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Important bit of information here:
“The extremist group “Right Sector” involved in a punitive operation of the Kiev authorities against Donbass is leaving their positions at the demarcation line, DPR Defense Ministry reported yesterday. Therefore, the number of ceasefire violations over the past 24 hours has decreased.”
Right — so let’s send threats and insults to them both, signed as the other, and encourage them to fight each other. D&C! (divide and conquer) isn’t just for empires, maybe.
http://russia-insider.com/en/headline-year-kiev-forced-fight-its-own-fascist-militias/ri8699
Link self-explanatory.
No, not just a smugglers turf-war.
“Right Sector cop killin’ sprees should not surprise anyone. Wise men and women haven been warning about it since March, 2014.”
I was predicting it from about then, but I’m more of a wise ass than wise man — it was pretty obvious: when you put a bunch of orcs together with some free time they fight (Basic Tolkien plot line). There are likely other subdivisions who will battle each other at a drop of a hat as the situation deteriorates, just as in the Middle East. Wait until they turn on NATO and CIA people…
So it appears the Iran nuclear deal has been made.I’m not sure the Iranians realize that the “Empire” is a “legalistic” Empire.They always fix their agreements with legal loopholes.That way they can spin their agreements with “outs” for themselves.Here is I believe, one of the “outs” for the Empire in this agreement:
“Proliferation-related sanctions will be lifted by the EU and the US eight years after the adoption of the agreement or when the IAEA greenlights it. The wordings for America’s actions to lift the restrictions apparently provides for eventual legal battles of the current and future administrations against legislators and individual state authorities to scrap the sanctions.”
http://rt.com/news/273553-iran-nuclear-deal-highlights/
I am unsure whether US/British propaganda has increased in intensity but this article is dripping with sensationalistic spin based on nothing but innuendo and 1950 era Russian long-range turboprops. These in international airspace and a size and shape of which that would show up on radar screens like a sore thumb.
Is this a wind-up for manufactured consent for more war or just more of the same?
Military provocations prove Putin is playing with fire
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/10/opinions/ghitis-putin-playing-with-fire/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fedition_europe+%28RSS%3A+CNNi+-+Europe%29&ref=yfp
How do you like this line:
“…while Obama knows that staging American weapons near Russia plays into Putin’s narrative, failing to do so would leave allies vulnerable in the face of a regime that has proven it is quite prepared to take military action to advance its territorial, strategic and political ambitions.”
Any examples of these ‘ambitions’ ? Crimea doesn’t quite cut it as 96% of the population voted to return to Russia. That inconvenient democracy thing, you know?
The Brit video -that followed the CNN one embedded at the time in the article- has discovered the video ” Crimea: The way home” and managed to extract Putin’s comment out of context about returning Crimea to Russia. “It was planned all along” he breathlessly exclaims.
“Military provocations prove Putin is playing with fire”
I would say that needs to be turned on its head.The West is playing with fire.And may soon get burned by it.The big question is if it needs to be by nuclear fire or not.
Yes, the lies and hypocrisy here are as thick as they come. What I find fascinating in a disturbing way is how specious such writing is if you think no deeper than the headline. None of it withstands the slightest analysis but people are now dulled and conditioned by the echo-chambered talking points and addictive (for some) ‘news’ broadcasts. ‘News’ AKA propaganda memes.
When corporations in bed with government (or the other way round) control the airwaves how can anything combat it?
One might try the Capt. Kirk approach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcC1f1jqCPI
or the Chief Engineer Scott approach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqgAT34ZekY
I’m afraid that research indicates that trying to argue the facts with those already convinced of nonsense brings up their defenses and they walk away believing it even more strongly. That leaves us with the tactics above, which probably won’t although perhaps makes one feel better, or Lakoff’s style by not repeating their memes and phrasing, or using the prolonged and carefully conducted dialog as in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDUPQuv6VFE
Iraqi vet interviews people coming out of American Sniper movie
Yet, it is difficult. One possibility is discussion with a ‘true believer’ for the benefit of those watching or listening in, which does not directly raise defenses since they are not be challenged directly (can do this trolls sometimes). Best is to get the real information out as early as possible before people commit to an opinion (which they want to defend since they don’t want to be wrong about anything). Or you can use the ‘They just got caught lying again — wouldn’t you know it’? — and laugh cynically. Or ‘I just talked to a guy who told me…’ — guy with ‘inside information’. It’s like the different sales techniques, and you can read up by searching the web on ‘propaganda’ or ‘salesmanship’.
Whatever it is, you have to work at it, and it’s a nuisance, and realize you don’t have 1/2 billion in funding from the imperialist behind you, so it’s by word of mouth.
Stikk as someone (I heard Ben Franklin, for one) said, a lie gets half way around the world while the truth is putting its pants on, so it’s a long term project.
I vote for the Scott approach.I’ve always considered that one, the better one for handling bullies.
I’m much more inclined towards this approach (though Star Trek IV is a class film and a favourite):
Knight & Day – Extended clip
with me without me
Those were all CIA agents that got…er, whose career was terminated early. Any film that takes out 20+ CIA freaks at the start is крута in my book. Especially if done with a bit of artistic class. ;D
Downloading the whole thing, Looks like a fun movie if you ignore the plot — if it has one. Do movies have plots any more? Hell — do wars and foreign policy have plots any more — hard to find them.
I like the classic Kung Fu movies too — no plot necessary.. All about the same, looks like.
Blue
Yeah, the plot is kinda silly, but it’s a lot of fun with some good dialog, reminiscent of the “Thin Man” series, something long lost out of Hollywood. Check out the extended/directors cut, by far much better.
Is there any point when even educated people are like the ‘Brawndo’ brainwashed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vw2CrY9Igs
(Thanks to whoever first posted this link here -it is priceless, especially the hand gestures whenever ‘electrolytes’ are mentioned)
Dear Blue, thank you very much for having linked Adam Kokesh’s interviews with “American Sniper” moviegoers. It’s a true pleasure for me to be drenched once again in 27 minutes of eye pop, jaw drop disconnect, blank minds & stares by the interviewees, etc. The link will be shared and categorized in my “Celebrity & Stupidity” file. :-)
I no longer recall what year I’d ceased to attend any current cinema; but the reason was after long absence, whatever I’d seen with a friend delivered mild shock & awe in only 5-10 minutes of pre-movie recruitment ads for evermore overseas “heroism.” It is so difficult to imagine people cannot differentiate between “defend” or “aggress.” If one is a soldier on US soil with intent to defend, fine. If one is somewhere beyond US territory, then the appropriate word is “aggress” or “occupy.”
Lifelong US resident, may I say my own best friends & family very rarely (if ever?) “defended” me in any situation… while I would rush in where angels should fear to tread on the street between one and another stranger, engaged in some abusive public scene. I don’t know how anyone stifles that immediate urge; but of course, this had nothing to do with war. Only women & children or male-on-male, once in a great while.
After decades of USA’s “war on” drugs, poverty, etc. produce nothing but more drugs and poverty… hmmm. Along came the endless “global war on terror” that any sane person knows is a war OF, not against… and I just can’t imagine the lack of US people’s curiosity after 14 years of utter and ongoing devastation in the variety of ways, even in their “homeland.”
IMHO Russia would do better to exercise the TU-95’s and Tu-160’s at what they are best at, their intended wartime purpose: as air-mobile cruise-missile launchers, rather than wasting valuable flight hours cruising around Nato borders, even though they are in international air space. This would involve frequent deployment to arctic air bases, plus practice flights over the arctic and back, with arial refueling as necessary, with total flight distances comparable to those on actual missions, but the latter half back toward Russia, with simulated launches at the end (maybe occasional real launches into impact areas). Their practice tracks should keep them well outside of the range any Nato interceptors. The purpose would be two-fold: First to practice what they’d do in wartime, since you can only do well what you practice realistically. Secondly, to show Nato what it would face, actual mobile cruise-missile launchers primed and ready to go, not requiring any abrogation of the INF treaty.
What everyone needs to understand is that Right Sector are fully CIA/Mossad controlled. They are no different to ISIS in that they act as a guerrilla army and front for western intelligence/special forces that can be deployed anywhere inside the target country to create total chaos. The US governments passing of a bill banning aid to neo-nazi groups in Ukraine is very telling. This not only gives them plausible deniability but also undoubtably means that pretty soon they are going to be used in operations that will cause considerable outrage and further carnage.
They can be used as cannon fodder in the East, can scare the non-liberated oblasts of Ukraine into submission and can always be used by the US to exert pressure on Poroshenko to do as he is told. If they are being pulled back from the front in the East, it isn’t because peace is about to break out. I suspect economic meltdown is about to happen pretty soon so they will either be deployed in other regions of historic Novorussia to prevent them joining the East, or deployed in Kiev to bring Porky down.
Nulands plan for Ukraine is up the sh*tter, but then the US will just do what they always do when Plan A didn’t (actually never) work – burn the place down.
why cannot nuland and tony blair types be taken out to relieve the world of such burden?
A good question!
southfront fired the Microsoft navigator.
thanks so much
What’s going on inside the DNR? First, there are two murder attempts, one on the life of Zakharchenko’s secretary : http://southfront.org/car-of-the-secretary-of-dpr-head-zakharchenko-exploded-in-donetsk, the other on politician Yuri Sivokonenko: http://ria.ru/world/20150714/1128438581.html
Colonel Cassad has some information in his blog about both attacks, possible arrests of security forces and the abolition of Ministry of Defence. I don’t speak Russian and I rely on machine translators but I honestly can’t make heads or tails of it. Were the arrests and abolition attempts or is it a fait accompli?
Plus, statements by Limonov on the replacement of Zakharchenko by Khodakovsky: http://rusnext.ru/recent_opinions/1436829208. I really don’t know if this Limonov is reliable but his statements are all over the place.
I hope Saker or some other poster here, more knowledgeable than me, can comment on these situations. Are they related? Is this a sign of internecine conflict? Should they be dismissed as hoaxes or disinformation?
Security (military intelligence HQ rather) was quickly deblocked.
It is said that it was decided to have MoD in DPR abolished and have peoples militia only– like in LPR. So, militia, not army,– but there is not a great deal of difference between the two in practice. (there was no official announcement).
DPR blamed explosions in Donetsk on Ukrainian recon groups;– and that those responsible will be punished.
There is also increased shelling by Ukraine.
Minsk meetings (also a man pictured here http://www.rosbalt.ru/ukraina/2015/07/14/1418600.html said to be visiting) are some of the external circumstances.
Cassad ends up saying that he is in the waiting mode regarding those recent events.
Mike 101, the man in the picture is Surkov. The link says that “he is in Donetsk to remove Zakharchenko as head of DNR to be replaced by Khodakovsky, Pushilin or Bezler (?!)” according to “an informed source” referred by 62.ua, and it’s more or less what I read on the Limonov piece I mentioned above. It doesn’t make any sense to me that an elected head of state can so easily be removed by somebody from another country, but then, what do I know…Guess we’ll have to wait for further clarification.
Surkov, Putin’s go-for who everyone blames for every change. He carries orders from Putin directly with no filter. They also use him to deal with Oligarchs.
The two republics have only once joined. Debaltcevo. So having a united Defense chief meant not much. Lugansk is always problematic. Ghost brigade, Cossocks, lots of criminals, and bad instances all through the war. Devil once was an issue there, if I recall correctly. The leaders have always been loners with their own way. Donetsk is more cohesive with a better vertical structure. Not that they don’t have some problems too.
Pushilin denied both Zakharchenko replacement and MoD being disbanded
http://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/2122981
Direct from the frontline:
https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=2&hl=en&nv=1&rurl=translate.google.com&u=http://news-front.info/2015/07/15/svodki-novorossii-ot-varyaga-poslednie-novosti-dnr-18/&usg=ALkJrhhY6y_QmVU2Y5LspxkptPz_3iBc3Q
Given the Right Sector upsurge in the West (first Kiev, now Lyvov) and the battalions leaving the ‘ATO’, it looks like an attempt to deflect attention.
Certainly there is no popular basis for replacing Zahk.
Saker, your input please, from today:
‘Posted by political observer:” A series of incidents and significant events have occurred in the absence of DNR head of the republic Alexander Zakharchenko, which is currently currently resides on a business trip in Moscow. Today, the DNR to get on the liquidation of the Ministry of Defense of the DNI and the reorganization of power and military structures of the Corps of the People’s Militia DNI – similar device in the LC. From well-informed source administration DNI – the decision on liquidation and reorganization was accepted three weeks ago. According to several sources today in Rostov-on-Don, was arrested the deputy minister of taxes and fees DNI Mikhailov”‘.
South Front: OK…now which right sektor forces, how many? where? will take your word for it but doesn’t seem like any significant change in the back and forth exchanges.
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When are they going to quit playing defense? This waiting game, even if they are abiding by Minsk, is going to cost them. Maybe they should bring back Strelkov. A very smart man that understood the use of the Fifth Column that is being used to disrupt the DPR and sow the seeds of discord. They should free Ukraine from the fascists in Kiev and then allow honest elections and a return to constitutional law to sort it out. If they stay in this defensive posture, they will be picked apart and perpetual war(which is the goal of the west)will be achieved.
Interesting times in Banderastan.It seems the RS has taken control in Lvov.While the peoples mood in Kiev? This article explains that:
“Kiev: Emptiness, Fear, and Hatred”
Kiev is engulfed by hatred and paralyzed with fear. Both the Kiev romantics who in a parental fashion fed the Maidanites borshch and dumplings during the state coup, as well as those who kept a safe distance from the Kreshchatik, are living in fear.
The city is flooded with weapons, criminals, murderers, and sociopaths of all stripes who returned from the so-called “anti-terror operation” and who hate anyone who can still afford a cup of coffee in a restaurant.
Supernaturally patriotic, they drink beer on childrens’ playgrounds and chide Kievans for being lazy and city-centric. In their view, if they don’t want to kill and die on Donbass steppes, they have a duty to plant gardens, go to church as a family three times a week, and their apartments should be festooned with patriotic embroidery. If you don’t agree, you are an enemy of Ukraine who deserves to be punished.
City MVD chief Aleksandr Tereshchuk already noted the growing crime statistics: “There are more crimes, especially robberies. Nearly all crimes are conducted by armed criminals.”
Kiev psychochologist-criminologist Yuriy Irkhin said that the level of crime in the city will continue to grow. Its cause are socio-economic problems: lay-offs, food and utility price hikes.
“Apartments used to be cased before break-ins, but now there are many burglaries in which the assailants know nothing about the apartment, or even whether it is occupied at the time. Their mindset is: if the occupants are in, we’ll knock them unconscious or kill them,” Irkhin said.
His predictions are not encouraging: “More people will enter the path of crime. People who lost work or whose business failed. Many ordinary citizens will engage in burglaries and thievery simply to survive.” Every day someone in Kiev is murdered, kidnapped, robbed.
“Witnesses indicate that around 2200 hours on July 7, 2015 two young people were walking along the Victory Prospect between a metro station and their home. They carried two bags with laptops. Near the metro stop Beresteyskaya, an unknown individual jumped out of the Nivka park and tried to steal one of the bags,” states one of Kiev crime reports.
“The 24 year old victim managed to push the assailant aside. Then the assailant displayed an item similar to a pistol, fired a few shots in the direction of the two young people, then ran back to the park.” This is daily Kiev routine.
Since the fall, the rise in Kiev crime was blamed on Donbass refugees fleeting the war. But lately it became too difficult to conceal that the murders and burglaries are being perpetrated by people from Western Ukraine and, as Poroshenko once deigned to describe the UAF, the “eternal knights” who kill and torture civilians and who are flooding the Kiev megapolis.
It would be difficult to accuse Lugansk Region governor Gennadiy Moskal, who said that “all the normal people already left Lugansk, and those who don’t want to leave might as well drink their own urine”, of empathy, but even he made numerous requests of Ukraine’s government to better control their “knights” since they are drowning the region in blood and the Kiev authorities in shame.
Nearly all the weapons from ATO zone are being distributed around the entire country, but most of it finds its way to the capital. Weapons and explosives are even being sent by mail.
Kievans who a year and a half ago welcomed the Maidan, are only now becoming aware of the unfodlding nightmare for which many of them bear responsibility. No matter how many times you beat your chest with a patriotic fist or sing Ukraine’s anthem or recite Shevchenko, nationalists won’t take that into consideration when they decide to execute the next Oles Buzina or to blow up a car with Donetsk plates. And an embroidered shirt, even one blessed by Father Filaret, won’t protect you from a stray bullet or from fragments.
Because what can one do, when some Tarnopol “patriot” or “hero” has gotten a liking for a nice foreign car belonging to a naive member of Kiev intelligentsia!
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/07/kiev-emptiness-fear-and-hatred.html
Trouble in Kharkov too:
http://www.online-translator.com/url/widetranslation.aspx?pName=mobileapps&url=http://video.vesti-ukr.com/harkov/4661-v-harkove-jevakuirujut-ljudej-iz-za-ugrozy-vzryvov&template=General&direction=re&prmtlang=en
I knew those “cookies” passed out at maidan would set a bad example.But I’m surprised at how soon it did:
“Sorry, kid, but it’s necessary.” The details of taking a child hostage by the “Right sector”
A father talked about how his son was left bound in the woods
The correspondent of the newspaper “Vesti” talked with the boy and his father, who was taken hostage by the fighters of the “Right sector”. Vova Golovachko is 11 years old.
His father Vladimir Golovachko Sr. says that the day after the shooting in Mukachevo, the son was approached by a man with a short haircut on the street in their village on Bobovishe.
“He asked my son to show him the shortest way out of the village. For that he really gave him a chocolate bar and cookies. Son led him out. On the outskirts of the village they saw the police, who were already blocking the way out. Then the man took out a grenade with one hand, and with the other took Vova and shouted that the police get out of the way.
The police retreated to a distance, and he took Vova with him to the woods. Then the son was really terrified, of course. In the woods they were met by a second man. They tied Vova’s feet, tied the rope to a tree and said that someone will come for him soon. In parting, they said: sorry, kid, but we have to do this. And disappeared into the woods,” – said the boy’s father.
Earlier, the “Right Sector” made a statement that no one was taken hostage – “the kid was showing them the way out into the woods”.
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/07/grenades-and-cookies-right-sector.html
The best article yet on Putin/Surkov strategy:
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/donbass-and-second-punic-war/ri8600
Finland smartening up:
http://novorossia.today/putin-russia-wants-to-maintain-friendly-ties-with-finland/
Most tellingly, the communication was initiated by the Finns.
Also, Transdinistrian resolution initiative by OSCE (presided over by Serb ambassador) includes reps from RF.
Wonder what’s happening with that ‘territorial integrity’ BS from Porky which the OSCE supported, despite being in violation of Minsk?