Russia
In the first week of January the US Embassy in Russia began refusing to continue issuing visas citing some unidentified problems with plumbing. Moscow water authorities claim that they didn’t receive any complaints from the Embassy.
It is unclear when the US Embassy will resume its work.
The UK
An Israeli diplomat called the British Foreign Minister an “idiot”
Al-Jazeera released the first of four videos with the footage from an undercover Al-Jazeera reporter that shows Israeli diplomat Shai Masot talking to Maria Strizzolo, former aide to British education minister, about ‘taking down’ parliamentarians considered anti-Israel in their views.
The video, allegedly recorded by an Al-Jazeera reporter posing as a pro-Israel advocate and not by any security services, shows the Israeli embassy employee Shai Masot, freely admitting that he wasn’t a diplomat, speaking to Maria Strizzolo, a civil servant who was formerly an aide to Conservative Minister Robert Halfon.
The recordings form the basis of four half-hour documentaries that al-Jazeera is to broadcast starting January 15.
Only after this video went viral, did the Israeli Embassy in the UK issue an apology, with Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev personally apologizing to Deputy Foreign Minister Alan Duncan, who was one of the parliamentarians “targeted” by the employee.
Another prominent Conservative named by the Israeli Embassy worker was Crispin Blunt, chair of the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee and a vocal Palestinian supporter.
Embassy spokesperson said “the Embassy views these statements as completely unacceptable.”
Strizzolo: “Well, you know, if you look hard enough, I’m sure that there is something that they’re trying to hide.” Later she adds: “A little scandal, maybe.”
Strizzolo boasts that she helped her boss, MP Robert Halfon, secure a promotion when he was appointed the education minister.
Masot: “Can I give you some MPs that I would suggest you would take down?” he asks, without elaborating what that entailed.
Masot adds that she knew which MPs he was referring to, and when Strizzolo asks for clarification, he replies “the deputy foreign minister.”
Strizzolo referring to the deputy foreign minister: “I thought we had, you know, neutralized him just a little bit, no?” Masot answers: “No.”
Masot about Boris Johnson: “He is an idiot.”
Masot’s business card says he is “a senior political officer” at the embassy who, according to his LinkedIn page, has worked there since November 2014. He describes his role at the embassy as being the chief point of contact between the embassy and MPs and liaising with ministers and officials at the Foreign Office. He was also a major in the IDF between 2004 and 2011.
The Al-Jazeera reporter pretended to be a pro-Israel activist from June to November of last year and recorded conversations that include a wide range of pro-Israel activists, British politicians and Israeli embassy staff.
Israeli diplomat caught on camera discussing ‘taking down’ UK MPs
A few words on Israeli “diplomats” methods
I don’t think that Aljazeera would release this footage without the UK foreign department approval. Maybe someone inside the UK security services just took a page from the FSB book to make a point and to show to the Zionists that are being watched, recorded, and that they will be ousted.
We are also getting a glimpse of how the state of Israel operates. I recommend to watch a TV show Mossad 101 to get a basic understanding. This show explains that any Israeli can be a Mossad agent and to spy on the coworkers and friends, even to demand from people to kill someone, to hand them sensitive info, and so on.
I know a guy who worked with their security services to get his relative entrapped. And he wasn’t even a “bad person.” He was just terrified of them.
The featured image is of Maria Zakharova, an un-elected official and a spokesperson for the Russia’s Foreign Ministry. She is having lunch with the Israeli Ambassador to Russia Zvi Heifetz, appointed in Sep 2015. Sited is an owner of the liberal “Echo of Moscow” radio, a self-proclaimed Russia hater, and a grandson of the Bolsheviks cheka Alexei Venediktov. Venediktov wrote once that his grandfather personally shot dozens of Russian people during the Red Terror years following the Bolsheviks putsch. He eventually ended up arrested and went to one of the GULAG camps during so called Stalin’s purge, which was unfair from Venediktov’s point of view. Sited next to him is a woman whose job is to socialize with the rich people’ children.
This photo was taken in 2016 in Moscow. Based on what we have learned from the Shai Masot footage, we can imagine what exactly M. Zakharova and her friends were talking about.
An incomplete list of the lethal attacks on the Russia’s diplomats:
- November 8th, 2016 – on Election Day, a Russian Consulate security officer was found dead with head injuries, as reported by NYPD. “Medics are currently establishing the cause of his death, but it is believed that the man suffered a heart attack,” Nikolai Lakhonin, a spokesman for Russia’s U.S. Embassy, told the TASS news agency.
- On December 20, 2016, Foreign Affairs ministry confirms the chief adviser to the Latin American affairs department, Petr Polshikov, died at his home. He was shot hours before assassination of ambassador in Turkey
- On December 20, 2016 – The Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, was shot and killed as he gave a speech at an art gallery in Ankara.
- January 9, 2017 – Andrei Melanin, a Russian consul to Greece was found dead in his apartment.
- December 31, 2016 Russia’s ambassador to Israel, Alexander Shein was rushed to the hospital in Tel Aviv after falling ill. The diplomat felt unwell during dinner in a restaurant. Minister-Counsellor of Russia Alexei Drobinin confirmed the hospitalization and said that now the ambassador is well.
Non lethal offenses on the Russian diplomatic missions:
- Sat Oct 22, 2016 – Russian Ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko said in an interview that the Russia’s embassy in London is “shrinking” because of extended delays by British authorities in issuing visas to diplomats and embassy staff.
- Dec 29, 2016 – The United States expelled 35 Russian diplomats and closed two Russian Embassy’s compounds in New York and Maryland.
- Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov: “In the last two years and a half [US] recruiting activities in regard to our employees have significantly increased, and US intelligence services use the most miserable means of pressure, including threats to health of [the diplomats’] family members.”
Those who claimed that the attack on the Russian Ambassador in Turkey was justifiable as revenge for driving the terrorists from Aleppo, like Gersh Kuntzman, whom the grateful readers call “an outright liar,” “author of the stupidest things,” and “the Dumbest.” An excellent research on the owner of the New York Daily News and U.S. News & World Report, Mortimer Benjamin Zuckerman, with great images illustrating a busy political connections of this member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a deep state ministry, and an active member of the Israeli lobby.
According to the insider information, Mortimer Zuckerman is a close associate of Bernard Henri Levy, a French author who is also known as a coordinator of anti–government putsches in the Balkan countries and Ukraine. They both took an active part debating the foreign policies of Obama administration organized by the Rosencrantz Foundation run by the billion Robert Rosenkranz, another member of the CFR.
Since the 80s, Zuckerman has been taking an active part in the work of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, CPMAJO. The main task of this organization is quoted as taking important part if forming of the policies of the US government, especially its executive branch. It’s just for an unlikely case when you think that the US foreign policy is being formed by the US presidents or its Senate.
Zuckerman was a head of CPMAJO in 2001-2003 when the US army invaded Iraq.
To give you an understanding how much the CPMAJO is involved into ruling the US, consider that the US government officials are obligated to give them regular reports on what has been done by the US government for the interest of Israel.
On the image is the US Ambassador in UN Samantha Power, who regularly reports to CPMAJO on the UN Security Council work. She and the Senator Lindsey Graham are the frequent visitors. See the images under the link.
Naturally, the Kiev junta representatives have been visiting CPMAJO with their reports. Danylo Lubkivsky, former Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine, an ambassador-at-large, Ukraine Foreign Ministry, Olexander Scherba and Yuriy A. Sergeyev is a former Ukrainian diplomat and politician, who has served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine, and Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations have been told by Robert G. Sugarman, a head of CPMAJO how they should be acting in regard to Crimea in 2014.
Zuckerman has been also noticed with such members of the “friends of Russia” club as Evelyn de Rothschild, Henri Kissinger, and Bibi Netanyahu. He is graced with the support of small people like Hillary Clinton and Bush Jr. and Obama.
Just a small illustration of those who own the “Western values,” and who pushes the Western countries in the war with Russia and Eurasia for those “values.”
Thank you for your time,
Scott
Excellent compilations of facts, groupings,power manipulations for US hegemonic globe. An impossible goal. Bush, Prescott and George 1, world plans ending with Trump and Israeli arrogance.
Thanks, Scott. Great, great glimpse into the inner workings of the ZWO, the Zionist World Order. But not going far enough, not by a mile. Just a few notes:
1)
Al-Jaazera = CIA/Mossad/MI6
2)
“Maybe someone inside the UK security services just took a page from the FSB book to make a point and to show to the Zionists that are being watched, recorded, and that they will be ousted.”
The UK security services are all ZWO assets. Same goes for all ZATO nations, 100%.
3)
“On December 20, 2016 – The Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, was shot and killed as he gave a speech at an art gallery in Ankara.”
Says who? Rothschild-Reuters and others ZWO propaganda outlets. Who filmed the hoax video? ZWO asstes. Who was interviewed? ZWO fakers.
RT, interestingly was one of the first media outlet running with the fake story and putting the fake snuff video on their front page. What does this tell us? Very simple. The ZWO has successfully penetrated RT.
Once we understand this, we also can see that the CIA’s lamenting about the incredible power of RT and Sputnik is just a ruse, another layer of ZWO ‘magic’.
‘The Russian media is so strong that they can influence our Presidential election’ meme is just an inside joke to setup RT as platforms for Goy mocking and ‘Truther’ trolling.
The rabbit hole (Lewis Carroll was a ZWO asset too) goes very, very deep.
4)
Here is a nice break-down of the latest ZWO fake terror stunts in Ankara and Berlin by Ole Dammegard. Starts at 11min:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR_O7Hr_Clk
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You wrote: 3)
“On December 20, 2016 – The Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, was shot and killed as he gave a speech at an art gallery in Ankara.”
Says who? Rothschild-Reuters and others ZWO propaganda outlets. Who filmed the hoax video? ZWO asstes. Who was interviewed? ZWO fakers”
In essence, you are saying that the government of Russia, the president of Russia and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are all part of the “Rothschild-Reuters and others ZWO propaganda outlets.”
You’re saying that everyone is lying, and you are only one who is saying the truth. The Ambassador wasn’t killed and it was a hoax?
You remind me this:
“remember that 90% of trolls arguing with you online are paid professionals.”
Image is telling
https://twitter.com/semargll/status/818540444867035137
Touche
You nailed it.
RT, interestingly was one of the first media outlet running with the fake story and putting the fake snuff video on their front page. What does this tell us? Very simple. The ZWO has successfully penetrated RT.
Or maybe there is a deeper game being played (?)
Yes, I get that (disgusting) impression too about RT/Sputnik. (same goes for that picture of Zakharova surrounded by these Podesta-like Jews) But it’s probably just a tactic.
Because the West is pretty much a totalitarian Jewish dictatorship as far as media is concerned, they’re forced to be almost just like the rest of the JM$M, except (the Russian government) still being able to tell a significant amount of truth also, which western JM$M doesn’t tell. So overall they achieved quite a lot.
The assassination of the Russian ambassador wasn’t fake, no reason to think so at all, but all ‘Muslim’ terror in Europe/US most certainly is. Clearly all ZWO (Hollywood-like) theatre, except the occasional murder of patsies, or an occasional real terror false flag (but the latter is mostly done in non-western countries).
Very informative article, Scot, thank you.
WTF?? Is one to understand that Maria Zhakarova is a traitor, an Israeli spy, or what? Say it ain’t so.
Other than that, no big surprises. The USA is just the big mentally-defective bodyguard in the Israeli-USA / Master-Blaster tandem.
(Readers unfamiliar with the Master-Blaster character, please see: http://madmax.wikia.com/wiki/Master_Blaster)
Putin is a very busy man;
NATO Report Blames Russia for Populism Worldwide
Blames Russians for Trump, Brexit
A new report from NATO is following a narrative trend which began in the US and has since spread across Western Europe, accusing Russia of being to blame for the rise of populism worldwide, as an effort to undermine NATO and the European Union.
accusing Russia of being to blame for the rise of populism worldwide
You know what ? For once, they may be telling the truth.
I remember Tolstoy once writing about a container of water that had cooled to the freezing point; with a tap on the side of the container it froze instantly — changed state.
Men like Putin and Trump are authentic leaders — when they look back over their shoulders, they see that people are following them. These followers mostly do not have the courage to take the initiative to oppose evil themselves, knowing that, as isolated and powerless individuals, they would come to bad ends if they did. But when someone powerful (or perceived to be powerful) LEADS the opposition, they have the courage to join in. Thus Putin. Then Brexit. Then Trump/USA. Then Italy and France, Greece . . . and the situation in Germany is becoming “interesting” as well. Desire to reassert popular sovereignty and organic values is a force that has grown strong from long repression. By now it has become little less than explosive. Each time people see the people of another country successfully assert themselves, the more courage they have.
All this goes back to Putin, the catalyst of the reaction.
Obama whines:
““One of the things that I’ve urged the president-elect to do is to develop a strong working relationship with the intelligence community,” Obama said. “We have to remind ourselves we’re on the same team. Vladimir Putin’s not on our team,” Obama added.
“If we get to a point where people in this country feel more affinity with a leader who is an adversary and view the United States and our way of life as a threat to him, then we’re gonna have bigger problems than just cyber hacking.”
How could we ever have thought that Obama was anything approximating ‘intelligent’?
I fear this reflects rather badly on my own, and our collective, IQ.
What a pathetic stuffed-shirt in an empty suit this cypher of a person ended up being.
I suppose that the universal dumbing-down of the populations of the West was effective, even if one was aware of the process.
Franz: Soetero was just one mirror puppy in another mirror show…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvzgOCAmw5w
Let’s take some real adrenalin by watching tomatoes grow or ice crystals form. Why should we direct our energy into the black holes of their mind/attention mouse traps?
For example this fascinating topic – do our cells take energy not only from food, but also from the sun light? What a space for exploration & fascination!
“Sunlight is the most abundant energy source on this planet. Throughout mammalian evolution, the internal organs of most animals, including humans, have been bathed in photonic energy from the sun. Do animals have metabolic pathways that enable them to take greater advantage of this abundant energy source? (…) light alters fundamental biology resulting in up to a 17% extension of life span in C. elegans suggests that, similarly to plants and photosynthetic organisms, animals also possess metabolic pathways to derive energy directly from sunlight. Additional studies should confirm these conclusions.”
Let the “plebs” have circus, and let “us” have some Life!
Peace.
Great answer. Plato’s shadow show in a cave.
“If we get to a point where people in this country feel more affinity with a leader who is an adversary and view the United States and our way of life as a threat to him, then we’re gonna have bigger problems than just cyber hacking.”
The “we” being, of course, the deep state — his sponsors.
I am sceptical of extrapolations from a photo on which people are having dinner together to alleged topics of their conversation. I am giving Maria the benefit of a doubt. The job of spokesperson does involve having business dinners with people; it is also OK to listen what they have to say.
Dear anon
“The job of spokesperson does involve having business dinners with people.”
There are strict protocol rules that diplomats must follow.
For example, the following are the guidelines for the US diplomatic corpus issued by the Foreign Service Institute. They emphasis that they are developed for “men and women our nation requires to fulfill our leadership role in world affairs and to defend U.S. interests.”
https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/176174.pdf
According to the Russia’s Foreign Ministry Diplomatic protocol: “The formal and informal visits between diplomats of Russia and foreign countries are defined and governed by the rules of diplomatic Protocol.”
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB#.D0.9E.D0.B1.D0.B5.D0.B4-.D0.B1.D1.83.D1.84.D0.B5.D1.82.2C_.D1.84.D1.83.D1.80.D1.88.D0.B5.D1.82_.D0.B8_.D0.BA.D0.BE.D0.BA.D1.82.D0.B5.D0.B9.D0.BB.D1.8C
According to this diplomatic protocol, Mrs. Zakharova has to coordinate her informal meetings with the Ambassador of Israel with the ministry.
Their images together has been circulating for a year with many questions being asked about a close friendship of Mrs. Zakharova and Zvi Heifetz. As far as I know, Russian foreign Ministry has never presented any evidence that their meetings follow an established diplomatic protocol.
Let’s assume, that MID spokeswoman has her employer’s permission to have business dinners with “people,” as you say.
I am very interested in seeing photos of Maria Zakharova sharing meals with ambassadors of Russia’s allies, Putin supporters, and people who haven’t personally benefited from mass murders of Russians and destructions of the state in 1920s or 1990s.
Hi Scott,
I was quite shocked when Shai Masot story broke. Not because of its content but rather that it was made public. Someone in the UK is getting fed up.
Regarding M Zakharova..if she does have to obey diplomatic regulations surely she wouldn’t have gone to such a public venue? Maybe she was sent to deliver or receive a message which was “off the record”? I agree it’s disturbing…
Serbian Girl, a law has just been imposed in Britain that makes it an imprisonable offence to criticise Isreal or question any Jewish historical event.
Consequently there are a lot of very pissed off people in the UK. Watch this space as there will be more to follow.
This was definitely Not MI5 or any government department approved. While most British MPs are both pro Israel (May, Johnson, Corbyn) and pro Zionism there are a lot of Jews who are anti Zionism and many more Goyim who are anti Zionism.
PM May overstepped her powers by passing in to law criticism of Israel.
There will be more fireworks irrespective of what Scott or anyone else says on this.
Peanut butter, I didn’t know that. Fireworks wouldn’t surprise me though. The British people already provided great fireworks with the Brexit vote…
Scott,
Do you really think Maria would allow this photo to be taken if she had no permission to meet ambasador of Israel? I doubt.
Obama is frustrated that Americans trust Putin more than they trust him and the CIA:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-09/putins-not-our-team-obama-worried-americans-trust-russia-more-us-govt
and…
Democrats Call For Sept 11-Style Commission To Probe Russia
Democratic members of the U.S. Congress called on Monday for the creation of an independent commission to investigate Russia’s attempts to intervene in the 2016 election, similar to the Sept. 11 panel that probed the 2001 attacks on the United States.
Ukrainian-Canadian Putin-hater Christia Freeland just got the foreign minister position in Canada.
Canada is now firmly on the dark-side. I was not certain whether Canada would survive the years of Banderists and various other deviant forms of Fascismization by Harper.
Now I am certain that it did not.
Franz, only about 10% of Canadians are ‘Ukrainian’ and many of those are just of Ukrainian descent. Up until recent years Canadian ‘Ukrainians’ were no different than anyone else and their family origin of no particular significance.
Obviously western MSM and intelligence (sic) organisation are firmly in the ‘attack Trump’ mode and I am wondering where all this will go, assuming impeachment or bullet doesn’t cut the Trumpster down.
I wonder also if the whole excercise is a game behind a game but that’s another story.
How will the vassal Trudeau regime and its puerile bair-baiting sit with Trump who seems to want to end the russophobe nonsense and Ukraine shenanigans? Any thoughts?
From the late 1940s, Canadian Ukrainians were beneficiaries of CIA and other money which has formed them into a solid, indoctrinated voting bloc. They were key to the Harper elections and now they are key in filling the apparent vacuum beneath PM Hairdo’s …hairdo.
Justin Trudeau is proof that sons need inherit almost no traits whatsoever from fathers but can get them all from their, in this case, mad mothers instead.
The Ukrainians of Canada provide a great deal of the government, advisers and the ideology of Fascist Nulandistan. The hope for financial benefit is drying up I think but the hope of long-distance dual-citizen glory is still a powerful aphrodisiac.
Perhaps the alliance with the Five Eyes + Israel which Trudeau fils clearly cherishes is natural for Canada, a nation with a bright future behind it. After all there can be no more synthetic nations than those which comprise most of the Anglo-Zionist West – Israel, the USA, Canada and now Ukraine are synthetic entities.
I suspect Canada will host a number of post-junta Ukranian ‘refugees’.
After reading former Canadian diplomat, Patrick Armstrong’s Russia Sitrep on Russia Insider, I have formed an opinion about Ms. Freeland’s appointment.
Armstrong said he thought that Ottawa would be last to cancel anti-Russia sanctions. That was his prediction (and he’s pretty good at these!)
So here’s my view:
Trudeau and Putin have a solid, unpublicised relationship. Now, Putin and Trump, as well as Trudeau and Trump are set to negotiate.
The chess-players in Moscow must prefer it for Canada to be fully behind the US. This does give Trump the full spotlight, and allows the US to lead in terms of North America and Russia relationship. It also could really help Trudeau in his NAFTA negotiating. But mostly, I think it’s because the Kremlin prefers it this way, for reasons unknown to me. :-)
Sputnik just posted a great interview with Prof. Michael J. Carley (I’m a fan of his) on this topic: https://sputniknews.com/europe/201701141049598262-freeland-canada-foreign-minister/
Do you have any evidence for this far-fetched assertion of an occult relationship between Prime Minister Hairdo and President Putin? If you do please provide it, especially as your link provides evidence of something quite opposite.
Franz, I know you have strong opinions about this and I respect that. The link presented more strong opinions, or analysis, as opposed to “proof”, (by someone whom I also very much respect!)
When something is being intentionally left unspoken, it can be difficult to point to direct proof. But for those who are willing to consider this possibility, I would suggest:
1) examining all of Putin’s statements about Canada and Trudeau, since Trudeau became PM (for a recent example, check out Putin’s New Year’s greetings to world leaders. Did he have to include Trudeau? Is Canada really that globally significant?)
2) look at the treatment Trudeau has received from the MSM, whose cause he is supposed to serve so well. [There was one Sunday New York Times front page about a year ago, which included a column bashing Trump on one side of the page, a column bashing Putin on the other side of the page, while in the middle – the main part of this front page on the Sunday NYT – there was a story condemning Canadian mining companies in Guatemala (I think it was Guatamala). So – why give that kind of space to a Canada-bashing column? We accept that the CIA is behind NYT’s Putin-bashing and Trump-bashing, but Canada-bashing is totally different? This is just honest journalism?]
And finally, consider Trudeau’s recent family vacation spent with the Agha Khan, prior to making these changes in his cabinet. (Not proof either, but still worth noting. Whose interests would Trudeau be aligning himself with by supporting the Agha Khan like this?)
Since I brought it up, Putin’s New Year’s greetings to Trudeau:
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/53680
“In a message of Christmas, New Year and birthday greetings to Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, the Russian President expressed confidence that the strengthening of bilateral cooperation and the development of partnership in opening up the Arctic and in other fields meets the interests of the both countries’ people.”
Or in Google translation from the Russian transcript:
“Congratulating on Christmas, New Year and happy birthday to the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, the Russian head of state expressed conviction that the strengthening of bilateral cooperation, the development of partner cooperation in the exploration of the Arctic and other areas in the interests of our peoples.”
This may be nothing, but I thought it was amusing. So how have Putin and Trudeau become so chummy while Trudeau is under the constant watchful eye of the Deep State??
Back in Nov., when Trudeau returned from the APEC summit in Lima, CBC reported that “Parked next to Trudeau’s plane on the apron at Jorge Chavez airport were the jets of Russia’s Vladimir Putin and the Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte.” That’s interesting I thought.
And now, there is a controversy over his family trip to the Agha Khan’s island in the Bahamas because Trudeau took the Agha Khan’s personal helicopter to fly to the island (the only way in is by helicopter). The argument is he violated the terms of Canada’s Conflict of Interest Act by accepting the helicopter ride. Trudeau argues that this was a legitimate exception, included in the Act. Opponents argue he should have hired a private contractor to fly him in by helicopter (under watchful CIA eyes) instead of using the (non-CIA) chopper of the Agha Khan. :-) Maybe??
Trudeau Cabinet Shuffle: Chrystia Freeland Expected To Replace Stephane Dion At Foreign Affairs
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/01/10/trudeau-plans-cabinet-shuffle-involving-up-to-a-third-of-the-positions_n_14075076.html
Freeland whose ‘provenance’ is Ukrainian speaks Russian and is an arch-russophobe -Canada’s equivalent to Samantha Power.
One can expect Junior vassal Trudeau to continue his juvenile bear-baiting.
Superb stuff Scott. Many thanks.
The Zakharova info is frankly shocking. She has become something of a folk hero this past 12 months or so. How damaging to that image would wide exposure of her apparent closeness to Zvi Heifetz be I wonder?
What your piece also demonstrates in spades is the power that the Zionists (though personally I would widen that to encompass World Jewry generally), still wields in Russia. I agree that this is most likely a product of UK Intelligence, including the Zakharova pic – probably a little more nuanced than simply ‘showing the Zionists they are being watched’ though.
Keep em coming.
Hi, Wikispooks
You wrote: “She has become something of a folk hero.”
Not in Russia. People believe that her forced humor, her insults of foreign government officials, her untidy appearance and greasy hair, her friends and relatives, which is a company of liberals and other shady characters, her entire “cloud” casts the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and all Russian diplomats in a negative light.
One small detail. Zakharova was instrumental in bring in a designer Artemy Lebedev to do a new design of background for her press briefings. Lebedev is known for his insults of the veterans of the Great Patriotic war, for which the veterans sued him twice in court and won.
He is also known for his public attacks on Orthodox Christianity and professed hatred of Russian culture and history, which he mocks relentlessly.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%B2,_%D0%90%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87
Yesterday, his studio announced a new design for the logo of Crimea. It’s an ugly looking logo. What makes it more interesting is that government officials deny that anyone ever ordered Levedev to make a new logo. For some reason the logo is in Russian and English, as if Russia is under an American occupation. Have you ever seen logos of cities and states in the US or in Israel in Russian? It’s surreal, really.
https://republic.ru/posts/49428
In essence, people think that Zakharova is destroying the professional image of Russian diplomacy. People also think that she is relentless and deliberate in her efforts.
I have never seen María Zakharova with “untidy appearance and greasy hair”, quite the opposite.
Perhaps she has a very thin hair with little body, but, anyway, it is her profesionalism which take importance here, no male official from anywhere is criticised by the aspect of his hair, or lack of it, or because its untidyness.
You seem to have a fixation with her mouth, her hair, and all related to her, well, you seem to be like those retrogrades who can not cop with a woman having such a charge, and most probably all those criticism about her appearance and inconvenience is coming from your diplomatic friends who most probably think they deserve the post much more than María Zakharova? Envy.
I could say. for example, that I find Boris Johnson really a disaster, not to mention The Donald´s hair, awful as it could be, but then I prefer criticize these men by their acts/words instead by their appearance.
That you add this kind of criticism towards a woman gives an idea of what your respect for working women is, for not to say against women in general. Still i can not forget how in another post where you were also criminalizing Mrs. Zakharova, you accuse me of “liking women” ( as if that would be a crime in any case ) only for defending her, and of having trouble with authorities only by my nickname, which I constructed from a novel, when you had no other arguments to defend your point.
Yes, I was Alexandra Trophimovsky, I had to use another nickname since you were mistreating me for long ago in your threads because of me being a communist, and, surely also for being a woman, posing you unconfortable questions.
” For some reason the logo is in Russian and English, as if Russia is under an American occupation. Have you ever seen logos of cities and states in the US or in Israel in Russian?”
No, but predominately “Orthodox” Ukraine now has a Latin motto on it’s Department Of Military Intelligence shield;
“Sapiens Dominabitur Astris”
The Wise Will Rule The Stars.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwCLGukWEAAJooN.jpg
http://orig09.deviantart.net/d499/f/2011/029/c/a/marvin_the_martian_by_demon145-d38byqn.jpg
I would not comment on your opinion about Zakharova or interpretation of her photos, but that she is not liked by the Russians, that she is destroying the professional image of Russian diplomacy etc. is simply not true and shows only loss of contact with Russian reality. It is a misrepresention of the opinons of Russian people and misleading on a site informing predominantly Western audience about Russia.
Any one who cares and understands some Russian can take at least a virtual walk through Russian forums (or talk to real Russians) and will discover that Zakharova is very much liked and highly praised by the majority.
Here I am not defending Zakharova, but just point to the real opinion of the Russians of her.
R
What makes it more interesting is that government officials deny that anyone ever ordered Levedev to make a new logo.
See https://img.artlebedev.ru/everything/crimea/process/crimea-process-letter.jpg
For some reason the logo is in Russian and English, as if Russia is under an American occupation.
The logo is for the Ministry of Resorts and Tourism. Might be a waste of money to do overseas advertising in Russian rather than English. Ever give thought to that.
Scott,
I thought “her insults of foreign government officials”, especially that lunatic Samantha Power over the last few months have been completely brilliant. So she works for the Russian Foreign Ministry, and goes to lunch with foreign Ambassadors. Meeting such people is what the job entails. Maybe she’s a bit flirty too – I wouldn’t know – but she can dance well and she looks O.K. to me. Such people do socialise a lot – ask Craig Murray or read his book.
I thought what you were implying was somewhat out of order, without hard evidence to support it. In fact you surprised me, because I normally have very high regards for what you write, and you are often very funny, which I appreciate.
If you Russians don’t want her, us British will be quite happy to do you a swap – transfer deal – like in football teams. Our girl has got far more experience – even made the EU equivalent of Hillary Clinton (though she is actually very much nicer).
We’ll trade you Catherine Ashton for Maria Zakharova. Straight swap. No transfer fees.
Here’s Catherine’s cv
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Ashton
There’s something else I’ve previously mentioned with regards to the assassination of your Russian ambassador to Turkey. Even at the time, I did not suggest he was not dead, because as you immediately surmised, that would suggest complicity with the highest levels of the Russian authorities, which would seem highly unlikely. However there could be several alternative explanations, that would not necessarily involve such complicity.
The important thing when analysing such events is to just examine in detail all the available evidence of the event – objectively – before considering the political implications (as soon as that evidence is published – because it will be very quickly edited/corrupted). There are glaring inconsistencies in the photographic evidence of which there is a great deal, that strongly suggest a staged PR event. It is entirely possible that the Ambassador was killed after this staged event. Asking the question why should anyone do that, is a completely different issue to analysing the event itself.
I’ve enjoyed your little tiff with elsi, (I have to agree with her), and appreciate everyone’s honest views being published.
Tony
Just posted following video at the last Cafe . You cannot fake physics and the guys holding the casket are holding an empty air. Or do I need some rosy glasses for my so far healthy eyes? ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CjQnmcLVPU&list=PLBZ72jaV73-zz2ZIiQtBSoDHSbAefAHCJ
I don’t see a problem. 6 guys holding it, and they are in very good shape — maybe spetsnaz who could easily lift a 200 pound man alone while practicing martial arts, and do push ups on their fingers or knuckles. When I was young I was skinny and not strong compared to other workers but I could easily toss 40 or 60 pound bundles of shingles on to a pile, carry two bundles up a ladder, or easily wave around 45 pounds of weights with one hand. My tool box I carried around was close to a hundred pounds. Don’t underestimate how strong people can be if they are young, well developed and used to handling weight.
No, I don’t see any hoax here, or any reason for one.
Surely the Kremlin is aware of the comings and goings of Maria Zakharova? I find it hard to believe that she is a “mole”.
Agreed. If she is disapproved by the Russian people, then she must serve some role for international audiences. Maybe this is some sophisticated Foreign Ministry version of “good cop, bad cop”?? :-) The Russians are known for complexity in their diplomacy (says India’s MK Bhadrakumar, anyway). I had also noticed her appearance and wondered about it. It’s as if she is deliberately not conforming to Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ standards.
Scott, so, from a photograph which only show four people at a table, amongst them two person related to the Foreign Services of two different countries, another one who directs a radio channel, an another one who could be a celebrité, you conclude that María Zakharova is, what? Conspiring against Russia?
And all this based on a TV show called Mossad 101 and a footage of an encounter which has happened in UK which is the neuralgic center of the Az Power?
Really, man, your imagination and your hatred towards María Zakharova have no bounds.
What I can see in that photo is four people taking tea ( not a clue of having lunch, that´s in your imagination, or you say that because fit you better with the footage in the UK ), most probably before or after recording a program on foreign politics.
It´s obvious for any one with a bit of reasonement and lack of malevolence that not everybody who meets an Israeli official accompanied by some journalists is conspiring against its own country, the more when one most probably has not concerted the meeting itself, but the responsible of the media channel.
From my point of view, you have many more hints of being a conspirator than María Zakharova, because you also claim having friends even in the Israeli security services, in fact you told us that you studied in Israel in a certain time of your life, so, we must conclude that you speak hebrew well. Then you also have claimed having friends in the diplomatic service, then you were paid your expenses at a hospital when you were young by the army of a foreign country after the Russian Embassy denied you this kind of help, and finally you are “a whole life republican” by your own words. Well, must I remind you that the main responsibles of the raping of Russia and following murder of millions of Russians by misery and bankrupt were “Republicans”?
So, who most probably is conspiring against its suppossed Motherland?
Maria Zakharova, who only has met a radio channel director who Mr. Putin himself meets from time to time but lives in Russia, works in Russia, and enjoy the confidence of not only the Foreign Minister of the RF but also of the President of the RF or you who passed the day spreading disinformation and slandering Russian officials and heroes of Novorrosiya?
Why do you decide to spread more slander ( and nonsense ) just when every week Russia is attacked an after the US has expelled 35 memebers of foreign service staff after sanctioning them?
Another thing, I do not know the young woman in the photo, but, if her worst sin is that she usually meets the children of rich people, I wonder what kind of people you meet, Scott, since we are aware of your hatred for the “Lumpenproletariat” which you do not miss opportunity to mix with nazis and all kind of people of bad life, and we already know that your ancestors were from the purest Russian nobility?
And for meeting Israeli officials I would say that most probably what you have is envy, since you will lose your ass in case you would have the oportunity to have tea with the very Netanyahu himself, whatever it takes to make you famous ( I, at least, will be willing to have a cup of tea, if only to see what he says, if he answers some questions I have and to take the opportunity of watching him directly to the eyes, oh, yes! ) And, btw, just that Israeli Ambassador to RF have a face of a nice guy, perhaps he is not but a good guy who could help in bringing in the peace?
Who knows? You, or people like you, of course, never will be able to know, since, for what it seems, you will never meet them.
Who you are working for, Scott ? Confess and go out of the wardrobe once for all.
Btw, of Mortimer Zuckerman I do not know, may be ( never heard of the guy ), but that BHL “coordinates anti–government putsches in the Balkan countries and Ukraine” I greatly doubt it, you overstimate BHL, in any case, he is an “useful idiot”, used by TPTB to try to legitimice their putsches by taking him photographs in the pre/post of the colour revolutions, but as coordinator as that I do not see him at all. He likes more a camera than to eat with his fingers
Who you are working for, Scott ?
Right now Scott works for *me* and he has absolutely NO obligation to explain his past, language skills or contacts. You are more than welcome to criticize Scott’s interpretation of the photo, which I also find shaky at best, but not gun after him as a person. That I categorically forbid.
So, back to issues and issues ONLY.
Thanks,
The Saker
PS: as for BHL – you are wrong, he is a major player. My 2cts
And why do you allow this shameful unfunded accusations being published at your site?
Does it helps to “Stop the Empire´s War on Russia” in any way I am not aware or it is more focused on attacking the only person who is taking audience and will face The Donald on Twitter as he deserves?
I venture that, besides of getting his diplomatic friends occupying the post of Mrs. Zakharova ( perhaps to, then, yes, having a 5th columnist in the Foregin Ministry of the RF ) Scott wants to get Mrs. Zakharova out of Twitter in order than The Donald, Breitbart and InfoWars have free field in the net to slam Russia in the fight to come. My2cts.
“And why do you allow these shameful unfounded accusations to published at your site”
For the same reason he allows your pro-Hillary, leftoliberal, Jacobin ramblings to be published.
And why do you allow this shameful unfunded accusations being published at your site?
Because I am bored to tears with “ideologically pure” websites who all faithfully parrot the same political line. Because I can disagree with something without feeling the urge to crush it. Because I think that a lot of good comes from a free and open contradictory debate.
No, the relevant question is this: why do you, elsi, come back here over and over again just to pick a fight and rant every time something is posted you don’t agree with. If you don’t think that my blog contributes to stop the Empire’s war on Russia, then create your own, ideologically “pure” one, and see if you can do better. I hope you can, in fact. As long as you do this elsewhere.
So, elsi, cut the nasty tone or stop posting here.
And, specifically, one more ad hominem against Scott by you and I ban you forever.
So, please, stop now or go away.
The Saker
For three hours now I have been contemplating to reply to Scott’s “attack” on Maria Zakharova, dissecting most of his “arguments/claims”.
I gave it up, then read your comments, and thought, OK I don’t have to now, even that some of my arguments would have had a somewhat different approach than yours.
Grumpy old man, living in a world long gone (if it ever existed) is the closest I can get in one sentence.
Take Care
Kent
Thanks, elsi.
You’ve done a great job! Nice write up. I can see that you’ve been keeping tabs on your humble servant.
If you don’t mind, I will print it out and put it on my fridge.
I must also admit that your English has improved dramatically.
You forgot to add that my ancestors served the Russian government and its military since 1400s. There are three types of weapons on my family’s coat of arms. Also, that my ancestors had built with their own money and on their own land one of the biggest Russian monasteries, and one of them had become a saint. You also omitted that my mother’s grandfather’s family were almost all killed during the Red Terror, sixty or so people, and that both of my grandfathers were killed in Ukraine, liberating the Soviet Union from invasion of the European fascists.
Recently, I discovered that a distant relative on my father’s side lived in Donetsk and was killed there by Kiev junta. I found a picture of his grave and the description of how he lived and died.
So, for me it’s a personal insult that the tribe has been doing to my country, and to my family.
You wrote: “And for meeting Israeli officials… you will lose your ass…”
What do you mean? To “lose one’s ass” means to gamble away money, to go broke.
Do you mean that after meeting Israeli officials I will lose my life?
How do you know that, elsi? Are you threatening me?
Do not start retorting what I say as is your custom and why I stopped commenting at your threads.
“Perder el culo” in Spanish means ” wishing more than other thing, it was a literal translation of a Spanish street slang.
So, no, I am not threatening you, and you know it. Do not be so smart. It´s you who have been studying in Israel, while I have never been there, to my regret, of course, just imposible now with such a passport I have plenty of visas of Arab countries, Iran, plus RF.
That you have ancestors who fought in the Red Army does not imply that you are loyal to the RF and I have been able to made myself an idea of what you supoort by all what you have written here.
Perder el culo, means to try too hard to achieve something, trying too hard, or losing your head over a cute girl that you like, for instance. It’s not a threat.
Anyway, you have not but read the sentence where that expression is included to know what mean, I think it is quite clear from the context.
“I, at least, will be willing to have a cup of tea, if only to see what he says, if he answers some questions I have and to take the opportunity of watching him directly to the eyes, oh, yes!”
Look nio further. Same “Dead eyes” as Erdogan.
http://treungenbanen.no/GLP/Netanyahu_Hall_Of_Shame.jpg
http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/Netanyahu_2966476kghost.jpg
Take Care
Kent
Breaking:more BS from CNN and we have a new 35 pages report ”à la James Bond 007”
Here Is The Full 35-Page Report Alleging Trump Was “Cultivated, Supported And Assisted” By Russia
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-10/here-full-35-page-report-alleging-trump-was-cultivated-supported-and-assisted-russia
Full text:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html
An Angry Trump Responds: “FAKE NEWS – A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-10/angry-trump-responds-fake-news-total-political-witch-hunt
More breaking:
4Chan Claims To Have Fabricated Anti-Trump Report As A Hoax
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-10/4chan-claims-have-fabricated-anti-trump-report-hoax
I apologize for the source, since it may be deliberately misquoting MZ.
Russian spokeswoman accused of fanning ‘Jewish conspiracy’ after Trump’s victory
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/18/russian-spokeswoman-accused-of-fanning-jewish-conspiracy-after-t/
“Maria Zakharova said Jewish people in New York had told her they had mainly supported the Republican nominee, adding that American Jews were the best guide to US politics.
“I have a lot of friends and acquaintances there, of course I was interested to find out: how are the elections going, what are the American people’s expectations?” she said on a Russian chat show, recalling a visit to New York with an official Russian delegation in September.
“If you want to know what will happen in America, who do you need to talk to? You have to talk to the Jews, of course. It goes without saying,” Ms Zakharova said, drawing applause from the TV studio audience.
Trying to imitate a Jewish accent, she said Jewish people had told her: “‘Marochka, understand this – we’ll donate to Clinton, of course. But we’ll give the Republicans twice that amount.’ Enough said! That settled it for me – the picture was clear.
“If you want to know the future, don’t read the mainstream newspapers – our people in Brighton [Beach] will tell you everything,” she said, referring to a Brooklyn area that is home to a large number of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union.”
This little discussion was used by the zio-gay media, and by various quislings and colonial assets, to try and smear MK as an antisemite. :D
BTW, Scott, your inuendo evidence against MK is on the light side, a photo and some references which were not sourced. Reminded me of the “evidence” provided in that ludicrous cia Russian hacking PR release last Friday.
Hello Scot:
I’m totally confused here. With all due respect, please tell me again what exactly in fact you are accusing Maria Zakharova of having done to betray or otherwise undermine Russia and Vladimir Putin?. Concretely without resorting to innuendo or personal attacks on her appearance or family and business ties.
Much appreciated..Ray
vot tak and RayB
vot tak : “a photo and some references which were not sourced.”
The source for the photo is Mrs. Zakharova’s facebook account.
The sources of Venediktov’s story about his grandfather is his twitter.
vot tak: “This little discussion was used by the zio-gay media, and by various quislings and colonial assets, to try and smear MK as an antisemite”
It’s absolutely outrages that she acts in such way and makes statements described in this article.
She gives our enemies an opportunity to smear the Russia’s Foreign Ministry. She literally acts like an agent provocateur. Every single day. This sort of “kitchen diplomacy” is not in the traditions of the Russian diplomacy. It’s inappropriate and disgusting. It’s not how an Orthodox Christian woman and a representative of the great country should behave.
RayB: “With all due respect, please tell me again what exactly in fact you are accusing Maria Zakharova.”
With my deep personal conviction I accuse her in deliberately, willingly and willfully violating the diplomatic protocol and discipline of the officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Just like any military officer has to follow the protocol and discipline while on active duty, the diplomatic service officers have the same obligation.
This woman can do whatever she wants as a private person, but not as an officer of diplomatic corps.
Scott, if she doesn’t follow the protocol and discipline don’t you think she would be gone a long time ago? Just common sense.
Scott
“It’s absolutely outrages that she acts in such way and makes statements described in this article.
She gives our enemies an opportunity to smear the Russia’s Foreign Ministry. She literally acts like an agent provocateur. Every single day. This sort of “kitchen diplomacy” is not in the traditions of the Russian diplomacy. It’s inappropriate and disgusting. It’s not how an Orthodox Christian woman and a representative of the great country should behave.”
Do you seriously think Lavrov and Putin would keep her if they thought that. I don’t. They are not stupid.
That Maria has apparently quite openly been acting against diplomatic protocols suggests a few possibilities. Amongst them are:
– the Foreign Ministry has sent her out to “develop relationships” with persons of special interest.
– related to the above, she may have been hired because she already had (some of) those relationships.
– the Foreign Ministry is asleep, indeed comatose, at the wheel and is unaware of its critical personnel’s activities.
– the Foreign Ministry is swarming with Zionists & moles of all sorts and it is unable/unwilling to control their activity, never mind arresting them.
No doubt there are others. Two of the above are bad, but they seem unlikely to me. The Foreign Minister is the world’s senior diplomat, and it’s hard to believe he runs such a sloven ship. Furthermore, he answers to the President & (presumably) the Security Council, neither of which would be blind to what’s going on.
In short, from what I’ve read above, she is either a (most probably “Platonic”) honey pot, or a traitor. Given how many wheels are spinning within wheels nowadays, and how little we know of her activity, I’m not jumping to conclusions.
That is more or less my current position too.
I get very frustrated when comments decend into carefully crafted personal abuse. Scott can be relied on always to produce thought-provoking and otherwise largely buried (in the West anyway) information. I prefer to do my own integrations of the stuff he provides – IOW avoid both slavish acceptance AND outrage.
One thing I am in full agreement with is the influence and power of ‘The Tribe’. We are so accustomed to analysing all this complexity in binary (Anglo-US-Nato -v- Russia & other dissident countries) that a third, vastly powerful player is allowed to fly largely under the radar – and its NOT Israel per se. It is my contention that Zionism is NOT merely an aberrant Jewish cult rooting for a brutal aparthied state, but rather an extreme and dominant manifestation of the aspirations of pretty much the entire tribe – that is classified as ‘anti-semitic hate speech’ in the West of course but bear with me. World Jewry has its very own aspirations outside of both blocks and ANY country other than Israel. Its power over Russia and its willingness – not to say determination – to destroy any country, culture or race seen as an obstacle, should be clear to anyone prepared to study masses of still heavily suppressed evidence with a genuinely open mind.
I’ll leave it at that since I am aware of the policy on discussion of such contensious matters here.
“It is my contention that Zionism is… an extreme and dominant manifestation of the aspirations of (the majority of the) tribe”
If you accept my (bracketed) change, we’re in complete accordance, with the caveat that my spider sense tells me that the “power” you ascribe to the tribe is about to do a dramatic tumble. They’ve lost their equilibrium, and that’s usually followed by a fall. Not that they won’t go down fighting red of both tooth and nail.
Martin van Crevald’s words haunt these times…
“We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force…. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under.”
Yes, I do accept your bracketed caveat. I guess most people just want to live a quite life organised around family and cultural concerns and the Jewish rank and file are no different in their essential nature.
It is just that their history renders them particularly susceptible to the narratives and demands of their tribal leaders and their organised presence in both Russia and the West provides the Mossad with probably the most formidable humint apparatus on the entire planet.
Like you I see something of an awakening in all this. It’s dubbed ‘anti-semitism’ in both Russia and the West and public manifestations of it are dealt with severely. I too hope that ‘The Tribe’ are riding for a fall (to use an old English hunting expression) but like you, I am well aware of Martin van Creveld and the “Sampson Option”
For sure, they will not accept any ‘dramatic tumble’ – if that is what’s in store for them – gracefully. Of that we can be quite certain.
I wish the CIA would soak Venediktov, the way they soaked Nemtsov. I would not miss the other two either. And I still have a crush on Zakharova.
I think meeting with people like these is a danger to the soul. They are clearly ghouls and psychopaths. But perhaps Zakharova is under some special celestial protection. Who knows?
I knew a mass murderer once. I did not know he was one until much later. In fact, he almost murdered me once. Perhaps something like that is going on with Zakharova. Perhaps she thinks, erroneously I believe, that some of them can be redeemed.
Thank you Scott.
Just one comment re: “Masot about Boris Johnson: “He is an idiot.”
He certainly is an idiot but he is ‘their’ idiot.
Johnson’s sister outed him.
He is a Jew and spent time in a Kibbutz or two.
Strange, that he conceals this.
Anyway. Johnson is a very powerful asset. An idiot who is incognito and loyal to Israel.
I see that Trump has chosen Robert Kennedy Jr as a part of his team – bad news for Elsie I guess. the Donald doing something right –
https://www.rt.com/usa/373260-kennedy-jr-head-vaccine-commission/
Scot,
As you’ve talked about the Cat’s observations and secret developments such as “Yalta-2” and the “Kerry-Lavrov Pact”, I’d like to know your thoughts on developments that seem to have begun with UNSC2334.
That shocking resolution declared Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal, recognized the 1967 ceasefire lines, and gave East Jerusalem to the Palestinians. The US abstained, and it passed 14-0.
The US abstention was shocking enough, but then came revelations that the US had orchestrated it. Netanyahoo said: ““We have no doubt that the Obama administration initiated it, stood behind it, coordinated its versions and insisted upon its passage,” If true, that is big, very big. When one considers how the resolution came to be presented and voted on, one can’t help but think that some large tectonic plate in the world’s power structure has shifted, portending a major quake to come.
In a nutshell, the text for UNSC2334 was written by UK legal & diplomatic personnel, working with the Palestinians. Egypt presented the draft, and then withdrew it under intense pressure, only to have Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal and Venezuela present it jointly. How that 4 got together, I’ll never know, but a casualty may have been New Zealand’s Prime Minister, who resigned without warning less than 3 weeks before. Kerry’s followup speech went even further.
Now, it appears the quake may be coming sooner than we think. The Times of Israel reports that Netanyahoo is terrified that the Obama administration will present the next step at the UNSC before it disappears into the history books. That next step will form a Palestinian State, using the 1967 borders. Kerry is to make a speech outlining the parameters in the coming days, and The Times thinks it will happen on Jan 15, in France:
“France is to hold a conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on January 15, and Netanyahu expects that Kerry will attend, that the Middle East Quartet — the US, UN, Russia and EU — will coordinate their positions at that summit, and that they will then turn to the Security Council in the very last days of the Obama presidency, a Channel 10 report further suggested.”
David Lemire, in his article in Katehon 26.11.2016, echoed your, the Cat’s and Manoylo’s statements that a “Kerry-Lavrov Pact” had been implemented, adding further that one of its terms requires that the Neocons be destroyed as a force in American politics.
With UNSC2334 and whatever comes next, are we looking at some of those terms playing out? Sure looks like it to me, and it explains much of the recent Russia bashing.
Also, if as your last translation of the Cat says, that Kerry and Obama have been “playing both sides against the middle” and have in fact been secretly doing “what needed to be done” while appearing “that they were on the dark side”, then we owe them a debt of gratitude instead of the opprobrium we’ve been heaping on their heads.
Be that all as it may, I await the earthquakes coming, one way or another.
Erebus,
Excellent write up. I will try to get this to Matvey the Cat. He will be pleased.
“we owe them a debt of gratitude” Yes, we all do.
Last year many people here were making mockery of me and Matvey. Now, many expert are writing about Yalta-2 and the Kerry-Lavrov Pact as something that took place and it’s coming to life.
Which is not to say that the neocons via NATO and other private and semi-private armies are not fighting back.
The most important for us is to understand that there will be no nuclear world war.
S. Shoigu just confirmed this.
http://eng.mil.ru/files/2016-12-22_MoD_board_extended_session_ENG.pdf
But, the neocons still might try to do something local, like in the Baltics.
Matvey has always maintained that Obama and Kerry both have been under unimaginable pressure. He also wrote that Obama was many times imprisoned and even poisoned. Nevertheless, they were continually working to remove the neocons from power in the US.
Matvey wants Kerry and his daughter with her Persian husband and children to move to Iran.
He even suggested that Obama should move to Russia. He thinks that they both are in great danger.
I hope that we all will gradually come to understand how much Obama and Kerry, working with Putin behind the scene, have done for keeping the world from sliding into an abyss. Also, what has been the real process of political decision making in the US and WHO were making those decisions.
Those people have to be punished, but for that they have to be revealed.
“Those people have to be punished, but for that they have to be revealed.”
Enter the Donald. Could it be that the alarming extent of his apparent loyalty to Israel really does trump (excuse the apparent pun but the meaning is precise) his apparent determination to reach a rapprochament with Russia?
The thing is, practically every ‘anti-Neocon’ sees his election as a kick-in-the-teeth for the neocon Establishment – and so it appears to have been. That leads them to ‘give him the benefit of any doubts about him. But ‘The Tribe’, in the shape if Netanyahu and an impressive cohort of other Israel-Firsters, have been very quick to get close to him. Is he going to go after the the *real* architects of the neocon vision? or will he restrict himself to a few non-Jewish flunkies? The ‘neocon vision’ in this interpretation is not ‘The Tribe’s’ vision, it is merely a means of harnessing the financial and military power necessary to secure their historic ends – and Russia has become militarily powerful too.
We live in vary dangerous times.
Erebus’s argument is intriguing and would that Obama, Kerry really were that visionary, but I doubt it
“The most important for us is to understand that there will be no nuclear world war.
S. Shoigu just confirmed this.
http://eng.mil.ru/files/2016-12-22_MoD_board_extended_session_ENG.pdf “
I read the entire pdf. Impressive.
What I did not read is any confirmation that “there will be no nuclear world war”. It certainly confirms that Anglo-US-Nato plans for a possible pre-emptive strike – or the presentation of an ‘offer that cannot be refused’-type ultimatum – are being rendered progressively more problematical. What it does not do is account for the sort of possibility reported beginning at 1:20.00 of this sobering John Pilger video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhXfslQJfsY
or a multitude of other non-rational actions that could result in a devastating nuclear exchange.
Ditto both your responses.
If the 2nd resolution passes the Security Council, killing the spring that feeds it, we can hope the swamp becomes drainable. Until then, the flow will increase to match whatever Trump is draining.
“Could it be that the alarming extent of his apparent loyalty to Israel really does trump… his apparent determination to reach a rapprochament with Russia?”
If Obama & Kerry have been playing a double game under “unimaginable pressure”, then I’d say Trump should be capable of matching them in continuing it. Moreover, one could assume he’s been well primed for it, and has surrounded himself with people who can also play. We’ll see. Big bold IFs all over the place.
BTW, I was not making an “argument”. It just struck me that we’re looking at a logic here that every day sounds more and more like jigsaw puzzle pieces clicking into place, and I’m somewhat awed by the careful planning and execution it would take if all is true.
To me the photo looks very odd – the proportions of the people, particularly the hands of the woman in the foreground. Do we know it is an undoctored pic? It just looks strikingly odd. Like the two in the front are from a different picture. Or is perspective playing a trick on me?
It struck me from the beginning, before reading the article. But I kept it just as “odd” in the back of my head. Who knows, what game is being played here…
This is an interesting simple analysis containing nothing graphically offensive, of the Russian Ambassador Karlov “Assassination” in Turkey which anyone who has any significant experience as a photographer including the use of a tripod, should immediately be able to appreciate.
It is specifically made from the point of view of the photographer, and the analysis is very specifically photography based. Although most people probably haven’t used a camera with a tripod, they should still be able to appreciate – all the points made. Others have gone to far greater analysis, covering many more relevant points – but this is simple and easy to understand. I am not claiming it proves anything, but that it raises numerous questions that are difficult to explain.
Here are a few.
1. There are at least 4 photographers in different positions in the room, who continue taking photographs for a significant amount of time after the Ambassador is shot. They show no natural reaction or fear for their own lives whatsoever.
2. The photographer doing the main video, has his camera on a tripod doing a close-up zoom shot. When the shooting starts – he takes it off the tripod. The camera is then hand held, and he zooms out and pans to clearly photograph the gunman – despite the fact that a large number of bullets – are coming almost exactly in his direction. He then puts the camera back on the tripod.
3. Its supposed to be a photographic exhibition of the Russian countryside, except all the photos on display are nothing special – mainly of Moscow – and much better photos of the same locations can be found by a simple google search.
I could go on, but you are better off just watching it, and drawing your own conclusions. There is much more evidence available elsewhere not covered in this video that raises further serious questions about the authenticity of this event.
“Photographic Evidence! Karlov Assassination Hoax Exposed”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_4XH2bpJBo
Tony
Tony_0pmoc
I told you before that your trolling and mockery of a death of the Russian ambassadress is highly offensive.
Karlov was a very good Christian man, a true Russian diplomat, who has done so much for peace in Turkey and Syria.
Here is the video of his farewell ceremony. He is in open casket. Thousands of people came to say goodby to him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkBJYrWyl9U
I have already answered your comments before. Those were the same exact comments that you are posting now under this post. Other readers posted excellent comments responding to you. You keep ignoring us.
I officially ask you to cease and decease your Russophobic activities and your belligerent remarks about a slaughtered diplomat.
To me what you noticed on video/photos as an expert raises the question how many people were actually involved in the assassination apart from the shooter.
R