Dear friends,
There hyper-short items:
- I will be gone all day on Monday (this is why I did the podcast on Sunday).
- Winter (especially early winter) does not at all prevent military operations in the Ukraine (forget that Jack Forst nonsense). Voentorg might.
- Looks like Zakharchenko won the elections in Novorussia by a large margin (“hurray-patriots” will be enraged).
The Saker
PS: the open thread is yours for the day :-)
-from RT
Ukrainian battalion leader-turned-MP ready to ‘organize blasts’
Ukraine’s volunteer battalion leader, who is now also an MP, said on a Ukrainian television show that the battalions are ready to “intrude” into Russia. He spoke about intended terrorist acts before being cut off by the show’s host.
“I will speak on behalf of the volunteer battalions, because I have more information…Today we are ready not just to defend [Ukraine], but to invade the Russian Federation, break into it with reconnaissance detachments and sabotage groups,” the leader of the Dnepr-1 (Dnipro-1) battalion Yury Bereza said on Sunday during the ‘Shuster Live’ TV show.
Bereza spoke about carrying out bombings inside Russia before he was cut off by the show’s host, who said the comments made “people nervous.”
The Ukrainian military commander of the battalion, sponsored by Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, recently became a lawmaker after being elected to the country’s parliament.
Bereza was recently criticized in the media after reports appeared that he ran away from the heavy battle scene near the town of Ilovaysk in eastern Ukraine, leaving his volunteer troops behind. Kiev’s fighters were encircled by local self-defense forces in the area, with Ukrainian officials later announcing hundreds of casualties.
Lawmaker? And the west doesn’t blink an eye…
A very delusional and for the battalions dangerous statement; should “intrusions” come to fruition. Those misguiding and misleading the ukie populace are now fully infected with the psychosis carried by their western enablers. When witnessing the behaviors exhibited by the far right extremists and the various neo-nazi nuts who serve as attack fogs, sometimes I wonder that the ukie crazies might have been carriers of the same disease of the brain. A little western stimulus was enough for it to present itself?
Nazi Banderastan wants to leave Kiev and join Europe.
“The leader of the organization is Vładimir Pavliv who, even before the war in the east, became famous as “a Galician autonomist”. In his opinion, the change of the administrative-territorial format of the state is not far off.
“I am interested in the autonomous status of Western Ukraine or single Galicia, and what there will be over the Zbruch River is not of interest to me,”—he admitted in an interview two years ago.—“The integrity of Ukraine for me has lower value than the welfare of Galicia”.
Activists of the Assembly are hinting that they are not averse to enter the EU without Ukraine.
“We need to unite, at least three regions—Lvov, Ternopol and Ivano-Frankovsk. The goal of our organization is to bring Galicia back to Europe, because that is the area which is most ready to European integration,”—said Pavliv.
Absolutely agree with this man. Galicia, whether you are in agreement with its policies or not, is unique from the rest of Ukraine. Such a terrible mistake that Stalin annexed it. These people love the Poles, and if I’m not mistaken Oles’ka in Western Ukraine (L’viv and Ivano-Frankivs’k regions) is part of the Poland’s Lublin gas basin. Yuzivs’ka field is said to contain around 2 trillion cubic meters of gas, while Oles’ka’s deposits are estimated at 1.5 trillion cubic meters. It is yet unknown just how much of these deposits is technically recoverable. That could be definitely lead to their own prosperity as well as a solid alliance with the EU and NATO. Look at this map.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/01/24/this-is-the-one-map-you-need-to-understand-ukraines-crisis/
saker, I vote that we all stop calling that area Banderastan and call it Galicia-Volhynia instead. Zakarpattia should also be an independent state.
HUMOR BREAK
PHOTO: The Ukrainian tank has fallen into a ditch…
Description (from a different source than DNR News site above) of photo:
The Ukrainian tank has fallen into a ditch. The ditch was dug as a barrier so that the Russian military equipment won’t be able to pass. The second Ukrainian tank tried to help the first one, but it got stuck too.
RELATED ( ;-) ):
OBLAST MAP: number of scientific publications per 10,000 Ukraine population
Somebody, I don’t know who, impersonated Avakov (!), the minister of the interior in Ukraine, and recorded an interesting conversation with a US general about US military assistance we are not supposed to know about. An impressive feat.
US General NcNeely prank called, reveals military secrets ENG Subs
The video has two parts: A news item on the subject (with Eng Subs) and the recording of the conversation itself. Both have been cut down to get rid of borin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=L56nkaJVeig
From antimaidan:
https://twitter.com/antimaidan_en/
Photo of Zakharchenko today with his wife walking to the voting station, surrounded by nine soldiers in green, unmarked uniforms, no patches, no St. George ribbon markers. Did not look like they were militia. Maybe they were contractors from an outfit called Greenwater. (joking)
So, the message I see is Moscow has taken over the government and has forced out the leaders they don’t want in politics and out of the Novorossiya military leadership.
Bezler is out because he never submitted completely even to Strelkov.
The last big name unit leader to stand is Alexey Mosgovoy. With his attitude out of line with Moscow, he might be next to be pushed out.
So, the responsibility for the defense and success of the region and its 4 million people is completely on Moscow.
I think that Putin needed this control because the dangers are directly toward Russia. With only Russian military and political operatives running the Donbass, he will have no interference, delay or mistakes in outcome. I don’t see how there is any room for oligarchs and fifth columnists now that all Russian flesh and blood is on the line. Any interference is treason, straight and simple.
Once, this is clearly understood, the West and Kiev will realize they are shelling Russia directly, not indirectly. And they are launching an offensive against Russia directly, not indirectly.
Putin has ended the proxy war. The proto war continues in all forms and dimensions. But the proxy war is ceased. New Russia is Russia de facto if not de jure.
It doesn’t matter that no foreign country recognizes Novorossiya. It’s a piece of the whole, and will operate with a long open border manned by Russians on both sides. Gas, electricity, water, and whatever they need will come through Rostov.
I wouldn’t be surprised that Putin makes an appearance there on some significant day early next year. Flies right in to Donetsk Airport to tell the folks they won! Sort of like he did in Crimea.
It’s not about elections and boilers. It’s about Russia having a leader who understands strategy and tactics, hearts and minds of Russians, and what to fight with, where to fight, when to fight and with certainty of purpose. If you look at how things have changed and how impossible a proxy war is for the CIA and NATO now, you will see that the West has lost big.
Putin has not only called their bluff on nuclear threats, he has disassembled their 50-60 Billion dollar Ukie war and shoved it up their butts.
Novorossiya is a small item in this struggle. Putin has put it into perspective. It is another heroic event in Russia versus fascism. If the fighting flares up again, the results will be even more one-sided. MiGs will be based at Donetsk. And S-300’s will be guarding the airspace. White truck convoys will be by the thousands in months ahead.
Watch for the return of Chinese investment which has been on hold. They had deals in East Ukraine. I suspect they’ll be rebuilding some of the infrastructure. They do that faster than anyone.
It will be safe for Malaysian Airliners to fly over Donbass once again.
The underdog won. The bully got whipped. All along the battle was against the satanic. God wins those battles. You just have to have faith.
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Croat and Russophile
We already know most of this, but it explain in more detail why Russia can not let Assad fall in Syria because it will affect Russia a lot more than anything else. It is also why Russia dont want to annex any parts of Ukraine but want them separated and why they are being ethnically cleansed from the region. And why the US will do all it can to break the BRICS alliance.
What’s Behind Lower Gas-Prices and the Bombings of Syria and of Southeastern Ukraine
Obama Represents U.S. & Arabic Aristocracies, Against Those of Russia & Iran. Eric Zuesse
http://rinf.com/alt-news/featured/whats-behind-lower-gas-prices-bombings-syria-southeastern-ukraine/
@”Ukrainian battalion leader-turned-MP ready to ‘organize blasts'”
In August on German state TV the nazi war criminal Bereza has already threatened to attack Russia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LKeBdXs6bQ&t=8m
transcript:
http://www.zdf.de/ZDF/zdfportal/blob/34378272/2/data.pdf
Thais is reason enough for russia to blast him and his handlers on abraod.
Dear The Saker,
http://en.ria.ru/politics/20141103/195022048/DPR-Elections-in-Line-With-Minsk-Agreements.html
If the EU carry on not recognising the elections – where the same leaders signed the Minsk protocol and were present at the meetings (they recognised them then) – which were in line with the agreement as he says – then on their head so be it.
The disgarce and stain on humanity – Ban Ki Moon – has again! said the elections aren’t recognised. This man is an utter disgrace to the position he holds.
They can all jump up and down as much as they want but it wont change the facts.
Rgds,
Veritas
Just saw on Ria Novosti that Russia “hopes” the elections in the Donbass will not result in more sanctions from the E.U.
They “hope”?
Russia is so ridiculously weak!
It’s pathetic.
By the way, I’m still waiting for Russian sanctions on nonessentials such as Coca Cola, Hollywood crap, etc.
Whatever happened to restrictions over their airspace?
Paul Craig Roberts is right, Russia is weak
And to those who criticize him, I’ve been following PCR for 15 years and he has never changed his tune in his criticism of Washington. PCR publicly claims that 9/11 was an inside job… so he doesn’t try to undermine Russia when he states that they are weak. He just voices facts.
I think I’ll stop worrying about all this charade as everyday if feels more like some dissident analysts out there were right all along: the west and Russia are in this together. It’s all theater.
I’m French and I’ll just point out the obvious: Putin is no De Gaulle. Read how De Gaulle took on the empire. Now, there was a man with balls!
Pentagon open revolt against Obama incompetence.
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2014/11/harper-pentagon-in-revolt-against-obama-white-house-incompetence.html#more
I am also linking to another post, please see comment made by David, his reply to Anna-Marina. I found it insightful and it contextualize things leading up to Putin’s rise to power.
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2014/10/httpwwwtheguardiancomworld2014oct30foreign-jihadist-iraq-syria-unprecedented-un-isis.html
A video of an interview with a man who was in the Berkut at the Maidan. He gives new details on what happened at the Maidan, and what happened to the Berkut survivors. He has now joined the NAF.
There is a video of the complete show in which Berezva proposed sending saboteurs into Russia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY7nd0uvyXk
There is evidence the stay-behind saboteur groups have been established (classsic NATO/CIA/Gladio move) in Donbass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COFYyWWPLH4
The website ‘Inform Napalm’ seems to be a place where the neo-Nazis congregate.
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Finformnapalm.org%2F&sandbox=1
The Guardian coverage of the elections is atrocious. As were most of the comments as well. Two good articles at rt.com, and I put a comment over at the Guardian with the following RT quote:
“The Russian Foreign Ministry earlier pointed out that the Minsk peace agreements established in early September that elections in both Ukraine and the self-proclaimed republics should be conducted between October 19 and November 3. Kiev authorities conducted parliamentary elections a week ago, on October 26. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s order from October 16 setting the date of elections in the self-proclaimed republics for December 7 “contradicts the Minsk agreements,” said the Russian Foreign Ministry.”
This gives the lie to Poroshenko’s aggressive stance – he’s even going after the international observers, for crying out loud!
And I do think the reported turnout stands in sharp contrast to the Strelkov video, though I would be happy to hear more conversation about that. Those folk seemed eager to have Russia extend ‘from sea to sea,’ and I don’t think Russia is ready for that to happen, though they will strongly support the two republics (rt reported there were even voting booths set up in the RF communities where refugees have been.)
Oh, and I am happy to see that RT will be covering the US election. They’ll have Gary Johnson, a controversial former governor of my state. That will be fun to watch.
Nebojsa Malic, a foreign affairs expert, speaks from the belly of the beast (Washington DC, USA) to RT.
Includes 05:15 VIDEO.
Kiev will have to talk to Donbass whether they want to or not
Excerpt:
The situation as it is right now confirms that leaders in republics in the east have [the support of the population], which really sinks all the narrative coming out of Kiev and the Western press that these are the Russian fanatics somehow stirring up the peace in eastern Ukrainians to war…
RT: A radical Ukrainian commander-turned-lawmaker yesterday threatened to carry out attacks on Russia…
NB: The fact that he said so on air, he is a lawmaker, and he is not getting any criticism [either in Ukraine or the West], which has been waging a self-proclaimed war on terrorism for 14 years, tells us that something is seriously wrong with people who claim to be fighting for freedom, democracy, against terrorism, and end up suppressing freedom, violating democracy and supporting terrorism instead.
US election
part1
So many Americans are cynical
about voting fraud that some even
have doubts that there ever was a
fair election in the entire history of
the country. This learned helplessness
has descended to such a degree, that
few US voters are expected to turn
out for the Congressional elections
being held throughout the US this
Tuesday, November 4, 2014.
If you’re on the fence or feel whipsawed
by confusion, dread and apathy, political
activist, Dennis Morrisseau has a simple
voter tactic, which can be repeated every
time one goes to the voter booth: Vote
out all the incumbents, every time.
As Morrisseau says, “All the [Congressional]
incumbents are out there in the cold breeze
with their bare butts showing…and we need
to do something different than we’ve done
in years past…
Voting in the US, as long as the current so-called two party (but in reality a one party one with a great deal of dog and pony showmanship) is an exercise in futility. How often does enacted legislation or actions put into force utilizing executive priviledge reflect the will and/or desires of the citizenry? Almost never, except when it comes to frivilous, emotional issues which have no real bearing on those issues of real importance. Without legitimate third-party participation, without electoral reform targeting legislative barriers thatt impede their participation such as those that make it very difficult to simply obtain a place on a ballot and most importantly far reaching campaign finance reforms. Not to mention what would be done through the fully controlled MSM utilizing attack add propaganda to any third party that evolved into an actual threat to the elites and their brown shirts. I’d rather just pass on electoral participation.
To Anonymous @14:06
I really like your humor
“Russia is so ridiculously weak!|
If Russia would be so weak, it would be attacked a very, very long time ago……
Because Russia in their history never lost any war it is the sign that it wouldn’t be advisable to attack Russia in these days.
Obviously they will try again and again. This game is in the peak, it is not over yet, but the all world now can see, that who is the evil and pathetic psychopath and greedy bastard.
@ Anonymous
Paul Craig Roberts is right, Russia is weak
PCR is a shill.
He urges Russia to commit economic suicide by destroying her chief source of export earnings, while providing US-NATO a rationale for war acceptable to the boobouisie.
@ Anonymous
PCR publicly claims that 9/11 was an inside job… so he doesn’t try to undermine Russia when he states that they are weak. He just voices facts.
So if I say 9/11 was an inside job, that makes everything I say about Russia true? LOL
Residents of Kiev in protest blocked streets due to lack of heating, hot water and electricity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfdEhpmiono
I finally worked out the real reason…..
They don’t recognise the Novorissiya elections because they would not know a fair election if they fell over one.
Or in the cruder version….if it got up and bit them on the ass. Which it shortly will do.
Okay, take a moment for some humor in Russian art show. The work of about 100 cartoonists opened in Moscow,
Slideshow of the artwork. Click on first photo and it enlarges to lightbox show. Use navigation arrows left and right side of photos:
Caricature Slideshow in Moscow
If you want to read, use Yandex translator.
http://www.gazeta.ru/culture/photo/v_moskve_otkrylas_vystavka_patrioticheskih_karikatur_o_putine.shtml#!photo=0
Veritas said on 03 November, 2014 13:30
“The disgarce and stain on humanity – Ban Ki Moon – has again! said the elections aren’t recognised.”
Ban Ki Moon’s office reports to D.C. Recall the leaked tape of VickiNu …”to have the UN glue it together.”
Who cares? The AZs ignore international laws and treaties at their pleasure.
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@ Anonymous said on 03 November 14:06
“Russia is so ridiculously weak!” “Paul Craig Roberts is right, Russia is weak”….[.]
“I’m French and I’ll just point out the obvious: Putin is no De Gaulle. Read how De Gaulle took on the empire. Now, there was a man with balls!”
In the 15 years you have been reading PCR’s articles, I guess you missed this article: Vladimir Putin Is The Leader Of the Moral World — Paul Craig Roberts
<<< [.]
”No one can read Putin’s remarks without concluding that Putin is the leader of the world.”
“In my opinion, Putin is such a towering figure that Washington has him marked for assassination. The CIA will use one of the Muslim terrorists that the CIA supports inside Russia. Unlike an American president, who dares not move among the people openly, Putin is not kept remote from the people. Putin is at ease with the Russian people and mingles among them. This makes him an easy target for the CIA to use a Chechnya terrorist, a Jihadist suicide bomber, or the traditional “lone nut” to assassinate Putin.
The immoral, wicked, and declining West is incapable of producing leadership of Putin’s quality.”
>>>
anonymous 15:14 and moderators – donot put up the web addresses of neo nazi sites unless you want them to find their way here whe they google their site name. Really. Take those links down, we don’t need the pollution here.
i’ve never seen this omidyar billionaire’s name yet in print before this.
btw, isn’t this the same greenwald controlling Snowden?
(notice how he made this big splash, yet has revealed nothing of note since)
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2014/11/03/globalist-pierre-omidyar-announces-yet-another-partnership-with-usaid-a-k-a-the-cia/
With that said, let’s move on to Pierre’s recent announcement of his new partnership with CIA-backed USAID. We all know how the last one worked out with a brutal neoliberal technocrat oligarch assuming power in Ukraine and killing his own civilian population and now instituting legalized slavery on behalf of America’s “national interests”… this is something called the Global Innovation Fund and apparently the “innovation” is turning all the world into a neo-liberal, market driven hell-hole much like Georgia, Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, South Sudan and most recently, Ukraine.
To all those who mocked my comments about PCR’s analysis of the situation…
I forgot, the loss of Lybia, the slowdown takedown of Syria, the loss of Kiev, the crash of the ruble, the collapse of the price of oil, the loss of the Mistral ships (I am from France, mark my words, the whores in the French governement will not deliver the ships… I would bet everything I own on this), the sanctions against Russia and on and on…
All this somehow is part of a great master plan, chessgame, that Russia is winning, huh? Talk about delusion.
As I have said many times, I am on their side, but they are not winning at this point.
The latest gas deal with Ukraine was absolutely pathetic. As PCR pointed out in his interview with Russia Today, how is $100 off of the current market price for gas a good deal for Russia.
On top of that, as I know PCR knows, because he’s been harping on that very point, which is the keystone of the empire, Russia will get paid in dollars. That’s right, in freaking monopoly funny pieces of paper.
So, let me explain to all of you how this works. Russia “sells” gas to Ukraine, that is they transfer an actual commodity, which is used to heat homes and fuel heavy machinery. This gas is extrated through engineering, hard labor, etc. REAL STUFF.
Now… this is how Ukraine, the E.U. and the U.S. “pay” for this stuff… “Hey John, Russia wants $3.5 billion for their gas to Ukraine. Can you please print (create out of nothing) $3.5 million? Thanks!”
Better yet: “Hey John, Russia wants $3.5 billion for their gas to Ukraine, can you please make a $3.5 billion entry in our ledger in our computer system? Thank you.”
And this is why Charles De Gaulle sent French navy ships to the port of New York to repatriate France’s gold. You read that right, France’s Charles De Gaulle, sick of dealing with a currency that was completely made up, actually sent French navy ships to the United States and required his gold be shipped back. De Gaulle also kicked NATO out of France. He told them, you have this much time to pack and leave.
Now, this is how you deal with those bastards (aka “partners” in Putin parlance).
Also, as PCR pointed out, did Russia get any sanctions off for showing some good faith? No. Will the sanctions be increased? You can bet your butt they will.
Will Russia receive their Mistrals? No, because they American puppets at the head of France will never be allowed to deliver them.
Keep this posting in mind. The final deadline for the delivery of the first ship is Nov. 14. I will post here on Nov. 15 to remind everyone I was right.
And I’m tired of getting insulted just for pointing out the obvious and some of us are sick of Russia behaving pathetically: “Oh please Mr. uncle Sam, don’t slap anymore sanctions on us. Please! Pretty please?!”
By they way, nobody answered my questions on why Russia will not even ban non essential crap like Coca Cola products, Hollywood propaganda and so forth.
Please give me a logical explanation as to why they can’t even do anything as simple as that?
You are right.
rusdia has behaved pathetically like a weakling in global encounter and is still crying . Does not look a sign of any piwer.third rate england dare to bully and Rusdia keeos quiet instead of tellibg rengland to retun russian mobey otherwise topol nukes will fall on england.be manly , you Russians.you are brave fighters but here you have to be bold football hooligan too.
There will be high level bi-lateral meetings next week. Oh to be a fly on the Wall.
Xi-Putin next week in Beijing: APEC Leadership Summit
Russia and China are looking to boost cooperation in major investment projects in mining, the chemical industry, agriculture and infrastructure construction, which will be on the agenda of talks between the leaders of the two allies next week.
Russian and Chinese Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping will hold bilateral talks on the sidelines of the APEC Leaders Summit which will be held in Beijing from Nov. 7-11. This will be the 5th Xi-Putin meeting in 2014.
Xi will also meet US President Barack Obama during the APEC Summit. China’s burgeoning trade and investment treaties within Asia Pacific is increasing its influence in the region while challenging US hegemony.
China’s alliance with Russia and increasing overtures towards South Korea come in the backdrop of the much-hyped US Asia Pivot policy.
Xi has held talks or met with Putin for nine times since he assumed the office of China’s President in March 2013.
Despite a gloomy global economy, the trade volume between Russia and China surged last year, nearing the target of $100 billion set for 2015, said Putin.
[.]Russia also plans to sign a new 30-year gas supply contract with China via the western route. Putin also welcomed Chinese investors joining the strategic Vankor oil project in Siberia.
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As U.S. attempts to isolate – the irony:
In the midst of a global deflationary environment, China now rated the world’s No: 1 economic powerhouse works deeper alliances with Russia.
Candyman Porky reacts:
BREAKING News:
Poroshenko considers canceling law on special status of Donbass
“Ukraine may abolish its law on local governance for the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, President Petro Poroshenko announced on Monday. The measure will be discussed at a meeting with the National Security Council, called by the president for Tuesday.”
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The fact they would openly mull this move underscores the futility of attempting to negotiate with Kiev. Again proves their signatures are not worth a P.o.Sh^t.
@Anonymous “Vote out all the incumbents, every time….”
Tuesday tomorrow is 2014, US midterm General Election. I’m sick and tired repeating cycles: Democrats, Republicans, Democrats, Republicans…….
We know what the Republicans will do if they control both houses of Congress, they will do exactly what they said! We also know exactly what the Democrats will do if they remain in control of the Senate. Democrats…. progress caucuses, Black or whatever will remains silence while Obama continues the endless wars, torture, deportation, spying on citizens, drone murder, etc.
What my choice? I’m voting all Republicans from local, State and Federal Offices. PERIOD! Many will say, “shooting at my own feet” What not? Why let the war’s mongers lie, continue the miseries many US citizens and around the world faces? What have I(we) got to loose?
Where I live there are no third Party, Green or Independent candidates! Only two choices. Democrats or Republicans. So be it, let the Republican win. Make Obama two more years as miserable as he treats us. Hopefully the Republicans will start impeachment preceding against Obama.
Let the Democrats and Obamapoligists suffer.
Everyone saying Russia should attack, Russia should hit back, Russia is weak blah blah blah
So, if someone is so darned sensitive, every time someone looks at him crooked he punches them, is he strong? More likely he is drunk.
The strong one goes about his own business and doesn’t let idiots distract him from it by waving their fists around and calling him names. Idiots like that are very brave, in company. They are rapidly losing their gang now.
Putin is not weak. He is very cool, very focused. Cool calm and collected.
Get off his case. Broaden your reading to other parts of the world outside Ukraine, see what else is going on that Russia is involved in, try to see how it all ties together. He has to balance the right timing for a lot of things.
And Novorossiya needs to get their own land back themselves, it’s their own blood on it that makes it theirs.
A bit of a heads-up re Med/Put clips in the Robert Redford PBS environment doc yesterday (2Nov..Seattle.) Perhaps it’s past time for more than the Saker bolg’s blood bath focus. Just a thought.
Apoligies for length:
part i
A peek behind an Italian paywall at
http://www.effedieffe.com/index.php?option=com_jcs&view=jcs&layout=form&Itemid=134&aid=309214
says Saudi Arabia is dumping oil big time, and has pushed the oil price down to 85 dollars (i.e. hugely below the 99 dollars they need to extract it). mmm… let’s leave (geo)political and military considerations aside, if only for a few seconds.
The ‘Russia the brave’ meme VS the ‘weakness of Russia’ meme is all very well but if the oil slump lasts it’s no longer goig to be a ‘blip’ for Putin (i.e. a transient untoward moment soon to recede), with or without China.
Is London salivating?
According to Ambrose Evans Pritchard (Daily Telegraph), London has every reason to salivate. And he seems to be pleased:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/11181297/Oil-slump-leaves-Russia-even-weaker-than-decaying-Soviet-Union.html
We’re in meat space on this one.
The Italian writer, Maurizio Blondet, says at the above link that if you’ve been sabotaged then you should respond with sabotage. He proposes a Schacht clone for Putin (it’s a long stry so google it).
Forgive me if I re-post my own two kopecks.
It could be oil or fiat money, but it’s still a drug, and Russia has still to kick the habit, and Putin presumably knows it. The West, through KSA, is determined Russia shouldn’t have the time.
With reference to the video
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.it/2014/10/top-putin-advisors-and-experts-discuss.html
I wrote the following
part ii
The credit crunch problem that the experts discuss is a familiar problem. They rightly analyse Russia’s as an internal and external problem (internal policies and the dependence on foreign capital). One of the speakers asks: if, what with sanctions, the technology transfer problem is as easy to solve as some observers believe, why wasn’t it solved a decade ago? The observation about the parmesan cheese and salmon from Belorussia is amusing. The conduct of the Russian central bank, as the experts describe it, is familiar to us westerners in the EU and US. Indeed, independent central banks are, by definition, fifth columns.
History provides many inspiring examples of how credit problems have been tackled. These problems are mirrored worldwide within local, national and continental scenarios. The Argentinian solution cited by anonymous 10/21 16:27 seems to me a bottom-up answer, perhaps more transient than foundational.
Regional measures such as the public North Dakota State bank and, historically, Birmingham’s Municipal Bank (UK) under Neville Chamberlain (as Mayor of the city) are worth looking at. Unsurprisingly, Chamberlain’s Birmingham bank, founded in 1915, was relentlessly scuppered through restrictions imposed by Westminster, starting well before the bank’s final demise in 1976 (Chamberlain, of course, was to achieve world fame as the Munich ‘appeaser’).
We also have the British State-backed Bradbury Pound (which the over-exposed private banking sector insisted on during WWI, due to a threatened mass run; when the danger of the run was over, they then insisted with equal urgency that the Bradbury Pound be discontinued, ensuring for Britain a massive public debt at the end of the war).
Australia made it through WWI with no additional public debt at all. It did so by means of measures on a similar scale as the Bradbury pound. Hugely successful, their system was also scrapped in the 1970s, as was the system insired by the teachings of Douglas in the province of Alberta(?), Canada. Indeed, the ‘social credit’ system, devised by Major C. H. Douglas, was hugely popular in the 1930s.
These schemes have much in common. On a certain plane of analysis, these projects (whether local or national) are all identical.
I suspect the experts on the TV show, and Putin, WANT TO AIM LOW. That disturbs me. They wish to settle for a modest restyling, and they seem to present protection of the status quo as defence of the Russian nation. If I’m right, this will likely be their personal downfall, and Russia’s too (and hence probably the free world’s, at least as far as prospects for progress are concerned during all our lifetimes).
While, wisely, they won’t flesh it all out publicly, the vision of these economists seems to be basically ‘more of the same’.
Pragmatism on their part?
I suspect not. Not really. Admittedly, they are aware of the dangers for Russia of the present situation. They are aware of the scale of operations. Good. They argue rationally. Good. But it’s hardly impressive.
My own ‘two kopeks’ – at least as a modest kickstart – harks back to the examples I refer to above:
part iii
a 10% circulating fiscal credits system. The government decides to commission, say, a project (defence, civil, research, fixed capital assets, infrastructure etc.). The government (A) says, I’ll pay you, Mr/Ms Contractor (B), not 100 roubles but 90 roubles plus a 10 roubles tax credit. If the contractor takes on the job, he/she then has two choices. Hold on to the tax credit and use it to pay taxes at the end of the year, or use it, in turn, to pay his/her own supplier (C) or suppliers (C, D, E…) (who must also pay taxes and can use – and accept – the credit for this purpose). When a value circulates not between 2 but at least 3 parties (A,B,C) it is already de facto money and hence its presence, in itself, combats the credit crunch (but since it isn’t money, we may say it ‘sidesteps’ both the credit crunch and the consumption prices inflation trap).
part iii
a 10% circulating fiscal credits system. The government decides to commission, say, a project (defence, civil, research, fixed capital assets, infrastructure etc.). The government (A) says, I’ll pay you, Mr/Ms Contractor (B), not 100 roubles but 90 roubles plus a 10 roubles tax credit. If the contractor takes on the job, he/she then has two choices. Hold on to the tax credit and use it to pay taxes at the end of the year, or use it, in turn, to pay his/her own supplier (C) or suppliers (C, D, E…) (who must also pay taxes and can use – and accept – the credit for this purpose). When a value circulates not between 2 but at least 3 parties (A,B,C) it is already de facto money and hence its presence, in itself, combats the credit crunch (but since it isn’t money, we may say it ‘sidesteps’ both the credit crunch and the consumption prices inflation trap).
Part iv
Hoarding is prevented by date-stamping the circulating credit note (an idea Silvio Gessel used for local currency). The credit’s value is automatically diminished (say, by 5%) after a certain period of time (of course, this deadline comes after the pertaining tax deadline). The credit’s value may be diminished in value as a tax credit alone or diminished in value also within the context of circulation among private individuals.
These credits are obviously unexportable.
And so on through the chain of subcontractors, sub-subcontractors (and perhaps even employees?) (A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H… ?). This system has the benefit of augmenting the money mass. It geographically ties the money mass down to Russia (or a region of Russia, i.e. whichever taxpayer base is chosen) and hence accelerates circulation (V, in the form of the credits as described but also, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, in the form of the roubles attached to these circulating credits).
The above-mentioned inflation risk created by increased circulation is low and perhaps even inexistent: after all, the greater the velocity – aka V – of circulation, the smaller the required money mass – aka M – will be. The volume of credit provided in this form should, in any case, be calibrated (transparently) to GDP fluctuations/trends. As the Italian TV commercial says: No Martini? No party. If GDP does not rise as a result of increased circulation of these fiscal credits, the credits are removed from circulation since they have been shown not to be conducive to growth.
If successful, the scheme translates into a powerful multiplier effect for all spending. I.e. maximum economic results on expenditure, over and above the concrete needs that occasioned the spending in the first place (defence, civil, research, fixed capital assets, infrastructure etc.). The multiplier effect combines with concrete needs met (both are added values).
Is this all cost-free? Won’t the government lose out on revenues?
No.
With this plan, the government extends credit (admittedly interest free) − but it does so without spending a rouble (apart from admin. costs), so it can commission more without increasing the fiscal burden.
Were the government to apply interest to – or to tax – something that costs it nothing to issue, that would be called seigneurage (it’s very harmful, tantamount to sin, and essentially what the Fed & Co. does worldwide). In any case, the government does get a chance to tax increased turnover, whatever for that taxation may take.
Would Russia need reforms to do this? Not necessarily. However desirable reforms may be in Russia, this fiscal credits system stands ALONGSIDE the current (ailing) system. Hence, in strictly practical terms, the plan treads on no one’s toes. Its implications, however, are a threat to the core values of our system in the west and, I fear, to the core values of Russia’s system too. An employee of Birmingham’s Municipal Bank remembered that the “Banks took fright at what they saw as an incursion into their monopoly”.
IT’S A RACE AGANST TIME, BUT A TURNAROUND MAY BE NEEDED. Blondet rightly said sabotage is required when faced with sabotage (dumping at 85 cents vs 99 cents). The scale of the problem is so great that, apart from the unthinkable, outright economic warfare may be the only cure.
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re US General NcNeely prank called, reveals military secrets ENG Subs (anonymous 5:08)
with preview of coming attractions, in which btw, the CA National Guard is scheduled to train the Ukie combat troops, probably the Nat Guard (ie Right Sector/Kolomoyski’s volunteers) since their motivation is highest and military skills are lowest.
i didn’t think the US would have time to do a Salvador, but now i don’t know. Saker, do you have an opinion? you believe the Ukraine must de-Natzify the hard way, correct?
..
“The Russian Foreign Ministry earlier pointed out that the Minsk peace agreements established in early September that elections in both Ukraine and the self-proclaimed republics should be conducted between October 19 and November 3. Kiev authorities conducted parliamentary elections a week ago, on October 26. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s order from October 16 setting the date of elections in the self-proclaimed republics for December 7 “contradicts the Minsk agreements,” said the Russian Foreign Ministry.”
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I, too, thought that was convincing, but I checked, I always do, and it appears to be a lie.
Unless I found a mistaken version or there’s a secret protocol, the Minsk memorandum says the elections will be held in accordance with the Ukrainian law on special status, and the Ukrainian law on special status says November 9.
It’s all about the republics wanting to establish they are governing themselves independently of Ukraine in order to claim the legal status of sovereign states.
Cassandra
P.S. I think I’ll go search for the dates themselves as cited by Lavrov.
Laugh breaks! Good idea! I’m hoping the chart of this online poll from Ukraina-TV will travel without too much distortion.
Which politician would you trust with the management of the country?
73.4% Vladimir Putin
10.6% Alexander Lukashenko (President of Belarus)
04.0% Queen Elizabeth of Britain
02.7% Marine Le Pen (French neo-Nazi leader who recently blamed U.S. for coup in Ukraine)
01.8% Peter Poroshenko President of Ukraine, chocolate oligarch
01.7% Angela Merkel
01.7% Vladimir Zhirinovsky clownish 3rd-4th opposition party leader in Russia
00.8% Mikheil Saakashvili Rose Revolution leader in Georgia, twice president, photo below
00.8% Oleh Lyashko (barely closeted neo-Nazi whose party was running 2d in recent election until an old video interview surfaced in which he ascribes his rapid promotion in the Ukrainian army to the judicious distribution of blow jobs.)
00.6% Arseniy Yatseniuk Prime Minister of Ukraine, banking oligarch
00.5% Barack Obama
00.5% Viktor Yanukovych ousted President of Ukraine and oligarch
00.4% Vitali Klitschko brain-damaged former heavyweight world champ, mayor of Kiev
00.4% Yulia Tymoshenko gas oligarch, Orange Revolution prime minister, John McCain’s obsession pre-Palin
Cassandra
A barking dog never bites
China imposes 6% tarriff on coal imports. Russia exempt.
Now that’s what I call a sanction! But Russia never would.
Watch the BRICS.
Cassandra
What happens when a man is honest, straightforward and has a vision for the future that includes all those exclude so far?
Mr Vladimir Putin
Find an equivalent politician in your country of residence and rejoice your luck. I live and work in Japan, so no joy here.
This video is 7 years old and Mr. Putin’s words are [have become] visionary.
One day you can tell your grand kids, “I heard this guy live, you know… on Youtube…”
And they will reply, “On what, granddad?”
They will not ask, “Who, granddad?”
Mr. Putin will rest in the upcoming pages of time as the greatest statesman of the 21st century, and rightfully so.
After you’ve listened to him/his speech, how much more are you willing to stomach Obombi’s BS?
@ Anonmice,
Q: Read how De Gaulle took on the empire. Now, there was a man with balls!
R: Sure, the way the man fled to London to fight the Germans is truly stuff of legends in the making.
Putin’s family had the audacity to fight them on their own turf…, what a bunch of pathetic losers, eh?
Somewhat contradictory accounts are emerging on Poroshenko’s response to the elections. He has proposed doing away with the Special Status law. Yahoo News claims that it means he intends to scrap the Minsk Accords. Novorosinform.org reports that he will propose a replacement specifying more autonomy. My take is that he recognizes the military and political weakness of the Ukie position vis Novorossia and the lack of a nationalist surge in the last elections on the Kiev side. He needs a fallback position to keep Minsk Accords alive, staving off disaster, and figures he now has the political leeway to pursue one.
“Mundo revuelto” by Rafael Poch:
http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=191521
BREAKING NEWS POROSHENKO CANCELLING MINSK AGREEMENT
“Mr Poroshenko said he was proposing to abolish a law agreed under the truce deal that grants a certain level of autonomy for three years to the rebel strongholds of Donetsk and Lugansk regions.”
He is talking with his defence minister. They want to scrap the whole Special Status because NR “broke the peace” by holding elections.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-04/russia-opposes-un-statement-about-rebel-urkaine-elections/5864422
http://news.yahoo.com/poroshenko-says-kiev-rethinking-peace-deal-flouted-rebels-195112321.html
nice comment on this one, “..Rethinking? So they are deciding whether they want to let the Rebels take more land from them??? LOL! ..”
They tried to get some resolution passed in UN but Russia blocked it. Last week Russia was saying something about doing a UN resolution themselves.
Two weeks ago in reference to the airport, Motorola said “we have the kettle on for them”. They are ready.
In Mariupol they raised a Novorossiya flag on a house. They must figure they will be liberated before the local Azovs find them.
All the PEOPLE in the world are backing Novorossiya. Only the Governments and pseudo-governments are against them.
This is for all our dear brothers and sisters in USA before your election tomorrow, please read this and make a brave and smart choice
http://www.confucius.org/lunyu/edcommon.htm
Latest Cross Talk: Stupid wars [Focused on American wars in the Middle East]
Link> http://rt.com/shows/crosstalk/201763-islamic-state-us-terror/
Keep an eye on Ken O’Keefe. He takes no prisoners and tells it like it is, instead of this limp d!ck version of things where this ‘clueless’ America is just stabbing in the dark, “making mistakes,” or messing with cultures they don’t understand, or committing “blunders” while “losing war after war”…(sorry to say, but a huge chunk of Putin’s opening speech at Valdai was based on this idiotic narrative too) O’Keefe lays it down in black and white for everyone to see (Lavelle’s face while this is happening is priceless, btw) …or as an RT commenter puts it:
“Ken O”Keefe just about said it all and this edition of Cross Talk could have been wrapped up in under ten minutes , if Peter hadn’t kept going back to the false notion that Washington’s foreign policy is a mistake.”
I agree wholeheartedly :)
So, can we all drop this nonsense that America is screwing up all over the place? (*Wink-wink* that includes you: President Putin & Co)
US election part 2:
“We need to vote EVERYONE in the Congress
OUT. Go there, MOB these elections; they’re
going to be very low turn-out elections – go
there, to your polling place Tuesday, in
mobs.
“Tell everyone to do this. Get everyone to do
this. We go there in mobs, with one purpose
in mind: VOTE THE INCUMBENT WHO’S
RUNNING – OUT. Your Representative, Your
Senator – because they’re the only ones you
can reach – and I’ll reach mine and everyone’ll
reach there’s.
“Vote these slimebuckets out! You know, I know
– they’re all bought. What you don’t know is
your guy is not special. He’s not “Mr. Clean.”
she’s not “Mr. Clean” – they’re just like the rest
of them.
“We need to take this Congress back. We need
to re-assert our authority over it, as Americans.
This, we must do this Tuesday.
“Congress, no matter what you think of it,
Congress is where the real power is – and it’s
also where the rot is – and we need them all
gone.
“How do you do it? You vote for the strongest
opponent to your incumbent. It’s usually a “D” for
an “R” and an “R” or a “D”.
“Hold your nose, vote for the other guy – throw
your guy out. That’s what we have to do, this
Tuesday. We have to. Please. Spread this
everywhere.”
Video Total: (52 mins)
“Go There in Mobs: Vote Everyone in the US Congress Out!”
http://www.ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.com/page/26797.html
Poroshenko intends to submit issue to annul law on Donbass special Status
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/757982
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Monday he intended to submit an issue to the National Security and Defense Council to annul the law on the special status for Donbass (Donetsk and Lugansk regions).
“In due time this law played an extremely important role,” Poroshenko said in an address placed on his website.
The law demonstrated “Ukraine’s sincere intentions to de-escalate the situation in Donbass and the world support for the Minsk peace agreements”, he said.
“We will be ready to adopt a new law when all parties return to implementing the Minsk protocol if fire is ceased, the buffer zone is created and control is established,” Poroshenko said.
The new law can be adopted if the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics “reverse” the elections held on November 2, he said.
“The new law will envision strict borders of the regions with the special procedure of local self-government in strict compliance with the Minsk agreements. It will also envision budget decentralization, which removes irritating problems – who feeds whom. It will allow the regions themselves to be responsible for their financing based on their own resources,” Poroshenko said.
At the same time, the president said he hoped for the International Monetary Fund’s support for restoring Donbass.
Sooner or later Poroshenko also intends “to propose the parliament to adopt a law on creating a free economic zone there (in Donbass) with the special trading regime with the EU and Russia”.
Something about the ISIS
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BrasscheckTV Report
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Another “instant” unbeatable foe
Remember al-Qaeda?
No one had ever heard of them.
Then suddenly they were a credible
enemy of the US.
Hey, doesn’t that sound a lot
like ISIS?
What will they come up with
next?
Video:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/27373.html
http://www.cbc.ca/player/Shows/ID/2584569103/
Hi —
The right side of the screen in the Strelkov speech is cut off — making the subtitles unreadable.
I saw someone else mentioned that as well.
I have a brand new computer with a brand new operating system, and don’t have that difficulty elsewhere. I hope that this can be repaired, as I would really like to see and understand that video.
Just want to congratulate Saker on your first podcast , well done , and look forward to more .
“PHOTO: The Ukrainian tank has fallen into a ditch…”
Thanks for that John 97205.
What is interesting about that is that the tank is armoured. I seem to recall that a so called analyst with the International Institute for Strategic Studies , claiming that the presence of these T-72 variants in Novorossia was a smoking gun that Russia had invaded the Ukraine, because only the Russian had those variants.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/08/28/has-russia-invaded-ukraine-heres-what-we-know/
Another NATO lie bites the dust.
re: EU response and Porochenko—looks like they want to rev up the lawnmowers to cut a little grass in the Donbass. Hmmm. methinks there will be lots of taking names and kicking of A–! this time around. majorly… those long range artillery have got to go. The word should go out….no more shelling of populated areas or bear the consequences. Let NATO squeal.
Putin’s Response to EU Sanctions: See You in Court
By Carol Matlack
The fight over Russian sanctions is heading to court. Since early October at least six Russian companies—including state oil group Rosneft (ROSN:RM) and the country’s two biggest banks—have filed complaints at the Luxembourg-based European General Court. So has President Vladimir Putin’s oligarch friend Arkady Rotenberg. All of them are seeking to overturn European Union sanctions.
They have some reason for optimism. The EU court has previously thrown out sanctions against several Iranian entities and individuals.
Vladimir Rogov * speaks about elections and Kiev’s change of heart about attacking Novorossia
* a Chairman of the Committee of State Building of Novorossia, from Donetsk
…We drove several hundred kilometers through Lugansk and Donetsk Republics with a delegation of observers from USA, Great Britain, EU, and Canada… There were [voting] lines one kilometer long…
Hospitals and schools are getting rebuilt, and although they get shelled again, they get rebuilt again. After yesterday’s events I am confident more then 100% that Novorossia will win, and will exist at least in the borders from Odessa to Kharkov…
Everyone was cracking jokes that the Kiev junta again branded everyone who voted as terrorists (squared). The foreign observers were amused that they are not allowed to go to Ukraine, said they don’t want to go to Nazi Ukraine anyway, and will go there when we liberate it…
Host: Everyone expected rightfully an order from Kiev to attack on November 2. That didn’t happen, and as the military guys from Donbass told me, it didn’t happen because Ukraine realized what a strong massive army of Novorossia is facing them. Ho do you comment on the fact that Kiev did not attack?
V.R: Without going into details, Ukrainian military understood clearly…
November 2 is another date after May 11 in the state building of Novorossia. Referendum was step 1. Election is step 2. Step 3 is – liberation of the whole territory of Novorossia…
Forget Isis… it’s down to West’s desire to weaken Arab armies, Syrian adviser tells Robert Fisk
It feels strange to ask these questions of Dr Bouthaina Shaaban, one of President Bashar al-Assad’s close advisers and former translator to his father, Hafez. Her office is spotless, flowers on the table, her female secretary preparing a morning round-up of the world’s press on the Middle East, the coffee hot and sweet. At one point, when she spoke of the destruction in Syria and the mass attacks on the region’s Arab armies, it was difficult to believe that this was Damascus and that a few hundred miles to the east Isis have been cutting the throats of their hostages. Indeed, Shaaban finds it difficult even to define what Isis really is.
“Right from the beginning of this crisis, I never truly felt that the issue was about President Assad,” she says. “It was about the weakening and destruction of Syria.
There has been so much destruction – of hospitals, schools, factories, government institutions, you name it. I think the Americans take their battles against leaders and presidents – but only as a pretext to destroy countries.
Shaaban, of course, reflects Syria’s regime. Thus she calls the war a “crisis” and does not choose to reflect on the regime’s responsibility for this – or the numbers killed by the regime forces as well as by the rebels. What she does have is a very clear analytical brain which can shape an argument into coherence however much you disagree with her. She showed this in her research through Syrian presidential and foreign-ministry archives when she was writing a remarkable book about Hafez al-Assad’s peace negotiations with the Clinton administration, in which the old “Lion of Damascus” turns out to be a lot shrewder than the world thought he was –and his betrayal by America much deeper than we suspected at the time. She talks on about the destruction of the Iraqi army, the losses in the Syrian army, the massive suicide attack against Egyptian troops in Sinai and the killing of Lebanese troops in the Lebanese city of Tripoli. And you have to listen.
The Egyptian army is very strong. It is a logical army that is defending its country. And then it received this huge attack in Sinai. It’s my opinion that the target is to eliminate the threat that Arab armies represent for the liberation of Gaza and the West Bank and Golan and to make Israel’s occupation easier and less costly. This is a major dimension of the cause of the ‘Arab Spring’. In fact I call it an ‘Israeli Spring’.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/so-why-is-there-such-an-explosion-of-violence-across-the-middle-east-9831970.html?printService=print
Anon 1543
“btw, isn’t this the same greenwald controlling Snowden?
(notice how he made this big splash, yet has revealed nothing of note since)”
Hi Anon…yes, I’ve wondered about Greenwald too…now I’m going to say something that Saker is not going to approve…and I’m only saying it because of something else … the fact that an aspiring Hollywood actor told his mom…”only jews get jobs in Hollywood”…now this is harsh, but if you think about it…Jerry Steinfeld…Rhoda….and many more…Greewald also looks jewish….
Anon 18:22 about Paul Craig Roberts.
Anon, Saker likes PCR…he says PCR has done a great job of writing about the crimes of Washington for many years…so don’t get hissy on this site ok ?
We are all entitled to our opinion..my is an observation about PCR…he’s on the payroll in the way of pensions, of many of the institutes that he now attacks…or attacks indirectly because of their leanings…many great US universities for example…
So how can someone who is on the payroll really bite the hand that feeds it ? Its hypocrisy…
So even though I also do read PCR’s articles…I do find them jarring sometimes…even the ones where he seems to like Putin.
To 2legit2quit…
Hi Legit ! I watched the Stupid Wars Crosstalk and I agree that Ken O’Keefe is fantastic. I’m going to look him up after…and its fabulous that he’s an ex-marine…
But as far as your criticism of Peter Lavelle and the others…Peter immediately said that Ken had some really good points…
I think we, as watchers of events…even as far as Peter goes…meaning Peter lavelle is out there in the real world, where we are on our computers…I think that if we here at home just hate everyone who’s not doing a good enough job, in our opinion, then we also, become a tool of the higher (or actually lower) worlds.
Behind all outer manifestations, are spiritual beings…of varying power and of varying intentions…
As far as ISIS goes…Ken O’Keefe, on Crosstalk said that … get this …
ISIS stands for Israeli State Intelligence Service.
To: AntiSpin 04 November, 2014 01:22
Rightclick on the video and copy the url. Open a new tab and watch the video on youtube. Works fine.
Thanks John97205 at 04:14, for that nugget from Kristina Rus – that lady is posting some compelling stuff. I just wish someone with a G+ account would ask her to open the comments to people who prefer not to sign in with their Google account ;)
I saw that little article and now it becomes clear – the Ukraine military didn’t attack because it couldn’t. It understood it would get its ass disastrously kicked by a professional army of some 24,000-27,000 trained soldiers if it dared to push things too far.
Saker has said in his 3-point post here that Jack Frost is not an enemy this winter – that military engagements are feasible. So maybe NAF will retake the towns that belong to Novorossia, long before Spring.
And the rest of Ukraine appears to be breaking apart, not so much into chaos as into warlord zones run by oligarchs. May not be much new here for readers of this thread, but this is a useful commentary:
The 2014 Rada Elections: A Battle of the Billionaires that Has Split Ukraine
Meanwhile the civil government of Novorossia will take its rightful place in negotiations with Ukraine, and by proxy with the world, despite all the bluster, deception and hot air from the other side. Donbas selling coal to Kiev, I could never have imagined such glorious leverage :)
Sometimes I suspect that the Donbas has learned from Russia that negotiations are a weapon, which is something that the western world has forgotten, to its peril.
Ah, Novorossia, the dog that doesn’t bark.
In the West [a NATO-EU country] a woman sets herself on fire in central Sofia.
any comments re Paul Goble’s article reposted to Johnsons Russia list from windowoneurasia calling for Ukr to be part of NATO as clearly VP has a strategy to bring down european countries one by one stupidity of journo but this what est wishes to believe? It is Ukr’s complete and utter folly with EU! Plus Ukr threat to be saboteurs to Rus surely is a provocation that Rus cannot ignore?
But how can the west be held accountable for continual “provocations” such as these by the west?
I believe the only way out of the increasing chaos-Ukr must sadly default, west ukraine to become separate as RI articles suggest and here re Galicia” and rus. mp telling it straight to ukr journalist-will be for the default to actually happen, and this is what happens when not support as previously done by Rus but intervention by the west takes place, surely showing their own folly and vulnerabilities eg costs to EU of sanctions.
Bankruptcy, no pensions etc for citizens etc, no jobs, no money for rebuilding the east from the west(even if desired by the west who clearly wish to believe the east is treasonable and ruined Minsk agreement although that has never been fully enacted certainly by a “ceasefire”). Legislation passed? by RADA/Poro. permitting a degree of separatism now being withdrawn clearly states to Rus and EU that Minsk was a false flag.Hey an idea-let China come in and rebuild the east? They have the money to invest and their military could act as “peacekeepers”…….
appreciative of other commentators on this site-my connection is having relatives in Crimea who are now safe, have decent pensions and prospects of some kind of life and careers. Crimea, fascinating to visit-can someone check out whether tartars are “ok ‘ now-have been problems recently by locals or people stirring it, USA could be using concerns of ethnic minorities as an excuse especially as NATO etc insist Crimea must be reunited with Ukr.Also watch out for Poland still behind the scenes-any assessment possible there?
ad collapse of ukraine’s economy:
folks – not to discourage you, but I would not bet on a (visible) disintegration of the ukr. economy/breakdown of the regime any time soon. reason: the eu is going to pay every price to prevent this. I am afraid, the eu would go to any length over this. They are able to do so as they have proven in Greece. Of course Greece is an economic basket case today, but her regime is well and alive. eu leaders can do so bc. eu citizenry tolerates how they act.(Because of their media they are overwhelmingly ignorant of this). To plug the greek hole in the financial system the eu threw hundreds of billions at the problem – half of the amount, the us credited (granted) to western europe post ww II. Have a look:
http://staatsstreich.at/greek-rescue-hoax-part-2-an-enormous-order-of-magnitude.html
peace,
a “west european”, who wants europeans to sort out their problems on their own
hi
does anyone know what happened with the translated version of colonel cassad’s blog ? it hasn’t been updated since sept 24
unfortunately, i don’t read russian
thanks
Someone argued that another sign of Russian weakness is its acceptance of dollars for the recent Gasprom agreement with the Kiev regime.
However as J.Flores persuasively points out,
“Being able to continue to use the dollar is good for everyone’s well being for now, because any nation who does this when they have the option not to is doing it from a position of strength, which they realize.
Keeping the dollar in the game also may create incentives the US to behave a little better. This will keep them at the bargaining table, and may mitigate their more destructive alternatives. Because if the US finds its dollar totally collapsing, then little will be there to keep them from escalating the present state of war to unimaginable proportions.”
patience, comrades, patience….
@Daniel Rich:
De Gaulle, as a young man, fought on the front all through WWI.
He was severely injured twice. He was going to be sent home after the first injury, but he requested to be sent back to the front to continue the front.
And after that, he was made prisoner at least three times. He escaped a couple times and was caught each time.
He was already an old man during WWII. He had done his share. But more importantly, he went to London to position himself to eventually be put in a position of power, because he knew what the anglo empire was actually up to.
This is much like Putin positioning himself in the American-controlled Eltsine government (well, up to this day, that is what everybody hopes is actually the truth… we still don’t know for sure).
Finally, you talk of Putin’s parents? I don’t care about that. Has he himself ever fought in a war? Was he in the Donbass, standing shoulders to shoulders with Strelkov?
Of course not! And I would not expec him to. I don’t care about that. It’s not his role. I’m just pointing that out to show that your argument is idiotic.
More on the EU reaction to the Donbass elections: http://irrussianality.wordpress.com/2014/11/03/two-elections-two-responses/
Why Poroseco did not attack:
“The Russian military and humanitarian aid entered mass in Novorrosia to protect elections and deter any military adventure from Kiev”
http://www.elespiadigital.com/index.php/noticias/historico-de-noticias/7334-la-ayuda-militar-y-humanitaria-rusa-entro-en-masa-en-novorrosia-para-proteger-las-elecciones-y-disuadir-a-kiev-de-cualquier-aventura-belica
Bol’shoye spasibo , Vladimir Vladimirovich, spasiba Rossiya!
Blagoslovi tebya Gospod’!
Anti-spin at 01:22 –
Use your minus key (or whatever you have) to shrink the page – you will then get the full task bar at the bottom of the video.
Go to extreme right of task bar and click the ‘full screen’ logo. This will put the video full screen, so you can easily read the text.
[I’m technically unsavvy, but this is what I do.]
Joint statement of the DPR and LPR: Kiev will have to defer to the judgment of Donbass people
Novorossia News Agency
4 November
“Kiev will have to defer to the judgment of Donbass people, whether he likes it or not. And no political or legal tricks will work here”, the document states…
In spite of the arts and wiles of Kiev, the elections took place and were a success”, state the representatives of the DPR and LPR. “Our people have endowed themselves with a special status”, says the document. No legal acts of Ukraine, adopted without the ratification by the elected authorities of the DPR and LPR, according to the statement, will not be in force in the territories of the Republics.
“The elections were held in accordance with the Minsk agreements in the terms and order agreed upon the representatives of the Republics, Russia and Ukraine”, says the document…
…Kiev distorted the agreed upon version of the law on the specific status of Donbass…
“If this law had deliberately avoided defining the exact area, to which it applies, then it has never been enacted. In fact, it is legally null, it has to be completed or revoked as the senseless act, the task of which is to mislead the global community”…
The DPR and the LPR are ready to supply coal to Ukrainian regions for the normal progress of the heating season. They need the cooperation of Kiev…
ALSO, TODAY, FROM NOVOROSSIA NEWS AGENCY:
The member of European Parliament: World Community has to recognize the DPR
Russia allocated approximately 1,5 billion rubles to medical aid for the refugees from Ukraine
The sixth humanitarian convoy for Novorossiya has already been prepared
Anonymous who is pushing the ‘throw the bums out’ line on this thread, as we all know, it is any meaningful choice that has been thrown out, and for certain I do not want to be responsible for placing in power any more bums, as the first term of the main one was hard enough for me to bear.
My vote has been stolen.
anonymous @ 11:44
Colonel Cassad’s blog is available in English here:
http://novorossia.today/