.org/2014/05/16/kiev-junta-joins-al-qaeda/
Salam
Abdnour
Yes, the BBC certainly deserves to be lumped in the same pile of filth with NBC, CNN, etc
But we should give them their due when they do something surprising.
Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SBo0akeDMY
I have to say that the same situation with the press like we can see in the Slovakia is in my country, the Czech Republic. I feel shame for this kind of misleading the public some two decades after we have got rid of our corrupt commie system which was working with informations in the same way, maybe better.
Well, it ought to be interesting to watch Germany’s response, as they will be among those most affected.
And it does create a challenge for the EU, who officially supports the junta.
Greetings from Singapore:
Der Spiegel
Ukraine-Krise: Helmut Schmidt wirft EU Größenwahn vor.
Der Altkanzler attestiert den Brüsseler Beamten Unfähigkeit – und warnt vor der Gefahr eines dritten Weltkriegs.
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/ukraine-krise-helmut-schmidt-wirft-eu-groessenwahn-vor-a-969773.html
I think Russia will soon start trolling the West according to the West’s script:
– We need this, that & those (with a long list of high-tech products attached) for a sum of, … let me think,… 50 bln Euros, with the delivery starting immediately…
– Don’t worry, we shall pay. The just price. Some time in the future, May be.
In case of non-delivery, we shall complain. Wherever possible.
BR
shed
Spanish Air Controller expelled by Ukraine…
Acabo de saber que a Carlos @spainbuca han expulsado de Ucrania con una acusacion de “instigador y espia”
pic.twitter.com/aVvEz6Ms05
A suggestion to Anonymous at 09-37 re -how should we speak with people who, for example, are intelligent but nonetheless simply repeat the anti-Putin narrative that is being fed to them by the Western media?
In the short-term propaganda can work, but its longevity is a function of its composite alloy of “truth”.
Less truth – faster innefectiveness.
Dissonance is the interaction between perception and experience.
Some hold that you can convince others.
Karl Rove is even of the view – You can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you should concentrate on.
More experienced tend to realise that you can’t convince anyone of anything to a level they will act on it.
Resistance to bacilli is built by exposure to bacilli in an attenuated form if possible.
So the lateral solution is to help catalyse situations where others can convince themselves through dissonance.
Be like an old Chinese fisherman, put food on the water to attract the fish – but not too much as either gluttony or indifference can ensue.
In Poland in early 1990 a certain shampoo had problems with market introduction as some of the target audience thought it couldn’t be much good as it needed to advertise.
Try to think as the other person.
i.e. Catherine
Dear Saker,
You are probably going to love this one too :
US warns Putin against disrupting Ukraine energy supplies
http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2377557&Language=en
Well, there is always to UN to add to your love/hate list.
actually, anonymous who thought he/she was off topic is right on topic according to my study group–It appears that the global elite may be considering opting for fascism or a techno-capitlaist dictatorship in The Americas and Europe with China-Russia as a competing block of state run governments. The rest of the world? Well, in 1984 Orwell had that down as he depicted people watching TV “news” of “police actions” in poor 3rd world countries and in the slums of London. No, you are right on sub-topic, anonymous.
Ukraine is the opening salvo in what will become the resource wars of the future. China is hassling Vietnam in the South China sea and thumbing its nose at the US. Russia is about to mine vast amounts of oil,etc. in the arctic –probably oligarchs in both systems will have their own workers and mercenaries to provide civil services and order on a local level much like how the drug gangs do in Latin America ( also see:: Mariupol and the oligarch keeping things together there) Kiss civil society good bye. Ukraine is a test run for the future, my friends.
After abandoning MSM news ages ago and then having to watch friends & family fall for the same neocon-led BS over and over again, I’ve come to the conclusion that many people are happy to live in a state of wilful ignorance. They just are. They like their pantomime villains too. I make a comment praising, say, Gaddafi’s social achievements in Libya, I’d get the stock “but he was a brutal dictator” response. Same with someone like Assad. They’re not able to deal with the notion of Jihadist terrorists being funded, trained & armed by certain Western nations & their allies to overthrow the Syrian govt. Even if such evidence is published in an MSM outlet like the LRB.
The BBC are experts at portraying conflicts as if they were a Cup tie between some non-league side and Manchester City!! And that’s the key to tapping into the minds of the masses. Set up the seemingly poor and weak underdog against the apparently powerful & rich tyrant. Of course if it’s NATO in Afghanistan or Israel in the Occupied Territories, the football theme is conveniently scrapped, and we just revert to good old fashioned “Muslims are unreasonable, nasty killers & the West is civilised, benign, only here to help”.
I wonder if Arseniy Yats and Turdchynov will be arrested on murder and human rights crime like General Pinochet when they visit Britain? Or will it take a change of government to do that? Meantime, Tory’s PM David Cameron tells BBC to go easy on the “Interim Government’s” present and potential criminal behaviour by manipulating news reports. What gives, guv? What happened to the “famed” British fairplay and justice, what?
Anonymous 9:37
Your question is one my husband, myself and various other people we know have been grappling with since just about forever — Palestine, Iraq and now Ukraine being the most frustrating examples. And you’re really onto something with your doubts about simply presenting facts, bc the real issue is how (and ultimately why) people don’t want to take them in. And as much as anything else, I’m now thinking it’s a matter of identity: we’ve (allowed ourselves to) become divided into two warring camps. You know the labels but I think we’d all be better off if we just didn’t use them, because we’ll get nowhere if we don’t somehow get past these divisions and start working together.
So I’m going to call them The Angry, and The Arrogant, just to set up the problem (and probably get both sides livid with me because the shoe doesn’t always fit perfectly — but it still fits well enough!). The Angry know that there’s something very wrong, but their anger, fear and frustration have been well-channeled by FOX News and the like into supporting exactly what our oligarchs want, and blaming “The Government” for all our problems — despite the fact that at the upper levels “The Government” has been bought and paid for by the oligarchs and duly voted in by We The People, while at the lower levels “The Government” *is* We The People, just doing our jobs. Now for the Arrogant: let’s face it, the other side (I’m deliberately avoiding the L-word as well as the R-word) spends most of its time mocking The Angry for what truly are their misperceptions. But at least The Angry are out there trying to do something, however misguided: most of The Arrogant stopped short the minute one of their guys came into power (sure they fight among themselves, that’s what they’ve always done, but again, so what?) They feel superior to The Angry bc of education, sophistication, intellect, whatever — but are totally clueless as to how *they* too are being used, just like poor Southern whites during slavery and Jim Crow, to maintain the status quo by attacking those they feel superior to rather than uniting with them to bring about genuine change that could benefit both. It’s an old, old trick and dammit, it’s still working! The thing now is to change the whole dynamic because, truly, we’re all in it together.
And for that, Anonymous 12:52 really nailed it: “try to think as the other person.” I’ve got some thoughts on that too, but it’ll take me a while to assemble them. The main point is, the things we have *all* taken for granted, we *all* have to challenge, and that’s a very unsettling process no one goes through easily. And now I will say it out loud: I’m a recovering Leftist, I’ve got maybe two days really clean.
Actually, Saker, what should have offended you more than “take” was the fact that the Beeb, last time around, was blaming Russia for Ukranian siphoning. This is in fact a major step towards reality.
Which is part of the answer to Anon’s question (the Anonomous family is a big one, isn’t it? Reality does eventually win even though it takes a LOT longer than most of us would wish.
Saker, I’ve seen both good and bad on the part of the BBC in this conflict. They were the first to aknowledge the lame attempt by Ukraine to impose its military strength and expose the Ukrainian authorities lie of ‘false flag’ tanks. Here you are totally right. It depends which journalist.
Also, I am very interested to see your take on the Akhmetov insertion into the Kiev negotiations. Do you have any other info or view of this – I’ve written on it in my blog, but am still getting my head around how Taruta and Akhmetov get along, and just how much Akhmetov is hated by Kiev…
Cheers
@Anonymous 07:01 neo-fascist Modi
While the BJP (Mr Modi’s party) talks of “Hindu nationalism”, there was very little of that talk in the election campaign. There is no doubt to anyone at all in India that BJP (and allies) won the election because of Mr Modi’s clean and productive governance record in Gujarat under his leadership. (barring the Gujarat riot issue) The current central government, in the last few years, has been very deep in corruption.
Mr Modi’s win should not be construed as a victory of neo-fascism. Such ethos is far from the mentality of common Hindus.
I myself do not vote as a matter of principle, and I have concern for Muslims of India and beyond (e.g., I know Urdu and the Persian script, even though I am a Hindu), yet I am pleased by Mr Modi’s win.
(An Indian)
F. Sissi said it clearer, some weeks ago, on Asia Times:
“All of this, plus the Russian threat of not selling gas to Ukraine (which allegedly has been stealing gas and oil from Russia for decades), should have created a huge spike in oil prices.”
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/CHIN-01-300414.html
((·_·))
“Karl Rove is even of the view – You can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you should concentrate on.”
But sure you can’t fool everyone forever
And then comes rude awakening
Another on propaganda.
Be like Socrates – ask questions.
Don’t take the hemlock though – big mistake, he was probably suffering from displaced ego that day – should have demanded to be killed – less opportunity for spinning.
Scientists understand that phenomena and their perception are laterally dynamic – “answers” are test results to hypotheses that lead to the formulation of other questions.
The “answer” is in catalysing the process laterally; multi-dimensional merely being a hidden form of linear thinking based on a multiple of spectra.
Anyone got any real info about the action of the steel workers who are supposedly loyal to Kiev. That was not the impression I got in the initial news about it on RT, which was that they were going to protect civilians against National Guard. Which is right?
USAn oligarch B H Obama:
Obama family filthy rich, worth about $7.5 mln
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_05_16/Obama-family-filthy-rich-worth-about-7-5-mln-0794/
It’s my impression that there is a continual contemporary increase, in Canada at least, in the general public’s realization that MSM is a propaganda system. I could be wrong. Less obvious to people is the extent to which many so-called alternative or dissident news outlets are part of the disinformation system.
I tend to engage strangers in conversation. A few examples pertaining to media:
A professor of biology, bright, pleasant, but not political, who after an extended conversation with me about sea urchins and geo-politics said candidly: “I don’t understand the how and why, but it does seem to me that somehow the media has been co-opted.”
A checkout counter lady at a grocery store: “I don’t follow the news anymore because it’s all lies.”
A conversation with an elderly (90+) and plucky, still reading, English lady, for whom I was doing a bit of work:
She, brightly: “Well I get my news from the BBC, every day.”
Me, impishly: “So you’re imbibing half truths and lies on a daily basis.”
She, sharply, not amused: “What do you mean by that?”
Me: “Well consider 9/11. The BBC miraculously announced the destruction of the third skyscraper half an hour before it was destroyed, but since then they’ve supported the fairy tale that is the official 9/11 narrative.”
She, scowling, clearly taken aback, perhaps wondering about my sanity: “On what authority do you say that? And what third skyscraper?”
Anyway, longer story short, I brought her, next time I went to work, Tarpley’s Synthetic Terror, and left it with her for a while, and the subject never came up again Job done, she handed me the book without comment, spoke very kindly to me, and paid me more than I had asked.
Here is a very good piece published today at one of the best US financial blogs:
Michael Hudson: The New Cold War’s Ukraine Gambit
Well, it looks the Beeb is still up to tricks, but The Guardian has been backing off the neo-con propaganda ever so slightly over the last few weeks. Here’s the latest:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/16/ukraine-crisis-signals-new-world-order-russia
Seamus Milne and John Pilger are, of course, always pretty reliable. Steer clear of Nick Cohen though…
Saker, when you have a minute, could you take a look at Dugin’s call for “tanks West!” here. Interested in your take on his “Sixth Column” theory.
…ummmm…if I were Putin I’d have some “useful idiots” blow-up the pipeline through western Ukraine… and blame Kiev-Nazi’s of sabotage… which is what CIA-Mossad-AQ would do…and totally deprive the UK-junta any opportunity to “take” Russian assets… that’s the kind of “B-Zig diplomacy” folks can appreciate.
Regards,
AGS
Zygmunt Wrzodak: List otwarty do Narodu Rosyjskiego i władz Federacji Rosyjskiej
List otwarty do Narodu Rosyjskiego i władz Federacji Rosyjskiej.
Prezydent Federacji Rosyjskiej, Pan Władimir Władimirowicz Putin
Przewodnicząca Rady FR, Pani Walentina Iwanowna Matwijenko
Premier FR , Pan Dmitrij Anatoljewicz Miedwiediew
Minister Spraw Zagranicznych FR, Pan Siergiej Wiktorowicz Ławrow
Narody Rosji, Drodzy Bracia Rosjanie!
Tysiące Polaków, wiernych Niepodległej Polsce i suwerennemu narodowi polskiemu, zarówno zorganizowani, jak i osoby nie zrzeszone jesteśmy oburzeni, zawstydzeni i nie zgadzamy się z działaniami obecnych władz i ich koncesjonowaną opozycją parlamentarną w Polsce, którzy wykonują zadania narzucone im przez ich zachodnich mocodawców.
Odegrali oni perfidną rolę w przygotowaniach i przeprowadzeniu zbrojnego zamachu na demokratycznie wybrane władze bratnich narodów Ukrainy. Awanturnicza polityka antypolskiej klasy politycznej i olbrzymie ich zaangażowanie na Majdanie, pomoc w szkoleniu i zbrojeniu faszystowskich Banderowców, którzy dla zdobycia w sposób zbrojny władzy na Ukrainie, posunęli się nawet do zabijania własnych cywilnych demonstrantów „pokojowo nastawionych” oraz funkcjonariuszy Berkutu. Polityka taka zasługuje na najwyższe potępienie. Cały imperialistyczny zachód, na czele z amerykańską administracją, juntą kijowską i marionetkami politycznymi w Polsce ma ukraińską krew na rękach.
http://www.monitor-polski.pl/zbigniew-wrzodak-list-otwarty-do-narodu-rosyjskiego-i-wladz-federacji-rosyjskiej/
Have you seen the reports of “UN” peacekeeping helicopters participating in an assault on civilians:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ukraine-crisis-un-marked-combat-helicopters-used-government-offensive-against-separatists-1448490
Who do you think these helicopters belong to?
Dear Saker,
The bias in the western media affects all coverage of all political events. That’s how it was during the Cold War, that’s how it is now. There’s apparently nothing that the banderastanis can do that will change their western image of “good guys”, “freedom fighters” and whatever. Not even stealing gas from Europe! On the other hand, no russian strategy short of outright capitulation will be satisfy the imperial masters.
We have Ukraine, Wahabbists in Syria, and BJBists in India – these are critical areas of the planet. And, given the state of affairs, I find it difficult to share your assessment that the empire is in decline. The western zio-imperialists have plenty of cesspools to feed from.
True enough. Add to this the utter mental depletion we belatedly refer to as (corporate) “Western Culture” with its ceaseless spewing of insane, rabidly anti-civilizatory fascist imbecility and depravity. The average Westerner may be a despicable ignorant, but deep down there is a highly dependable consciousness to the effect that war-crazed Western imperialism actually does provide protection (accompanied by varying levels of coercion) against want and despair à la Third World. This is exactly that “dirty little secret” neatly explaining the contentment of the average Westerner with their Corporate MSM Presstitutes up to and including the slander against anyone that Western imperialism has a problem with, no matter what.
With record levels of unemployment — most notably youth unemployment at that — prevailing in the Western cesspit, it’s highly likely these unfortunate losers will be put to work as mercenaries or suchlike scum in foreign lands. Norway’s Anders Behring Breivik is an irrefutable reminder of what may happen unless trigger-happy Western slobs are sent abroad to spread democracy.
Bottom line: Americanism is the spriritual foundation of all present-day degeneracy. Like draws to like.
OT
Please check it:
http://arbaletfire.livejournal.com/2014/05/16/
UPD 4 : Oh, I almost forgot :
Dear Parents and relatives of dogs NatsGadov , conscripts , reservists and other paramilitary ukropovskih call your children , you know ! Ask them (if replies) where they are ? The fact that some in the area of Slavic and Kramatorsk ” sea ” is a huge number of corpses, corpses all indefitsiruyutsya locals as strangers . Residents are afraid to approach them , some corpses stench starts to come , because on the street, the sun, the temperature rises to 30 degrees. Call it your can ? Donbasstsy not rich people, and thanks to you, they have no money to bury the corpses of your relatives; and the earth will not accept strangers Donbass . Call and come pick up your children – you will not let your family take the corpses .
UPD 5 : To consider UPD № 4 propaganda stamp explain – according to preliminary estimates , near suburbs n n – Slovyansk Kramators’k scattered at least a thousand corpses.
/google translation/
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Mass call-up of Kharkiv to Germany “to curb”Kyiv junta
2014-05-16 16:18:00
http://www.voicesevas.ru/news/yugo-vostok/massovyi-prizyv-harkovchan-k-germanii-ob.html
/yandex translation/
Kharkiv came to the building of the German Consulate with the Red Banner of Victory, flag Labour Kharkivshina” and posters: “EU and US hands off Ukraine!”
“European-American aggressors out of the Ukraine”,
“MS Merkel – political prostitute Pentagon, the enemy of the peoples of Ukraine and Germany”,
“Merkel, stop being a puppet of the USA!”,
“Angela Merkel, your ancestor’s name was not accidental Adolf?”
Activists believe that against the population of the South-East of Ukraine is preparing the German-American military aggression, namely Germany, as the most influential power in the EU is responsible for the hostile position of the European Union in relation to the people of Ukraine, and support “criminal fascist junta, which seized power in Ukraine in an unconstitutional way.”
“Germany, you are strongly suffered from the Nazis and this should be remembered, why do you currently support of the Nazis? Or if you think they’re not on your property, you will be able to curb? No you can’t!”- said one of the organizers of the picket Igor Cherkaschenko – Chairman of the Kharkiv regional party “Kievan Rus”.
“Germany, gave rise to Nazism and brought the Second world war, which killed 50 million people around the world should be aware what will be pandering to neo-Nazis in Ukraine”- warn the public.
They believe that the current situation in Ukraine resembles the events in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria and other countries, which in the opinion of the activists were staged and organized mainly in terrorist centers in the United States, and their main aim is to weaken Russia.
“You are now accusing Russia of aggression, but not Russia bombed Yugoslavia, not Russia bombed Iraq, Libya, Syria! And now dagilis to the fact that there’s a civil war in Ukraine”, said before the German Consulate Igor Cherkaschenko and demanded to stop the support of illegitimate Kiev authorities and pronasida organizations in Ukraine.
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On the picket was also made by the veteran of Armed Forces of the USSR, Colonel Jaworski, who served in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, reminding Frau Merkel on her Komsomol youth in the GDR, General Valery Zyrtec, representative of the movement “South-East” Sergey Rezunenko and Chairman of the public organization “Lenin and Fatherland” Larisa Gorbatko. Veteran of labor said that the planned Kyiv elections are neitiniemi and appealed to foreign diplomats verses: “The White House black devil – the Pentagon and the US Congress, the CIA and the FBI nephrogenesis to jump into the Slavonic pie”.
The draft resolution of the meeting was read out by the leader of the public organization “Labor Kharkiv” Pavel Tishchenko. An open vote, adopted the requirements of the participants of the picket to the Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel:
“1. Stop supporting an illegitimate government of Ukraine and the Ukrainian nationalist organization;
2. To use their influence in EU bodies and to achieve curb criminal authorities in Kyiv and the dissolution of the illegal armed groups of type “Right sector and other Nazi, bondarovska organizations posing a threat to the revival of fascism in Europe, which will be a prerequisite for reducing tension in the East of Ukraine;
3. To contribute to ending the terrorist operations of Kiev, with illegal use of the Armed forces of Ukraine against the rebellious people of the South-East;
4. To prevent a military invasion of NATO troops on the territory of Ukraine or special forces of the European countries and to withdraw troops from the border with Ukraine;
5. To refuse unreasonable sanctions against Russia and aggressive rhetoric, which only serve as a cover for criminal activities Kiev junta, and take away the attention from the
real criminals and their goals.
@ Zygmunt Wrzodak: List otwarty do Narodu Rosyjskiego i władz Federacji Rosyjskiej
Zygmunt Wrzodak: An Open Letter to the Russian nation and the authorities of the Russian Federation
Quote from full list published above:
The People Of Russia, Dear Brothers The Russians!
Thousands of Poles, believers Independent Poland and suwerennemu Polish people as an organized, and people who are not related, we are outraged, shame, and we do not agree with the actions of the current authorities and their koncesjonowaną the opposition in the Parliament in Poland, which carry out the tasks imposed on them by their Western masters.
They played perfidną role in the preparation and conduct of armed attack on the democratically elected authorities of fraternal people of Ukraine. Awanturnicza policy antypolskiej political class and their huge part on the Maidan, assistance in the preparation and zbrojeniu fascist Bandera that in order for the image armed power in Ukraine, even went to the murder of its own civilian demonstrators peacefully-minded” and employees Berkutu. Policy this deserves the highest condemnation. All imperialistyczny the West, headed by the American administration, juntą Kiev and political instruments in Poland have Ukrainian blood on the hands.
Go to the page
http://www.monitor-polski.pl/zbigniew-wrzodak-list-otwarty-do-narodu-rosyjskiego-i-wladz-federacji-rosyjskiej/
and translate using
http://translate.yandex.ru/
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Hello Saker
Another nail on the coffin?
Sudamenrican countries had gathered together in Bolivia and have created the G10 group of Oil and Gas..
México, Perú, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Venezuela, Brasil y Colombia
Now is a nice intention because of the almost owned Mexico for the USA as well as Colombia..but in this new block of countries there was a eleventh who might join the group later: China…so they have set a new summit for next year…Morales (president of Bolivia)also announced that Bolivia and Argentina are developing nuclear energy…so now the once upon backyard is getting hotter!!! soon the US will burn into pieces
MSM = the Matrix.
It’s everywhere. On every channel. So everyone ends up thinking it might be true.
So many networks/newspapers can’t all be lying, right? ;-)
As said in the movie,
“It is the world that has been pulled over our eyes
to blind us from the truth …” ;-)
Someone involved in the Odessa atrocity describes how it was organized and accomplished. The operation was code-named Ha’ ola, part of a Hebrew phrase, Mizbeach Ha’ola, which means the altar of burnt offering. Even without the gruesome pictures, this is very difficult to read. Napalm and gasoline were mixed to form carbon monoxide. Turchinov, Avakov, Nalivaychenko and Parubiy were involved, among many others. Will they end up before the ICC — or receive the Nobel Peace Prize like Kissinger, Begin, Obama and, oh yes, the EU.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article183807.html
Oh God, I didn’t include that monster Kolomoisky, who put a $5000 bounty on every dead Odessan. I wonder if he’s paying the same rate in the Donbass. Hell is too good for people like this.
Secret censorship in German state media revealed:
(Article in German)
http://www.jungewelt.de/2014/05-15/065.php
I don’t think there’s such a thing as an ‘independent western media.’
As with everything else, who pays them and where does the money come from?
That’s why this article China, Russia beat US in new corporate transparency report should be a surprising one, but it isn’t.
All those ‘correspondents’ talking to ‘you’ from far flung places [on TV and elsewhere] are actually reciting HQ fed lines. If possible, talk to journalists and find out how much the truth is a ‘manageable’ and ‘manipulated’ item.
Is Valentin Nalivaychenko a US citizen? Uh… Is this real???
https://twitter.com/coldwar20_ru/status/466845222929190912/photo/1
A big thumbs up [or a bear hug if you like/prefer] to those of you who translate Eastern European languages, so people like myself can read and understand them.
Very much appreciated.
It’s interesting how the BBC managed to have an entire article on the EU debate without mentioning one word of the European Left’s candidate, Tsipras from Syriza (Greece). Who, by most accounts, won the debate.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27430515
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Xh5eN2fXY&list=UUL5FeH8XhtBuF4_RJ-x5hjQ
Let your life become a friction to stop the machine
BBC and all british propaganda media are real evil incarnate pest on the world which must be rooted out.
Oh, how I hope that language loves me as much as… Yikes!
“The Ukrainian army destroyed two military bases of pro-Russian insurgents in overnight operations, the country’s acting president said Thursday…”
Oh, how I hope that language loves me as much as… Yikes!
“The Ukrainian army destroyed two military bases of pro-Russian insurgents in overnight operations, the country’s acting president said Thursday…”
Framing the narrative for an intended audience is the BBC strategy. Truth is not found but manufactured. Media warfare is part of the arsenal of the one percent of the one percent.
The following might be of interest;
The BBC’s ‘Amazing Litany’ Of Bias.
Most newspapers, television and radio stations are owned by large and powerful multi-national companies.
In the USA, NBC and CBS (two television companies) are owned by corporations involved in arms manufacture and nuclear power (General Electric and Westinghouse). Several oil companies (Exxon, Texaco and Mobil) have seats on the boards of these news organisations. Time-Warner and CNN merged in the late 1990s to form one of the largest news and media monopolies in the world. Rupert Murdoch (Zionist) is the largest owner of television stations in the USA. Originally an Australian citizen, his American citizenship was “fast-tracked” by the Reagan administration to allow him to own television stations in the country.
Stories that highlight problems with nuclear power or waste, stories about oil companies involved with governments that violate human rights and stories about conflicts armed by Western companies are unlikely to be given much coverage. Stories that help the interests of the media owners are given prominence.
One man, John Malone, owns 23% of the world’s cable stations. His Discovery Channel commissions programs after “market approval” and avoids “controversial subjects”. The phrase “dumbing down” has entered the language as television concentrates on gossip and celebrity stories rather than serious issues.
In Australia Rupert Murdoch (him again) owns 7 out of the 12 national daily newspapers and 7 out of 10 Sunday newspapers. In one city, Adelaide, Murdoch owns all the newspapers. This cannot be good for pluralism.
In 1975, one of Murdoch’s newspapers, The Australian, ran a campaign that helped remove the country’s democratically elected government by the UK appointed Governor-General.
In the UK, News International (a company mostly owned by Rupert Murdoch) owns several newspapers (including The Times and The Sun), Sky Television (a major European satellite operator), Star Television (covering Asia) and publishers like Harper Collins.
In 1998, Rupert Murdoch owned 34% of the daily newspapers and 37% of the Sunday newspapers in the UK. He often uses the large resources of his multinational companies to lower the price of his newspapers in an attempt to put rival newspapers out of business. Successive UK governments have allowed his empire to grow in return for his media’s support.
http://www.krysstal.com/democracy_media.html
A lot of info here —
‘How Indian support for Russia has evolved from Georgia to Ukraine’ RT March 2014
Will Modi follow the same path with Russia now that Obama sees him as an opportunity to move further in his ‘Asia pivot’?
In the European sphere, core relations will remain largely unchanged. With Russia, linkages will stay focused upon military ties. This will include the sale of weapons (about 75% of New Delhi’s military imports currently come from Moscow), collaboration in terms of training and the development of weapons, and regular exercises. Both sides also shared a similar vision of the world, wanting greater equality between the major powers, especially for developing countries. Given longstanding principles of non-intervention and non-interference in its foreign policy, India will not criticise any escalation of Russia’s current activities in Ukraine or elsewhere.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/india-election-2014-how-narendra-modi-will-tackle-israel-russia-pakistan-obama-1448810
This thread sums up the Galician SS and cult of rehabilitating Bandera which the Yale historian Tim Snyder has shamefully indulged along with the New Republic’s Leon Weiselter. Neocons for neo-Nazis or just plain old Nazis indeed.
http://www.thebellforum.com/showthread.php?t=115781