Mozgovoi is a true man of honor. Ghost Brigade has always been in the worst locations, done very well because of morale, and represents the people with courage.
“To Kiev” has always been his ideology. He knows life will never improve until Kiev is smoked out of all the corrupt and nazi leaders.
If he survives the internecine treachery it will be a miracle.
Mozgovoi is the leader of the internecine treachery, not the victim. He has continually tried to organize a mutiny of the field commanders, in league with Strelkov. The last Military Council he called, Strelkov announced they had the support of all the LPR field commanders and the majority of DNR’s.
When the great day arrived, nobody showed up. Delusions of grandeur. Mozgovoi advocates a military dictatorship; nobody should be in government who hasn’t fought at the front. He said it at Yalta and many other times. The Military Council was supposed to declare one.
In the meantime, Mozgovoi’s strategy, which he described in an interview around the time of the Manifesto, is to avoid fighting except when cornered in order to avoid casualties and have an unscathed body of loyal men to control the government that would be formed after the war.
With a forgiving nature that would be beyond me, Zakharchenko offered to let bygones be bygones, sedition, insubordination, mutiny, call for Zakharchenko’s hanging, etc., to be forgotten. Mozgovoi could have the honour of closing the lid of the Debaltsevo cauldron coming from the LPR side to meet the DNR forces. Lots of photo ops for Ghost’s film company. Great symbol of the cooperation of the two republics.
How did that work out? If you think back, you may recall the sitreps for day after day announcing the encirclement was about to be closed and it kept not happening. Mozgovoi dogged it. When questioned by reporters, Mozgovoi said offense (something new to him) took a lot of pondering, planning, thinking in one’s tent. His strategy was untargeted shelling until all enemy fire ceased and then to advance. The Ukrops had this philosophy too — tanks are for hiding behind — which is backwards. Your infantry protects your combat vehicles and guns, not vice versa.
In the end, DNR forces had to close the lid. Then Mozgovoi went into an enemy-free area of the cauldron, set up a soup kitchen, and announced to the camera that always accompanies him that “Ghost” was first into Debaltsevo. (Everybody else was still busy fighting.)
“Ghost” is the last remnant of Strelkov’s “Orthodox Crusaders.” Their oath-taking is on You-Tube; listen to it. They swear allegiance to mythical concepts, Novorussia and Pan-Slavism, not to the government or the people of the Lugansk Republic. They are taught that conforming to the Minsk agreement violates their oath and those who signed it should be hanged for treason.
For a look at other permutations and combinations of the conflicts within the NAF, you should read an impressive compilation by Ukrainian blogger on Live Journal, “Friend,” that Kristina has translated and posted on Fort Russ. There’s a lot of former P.M. Boroday (Strelkov’s only known long-time friend), Bezler, Petrovsky, Khodakovsky, Russians. Bezler claims to have written orders to surrender Kharkov, Petrovsky ditto for Donetsk.
Flor, just because Cassandra does not tow the party line, doesn’t mean the mods aren’t working….what kind of a site do you want ??? Just one line of propaganda or the truth ? How do you know Cassandra’s totally sane comment is wrong ??? I don’t know if its wrong or right….how can you know without really being there ? And even then sometimes things are hard to figure out. She says these things can be viewed on youtube…please view her links and let us know clearly the facts…
I was only commenting on the choice of words. And you can take that as an expression of my admiration for the impartiality of this site, which also allows comments from people who do not tow the party line.
Flor, Cassandra says she is quoting Mozgovoi’s swearing-in ceremony, which she says is on youtube. So she’s just reporting a fact, and isn’t approving it– is in fact critical of it.
Just saying, in case there is some confusion. Regards.
Thank you, Penelope.
I wasn’t criticizing Cassandra at all. I was merely expressing my astonishment at the liberality of the moderators who allowed those two expressions I mentioned in my first comment.
Flor, are you a sporting man? I’ll bet you $100 that Strelkov named his army the Orthodox Crusaders and another hundred that Mozgovoi’s oath, which is on YouTube with subtitles, is as advertised. Strelkov had political/religious commissars through all the units indoctrinating the troops in his version of Tsarism and radical Orthodoxy. Mozgovoi still has. See above. Do you see any tactical instruction happening in that lecture? BTW, Strelkov swore allegiance to one of the current Romanovs in his youth, but is now forsworn.
Can you really not feel it, that all kinds of weighty things are going on that they think we don’t “need to know”? Or perhaps just that they are signs of weakness and throw away their ace. Clearly the ‘Germans’ are afraid of them, which is good. So let’s not show weakness. Zakh is a clam (except when doing the town with beautiful journalists from Expert). Does anybody know what his callsign is? Mozgovoi refers to him as “Lord” but really? Cassad revealed that Strelkov had posted to the Secret Forum that when he was fired and exiled “they” had called him a sadist. That had to include Zakharchenko. Since Zakh came out on top, I assume he led the mutiny. But when pushed by a journalist about Strelkov he scrambles like mad to come up with something bland to say: “He just wasn’t like us. He didn’t think like us. He didn’t even smell like us.”
(Strelkov has pretended to take great offense at that last. All he had to say was “Well, I should hope not.”)
Who was General Khersun and who signed the document on the pages we haven’t seen? Was Bes really in that conspiracy as an agent of Zakharchenko? Was Khodakovsky’s signature really forged? Who did what, with which and to whom in the shootout at Anthracite? Why isn’t Oleg Tsarev more central? Is there something else against him or is the Party of Regions held in that much disrepute?
I am retired and disabled. Following this war is pretty much what I do. I read obscure (Yandexed) Russian magazines, Strelkov’s diaries, every translated interview and many not translated. I copy the names in Cyrillic to search for never-translated interviews. I check for leaks from the Secret Forum. I tiptoe through the blogosphere. I’m thinking I should read one of the fairytales Strelkov wrote, just to see, although they are reviewed as highly derivative. I’m curious to see what the heroes are like. Do they triumph or are they gallant in defeat?
@ Anonymous
I am not a sporting man, but I am a sporting woman.
However I would be surprised if those guys you are talking about had really used the word ‘crusader’ in describing themselves, as it is a word the Orthodox generally like to use in describing the Catholics. Other than that, I cannot say that I agree or disagree with anything you say, because I haven’t followed the events too closely.
This morning I found this article, but I don’t know what to make of it, is it good ? is it bad ? http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/the-ukraine-war-from-perspective-of-russian-nationalists-a-1023801.html
I stopped reading when it said this is the man Putin sent to start the war in Ukraine…..As tp Ghost, I like what he has to say about the country he wants to build. I also think it is fine to have the people who are fighting the revolution be in the government after the revolution….along with all of those who helped, they will win in a “popular” election anyway A proletarian dictatorship is a step forward from the dictatorship of Mr. and Mrs. Capitalist. All natural resources would belong to the people. All commanding heights of economy would be public utilities. I see a role for the market in socialist society or societies on the way to building communism…but these would be small business petty commodity producers this includes farmers who are naturally best suited to such an economy. The man has vision. As to the rest of the “charges” against him…..the people in NovoRussia will define those as they will know. These assassination attempts help no one. Even a military court would be better if there were something there to stick on one. He doesn’t come across to me as a pretender.
The state does not have the money to develop everything. It works for countries like Russia because the state owns and makes money on things like Oil exports. And as we saw, letting people have a share in the companies will not work either since there would always be people who would steal those shares from you. Or can you imagine even in a country like the US where 5 million people who live on food stamps NOT selling their shares for money? I just don’t see a good way to merge capitalist and communist projects. Its not an ideal world. I would think what India has done, with the government holding almost 50% share of the company might be a better way but again we come to things like how does companies with subsidies work out. State owned companies are very inefficient because the people who work there are using it as their retirement vehicle and nothing else. Capitalistic companies are efficient but the problem is they don’t care how they are profitable. They are usually profitable by making the tax payers act as their liability insurers. Every US company I look at seems to be taking this path, even wallmart who don’t actually make anything but they sure throw the welfare of their workers onto the tax payer to support them in retirement. Human corruption is the biggest problem anywhere. You wont even see it as corruption. But anyone making money on the backs of others while not caring about others is corruption in someway. This will not change until humans themselves change.
I think these criticisms of socialist economies are pretty stale.
People with a revolutionary zeal knowing that they are building a new tomorrow and have a direct voice and participation in doing so aren’t just looking for a retirement check. They say the same thing about unions in the west…whereas I have read studies that show that capitalism is the most wasteful and inefficient manner of production going. What is was good at was exploitation labour at a key moment in history during the industrial revolution through wage slavery. Plus, your co-workers are not going to allow you to steal time or money if they are genuinely enfranchised-why would they it is their money you would be stealing.
As far as people stealing shares well that was a capitalist counter revolution brought on by the parasitic bureaucracy that had to be excised but not the socialized property forms on which it was based. They killed the patient…Putin has gotten some of it back….but justice will be a long time coming for all those who worked tirelessly for the revolution. The Soviet Union didn’t fall – it was pushed. If we buried capitalism every time there was a depression and these have been and continue to be major failures it would have been off the historical stage long ago. Let’s hope it is not much longer-the crisis facing humanity are to great to deal with AND wear this liberal democratic mask that declares the WEST the BEST. That is the lie that must be exposed and excised.
Socialism a post capitalist society MUST become the manner in which we produce and reproduce as a species or we will perish in a thermonuclear holocaust due to competition and crisis inherent in capitalism or environmental destruction also not counted in the costs that capitalism could not sustain if they were truly counted as part of the production consumption cycle. Socialism: a rationally planned, democratically administered by the direct producers system of production1) rationally planned means environmental concerns are taken into consideration, democratically administered by direct producers-rotating chairs, elections, instant recall, all of those good things that come with the expansion of democracy into the workplace-dictatorship of the proletariat-that is pretty inclusive as stated, everyone who can work works-no excuses or free riders. Our technology makes it more and more possible for both administrative tasks and production to become ever more democratic. It is in the cards, only human agency can make it happen however-that is the clincher right there.
Capitalism will fall many more times before it’s through if we let it; I am afraid however that we have pretty well reached the limits of this social order to perpetuate itself without ever increasing fascism and attendant barbarism that goes with it as it transforms itself and is being transformed by those who gain the most in the hierarchy of capitalist social relations. It is a SOCIAL ORDER although it’s propagandists and apologists do their best to present it as an impartial unconnected teleological form of production that has nothing to do with social or political relations in which is interconnected. We are all stamped and catalogued as some part of it. This alien, de-humanizing manner of production and reproduction of the species….Terrible isn’t it.
Just to add about the pretender. I don’t sense and insincere bone in this guys body and I can usually spot a lie. Now some of the things he stands for are a bit conservative for me and don’t really go along with what I consider a socialist society as such institutions I believe would eventually fade away in a truly socialist society as the things they prop up will no longer exist,
On the other hand these institutions may become even more genuine, like marriage if the economic consideration is no longer a factor in the determination, having or not having children depending on your wage,,,,school or no school dependent on day care or no day care, etc Socialism is actually great for women’s liberation and that doesn’t sit well with orthodoxies traditional views on sexual relations in society.
But he believes in socialized property forms and that is where it all starts-so that and his sincerity is what attracts me to this person. Maybe I am duped and don’t know as much as I should. Maybe my support would grow if I did know.
Time will tell I just hope these guys don’t eliminate each other for political reasons or expediency. No good will come of that. Some say the revolution eats it’s children-no the reactionaries do that, not revolutionaries but in this case the reactionaries are in Kiev and perhaps Moscow-time will tell.
Cassandra, I found the second half of the link you posted very interesting, though shocking. (The part that deals w how Strelkov & Boroday were assigned to Novorossiya. Also how it was that so many villages were surrendered.)
I don’t know if it’s all true but it is consistent with other things, including some statements by Strelkov himself.
However, I was totally unable at the time that Fort Russ posted it to get anyone else to consider it– or in most cases, even to read it. Thank you for being open-minded.
U.S. Senator John McCain has said during a speech at the Washington Center for Strategic and International Studies that Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to strike Ukraine’s strategic southeastern port city of Mariupol, adding that the Moldova is also Putin’s possible target, potentially along with the Baltic states and Poland.
A prominent Ukraine supporter, McCain said that the Kremlin was aiming to create a land corridor from Russia to annexed Crimea, thus seizing Mariupol is vital for Russia-backed forces, Ukraine Today reports.
McCain also repeated his call to U.S. President Barack Obama to send defensive weapons to Ukraine.
Can’t improve on Bonor’s comment.ref.McCain
“A greater jerk, a worse embarrassment and a more dangerous fool is not possible to find in international politics.
One can only wonder how many brains are left in Arizona, that keeps voting this completely corrupted war-monger into the US Senate. A bigger risk to their own democracy is harder to find. And now the rest of the world as ell have to deal with this pathetic liar and scruple less traitor to everything democratic, legal and just…”
I would love to see Russia open a naval base in Venezuela, Now that Venezuela is a “security threat” to USAIANS. It would be a boost for their failing economy. I would love to see Russian naval vessels in the Caribbean. John McCain would go so ballistic, there is not enough blood pressure medication on the planet to control his stroking out. What an ass clown. And then i would be LMFAO. Cheers.
yes that is exactly what Russia must do but knowing foolish Russia it is sure chance that Russia will not avail of this opportunity. Remember how medvedev used to spurn and insult chavez to please angloamericans, . Russia is a perennial loser because she lives in illusion and not in reality.too late to come to senses is her motto.if Russia had helped Iran with s-300 then west would have been involved in that place rather than giving attention to ukraine. now west will woo even iran to her side and Russia will be left high and dry without allies.
while west sticks to her stooges and allies Russia betrays her allies to please the west!
Blue, the perennial loser being Poroshenko ? He’s not a loser in the eyes of his masters. Just like the States is a loser, but the shadow gov behind the States is richer than ever before.
No, Russia is “perennial loser” — quoting anon on March 29, 2015 · at 1:55 am UTC
I keep seeing this stuff bout how Putin is dictator, and Russia is a loser and going broke, and the rest of the lies — I wonder how people can believe any of this after getting a few facts. Or why trolls or western ideologues think any of this dysinformation would fly on a site like this one. But then, there are those who insist that the US won the Vietnam war and Lybia and Iraq is now democracies, etc.
Yes, the very wealthy is wealthier than before — but what good does it do them, really? They already had far more than they could possibly spend, so it’s meaningless, and meaning is the one thing they need but can’t buy and don’t know where to look.
This is for anon. and others reading here. It will never look good on us to openly express wishes for the horrific deaths of enemies. Instead, we do what is never expected: we pray for their “come to Jesus” moment now, before it’s too late. John McCain is a human being and when we wish destruction on another human being, Satan wins. He wasn’t always such an evil, pathetic little man, but something has happened along his way and blackened his heart. He might seem lost to us, but we can never give in to this because it betrays a lack of faith in salvation power in ourselves and again, Satan wins. We don’t know and even McCain himself doesn’t know all that has happened to him to make him what he is today, only God knows that. God weeps for the loss of every soul, but God never wishes for the destruction of any soul. We should imitate God. McCain has become all the things you have said. The record cannot be denied, it’s there for all to see, but please be careful of your words because words have power and they must be controlled.
thank you, David, for this reminder. A great Buddhist spiritual teacher once told me (I am Orthodox Christian now) there is always hope for transformation and we should never give up on anyone.
I don’t agree with you David. When someone chooses to be a puppet for evil – violence and destabilization – like McCain, then we need to stop him at all costs. Jesus is not a pacifist. He drove those money changers out, flying before him and he was swinging a whip. And when the gang with Judas at their head came for him (Him) in the garden they fell down backwards at the power coming from him…twice….
David is correct in not wanting a horrific death for them, but, like a mad dog or man-eating wild animal, it’s reasonable to put a bullet in it’s head, even with some regret, if it can’t be definitively neutralized or contained safely. As for losing souls and other such ‘faith statements’, or prayer, that assumes we know things on a higher or deeper level that what we need to know to judge such killers safe to let stay on the loose.
If one can’t know the state of McCain’s ‘soul’ one can’t know exactly what a ‘soul’ or ‘redemption’ or ‘god’ means either. Personally, I’m still trying to figure out exactly how a gyroscope works — much less things like ‘Satan’. or ‘Satan winning’. Is this a football game, or a war, that can be won or lost?
If by taking one person down means saving many than absolutely.
Luke 17:2
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
There are instances where a death sentence is necessary.
The come to Jesus did arrive with Obama he had the mandate to root out war criminal, crooked banksters, end wars, close Guantanamo, provide UNIVERSAL health care, rebuild American infrastructure, nationalize or audit the Fed ( who wants all that bad paper) close it down actually, investigate 9/11 properly the whole 91/2 yards and he FAILED to meet his historical date with history.
Obama was to make history not just by being the first black president but by the fact that American’s were so ready to have the house cleaned they thought who better than a black president and were behind him more than people are behind Putin even today….He betrayed his calling…he missed his date with history. America will have a hard time getting out of the fascist regime it has set itself up to be.
Remember Fascism didn’t start with gas chambers it ended there ( so we are told) Given the number of people in prison in the USA and the corporations are people to laws, the monopoly of the press ( communication) ( wealth) I would say we are well down the road-those prison camps that are already set up for “national emergency” like “internment and re-education” were not built as just another pork barrel project-they have a projected use to protect the “State” from it’s own people during times of crisis.
Now when you have a crooked system a crisis can mean bad guys about to be brought to justice need a diversion to avoid their fate to the bankers stole all the pensions and people are going to riot and overthrow the government…When the status quo is about to rightfully lose it’s privileges this is considered a national crisis where the people at large become the enemy of the “CAPITALIST STATE”
I read a post on Facebook yesterday by a conservative online journal. The responses reminded me how paranoid many American conservatives (those who have not yet abandoned the republican party, as many have) have become because of the MSM. They truly see nearly the entire world as a threat to their personal safety.
They were all enraged at Obama for bargaining with Iran about its nuclear program and seemed to feel they might die tomorrow because of him. This is delusional, of course, but is the result of a lengthy and successful campaign of pro-war propaganda in the US.
This is why they vote for McCain. They haven’t read a true word about US foreign policy in their entire lives.
I have to say that most liberals I know are not much better off intellectually. They have been thoroughly confused by the endless lying in the MSM and in the “alternative left” press. American people are very confused because of all the lying and lack the political sophistication to decode the message.
They are willfully confused. Blaming a complete lack of the ability to individually think critically on the lies of others is a cop out of the greatest proportion. And, sir/madam, amerikkkans are not by themselves in their stupidity and blindness. Majorities of Citizens of every nation share the same affliction. The inability to think rationally and analytically. Speaking of rational thought…… I best not go there?
Don’t forget all the emails and letters they get from the conservative party where just about every lie that has been spun is repeated and delivered again just to make it official. The republicans used the churches in the south to push their political message and then when Obama told the IRS to investigate them for breaking the separation law they cried fowl. But look at the evangelism that has poured out over the air waves the past 3 decades, so much so one Pat Roberts ran for president. That is how nutty America has gotten, this man was taken as seriously as a heart attack as well.
In setting fire to the Forrester while executing a frat boy ‘fart joke’ McCain killed more Americans than Russia in all its history.
Whenever I hear “Ukraine is rising from its knees” I see a vision of McCain sprawled in an armchair while in front of him Yulia is levering herself to her feet.
Red: You should read Faith of my Fathers carefully and critically, separating out the spin.
The Vietnamese never hit him upside the head. He was never tortured. He was punished for serial rule-breaking, which he brags about. The worst that happened to him was he was put in an isolation hut tied up with rope.
The Vietnamese ran their prisons by the book, and the book is that the prisoners are still ruled by the senior officer in the group. They tell the officer the rules and he tells the men. When McCain constantly and deliberately broke the rules, his commanding officer got punished. He never said a word about McCain, although you can imagine how the press hounded him. It was “no comment” to the grave. And never endorsed him. Navy officers are conspicuous by their absence from McCain’s endorsement lists. A Navy JAG was an early endorser of Obama. I suspect that was an anti-McCain choice.
When he was in hospital with a badly broken leg, McCain was afraid it was not going to heal right, so he contacted the Vietnamese, told them he was the son of the Admiral of the Fleet, and offered to make propaganda broadcasts for them if they would transfer him to the kind of medical care to which he had become accustomed. It was his idea, his initiative. It is very clear if you scrub off the spin as you read.
So he has a mountain to climb if he wants to be a super-patriot.
McClain is a fool as well as a warmonger.Seizing (liberating) Mariupol is not to help create a land-bridge to Crimea. The city could be by-passed and besieged while armies advanced down the line to Crimea if that was the plan.The city would fall from the siege and an internal revolt soon enough.The city does need desperately to be freed.But Crimea has nothing to do with that.
Russia has handed a multibillion-dollar contract to build a bridge to the Crimean Peninsula to an ally and former judo partner of Vladimir Putin who is under Western sanctions.
A government order published on Friday named Stroigazmontazh (SGM) as the contractor to build the bridge spanning the Kerch Strait to link Russia’s mainland and Crimea, annexed from Ukraine last March in an act that triggered Western sanctions.
SGM is 51-percent owned by Arkady Rotenberg, an old friend of Putin who was among the first Russian businessmen to be put under Western visa bans and asset freezes over Crimea’s seizure.
The alternative planned approaches to the building of the bridge and the anticipated prices (and various wheeling-’n-dealings) have been going through a roller-coaster for the past year. There are also opinions that an underwater tunnel would have been a much better solution. If you speak Russian, check also the December 2014 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NuSi1cYUf0 . Etc.
A part of me hopes McCain is correct and Putin would take the south, but it seems not that’s why the bridge is being built as soon as possible. McCain is just projecting his own mania on Putin and Russia — it is McCain who wants to rule the world.
Mozgovoi, on the hand, has his greatest strength in his moral power and sense of human dignity. The morale of Ghost Brigade is sourced in moral strength and courage, and it is largely the moral integrity and conviction which impels the desire to take and free Kiev and the west of Ukraine, not just Mozgovoi’s strategic opinion. Morality and integrity is something the US government singularly lacks, and will inevitably lead to its downfall.
BOAO Asian financial Forum on Hainan Island, China. Keynote address by Pres. Xi Jinping.
Challenged the concept of Hegemony, Cold War mentality, investment for greed and domination of what is the old order.
Pledged 500 Billion dollars from Chinese sovereign funds to help develop Asian and other nations. This is in the Silk Road Fund, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and the concept of the Silk Road Belt and Maritime Silk Road.
69% of the globe lives in the regions of these development and investment projects.
China has welcomed all comers to the AIIB. Today, Russia joined. Yesterday, very importantly, South Korea joined. The Hegemon is losing a grip on capitalism (ain’t that ironic?).
Also, the entire Forum (an annual event China hosts in various nations of Asia-Pacific) has a demeanor quite different than the West’s Davos annual ego-greed fest in Switzerland.
Science and Technology:
NASA caved and made a deal for the next gen Space Station with little ole Russia. The US, mighty with bombs and missiles, has little hope of Space exploration with humans without Russia.
Russia and China have plans for cooperative ventures in Space science and tech. So the US would only have Elon Musk (Space X) and the other guys who blow up old USSR rockets because they don’t know what they are doing.
This development is huge. It clearly shows that Russia is a super science power. Not only for its rocket engines, but for the quality of its science and the value of a reliable, honest partner.
If there ever is going to be peace in Space and cooperation in Science exploration of Mars and beyond, this is a good omen at a time when Russia and Putin are vilified.
Space is a realm where the Russians have always made their mark. This announcement of a long term partnership for a new ISS project with NASA is very good news.
As for the good news from the US or about the US—
Nothing. Oh, there are some little things, but if I mention them they bring up thoughts that make you wretch, so, the best thing is to reveal the hegemony, and to resist the tyranny.
Russia (unlike the US) is doing everything it can to keep these Earth bound fights out of Space.Russia would like to see Space as a place “conflict free”,where peoples can co-operate for the sake of the World.The US on the other hand is plotting to use Space for its military domination purposes.I don’t know who will win in their vision for Space.I’m hoping Russia,but its too early to say.
“made a deal for the next gen Space Station with little ole Russia”
Too bad … US will constantly look for ways to use advanced space technology for war. The deal is premature. Better to have the US grounded for now.
Unless Russia fears that blocking them out would lead the US to develop space tech on their own, secretly, no doubt. Maybe Russia figures it can keep a better eye on them and provide an easy way out to neglect that development? But I still would not trust the us: the militarization of space for its imperialist goals is one of it’s strategic projects.
And….there is mention of reason for war in Ukraine not only to destroy relationship btw Europe and Russia but to cover theft of Tsar Nicholas ll’s gold advanced in the 1910 decade in support of the League of Nations….Which (idealism?) rings a bell vis a vis an attempt made for world peace, disarmament was it not, via the Hague? Hard to imagine world leaders like this today……excepting the ‘awful’ Putin. However this is news to me. Anyone?
HAHA. While everyone is watching USA vs Russia, China sneaks around the back and takes over the whole world. Good one.
It is a good move to let in everyone who wants in, to that development bank. It will all be done to China’s rules, but the other members will have to fork out some money for it. This will reduce what they have available to lend through the IMF.
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The space thing is safe. It will end up being Russia’s design and under their control but a lot of USA money going into it.
Russia always goes for function first, and tries to do it for a reasonable price. USA once spent about a billion to develop a biro that would write in space. Russia just sent up pencils.
America has China in its crosshairs as well. That’s what the American Pivot to Asia in general and Air/Sea Battle plans in particular are about. Hell, for all the talk about Russia vs. America, the Pentagon is planning to redeploy 60 percent of American’s global war machine to Asia against whom? China.
And China’s Asian Development bank is not an attempt to take over the world. It’s an economic response to America’s attempt to take over the world such as the USA’s Trans-Pacific Partnership, which consciously excludes China, as well as its fake War on Terrorism and its Colored Revolutions (aka regime change).
I have long maintained that in a grand historical reversal, US foreign policy seems hellbent on destroying the global capitalism that itself created and bloodily and aggressively preserved, just so that US supremacy is maintained.
As strange as it may sound at first, this should not really be a surprise. Global capitalism is awesome, as long as you are its Imperial Center, if you become just another capitalist country, that has to save 30 to 40% of its GDP for investment, and has to pay for its debt with hard currency that you have worked for and exported diligently, and you also have to compete on a level playing field with other powers for access to world markets and natural resources and etc etc etc, the list is endless.
Added to the above, the fact that your superior military spending is largely being negated by the relatively cheap technology of supersonic and hypersonic missiles, and that your natural resource base is being depleted rapidly, while your primary geostrategic rival possess these natural resources in abundance, it becomes clear that you need to engineer a crisis and a war while you are still on top.
Since some time I kind of wonder about McCain s psychological status. I ve been wondering whether John “bomb, bomb Iran” McCain might have been “bombed” while in captivity in Vietnam. He acts very weird I think. As many on this forum I am surprised that still many in Arizona vote for him.
McCain was a dangerous fool long before the Vietnamese had to put up with him. It is claimed that they actually tried to give him back. Somewhere there is a count of the number of planes he destroyed, ours not theirs. He may also have been responsible for the near destruction of his aircraft carrier.
If you had ever been to Arizona, you wouldn’t find his electoral success so surprising.
People who gets out of the pit alive, turn into mental death afterwards.
McCain is like a crow making noise over his own corpse that’s still lying on the ground unburied.
His actions are nothing more but a personal vendetta.
And those who vote for him are flies who follow the crow after leaving the death torso.
Hi Oscar, I heard an interview with Putin where he talked about McCain. McCain spent 7 years in a pit in Vietnam. Solitary I believe. That would drive anyone crazy, is how Putin put it.
I think Putin was making one of his little “dry wit” jokes. No hole for 7 years. 5.5 years and some controversy over details — I’m guessing the Wikipedia story is probably as heroic as it gets.
grandmar what a nit picker you are. I guess its all Putin’s fault…and you know better I’m sure than the president of Russia, even though he’s had personal talks with McCain…But you know better.
McCain had a MELANOMA cancer removed from the right side of his face a few years before his presidential attempt against Obongo. Melanoma is about the worst kind of skin cancer you can have. I appears as a blue-black spot and metasizies to other organs very quickly. Its like: if you have a melanoma at the tip of your index finger and they cut off your arm, you are still toast.
It was on the side of his face, man. Its in his BRAIN. If you notice he tries to only show the left side of his face to cameras and photos. If you see him straight on looking into the camera, there is like a big indentation in his face, like even with the bottom of the ear lobe, about 1 and 1/2 inches from the ear towards the nose, but on the cheek. Then it goes up about 2 inches towards the outside edge of the eyebrow. I’m sure he had the best plastic surgeon, but its still noticeable.
I always wind up looking for this because I’m in the medical field.
Look for it the next time you HAVE to look at him. His next RANT will be soon. Assclown.
The video is from 2008. By that time, he had already had cancer four times. Including basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and malignant melanoma stage 2. And that was known some seven years ago. How have the diseases – and their treatments (“chemotherapy”, etc.) affected his CNS, for instance, we can (only?) guess. And we don’t know what he presently has.
Not false flag, strictly, because that applies to something you can blame on an opponent as an excuse for war against them.
But the story they’re telling certainly does not add up. A cover-up of some sort. They came up with a “leak” right away to “explain” what happened … a leak in major CIA–friend site New York Times, not even a French or German site which would be more natural in this case. Now they are spinning and exaggerating it, and added in eyesight problems, and a very fake-sounding “girlfriend” with the expected stories of how he threatened something like this.
It is a huge distraction from looking at what happened. It may actually turn out to be true, but it has a cover-up smell about it. Perhaps they just do it that way from force of habit.
* the plane did not fly any strange pattern, it just descended in a straight line at a normal angle for 8 minutes, which indicates no external damage
* whether the descent was commanded, or happened from a computer error, no attempt was made to change it for the whole 8 minutes
* that indicates
(a) pilot wanted it to crash OR
(b) pilot(s) unconscious from hypoxia (slow decompression) or smoke/chemical fumes in cockpit
So far we know of 2 faults with the plane. The nosewheel doors wouldn’t close properly: this was fixed the day before. The front toilet didn’t work on the inbound leg of the flight to Barcelona: not fixed. If was a very old plane, ie about 6 months off a total overhaul if it was to keep flying at all. . .
Insurance related? I am not sure if insurance payouts would be different if the accident can be blamed on the pilot rather than an aircraft fault.
Something I ran onto sometime back – both the German aircraft and the Indonesian aircraft a few months ago are A320s
“As aircraft operation becomes more dependent on glass cockpit systems, flight crews must be trained to deal with possible failures.[4] In one glass-cockpit aircraft, the Airbus A320, fifty incidents of glass-cockpit blackout have occurred.[4][5][6] On 25 January 2008 United Airlines Flight 731 experienced a serious glass-cockpit blackout, losing half of the ECAM displays as well as all radios, transponders, TCAS, and attitude indicators. Partially due to good weather and daylight conditions, the pilots were able to land successfully”
“The study found that, although aircraft equipped with glass cockpits had a lower overall accident rate, they also had a larger chance of being involved in a fatal accident” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cockpit#Safety
I don’t buy the suicide theory for one second. The story’s been ridiculous from the onset, not it’s being fleshed out with more detail, step by step, but it remains ridiculous. This is a cover-up for something else. Catastrophic technical failure, or sabotage. Stuxnet comes to mind, where they must have spied on Siemens in order to develope the malware. The question must be asked: Is Airbus avionics development better protected than Siemens nuclear facilites control software development? Keep in mind that if you wanted to strike France and Germany, Airbus makes for a very good target.
Possibly not as far fetched as youight believe, friend. Remember simply, all such aircraft are wire guided. It can be flown and landed remotely by ground crews. We wouldn’t want potential highjackers to have the ability to fly it into a reactor or such would we? Also, if you were to do a bit of research with regard to the locking mechanism of the cockpit door you will find interestingly enough that there exists an unlocking provision via a code on the outside of it. Lastly, the crew possesses satellite radios, including the flight staff, who could have at least called for help and made the ground crews aware of the situation. So I would not dismiss the idea of a payback op so easily.
A few days ago there was a heated but interesting internet exchange on the topic of who screwed up, how much and why during the recent campaign. The main participants were Andrei Morozov (better known as “Murz”) http://kenigtiger.livejournal.com (he is the commander of the communications platoon in the ill-fated August tank battalion in LPR) and Vlad Shurigin http://shurigin.livejournal.com/ (who is a well-connected military journalist) with some input from Evgeniy Kryzhin http://fareastener.livejournal.com/ (who is also a communications platoon commander, but in a howitzer battalion in Enakievo (DPR)), and a few others. The Ghost brigade and Mozgovoi came up quite a few times. Apparently the Central Command has a huge grievance towards Mozgovoi for not carrying out an assigned military task, which led to other people having to pick up his slack and suffering unnecessary losses.
I got the impression that many, and not just the top brass, have had it up to here with his “independence”, and the general anarchy that still reigns in LPR as opposed to DPR. Тhe main culprits for the latter are the Cossacks rather than Mozgovoi, but he is not helping the matter with the picking and choosing which orders to carry out.
What we do know about the Ghost Brigade is that it occupied the most treacherous position between Donetsk and Lugansk, straddling the area in a forward defense against some of the most powerful Ukie armor and artillery. That has always been its sector. And remember, until very recently there was no joint, coordinated command structure in the militia.
The recent cauldron formation called for Ghost to attack Popsnaya and take it. That bogged down. Later, despite manpower and equipment losses he joined in the closing of the smaller cauldron that trapped Debalcevo. Ghost enabled the Cossacks to enter the city first.
And from the videos I saw the relationship with the people they rescued was the deepest, warmest.
So, if a man of honor (who won’t put up with thieves and criminals and rapists in the ranks) is not loved by every other important person, it usually is jealousy or fear that the Commander will finger them for their criminality. (Particularly, if this is local stuff and not upsetting Moscow, you can be fairly certain that Mozgovoi is being slimed.)
By the way, until Debalcevo, the Cossacks were the units undependable and who ran from its positions in prior offensives and defenses.
The point is, there is central command structure now (and it was already in place during the Jan-Feb operation), but apparently not for Mozgovoi and not for the Cossacks (the situation with the latter has apparently somewhat improved by now, but they are still a major headache). The HQ has no complaints about the final stage involving the closing of the Debaltsevo cauldron, only the previous halted advance. They do not believe that Mozgovoi did all he should have done, unlike other units, especially from the much better organised DPR forces. Obviously this is their opinion but under the circumstances it is the one that matters. It needs to be remembered that what is being built there is an actual military, where there is a proper chain of command, no democracy, and orders are to be followed – and this is what military professionals expect. Not everybody likes it, but it is what it is. If the Ghost brigade does not fit into that, it will inevitably lead to problems. I hope this gets figured out without any serious carnage.
The established units like Mozgovoi’s were reluctant to “join the Army” because they were cohesive companies. They did not want to be split up, scattered into various other groupings they could already see as under-trained and under maybe also under-trained leaders.
Batman agreed to join only is his group was left intact. Four days later, he was assassinated, but his group was still left as is. Mozgovoi’s brigade works 100% with the others in terms of strategy, for common goals, but they are a team and continue work that way..
Recent assessments of how the Debaltsevo fighting went indicate that the High Command giving orders doesn’t help. It needs to take a much bigger role in keeping the supplies coming
I haven’t read that discussion in its entirety because I keep shouting at my monitor.
The main complaints seems to be that they didn’t have spare parts, didn’t have a reserve, used under-trained troops, lacked advanced equipment, on and on like that. And, the terrible sin, pretended that they did instead of announcing the good news to the Ukrops.
All this lack of preparedness applied to the Ukies, too. And they had a lot more men, a lot more money… and still lost. Why?
* morale — NAF is fighting for a just cause, however variously they may be defining it
* good leadership — perhaps not as officially trained in military matters as UAF had, but leaders trusted by their men, and this is what the original units were afraid to lose by being split up into a new official army.
LPR wanted to break their original groups, seeing them as uncontrolled warlords. DPR took theirs in as ready made units and didn’t break them up. Admittedly LPR had more territory the “state” had no systems to control, so it was up to the local commanders to do what they could.
Mozgovoi did talk some rather wild stuff in the early days, but seems to be fully on board when it’s important. His statement just after Minsk2 didn’t have a single word about ideology of any sort, just all phrases about a fair life with no oligarchs, that even any Ukie could be happy with.
Dear Saker, I am Sanjay here again. I just wanted to say to you something abt PCR and you excitement. Please don’t fall into the trap of people like PCR or for that matter entire acadmia of the West. These are just showmanship. I am sure you know he is coming from the RR regime. Truely you know or might me knowing very well abt RR time of US. Have you ever asked him why they didn’t ask the same question when he was working with him? Did they have the rightousness at that time? What did they do all their life? Weren’t they able to teach the TRUTH abt USA to their own people? Have you asked them these things? These are the point which they still don’t accept as a massive flaws. Honestly there is only one solution of all these mess. Either redemtion by the USA or a massive catastrophic War. In my opinion the later one is the only solution. You can’t have cure for Cancer. Then the question is the “INNOCENT PEOPLE” would suffer? The answer is a big “YES” because they are not INNOCENT at all. Do you think the consumption by US, BRITISH,ETC at the expense of rest of the world are right? There are many things an you all know more than me.
Moreover recently I miss your philosophical analysis.
“… I am sure you know he is coming from the RR regime. …”
Exactly. RR was a successful Hollywood front for the extreme right wing. That PCR makes here a false distinction is probably for some entirely personal reasons. Seems as if he was very personally embittered by the establishment at some point in time since RR, which forced him to see the light. Hard to judge. His analyses are indeed quite good and – “better ever than never”.
The modern big war tools. Thy are known for the never before existing high precision to kill a fly, minding his business, thousands of miles away. No need to mass destroy city’s or the like. Just going after them, wanting wars, thy will be the first to die. The only silver lining in coming wars.
Sanjay – The answer to your questions is the US has a very effective propaganda machine. I have many friends from other countries here and they are as deceived as the Americans I know. You cannot believe how persuasive it is and how well done.
Greece’s Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis will meet his Russian counterpart and the CEO of energy giant Gazprom in Moscow on Monday MAR30, as he hit out at the EU and Germany for tightening a ‘noose’ around the Greek economy.
Outspoken Lafazanis, on the left wing of Greece’s co-ruling Syriza party, will meet Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak and Gazprom Chief Executive Alexei Miller as well as other senior government officials, the energy ministry said on Saturday.
Lafazanis’ visit will come just over a week before Tsipras is due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow although the Greek government has stressed it is not seeking funding from the Kremlin.
I wonder if not Russia but China will spring a surprise deal to Greece in form of goods-in-lieu, etc.
The dream of owning a house with a superb view by the Aegean Sea is now closer than ever to reality, reports the Shanghai-based China Business News.
Since the eruption of the eurozone debt crisis five years ago, housing prices in Greece have dropped by 50% on average. Some luxury houses with sea views have seen their prices drop by 35% over the past year alone.
In order to boost investment, the Greek government launched a Golden Visa program in 2013 under which foreign, non-European nationals who invest a minimum of €250,000 (US$275,000) in real estate will be granted a five-year visa that will allow them to travel freely to 26 Schengen countries.
Remember this?
We’ll see if he finally does something more than send out Mean Mr. Mumbles for a song&dance about “our friends”. That schtik got old & sickening long ago.
What a difference a new century can make.At the end of the last century most of the World was “at peace”.Not that there wasn’t turmoil then, of course there was.But the amount of it covering the globe was small compared to today.As the repercussions from 9/11 came,one after the other starting in 2001.Much of the globe has moved to turmoil and war.And just as dangerous has been the acceptance of what the Empire labels “security”.I remember hearing at 9/11 that the US (and Europe) needed to accept a loss of personal freedom for security reasons.That we should adopt the security regime of Israel.Living in fear,with locked down buildings.To become a constant police state. Politicians and the media all portrayed that as a good thing.As I was thinking “no its not a good thing”.Now from that beginning,our police state has turned to world domination,stirring up wars,and sponsoring terrorism itself.They invaded Afghanistan under the cover of making us “safe” and “catching Bin Ladin”.After 14 years the US and NATO are still there,killing,dying,dominating.Bin Ladin is dead,the Taliban is far from defeated.And the US is bankrupt.Then to “protect” us from non-existent WMD’s the US “had” to invade another sovereign state in the ME,Iraq.After 12 years,Iraq is in far worse shape than it was before the invasion.Around a million Iraqi citizens are dead.And more dying every day.The US name is even more mud than before around the world,and the US population far poorer than before.But instead of thinking on the mistakes made.The US “leadership” has opted for even more wars. Dis-stabilizing more countries in the MENA region.And now even in Europe.When will this come to an end.Will the world finally say NO to the US warmongers.Or will their policies bring us all to war.I don’t know of course.But I do hope they can be stopped before we “cross the Rubicon” and its too late to stop.
When USSR collapsed the neocons — ‘the crazies in the basement’ got the chance to arrange the ‘new Pearl Harbor’ false flag on 9/11, with the plans for world domination laid out and ready to go.
It’s turning out the New American Century, although much less ambitious than a Thousand Year Reich, is yet another of those plans that ‘gang aft agley’, as Robt. Burns said, and will fall far short of a century.
I used to really enjoy reading your comments and analysis re current world events. You have not posted any such original comments since Ukraine SITREP Friday March 20th, 2015. If you have been ill I wish you a speedy recovery.
This is what you will expect from a loser country like russia.
quote “Syria. Russian base
El Murid, Mar 27 2015
In response to Pres Assad’s call upon Russia to return to Syria and build a full-fledged naval base in Tartus, the answer was no. It is unlikely that Ozerov was expressing his own point of view. The position of Russia, in general, is clear: we do not have the slightest hint of politics in the region, we have consistently surrendered all our positions in the Middle East, and therefore the presence of a naval base, or any other kind of base, has for modern Russia no value. The economy must be economical, and so to keep some base for the sake of prestige would be meaningless. In addition, the base is responsible for a considerable area around it, but why does Russia need some kind of responsibility? She still cannot and does not wish to provide the security at her own borders, let alone some distant frontiers. Assad might as well offer facilities to build a space station near Jupiter. Or Saturn.”
Contrary to the MSM, Russia does not want to take over the world — it’ has quite enough to do in Russia itself, not to mentions building ties lands to the east, and other trading partners. To the West, Russia is as ‘inscrutable’ as China, because the West is like Pinky and the Brain — always wanting to take over the world, and is addicted to war. The West want the Middle East for the oil — Russia has no need of that.
Russia will not create in the Syrian port of Tartus naval base
27 March 2015To select a date12:12
Moscow. on March 27. INTERFAX.RU – Russia will not create in the Syrian Tartus full-fledged military base, as this may lead to an escalation of the conflict in Syria, told “Interfax” on Friday, the head of the Federation Council Committee on defense and security Viktor Ozerov.
“On the one hand, it is beneficial for us, we would love to return in Tartus, as it is primarily good opportunities for our vessels. But, on the other hand, in the situation that has developed in Syria, it will push certain forces, including the forces of opposition to the escalation of tensions,” said lake.
I have no clue as to what goes on inside Mr. Putin’s skull. I’m also very bad at reading tealeaves and never won a penny in the powerball lottery. What I do know, is the time when Obombi was ready to start a bombing campaign in Syria [against Assad] and then, suddenly, that plan evaporated into thin air.
I also remember a reporter asking the Tartus’ Russian base commander, “Are those missile batteries of a defensive nature or…”
The answer; “Defensive. It protects us 300km that way [points to the north] and 300km that way [points to the south]..”
You could visibly see the reporter starting to crunch the numbers until he sees the light. “But… that’s the entire Syrian coast!”
Cue in a vague smile.
If it hadn’t been for Russia, Syria would have been bombed back to Stonehenge the Stone age, by FUKUS.
The song was moving, its sentient melody, its message and the beautiful young artist full of life. And that it was – in 1976. I was a young chap then … … makes me think of forever bygone times…
What’s the difference between this and the sickening worship of Monarchy in the UK?
The wealth on display here is disgusting
The subjugation to power on display here is disgusting
The, even greater inequality of wealth distribution in Russia (cf “the West”) is disgusting.
Perhaps “the West” is even worse than Russia (a previous thread comment argued that Russia does not export terrorism – thank goodness if it were to result in the inequality of that country)
“Göring: Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.
Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.
Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”
What’s the difference between this and the sickening worship of Monarchy in the UK?
Quite a few differences in fact. Firstly, Putin and the Russian government are no manifestations of rampant parasitism; least of all the inbred variety of it. Secondly, the Russian government brings tangible benefits to Russia and to the overwhelming mass base among her people, whereas monarchist pride is just sheer, hollow grovelling. Thirdly — a most significant corollary to the first point above — is that Russia doesn’t partake in world plunder and enslavement. British monarchists are, for the most part, imperialist and racist to the core for obvious reasons.
The wealth on display here is disgusting
How so?
The subjugation to power on display here is disgusting
Typical reaction of Western chauvinist invertebrates when confronted by countries, peoples, and leaders/rulers having the guts to expose the formers’ beloved Imperialist Fatherlands. The above pronunciamento actually translates into “The insubordination to Western depravity is totally abominable”. Proves eloquently that Western so-called anti-authoritarianism has the same bias as all other preposterous garbage passing for Western “political science”.
The, even greater inequality of wealth distribution in Russia (cf “the West”) is disgusting
Sorry, but you’re most definitely not more credible here than the ruling imperialist bourgeoisie of the West. If your assessment were true, that would have made Putin and Russia the darling of the Corporate Media. Alas, deeply regret to inform you that the proverbial 1% is made up of people who understand their own class interests very well indeed, even if you apparently do not. As a gauge of the presence of widening gaps, it is the West which faces increasing tensions and loss of social cohesion; not Russia, mind you.
“This is a struggle between two evil empires”
And this pronunciamento readily translates into Too dense, too coward, and too arrogant to dispense with Western supremacist dogma”
“Putin and the Russian government are no manifestations of rampant parasitism”
the distribution of wealth in Russia is much larger than in “the West”. Please check recent previous threads for those links. Old money or new money – oligarchs are the root problem. Any society which allows the power of oligarchy to arise is depraved.
“the Russian government brings tangible benefits to Russia and to the overwhelming mass base among her people”
I have said that wealth disparity in Russia is greater than in the West. So, on what basis do you say this? do you have figures?
“whereas monarchist pride is just sheer, hollow grovelling.”
it seems we both hate monarchy (although it is only one one form of oligarchy)
“Thirdly — a most significant corollary to the first point above — is that Russia doesn’t partake in world plunder and enslavement. British monarchists are, for the most part, imperialist and racist to the core for obvious reasons.”
I already referred to this – comparatively it makes Russia better. Keeping inequality at home doesn’t make Russia good though.
The subjugation to power on display here is disgusting
“Typical reaction of Western chauvinist invertebrates when confronted by countries, peoples, and leaders/rulers having the guts to expose the formers’ beloved Imperialist Fatherlands.”
Living in the land of the empire, I hate western values more than anybody I know – I may not be smarter than a lot of people but i’m certainly not an invertebrate. I hate all imperialism.
“The above pronunciamento actually translates into “The insubordination to Western depravity is totally abominable”. Proves eloquently that Western so-called anti-authoritarianism has the same bias as all other preposterous garbage passing for Western “political science””
Your words, not mine.
My point was not about insubordiantion – it was to identify that inequality in Russia is even worse than in the West. Insubordination between two capitalist empires (who are more or less depraved) has little interest for me.
The, even greater inequality of wealth distribution in Russia (cf “the West”) is disgusting
“Sorry, but you’re most definitely not more credible here than the ruling imperialist bourgeoisie of the West. If your assessment were true, that would have made Putin and Russia the darling of the Corporate Media.”
Incorrect – this is a war between two groups that want to feather their own nests at the expense of the people. We know economic warfare is being used as a major component of that struggle.
“Alas, deeply regret to inform you that the proverbial 1% is made up of people who understand their own class interests very well indeed, even if you apparently do not.”
I understand the class interests of the (1%) of the 1% very well.
“As a gauge of the presence of widening gaps, it is the West which faces increasing tensions and loss of social cohesion; not Russia, mind you.”
I’m an agnostic. If a part of Russian social cohesion is produced by belief in a, potential, tooth fairy i’d (unfortunately) rather have no social cohesion. I also think that nationalism is an infantile disease. The West” does seem nearly totally degenerate (I had a reformed Presbyterian upbringing ;-) (http://rpc.org/page/beliefs).
“This is a struggle between two evil empires”
And this pronunciamento readily translates into Too dense, too coward, and too arrogant to dispense with Western supremacist dogma”
You couldn’t be more wrong.
I was interested in your reply and would welcome further clarification.
I’d also prefer if your tone could be a little less disparaging, please ? :-)
Complete equality does not seem too possible. Does not matter either. The absolute level is more important, so the people at the bottom have enough to live on. Makes little difference if the top few have 100 times or 20000 times more than the poorest. as long as they are not stealing it from the poorest…. and of course that is the problem that they are.
ok anon, how do you propose to change it ? Kill all the rich people and steal their money ? Maybe we get them on our side….like the supporters of Putin….
even if I didn’t have a solution it still wouldn’t make Russia right.
“Kill all the rich people and steal their money ?”
That would be much better than have everyone die.
Do you think they deserve to live in lavish style while creating misery among countless millions, designing neocon wars, not caring a jot that 35,000 starve/day?
“Maybe we get them on our side….like the supporters of Putin….”
Having rich people on your side doesn’t solve the problem. Inequality in society is the root cause problem. The figures I have reviewed show that inequality is worse in Russia than the West and getting worse in Putin’s time.
Do you not care that 35,000 starve/day (that seems a multiple of the terrible destruction in Donbass over the whole period)
A mindset change is needed.
I think you originally agreed with a comment in a thread some time ago from Kat Kan who said something along these lines (in an inheritance tax discussion):
“why should I give my money to the Government”
My memory is that you agreed with that.
I hadn’t actually proposed giving all money to Government since that would quosh innovation of those motivated by money (of course, there are many other motivations). I had, however, proposed giving most money to government (over $100,000 income/year and limiting inheritance to $1M).
The non-distribution (and non transfer of) wealth is the source of oligarch creation. Only relatively small differentials in wealth (and associated power) should be tolerated by any society.
The infantile disease of nationalism must be broken – a world order based on equality could, today, stop starvation.
So, what to do about it?
Change your own mind. Try to change the mind of others. If that doesn’t work then be content that you tried.
“…[]…The recipients of all that innovation became some of the richest people on earth. Even our poor were counted among the richest people on earth. In fact, the term “poor” was rarely used or heard during the Bush years. This is what Obama warns us we may be forced, kicking and screaming, to go back to if Romney should win the election?
Obama is selling a different vision of the future, where we are all our brother’s keeper; where the best are brought down to the level of the mediocre, where the exceptional are punished by higher taxes and the needy rewarded at other peoples expense; where the government looks over us all, and makes the “important” decisions for us; and where fairness is not equality of opportunity for all, but where lifestyles are equalized by government dictates.
If you’d like to see the reality of such “fairness”—visit Cuba. There, you will find what Fidel Castro believes is the fairest society of all. Cuba is a nation without progress. He ended it decades ago. Sixty year old American cars are still on the roads because the incentive to produce new cars, or new anything, has been taken away. Besides, most of Cuba’s innovators and producers fled long ago to freer societies where incentives still exist.
Imagine a place with no new industry or new buildings springing up. What would life be like without mass transit or technological innovation? That’s the “ideal” as expressed in Cuba. Yet, there is full employment and national health care. In Cuba everyone works, and everyone gets a free education and free health care. But no one excels at anything. There is no upward mobility, no possibility of getting rich, no dreams. The standard of living just stays the same and there are no new and better cars or homes to buy. Things just stay the same year after year, decade after decade.”
Obama rightfully claims that this election is about two different visions of the future. Obama’s vision is one of government control, regulation, and redistribution of wealth to make us all more equal. Romney’s vision is to increase incentives, freedom, and opportunity to make us more prosperous.”
If I excel at anything I don’t want to benefit from that at the expense of my neighbour. I should be humble and use my exceptionalism to help others. I should be happy with any good work I achieve – but not proud.
If Cuba has design problems are they unfixable? i’d be interested to know, under whose rule would you rather live?
Ann – I hadn’t realised (until Saker’s more recent video “Stratfor’s Mr. Freeman describes the real goals of the US Empire”) that Merkel is on theboard of Gazprom.
These b*******s all have their nose in the trough.
Mod: sorry Konstantin, we took out all the ranting and abusive language. It is against the rules. If it makes you feel better to write like that, get it out of your system, but please do not hit the Submit button.
I am not going to engage in some pointless and fruitless bickering with some libtard moron anymore than I am going to lose my preciuous time reading or posting on this rotten blog of yours anymore, mod! If you cannot provide or guarantee right off free speech, regardless of language used (besides, everybody knowns we in the Balkans are rude and barbaric; it is who we are!), you can just fuck off! My time is too much valuable to me to be losing it on this dumb, stupefied blog reading moronic thoughts of libtards! Too much of Western libtardo corruption for my taste! Adios! Let this place burn to the ground — oblivion is where you, together with your libtardo Western “brothers-in-arms,” belong to!
Well mods, genuine thanks for letting that go through – i’d never have been able to respond to Konstantin otherwise.
Konstantin – I hope you are still reading the blog and I hope you’ll reply to this.
I HATE the values of the West generally and massive levels of inequality in particular.
Of late, I see no difference in that respect between “the West” and Russia – they seem equally bad.
I come from a very divided society – Northern Ireland. Nationality is an accident of birth. While my upbringing was as part of the “Unionist” British Empire – I now hate that association. I have much more in common with my “Irish Nationalist brothers” who, seemingly, despise the empire. Unlike them, however, my hate is not based on Nationalism. Rather – it is based on hate of the elite who run that system. Little do my nationalist brothers know – the Irish Nationalist Government in the Irish Republic is now governed by the exact same elite that they so despised in the British elite.
I consider what happened to Serbia by “the West” as horrendous – I can understand your hatred. I feel it too.
If you read this – i’d like to hear more from you.
However, Colonel Szelag said that the most immediate cause of the crash had been the Polish crew’s poor training and negligent behavior, which resulted in the plane’s descending too far below a layer of fog and failing to heed an automated warning to pull up. The crew also did not have the required permission to fly the presidential aircraft.
The case is crystal clear, it’s the Poles fault at 100 %. Inexplicably, they didn’t put the strictly required safety reserve of fuel in the machine, so they were forced to land despite being advised of not doing so. When the machine crashed there was no fire because they had run out of fuel. The Russian ATC did everything correctly.
I was elated when I heard about the Smolensk plane crash five years ago. Literally good riddance to bad garbage. The Psheks’ State Bigwigs set out on a trip to Smolensk to commemorate their void, ludicrous Katyn sob-story. Well, history repeats itself indeed: first time tragedy; second time farce. And what’s extraordinarily farcical here is that religious, devout bigots such as the Psheks just don’t get that The Lord works in strange and wondrous ways.
Given today’s Russophobic screamfest of Western imperialism in general and its imbecilic/psychotic media offal in particular, it’s strange Putin hasn’t been singled out as the villain regarding Smolensk 2010 and Seyne-les-Alpes this year. Or are they “working on it”, perchance?
R; I’ve seen death in many of its faceted ways and it never filled me with joy. Did the world really become a much better place after ‘such-and such’ died?
“Der angetrunkene Luftwaffenchef Blasik und der Protokollchef haben entsprechende Anweisungen bei ihrem illegalen Aufenthalt im Cockpit gegeben. Generell und international gilt, dass sich keine Person unter Alkoholeinfluss im Cockpit aufhalten darf und schon gar nicht darf diese dem Kapitän Anweisungen erteilen.”
So, besides not having enough fuel, we find drunk people in the cockpit telling the pilot what to do? It’s really getting sickening how much telltale evidence MSM omits, so we, the grey and impressionable masses, are sent onward into the darkness, without any guiding light.
The Railway passenger connection that will connect the two capitals of DPR and LPR starts performing 28th March. It was reported by the Donetsk News Agency with reference to an announcement of the Transportation Minister of the DPR.
The Departure of the train 6603 will be carried out from the station Yasinovataya at 8.00 a.m. each Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. The train Lugansk-Yasinovataya will depart each Tuesday, Friday, Sunday
I am missing Saker’s comments and viewpoints. Hope he is well. I just sent some money this week. Don’t forget to keep donations going, he may need it.
Wondering what’s going to happen, Putin mentioned that if US supplied weapons, there WOULD be a reaction. And they HAVE sent weapons. I was concerned before, but I am getting more concerned.
In one of the clips, a P-8A aircraft is seen flying above a Chinese Type 052C guided-missile destroyer. Set to be combined with the RQ-4N unmanned aerial vehicle in the future, the P-8A will then be capable of monitoring the movement of Chinese warships over a larger area according to the paper. In the summer of 2014, a P-8A was intercepted by a J-11B fighter of the People’s Liberation Army Navy. http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?cid=1101&MainCatID=11&id=20150328000087
I am putting this here: it is from from a recent Missive to my friends. I believe it fits, as we are discussing the “Ghost Brigade.” In America, we have another Ghost Brigade; only, this one is utterly without Honor.
Anarchist Collective,
Serpico,
They said that no photo evidence was possible of the dead body of Bin Laden, because he had been shot too many times by the Navy Seals, and the body did not look very together. This was the excuse offered by US imperialist war criminals, including Obomber, of why no proof was offered to the gullible (psychologically and medically controlled) American people that they actually landed on the moon (er- actually killed an actual and really prior existing individual, called Bin Laden).
Former Governor, and actual Navy Seal, Jesse Ventura, said the whole announced event of killing Bin Laden, was “fishy.” The Oligarchs, and their Hollywood puppet President, Broken Obomber, could have presented, no matter how damaged was ‘Bin Laden’s body, some DNA evidence to prove their tall story. “But Nooooo” as John Belushi used to say, no DNA evidence was offered to prove the success of their murder (committed in someone else’s country).
The point – I am leading up to, is: that in today’s news, in an effort to verify the dead individuals from the tragic plane crash in the German Alps, DNA samples are being taken (from the incomparably more damaged remnants of the individual passengers who died in the crash. From bits and pieces, the investigators (forensic experts), have extracted DNA samples from most of the victims of the air crash. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32105160
The story of Bin Laden’s existence, as well as his death (as he never lived) is about as factual as the supposed existence of an American President, Broken Obomber. It has been my theory that the actor who portrays Obomber is the same who portrayed the fictional Bin Laden, in those numerous videos of him that kept surfacing all those years the imperialists were supposedly searching for him. Like Superman and Clark Kent, Laden, and Obomber were never seen at the same place at the same time.
Those manicured videos of Bin Laden of found their ways onto the news stations as well as the late night TV shows (Lederman, etc.), where Bin Laden’s reality was ritualistically vouched for, in a successful attempt to brainwash the gullible Americans. Hey!! Americans, brainwashed from Kindergarden, believe anything they are told, just as long as they hear it from approved authority figures.
Bin Laden was not killed as he never lived, and Broken Obomber was never born. African Americans have been cruelly deceived. America has yet to elect a Black President (that is to be understood-a flesh and blood African American who became President in a flesh and blood Constitutional American Government).
The Lies, False Flags, and Mis-directions, of the Anglo/American/Zionist Oligarchs are not very clever, but they don’t have to try very hard. Americans, and some Europeans, desperately want to believe all they are told by their betters. MH-17, Twin Towers, Gulf of Tonkin, the upcoming American 2016 electoral circus, all the previous electoral circuses-since November 22, 1963. Do we need a verb?
I have to end this missive now, as I have a date with Sheryl Crow. There she is, walking down the street, toward me, right now!
Besides shooting an unarmed man in the face [and all those fake ‘Bong Ladle’um’ photo-ups before it], who wouldn’t want to pick that man’s brain and find out how he managed to achieve 9/11 from the dwellings of a cave? How he knew the skies would be clear all over the US on that fateful Monday morning or how he could turn mediocre fliers into world class kamikaze pilots?
Nah, let’s just shoot him up and ‘dump’ his body in the ocean.
Yes, we did show you Saddam’s hanging… and yes, we did show you the mangled bodies of his 2 sons, Uday and Qusay Hussein [we even cleaned them up later on, so you could be sure it was them], but that was for the greater good of…, you know…
BEIJING — China’s Ministry of Finance on Sunday welcomed the decisions of Denmark and Australia to apply to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
Denmark filed its application letter on Saturday, while Australia followed on Sunday, the ministry said in a statement.
Dear Ann,
It is true that we have to and must try to make the war not happen. It must be the extreme last resort. As a matter of fact the WAR which was started as WW1 and very soon WW2 never ended because the project to destroy Russia and as a result to choke the entire planet was not accomplished by the whoever forces you could name it ( I m sure you know who are they).
During the so called “Cold War” phase an illusion was/is created in the name of Democracy but the criminal act of War continued/continue although on smaller and weak/weaker, undefensible people, nations by the west. Or better one could say an illusion was created called Democracy. And the major tool or tools or underlying tools were Technology. The same way when printing machine was invented and made the use of that was to propagate false informations as much as possible. One could check the validity of those. I am sure you all know these and much more than what I could say…..
Making my comment short what I think and very much full of conviction that we should try to delay the war as much as possible not because just to delay it but also to awaken ourselves to the TRUTH. The Key word is TRUTH. One thing is for sure the system in which all the things are can’t be changed. Absolutely it can’t be. Only a calamity would force them. So more the AWAKEN PEOPLE are after the WAR the better system and Environment could be created. It didn’t happen during and after the WW1 and WW2. Therefore we have to pay the price. Just one example “Could you believe the Jews who claim that they suffered during holocast could do infinite time worse thing to Palestine and Nobody is standing against them from the Western World. Isn’t it telling something??
In the end i would say if our path is not full of Truth then yes they will have much more strange hold on us “poor mortal”. But don’t worry being an Indian I would say that in the end the “DHARMA” and “TRUTH” would be and have to be victorius. It would be. Meanwhile The suffering would continue and it should as long as we are following the illusions of the West.
dear Sanjay, yes, but I think we have to ‘think about change’ in real practical terms. Rudolf Steiner has said that the social organism is the same as the human organism…three distinct parts…thinking feeling and willing. The social is (in the same order) – the spiritual part – creativity and the state of human rights – and the economy which is like the will.
Its complex but these three need to be given power to make their own decisions without interference from the others. The ecomony needs to be watched over by human rights…as the economy also uses the spiritual parts of society as its source…creative thinking…
But if creative thinking and invention is bogged down by a lack of human rights, then the economy can take-over and every one suffers except the oligarchs and those who work in high creative positions…they’ve been bought and aren’t really creating what’s best for the whole organism any more.
Dear Ann, Now you are taking me into a very deeper mode. Let me ask you one question “What is solution of Cancer and that too pretty advanced or rottened ? I am sure you know.
Ukrainian authorities have arrested a Turkish-owned cargo ship and detained its captain over a visit it made to a port in Crimea after Russian annexed the peninsula from Ukraine last year.
MOSCOW, March 26. /TASS/. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) will give assistance to the counterpart security agencies in Brazil in ensuring public security at the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, Yuri Nagornykh, the deputy minister of sports who chairs the commission for preparing Russian teams for the forthcoming Olympics told TASS on Thursday.
On Thursday, the commission devoted its regular meeting at the Ministry of Sports to preparations for the summer games in Brazil in 2016 and the winter games in South Korea in 2018.
The split between Berlin and Washington is becoming more pronounced by the week, as German patience seems to be running out for the war-hungry and belligerent US. This is leading to NATO becoming more fragmented, as many in Europe now see certain factions in the US as impeding any chance of reaching an enduring peace deal in Eastern Ukraine.
I only check Guardian and Reuters for western infotainment/news. Germany has gone very quiet in the last few weeks. They seem to have decided that discretion is the better part of valor when it comes to attacking Russia.
The reality cannot be avoided. Ukraine is an idea that will never work. Its like Yugoslavia was, held together by the USSR and before that the region was held together by the Austro Hungarian Empire. The Ukraine will split like Yugoslavia. Its now about what the new borders will be and whether the fighting will drag in big powers openly. Go Nuclear? Maybe.
Its also like the Nazi attack in WW2. Its reached the same territory. Remember many Ukrainian’s defected to Germany in 42. Kiev is being the proxy this time with NATO moving up after slowly. Make no mistake, Nuclear alert is high.
Sorry but that’s incorrect. Yugo was held together by the natives of course – Serbs, Croats, Slovenian etc., we are all slavic peoples (hence the name, which literally means “south slavia”). We also speak the same language for the most part.
Yugoslavia was always in cahoots with the west and never really Russia-friendly. We were not real friends, nor did Yugo ever join the Warszaw treaty. At some point in the 50’s, USSR was even almost ready to invade Yugoslavia via Hungary.
Before that, the Austro-Ungar empire only had the north-western half (Croatia and Slovenia), while the rest was in Turkish hands. Needless to say, both of them held nothing together, rather the opposite. We were always the target of foreign invasions, now as then.
Ann: Batman was a Cossack, very much a maverick and nobody’s man, but closest to Mozgovoi and a proponent of hanging Zakharchenko and Plotnitsky for treason for signing the Minsk agreement. He was only peripherally attached to the resistance.
He defected (resigned? was fired?) from the Ukrainian Secret Police and was fighting a private war with drug dealers with a small band, less than a company, containing some very violent Russian “ultra” volunteers. He was funded by his own private oligarch with whom he lived. He could have been warring on only one side of the drug trade in the pay of a rival, but he was such a fanatic that I think not. He operated by ambushing and wiping out drug smugglers on the road, and knowingly attacked a group trying to smuggle narcotics in for the NAF field hospitals that were completely out and having trouble procuring them.
I’ve said before, you may recall it, this is not “Boy Scouts Go to War.” The best and the worst go to these small, irregular wars. As long as they’re shooting in the right direction, the tendency is to tolerate the psychos and plan to sort them later. We are all extremely incurious, for example, as to how the wives of the volunteers are feeding the kids. “But this wasn’t a toll road yesterday.” “What occupancy tax?” (I just found out that Zakharchenko sold his sports club to finance his war.) Batman refused to turn over any Ukrainian troops he captured for the prisoner exchanges. The most likely reason for this is ransom.
One of the tasks Bednov undertook for the NAF was watching for civilians acting as spotters. If you can see a civilian, he can see you, and could be a spotter. It is a delicate job, but Batman should be qualified for it with a police background. Maybe not a “by the book” man, but at least he knew there was a book. Why he wound up with 11 civilians shut up in a basement might be explained a few ways: after “enhanced interrogation” he didn’t want them outside and talking; they’d seen something worse than their own treatment; ransom; he was feeling the heat from Plotnitsky and converted his suspects into hostages.
I see him as a bandit chief who found areas of agreement with the NAF and cooperated with them at times and in ways of his choosing, probably in exchange for equipment. The NAF saw him and his band as potentially an asset if they could tame him.
There’s an interesting video interview with Alexey Milchakov, one of his Russian veteran Nazis. Milchakov has made the sanctions list, which is reaching awfully far down. He has a certain notoriety for posting on Facebook pictures of himself sawing off the head of a dog. A live dog. You get sanctioned for that. Milchakov appears to have been afraid of Batman.
Very informative and very “in depth” analysis on Batman, Mozgovoi and of course your forte: Strelkov.
Now, do I detect a tendency for bad mouthing persons who have one way or another disagreed with the official line in this war, or we are to believe that these are the “bad apples” of the revolution and they deserve what is coming (or has already come) to them?
Beyond Left and Right, Beyond Red and White: Framing the Liberation War in Donbass.
A particularly noteworthy aspect of the ongoing crisis in Donbass is the symbolism—religious and historic—that surpasses the commonly used, but outdated Left-Right political spectrum. In the Russian context, this also means overcoming the Red-White divide of the Communist Revolution. That this war pushed Russians to examine their country’s raison d’être is somewhat remarkable: for two decades its citizens did not have an official ideology, prohibited by the Constitution that is based on Western models. The emergence of a new way of thinking in Russia will become clearer once we refer to the meaning of religious insignia, wars—Russian Civil and Great Patriotic, as well as the question of ideology in the Postmodern world.
Alexander Mercouris article on the BBC’s latest ‘understanding Putin’ nonsense.
“A lengthy article in the BBC magazine accompanying a documentary claims the fall of East Germany was a formative experience for Putin. It probably was but not in the way the article says” http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/03/28/5089
The military intervention in Yemen by a US-backed coalition of Arab states will undoubtedly inflame the conflict both in Yemen, and throughout the region. It is likely to be a protracted war involving many actors, each of which is interested in furthering its own political and geopolitical agenda.
However, it is the international reaction to this new regional war which is of particular interest; specifically, the way in which the United States has reacted to this undeniable aggression by its Gulf allies. While Washington has gone to great lengths to paint Russia’s reunification with Crimea and its limited support for the anti-Kiev rebels of eastern Ukraine as “aggression,” it has allowed that same loaded term to be completely left out of the narrative about the new war in Yemen.
That 1 hour of Dugin was hard work. I think I follow Dugin’s argument but I’m not sure I agree with some of it.
The attack on Western Liberalism (as he defines it) may well contain some strong points but I cannot dismiss the feeling that he is also possibly just exhibiting a somewhat expected and ‘natural’ reaction to the fall and rise of Russian identity.
In a sense a form of resurgent culture and nationalism directed into an alleged “4th Way”. Hmmmm, … ? He finds many faults (from a Russian non-Western perspective) — but solutions, I’m not so sure. Perhaps the Saker could comment on Dugin’s critique of Western liberalism etc?
Btw, I found this Canadian interview with one of his translators a little more accessible.
“Vladimir Putin’s name is known throughout the world. Alexander Dugin’s name, not so much. But to people in the know, Alexander Dugin is a very important name, as the Russian public intellectual says what Putin thinks. The Agenda examines the man who has been called “Putin’s brain.” ” (Michael Millerman)
As more and more readers are waking up to the fact that they’re being manipulated in EU-NATO countries, the readership of practically all mainstream newspapers have dropped like a rock in recent years.
I see only desperation in the MSM reports of the ill health of the co pilot according to them, he had SO many things wrong with him,he wouldn’t have been allowed to fly a child’s kite.I don’t buy it.Germany paid a big price in blood,with France the clean up costs for Minsk2.
Mods.did you just add pm/am to your time stamp after my foot note,or am I hallucinating again?
below says 12.58pm
mine says14.28GMT
something screwy .
Mozgovoi is a true man of honor. Ghost Brigade has always been in the worst locations, done very well because of morale, and represents the people with courage.
“To Kiev” has always been his ideology. He knows life will never improve until Kiev is smoked out of all the corrupt and nazi leaders.
If he survives the internecine treachery it will be a miracle.
Mozgovoi is the leader of the internecine treachery, not the victim. He has continually tried to organize a mutiny of the field commanders, in league with Strelkov. The last Military Council he called, Strelkov announced they had the support of all the LPR field commanders and the majority of DNR’s.
When the great day arrived, nobody showed up. Delusions of grandeur. Mozgovoi advocates a military dictatorship; nobody should be in government who hasn’t fought at the front. He said it at Yalta and many other times. The Military Council was supposed to declare one.
In the meantime, Mozgovoi’s strategy, which he described in an interview around the time of the Manifesto, is to avoid fighting except when cornered in order to avoid casualties and have an unscathed body of loyal men to control the government that would be formed after the war.
With a forgiving nature that would be beyond me, Zakharchenko offered to let bygones be bygones, sedition, insubordination, mutiny, call for Zakharchenko’s hanging, etc., to be forgotten. Mozgovoi could have the honour of closing the lid of the Debaltsevo cauldron coming from the LPR side to meet the DNR forces. Lots of photo ops for Ghost’s film company. Great symbol of the cooperation of the two republics.
How did that work out? If you think back, you may recall the sitreps for day after day announcing the encirclement was about to be closed and it kept not happening. Mozgovoi dogged it. When questioned by reporters, Mozgovoi said offense (something new to him) took a lot of pondering, planning, thinking in one’s tent. His strategy was untargeted shelling until all enemy fire ceased and then to advance. The Ukrops had this philosophy too — tanks are for hiding behind — which is backwards. Your infantry protects your combat vehicles and guns, not vice versa.
In the end, DNR forces had to close the lid. Then Mozgovoi went into an enemy-free area of the cauldron, set up a soup kitchen, and announced to the camera that always accompanies him that “Ghost” was first into Debaltsevo. (Everybody else was still busy fighting.)
“Ghost” is the last remnant of Strelkov’s “Orthodox Crusaders.” Their oath-taking is on You-Tube; listen to it. They swear allegiance to mythical concepts, Novorussia and Pan-Slavism, not to the government or the people of the Lugansk Republic. They are taught that conforming to the Minsk agreement violates their oath and those who signed it should be hanged for treason.
For a look at other permutations and combinations of the conflicts within the NAF, you should read an impressive compilation by Ukrainian blogger on Live Journal, “Friend,” that Kristina has translated and posted on Fort Russ. There’s a lot of former P.M. Boroday (Strelkov’s only known long-time friend), Bezler, Petrovsky, Khodakovsky, Russians. Bezler claims to have written orders to surrender Kharkov, Petrovsky ditto for Donetsk.
http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2015/03/the-two-pillars-of-Russian-maidan-or.html
“Orthodox Crusaders”… “Pan-slavism”…
I can’t believe I’m reading this here. Perhaps there are no mods on duty today ?
Flor, just because Cassandra does not tow the party line, doesn’t mean the mods aren’t working….what kind of a site do you want ??? Just one line of propaganda or the truth ? How do you know Cassandra’s totally sane comment is wrong ??? I don’t know if its wrong or right….how can you know without really being there ? And even then sometimes things are hard to figure out. She says these things can be viewed on youtube…please view her links and let us know clearly the facts…
Ann
I was only commenting on the choice of words. And you can take that as an expression of my admiration for the impartiality of this site, which also allows comments from people who do not tow the party line.
*toe* the party line
Katherine
I knew that… It’s Ann’s fault, she wrote it first.
Flor, Cassandra says she is quoting Mozgovoi’s swearing-in ceremony, which she says is on youtube. So she’s just reporting a fact, and isn’t approving it– is in fact critical of it.
Just saying, in case there is some confusion. Regards.
Thank you, Penelope.
I wasn’t criticizing Cassandra at all. I was merely expressing my astonishment at the liberality of the moderators who allowed those two expressions I mentioned in my first comment.
Cassandra, was Batman also part of this group with Strelkov ?
Thank you, Ann.
Flor, are you a sporting man? I’ll bet you $100 that Strelkov named his army the Orthodox Crusaders and another hundred that Mozgovoi’s oath, which is on YouTube with subtitles, is as advertised. Strelkov had political/religious commissars through all the units indoctrinating the troops in his version of Tsarism and radical Orthodoxy. Mozgovoi still has. See above. Do you see any tactical instruction happening in that lecture? BTW, Strelkov swore allegiance to one of the current Romanovs in his youth, but is now forsworn.
Can you really not feel it, that all kinds of weighty things are going on that they think we don’t “need to know”? Or perhaps just that they are signs of weakness and throw away their ace. Clearly the ‘Germans’ are afraid of them, which is good. So let’s not show weakness. Zakh is a clam (except when doing the town with beautiful journalists from Expert). Does anybody know what his callsign is? Mozgovoi refers to him as “Lord” but really? Cassad revealed that Strelkov had posted to the Secret Forum that when he was fired and exiled “they” had called him a sadist. That had to include Zakharchenko. Since Zakh came out on top, I assume he led the mutiny. But when pushed by a journalist about Strelkov he scrambles like mad to come up with something bland to say: “He just wasn’t like us. He didn’t think like us. He didn’t even smell like us.”
(Strelkov has pretended to take great offense at that last. All he had to say was “Well, I should hope not.”)
Who was General Khersun and who signed the document on the pages we haven’t seen? Was Bes really in that conspiracy as an agent of Zakharchenko? Was Khodakovsky’s signature really forged? Who did what, with which and to whom in the shootout at Anthracite? Why isn’t Oleg Tsarev more central? Is there something else against him or is the Party of Regions held in that much disrepute?
I am retired and disabled. Following this war is pretty much what I do. I read obscure (Yandexed) Russian magazines, Strelkov’s diaries, every translated interview and many not translated. I copy the names in Cyrillic to search for never-translated interviews. I check for leaks from the Secret Forum. I tiptoe through the blogosphere. I’m thinking I should read one of the fairytales Strelkov wrote, just to see, although they are reviewed as highly derivative. I’m curious to see what the heroes are like. Do they triumph or are they gallant in defeat?
@ Anonymous
I am not a sporting man, but I am a sporting woman.
However I would be surprised if those guys you are talking about had really used the word ‘crusader’ in describing themselves, as it is a word the Orthodox generally like to use in describing the Catholics. Other than that, I cannot say that I agree or disagree with anything you say, because I haven’t followed the events too closely.
This morning I found this article, but I don’t know what to make of it, is it good ? is it bad ?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/the-ukraine-war-from-perspective-of-russian-nationalists-a-1023801.html
I stopped reading when it said this is the man Putin sent to start the war in Ukraine…..As tp Ghost, I like what he has to say about the country he wants to build. I also think it is fine to have the people who are fighting the revolution be in the government after the revolution….along with all of those who helped, they will win in a “popular” election anyway A proletarian dictatorship is a step forward from the dictatorship of Mr. and Mrs. Capitalist. All natural resources would belong to the people. All commanding heights of economy would be public utilities. I see a role for the market in socialist society or societies on the way to building communism…but these would be small business petty commodity producers this includes farmers who are naturally best suited to such an economy. The man has vision. As to the rest of the “charges” against him…..the people in NovoRussia will define those as they will know. These assassination attempts help no one. Even a military court would be better if there were something there to stick on one. He doesn’t come across to me as a pretender.
The state does not have the money to develop everything. It works for countries like Russia because the state owns and makes money on things like Oil exports. And as we saw, letting people have a share in the companies will not work either since there would always be people who would steal those shares from you. Or can you imagine even in a country like the US where 5 million people who live on food stamps NOT selling their shares for money? I just don’t see a good way to merge capitalist and communist projects. Its not an ideal world. I would think what India has done, with the government holding almost 50% share of the company might be a better way but again we come to things like how does companies with subsidies work out. State owned companies are very inefficient because the people who work there are using it as their retirement vehicle and nothing else. Capitalistic companies are efficient but the problem is they don’t care how they are profitable. They are usually profitable by making the tax payers act as their liability insurers. Every US company I look at seems to be taking this path, even wallmart who don’t actually make anything but they sure throw the welfare of their workers onto the tax payer to support them in retirement. Human corruption is the biggest problem anywhere. You wont even see it as corruption. But anyone making money on the backs of others while not caring about others is corruption in someway. This will not change until humans themselves change.
I think these criticisms of socialist economies are pretty stale.
People with a revolutionary zeal knowing that they are building a new tomorrow and have a direct voice and participation in doing so aren’t just looking for a retirement check. They say the same thing about unions in the west…whereas I have read studies that show that capitalism is the most wasteful and inefficient manner of production going. What is was good at was exploitation labour at a key moment in history during the industrial revolution through wage slavery. Plus, your co-workers are not going to allow you to steal time or money if they are genuinely enfranchised-why would they it is their money you would be stealing.
As far as people stealing shares well that was a capitalist counter revolution brought on by the parasitic bureaucracy that had to be excised but not the socialized property forms on which it was based. They killed the patient…Putin has gotten some of it back….but justice will be a long time coming for all those who worked tirelessly for the revolution. The Soviet Union didn’t fall – it was pushed. If we buried capitalism every time there was a depression and these have been and continue to be major failures it would have been off the historical stage long ago. Let’s hope it is not much longer-the crisis facing humanity are to great to deal with AND wear this liberal democratic mask that declares the WEST the BEST. That is the lie that must be exposed and excised.
Socialism a post capitalist society MUST become the manner in which we produce and reproduce as a species or we will perish in a thermonuclear holocaust due to competition and crisis inherent in capitalism or environmental destruction also not counted in the costs that capitalism could not sustain if they were truly counted as part of the production consumption cycle. Socialism: a rationally planned, democratically administered by the direct producers system of production1) rationally planned means environmental concerns are taken into consideration, democratically administered by direct producers-rotating chairs, elections, instant recall, all of those good things that come with the expansion of democracy into the workplace-dictatorship of the proletariat-that is pretty inclusive as stated, everyone who can work works-no excuses or free riders. Our technology makes it more and more possible for both administrative tasks and production to become ever more democratic. It is in the cards, only human agency can make it happen however-that is the clincher right there.
Capitalism will fall many more times before it’s through if we let it; I am afraid however that we have pretty well reached the limits of this social order to perpetuate itself without ever increasing fascism and attendant barbarism that goes with it as it transforms itself and is being transformed by those who gain the most in the hierarchy of capitalist social relations. It is a SOCIAL ORDER although it’s propagandists and apologists do their best to present it as an impartial unconnected teleological form of production that has nothing to do with social or political relations in which is interconnected. We are all stamped and catalogued as some part of it. This alien, de-humanizing manner of production and reproduction of the species….Terrible isn’t it.
Just to add about the pretender. I don’t sense and insincere bone in this guys body and I can usually spot a lie. Now some of the things he stands for are a bit conservative for me and don’t really go along with what I consider a socialist society as such institutions I believe would eventually fade away in a truly socialist society as the things they prop up will no longer exist,
On the other hand these institutions may become even more genuine, like marriage if the economic consideration is no longer a factor in the determination, having or not having children depending on your wage,,,,school or no school dependent on day care or no day care, etc Socialism is actually great for women’s liberation and that doesn’t sit well with orthodoxies traditional views on sexual relations in society.
But he believes in socialized property forms and that is where it all starts-so that and his sincerity is what attracts me to this person. Maybe I am duped and don’t know as much as I should. Maybe my support would grow if I did know.
Time will tell I just hope these guys don’t eliminate each other for political reasons or expediency. No good will come of that. Some say the revolution eats it’s children-no the reactionaries do that, not revolutionaries but in this case the reactionaries are in Kiev and perhaps Moscow-time will tell.
Cassandra, I found the second half of the link you posted very interesting, though shocking. (The part that deals w how Strelkov & Boroday were assigned to Novorossiya. Also how it was that so many villages were surrendered.)
I don’t know if it’s all true but it is consistent with other things, including some statements by Strelkov himself.
However, I was totally unable at the time that Fort Russ posted it to get anyone else to consider it– or in most cases, even to read it. Thank you for being open-minded.
U.S. Senator John McCain has said during a speech at the Washington Center for Strategic and International Studies that Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to strike Ukraine’s strategic southeastern port city of Mariupol, adding that the Moldova is also Putin’s possible target, potentially along with the Baltic states and Poland.
A prominent Ukraine supporter, McCain said that the Kremlin was aiming to create a land corridor from Russia to annexed Crimea, thus seizing Mariupol is vital for Russia-backed forces, Ukraine Today reports.
McCain also repeated his call to U.S. President Barack Obama to send defensive weapons to Ukraine.
https://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/psychological-projection-mccain-says-russia-to-attack-just-everybody/
Can’t improve on Bonor’s comment.ref.McCain
“A greater jerk, a worse embarrassment and a more dangerous fool is not possible to find in international politics.
One can only wonder how many brains are left in Arizona, that keeps voting this completely corrupted war-monger into the US Senate. A bigger risk to their own democracy is harder to find. And now the rest of the world as ell have to deal with this pathetic liar and scruple less traitor to everything democratic, legal and just…”
Exelent
I would love to see Russia open a naval base in Venezuela, Now that Venezuela is a “security threat” to USAIANS. It would be a boost for their failing economy. I would love to see Russian naval vessels in the Caribbean. John McCain would go so ballistic, there is not enough blood pressure medication on the planet to control his stroking out. What an ass clown. And then i would be LMFAO. Cheers.
yes that is exactly what Russia must do but knowing foolish Russia it is sure chance that Russia will not avail of this opportunity. Remember how medvedev used to spurn and insult chavez to please angloamericans, . Russia is a perennial loser because she lives in illusion and not in reality.too late to come to senses is her motto.if Russia had helped Iran with s-300 then west would have been involved in that place rather than giving attention to ukraine. now west will woo even iran to her side and Russia will be left high and dry without allies.
while west sticks to her stooges and allies Russia betrays her allies to please the west!
Strange how the ‘perennial loser’ keeps ending up ahead, and in a better position than before while the US continue to go downhill….
Blue, the perennial loser being Poroshenko ? He’s not a loser in the eyes of his masters. Just like the States is a loser, but the shadow gov behind the States is richer than ever before.
No, Russia is “perennial loser” — quoting anon on March 29, 2015 · at 1:55 am UTC
I keep seeing this stuff bout how Putin is dictator, and Russia is a loser and going broke, and the rest of the lies — I wonder how people can believe any of this after getting a few facts. Or why trolls or western ideologues think any of this dysinformation would fly on a site like this one. But then, there are those who insist that the US won the Vietnam war and Lybia and Iraq is now democracies, etc.
Yes, the very wealthy is wealthier than before — but what good does it do them, really? They already had far more than they could possibly spend, so it’s meaningless, and meaning is the one thing they need but can’t buy and don’t know where to look.
And the poor are getting steadily poorer and their are more of them so overall the system is failing. No two ways about it.
This is for anon. and others reading here. It will never look good on us to openly express wishes for the horrific deaths of enemies. Instead, we do what is never expected: we pray for their “come to Jesus” moment now, before it’s too late. John McCain is a human being and when we wish destruction on another human being, Satan wins. He wasn’t always such an evil, pathetic little man, but something has happened along his way and blackened his heart. He might seem lost to us, but we can never give in to this because it betrays a lack of faith in salvation power in ourselves and again, Satan wins. We don’t know and even McCain himself doesn’t know all that has happened to him to make him what he is today, only God knows that. God weeps for the loss of every soul, but God never wishes for the destruction of any soul. We should imitate God. McCain has become all the things you have said. The record cannot be denied, it’s there for all to see, but please be careful of your words because words have power and they must be controlled.
Well spoken. Thanks for your peaceful message.
thank you, David, for this reminder. A great Buddhist spiritual teacher once told me (I am Orthodox Christian now) there is always hope for transformation and we should never give up on anyone.
Is your God responsible for the likes of McCain? As for you pc, don’t hold your breath waiting. Thank you for a good laugh anyway.
I don’t agree with you David. When someone chooses to be a puppet for evil – violence and destabilization – like McCain, then we need to stop him at all costs. Jesus is not a pacifist. He drove those money changers out, flying before him and he was swinging a whip. And when the gang with Judas at their head came for him (Him) in the garden they fell down backwards at the power coming from him…twice….
David is correct in not wanting a horrific death for them, but, like a mad dog or man-eating wild animal, it’s reasonable to put a bullet in it’s head, even with some regret, if it can’t be definitively neutralized or contained safely. As for losing souls and other such ‘faith statements’, or prayer, that assumes we know things on a higher or deeper level that what we need to know to judge such killers safe to let stay on the loose.
If one can’t know the state of McCain’s ‘soul’ one can’t know exactly what a ‘soul’ or ‘redemption’ or ‘god’ means either. Personally, I’m still trying to figure out exactly how a gyroscope works — much less things like ‘Satan’. or ‘Satan winning’. Is this a football game, or a war, that can be won or lost?
If by taking one person down means saving many than absolutely.
Luke 17:2
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
There are instances where a death sentence is necessary.
Just imagine – some people swear on the holy bible at court. If they entered such evidence they’d be laughed out of it. Strange world?
The come to Jesus did arrive with Obama he had the mandate to root out war criminal, crooked banksters, end wars, close Guantanamo, provide UNIVERSAL health care, rebuild American infrastructure, nationalize or audit the Fed ( who wants all that bad paper) close it down actually, investigate 9/11 properly the whole 91/2 yards and he FAILED to meet his historical date with history.
Obama was to make history not just by being the first black president but by the fact that American’s were so ready to have the house cleaned they thought who better than a black president and were behind him more than people are behind Putin even today….He betrayed his calling…he missed his date with history. America will have a hard time getting out of the fascist regime it has set itself up to be.
Remember Fascism didn’t start with gas chambers it ended there ( so we are told) Given the number of people in prison in the USA and the corporations are people to laws, the monopoly of the press ( communication) ( wealth) I would say we are well down the road-those prison camps that are already set up for “national emergency” like “internment and re-education” were not built as just another pork barrel project-they have a projected use to protect the “State” from it’s own people during times of crisis.
Now when you have a crooked system a crisis can mean bad guys about to be brought to justice need a diversion to avoid their fate to the bankers stole all the pensions and people are going to riot and overthrow the government…When the status quo is about to rightfully lose it’s privileges this is considered a national crisis where the people at large become the enemy of the “CAPITALIST STATE”
please use some commas, Rocky.TIP:read it out loud, put a comma where you stop to take a breath.
I read a post on Facebook yesterday by a conservative online journal. The responses reminded me how paranoid many American conservatives (those who have not yet abandoned the republican party, as many have) have become because of the MSM. They truly see nearly the entire world as a threat to their personal safety.
They were all enraged at Obama for bargaining with Iran about its nuclear program and seemed to feel they might die tomorrow because of him. This is delusional, of course, but is the result of a lengthy and successful campaign of pro-war propaganda in the US.
This is why they vote for McCain. They haven’t read a true word about US foreign policy in their entire lives.
I have to say that most liberals I know are not much better off intellectually. They have been thoroughly confused by the endless lying in the MSM and in the “alternative left” press. American people are very confused because of all the lying and lack the political sophistication to decode the message.
They are willfully confused. Blaming a complete lack of the ability to individually think critically on the lies of others is a cop out of the greatest proportion. And, sir/madam, amerikkkans are not by themselves in their stupidity and blindness. Majorities of Citizens of every nation share the same affliction. The inability to think rationally and analytically. Speaking of rational thought…… I best not go there?
Don’t forget all the emails and letters they get from the conservative party where just about every lie that has been spun is repeated and delivered again just to make it official. The republicans used the churches in the south to push their political message and then when Obama told the IRS to investigate them for breaking the separation law they cried fowl. But look at the evangelism that has poured out over the air waves the past 3 decades, so much so one Pat Roberts ran for president. That is how nutty America has gotten, this man was taken as seriously as a heart attack as well.
cried fowl :)
In setting fire to the Forrester while executing a frat boy ‘fart joke’ McCain killed more Americans than Russia in all its history.
Whenever I hear “Ukraine is rising from its knees” I see a vision of McCain sprawled in an armchair while in front of him Yulia is levering herself to her feet.
The demented mind of McCain would lead the world in an attack on Mars if it was feasible.
There will always be an enemy to bomb in his diseased mind.
The Vietnamese hit him too hard in the head too many times.
Red: You should read Faith of my Fathers carefully and critically, separating out the spin.
The Vietnamese never hit him upside the head. He was never tortured. He was punished for serial rule-breaking, which he brags about. The worst that happened to him was he was put in an isolation hut tied up with rope.
The Vietnamese ran their prisons by the book, and the book is that the prisoners are still ruled by the senior officer in the group. They tell the officer the rules and he tells the men. When McCain constantly and deliberately broke the rules, his commanding officer got punished. He never said a word about McCain, although you can imagine how the press hounded him. It was “no comment” to the grave. And never endorsed him. Navy officers are conspicuous by their absence from McCain’s endorsement lists. A Navy JAG was an early endorser of Obama. I suspect that was an anti-McCain choice.
When he was in hospital with a badly broken leg, McCain was afraid it was not going to heal right, so he contacted the Vietnamese, told them he was the son of the Admiral of the Fleet, and offered to make propaganda broadcasts for them if they would transfer him to the kind of medical care to which he had become accustomed. It was his idea, his initiative. It is very clear if you scrub off the spin as you read.
So he has a mountain to climb if he wants to be a super-patriot.
My favorite scene!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k8YpQKzl_k
What is a “defensive weapon?”
It’s a euphemism for an ‘offensive’ weapon.
Aye……in the old days we had Ministries Of War, now we have Ministries of Defence……nice word play.
And ministries of truth
tactical nukes.
McClain is a fool as well as a warmonger.Seizing (liberating) Mariupol is not to help create a land-bridge to Crimea. The city could be by-passed and besieged while armies advanced down the line to Crimea if that was the plan.The city would fall from the siege and an internal revolt soon enough.The city does need desperately to be freed.But Crimea has nothing to do with that.
From the Moscow Times
Russia has handed a multibillion-dollar contract to build a bridge to the Crimean Peninsula to an ally and former judo partner of Vladimir Putin who is under Western sanctions.
A government order published on Friday named Stroigazmontazh (SGM) as the contractor to build the bridge spanning the Kerch Strait to link Russia’s mainland and Crimea, annexed from Ukraine last March in an act that triggered Western sanctions.
SGM is 51-percent owned by Arkady Rotenberg, an old friend of Putin who was among the first Russian businessmen to be put under Western visa bans and asset freezes over Crimea’s seizure.
It is about Kerch bridge, a 19-kilometer bridge across the Kerch strait, on the eastern part of Crimea, which “should be” completed by 18 December 2018. Check for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerch_Strait_Bridge , or – for many more details – in Russian https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CC%EE%F1%F2_%F7%E5%F0%E5%E7_%CA%E5%F0%F7%E5%ED%F1%EA%E8%E9_%EF%F0%EE%EB%E8%E2
The alternative planned approaches to the building of the bridge and the anticipated prices (and various wheeling-’n-dealings) have been going through a roller-coaster for the past year. There are also opinions that an underwater tunnel would have been a much better solution. If you speak Russian, check also the December 2014 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NuSi1cYUf0 . Etc.
A part of me hopes McCain is correct and Putin would take the south, but it seems not that’s why the bridge is being built as soon as possible. McCain is just projecting his own mania on Putin and Russia — it is McCain who wants to rule the world.
Mozgovoi, on the hand, has his greatest strength in his moral power and sense of human dignity. The morale of Ghost Brigade is sourced in moral strength and courage, and it is largely the moral integrity and conviction which impels the desire to take and free Kiev and the west of Ukraine, not just Mozgovoi’s strategic opinion. Morality and integrity is something the US government singularly lacks, and will inevitably lead to its downfall.
A raving lunatic raving.
On the other hand … I definitely would not mind if what he said here turned true…
Yes, McCain is loathsome garbage, but he may not be totally incorrect on this one.
“The path on takes to avoid what one fears
often leads directly to the thing one fears”
– anon
When the US’ Kiev forces attack *again* they could loose more territory including Mariupol.
Several Big Items OT
BOAO Asian financial Forum on Hainan Island, China. Keynote address by Pres. Xi Jinping.
Challenged the concept of Hegemony, Cold War mentality, investment for greed and domination of what is the old order.
Pledged 500 Billion dollars from Chinese sovereign funds to help develop Asian and other nations. This is in the Silk Road Fund, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and the concept of the Silk Road Belt and Maritime Silk Road.
69% of the globe lives in the regions of these development and investment projects.
China has welcomed all comers to the AIIB. Today, Russia joined. Yesterday, very importantly, South Korea joined. The Hegemon is losing a grip on capitalism (ain’t that ironic?).
Also, the entire Forum (an annual event China hosts in various nations of Asia-Pacific) has a demeanor quite different than the West’s Davos annual ego-greed fest in Switzerland.
Science and Technology:
NASA caved and made a deal for the next gen Space Station with little ole Russia. The US, mighty with bombs and missiles, has little hope of Space exploration with humans without Russia.
Russia and China have plans for cooperative ventures in Space science and tech. So the US would only have Elon Musk (Space X) and the other guys who blow up old USSR rockets because they don’t know what they are doing.
This development is huge. It clearly shows that Russia is a super science power. Not only for its rocket engines, but for the quality of its science and the value of a reliable, honest partner.
If there ever is going to be peace in Space and cooperation in Science exploration of Mars and beyond, this is a good omen at a time when Russia and Putin are vilified.
Space is a realm where the Russians have always made their mark. This announcement of a long term partnership for a new ISS project with NASA is very good news.
As for the good news from the US or about the US—
Nothing. Oh, there are some little things, but if I mention them they bring up thoughts that make you wretch, so, the best thing is to reveal the hegemony, and to resist the tyranny.
Russia (unlike the US) is doing everything it can to keep these Earth bound fights out of Space.Russia would like to see Space as a place “conflict free”,where peoples can co-operate for the sake of the World.The US on the other hand is plotting to use Space for its military domination purposes.I don’t know who will win in their vision for Space.I’m hoping Russia,but its too early to say.
“made a deal for the next gen Space Station with little ole Russia”
Too bad … US will constantly look for ways to use advanced space technology for war. The deal is premature. Better to have the US grounded for now.
Unless Russia fears that blocking them out would lead the US to develop space tech on their own, secretly, no doubt. Maybe Russia figures it can keep a better eye on them and provide an easy way out to neglect that development? But I still would not trust the us: the militarization of space for its imperialist goals is one of it’s strategic projects.
very interesting interview with Jim Willie here; http://www.thedailysheeple.com/shadow-of-truth-jim-willie-cb-an-acceleration-of-the-global-power-shift_032015, along the same lines re. AIIB and more….good science requires honor does it not?….
And….there is mention of reason for war in Ukraine not only to destroy relationship btw Europe and Russia but to cover theft of Tsar Nicholas ll’s gold advanced in the 1910 decade in support of the League of Nations….Which (idealism?) rings a bell vis a vis an attempt made for world peace, disarmament was it not, via the Hague? Hard to imagine world leaders like this today……excepting the ‘awful’ Putin. However this is news to me. Anyone?
HAHA. While everyone is watching USA vs Russia, China sneaks around the back and takes over the whole world. Good one.
It is a good move to let in everyone who wants in, to that development bank. It will all be done to China’s rules, but the other members will have to fork out some money for it. This will reduce what they have available to lend through the IMF.
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The space thing is safe. It will end up being Russia’s design and under their control but a lot of USA money going into it.
Russia always goes for function first, and tries to do it for a reasonable price. USA once spent about a billion to develop a biro that would write in space. Russia just sent up pencils.
Don’t worry your little head.
America has China in its crosshairs as well. That’s what the American Pivot to Asia in general and Air/Sea Battle plans in particular are about. Hell, for all the talk about Russia vs. America, the Pentagon is planning to redeploy 60 percent of American’s global war machine to Asia against whom? China.
And China’s Asian Development bank is not an attempt to take over the world. It’s an economic response to America’s attempt to take over the world such as the USA’s Trans-Pacific Partnership, which consciously excludes China, as well as its fake War on Terrorism and its Colored Revolutions (aka regime change).
China’s Asian bank is Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, not the West’s Asian Development Bank.
The ADB and World Bank are the current financial rulers of development. China’s AIIB completely upsets the hegemonic hold of the West on development.
President Xi stressed infrastructure development and connectivity of nations as the mission of the investments.
This changes everything. And it begins a turbo-charge of the Silk Road Belt and Maritime Silk Road strategy of President Xi. (Eurasia).
I have long maintained that in a grand historical reversal, US foreign policy seems hellbent on destroying the global capitalism that itself created and bloodily and aggressively preserved, just so that US supremacy is maintained.
As strange as it may sound at first, this should not really be a surprise. Global capitalism is awesome, as long as you are its Imperial Center, if you become just another capitalist country, that has to save 30 to 40% of its GDP for investment, and has to pay for its debt with hard currency that you have worked for and exported diligently, and you also have to compete on a level playing field with other powers for access to world markets and natural resources and etc etc etc, the list is endless.
Added to the above, the fact that your superior military spending is largely being negated by the relatively cheap technology of supersonic and hypersonic missiles, and that your natural resource base is being depleted rapidly, while your primary geostrategic rival possess these natural resources in abundance, it becomes clear that you need to engineer a crisis and a war while you are still on top.
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Q1; The Hegemon is losing a grip on capitalism (ain’t that ironic?).
R1; I don’t know why, but somehow the latter part of the above sentence is hysterically funny.
Q2; This development is huge. It clearly shows that Russia is a super science power.
R2; And to top it all off, a modest one [cosmonauts vs. astronauts]
http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/.premium-1.620845
Feature on Kolomoiski
Since some time I kind of wonder about McCain s psychological status. I ve been wondering whether John “bomb, bomb Iran” McCain might have been “bombed” while in captivity in Vietnam. He acts very weird I think. As many on this forum I am surprised that still many in Arizona vote for him.
McCain was a dangerous fool long before the Vietnamese had to put up with him. It is claimed that they actually tried to give him back. Somewhere there is a count of the number of planes he destroyed, ours not theirs. He may also have been responsible for the near destruction of his aircraft carrier.
If you had ever been to Arizona, you wouldn’t find his electoral success so surprising.
People who gets out of the pit alive, turn into mental death afterwards.
McCain is like a crow making noise over his own corpse that’s still lying on the ground unburied.
His actions are nothing more but a personal vendetta.
And those who vote for him are flies who follow the crow after leaving the death torso.
Hi Oscar, I heard an interview with Putin where he talked about McCain. McCain spent 7 years in a pit in Vietnam. Solitary I believe. That would drive anyone crazy, is how Putin put it.
I think Putin was making one of his little “dry wit” jokes. No hole for 7 years. 5.5 years and some controversy over details — I’m guessing the Wikipedia story is probably as heroic as it gets.
grandmar what a nit picker you are. I guess its all Putin’s fault…and you know better I’m sure than the president of Russia, even though he’s had personal talks with McCain…But you know better.
Certainly do check “John McCain: War Hero or Something Less?”: http://www.globalresearch.ca/john-mccain-war-hero-or-something-less/5337240
Also this account on McNasty: http://www.counterpunch.org/2008/06/13/mcnasty/
Both provide very, very interesting information about our http://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/mccain.jpg !
And such an individual made it to a “senator”… Amazing.
McCain had a MELANOMA cancer removed from the right side of his face a few years before his presidential attempt against Obongo. Melanoma is about the worst kind of skin cancer you can have. I appears as a blue-black spot and metasizies to other organs very quickly. Its like: if you have a melanoma at the tip of your index finger and they cut off your arm, you are still toast.
It was on the side of his face, man. Its in his BRAIN. If you notice he tries to only show the left side of his face to cameras and photos. If you see him straight on looking into the camera, there is like a big indentation in his face, like even with the bottom of the ear lobe, about 1 and 1/2 inches from the ear towards the nose, but on the cheek. Then it goes up about 2 inches towards the outside edge of the eyebrow. I’m sure he had the best plastic surgeon, but its still noticeable.
I always wind up looking for this because I’m in the medical field.
Look for it the next time you HAVE to look at him. His next RANT will be soon. Assclown.
Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvesa49zSIM
The video is from 2008. By that time, he had already had cancer four times. Including basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and malignant melanoma stage 2. And that was known some seven years ago. How have the diseases – and their treatments (“chemotherapy”, etc.) affected his CNS, for instance, we can (only?) guess. And we don’t know what he presently has.
I know this is far-fetched, but at this point in time can we really exclude anything?
http://themillenniumreport.com/2015/03/germanwings-black-operation-another-aaa-false-flag-terror-psyop/
Not false flag, strictly, because that applies to something you can blame on an opponent as an excuse for war against them.
But the story they’re telling certainly does not add up. A cover-up of some sort. They came up with a “leak” right away to “explain” what happened … a leak in major CIA–friend site New York Times, not even a French or German site which would be more natural in this case. Now they are spinning and exaggerating it, and added in eyesight problems, and a very fake-sounding “girlfriend” with the expected stories of how he threatened something like this.
It is a huge distraction from looking at what happened. It may actually turn out to be true, but it has a cover-up smell about it. Perhaps they just do it that way from force of habit.
* the plane did not fly any strange pattern, it just descended in a straight line at a normal angle for 8 minutes, which indicates no external damage
* whether the descent was commanded, or happened from a computer error, no attempt was made to change it for the whole 8 minutes
* that indicates
(a) pilot wanted it to crash OR
(b) pilot(s) unconscious from hypoxia (slow decompression) or smoke/chemical fumes in cockpit
So far we know of 2 faults with the plane. The nosewheel doors wouldn’t close properly: this was fixed the day before. The front toilet didn’t work on the inbound leg of the flight to Barcelona: not fixed. If was a very old plane, ie about 6 months off a total overhaul if it was to keep flying at all. . .
Insurance related? I am not sure if insurance payouts would be different if the accident can be blamed on the pilot rather than an aircraft fault.
Something I ran onto sometime back – both the German aircraft and the Indonesian aircraft a few months ago are A320s
“As aircraft operation becomes more dependent on glass cockpit systems, flight crews must be trained to deal with possible failures.[4] In one glass-cockpit aircraft, the Airbus A320, fifty incidents of glass-cockpit blackout have occurred.[4][5][6] On 25 January 2008 United Airlines Flight 731 experienced a serious glass-cockpit blackout, losing half of the ECAM displays as well as all radios, transponders, TCAS, and attitude indicators. Partially due to good weather and daylight conditions, the pilots were able to land successfully”
“The study found that, although aircraft equipped with glass cockpits had a lower overall accident rate, they also had a larger chance of being involved in a fatal accident”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cockpit#Safety
@ Peter/Kat Kan,
Does anyone remember [or read] either name of the pilots who flew the ill fated MH17?
How come I know infinite more details about this single pilot than about the entire MH17 crew?
Has anyone heard the audio of MH17’s cockpit voice recorder?
msm: plane? what plane?
I don’t buy the suicide theory for one second. The story’s been ridiculous from the onset, not it’s being fleshed out with more detail, step by step, but it remains ridiculous. This is a cover-up for something else. Catastrophic technical failure, or sabotage. Stuxnet comes to mind, where they must have spied on Siemens in order to develope the malware. The question must be asked: Is Airbus avionics development better protected than Siemens nuclear facilites control software development? Keep in mind that if you wanted to strike France and Germany, Airbus makes for a very good target.
Possibly not as far fetched as youight believe, friend. Remember simply, all such aircraft are wire guided. It can be flown and landed remotely by ground crews. We wouldn’t want potential highjackers to have the ability to fly it into a reactor or such would we? Also, if you were to do a bit of research with regard to the locking mechanism of the cockpit door you will find interestingly enough that there exists an unlocking provision via a code on the outside of it. Lastly, the crew possesses satellite radios, including the flight staff, who could have at least called for help and made the ground crews aware of the situation. So I would not dismiss the idea of a payback op so easily.
Yes, I’ve wondered about the false flag thing…maybe the pilot was paid off in some form…did he have a family ?
He had ex-girlfriend – does that count?
You are getting ridiculous with your false flag theories. Every now and then there is no conspiracy and everything is as it appears to be.
A few days ago there was a heated but interesting internet exchange on the topic of who screwed up, how much and why during the recent campaign. The main participants were Andrei Morozov (better known as “Murz”) http://kenigtiger.livejournal.com (he is the commander of the communications platoon in the ill-fated August tank battalion in LPR) and Vlad Shurigin http://shurigin.livejournal.com/ (who is a well-connected military journalist) with some input from Evgeniy Kryzhin http://fareastener.livejournal.com/ (who is also a communications platoon commander, but in a howitzer battalion in Enakievo (DPR)), and a few others. The Ghost brigade and Mozgovoi came up quite a few times. Apparently the Central Command has a huge grievance towards Mozgovoi for not carrying out an assigned military task, which led to other people having to pick up his slack and suffering unnecessary losses.
I got the impression that many, and not just the top brass, have had it up to here with his “independence”, and the general anarchy that still reigns in LPR as opposed to DPR. Тhe main culprits for the latter are the Cossacks rather than Mozgovoi, but he is not helping the matter with the picking and choosing which orders to carry out.
What we do know about the Ghost Brigade is that it occupied the most treacherous position between Donetsk and Lugansk, straddling the area in a forward defense against some of the most powerful Ukie armor and artillery. That has always been its sector. And remember, until very recently there was no joint, coordinated command structure in the militia.
The recent cauldron formation called for Ghost to attack Popsnaya and take it. That bogged down. Later, despite manpower and equipment losses he joined in the closing of the smaller cauldron that trapped Debalcevo. Ghost enabled the Cossacks to enter the city first.
And from the videos I saw the relationship with the people they rescued was the deepest, warmest.
So, if a man of honor (who won’t put up with thieves and criminals and rapists in the ranks) is not loved by every other important person, it usually is jealousy or fear that the Commander will finger them for their criminality. (Particularly, if this is local stuff and not upsetting Moscow, you can be fairly certain that Mozgovoi is being slimed.)
By the way, until Debalcevo, the Cossacks were the units undependable and who ran from its positions in prior offensives and defenses.
The point is, there is central command structure now (and it was already in place during the Jan-Feb operation), but apparently not for Mozgovoi and not for the Cossacks (the situation with the latter has apparently somewhat improved by now, but they are still a major headache). The HQ has no complaints about the final stage involving the closing of the Debaltsevo cauldron, only the previous halted advance. They do not believe that Mozgovoi did all he should have done, unlike other units, especially from the much better organised DPR forces. Obviously this is their opinion but under the circumstances it is the one that matters. It needs to be remembered that what is being built there is an actual military, where there is a proper chain of command, no democracy, and orders are to be followed – and this is what military professionals expect. Not everybody likes it, but it is what it is. If the Ghost brigade does not fit into that, it will inevitably lead to problems. I hope this gets figured out without any serious carnage.
The established units like Mozgovoi’s were reluctant to “join the Army” because they were cohesive companies. They did not want to be split up, scattered into various other groupings they could already see as under-trained and under maybe also under-trained leaders.
Batman agreed to join only is his group was left intact. Four days later, he was assassinated, but his group was still left as is. Mozgovoi’s brigade works 100% with the others in terms of strategy, for common goals, but they are a team and continue work that way..
Recent assessments of how the Debaltsevo fighting went indicate that the High Command giving orders doesn’t help. It needs to take a much bigger role in keeping the supplies coming
I haven’t read that discussion in its entirety because I keep shouting at my monitor.
The main complaints seems to be that they didn’t have spare parts, didn’t have a reserve, used under-trained troops, lacked advanced equipment, on and on like that. And, the terrible sin, pretended that they did instead of announcing the good news to the Ukrops.
It’s no wonder they were so badly beaten.
All this lack of preparedness applied to the Ukies, too. And they had a lot more men, a lot more money… and still lost. Why?
* morale — NAF is fighting for a just cause, however variously they may be defining it
* good leadership — perhaps not as officially trained in military matters as UAF had, but leaders trusted by their men, and this is what the original units were afraid to lose by being split up into a new official army.
LPR wanted to break their original groups, seeing them as uncontrolled warlords. DPR took theirs in as ready made units and didn’t break them up. Admittedly LPR had more territory the “state” had no systems to control, so it was up to the local commanders to do what they could.
Mozgovoi did talk some rather wild stuff in the early days, but seems to be fully on board when it’s important. His statement just after Minsk2 didn’t have a single word about ideology of any sort, just all phrases about a fair life with no oligarchs, that even any Ukie could be happy with.
Paul Craig Robert:
Dear Saker, I am Sanjay here again. I just wanted to say to you something abt PCR and you excitement. Please don’t fall into the trap of people like PCR or for that matter entire acadmia of the West. These are just showmanship. I am sure you know he is coming from the RR regime. Truely you know or might me knowing very well abt RR time of US. Have you ever asked him why they didn’t ask the same question when he was working with him? Did they have the rightousness at that time? What did they do all their life? Weren’t they able to teach the TRUTH abt USA to their own people? Have you asked them these things? These are the point which they still don’t accept as a massive flaws. Honestly there is only one solution of all these mess. Either redemtion by the USA or a massive catastrophic War. In my opinion the later one is the only solution. You can’t have cure for Cancer. Then the question is the “INNOCENT PEOPLE” would suffer? The answer is a big “YES” because they are not INNOCENT at all. Do you think the consumption by US, BRITISH,ETC at the expense of rest of the world are right? There are many things an you all know more than me.
Moreover recently I miss your philosophical analysis.
Regds
San
“… I am sure you know he is coming from the RR regime. …”
Exactly. RR was a successful Hollywood front for the extreme right wing. That PCR makes here a false distinction is probably for some entirely personal reasons. Seems as if he was very personally embittered by the establishment at some point in time since RR, which forced him to see the light. Hard to judge. His analyses are indeed quite good and – “better ever than never”.
Why don’t you comment your crap on BBC?
who are you talking to once nazi ? could you put the name in front otherwise its so confusing.
Hi Sanjay, PCR is redeeming himself in our times I think. And Sanjay, what about ‘after the war’ ?
We have to change the system before the war. after will be awful…they will have a much more strangle hold on us poor mortals.
The modern big war tools. Thy are known for the never before existing high precision to kill a fly, minding his business, thousands of miles away. No need to mass destroy city’s or the like. Just going after them, wanting wars, thy will be the first to die. The only silver lining in coming wars.
Sanjay – The answer to your questions is the US has a very effective propaganda machine. I have many friends from other countries here and they are as deceived as the Americans I know. You cannot believe how persuasive it is and how well done.
As a matter of fact, I do believe you. The underlying reason is only one and only ONE that we don’t want to discover/find or look for the truth.
As said, not gonna wait till April 8 meeting with Putin for something to happen with the Greekers.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-28/greek-minister-slams-unscrupulous-imperialist-germany-will-seek-bold-alternatives-ru
Greece’s Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis will meet his Russian counterpart and the CEO of energy giant Gazprom in Moscow on Monday MAR30, as he hit out at the EU and Germany for tightening a ‘noose’ around the Greek economy.
Outspoken Lafazanis, on the left wing of Greece’s co-ruling Syriza party, will meet Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak and Gazprom Chief Executive Alexei Miller as well as other senior government officials, the energy ministry said on Saturday.
Lafazanis’ visit will come just over a week before Tsipras is due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow although the Greek government has stressed it is not seeking funding from the Kremlin.
I wonder if not Russia but China will spring a surprise deal to Greece in form of goods-in-lieu, etc.
The dream of owning a house with a superb view by the Aegean Sea is now closer than ever to reality, reports the Shanghai-based China Business News.
Since the eruption of the eurozone debt crisis five years ago, housing prices in Greece have dropped by 50% on average. Some luxury houses with sea views have seen their prices drop by 35% over the past year alone.
In order to boost investment, the Greek government launched a Golden Visa program in 2013 under which foreign, non-European nationals who invest a minimum of €250,000 (US$275,000) in real estate will be granted a five-year visa that will allow them to travel freely to 26 Schengen countries.
The visa is extendible to family members and can be renewed after five years as long as the holder continues to own property in Greece.
MAR 28
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20150328000006&cid=1102
Photos of HUMVEES look recent–see UKR on window stickers.
http://cassad-eng.livejournal.com/151726.html#cutid1
pbs.twimg.com/media/CA8gk5TUUAA6r7W.jpg:large
Remember this?
We’ll see if he finally does something more than send out Mean Mr. Mumbles for a song&dance about “our friends”. That schtik got old & sickening long ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwVQ49YhKnk
Russia: We won’t stay indifferent if US sends arms to Ukraine
What a difference a new century can make.At the end of the last century most of the World was “at peace”.Not that there wasn’t turmoil then, of course there was.But the amount of it covering the globe was small compared to today.As the repercussions from 9/11 came,one after the other starting in 2001.Much of the globe has moved to turmoil and war.And just as dangerous has been the acceptance of what the Empire labels “security”.I remember hearing at 9/11 that the US (and Europe) needed to accept a loss of personal freedom for security reasons.That we should adopt the security regime of Israel.Living in fear,with locked down buildings.To become a constant police state. Politicians and the media all portrayed that as a good thing.As I was thinking “no its not a good thing”.Now from that beginning,our police state has turned to world domination,stirring up wars,and sponsoring terrorism itself.They invaded Afghanistan under the cover of making us “safe” and “catching Bin Ladin”.After 14 years the US and NATO are still there,killing,dying,dominating.Bin Ladin is dead,the Taliban is far from defeated.And the US is bankrupt.Then to “protect” us from non-existent WMD’s the US “had” to invade another sovereign state in the ME,Iraq.After 12 years,Iraq is in far worse shape than it was before the invasion.Around a million Iraqi citizens are dead.And more dying every day.The US name is even more mud than before around the world,and the US population far poorer than before.But instead of thinking on the mistakes made.The US “leadership” has opted for even more wars. Dis-stabilizing more countries in the MENA region.And now even in Europe.When will this come to an end.Will the world finally say NO to the US warmongers.Or will their policies bring us all to war.I don’t know of course.But I do hope they can be stopped before we “cross the Rubicon” and its too late to stop.
PNAC! Project for the New American Century.
When USSR collapsed the neocons — ‘the crazies in the basement’ got the chance to arrange the ‘new Pearl Harbor’ false flag on 9/11, with the plans for world domination laid out and ready to go.
It’s turning out the New American Century, although much less ambitious than a Thousand Year Reich, is yet another of those plans that ‘gang aft agley’, as Robt. Burns said, and will fall far short of a century.
(Yes — Of Mice and Men…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_mPrhwpZ-8
Pinky & The Brain Theme Song
When the deep thinkers and philosophers want to understand the mysteries, best to watch some good cartoons — they can say things no one else can.
Very inspirational.
When you have to fight to save your family, your children, your land, your freedom, these Freedom Fighters know . . .
Dear Saker,
I used to really enjoy reading your comments and analysis re current world events. You have not posted any such original comments since Ukraine SITREP Friday March 20th, 2015. If you have been ill I wish you a speedy recovery.
I’ll have quality over quantity any day.
Apart from Yemen, world events are on simmer at the moment.
Need to wait for the next player to make a move.
Here anon this might cheer you up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvwi24arxEs&list=PLl454lB46JcLVKufuam-j5lD7BrseL2Ns&index=3
maybe he’s working on his thesis…I read a long time ago that its been waiting and waiting for him to finish it.
This is what you will expect from a loser country like russia.
quote “Syria. Russian base
El Murid, Mar 27 2015
In response to Pres Assad’s call upon Russia to return to Syria and build a full-fledged naval base in Tartus, the answer was no. It is unlikely that Ozerov was expressing his own point of view. The position of Russia, in general, is clear: we do not have the slightest hint of politics in the region, we have consistently surrendered all our positions in the Middle East, and therefore the presence of a naval base, or any other kind of base, has for modern Russia no value. The economy must be economical, and so to keep some base for the sake of prestige would be meaningless. In addition, the base is responsible for a considerable area around it, but why does Russia need some kind of responsibility? She still cannot and does not wish to provide the security at her own borders, let alone some distant frontiers. Assad might as well offer facilities to build a space station near Jupiter. Or Saturn.”
Contrary to the MSM, Russia does not want to take over the world — it’ has quite enough to do in Russia itself, not to mentions building ties lands to the east, and other trading partners. To the West, Russia is as ‘inscrutable’ as China, because the West is like Pinky and the Brain — always wanting to take over the world, and is addicted to war. The West want the Middle East for the oil — Russia has no need of that.
https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/ru-en.en/www.interfax.ru/world/432584
Russia will not create in the Syrian port of Tartus naval base
27 March 2015To select a date12:12
Moscow. on March 27. INTERFAX.RU – Russia will not create in the Syrian Tartus full-fledged military base, as this may lead to an escalation of the conflict in Syria, told “Interfax” on Friday, the head of the Federation Council Committee on defense and security Viktor Ozerov.
“On the one hand, it is beneficial for us, we would love to return in Tartus, as it is primarily good opportunities for our vessels. But, on the other hand, in the situation that has developed in Syria, it will push certain forces, including the forces of opposition to the escalation of tensions,” said lake.
[…]
the West is like Pinky and the Brain.
Funny as great description, one of my favourite cartoons.
@ Anon,
I have no clue as to what goes on inside Mr. Putin’s skull. I’m also very bad at reading tealeaves and never won a penny in the powerball lottery. What I do know, is the time when Obombi was ready to start a bombing campaign in Syria [against Assad] and then, suddenly, that plan evaporated into thin air.
I also remember a reporter asking the Tartus’ Russian base commander, “Are those missile batteries of a defensive nature or…”
The answer; “Defensive. It protects us 300km that way [points to the north] and 300km that way [points to the south]..”
You could visibly see the reporter starting to crunch the numbers until he sees the light. “But… that’s the entire Syrian coast!”
Cue in a vague smile.
If it hadn’t been for Russia, Syria would have been bombed back to
Stonehengethe Stone age, by FUKUS.Yeah, because pouring billions into a naval base located in a country which appears to be in a perpetual civil war is a great idea.
As to mottoes, I read the following once, somewhere [and liked it];
“Revenge is sweet, but Death is permanent.”
beautiful Russian song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UPB2Z8nZmw&list=PLl454lB46JcI4GEzvp8rXWGlW7lAqBwCS&feature=player_detailpage
actually Cossack. Sorry.
again,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UPB2Z8nZmw&list=PLl454lB46JcI4GEzvp8rXWGlW7lAqBwCS&feature=player_detailpage
The song was moving, its sentient melody, its message and the beautiful young artist full of life. And that it was – in 1976. I was a young chap then … … makes me think of forever bygone times…
OT standing ovation for Putin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaUKTw_189k&list=PLl454lB46JcI4GEzvp8rXWGlW7lAqBwCS&feature=player_detailpage
What’s the difference between this and the sickening worship of Monarchy in the UK?
The wealth on display here is disgusting
The subjugation to power on display here is disgusting
The, even greater inequality of wealth distribution in Russia (cf “the West”) is disgusting.
Perhaps “the West” is even worse than Russia (a previous thread comment argued that Russia does not export terrorism – thank goodness if it were to result in the inequality of that country)
This is a struggle between two evil empires.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring
“Göring: Why, of course, the people don’t want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.
Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.
Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”
What’s the difference between this and the sickening worship of Monarchy in the UK?
Quite a few differences in fact. Firstly, Putin and the Russian government are no manifestations of rampant parasitism; least of all the inbred variety of it. Secondly, the Russian government brings tangible benefits to Russia and to the overwhelming mass base among her people, whereas monarchist pride is just sheer, hollow grovelling. Thirdly — a most significant corollary to the first point above — is that Russia doesn’t partake in world plunder and enslavement. British monarchists are, for the most part, imperialist and racist to the core for obvious reasons.
The wealth on display here is disgusting
How so?
The subjugation to power on display here is disgusting
Typical reaction of Western chauvinist invertebrates when confronted by countries, peoples, and leaders/rulers having the guts to expose the formers’ beloved Imperialist Fatherlands. The above pronunciamento actually translates into “The insubordination to Western depravity is totally abominable”. Proves eloquently that Western so-called anti-authoritarianism has the same bias as all other preposterous garbage passing for Western “political science”.
The, even greater inequality of wealth distribution in Russia (cf “the West”) is disgusting
Sorry, but you’re most definitely not more credible here than the ruling imperialist bourgeoisie of the West. If your assessment were true, that would have made Putin and Russia the darling of the Corporate Media. Alas, deeply regret to inform you that the proverbial 1% is made up of people who understand their own class interests very well indeed, even if you apparently do not. As a gauge of the presence of widening gaps, it is the West which faces increasing tensions and loss of social cohesion; not Russia, mind you.
“This is a struggle between two evil empires”
And this pronunciamento readily translates into Too dense, too coward, and too arrogant to dispense with Western supremacist dogma”
“Putin and the Russian government are no manifestations of rampant parasitism”
the distribution of wealth in Russia is much larger than in “the West”. Please check recent previous threads for those links. Old money or new money – oligarchs are the root problem. Any society which allows the power of oligarchy to arise is depraved.
“the Russian government brings tangible benefits to Russia and to the overwhelming mass base among her people”
I have said that wealth disparity in Russia is greater than in the West. So, on what basis do you say this? do you have figures?
“whereas monarchist pride is just sheer, hollow grovelling.”
it seems we both hate monarchy (although it is only one one form of oligarchy)
“Thirdly — a most significant corollary to the first point above — is that Russia doesn’t partake in world plunder and enslavement. British monarchists are, for the most part, imperialist and racist to the core for obvious reasons.”
I already referred to this – comparatively it makes Russia better. Keeping inequality at home doesn’t make Russia good though.
The wealth on display here is disgusting
“How so?”
please read this http://www.starvation.net/
The subjugation to power on display here is disgusting
“Typical reaction of Western chauvinist invertebrates when confronted by countries, peoples, and leaders/rulers having the guts to expose the formers’ beloved Imperialist Fatherlands.”
Living in the land of the empire, I hate western values more than anybody I know – I may not be smarter than a lot of people but i’m certainly not an invertebrate. I hate all imperialism.
“The above pronunciamento actually translates into “The insubordination to Western depravity is totally abominable”. Proves eloquently that Western so-called anti-authoritarianism has the same bias as all other preposterous garbage passing for Western “political science””
Your words, not mine.
My point was not about insubordiantion – it was to identify that inequality in Russia is even worse than in the West. Insubordination between two capitalist empires (who are more or less depraved) has little interest for me.
The, even greater inequality of wealth distribution in Russia (cf “the West”) is disgusting
“Sorry, but you’re most definitely not more credible here than the ruling imperialist bourgeoisie of the West. If your assessment were true, that would have made Putin and Russia the darling of the Corporate Media.”
Incorrect – this is a war between two groups that want to feather their own nests at the expense of the people. We know economic warfare is being used as a major component of that struggle.
“Alas, deeply regret to inform you that the proverbial 1% is made up of people who understand their own class interests very well indeed, even if you apparently do not.”
I understand the class interests of the (1%) of the 1% very well.
“As a gauge of the presence of widening gaps, it is the West which faces increasing tensions and loss of social cohesion; not Russia, mind you.”
I’m an agnostic. If a part of Russian social cohesion is produced by belief in a, potential, tooth fairy i’d (unfortunately) rather have no social cohesion. I also think that nationalism is an infantile disease. The West” does seem nearly totally degenerate (I had a reformed Presbyterian upbringing ;-) (http://rpc.org/page/beliefs).
“This is a struggle between two evil empires”
And this pronunciamento readily translates into Too dense, too coward, and too arrogant to dispense with Western supremacist dogma”
You couldn’t be more wrong.
I was interested in your reply and would welcome further clarification.
I’d also prefer if your tone could be a little less disparaging, please ? :-)
If we are talking about wealth inequality, then based on Gini index, Russia and USA are equally bad. Both countries are being run but 1%.
Complete equality does not seem too possible. Does not matter either. The absolute level is more important, so the people at the bottom have enough to live on. Makes little difference if the top few have 100 times or 20000 times more than the poorest. as long as they are not stealing it from the poorest…. and of course that is the problem that they are.
ok anon, how do you propose to change it ? Kill all the rich people and steal their money ? Maybe we get them on our side….like the supporters of Putin….
Ann,
even if I didn’t have a solution it still wouldn’t make Russia right.
“Kill all the rich people and steal their money ?”
That would be much better than have everyone die.
Do you think they deserve to live in lavish style while creating misery among countless millions, designing neocon wars, not caring a jot that 35,000 starve/day?
“Maybe we get them on our side….like the supporters of Putin….”
Having rich people on your side doesn’t solve the problem. Inequality in society is the root cause problem. The figures I have reviewed show that inequality is worse in Russia than the West and getting worse in Putin’s time.
Do you not care that 35,000 starve/day (that seems a multiple of the terrible destruction in Donbass over the whole period)
A mindset change is needed.
I think you originally agreed with a comment in a thread some time ago from Kat Kan who said something along these lines (in an inheritance tax discussion):
“why should I give my money to the Government”
My memory is that you agreed with that.
I hadn’t actually proposed giving all money to Government since that would quosh innovation of those motivated by money (of course, there are many other motivations). I had, however, proposed giving most money to government (over $100,000 income/year and limiting inheritance to $1M).
The non-distribution (and non transfer of) wealth is the source of oligarch creation. Only relatively small differentials in wealth (and associated power) should be tolerated by any society.
The infantile disease of nationalism must be broken – a world order based on equality could, today, stop starvation.
So, what to do about it?
Change your own mind. Try to change the mind of others. If that doesn’t work then be content that you tried.
I’ll quote some of this article from 24 April 2012 http://www.paulnathan.biz/commentaries/130-qthe-failed-policies-of-the-pastq.html – i’d much rather live in Cuba, but you need to decide for yourself:
“…[]…The recipients of all that innovation became some of the richest people on earth. Even our poor were counted among the richest people on earth. In fact, the term “poor” was rarely used or heard during the Bush years. This is what Obama warns us we may be forced, kicking and screaming, to go back to if Romney should win the election?
Obama is selling a different vision of the future, where we are all our brother’s keeper; where the best are brought down to the level of the mediocre, where the exceptional are punished by higher taxes and the needy rewarded at other peoples expense; where the government looks over us all, and makes the “important” decisions for us; and where fairness is not equality of opportunity for all, but where lifestyles are equalized by government dictates.
If you’d like to see the reality of such “fairness”—visit Cuba. There, you will find what Fidel Castro believes is the fairest society of all. Cuba is a nation without progress. He ended it decades ago. Sixty year old American cars are still on the roads because the incentive to produce new cars, or new anything, has been taken away. Besides, most of Cuba’s innovators and producers fled long ago to freer societies where incentives still exist.
Imagine a place with no new industry or new buildings springing up. What would life be like without mass transit or technological innovation? That’s the “ideal” as expressed in Cuba. Yet, there is full employment and national health care. In Cuba everyone works, and everyone gets a free education and free health care. But no one excels at anything. There is no upward mobility, no possibility of getting rich, no dreams. The standard of living just stays the same and there are no new and better cars or homes to buy. Things just stay the same year after year, decade after decade.”
Obama rightfully claims that this election is about two different visions of the future. Obama’s vision is one of government control, regulation, and redistribution of wealth to make us all more equal. Romney’s vision is to increase incentives, freedom, and opportunity to make us more prosperous.”
If I excel at anything I don’t want to benefit from that at the expense of my neighbour. I should be humble and use my exceptionalism to help others. I should be happy with any good work I achieve – but not proud.
If Cuba has design problems are they unfixable? i’d be interested to know, under whose rule would you rather live?
You may wish to review this http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/faq-answer.asp?faqid=5
Ann – I hadn’t realised (until Saker’s more recent video “Stratfor’s Mr. Freeman describes the real goals of the US Empire”) that Merkel is on theboard of Gazprom.
These b*******s all have their nose in the trough.
And what are you, stupid, degenerate ……
Mod: sorry Konstantin, we took out all the ranting and abusive language. It is against the rules. If it makes you feel better to write like that, get it out of your system, but please do not hit the Submit button.
@Konstantin.
I wrote:
“What’s the difference between this and the sickening worship of Monarchy in the UK?”
I think yours is a reply to that. If it is could you please explain, in measured terms, why you consider my post as:
“And what are you, stupid, degenerate ……”
Thanks.
I am not going to engage in some pointless and fruitless bickering with some libtard moron anymore than I am going to lose my preciuous time reading or posting on this rotten blog of yours anymore, mod! If you cannot provide or guarantee right off free speech, regardless of language used (besides, everybody knowns we in the Balkans are rude and barbaric; it is who we are!), you can just fuck off! My time is too much valuable to me to be losing it on this dumb, stupefied blog reading moronic thoughts of libtards! Too much of Western libtardo corruption for my taste! Adios! Let this place burn to the ground — oblivion is where you, together with your libtardo Western “brothers-in-arms,” belong to!
Well mods, genuine thanks for letting that go through – i’d never have been able to respond to Konstantin otherwise.
Konstantin – I hope you are still reading the blog and I hope you’ll reply to this.
I HATE the values of the West generally and massive levels of inequality in particular.
Of late, I see no difference in that respect between “the West” and Russia – they seem equally bad.
I come from a very divided society – Northern Ireland. Nationality is an accident of birth. While my upbringing was as part of the “Unionist” British Empire – I now hate that association. I have much more in common with my “Irish Nationalist brothers” who, seemingly, despise the empire. Unlike them, however, my hate is not based on Nationalism. Rather – it is based on hate of the elite who run that system. Little do my nationalist brothers know – the Irish Nationalist Government in the Irish Republic is now governed by the exact same elite that they so despised in the British elite.
I consider what happened to Serbia by “the West” as horrendous – I can understand your hatred. I feel it too.
If you read this – i’d like to hear more from you.
Thanks.
They know the word ‘libtard’ in the Balkans ?
Speaking of honor–or should I say DISHONOR, US troops teach Columbian kids what American Values are really about:
US troops, immune from prosecution, raped dozens of Colombian children
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/03/28/colo-m28.html
Makes you real proud to be an American don’t it?
Don’t worry though, just watch “American Sniper” for the 1000th time so you can escape into the Hollywood fantasyland of what America is.
Doesn’t like http …
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/03/28/colo-m28.html works.
Cue in the NYT; “Residents in Eastern Ukraine City Rally Against Separatism”
I get it; Separatists are evil.
Cue in another poodle; “Poland Charges Russian Air Traffic Controllers in Crash”
Despite the fact that;
However, Colonel Szelag said that the most immediate cause of the crash had been the Polish crew’s poor training and negligent behavior, which resulted in the plane’s descending too far below a layer of fog and failing to heed an automated warning to pull up. The crew also did not have the required permission to fly the presidential aircraft.
I get it; All Russians are evil.
Daniel, if you read German (or can cope with the poor quality of machine translators), read this assessment by a former Lufthansa pilot:
Smolensk – Katyn: Ein Absturz wie aus dem Lehrbuch – Januar 14, 2011 – Peter Haisenko
The case is crystal clear, it’s the Poles fault at 100 %. Inexplicably, they didn’t put the strictly required safety reserve of fuel in the machine, so they were forced to land despite being advised of not doing so. When the machine crashed there was no fire because they had run out of fuel. The Russian ATC did everything correctly.
I was elated when I heard about the Smolensk plane crash five years ago. Literally good riddance to bad garbage. The Psheks’ State Bigwigs set out on a trip to Smolensk to commemorate their void, ludicrous Katyn sob-story. Well, history repeats itself indeed: first time tragedy; second time farce. And what’s extraordinarily farcical here is that religious, devout bigots such as the Psheks just don’t get that The Lord works in strange and wondrous ways.
Given today’s Russophobic screamfest of Western imperialism in general and its imbecilic/psychotic media offal in particular, it’s strange Putin hasn’t been singled out as the villain regarding Smolensk 2010 and Seyne-les-Alpes this year. Or are they “working on it”, perchance?
@ Nussiminen,
Q; I was elated…
R; I’ve seen death in many of its faceted ways and it never filled me with joy. Did the world really become a much better place after ‘such-and such’ died?
@ Lumi
Thanks for the link.
“Der angetrunkene Luftwaffenchef Blasik und der Protokollchef haben entsprechende Anweisungen bei ihrem illegalen Aufenthalt im Cockpit gegeben. Generell und international gilt, dass sich keine Person unter Alkoholeinfluss im Cockpit aufhalten darf und schon gar nicht darf diese dem Kapitän Anweisungen erteilen.”
So, besides not having enough fuel, we find drunk people in the cockpit telling the pilot what to do? It’s really getting sickening how much telltale evidence MSM omits, so we, the grey and impressionable masses, are sent onward into the darkness, without any guiding light.
The Railway passenger connection that will connect the two capitals of DPR and LPR starts performing 28th March. It was reported by the Donetsk News Agency with reference to an announcement of the Transportation Minister of the DPR.
The Departure of the train 6603 will be carried out from the station Yasinovataya at 8.00 a.m. each Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. The train Lugansk-Yasinovataya will depart each Tuesday, Friday, Sunday
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=688313441273164&substory_index=0&id=617555095015666&refid=17&_ft_&__tn__=%2As
I am missing Saker’s comments and viewpoints. Hope he is well. I just sent some money this week. Don’t forget to keep donations going, he may need it.
Wondering what’s going to happen, Putin mentioned that if US supplied weapons, there WOULD be a reaction. And they HAVE sent weapons. I was concerned before, but I am getting more concerned.
Trying NOT to be alarmist,but..,make sure all the bases are covered,just in case.
That is,if survival is paramount for you.
mods.your clock7.18UTC
me 20.35UTC
It is displaying in 12-hour mode, am and pm. 7.41 or 19.41 from a website as I write this. How is yours showing an hour later?
[edit] yours looks like British time, which currently is Summer Time, an hour ahead of UTC
Margie, send him an email….its good for him to know, if you feel this way.
War Games 2014 E China Sea
In one of the clips, a P-8A aircraft is seen flying above a Chinese Type 052C guided-missile destroyer. Set to be combined with the RQ-4N unmanned aerial vehicle in the future, the P-8A will then be capable of monitoring the movement of Chinese warships over a larger area according to the paper. In the summer of 2014, a P-8A was intercepted by a J-11B fighter of the People’s Liberation Army Navy.
http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?cid=1101&MainCatID=11&id=20150328000087
I am putting this here: it is from from a recent Missive to my friends. I believe it fits, as we are discussing the “Ghost Brigade.” In America, we have another Ghost Brigade; only, this one is utterly without Honor.
Anarchist Collective,
Serpico,
They said that no photo evidence was possible of the dead body of Bin Laden, because he had been shot too many times by the Navy Seals, and the body did not look very together. This was the excuse offered by US imperialist war criminals, including Obomber, of why no proof was offered to the gullible (psychologically and medically controlled) American people that they actually landed on the moon (er- actually killed an actual and really prior existing individual, called Bin Laden).
Former Governor, and actual Navy Seal, Jesse Ventura, said the whole announced event of killing Bin Laden, was “fishy.” The Oligarchs, and their Hollywood puppet President, Broken Obomber, could have presented, no matter how damaged was ‘Bin Laden’s body, some DNA evidence to prove their tall story. “But Nooooo” as John Belushi used to say, no DNA evidence was offered to prove the success of their murder (committed in someone else’s country).
The point – I am leading up to, is: that in today’s news, in an effort to verify the dead individuals from the tragic plane crash in the German Alps, DNA samples are being taken (from the incomparably more damaged remnants of the individual passengers who died in the crash. From bits and pieces, the investigators (forensic experts), have extracted DNA samples from most of the victims of the air crash. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32105160
The story of Bin Laden’s existence, as well as his death (as he never lived) is about as factual as the supposed existence of an American President, Broken Obomber. It has been my theory that the actor who portrays Obomber is the same who portrayed the fictional Bin Laden, in those numerous videos of him that kept surfacing all those years the imperialists were supposedly searching for him. Like Superman and Clark Kent, Laden, and Obomber were never seen at the same place at the same time.
Those manicured videos of Bin Laden of found their ways onto the news stations as well as the late night TV shows (Lederman, etc.), where Bin Laden’s reality was ritualistically vouched for, in a successful attempt to brainwash the gullible Americans. Hey!! Americans, brainwashed from Kindergarden, believe anything they are told, just as long as they hear it from approved authority figures.
Bin Laden was not killed as he never lived, and Broken Obomber was never born. African Americans have been cruelly deceived. America has yet to elect a Black President (that is to be understood-a flesh and blood African American who became President in a flesh and blood Constitutional American Government).
The Lies, False Flags, and Mis-directions, of the Anglo/American/Zionist Oligarchs are not very clever, but they don’t have to try very hard. Americans, and some Europeans, desperately want to believe all they are told by their betters. MH-17, Twin Towers, Gulf of Tonkin, the upcoming American 2016 electoral circus, all the previous electoral circuses-since November 22, 1963. Do we need a verb?
I have to end this missive now, as I have a date with Sheryl Crow. There she is, walking down the street, toward me, right now!
Peter J. Antonsen
Love to all!
For the Democratic Republics! Here and there!
IMAGINE
@ Peter J. Antonsen,
Besides shooting an unarmed man in the face [and all those fake ‘Bong Ladle’um’ photo-ups before it], who wouldn’t want to pick that man’s brain and find out how he managed to achieve 9/11 from the dwellings of a cave? How he knew the skies would be clear all over the US on that fateful Monday morning or how he could turn mediocre fliers into world class kamikaze pilots?
Nah, let’s just shoot him up and ‘dump’ his body in the ocean.
Yes, we did show you Saddam’s hanging… and yes, we did show you the mangled bodies of his 2 sons, Uday and Qusay Hussein [we even cleaned them up later on, so you could be sure it was them], but that was for the greater good of…, you know…
What a f***ed-up world we live in.
China welcomes Denmark, Australia to AIIB
China Daily Monday 30th March, 2015
BEIJING — China’s Ministry of Finance on Sunday welcomed the decisions of Denmark and Australia to apply to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
Denmark filed its application letter on Saturday, while Australia followed on Sunday, the ministry said in a statement.
http://www.irishsun.com/index.php/sid/231493329
Dear Ann,
It is true that we have to and must try to make the war not happen. It must be the extreme last resort. As a matter of fact the WAR which was started as WW1 and very soon WW2 never ended because the project to destroy Russia and as a result to choke the entire planet was not accomplished by the whoever forces you could name it ( I m sure you know who are they).
During the so called “Cold War” phase an illusion was/is created in the name of Democracy but the criminal act of War continued/continue although on smaller and weak/weaker, undefensible people, nations by the west. Or better one could say an illusion was created called Democracy. And the major tool or tools or underlying tools were Technology. The same way when printing machine was invented and made the use of that was to propagate false informations as much as possible. One could check the validity of those. I am sure you all know these and much more than what I could say…..
Making my comment short what I think and very much full of conviction that we should try to delay the war as much as possible not because just to delay it but also to awaken ourselves to the TRUTH. The Key word is TRUTH. One thing is for sure the system in which all the things are can’t be changed. Absolutely it can’t be. Only a calamity would force them. So more the AWAKEN PEOPLE are after the WAR the better system and Environment could be created. It didn’t happen during and after the WW1 and WW2. Therefore we have to pay the price. Just one example “Could you believe the Jews who claim that they suffered during holocast could do infinite time worse thing to Palestine and Nobody is standing against them from the Western World. Isn’t it telling something??
In the end i would say if our path is not full of Truth then yes they will have much more strange hold on us “poor mortal”. But don’t worry being an Indian I would say that in the end the “DHARMA” and “TRUTH” would be and have to be victorius. It would be. Meanwhile The suffering would continue and it should as long as we are following the illusions of the West.
Regds
San
dear Sanjay, yes, but I think we have to ‘think about change’ in real practical terms. Rudolf Steiner has said that the social organism is the same as the human organism…three distinct parts…thinking feeling and willing. The social is (in the same order) – the spiritual part – creativity and the state of human rights – and the economy which is like the will.
Its complex but these three need to be given power to make their own decisions without interference from the others. The ecomony needs to be watched over by human rights…as the economy also uses the spiritual parts of society as its source…creative thinking…
But if creative thinking and invention is bogged down by a lack of human rights, then the economy can take-over and every one suffers except the oligarchs and those who work in high creative positions…they’ve been bought and aren’t really creating what’s best for the whole organism any more.
Dear Ann, Now you are taking me into a very deeper mode. Let me ask you one question “What is solution of Cancer and that too pretty advanced or rottened ? I am sure you know.
Huh?
‘The Daily Beast’ [sic] has this gem to add to an objective and unbiased view of the Donbass debacle; “Real Talk With Russia’s Fake Super Soldier.
Just another ASS [Apartheid State’s Supporter].
MAR 28
Ukrainian authorities have arrested a Turkish-owned cargo ship and detained its captain over a visit it made to a port in Crimea after Russian annexed the peninsula from Ukraine last year.
Prosecutors said the Tuvalu-registered 5,095 deadweight tonne ship Kanton was being held in the Ukrainian port of Kherson. They said the crew could go to jail for up to three years and the ship could be seized.
http://novorossia.today/ukraine-arrests-turkish-cargo-ship-over-crimea-port-call/
the ukies could never do this without the States being there. How horrible. Poor crew.
MOSCOW, March 26. /TASS/. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) will give assistance to the counterpart security agencies in Brazil in ensuring public security at the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, Yuri Nagornykh, the deputy minister of sports who chairs the commission for preparing Russian teams for the forthcoming Olympics told TASS on Thursday.
On Thursday, the commission devoted its regular meeting at the Ministry of Sports to preparations for the summer games in Brazil in 2016 and the winter games in South Korea in 2018.
http://tass.ru/en/sports/785189
sorry I only speak English
The split between Berlin and Washington is becoming more pronounced by the week, as German patience seems to be running out for the war-hungry and belligerent US. This is leading to NATO becoming more fragmented, as many in Europe now see certain factions in the US as impeding any chance of reaching an enduring peace deal in Eastern Ukraine.
http://journal-neo.org/2015/03/18/nato-commander-breedlove-promulgating-dangerous-propaganda-german-us-split-deepens/
LO!
6 days later the response/answer appeared.
I only check Guardian and Reuters for western infotainment/news. Germany has gone very quiet in the last few weeks. They seem to have decided that discretion is the better part of valor when it comes to attacking Russia.
http://wtfrly.com/2015/03/29/russia-goalie-hit-by-flare-ukraine-media-focuses-on-novorossiya-flags/
Some rare news: the Frenchies are in retreat mode.
The project, run by the Jerusalem city council, has stoked controversy over the Israeli cable car’s planned route, which passes through parts of mostly Palestinian East Jerusalem, according to the PNN.
http://nsnbc.me/2015/03/28/french-firm-pulls-out-of-jerusalem-cable-car-project/
The reality cannot be avoided. Ukraine is an idea that will never work. Its like Yugoslavia was, held together by the USSR and before that the region was held together by the Austro Hungarian Empire. The Ukraine will split like Yugoslavia. Its now about what the new borders will be and whether the fighting will drag in big powers openly. Go Nuclear? Maybe.
Its also like the Nazi attack in WW2. Its reached the same territory. Remember many Ukrainian’s defected to Germany in 42. Kiev is being the proxy this time with NATO moving up after slowly. Make no mistake, Nuclear alert is high.
Sorry but that’s incorrect. Yugo was held together by the natives of course – Serbs, Croats, Slovenian etc., we are all slavic peoples (hence the name, which literally means “south slavia”). We also speak the same language for the most part.
Yugoslavia was always in cahoots with the west and never really Russia-friendly. We were not real friends, nor did Yugo ever join the Warszaw treaty. At some point in the 50’s, USSR was even almost ready to invade Yugoslavia via Hungary.
Before that, the Austro-Ungar empire only had the north-western half (Croatia and Slovenia), while the rest was in Turkish hands. Needless to say, both of them held nothing together, rather the opposite. We were always the target of foreign invasions, now as then.
Im afraid reality supports my point. Yugo is today in bits. Case closed. IMHO Ukraine will be in bits one day. Its happening now.
Ann: Batman was a Cossack, very much a maverick and nobody’s man, but closest to Mozgovoi and a proponent of hanging Zakharchenko and Plotnitsky for treason for signing the Minsk agreement. He was only peripherally attached to the resistance.
He defected (resigned? was fired?) from the Ukrainian Secret Police and was fighting a private war with drug dealers with a small band, less than a company, containing some very violent Russian “ultra” volunteers. He was funded by his own private oligarch with whom he lived. He could have been warring on only one side of the drug trade in the pay of a rival, but he was such a fanatic that I think not. He operated by ambushing and wiping out drug smugglers on the road, and knowingly attacked a group trying to smuggle narcotics in for the NAF field hospitals that were completely out and having trouble procuring them.
I’ve said before, you may recall it, this is not “Boy Scouts Go to War.” The best and the worst go to these small, irregular wars. As long as they’re shooting in the right direction, the tendency is to tolerate the psychos and plan to sort them later. We are all extremely incurious, for example, as to how the wives of the volunteers are feeding the kids. “But this wasn’t a toll road yesterday.” “What occupancy tax?” (I just found out that Zakharchenko sold his sports club to finance his war.) Batman refused to turn over any Ukrainian troops he captured for the prisoner exchanges. The most likely reason for this is ransom.
One of the tasks Bednov undertook for the NAF was watching for civilians acting as spotters. If you can see a civilian, he can see you, and could be a spotter. It is a delicate job, but Batman should be qualified for it with a police background. Maybe not a “by the book” man, but at least he knew there was a book. Why he wound up with 11 civilians shut up in a basement might be explained a few ways: after “enhanced interrogation” he didn’t want them outside and talking; they’d seen something worse than their own treatment; ransom; he was feeling the heat from Plotnitsky and converted his suspects into hostages.
I see him as a bandit chief who found areas of agreement with the NAF and cooperated with them at times and in ways of his choosing, probably in exchange for equipment. The NAF saw him and his band as potentially an asset if they could tame him.
There’s an interesting video interview with Alexey Milchakov, one of his Russian veteran Nazis. Milchakov has made the sanctions list, which is reaching awfully far down. He has a certain notoriety for posting on Facebook pictures of himself sawing off the head of a dog. A live dog. You get sanctioned for that. Milchakov appears to have been afraid of Batman.
@ Cassandra,
Thanks for your in-depth explanation.
@ Cassandra
Very informative and very “in depth” analysis on Batman, Mozgovoi and of course your forte: Strelkov.
Now, do I detect a tendency for bad mouthing persons who have one way or another disagreed with the official line in this war, or we are to believe that these are the “bad apples” of the revolution and they deserve what is coming (or has already come) to them?
To the Honorable Saker,
” Inflationary Depression ” coming 2015 ?
Watch Paul Craig Roberts newest interview from today. Fascinating, no holds barred.
Courtesy of the DeepResource site :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaB9EcUCkdI
Beyond Left and Right, Beyond Red and White: Framing the Liberation War in Donbass.
A particularly noteworthy aspect of the ongoing crisis in Donbass is the symbolism—religious and historic—that surpasses the commonly used, but outdated Left-Right political spectrum. In the Russian context, this also means overcoming the Red-White divide of the Communist Revolution. That this war pushed Russians to examine their country’s raison d’être is somewhat remarkable: for two decades its citizens did not have an official ideology, prohibited by the Constitution that is based on Western models. The emergence of a new way of thinking in Russia will become clearer once we refer to the meaning of religious insignia, wars—Russian Civil and Great Patriotic, as well as the question of ideology in the Postmodern world.
http://syncreticstudies.com/2015/03/29/beyond-left-and-right-beyond-red-and-white-framing-the-liberation-war-in-donbass/#more-1740
Alexander Mercouris article on the BBC’s latest ‘understanding Putin’ nonsense.
“A lengthy article in the BBC magazine accompanying a documentary claims the fall of East Germany was a formative experience for Putin. It probably was but not in the way the article says”
http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/03/28/5089
Barry Glassner said, a sociologist and author of “The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are afraid of the wrong things.”
“There tends to be a lot of demonizing of the person who is in the office,” Glassner said
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/30/us-usa-threats-poll-idUSKBN0MQ0AV20150330
( Not applicable for the imaginary enemies of UKUSA countries )
OT
… the low-cost carrier Germanwings.
Did anyone ever hear anything about the heavily over-priced carrier Cathay Pacific?
This is on par with the ‘firebrand cleric, blah, blah, blah’ monotonous repetition.
Yemen, Ukraine, and the Hypocrisy of ‘Aggression’
The military intervention in Yemen by a US-backed coalition of Arab states will undoubtedly inflame the conflict both in Yemen, and throughout the region. It is likely to be a protracted war involving many actors, each of which is interested in furthering its own political and geopolitical agenda.
However, it is the international reaction to this new regional war which is of particular interest; specifically, the way in which the United States has reacted to this undeniable aggression by its Gulf allies. While Washington has gone to great lengths to paint Russia’s reunification with Crimea and its limited support for the anti-Kiev rebels of eastern Ukraine as “aggression,” it has allowed that same loaded term to be completely left out of the narrative about the new war in Yemen.
http://journal-neo.org/2015/03/30/yemen-ukraine-and-the-hypocrisy-of-aggression/
OT
Alexander Dugin interview on Red Ice:
Red Ice article
Download mp3
http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2015/03/RIR-150327.php
http://rediceradio.net/radio/2015/RIR-150327-alexandrdugin-hr1.mp3
That 1 hour of Dugin was hard work. I think I follow Dugin’s argument but I’m not sure I agree with some of it.
The attack on Western Liberalism (as he defines it) may well contain some strong points but I cannot dismiss the feeling that he is also possibly just exhibiting a somewhat expected and ‘natural’ reaction to the fall and rise of Russian identity.
In a sense a form of resurgent culture and nationalism directed into an alleged “4th Way”. Hmmmm, … ? He finds many faults (from a Russian non-Western perspective) — but solutions, I’m not so sure. Perhaps the Saker could comment on Dugin’s critique of Western liberalism etc?
Btw, I found this Canadian interview with one of his translators a little more accessible.
“Vladimir Putin’s name is known throughout the world. Alexander Dugin’s name, not so much. But to people in the know, Alexander Dugin is a very important name, as the Russian public intellectual says what Putin thinks. The Agenda examines the man who has been called “Putin’s brain.” ” (Michael Millerman)
http://4pt.su/en/content/who-alexander-dugin
http://russia-insider.com/en/us-sanctions-target-eurasianist-kremlin-critic-alexander-dugin/5141
As more and more readers are waking up to the fact that they’re being manipulated in EU-NATO countries, the readership of practically all mainstream newspapers have dropped like a rock in recent years.
I see only desperation in the MSM reports of the ill health of the co pilot according to them, he had SO many things wrong with him,he wouldn’t have been allowed to fly a child’s kite.I don’t buy it.Germany paid a big price in blood,with France the clean up costs for Minsk2.
Mods.did you just add pm/am to your time stamp after my foot note,or am I hallucinating again?
below says 12.58pm
mine says14.28GMT
something screwy .
1332
fixed maybe my error.