New 40 min documentary, mostly new footage I had never seen about the Odessa events. Lots of new faces; appears significant. Would be great to see that with English subtitles
I would like to bring just some economical fact in this blog and encourage people to think using some “financial glasses”.
After all, let’s be honest, this is the biggest force in the world that motivates millions or billions of people. This is why most of the people commenting here are probably still living in western countries and enjoying the financial benefits from there.
1. Russia is advising several countries not to join EU while, in parallel Russia is doing everything (including a lot of self-humiliation) to please and be in good economic and business terms with the same EU. Think deeply about this aspect and try to see if there is some hypocrisy aspect to it.
2. Russia (Gazprom) is selling about 170 billion cubic meters per year of natural gas to EU+Turkey (top ones: 41 to Germany, 27 to Turkey, 25 to Italy, 16 to “friend” UK, 13 to enemy Poland, 8 to Czech Repulic, 6 to Hungary, 5 to Austria …). The average price per 1000 cbm is 300$ (that nice piece of green paper with the EYE OF LUCIFER on it). Total GROSS REVENUE from that is about 51 billion dollars a year.
Just to put things in perspective: MICROSOFT is making 83 billions dollars, GOOGLE is making 62 and INTEL is making 53, not to mention all the other high-tech companies from USA.
Do you think Russia and Putin are really smart to focus their entire effort in selling cheap gas abroad and sealing the faith of Russia as an exporter of energy and raw materials ?
Don’t you think that a young, energetic and technology oriented president can do more for Russia ? I appreciate and respect Putin, but I am personally quite disappointed by his economic visions.
Why spend energy and money to build all those pipelines instead of building some factories that use natural gas right next to the fields in your country and export some “value-added” products like the petro-chemicals ? Do you have any idea how much money is Germany making from the chemical industry while Putin is focused on building “fu..ing gas pipelines” ???
3. As I showed earlier, Gasprom makes about 50 billion dollar a year in Gross Revenue, while the final profit is about 1/3 of that, meaning about 17 billions. How many of you know that in 2013 alone the FED printed about 85 billion dollar A MONTH ??? Is Putin so stupid to not understand that he is accumulating (juden)confetti ?
Russia holds about 500 billions dollars of the so called “foreign reserves”. Well, guess what, at any moment that can become a pile of toilet paper if USA decide to allow hyperinflation. And I know you will say USA will lose, but since they have the printing machine and the control over so many countries, they will quickly buy hard-assets before the rest of the suckers realize that D-Day has arrived.
4. Is Russia a good place to do business. Can you become successful as a young talented person, in the same way Sergey Brin did while creating Google ? Or is true that the oligarchs/KGB/silovkys are actively scanning every business that is showing signs of potential growth and go for it like VULTURES ?
I really hope my questions will be taken as a potential constructive criticism or mirror reflecting facts.
I watched carefully Putin and Russia actions for more than 7 years now. But lately my doubts and confusions have increased. Many times I am absolutely baffled by what Lavrov is spewing. Putin is a bit smarter and keeps staying in the shadow waiting for things to resolve by themselfs.
The return of weapons from Crimea or the delivery of gas until today is PERPLEXING, unless Russia has a role in the famous HEGELIAN DIALECTIC strategy, at which point many things make a lot of sense …
В Славянске поставили урны для сбора анонимных записок о сочувствующих и помогавших ополченцам (In Slavyansk put bins to collect anonymous notes sympathizing and supporting militia)
“In the occupied Slavyansk appeared purely Ukrainian invention, which had not even thought the Germans during the existence of reichscommissariat “Ukraine” – bins to inform on their neighbors and relatives.
“We put the bins to collect anonymous notes sympathizing and supporting militia”, reports in his blog, special correspondent of Redusa Andrey getting settled at.
All in the context of the coming century market democracy, the Person should be free from moral conventions and moral obligations. The invention of punitive brilliantly reveals the essence of modern liberal fascism.
The KP special correspondent Alexander Kots, who spent several weeks bombings in Slavyansk:
“Hell! With what joy and enthusiasm they hand over their former friends, colleagues, classmates, and even sisters.”
“These days. The brother takes his sister, who sympathized with DND certainly proud of his courage”
“In the video, the current MP tells the investigators as for assistance in career had sex with his patron Boris.
The leader of the Ukrainian Radical party, Oleg Lyashko seeks to repair its reputation. This week a number of Kyiv PR agencies received an order for “cleanup” of the Internet from the video recording, made in 1993, which Lyashko recognized in homosexual relationships. With the majority of Ukrainian site scandalous video has already been removed.
– We are looking for our client, a well-known Ukrainian politician…”we are talking about a video interrogation Oleg Lyashko, all such videos should promonitorit and after delete or block”.
Entry was made in the Prosecutor’s office of Kyiv, where Lyashko was questioned in case of major embezzlement of public funds. Talking with an investigator, a young man said that he had agreed to provide sexual services to its high-ranking friend Boris for help in career advancement. Note that, in 1993, a young journalist Oleg Lyashko was the editor of the newspaper “business news” of the Ministry of foreign economic relations of Ukraine, the head of which was Boris Sobolev.
– He offered me a job, if only I maintained contact with him in that regard, ” said the current MP. – When homosexuality, as far as I understand, two partners active and passive… I acted as passive.
Telling about his role in sex, a little later, Lyashko said that anal intercourse he managed to escape, but all else was.” Partner within six months subjected his true sexual exploitation.
– All other things were, you have already understood. But then I said: “Boris, you’re much for granted”… of course, He is a sex maniac. He even when abroad flew to Switzerland, with Kravchuk in Davos, is always called, – complained Lyashko. – Three o’clock in the morning on the phone and says, “Oleg come, I can’t.” And I have to get out of bed to take a taxi three nights and go to Borshagovka. His bed no, I give him his, then he or knife fork no – I’m still here.
Compromising MP footage for the first time hit the Internet in 2010. The journalists then contacted the Deputy head of the State tax service (STA) of Ukraine Oleg Matveev and he admitted that he was interrogated Oleg Lyashko, working as the investigator in 1993. The interrogation was conducted in the framework of the case of large theft. On the question of how the orientation Lyashko treated the subject of an investigation, Matveev said that “to disclose any facts incorrect”. He also declined to say who is Boris.
Oleg Lyashko was detained on June 21, 1993. He was charged with theft of state property in especially large sizes. The result brought the case to court. The ninth of December 1994, the judicial Board on criminal cases of the Kiev city court found the defendant guilty of “theft of state property in the amount of 1 million 300 thousand rubles and collective, for $ 1 million 100 thousand rubles”. Lyashko was sentenced to six years in prison with confiscation of property, but less than a year, was released by Amnesty.
According to LifeNews, Oleg Lyashko was soon to be appointed head under the control of the Kiev territories of Donbass. The MP is the main candidate for this position. Despite the formal absence of martial law, the authorities of the regions of the South-East of Ukraine and law enforcement bodies soon dismissed, and Lyashko sets its own rules, personally interrogating officials, forcing them to confess to treason.”
“The oligarch and the Governor gave appropriate instructions to the media Manager Alexander Tkachenko.
The Internet has been a record of the negotiations of the owner of the Ukrainian “Privat-Bank” Igor Kolomoisky with the General Director of group of the TV channels “1+1 MEDIA” Alexander Tkachenko. By phone Kolomoisky instructs Tkachenko strongly poison in the air Verkhovna Rada Deputy Oleh Liashko, the leader of the Radical party of Ukraine…”
On July 5, the pro-Russia rebels who had been occupying the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk for the past three months retreated to Donetsk, marking a pivotal shift in the conflict. After Ukraine’s military recaptured Sloviansk, VICE News visited some of the former rebel checkpoints surrounding the city, interviewed a pro-Russia rebel in Donetsk, and went to a “peace rally” where Pavel Gubarev, the pro-Russia governor of The People’s Republic of Donetsk, proclaimed that the rebels would not be defeated. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko plans to continue his government’s anti-terror operation until Ukraine is rid of the rebels.
On July 5, the pro-Russia rebels who had been occupying the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk for the past three months retreated to Donetsk, marking a pivotal shift in the conflict. After Ukraine’s military recaptured Sloviansk, VICE News visited some of the former rebel checkpoints surrounding the city, interviewed a pro-Russia rebel in Donetsk, and went to a “peace rally” where Pavel Gubarev, the pro-Russia governor of The People’s Republic of Donetsk, proclaimed that the rebels would not be defeated. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko plans to continue his government’s anti-terror operation until Ukraine is rid of the rebels.
Probably too much for the average uninformed American to fully grasp, but it should be required reading for everyone in Europe and anyone anywhere else even vaguely considering any sort of relations whatever with us. Presumably at this point most national leaders and the more savvy of the oligarchs are at least partially aware of how nasty and dangerous we are, but how to proceed extricating one’s company or country from our grasp? An old Aesop’s fable comes to mind, where all the mice agreed it would be a great idea to put a bell on the cat but not one of them was willing to do it. I think they’re quite content getting what they can from us as long as they can while hoping not to get too badly splashed or stained when we fall… and are clearly craven enough to have no problem whatever letting Putin absorb all of the risks.
We *all* need to find better ways of choosing our, ahem, public servants.
I am a bit astonished by Russia not doing very simple, elementary actions, as, for example:
– to Officially warn that Ukraine troops build up close to the Russia borders provided with heavy armaments (Heavy Guns, Multiple Rocket Launchers, Heavy tanks, and so on), as well as close to border war missions of aircrafts and helicopters pose serious threats to Russia security. So stated, Russia will consider her right to take measures to liquidate such heavy hardware within 35 km from her terrestrial and maritime borders.
– Many atrocities committed by the Ukies? Russia has no satellite photos to show common graves, residential building destructions in cities (comparing previous and actual photos), etc.? Sometimes the obsession for secrecy is higly counterproductive.
– Why Putin does not find time to make a visit to the thousands of refugees from Ukraine to Russia, inspecting the border areas and being videoed talking with women and children in tents, and also with wounded people?
The command of the Strategic Forces of Russia has put on full combat alert, a dozen of their regiments equipped with Topol missiles, Topol-M and Yars. The extent occurs a few days before the US Congress gives final reading to the law on the prevention of the aggression of Russia in 2014, writes Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
I know, it may be a stupid idea to waste time with such Ukie-Agitrop idiots either sitting in Kiev or Washington.
On the other hand I think, maybe it could help to spread the truth.
Whatever: An entire army of them wants to hang me and verbally attacked me. Maybe it would not harm, if more commenters could join the “discussion”? Otherwise they simply outnumber me with their +1’s and to good but clueless newbies it may drag them to the wrong side. It’s not about me, but about THE TRUTH. Thanks!
I forgot: Things like the following have already been posted, but this one is the best. It is already 2 days old, but worth sharing (sorry if it was already linked) :
“The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself…Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable.”—H.L. Mencken, American journalist
If your instinct is to trust your government, you are their prisoner. If your heart tells you that your government could not be ‘that’ evil, you are complicit.
If you confuse some sense of patriotism with your reticence to say ‘No’, your hands are on their cudgel, your finger on their trigger, and their victims are your crimes.
Think clearly about your morals and values. In times of great evil, they are your only guidepost. If you are terrified to speak up in the early days before the death machines roll, they will come for you later. They will tie your hands behind your back (as you have done to yourself earlier), they will stifle your voice (as you have done to yourself earlier) and they will kill you (as you should have joined the fight to kill them earlier).
I look at that photo in Slavyansk in today’s report of the roundup of 18-35 yr. olds, all stout, healthy, strong lads. Some will choose to fight for the nazis. Most will be killed. They should have been with the militia. Somehow, they stayed on the sidelines. Neutral or preaching peace and conciliation was their foolish hope.
When evil is on the rampage (Maidan was months long, and this was six months later), the rationalization that beset them fogged the most elemental instinct of survival. Fight or flight. They did neither, accommodating evil, feeding the beast.
At some point in such times, cold-blooded killing is required. This is a war of cultures. Total war against religion, nationality, family, nature and laws. Beasts run wild. Savages devour the good.
Imagine a world with no Z. Brezinski, Cheney, Obama, Nuland, Kagan, Perle, Wolfowitz, much less no junta, no oligarch gangsters.
They went unchallenged since 1996 until one man stood in their way. Vladimir Putin. He stopped them in Syria, Chechnya, Georgia and perhaps, places we don’t know of as yet, secret little wars killed in the womb of the mother beast.
Meanwhile we have suffered 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, a host of African wars, a never-ending Palestine grinder, the failure of every Arab spring and color revolution which merely were means to an end. When chaos results, that’s good for these beasts and their minions. And everyone of these events was bathed in ‘democracy’ and ‘justice’ and ‘human rights’. They have trademarked the words, but keep the processes they described locked in vaults somewhere.
Putin has applied Mencken’s admonition to the world government and its systems. He challenges it all. The dollar system, the central banking debt creation, the immorality, the war machining of regimes, the unconstitutional, law-breaking actions and plots.
Putin is the lone figure on the penumbra of the global leadership who stands for solid, human values and morality.
He does it with calm and confidence. And he does it and has done it with every tool he needs, including tools that kill. Because the beast never goes back into its cage on its own. In the history of the earth, the beast has to be slain or it will devour the next village, the next nation, the next region, the next hemisphere.
Vladimir Putin understands the beast. He’s fought it and killed it before. He’ll slay it again.
Minor reflection of US public outlook: Traveling to Russia soon with a friend, who asked about the situation in the Ukraine. Tried to explain it as objectively and dispassionately as possible, since he only knows what he sees and reads in MSM. Emphasized this is what Russian sources say. His primary concern was whether the Russians favored the Democrats or Republicans, who did they want to win in 2016 ? (Told him I doubted they knew one from the other, all were US from their viewpoint.) Reflected the outlook of an average, college-educated American, in my opinion: Indifferent to the rest of the world, obsessed with domestic politics. (He favors the D’s, like their a sports team. Personally I’m rooting for Argentina in the final.)
–I could not locate it on the Ria Novosoti in english”””””
I need to add: It is always the same with the german version of RIA-Novosti! There are always interesting articles, but whenever I want to share them with world, and when I try to find any English translation, there isn’t any. This is a very poor strategy and I cannot understand it. It would be essential to also have the most recent and most interesting stories in English on http://en.ria.ru or RT.com .
Recently situation worsened even more: But for some time now the updates get less and less and no pictures depicting the horrendous civilian fatalities around Lugansk are shown. Can anybody explain that?
@HBMLK, All very good points! Making the entire country dependant on the gas exports is truly idiotic. However, I’m absolutely sure that the Russian leadership is aware of this problem. Building factories and high quality products will take time. Unfortunately, since the 90s Russia had an enormous brain drain and the US was causing it knowingly and purposefully in order to further weaken Russia. The Wall Street Journal and NY had some articles awhile back , in which they were actually advocating that Obama should weaken Putin (Russia) by issuing work visas to anyone who might be of some use to Russia (not necessarily to the US). By stealing some experts who are not even useful to America, the US state department is freezing and decapitating a lot of Russian potential.
@HBMLK Well not really Gazprom total revenue to 2013 were 165 billion p/e 2.9 where industry average is 13.2. Don’t forget Gazprom is energy company but you have a point they should diversify and they are probably thinking about that. And take into account that under Putin they went from GDP 195 B to 2.4 T today so pretty remarkable.
In addition to the Ossetians, Chechens have been spotted headed to the Donestk airport.
Ukraine has been massing troops to the north and west of Donetsk airport, and have been feeding to the MSM that this is the “rebels’ last stand”, and they (the Ukies) are going all in.
Russia is a developing country. Technically, in its first decade of development. It has had criminals and traitors running the government by all accounts prior to the Putin. He has had to clip wings of oligarchs. He has had to develop laws, flesh out a constitution, and revive the Church Orthodoxy as a pillar of government.
Russian industrial work ethic was ruinous, alcoholic and corrupt. They still suffer carelessness in their best manufacturing and operational processes. Rockets blowup, planes crash, shit happens.
The loss of Russian Jews was part of the brain drain. Some say good riddance. But Israel is a technological giant because Russian money and Russian brains felt comfortable there. Putin is trying to get some to return. His policy of supporting the Palestinians creates problems. But he does the right thing.
He has announced this year many of new programs and budgets in the areas most needed. He is making the wealthy choose to be Russian and bring capital and ownership home, or choose London and NY. forever.
The low tax rate for enterprise is unnoticed in the West. When real young entrepreneurs see the benefits and see the new Moscow, the new Sochi, the new Far East and Crimea as wonderful locations for them to prosper and grow their companies and to play in, things will mature.
Russia is really a sleeping giant that will make great economic and technological strides now that it is opening up to China and climbing to the top of the world in geopolitical leadership.
Population needs to increase. It can’t be just replacing the deceased. Young families need to grow. With successes like Sochi and major moves like Crimea coming home, national pride will improve.
It’s only been a decade of development. The baby is walking. Don’t expect it to run and swing from the monkey bars too soon. Everything is a startup. And the gas and oil is revenues. And revenues for a startup is the best indicator of growth and success.
Russia will have a monster economy in ten years. In twenty years it will world class in whatever it lacks today.
Gas and oil will have been the water upon which the ship of state sailed.
The other thing Russia has that few realize is crucial is the world’s greatest supply of fresh water. Keep that in mind when you say pipelines are not the way to go.
There will be other industries that will shine soon. One is cinema. Russia is the co-inventor of films. It now is back with good directors and international acclaim. Very important to get its cultural story and values in front of the world.
Another development is gambling. Crimea and Sochi and Vladivostok will have gambling centers. The Chinese will eschew Vegas and Reno and Atlantic City for new, bigger and better. That’s hard dollars/yuans and gold coming to Russia.
Russia will also be a GMO-free grainery for nations that don’t want Monsanto crap for food.
Russia just needs time. That’s what the Hegemon is disrupting with the proto proxy war.
But the 21st Century will belong to Russia and China and the Eurasian Market.
Another town has fallen – Siversk – with same MO – surround with artillery, pound civilian areas till losses become intolerable, militia withdraws and the population will be purged of sympathizers and young males. Looks like there is no intention to enter cities where the military advantage is neutralized. Porky says 1 month to neutralize resistance. Without the means to destroy the artillery it looks like this will be the way it goes down. Will it work for Donetsk and Lughansk? How good is the militia intelligence and can they hide movements from the drone equipped enemy? Unless a way is figured to directly engage the massed artillery looks like ‘grind them to dust’ may succeed.
Very interesting news – DRP just got a newly appointed Deputy Prime Minister for State Security, Lt. General Vladimir Antyufeev. This is the man responsible for the creation of the state security apparatus in Transnistria, here he was the minister from 1992-2012, after which he retired. Somebody must have asked him very nicely to come out of retirement.
Russia allows the american spy to come over as american ambassador to Moscow “! what a stupid nation russia is. total loser to allow destabliser and regime change expert to coem as mbassador. russia is hell bent on suicide.
There’s a report at 1 PM Moscow time today at http://lenta.ru/news/2014/07/10/crimea/ that the Ukrainians are moving armored troop carriers, Osa AAA rockets, and Grad volley rockets onto the northern Arbat spit, the long, thin off-shore island adjacent to northeast Crimea. Ostensibly they’re on exercises, and will withdraw shortly. The Ukrainian northern half of the Arbat spit includes the northwest portion of the Sea of Azov. My understanding is the entire Arbat spit was part of the Crimea transferred by Khrushchev to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954, later subdivided between the Crimean ASSR and Kherson Oblast. If so the Russians could legitimately reclaim and re-occupy what Khrushchev capriciously gave away, before the Ukrainians use it to attack the Crimea.
Someone earlier mentioned Gazprom total revenue is around 160-170 billion dollars and I agree. But my earlier post was counting exclusively the revenue coming from EU countries only for the natural gas (using 300$ per cbm ). Gazprom does sell other stuff and also to other countries (including Russia, where the price is 66$ per cbm).
The idea is that, sometimes, the Russian leadership focuses too much on the gas.
However, lately they indeed diversified into military and aerospace industry. This should be the main focus: high-tech, bio-tech, nano-technologies, software, create a fair and attractive business environment, create an independent financial system, attract foreign brains, eliminate the low-level corruption.
GBMLK said: “However, lately they indeed diversified into military and aerospace industry. This should be the main focus: high-tech, bio-tech, nano-technologies, software, create a fair and attractive business environment, create an independent financial system, attract foreign brains, eliminate the low-level corruption.”
The Russians are moving in many of these areas. They signed 49 deals in China, beyond the mega gas deal.
They are moving with the BRICS on education and many other issues related to development.
Their own chip manufacturing is begun. It takes a lot of capital to invest. They also are building up infrastructure.
You will see gains in the industries you designated in the next few years. Sanctions and the threat of war are great drivers of innovation.
Crimea is sitting on one trillion dollars worth of gas and oil. He will be exploiting those drilling rights and using that capital for high tech product development.
Excellent thoughts on your part. Russians now can see what deep, wide future awaits their own making. Hopefully, the youngsters in school will be inspired by the opportunity.
Finally we have it from the horse’s mouth. “I am a former FSB officer, discharged on 31 March 2013 holding the rank of a Colonel.” The mystery of Strelkov (that was never really a mystery) is no more :)
New 40 min documentary, mostly new footage I had never seen about the Odessa events. Lots of new faces; appears significant. Would be great to see that with English subtitles
Трибунал кровавого пепла 4 / Tribunal Bloodyashes Ukraine, Одесса 2 мая
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0qaK7ffyH0&feature=youtu.be
Hi,
I would like to bring just some economical fact in this blog and encourage people to think using some “financial glasses”.
After all, let’s be honest, this is the biggest force in the world that motivates millions or billions of people. This is why most of the people commenting here are probably still living in western countries and enjoying the financial benefits from there.
1. Russia is advising several countries not to join EU while, in parallel Russia is doing everything (including a lot of self-humiliation) to please and be in good economic and business terms with the same EU.
Think deeply about this aspect and try to see if there is some hypocrisy aspect to it.
2. Russia (Gazprom) is selling about 170 billion cubic meters per year of natural gas to EU+Turkey (top ones: 41 to Germany, 27 to Turkey, 25 to Italy, 16 to “friend” UK, 13 to enemy Poland, 8 to Czech Repulic, 6 to Hungary, 5 to Austria …). The average price per 1000 cbm is 300$ (that nice piece of green paper with the EYE OF LUCIFER on it). Total GROSS REVENUE from that is about 51 billion dollars a year.
Just to put things in perspective: MICROSOFT is making 83 billions dollars, GOOGLE is making 62 and INTEL is making 53, not to mention all the other high-tech companies from USA.
Do you think Russia and Putin are really smart to focus their entire effort in selling cheap gas abroad and sealing the faith of Russia as an exporter of energy and raw materials ?
Don’t you think that a young, energetic and technology oriented president can do more for Russia ? I appreciate and respect Putin, but I am personally quite disappointed by his economic visions.
Why spend energy and money to build all those pipelines instead of building some factories that use natural gas right next to the fields in your country and export some “value-added” products like the petro-chemicals ? Do you have any idea how much money is Germany making from the chemical industry while Putin is focused on building “fu..ing gas pipelines” ???
3. As I showed earlier, Gasprom makes about 50 billion dollar a year in Gross Revenue, while the final profit is about 1/3 of that, meaning about 17 billions. How many of you know that in 2013 alone the FED printed about 85 billion dollar A MONTH ???
Is Putin so stupid to not understand that he is accumulating (juden)confetti ?
Russia holds about 500 billions dollars of the so called “foreign reserves”. Well, guess what, at any moment that can become a pile of toilet paper if USA decide to allow hyperinflation. And I know you will say USA will lose, but since they have the printing machine and the control over so many countries, they will quickly buy hard-assets before the rest of the suckers realize that D-Day has arrived.
4. Is Russia a good place to do business. Can you become successful as a young talented person, in the same way Sergey Brin did while creating Google ? Or is true that the oligarchs/KGB/silovkys are actively scanning every business that is showing signs of potential growth and go for it like VULTURES ?
I really hope my questions will be taken as a potential constructive criticism or mirror reflecting facts.
I watched carefully Putin and Russia actions for more than 7 years now. But lately my doubts and confusions have increased. Many times I am absolutely baffled by what Lavrov is spewing. Putin is a bit smarter and keeps staying in the shadow waiting for things to resolve by themselfs.
The return of weapons from Crimea or the delivery of gas until today is PERPLEXING, unless Russia has a role in the famous HEGELIAN DIALECTIC strategy, at which point many things make a lot of sense …
Who thought the scrolling subtitles were a good idea? It makes it very hard to read and follow along.
“His Majesty Poroshenko” :D
вот так
В Славянске поставили урны для сбора анонимных записок о сочувствующих и помогавших ополченцам (In Slavyansk put bins to collect anonymous notes sympathizing and supporting militia)
http://rusvesna.su/news/1404915583 (trans) http://translate.yandex.net/tr-url/ru-en.ru/rusvesna.su/news/1404915583
“In the occupied Slavyansk appeared purely Ukrainian invention, which had not even thought the Germans during the existence of reichscommissariat “Ukraine” – bins to inform on their neighbors and relatives.
“We put the bins to collect anonymous notes sympathizing and supporting militia”, reports in his blog, special correspondent of Redusa Andrey getting settled at.
All in the context of the coming century market democracy, the Person should be free from moral conventions and moral obligations. The invention of punitive brilliantly reveals the essence of modern liberal fascism.
The KP special correspondent Alexander Kots, who spent several weeks bombings in Slavyansk:
“Hell! With what joy and enthusiasm they hand over their former friends, colleagues, classmates, and even sisters.”
“These days. The brother takes his sister, who sympathized with DND certainly proud of his courage”
вот так
Lyashko wants an old confession of his deleted from the web (from 1993, this one is funny):
Пиарщики Ляшко удаляют из Сети видео его признания в гомосексуализме (PR Lyashko removed from the Network video recognition homosexuality)
http://lifenews.ru/news/136258 (trans) http://translate.yandex.net/tr-url/ru-en.ru/lifenews.ru/news/136258
“In the video, the current MP tells the investigators as for assistance in career had sex with his patron Boris.
The leader of the Ukrainian Radical party, Oleg Lyashko seeks to repair its reputation. This week a number of Kyiv PR agencies received an order for “cleanup” of the Internet from the video recording, made in 1993, which Lyashko recognized in homosexual relationships. With the majority of Ukrainian site scandalous video has already been removed.
– We are looking for our client, a well-known Ukrainian politician…”we are talking about a video interrogation Oleg Lyashko, all such videos should promonitorit and after delete or block”.
Entry was made in the Prosecutor’s office of Kyiv, where Lyashko was questioned in case of major embezzlement of public funds. Talking with an investigator, a young man said that he had agreed to provide sexual services to its high-ranking friend Boris for help in career advancement. Note that, in 1993, a young journalist Oleg Lyashko was the editor of the newspaper “business news” of the Ministry of foreign economic relations of Ukraine, the head of which was Boris Sobolev.
– He offered me a job, if only I maintained contact with him in that regard, ” said the current MP. – When homosexuality, as far as I understand, two partners active and passive… I acted as passive.
Telling about his role in sex, a little later, Lyashko said that anal intercourse he managed to escape, but all else was.” Partner within six months subjected his true sexual exploitation.
– All other things were, you have already understood. But then I said: “Boris, you’re much for granted”… of course, He is a sex maniac. He even when abroad flew to Switzerland, with Kravchuk in Davos, is always called, – complained Lyashko. – Three o’clock in the morning on the phone and says, “Oleg come, I can’t.” And I have to get out of bed to take a taxi three nights and go to Borshagovka. His bed no, I give him his, then he or knife fork no – I’m still here.
Compromising MP footage for the first time hit the Internet in 2010. The journalists then contacted the Deputy head of the State tax service (STA) of Ukraine Oleg Matveev and he admitted that he was interrogated Oleg Lyashko, working as the investigator in 1993. The interrogation was conducted in the framework of the case of large theft. On the question of how the orientation Lyashko treated the subject of an investigation, Matveev said that “to disclose any facts incorrect”. He also declined to say who is Boris.
Oleg Lyashko was detained on June 21, 1993. He was charged with theft of state property in especially large sizes. The result brought the case to court. The ninth of December 1994, the judicial Board on criminal cases of the Kiev city court found the defendant guilty of “theft of state property in the amount of 1 million 300 thousand rubles and collective, for $ 1 million 100 thousand rubles”. Lyashko was sentenced to six years in prison with confiscation of property, but less than a year, was released by Amnesty.
According to LifeNews, Oleg Lyashko was soon to be appointed head under the control of the Kiev territories of Donbass. The MP is the main candidate for this position. Despite the formal absence of martial law, the authorities of the regions of the South-East of Ukraine and law enforcement bodies soon dismissed, and Lyashko sets its own rules, personally interrogating officials, forcing them to confess to treason.”
вот так
Meanwhile, Kolomoisky orders Ukraine media to sully Lyashko’s rep. This is starting to look like an American television show. :D
Коломойский приказал травить Ляшко в украинских СМИ (Kolomoisky ordered to poison Lyashko in the Ukrainian media)
http://lifenews.ru/news/136286 (trans) http://translate.yandex.net/tr-url/ru-en.ru/lifenews.ru/news/136286
(Leaked phone converstion.)
“The oligarch and the Governor gave appropriate instructions to the media Manager Alexander Tkachenko.
The Internet has been a record of the negotiations of the owner of the Ukrainian “Privat-Bank” Igor Kolomoisky with the General Director of group of the TV channels “1+1 MEDIA” Alexander Tkachenko. By phone Kolomoisky instructs Tkachenko strongly poison in the air Verkhovna Rada Deputy Oleh Liashko, the leader of the Radical party of Ukraine…”
вот так
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https://news.vice.com/video/russian-roulette-dispatch-55?
On July 5, the pro-Russia rebels who had been occupying the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk for the past three months retreated to Donetsk, marking a pivotal shift in the conflict. After Ukraine’s military recaptured Sloviansk, VICE News visited some of the former rebel checkpoints surrounding the city, interviewed a pro-Russia rebel in Donetsk, and went to a “peace rally” where Pavel Gubarev, the pro-Russia governor of The People’s Republic of Donetsk, proclaimed that the rebels would not be defeated. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko plans to continue his government’s anti-terror operation until Ukraine is rid of the rebels.
https://news.vice.com/video/russian-roulette-dispatch-55?
On July 5, the pro-Russia rebels who had been occupying the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk for the past three months retreated to Donetsk, marking a pivotal shift in the conflict. After Ukraine’s military recaptured Sloviansk, VICE News visited some of the former rebel checkpoints surrounding the city, interviewed a pro-Russia rebel in Donetsk, and went to a “peace rally” where Pavel Gubarev, the pro-Russia governor of The People’s Republic of Donetsk, proclaimed that the rebels would not be defeated. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko plans to continue his government’s anti-terror operation until Ukraine is rid of the rebels.
Paul Craig Roberts has written his most powerful piece yet, an unforgettable litany of some of our most egregious sins.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/07/09/washington-arrogance-will-destroy-its-empire.html
Probably too much for the average uninformed American to fully grasp, but it should be required reading for everyone in Europe and anyone anywhere else even vaguely considering any sort of relations whatever with us. Presumably at this point most national leaders and the more savvy of the oligarchs are at least partially aware of how nasty and dangerous we are, but how to proceed extricating one’s company or country from our grasp? An old Aesop’s fable comes to mind, where all the mice agreed it would be a great idea to put a bell on the cat but not one of them was willing to do it. I think they’re quite content getting what they can from us as long as they can while hoping not to get too badly splashed or stained when we fall… and are clearly craven enough to have no problem whatever letting Putin absorb all of the risks.
We *all* need to find better ways of choosing our, ahem, public servants.
Big massing of troops/equipmeent 25 km from Donetsk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtZhctZHZHo&list=UU7mlLd42fXCuhtDfQ-Xpy6A
Il Discobolo
I am a bit astonished by Russia not doing very simple, elementary actions, as, for example:
– to Officially warn that Ukraine troops build up close to the Russia borders provided with heavy armaments (Heavy Guns, Multiple Rocket Launchers, Heavy tanks, and so on), as well as close to border war missions of aircrafts and helicopters pose serious threats to Russia security. So stated, Russia will consider her right to take measures to liquidate such heavy hardware within 35 km from her terrestrial and maritime borders.
– Many atrocities committed by the Ukies? Russia has no satellite photos to show common graves, residential building destructions in cities (comparing previous and actual photos), etc.? Sometimes the obsession for secrecy is higly counterproductive.
– Why Putin does not find time to make a visit to the thousands of refugees from Ukraine to Russia, inspecting the border areas and being videoed talking with women and children in tents, and also with wounded people?
Ukies are now moving heavy military equipment to the Crimean border, including SAMs and GRAD systems.
* important *
The command of the Strategic Forces of Russia has put on full combat alert, a dozen of their regiments equipped with Topol missiles, Topol-M and Yars. The extent occurs a few days before the US Congress gives final reading to the law on the prevention of the aggression of Russia in 2014, writes Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
Ria Novosti in Spanish:
http://sp.ria.ru/revista_de_prensa/20140710/160741402.html
–I could not locate it on the Ria Novosoti in english
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Comrades: HELP pls
I know, it may be a stupid idea to waste time with such Ukie-Agitrop idiots either sitting in Kiev or Washington.
On the other hand I think, maybe it could help to spread the truth.
Whatever: An entire army of them wants to hang me and verbally attacked me. Maybe it would not harm, if more commenters could join the “discussion”?
Otherwise they simply outnumber me with their +1’s and to good but clueless newbies it may drag them to the wrong side. It’s not about me, but about THE TRUTH. Thanks!
Ukraine: Rocket-launcher equipped Lugansk People’s Republic forces close to Kiev-controlled airport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BH2KLvBBcw&google_comment_id=z12oin0a2s30zr3ke22vvjx5qk2xcf1rp04
I’m struggling to figure out this person’s take on events in Ukraine but haven’t yet unearthed any English translations.
He is Valery Pyakin (Валерий ПЯКИН), former head of the National Bank of Ukraine.
Here’s an example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka1rEow-990
Can someone with Russian please take a moment to peruse a couple of his videos and provide some insight.
Thanks, Boutrous
I forgot: Things like the following have already been posted, but this one is the best. It is already 2 days old, but worth sharing (sorry if it was already linked) :
http://robinwestenra.blogspot.de/2014/07/all-young-men-aged-25-35-being-arrested.html
Thought for every day . . .
“The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself…Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable.”—H.L. Mencken, American journalist
If your instinct is to trust your government, you are their prisoner. If your heart tells you that your government could not be ‘that’ evil, you are complicit.
If you confuse some sense of patriotism with your reticence to say ‘No’, your hands are on their cudgel, your finger on their trigger, and their victims are your crimes.
Think clearly about your morals and values. In times of great evil, they are your only guidepost. If you are terrified to speak up in the early days before the death machines roll, they will come for you later. They will tie your hands behind your back (as you have done to yourself earlier), they will stifle your voice (as you have done to yourself earlier) and they will kill you (as you should have joined the fight to kill them earlier).
I look at that photo in Slavyansk in today’s report of the roundup of 18-35 yr. olds, all stout, healthy, strong lads. Some will choose to fight for the nazis. Most will be killed. They should have been with the militia. Somehow, they stayed on the sidelines. Neutral or preaching peace and conciliation was their foolish hope.
When evil is on the rampage (Maidan was months long, and this was six months later), the rationalization that beset them fogged the most elemental instinct of survival. Fight or flight. They did neither, accommodating evil, feeding the beast.
At some point in such times, cold-blooded killing is required. This is a war of cultures. Total war against religion, nationality, family, nature and laws. Beasts run wild. Savages devour the good.
Imagine a world with no Z. Brezinski, Cheney, Obama, Nuland, Kagan, Perle, Wolfowitz, much less no junta, no oligarch gangsters.
They went unchallenged since 1996 until one man stood in their way. Vladimir Putin. He stopped them in Syria, Chechnya, Georgia and perhaps, places we don’t know of as yet, secret little wars killed in the womb of the mother beast.
Meanwhile we have suffered 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, a host of African wars, a never-ending Palestine grinder, the failure of every Arab spring and color revolution which merely were means to an end. When chaos results, that’s good for these beasts and their minions. And everyone of these events was bathed in ‘democracy’ and ‘justice’ and ‘human rights’. They have trademarked the words, but keep the processes they described locked in vaults somewhere.
Putin has applied Mencken’s admonition to the world government and its systems. He challenges it all. The dollar system, the central banking debt creation, the immorality, the war machining of regimes, the unconstitutional, law-breaking actions and plots.
Putin is the lone figure on the penumbra of the global leadership who stands for solid, human values and morality.
He does it with calm and confidence. And he does it and has done it with every tool he needs, including tools that kill. Because the beast never goes back into its cage on its own. In the history of the earth, the beast has to be slain or it will devour the next village, the next nation, the next region, the next hemisphere.
Vladimir Putin understands the beast. He’s fought it and killed it before. He’ll slay it again.
Minor reflection of US public outlook: Traveling to Russia soon with a friend, who asked about the situation in the Ukraine. Tried to explain it as objectively and dispassionately as possible, since he only knows what he sees and reads in MSM. Emphasized this is what Russian sources say. His primary concern was whether the Russians favored the Democrats or Republicans, who did they want to win in 2016 ? (Told him I doubted they knew one from the other, all were US from their viewpoint.) Reflected the outlook of an average, college-educated American, in my opinion: Indifferent to the rest of the world, obsessed with domestic politics. (He favors the D’s, like their a sports team. Personally I’m rooting for Argentina in the final.)
ltr said…
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* important *
The command of the Strategic Forces of Russia has put on full combat alert,[…]
Ria Novosti in Spanish:
http://sp.ria.ru/revista_de_prensa/20140710/160741402.html
–I could not locate it on the Ria Novosoti in english”””””
I need to add: It is always the same with the german version of RIA-Novosti! There are always interesting articles, but whenever I want to share them with world, and when I try to find any English translation, there isn’t any. This is a very poor strategy and I cannot understand it. It would be essential to also have the most recent and most interesting stories in English on http://en.ria.ru or RT.com .
Recently situation worsened even more: But for some time now the updates get less and less and no pictures depicting the horrendous civilian fatalities around Lugansk are shown. Can anybody explain that?
@HBMLK,
All very good points! Making the entire country dependant on the gas exports is truly idiotic. However, I’m absolutely sure that the Russian leadership is aware of this problem. Building factories and high quality products will take time. Unfortunately, since the 90s Russia had an enormous brain drain and the US was causing it knowingly and purposefully in order to further weaken Russia. The Wall Street Journal and NY had some articles awhile back , in which they were actually advocating that Obama should weaken Putin (Russia) by issuing work visas to anyone who might be of some use to Russia (not necessarily to the US). By stealing some experts who are not even useful to America, the US state department is freezing and decapitating a lot of Russian potential.
The US has just poked the Dragon in the south china sea:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-10/us-responds-china-global-disaster-threat-boosting-military-presence-chinas-back-yard
At least one column of vehicles flying the Ossetian (!) flag have been spotted heading to the battle at Donetsk airport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucr460PnfiI
@HBMLK
Well not really Gazprom total revenue to 2013 were 165 billion
p/e 2.9 where industry average is 13.2. Don’t forget Gazprom is energy company but you have a point they should diversify and they are probably thinking about that.
And take into account that under Putin they went from GDP 195 B to 2.4 T today so pretty remarkable.
In addition to the Ossetians, Chechens have been spotted headed to the Donestk airport.
Ukraine has been massing troops to the north and west of Donetsk airport, and have been feeding to the MSM that this is the “rebels’ last stand”, and they (the Ukies) are going all in.
Big battle going down.
Pray, if that’s something you do.
@HBMLK,
Russia is a developing country. Technically, in its first decade of development. It has had criminals and traitors running the government by all accounts prior to the Putin. He has had to clip wings of oligarchs. He has had to develop laws, flesh out a constitution, and revive the Church Orthodoxy as a pillar of government.
Russian industrial work ethic was ruinous, alcoholic and corrupt. They still suffer carelessness in their best manufacturing and operational processes. Rockets blowup, planes crash, shit happens.
The loss of Russian Jews was part of the brain drain. Some say good riddance. But Israel is a technological giant because Russian money and Russian brains felt comfortable there. Putin is trying to get some to return. His policy of supporting the Palestinians creates problems. But he does the right thing.
He has announced this year many of new programs and budgets in the areas most needed. He is making the wealthy choose to be Russian and bring capital and ownership home, or choose London and NY. forever.
The low tax rate for enterprise is unnoticed in the West. When real young entrepreneurs see the benefits and see the new Moscow, the new Sochi, the new Far East and Crimea as wonderful locations for them to prosper and grow their companies and to play in, things will mature.
Russia is really a sleeping giant that will make great economic and technological strides now that it is opening up to China and climbing to the top of the world in geopolitical leadership.
Population needs to increase. It can’t be just replacing the deceased. Young families need to grow. With successes like Sochi and major moves like Crimea coming home, national pride will improve.
It’s only been a decade of development. The baby is walking. Don’t expect it to run and swing from the monkey bars too soon. Everything is a startup. And the gas and oil is revenues. And revenues for a startup is the best indicator of growth and success.
Russia will have a monster economy in ten years. In twenty years it will world class in whatever it lacks today.
Gas and oil will have been the water upon which the ship of state sailed.
The other thing Russia has that few realize is crucial is the world’s greatest supply of fresh water. Keep that in mind when you say pipelines are not the way to go.
There will be other industries that will shine soon. One is cinema. Russia is the co-inventor of films. It now is back with good directors and international acclaim. Very important to get its cultural story and values in front of the world.
Another development is gambling. Crimea and Sochi and Vladivostok will have gambling centers.
The Chinese will eschew Vegas and Reno and Atlantic City for new, bigger and better. That’s hard dollars/yuans and gold coming to Russia.
Russia will also be a GMO-free grainery for nations that don’t want Monsanto crap for food.
Russia just needs time. That’s what the Hegemon is disrupting with the proto proxy war.
But the 21st Century will belong to Russia and China and the Eurasian Market.
Another town has fallen – Siversk – with same MO – surround with artillery, pound civilian areas till losses become intolerable, militia withdraws and the population will be purged of sympathizers and young males. Looks like there is no intention to enter cities where the military advantage is neutralized. Porky says 1 month to neutralize resistance. Without the means to destroy the artillery it looks like this will be the way it goes down. Will it work for Donetsk and Lughansk? How good is the militia intelligence and can they hide movements from the drone equipped enemy? Unless a way is figured to directly engage the massed artillery looks like ‘grind them to dust’ may succeed.
Ukraine: Atrocities committed by the US-Supported Ukrainian National Guard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN_Mbe9u-vE
Very interesting news – DRP just got a newly appointed Deputy Prime Minister for State Security, Lt. General Vladimir Antyufeev. This is the man responsible for the creation of the state security apparatus in Transnistria, here he was the minister from 1992-2012, after which he retired. Somebody must have asked him very nicely to come out of retirement.
Today’s press-conference of Alexander Boroday and Igor Strelkov:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Z_dJRHfB8
The famous Semenovka suburb of Slavyansk:
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6732/27652091.2d7/0_905c5_9e84bd2f_XL.jpg
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6839/27652091.2d7/0_905c6_69e3d077_XL.jpg
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6736/27652091.2d7/0_905c7_b3f9a374_XL.jpg
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6823/27652091.2d7/0_905c8_c2937b4_XL.jpg
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6821/27652091.2d7/0_905c9_8ed5c68f_XL.jpg
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6739/27652091.2d7/0_905ca_bf50ce01_XL.jpg
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6808/27652091.2d7/0_905cb_61d66439_XL.jpg
Russia allows the american spy to come over as american ambassador to Moscow “! what a stupid nation russia is. total loser to allow destabliser and regime change expert to coem as mbassador. russia is hell bent on suicide.
There’s a report at 1 PM Moscow time today at http://lenta.ru/news/2014/07/10/crimea/ that the Ukrainians are moving armored troop carriers, Osa AAA rockets, and Grad volley rockets onto the northern Arbat spit, the long, thin off-shore island adjacent to northeast Crimea. Ostensibly they’re on exercises, and will withdraw shortly. The Ukrainian northern half of the Arbat spit includes the northwest portion of the Sea of Azov. My understanding is the entire Arbat spit was part of the Crimea transferred by Khrushchev to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954, later subdivided between the Crimean ASSR and Kherson Oblast. If so the Russians could legitimately reclaim and re-occupy what Khrushchev capriciously gave away, before the Ukrainians use it to attack the Crimea.
Someone earlier mentioned Gazprom total revenue is around 160-170 billion dollars and I agree.
But my earlier post was counting exclusively the revenue coming from EU countries only for the natural gas (using 300$ per cbm ).
Gazprom does sell other stuff and also to other countries (including Russia, where the price is 66$ per cbm).
The idea is that, sometimes, the Russian leadership focuses too much on the gas.
However, lately they indeed diversified into military and aerospace industry. This should be the main focus: high-tech, bio-tech, nano-technologies, software, create a fair and attractive business environment, create an independent financial system, attract foreign brains, eliminate the low-level corruption.
@ GBLMK
Gas export is much less important to Russia economically than oil export.
GBMLK said: “However, lately they indeed diversified into military and aerospace industry. This should be the main focus: high-tech, bio-tech, nano-technologies, software, create a fair and attractive business environment, create an independent financial system, attract foreign brains, eliminate the low-level corruption.”
The Russians are moving in many of these areas. They signed 49 deals in China, beyond the mega gas deal.
They are moving with the BRICS on education and many other issues related to development.
Their own chip manufacturing is begun. It takes a lot of capital to invest. They also are building up infrastructure.
You will see gains in the industries you designated in the next few years. Sanctions and the threat of war are great drivers of innovation.
Crimea is sitting on one trillion dollars worth of gas and oil. He will be exploiting those drilling rights and using that capital for high tech product development.
Excellent thoughts on your part. Russians now can see what deep, wide future awaits their own making. Hopefully, the youngsters in school will be inspired by the opportunity.
Re: Today’s press-conference of Alexander Boroday and Igor Strelkov:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Z_dJRHfB8
Finally we have it from the horse’s mouth. “I am a former FSB officer, discharged on 31 March 2013 holding the rank of a Colonel.” The mystery of Strelkov (that was never really a mystery) is no more :)
Gleb Bazov’s translation of today’s press conference of Borodai and Strelkov is ready
http://slavyangrad.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/press-conference-july-10-2014/. Thank you, Gleb.