Daniel Bushell in this latest Truthseeker – simply fantastic!
Comment: having myself worked for one of the NGOs Daniel mentions in his report and having had privileged access to information about another one he mentions, I can confirm that what Daniel says is 100% correct. Sorry, I cannot go into more details, but I feel that I should confirm this.
The Saker
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Lars Schall interviews Willy Wimmer: http://jungle-drum.de/download-archiv/willy-wimmer.mp3
Willy Wimmer, born 1943, is a German lawyer. From 1988 to 1992 he has been the Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Defense. From 1976 to 2009 Wimmer was a deputy of the German Bundestag. Here he was from April 1985 to December 1988 Chairman of the working group on defense policy of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. Wimmer has been Deputy Head of the German delegation at the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE and was from July 1994 to June 2000 Vice-President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
Over the wknd I toured the MSM, and I am shocked and awed by the sheer scope and depth of the West’s Chutzpah. They’ve opened the floodgates to a tsunami of in-your-face lies, smears and non-sequiturs that is simply astonishing.
I can’t help but think the US/EU has jumped the shark. Either this works, or they’ll lose what vestiges remain of their credibility with the real “international community”. If the people surrounding Putin can keep their head while the West loses theirs, the world will be a different place when the smoke clears.
Erebus
It is happening all around the world. The “I am Ukraine” Girl is so similar to the “No, I am not going to the World Cup in Brazil” Girl. See for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZApBgNQgKPU
I have friends who have family in Ukraine. They talked to them by phone today and the news over there is that the US is planning to build a military base near Kharkov, and they’re hoping to do it quickly before anything happens to the government in Kiev.
I don’t know if this is true, but please keep an eye on it…
Hello Saker,
Not exactly your primary area of interest, but this is fascinating:
“Saudi Arabia Threatens to Lay Siege to Qatar: Cooperation or Confrontation?”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-hearst/saudi-arabia-threatens-to_b_4930518.htmlac
Saudi is really pissed at Qatar for threatening its regional power chokehold via support of the Muslim Brotherhood. There was even talk about kicking Qatar out from the GCC. Now Saudi, with the backing of the UAE and Bahrain, is threatening a physical blockade of the country.
Regards,
C
It is a pity there is no captition or English subtitles.
RT should know that almost the whole world gets informations through English language and this people far better understand when something is written than when they listen to.
it could even apply for true English speakers.
Greetings from Spain
Any truth in this? http://newswire-24.com/2014/03/07/4827/
Putin’s Mar 4 interview: http://news.kremlin.ru/video/1723
English transcript at: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37889.htm
I hope that Putin is being disingenuous when he says:
…(The)question here that neither I, nor my colleagues, with whom I have been discussing the situation in Ukraine a great deal over these past days, as you know – none of us can answer. The question is why was this done?
If he really doesn’t know, somebody should invite him to listen to the Wimmer interview linked above.
Otherwise, an inspiring interview of an inspiring man.
Erebus
The West would jump to help Ukraine in case of Russian threats to cut the gas. Let’s see:
Published March 08, 2014
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“Central European nations appeal to Congress for faster exports of US natural gas”
Central European nations are now appealing to Capitol Hill leaders to get the United States to increase its natural gas exports should Russia cut off its supply to Ukraine, amid the political turmoil in that country.
Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic sent a letter Friday to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. And a similar letter is expected to be sent to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada….
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Friday that because Europe has had a relatively mild winter, gas supplies are at or above normal levels. He said even if the U.S. did approve more export licenses, it would take until the end of 2015 for gas to be delivered.
“Proposals to try to respond to the situation in Ukraine that are related to our policy on exporting natural gas would not have an immediate effect,” Earnest said.
His argument has been supported by industry experts who say only one U.S. company is even far enough along in development to begin thinking about exporting liquefied natural gas.
WizOz
Why are “Western” baby-boomers so unable to coalesce around any meaningful political strategy? Just about every political poll confirms we have the numbers to rout the oligarchs. But still we watch on, with patience and dismay, as they drive us remorselessly into the ground.
When Australia’s Malcolm Fraser (himself no stranger to American sponsored political coups) firmly denounced NATO and its “foolish and dangerous policy” towards Russia and China, such a 1939-46 US veteran as 91-year-old Lyndon LaRouche immediately roused his movement in support. But we, the favoured children of that generation, still tacitly concede the field to the mountebanks who have slithered into office. Why are we so incapable of rising to the challenge? Is it our education, or something else?
Greetings from Singapore:
Ex chancellor Schroeder in “Der Spiegel” admits that the West acted against international law when bombing Yugoslavia:
Schröder verteidigt Putin
Altkanzler Schröder pflichtete EU-Parlamentspräsident Schulz in einem Punkt bei: “Natürlich ist das, was auf der Krim geschieht, ein Verstoß gegen das Völkerrecht”, sagte Schröder auf der Veranstaltung in Hamburg weiter. Dennoch wolle er seinen Freund, den russischen Präsidenten Wladimir Putin, nicht verurteilen. Er selbst habe als Kanzler beim Jugoslawien-Konflikt ebenfalls gegen das Völkerrecht verstoßen. “Da haben wir unsere Flugzeuge (…) nach Serbien geschickt, und die haben zusammen mit der Nato einen souveränen Staat gebombt – ohne dass es einen Sicherheitsratsbeschluss gegeben hätte.” Insofern sei er mit dem erhobenen Zeigefinger vorsichtig, betonte Schröder.
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P1/5. “If Putin lets Washington retain the Russian provinces of eastern Ukraine, he will have demonstrated a weakness that Washington will exploit. Washington will exploit that weakness to the point that Washington forces Putin into war. The war will be nuclear.” (Ukraine: “The War Will Be Nuclear”, By Paul Craig Roberts, March 8, 2014)
Unfortunately, it is likely that Paul Craig Roberts is correct.
‘The United States is insolvent and is resorting to militarism’
It is important to recognise that the U.S. is effectively insolvent (as are various other nations) and its economy is currently maintained by the extension of unserviceable debt. It is likely to increasingly resort to militarism in an effort to maintain power and leverage. However, both mathematically and in practice, structural failure of this economic system is almost unavoidable recognising the increasing imbalances and the staggering level of toxic assets/ derivatives/ fraudulent debt structures that have contaminated the financial system [2][3][4]. Unwittingly, China has replicated the errors of the United States by employing debt expansion and speculative practices as mechanisms to stimulate economic activity however debt and the distortion of asset values will also become a structural problem there. Speculative bubbles (distorted asset values due to investor demand) are Ponzi-like in structure and all Ponzi structures have their limits (short term benefits with long term consequences).
P2/5. Our economic system is dependent on perpetual growth/debt expansion (to compensate for an accumulating interest component) but the perpetual growth paradigm is fundamentally flawed as it is unsustainable in our biosphere. Furthermore, debt is now overwhelming economies and many states are effectively insolvent with their economies merely maintained through the extension of unserviceable debt. In addition to the distortion of asset values resulting from the market fundamentalist mechanism of ‘demand determines price’, much of this debt has also been created through fraudulent debt structures/the employment of corrupt financial instruments (mortgage backed securities, collateralised debt obligations, credit default swaps, options, forwards, futures,…. derivatives trading).
“One of the biggest risks to the world’s financial health is the $1.2 quadrillion derivatives market…… its notional value is 20 times the size of the world economy ” [Big Risk: $1.2 Quadrillion Derivatives Market Dwarfs World GDP, By Peter Cohan, Daily Finance, 09/06/2012][2]
“The reality is that when this [derivatives] bubble pops there won’t be enough money in the entire world to fix it… we should have never allowed world financial markets to become a giant casino. But we did. Soon enough we will all pay the price” (The Horrific Derivatives Bubble That Could One Day Destroy The Entire World Financial System)[3]
“The derivatives casino itself is just a last-ditch attempt to prop up a private pyramid scheme in fractional-reserve money creation ….. The private creation of money at interest is the granddaddy of all pyramid schemes; and like all such schemes, it must eventually collapse, despite a quadrillion dollar derivatives edifice propping it up.” (Wall Street’s Protection Racket of Covert Derivatives: JPMorgan Derivatives Prop Up U.S. Debt, Why the Senate Won’t Touch Jamie Dimon, by Ellen Brown, Global Research / Web of Debt, June 20, 2012)[4]
P3/5. Money was created to facilitate more efficient trading of services and goods. Fiat currency is now a representation of debt that is no longer a representation of anything of intrinsic value such as a physical commodity like gold. This is the basis of fractional-reserve banking whereby banks literally create money as part of a debt contract. But now debt is overwhelming individuals and states. Many financial institutions also employ instruments that facilitate fraudulent practices (the manufacture of vast fraudulent debt). These fraudulent debts (such as derivatives trading) dwarf the world economy.
Men have become fools and are blind to logical consequences due to greed. Historically, the practice of usury was forbidden for a reason. There was recognition that it was not only immoral but unsustainable (requiring perpetual growth/debt expansion). But the ‘perpetual growth’ paradigm (necessary to maintain an economic system based on servicing an accumulating interest component) is fundamentally flawed as it is unsustainable in our biosphere.
The core of the problem is usury and the exploitation of the public by private banks (involving long term debt bondage). Furthermore, our economic system is based on adversarial competition instead of cooperation. The military component of adversarial competition between states is war. In a nuclear era with a developing global economic crisis, this has significant implications. As this system and current practices are unlikely to significantly change, the eventual outcome is therefore largely predictable.
P4/5. The corrupting basis of capitalism is that the motivation is private profit (greed) and not purpose/public interest. The concentration of wealth (including the degradation of small business by larger corporations/monopolies), the exploitation of workers (including cheap foreign labour/off-shoring; the dehumanisation of workers through the trade/buying/selling in ‘human resources’; removal of worker’s benefits such as compensation insurance cover/sick leave/holiday entitlements/superannuation cover, etc. through labour hire practices), the exploitation of the poor for profit (privatisation of essential services) and the environment to achieve this profit compounds these immoral practices.
But it will reach a situation whereby there is an excess of capital concentrated in a wealthy class and over-production/ over-supply/ over-indebtedness/ lowering incomes/ job insecurity/ escalating costs of living, etc. resulting in inadequate consumerism to maintain a balanced supply and demand situation. Austerity will further reduce economic activity. Many governments also constitute plutocracies whereby their representatives are part of an investor class and support policies that are favourable to investment practices.
But investment practices are part of the mechanism that transfers wealth from the relatively poor to the wealthy and distorts assets values. Housing, healthcare, education, electricity, water, road infrastructure, etc., are essential needs that are increasingly being privatised for private profit. For all the rhetoric of ‘freedom’ there is little recognition that most are enslaved through long term debt bondage and are being exploited by these financial institutions.
P5/5. “The economic anarchy of capitalist society [is] the real source of the evil… I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, [it is through] the establishment of a socialist economy… In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion [according to the needs of the community]….The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow men in place of the glorification of power and success” (Albert Einstein)
This is compounded by the immorality of capitalism whereby the motivation is profit and not purpose. Capitalism is an immoral and socially harmful economic system as it is based on greed (the pursuit of profit often regardless of exploitation, social/environmental consequences or human suffering) instead of being based on the planned development of society.
However as history is largely repeating, unfortunately soon this impending economic crisis will be the least of our problems. Other events are likely to render this issue mute.
I wonder if that guy in the comments to another post is right after all, claiming that “WW3 has already started”, as America seems to be deliberately fomenting discord in Europe, just like Roosevelt did at least as early as September 1938, one year before Hitler’s attack on Poland, secretly plotting with the embassadors of Poland, England, and France. Quote:
The President said that if Britain and France “would find themselves forced to war” against Germany, the United States would ultimately also join. But this would require some clever maneuvering. Britain and France should impose a total blockade against Germany without actually declaring war and force other states (including neutrals) to abide by it. This would certainly provoke some kind of German military response, but it would also free Britain and France from having to actually declare war. For propaganda purposes, the “blockade must be based on loftiest humanitarian grounds and on the desire to wage hostilities with minimum of suffering and the least possible loss of life and property, and yet bring the enemy to his knees.” Roosevelt conceded that this would involve aerial bombardment, but “bombing from the air was not the method of hostilities which caused really great loss of life.”
/end of quote (http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v04/v04p135_Weber.html)
Unlikely we’ll get the minutes of current high level talks in the next decades. In the mean time, all we can do is educated guessing. I doubt btw that Obama really knows what’s going on, except for what the NYT tells him about. At least he and Kerry don’t seem to be on top of things.
In any event, the US is maintaining the current hard line regardless of the facts on the grounds, encouraging a Yatz who, by the looks of his face, seems to be less and less convinced of the success of his mission. The US elites responsible probably know that not abandoning those demands means either
a) Putin will support pro-Russian parts of Ukraine, so that Ukraine will split, creating a cozy new cold war (especially if delivery of gas in winter suffers from interruptions) at a minimum and/or
b) Yatz and Co. will suppress dissent (brutally by necessity of the demographics and apparent aspirations), without the means to lift the people out of their economic mess -> requiring even more brutality. (Hi Greece) Austerity policy is commencing already.
In both cases, Ukraine will be in the center of the storm. A storm that was created mostly by US “democracy promotion” programs. Unless, and I highly doubt it, Obama is able to make good on his promise to try everything to solve the Crimean problem “diplomatically”. He seems to have realized the fact that at least the Crimean part of the equation is not looking to good for the West.
Honk
Armed nazi led revolution in Kiev:
http://www.infowars.com/bbc-now-admits-armed-nazis-led-revolution-in-kiev-ukraine/
Some straws in the wind, Saker:
Late Saturday PM France-24 reported, almost simultaneously (a)Kerry warned Russia the time for diplomacy is running out, and (b) the President personally phone the presidents of the three Baltic states. These may be related to the 2010 Wikileak of a Nato contingency plan to send NINE divisions to Poland and the Baltic states. (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/06/wikileaks-cables-nato-russia-baltics).
vsgliad.ru reports today that at column of troops from Zhitomir and Lvov, with many armored transports and machines, is heading for the Crimea. (http://www.vzgliad.ru/news/2014/3/9/676290.html)
A former military analyst might suspect something is in the works, maybe to prevent the referendum, or overturn the results afterward.
I suspect that if Israel-America does try invading Crimea (like they tried with their Georgian tie eater against South Ossetia), they will be handing Russia the Ukraine, or whatever parts the Russians choose to hang on to.
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Two matters: part1/2
1. ICRC in Bosnia versus Silajdzic
2. HRW’s role in creating the history of the Rwandan conflict
1. Some years ago, Harris Silajdzic addressed the UN general assembly, claiming that the ICRC [Red Cross] had the names and partial remains of ‘the 200k Bosnian Muslims killed in the Bosnian Genocide.’ This claim got me curious, as both a Polish group and a Bosnian Muslim group had put the war total on the order of 100k, with two thirds Muslim, half of whom were soldiers. So I wrote to the ICRC inquiring as to these claims. They asked me not to reproduce their correspondence, but at this point, I think it is time to put them on the spot:
Dear Mr Meyer,
The Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Bosnia and Herzegovina acknowledges receipt of your request, forwarded to us by our colleagues from ICRC HQ in Geneva. Please be informed that in order to mark the 50th anniversary of the modern Geneva Conventions (on 12 August 1999), the ICRC launched People on War project with the aim of building greater respect for fundamental humanitarian principles. At centre stage was a worldwide consultation giving the general public a chance to air their views on the many facets of war. The idea was that civilians and combatants alike would be able to share their experiences, express their opinions on what basic rules should apply in war, discuss why those rules sometimes break down and look at what the future holds. With this in mind, the ICRC commissioned Greenberg Research, Inc. to design a research programme that would enable people to be heard in the most effective way possible.
One of outcomes of such research programme is the Country report for Bosnia and Herzegovina with the following introduction: The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina was a struggle among the country’s three communities for territorial control. In four years, the war claimed some 200,000 lives and — at its worst point — uprooted half the population of 4 million.
Please note that, as underlined in the report, the opinions expressed in this report are not those of the ICRC. The ICRC retained Greenberg Research, Inc. to design and oversee the People on War consultation. Greenberg Research compiled and analysed the results and is responsible for the content and interpretation.
The mentioned report is available on ICRC web page http://www.icrc.org “People on War 1999” Greenberg reports.
Yours respectfully,
Henry Fournier
Head of ICRC Delegation
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dear Mr Meyer,
In regards to your question (of 02 November) about possibility that you post our response on a public website, we would need more information from you. What kind of website do you want to publish our reply on and for which purpose.
Yours respectfully,
Henry Fournier
Head of ICRC Delegation
Bosnia and Herzegovina
The ICRC – working to protect and assist people affected by armed conflict
Find out more: http://www.icrc.org
Dear Mr Meyer,
We thank you for providing us with additional information. We would like to inform you that we responded to your query on a personal basis and our message is not intended for publication.
We therefore ask you to kindly refrain from using our message publicly. However, feel free to make links to the relevant research on the ICRC website (www.icrc.org “People on War 1999”) as mentioned in our previous letter.
Yours respectfully,
Henry Fournier
Head of ICRC Delegation
Bosnia and Herzegovina
The ICRC – working to protect and assist people affected by armed conflict
Find out more: http://www.icrc.org
I think the letters speak for themselves.
2. The HRW organization assembled the narrative of the Rwanda Genocide, from claims made by “Human Rights” organizations that were uniformly collaborating with Paul Kagame’s forces. One such organization was formed the day before Kagame invaded Rwanda from Uganda (30 September versus 1 October, 1990). These organizations uniformly failed to criticize Kagame’s invasion.
Another thing that these organizations did was to present a false definition of terms to western readers. The most important term was ‘Inyenzi’ (cockroaches, in kinyaRwanda). This term referred to rebels arising from the 1959 revolution. Prior to 1959, Rwanda was a feudal kingdom, in which Tutsis were the aristocrats (think Boyars, in Russian terms), and Hutus were serfs. The revolution ended feudalism, and in the process, 20k Tutsis were murdered, and 120k fled.
Of the 120k that fled, some would occasionally return to Rwanda in teams of six or twelve, to conduct revenge attacks against Hutus, especially between 1960 and 1970. These attackers were known, in Rwanda and in the countries of refuge (Congo-Kinshasa, Uganda, Tanzania) as Inyenzi. The radio broadcasts in Rwanda after Kagame’s invasion always distinguished between Kagame’s forces (e.g. ‘Inyenzi’ that call themselves ‘Inkotanyi’) and civilian Tutsis. The transcripts of these radio broadcasts (the ‘genocide’ broadcasts) are available online; I will add a link below.
The Interahamwe, the militia allegedly behind the massacres of Tutsis, was headed by a Rwandan Tutsi, Robert Kajuga. The radio broadcasts indicate that the organization was seen as defensive, e.g. they will fight the Inyenzi’s mortars with their spears and machete—Rwanda had held strongly to the terms of the Arusha accords, avoiding rearming to the point of declining a shipment of ammunition from Egypt that was ordered prior to Kagame’s invasion.
During the mass killings, according to Tutsi rights organizations, 300k Tutsis were killed (half of the Tutsi population). The remainder (500k-900k) were Rwandan Hutus. It is plainly far more plausible that Kagame killed these Hutus than the disorganized government.
Initially, the claim was that the Hutu government had shot down the plane of the Hutu president to stoke anger. One problem with that scenario is that Kagame’s forces moved into action within an hour of the shootdown. Another is that it is now a matter of public record that the US government shut down the investigation into the shootdown, after the (Australian) investigator, Michael Hourigan, had amassed sufficient evidence to charge Kagame.
References:
Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa, by Robin Philpot
‘Genocide’ radio transcripts:
http://migs.concordia.ca/links/RwandaRadioTranscripts.htm
Notice the arrogance in posting these transcripts—clearly they are confident that the transcripts won’t be read.
vimeo.com/12025909
Human Rights Watch’s document, defining the genocide:
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/rwanda/
I forgot the reference on the original Inyenzi:
Rwanda and Burundi
Lemarchand
1970
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E18jWXbZY8U show what really happened in Kiev and is so diferente from what we read in the media.