2016/03/22 23:00:02
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Dropped in the the MF Cafe today for a quick fix of conversation and coffee. I see some regulars here… привет, hi, hello, hallo, hola, g’day mate.
Now must dash… celebrating western Easter and to keep Russian traditions will be cooking the following home made treats (which I wrote down as I watched my mother in law, prepare meals with a handful of this and a handful of that with a big dollop of love)
—- Borsch, Saukraut, Brawn, Vereniki filled with cheese & potato/mushroom, Apple piroshki and Blini.
Well that will fill the family for a couple of meals.. then it will be pot luck.
So things to do, food to cook.
Wishing all a blessed Easter and good health.
BTW… you are all invited to my virtual feast.
Hola, dear Babushka in Oz! Sounds delicious, thank you.
All that so good you are describing is for making crepes like those Maria Zakharova does?
Have you seen the brave elderly in the Ukraine, how they face the Banderist Nazis withoiut fear?
What a generation!
I do not know what your age is but I fear when these people dissapear because we are going to lose not only their memories on what fascism means but also their courage and fight spirit.
I love them!
Hugs, good Easter!
“Have you seen the brave elderly in the Ukraine, how they face the Banderist Nazis withoiut fear?”
Putin doing a fat lot to give them a Happy Easter.
Look how brave are the Banderist Nazis in the Ukraine, against defenseless elderly, when not against women…..
Note that they always need to go in groups, in large and expensive cars and carrying sticks.
If none of that, is that they are not able to do nothing.
“Exercise of democracy in Ukraine”: by El Territorio del Lince.
“With the support and acquiescence of the very democratic Europe and the US even more democratic. This is an example of the democratic values that the West says to disseminate, support and defend: the attack by neo-Nazis to a handful of pensioners, some old men brave and little old ladies coming out to demand the payment of their pensions (29 euros per month) with red flags and Soviet Ukraine.”
http://elterritoriodellince.blogspot.com.es/2016/03/ejercicio-de-democracia-en-ucrania-con.html
That man with glasses reading behind the glass reminds me of an old friend from whom I have no news since long ago.
I hope that all is going well for him and his loved.
What this site needs is more reports from Donbass. Not only in English.
A German says NO and there are several links in the article.
Start here:
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/03/dancing-with-death-in-small-town-donetsk.html
I agree, it’s the main reason why I came here in the first place.
Saker, could you do *at least* one in-depth report a month on the Donbass please?
BRICS Under Attack: Soft Coup in Brazil, US Proxies Move Against ANC in South Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiuFj5Z7keQ
no its br_cs under attack !
as the sheriff’s new deputy in town, *i* stands for immunity,
hehehehe
murkkan ambassador to india, richard verma.
India is the only country that the US is supporting as an emerging global defence leader,
There is no other country in the world that we are supporting as an emerging global defence leader. We have overhauled our approach to defence licensing to India with a presumption of approval for the vast majority of even the most sensitive platforms.
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In the future, I am sure we will soon see US and Indian aircraft carriers operating side-by-side in the region and beyond to maintain the freedom of the seas for all nations.”
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India’s leadership is crucial to the Asia-Pacific region.
“There is no place where India’s leadership is needed more sorely that in the Asia-Pacific region,”
http://www.newsx.com/world/21435-indias-leadership-is-crucial-to-the-asia-pacific-region-us-envoy
Greetings fellow café aficionados and from my post in the last café:
“I am sure the bloviator and the Tusk cartel are hard at work trying to find any connection to blame Putin for Brussels”
Ha! It didn’t take long, although it looks like this one, for reasons best known to Tusk et al, was outsourced to Ukraine’s head of SBU:
Ukraine suspects Russia of involvement in the terrorist attacks in Brussels
http://rushincrash.com/ussr/ukraine/ukraine-suspects-russia-of-involvement-in-the-terrorist-attacks-in-brussels/
hillary *enforcer* clinton
*no way im gonna let my grandchildren live in a world dominated by those awful chinese* !
http://tinyurl.com/h9kr55q
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well mdm *i came, i saw, he died* dowager ,
as far as i can see, *those awful chinese* are far from *dominating the world*, matter of fact, they have been too busy dodging the snake’s death grip !
i also cant imagine the chinese ambassador having the gall to *summon* a front running prez candiate in a host country to demand his loyalty to beijing, there’s only one country that claims such *heavenly mandate* !
*Why the American Embassy in Manila would want to summon a front running presidential candidate regarding his China policy at this early?
What if a candidate is not committed to their interests in the region, are they going to assassinate him at this period of the campaign, or sabotage the elections away from his favor?
The White House understands this growing grassroots’ departure from US exceptionalism and the move towards geopolitical independence, and it is now trying to intimidate the people’s candidate even this early in the election campaign.
[the smear campaign is already on….]
The stupid presidency of BS Aquino will be filing criminal cases against Duterte as dictated by his puppet masters at the US embassy.
“Allies of President Benigno Aquino III are preparing to file charges against PDP-Laban presidential bet Rodrigo Duterte for his supposed role and involvement in extrajudicial killings as mayor of Davao City.* [1]
[1]
http://geopolitics.co/2016/03/12/presumptive-philippine-prez-rodrigo-duterte-refuses-to-dance-white-house-tune/
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rings a bell ?
pro beijing nepalese king birendra removed by cia/raw with *extreme termination*
sri lankan prez ousted by cia/raw, now stalked by unhcr for *war crimes*,
thai prez yingluck ousted by *swarming adolescents*, now facing corruption charges,
malaysian pm najib reeling from a concerted media smear campaign led by war street journal ?
brazil’s ex prez lula publicly humuliated, somebody wanna sabotage his 2018 election bid ?
what’s the common thread to these gents ?
their friendship with *those awful chinese* !
etc etc……………….
just the tip of an iceberg !
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Johnnie Carson, U.S. assistant secretary for African Affairs,
*China is a “very aggressive and pernicious economic competitor with no morals.*
hehehehehe
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p.s.
take care mr Duterte, from now on u’ve a bullseye painted on your back !
ditto to http://geopolitics.co, dozens of progressive writers have been summoned to their creators lately,
many sites sabotaged, attacked, co-opted, especially those doing *con theories*
Upon careful in-depth analysis of today’s cafe picture I conclude that the gentleman to the right is leafing through a document and is licking his finger, the better to achieve frictional purchase to flip to the next page. All well and good assuming nobody else will have to handle the document.
Unfortunately though, at first glance it looks lke he is picking his nose, which risks offending my delicate sensibilities.
Your comment reminded me of the Irish comedian Dave Allan with the missing finger. Looked for the appropriate pic but couldn’t find one.
Dave was more an ironiist than a comic, and far funnier for it.
He would have thoroughly enjoyed this Russian ironist – a certain Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin :
https://www.rt.com/news/337091-putin-trolls-haggle-with/
And here’s another ironist – this time another Irishman, Dylan Moran, ( on the subject of contemporary birthday parties for boys:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAMtKpOTuM4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I’ve seen it at least ten times and it never fails to crack me up ..:)
(“Get me another martini would you? ” lol )
hillary *enforcer* clinton
*no way im gonna let my grandchildren live in a world dominated by those awful chinese* !
http://tinyurl.com/h9kr55q
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well hillary *human rights * clinton,
i dun think its the chinese who did this to the chagosians ?
David Vine on the ethnic cleansing of Diego Garcia
“First, they tried to shoot the dogs. Next, they tried to poison them with strychnine. When both failed as efficient killing methods, British government agents and U.S. Navy personnel used raw meat to lure the pets into a sealed shed. Locking them inside, they gassed the howling animals with exhaust piped in from U.S. military vehicles. Then, setting coconut husks ablaze, they burned the dogs’ carcasses as their owners were left to watch and ponder their own fate.” –
after exiling the chagosians to some god forsaken hell hole 3000 miles away, fukus proceeded to turn this unesco endorsed natural treasure into a monstrous military concrete jungle, the destruction of the original eco system was epic.
here comes the kicker !
when the chagosians finally got a court verdict to be repatriated back to diego garcia, fukus screamed,
*nothing doing, see, we’ve converted diago garcia into a protected *marine park*, no humans allowed * !
those who kicked out the chagosians and turned a paradise into an eco nightmare now want to protect it from being defiled by the owners !!! [1]
stuff like this u just cant make it up, really gotta hand it to those perfidious albions !
hehehehe
[1]
http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/03/open-letter-to-greenpeace-dont-help-cover-up-colonialisms-crimes-on-diego-garcia/
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the sordid saga of diego garcia continues….
*Perkins’ book shows that the US is “exceptional” only in the unbridled violence it applies to others who get it its way. One of the new chapters tells the story of France-Albert Rene, president of Seychelles, who threatened to reveal the illegal and inhumane eviction of the residents of Diego Garcia by Britain and Washington so that the island could be converted into an air base from which Washington could bomb noncompliant countries in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Washington sent in a team of jackels to murder the president of Seychelles, but the assassins were foiled. All but one were captured, tried and sentenced to execution or prison, but a multi-million dollar bribe to Rene freed them. Rene got the message and became compliant.*
http://www.unz.com/proberts/the-evil-empire-has-the-world-in-a-death-grip/
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Anyone who would like to read an amazing but long account of Crimea, the US, Russia, Isreal, Stalin, FDR, and Krushchev and much more can open the following link or search Fort Russ’s archives for an absolutely excellent story titled:
How Stalin played the Americans with the “Crimean California” project
March 14, 2015
Translated by Kristina Rus
Crimean California
Sergey GORBACHEV
Originally published in “Ostrov Krym” (“Crimea Island”) in September, 1999
This, IMHO, is the best piece ever posted on Fort Russ and I can almost guarentee that you know little or nothing about it unless you already read it about a year ago.
http://www.fort-russ.com/2015/03/how-stalin-played-americans-with.html
enjoy!
Thanks, Lee, if Stalin is involved I am interested for sure, well, very interested indeed.
I will read it since I fear I missed it last year, it is only a while ago that I am going to Fort Russ on a daily basis.
Regards.
elsi,
The article on Fort Russ that Lee linked is indeed most interesting.
Concerning I. V. Stalin and finding the home for the Jews… A few years back I read and listened to an interview given by Russian (formerly Soviet) journalist Leonid Mlechin (Леонид Млечин, apparently a Jew, I don’t know much about him), in which he claimed that it was Stalin – and not the US – that was behind the creation of the state of Israel! (Its transcript is at http://echo.msk.ru/programs/staliname/696896-echo/ ; for a rough translation into English you can use https://translate.yandex.com/translate ).
Very interesting – if true (!), one may say…
In fact, in 2005 Mlechin wrote an entire book on the subject (hence the above interview), titled “Why Did Stalin Create Israel?” (Зачем Сталин создал Израиль?, downloadable for free at http://detectivebooks.ru/book/download/15085698/ , and elsewhere).
Thanks, Sergey, but this sources, both Mlechin ( even when being former Soviet, there have been so many “so called soviets”, who then sold themselves to the West…..Trotsky was also a soviet…..and when one has to see Zyuganov in the US Embassy for tea with cookies….) and Echo of Moscow, they are not precisely the word of God….are they?
I do not think Comrade I.V.Stalin was so powerful to decide the creation of any new state in the world nor the fate of a group so intricate with banks and large fortunes as the Jews, especially the Zionists, are.
Anyway I will give it a look.
@14:50+ about — “… one had to now French because all the terrorist trainers … were in Paris … and New Orleans… and they would go back and forth… still the 4th Marines is out of New Orleans.”
Kay Griggs: Colonel’s Wife Tell-All Interview .1 of 4
Uploaded on Mar 10, 2011
Kay Griggs speaks freely about the unimagined corruption and extent of the oppressive systems of deception within the leadership nexus of military intelligence with secret society internationalism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQNitCNycKQ
https://infrakshun.wordpress.com/2014/04/22/satans-little-helpers-viii-weimar-magick-and-cherry-marines/
John Pilger’s latest.. http://johnpilger.com/articles/a-world-war-has-begun-break-the-silence-
great article – I note “Australia”s “addition to the tension is Tony Abbot now being part of Poroshenko’s advisory team, https://www.rt.com/news/336505-poroshenko-advisor-foreign-abbott/
includes McCain, Tony Blair, Sikorski
1 sock Saakashvilli whom the Odessans are definitely not increasingly happy with ———
birds of a feather…………
Criminals amassing … Abbott is a national embarrassment and our little Johnny Howard (of the Blair & Bush infamy) is right behind him.
An interesting excerpt from John Pilger’s article:
“… In the US, Bernie Sanders has promised to support Clinton if or when she’s nominated. He, too, has voted for America’s use of violence against countries when he thinks it’s “right”. He says Obama has done “a great job”. …”
(Any cheerleaders for “Bernie” here, no? Oh c’mon, don’t be bashful, do come out of the woodwork…)
Remember the Kunduz Hospital atrocity performed by the US military? well, a new sheriff is in town and here is his apology:
http://news.antiwar.com/2016/03/22/new-us-commander-in-afghanistan-apologizes-for-msf-hospital-attack/
Too little, too late and that’s all you get folks! How about a brand new, state of the art hospital that is funded for, say, 20 years or so? Oh, and while you are at it, how about some amends for Yemeni hospitals bombed by your loyal allies, the Saudis?
For a less than 3rd world imploded commie hellhole, NK somehow seems to muster up every resource & technical skill to produce these upgraded technical advancement marvels in mere days, when it took the west decades of multi-billion $ research to do this.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/03/24/457268/North-Korea-Rocket-Test-engine-ballistic
North Korea claims it has successfully tested a solid-fuel rocket engine that can boost the country’s ballistic missile capabilities.
The test was conducted under leader Kim Jong-un’s supervision, North Korea’s state news agency reported on Thursday.
Kim “noted with great pleasure that the successful test… helped boost the power of ballistic rockets capable of mercilessly striking hostile forces,” KCNA said.
http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/122500/Kim-Jong-UN-Riding-on-a-Rocket–122772.jpg
That was winter.
Its all over now.
We only used about 10 bags of coal…
I ordered 13 in advance (I didn’t pay these prices)
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Coal&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=1VXzVvmEH8H9UtWIhYAP#q=Coal&tbm=shop
Well we have got a big house and didn’t know if our old British Gas Boiler…could provide the same kind of temperatures as The Maternity Ward
And No You Can’t See The Photographs….
We are Preparing Our Camping Gear…and where are the tomato and Sunflower seeds??
It’s Spring Now. its going to get nice…
He is the most Beautiful Baby I have ever seen.
I’m a Grandad now.
Tony xx
hillary *enforcer* clinton
*no way im gonna let my grandchildren live in a world dominated by those awful chinese* !
http://tinyurl.com/h9kr55q
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mdm hillary *heart breaker* clinton,
did u bother to ask the grandpas , grannies of jeju island who have been kicked out from their ancestral homes, whether they wanna be ruled by the worlds *oldest democracy* ?
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Kim Sung-Ku
Gangjeong villager and poet
* One day in April 2007, I was anxious, not knowing what I could do after hearing an unbelievable story about naval base construction in my village.
Now the base has become a reality and the Gureombi rock covered by cement for the base construction has become a memory. The hill where I flew kites, the ditch where I caught frogs and minnows, and Gureombi rock – the rest area where we used to share food in my childhood disappeared. And now they have become unbearable to look at with concrete and buildings replacing them. Totally strange men who kicked out my memories openly stride there.
The true masters of the land have been kicked out. And now false masters pretend to take their place.
The naval base was nominally built for the development of the village. [1] But the development has torn the hearts of the villagers to pieces. The site with the dramatically and luxuriously changed look has now become land where we cannot reach or stand. Is this progress?
The splendid lights have been taken out from the river of stars in the Milky Way. The numerous memories of our fathers, their fathers, and their fathers, have now been cut. The distance between us has also grown. Alas, I look at the stars and sky with all my last desperate energy. Today only memory is alive. I struggle to save that memory, hoping the stars and sky will remain in my heart…..* [2]
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this a sick joke or something , how could a naval base be built for the development of village???
this is the murkkans dagger pointing at china’s heart !
[2]
http://space4peace.blogspot.com/2016/03/looking-at-stars.html
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harry harris, cic , pacom
*the chinese are militarising the scs*
Well, here is the Magical Thinking Show on air.
A tin-pot parasitoid racist apartheid settler state in occupied Palestine, with a sustainability index of about -100 without international support by the usual suspects, projects it’s own worthless existential anxieties onto a major host and invokes the ‘fear’ thing as if the host’s survival is dependent on the parisatoid. Talk about magicians at work! (*)
Largely Russian/Ukrainian Ashkenazi Jews convertee stock from the 900 CE, with as much ‘DNA’ of the original Semitic stock (as if mattered in any case) as Coke Zero has sugar, who continue with their Messiah fantasies 2,000 years past their ‘best-by’ date to persecute the local Palestinian inhabitants with murder and theft, and then mesmerize a global hegemony (or two) into policy paralysis and strategic inaction at the UN level.
What ‘efffing’ curse comes into play? Please explain to us ‘unexceptionals’!
“We have to show that we are inextricably entwined…” — who says? And why the emphasis on “show”? Someone needs to be convinced or something?
The only thing ‘blessed’ about the US and its sorry future is the equally magical petro-dollar printing press run by the unelected Federal Reserve.
Well, maybe that is the code: the Rockefeller ‘gods’ will turn off the Fed printing press if Joe Six-Pack votes the wrong way. Talk about confused thinking!
(* e.g. see the emerald jewel wasp & the American cockroach — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN2XMyxAs5o )
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“I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that if the United States fails to stand with Israel, that is the end of the United States. We have to show that we are inextricably entwined, that as a nation we have been blessed because of our relationship with Israel, and if we reject Israel, then there is a curse that comes into play.” Michele Bachmann
https://ajmacdonaldjr.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/alan-sabrosky-zionism-unmasked-the-dark-face-of-jewish-nationalism-sabbah-report/
http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/03/25/america-is-under-israeli-occupation-by-dahlia-wasfi/
MH17 investigation team in Malaysia to discuss legal options
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-mh-idUSKCN0WQ0EY
They are still at it. There has been a lot of debate over whether MH17 was downed by a surface to air missile or air to air.
The Russian government went to a fair degree of expense to reproduce the damage to MH17 in 2 tests. They only tested BUK missiles to achieve this, so with Russian experts no doubt having first hand siting of the damage, knowledge of various munitions, they have concluded MH17 was downed with a BUK missile.
Kerry stated categorically that the US had detected the missile launch. They have four geo stationary sat’s specifically for detecting missile launches plus Military sat’s that were over the location at the time.
The US know to within the square meter from where this missile was launched. They have never given out the launch co-ordinates.
dr mahathir,
cia knew what happened to mh370
From the link:
“Liow later told Reuters that the team had still not identified who to charge or what those charges might be”
Yet they want to set up a tribunal to judge?? -I maintain the world is getting stupider by the day.
There is though reverse or more appropriately perverse logic in this. We already know the guilty party -‘who dunnit’; the mass media pronounced that instantly. For those that might have forgotten, It was Putin, of course.
So having established guilt and now working backwards they now set up a court -the tribunal, who to charge is already taken care of, and finally they can then create the necessary charges. Will it include ‘wilfully being a foreigner’?
Here’s a question: are charges even strictly necessary when you already have the guilty?
Monty Python couldn’t have created a better skit.
Dutch MP Pieter Omtzigt left a post on Twitter a few days ago, that the MH17 investigative team concluded on Jan. 22nd in a closed door meeting, that the only BUK system at the time of the incident was from the Ukrainians. I posted this a few days ago on the last Moveable Feast Cafe:
/moveable-feast-cafe-2016-03-19/, toward the bottom of the page. There are several links, including a link to Omtzigt’s Twitter post. The information seems to be valid.
There seems to be a bit of ongoing political resistance to the MH17 cover up in the Netherlands. Hopefully they get get louder and more will join. Meanwhile in Australia, not one politician has publicly questioned the official narrative. The US owns this country lock, stock, and barrel.
What’s the Oz view on another ex-PM. P. Keating?
That ‘shirt-fronting’ business sounded like something he would have said.
Except I think Cameron would have been the target..
I didn’t like Keating much but he was pretty sharp and generally his most biting one liners were face to face, whereas Abbott was/is more like a knuckle dragging neanderthal that could shout obscenities when at a safe distance, but very respectful when face to face.
The other terrorist elephant in the room.
An airstrike on a hospital on October 3, 2015 resulting in 42 people dead and 37 injured, noprmally an un-newsworthy item in those parts, except the ‘exceptionalists’ this time took out some white medical folk. I guess the US airforce is still “go-going” with those amphetamine go-pills (http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3071789/ns/us_news-only/t/go-pills-war-drugs/)
In anycase Claire Bernish (Wed, 23 Mar 2016) throws an interesting angle:
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While the world’s attention zeroed in on the attacks in Brussels, the U.S. made a stunning admission of responsibility for an attack of its own last year in Afghanistan: the deadly bombing of a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, or Doctors Without Borders) hospital in Kunduz.
“As commander,” said Gen. John W. Nicholson, who now commands U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, “I wanted to come to Kunduz personally and stand before the families, and the people of Kunduz, to deeply apologize for the events.”
“I grieve with you for your loss and suffering,” Nicholson added, “and humbly and respectfully ask for your forgiveness.”
His apology might ring hollow to many, considering circumstances surrounding the bombing, as well as what could be deemed an attempt by the U.S. to cover its tracks in the days and weeks that followed. What eventually emerged were terrifying accounts from witnesses on the scene which included reports of the U.S. shooting at people as they fled the hospital.”
http://www.sott.net/article/315097-Too-little-too-late-US-admits-to-and-gives-a-hollow-apology-for-the-MSF-hospital-bombing-in-Kunduz
think outside the ballot box: Prof Cohen adds his ideas
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/trump-v-disastrous-us-triumphalism-foreign-policy/ri13552
from Fortruss blogspot
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/03/russian-rambo-wipes-out-isis-thugs-by.html
Hi folks. Does anyone know where there might be a translation of Igor Strelkov’s speech at the Moscow Economic Forum March 24, 2016? Vladimir Suchan says this is pretty important. But automatic translations are difficult to understand for material this subtle.
I’m really curious about Strelkov’s ideas these days. If you can read Russian:
http://vladimirsuchan.blogspot.com/2016/03/igor-strelkovs-theses-his-speech-at.html
I second the donbass people. Looking for ongoing info about the situation.
Updates on Donbass:
http://quemadoinstitute.org/novorossiya-report/