However, the OSCE getting their cameras on the artillery violations using drones is a good.
And the SouthFront folks are trying hard, and I appreciate their effort if not their choice of voice.
There just has to be some filter or device that can modulate the voice into a Russian accent.
I didn’t much care for anglophile who usurped The Voice, but for some reason this guy grates on my nerves. But I agree with Mats that South Front is trying very hard and deserves a lot of appreciation. I look forward to these reports every day, regardless of who’s reading. Still, I wish they would bring back the original. :-(
“The New York Times quoted a military official saying that evidence from the cockpit voice recorder for Germanwings Flight 9525 suggested that the pilot left the cockpit at some point and appeared unable to get back in – pounding on the door in the moments before the crash.” – LAT
Russia – Russia – Russia … I have a theory about that:
When a False Flag must demonize the opponent it is more effective when you can connect the anger and rage that the attack causes, to your ‘Opponent, the evil perpetrator’.
Do not wait untill the emotions and anger have waned.
Therefore: create a narrative that you can broadcast immediately and that points to your opponent.
For example: During 911 it was known within 2 hours that muslims were the perpetrators, ands it was known without any doubt: CNN’s Barbara Olsen phoned her husband from one of the planes, just before she died. Barbara’s husband Ted was US Sollicitor General at that time, so within minutes everyone knew it, from a reliable source.
Reliable? Later it was found out that these calls were technically impossible. During the 2007 Moussaoui trial the FBI confirmed that. In the FBI report it said about the Olson call: “One call attempted. Unconnected. 0 seconds.” See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjImLL4NnwA (starts at minute 3)
I consider this as one of the proofs that it was an inside job.
It must have been a well prepared narrative.
The audacity to use phone calls that were technically impossible then confirms what Karl Rove once allegedly said: ‘I don’t care if you journalists later find out that we lied. By that time we have already changed the reality. And we will keep lying and you will keep finding out when it is too late.’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community
OK —
“The United States has delivered 10 armored vehicles to Ukraine as part of a military support program intended to assist the fight against Russian-backed separatist forces in the country’s east.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Wednesday at a handover ceremony at Kiev’s Borispol airport that more Humvees were to be delivered within 45 days. Poroshenko’s office has said the U.S. is set to eventually provide 230 Humvees.”
So Russia should then match it — 10 now and more later, for Donbas. Tit for tat – how can the US complain? Donbas can use armored vehicles (set one aside for Givi, who now needs a new vehicle!).
“provide Ukraine’s military with $75 million in nonlethal aid” — so good, now Russia can do the same — and no need at all to be discrete about it — announce it to the press, in fact. Donbas could save the money they would have spent and use it for other things — like Kiev will doubtless be doing.
(set one aside for Givi, who now needs a new vehicle!).
No doubt he will be the proud owner of a new Humvee in the next month or so. The Kiev crowd seem a bit careless about were they leave their equipment.
What do you make of this poll http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/poll-only-3-of-russians-think-west-is-meddling-in-ukraine/515245.html ?
One does not know what to make of the headline because lower it says “When asked to describe in a few words what is currently happening in Ukraine, 50 percent said “civil war.” Seventeen percent said “genocide, the killing of civilians, and terror,” while another 17 percent said “anarchy, lawlessness, and banditry.” Meanwhile, 3 percent said fascism, a significant reduction from the 7 percent who responded as such in October. ” so was western meddling another of the options advanced getting 3%. Civil war is clearly an accurate description, but the alternatives here are not mutually exclusive. But if there was a distinct yes/no question ‘is the west meddling’ then 3% yes is surprisingly low.
The Moscow Times is owned by Finland-based Sanoma Corporation. It would depend how the survey was slanted -were the questions loaded, was it sequential such that you could not change previous answers as the slant and spin revealed themselves and were the questions limited in answers possible?
In other words, if only one of ‘Civil war’ or ‘fascism’ were possible most would pick the former as it is the most obvious. The article doesn’t show the survey questions -I wonder if it was created by a russophobe or maybe some US agency?
Load question examples:
“How many times per day do you beat your wife?”
“Have you stopped beating your wife?”
“Are you a happy communist?”
“If you committed a crime and you wish to confess, click ‘Yes’. Otherwise click ‘No'”.
R; That’s MSM speak for ‘pole’ [as they tend to be very ‘penis’ orientated], but as far as I know [have seen/read] most Russians know exactly what’s happening next door.
The Russian government and people have the “patience of Job” with these traitorous 5th column papers like the Moscow (western) Times,and Novaya Gazeta (owned by an anti-Putin oligarch hiding in London).Russia is at war.In no country at war would you tolerate enemy propaganda freely infiltrating your country.Can you imagine the allies allowing pro-nazi propaganda in WW2 to be published in their countries,no you can’t,because the allied governments closed those outlets and imprisoned the propagandists.Russia needs to purge these traitors from its soil.And if they can’t manage the job,stand aside and let the loyal Russian population do the job for them.
A factor here, and I don’t know what the situation is, is if these NGO propagandists and media are believed and taken seriously by the population. If not, it’s OK for the people to know what the US is up to. If the Russian media exposes the lies and spin, and the origin, it could be a good thing for the Russians to hear this stuff, laugh at it, and be warned — — but the truth and anti-propaganda has to be out there and well done.
(A good reason for the Russian government to give everyone a free computer with Saker on it. and print the blog in the papers! -grin-).
OSCE has denied that it came under fire by Kiev forces. It also doesn’t appear that the Russian journalists were with the convoy, but were barricaded in a house outside Shyrokyne, which they report is under constant shelling by UAF. (Links to sources below.) Here is what the OSCE originally reported:
“In order to monitor a planned meeting between the Russian Federation Major-General, Representative of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC) and the Ukrainian Major-General, Head of the Ukrainian side to the JCCC, the SMM went separately to Shyrokyne (“DPR”-controlled, 20km east of Mariupol, 102km south of Donetsk). At 16.30hrs the SMM observed one small arm’s shot fired closely missing one of the JCCC vehicles. The SMM could not ascertain the direction or origin of the fire. Furthermore, the SMM heard heavy machine gun fire from the vicinity of Shyrokyne. Subsequently the entire convoy did not proceed further to Shyrokyne.”
The South Front news videos overall are excellent, and I look forward to them every day. However, their reports of government violations of the ceasefire, while technically correct, are only half the story. Not that anybody can’t figure that out for themselves, but it doesn’t help their credibility. I figured something was amiss with this one, because it didn’t seem likely that Russian journalists would be traveling with OSCE.
As boring and repetitive as OSCE’s reports are, I read them daily. On any given day, they might list more violations by one side or the other, but in general they seem to be pretty evenhanded. Also, although I haven’t been keeping a tally, it seems to me that they report far more instances of being denied access or harassed at government checkpoints than DPR or LPR. Government security routinely asks them to declare the nationalities of the team and show passports. A few days ago they were told that any Russians on the team would be shot. (Of 459 monitoring team members, 26 are Russian.).
OSCE receives extra funding from the US. Can try and dig up the links again if required. The US chipped in an extra $6million to their funding and also put pressure on OSCE. When shelling/whatever occurs in Government held areas they can generally ascertain the fire come from rebel held areas. When they are shelled in rebel held areas they cannot ascertain where it came from.
Back in August when negotiating both government and rebel checkpoints into MH17 crash site, they were shelled while at a rebel check point. They made it clear in their report that they were in constant phone and radio contact with all forces in the area. In that report they did not “ascertain” where the shelling came from. Needless to say it delayed the investigators in getting to the site.
Also the bus attack south of Donetsk. All video evidence contradicted OSCE report.
I used to read all their reports as neutral but hardly bother with them now.
It seems to me that Ukraine is worse economic shape than Greece, just in a lot less time.
And it’s not done yet. Getting worse, I mean.
I feel so very badly for the children and the elderly in East AND West Ukraine. They never contributed to the atrocities in Maidan and the rest that is still a continuation of the chaos. These innocents are the most vulnerable and the ones that will suffer most.
God help them!
“Falkland Islands’ fears for Russia-backed invasion”
In the 1980s, a dying death squad, far right based zionazi quisling regime (aren’t they all) tried to revive its “lost glory” with “a little war”, its mirror image, the fag-hag Thatcher deformity was delighted.
The Argentinians and the UK both have legit claims on the Malvinas/Falklands. There is absolutely no reason the two could not share administration of the islands. The current Argentine government would probably be willing to do this, the queens of Tel Aviv, New York and way down the prison bitch line, London, want it all, as usual. So the logical and practical and adult solution is again blocked by zionazi/nazi oligarch depravity, hubris and extreme greed.
The problem, as usual, is these zionazis/nazis. And as usual, the disgusting things need to meet Mr and Ms rope. In a very public way.
I noticed they have already released portions of the cockpit voice recorder recovered from the German Airbus crash. I have yet to hear anything from the CVR of the plane that went down in the Ukraine.
Where? I saw the pics but no bits of the recording anywhere.
Interesting development, the french government confirms that there was a Rafale jet nearby. Hmmmm. Allegedly started after the pilot didn’t answer the calls – all that within several minutes? The speed of the whole action seems quite unbelievable to me.
just repeating this bit as a lead in-and apologies if have posted elsewhere before but could’nt see it-getting posting blindness like snow blindness maybe:
“MP Sergei Kaplin, a member of the largest faction in the Ukrainian parliament — “Petro Poroshenko Bloc” — suggested creating a special commission in Verkhovna Rada – Ukraine’s Parliament – to investigate the activities of the current Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who was accused of concealing corruption schemes.
The relevant draft resolution was registered on Monday. The official text of the document has not yet been released on the website of the Parliament.”
There is an idea he may be replaced by the current imported Head of Finance
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“March 24. /TASS/. Ukraine’s cabinet of ministers is in for new reshuffles, deputy speaker of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) Andriy Parubiy said on Tuesday.
He said the People’s Front faction was holding unofficial consultations on possible changes in the government. “There were unofficial consultations, various names were pronounced,” he told the Ukrainskaya Pravda. “Obviously, it will be a package decision.”
Moodies regrading Ukr downwards to almost certainly 100% default
March 25. /TASS/. Moody’s agency has downgraded Ukraine’s long-term issuer and government debt rating to Ca from Caa3 with a negative outlook, the agency said in a statement in March 24.
“The key driver of the downgrade is the likelihood of external private creditors incurring substantial losses as a result of the government’s plan to restructure the majority of its outstanding Eurobonds,” Moody’s said.
“Ukraine’s government and external debt will remain at very high levels even if these [economic, budget/debt and monetary] reforms are successful, and despite the lower debt levels achieved by the external debt restructuring,” the agency noted.
Obligations rated Caa3 by Moody’s are judged to be of poor standing and are subject to high credit risk. Rating Ca means obligations are judged to be highly speculative and with likelihood of being near or in default.”
but Ukr carrying on its own delusion
“March 26. /TASS/. Ukraine intends to return to financial markets in 2017 after restructuring its sovereign debt, the country’s Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius told French Les Echos daily in an interview published on Thursday.”
Ukraine must deal with all debt maters equally it can’t decide to treat some more favourably than others, eg Russian bond debt due this year
“March 24. /TASS/. Ukraine’s foreign debts cannot be restructured without restructuring of its $3 billion debt to Russia, since this process is to rest on equal attitude to all creditors, Oleg Ustenko, the executive director of the Blazer International Fund, told TASS on Tuesday.
“We cannot restructure all the debts without Russia, because the first and foremost condition of debt restructuring is equality – all creditors must be granted equal rights. If restructuring is for all it means it is for all,” he said, adding that in such conditions “Ukraine is driven into the corner.”
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“March 25. /TASS/. The dismissal of Ukrainian billionaire tycoon Igor Kolomoisky from the post of Dnipropetrovsk Region governor and a major showdown between the tycoon and President Petro Poroshenko demonstrate a deep crisis of the Ukrainian regime and the failure of western-imposed policy, a top parliamentarian at the Russian State Duma lower house of parliament told TASS on Wednesday.”
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, March 25. /TASS/. Ukraine will receive another tranche of €250 mln within the framework of the two currentl macro-financial assistance programs of the European Union in April, the EU Foreign Service reported Wednesday.
“The country received €1.36 bln worth of macro-financing assistance in 2014 and will receive another €250 mln in April 2015, the IMF program should be in force, and political conditions should be fulfilled,” the report said.
So rhetorical question, considering this why the **** is EU carrying on loaning money(including my taxes) to Ukr which is not an EU country,has not done really completed any financial reforms, is bankrupt, corrupt, and has no idea of where money is being spent except for arms??
Someone puuuhhllleeeaaassseee
really out to explain to EU re Kolb’s Experiential Learning systems, but especially the 52 “Cognitive biases-the inbuilt thinking tendencies systems that a human has that can lead to systems deviations from a standard of rationality or good judgement”.
Ye Greek gods,what do you make of this insanity? http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/german-mp-ukraine-good-only-for.html
Sara Wagenknacht gives her two cents over ukraine-USA lunacy.
“I think that Europe ought not show itself to be so stupid as to act contrary to its own interests.” declared Mme Wagenknecht. ”
Obviously she knows about cognitive biases……”Being in the Bundestag she became the left party’s spokesperson for economic politics. “
Chechen parliament speaker’s riposte to US Congress’ weapons-to-Kiev resolution: weapons to Mexico!
“Dear members of the Congress of the United States of America. We often hear of the uniqueness of the American Constitution. In your basic law, everyone has the right to freedom of expression. The Supreme Court, wrote, in one of its interpretations, “we cannot repress political speech just on the grounds that it supports one side and not the other; nor can a citizen be repressed because their expression is false or dangerous.”
But your words are at variance with your actions; Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and several others have suffered for believing in a false American freedom of speech.
Seeing its strategy in Ukraine falling flat the US will now try to gain control over the country’s gas transportation network as a means of forcing Europe to toe Washington’s line, a French-language news website warns.
Washington appears all set to use the ongoing feud between the Ukrainian tycoons to snap up the pipelines pumping Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine, French mediaportal AgoraVox reported Wednesday.
“The conflict between [President] Petro Poroshenko and [billionaire ex-Dnepropetrovsk governor] Ihor Kolomoyskyi we now observe is just the initial stage of this operation,” the online edition notes, adding that if the US has its way it would effectively control natural gas deliveries to Europe thus forcing its European allies to “stay the course”
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150326/1020030748.html#ixzz3VUMLjlq8
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Canadian Export Agency has signed a deal with the Ukrainian Finance Ministry for a loan of 200 million Canadian dollars ($160 million) that Kiev should receive by the end of March, the Ukrainian Finance Ministry’s press service said Thursday.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150326/1020025946.html#ixzz3VUMoPVdS
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http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/25-03-2015/130114-european_union_crisis_greece-0/
long long economics article
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March 26. /TASS/. Russia may amend its fundamental documents, following the results of an analysis of the US national security strategy, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.
“No doubt, all the threats to Russia’s national security will be considered and studied,” the spokesman said.”
March 26. /TASS/. Russia’s Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case after the Kiev forces carried out deadly shellings of Ukraine’s south-east in violation of the Minsk agreements, official spokesman Vladimir Markin said on Thursday.
As the result of the artillery shellings in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s republic on March 19 and March 22 two teenagers died and another one was wounded, according to the investigation.
The criminal case has been opened into killing with the use of “banned means and methods of warfare,” Markin said.
The investigators say that unknown members of Ukrainian troops and the National Guard “acting on the motives of political and ideological hatred and hostility” organized the use by military units under their control of heavy types of offensive weapons with indiscriminate effect.”
March 26. /TASS/. Russia keeps on insisting on a direct dialogue between Kiev and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), but the Ukrainian authorities say there is no point in that. These are the results of the Wednesday meeting of political directors of the Normandy Four nations (Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine) in Paris.”
Although the first reports of the bus explosion near Artemovsk described the incident as the result of tripping on a land mine, Ukrainian officials predictably – and stupidly – started lying in several hours time!
Deputy Minister of the Interior of Ukraine in the Donetsk Region Ilya Kiva said that the passenger bus had been shelled by separatists from mortar-gun:
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March 26. /TASS/. The La Fayette frigate of the French Navy has arrived at the Ukrainian southern Black Sea port of Odessa, the press service of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry reported on Thursday.
“The personnel of the French Navy frigate and the Ukrainian Navy frigate Getman Sagaidachny are planned to exchange experience in the organization of professional training,” the press service said.
The French warship is to stay in Odessa until March 30, the Defense Ministry said.
Hmmm-France navy, could Rus consider this offensive?????? Double talk from France , ie where is Mistral?
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On Saturday, a mass demonstration was held in the center of the Serbian capital against increasing co-operation of Serbia with the European Union and NATO.
The event was organized by the extra-parliamentary anti-fascist movement “Двери” (“Doors”). According to their representative, about 5000 activists gathered in Belgrade city square. Many of demonstrators, with Serbian national monuments in the background, held portraits of the Russian head Vladimir Putin and Russian flags.
The participants in the rally were calling for the strengthening of cooperation with Russia and against ever deepening ties with the EU and NATO, pursued by the governing Serbian Progressive Party.
One of the leaders of “Doors”, former presidential candidate Vladan Glishich, offered an alternative to the audience, support a “Blair” version of the Serbian government or the “worthy Russian government”. The participants unanimously and emotionally supported an alliance with Russia.
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Something went wrong with that naming, because “dveri” is not a serbian word at all. Serbian word for doors would be “vrata”. There is a word “dvor” which means palace.
Actually there is “dveri” for doors in former yugoslavia, but that would be the “new” croatian dialect, not serbian. It’s a pretty funny coincidence that they’re using the language of the “enemy”.
Regardless, I’m glad that they could build enough pressure to stop the current bunch of traitors in the government from joining NATO. Although I have my suspicions about them and their program.
Since I live in Russia, I clearly see how these technologies of color revolutions works and even more I had been under this influence (shame for me…) Is that choice of people?
Now I think it’s not.
If you working through social networks to show BAD sides of “bloody regime” and never show GOOD sides of government’s work, when you seeding rumors about “billions of dollars stolen by dictator” and so on lie – such protest is inspired by this technoligy, not by REAL troubles of life.
As of Russia, now I see that government really working to make busines climate better, no real reasons to hate Putin. More that this, I see what Natoist’s side intended to do here.
I hope Putin will prevent this – we have other countries for example, where BAD sides of new pro-american regime never shown on TV.
Ukrainian crisis so complex set of problem – hardly you can understand even a 10% of it. It’s just like “arabs killing each other – because they wild”. Same here. You don’t understand. Only small amount of people understand on the west, and hardly they intrested in deep details – TV shows them feeling of knowledge…
Gen. Koziej told Newsweek. “An example of such pressure was the recent declaration of moving Iskander rockets to Kaliningrad region, that is to the Polish borders. A few days ago, a Russian document on annexation of Crimea stated that Poland backed up Maidan revolution by training Ukrainian fighters, which naturally is not true, but has built a certain image of Poland in Russian society.”
Obviously they don’t like their own methodology coming back to them………also Dutch feeling nervous-NATO may not be enough-note to ref ‘Russia’s unstable behaviour”!!!!!!!!
The Dutch Defence minister expressed a desire for the Netherlands to be prepared under all circumstances. She referred, among other things, to Russia’s unstable behavior of late. Since annexing the Crimea last year, Russia has played an active role in the eastern Ukrainian conflict.
“Over the past decades, the alliance has shown what it can achieve. But the continuation of that success cannot be taken for granted,” Hennis-Plasschaert said.
She explained that the Dutch Army has been working closely with Belgium and Germany and will expand cooperation with other countries.”
Canada making up lies re being buzzed by Rus jet:
“The defence minister claims the Russian fighter jet buzzed over the HMCS Fredericton at a low altitude as a sign of aggression, but is unable to provide details of the event. On the other hand, NATO claims no such event took place, reports the National Post. NATO says the Canadian ships were actually overflown by surveillance aircraft at high altitudes.”
They are all making it up for North Atlantic countries to kick off surely-
“broadcasters are not always in tune with U.S. foreign policy objectives.
“Competitors with anti-U.S. messaging are fomenting an information war — and winning — while U.S. international broadcasting is challenged to keep pace with competitors and changes in the media landscape,” says USA Broadcasting Board of Governors. Russia is brainwashing americans.
Is paranoia/hysteria increasing to critical levels?
“But the counter-argument (to russian propaganda)coming from the EU often seems to be poorly focused and unconvincing,” it’s “unconvincing” not because of presentation flaws, or because insufficient money was put into “selling” the message, but because the dominant Western narrative on Russia and the Russian “threat” is false, and anyone with a modicum of intelligence can see that it’s false.”
Neil Clark http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/03/24/4876
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In civilians Donbass shoot the Nazis, by order of the same Nazis, said in an interview with the Italian edition of the former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov. He said that the authorities were overthrown data about who funded the insurgency and where the radicals received orders. “We had evidence that the protesters receive orders from the Americans, and the headquarters of the demonstrators was in the US Embassy in Kiev, which is largely funded and rebellion,” Azarov said
anna-news google translates badly, but seems to say Azarov has evidence of USA in Kiev authorising Maidan and shooting of Donbass civilians by use of Nazi’s.???? http://www.anna-news.info/node/31975
maybe someone can check more accurately.
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tv channel Russia has a ‘special correspondent ‘ prog re situation Donbass-Ukraine etc. http://www.anna-news.info/node/31961
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Ukraine PACE member really really upset with German Parliament left wing politicians visiting/fraternising/providing humanitarian aid in Donbass, wants them punished
“The Ukrainian delegation to PACE strictly demanded to deal with them. I myself have recently returned from a meeting of the Political Committee of the Assembly, where a rigid form required to assess the actions of the left members of the Bundestag, which passed through the territory of Donbass uncontrolled crossing points on the Ukrainian-Russian border and embroidered with the bandits there, took pictures with them “- resents Gerashchenko .
In February, members of the Left Party Andrei Gun’ko and Wolfgang Gerke was taken to Children’s Hospitals Horlivka, Donetsk and Lugansk 6 tons of medicines – analgesics, antipyretics, gastrointestinal drugs, health food for the little ones. Ukrainian Embassy in Berlin sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany protest against the visit of deputies of Donbass. Actions Gun’ko and Gerke condemned and MEP from Germany, co-chairman of the faction “Green Party” Rebecca Harms.”
anna-news, google translate, love the “embroided” image of peaceful sewing…..
The short answer to almost everything is, the west can not do as they please and expect others to stand idly by. It worked for the last thousand years but it wont work any longer. And the sooner the west learns this lesson the better off we all will be. And worse, the safer we all will be. nato is the worst offender bar none in this. And almost every day we can still see heir subservice activities. The thing is one of these days it will all blow up. And as all empires throughout history has imploded, the thing is these days people will have a far longer memory.
What is ultimately worse is, none of this is a necessity for survival or for quality of life. It is only done so a few can control their power structure. The next world war will include the entire world. WW2 will be like a localized conflict in comparison. If the west think they can take others out one at a time the will find quite a shocking change of attitude.
The crash of the German plane stinks to high heaven. There is no question the Daily Mail (and perhaps others) had initially put out a report with this information:
“Witnesses have described hearing an explosion ‘like the sound of dynamite’ then seeing fighter jets fly past, suggesting the passenger plane had been under military escort”.
JimStone.is has a screen shot of that, and another screenshote later with that info removed. And Google was still showing it in its cache of that Daily Mail report 13 hours later.
I haven’t been able to confirm whether the A320 is the only remaining plane with a “remote recovery” system, as Jim Stone claims. But the mention of these jets going by and its subsequent removal from the Daily Mail report are very fishy.
March 26 /TASS/. The US and NATO may be planning to deploy frontline aviation capable of carrying nuclear weapons on Estonia’s border with Russia, Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
“We are particularly concerned with the fact that the Estonian Defense Ministry believes that these exercises [Atlantic Resolve] will start the functioning of a US Air Force training center at Amari air base,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said.
March 26. /TASS/. Moscow warns the countries intending to permit deployment of the US missile shield elements on their territories that Russia has all the necessary means to counter the threat, Alexander Lukashevich, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said on Thursday.
“Russia has been for years drawing attention to the fact that the missile defense architecture built by the United States with the involvement of its NATO allies may in perspective pose a threat to Russian strategic containment forces and eventually result in parity disruption, which in turn would require responsive measures aimed at the restoration of the strategic balance,” Lukashevich said.
March 25, 2015 “ICH” – “FR” – “The Russian Parliament ought to once again give the President of the Russian Federation to use armed force in Ukraine if the US decides to send sizable arms supplies to that country.” This announcement was made by the First Deputy Chairman of the “Just Russia” faction, Mikhail Emelyanov.
“As taken from the US House Resolution:
Whereas the United States and its allies need a long-term strategy to expose and challenge Vladimir Putin’s corruption and repression at home and his aggression abroad;
Let that sink in for a second. The United States Congress has put, in writing, their goal to formulate a “long term strategy” to challenge the democratically elected President of Russia, Vladimir Putin.”
ICH
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“A direct dialog between Kiev and the Donbass Republics needs to be re-established – Euro deputy.
March 26, 2015
A direct dialog between Kiev and the Donbass Republics needs to be re-established. This is the point of view Jean-Luc Schaffhausen expressed in Brussels at the press conference of deputies of the Euro-parliament.
“At the moment, the Republics are ready for dialog, they do not deny their participation in responding to Kiev’s actions, and are also fulfilling the conditions of the Minsk agreement unilaterally, such a dialog must be renewed. Kiev must be compelled to do so under the guidance of our governments, France and Germany, under which we, of course, support this aspiration for peace. “ His words were cited by the Dept of Political Affairs in connection with the bureau of internal affairs of the administrative head of DPR.
At the moment, according to him, “we’ve seen in the recent days the Kiev clear does not desire to open dialog.” “Labor groups have not been established and Kiev issued all decisions unilaterally with an ultimatum.”, underlined Schaffhausen.
Schaffhauser plans to visit the DPR and LPR in May to observed the pursuance of the Minsk agreements and the international Forum. This initiative was approved by the heads of DPR and LPR, and expressed in writing of their readiness to welcome the international representative in Donetsk.
The initiative group will mainly consist of participants of the international observers group which were in the DPR and LPR in November 2014 during the election of the leaders of the republics and law enforcement organizations. In the roster of the group will be the original principals of Forum, namely Schaffhausen, and also the leadership of the French social organization “Emergency Help for Children of Ukraine (T. Mordell and A. Leroua), journalist, political analyst and editor from Germany, M. Ohzenraiter, and political analyst from Italy, A. Musolino.”
“25th of March, 2015. Donetsk People’s Republic, Novorossiya.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE HEAD OF THE DPR ALEXANDER ZAKHARCHENKO ON KIEV JUNTA VIOLATIONS:
To date, Kiev doesn’t comply with paragraphs 8 and 11 of the Minsk Accords dated 5 September 2014, as well as paragraphs 7 and 8 of the full response to the Minsk Agreement of 12 February 2015. These items require Kiev to take action to improve the humanitarian situation in the Donbass and restore its economy and banking system. Nonetheless, the DPR faces a difficult economic situation. A manifestation of this is an acute shortage of cash money in local currency. Citizens and businesses must use whatever currency is at hand to settle payments, not only hrivnia, but also USD, Roubles, and Euros. In this situation, DPR revenue agencies must disburse and receive funds in various currencies.
Kiev methodically enhances its economic and financial blockade. ”
truth Ukraine facebook
March 26. /TASS/. The Ukrainian armed forces have moved at least 30 pieces of heavy weapons, including tanks and artillery to Donetsk, the Donetsk news agency of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) reported on Thursday.
March 25. /TASS/. Kiev-controlled forces have moved several tanks to a village on the line of engagement with the militias of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, a spokesman for the Luhansk militias said on Thursday.
“Three tanks have entered the territory of the village of Kondrashovka (ten kilometers away from Luhansk, the north-western suburb of the town of Luganskaya) from positions in the rear. Their arrival was registered from our observation post,” the LuganskInformCentre quotes the spokesman as saying.
The armoured vehicles were moved to Kondrashovka on Wednesday, March 25.
The Luhansk militias’ spokesman said the redeployment of tanks to Kondrashovka was a crude violation of item two of the package of measures for implementing the Minsk Accords,
Latvian President Andris Berzins publicly announced that he absolutely disagrees with his Lithuanian counterpart Dalia Grybauskaite, who has repeatedly stated that Russia can be seen as the ‘aggressor country’.
In an interview with TV LTV7, Berzins said that he did not agree with the stance of Grybauskaite, and called it unacceptable.
In addition, Andris Berzins mentioned that his responsibility as the head of state is to maintain stability in Latvia. The president also said that he always observes the principle: “Do not look for enemies, look for a solution,” Latvian media reports.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150326/1020050399.html#ixzz3VVXWDUVi
Europe’s leading countries will turn away from Ukraine if it keeps dragging its feet on reforms, Gabrielius Landsbergis, a Lithuanian member of the European parliament, said Thursday.
“We’ve been getting many alarming signals from Kiev, that not all of the reforms have been launched, that the anti-corruption campaign is going slow, that the oligarchs wield as much power as they did under [ex-President Victor] Yanukovich, Gabrielius Landsbergis told Deutsche Welle on Thursday.
He said that, unlike other EU countries, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia and Estonia would support Ukraine “as long as it takes”.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150326/1020051219.html#ixzz3VVYKx2Ff
March 26. /TASS/. Kiev is ready to withdraw tanks from the separation line in Donbas, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told a press briefing in Kharkiv on Thursday.
“We’re ready to pull back tanks today to avoid shelling,” the UNIAN news agency quotes him as saying.
The Ukrainian president noted that to achieve a complete ceasefire it was necessary to ensure effective work of the joint monitoring mission and deploy observation posts with participation of experts of the monitoring center and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
Poroshenko added that, after that, it was necessary to launch economic, political and humanitarian reintegration of Donbas, the agency reports.
Believable????? Not quite ready to start all over again? No UN peacekeepers as you asked?
Gonna back pay pensions, backpay salaries to Donbass? Or your own miners from west ukraine who are still waiting for backpay?
Unbelievable. Who believes this?
Enough from me today folks.
http://rbth.com/news/2015/03/25/moodys_downgrades_ukraines_rating_to_ca_probability_of_default_at_100_pe_44737.html
Moody’s downgrades Ukraine – says probability of default is 100%
Ghastly narrator’s voice.
However, the OSCE getting their cameras on the artillery violations using drones is a good.
And the SouthFront folks are trying hard, and I appreciate their effort if not their choice of voice.
There just has to be some filter or device that can modulate the voice into a Russian accent.
Gotta have the right flavor.
Maybe this guy should audition for the job
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awWAd-jdwDg
HAHAHA perfect!
He’s available if we let him sing Blueberry Hill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV4IjHz2yIo&list=RDngwH6Zy5vb8&index=2
You’re being far too kind. (ghastly)² would be more like it.
That same text, delivered by the Russian guy, would great, instead of making me cringe.
I didn’t much care for anglophile who usurped The Voice, but for some reason this guy grates on my nerves. But I agree with Mats that South Front is trying very hard and deserves a lot of appreciation. I look forward to these reports every day, regardless of who’s reading. Still, I wish they would bring back the original. :-(
Getting rather tedious scrolling past the New York/Brighton drama queens wasting space ragging about drama queen stuff.
He has better diction than their previous narator although he was funnier.
See this video as an example:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uKigVx-kDSs
Voice-police alert.
Flight 4U 9525 | 48 hours after crash – 3 Possible Reasons Why the Plane Went Down
Flight MH17 | 1 minutes after crash – Russia – Russia – Russia – Russia – Russia – Russia – Russia – Russia- Russia…
Yup.
@ BOT TAK,
“The New York Times quoted a military official saying that evidence from the cockpit voice recorder for Germanwings Flight 9525 suggested that the pilot left the cockpit at some point and appeared unable to get back in – pounding on the door in the moments before the crash.” – LAT
MH17 not a ff-ing peep!
Russia – Russia – Russia … I have a theory about that:
When a False Flag must demonize the opponent it is more effective when you can connect the anger and rage that the attack causes, to your ‘Opponent, the evil perpetrator’.
Do not wait untill the emotions and anger have waned.
Therefore: create a narrative that you can broadcast immediately and that points to your opponent.
For example: During 911 it was known within 2 hours that muslims were the perpetrators, ands it was known without any doubt: CNN’s Barbara Olsen phoned her husband from one of the planes, just before she died. Barbara’s husband Ted was US Sollicitor General at that time, so within minutes everyone knew it, from a reliable source.
Reliable? Later it was found out that these calls were technically impossible. During the 2007 Moussaoui trial the FBI confirmed that. In the FBI report it said about the Olson call: “One call attempted. Unconnected. 0 seconds.” See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjImLL4NnwA (starts at minute 3)
I consider this as one of the proofs that it was an inside job.
It must have been a well prepared narrative.
The audacity to use phone calls that were technically impossible then confirms what Karl Rove once allegedly said: ‘I don’t care if you journalists later find out that we lied. By that time we have already changed the reality. And we will keep lying and you will keep finding out when it is too late.’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community
Why is burly Poroshankyo inspecting US humvees in battle fatigues if/when he’s truly a man of
piecespeace?Like Satan is the Prince of Peace.
OK —
“The United States has delivered 10 armored vehicles to Ukraine as part of a military support program intended to assist the fight against Russian-backed separatist forces in the country’s east.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Wednesday at a handover ceremony at Kiev’s Borispol airport that more Humvees were to be delivered within 45 days. Poroshenko’s office has said the U.S. is set to eventually provide 230 Humvees.”
So Russia should then match it — 10 now and more later, for Donbas. Tit for tat – how can the US complain? Donbas can use armored vehicles (set one aside for Givi, who now needs a new vehicle!).
“provide Ukraine’s military with $75 million in nonlethal aid” — so good, now Russia can do the same — and no need at all to be discrete about it — announce it to the press, in fact. Donbas could save the money they would have spent and use it for other things — like Kiev will doubtless be doing.
(set one aside for Givi, who now needs a new vehicle!).
No doubt he will be the proud owner of a new Humvee in the next month or so. The Kiev crowd seem a bit careless about were they leave their equipment.
Their Novorossia Humvee needs some new friends.
Trophy Humvee is ready to work in Novorossian forces.
https://m.facebook.com/SouthFrontEN/photos/pb.617555095015666.-2207520000.1425647922./676525682451940/?type=1&source=42
Noticed that one awhile ago. They also picked up a nice looking Canadian Cougar courtesy of the Azov delivery boys.
Maybe they can use some more Brit equipment. Check out the vid at the bottom, unbeleivably funny and stupid.
Британский броневик Saxon не смог преодолеть небольшой холм (5 фото + видео)
http://trinixy.ru/112508-britanskiy-bronevik-saxon-ne-smog-preodolet-nebolshoy-holm-5-foto-video.html
UK Armored Vehicles “Saxon” crash, one on railings other overturn kill driver.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-AGZH_Lf3Q
Why is burly Poroshankyo inspecting US humvees in battle fatigues
Because Porkshank takes his role very seriously…a Chucky Norris protege to the core ;D
What do you make of this poll http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/poll-only-3-of-russians-think-west-is-meddling-in-ukraine/515245.html ?
One does not know what to make of the headline because lower it says “When asked to describe in a few words what is currently happening in Ukraine, 50 percent said “civil war.” Seventeen percent said “genocide, the killing of civilians, and terror,” while another 17 percent said “anarchy, lawlessness, and banditry.” Meanwhile, 3 percent said fascism, a significant reduction from the 7 percent who responded as such in October. ” so was western meddling another of the options advanced getting 3%. Civil war is clearly an accurate description, but the alternatives here are not mutually exclusive. But if there was a distinct yes/no question ‘is the west meddling’ then 3% yes is surprisingly low.
Why dont you ask that quetion in their comments section? Oh, it’s been disabled for quite some time.
Kidding aside, MT has long been a US mouthpeice.
The Moscow Times is owned by Finland-based Sanoma Corporation. It would depend how the survey was slanted -were the questions loaded, was it sequential such that you could not change previous answers as the slant and spin revealed themselves and were the questions limited in answers possible?
In other words, if only one of ‘Civil war’ or ‘fascism’ were possible most would pick the former as it is the most obvious. The article doesn’t show the survey questions -I wonder if it was created by a russophobe or maybe some US agency?
Load question examples:
“How many times per day do you beat your wife?”
“Have you stopped beating your wife?”
“Are you a happy communist?”
“If you committed a crime and you wish to confess, click ‘Yes’. Otherwise click ‘No'”.
Yup
@ Paul C,
Q; What do you make of this poll…
R; That’s MSM speak for ‘pole’ [as they tend to be very ‘penis’ orientated], but as far as I know [have seen/read] most Russians know exactly what’s happening next door.
The Russian government and people have the “patience of Job” with these traitorous 5th column papers like the Moscow (western) Times,and Novaya Gazeta (owned by an anti-Putin oligarch hiding in London).Russia is at war.In no country at war would you tolerate enemy propaganda freely infiltrating your country.Can you imagine the allies allowing pro-nazi propaganda in WW2 to be published in their countries,no you can’t,because the allied governments closed those outlets and imprisoned the propagandists.Russia needs to purge these traitors from its soil.And if they can’t manage the job,stand aside and let the loyal Russian population do the job for them.
@Uncle Bob 1 – this link has been posted before:
http://rt.com/politics/239137-putin-ngo-agents-list-removal/ (Mar 10 2015)
“Putin signs bill allowing removal of NGOs from ‘foreign agents’ list”
Something seems to stink very badly.
We know “The West” is an evil empire.
While I always admire the underdog – i’m not sure that Russia is any better.
A factor here, and I don’t know what the situation is, is if these NGO propagandists and media are believed and taken seriously by the population. If not, it’s OK for the people to know what the US is up to. If the Russian media exposes the lies and spin, and the origin, it could be a good thing for the Russians to hear this stuff, laugh at it, and be warned — — but the truth and anti-propaganda has to be out there and well done.
(A good reason for the Russian government to give everyone a free computer with Saker on it. and print the blog in the papers! -grin-).
OSCE has denied that it came under fire by Kiev forces. It also doesn’t appear that the Russian journalists were with the convoy, but were barricaded in a house outside Shyrokyne, which they report is under constant shelling by UAF. (Links to sources below.) Here is what the OSCE originally reported:
“In order to monitor a planned meeting between the Russian Federation Major-General, Representative of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC) and the Ukrainian Major-General, Head of the Ukrainian side to the JCCC, the SMM went separately to Shyrokyne (“DPR”-controlled, 20km east of Mariupol, 102km south of Donetsk). At 16.30hrs the SMM observed one small arm’s shot fired closely missing one of the JCCC vehicles. The SMM could not ascertain the direction or origin of the fire. Furthermore, the SMM heard heavy machine gun fire from the vicinity of Shyrokyne. Subsequently the entire convoy did not proceed further to Shyrokyne.”
The South Front news videos overall are excellent, and I look forward to them every day. However, their reports of government violations of the ceasefire, while technically correct, are only half the story. Not that anybody can’t figure that out for themselves, but it doesn’t help their credibility. I figured something was amiss with this one, because it didn’t seem likely that Russian journalists would be traveling with OSCE.
As boring and repetitive as OSCE’s reports are, I read them daily. On any given day, they might list more violations by one side or the other, but in general they seem to be pretty evenhanded. Also, although I haven’t been keeping a tally, it seems to me that they report far more instances of being denied access or harassed at government checkpoints than DPR or LPR. Government security routinely asks them to declare the nationalities of the team and show passports. A few days ago they were told that any Russians on the team would be shot. (Of 459 monitoring team members, 26 are Russian.).
OSCE denial, report by TASS:
http://tass.ru/en/world/784701
Initial report by TASS, with quotes from the journalists, who said they came to film the ceasefire:
http://tass.ru/en/world/784646
Latest OSCE report, with above quote plus major incidents of shelling on both sides:
http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/146916
OSCE receives extra funding from the US. Can try and dig up the links again if required. The US chipped in an extra $6million to their funding and also put pressure on OSCE. When shelling/whatever occurs in Government held areas they can generally ascertain the fire come from rebel held areas. When they are shelled in rebel held areas they cannot ascertain where it came from.
Back in August when negotiating both government and rebel checkpoints into MH17 crash site, they were shelled while at a rebel check point. They made it clear in their report that they were in constant phone and radio contact with all forces in the area. In that report they did not “ascertain” where the shelling came from. Needless to say it delayed the investigators in getting to the site.
Also the bus attack south of Donetsk. All video evidence contradicted OSCE report.
I used to read all their reports as neutral but hardly bother with them now.
The OSCE is about as credible as any other zionazi/nazi/”enlightened” capitalist goatbuggers.
It seems to me that Ukraine is worse economic shape than Greece, just in a lot less time.
And it’s not done yet. Getting worse, I mean.
I feel so very badly for the children and the elderly in East AND West Ukraine. They never contributed to the atrocities in Maidan and the rest that is still a continuation of the chaos. These innocents are the most vulnerable and the ones that will suffer most.
God help them!
Carmel by the Sea
MSM Fun Factory on full throttle; Falkland Islands’ fears for Russia-backed invasion.
“Keep your ff-ing hands off our colony, you twats!” – spokesman for the fearsome Kingdom, his lordship Stiff Uberlipp, MCB, QTR, RIP
“Falkland Islands’ fears for Russia-backed invasion”
In the 1980s, a dying death squad, far right based zionazi quisling regime (aren’t they all) tried to revive its “lost glory” with “a little war”, its mirror image, the fag-hag Thatcher deformity was delighted.
The Argentinians and the UK both have legit claims on the Malvinas/Falklands. There is absolutely no reason the two could not share administration of the islands. The current Argentine government would probably be willing to do this, the queens of Tel Aviv, New York and way down the prison bitch line, London, want it all, as usual. So the logical and practical and adult solution is again blocked by zionazi/nazi oligarch depravity, hubris and extreme greed.
The problem, as usual, is these zionazis/nazis. And as usual, the disgusting things need to meet Mr and Ms rope. In a very public way.
I noticed they have already released portions of the cockpit voice recorder recovered from the German Airbus crash. I have yet to hear anything from the CVR of the plane that went down in the Ukraine.
How long are they going to keep it secret?
Where? I saw the pics but no bits of the recording anywhere.
Interesting development, the french government confirms that there was a Rafale jet nearby. Hmmmm. Allegedly started after the pilot didn’t answer the calls – all that within several minutes? The speed of the whole action seems quite unbelievable to me.
They gave Ukraine veto,so never.How daft is that?
http://www.eutimes.net/2015/03/us-laser-test-destroys-germanwings-airliner-killing-150-innocent-civilians/
ah, a reprint from Sorcha Faal “what does it mean” website notorious, I thought it was, you can tell from the opening sentence
“the Ministry of Defence is reporting today”
but where is the MoD report????????
Please present it.
just repeating this bit as a lead in-and apologies if have posted elsewhere before but could’nt see it-getting posting blindness like snow blindness maybe:
“MP Sergei Kaplin, a member of the largest faction in the Ukrainian parliament — “Petro Poroshenko Bloc” — suggested creating a special commission in Verkhovna Rada – Ukraine’s Parliament – to investigate the activities of the current Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who was accused of concealing corruption schemes.
The relevant draft resolution was registered on Monday. The official text of the document has not yet been released on the website of the Parliament.”
There is an idea he may be replaced by the current imported Head of Finance
and
“March 24. /TASS/. Ukraine’s cabinet of ministers is in for new reshuffles, deputy speaker of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) Andriy Parubiy said on Tuesday.
He said the People’s Front faction was holding unofficial consultations on possible changes in the government. “There were unofficial consultations, various names were pronounced,” he told the Ukrainskaya Pravda. “Obviously, it will be a package decision.”
and
extensive researched article re history of high level fraud in Ukr
http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/the-list-of-most-high-profile-fraud.html
and
Moodies regrading Ukr downwards to almost certainly 100% default
March 25. /TASS/. Moody’s agency has downgraded Ukraine’s long-term issuer and government debt rating to Ca from Caa3 with a negative outlook, the agency said in a statement in March 24.
“The key driver of the downgrade is the likelihood of external private creditors incurring substantial losses as a result of the government’s plan to restructure the majority of its outstanding Eurobonds,” Moody’s said.
“Ukraine’s government and external debt will remain at very high levels even if these [economic, budget/debt and monetary] reforms are successful, and despite the lower debt levels achieved by the external debt restructuring,” the agency noted.
Obligations rated Caa3 by Moody’s are judged to be of poor standing and are subject to high credit risk. Rating Ca means obligations are judged to be highly speculative and with likelihood of being near or in default.”
but Ukr carrying on its own delusion
“March 26. /TASS/. Ukraine intends to return to financial markets in 2017 after restructuring its sovereign debt, the country’s Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius told French Les Echos daily in an interview published on Thursday.”
Ukraine must deal with all debt maters equally it can’t decide to treat some more favourably than others, eg Russian bond debt due this year
“March 24. /TASS/. Ukraine’s foreign debts cannot be restructured without restructuring of its $3 billion debt to Russia, since this process is to rest on equal attitude to all creditors, Oleg Ustenko, the executive director of the Blazer International Fund, told TASS on Tuesday.
“We cannot restructure all the debts without Russia, because the first and foremost condition of debt restructuring is equality – all creditors must be granted equal rights. If restructuring is for all it means it is for all,” he said, adding that in such conditions “Ukraine is driven into the corner.”
and
“March 25. /TASS/. The dismissal of Ukrainian billionaire tycoon Igor Kolomoisky from the post of Dnipropetrovsk Region governor and a major showdown between the tycoon and President Petro Poroshenko demonstrate a deep crisis of the Ukrainian regime and the failure of western-imposed policy, a top parliamentarian at the Russian State Duma lower house of parliament told TASS on Wednesday.”
and
, March 25. /TASS/. Ukraine will receive another tranche of €250 mln within the framework of the two currentl macro-financial assistance programs of the European Union in April, the EU Foreign Service reported Wednesday.
“The country received €1.36 bln worth of macro-financing assistance in 2014 and will receive another €250 mln in April 2015, the IMF program should be in force, and political conditions should be fulfilled,” the report said.
So rhetorical question, considering this why the **** is EU carrying on loaning money(including my taxes) to Ukr which is not an EU country,has not done really completed any financial reforms, is bankrupt, corrupt, and has no idea of where money is being spent except for arms??
Someone puuuhhllleeeaaassseee
really out to explain to EU re Kolb’s Experiential Learning systems, but especially the 52 “Cognitive biases-the inbuilt thinking tendencies systems that a human has that can lead to systems deviations from a standard of rationality or good judgement”.
Ye Greek gods,what do you make of this insanity?
http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/german-mp-ukraine-good-only-for.html
Sara Wagenknacht gives her two cents over ukraine-USA lunacy.
“I think that Europe ought not show itself to be so stupid as to act contrary to its own interests.” declared Mme Wagenknecht. ”
Obviously she knows about cognitive biases……”Being in the Bundestag she became the left party’s spokesperson for economic politics. “
Chechen parliament speaker’s riposte to US Congress’ weapons-to-Kiev resolution: weapons to Mexico!
“Dear members of the Congress of the United States of America. We often hear of the uniqueness of the American Constitution. In your basic law, everyone has the right to freedom of expression. The Supreme Court, wrote, in one of its interpretations, “we cannot repress political speech just on the grounds that it supports one side and not the other; nor can a citizen be repressed because their expression is false or dangerous.”
But your words are at variance with your actions; Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and several others have suffered for believing in a false American freedom of speech.
Read more here:http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2015/03/chechen-parliament-speakers-riposte-to.html
Looks like the Red Dalia is taking instructions from elsewhere:
https://ltnacionalistas.wordpress.com/angliskai/lithuanian-government-intensifies-persecutions-against-anti-imperialist-activists/
Seeing its strategy in Ukraine falling flat the US will now try to gain control over the country’s gas transportation network as a means of forcing Europe to toe Washington’s line, a French-language news website warns.
Washington appears all set to use the ongoing feud between the Ukrainian tycoons to snap up the pipelines pumping Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine, French mediaportal AgoraVox reported Wednesday.
“The conflict between [President] Petro Poroshenko and [billionaire ex-Dnepropetrovsk governor] Ihor Kolomoyskyi we now observe is just the initial stage of this operation,” the online edition notes, adding that if the US has its way it would effectively control natural gas deliveries to Europe thus forcing its European allies to “stay the course”
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150326/1020030748.html#ixzz3VUMLjlq8
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Canadian Export Agency has signed a deal with the Ukrainian Finance Ministry for a loan of 200 million Canadian dollars ($160 million) that Kiev should receive by the end of March, the Ukrainian Finance Ministry’s press service said Thursday.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150326/1020025946.html#ixzz3VUMoPVdS
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http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/the-night-of-long-knives-cometh.html
re Poro, Right Sector leaving? ATO by April, surrendering their illegal activities etc
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http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/25-03-2015/130114-european_union_crisis_greece-0/
long long economics article
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March 26. /TASS/. Russia may amend its fundamental documents, following the results of an analysis of the US national security strategy, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.
“No doubt, all the threats to Russia’s national security will be considered and studied,” the spokesman said.”
March 26. /TASS/. Russia’s Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case after the Kiev forces carried out deadly shellings of Ukraine’s south-east in violation of the Minsk agreements, official spokesman Vladimir Markin said on Thursday.
As the result of the artillery shellings in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s republic on March 19 and March 22 two teenagers died and another one was wounded, according to the investigation.
The criminal case has been opened into killing with the use of “banned means and methods of warfare,” Markin said.
The investigators say that unknown members of Ukrainian troops and the National Guard “acting on the motives of political and ideological hatred and hostility” organized the use by military units under their control of heavy types of offensive weapons with indiscriminate effect.”
March 26. /TASS/. Russia keeps on insisting on a direct dialogue between Kiev and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), but the Ukrainian authorities say there is no point in that. These are the results of the Wednesday meeting of political directors of the Normandy Four nations (Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine) in Paris.”
Although the first reports of the bus explosion near Artemovsk described the incident as the result of tripping on a land mine, Ukrainian officials predictably – and stupidly – started lying in several hours time!
Deputy Minister of the Interior of Ukraine in the Donetsk Region Ilya Kiva said that the passenger bus had been shelled by separatists from mortar-gun:
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March 26. /TASS/. The La Fayette frigate of the French Navy has arrived at the Ukrainian southern Black Sea port of Odessa, the press service of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry reported on Thursday.
“The personnel of the French Navy frigate and the Ukrainian Navy frigate Getman Sagaidachny are planned to exchange experience in the organization of professional training,” the press service said.
The French warship is to stay in Odessa until March 30, the Defense Ministry said.
Hmmm-France navy, could Rus consider this offensive?????? Double talk from France , ie where is Mistral?
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On Saturday, a mass demonstration was held in the center of the Serbian capital against increasing co-operation of Serbia with the European Union and NATO.
The event was organized by the extra-parliamentary anti-fascist movement “Двери” (“Doors”). According to their representative, about 5000 activists gathered in Belgrade city square. Many of demonstrators, with Serbian national monuments in the background, held portraits of the Russian head Vladimir Putin and Russian flags.
The participants in the rally were calling for the strengthening of cooperation with Russia and against ever deepening ties with the EU and NATO, pursued by the governing Serbian Progressive Party.
One of the leaders of “Doors”, former presidential candidate Vladan Glishich, offered an alternative to the audience, support a “Blair” version of the Serbian government or the “worthy Russian government”. The participants unanimously and emotionally supported an alliance with Russia.
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Something went wrong with that naming, because “dveri” is not a serbian word at all. Serbian word for doors would be “vrata”. There is a word “dvor” which means palace.
Actually there is “dveri” for doors in former yugoslavia, but that would be the “new” croatian dialect, not serbian. It’s a pretty funny coincidence that they’re using the language of the “enemy”.
Regardless, I’m glad that they could build enough pressure to stop the current bunch of traitors in the government from joining NATO. Although I have my suspicions about them and their program.
Since I live in Russia, I clearly see how these technologies of color revolutions works and even more I had been under this influence (shame for me…) Is that choice of people?
Now I think it’s not.
If you working through social networks to show BAD sides of “bloody regime” and never show GOOD sides of government’s work, when you seeding rumors about “billions of dollars stolen by dictator” and so on lie – such protest is inspired by this technoligy, not by REAL troubles of life.
As of Russia, now I see that government really working to make busines climate better, no real reasons to hate Putin. More that this, I see what Natoist’s side intended to do here.
I hope Putin will prevent this – we have other countries for example, where BAD sides of new pro-american regime never shown on TV.
Ukrainian crisis so complex set of problem – hardly you can understand even a 10% of it. It’s just like “arabs killing each other – because they wild”. Same here. You don’t understand. Only small amount of people understand on the west, and hardly they intrested in deep details – TV shows them feeling of knowledge…
The Blind observers
https://fbcdn-photos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-0/11071133_686972564740585_8103920379537844858_n.jpg?oh=040f087a168974aaad4574ad9f93d6bc&oe=55B90441&__gda__=1438300616_60f2ca9dbb246859b723fb913a28edbf
Gen. Koziej told Newsweek. “An example of such pressure was the recent declaration of moving Iskander rockets to Kaliningrad region, that is to the Polish borders. A few days ago, a Russian document on annexation of Crimea stated that Poland backed up Maidan revolution by training Ukrainian fighters, which naturally is not true, but has built a certain image of Poland in Russian society.”
Obviously they don’t like their own methodology coming back to them………also Dutch feeling nervous-NATO may not be enough-note to ref ‘Russia’s unstable behaviour”!!!!!!!!
The Dutch Defence minister expressed a desire for the Netherlands to be prepared under all circumstances. She referred, among other things, to Russia’s unstable behavior of late. Since annexing the Crimea last year, Russia has played an active role in the eastern Ukrainian conflict.
“Over the past decades, the alliance has shown what it can achieve. But the continuation of that success cannot be taken for granted,” Hennis-Plasschaert said.
She explained that the Dutch Army has been working closely with Belgium and Germany and will expand cooperation with other countries.”
Canada making up lies re being buzzed by Rus jet:
“The defence minister claims the Russian fighter jet buzzed over the HMCS Fredericton at a low altitude as a sign of aggression, but is unable to provide details of the event. On the other hand, NATO claims no such event took place, reports the National Post. NATO says the Canadian ships were actually overflown by surveillance aircraft at high altitudes.”
They are all making it up for North Atlantic countries to kick off surely-
“broadcasters are not always in tune with U.S. foreign policy objectives.
“Competitors with anti-U.S. messaging are fomenting an information war — and winning — while U.S. international broadcasting is challenged to keep pace with competitors and changes in the media landscape,” says USA Broadcasting Board of Governors. Russia is brainwashing americans.
Is paranoia/hysteria increasing to critical levels?
“But the counter-argument (to russian propaganda)coming from the EU often seems to be poorly focused and unconvincing,” it’s “unconvincing” not because of presentation flaws, or because insufficient money was put into “selling” the message, but because the dominant Western narrative on Russia and the Russian “threat” is false, and anyone with a modicum of intelligence can see that it’s false.”
Neil Clark http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/03/24/4876
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In civilians Donbass shoot the Nazis, by order of the same Nazis, said in an interview with the Italian edition of the former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov. He said that the authorities were overthrown data about who funded the insurgency and where the radicals received orders. “We had evidence that the protesters receive orders from the Americans, and the headquarters of the demonstrators was in the US Embassy in Kiev, which is largely funded and rebellion,” Azarov said
anna-news google translates badly, but seems to say Azarov has evidence of USA in Kiev authorising Maidan and shooting of Donbass civilians by use of Nazi’s.????
http://www.anna-news.info/node/31975
maybe someone can check more accurately.
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tv channel Russia has a ‘special correspondent ‘ prog re situation Donbass-Ukraine etc.
http://www.anna-news.info/node/31961
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Ukraine PACE member really really upset with German Parliament left wing politicians visiting/fraternising/providing humanitarian aid in Donbass, wants them punished
“The Ukrainian delegation to PACE strictly demanded to deal with them. I myself have recently returned from a meeting of the Political Committee of the Assembly, where a rigid form required to assess the actions of the left members of the Bundestag, which passed through the territory of Donbass uncontrolled crossing points on the Ukrainian-Russian border and embroidered with the bandits there, took pictures with them “- resents Gerashchenko .
In February, members of the Left Party Andrei Gun’ko and Wolfgang Gerke was taken to Children’s Hospitals Horlivka, Donetsk and Lugansk 6 tons of medicines – analgesics, antipyretics, gastrointestinal drugs, health food for the little ones. Ukrainian Embassy in Berlin sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany protest against the visit of deputies of Donbass. Actions Gun’ko and Gerke condemned and MEP from Germany, co-chairman of the faction “Green Party” Rebecca Harms.”
anna-news, google translate, love the “embroided” image of peaceful sewing…..
The short answer to almost everything is, the west can not do as they please and expect others to stand idly by. It worked for the last thousand years but it wont work any longer. And the sooner the west learns this lesson the better off we all will be. And worse, the safer we all will be. nato is the worst offender bar none in this. And almost every day we can still see heir subservice activities. The thing is one of these days it will all blow up. And as all empires throughout history has imploded, the thing is these days people will have a far longer memory.
What is ultimately worse is, none of this is a necessity for survival or for quality of life. It is only done so a few can control their power structure. The next world war will include the entire world. WW2 will be like a localized conflict in comparison. If the west think they can take others out one at a time the will find quite a shocking change of attitude.
The crash of the German plane stinks to high heaven. There is no question the Daily Mail (and perhaps others) had initially put out a report with this information:
“Witnesses have described hearing an explosion ‘like the sound of dynamite’ then seeing fighter jets fly past, suggesting the passenger plane had been under military escort”.
JimStone.is has a screen shot of that, and another screenshote later with that info removed. And Google was still showing it in its cache of that Daily Mail report 13 hours later.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBBq_oXUUAAg8QC.jpg:large
I haven’t been able to confirm whether the A320 is the only remaining plane with a “remote recovery” system, as Jim Stone claims. But the mention of these jets going by and its subsequent removal from the Daily Mail report are very fishy.
The latest Podcast from John Pilger is about Ukraine: Facism in Ukraine
March 26 /TASS/. The US and NATO may be planning to deploy frontline aviation capable of carrying nuclear weapons on Estonia’s border with Russia, Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
“We are particularly concerned with the fact that the Estonian Defense Ministry believes that these exercises [Atlantic Resolve] will start the functioning of a US Air Force training center at Amari air base,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said.
March 26. /TASS/. Moscow warns the countries intending to permit deployment of the US missile shield elements on their territories that Russia has all the necessary means to counter the threat, Alexander Lukashevich, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said on Thursday.
“Russia has been for years drawing attention to the fact that the missile defense architecture built by the United States with the involvement of its NATO allies may in perspective pose a threat to Russian strategic containment forces and eventually result in parity disruption, which in turn would require responsive measures aimed at the restoration of the strategic balance,” Lukashevich said.
March 25, 2015 “ICH” – “FR” – “The Russian Parliament ought to once again give the President of the Russian Federation to use armed force in Ukraine if the US decides to send sizable arms supplies to that country.” This announcement was made by the First Deputy Chairman of the “Just Russia” faction, Mikhail Emelyanov.
“As taken from the US House Resolution:
Whereas the United States and its allies need a long-term strategy to expose and challenge Vladimir Putin’s corruption and repression at home and his aggression abroad;
Let that sink in for a second. The United States Congress has put, in writing, their goal to formulate a “long term strategy” to challenge the democratically elected President of Russia, Vladimir Putin.”
ICH
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“A direct dialog between Kiev and the Donbass Republics needs to be re-established – Euro deputy.
March 26, 2015
A direct dialog between Kiev and the Donbass Republics needs to be re-established. This is the point of view Jean-Luc Schaffhausen expressed in Brussels at the press conference of deputies of the Euro-parliament.
“At the moment, the Republics are ready for dialog, they do not deny their participation in responding to Kiev’s actions, and are also fulfilling the conditions of the Minsk agreement unilaterally, such a dialog must be renewed. Kiev must be compelled to do so under the guidance of our governments, France and Germany, under which we, of course, support this aspiration for peace. “ His words were cited by the Dept of Political Affairs in connection with the bureau of internal affairs of the administrative head of DPR.
At the moment, according to him, “we’ve seen in the recent days the Kiev clear does not desire to open dialog.” “Labor groups have not been established and Kiev issued all decisions unilaterally with an ultimatum.”, underlined Schaffhausen.
Schaffhauser plans to visit the DPR and LPR in May to observed the pursuance of the Minsk agreements and the international Forum. This initiative was approved by the heads of DPR and LPR, and expressed in writing of their readiness to welcome the international representative in Donetsk.
The initiative group will mainly consist of participants of the international observers group which were in the DPR and LPR in November 2014 during the election of the leaders of the republics and law enforcement organizations. In the roster of the group will be the original principals of Forum, namely Schaffhausen, and also the leadership of the French social organization “Emergency Help for Children of Ukraine (T. Mordell and A. Leroua), journalist, political analyst and editor from Germany, M. Ohzenraiter, and political analyst from Italy, A. Musolino.”
“25th of March, 2015. Donetsk People’s Republic, Novorossiya.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE HEAD OF THE DPR ALEXANDER ZAKHARCHENKO ON KIEV JUNTA VIOLATIONS:
To date, Kiev doesn’t comply with paragraphs 8 and 11 of the Minsk Accords dated 5 September 2014, as well as paragraphs 7 and 8 of the full response to the Minsk Agreement of 12 February 2015. These items require Kiev to take action to improve the humanitarian situation in the Donbass and restore its economy and banking system. Nonetheless, the DPR faces a difficult economic situation. A manifestation of this is an acute shortage of cash money in local currency. Citizens and businesses must use whatever currency is at hand to settle payments, not only hrivnia, but also USD, Roubles, and Euros. In this situation, DPR revenue agencies must disburse and receive funds in various currencies.
Kiev methodically enhances its economic and financial blockade. ”
truth Ukraine facebook
March 26. /TASS/. The Ukrainian armed forces have moved at least 30 pieces of heavy weapons, including tanks and artillery to Donetsk, the Donetsk news agency of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) reported on Thursday.
March 25. /TASS/. Kiev-controlled forces have moved several tanks to a village on the line of engagement with the militias of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, a spokesman for the Luhansk militias said on Thursday.
“Three tanks have entered the territory of the village of Kondrashovka (ten kilometers away from Luhansk, the north-western suburb of the town of Luganskaya) from positions in the rear. Their arrival was registered from our observation post,” the LuganskInformCentre quotes the spokesman as saying.
The armoured vehicles were moved to Kondrashovka on Wednesday, March 25.
The Luhansk militias’ spokesman said the redeployment of tanks to Kondrashovka was a crude violation of item two of the package of measures for implementing the Minsk Accords,
Latvian President Andris Berzins publicly announced that he absolutely disagrees with his Lithuanian counterpart Dalia Grybauskaite, who has repeatedly stated that Russia can be seen as the ‘aggressor country’.
In an interview with TV LTV7, Berzins said that he did not agree with the stance of Grybauskaite, and called it unacceptable.
In addition, Andris Berzins mentioned that his responsibility as the head of state is to maintain stability in Latvia. The president also said that he always observes the principle: “Do not look for enemies, look for a solution,” Latvian media reports.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150326/1020050399.html#ixzz3VVXWDUVi
http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/when-will-war-erupt-on-donbass.html
as it says
Europe’s leading countries will turn away from Ukraine if it keeps dragging its feet on reforms, Gabrielius Landsbergis, a Lithuanian member of the European parliament, said Thursday.
“We’ve been getting many alarming signals from Kiev, that not all of the reforms have been launched, that the anti-corruption campaign is going slow, that the oligarchs wield as much power as they did under [ex-President Victor] Yanukovich, Gabrielius Landsbergis told Deutsche Welle on Thursday.
He said that, unlike other EU countries, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia and Estonia would support Ukraine “as long as it takes”.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150326/1020051219.html#ixzz3VVYKx2Ff
March 26. /TASS/. Kiev is ready to withdraw tanks from the separation line in Donbas, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told a press briefing in Kharkiv on Thursday.
“We’re ready to pull back tanks today to avoid shelling,” the UNIAN news agency quotes him as saying.
The Ukrainian president noted that to achieve a complete ceasefire it was necessary to ensure effective work of the joint monitoring mission and deploy observation posts with participation of experts of the monitoring center and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
Poroshenko added that, after that, it was necessary to launch economic, political and humanitarian reintegration of Donbas, the agency reports.
Believable????? Not quite ready to start all over again? No UN peacekeepers as you asked?
Gonna back pay pensions, backpay salaries to Donbass? Or your own miners from west ukraine who are still waiting for backpay?
Unbelievable. Who believes this?
Enough from me today folks.