The Junta/US seem to be missing a vital point – the UNSC passed a resolution (US is a mamber) backing the Minsk agreements. So just because the US wasn’t a part of Minsk talks is irrelevant they agreed to the UNSC resolution! Jeez the Junta are really dim. They are still shelling and have stated they will remove heavy weapons by 7th March – we’ll see.
Meanwhile the US/EU imbeciles are trying to use the funeral today for further digs. They seem to forget sanctions on some EU MP’s…..says it all when the US Ambassador speaks at a funeral – also one of the Russian speakers (clip on RT) inferred it was the Kremlin by saying bullets of opponents – :0 – bit brazen and wrong when the investigation is on going. So it seems some opposition couldn’t help themselves but use the funeral. Wonder what will happen to this ex MP/opponent with the public views.
Ukraine’s Mikael Chechetov just allegedly committed suicide by jumping out of a 17th story window. He was second in command in Yanukovich’s Party of Regions. He and the leader of the party were recently arrested and Chechetov was released on bail and under house arrest.
Sergei Valter was the former mayor of Melitopol, was also under house arrest and hanged “himself”. He was accused by the Ukrainien government for criminal activities.
The last one A. Bordgyuk or Bordgok, was the second in command of the MVD, also “killed himself”.
I cannot find anything about this man. Since you were the first to mention these men as the Nemtsov killing took place the next day, as a probabel divertion, can you tell more about Bordgyuk/Bordgok?
A resolution with no consequences. You have any idea how much they talk and pass wind and talk some more? There are hundreds of resolutions against Israel. I think Russia even went that route for legal cover. Not because the resolutions themselves changed anything.
it is just painful to watch Russia following all the legal challenges to be shown as morally right when others are just running around doing what ever. Kind of like people with moral conviction standing up for what is right but getting smacked by the pipe on the head. And then getting back up with a bleeding head wound and keep going at it. Makes me wonder if deep down Putin is an ardent follower of Ghandi. Who was not very effective himself, but he made others respect him because of his moral standing. Even those who never agreed with him stood down and did not go against him. Because it showed their weakness to the people they were fighting for. Same as in Russia how the opposition is scared to take on Putin not because Putin has any power but that if hey do, the people who they are supposedly representing would call on their moral superiority in standing up for them. It is how we all show the world how we are better than those around us. For most humans that standing is very important, it is why we live. We cant live going around with the feeling that we are inferior to everyone else.
Death of an irrelevant politician milked by the west.
Shows who benefits by the killing quite clearly
These liberals in the pocket of America. What type of Russian will vote for them?
Ekaterina Blinova – Canada’s federal government has decided to prohibit the media from interviewing and taking photos of Canadian soldiers participating in NATO military drills in Eastern Europe, sparking new controversy.
Correspondents were barred from photographing the faces of the Canadian military contingent leaving Garrison Petawawa for Eastern Europe and were prohibited from mentioning the names of the soldiers. Almost 125 Canadian troops will take part in a three-month NATO military exercise in Poland and Latvia, according to media sources.
One wonders if any of those Canadian troops will be slipping across the Ukrainian border.
Harper loves war as long as he has a broom closet to hide in if things get nasty and he unconditionally supports Israel, the latter ahead of Canada in priority. So if Bibi told him to get boots on the ground in Ukraine then that’s what he would do, surreptitiously, of course.
Putin has shown himself to be a weakling that is why coward anglos dare attack Russia on all front with impunity thinking that they are not going to pay any price.
Putin and advisors have shown themselves to have a much stronger grasp of the strategies of geopolitics than you seem to have, Anon. It takes strong nerves, self-discipline and considerable courage to play the excellent chess game that the Putiniki have been running against the half-wit draughts-players in Washington. A weakling, you say. You shouting at a mirror, perhaps?
Especially considering the high and growing traffic in The Saker discussions, the excellent and concise comment above reminds me that an ability to up vote comments, such as on ZeroHedge (< can only be seen by those registered and logged in), then filter to only read comments of a certain rating or higher, might make a nice addition to a non-priority wish list.
As you can see, no registration is needed for commenting here. We intend to keep it “hassle free” for everyone to reply with a comment. A rating system for comments does have it’s benefits, no doubt about that. But currently it is not on the short-term “to-do” list. Maybe there will be one in later times.
1. Any chance of remembering email and handle once posters have visited the site? Having to repeatedly give the info per comment is a drag.
2. Would it be possible to flag NEW comments on threads as well as on the header? It would also save time and likely increase traffic. Currently you have to a) remember the original number to know there are additions and b) scroll through entire threads to find them.
Here’s an easy way that helped me to remember: his, hers, its — possessive = no apostrophe.
Versus: he’s, she’s, it’s — contractions = he is, she is, it is = apostrophe.
Here we go with more hasbara.No one really cares about “its or it’s”.We understand what is being said.People making a big deal over those type of things are trying to change the “message” of the thread.Or they are so anal as to think that is a giant problem.Most probably its the first.That is hasbara 1.1.
Agree, meaning is most important. But no reason we can’t offer easy ideas for better language if the author seems open to it. Was trying to help, not be stupidly judgmental. I definitely don’t get bent out of shape over grammatical errors. That’s a total waste of time these days, language has become a completely new vernacular form from internet, texting and especially Tweeting.
In English, possessive pronouns don’t carry apostrophes, e.g., hers, yours, its, even though they end in “s”. Only nouns do, e.g., Mary’s, the dog’s, Some possessive pronouns don’t even end in “s”, e.g., my, our, their.
“It’s” is a contraction of “it is”, just like “that’s” is a contraction of “that is”,
Or how about “there”, “they’re” and “their” — lots of confusion there! But it doesn’t matter much these days with lots of abbreviated and vernacular and internet writing taking on new forms seen all over the place. Language is alive and is always changing, and it’s the content that matters. So long as the intended meaning gets across, it works.
Wrong. Thanks, Julian, for your response. I, too, had the same problem till I worked for some editors and figured out some simple ideas to help myself.
Except you’re completely wrong. :) I used to make the same mistake myself until my editor bosses taught me better. It’s = It Is and Its = it possessive.
Venezuelan officials have announced that Washington has two weeks to pare down its 100-strong Caracas embassy to 17 persons.
“The U.S. government must keep 17 diplomats on our soil and we have given them 15 days to present us a list of those who will remain here,” Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez noted, following a meeting with US embassy trade official Lee McClenney.
Ms. Rodriguez noted that the compulsory staff reduction would reduce the number of US embassy personnel to the number Venezuela presently has in Washington, DC. The Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of the Interior noted Monday that in the interests of reciprocity, US tourists to Venezuela will now have to apply for a visa to enter the country.
In her meeting with McClenney, Rodriguez explained that the new measures were part of President Nicolas Maduro’s response to US interventionism in Venezuela, which has included statements and actions, including sanctions and restrictions on Venezuelan officials, all ostensibly aimed at undermining the stability of the country’s democratically-elected government.
Over the weekend, President Maduro said that his government had detained several Americans believed to be involved in espionage, which led to the decision to carry out several tit for tat retaliatory measures, including embassy and visa restrictions, as well travel bans on several top Republican Party officials, including Senator Marco Rubio and former Vice President Dick Cheney.
US officials will also now be required to ask permission to meet with opposition groups; the ruling United Socialist Party believes the US has been assisting right-wing extremists who aim to foment unrest. President Maduro had earlier accused Washington of plotting to overthrow him via the bombing of the presidential palace, accusations which US officials brushed off as “ridiculous.”
Forcing the pindos to get permission before they can meet with opposition groups is especially delicious. That will put quite a wrench in their works. :D
Yep. Russia’s idea of counter-sanctions. Tit for tat.
Of course,telling them who they can talk with is a shocking intrusion on free speech, freedom of association and who knows what else. Let them talk on the phone, US is listening in on that anyway so can’t complain if it later turns out that Venezuela is also. :)
They could make the officials get visas, too. That way they’d always know one was there, to keep a better eye on him.
I think this is why Putin allowed that horrible Tefft to be USA Ambassador to Russia…. to keep an eye on who visits him.
I would not make it short into “Путин слил”,
but I am quite sure his intentions are far more modest.
Indeed he made it clear right from the beginning:
– Ukraine as a one country incl. Donbass (and by federalization blah-blah followed),
– i.e. no separate Novorossia and no way incorporated to Russian Federation,
– Crimea forever Russian (it is vital, if there will be not Russian Crimea, it means there is no Russian Federation in todays meaning),
They (Russian men at power) woke up in the very last minute,
and we all shall be happy that they have managed it with at least not letting Crimea slip into US hands…because that would not be the end, that would be an instoppable countdown of the very end of Russian world!
Let us hope all this means the end of NATO arrogance, I have the feeling Ms Merkel realised what are the limits. Now we have to stop the USA and that is only possible by prevailing it because the neocons would not stop !!!
Putin has to play the whole match, and if he had realised from the beginning (not just following what was happening in Ukraine for 23 years and uncondidtionally funding the idiots) what on stake,
the cost would be lower by means of rsk, Money and deads of innocent people….
When Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma was arrested last week, charged with organizing and leading a coup, the U.S. State Department’s spokeswoman Jen Psaki said: “The allegations made by the Venezuelan government that the United States is involved in coup plotting and destabilization are baseless and false. The United States does not support political transitions by non-constitutional means</EM.”
This sounds like the zionazis will be setting up a pretext to attack Syria, or maybe they will attack without the pretext. They already got their American colony agreeing to attack Syria should Syria defend themselves against the zionazi terrorists attacking Syria.
“PS3: Recently a monk died here in Greece.He was known for his predictions (like Nostradamus :P).Greek Church pronounced him “saint” for some reason.This monk said (about 20-25 years ago) many things , many have been fulfilled , many not yet and we don’t know if they will ever be fulfilled :).
He said about Greek debt (There was none ,at least of these proportions when he talked about it)..and Greece eventually will not pay it.He said about 3rd WW , and that will begin when Turks will start claim (again) miles of Greek waters.He said that Russia will totally annihilate Turkey (1/3rd of Turks will die , 1/3rd will be converted since there are already too many crypto-Christians , 1/3rd of them will be pushed back to far East , to deep Asia) and Russia will stop outside Israel and there , USA and Russia will confront each other.
He also said about EU , that it will fall apart and that will be Germans to be blamed about it.
Germany now exports 50 percent of its GDP. It used to be only 24 percent in 1990. For the past 10 years, half of German growth depended on exports. Translation: this is a giant economy that badly needs global markets to keep expanding. An ailing EU, by definition, does not fit the bill.
German exports are changing their recipient address. Only 40 percent – and going down – now goes to the EU; the real growth is in Asia. So Germany, in practice, is moving away from the eurozone. That does not entail Germany breaking up the euro; that would be interpreted as a nasty betrayal of the much-lauded “European project.”
What the trade picture unveils is the reason for Germany’s hardball with Greece: either you surrender, completely, or you leave the euro. What Germany wants is to keep a partnership with France and dominate Eastern Europe as an economic satellite, relying on Poland. So expect Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy to face a German wall of intransigence. So much for European “integration,” it works as long as Germany dictates all the rules.
The spanner in the works is that the double fiasco Greece + Ukraine has been exposing. Berlin as an extremely flawed European hegemon – and that’s quite an understatement. Berlin suddenly woke up to the real, nightmarish possibility of a full blown, American-instigated war in Europe’s eastern borderlands against Russia. No wonder Angela Merkel had to fly to Moscow in a hurry.
Moscow – diplomatically – was the winner. And Russia won again when Turkey – fed up with trying to join the EU and being constantly blocked by, who else, Germany and France – decided to pivot to Eurasia for good, ignoring NATO and amplifying relations with both Russia and China.
That happened in the framework of a major ‘Pipelineistan’ game-changer. After Moscow cleverly negotiated the realignment of South Stream towards Turk Stream, right up to the Greek border, Putin and Greek Prime Minister Tsipras also agreed to a pipeline extension from the Turkish border across Greece to southern Europe. So Gazprom will be firmly implanted not only in Turkey but also Greece, which in itself will become mightily strategic in European ‘Pipelineistan’.
So Germany, sooner or later, must answer a categorical imperative – how to keep running massive trade surpluses while dumping their euro trade partners. The only possible answer is more trade with Russia, China and East Asia. It will take quite a while, and there will be many bumps on the road, but a Berlin-Moscow-Beijing trade/commercial axis – or the “RC” in BRICS meet Germany – is all but inevitable.
And no, you won’t read that in any wacky US ‘Think Tankland’ “forecast.” ”
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There no doubt why Mr 800 pounds Dollar Gorilla is so damned worried about? :)
Check this out. The props, slogans and T-shirts for the Nemtsov memorial march seem to have been designed, prepared and distributed at record speed, in little more than 24 hours. The murder was a few minutes before 0:00 hours of Feb 28. The March was the next day.
No – he was shot on Friday night (27th) and the March was Sunday.
Fast, but not that fast.
If he’d been shot that late, no one would have turned up,
I also wonder how many of the protesters actually thought they were protesting against Putin or against the war, and how many just wanted to support a general movement for peace.
So then, if the march was at noon on 1 March (don’t recall, just guessing, for the purpose of calculating), then the march started 36 hours and a few minutes after the murder.
He died at midnight, so probably no prep work cd begin til daylight. Then to prepare the artwork requires, for the 4-color printing used on the T-shirts, an acetate overlay with the graphics for each color. Then the T-shirts are run thru the press 4 times, once for each color. (Or perhaps there might be faster way to do this now, but anyway it’s nothing that can be rushed.)
How ironic you call yourself ‘sense’ as you aren’t making any…..
Speaking as the owner of a bona fide ‘british english voice’ in my humble opinion,even if this News Reader was born here in the UK, his accent is NOT of these fair Isles so he must’ve lived somewhere else for a while to pick up their lilt. You must have some kind of special powers to know this and be so sure. Maybe he is trying to hide his britishness as he is so ashamed …yawn.
Do please tell me which part of Britain you think he is from.
I do agree however that mainstream British media lies.
Or maybe i’m just lying…
It’s an interesting ‘cultured’ in a positive way, not in an uppity or class distinct snobbery sense English accent and he gives an intelligent delivery. Defintely not Kiwi but there are subtle hints of Aussie and sometimes S.African.
I’d love to know his background and how that accent was acquired.
Dear Voice
I’m not calling you liar, but I also prefer the “Russian”guy (sorry I’m very bad at pinpointing accents geographically).
I don`t know why, maybe because the other voice is more sarcastic (which I love), maybe a “Russian” accent is more believable (what’s not true at all!).
Anyway, thanks for the great work, i’ll keep watching whichever voice is used!
The narrator may be a resident of Britain, or another one of the Commonwealth members of the five eyes, but he was born in South Africa. The Afrikaner accent slips out frequently, if mildly.
I’m really amazed how many people complain about the narrator’s native language or accent, whichever language may be used. Doesn’t the Information matter? I think so. The prior narrator was a bit more difficult for me to comprehend at times, but I clicked “pause” or “replay” every time; and so there was no problem at all.
Amazing. Moscow Times (yet another Soros backed site) with a good analysis of the Debaltsevo debacle, blaming Poroshenko for it. Not even claiming much Russian presence, just blaming it on Ukie military incompetence..
Of course it quotes a German military analyst, and the story is new today but I’ve seen it before, so it’s likely a translation/rewrite of a German publication. Anyway, for a pro-US site to publish it, something’s turning gradually.
Yes. What they seem to be getting is reader contempt. Keep selling such brain-bludgeoning propaganda and they will leave.
The English-speaking readership it aims is likely to be far better-informed than the Graun/NYT brigade and they know all about Soros and the ‘manufacture of consensus.’ Not to mention the virtual collapse of the MSM narrative on the Ukraine, thanks in no small part to sites like this, as well as direct bulletins from South Front and Save the People of Donbass from the Ukrainian Army (though it should really read ‘NATO’
and the Fascists).
So they have had to retract their horns a little, in the hopes of regaining any shred of credibility.
Southfront: 3/3/15… re: . or if you want to be more polite “restructuring the debt” …Keep up the wry humor..somehow it makes it all more bearable. That Monsanto under the aegis of the IMF is going to violate the genome of the grain/ plant DNA of the Ukraine is just one step in their “restructuring” of Slavic lands. It would ben helpful if you could post underneath the names of experts and government officials as you mention them in the audio feed which goes very quickly.
Petraeus, the disgraced General, ex-CIA chief, forced into plea bargain, Federal crime admission.
Misdemeanor, carrying possible one year Federal prison sentence.
Now, this is the lesson: Obama destroys men who challenge or don’t obey him.
This general is now historical garbage. It is a mistake he made, but there were easy off-ramps Obama would not permit. Obama wanted to utterly destroy the General who designed the Surge in Iraq, which Obama effectively has reversed, allowing ISIS to conquer the specific victories of the General. Also, the General knows the truth of Benghazi and needed to be silenced.
Take this message forward. Putin is in the same personal crosshairs. Obama is a weak man with a powerful machine, the Hegemony. It is a full spectrum chaos machine. Obama uses it personally. He is very effective unleashing it. Like his drone killings.
So, if you are thinking the war will end because the Hegemon is unable to win, you don’t understand what is going on with Obama. And you don’t understand the Hegemon. Putin is a threat to both. Russia is the citadel of Resistance to hegemony. Russia is the Archangel fighting Satan. Obama has ideological, psychological and geopolitical channeling that compels him to continue all his wars until there is utter destruction. (Gaddafi dragged through the streets, sodomized and slaughtered.)
Know this. Know your enemy. Know Obama. Know the devil. Understand hegemony. Understand the Hegemon.
And coming behind him into the Presidency will not be a peacemaker.
Fortunately, Putin clearly knows the spiritual, psychological and geopolitical reality.
He knows the enemies of Russia.
Everyone else should see the reality.
We who believe in the spirit of God understand the eternal battle on Earth of Satan versus God’s teachings.
So, if you look at geopolitics through this philosophical grounding, you see satanic works in the Elite Liberalism, demonic impulses in the ethnic cleansing and slaughter of innocents.
And ultimately, the intended destruction of Russia is to destroy the Third Rome, the last bastion of Christianity, and it is clear as daylight can illuminate.
Values of traditional life represented by the Russian civilization are at stake. These have significant spiritual components.
That’s my take on it. You can’t give in to the Hegemon and expect Harmony, balance and joy of life. All you get is chaos, death, and abominations.
Q: Obama destroys men who challenge or don’t obey him.
R: Oh, c’mon. Don’t be silly. Presidents don’t run a country. $$$ makers do. Obombi’s just another sock puppet masquerading as a Commander In Chief [as will be the next and next and next, ad infinitum, CIC].
By now my thoughts have become so evil that I hope Hillary Rotham dies of ovarian cancer [or anything else that causes a quick death] before the next elections. Even Rand Paul has kissed the Apartheid State’s ass, so toss anything and everything that carries an inkling of hope and change out of the window. The tribe marches on… You can hear the drums of war in the distance…, but are not allowed to mention it…
‘Hey, Bibi! How you’re doing? Nice speech about Iran! Yeah, we’ll go after it for you…’
Agreed that Presidents aren’t the top of the pyramid. However, they get to use the machine of death and destruction. And personal enmity drove the first Bush’s policy and the second Bush was after Saddam for trying to kill his father in that Scud Missile attack inside Saudi Arabia. Obama is worse. Much worse.
Q: And personal enmity drove the first Bush’s policy and the second Bush was after Saddam for trying to kill his father in that Scud Missile attack inside Saudi Arabia. Obama is worse. Much worse.
R: ???????
Saddam Hussein was and formed a threat to the Apartheid State.
Look at every country [except Jordan] adjacent to the Apartheid State and what do you see?
Peace and tranquility?
Cui bono?
The Bushes were at least honest about their warmongering, hatred and shortsightedness, unlike Obombi, who talks about ‘loose change’ we can believe in and who should at least have the balls to give back his ff-ing Piece Peace price prize.
[ Note from Moderation: It’s true that you had forgotten the semicolon at the end of that special character in between the lines as mentioned by the moderation below. But since this character is no longer needed to separate paragraphs I removed all of them entirely from your reply. ]
Q; Obama, according to Tass bulletin, just extended sanctions on Russia for one more year.
R: Sanctions have been in place for almost 1 year now and did Russia buckle, fall apart while Obombi yells, “Bohica!!!”? All it does is to encourage Russia [and like minded countries] to change course and find alternative ways to move ahead.
Yes, for now, much of the world affairs run through the clutches of the US/Apartheid State, but the writing is on the wall [no pun intended] and one day it will all be over.
Will it be a better world? I don’t know; it will be different, that’s for sure.
Brought to you by ‘Market Watch’ and ‘Bloomberg,’ wink, wink, nudge, nudge…
Oh, and don’T forget ‘War Is A Racket‘ by General Smedley Darlington Butler, a man with way more insight into the wheeling and dealing of the MIC than you’ll ever be able to cough up.
Holywood Hollywood is fantasy; the rest of the world, reality.
Republicans and Democrats traded more blame Sunday for the lack of progress to finance the agency’s operations, even as the new March 6 deadline approaches. Neither party budged from its stance on whether fund
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-01/threat-to-vacate-boehner-s-post-shows-depth-of-gop-anger
glad after glitch this am, website is up and running, Saker are you ok, seems a bit quiet from you recently..don’t forget to donate good people…
presumably, but only if Saker thinks it worthwhile, he could assess who turned up for the funeral (seemed to me to be a whole load of “hasbeens” the little I saw)with their wimpish tales of a “hero”-but maybe it would be more interesting who did not turn up( usually an assassin shoots from the front in films so being shot from behind they knew exactly how he was being marked by what ever means)-I might re-read those fortruss articles re Boris was disposed of because his usefulness as a mole within the liberal movement was compromised or no longer worthwhile…but gotta say, I’m amazed that so many-even here- think or believe Moscow or the Russian state still has, or they wish still to have actions that are severely detrimental to persons if you see what I mean…….just how much is true, or better not revealed, or better the mystery remains? Am I being too naive?
Some notes:
5 Duma reps are challenging legality of VP’s no food from EU policy.Columnists?
Kiev sabateurs arrested in Rostov on Don.
Kiev must pay pensions, salaries to LPR/DPr a court has a=judged in Donbass presumably..
VR accuses 75 Crimean members of parliament of treason. Kiev doesn’t like facebook having offices in Moscow as it seems a right sector associate page has been blocked-apparently for showing a right sector knife gift saying “stick the gizzards of moscovites”….
it appears Normandy Four on March 6th will discuss peacekeepers .but final approval only by DNR/LPR these state-who also state ceasefire is continually being broken and AFU seems determined to keep up action at the usual places ..appeals from M and H to release Savchenko -now a Hero of Ukraine-again.
VR makes a law if you criticise the government you can be imprisoned…it is claimed that AFU camouflages military equipment to avoid sending back, only taking away broken/damaged stuff.
Not sure if this has been posted elsewhere but it is a plausibly accurate and very detailed anaysis of the hit on Nemstov. You can check that the hitman absolutely had to be on the stairs up to the bridge on Google Streetview and the likely waiting area of the pick-up car.
Though likely, it is not essential that the ‘girlfriend’ was involved but I have very high suspicions of the complicity of the snowplow truck driver given how it speeds up/slows down to stop in just the right spot by the top of the stairs that are out of view in the TV centre traffic video camera footage.
I could add some permutations to all this but the only way this was a Kremlin hit is if Putin has inside enemies or if it was a double false-flag to frame Poroshenko/Kiev. The last scenario would have to play out shortly or be discarded as plausible.
A security system like the KGB would be expected to follow someone they wanted to hit via cell phone tracking or what not and then improvise the murder. At least, that is, in this Pollyanna imagining of how state power works. In reality they would simply break into his home while he was having dinner with Anna elsewhere and spike his prune juice with the radionuclide polonium-210 (210Po)
Boris Nemtsov was lured into an ambush and he could only have been brought there by one person: Anna Duritskaya.
KGB? Polonium? Come on. :D
Creighton is a horse’s arse. The snow plow driver has been interviewed by the media, the idea he’s an assassin is ludicrous. Nemtsov wasn’t lead to the bridge by his girlfriend, the bridge was on the logical route home to his apartment. Just about everything in that spiel is distorted and twisted in his obvious effort to blame the Russians. Creighton lost his credibility with me when he smeared Cartalucci in a very sloppy effort to reinforce Israeli-American propaganda about Thailand. The only question I have about Creighton is whether he’s working for the Israelis or the Americans.
I agree about the ‘luring’ bit; it was on the way back to the apartment from the Gom restaurant which is why I mentioned that she was not essential to the operation. The only innocent explanation for the snow truck slowing down and speeding up so as to be exactly at the staircase, other than pure coincidence, is that he was ogling the ‘model’. If we assume that Nemstov was actually killed and the video is not fake then the person running back and hopping in to the car that drives up is likely to be one of, if not the, killer(s). The snow truck driver isn’t the killer as he is on the wrong side(unless RHD) and driving and unless there was a passenger who fired from the window -ballistic angle autopsy would disprove this- then the hit was made by someone coming up the stairs. Either that or they had an invisibility cloak as nobody else is on the bridge and these were not sniper bullets but came from a 9mm Marakov pistol.
Unless the truck was brushing the street, why was it even there? There had been no snow for weeks, nor was there any snow on the street.
I am not interested in ad hominems, or the illogical notion that one disagreement invalidates all the arguments made; I am only interested in piecing together the known information, gathering suggestions from the mass of theories and pondering possible scenarios. Who makes them is largely irrelevant. Have a look at Google streetview of the bridge, view the staircase and watch the timing; his timeline and the players fit, so it is a plausible scenario without the speculation about the players.
There are a number of pieces absent or that don’t fit particularly well right now but I seriously doubt that this was the work of one person.
Of course, we don’t know yet what actually happened, but the outline given in this link appears highly plausible. Well put together.
However … some loose ends.
For instance, why has the FSB allowed the prostitute to stay in a friend’s apartment under private protection (if true!) – rather than under FSB (“protective” secret) custody? By all logic, she should presently be the center of intense investigation! (BTW, aren’t there now reliable “gentle” methods to extract the truth? One should expect far better pharmaceuticals than scopolamine in this day and age. And it would be unconscionable that these guys are really so stupid to let her “return to Kiev as soon as possible”…)
And pray tell why was the model wearing a white coat. One could say this removes her from suspicion because the cameras could easily see her at night — or she could have worn white to be easily recognizable to the assailants at night.
If ISIS is what our corporate news pretends that it is—a fanatical Muslim extremist group that sprang suddenly from the desert sands much like Jack’s bean stalk—one blindingly obvious question is, why does it not attack Israel or Israeli interests? Isn’t that what one would expect from such a cast of characters? But it has not done so, undoubtedly because Israel is an important covert benefactor and supplier.
We might equally ask why ISIS has not attacked Saudi Arabia or its interests,
This summer, during Nutty-yahoo’s latest Blitzkrieg on Ghaza, ISIS didn’t even release a public statement in support of the Palestinians, as far as I’m aware. I think it’s getting pretty obvious that these so-called ‘Moslem’ jihadists are really just a bunch of dupe-groups run by Washington/Tel Aviv/Riyadh.
Now I understand why stupid Klitcchko became mayor of Kiev – in the Ukraine it is more important for a politician to know how to box than it is to know how to govern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V91SsAel2Y
Delta Bank, Ukraine’s fourth largest bank by assets, has been declared insolvent by the National Bank of Ukraine. Delta Bank is the biggest bank to fail since the pro-EU revolution in February 2014 and the ensuing military and economic pressure from Russia. The NBU categorises Delta Bank as of systemic importance, as it holds nearly 6% of retail deposits.
Savchenko female sniper, individual who guided artillery fire onto civilians in Donbass, and suspected killer of Russian journalists, is ending her half-hearted “hunger strike”, according to her lawyer.
In 1981 IRA hunger strikers died in 46 to 73 days. A woman lost in wilderness in Canada lost 30 lbs weight in 49 days of only eating some trail mix and candy. Where is Nadia’s weight loss???? she should be skin and bones and unable to stand up unaided. Her lawyer has said she does drink fluids and accepts whatever treatments the doctors think she needs.
Of course, what is “hunger strike” ?? famous Indian protester Sharmil Irom lasted 14 years on an alleged hunger strike…but she was fed through a nasal tube the whole time.
Now it was G. I. Joe’s turn to blow
He turned it on, cool and slow
He tried a pay phone call to the Pentagon
A radar scan, a leviathan
He wiped the Earth clean as a plate
What does it take to make a Ruskie break?
But the crowd are bored and off they go over the road to watch China go
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Thanks for that link explaining the hit on Nemstov. I agree it is well done and very plausible. I do think the utility vehicle was involved, and I agree the hitman had to be waiting on the stairs (unless he was actually riding somewhere in the truck). There is no way they could have planned this unless they knew or expected the couple to be walking across the bridge.
Although possible, the reason I don’t think he was in the truck is that it would be an unnecessary distraction to have somebody jump down out of the truck or hiding ebhind the cab. Any further up the bridge and the hitman would have had to follow close behind and any further down the other side and the framing of St.Basil’s and the Kremlin -that is so important for western MSM imaging- is likely lost by curvature.
A frontal hit would be easier but would require far more difficult timing and greater likelihood of hitman identification. I wonder also at the lack of trafiic, both pedestrian and vehicular, and wonder if some distraction and manipulation of traffic lights was involved. This could be just one of many attempts and the location and the lack of any useful identification were so spectacularly successful just by chance but somehow I lean away from that coincidence.
The meme has done its propaganda damage and now that Nemstov has been laid to rest, western readers who had no idea who he was -and still don’t due to media distortions- will soon forget him.
The powerful image of the Kremlin and the body though will have been burned in to the subconscious to both confirm and augment all the prior vilification of Putin and Russia.
I’d love to read The Saker’s comments on this analysis. There’s obviously a lot more going on behind the scenes here that we don’t know.
And here is the ambassador’s tweet that got him fired:
“John M. Koenig ✔ @AmbJohnKoenig
What do people in #Cyprus think about the week in Russia as seen from here? Anastasiades visit and statements, #Nemtsov assassination?
1:57 AM – 1 Mar 2015
26 Retweets 24 favorites”
Yes, you are absolutely right :-! But to cheer you up – Koenig eventually did come to his senses and corrected himself, about an hour later, when he twitted:
“John M. Koenig ✔ @AmbJohnKoenig
@AHadjikyriacos I wouldn’t suggest Anastasiades is linked to Nemtsov assassination. Be real. But Putin could be.
3:11 AM – 1 Mar 2015
4 Retweets 1 favorite”
However, in spite of that, he was still fired… Probably was too late…
Poetic justice? Sputnik reports:
The commander of the “Azov” volunteer battalion and his driver crashed to their death in an off-road car retreating from the village of Shirokyne in the Donetsk Region of East Ukraine.
The car smashed into a monument built in the memory of the heroes of World War II. The memorial survived the hit and did not fall, but the two Ukrainian national security agents died on the spot.
On the last day before the armistice on February 14, the car crashed into a memorial to the heroes of World War II. Self-defense fighters considered the accident very symbolic.
in other completely unrelated news (honest, it’s not an allegory for anything), we see this today!:
telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/11447031/Woodpecker-and-weasel-photographer-I-didnt-realise-images-were-so-special-until-I-got-home.html
Great title. The Russians are giving the Netanyahu freak the same sort of deserved disrespect they gave Hillary Clinton. While Netanyahu is just an Israeli politician, much like Obama, who is likely to lose his next election. In my opinion, the Russian jibing is not intended for just him. I’ve been noticing a slow change in Russian government attitude to Israel over the last few months. Basically a cold spell, like after the Georgian war, but this time colder more longer lasting.
A strategy could be to sucker the suckers into a situation they cannot escape from….and must honour or reveal themselves to be idiots….a little like minsk?
I wonder what the tally is of identically outfitted brand spanking new toyota pickups?
Mar 03, 2015 | by Richard Sisk
U.S. Central Command’s Gen. Lloyd Austin told Congress Tuesday that more than 8,500 ISIS fighters had been killed in the U.S. campaign in Iraq and Syria.
As a result of U.S. and coalition airstrikes, and recent gains by Iraqi and Kurdish forces, ISIS “has assumed a defensive crouch” in Iraq.
Something always seems rather fake about ISIS. All the images about them are very theatrical. They always appear parading, walking with those ridiculous black flags and outfits. or else riding Toyota pickup trucks, always with the black flags. It’s always a show, a parade. Look how spooky and evil we are. Even the images of mass murders seemed kind of staged. And of course those high profile beheadings were totally rididiculous. Are there images of them in actual combat anywhere? I think most of ISIS is just a psyop.
ISIS is a very well trained US force. Their tactics incorporate some well placed assaults which would only work using fanatics. It is the most effective military force on the planet right now. So a small force like that can take on far larger ones and cause enormous damages. Although Palestinians and others like the Tamil tigers used to be fanatics, they did not have a regular military tactical operations support so they could only create terror but no advance.
That’s why it is clear this is a part of the US military, even if they are not directly connected or controlled. They have the training, the will power and the resources to mount very devastating assaults and take fortified positions defended by superior forces.
Read up on their tactics in Syria which are more easily available than their tactics in Iraq. Syria is still devising counter measures which seems to keep on changing. But Hezbollah’s experience in dealing with a far superior organized force with devastating firepower and how to survive in such an environment is helping the Syrians in dealing with it. It is like the US using all their resources in a very small force against inexperienced defenders. The US deals with such things with disproportional force which requires unlimited money and resources and even then they have problems. Imagine others with far less resources dealing with such attacks.
I am wondering if some of the German units like deaths hand used similar less effective tactics. Willing to die is not an effective tactic on the battle field. Your death should be an advantage to the plan. I read they did a few attacks like that which were not effective against the soviets which just plugged the holes as soon as they were made. You also need reserves to take advantage of the opportunities.
I had a Facebook friend request from a Turk who claims currently to have political asylum in Greece. I friended him before he mentioned this.
From what I can gather – though I don’t really have much communication with him – he is quite Russian-oriented, though also North Korea-enthusiastic. He seems to be a hard-line socialist, which might explain his asylum in Greece, but it’s not certain. He is definitely hostile to the US and corporate-hegemony over the earth.
He may be simply an idealistic student who got in over his head, politics-wise or he could be more significant. Or perhaps, this being Facebook after all, none of these things.
His English is pretty good, though clearly not his first language. He follows Global Research enthusiastically.
I am in two minds about refering him to The Saker. He could provide an illumination or he could be a total bullsh***r – this is the net . But, if he really has been give Greek asylum, he could bring another dimension to these discussions.
I am personally wary of getting involved with people over the net: they have to be part of a community whose values I share. I would have no problems communication-wise with any of the regulars here, for example, not even Bot Tak – even if he sounds like ‘God-hates-fags’ Fred Phelps on a good day. ( I am indifferent myself: my issues are to do with the connection political gays have to surrogacy/eugenics.)
I have no community context to guage this guy.
I have only sent one hello message, and haven’t got into any discussions on line with him, as I have with my – very sweet and wonderful – Ukrainian Jewish friend, though raised Ukrainian Orthodox.
So The Saker, when you have time – or indeed, anyone else – what should I do ? Ignore or refer?
The net was not always like this. I think it has been corrupted by those who find it easier to take advantage of others than other avenues and by the governments. So it is difficult to find people even in a group whom you can trust. People keep up acting for years. Unlike in real life where it is hard to keep up a pretense in front of you for any length of time.
So I don’t think you should be the judge. Since even if he is not as you think he is, we get along with a vast diversity of people with all different kind of beliefs. The problem only comes up when someone try’s to impose their will on others by force as in just drowning out your voice and getting you to accept their version of things.
I have experience when the net was not a net in the beginning and I made friends from lots of places and it allowed me the chance to get to know different people I would never have known otherwise. That is how one goes from being naïve to being experienced. if nothing else the travels make you see a lot of sites you would not get the chance to otherwise.
What the Hades happens if some of the personnel of these six companies of American military Nazi collaborators being sent to Kiev get nicked, either 3 or 200’s, in the next go round? Is this the provocation the US is looking for? I have a bad feeling about all these foreign helpers funneling into western Ukraine in abeyance of M2A. Its as if the Kiev junta doesn’t even exist, let alone the citizenry of Ukraine, as far as these foreign interests are concerned. Careful the Americans are getting downright snarly.
I just saw the saker patch button on the podcast.. I think selling those patches to people who donate or for an amount would get a lot of sales to support the site. Kind of like selling tshirts. I know I have bought tshirts and hats to show support for a cause. it is a lot more attractive than just donating as it shows “I did something” and I also get the feeling “I did something”. It was not like donating money to green peace and not knowing anything at all. Yea I supported their activities but when the republican party always sent us little tid bits when we sent in donations I felt I was doing more for the party than for greenpeace.
Dear The Saker,
The Junta/US seem to be missing a vital point – the UNSC passed a resolution (US is a mamber) backing the Minsk agreements. So just because the US wasn’t a part of Minsk talks is irrelevant they agreed to the UNSC resolution! Jeez the Junta are really dim. They are still shelling and have stated they will remove heavy weapons by 7th March – we’ll see.
Meanwhile the US/EU imbeciles are trying to use the funeral today for further digs. They seem to forget sanctions on some EU MP’s…..says it all when the US Ambassador speaks at a funeral – also one of the Russian speakers (clip on RT) inferred it was the Kremlin by saying bullets of opponents – :0 – bit brazen and wrong when the investigation is on going. So it seems some opposition couldn’t help themselves but use the funeral. Wonder what will happen to this ex MP/opponent with the public views.
Rgds,
Veritas
никакой разницы нету
[no no difference]
Dear Veritas,
On 27th febr. 3 political figures Ukraine committed of suicide or most probably were suicided. 3 in one day! Of course nothing was mentioned in the controlled media. I have been searching for sources which I found here http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2015/02/28/7060029/ and here http://ukrainiancrisis.net/news/8523.
Ukraine’s Mikael Chechetov just allegedly committed suicide by jumping out of a 17th story window. He was second in command in Yanukovich’s Party of Regions. He and the leader of the party were recently arrested and Chechetov was released on bail and under house arrest.
Sergei Valter was the former mayor of Melitopol, was also under house arrest and hanged “himself”. He was accused by the Ukrainien government for criminal activities.
The last one A. Bordgyuk or Bordgok, was the second in command of the MVD, also “killed himself”.
I cannot find anything about this man. Since you were the first to mention these men as the Nemtsov killing took place the next day, as a probabel divertion, can you tell more about Bordgyuk/Bordgok?
A resolution with no consequences. You have any idea how much they talk and pass wind and talk some more? There are hundreds of resolutions against Israel. I think Russia even went that route for legal cover. Not because the resolutions themselves changed anything.
it is just painful to watch Russia following all the legal challenges to be shown as morally right when others are just running around doing what ever. Kind of like people with moral conviction standing up for what is right but getting smacked by the pipe on the head. And then getting back up with a bleeding head wound and keep going at it. Makes me wonder if deep down Putin is an ardent follower of Ghandi. Who was not very effective himself, but he made others respect him because of his moral standing. Even those who never agreed with him stood down and did not go against him. Because it showed their weakness to the people they were fighting for. Same as in Russia how the opposition is scared to take on Putin not because Putin has any power but that if hey do, the people who they are supposedly representing would call on their moral superiority in standing up for them. It is how we all show the world how we are better than those around us. For most humans that standing is very important, it is why we live. We cant live going around with the feeling that we are inferior to everyone else.
Death of an irrelevant politician milked by the west.
Shows who benefits by the killing quite clearly
These liberals in the pocket of America. What type of Russian will vote for them?
What, didn’t Mossad leave Putin’s business card down the back seat this time?
What a cock up, Charlie!
(Sarcasm off)
I am like this comments, I laugh with them.
Training or Active Combat? Media Barred From Photographing Canadian Troops
Ekaterina Blinova – Canada’s federal government has decided to prohibit the media from interviewing and taking photos of Canadian soldiers participating in NATO military drills in Eastern Europe, sparking new controversy.
Correspondents were barred from photographing the faces of the Canadian military contingent leaving Garrison Petawawa for Eastern Europe and were prohibited from mentioning the names of the soldiers. Almost 125 Canadian troops will take part in a three-month NATO military exercise in Poland and Latvia, according to media sources.
One wonders if any of those Canadian troops will be slipping across the Ukrainian border.
Harper loves war as long as he has a broom closet to hide in if things get nasty and he unconditionally supports Israel, the latter ahead of Canada in priority. So if Bibi told him to get boots on the ground in Ukraine then that’s what he would do, surreptitiously, of course.
Does Minsk 2 still mean anything after this? Will Russia leave this unanswered?
US to Deploy Six National Guard Companies to Ukraine This Week
http://sputniknews.com/military/20150303/1018973141.html
“… Will Russia leave this unanswered? …”
This is the central question. It will test what Putin is actually made of. Will it be just more of “… our American partners, blah, blah, blah …” ?
Putin has shown himself to be a weakling that is why coward anglos dare attack Russia on all front with impunity thinking that they are not going to pay any price.
Wrong.Warmongering US and NATO thugs try to bait Russia into a war and get it shoved back in their face.Putin is smart, the US is dumb….and you…
Putin and advisors have shown themselves to have a much stronger grasp of the strategies of geopolitics than you seem to have, Anon. It takes strong nerves, self-discipline and considerable courage to play the excellent chess game that the Putiniki have been running against the half-wit draughts-players in Washington. A weakling, you say. You shouting at a mirror, perhaps?
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Again — “its” not “it’s” — only use “it’s” as a short form for “it is”.
You are right it’s a mistake and I stand corrected. Will try to remember it in the future. Thanks.
1. Any chance of remembering email and handle once posters have visited the site? Having to repeatedly give the info per comment is a drag.
2. Would it be possible to flag NEW comments on threads as well as on the header? It would also save time and likely increase traffic. Currently you have to a) remember the original number to know there are additions and b) scroll through entire threads to find them.
Check out the Unz review for a working sample.
It’s easy, when you consider that the apostrophe is a replacement for the second i in it is.
So whenever about to use it’s, mentally substitute it is.
It that makes no sense in the context, then it should be its rather than it’s.
who gives a sh** about punctuation…diverted from main topic successfully this time troll
Here’s an easy way that helped me to remember: his, hers, its — possessive = no apostrophe.
Versus: he’s, she’s, it’s — contractions = he is, she is, it is = apostrophe.
Here we go with more hasbara.No one really cares about “its or it’s”.We understand what is being said.People making a big deal over those type of things are trying to change the “message” of the thread.Or they are so anal as to think that is a giant problem.Most probably its the first.That is hasbara 1.1.
Agree, meaning is most important. But no reason we can’t offer easy ideas for better language if the author seems open to it. Was trying to help, not be stupidly judgmental. I definitely don’t get bent out of shape over grammatical errors. That’s a total waste of time these days, language has become a completely new vernacular form from internet, texting and especially Tweeting.
it’s is the possessive form of something belonging to it, otherwise your english lesson works.
Its is the possessive form of the contraction. No apostrophe needed BRF. It’s is always It is.
Don’t worry, I used to make the same error, I’m sure many do. It’s nowhere near as bad as lose/ loose. I mean really. But i see it all the time!
In English, possessive pronouns don’t carry apostrophes, e.g., hers, yours, its, even though they end in “s”. Only nouns do, e.g., Mary’s, the dog’s, Some possessive pronouns don’t even end in “s”, e.g., my, our, their.
“It’s” is a contraction of “it is”, just like “that’s” is a contraction of “that is”,
Or how about “there”, “they’re” and “their” — lots of confusion there! But it doesn’t matter much these days with lots of abbreviated and vernacular and internet writing taking on new forms seen all over the place. Language is alive and is always changing, and it’s the content that matters. So long as the intended meaning gets across, it works.
Wrong. Thanks, Julian, for your response. I, too, had the same problem till I worked for some editors and figured out some simple ideas to help myself.
Except you’re completely wrong. :) I used to make the same mistake myself until my editor bosses taught me better. It’s = It Is and Its = it possessive.
Wrong, BRF: it’s signifies a missing letter and therefore it’s = it is.
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Venezuela gets it.
Venezuela Gives US Two Week Deadline to Shrink Its Caracas Embassy
Venezuelan officials have announced that Washington has two weeks to pare down its 100-strong Caracas embassy to 17 persons.
“The U.S. government must keep 17 diplomats on our soil and we have given them 15 days to present us a list of those who will remain here,” Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez noted, following a meeting with US embassy trade official Lee McClenney.
Ms. Rodriguez noted that the compulsory staff reduction would reduce the number of US embassy personnel to the number Venezuela presently has in Washington, DC. The Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of the Interior noted Monday that in the interests of reciprocity, US tourists to Venezuela will now have to apply for a visa to enter the country.
In her meeting with McClenney, Rodriguez explained that the new measures were part of President Nicolas Maduro’s response to US interventionism in Venezuela, which has included statements and actions, including sanctions and restrictions on Venezuelan officials, all ostensibly aimed at undermining the stability of the country’s democratically-elected government.
Over the weekend, President Maduro said that his government had detained several Americans believed to be involved in espionage, which led to the decision to carry out several tit for tat retaliatory measures, including embassy and visa restrictions, as well travel bans on several top Republican Party officials, including Senator Marco Rubio and former Vice President Dick Cheney.
US officials will also now be required to ask permission to meet with opposition groups; the ruling United Socialist Party believes the US has been assisting right-wing extremists who aim to foment unrest. President Maduro had earlier accused Washington of plotting to overthrow him via the bombing of the presidential palace, accusations which US officials brushed off as “ridiculous.”
Forcing the pindos to get permission before they can meet with opposition groups is especially delicious. That will put quite a wrench in their works. :D
Yep. Russia’s idea of counter-sanctions. Tit for tat.
Of course,telling them who they can talk with is a shocking intrusion on free speech, freedom of association and who knows what else. Let them talk on the phone, US is listening in on that anyway so can’t complain if it later turns out that Venezuela is also. :)
They could make the officials get visas, too. That way they’d always know one was there, to keep a better eye on him.
I think this is why Putin allowed that horrible Tefft to be USA Ambassador to Russia…. to keep an eye on who visits him.
I would not make it short into “Путин слил”,
but I am quite sure his intentions are far more modest.
Indeed he made it clear right from the beginning:
– Ukraine as a one country incl. Donbass (and by federalization blah-blah followed),
– i.e. no separate Novorossia and no way incorporated to Russian Federation,
– Crimea forever Russian (it is vital, if there will be not Russian Crimea, it means there is no Russian Federation in todays meaning),
They (Russian men at power) woke up in the very last minute,
and we all shall be happy that they have managed it with at least not letting Crimea slip into US hands…because that would not be the end, that would be an instoppable countdown of the very end of Russian world!
Let us hope all this means the end of NATO arrogance, I have the feeling Ms Merkel realised what are the limits. Now we have to stop the USA and that is only possible by prevailing it because the neocons would not stop !!!
Putin has to play the whole match, and if he had realised from the beginning (not just following what was happening in Ukraine for 23 years and uncondidtionally funding the idiots) what on stake,
the cost would be lower by means of rsk, Money and deads of innocent people….
Ingenious.
Agree, but…. I don’t doubt that there will be a “disproportional” response, some overt, most covert.
Regards, Spiral
Here’s an article with more info about Maduro’s motivations, http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/11245
That is excellent news!
Another coup attempt prevented!
Excellent.
And should they start their usual spiel, he can always wonder why they mind any restrictions, when they can tap into the NSA anytime they want.
After all, there was no problem with Merkel, who stands ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with them on everything, was their?
On the subject of Venezuela, here’s a little comic relief:
When Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma was arrested last week, charged with organizing and leading a coup, the U.S. State Department’s spokeswoman Jen Psaki said: “The allegations made by the Venezuelan government that the United States is involved in coup plotting and destabilization are baseless and false. The United States does not support political transitions by non-constitutional means</EM.”
Ya gotta love Jen Psaki!
Jen Psaki should check notes with her President.
Yeah, with the exception of these 80 or so coups or intended coups since 1953, most directed against legitimate democracies:
America’s Coup Machine: Destroying Democracy Since 1953
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This sounds like the zionazis will be setting up a pretext to attack Syria, or maybe they will attack without the pretext. They already got their American colony agreeing to attack Syria should Syria defend themselves against the zionazi terrorists attacking Syria.
Israel Ready to Prevent Hezbollah Expansion Into Syria, Golan Heights
I got this from a Greek friend earlier today:
“PS3: Recently a monk died here in Greece.He was known for his predictions (like Nostradamus :P).Greek Church pronounced him “saint” for some reason.This monk said (about 20-25 years ago) many things , many have been fulfilled , many not yet and we don’t know if they will ever be fulfilled :).
He said about Greek debt (There was none ,at least of these proportions when he talked about it)..and Greece eventually will not pay it.He said about 3rd WW , and that will begin when Turks will start claim (again) miles of Greek waters.He said that Russia will totally annihilate Turkey (1/3rd of Turks will die , 1/3rd will be converted since there are already too many crypto-Christians , 1/3rd of them will be pushed back to far East , to deep Asia) and Russia will stop outside Israel and there , USA and Russia will confront each other.
He also said about EU , that it will fall apart and that will be Germans to be blamed about it.
Some food for thought :)”
Here’s a related video from Feb 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQBVJUWUU5M
Could the Syrians have a BW response waiting?
http://www.syrianperspective.com/2015/02/strangled-turk-aided-terrorists-in-aleppo-as-the-collar-tightens-the-beginning-of-erdoghans-end-some-thoughts-on-the-big-plan-yawn.html
Might also help to explain russia-cyprus events for ports,ships,humanitarian aid etc
This is really worth of reading: http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/03/the-brics-plus-germany/
“And then there’s the German question.
Germany now exports 50 percent of its GDP. It used to be only 24 percent in 1990. For the past 10 years, half of German growth depended on exports. Translation: this is a giant economy that badly needs global markets to keep expanding. An ailing EU, by definition, does not fit the bill.
German exports are changing their recipient address. Only 40 percent – and going down – now goes to the EU; the real growth is in Asia. So Germany, in practice, is moving away from the eurozone. That does not entail Germany breaking up the euro; that would be interpreted as a nasty betrayal of the much-lauded “European project.”
What the trade picture unveils is the reason for Germany’s hardball with Greece: either you surrender, completely, or you leave the euro. What Germany wants is to keep a partnership with France and dominate Eastern Europe as an economic satellite, relying on Poland. So expect Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy to face a German wall of intransigence. So much for European “integration,” it works as long as Germany dictates all the rules.
The spanner in the works is that the double fiasco Greece + Ukraine has been exposing. Berlin as an extremely flawed European hegemon – and that’s quite an understatement. Berlin suddenly woke up to the real, nightmarish possibility of a full blown, American-instigated war in Europe’s eastern borderlands against Russia. No wonder Angela Merkel had to fly to Moscow in a hurry.
Moscow – diplomatically – was the winner. And Russia won again when Turkey – fed up with trying to join the EU and being constantly blocked by, who else, Germany and France – decided to pivot to Eurasia for good, ignoring NATO and amplifying relations with both Russia and China.
That happened in the framework of a major ‘Pipelineistan’ game-changer. After Moscow cleverly negotiated the realignment of South Stream towards Turk Stream, right up to the Greek border, Putin and Greek Prime Minister Tsipras also agreed to a pipeline extension from the Turkish border across Greece to southern Europe. So Gazprom will be firmly implanted not only in Turkey but also Greece, which in itself will become mightily strategic in European ‘Pipelineistan’.
So Germany, sooner or later, must answer a categorical imperative – how to keep running massive trade surpluses while dumping their euro trade partners. The only possible answer is more trade with Russia, China and East Asia. It will take quite a while, and there will be many bumps on the road, but a Berlin-Moscow-Beijing trade/commercial axis – or the “RC” in BRICS meet Germany – is all but inevitable.
And no, you won’t read that in any wacky US ‘Think Tankland’ “forecast.” ”
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There no doubt why Mr 800 pounds Dollar Gorilla is so damned worried about? :)
Kudos to Pepe Escobar.
Check this out. The props, slogans and T-shirts for the Nemtsov memorial march seem to have been designed, prepared and distributed at record speed, in little more than 24 hours. The murder was a few minutes before 0:00 hours of Feb 28. The March was the next day.
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/03/were-props-and-slogans-for-nemtsovs.html
No – he was shot on Friday night (27th) and the March was Sunday.
Fast, but not that fast.
If he’d been shot that late, no one would have turned up,
I also wonder how many of the protesters actually thought they were protesting against Putin or against the war, and how many just wanted to support a general movement for peace.
Yes, that’s why I said the murder was a few minutes *before* 0 hours of February 28.
Less than half an hour before Feb 28 to be exact.
So then, if the march was at noon on 1 March (don’t recall, just guessing, for the purpose of calculating), then the march started 36 hours and a few minutes after the murder.
He died at midnight, so probably no prep work cd begin til daylight. Then to prepare the artwork requires, for the 4-color printing used on the T-shirts, an acetate overlay with the graphics for each color. Then the T-shirts are run thru the press 4 times, once for each color. (Or perhaps there might be faster way to do this now, but anyway it’s nothing that can be rushed.)
oh no! Not again!!
british accent is so off putting.
even American accent is better than that.
This british english voice makes it a liar channel just like all liar british media.
please bring back the previous more truth sounding voice please.!
How ironic you call yourself ‘sense’ as you aren’t making any…..
Speaking as the owner of a bona fide ‘british english voice’ in my humble opinion,even if this News Reader was born here in the UK, his accent is NOT of these fair Isles so he must’ve lived somewhere else for a while to pick up their lilt. You must have some kind of special powers to know this and be so sure. Maybe he is trying to hide his britishness as he is so ashamed …yawn.
Do please tell me which part of Britain you think he is from.
I do agree however that mainstream British media lies.
Or maybe i’m just lying…
It’s an interesting ‘cultured’ in a positive way, not in an uppity or class distinct snobbery sense English accent and he gives an intelligent delivery. Defintely not Kiwi but there are subtle hints of Aussie and sometimes S.African.
I’d love to know his background and how that accent was acquired.
Dear Voice
I’m not calling you liar, but I also prefer the “Russian”guy (sorry I’m very bad at pinpointing accents geographically).
I don`t know why, maybe because the other voice is more sarcastic (which I love), maybe a “Russian” accent is more believable (what’s not true at all!).
Anyway, thanks for the great work, i’ll keep watching whichever voice is used!
PS: sorry for my bad english, non-native speaker…
The narrator may be a resident of Britain, or another one of the Commonwealth members of the five eyes, but he was born in South Africa. The Afrikaner accent slips out frequently, if mildly.
I also really miss the original narrator and have lost interest in the channel…Can’t stand that new accent.
I’m really amazed how many people complain about the narrator’s native language or accent, whichever language may be used. Doesn’t the Information matter? I think so. The prior narrator was a bit more difficult for me to comprehend at times, but I clicked “pause” or “replay” every time; and so there was no problem at all.
Are you the same guy that wants to nuke all anglos?
He doesn’t seem to be aware of it, but he sounds just like Churchill thinking out loud.
Amazing. Moscow Times (yet another Soros backed site) with a good analysis of the Debaltsevo debacle, blaming Poroshenko for it. Not even claiming much Russian presence, just blaming it on Ukie military incompetence..
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/poroshenko-s-incompetence-lost-debaltseve/516929.html
Of course it quotes a German military analyst, and the story is new today but I’ve seen it before, so it’s likely a translation/rewrite of a German publication. Anyway, for a pro-US site to publish it, something’s turning gradually.
Yes. What they seem to be getting is reader contempt. Keep selling such brain-bludgeoning propaganda and they will leave.
The English-speaking readership it aims is likely to be far better-informed than the Graun/NYT brigade and they know all about Soros and the ‘manufacture of consensus.’ Not to mention the virtual collapse of the MSM narrative on the Ukraine, thanks in no small part to sites like this, as well as direct bulletins from South Front and Save the People of Donbass from the Ukrainian Army (though it should really read ‘NATO’
and the Fascists).
So they have had to retract their horns a little, in the hopes of regaining any shred of credibility.
Southfront: 3/3/15… re: . or if you want to be more polite “restructuring the debt” …Keep up the wry humor..somehow it makes it all more bearable. That Monsanto under the aegis of the IMF is going to violate the genome of the grain/ plant DNA of the Ukraine is just one step in their “restructuring” of Slavic lands. It would ben helpful if you could post underneath the names of experts and government officials as you mention them in the audio feed which goes very quickly.
Important News, OT.
Petraeus, the disgraced General, ex-CIA chief, forced into plea bargain, Federal crime admission.
Misdemeanor, carrying possible one year Federal prison sentence.
Now, this is the lesson: Obama destroys men who challenge or don’t obey him.
This general is now historical garbage. It is a mistake he made, but there were easy off-ramps Obama would not permit. Obama wanted to utterly destroy the General who designed the Surge in Iraq, which Obama effectively has reversed, allowing ISIS to conquer the specific victories of the General. Also, the General knows the truth of Benghazi and needed to be silenced.
Take this message forward. Putin is in the same personal crosshairs. Obama is a weak man with a powerful machine, the Hegemony. It is a full spectrum chaos machine. Obama uses it personally. He is very effective unleashing it. Like his drone killings.
So, if you are thinking the war will end because the Hegemon is unable to win, you don’t understand what is going on with Obama. And you don’t understand the Hegemon. Putin is a threat to both. Russia is the citadel of Resistance to hegemony. Russia is the Archangel fighting Satan. Obama has ideological, psychological and geopolitical channeling that compels him to continue all his wars until there is utter destruction. (Gaddafi dragged through the streets, sodomized and slaughtered.)
Know this. Know your enemy. Know Obama. Know the devil. Understand hegemony. Understand the Hegemon.
And coming behind him into the Presidency will not be a peacemaker.
Fortunately, Putin clearly knows the spiritual, psychological and geopolitical reality.
He knows the enemies of Russia.
Everyone else should see the reality.
What is in this context in your opinion the spiritual reality?
We who believe in the spirit of God understand the eternal battle on Earth of Satan versus God’s teachings.
So, if you look at geopolitics through this philosophical grounding, you see satanic works in the Elite Liberalism, demonic impulses in the ethnic cleansing and slaughter of innocents.
And ultimately, the intended destruction of Russia is to destroy the Third Rome, the last bastion of Christianity, and it is clear as daylight can illuminate.
Values of traditional life represented by the Russian civilization are at stake. These have significant spiritual components.
That’s my take on it. You can’t give in to the Hegemon and expect Harmony, balance and joy of life. All you get is chaos, death, and abominations.
Prometeus
Didn’t intend to post the reply ‘Anonymous’. Inadvertent post.
It’s my reply, my take.
Larchmonter445
God isn’t real.
Good points. Which is why Russia should have sent in peace keepers to protect these values and way of life.
the future of the planet, troll
@ Larchmonter445,
Q: Obama destroys men who challenge or don’t obey him.
R: Oh, c’mon. Don’t be silly. Presidents don’t run a country. $$$ makers do. Obombi’s just another sock puppet masquerading as a Commander In Chief [as will be the next and next and next, ad infinitum, CIC].
By now my thoughts have become so evil that I hope Hillary Rotham dies of ovarian cancer [or anything else that causes a quick death] before the next elections. Even Rand Paul has kissed the Apartheid State’s ass, so toss anything and everything that carries an inkling of hope and change out of the window. The tribe marches on… You can hear the drums of war in the distance…, but are not allowed to mention it…
‘Hey, Bibi! How you’re doing? Nice speech about Iran! Yeah, we’ll go after it for you…’
DR
Agreed that Presidents aren’t the top of the pyramid. However, they get to use the machine of death and destruction. And personal enmity drove the first Bush’s policy and the second Bush was after Saddam for trying to kill his father in that Scud Missile attack inside Saudi Arabia. Obama is worse. Much worse.
@ Larchmonter445,
Q: And personal enmity drove the first Bush’s policy and the second Bush was after Saddam for trying to kill his father in that Scud Missile attack inside Saudi Arabia. Obama is worse. Much worse.
R: ???????
Saddam Hussein was and formed a threat to the Apartheid State.
Look at every country [except Jordan] adjacent to the Apartheid State and what do you see?
Peace and tranquility?
Cui bono?
The Bushes were at least honest about their warmongering, hatred and shortsightedness, unlike Obombi, who talks about ‘loose change’ we can believe in and who should at least have the balls to give back his ff-ing
PiecePeacepriceprize.[ Note from Moderation: It’s true that you had forgotten the semicolon at the end of that special character in between the lines as mentioned by the moderation below. But since this character is no longer needed to separate paragraphs I removed all of them entirely from your reply. ]
Daniel, note that the character to put a space in your comment is you forgot to add ; therefore appears the character instead of a space.
UPDATE: It’s no longer to insert the special character in between paragraphs. These are now separated automatically. Just write as you like.
@ Moderator E.K.,
Q: you forgot to add ; therefore appears the character instead of a space.
R: 1 more reason to add a ~5 minute grace period to any posting, so we’ll be able to
a) see if everything looks the way we intended
b) correct typos
c) correct missing links
As I’m basically lazy, can I just type everything into a Dreamweaver document and copy and past the lot [the stuff that’s in the ‘body’ part]?
Thanks in advance.
Obama, according to Tass bulletin, just extended sanctions on Russia for one more year.
That is a weapon that Russia has little defense and no counter-weapon.
Sort of a financial drone strike. The Fraud gets off on using such power.
@ Larchmonter445,
Q; Obama, according to Tass bulletin, just extended sanctions on Russia for one more year.
R: Sanctions have been in place for almost 1 year now and did Russia buckle, fall apart while Obombi yells, “Bohica!!!”? All it does is to encourage Russia [and like minded countries] to change course and find alternative ways to move ahead.
Yes, for now, much of the world affairs run through the clutches of the US/Apartheid State, but the writing is on the wall [no pun intended] and one day it will all be over.
Will it be a better world? I don’t know; it will be different, that’s for sure.
@ Larchmonter445,
Here are 2 prime examples of what’s wrong with the non existent lines between ‘left’ and ‘right’ in the ff-ing US of A;
1) Pelosi says she was ‘near tears’ during Netanyahu speech
2) Rand Paul’s Israel Problem Summed Up in One Telling Gif
Brought to you by ‘Market Watch’ and ‘Bloomberg,’ wink, wink, nudge, nudge…
Oh, and don’T forget ‘War Is A Racket‘ by General Smedley Darlington Butler, a man with way more insight into the wheeling and dealing of the MIC than you’ll ever be able to cough up.
HolywoodHollywood is fantasy; the rest of the world, reality.correction; that should be ‘…than you and I’ll ever be able to cough up.’
I know a bit, but that’s only the tip of the iceberg.
Republicans and Democrats traded more blame Sunday for the lack of progress to finance the agency’s operations, even as the new March 6 deadline approaches. Neither party budged from its stance on whether fund
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-01/threat-to-vacate-boehner-s-post-shows-depth-of-gop-anger
greece 10-yr “note” aka bond yield.
remember each country in euro still has their own cb issue the country’s debt and the serially-identified printed euro notes!
u can look at other timespans click on buttons above chart.
well down from the 2012 30% level, but rising now since last autumn.
supposedly greece is down to 2-4 weeks cash.
ifff putin is awake, he will wait till there’s a 4closed sign on the parthenon, then spring his pipeline deal.
such a deal it will be!
http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/GGGB10YR:IND/chart
glad after glitch this am, website is up and running, Saker are you ok, seems a bit quiet from you recently..don’t forget to donate good people…
presumably, but only if Saker thinks it worthwhile, he could assess who turned up for the funeral (seemed to me to be a whole load of “hasbeens” the little I saw)with their wimpish tales of a “hero”-but maybe it would be more interesting who did not turn up( usually an assassin shoots from the front in films so being shot from behind they knew exactly how he was being marked by what ever means)-I might re-read those fortruss articles re Boris was disposed of because his usefulness as a mole within the liberal movement was compromised or no longer worthwhile…but gotta say, I’m amazed that so many-even here- think or believe Moscow or the Russian state still has, or they wish still to have actions that are severely detrimental to persons if you see what I mean…….just how much is true, or better not revealed, or better the mystery remains? Am I being too naive?
Some notes:
5 Duma reps are challenging legality of VP’s no food from EU policy.Columnists?
Kiev sabateurs arrested in Rostov on Don.
Kiev must pay pensions, salaries to LPR/DPr a court has a=judged in Donbass presumably..
VR accuses 75 Crimean members of parliament of treason. Kiev doesn’t like facebook having offices in Moscow as it seems a right sector associate page has been blocked-apparently for showing a right sector knife gift saying “stick the gizzards of moscovites”….
it appears Normandy Four on March 6th will discuss peacekeepers .but final approval only by DNR/LPR these state-who also state ceasefire is continually being broken and AFU seems determined to keep up action at the usual places ..appeals from M and H to release Savchenko -now a Hero of Ukraine-again.
VR makes a law if you criticise the government you can be imprisoned…it is claimed that AFU camouflages military equipment to avoid sending back, only taking away broken/damaged stuff.
Not sure if this has been posted elsewhere but it is a plausibly accurate and very detailed anaysis of the hit on Nemstov. You can check that the hitman absolutely had to be on the stairs up to the bridge on Google Streetview and the likely waiting area of the pick-up car.
Though likely, it is not essential that the ‘girlfriend’ was involved but I have very high suspicions of the complicity of the snowplow truck driver given how it speeds up/slows down to stop in just the right spot by the top of the stairs that are out of view in the TV centre traffic video camera footage.
I could add some permutations to all this but the only way this was a Kremlin hit is if Putin has inside enemies or if it was a double false-flag to frame Poroshenko/Kiev. The last scenario would have to play out shortly or be discarded as plausible.
https://willyloman.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/boris-nemtsov-shooting-this-is-how-they-did-it/
SanctuaryOne
From your link:
A security system like the KGB would be expected to follow someone they wanted to hit via cell phone tracking or what not and then improvise the murder. At least, that is, in this Pollyanna imagining of how state power works. In reality they would simply break into his home while he was having dinner with Anna elsewhere and spike his prune juice with the radionuclide polonium-210 (210Po)
Boris Nemtsov was lured into an ambush and he could only have been brought there by one person: Anna Duritskaya.
KGB? Polonium? Come on. :D
Creighton is a horse’s arse. The snow plow driver has been interviewed by the media, the idea he’s an assassin is ludicrous. Nemtsov wasn’t lead to the bridge by his girlfriend, the bridge was on the logical route home to his apartment. Just about everything in that spiel is distorted and twisted in his obvious effort to blame the Russians. Creighton lost his credibility with me when he smeared Cartalucci in a very sloppy effort to reinforce Israeli-American propaganda about Thailand. The only question I have about Creighton is whether he’s working for the Israelis or the Americans.
I agree about the ‘luring’ bit; it was on the way back to the apartment from the Gom restaurant which is why I mentioned that she was not essential to the operation. The only innocent explanation for the snow truck slowing down and speeding up so as to be exactly at the staircase, other than pure coincidence, is that he was ogling the ‘model’. If we assume that Nemstov was actually killed and the video is not fake then the person running back and hopping in to the car that drives up is likely to be one of, if not the, killer(s). The snow truck driver isn’t the killer as he is on the wrong side(unless RHD) and driving and unless there was a passenger who fired from the window -ballistic angle autopsy would disprove this- then the hit was made by someone coming up the stairs. Either that or they had an invisibility cloak as nobody else is on the bridge and these were not sniper bullets but came from a 9mm Marakov pistol.
Unless the truck was brushing the street, why was it even there? There had been no snow for weeks, nor was there any snow on the street.
I am not interested in ad hominems, or the illogical notion that one disagreement invalidates all the arguments made; I am only interested in piecing together the known information, gathering suggestions from the mass of theories and pondering possible scenarios. Who makes them is largely irrelevant. Have a look at Google streetview of the bridge, view the staircase and watch the timing; his timeline and the players fit, so it is a plausible scenario without the speculation about the players.
There are a number of pieces absent or that don’t fit particularly well right now but I seriously doubt that this was the work of one person.
Of course, we don’t know yet what actually happened, but the outline given in this link appears highly plausible. Well put together.
However … some loose ends.
For instance, why has the FSB allowed the prostitute to stay in a friend’s apartment under private protection (if true!) – rather than under FSB (“protective” secret) custody? By all logic, she should presently be the center of intense investigation! (BTW, aren’t there now reliable “gentle” methods to extract the truth? One should expect far better pharmaceuticals than scopolamine in this day and age. And it would be unconscionable that these guys are really so stupid to let her “return to Kiev as soon as possible”…)
Similar questions for the utility vehicle driver.
Hm, wait n’ see…
And pray tell why was the model wearing a white coat. One could say this removes her from suspicion because the cameras could easily see her at night — or she could have worn white to be easily recognizable to the assailants at night.
The American troops are a bit late to deal with E Ukraine.
Actually they are late for what I reckon their real purpose is – to support the government in the coming fights with the private armies.
ISIS-Ra-El
http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/15403
If ISIS is what our corporate news pretends that it is—a fanatical Muslim extremist group that sprang suddenly from the desert sands much like Jack’s bean stalk—one blindingly obvious question is, why does it not attack Israel or Israeli interests? Isn’t that what one would expect from such a cast of characters? But it has not done so, undoubtedly because Israel is an important covert benefactor and supplier.
We might equally ask why ISIS has not attacked Saudi Arabia or its interests,
This summer, during Nutty-yahoo’s latest Blitzkrieg on Ghaza, ISIS didn’t even release a public statement in support of the Palestinians, as far as I’m aware. I think it’s getting pretty obvious that these so-called ‘Moslem’ jihadists are really just a bunch of dupe-groups run by Washington/Tel Aviv/Riyadh.
Now I understand why stupid Klitcchko became mayor of Kiev – in the Ukraine it is more important for a politician to know how to box than it is to know how to govern:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V91SsAel2Y
Well, in his defence, I have to say that being a boxer/sportsman doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with stupidity. He has a Phd in philosophy.
OTOH, a Phd is no proof of intelligence – you wouldn’t believe the stuff that’s on the shelves in Harvard.
And FINALLY, this being the Ukraine, there is a strong chance he bought it.
a big Uke bank collapsed today:
Delta Bank, Ukraine’s fourth largest bank by assets, has been declared insolvent by the National Bank of Ukraine. Delta Bank is the biggest bank to fail since the pro-EU revolution in February 2014 and the ensuing military and economic pressure from Russia. The NBU categorises Delta Bank as of systemic importance, as it holds nearly 6% of retail deposits.
Savchenko female sniper, individual who guided artillery fire onto civilians in Donbass, and suspected killer of Russian journalists, is ending her half-hearted “hunger strike”, according to her lawyer.
Give her what the people stuck in basement shelters are eating in Donetsk.
Also tortured a priest
She has to somehow explain why she did not die.
This is picture from February 10, when she’s supposedly not eaten a thing for 75 days.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/02/12/nadiya-savchenko-the-prisoner-at-the-center-of-ukraines-cease-fire-deal/
In 1981 IRA hunger strikers died in 46 to 73 days. A woman lost in wilderness in Canada lost 30 lbs weight in 49 days of only eating some trail mix and candy. Where is Nadia’s weight loss???? she should be skin and bones and unable to stand up unaided. Her lawyer has said she does drink fluids and accepts whatever treatments the doctors think she needs.
Of course, what is “hunger strike” ?? famous Indian protester Sharmil Irom lasted 14 years on an alleged hunger strike…but she was fed through a nasal tube the whole time.
The Clash
Ivan Meets GI Joe
Sandinista 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d__vkEyFh2M
Now it was G. I. Joe’s turn to blow
He turned it on, cool and slow
He tried a pay phone call to the Pentagon
A radar scan, a leviathan
He wiped the Earth clean as a plate
What does it take to make a Ruskie break?
But the crowd are bored and off they go over the road to watch China go
SanctuaryOne
Thanks for that link explaining the hit on Nemstov. I agree it is well done and very plausible. I do think the utility vehicle was involved, and I agree the hitman had to be waiting on the stairs (unless he was actually riding somewhere in the truck). There is no way they could have planned this unless they knew or expected the couple to be walking across the bridge.
https://willyloman.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/boris-nemtsov-shooting-this-is-how-they-did-it/
Although possible, the reason I don’t think he was in the truck is that it would be an unnecessary distraction to have somebody jump down out of the truck or hiding ebhind the cab. Any further up the bridge and the hitman would have had to follow close behind and any further down the other side and the framing of St.Basil’s and the Kremlin -that is so important for western MSM imaging- is likely lost by curvature.
A frontal hit would be easier but would require far more difficult timing and greater likelihood of hitman identification. I wonder also at the lack of trafiic, both pedestrian and vehicular, and wonder if some distraction and manipulation of traffic lights was involved. This could be just one of many attempts and the location and the lack of any useful identification were so spectacularly successful just by chance but somehow I lean away from that coincidence.
The meme has done its propaganda damage and now that Nemstov has been laid to rest, western readers who had no idea who he was -and still don’t due to media distortions- will soon forget him.
The powerful image of the Kremlin and the body though will have been burned in to the subconscious to both confirm and augment all the prior vilification of Putin and Russia.
I’d love to read The Saker’s comments on this analysis. There’s obviously a lot more going on behind the scenes here that we don’t know.
The truck was there to hide the camera view of the hit. RIP.
Well … it might have not been the Ukie prostitute who rubbed the creep out – but the president of Cyprus himself :-)
Check the cheerful news: “US Ambassador to Cyprus in Hot Water after Linking Cyprus President to Nemtsov Murder”, http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/03/03/4063
And here is the ambassador’s tweet that got him fired:
“John M. Koenig ✔ @AmbJohnKoenig
What do people in #Cyprus think about the week in Russia as seen from here? Anastasiades visit and statements, #Nemtsov assassination?
1:57 AM – 1 Mar 2015
26 Retweets 24 favorites”
:-)
Well, really, that is unacceptable insubordination! Intolerable! Preposterous!
The US Ambassador should know better than to stray off message. Putin did it, everybody knows that and it’s obvious, right?
Yes, you are absolutely right :-! But to cheer you up – Koenig eventually did come to his senses and corrected himself, about an hour later, when he twitted:
“John M. Koenig ✔ @AmbJohnKoenig
@AHadjikyriacos I wouldn’t suggest Anastasiades is linked to Nemtsov assassination. Be real. But Putin could be.
3:11 AM – 1 Mar 2015
4 Retweets 1 favorite”
However, in spite of that, he was still fired… Probably was too late…
:-) :-) :-)
(It’s on that site http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/03/03/4063 )
Poetic justice? Sputnik reports:
The commander of the “Azov” volunteer battalion and his driver crashed to their death in an off-road car retreating from the village of Shirokyne in the Donetsk Region of East Ukraine.
The car smashed into a monument built in the memory of the heroes of World War II. The memorial survived the hit and did not fall, but the two Ukrainian national security agents died on the spot.
On the last day before the armistice on February 14, the car crashed into a memorial to the heroes of World War II. Self-defense fighters considered the accident very symbolic.
I did read elsewheres there are signs of bullet holes etc,and maybe it was shot up before then deliberately placed by monument to make asymbolic point
nutty update.
gives 10 points, but no mention of any wile e. coyote storyboards this time.
http://sputniknews.com/us/20150303/1019017704.html
in other completely unrelated news (honest, it’s not an allegory for anything), we see this today!:
telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/wildlife/11447031/Woodpecker-and-weasel-photographer-I-didnt-realise-images-were-so-special-until-I-got-home.html
OT
Netanyahu and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Iran
Great title. The Russians are giving the Netanyahu freak the same sort of deserved disrespect they gave Hillary Clinton. While Netanyahu is just an Israeli politician, much like Obama, who is likely to lose his next election. In my opinion, the Russian jibing is not intended for just him. I’ve been noticing a slow change in Russian government attitude to Israel over the last few months. Basically a cold spell, like after the Georgian war, but this time colder more longer lasting.
A strategy could be to sucker the suckers into a situation they cannot escape from….and must honour or reveal themselves to be idiots….a little like minsk?
sorry-that was meant to be a reply to commentator above that Putin has done nothing……
I wonder what the tally is of identically outfitted brand spanking new toyota pickups?
Mar 03, 2015 | by Richard Sisk
U.S. Central Command’s Gen. Lloyd Austin told Congress Tuesday that more than 8,500 ISIS fighters had been killed in the U.S. campaign in Iraq and Syria.
As a result of U.S. and coalition airstrikes, and recent gains by Iraqi and Kurdish forces, ISIS “has assumed a defensive crouch” in Iraq.
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/03/03/us-commander-says-coalition-has-killed-8500-isis-fighters.html?comp=700001075741&rank=1
Something always seems rather fake about ISIS. All the images about them are very theatrical. They always appear parading, walking with those ridiculous black flags and outfits. or else riding Toyota pickup trucks, always with the black flags. It’s always a show, a parade. Look how spooky and evil we are. Even the images of mass murders seemed kind of staged. And of course those high profile beheadings were totally rididiculous. Are there images of them in actual combat anywhere? I think most of ISIS is just a psyop.
ISIS is a very well trained US force. Their tactics incorporate some well placed assaults which would only work using fanatics. It is the most effective military force on the planet right now. So a small force like that can take on far larger ones and cause enormous damages. Although Palestinians and others like the Tamil tigers used to be fanatics, they did not have a regular military tactical operations support so they could only create terror but no advance.
That’s why it is clear this is a part of the US military, even if they are not directly connected or controlled. They have the training, the will power and the resources to mount very devastating assaults and take fortified positions defended by superior forces.
Read up on their tactics in Syria which are more easily available than their tactics in Iraq. Syria is still devising counter measures which seems to keep on changing. But Hezbollah’s experience in dealing with a far superior organized force with devastating firepower and how to survive in such an environment is helping the Syrians in dealing with it. It is like the US using all their resources in a very small force against inexperienced defenders. The US deals with such things with disproportional force which requires unlimited money and resources and even then they have problems. Imagine others with far less resources dealing with such attacks.
I am wondering if some of the German units like deaths hand used similar less effective tactics. Willing to die is not an effective tactic on the battle field. Your death should be an advantage to the plan. I read they did a few attacks like that which were not effective against the soviets which just plugged the holes as soon as they were made. You also need reserves to take advantage of the opportunities.
I had a Facebook friend request from a Turk who claims currently to have political asylum in Greece. I friended him before he mentioned this.
From what I can gather – though I don’t really have much communication with him – he is quite Russian-oriented, though also North Korea-enthusiastic. He seems to be a hard-line socialist, which might explain his asylum in Greece, but it’s not certain. He is definitely hostile to the US and corporate-hegemony over the earth.
He may be simply an idealistic student who got in over his head, politics-wise or he could be more significant. Or perhaps, this being Facebook after all, none of these things.
His English is pretty good, though clearly not his first language. He follows Global Research enthusiastically.
I am in two minds about refering him to The Saker. He could provide an illumination or he could be a total bullsh***r – this is the net . But, if he really has been give Greek asylum, he could bring another dimension to these discussions.
I am personally wary of getting involved with people over the net: they have to be part of a community whose values I share. I would have no problems communication-wise with any of the regulars here, for example, not even Bot Tak – even if he sounds like ‘God-hates-fags’ Fred Phelps on a good day. ( I am indifferent myself: my issues are to do with the connection political gays have to surrogacy/eugenics.)
I have no community context to guage this guy.
I have only sent one hello message, and haven’t got into any discussions on line with him, as I have with my – very sweet and wonderful – Ukrainian Jewish friend, though raised Ukrainian Orthodox.
So The Saker, when you have time – or indeed, anyone else – what should I do ? Ignore or refer?
The net was not always like this. I think it has been corrupted by those who find it easier to take advantage of others than other avenues and by the governments. So it is difficult to find people even in a group whom you can trust. People keep up acting for years. Unlike in real life where it is hard to keep up a pretense in front of you for any length of time.
So I don’t think you should be the judge. Since even if he is not as you think he is, we get along with a vast diversity of people with all different kind of beliefs. The problem only comes up when someone try’s to impose their will on others by force as in just drowning out your voice and getting you to accept their version of things.
I have experience when the net was not a net in the beginning and I made friends from lots of places and it allowed me the chance to get to know different people I would never have known otherwise. That is how one goes from being naïve to being experienced. if nothing else the travels make you see a lot of sites you would not get the chance to otherwise.
What the Hades happens if some of the personnel of these six companies of American military Nazi collaborators being sent to Kiev get nicked, either 3 or 200’s, in the next go round? Is this the provocation the US is looking for? I have a bad feeling about all these foreign helpers funneling into western Ukraine in abeyance of M2A. Its as if the Kiev junta doesn’t even exist, let alone the citizenry of Ukraine, as far as these foreign interests are concerned. Careful the Americans are getting downright snarly.
Yes the brazen arrogance is breathtaking. Even to the fracking equipment that had been inserted into the contested war zone in eastern Ukraine!
BORIS NEMTSOV – A CLUE THAT HE DIDN’T BELIEVE HE WAS AT RISK OF ASSASSINATION, OR OF CATCHING HIS DEATH OF COLD
With the comment moderation lag time, this probably has been seen and posted, but just in case.
I just saw the saker patch button on the podcast.. I think selling those patches to people who donate or for an amount would get a lot of sales to support the site. Kind of like selling tshirts. I know I have bought tshirts and hats to show support for a cause. it is a lot more attractive than just donating as it shows “I did something” and I also get the feeling “I did something”. It was not like donating money to green peace and not knowing anything at all. Yea I supported their activities but when the republican party always sent us little tid bits when we sent in donations I felt I was doing more for the party than for greenpeace.
This site is way to slow. Perhaps a beefier server is needed for the hosting?
Saker, please enable HTTPS for the safety and privacy of your readers.