By Nikolai Starikov
Translated by Val from Osa
http://www.vz.ru/opinions/2014/12/25/722171.html
How long the West is willing to pay for the crumbling economy of Ukraine without guarantees of the beginning of its war with Russia? The Western strategy rule says: lost control over the territory – create the Antithesis.
It is possible to understand what is happening in Ukraine, it is much more difficult to evaluate and forecast the development of events. Whatever the case, it is necessary to consistently follow one rule: set emotions aside. Blood, death and destruction are the most serious emotional blows, but if you follow your emotions, neither proper assessment nor correct forecast will result.
Therefore, as hard it can be, set emotions aside. To assess the geopolitical game (and this is what we are looking at) we need only the head. Only conscious manipulators want you to think with your heart (and vote with your heart – as for Yeltsin in 1996).
The United States and the West are facing of the strongest crises in its history. The strength and depth of the problem are compounded by the fact that … the West has won. It incorporated practically all of Europe, crushed, to varying degrees, the whole world with a few exceptions.
Therein lies the problem – all its life the West lived by robbery. Now those who can be robbed are fewer and fewer, and those with whom it is necessary to share the “stolen goods”, that is the standard of living that rests on unrestricted dollar emissions, are more and more. Hence the huge national debt. In the United States it is 18 trillion dollars, but such debts, and even worse ratios of the national debt to GDP, exist in all so-called developed countries.
What solution the US and its closest allies are looking for in this situation? It is now evident to everyone. The solution is war. Chaos. But this chaos and this war must lead to a “controlled collapse”.
As a result the US must eliminate two threats to its power – China and Russia. Ideally, make them clash with each other. To do this the US need to change regime in one of these countries. Obviously, the Americans think that the regime change in Russia is an easier task.
The question is how to achieve this? Orange technologies did not work in 2011, Putin became president again.
What the West does when it loses in any territory is most important for understanding the events in Ukraine.
When we talk about a Western loss we mean the failure of its plans and loss of control over a certain area, full or partial.
What do the Western strategists do in such a situation?
1949. Britain is “kicked out” of India. Before leaving the British set up the Anti-India – a new state of Pakistan. Tensions, military conflicts between the new states ensue. In short, many opportunities for the Anglo-Saxons.
Again in 1949. As a result of the civil war in China, pro-Soviet Mao Zedong wins. The US lose control over China. What do they do? Create the Anti-China -Taiwan. Evacuate there the army of Chiang Kai-shek under the protection of the US Navy. Tensions, the permanent possibility of war between China and the Anti-China ensue. Tiananmen Square, 1989, Beijing – who can tell the “desperate” mainland Chinese from the agents of the Taiwanese special services?
Attention please. In the geopolitical game to grant a diplomatic recognition is to follow the current ‘national’ interests, and nothing more. First, the United States recognizes Taiwan as China. For those who do not know: until 1973 the representative of Taiwan at the United Nations was seated as the representative of China. But later Washington changes its position, recognizes Beijing and ceases to recognize Taipei. At the same time it strongly supports Taiwan and prevents the reunification of the two “Chinas”
Let’s not stray far into history. The rule of the permanent Anglo-Saxon Western strategy states: lost control over the territory – create Antithesis.
In 2011 the West loses control of Russia – not completely yet, but its plans to deny Putin another presidential term fail. The dismantling of the fifth column begins, Russia strongly defends its interests in the world.
What is the West to do? Create Antithesis. That is the Anti-Russia.
And the Anglo-Saxons start creating it, the soil is prepared in Ukraine. Propaganda starts in 1991 and even earlier, militants are trained, money is allocated, the elite is bought and well fed.
According to the US plans, Yanukovych should be removed during the elections in 2015. Remove him in such a way as to launch anti-Russian hysteria and begin to create the Anti-Russia from Ukraine. Circumstances force an earlier start, but according to the main rule: not the peaceful departure of Yanukovych is required, but a bloody overthrow in order to blame Russia.
What is happening today in Ukraine is nothing more than the creation of the Anti-Russia. Propaganda, hate, readiness to destroy and kill on the part of the nationalists and some deceived common citizens.
Where do the US go with that? To war between Ukraine and Russia. On the “initiative” of Ukraine. When? When they pump up the Ukrainian army, equip it, create it, and prepare it. It will take about five years. After that the US will try to pit the two parts of the same nation against each other, set Ukraine against Russia. Occasion – Crimea.
Were the Crimea not reunited with Russia, it would still remain an excuse. Basing the Russian army in Crimea, pro-Russian population living there would give a lot of opportunities for the organization of conflicts and provocations. Therefore, regardless of the actions of Putin and the people of Crimea the Western plan would remain the same.
What can stop the development of this terrible scenario of sliding into a major war between brothers?
Support of those in Ukraine itself who do not agree with this turn of events.
The West creates the Anti-Russia, Russia must help and support the Anti-anti-Russia.
When in the Southeast of Ukraine the people who do not agree with the Kiev’s coup rose up, few had a clear idea that they were “blocking the road” of such a terrible scenario. The presence of the Anti-anti-Russia as a part of a federalized Ukraine, refusing either to arm for the West, nor to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for it, blocked the Western plans to unleash the Ukrainian-Russian war. Remember the end of the spring of 2014?
Moscow’s insistent calls for the territorial integrity of Ukraine, for federalization, for negotiations. Moscow needs a unified Ukraine, where the pro-Russian part of the society will “tie” the hands of the militants and bought politicians, and will not allow to draw the whole Ukrainian people into the war.
The West needs not the peace, not the prosperity of Ukraine. It needs a militarized state with an aggressive ideology in the form of hatred directed against Russia.
Kiev begins aggressive actions against Donbass. Immediately the propaganda about the “terrorists” and the Russian military starts. Military actions, conducted with cruelty to civilians, give the West two possibilities:
– To win by military means and then start the planned collapse of the economy of Ukraine as the beginning of its preparation for war with Russia. The well fed do not want to fight. The West can blame Russia for the difficulties and hardships, whereas the military service provides an income, albeit a tiny one;
– To draw Russia into war, forcing her to send troops into Ukraine. The defeat of the Ukrainian armed forces does not matter for the West. It wants not the victory but the war itself.
And the more Ukrainian citizens will die in the fratricidal war, the better for the West – the rebellious Slavic nation eliminates itself. As a result of the war in Ukraine the West will try to repeat 1917 and “overthrow the bloody Kremlin regime.” All of it in order to take the course toward preparation of the war between Russia and China.
And then a problem happened. Neither military success nor the military invasion by Russia and its participation in the civil conflict was achieved.
And then what? That’s what.
The existence of the DNR and LNR as Anti-anti-Russia is the key to inability of the West to start a war between Ukraine and Russia.
The cannonball on its leg does not let the United States to push Kiev toward this Great War with tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of victims.
That is why Moscow is helping Donbass in every way possible that is why Sergei Lavrov says that we are for the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
That is why Russia does not recognize the DNR and LNR as independent states. To recognize them, to let them secede means to launch countdown for war with Ukraine. In this scenario the Western plan kicks in: there is Russia, there is Anti-Russia, and there is Novorossia. Anti-anti-Russia is no more. In case of incorporation of Donbass into Russia, those in Washington will stand up and give a standing ovation. This is it: the war becomes practically inevitable. The image of Russia as the enemy is created by Russia itself.
In today’s situation the Russian tactics in Ukraine are the only correct ones. US must pay to support 40 million people, Russia must help 3 million people in the Donbass and 1.5 million refugees. Moscow constantly insists on negotiations, not allowing the aggressor being shaped by the west to “remove the weight” from its leg, not allowing DNR and LNR to be defeated militarily.
How long will the West be willing to pay for the crumbling economy of Ukraine without guarantees to begin its war with Russia? These guys do nothing without a reason, they do not throw money away. Even to the militants in Chechnya in the 90’s they gave no dollars, instead they gave them clichés for printing fake dollars.
Self-financing – is the principle of the Anglo-Saxon politics, in extreme cases a refund within a short period of time. A striking example: the Bolsheviks paying with Russia’s gold through Swedish banks and the subsequent concessions, today’s Libyan “freedom fighters” with the oil dollars leaving Libya for unknown destinations.
Time is of great importance today. The bet of the West – to organize a new Maidan in Russia, now that the path to war in Ukraine was blocked by the courage and determination of the DNR and LNR militia fighters. The bet of Russia – wait till the West loses its interest in Ukraine because of high costs without any tangible benefits.
Washington’s desire to get “at least something” leads to the pressure on Europe and the paradoxical desire of the Europeans not to allow the construction of the “South Stream”.
Paradox? No paradox. Washington wants to use the instability of Ukraine at least for a possibility of gas blackmail of Moscow. And Europe.
That is the essence of current and past events in Ukraine.
And the last thing I want to say in this regard.
Few in today’s Ukraine understand what a tremendous role the courage of the Donbass residents plays in today’s world politics. They are rescuing the entire Russian world today. And the paradox, they save the lives of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian citizens.
The same children that today are “jumping” in Ukrainian schools, whose parents collect money for ATO, support the Kiev authorities, in case of defeat Donbass, in a very short period of time they will become gun fodder, according to the US plan.
That’s what all of us need to remember, regardless of our current citizenship.
Putin message for the New Year: (includes video with translation into Spanish and precious images) and other news:
http://www.elespiadigital.com/index.php/noticias/historico-de-noticias/7990-mensaje-de-putin-por-el-ano-nuevo-tenemos-que-cumplir-y-realizar-todo-lo-proyectado-y-hacerlo-por-nosotros-mismos-por-nuestros-hijos-y-por-rusia
What was expected …. protests begin in Kiev:
http://www.elespiadigital.com/index.php/noticias/politica/7989-lo-que-se-esperaba-comienzan-las-protestas-en-kiev
Aien Tech: Thanks for the link to the Stockman article. I had been wondering for some time where the Chinese are getting the money for their giant infrastructure projects. They don’t seem to be spending down their reserves of US treasuries. So who is advancing all this credit–i.e., who is the owner of the projects?
And why is no one living in so many of the newly built areas/cities?
Sanctuary One: Your Prosecutie v Jen video is adorable.
But if looks were always just, God would’ve given Kolomoisky horns. Instead he looks like a jovial Santa Claus.
Sorry if this has been posted earlier. It’s been getting more difficult for me to get through all the info on Saker’s site. That’s a good thing.
USA instructs Russian Central Bank how to strangle Russian economy
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation does not have to support the Russian economy. There is no paragraph in the Constitution of the Russian Federation (written during the 1990s) that would tell the Central Bank to act so. For what purpose did the Central Bank set the Russian ruble free? Pravda.Ru asked expert opinion from State Duma deputy Yevgeny Fyodorov.
“All countries of the world are divided into two large groups. One group is called developed countries, and the other group – developing, or underdeveloped countries, better to say. In the past, underdeveloped countries were called colonies. Economies of all developed countries have one common feature – low interest rates. This is a key point. All underdeveloped countries – there are 90 percent of such countries in the world – have very high interest rates. The essence of high interest rates, including in Russia, is not to allow national currency onto national market. In order to let the Central Bank issue rubles in Russia, so that we could go to stores to spend them, the Central Bank needs to buy US dollars first. This rule is common for underdeveloped countries. …
http://english.pravda.ru/russia/economics/30-12-2014/129431-usa_russia_central_bank-0/
All the best to Saker and the Saker global family, and prayers for a better New Year.
@ Kat Kan
Totally agree. The US is not to be trusted. This seemed to be like floating a trial balloon on a now closed matter. Ultimately and inevitably there must be discussions and negotiations. It appears the US may now realize that they have bitten off more than they can chew. Maybe they should have heeded the admonitions of Tony Soprano when he said not to screw with the Russians. It would not surprise me one bit to see Russia benefit greatly from this exercise while the US falters badly.
So far the sanctions have been entirely counterproductive and the US must appear to be an evil clown show to even the most casual observer.
SanctuaryOne said…
“From Anonymous 17:42 and from link given: “…But if it did, how did he fly it up to 120 miles away on stalled engines? “
An A320 at 32,000 feet and with a glide ratio of 20:1 will fly 121 statute miles, with zero engine thrust. Why no radio call and transponder track?
One explanation: If this aircraft was hit by lightning that fried the transponder and all the other electrics and fly by wire.”
Gentlemen: The only “possible explanation” that I read about is the possibility that the pitot tubes froze, so that the airspeed indicator was giving a false reading. In their last communication the pilots requested permission to climb above the storm. Climbing diminishes airspeed, but if this was not adequately reflected by the indicator it is possible that airspeed became too low and a stall occurred.
Usually when a “stall” is referred to, it does not mean that “the engine stalled out”.
Rather that the airfoil (wings) are not travelling fast enough through the air to create enough lift. Climbing would cause the speed to diminish further. The stall warning horn would go off, but this may already have been occurring due to extreme turbulence.
If the aircraft is nose-high w insufficient airspeed, the plane will fall off the climb directly into a nosedown powered spin. A small acrobatics-rated plane can be righted by noticing the direction of the spin & putting in the opposite rudder, with no hands on the stick. It is quite miraculous: the next thing the pilot sees is a calm horizon in straight and level flying.
Large aircraft are not rated for this or any acrobatic maneuver, which means that the airframe is unable to tolerate the torque & the plane is likely to be pulled to pieces. Even if it is not pulled to pieces I don’t know if a large plane can recover from a death spin.
Le problème d’Israël
30/12/2014 14:42
Clefsdufutur-30.12.2014-MStGermain
Il fait parler du problème d’Israël
Le droit des Peuples de se reconnaître supérieur à tout autre est tout simplement illégitime, un scandale accepté par certains, subis par beaucoup, encouragés par ceux qui ont des intérêts avec eux.
Aucune terre n’appartient à un peuple en particulier selon le crédo divin.
Les hommes n’ont fait que se les approprier, les détruire, et se battre jusqu’à la mort pour les garder.
C’est l’aberration des hommes qui trouve sa racine dans l’interprétation égoïste de la Vie, ce que Nous, Êtres Divins, Hommes divins, n’avons jamais voulu.
Le summum a été atteint quand la terre a été volée aux Palestiniens.
Et aujourd’hui, l’Ukraine est du même enjeu : voler l’Ukraine à la Russie, à l’Europe pour en faire une terre d’Israel bis, la nouvelle terre des Juifs.
Comment le monde peut-il accepter cela ?
Le Donbass et Lougansk sont la cible.
La Crimée est la cible.
Où s’arrêtera ce groupe d’extrémistes pour dominer le monde ?
Tant que les hommes ne seront pas solidaires et unis, comme les doigts d’une même main, contre l’injustice, il n’y aura pas de paix.
Seule la Russie fait face, ses alliés ne la lâcheront pas.
Le Plan de Paix mondiale passe obligatoirement par l’éradication de tous ceux qui s’opposent à la Paix Juste.
Nous avons assez dit.
La guerre contre les USA-Israel-Etat islamiste est une Nécessité, où c’est la mort de tous et l’esclavage jusqu’à la mort de tous ceux qui ne pas dans le camp d’Israel : USA-Israel-Islamistes.
Vous voyez ce qui vous attend. Il n’y a pas à hésiter un instant. Il faut défendre le Plan de Paix, la Loi Juste, le Plan divin.
C’est la seule voie pour sauver l’humanité, le futur de la Terre, les Générations futures.
MStG-SL, 30.12.2014
Ps : bien sûr que Nous savons avant les médias, mais Nous ne disons pas tout à l’avance pour ne pas précipiter les évènements avant l’heure. Nous poussons à l’action, mais ne manipulons pas dans les consciences.
Nous disons la Vérité quand l’heure est venue de la dévoiler et Nous appuyons sur ce que les hommes ont révélé pour Révéler le Plan. Dire trop et trop vite n’est pas sage et renforce les actes des hommes contre le Plan divin. MStG
En savoir plus : http://www.clefsdufutur-france-afrique.fr/news/le-probl%c3%a8me-d%e2%80%99israel/
Interesting report by Mikel Itulaín:
(IMO a Must Read)
Alexei Navalny and “Russian opposition”:
http://miguel-esposiblelapaz.blogspot.com.es/2014/12/alexei-navalny-y-la-oposicion-rusa.html
“We now see how it is possible for the universe to increase both organization and entropy at the same time. The optimistic and pessimistic arrows of time can co-exist: the universe can display creative unidirectional progress even in the face of the second law.” (Paul Davies)
“What solution the US and its closest allies are looking for in this situation? It is now evident to everyone. The solution is war. Chaos. But this chaos and this war must lead to a “controlled collapse”.” (N. Starikov}
N. Starikov’s vision of the dialectic utility of war in the Ukraine is deceptive. War is not the solution, war is the reaction. We will reveal the solution down thread. The US and its closest allies VS Putin and the heroic fighters in the Donbass is for your easy identification as conscripted actors in the great drama of transition to a New World Order. Whether conscious or unconscious N. Starikov avoids the deeper question of the inquiring mind, “Who owns this theater…anyway?”
“As a result the US must eliminate two threats to its power – China and Russia. Ideally, make them clash with each other. To do this the US need to change regime in one of these countries. Obviously, the Americans think that the regime change in Russia is an easier task.” (N. Starikov)
N. Starikov continues the script with war and pathos shorting the logic circuits of us…the conscripted actors in the play. Is he a conscious or an unconscious script writer for the New World Passion Play?
The US and its closest allies(USD) are the demonic and degraded villains and poor Russia is the heroic resistance; while behind the curtain China preserves its utility as the IMF + BIS partner so benevolence and reason can propose the solution to the reaction which is the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse unleashed on the narrative stage by war between USA and Russia. The benevolent IMF + BIS + China will propose a reasoned solution to the pathos of the narrative of blood and horror in Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine in the second act. The peaceful socialist New World Order will appear on the stage as the solution, but not yet for N. Starikov’s clappers.
Do not despair Mr. Starikov and kind conscripted actors….in the second act the benevolent socialist SDR solution will appear to save humanities future. We will be grateful to be part of the socialist ant hill future of humanity, after all the alternative is blood and horror of war!
FROM CHAOS….ORDER!
Posecutie’s New Years wishes w English titles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=187PtO46Wsk
“Thomas Piketty rejects the Legion of Honor”:
…”I do not think it is the role of government to decide who is honorable “.
https://es.noticias.yahoo.com/economista-franc%C3%A9s-piketty-rechaza-la-legi%C3%B3n-honor-142722527.html
Review of his book “Capital in the XXI century”:
http://www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepapel/Capitalismo-desigualdad-siglo_XXI_6_224737531.html
Perhaps a better title would be:
“The US cannot win a major war in Ukraine”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraines-war-a-prelude-to-world-war-ii-says-former-ukraine-ambassador-to-u-s/5421994
Penelope, I am quite familiar with spins and do them regularly. Any airfoil can stall if the angle of attack is high enough and so the turbine blades in a jet engine, also airfoils, can also stall -you will sometimes see flame ejecting from the front of the engine if this occurs on takeoff. Sometimes caused by a strong crosswind the engine usually self-corrects.
I don’t know if the A320 can recover from all spins or not but it can certainly recover from a stall. Even if it can recover from a flat spin, the aerodynamic side forces or manual abrupt pilot control inputs may irrevocably damage the aircraft.
e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_587
If sufficient water from extreme weather such as a thunderstorm or hail damages the turbine blades, a restart may not be possible.
The question posed was how an airliner can fly 120 miles without engine power and the answer I gave was easy -airliners are fairly efficient gliders.
I don’t know the circumstances of this accident but I do know that no aircraft can survive the upper area (sometimes as high as 60,000 feet)of a severe thunderstorm where 120 mph winds up and down can be adjacent to each other and laced with hail the size of baseballs. I did hear the storm system went up to 38,000 feet.
Wreckage dents and the black boxes giving attitude/vertical airspeed/altitude data would clearly indicate this scenario.
Example of pro-Ukrainian propaganda in French Fashion magazine that went bad. Great examples of NAZI women to pass on to people who still think they are freedom fighters:
http://quandcafaithouille.blogspot.ca/2014/12/elle-plebiscite-une-neo-nazi.html
http://rt.com/news/line/2015-01-02/#78255
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Armenia joins Eurasian Economic Union
Armenia on Friday became a full-fledged member of the Eurasian Economic Union, a Russia-led trade bloc, which also includes Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The EU-like integration project includes a common customs policy, free trade, free movement of labor and other measures aimed at boosting the economies of member states.
Also saw an article from the zionazi AFP propaganda firm on the nazi march in Kiev. It whitewashed nazis (they’re patriotic nationalists now) and even compared Bandera to Che. When it comes to Israeli interests, their sayanim and agents are capable of promoting literally anything, even those well known to have engaged in genocide against Jewish people. Maybe their next project will be blaming the Holocaust on the Soviets?
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Re the ASIA AIR crash
it is likely NOT an engine stall, but an aerodynamic stall…which means not enough air passing over the wings to keep the plane flying. This is the trouble with nose-down spins…the wings are perpendicular to the ground so they don’t “lift”. The wings need to be parallel to the ground (with some obvious latitude for taking off and landing, but a normal landing glide would only be 3 degrees).
Big problem inside a thunderstorm is sudden up or down drafts or sudden changes of air pressure. There have been cases of updraft hitting only ONE wing, putting the plane into a sideways flip. It is not known if an Airbus can recover from being turned upside down. Probably not, as it would be designed to not let itself be FLOWN into an upside down position, so they’d not build in recovery.
From the small number of bodies floating so far, it looks like it went in fairly intact. Nothing they’ve found is 120kms from the last location. Everything is quite close, 10km or so away.
I have noticed that the BanderNazis are using this cease fire agreement to slowly conquer the east. They have it down, and while they forcement trouble with the eastern leaders. They take more land. If this peace agreement is not done away with soon, it will be too late for the eastern side to do anything, they will be swamped with BanderNazis and never regain their land.
Batman was hit yesterday, and we are not sure what is going on, all I know is that they were in two cars that were ambushed with manpads. It is unclear weather he is alive or dead, lots of conflicting stories. But this is the plan, slowly slowly they conquer.
It is a bad situation for the people of the eastern side. And Putsch-Pol-Pot-Shenko must be laughing himself sick.
WOW Malaysia in the middle again! Anyone think the US would allow China to create their new silk roads? Which are not under US control since they are mostly land based. Now I think we know more about WHY China was so eager to take Russia’s offer. Because without Russia, China is a done deal.. The US would just blockade China and do a Japan on it, so for China to exist at all, Russia needs to exist. And now we have the third moron getting ready to jump the cliff..
China’s silky road to glory By Pepe Escobar
If there were any remaining doubts about the unlimited stupidity Western corporate media is capable of dishing out, the highlight of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing has been defined as Russian President Vladimir Putin supposedly “hitting” on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s wife – and the subsequent Chinese censoring of the moment when Putin draped a shawl over her shoulders in the cold air where the leaders were assembled. What next? Putin and Xi denounced as a gay couple?
Let’s dump the clowns and get down to the serious business. Right at the start, President Xi urged APEC to “add firewood to the fire of the Asia-Pacific and world economy”. Two days later, China got what it wanted on all fronts.
Beijing had all 21 APEC member-nations endorsing the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) – the Chinese vision of an “all inclusive, all-win” trade deal capable of advancing Asia-Pacific cooperation – see South China Morning Post (paywall). The loser was the US-driven, corporate-redacted, fiercely opposed (especially by Japan and Malaysia) 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Predictably, once again, this vertiginous flurry of deals and investment had to converge towards the most spectacular, ambitious, wide-ranging plurinational infrastructure offensive ever attempted: the multiple New Silk Roads – that complex network of high-speed rail, pipelines, ports, fiber optic cables and state of the art telecom that China is already building across the Central Asian stans, linked to Russia, Iran, Turkey and the Indian Ocean, and branching out to Europe all the way to Venice, Rotterdam, Duisburg and Berlin.
Vlad doesn’t do stupid stuff As for “Don Juan” Putin, everything one needs to know about Asia-Pacific as a Russian strategic/economic priority was distilled in his intervention at the APEC CEO summit.
But the Russia-China symbiosis/strategic partnership is developing in multiple levels.
The Russia-China symbiosis/strategic partnership visibly expands on energy, finance and, also inevitably, on the military technology front. That includes, crucially, Moscow selling Beijing the S-400 air defense system and, in the future, the S-500 – against which the Americans are sitting ducks; and this while Beijing develops surface-to-ship missiles that can take out everything the US Navy can muster.
When Little Dubya Bush came to power in early 2001, the neo-cons were faced with a stark fact: it was just a matter of time before the US would irreversibly lose its global geopolitical and economic hegemony. So there were only two choices; either manage the decline, or bet the whole farm to consolidate global hegemony using – what else – war.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/CHIN-01-141114.html
Democratic Socialism would allow People to buy any Car that the Government Allowed to be sold in that Country.
However, the poorer Russian People would buy that Quality Intelligent Car Model Voluntarily, because the Subsidies would make it Very Affordable for them.
If fuel was free because of a High Goods and Services Tax Rate as I described in my other comments, and in this comment, then perhaps most Russian adults will buy that Car Voluntarily in order for the Russian Economy to Recover, in order to create Full Employment.
I think that People should allow themselves to be discouraged by anyone Human who does not know, or who knows, but will not Acknowledge what is in the next sentence.
I do not need to be an Expert to be 100 % Certain that Every Kind of Useful and Productive Work is Good for a Country, and the more Useful and Productive Work the Better, because I know that this Principle is Self Evident and True, because it is Obvious.
We know that the price of Oil has dropped from its normal average range, and the reason is that there is currently an oversupply of Oil on the Market.
This comment is an opinion on how Countries can maximize Benefits to their Economies, and there are several variables or factors to best position their Economies for their long term interest, rather than for short term considerations.
The figures I use in this comment have not been calculated, but are only as an example, and Accountants will be able to provide accurate information.
If we imagine that there is a Country that has only 2 types of Taxes, and that is by means of a 50 % Tax on All Goods and Services, or 50 % GST, and a 50 % Tax on Business Profits.
The low income earners and Social Service Recipients are compensated by mean of a fortnightly payment from the Department of Social Security.
These Countries now give their Citizens and their Businesses free fuel and free public transport, which also receives it fuel for free, because the High Goods and Services Rate allows the Government to provide these things at no charge to their Citizens, and the Budget remains in Surplus.
We know that if People receive something for free, or if they have already paid for it, then they will overly consume that Product, this will help reduce the oversupply of Oil on the Market, and push up the price of Oil.
This will help Businesses to reduce their Costs, and it will make them more Competitive in the Global Economy.
This will Increase their Business Profits, and this will Increase Government Revenues.
This will Increase Employment, which will further Increase help the Budget Surplus, because there is more GST Revenues because of More Workers, and there is Lower Government Expenditures, because the Government is Spending less Unemployment Benefits.
This can be done by any Country, even by those who are not Oil Producing Countries, but those Tax Rates are Hypothetical, and just used for Illustration.
It is my opinion that there be no Tax on Food, and possibly on some other things, and so if a Country wants to have a High GST Rate, then there can be no GST on one or more things.
I mentioned in my other comment that if there is No laziness, No corruption, and No Incompetence, then there is no difference to the Productivity, regardless of Capitalism or Socialism.
The only difference would be on what are the Pay Rates for the Employees, and with Capitalism, it is the Owner who mainly decides that, and with Public Ownership of an Industry, it is the Government who mainly decides that.
Countries should not be overly concerned because they will have to run Budget Deficits for a few years, because they are Restructuring their Economies toward creating Full Employment with More domestic Socialism, in order to Position themselves for a much Greater National Share for their Domestic Industries, and in order to Position themselves for a much Greater Global Market Share for their Export Oriented Industries.
I think that the Evidence is Overwhelming that Stalin was a Jew, and I will present logical Proof for that.
Khazar Jews, Armenians, Georgians, and other peoples from the Caucasus all share a certain sub racial type at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazars .
The Disproportionate number of Jews involved in Bolshevism and Marxism in the Soviet Union, was so widely recognized among Diplomatic Political, and Intelligence circles it would seem a Very Strange Anomaly indeed if a Gentile had managed to Crawl to the top of the Jewish Bolshevik Regime, and then purge the Jewish influence, and establish an Iron Rule, given the Facts that the Jews were the Overwhelming Entrenched Majority since the beginning, and the Only ones to whom the Jewish Bankers would lend the Soviet Union the Money they needed.
Hence Stalin has been regarded, especially among those critical of Jewish influence in Politics, Economics and Culture, as Definitely a Secret Jew who was Secretly Ruling the USSR, but now we know that the Jewish Stalin was a Puppet of Anglo-America, and this Anglo-America gave Stalin Eastern Europe and the Baltic States.
The suspicion that the USSR had continued under Jewish Rule was maintained among the People right up until the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Hitler regarded Communism as Jewish Bolshevism, and Hitler believed that Communism had been invented by the Jews (Jewish Karl Marx) as part of a Plan to take over the world, including Germany, and so it was inevitable that Hitler would invade Russia, but the Reality is that Communism was Invented by the English to Rule the World, including India and the Soviet Union.
The English are the Masters of Every Type of Lie and Trickery, and have been playing the Great Game with Russia, and the English Secretly Ruled the Soviet Union using their Jewish Allies, but the People of the Soviet Union never knew that they Controlled by England, and Stalin was a Secret Jew, and the British Prime Minister says that the European Union should extend to the Russian Ural Mountain Ranges, which would be one third of Russia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game .
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2014/12/31/opinion/012o1pol
According to this article that appeared in the independant Mexican newspaper “La Jornada” Soros/Co intend to take over control of the Bank of Ukraine so to find a way to to monitor closely and hurt Russia. Difficcult to believe but you never know when dealing with the devil.
And what about this trans-Atlantic trade agreement America is in the middle of negotiating with Europe-they have effectively closed off any alternatives to Europe by cancelling out the East. The EU has been completely bowled over much to the detriment of the people in all of these countries.
OT but here is a live video of the Ukraine government celebrating New Year. How many do you recognize?
Happy new year to everyone and a thought..
With the reach of the NSA what do you think they know about you?
Well you dont have to be the NSA to know you better than you know yourself. When you connect your phone to download your contacts, the site knows who you know. And who they know, soon they know who your friends are and who their friends are and what your intrests are and what their interests are. If they check our buying habits, they then know what you bought and when and where. This is a very simple example since I used to analyze patterns and I found out more about things with far less data than what google or facebook has let alone like the NSA who knows who you are cheating with, who you are robbing and what dirty tricks you have planned and with whom. Well you think I am exaggerating.. Lets hear it from the horses mouth then..
Google’s boss, back in 2009, bragged that, “We know where you’ll be Tuesday morning,” and you can be very, very sure that they’ve been selling such information for the past five years. You can further be sure that they’re a lot better at it now.
Did you know that Facebook—three years ago—ran an experiment on 689,000 of its users, to see if it could alter their moods by altering the headlines they saw? And did you know that the experiment was a success?
So three years ago, Facebook found out that it could alter people’s moods, making them happier or sadder as it wished. And Facebook found something else: those users would transfer those moods to their friends in a cascade effect.
Making things worse, both of these outfits are in bed with the feds. Facebook’s infamous experiment was partly financed by the US Army, and Google is deeply intermingled with the US State Department (as well as other agencies). If you’re curious about this, read Julian Assange’s new book on the subject.
Next: You learn how to implant desires in your users. And if you want to do it well, you do it in ways that are specific to each individual. After all, what works to manipulate me may be completely ineffective for you.
Here’s how to prove this: Take your laptop to a friend’s house. Both of you log in to YouTube, or Facebook, or Google. You’ll both see different screens. And that means that you’re already getting customized environments.
If you want to do something about it, see Cryptohippie’s Guide to Online Privacy.
Sorry, but the war has already started, and like any war, the only, final solution will be victory. Victory for Russia is a free Novorossia of 8 oblasts, nothing else. The Russian tactic (Putin) so far is WRONG. No matter how I try to, I do not see the point in a “frozen conflict”.
The ukrops will be stonger (okay, so will the militia) and it will take more to liberate Novorossia.
War from USA/Nato against Russia there will NOT be (Russia has more and better nuclear missiles).
War from nazi-ukraine against russian people in Donbass and Novorossia there is already. And Russia is called agressor by the west what ever Russia does. So: liberate all of Novorossia ASAP is the only way!
Nick
Nikolay Starkovs books need to be translated. Eg the one about 1917 “not revolution but special op”. Tells how Kerenski & Lenin had a secret understanding.
Starikovs “Nationalization of the rouble” (translated but not widely available)contains unique info and another interesting book about the 20th century history is translated and available at orientalreview.org in several parts.
“The benevolent IMF + BIS + China will propose a reasoned solution”
bob kay, I hope that your comment above was sarcastic. I remind you that we don’t yet know whether China has sold out to the IMF, BIS, etc in return for becoming the new hegemon.
If you have evidence that they have, please post it or links to it.
Thanks.
SanctuaryOne: Thanks for the additional info on potential damage to the jet engine fins via the storm.
I know about glide charcteristics, having once made a distant airport after a forced engine shutdown due to an uncomfortable encounter w a nesting pigeon inside the cowling at Teterboro.
I see no reason to assume the present crash is anything other than an accident, altho it’s being reported that CEO of AsiaAir’s insurance co sold a large block of shares a week before. Altho I suppose he cd have been uneasy about some maintenance issue.
Dear Saker
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The West has declared a cold war on Russia. The ultimate goal of the United States of America is to destroy Russia. The Americans already consider plans about the neutralization of the nuclear potential of Russia. Plan A is to strike a blow that would behead Russia. Plan B is to destroy the launcher. President of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, Konstantin Sivkov, shared his views about the developing standoff between Russia and the West in an interview with Pravda.Ru.
http://www.eurasianet.org/node/71506
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When will you, the Russian media or we who support multipolar world, we who don’t want that USA wipes Russia off the map say:
When will Germany, Sweden or Greece or whoever stop listening to her present colonial master?
Dear Saker, if we cannot use that kind of language than our struggle is futile.
Next stop for Oil is the low $30’s.. And there is every indication that it will go even lower.. Also US$ looks like it will go much higher..
Another thing is that I think Putin is at the front right now dropping Oil prices. Because once war has started it is better to just suffer through it and destroy your enemy than look at lessening your own pain. Already major oil companies are looking at major losses let alone shale oil producers. Oil at $30 will mean extreme stress for oil companies and many countries. Putin can not overtly drop oil prices but he knows oil at $20 means quite a bit of pain for all Russians but it also means US financial markets blowing up, Terrorist countries in the middle east along with it. Most of those who blow up will never recover. Already Qatar has drastically reduced funding for the Syrian terrorists. I am confidante that $30 will be hit.. I said before that Russia should use the Oil weapon no matter the cost if it will deal a mortal blow to its enemies. So Russia will have to cut back on entitlements and such.. But it is far less expensive than a hot war. Also Russia will be helping those who need help the most, the developing countries. US/EU can not use low oil prices to their advantage here since they have already saturated the world with their products. No one has any more money to buy iphones. But it could spur growth in africa, asia and s.america.. Venezuela will be hurt the most.. Iran not so much at this point. Blowing up the middle eastern economies with the big oil companies will take decades to recover. Enough time for Russia to develop itself.. Russia needs time and this is an easy way to do it while hurting those that wanted to hurt you. The US FED is now supporting US oil industry from cratering, which alone shows that the US is greatly affected by this. So lets see how long the plunge protection team can keep it up.
Official Washington’s latest “group think” is that the drop in oil prices will bring Russia and Iran to their knees ready to do whatever the U.S. demands. Paul R. Pillar.
regardless of whether it is markets or sanctions that have caused the economic and fiscal damage. It is mistaken because the presumed connection between a country’s economic discomfort and its regime’s diplomatic flexibility considers only one half of the regime’s calculations.
If it sees no prospect for improvement, it has no incentive to concede. The point becomes all the clearer when, as with the recent drop in petroleum prices, it is a market that is causing the economic pain. Markets have no mechanism for pain reduction when someone changes a negotiating position or diplomatic posture.
The further, usually implicit, assumption underlying false beliefs about market-induced economic discomfort leading to diplomatic flexibility in cases such as Russia or Iran is that the cumulative effect of both sanctions and lower prices will push a regime past some breaking point beyond which it ceases to resist.
The notion of a breaking point has underlain other American foreign policy thinking, which has involved not only economic discomfort but also the infliction of physical pain through kinetic means. The notion was the basis for Operation Rolling Thunder, the Lyndon Johnson administration’s prolonged and escalating bombardment of North Vietnam in the 1960s. The notion is somewhat akin to the gambler’s fallacy that by persisting and playing a little longer one’s results will change for the better.
The Vietnam War example illustrates another part of the logic pertinent to such situations that is essential but commonly overlooked when people place hopes on the consequences of someone else’s pain. That part concerns the importance the other side places on the issues that are at stake.
Regimes and nations will endure a great deal of pain on behalf of causes that are very important to them.
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/01/01/the-oil-crash-diplomatic-mirage/
The Chief of Staff of the 4th brigade of LPR Alexander Bednov (nickname is Batman) died. There are 2 versions…
One is that Igor Plotnitsky had Bednov arrested and Bednov resisted and was killed.
The version of the comrades and family: “In the morning of the 1st of January, 2015, Alexander Bednov was killed when his autocade was attacked. This information was confirmed by the members of sabotage and intelligence group “Batman” who identified the body of Alexander which was in the armored car “Volkswagen Transporter T-4”, the car “Toyota Prius” convoying Alexander’s car was destroyed as well. Six militiamen whose nicknames “Kot”, “Britva”, “Vityaz”, “Zolotoy” died, the identity of other victims is being verified.”
According to them, Alexander and other members of battalion were killed by order of Igor Plotnitsky who allegedly intends to get rid of all the irreconcilable commanders: Mozgovoi, Dremov, Knyaz will be next. They also said that Alexander didn’t put up a fierce armed resistance; the men were killed while they were going.
Earlier it was rumoured that Alexander’s wife was killed, too. Alexander’s wife Irina is alive; she was at home, their children were brought to her after what happened yesterday.
As you’ve read, there are two versions of what happened yesterday. Our team of Truth about situation in Ukraine leaves it to your judgement. We are
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Assad “the Commander in Chief of the Syrian Arab Armed Forces spending the last of 2014, and welcoming 2015 in Jobar with the Syrian Arab Armed Forces and visiting the front lines in a surprise visit”..
Does obhama have the balls to visit a US base with armed soldiers? I know boosch when he visited the US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan had the soldiers disarmed before he met with them. With that picture perfect paper chicken he served the disarmed troops on a very secure US base..
And here Assad visits his men on the front lines.. Obhama has the Gaul to say Syrians want him gone.. If that was so this was the perfect opportunity.. He himself dont have the guts to face his own men let along go to a fighting front.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKvh6ApAXf8
Anonymous @1/2/15 11:31 (Please give yourself a nickname; you don’t have to enter a url you know)
I wd like to suggest that tax policy should be directed against progressive income and assets and capital gains including speculation.
In the 50s US taxed income progressively; this is just because those who make the most ae benefiting more from the govt subsidized infrastructure, education, hospitals, etc.
Today the only asset we tax is the home, none of the assets of the corporation. Capital gains have long enjoyed reduced taxation.
The no. 1 reason for this tax policy is to prevent the emergence of economic power so great that it is capable of buing the govt (including its apptment of generals), courts, media, military, etc.
I realized that I should have written a sentence in my other comment, whose first sentence says: Democratic Socialism would allow People to buy any Car that the Government Allowed to be sold in that Country.
It should say: “I think that People should Not allow themselves to be discouraged by any Human who does not know, or who knows, but will not Acknowledge what is in the next sentence.”
I do not need to be an Expert to be 100 % Certain that Every Kind of Useful and Productive Work is Good for a Country, and the more Useful and Productive Work the Better, because I know that this Principle is Self Evident and True, because it is Obvious.
I like to invent my own Socialist Economic opinions, and the Experts can decide if any aspects are worth considering, and I do not want to read any of Karl Marx, because I want my opinions to be original, and in my opinion, a Country should have a Proper Combination of Regulated Free Enterprise and Public Ownership of Industries,
The Regulated Free Enterprise should be with regards to Agriculture, and it must Not have any Genetic Modified Organisms, and Regulated Free Enterprise with Genuine Competition, who include All Industries that are not considered to be Essential.
Those Industries that are considered to be Essential must have at least one basic type of Product or Service by Public Ownership, and I gave an example a Subsidized Car, and this will make it Very Affordable for All of the Citizens of the Country.
Last words and images of Alexander Bednevoy just minutes before his death:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7Bs8waxYE0c
The article has now been translated into Serbian langauage:
http://ruskarec.ru/news/2015/01/02/dolgov_povorke_sa_bakljama_u_ukrajini_pokazuju_da_se_ona_i_dalje_krece_p_36365.html#comment-1768697700
quoting Truth About Situation in Ukraine facebook — he quotes 2 sources,translated
Here are 2 versions told by the General Prosecutor of LPR and Alexander’s comrades.
The version of the General Prosecutor of Lugansk: “On the 30th of December, 2014, the General Prosecutor of LPR opened a criminal case against the members of “Batman” battalion whose nicknames are “Manyak”, “Omega”, “Dak”, “Chechen”, “Batman”, “Luish”, “Fobus”, “Yanek”, “Khokhol”, “Subbota”, “Zema”, “Tabletka” and others on the illegal imprisonment of two or more persons, torture using weapons, killing, kidnapping of civilians, illegal deprivation of freedom, extortion and robbery.
According to the General Prosecutor, in June-October, 2014, the members of battalion illegally detained and tortured 13 local residents. As a consequence of their illegal actions, one of the detained people died. According to the data, armed men with nicknames “Manyak”, “Omega”, “Dak”, “Chechen”, “Batman”, “Luish”, “Fobus”, “Yanek”, “Khokhol”, “Subbota”, “Zema”, “Tabletka” and others were involved in torturing of people.
On the 30th of December, 2014, the General Prosecutor gave security agencies an order to detain the members of the battalion and ensure their attendance at the General Prosecutor’s office for questioning.
During the detention on the 1st of January, 2015, Alexander Bednov, the head of battalion, refused to comply with the legitimate demands to disarm and put up a fierce armed resistance. He was killed in an exchange of fire.
More than 100 firearms, ammunition, cash and belongings which had been illegally seized from civilians were discovered and impounded during the searches in homes of members of the battalion. Four private housing estates were also liberated.
The criminal investigation is still ongoing. The General Prosecutor of LPR is establishing all the facts proving the illegal actions of the detained persons.”
The version of the comrades and family: “In the morning of the 1st of January, 2015, Alexander Bednov was killed when his autocade was attacked. This information was confirmed by the members of sabotage and intelligence group “Batman” who identified the body of Alexander which was in the armored car “Volkswagen Transporter T-4”, the car “Toyota Prius” convoying Alexander’s car was destroyed as well. Six militiamen whose nicknames “Kot”, “Britva”, “Vityaz”, “Zolotoy” died, the identity of other victims is being verified.”
According to them, Alexander and other members of battalion were killed by order of Igor Plotnitsky who allegedly intends to get rid of all the irreconcilable commanders: Mozgovoi, Dremov, Knyaz will be next. They also said that Alexander didn’t put up a fierce armed resistance; the men were killed while they were going.
Earlier it was rumoured that Alexander’s wife was killed, too. Alexander’s wife Irina is alive; she was at home, their children were brought to her after what happened yesterday.
=======there are horrific photos of 2 vehicles totally demolished, burned bodies in and around them. Looks a lot more like ambush than a fair firefight.
Issues are some accusing prime minster Plotnitsky of profiting from selling coal. One clams to have a USB stick full of evidence, he’d better produce it before this type of killing goes any further…. a number of Cossacks were killed 2 weeks ago under similar circumstances, relating to coal sales.
Nobody minds coal being sold, even in “secret” deals, as long as the money comes back to the community. Both battalions that have had leaders killed now were looking after large areas of territory, of small villages the big aid convoys never reach.
It is possible it is also about the issue raised in the second story above, that it is to remove those commanders who refuse to join the united Army. All that’s been achieved is to make them join forces. Very bad very stupid horribly timed situation, you don’t purge or risk losing good commanders when the enemy is about to attack again any day.
The article has now been translated into Serbian language:
http://ruskarec.ru/news/2015/01/02/dolgov_povorke_sa_bakljama_u_ukrajini_pokazuju_da_se_ona_i_dalje_krece_p_36365.html#comment-1768697700
Hands UP Dont shoot! Another casualty from the surrender monkeys for a brand new year.
India mulls switching from Rafale to Su30MKIs
For the first time since January 31, 2012, when the French Rafale fighter was chosen as the future medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA) for the Indian Air Force (IAF), it has been officially admitted that there are serious problems in negotiating the purchase with the French vendor, Dassault. the Indian Business Standard reports.
Speaking to the media on Tuesday evening, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said there were “complications” in the negotiations, already on for almost three years, with the French side reluctant to meet commitments that IAF had specified in the tender. Parrikar mentioned that local production of Su-30 MKI by HAL would be adequate for the Indian Air Force (IAF) in case India will not procure the Rafale.
The IAF currently plans to have 272 Su-30MKI fighters by about 2018. HAL’s Nashik production line is building the fighter at $56 million each (358 crore Inr.), less than half the estimated cost of the Rafale.
And just a month ago, India, France put MMRCA ‘on the fast track’ which now seems to have a brick wall.. Signs of improving prospects for concluding the MMRCA deal with France surfaces in October, when Indian Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha confirmed the contract is in the final stage of negotiations with all the agencies involved, including Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).
So after 3 years of negotiations.. I think India has decided that the french are not reliable enough to give over $20 billion to..
Peter Grafstrom: Starikov book available online. Copy this link to a temporary file, then click on it.
http://lit.md/files/nstarikov/rouble_nationalization-the_way_to_russia's_freedom.pdf
Currently going on conflicts and violent relations in the world. I think this list is complete, although possibly we’re missing an African conflict that has been COMPLETELY missing the media. Anyway here it is:
USA-Japan-South Korea vs North Korea vs China
USA-ASEAN vs China-Taiwan and Japan vs Korea over China Sea islands
USA-NATO-Japan vs China-Russia-SCO over encircling
USA-EU vs Russia over Ukraine-Georgia membership in NATO-EU
USA-led coalition/NATO vs Many, diverse parties in Afghanistan
USA-led coalition/NATO vs Many, diverse parties in Iraq
USA-Shia-Iran(?) vs Arabia-Sunni-caliphate/ISIS-Turkey(?)
Kurds vs Turkey-Syria-Iraq-Iran over autonomy
Israel vs Palestine over The Holy Land/Cana’an
USA-Israel vs Arab-Muslim countries over Israel vs Palestine
USA vs 134 states over terrorism using state torture-sniping-droning
USA-UK-Canada-Australia-New Zealand (“Five eyes”) vs the World, spying
USA vs China (USA-EU vs Eurasia) over the shape of geopolitics
USA-UK-France-Italy-Norway vs Libya-Mali-Sudan-Somalia etc. in Africa
USA vs Latin America/Caribbean over equality of the Americas
Note the presence of one particular nation.
Sanctuary One: What do you make of the following, just chatter?
They can’t have known this except from radar info earlier withheld/misrepresented, right?
“While those who doubted Fernandes’s motive may have retracted and doused cold water on his selling of Tune Insurance shares, the question now is on the decisions of the pilot which an aviation analyst describes as “bordering on the edge of logic.”
The plane ascended at an unprecedented rate of 6,000 to 9,000 feet per minute when an Airbus could only handle 1,000 to 1,500 feet on a sustained basis and up to 3,000 feet in a burst.
Gerry Soejatman, the analyst, who cited leaked information from the crash probers, said the ascent by the plane was in a way impossible to achieve, causing the plane to be thrown down like a piece of metal, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
He said the descent speed of as low as 61 knots is an indicator the jet was heading downwards almost straight down, which explains why it crashed just 10 kilometres from its last point of radar contact.”
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/577770/20150102/questions-arise-over-dumping-ceo-tony-fernandes.htm
Vladimir Putin is stripping America of its superpower status. And he’s not using bombs or tanks to do it!
Instead, he’s orchestrating an ingenious yet devastating, decades-long plan to control the global energy trade—the largest source of demand for the dollar and bedrock of American might and prosperity.
Should Putin win, it could nuke the US economy and cost the average American dearly. The stakes have never been higher, and we’ve never been more vulnerable.
This epic struggle that will define the decade and century to come is detailed in the eye-opening book, The Colder War
@ AlienTech at 16:41 – thanks for that link to Assad visiting his front line troops, it was inspiring to watch. This is a bit OT but your comment that Obama would not dare visit his troops like that reminded me of his speech at West Point last year. Most of us probably tuned that one out, but Thierry Meyssan wrote it up. He concluded this:
“The new West Point Military Academy graduates did not give a standing ovation to President Obama.
[…]
“This speech is only a facade of verbiage trying to hide an irreversible decline. He stunned the audience which understood dreams of conquest are at an end. Against all odds, less than a quarter of the 1064 graduates of the Military Academy at West Point applauded the president, while the majority remained unmoved. The Empire is slowly dying.”
Not a crucial read, but here’s the link if anyone is interested:
An Empire Without a Military Strategy for a Military Strategy Without an Empire
And now for your latest BBC propaganda:
“Despite leading anti-Soviet resistance fighters, Bandera was arrested and jailed by the Nazis during the war. He was assassinated by a Soviet KGB agent in Munich in 1959.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30655184
Where’s Lord Haw-Haw when you need him?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Haw-Haw
There are two possibilities as I see in the death of Alexander Bednov.And the answers are clear about what to do in either case.If his murder was done by Igor Plotnitsky.The other commanders of the NAF will need to seize and execute him at once.A definitive warning will need to be sent that any other attempts on commanders will be met by instant death to those ordering it.Even if those orders my or not have come from Moscow.Weakness is fatal in situations like that.Second,if as more likely,it came from pro-Kiev agents.Political or military leaders of the Ukrainian junta should likewise be seized and executed in reprisal for the killing.For the exact same reason as with the other possibility.Its utterly foolish to let them escape retribution for murders of your commanders.It shows weakness that can not be allowed in a life and death military situation.They already have been far too weak in responding to outrages committed by fascists in the East.From the very beginning they should have tried and executed any of the fascist volunteers guilty of crimes against their people.This trading these men to the junta and just releasing others to return and kill you has been an error from the start.And needs to be corrected right now.
Uncle Bob
moscow end of this month!
Not only are Washington “liberal hawks” doing everything in their power to prolong the crisis, but they have devised a plan to prepare a third war. Thierry Meyssan reveals here how they intend to use to their advantage the peace conference planned to be held in Moscow in late January 2015.
dec 29
http://www.voltairenet.org/article186327.html
http://nsnbc.me/2014/12/29/cuban-resistance-example-world/
In his press conference of Friday the 19th Obama stated that normalisation of relations “gives us an opportunity to have influence” with the people of Cuba so that “liberty” and “democracy” can be restored. “There will be a carrot and stick approach that we can apply.” He added that the trade embargo did not succeed in bringing down the regime and so he hopes this new approach will succeed. The usual catchwords were used once again to disguise the never changing objective of the US imperialist faction, regime change in Cuba.
SanctuaryOne,
It looks like the investigation really did leak:
“Mr Soejatman said the plane was equipped with a Mode S radar, a relatively new piece of equipment which sends more comprehensive information, in real time, from aircraft to ground.”
The Sidney Morning Herald even published a screenshot of some info from the tower.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/airasia-flights-behaviour-on-the-edge-of-logic-20150101-12gk9a.html
Sanctuary, the reason I am so uncertain about the ability to recover from a stall is that the time for correction from a powered dive to a glide is so limited before disintegration or impact.
Thanks for the link to AA FL587
crash.
Pol Potshenko
http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2015/01/western-ukraine-is-not-impressed-with.html
During the visit several activists representing the leadership of the Lvov region asked Poroshenko questions concerning the tax and excise increases which, in their view, will destroy the Ukrainian car market. Poroshenko explained the measure by the need to finance the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Poroshenko also advised one of the activists to “go to the counter-terrorist operation zone and defend the country,” adding that his son fought in the East for two months.
The president was also called a traitor and people refused to shake hands with him.
I am a simple man.And my studies in history have shown me that in almost every occasion the simple answer to a problem is the correct, or at least the best answer.So from the beginning of this crisis, and all through it I’ve been appalled at how Machiavellian it has become. And the convoluted ways used to try and deal with it.Frankly,they are just stupid.
We have a bunch of fascists pretending to be Ukrainian loyalists.Funded and armed by foreign Western governments that seized power in Ukraine.And unleashed death and destruction on the Russian and Russian speaking population of Ukraine.And Russia,instead of moving in and stopping that, is jumping through hoops to do everything to stop them except that.Trying to appease and befriend the very foreign governments that started this to begin with.It doesn’t work.Do these people know nothing about the West at all.You can’t “talk” them out of their aggression.You can’t beat fascism by waiting for them to get tired from murdering you. From all the countless monuments and stories of WW2 in Russia,did they learn nothing from that time period.You beat fascism by beating fascism,how hard is that to figure out.Unless NATO wants nukes to land at full speed in Washington,London and Berlin (which they don’t) they won’t intervene.They’ll let loose tons of propaganda all right.But they are already doing that.For Russia to be safe and the Russian and Ukrainian people to be safe, the fascist junta must go.The only one able to accomplish that (that wants that) is Russia.Its time they stopped playing a game of chess,if that’s what they are doing.And get the job done.A weak Russia is a dead Russia,history shows that,over and over.It is dripping out this crisis day by day,month by month,that brings more power to Western propaganda.And allows them to feed the Russophobia.Had Russia ended this crisis when it started thousands of decent pro-Russian Ukrainian civilians would be alive today.The “Cold War II” would be the same.And fascism and a threat to world peace from Ukraine would be gone.The Russian government in 2015 needs to start acting to save themselves,or move over and let a new government come to power that will.
That is my New Year’s rant for 2015.I’m sick to death of stupidity in this crisis.
Uncle Bob
I agree whole-heartedly with Peter Grafström concerning the desirability of making Starikov’s work readily available in English. Here’s a taster from his Rouble Nationalization: The Way to Russia’s Freedom (St. Petersburg:Piter, 2013). The following extract is from chapter 8, “How Comrade Stalin appreciated and cherished the ‘Chubais’ of his time and what came out of it,” 182-211, and answers the question who served as the bankers’ disburser to Lenin et al:
The range of Litvinov’s activities was stunning. A bureau was opened in Paris at the beginning of 1906 which Litvinov used as a cover for placing orders for weapons at European factories. ‘He decided to order several thousand Mauser and Mannlicher rifles, a*sufficient quantity of ammunition as well as machine guns and smaller weapons’. 1 Litvinov bought a*yacht to transfer the weapons. And then, as his biographer says, ‘there was an issue of a financial nature’. A report filed by an undercover agent of the Russian police tells us how decisive Maxim Vallach could be when it was required: ‘Litvinov is here now. He has had a misunderstanding with the Central Committee. The Central Committee spent 40,000 roubles and will not give it back. Therefore Litvinov sent two Georgians to the Central Committee demanding the money be given back, otherwise the Georgians will do in someone from the Committee. The Georgians themselves are raging. They will most likely receive the money but for now there is a delay’…
But the hero of our story did not spend a*long time in jail; ten days later he was released. London and Moscow agreed to exchange the arrested diplomats. Maxim Litvinov found himself in Russia. But he had no time to waste; important business was awaiting him. It was money again. And diamonds. The Bolsheviks were beginning to pay back the banking underworld the money allocated to the revolution in Russia. They paid back via Scandinavia. This is why Litvinov went to Copenhagen. His task was to secure fast outflow of gold and jewellery from Russia. As an excuse, Moscow bought a*thousand steam trains in Sweden. The amount of money exported exceeded the cost of the purchased engines multiple times. Basically, the Bolsheviks sent to Sweden a quarter of the country’s gold reserves! ‘Steam engines were a vital necessity. And they needed to be paid for with gold. Litvinov was out in charge of transferring this gold to Sweden. The whole operation was kept top-secret. No one knew of it except for a*very few people whom Litvinov trusted like himself. And when everything had been counted and checked again and again, on the arranged day gold in boxes was loaded onto ships and sent to Sweden. And later on Litvinov sent gold to France, Switzerland and other countries’. 4 We will do him justice if we note that Litvinov was not the only one who sent Russian gold abroad. He was not the only agent of the British special forces and the banking underworld who appeared in Soviet Russia. There were plenty of them. And the scale of work was enormous — they needed to efficiently and quickly take a lot of valuables out of Russia and take control over its natural resources.
Available here in English in a PDF: http://lit.md/files/nstarikov/rouble_nationalization-the_way_to_russia%27s_freedom.pdf
Paul Rigby, UK
good article interview of alex tsarev looks to be dec 19, of the horror & mess of ukraine’s plight.
they sold off all their grain stores to buy some time, is just one tidbit, so what happens in spring/2015–will there be any crops planting, with no credit lines & possibly even no hryvnia currency then?
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Second Conclusion: Ukraine was subsidized by Russia during its entire independence period
This took mainly the form of lowering the price of energy.
The total level of subsidies exceeded $100 billion, and when Tymoshenko signed her “prison contract” forcing Ukraine to genuinely pay for gas, Ukraine’s budget instantly developed a “black hole” under the name of “Naftogaz” which amounts to 4-5% of the country’s GDP.
http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2014/12/ukraine-plunder-continues.html
The Great Fallacy That Is at the Heart of Modern Monetary Theory(MMT)
The sovereign does not determine the value of fiat currency, although many have tried usually at the point of the gun. The value of a currency is ultimately determined by those who accept the currency in trade for their labor, goods, or services. MMT accurately describes the contemporary fiat regimes and then prescribes more of the same….only with more coercion from incorruptible agents of the state monopoly on coercion and money. Where do we find incorruptible sovereigns or incorruptible agents of these sovereigns?
Oh! The USA of FDR socialism for eighty years, which gave us 65% of American children are now dependent on government welfare, in spite of decades of cheap money emitted from the partnership of the Federal Reserve Bank and the US Treasury, endorsed by our socialist democratic politicians. We do not have capitalism in the USA, but a socialist oligarchy; yet humanity loves its slavery and lauds the state as its protector and parent.
The corrupt tax system takes from the parents labor and then gives it back in the form of handouts! People love their slavery, knowing nothing else, having been conditioned to think private property is theft from the people who identify with state bureaucracy and its monopoly on money and coercion. Those who recommend MMT and socialism should study the economy of the USSR and its fate!
Sorry, I think I gave a link for the Starikov book which doesn’t work very well.
This one works, but you need to copy the link to a temporary file first, then click on it. The whole thing is the link including his name, but you cannot access it directly from here.
[pdf] Rouble Nationalization – the Way to Russia’s Freedom by Nikolay Starikov
Recalcitrant Nation Girl,
Add to your list of US covert actions
USA-Nigeria Boko Haram is a NATO proxy, now killing 1000s of farmers for the benefit of Monsanto’s GMO plantings.
After all revolution in Ukraine is a color revolution too .. a Brown revolution.
@Uncle Bob who said “The other commanders of the NAF will need to seize and execute him at once”
Plotniskii is (1) an elected official (2)represents LPR outside (3)receives and controls funding streams (including humanitarian aid) (4) protected by an army (Zaria battalion ).
Penelope, I am a bit unclear on what they are saying and wonder if they themselves know.
Mode S transponder gives a much more precise azimuth resolution and allows an individual aircraft to be targeted rather than every aircraft, reducing interrogation overload.
The latter is probably not relevant here but the increased accuracy of position and height displayed on secondary radar screens and presumably stored for some time may well be.
61 knots as an airspeed is well below stall but if it is a GPS calculated groundspeed into a very strong headwind it could be well above stall although not a normal airpseed. If it is a vertical descent speed that translates to over 6,100 feet/minute which is pretty drastic.
I will indulge in speculation here and suggest that the newspaper ‘impossible climb rate’ might be due to a massive thunderstorm feeding updraft which then put the Airbus into a ‘flat’ stall with a forward speed of only 61 knots and a horrendous vertical descent rate much like the AirFrance one with frozen pitot tubes. With the latter merely lowering the nose would have cured the problem -they had all the info. needed as in artificial horizon, altimeter, vertical speed and a TOGA switch that would have engaged full power and 15 degrees up. Instead the 2nd Officer held the stick back in a deep stall.
This could be the same or perhaps more likely the control surfaces got ripped off by the Cumulonimbus head. Game over.
I fly sailplanes and being close to stall is efficient in tight thermals. Stalls are just annoying. In rotor clouds associated with wave, incipient spins are unwelcome but to be expected occasionally and normally no big deal other than the scare factor. Unlike airliners.
I don’t know what to make of the share sell off but if the information so far is accurate, I tend to agree this is a pure weather related accident.
Pat Buchannan is also wondering about the possibility of war:
http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2015/01/01/is-war-in-the-cards-for-2015/
Penelope said…
Sorry, I think I gave a link for the Starikov book which doesn’t work very well.
This one works, but you need to copy the link to a temporary file first, then click on it. The whole thing is the link including his name, but you cannot access it directly from here.
[pdf] Rouble Nationalization – the Way to Russia’s Freedom by Nikolay Starikov
02 January, 2015 22:55
WHAT??
You mean do a GOOGLE search for the sentence.. I dont see what clicking on a line in a text file will do other than highlighting that word for a spell check..
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/File:Rouble_nationalization-the_way_to_russia's_freedom.pdf
We know that Serbia is the Country is currently the chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or OSCE.
The situation in Ukraine will come up for discussion, and there is the matter of Crimea, because the Government in Kiev claims Crimea as Ukrainian Territory.
There are People who think that Serbia should advocate Peace and Human Rights for All Ethnic Minorities in Ukraine.
On Crimea, Serbia might decide to take the position of Neutrality, because Crimea was once Russian Territory.
The way Crimea become part of Ukraine does not meet European Standards, and therefore, there are People who think that it should be resolved only by Russia and Ukraine, and that other European Countries should respect that Historically and Culturally, this is a matter Only between Russia and Ukraine.
This is because Crimea became part of Ukraine because of a Decree of one man in the former Undemocratic Soviet Union.
At the same time, we know that Western Ukraine and Eastern Ukraine have their own Special Need for a Compromise which has been Mutually Agreed to.
Obviously, it would be not be Serbia’s place as the Mediator of those Talks to offer opinions that are not expressly asked for by all sides, except to say, that Serbia will want the Compromises to the various problems Associated with Ukraine to be Mutually Agreed to, by all sides to this conflict.
This is why Serbia will set a Good Example with regards to the matter of the Territorial Integrity of Countries, and Ukraine, who is a Fellow Slavic Country, will want Serbia to do More Listening and to ask some questions, rather than offering unasked for suggestions.
This is because the People in Ukraine and the People of Crimea are in the only position to know how they want to move forward in Resolving these matters in line with Democratic European Standards.
This is why the Serbian Government has said that Serbia will not recognize the unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo, because United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244, and Serbia’s Constitution are the Basis for Serbia’s Legitimate and Legal Claim that Kosovo is a Province belonging to the Country of Serbia.
The European Union may want Serbia to mention the other Important Matter to the People of Ukraine and Crimea, and that is that the People of Ukraine may consider asking for a Unique Trade Deal with both the Eurasian Customs Union, and with the European Union.
This is because the People of Eastern Ukraine and Crimea would see this as a Firm Commitment by the Government of Kiev that they have a Genuine Commitment to the Mediation Process.
Perhaps a Confederation of Russia and Ukraine may be mentioned during the Mediation Process, as one way of Resolving the unique, sensitive, and highly complex matter of Crimea.
The Ukrainian Citizens in Eastern Ukraine, along with the People of Crimea want Ukraine to be Militarily Neutral, and they want Ukraine to have a Decentralized and Federalized Constitution, because they believe that this is now Essential, for the Peace and Good Government of Ukraine.
@ anonymous
The Ukrainian Citizens in Eastern Ukraine, along with the People of Crimea want Ukraine to be Militarily Neutral
The people of the East would want the rest of Ukraine to be totally demilitarised — it is the only way they will physically survive.
Why do you think there is STILL no serious move back to the 15 mile zone, “agreed” to now FOUR months ago? because Kiev expects the Donbass people to move 15 kms away FIRST…in other words to virtually abandon 15 kms of their territory all around, leaving themselves exposed to UAF immediately moving in on them.
At the last meeting they agreed to the prisoner exchange, then when this withdrawal issue came up the republic negotiators walked out (probably saying a few choice words first).
Kiev can’t accept federalisation, either… they are forced to carry out the ridiculous austerity and destruction of industry the IMF wants, and they know full well the Donbass won’t tolerate that. Yet they can’t let them become independent, ie not part of Ukraine anymore, because the Donbass resources are a major target for the investment plans of their puppet masters.
What Kiev & Co want is the resources, without the pesky nuisance violently uncooperative humans. That is what the genocide is all about. That is what genocide always is about.
Forget Crimea. Crimea is gone and not coming back.
Great contribution! The FS3 used this article for making a understandable German version:
wp.me/p5gE0B-3z
Dear Saker,
thought you might be interested in some comments that followed http://ruskarec.ru/news/2015/01/02/dolgov_povorke_sa_bakljama_u_ukrajini_pokazuju_da_se_ona_i_dalje_krece_p_36365.html that specifically concern your Serbian web site. They are in Serbian, but I bet you can figure them out. I am so happy you got rid of that character.
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bob kay said…
The Great Fallacy That Is at the Heart of Modern Monetary Theory(MMT)
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02 January, 2015 20:29
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It seems that this argument and the link you give favors ideology over economics, as they fail to see how MMT does indeed account for inflation — the devaluing of money in various markets, as well as the need for money to pay taxes, which is one mechanism for the government uses in it’s responsibility of controlling the economy (as opposed to control by speculators, private banks and financiers, and chaos).
To say the US is socialist and that poverty is the result of Roosevelt flies in the face of reality and history, as well as understanding economics and the current capitalist crisis (the latest of many).
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The “worker-farmer” “army” may have stoped at the Vistula river in Poland but it was facing a “ecumenical-white” “army” and losing the batle there didn’t meant losing the war, the civil war that is(1917-1922), a war that the Soviet Union with its “worker-farmer” “army” won against the white traitors backed with foreign forces by the brithish empire, Germany, USA, Poland, Japan, France, Czechoslovakia, etc.. Be true to Russia great history, Saker and face the facts: your loved white traitors lost it in 1922 among with their massive foreign invader friends.
Germany does have a sense of humour and does satire very well.
Banned German satire “Die Anstalt”. Media double standards on Russia and Ukraine (Eng Subs) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkldaRRPAw4
Why did the major German newspaper Zeit take an injunction against ZDF to prevent this episode of ‘Die Anstalt’ from being aired as it questions the impartiality of the publisher of Zeit.
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What is your opinion on this:
http://www.insiderdaily.info/2014/09/ukraine-new-khazaria-as-new-refuge-land.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embed…
@I do not need to be an Expert to be 100 % Certain that Every Kind of Useful and Productive Work is Good for a Country, and the more Useful and Productive Work the Better, because I know that this Principle is Self Evident and True, because it is Obvious.
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Marx didn’t come up with a blue print for a future socialist society-that would be up to real living individual but he did have some thoughts about it. Marxism is mainly a critique of capitalism from a historical materialist perspective. His prognostications made at his time on the future development of capitalism have essentially all panned out-the only thing that hasn’t happened is a global uprising against capitalism all at once and together but we are getting closer to that as well.
Here are pictures of Batman’s and his bodygard’s cars.They used some thermobaric weapon.
Also speach of cossack commander called Batya.
I feel very pessimistic about the future of Novorossiya project.
http://vlkovobloguje.wordpress.com/2015/01/03/hrochovy-denni-ruske-preklady-dnes-o-vrazde-velitele-batmana-a-dalsich-souvislostech/#more-938587
Sanctuary: Sorry to go on & on, but I think you can’t have seen my last post, directly to the Australian newspaper.
64 was the groundspeed, explicitly. Here’s from the article: “Leaked figures show the plane climbed at a virtually unprecedented rate of 6000 to 9000 feet per minute, and “you can’t do that at altitude in an Airbus 320 with pilot action”.
The most that could normally be expected would be 1000 to 1500 feet on a sustained basis, with up to 3000 feet in a burst, he said.
The plane then fell at an even more incredible rate: 11,000 feet per minute with bursts of up to 24,000 feet per minute.
He said the Air France A330 Airbus that crashed in 2009 killing 228 passengers also reached dizzying ascent and descent rates, but some of the figures cited by Mr Soejatman are higher.”
So the plane is CLIMBING at 6000-9000 ft/min. The info is apt to be good, too, cuz it’s accompanied by a screenshot of the received data.
Either that’s a freakish updraft or some sort of fly-by-wire override.
As for the descent, I don’t know what maximum speed wd be at 32ft/sec squared.
Directly to the Sidney Morning Herald:
http://www.smh.com.au/world/airasia-flights-behaviour-on-the-edge-of-logic-20150101-12gk9a.html