The headlines out of Yemen really say it all:
U.S. pulling last of its Special Operations forces out of Yemen (and destroy their equipment in the process)
Russia’s Yemen consulate damaged amid Saudi-led airstrikes – embassy source
Russian evacuation plane denied landing in Yemen, diverts to Cairo
Chinese military disembark in port of Aden, Yemen, to guard evacuation – official
Yemen crisis: Foreigners’ tales of escape
Saudi Arabia, Yemen won’t hamper Russians’ evacuation from Sanaa
All this can be summarized like so: the US made an unholy mess of yet another country, was the first to run, and now everybody runs, except for Russian and Chinese forces who try to evacuate their nationals. Yet another major foreign policy success for Obama who had presented Yemen as the shining example of anti-terrorism done right.
In the meantime, the local al-Qaeda franchise is using the Saudi-lead aggression to liberate its members from prison, the US continues to pretend to bomb al-Qaeda in Iraq while supporting the same al-Qaeda in Syria and Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Israel are jointly bombing the Shia in Yemen and Iran is accused of interfering in Yemeni affairs. How utterly crazy AngloZionist policies have become?!
This would all be outright hilarious if people were not dying. And it is going to get a whole lot worse if the Wahabi crazies in Riyadh go ahead with their plans for a suicidal and fully illegal land invasion of Yemen. My hope is that the Saudis follow the typical American strategy and just bomb from high altitudes a country with only primitive air defenses (the Yemenis still managed to shoot down at least 2, possibly 3, “coalition” aircraft and one drone!).
So now we have yet another “gangster mob” ganging up against one small country: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, Morocco, Sudan, Egypt and, of course, the USA and Israel, supported by al-Qaeda, all together against the Yemeni Shia. And, of course, fighting the Yemeni Shia objectively means supporting al-Qaeda in Yemen. Thus, it would be fair to say that Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, Morocco, Sudan, Egypt, the USA and Israel are all supporting al-Qaeda.
A Middle-East without al-Qaeda/ISIS is possible, of course, this is the one Iran, Syria and Hezbollah are fighting to create. But they are called “rogue states” and members of the “axis of evil” while the multi-national al-Qaeda support coalition would be the “axis of kindness” I suppose.
I will repeat this again and again, here we’re faced with yet another example of how the AngloZionist Empire is finally showing its true face: not the gentle face of human rights, democracy, international law and progress, but the ugly, brutal and stupid face of ignorant violence, support for the scum of the planet (Nazis, Zionists and Wahabis) and imperialism. The period of “capitalism with a human face” is now clearly over and we are now living exactly what Lenin had predicted: imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism (and no, I am neither a Leninist nor a Marxist but, in the words of Malcolm X, “I am for truth, no matter who tells it”).
The risks of yet another major war are truly huge. Make no mistake, Iran can make minced meat out of this “coalition of kindness” and if it comes to an overt conflict the US will have to bail out its numerous allies in the region: the comprador elites who sold out their own religion, country and people to the AngloZionist Empire.
Thus, not only is the USA taking the risk of starting a major continental war in Europe by supporting the Ukrainian Nazis, they are also taking the risk of starting a major regional war in the Middle-East by supporting the Saudi Wahabis and the Zionist Israelis.
I really wonder when our zombifed society will wake up to the dangers we are all now facing.
The Saker
I hope Gringos will succeed and get burned in it. That’s ONLY way to freedom from Evil.
Do you remember the Grear Satan showing hinself in the smoke of the WTC on 09/11/01.
That’s they god and has to be deffeted by fire.
What the hell are you talking about? Some references might make your argument coherent.
Itzak is probably referring to the USA, named the Big Satan by the Iranians, that executed the false-flag event on 9/11/01 in NYC to justify both the plunder of some Islamic countries and the crackdown on political dissent at home (counting on the extreme stupidity of its own sheeple to swallow the official narrative). (By the way, the Zionist creation in Palestine is called the Little Satan by the Iranians, although it rules over the Big Satan, and was the actual director of the 9/11 show.)
I think he was referring to the “smoke demon” that appeared in one of the explosions in the WTC:
https://youtu.be/RTILc7RcN88?t=126
You summed it up better than I’ve ever seen ot done! Kudos for a brilliant cryptic statement!
You summed it up better than I’ve ever seen it done! Kudos for a brilliant cryptic statement!
And… another win for the empire today…
Thanks Russia for helping the empire keep Iran under its thumb.
What is the context of your statement? meaningless without details…..
If you had a bit more of a historical culture you would know what Charette refers to… certainly not a “she”.
Oh and in case you dont know, ISIS is 8 kilometers out of Damas. So it looks like yet another defeat for Russia is right around the corner.
What are you talking about?! What did Russia do that Iran did not?!
E.g., the S-300 affair.
Do some web browsing, you might learn something.
The latest in regard to S300 issue under the presidency of Mededev. Once UN sactions are lifted contract will be fulfilled:
http://sputniknews.com/russia/20150403/1020417724.html
Veritas
The Sputnik article is incorrect insofar as it makes appear as if the UNSC resolution prohibited sales of defensive weapons to Iran. It did not: it prohibited only offensive weapons sales. Medvedev actually yielded under the severe pressure of its AngloZionist “partners”, in particular Israel, and then made the bogus statement that the resolution was to blame. Iranians protested, but to no avail, of course.
(Incidentally, even if what Medvedev said were true, which it was not, it was Russia who approved that resolution, so you would come full circle to the same conclusion about Russia’s attitude towards Iran. As for “Medvedev did it, not Putin”, it is naïve, since they always worked as a team, including then.)
I dont think you understand what just happened. The Saudis were bombing the Iranian backed Houthis to prevent them from taking Aden, the last remaining Hadi Govt stronghold, but the Houthis have now entered it after heavy fighting and effectively taken control of 2/3s of the port city.
The only way the Saudis can try and reverse that catastrophic loss is by invading the country since they can’t bomb a city unless they want to deliberately kill civilians, and if they do invade, the Houthis will massacre them. In fact, the Houthis want them to try so that the Houthis can take the fight directly into Saudi Arabia! The Saudis have thus arrogantly and foolishly painted themselves into a corner.
The only way to save lives and to bring Saudi Arabia itself from the brink is for the Saudis to accept the Houthis and their Sunni allies and negotiate a truce, a very humiliating climb down, but it is of their own making and they deserve the red faces. If they escalate this, they could end up triggering a confrontation with Iran and they will be destroyed, even if the US helps them.
Meanwhile, Israel sends out their ‘welcome wagon’ to visit, the day after Palestine accedes to the ICC:
http://therebel.is/en/al-manartv/843255-zionist-forces-arrest-palestinian-lawmaker-from-her-home
Israeli occupation soldiers arrested on Thursday Khalida Jarrar, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, after storming her home in Ramallah, reported the Samidoun Solidarity Network.
According to Samidoun, dozens of Israeli soldiers arrived at Jarrar’s home in the early morning, forcibly entered her residence, and temporarily detained her husband before arresting her.
One more crime of the Zionist thugs.Under the “peace” agreement with Israel Ramallah is 100% supposed to be under the PA authority.Israeli troops there is a clear violation of the agreement.The Palestinians suffer far more than even the Novorossians do from the Bandera.Unlike the DPR/LC they have no one to help save them.Their “brothers” have sold themselves to Israel and the Empire.The irony is that most Palestinians are Sunni or Christian Arabs.And the only ones doing anything at all to help them (not much) are the Shia Arabs and Iranians.All Sunni and Christian Arabs in the Arab World should not even be able to look at themselves in the mirror from the disgrace.
News from The Netherlands
The hate propaganda against Russians and anything Russian is in full swing. Also , and especially here in The Netherlands
The right wing newspaper, named “De Telegraaf” what some consider to have become a trashy new version of a hate filled type NSB NAZI propaganda tabloid posts yet another anti Russian headline. “Hoge Rus Ontmaskerd” High level Russian exposed!
The article goes on to claim & suggest that a high level ex military associate of Vladimir Putins secret service was involved in shooting down the MH17 Malaysian airlines Jet with a BUK missile.
As a Dutch national I am sick & tired of the hate propaganda against Russians in The Netherlands. Its simple for many of us.
War was raging in the Eastern Ukraine and the KIEV Nazi Junta did not stop airlines from flying over that dangerous area where full on war was raging because of whatever retarded reasoning. (money most likely)
So as a Dutch national I want to state that no matter who shot that plane down, I hold the Ukraine and their NAZI revolution 100% responsible as they were actively & repeatedly bombing civilians against all international laws, regulations & agreements pertaining to war. So to the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf. :Take your hate filled NAZI propaganda and shove it where the sun don’t shine. Your so called De Telegraaf, newspaper is truly becoming a hateful Goebels type propaganda trash paper in my eyes.
If I was sitting on the ground and having Ukrainian bombers murdering civilians around me I would have shot down any aircraft in reach myself. The fact that KIEV did not close down the airspace themselves over an area of war makes KIEV 100% responsible no matter who launched any rocket.
No person or airline with any common sense is going to fly over places of war like Mosul, Yemen, Syria unless these airlines care only about profits and not safety of their passengers. Ive stopped buying (Personal opinion) The Trash Dutch Newspaper “De Telegraaf a long time ago, well before I started flying as a passenger with Malaysian airlines.
“Walgelijk en om te kotsen soort haat propaganda tegen Rusland”
I am also a Dutch citizen. In my view the Dutch government is fully responsible for the MH17 catastrophe. They allowed Dutch citizens to cross a warzone. And now they are playing the blame Russia/Putin game in order to deviate the attention from this main issue: their responsibility.
Hi Dutch citizens, are you 100% sure that those were real living persons that were dropped down with MH17?
Quite sure. That was when Strelkov lost his credibility for me, with his crazy statements. De Telegraaf is not the only trashy newspaper. ´De Volkskrant´ , the more intellectual newspaper. They have their own neocon columnists. Both papers are also fiercely pro-Israel. Saturday this paper published an article from Soros.
There was two independent early reports of rotten bloodless corpses (OSCE and rebel). Someone claimed that the names on the victim list had no indication of death on any social media accounts. Then there was huge media cry that the bodies must not let go to Russia. Then the number of found bodies was 200 for a some time and suddenly all was found even there was reports of fighting going on around the crash site and no more reports of body searches.
I did search for related clues and news at the time and found one from Holland that was stating that there was a problem of lot of missing and switched bodies at morgues in Holland. Schiphol airport is said to be hub for tribe operations and both the famous shoe bomber and under wear bomber departed there. Ukraine has strong connection to the tribe and Israeli military had foreknowledge to start land attack on Palestine exactly the same time as the MH17 crashed. So it gave convenient two weeks media distraction to mass murder Palestinians.
@ Ben and Jan,
Has any of you heard the [unedited] audio of the [MH17] cockpit voice recorder?
Why did the Dutch government sign a secrecy agreement?
What do the relatives of the [Dutch] victims say about all this?
Quite a few questions, but it’s better to hear messages straight from the horse’s mouth [imo].
Thanks in advance.
To Daniel Rich
From Jan
First to give you an idea how many died and what their names were. It can give you an idea of the anger brewing at whoever will be finally proven as responsible.
As for your questions
1) Why did the Dutch government sign a secrecy agreement?
many Dutch are also extremely angry with this decision and especially according to news reports disgusted with the Dutch government for not explaining its reasons.
Some people discuss online that The our government used the opportunity to cut a deal with the USA to get back a big amount of Dutch Gold reserves stored in the USA, suggesting American involvement in a false flag regarding the MH17 flight.
b) a class action lawsuit trying to force the Dutch government to release various information’s and complaints about the unjustified secrecy were lodged on behalf of some of the victims. The articles relating to this news quickly disappeared from the mainstream news.
c) Some people were disgusted that the Ukraine was allowed on the investigations team while its innocence had not been proven.
d) Shortly after the main media outlets as far as I am concerned tried very hard to influence people that everything was the Russians fault without providing any substantial proof, listing a list of questionable sources, labs, unknown debris experts and unknown never ever before heard of experts.
This article is an example of the alternate media and questions the whole propaganda brain washing effort against Russia
http://www.niburu.co/index.php?option=com_content&id=8737:mh17-oekraine-wederom-ontmaskerd-als-leugenaar&Itemid=33
What do the relatives of the [Dutch] victims say about all this?
Mostly it seems that they have either been trying to deal with grief, some seek answers but overall its clear that a sort of media blackout exists in Nederland about real questions. Focus is now completely on blaming Russia for everything possible.
NRC handelsblad, NPO nieuws, etc.
That being said the unproven accusations on a daily basis by fame seeking second rate journalists and most conspiracy theories accusing Russia all the time seems as if we live in a totalitarian dictatorship which controls the Dutch news. Real media asking real questions on mainstream T.V.seems to have died in our country.
Its as if Russians & Russia stories about Eastern Ukraine are used to distract from the weekly new corruption scandals of the ruling political party and the rapidly worsening economic situation for average Dutch people.
This video is presented as proof that Russians must be responsible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6TGhrGyMrM
From this Dutch website as an example
http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2015/04/02/in-deze-video-is-petrovski-geen-verdachte-van-neerhalen-mh17-maar-een-held/#
“What do the relatives of the [Dutch] victims say about all this?”
You can Google the victims names to see if they made media statements on the alternate media.
These were the victims names of MH 17 and respectfully all names regardless of nationality are listed, not only Dutch.
John Alder – Verenigd Koninkrijk
Christopher Allen – Nederland
Ian Allen – Nederland
John Allen – Verenigd Koninkrijk
Julian Allen – Nederland
Stephen Leslie Anderson – Verenigd Koninkrijk
Andre Anghel – Canada
Mabel Anthonysamy – Maleisië
Ithamar Avnon – Nederland
Robert Ayley – Verenigd Koninkrijk
Joyce Baay – Nederland
Theresa Baker – Australië
Wayne Baker – Australië
Willem Bakker – Nederland
Rowen Bats – Nederland
Emma Bell – Australië
Muhamad Firdaus Bin Abdul Rahim – Maleisië
Mohd Ghafar Bin Abu Bakar – Maleisië
Ahmad Hakimi Bin Hanapi – Maleisië
Shaikh Mohd Noor Bin Mahmood – Maleisië
Wan Amran Bin Wan Hussin – Maleisië
Natashja Binda – Nederland
Muhammad Afruz Bintambi – Maleisië
Muhammad Afzal Bintambi – Maleisië
Dora Shahila Kassim – Maleisië
Nur Shazana Binti Mohamed Salleh – Maleisië
Hamfazlin Sham Binti Mohamedarifin – Maleisië
Mastura Binti Mustafa – Maleisië
Azrina Binti Yakob – Maleisië
Marsha Azmeena Bintitambi – Maleisië
Helen Borgsteede – Nederland
Elsemiek de Borst – Nederland
Catharina Bras – Nederland
Wilhelmina Louise Broghammer – Duitsland
Therese Brouwer – Nederland
Elisabeth Brouwers – Nederland
Barbara Maria de Bruin – Nederland
Anton Camfferman – Nederland
Benoit Chardome – België
Chong Yee Pengh – Maleisië
Eugene Choo Jin Leong – Maleisië
Carol Clancy – Australië
Michael Clancy – Australië
Regis Crolla – Nederland
Edith Cuijpers – Nederland
Auke Dalstra – Nederland
Cameron Dalziel – Verenigd Koninkrijk
Minhchau Dang – Nederland
Quocduy Dang – Nederland
Francesca Davison – Australië
Liam Davison – Australië
Liliane Derden – Australië
Shaliza Zaini Dewa – Maleisië
Donny Toekiran Djodikromo – Nederland
April van Doorn – Nederland
Caroline van Doorn – Nederland
Gijsbert van Duijn – Nederland
Fatima Dyczynski – Duitsland
Petronella van Eldijk – Nederland
Lisanne Laura Engels – Nederland
Tamara Ernst – Nederland
Emma Essers – Nederland
Peter Essers – Nederland
Valentijn Essers – Nederland
Shun Po Fan – Nederland
Ming Lee Foo – Maleisië
Bryce Fredriksz – Nederland
Ariza Binti Gazalee – Maleisië
Rene van Geene – Nederland
Angelique Gianotten – Nederland
Kaela Maya Jay Goes – Maleisië
Paul Goes – Nederland
Laurens van der Graaff – Nederland
Marco Grippeling – Nederland
Wilhelmus Grootscholten – Nederland
Jill Helen Guard – Australië
Roger Watson Guard – Australië
Darryl Gunawan – Fillipijnen
Hadiono Gunawan – Indonesië
Irene Gunawan – Fillipijnen
Sherryl Gunawan – Fillipijnen
Johanna de Haan – Nederland
Annemieke Hakse – Nederland
Davy Joseph Gerardus Hally – Nederland
Megan Hally – Nederland
Yuli Hastini – Indonesië
Geertruida Heemskerk – Nederland
Lidwina Heerkens – Nederland
Erik Peter van Heijningen – Nederland
Zeger Leonard van Heijningen – Nederland
Robin Hemelrijk – Nederland
Johannes Rudolfus van den Hende – Nederland
Marnix Reduan van den Hende – Nederland
Piers Adnan van den Hende – Nederland
Margaux Larissa van den Hende – Nederland
Hendry – Indonesië
Susan Hijmans – Nederland
Andrew Hoare – Verenigd Koninkrijk
Friso Hoare – Nederland
Jasper Hoare – Nederland
Katharina Hoonakker – Nederland
Howard Horder – Australië
Susan Horder – Australië
Astrid Hornikx – Nederland
Pieter Jan Willem Huijbers – Nederland
Arnoud Huizen – Nederland
Yelena Clarice Huizen – Indonesië
Maria Huntjens – Nederland
Olga Ioppa – Duitsland
Cornelia Janssen – Nederland
Kevin Jesurun – Nederland
Rishi Jhinkoe – Nederland
Tambi Bin Jiee – Maleisië
Annetje de Jong – Nederland
Subashni Jretnam – Maleisië
Mattheus Kamsma – Nederland
Qui Kamsma – Nederland
Yvonne Kappen – Nederland
Vickiline Kurniati Kardia – Indonesië
Karamjitsingh Karnailsingh – Maleisië
Karlijn Keijzer – Nederland
Allard van Keulen – Nederland
Jeroen van Keulen – Nederland
Robert van Keulen – Nederland
Barry Kooijmans – Nederland
Isa Kooijmans – Nederland
Mira Kooijmans – Nederland
Oscar Kotte – Nederland
Remco Kotte – Nederland
Lorenzo van de Kraats – Nederland
Robert Jan van de Kraats – Nederland
Hendrik Rokus Kroon – Nederland
Pim Wilhelm de Kuijer – Nederland
Johannes Lahaye – Nederland
Gerda Leliana Lahenda – Indonesië
Hubertus Lambregts – Nederland
Joseph Lange – Nederland
Petra van Langeveld – Nederland
Gabriele Lauschet – Duitsland
Jianhan Benjamin Lee – Maleisië
Kiah Yeen Lee – Maleisië
Mona Cheng Sim Lee – Australië
Why Keong Lee – Australië
Lee Pin Hui – Maleisië
Saskia de Leeuw – Nederland
Jennifer van der Leij – Nederland
Yau Chee Liew – Maleisië
Mark van der Linde – Nederland
Merel van der Linde – Nederland
Robert van der Linde – Nederland
Yanhwa Loh – Nederland
Klaas Willem van Luik – Nederland
Henricus Maas – Nederland
Edel Mahady – Australië
Emiel Mahler – Nederland
Lisa Marckelbach – Nederland
Elizabeth Martens – Nederland
Sandra Martens – Nederland
Evie Coco Anne Maslin – Australië
Mo Robert Anderson Maslin – Australië
Otis Samuel Frederick Maslin – Australië
Tina Pauline Mastenbroek – Nederland
Richard Mayne – Verenigd Koninkrijk
Mohdalibin Mdsalim – Maleisië
Bente van der Meer – Nederland
Fleur van der Meer – Nederland
Sophie van der Meer – Nederland
Ingrid Meijer – Nederland
Sascha Meijer – Nederland
Gerardus Menke – Nederland
Mary Menke – Nieuw-Zeeland
Lucie Paula Maria van Mens – Nederland
Hannah Sophia Meuleman – Nederland
Anelene Rostijem Misran – Nederland
Augustinus Moors – Nederland
Jeroen van de Mortel – Nederland
Milia van de Mortel – Nederland
Adinda Larasati Putri van Muijlwijk – Nederland
Emile van Muijlwijk – Nederland
Meling Anak Mula Maleisië
Johanna Nelissen – Nederland
Lyeti Elisabeth Ng – Maleisië
Qing Zheng Ng – Maleisië
Shiing Ng – Maleisië
Ngoc Minh Nguyen – Nederland
Tim Nieburg – Nederland
Stefan van Nielen – Nederland
Dafne Nieveen – Nederland
Tallander Franciscus Niewold – Nederland
Rahimmah Noor – Maleisië
Jan Noreilde – België
Steven Noreilde – België
Nicoll Charles Anderson Norris – Australië
Jolette Nuesink – Nederland
Jack Samuel O’Brien – Australië
Daisy Oehlers – Nederland
Victor Oreshkin – Australië
Julian Ottochian – Nederland
Sergio Ottochian – Nederland
Lubberta Palm – Nederland
Miguel Panduwinata – Nederland
Shaka Panduwinata – Nederland
Hasni Hardi Bin Parlan – Maleisië
Johnny Paulissen – Nederland
Martin Paulissen – Nederland
Sri Paulissen – Nederland
Sjors Adrianus Pijnenburg – Nederland
Robert Ploeg – Nederland
Alex Ploeg – Nederland
Benjamin Pocock – Verenigd Koninkrijk
Ericus van der Poel – Nederland
Kaushalya Jairamdas Datas Punjabi – Maleisië
Hielkje Raap – Nederland
Angeline Premila Rajandaran – Maleisië
Jeroen Renkers – Nederland
Tim Renkers – Nederland
Esther de Ridder – Nederland
Daisy Risah – Nederland
Albert Rizk – Australië
Maree Rizk – Australië
Joop Albert de Roo – Nederland
Catharina Ruijter – Nederland
Arjen Ryder – Australië
Yvonne Ryder – Australië
Christiene de Sadeleer – Nederland
Paulus van der Sande – Nederland
Steven van der Sande – Nederland
Tessa van der Sande – Nederland
Sanjid Singh Sandhu – Maleisië
Inge van der Sar – Nederland
Quinn Schansman – Nederland
Cornelis Schilder – Nederland
Christina Anna Elisa van den Schoor – Nederland
Maria Adriana de Schutter – Nederland
Rik Schuyesmans – België
Helena Sidelik – Australië
Bintiparawira Sitiamirah – Maleisië
Matthew Ezekial Sivagnanam – Maleisië
Paul Rajasingam Sivagnanam – Maleisië
Gary Slok – Nederland
Carlijn Smallenburg – Nederland
Charles Smallenburg – Nederland
Werther Smallenburg – Nederland
Maria Smolders – Nederland
Jane M Adi Soetjipto – Indonesië
Peter Souren – Nederland
Reinmar Specken – Nederland
Jan van der Steen – Nederland
Cornelia Stuiver – Nederland
Wayan Sujana – Indonesië
Supartini – Indonesië
Liam Sweeney – Verenigd Koninkrijk
Muhammad Afif Bin Tambi – Maleisië
Charles Eliza David Tamtelahitu – Nederland
Siew Poh Tan – Maleisië
Elaine Teoh – Maleisië
Yodricunda Theistiasih – Indonesië
Glenn Raymond Thomas – Verenigd Koninkrijk
Mary Tiernan – Australië
Gerardus Timmers – Nederland
Cornelia Tol – Nederland
Jacqueline van Tongeren – Nederland
Hendrik Jan Tournier – Nederland
Remco Trugg – Nederland
Tess Trugg – Nederland
Liv Trugg – Nederland
Thamsanqa Uijterlinde – Nederland
Anthonius van Veldhuizen – Nederland
Pijke van Veldhuizen – Nederland
Quint van Veldhuizen – Nederland
Kim Elisa Petronella Verhaegh – Nederland
Marie Vermeulen – Nederland
Erik Vleesenbeek – Nederland
Cornelia Voorham – Nederland
Wouter Vorsselman – Nederland
Maarten de Vos – Nederland
Eline Vranckx – Nederland
Huub van Vreeswijk – Nederland
Aafke de Vries – Nederland
Esther de Waal – Nederland
Hendrik Wagemans – Nederland
Brett Wals – Nederland
Jeroen Wals – Nederland
Jinte Wals – Nederland
Solenn Wals – Nederland
Amel Wals – Nederland
Frank van der Weide – Nederland
Leonardus Wels – Nederland
Sem Wels – Nederland
Ineke Westerveld – Nederland
Ketut Wiartini – Indonesië
Winneke van Wiggen – Nederland
Marit Witteveen – Nederland
Willem Witteveen – Nederland
Ninik Yuriani – Indonesië
Desiree Zantkuijl – Nederland
Frederique van Zijtveld – Nederland
Robert Jan van Zijtveld – Nederland
Completely agree with Jan.
Jan and Ben:
Completely agree with your statements.
First of all, even assuming for the sake of argument that Ukraine did not shoot down MH17 and that the rebels did (which I don’t believe, I think Ukraine shot it down with a BUK during its air defense exercises), Ukraine is liable for the MH17 shootdown because:
(1) It had been conducting aerial combat operations since March of 2014 in this airspace, starting with the use of fully armed military jets to buzz and intimidate peaceful protestors against the Maidan, and then progressing to the conducting of bombing and strafing runs against civilian and military targets as well as logistics support to ground combat operations and aerial artillery spotting work
(2) It had suffered numerous hull losses from aircraft shot down by a variety of military equipment including heavy machine guns, MANPDS, and heavy missile laucnhers in response to the aerial combat. logistics, and surveillance operations
(3) It failed to close the airspace undergoing military combat to civilian flights
(4) Regardless of who the NAF are or what they control or who backs them, Ukraine is the party officially in charge of all occurrances in the airspace over Donbass so long as the DNR and LNR are denied government recognition by Ukraine and the International Community. Ukraine cannot have it both ways, where armed rebel groups are responsible for the safe passage of air traffic over land they militarily control, but the same groups are denied actual governmental authority and international standing, and thus international responsibility.
(5) Ukraine knew that at least one and possibly up to 4 BUK launchers had been apparently captured in Donetsk and Lugansk by the NAF and that electronics specialists had repaired these launchers and made them operational. The NAF posted pictures of these systems and video tapes of specialists acknowledging the repairs. Knowing the operational capabilities of such systems should have resulted in complete closure of the airspace immediately upon the equipment’s capture. Similarly, Ukraine was claiming such systems were transiting the Russia-Ukraine state border courtesy of the Russian military. If true, such claims by Ukraine should have been backed up with restrictive actions on overflights by the Ukrainian government for the same reasons.
Second, it is a farce that Ukraine, which is clearly a potential guilty party to the shootdown, is permitted to be part of the criminal and civil investigations of the shootdown, thus ensuring a whitewash of its own potential guilt. Ukraine was conducting air defense exercises at the time with numerous BUK missile launchers and S-300 missile launchers armed with live missiles, as well as aerial combat operations with planes armed with anti-aircraft weaponry. As a justification for these exercises, Ukraine was also claiming that its airspace was under attack by the Russian Federation air force and missile defense units, which they variously claimed had shot down AN-26 and SU-25 airplanes at extreme altitude. Ukraine had also previously accidentally shot down a civilian airliner during such exercises in 2001.
Another more balanced Dutch reaction.
Thank God not all my Dutch countrymen are US propaganda infected Media Zombies suffering Brain Rot
“Prosecutors’ probe into MH-17 disaster not trustworthy — Dutch journalist
http://tass.ru/en/world/787207
“Joost Niemoller, the author of “MH-17: The Cover-up Deal” – a book exploring the facts behind the disaster, has told TASS the investigation should be handed over to a higher, international level.”
https://twitter.com/joostniemoller
Don’t you Dutch people realize that your country is a satrapy of the little shitty country ??
Wake up ! Or is it too late ??
Jan, let’s start with the facts.
Here is one of the Telegraaf articles that are referred to:
http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/23875178/___Hoge_Rus_op_MH17-opname___.html
The Telegraaf article claims – based on SBU sources – that some Sergej Nikolajevitsj Petrovski, alias Chmoery, is one of the people you can hear on the newly released tapes from the MH17 investigation team. Petrovski was before he came to Ukraine a general-major in the Russian army. According to them his second name (“Nikolajevitsj”) was bleeped away by the investigation team to prevent recognition but can be heard in copies of the recording that circulated before in Ukraine. According to the article Petrovski played an important role in Sloviansk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olQNpTxSnTo
http://www.jitmh17.com/
The article also refers to an interview of Petrovski had with the Russian website http://politikus.ru/. I haven’t been able to find that interview yet.
Exactly what I mean. “Dat klopt”
Your statement
“The article also refers to an interview of Petrovski had with the Russian website http://politikus.ru/. I haven’t been able to find that interview yet.”
Many references and claims are made in the media citing and pointing to other supposed information the Mainstream Dutch media states as facts.
Then when a reader tries to substantiate such claimed information it ends up a dead end or the website does not exist or the information does not exist.
Regardless the news has been anti Russian and biased from the start. Most all Dutch media sites news and opinions/analysis look biased, identical “Orwellian” in nature. I noticed it immediately coming back from living abroad.
BBC, Al Jazeera, CNN, NPO, Volkskrant, De Telegraaf, etc all present identical anti Russian biased news based to great extent on Air. “Makelaars van luchtkasteelen Nieuws”
Then there is these lunatic warmongering US officials and analysts who get interviewed by Dutch T.V. presenters or quoted.
“Robert H. Scales, a retired US Army major general and Fox News contributor, who said that the only solution to the Ukrainian conflict was to “start killing more Russians”
In our country which continuously exports the Dutch collective guilt about Anne Frank which in fact represents the Dutch NSB movement complicity of native Dutch effectively having assisted in the genocide of most of The Netherlands Jews , its amazing that The Criminal court in The Hague or any Dutch government officials have not even suggested the laying of charges of incitement to murder against complete lunatics such as “Robert H. Scales, a retired US Army major general”
The Netherlands economy is as I understand it over 30% dependent on US business interests and The Netherlands is a favorite Tax dodging shelter for many US companies. The US has nuclear weapons stationed in our country and buying US overpriced, vastly over budget JSF fighter jets instead of rescuing our local shipping & suffering construction industries clearly indicates that The Netherlands has to great extent become a Banana “Tulip/Cheese” republic, vassal colony of the USA.
http://www.nu.nl/tag/jsf/
Present day Dutch politicians seem to like the perks and mindless brainwashing dribble of warmongering US politicians who tell our country what is good for us.
http://www.nu.nl/politiek/3951096/hennis-ontkent-krijgen-van-prijsgaranties-kosten-jsf.html” “Minister Jeanine Hennis van Defensie ontkent dat ze prijsgaranties heeft gekregen van de Amerikaanse regering over de kosten van de JSF.”
Here some more statements and claims against Russia by the New Dutch Minister of foreign affairs Koenders.
Klare taal Koenders: de Russen hebben het gedaan Titel translated as “Clear language, The Russians did it”
http://www.elsevier.nl/Buitenland/achtergrond/2015/1/Klare-taal-Koenders-de-Russen-hebben-het-gedaan-1694161W/
” Als het aan minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Bert Koenders (PvdA) ligt, komt de Europese Unie (EU) met extra sancties tegen Rusland. Koenders ziet Rusland als de agressor achter het weer opgelaaide conflict in Oost-Oekraïne.
Ter voorbereiding op de raad van EU-ministers van Buitenlandse Zaken donderdag in Brussel vertelde Koenders woensdag aan de Tweede Kamer wat de Nederlandse inzet zal zijn. De minister sprak in klare taal over de bemoeienis van de Russen in het gebied.”
Please Google translate this yourself. At any rate I am increasingly ashamed to be Dutch with such biased & idiotic politically motivated hatred expressed against Russia from clearly unqualified and uninformed Dutch politicians. Dutch politicians know little else, other than continuous US state department packaged brainwashing propaganda.
Its perhaps interesting to mention that refugee & Asylum seekers in The Netherlands have been committing record numbers of suicides, even a Russian hanging himself and others setting themselves on fire. Probably because of the shock experienced how the Dutch system treats refugees.
But “Nederland” is all about pointing the Hypocritical finger and acting important.
Some facts politicians should take care of.
a) Pedofile organization is/was legal only in this country bringing shame to all of us.
b) Ex Minister of Justice was accused by many organizations of being a pedophile
c) Last Minister of Justice was accused by many politicians of money laundering Drug money for a Dutch Drugs baron
d) Yelling “Minder Minder Minder” Less , Less , Less and inciting hatred against certain vulnerable population groups seems to be ok, as Police have so far done nothing after receiving over 10.000 police reports asking for action against this politician Wilders & other politicians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oka6fi2g6-U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaB75uznT8o
e) Apartheid was a Dutch word and the manager of Apartheid was Dutch, Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, 8 September 1901, Amsterdam, Netherlands
making him the only person to become a South African prime minister who was not a South African by birth.
f) The Netherlands one of the most polluted countries in Europe but Greenpeace based in Amsterdam continuously harasses Russia.
g) Crime is at an all time high. Race hatred between different groups is being incited and ignored.
h) The Dutch economy is a train wreck. with more failing companies than ever while suicide rates skyrocket nationally as big Dutch businesses are going bankrupt regularly. V&D etc.
i) Netherlands rated most unfriendly country for Expats
http://www.dutchdailynews.com/unfriendly-country-expats/
j) Dutch people immigrate in great numbers unhappy with their own country
http://statline.cbs.nl/StatWeb/publication/?VW=T&DM=SLNL&PA=37943ned&LA=NL
http://www.dagelijksestandaard.nl/2013/01/nederlanders-migreren-massaal-vanwege-rutte-ii-crisis-en-verharding-samenleving/
“Nederlanders migreren massaal vanwege Rutte-II, crisis en verharding samenleving”
k) Dutch farmers demand compensation for results of sanctions “Boeren eisen compensatie voor schade boycot” http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/1012/Nederland/article/detail/3715384/2014/08/08/Boeren-eisen-compensatie-voor-schade-boycot.dhtml
But regardless of these important issues in The Netherlands come up with is Bad Russia, bad Russians & bad count Vlad Putin, bad Eastern RUSSIAN Ukrainians for demanding unreasonable human rights. etc. total Bovine excrement.
The Netherlands is comatose and close to death. Nothing else but Voetbal & frustration left to go and destroy Italian fountains in Rome.
The Netherlands like the titanic hit a massive iceberg of political stupidity but most Dutch passengers don’t realize yet how fast the ship The NL is sinking. The little Dutch boys finger is too small to close those holes in the dike or shut up those A Holes in The Hague
The parasitic corrupt political waste of Oxygen in The Hague who practice politics like 27-year-old Lubitz flew his airplane into the mountain side need a distraction from their own massive corruption. Voila. Russia. After Pussy Riot, Bearded Men and a lost world cup thank God there is Russia to biatch about. Corruption & Bovine Waste fertilizer is drowning our country besides fracking in the province of Groningen in a country which is mostly located below the sea level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWsknMT1LGM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUEfU0P92Ws
That is how intelligent & suicidal our politicians are. Fracking in a country which is mostly below sea level. 1+1= ????? To difficult for Dutch politicians to understand basic geology 101.
But all the complicit Orwellian hate spewing Dutch mainstream media can come up with is: The Russians did it, The Russians are coming. Russian BUK, KGB, Soviet UNION panic panic. The JEWS the JEWS , Oh wait now its the Moroccans & Russians. Same illegal incitement to hatred, different victims.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejBjLdydoMM
Arrivederci, Adjeu, Auf Wiedersehen Nederland & good luck with all your hatred.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q7LIJRm-Fg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNaoCFqCzMk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=843osgK8Yi4
Go Iran!
I agree Wend !! Go Iran !!!
Yes Ann – you got it right (again) https://www.vomcanada.com/iran.htm
The Iranian attitude toward religion can seem contradictory—very chaste in public but much less so in private. The courts have the right to impose the death sentence on male apostates and life imprisonment for female apostates. Effectively, Iran is a religious dictatorship where little of consequence can occur without the approval of the Guardian Council of Mullahs.
Sounds nearly as bad as the West & the same (or worse) inequality in Russia.
Are you searching for the lowest common denomnator?
I know Porky’s a pig but i’m sure glad I didn’t have KK as my boss.
“We” are not facing any real danger whatsoever. “They” are facing catastrophic danger and ruin, and that is just as intended. North America will once again be in a perfect position to step in and rebuild/reclaim/restore any or all of these nations – at their expense and to their detriment of course.
Lets you and him fight.
My guess is that Saudis + Emirates will keep bombing from long above. These people do not dare to fight face to face. If Yemenis go to offensive and invade Saudi I do not think Saudis will be able to defend themselves most probably will ask for help from the US. Saudis are not known for being tough fighters.
It’s not about “when our zombified society will wake up” but rather “if”. The lack of faith among westerners is notorious and I fear that the whole West will go down the same rat-hole that its leaders will take.
Saker, please comment on or write a blog about this latest piece in The Independent on Putin “threatening” nuclear war. Seems a bit distorted.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-threatens-to-use-nuclear-force-over-crimea-and-the-baltic-states-10150565.html
You might start here:
http://sputniknews.com/russia/20150402/1020357197.html#ixzz3WBfWVe78
In summary, Dmitry Peskov said that Russia did not threaten the West with nuclear weapons over the protection of the Crimean Peninsula. This is a classic example of hysteria.
Thanks SunLion, that pretty much takes care of it. Too bad they’ve trotted this out again, as if it’s new.
kass
When the “coalition” planes prevented the Russian Federation from landing in Yemen yesterday, to evacuate its nationals, I was hoping that Russia would deliver a stern response, such as bombing military facilities in Saudia Arabia. Who are these 3rd rate fascists to interfere with Russia’s freedom in the skies?
did Iran capitulate or is this victory under very very harsh conditions?
French were supposedly playing spoiler o.b.o Israel. I wonder what China and Russia role really was in these negotiations.
Capitalism’s true face: wow, my friend who had consigned you off to the dustbin of the hopeless ideologues nearly choked on his oatmeal reading your “Lenin was right” comment Yes, and it is an international/world wide, toxic phenomena…hmmm, now who predicted this? Despair not, the Yemenis have hunkered down before and will do so again.
..the pressure to conform in the USA is tremendous… The new comedian for the Daily Show is under attack because he made fun of Jews and Israel ( among others) which if you notice none of the Jewish comedians ever do–they know the tribe’s code to silence criticism of all types –the old “lashon hara” charge which is used to suppress truth tellers under the guise of halting malicious gossip. yeah, no simple omerta but it has to be cloaked in pseudo righteousness.
Thus, keep fighting the good fight, Saker.
well saker –
would Capitalism with a friendly face be ok?
what exactly is that anyway?
Is it income limit at $100,000 and transfer of inheritance limited to $1M?
Or are you with KK and the benign trillionaire?
After half a century at least of blast the brain repetition of one ism vs another I’ll be damned if I could give an impromptu definition worthy of a coffee can….however I found it interesting in a recent interview of Noam Chomsky by John Nichols that Chomsky said that one thing Capitalism is, not, is government guarenteed repayment of the banks for the bad loans they made to Greece for example. Capitalism would be make the bad loan take the hit…..
Yes, a socialist gift from – the poor to the rich…
Maybe the Greeks can poke one capitalist stick in the eye of the rich (who use socialism / capitalism when it suits)?
Might as well embrace your inner Red. You’re going to be accused of it no matter what you say.
Absolutely wonderful analysis as always dear Saker .
Short ,sweet and right between the eyes .
You , Pepe and Craig (in that order :-) ) are the three musketeers
of the free press on this planet .
I’m not a Leninist either, but respect him more since Ukraine blew up. To quote Walter Benjamin:
A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.
Sorry, I don’t even understand that well myself, but I’m sure it’s apt. I’d also throw down another quick quote:
The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his “natural superiors”, and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous “cash payment”. It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.
The west in Yemen, Ukraine and Al Sham is anti-ideological, anti-historical, anti-sentiment. They are pro-emptiness, and demand all to be utterly consumed by their emptiness. Even Zionism is a total abandoment of real Jewishness in exchange for raw, meaningless power.
Now the Shi’atu Ali are profoundly devoted to the house of Mohammad and the pure spiritual meaning of islam. It’s not a political division over who should have been the first caliph, Shia’s don’t believe in temporal caliphs, they believe in spiritual imams.
Through my experience in Saudi Arabia I found the Sunnis there (not only local Hanbali/Wahabi, I had lots of muslim colleagues from every sunni background) to be obsessed with islam as a kind of video game where they do this or that to win a certain number of blessings for themselves. “There’s a hadith that says if you do this or that it’s worth 10 000 blessings” or “do X this way and the blessings on you quadruple.” Sorry but it seems to me kind of self-centred and unspiritually accumulative. Actually, some of the earliest surrahs point out that one of the greatest things a muslim can do is care for orphans, while doing them wrong is one of the worst things, but this doesn’t come up in islamic jurisprudence much.
You’ll also find that Shia’s look at sunnis as misguided muslims and promote muslim unity while sunnis ignorantly look at shias as all self-slashing apostate schizoids that must be destroyed.
PS- If I’m ever curt please remember I find this to be the only blog worth posting on. I just have a baltic-protestant hatred for pleasantries and affirmation-gushing. Not standing on ceremony is a higher form of respect, and leaves more time to get down to brass tacks :)
Among Shi´a practices we can find:
5.-“Struggle for the sake of God”:
Every Muslim has to struggle hard and strive for the sake of God in different ways to make improvments to human life in general and his individual life in particular. The Qur´an says:
“He has created you upon the Earth and has asked you to develop it” ( 11:61 ).
To be indifferent to human catastrophes or to be lazy in one´s personal life is greatly condemned.
(…) A very outstanding and vital case of this struggle ( jihäd ) is to defend human rights such as liberty, freedom, and Islamic and human values such as justice, dignity, and a Muslim nation´s integrity. The Qur´an says:
“Permission ( to fight ) is given to those against whom war is being wrongfully and offensively
waged, and surely God is able to give them victory. Those who have been expelled from
their homes unjustly, only because they said, “Our Lord is God…” ( 22:39-40 ).
And why do you not fight for the sake of God and the utterly oppressed men, women and
children who are crying out, “O Lord! Rescue us from this town whose people are
oppressors, and raise for us from You one who will protect, and raise for us from You one
who will help” ( 4:75 ).
(..) Jihäd must continue until the just cause is achieved. The Qur´an says: “Fight against aggressors until oppression is stopped” (2:193). Of course, on a larger scale, a real jihäd has always existed from the dawn of creation of mankind, between good and evil, truth and falsehood, and between the party of God and the party of Satan. This battle will more or less continue till the end of the time when the Earth will be filled with justice under the government of al-Mahdi.
Jihäd, whether it be with the pen, the tongue, a weapon, or any other means is an act of worship, and must be performed with pure intention, that is, only for the sake of God and for just causes
No one is allowed to fight or struggle for materialistic purposes, for personal glory or the glory of any tribe, race, nation, or any other oppressive cause such as occupying others´ land to become richer or more powerful.
6.-“Enjoining good and forbidding evil”:
Enjoining good ( al-amr bi al ma´aruf ) and forbidding evil ( al-nahy ´an al-munkar ) are two acts of worship that every mature Muslim has to perform whenever applicable. No Muslim can be indifferent to what happens in the world around him. Part of the social responsabilities of each individual Muslim is to observe human and religious values, and whenever any of these values is deliberately overlooked or violated, he must advise and direct those responsabilities towards performing good and against committing bad and sinful acts. ( 3:103; 109&113; 7:199; 9:71&112; 22:41 ).
* In appreciation of that pious clergyman of Isfahan for his selfless gift to a foreign infidel.
Thank you for that. Beautiful sentiments. How rare to read about Islam in the west in any substantive way. May peace come to your peoples.
Geez, don’t let KK read that:
“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his “natural superiors”, and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous “cash payment”. It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.”
you mean it’s possible to form an argument that this quote doesn’t perfectly describe US actions in Ukraine? Or this KK doesn’t believe that elite major shareholders (bourgeoisie) rule the NATOsphere?
The zombies won’t awaken. I hate what the gangsters are doing, but the fewer the restraints on the AZ Empire the sooner it will self-destruct.
I don’t see a high risk of a major war. Unless someone does something really stupid, history will merely repeat in the form of a contained proxy war. Even if the school yard bully is confronted, as happened at Georgia 08-08-08 and as happened at Crimea without firing a shot last year, then there will be fist pumping in the media and sanctions and nothing more.
But this is Yemen. Aid from Russia and Iran will not be overt. Yemen will be like Syria, victim of a protracted proxy war.
Cowards flying high in the sky never change the facts on the ground. Our zombies sleep, but the third world is waking up. The empire is shrinking, one stupid failed adventure after another. To their everlasting shame and damnation the gangsters will kill a lot of civilians, as usual. They can’t kill the truth.
No lack of stupidity, or carelessness or error. There are many close calls.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/04/01/japanese-news-agency-reveals-nuclear-war-close-call/
Japanese News Agency Reveals Nuclear War Close Call
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Japanese News Agency Reveals Nuclear War Close Call
After a year of threatening Russia with war, all we need is a mistake like this one in 1962 and it will be all over for humanity.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2015/03/343924.html
17:19 27 March 2015
U.S. veterans reveal 1962 nuclear close call dodged in Okinawa
By Masakatsu Ota TOKYO, March 27, Kyodo
At the final moment of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, the U.S. nuclear missile men in Okinawa received a launch order which was later found to have been mistakenly issued, according to testimonies by former U.S. veterans given to Kyodo News.
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Understood. The risk is real that the empire could go from mad to barking mad at.
However fear of that possibility should not dominate. Fear is a weapon, and the empire knows how to use it. Shall we let them hold that weapon against our heads? I’ve made my choice.
Those who are awake should regard the empire not with fear and dismay but with the ridicule and contempt it so richly deserves.
I wonder how “mistakenly issued” it was.As I recall that was the time many high in the US military were pushing for war.And were very unhappy with Kennedy because there wasn’t war.Some believe that was one of the reasons for his assassination.
Uncle Bob 1 said: “many high in the US military were pushing for war. And were very unhappy with Kennedy because there wasn’t war. Some believe that was one of the reasons for his assassination.”
According to author James W. Douglass, Kennedy’s assassination was designed as a false flag operation to justify a nuclear first-strike against the Soviet Union. Fortunately (for those of us who were alive in 1963) the Soviets had prior knowledge of this, and were able to derail the planned nuclear attack (by threatening to expose the role of the CIA in the assassination). See The U.S. National Security Act of 1947, the Origin of “Plausible Deniability” and the Assassination of JFK
“yemen”
How low(weak ) will Russia go that even third rate enemies are stopping her for rescue of her own Russia citizens let alone coming to rescue of her allies in Syria, Yemen or Iran.?
http://tass.ru/en/world/786569
Arab coalition stops Russian plane from evacuating Russians from Yemen — media
World April 01,
Saker, you mention imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism, but isn’t Russian economy also __capitalist__?!
You are of course not saying that Russia is “exceptional” or has “capitalism with a human face”.
So, how do you view today’s Russia in this imperialist planetary game?
Economy not large enough to compete?
Or not competing because doesn’t know how?
Or capitalist Russia is ….. just another one of ‘da boyz’?
Please explain.
It’s the central point Stavros.
The Russian sheeple are no different to their Western “partners”.
They exploit and are exploited by fellow Russians.
If Russia were more powerful it’s system of predatory Capitalism would, i’m sure, result in similar worldwide rape/pillage.
At a military spend of less than 20% that of the US they just don’t have the balls to do that.
More likely is that a global world hegemony (unlimited by national boundaries) already exists and we just waste our time discussing the infantile disease called nationalism.
Have a look at Putin’s watch collection and tell me he’s not a scumbag the same as others.
Observe just the … arms sales…
Here it is, from the horse’s mouth, none other than the RT.com evangelic outlet of our good ‘n peaceful ‘n whiter than thou Lilly-white, http://rt.com/business/241005-russia-second-arms-exporter/ , ‘t says:
share of global _exports_ in the world arms trade in 2010-2014 – US 31%, Russia 27%
(In fact, if you check Wiki or any other source, there’s none ranked between the two, the third in the world being Germany, with a mere one-seventh of Russia’s sales…)
Well … at least Russia is not as bad as the US, it lags a gigantic 4% behind, doesn’t it…
Putin’s Extravagant $700,000 Watch Collection
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/06/putins-extravagant-700000-watch-collection/
Putin’s $500,000 Watch (English Subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd1Z3qJKp1Q
P.S. Putin’s annual salary for 2014 was 3.7 million rubles = $61,000
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/06/world/putin-slashes-salary/
saker – the comment “Iran can make minced meat out of this “coalition of kindness” and if it comes to an overt conflict the US will have to bail out its numerous allies in the region: the comprador elites who sold out their own religion, country and people to the AngloZionist Empire.”
iran is not going to do anything to annoy anglos after nuclear deal got at such a high price and difficult negotiation-may be that was the aim to keep iran neutral!
besides Iran has seen how much russia betrayed her to please her anglo enemies-so Iran is Inigo to go pro American or at least not pro Russian side .why should it?
Russia did not care for Russian interests in iran when going was good so why should Iran bother about Russia?
Ask Iran and Syria if they ever got the air defense systems that would have decisively fended off those who threaten them. Have they? When matters come to a real head, Russia seems to join forces with its ‘partners in the west’ and turns on its supposed allies. In the end, Putin is no different from Yeltsin looking on as Serbia burned, or so it appears. Let Putin prove his doubters wrong. Nothing would make them happier than to be wrong,
Russia must destabilize the anglosaxon countries especially evil england and its cronies like saudi arabia ,Kuwait ,Bahrain etc by infiltration, mass uprising and by arming Iran with s-400 and arming Syria with much more substantial arms. Heavily Arm the Irish too.
Exactly. Russia is a part of the same problem.
PS: The empire in the UK was forced to change it’s track after this http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/24/newsid_2523000/2523345.stm
Only 1 Ton !
Why did not Iran open the doors, show the IAEA everything and avoid the sanctions for years?
All the guts deep underground are for weapons development. Many nations have nuclear power and they did not develop power facilities underground. Those with underground centrifuges and labs developed weapons or at least explosive devices (North Korean has yet to weaponize their devices.)
So, why the secrecy? They have suffered for nothing.
Not that I don’t accept the containment and destabilization facts. Of course, Israel and the Sunni oil kingdoms want to be the ME Hegemon and want Iran undeveloped.
However, you have to present the logic, political or strategic reason why Iran pretends to be building a weapons program but really isn’t. It makes no sense.
There was a program underway when the Shah fled, they took it over and developed it.
To say all they wanted was electricity and their own medical isotope program is comical. Not a scintilla of believability in such a statement.
Would you have any links for underground enrichment stations? any good reason why they should NOT have it underground? considering Israel has been known to bomb another country’s nuclear facilities? (Iraq, if you can’t remember).
Israel cannot bomb Iran or it would have early on. Also, you beg the question. The question is why secret? Just show the works.
Russia has been supportive, in fact will be build the facilities and take the depleted fuel.
The reason Russian and China joined the sanctions regime was to stop nuclear weapon proliferation and the obvious reaction to any Iran weapon would be wild proliferation by oil-Arab and mid-East nations like Turkey and Egypt.
Explain why the Russians and Chinese joined in the sanctions regime?
You see what I mean about a real program perceived by weapons developers?
People have to realize that Iran is not Saint Iran.
It not only suffered a terrible sanctions regime, it got many of its top scientists assassinated by the Israelis and probably other covert agencies.
Thus the logic of what you say (and I don’t necessarily dismiss it) is that Iran or any other state threatened, is justified in assassinating scientists involved in weapons work in another country.So if top Israeli or US scientists all of a sudden start being blow-up its acceptable as a state defense policy.Hmmm,I can see the logic of your position.But sadly,Russia or Iran so far (yet) doesn’t agree .
Russia and China joined in because they wanted to be just like the nato. This was very very clear in the case of Russia and Russians. China on the other hand is trying to play both sides and they take a far longer time frame so hard to see what their plans are. Until the last few years and especially because of Putin, Russia got some respect. Most of the time Russians are so far up the western imperialists arses that it would be hard to see their true colors. This is especially true of halting the S300’s shipment to Iran a weapon system that is purely defensive in nature and has no offensive capability. If you find some hostility towards Russians it is because of this. Quite a lot of Russians who still think they are WHITE. But on the other hand it is good to remind Russians quite often, they are only here because they got abused by their western spouses.. Especially those Russians who whine here about how much better it is to join the US even if it is just to carry the bucket.. Seems according to the likes of nuland, Russians are not even good for that. So it is all a marriage of convenience. No one would be here if not for the empire imploding.
Dear The Saker,
An interesting piece – the Russian angle and arab mentality in regard to Yemen:
http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2015/04/the-russian-angle-and-arab-mentality.html
The Saudi’s may have opened a can of worms that could come back and bite them very hard.
Rgds,
Veritas
Hi Saker, good post. I’ll send it along. Thanks.
I was thinking about the most likely trigger for a US vs Russia war over Ukraine. It’s occurred to me that such a war might be thought of as in the interest of Britain/Israel, and therefore that the trigger wd be false flag against either Russia or the US (really committed by Britain or Israel).
The bigger the build-up at the border and in rhetoric, the easier to commit an effective false-flag trigger.
lenin was wrong.
the only difference between communism and capitalism is in stealing, in communism everybody steals, in capitalism (at least in this feudal version we have in eastern europe) only few are permitted to steal – others are financing this activity through taxes and bailouts.
well, if we are (most all) a bunch of b*****ds (which seems likely) I sure wish somebody would push the button so we can all stop talking bullshit – this is getting tedious.
“In capitalism man exploits man. In communism it is the other way around.”
“I really wonder when our zombifed society will wake up to the dangers we are all now facing.”
What goes on in Ukraine and Yemen has as much relevance to US people as the Vogon Earth destruction notice in the basement of a building on a planet in a nearby star system, in Douglas Adams Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Americans have no interest whatsoever in anything that doesn’t confront them right in the face. Nothing the US does overseas has any effect whatsoever on the populace and it never has. Only the draft brought it home during Vietnam, and the draft is history. So the empire will continue until collapse.
Those who fan the flames will inevitably suffer burns ! The central question — which one burns them first, Ukrainian or West Asia or may be a third one.
One more very good article and analyze…
The period of “capitalism with a human face” is now clearly over and we are now living exactly what Lenin had predicted: imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism.
Yup. Appreciate the sitrep, great job.
none of this mentioned in MSM
http://rt.com/shows/crosstalk/246353-yemen-saudi-oil-houthis/
tick-tock.
There are many threads unraveling in the tapestry of the modern world. Regardless of xenophobic ambitions, it’s a toss up which short-sighted self aggrandizing behavior will eventually put another species on the top of the evolutionary heap. Will it be war, nuclear disaster, crop failure, pollution, watershed degradation, epidemic, or catastrophic thermal-halide disruption? Personally, I think it’ll be all of the above sporadically veiing for preeminence in the rapidly dwindling column space available for prattling idiocy on who’s right, who’s richest and who’s got the best tits.
Show of Force: Chinese Navy Rescues Foreigners from Yemen’s Aden
In an unprecedented move, the Chinese military sent a warship to Yemen to evacuate 225 foreign nationals from the conflict-ridden country.
The operation marks the first time the Chinese military has helped other countries evacuate their citizens from a war zone. A statement released by the China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said evacuees were picked up from Aden, Yemen’s second city, and transported across the Red Sea to Djibouti, from where they can take flights home. The naval frigate was redirected there from the coast of Somalia, where it had carried out anti-piracy patrols.
The evacuees consisted of nationals from 10 different countries, the majority of whom were Pakistanis, at 176. Chinese State television showed the foreign nationals aboard the naval frigate arrive to Djibouti, with footage showing children stepping off the warship and waving Chinese flags.
what will happen to shia in Yemen
Beppo Grilli, the Italian comedian, will give you his answers in the recent interview he gave to .
And his statement that the European Union is finished is true. “If the Union cannot save Greece when Greece’s input into the EU is only 2%, a rescue easily within the Union’s abilities, there is no Union.”
I add, if the European Union can be convinced by major United States False Flag event, the complex downing and 100% fatalities of the Boeing Malaysian, Netherlands filled airliner into US/Ukraine slaughter zone where the remains could not be touched but by jackals, birds of prey and human scavangers, to sanction Russia copying US Russian sanctions thereby internationalising US sanctions, which is exactly what happened, the Union is over. It has accepted slavery status the the American’s need to rule the globe. The many psychiatric evaluations of Angela Merkel done by recording every single phone call, actions and inaction, out bursts and writings pinpointed exactly how to neuter her power. With her first agreement that the EU sanction Russia, she trapped herself and all Europe in America’s long planned death grip.
Not one shred of Union left. Now we watch as America orders it’s new vassal state Ukraine to act out the US rewriting of European and global history and identity to where Russia is obliterated from existing in all annals. The Union, but for the few, acts in Nazi like lockstep. So easy, yet so many unseen hundreds of years plans from the beginning in the British Parliament in 1814.
“Israeli Fighter Jets Join Saudi Arabia in War on Yemen” http://sputniknews.com/analysis/20150403/1020454746.html
Perhaps should read US fighter jets piloted by Israeli and Saudi personnel start war on Iran’s southern flank with the aim of distracting the msm narrative from swinging into questioning why the future one-state Israeli-Palestinian entity should have nuclear weapons in the region? No doubt there is also some hope that Iran will be goaded into overt response (similar to Ukraine-Russia) thereby justifying escalation of war and continued sanctions for other than nuclear reasons.
On another related topic (China + Russia) …
Russia appears interested in providing security during the Chinese construction of the Nicaragua Canal.
“Nicaragua began building the $50 billion dollar canal that would connect the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans on December 22. The private Hong Kong Nicaragua Canal Development (HKCD) Group was commissioned to complete the ambitious project within 5 years.
The new canal is set to be longer and wider than the already existing Panama Canal.
The HKCD was granted a 50-year concession to manage the project, with a possible extension for another 50 years, after the construction is completed.”
http://sputniknews.com/analysis/20150403/1020454746.html
It’s halfascist burning Bush serial PNAC Attacks by their E卐CEϟϟ Of
EVIL in Yemen! Just(ly) ask al Awlaki & son; neither of whom; no thanks to Barry-0, will EVER rise from The DEAD!
South Yemen used to be a secular Marxist-Leninist country allied to USSR up until 1990. Unfortunately, the world has become a far worse place since the demise of USSR.
Off topic, but also interesting
http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/religion–spiritual-practice/the-real-reason-that-netanyahu-andisraeli-leaders-claim-to-speak-for-all-jews.html
Saker: Thanks for what you do! From what I have been able to see since 9/11, a False Flag, is that the US intends to roil up the entire globe. Nothing is by chance at all, yet every commentator but this one says it is chance. No way, Jose!
As to you need to replace three Russian commentators, if you ask directly Sergei Glazyev, Putin’s trusted friend and his minister of economics he’ll make sure they are replaced with the best and protect you too.
What you do is priceless for Russia…has no price
Look for Sergei on You Tube. He did a youtube to explain what the US was doing invading and changing Ukaine’s government so the tape is called “Why the US is arming Ukraine is to invade Russia” or close to that.
Take care, Mrs William Clinton has thrown her hat in the ring felt the presidency crown was promised her by Netanyahu and Obama just quietly kicked him in the teeth. I know the US very very well and believe me it is no longer safe at all. You might want to set up an air-raid shelter. sdk
Mrs William Clinton set up two several million dollar trusts In Ukraine that have been filled while she was Secretary of State and afterwards, by the Ukrainian legalised, US inserted, Nazi Mafia billionaires. She is starting her campaign as an underdog. Maybe the US Supreme Court will gift it to her as Sandra Day O’Connor gave it to Bush11. Maybe the CIA can do the trick. But she showed her most governing side when she, the face of the US was put in charge of the destruction of our faithful ally, Libya with famous Qaddafi, carefully killed so his children would go mad and the Umma 2 billion strong, would swelll out in rage and shrink with fear. What would she do to Russia, Europe?
I do not think that the US Government intends ever to let it’s subjects wake up. It will mass kill them first.
The only things keeping the planet alive presently is China and Russia together closer than brothers.
The best thing to do is to ignore the USA at every turn, do not accept aid from it, make no agreements or alliances with it, as all will be broken.