I am getting a flood of emails asking me about the article Putin’s Head – Who will remove the head of Russian President Putin and offer it on a platter to the U.S.? (also here) I normally don’t comment any of the nonsense which circulates on the Internet, but this one seems to have a lot of people worried.
Friends, the key to the entire article is right at the beginning: “It seems that Russian authorities have found a way towards accommodation with the West. Liberals have become more powerful and are leading the talks“. Every word in these two sentences is utterly false. For one thing, Putin is “the Russian authorities”. His power stems from three sources:
1) He was elected by the Russian people
2) He is solidly backed by the “power ministries” (Internal, Security, Military, Police, Intelligence, Emergencies)
3) His current popularity is somewhere in the high 80%
In other words, removing him would be legally impossible, physically impossible and politically impossible.
Second, if anybody seriously believes that Putin is seeking an accommodation with the West then he/she simply needs to listen to his latest speech at the Valdai club to come to realize that far from seeking any accommodation, Putin is fully ready for a long confrontation with the AngloZionist Empire.
Finally, because of their failure to overthrow Putin during the Presidential elections and, even more so, because of the civil war in the Ukraine, the Russian liberals have never been weaker then before: they are associated with the nightmarish 1990s and they are seen as allies of any and all Russia-hating forces be it Wahabi Chechens or Ukrainian Nazis and as tool of the US/EU/NATO.
Finally, when the authors write “Russian “patriots” dream stubbornly of convincing today’s President to imitate Stalin or Ivan The Terrible” they are completely misrepresenting the ideology and wordview of the Russian patriotic movement.
This worthless article is a typical example of the kind of anti-Putin propaganda organized by the US: if they cannot demonize him, they at least show him as weak and about to be sacrificed. There will be much more of that nonsense in the future and I urge you all to simply ignore it.
The Saker
They are spreading cancer rumors out of Germany, which is typical crap from a desperate psyops.
They’re very desperate as my US government is! He’s not bowing down so leave Putin alone !
One recent development which signifies the spontaneous coalescence of the different groups is commented of all msm by The Moscow Times today. The long disputing Rosneft and Gazprom, have decided to colaborate. True is that the talking of development of industry has to becomemore than an expression of wishes, and for that, the Central Bank, today steered by the Atlanticists, has to direct credit to entrepeneurs. Something really remarkable, Rosneft asked for 40billion dollars to the Finance Ministry, the request was rejected.
The speech in Valdai left no ambiguities, Russia is for real, no longer one more element of the AZ chain
By Sharon Tennison
in April 21, 2014
RUSSIA REPORT: PUTIN
“ I had two encounters in 2013 with State Department officials regarding Putin:
At the first one, I felt free to ask the question I had previously yearned to get answered: “When did Putin become unacceptable to Washington officials and why? Without hesitating the answer came back: “‘The knives were drawn’ when it was announced that Putin would be the next president.” I questioned WHY? The answer: “I could never find out why––maybe because he was KGB.” I offered that Bush #I, was head of the CIA. The reply was, “That would have made no difference, he was our guy.””
So the angloamericans got angry because they wanted some other man -may be Medvedev ? – as president rather than Putin though the masses wanted Putin all along.
So angloamerican had the audacity to want someother man to be president of a major nation despite the fact that Putin was liked by more than 67% of voters! If that is called western democracy then that western democracy must be bombed into oblivion.
That is why so called democracy is a fraud.
Having looked at the article, the websites and the lack of information on how the organisations are funded, I think that this article can be safely written off as absolute bullshit.
Why don’t you leave Russia and Putin alone !! Stop the smear campaign! My government is twisted, crazy and dysfunctional!
It is quite comical to see that they try next. At the end of the day Putin is running rings around them and they are too thick to realise.
Yes, Saker. I, too, just saw these absurd articles over at Information Clearing House. I am shocked they actually published such drivel. They are usually a good source. When I read them, I thought it was satire, a joke.
But you’re right. They’re going to keep pushing the ‘Putin is weak’ meme because, frankly, nothing else has worked. They’re getting that desperate.
Some 200 Kiev residents block traffic demanding heat in their houses.
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/757259
http://time.com/3545855/russia-ukraine-war-history/
Comments?
Five minutes after making prime minister to Yeltsin’s president in August 1999, Putin was targeted for assassination by “The Family” of Beresovski/Gusinski/Nevslin etc, that dumped him in as their least known, their least despised. During my old dial-up days, I saw reports of two attempts to kill him and I assume, as all Russia does, that murder plans are constant. So there is nothing particularly dangerous in coming to Brisbane.
[from Blue]
Looks like typical neolib blather to me, based on various false assumptions and dysinformation.
Reminds me of the Star Trek ‘Borg’ — ‘You will be assimilated; resistance is futile’ — which didn’t work out either.
This has some resonance with a though that’s been running through my mind lately: how I so foten here the question ‘Is Russia European or Asian?’. Actually, Russia is Russian, and needs no further qualification; Russia stands by itself, regardless of what relations with other regions it participates in, and can never be defined in terms of either Europe or Asia. The question itself is propaganda.
The Russian liberals / 5th column are an aberration of the predominant and normal situation and cannot be sustained in the long term. It is out of character for the Russians, unlike neoliberalism, imperialism and deception in the US, which was characteristic of the US since it’s beginning.
_Blue
They tried the very same kind of BS to avoid Dilma Rousseff to be reelected in Brazil.I speak portuguese,I lived in Brazil,my son is Brazilian though I know the country politics quiet well this for more than 35 years.Believe me I NEVER saw such an ugly presidential campaign like that one.They tried everything possible as they were desperate,by reading the polls.Diffamation,insults,personal attacks on Rousseff and Lula.She got 100 pct of the MSM against her,and she won finaly against both Soros/Cia puppets(Silva and Neves).They are now talking about ‘impeachment’ for no real reason..they could even kill her or Lula who will be candidate in 2018(for a third mandate)
They will try to destroy the BRICS and not only Russia this at ANY price,including WW3 if necessary.
Attempts being made to suppress Russia, BRICS in international arena — experts
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/757231
It maybe would be wise for Putin to have more countries into the BRICS alliance(Argentina,Chile,Equator,maybe Malaysia or Indonesia ?)
They are buzy trying another orange revolution now in Budapest(the pretext being the ‘internet tax’).
They will proceed to Serbia just after if they do not want to enter the EU.
It if full war now or never.
With some Russian help,Hungary,Serbia could switch from the EU side to Eurasia.
And I’m sure as we have one country leaving the EU,more will follow.
They are just terrorized now to do it.To be the first to leave.
The Eurozone is a disaster(deflation,no growth at best or even recession/depression),austerity is killing,mass unemployment…
Politics will have no other choice than total chaos and war.
All these stories popping up about Putin having cancer (or whatever, there are several variations) are all part of the PUTIN IS WEAK story. Maybe he’s even doing desperate stuff because he knows he won’t be around for the consequences. That kind of stupid thinking. I am amazed they’ve not yet come up with “brain tumour” to justify calling all his moves “disease-driven”.
It’s all desperate attempts to make Putin’s actions disappear, to make them not count, to make them not really real.
Putin has 88% approval rating – poll
http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?pg=3&id=547588
Obama,Cameron or couille molle Hollande,Merkel can only dream about it..
@Who will remove the head…
This is an invitation to assassination. The Chechens of ISIS promised to execute the wishes of the trotsko-neo-cons and their minions from Russia (oligarchs + marxists like Kagarlitsky among them, make no mistake).
@Putin about to be sacrificed
This is the right word, that is what they are really after. There is a continuity in Russian history. Actually there are the same chameleonic forces that both Ivan the Terrible and Stalin fought against.
‘Millionaire Bankers Back Bolsheviks’
“Before the First World War a certain picture postcard was freely sold in the Jewish shops of Russia, Lithuania and Poland. On this postcard a rabbi was shown holding Torah in one hand and in the other Nicholas II, the Czar of Russia, cartooned as a white pullet with the Romanoff crown on its head.
Under the picture the following text appeared in Hebrew: “Sa chaliphati sa temurati, sa kaporati.”
This means: ” This sacrificial animal shall be my absolution, it will be my substitute and expiatory offering.”
The Hebrew text is actually part of the prayer called ” Kaporah “.
The rituals relating to this sacrifice are contained in Leviticus (chap. xvi 15).:
” Then shall be kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with tbat blood as be did with tbe blood of tbe bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat.”
Some rabbis opposed this doctrine. But wherever Cabbalists [Kabbalists] were living among Eastern Jewry, on the day of atonement a white cockerel and a white pullet were usually sacrificed in lieu of the goat.
This postcard was thus an open invitation by Jewry to murder the Czar. Hatred against Czarism was already latent in consequence of the pogroms, but it was kept at boiling point by the Mosaic commandment: “. . thou mayest not set a stranger over thee (as king) which is not thy brother.”
(http://educate-yourself.org/cn/worldconquerorchapter4.shtml)
Why does Russia not organise a regiments of commandoes to assasinate such low grase spy journalists of west who call for putins head ?
What about taking out all of english media of england and usa and of 5 evil eyes and theirs dpy editors and owners?
all to protect Democtatically elected head of state.
WHAT about Vlad Sourkov?WHY he is still advisor in Kremlin?
About Valdai comference Vlad Frolov writes in Moscow Times The second strategy is to bamboozle the West with talk about “the new world order” and the need for a new “consensus of responsible powers.” By elevating the discussion to a geopolitical level, Moscow seeks to create a framework that would allow it to claim a “strategic win” that justified “small concessions” on Ukraine to get sanctions lifted. This was Putin’s offer at the Valdai conference, his bluster masking a desperation to save face.
Both strategies create a “discourse trap” for Moscow. Success depends on the West buying into Russia’s “victimhood narrative.” A big if.
Gas Standoff.
Current EU Commissioner responsible for Gas is Gunther Oettinger (German). He leaves office on Friday.
Oettinger will be replaced by Maros Sefcovic (Slovakian).
We have heard Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico come out against some of the tougher EU rhetoric on sanctions – and obviously Slovakia is very reliant on Russian gas.
Would it be a stretch to say the incoming EU Energy (Gas) Commissioner would naturally be more inclined to be sympathetic to the Russian point of view?
A Slovakian?
Surely the new fellow will be an improvement for the Russian side of things in the gas dispute.
Russia should not bend to any agreement on the gas at least before the G20 (November 16) and also the French Mistrals (???? Soon??? Maybe also November 16).
Forget about gas for Ukraine in November. Maybe December if things on the ground don’t deteriorate first.
When Obama in his speech to the UN call Russia is along with Isis and Ebola the three evils of humanity is at least ridiculous to call him partner and colleague, Rhetoric has its importance because people misunderstood and shows weaknesses,
Moscow Times is a part of the same “anglozionist” anti-russian media empire dominating the west. They are owned by Finnish media conglomerate Sanoma, whose newspapers are filled with one-sided anti-russian propaganda. Just in case anyone thought they are a pro-Russian source..
An interesting article about the Sovjet economy. I was surprised to see how successful the model was. If you think some of the mines were unprofitable you are right, but look at the profits of the whole community and note the mines together made a profit. Demand was met while keeping the price low for consumers and everybody had an income. After reading the article, you will understand why the miners are angry.
Socialism vs. Capitalism – the Russian example
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2014/10/socialism-vs-capitalism-russian-example.html
“Russia is waiting for the war” is the title of an interview of Hawkeye, aka Shooter. Needs translation:
http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/1869292.html
re: media BS corrected:
http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/21431
This article is from a neocon site and they are reporting that the “Russian sub” was very probably a hoax.
Just because a thing is possible does not mean it is probable.
@WizOz, a smear book about Bobby Kennedy came out in print after he announced his candidacy for president and it depicted him on the cover as a cartoon white fowl. Interesting.
People are talking about the possibility of a Ukrainian offensive either during or right before the November 2nd elections in Novorossia.
I doubt very much that Ukrainian troops will ever again engage regular Russian troops. The junta started military operations in the beginning of May because the West successfully pressured Putin to abandon the idea of a Russian intervention on April 25th. And the junta agreed to the ceasefire very quickly after regular Russian troops finally appeared near Ilovaysk, surprising everybody.
So I see two scenarios unfolding in the next few days:
1) The West successfully pressures Putin to withhold support for Novorossia. The junta attacks the Novorossian Armed Forces. The war goes on for months.
2) The West fails to persuade Putin to back off. The junta, afraid of a new confrontation with regular Russian troops, backs off instead. It continues to periodically test Russia’s resolve and readiness to send troops to the Donbass. If the resolve ever wains, the junta attacks Novorossia.
Gfreek’s take of Moscow Times can also be read as the AZs wish to downgrade the fact that the issue is not of victimhood but about what kind of world we wish and need to build upon for all. So, the discourse trap is on both sides:
1. surrender or die. (Azs)
2. we build something in multipolar terms, unity in diversity. Quite a different context than proposal no.1
Certainly the MSM and the Western commandeers will not unanimously and right away buy proposal no. 2, but certainly both in France and Germany they are reading carefully. Not to mention the rest of the world. The gaunt has been thrown, and there is no denial but on the West.
About Brics expansion to South America, difficult to say which would be elligible but for Chile, Peru and Ecuador, the first having a neoliberal “leftist” government, very much alike Brazil. Argentina is unelligible, they always go on their own, only recently buying into multipolarity; bad relations with all neighbors. Venezuela, unreliable economically, much the same. Egypt, Iran, Indonesia, Nigeria, might make it. But Latin American most evident candidates appear not to be in a position for being accepted, unless they somewhat correct course in their economics.
Greetings from Singapore:
No disrespect, but having some readers which require constant re-assurance that Putin is in power and doing the right thing, Saker can do without it.
The West is having a massive psyops under way in Europe, Asia & Africa to create fear and insecurity.
If you are coming to this blog, you are beyond propaganda & psyops, you are smarter, at least this is my assumption.
I find the cancer rumours very sinister, given the Chavez precedent.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. Utter balderdash.
Anonymous 00.28, Brazil is being primed for ‘regime change’. I’m quite surprised that the ‘The election was rigged’ lie wasn’t trotted out, but the likelihood of further, US fomented, civil strife is very great indeed. The entirely, and viciously, Rightwing MSM sewer will overflow with hate, and impeachment, or, Mordor on the Potomac’s preference I would say, a military coup, is definitely on the cards. The USA is absolutely determined to destroy the BRICS, and Rouseff is not, I would say, up to the task of resisting it.
Never say NEVER (or nobody)!
recall the old Al Capone movie, the one from late 1970’s with Rocky & Ben Gazara–who did capone (ben) always watch out for with suspicion?
Why, his RH man and chosen successor!
or just see recent history: JFK & LBJ.
or read about the cat-and-mouse goings on between stalin & his murderous secrety NKVD sidekick helper L. Beria.
stalin regretted allowing him to become too powerful!
beria died AFTER Stalin.
Maybe putin could have got more done to date in his 15 years if he’d just stop rotating chairs with his sidekick there.
Poroshenko: the people in the Trade Unions House had to be burnt in order to stop the separatists
http://novorossia.today/editor-s-choice/poroshenko-the-people-in-the-trade-union.html
That pathetic article is just wishful thinking from a dying power system. The westerners (and their wanna-be’s) are trying to raise with a busted flush. Their economic power is a paper tiger about to crumple. I would love to ask Obama exactly how they intend to repay their 18 trillion in debt.
……crickets……
Not to mention their unfunded liabilities; about 60 trillion.
If they couldn’t prevent Dilma Rouseff from being re-elected, what do you think their chances would be with Russia?
Soon the BRICS will look more like the BRICSAPIEIBCHCS.
Motivational little video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSJ7Rs4iuo
Glad to see your response because this article also had me very worried. And really quite depressed. Perhaps because written by Russians. And it does seem so credible from the point of view of what the USA govt has already done elsewhere and I am sure wishes to do. Getting rid of leaders that are “inconvenient” to USA plans.
I guess I can’t really say that I am “beyond psyops.”
to mjm :
your quote: “
No disrespect, but having some readers which require constant re-assurance that Putin is in power and doing the right thing, Saker can do without it.
The West is having a massive psyops under way in Europe, Asia & Africa to create fear and insecurity.
If you are coming to this blog, you are beyond propaganda & psyops, you are smarter, at least this is my assumption.
mjm…no disrespect intended, but I really appreciate Saker’s discussions on Putin. Kindly regard all of us, not just some of us in your commentaries.
So, America’s aristocracy supports both the Saudi and the Qatari aristocracies, despite their disagreements, in order to defeat the aristocracies in Russia, China, and the other “BRIC” countries, and so to retain the American Empire as being an empire, not just a country; and, in fact, as being the only Empire.
http://www.opednews.com/populum/pagem.php?f=What-s-Behind-Lower-Gas-Pr-by-Eric-Zuesse-President-Barack-Obama-POTUS-141029-771.html
Interesting
http://youtu.be/FZxqjInNJL8
@Bobby Kennedy… depicted on the cover as a cartoon white fowl. Interesting.
Indeed, indeed!
I Am Not a ‘Chickenshit’
But they will yell and scream and blow the house down.
Reading between the lines of Poroshenko’s justification for death-squad butchery-they were Amalek.
Justin Raimondo
Behind The Neocon Shrieks: What Putin Really Said At Valdai
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/behind-the-neocon-shrieks-what-putin-really-said-at-valdai/
The USA is trying hard to create the conditions under which the Atlanticists may gain the upper hand and though it cannot intervene directly in Russia itself the USA can use these pro-American Atlanticists opportunistically to cause dissension within a small but vocal part of the population at a time when its least wanted. Such groups will thus serve as thorns with which to prickle Putin.
@mjm in Singapore:
I think it’s important (if tiresome) that Saker address the psyop crap that pops up because anyone can be just discovering this blog. Not everyone is at the same level of awareness and we all have to remember that. Some poor soul who has been following along in the mainstream press may be expanding the sites they’re reading, on any given day, and land here. Spread the truth, wash, rinse, repeat (even if it’s old hat to you, me, Saker, etc.).
1) He was elected by the Russian people
2) He is solidly backed by the “power ministries” (Internal, Security, Military, Police, Intelligence, Emergencies)
3) His current popularity is somewhere in the high 80%
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My Dear Saker
The rule in NATO-EU countries is if your popularity drops to 20%, still you are legally a president or a prime minister.
Natoist for money
Anonymous said…
Never say NEVER (or nobody)!
Maybe putin could have got more done to date in his 15 years if he’d just stop rotating chairs with his sidekick there.
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Anglo-Zionists [ read Natoists ] would find other reason.
America wants to create UNIPOLAR world, one master, one boss a new Third Reich for America which should last the next 1000 years.
Eurosceptica
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At the first one, I felt free to ask the question I had previously yearned to get answered: “When did Putin become unacceptable to Washington officials and why? Without hesitating the answer came back: “‘The knives were drawn’ when it was announced that Putin would be the next president.”
If you have asked George Friedman that question he would give you his book The next 100 years in which he describes that the USA has to control world and the world must become UNIPOLAR regardless who is a president in Russia.
Friedman says, Russia must be isolated, destabilized and fragmented.
I’ve read some decent articles by Kagarlitsky, this one was abysmal and pathetic though. Any Marxist should single-mindedly oppose Wall Street and it’s instruments like NATO and the EU. Useful idiots.
I don’t endorse this organization, but here is a better article
http://www.marxist.com/ukrainian-parliamentary-elections-if-you-dont-have-anything-nice-to-say.htm
Definitely that article needs to be read in conjunction with this one, The Highly Amusing Western Strategy to Undermine Russia, at http://www.silverdoctors.com/the-highly-amusing-western-strategy-to-undermine-russia/
–sarz
Da noi in Italia è apparsa la notizia che il Presidente V. Putin sarebbe ammalato di cancro, da anni sta lottando contro la malattia.Viene subito in mente Ugo Chavez.
I nemici di Putin sono molto potenti e ricorrono a tutti i mezzi, anche quelli “esoterici” pur di raggiungere lo scopo. Ma volevo linkarvi questo video di propaganda Russa,sottotitolato in Italiano dove si dice che la Russia, a differenza degli Usa, non vuole la 3 war Magari lo avete già visto.
http://www.pandoratv.it/?p=1830&doing_wp_cron=1414507701.1259300708770751953125
Instead of reacting to the whats, why not hypothesise the why’s.
There is little need to communicate the hypotheses, silence having myriad advantages including but not necessarily restricted to:
1. Increasing the illusions of the prejudiced.
2. Encouraging increasing instances of boys crying wolf.
3. Encouraging the illumination of that/those which the opponents perceive as “assets”.
Perhaps increased exposure to pledging alleigance to walls and holding truths to be self-evident have addled perceptions that silence is a wise reaction and the person with an instant answer is often a fool.
Saker
I hope that Putin has eternity on his side but in the event that he chooses to appoint a successor, I see Dmitry Rogozin as a worthy successor.
There must be more leaders of their ilk to ensure the Russian Federation is able to not only withstand attacks against the state but to expand its influence to form a powerful union of peace loving nations that is at odds with the evil empire which seeks to create a unipolar world in which 90% of its civilian population is deemed to be expendable so that the < 1% may rule over the remaining 10% who will be reduced to mere slaves.
Mats said…
They are spreading cancer rumors out of Germany, which is typical crap from a desperate psyops.
By “they” you are presumably talking about “Military Information Support Operations” (MISO)or Psychological operations (PSYOP)of the United States?
Could you provide a link to prove the fact that Germany is being targeted and is specifically responsible for providing the basis of these “rumours”?
If not, then why name Germany?
Also, are the whole PSYOP/MISO infrastructure themselves desperate, who are desperate exactly?
Say what you mean, what you think and why. The reasons for this are: clarity, transparency, respect, avoidance of rumour or/and prejudice to those who may be uncertain of the facts.
Otherwise, I’m sorry, but you may be seen as guilty of the very thing that you wish to draw attention to.
This is my third comment to you on the same theme.
” Liberals have become more powerful and are leading the talks”
Attenuated viruses can be a boon as can “Liberals”.
” For one thing, Putin is “the Russian authorities”.”
That may be the view of some of the opponents, some other of the opponents seeing this as a useful chimera for obfuscation supported on a prepared bed of “celebrity culture”, but the Russian authorities are not restricted to Mr. Putin.
” His power stems from three sources:
1) He was elected by the Russian people
2) He is solidly backed by the “power ministries” (Internal, Security, Military, Police, Intelligence, Emergencies)
3) His current popularity is somewhere in the high 80%”
These are components, but projections of the opponents on the bases of lack of historical perspective obscure other components.
Not all of the opponents are lacking in historical perspective which partly accounts for the vehemence of their reactions.
Hi Saker,
Your website has become highly popular … I found this site has very down-to-earth kind of discussion forum … This article is nothing but a typical ‘west’-backed propaganda to weaken Russian President Putin who opposes USA-backed NATO expansion.
Your note is well-compiled on why this propaganda is baseless.
Wish you and your blog-site a very successful time ahead.
Bodhisattva
Slightly off topic but recently it was Russian subs, now the latest was “fictious Russian” plane in the UK.
The pictogram sums it up:
http://lepontduhadu.blogspot.fr/2014/10/blog-plane-silly-height-of-yellow.html
yours aye
Le DaHu
Friedman is best viewed as a commissar, detached from any reality but deeply in bed with internal propagada.
Sweden’s new government is moving AWAY from NATO, and that is despite russian transgression into swedish airspace [in the baltic sea], that was the build up.[which preceded the alleged Sub], leading to a massive display of the press induced russo-phobia campaign in Sweden.
This Sub is currently not linked to any country.This press scare was ridiculed in Sweden, but taken very serious by the uneducated public and rightwingers, and military industry lobbyists, who wine and dine the media.
If Russia felt Iran was back stabbing them then it would be better for them to keep sanctions in place. But this proves other wise. Also Russia needs Iran and most likely Qatar to control the price of Gas as they could then control most of the supply of Gas on the planet..
The compromise now being seriously discussed would meet the Obama administration’s original requirement for limiting Iran’s “breakout capability” by a combination of limits on centrifuge numbers and reduction of Iran’s stockpile of low enriched uranium, rather than by cutting centrifuges alone.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif prior the talks between the E3+3 (France, Germany, UK, China, Russia and U.S.) and Iran, Jul. 3, 2014 in Vienna, Austria. Credit: cc by 2.0
That approach might permit Iran to maintain something close to its present level of operational centrifuges.
The key to the new approach is Iran’s willingness to send both its existing stockpile of low enriched uranium (LEU) as well as newly enriched uranium to Russia for conversion into fuel for power plants for an agreed period of years.
Anton Khlopkov, director of the Center for Energy and Security Studies in Moscow, told IPS that the Russian acceptance of Iranian LEU would pose serious commercial issues for Russia.
It would lose significant profits it expected from doing the enrichment itself by agreeing to use Iranian LEU for conversion into fuel assemblies rather than uranium available in Russia. Iranian uranium is much more expensive than the uranium to which Russia has access, Khlopkov said.
http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/10/resolving-key-nuclear-issue-turns-on-iran-russia-deal/
ambiguous reporting from the beeb; while the headline suggests air encroachments on Russia’s part ‘over’ Europe, the actual article provides no confirmation; it strikes me as a no-news spite story (poorly written too). Looks like a re-hash of the debunked Swedish submarines story (the latter being a re-hash of a 1980’s scare-mongering psyop)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29825890?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief-%20RD%20PROMO
Another example of the ‘Putin is weak’ meme from Joseph Nye (check his CV to see nye is no newcomer to criminality)
http://www.social-europe.eu/2014/04/vladimir-putins-calculus/
Various fairly well informed comments challenge Nye basicalluìy as a shill.
Well spoken Sir, thank you and Blessings!
Russian lawmaker asks Nobel Committee to strip Obama of Peace Prize
A representative of the populist LDPR nationalist party claims in an official letter that the US President should be blamed for thousands of innocent people’s deaths and therefore cannot keep his 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
“More and more international experts are calling Obama’s presidency dark times. The reason for that is the brutal policy that he is conducting all over the world, like Napoleon or Hitler had done before. But I want to warn Obama so that he pays more attention to history and understands that he can end up like Hitler,” MP Roman Khudyakov said in an interview with Izvestia daily.
The politician added that under Obama the United States participated in the “dirty war” in the Middle East, financed the armed conflict in Ukraine and violated international law by torturing suspected terrorists. All this makes the US President complicit in the violent deaths of several thousand innocent civilians and such a person cannot remain the holder of the Nobel Peace Prize, Khudyakov said.
In addition, the lawmaker suggested to pass the Peace Prize taken from Obama to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “He stopped the war in Iran, in Syria and he is still saving a lot of people from major bloodshed. He is a vivid example of a politician who preserves peace and love in the world.”
more:
[link to rt.com]
“Everything that flies on everything that moves”
Psychopath and peace price winner kissinger, on bombing peasants in Cambodia.
Obama will forever go down in history as the murder-by-drones president. Over 4000 people killed; not just insurgents but civilians.
These people need to be stripped of their peace prize and brought to ICC and Justice.
I’m hoping at least that no faithful reader of the Saker blog believed this was real. If so, you haven’t been paying attention.
This screamed satire, to me at least…
sat·ire
ˈsaˌtī(ə)r/
noun
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
In the Soviet era you had the Comintern, a bunch of Moscow paid agitators to attempt to overthrow foreign governments.
Today the roles are reversed and the US is the new center of globalism (=communism 2.0). And the Comintern is replaced by NGOs:
http://deepresource.wordpress.com/2014/10/30/freedom-house-ngo/
Different name, same purpose.
The NGO is the most dangerous attempt to overthrow the Putin and other governments. Putin obviously knows.
Kind regards,
Dutch
Anybody have any comments on Health rumors?
Time and again those bandits in Kiev reaffirm their signatures on Agreements are not worth a pinch O.Sh^t.
Kiev Cancels demarcation line agreement
Thus the entire Donetsk region is ours
1. We consider the entire Donetsk region DPR territory,” Zakharchenko said, recalling that Kiev had cancelled the signature of its representative on the previous demarcation line agreement.
and, ad nauseum, the continuing gas talks with Russia
Winter has arrived, so freeze. October 30 in Brussels Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said before leaving Brussels: “If there is money, there will be gas.” “As we have been given no written guarantees today, the risks on whether we will have money or not are leveled off by the prepayment regime,” he said.
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Clearly, the EC can only provide $1 billion to help Kiev pay its bills when they need hundreds of billions !!?!!
Pass the popcorn.
“That is why so called democracy is a fraud.”
It certainly is in the US and to a lesser extent also in Europe, although in Europe it is still possible to break into the system with new parties.
There is one real democracy only and that is Switzerland:
http://deepresource.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/swiss-gold-referendum/
Kind regards,
Dutch
I am wondering if, given that Putin is from the KGB, the animosity being expressed by Washington originates from the fact that he knows ‘where the bodies are buried’ with respect to the ascendancy to political power of similar leaders in the West. In this he perhaps represents a threat to such leaders even going as far as potential leaders like Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush. Think Edward Snowden, as yet unleashed.
There seems no other rationale to account for the frenzied attack upon him by western press. Not even Kruschev was subject to such villification. And I would hope this is his protection, that such information would be released in its entirety should anything happen to him.
The truth will eventually surface, but I hope and pray for his wellbeing in the meantime. And for all those who follow the clear and honorable example he sets.
It was the same with President Chavez. They even did a military coup that was only defeated by an unstoppable popular uprising. Russia has to be prepared for all kinds of information, economical and even gangster warfare.
A key to face these threats is for the government to talk always at the level of the most universal principles and values. The letter Putin sent to the USA people in the days of the Syrian chemical weapons foe is a masterpiece of these kind of response. Also don´t let Putin alone do all the work. Many competent officials and not from government Russians should speak to the world about respect, justice and harmony in a multipolar future.
David
This is interesting. An English translation in progress of Hawkeye’s interview:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=137_1414680658
Excellent essay
Thanks for keeping us honest!
Thankyou
For keeping us honest!
AP reports on the dire situation in Donetsk
Brutal winter ahead
why has the all powerful putin, if he’s something more than a suit, not get on this list?
on newswires reuters, yahoo:
OCT 30
STOCKHOLM – Sweden on Thursday officially recognised the state of Palestine, Stockholm’s foreign minister said, less than a month after the government announced its intention to make the controversial move.
“Today the government takes the decision to recognise the state of Palestine,” Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom said in a statement published in the Dagens Nyheter daily.
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Seven EU members in eastern European and the Mediterranean have already recognised a Palestinian state — Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Malta, Poland and Romania. Non-EU member Iceland is the only other western European nation to have done so.
Anonymous
In case you don’t know how to use a search engine:
German doctor +Putin Cancer could be a start.
Here’s a fast link for you.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=putin+cancer+rumors+german+doctor&qs=n&form=QBRE&pq=putin+cancer+rumors+german+doctor&sc=0-20&sp=-1&sk=&cvid=2f5b81a7a76d4eb296518461df71e6e1
The Internet is psyops central.
In who’s interest is it to demonize and defame the leader of a nation? Especially, a leader with 83-86% popular support?
On the Russian liberals: I am acquainted with a number of them going back to the mid-80s and saw Medvedev up close and p ersonal last year. Here’s my impression. The bankers are bankers, involved in their work and to all accounts cheerful because they like it. The academics, who are the core of the group fall into two broad classes. The younger ones look to the US for validation. The older ones remember Brezhnev and are super-sensitive to the possibility of Russia sliding back to the Old Regime. They are idealistic and are being used, and most of them know it. I think if push comes to shove they will support Russia and Putin over the West and who knows whom. I never heard any sympathy for Pussy Riot.