Important:make sure to also listen to the press conference by John Kerry gave in another room (to signal that the US and Russia are really enemies I suppose) at the same time. Click here to listen to it. The video is choppy and “jumps”, blame the US State Department or YouTube, not me. If I get a clean one I will post a link to it here below.
There was nothing here except what was known from the release.
Three issues not publicly resolved, does not mean they ere not resolved, but there is no public word:
1. Recognition of Crimea as Russia
2. Gas and debt payments
3. Referendums of independence for Russian areas in Ukraine
Many Russian Nationalists are upset by this outcome, but they don’t realize that there are several larger agenda items for Russia besides the Donbas:
1. Acceptance into the world order on Russia’s own terms
2. The end of the petrodollar
If the people of the Donbas want to be part of Russia (which they do), they will have to put in their fair share of effort. This is by no means over, it simply means that for the immediate future, the major powers will restrict themselves to sub-rosa maneuvering.
It is up to the people of Ukraine to take this opportunity to build a fait accompli. The West will get distracted; Russia will always be there. The government in Kiev will collapse sooner or later.
This deal leaves the pro-Russian separatists out in the cold. Very disappointing!
Greetings from Singapore:
Russia has no influence over the east Ukraine protestors, therefore the requirement of disarmament is not Russia’s liability. Kiev’s de facto government does not have the will or authority to arrange for a transparent constitutional reform. This are two items which defeat the whole Geneva agreement. Above is in line with Putin’s statement yesterday: Ukraine has to solve their problems by themselves. In other words: Ukraine is left politically and economically to collapse/implode, which will happen anyhow, since neither U.S, nor Europe have the money to support Kiev.
All I can do is pray today. The globalist elites are clearly becoming more crazed and psychopathic with each day. They WANT war, both in E. Ukraine and in the U.S. domestically with the so-called ‘domestic terrorists’. They have clearly cowed Glenn Beck, Mark Levin and much of what passes for right wing opposition in the U.S. while radicalizing the hardcore III%er patriots even more with the BLM’s deliberate thuggery towards unarmed middle aged women at the Bundy Ranch.
http://www.infowars.com/harry-reid-calls-cliven-bundy-supporters-domestic-terrorists/
Harry Reid uses language nearly identical to Kiev junta, calls pissed off range land armed protesters at Bundy ranch in Nevada ‘domestic terrorists’, accuses them of using children as human shields (just like junta did to explain refusal of 25th Airborne to shoot civilians)
http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/04/fido-and-general-wes-clark-in-ukraine/#more-53778
provide by wendydavis at fdl comments
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lavrov is an idiot who should be kicked out to save russia. this stupid man talks a lot and does not understand real motive of russia’s anglo enemis. he is weakening russia every day.how long can russia afford to be duped insto syrian position/
replace him with sergie ivanaov or soem other strong man,
Anonymous, Bundy is a scofflaw Sovereign Citizen type. Not only did he NEVER OWN that land, he and his family before him PAID their grazing fees until 1983 and then he just stopped, claiming in court (where he lost, twice, to Republican judges) that the US never had a clear deed from Mexico in 1848! BUNK!
More than 650 MILLION ACRES out there are Federal lands, they have never EVER been private property, never been put on the market, just leased, for maybe $1/acre. BLM was created in 1946 by combining a couple of other agencies involved in leasing those lands. He knows that, Beck and Hannity probably do too but they’re all playing on the ignorance and excitability of the American public, rightwing variant. All the fee-paying ranchers, btw, are livid with him; they know the law, have been obeying it and doing quite well with those nominal fees and really resent his nonsense.
Wesley Clarks report …
http://secure.netsolhost.com/cryptome.org/2014/04/clark-karber-14-0408.pdf
Here’s one for John Kerry:
Proverbs 6:16-19
New International Version (NIV)
16 There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him:
haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,
a heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet that are quick to rush into evil,
a false witness who pours out lies
and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
DavidK
Great! The US general that wanted to start WWIII (a rabbi’s son) is going to ‘advise’ Kiev. After all, he did a fine job in Waco.
T1
Nora,
With all due respect, Beck and the other controlled Right hosts are wrong (Beck is also in the back pocket of the Mormon church’s senior leadership which has turned that sect at a high level into a mafia, by tolerating Reid’s obvious corruption).
Watch the video here. I am not going to defend the ‘Mexico land title’ part of Bundy’s defense, he may very well have made a legally poor or incompetent case and should’ve had better counsel. But it’s obvious what’s going on here with Bundy the last of 52 ranchers who were once in the area. He is being driven out in a BLM version of eminent domain using the desert tortoise as a laughable pretext:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQb0qJLhea8
I won’t fill this thread any further with discussion of the Bundy case, except to say again it is the same elitist aggression. They want globalism and treasonous sellout deals with the ChiComs for themselves (I’m not talking about Chinese citizens buying private property, I’m talking about the bankrupt USG selling out taxpayer ‘owned’ public lands as part of America’s receivership to Beijing) while wrapping themselves in the flag when confronting Russia in a conflict over Ukraine THEY started.
Afterthought,
I’ve been stewing on this for a while now but when I keep my feelings out of it, I think you’re right. Russia would have to expend a lot of time, money and effort to accomplish anything in Ukraine and given the conscience-less level of destruction w/which the US/EU/NATO are quite comfortable producing, just think what it would take to put the place back together afterwards.
Maybe it really is better — not just wiser or shrewder — to try and limit the physical damage and wait it out. Kiev can’t govern, the debt and popular resentment will only get worse, and when a true public tipping point has been reached (and the West’s attention is focused on the next five places it wants to “democratize”), Russia can then go in and pick up the pieces.
Anonymous,
You’ll never find me defending oligarchs, Mormons, or Harry Reid! Otoh, we own (non-BLM) land out there and there really is a problem with over-grazing, especially in drought-y conditions. (You are aware of the incredible amounts of water needed both for our super-spy center, whatever the hell it’s called, AND for fracking, right?) And actually, I’m WAAY more worried about the Chinese (and now the Russians too since their kerfluffle w/Australia) buying up our beef than our land.
Glenn Beck – like many other American Christian Fundamentalists – is all about an utterly farcical misreading of Revelations which identifies Russia as the big baddie who will usher in Armaggedon.
Goaded on by certain Jews, who see how much money and support these fundamentalists pour in to Israel, Glenn and those like him are breathless to see Biblical end times unfold before their very eyes, and are sure that Russia is now providing this very scenario.
Pretty sad all around.
Nora, the same thing happens in Australia (which, interestingly and ironically,rhymes with ‘failure’). In western Queensland, which is drying out due to climate change, the very Rightwing state regime allowed a few belligerent graziers to put their cattle into National Parks, devastating the fragile ecosystems. This despite vociferous opposition from scientists. Done once off, the land will recover, but, as I am confident will happen, done repeatedly, it will simply further the biodiversity loss that this country is infamous for.
Another hard Right state regime has similarly allowed cattle back into alpine parks in Victoria. The cattle were removed because they were destroying the fragile bio-systems, of which we have very little, and which climate change will destroy in a few decades. The protests of scientists were contemptuously ignored. Whenever there is a contest, under capitalism, between money power and the fabric of life…well you know the rest. I fully concur with your observations re Ukraine, but I doubt that the Yankee Reich is in any mood to back off. Their aggression is that of the cornered rat or the rabid dog in the last throes of hydrophobia. It is something that they cannot and will not control.
For everyone here as today who has openly hate Lavrov and the final script of the Geneva agreement, don’t worry be happy because it is going to be a very happy ending.
The shah mat is on its way.Sleep well and have a very Happy Easter holiday.
Peace will take place around the world for everyone no matter what!”!!!’!!!!!