Dear friends,
As you can see, the new blog is still down. I was told by my IT specialist that it will be back up tonight. As soon as I know something I will let you know too.
Guys, Hebrew is not the second language in the Ukraine. Rate your sources, okay?
(FYI – What is true is that the junta wants to make English the second language).
Gubarev was shot at. There are plenty of photos of his car here.
Colonel Cassad (I consider his one of the best sources on the Ukraine) has a very good photo of what I would call “politics in Banderastan”.
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| A ‘civilizational choice’ indeed |
Igor Strelkov, which some “hurray-patriots” had declared as being held prisoner in Putin dungeons, is alive and well, he just visited Cossacks in Crimea:
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| Strelkov with Cossacks in Crimea |
But as to why he does not seem to be doing very much of anything – you guess is as good as mine.
As for Poroshenko and the Ukie Rada, they just passed a new law making the day of the founding of the Banderist “Ukrainian Insurgent Army” (the Nazi Ukies of WWII) the official “Day of the Defender of the Fatherland”. Of course, nobody in the “West” seems to have noticed.
Just as western “human rights defenders” are not at all interested in the massive violations of human rights in the Ukraine.
I will be gone all day, so I leave you with the usual “open thread” which I will try to moderate as often as I can.
Kind regards to all,
The Saker
@AGS….
can you enlighten me, please, what is meant by “BDS”? Also, by “whinging”? Is that a typo for whining? thanks. pcz
Dear The Saker,
And what an exciting election Banderastan has to look forward too:
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/755068
What did all those people die for? :(
Rgds,
Veritas
@KatKan said: On Akhmetov: ..”He´s not evil”..
Sure? I don’t know any oligarch that is good.Bill Gates is also known as a philanthropist and had the shameless guy coming in here to say that “in Spain there is to do is to drive down wages”. This when we already had implemented several cuts and there were many houses where it was not a euro. Interestingly, it said nothing of the prices, which are still at the european level.
So, I don’t give a damn that Akhmetov make any charitable activity ( he can, if not him, who? with everything that has been stolen ). Could have done much more while he made his billionaire fortune, for example, to pay the corresponding taxes, pay fair wages to the miners and to put the appropriate conditions of safety in the mines, reinvesting part of what he earns with a national asset in improving the infrastructure of them. That he has the ownership of the mines is not an essential condition for people to get back to work. If he, really, is good, he could have the concession for the operation of the mines for a time, renewable according to size and according to the satisfaction of their employees, but the mines, the subsoil of the Donbass, are the property of the state, which, in a people’s republic, it is the people. What says the constitución. To know if Akhmetov is not evil, instead of to know if he is sponsoring any charitable work, I need to know what is the state of opinion of their miners, not one or two but of all, as a collective.
If I had the age of Givi ( on the thirty? ) maybe I would keep the innocence enough to believe that a guy like Akhmetov, who has grown rich by exploiting others, it is a good travel companion. Novorussia has undertaken a long journey to unknown territory, and therefore, not without its dangers. Take a trip with people that is not legit, it is a recklessness. In the world there are few people that are not sold for a price, perhaps Múgica, Mozgovoi, Putin….A preponderance of the evidence to know if we are faced with someone like that is to check their bank account; we will not find there anything unjustifiable for their own work.
Strelkov published “My reply to Khodorkovsky” article on his new web site (in Russian):
http://www.igorstrelkov.ru/blog/31-putinskoe-desyatiletie-vernulo-rossii-nadezhdu-na-vozrozhdenie.html
Supports Putin, criticizes Khodorkovsky and ideology of Western liberalism.
Maybe somebody doesn’t want you to see the NEO article I commented on. Even tho the link doesn’t work, you can get to it:
Go to journal-neo.org.
About 4 rows down there’s an article titled “Nuclear Threats Enter the Mainstream’. Article deals with Dept of Energy investigation into 9-11, recently declassified but still hidden. NEO is a Russian site and Veterans Today says the material comes from Snowden. –Penelope
Lecture to the invisible cities: “Youth”, by Prof. Juan Carlos Monedero:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7b4k4-62SY
“When all else fails” by Generation 91 for La Tuerka Rap:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iCgfYee4t0
BLUE: The problem is lying. US is of course run be criminals bent upon world oligarchy. Question is how much Europe is being controlled by US and how much it is cooperating in villainy. Chris Lehmann the principal at nsnbc international has written an article explaining largely unknown surrilous info by which France is controlled, in that UK/US support her in this wrongdoing. It will be obvious to you how serious it would be to France if MSM cmpaigned against her bad behavior.
http://nsnbc.me/2012/10/12/french-africa-policy-damages-african-and-european-economies/
Germany is controlled more directly by the UN’s ‘enemy state’ clause and an actual legal necessity of obeying allied command (US/UK). There is even a ‘Letter of Submission’.
http://nsnbc.me/2014/07/11/germany-expels-u-s-spy-chief-opens-geopolitical-can-of-worms/
Also http://www.rense.com/general69/germany.htm –Penelope
KATKAN: journal-neo.org is Russian (Moscow), not the same as VT. It is published by the Russian Academy of Sciences and has a Moscow address. VT quotes them a lot, like many sites quote RT a lot.
‘journal-neo about’ will bring this info up, along w a nice statement of purpose.
–Penelope
Manifesto of the global platform against the war: Sign. Spread.
http://noalaguerranoalaotan.wordpress.com/2014/10/08/manifiesto-de-la-plataforma-global-contra-las-guerras-3-de-octubre-de-2014/
Long life Igor Stelkov.Heroe of our time
Well, it has been to criticize Bill Gates, providing a statement that is in the archives, and not being able to use Google Chrome, server by which I usually enter in this blog. Even switching off the computer is impossible. Philanthropists of the world………
Peak Oil is a hoax, and William Engdahl will tell you why.
http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Geopolitics___Eurasia/Peak_Oil___Russia/peak_oil___russia.html
CIA DOCUMENT 1035-960 advises mockery & the term ‘conspiracy theory’ to cauterize any forbidden thought crime. http://memoryholeblog.com/2013/01/20/cia-document-1035-960-foundation-of-a-weaponized-term/
— Penelope
Anonymous 22.40, the use of ‘conspiracy theory’ to end discussion and suppress unpalatable truths is universal in the Western MSM Thought Control apparatus. Unfortunately Peak Cheap Hydrocarbons is very real, but, in any case, burning hydrocarbons is, from the point of view of the rapidly destabilising planetary climate, simply suicidal.
Anonymous 22.40, the use of ‘conspiracy theory’ to end discussion and suppress unpalatable truths is universal in the Western MSM Thought Control apparatus. Unfortunately Peak Cheap Hydrocarbons is very real, but, in any case, burning hydrocarbons is, from the point of view of the rapidly destabilising planetary climate, simply suicidal.
TL2Q, I would rather think that Putin is as likely to listen to that gormless invertebrate Cameron,the creature who dragged his disabled son around while campaigning, claiming that he understood the plight of the disabled and their carers, which he did not because as a rich man the real work was done by hirelings, then, once in power he attacked the disabled and their carers with savagery, as I am to become Pope. In a typical touch and yet more evidence of the psychopathic savagery of ruling elites in the West, the UK Rightwing MSM ran a campaign against the disabled at the same time, as ‘skivers’, which led to physical attacks on them. I imagine that any decent person would feel nothing but revulsion and repulsion in the presence of Cameron or any of his ilk.
krollchem, there was a feeling abroad for some time, probably propagandistic, that complex technological capitalist societies derived some resilience from their complexity. That was allied to the neo-liberal pseudo-religion of the ‘Infallible Market’, where European Judeo-Christian civilization would rule the world and conquer the Universe, ad infinitum, just so long as the ‘price signals’ were correct.
This nonsense was like soma to little minds and twisted psyches, so was adopted as revealed wisdom by the parasite elites, their MSM droogs and the political arthropods they installed in power through democracy mediated by money power.
Of course, this was always insane, pernicious, nonsense, but it served the ruling elites’ interests, so it became ‘the only game in town’. Now we have reached the end of that hallucination, as the contradictions of the winner takes all, every man for himself (and the Market take the hindmost) endless growth amidst deepening mass poverty and elite avarice madness manifest themselves with startling rapidity.
We know now, for certain, as was always plain, that the collapse of a complex but unsustainable system, built on debt, economic, ecological, intellectual and spiritual, will be synergistic and rapid. Every day brings news that a Cassandra would blanch at. 50% of living creatures disappeared in the last 40 years. Methane bubbling out of the frozen north at exponentially increasing rates. Ocean heat content in southern hemisphere waters underestimated by ‘between 24 and 58%’, elephants, rhinos, tigers all on the edge of extinction, German gold reserves ‘disappeared’ and I could go on indefinitely.
The ruling psychopaths that Western Civilization has thrown up to rule us know this. They maintain huge intelligence apparatuses to tell them the facts. I think it’s plain that they know there are just a few decades left before The Horror descends, and they intend destroying all resistance to their power in the interim, then bunker down to survive the Bad Times, while the 99% of ‘useless eaters’ they fear and despise, disappear.
Alien Tech, ‘Aussie’ is pretty common and not derogatory. ‘Ocker’, too, but the dominant sub-species here at the moment is the ‘bogan’ a lumpen element riven by greed and smug self-satisfaction. I don’t think Australia will execute the hit itself, merely join the Western conspiracy. No doubt the ‘mechanics’ will be Western experts. It’s just that the patsy needs to be a local. I seriously think it is possible.
Another day of heavy shelling over Donetsk. Over 40 people dead. This kind of thing goes on day after day after day. I am allowed to daydream that one of these days someone in Russia will wake up in a bad mood and say enough and order the anihilation of the positions from where this shelling is coming.
[from Blue]
Penelope, et al:
OK, so Merkel, US, etc., are lying. The question that arises then is ‘lying to who’ — who is the target of lies and propaganda?
I think not other politicians and elite, nor the ‘masses of peasants’ who pay no attention nor present much chance of resisting anyway.
We might say the presstitute, but they need not believe lies as long as they remain controlled as mouthpieces (or will lose their jobs).
I’m looking for some segment who have enough power, potentially at least, to throw a wrench into the actions fo the empire and oligarchy, and might either believe the lies, believe that it is too dangerous to refute them, or wants the flow of disinformation as a psychological crutch to maintain their cognitive dissonance and fantasies.
That sounds to me like the ‘liberal class’ which Hedges talks about, or the minions of the neocons who are making money from it. But I’m fuzzy on this, and such categories are vague.
Is it the ‘military’, meaning more like those who fight the wars while deluding themselves they are ‘fighting for freedom’ — until they can’t maintain the fantasy any longer?
Three classes then: those who are not fooled, those who might or might not be but don’t matter anyway, and the undefined target group who must be lied to so they continue to support the empire, or at least not oppose it with the power they potentially do have. Who are those in this third class, where the lies make a difference?
_Blue
The look on Putin’s face again as he meets Poroshenko.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0JGYR6CcAAH-mv.jpg:large
The Oz “culture” is a disaster, but they are at least partly victims of history – the Empire crushed them for being rebellious in any way, and punished them by “transportation”…to Australia.
The few that survived were subject to the worst sort of British imperial cruelty. The majority of survivors probably decided never to challenge authority again in any way, and just wanted to survive and be a free member of this ruling white community.
Grateful Aussies have embraced the opportunity to be a storm trooper for the very Empire that sent them to suffer or die on a hot island on the other side of the planet. Even Gallipoli hasn’t really made an impression on them.
Yes i too wish that some party could arrange to put an end to the shelling of civilians in Donbass.
Cassandra Says:
It jolts me every time I see “self-declared” re the new republics. Aren’t all republics self-declared? Is there a licensing bureau? Is there some international body that says “I now declare you a republic” and taps you on the shoulders with a sword?
Since the Montevideo Convention in, I think, the 1930s, “sovereign state” in international law is defined thus:
Art. 1The state as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other states.
There are caveats regarding puppet states and use of force, which issues Kiev would probably raise.
This comes up for decision on a piecemeal basis in courts, as a factor in application to join the UN, in political decisions on recognition by other states, in the applicability of international law or the standing to rely on it.
Look at d). Let it illuminate for you that little dipsy-doodle at Minsk when they took the agreement to lawyer Putin to sign and he said “I’m not a party to this. Take it to the republics.”
Lawyer (law student?) Zakharchenko has been trying to explain that without laying it out too obviously for Kiev.
You get to be a sovereign state by being one. There’s no certifying organization.
Add this factor to your ruminations when you’re trying to figure out what long range strategies are in play and you may find yourself having “Aha!” moments.
For instance, how come Poroshenko so belatedly insisted that the elections had to be held under Ukrainian law?
Oh, right. To undercut claims to independent governances.
BLUE: You ask who are the target group who must be lied to so they continue to support the empire, or at least not oppose it with the power they potentially do have. Who are those in this third class, where the lies make a difference?
I suppose that in every society there is a tipping point where the govt or a specific policy has lost legitimacy and simply cannot be maintained. Obviously the deep state believes this or they wouldn’t bother to propagandize us. Dissenters who are unimportant at 20% of the population become important at a higher percentage. The people whose dissent ‘doesn’t matter’ fill the lower level positions which add up to their co-opted superiors’ power. They are the footsoldiers, the patrolman on the beat and the lowerlevel local funcionaries. They are lawyers and leaders.
Merkel lies because she must say SOMETHING in support of her position. She cannot say the truth because the German people have been deceived about their true status. She cannot say, “I know that what Russia did was fully justified and I would like to agree with you. Partly I have been tempted by the Americans, who believe they can disembowel Russia and we will all get part of the riches & territory. But mostly I think I would forgo this for peace– except that I cannot because the Uncle Sam won’t let me: He has 70,000 troops on German territory, legally Germany is under the UN an enemy state, we have no armistice, no constitution. We are not even a legal govt for the whole of Germany. We signed a letter of submission to the US under threat of their preventing reunification, and we’re legally under the authority of the supreme allied command. US even has our gold. Understand that it’s foolish for me to even THINK about defying the US.
Two days prior to the enactment of the German constitution on 23 May 1949, a Secret Treaty (Geheimer Staatsvertrag) was signed, which gave complete Allied control over electronic and print media, film, culture and education until the year 2099.
And the constitution isn’t valid anyway. See http://www.rense.com/general69/germany.htm and http://nsnbc.me/2014/07/11/germany-expels-u-s-spy-chief-opens-geopolitical-can-of-worms/
Merkel lies cuz she can’t say the truth and must say something.
-Penelope
Cassandra Says:
What is remarkable about Givi’s statement is not that he feels strong loyalty to his commander and to his head of state, but that he feels absolutely none to Strelkov, his former commander. This was not a ‘more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger” statement. It reverberates with anger and contempt.
Loyalty is in Givi’s DNA. For him feel none towards Strelkov has to mean that Strelkov forfeited it in a serious way. Some of the rumours about Igor are looking more credible every day. I’m especially amused, looking at his old public utterances, at how different his position is on respect for the leadership and chain of command depending on whether it is him or somebody else. Also, glaring, his cautions about the unsuitability of dissension in the ranks. Do as I say, not as I do.
Givi said he believes Motorola feels the same way, hesitating to speak for Motorola because he hadn’t actually asked him.
It is very wrong to assume that officers who are against Minsk are in Strelkov’s camp. I think we all felt something of the letdown, after the exhilaration of the success of the offensive, to see it stop and dig in.
“On to Kiev!!”
“Without Russia?”
“Oh.”
Fellow paranoids:
It is folk wisdom, often expressed in one-liners, the paranoia is not necessarily crazy. My fav is “A paranoid is someone in possession of all the facts.”
Psychology experiments can easily induce group paranoia, as in this case: Groups of college students were hired to play a team game with an automatic scoring system, competing with a control group. Several times when they scored the point did not come up on the scoreboard.
Isn’t that us? Partisans of a cause that is ceaselessly bombarded with egregious lies from people who number Goebbels among their influences?
But get this. Afterwards, the groups were asked to elect a spokesperson. The experimental groups, but not the control groups, elected the most paranoid person among them, including some who were pretty obviously wacko.
So let’s be careful. Put an asterisk by that conspiracy theory and check it twice.
That said, what the hell is Strelkov doing cozying up to the Cossacks?*
Cassandra
P.S. Captchas are out to get me.
Fellow paranoids:
It is folk wisdom, often expressed in one-liners, the paranoia is not necessarily crazy. My fav is “A paranoid is someone in possession of all the facts.”
Psychology experiments can easily induce group paranoia, as in this case: Groups of college students were hired to play a team game with an automatic scoring system, competing with a control group. Several times when they scored the point did not come up on the scoreboard.
Isn’t that us? Partisans of a cause that is ceaselessly bombarded with egregious lies from people who number Goebbels among their influences?
But get this. Afterwards, the groups were asked to elect a spokesperson. The experimental groups, but not the control groups, elected the most paranoid person among them, including some who were pretty obviously wacko.
So let’s be careful. Put an asterisk by that conspiracy and check it twice.
That said, what the hell is Strelkov doing cozying up to the Cossacks?*
Cassandra
P.S. Captchas are out to get me.
By Mulga Mumblebrain: “I would rather think that Putin is as likely to listen to that gormless invertebrate Cameron,the creature who dragged his disabled son around while campaigning, claiming that he understood the plight of the disabled and their carers [etc]”
I’m well aware of that, including the suicides rates going through the roof amongst the disable after their benefits have been revoked. The problem is that Cameron is just the spokesperson for whoever is really in charge (and the real danger here), he’s just passing the massage over. On top of not liking the message itself, I do not care for the way they are treating Putin and Russia in general; as if they were a bunch of unruly children that must be taught how to behave. This is incredibly disrespectful and demeaning, it makes me so mad! It seriously does…
-TL2Q
Although on entirely different positions, it can be seen a lot of similarities between Zakharchenko and Putin.
Both have a lot of enemies.
Western media called them “terrorists.”
Both have proven that they can control difficult situations.
They have strong personality, similar character, possessing strength but also a certain gentleness, and even a similar attitude toward the enemy.
They have great support from the population.
They have great support from close associates.
Basically, both of them are fighting for a fairer world. In this struggle, they are aware that they have to make compromises, because they are intelligent. They are not utopians, but realists.
Blast from the Past
From old Strelkov briefing:
Over the course of yesterday and today our losses near Marinovka-Kozhevnya-Dubrovka totaled approximately 50 men (almost all of them – wounded), 2 tanks, 2 BMPs, and 1 BTR. Deputy Minister of Interior and commander of Battalion Oplot, A. Zakharchenko, who was personally commanding the attack on Kozhevnya, was wounded in his arm. Today we congratulated him by promoting him to the military officer rank of Major.
Cass
If you are stressed out by the divisions and rancour, might I recommend that you try to find a copy, maybe at estate sales or in anthologies, of Truong Chinh’s On the Correct Handling of Bourgeois Tails?
A revolutionary movement builds, it isn’t hatched from an egg. Few of the first in are there at the end. They go in prematurely before other options have been exhausted and discredited; they are war-lovers unable to connect with people’s longing for peace.
The author, veteran of the Long March and the Vietnamese Revolution, analyses who comes in at different stages, where they come from, what problems and opportunities they represent, and how, if they are adventurist, divisive and destructive, you deal with them.
The northwest is going through a learning process right now. They went left and were betrayed. They’re going right and already are being betrayed. There is some potential (no promises) for them to move quickly up the learning curve. They are not going to have an economic renaissance to pacify them as the Germans had.
Deep breaths.
BTW, I don’t post anonymously (except that Cassandra is my nickname), I’m just paranoid about social media.
I forgot to sign the post on Bourgeois Tails.
Cass