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.
By the way, thought this story on the planned Moscow-Beijing train (via Kazan) might be of interest to you
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/china-russia-talks-over-230bn-high-speed-rail-link-1470515
— From Naijaa_Boy_of_Africa
until Putin takes control of the Ruble from the Central Bank, he will not control the destiny of russia.
What you suggest is spot on. Not just for Russia and Russians, but for all of the citizens of all nations who wish for an inclusive, egalitarian and fully representative society. It’s a matter of fact that who controls the creation and means of distribution of the money supply controls nations and governments.
He sounds like a politician; wait, he is a politician of sorts.
Several things he said leave a bit to be desired. One is the the US will pay for 40 million Ukrainians while Russia will pay for 3 million Novorossiyans and 1.5 million refugees. No, that is way off. So far, Russia has been paying the lion’s share of things. Next, he says that Russia can wait till the West loses interest in the Ukraine. That is dubious. France may lose interest, but this is a big deal for the US. Russia challenged the world order, and the US losing interest would mean the US is losing interest in running the world. Finally, it is questionable whether the US is really betting on a Maidan. So far, the maneuvers seem to be to split the elite and try to generate a palace coup or create a dysfunctional government in Moscow. Putin’s popularity will be way too high unless things get really ugly.
This is an excellent analysis.
Yet, I have a very pertinent question: How numerous is the portion of the ukraian population still capable to resist the current overload of permanent anti-russian and/or Nazi propaganda? There is still not enough information about this crucial problem. And the counterring of this anti-russian propaganda is, at least outside Russia, very insufficient.
Starikov finshes with an excellent point – that the bravery of the NAF is actually saving hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian lives. Once again, we spectators on the sidelines have to restrain our desire to see somebody kick some ass, and let this high-stakes game play out the way Russia needs it to play.
Starikov apparently gave a shortened version of this analysis in a talk that Kristina Rus has translated here: Ukraine was Conceived as Anti-Russia, Just Like Pakistan was Anti-India. It’s an easy read and a nice piece to compare with this one, but this one contains more important details.
In passing, I’d say that it’s the old imperial ploy of divide and conquer, breaking the populations and power groups down into the size that a corporate raider can control. As Starikov says, these guys don’t waste money, they want a return. The foreigners recently installed in the Kiev government (and now the horrifying specter of Soros himself joining? ugh) are there to manage the sale of assets to outsiders. It’s all about asset stripping.
Actually I don’t see that the US has any bill to pay for the welfare of 40 million people, perhaps Starikov is thinking more of the blowback from all those people starving and turning against Kiev and the US.
This is an excellent article by Starikov – thanks, Saker for sharing it. It doesn’t seem very “far out” to me, I have to guess that Russia’s military planners are thinking along essentially these same lines.
to the Saker:
This post by Nikolai Starikov truly is a brilliant piece of analysis! Especially important is the section:
“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…”
While many commentators on this blog continue to see/hope for economic collapse as a “wake-up call” to produce a resolution, in reality it would be the next step tow2ards increasing hatred and confrontation. History is very clear – Fascist power grows out of economic chaos. Economic collapse plays into western and nazi-like hands.
Here is the dilemma: Russia must support not only the Novorussian entity, it must keep Ukraine from complete collapse. Yet the more Russia provides in the way of electricity, coal etc – the more Ukraine is free to devote to building a war machine. To pull the plug on support is only to set a spark to the explosion. This classic lose-lose situation can only be changed with a change in the attitudes of Ukrainian leadership. Somehow, the oligarchs must come to see that they will be the ones to lose both financially and personally if a war erupts. This is the only way out for Russia, Novorussia and the Ukrainian people.
that debris field of supposedly the crash remains of AirAsia QZ8501.
Not finding anything near what they should be.
note this time it’s supposedly an Airbus A320, not a ‘7’ number.
dec 31 update:
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2014/12/31/airasia-flight-qz8501-updates-only-7-bodies-recovered-and-shadow-appears-to-be-plane/#more-32637
Heck, from that image it looks like it pretty much went straight down from where it disappeared off the transponder signal. That’s the solid red line. The dotted red line is supposedly where the military radar tracked it.
What would cause the plane to suddenly drop off transponder signal? And there it is, right where that happened. Makes you think, doesn’t it?
Finally, the most troubling question of all is “why no distress call from the pilots?”
listen solid block from the 10:00- 15 min mark he gives a shocking summary of the school common core brainwashing & security lockdown now going in across all 50 states.
modelled on the e german stasi doings there till 1989, since after all wolff stasi head was advising chertoff early 2000’s.
U.S. Government Telling Lies To Push The War Agenda – Episode 554
dec 30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo3GnfZmIxc
I just saw this list.Makes interestinf reading,the elites mostly.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/groupkltd.com/NoFlyAccords.pdf
XbNB
Dear Sir
I counted 34 “Wests” in your article.
You do a great favour to the USA.
Who would not like to be called “West” when regularly breaks the international laws, brings destruction upon nations, drop A-bombs, creates millions and millions refugees all round world, keeps people in jail for 10 years without trial, prints money, creates vassals in Europe, extrajudicially kills people…etc.?
I did not enjoy your article and I think its place is in RIA Novosti.
Just know, the terminology is everything. If you have not learned it by now…..
Once Nazi, today Natoist
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“All its life the West has lived by robbery.” Perceptive, but only partially true. The West at one time was incredibly productive and inventive. It’s still quite good at technology. Unfortunately the whole “democracy” hoax, with its bloated, useless state apparatus and its endless conflict addiction, has become a huge weight on the entire western world.
It is completely true. It always has been true. Have you spent time learning and/or analyzing western civilization and it’s history? Robbery is synonymous with European. As is murder, extermination, genocide, rape, torture, child abuse and any and all sorts of terrorism and barbarism. Everywhere the white, christian, both Roman catholic and calvinist, protestant European has gone the above applies. White amerikan=ewhite european; one and the same.
The two things are in no way mutually exclusive. The west can be both productive and inventive and thieving at the same time.
For example the industrial revolution in England (the grand entry of inventiveness and productivism into world history) was partly financed through the proceeds from slavery in the new world. Europe wide technological progress in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, was made possible with the loot from the vast colonies that England, France, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and even Portugal possessed. Without the slave labor and natural resources that the Europeans extracted from the rest of the planet, the great corporations of the west would have been all but impossible.
Saker and ALL,
Let us pray there are no wars anywhere, anymore.
Peace is possible…100 years ago the guns fell silently in Christmas.
Christmas Day 1914. World War I was raging at the time, but front-line troops initiated the truce, which they documented in photos and letters. Commanders on both sides were furious when they learned of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWF2JBb1bvM
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/12/25/370381693/a-century-ago-when-the-guns-fell-silent-on-christmas?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social
May this 2015 bring peace and goodwill towards my brothers and sisters in Palestine whom continue to suffer under the inhumane barbarity of the Israeli Jews. My prayer goes also to NovoRussians, Putin and all those abused by evil doers everywhere in the world.
With Christ Always,yourChristian sister,
Carmel by the Sea
This is how desperate the propaganda machine is today:
Google News aggregator is featuring how short Putin is. You can measure yourself against Putin’s height.
Amazing. Pathetic.
Imagine the IQ that came up with this attack.
Can you also measure your IQ against the entire caboodle of Western politicians?
uk/usa want only weakened russia or for that matter any country which could ever challange its parasitic existence of English race and its spawn of 5 evil eyes.
Crating chaos makes england richer because the elites from those nations are invited, cajoled, and for4ced to come to london to buy expensive overpriced house and goods and deposit money only in british banks and a bit in american banks.
so if russia or china is made poorer then that would serve the interests of english pirates.
if russia tolerates anglos illegal sanctions despite WTO then anglos will be encouraged to push more till they meet resistance or russia foolishly gives way to those coward anglos.
England lives off those stolen money – it subsists on money laundering and drug laundering..—the english thieves call that service or financial industry.
Dimitry Orlov has a recent article in which he begins by acknowledging and building upon this one.
If I read it right, Orlov’s thesis is that the West will leave after poisoning the wells. In this case, leave a destroyed Ukraine, like Iraq, Libya and others. Unless, and that’s a big unless, the madmen in Washington go with a nuclear first strike.
Dimitri is quite a writer. He makes a good complement to the Saker. Both Russians living in America.
I’m a recovering “ugly American.” I wish there was some way we could salvage our ideals of “liberty and justice for all.” Is it too late or is there still hope? Our fate hangs in the balance.
I would claim that the west has already poisoned the Ukrainian wells, or at least is in the process of doing so.
“The conflict between the East and West was designed to scare the people of the world into accepting a convergence of these two monopoly systems of authoritarian power. The end result was to be a new Imperial Order and a New World Empire run by an elite self-perpetuating oligarchies from the leading nations of the earth.”
Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, p. 860
Thank you for this article, Saker.
My comment would be that the analysis herein may be accurate indeed, and I cannot debate the assessment here. It would seem indeed that the plan, if there is a real plan, of the U.S. government is to create chaos and reap the benefits thereof. May those tactics be coming to an end with the ending of this sorrowful year!
I take exception to the framing of the article, and would point out one inconsistency. The author begins:
“. . .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). . .”
It may be that we must set emotions aside if we are to understand the US government’s thinking, because that is what they do, but since at the end of the piece the author refers correctly to courage on the part of the citizenry of Eastern Ukraine, I would submit that setting the emotions, the heart, aside doesn’t produce courage but its opposite, timidity and fear.
American citizens voted with their hearts in 2008. With their minds in their hearts, if you like. I would imagine that the Russian citizens did so also when voting for Yeltsin. In each case the citizens were victimized by corrupt leadership. That is not the fault of the citizens.
Minds must be strengthened assuredly, and I think that is happening. But minds in hearts is a good thing and therein lies courage.j
To my knowledge the 1996 Russian presidential election was massively rigged against the communists. There was also a hideous propaganda campaign for yeltsin and against the communists.
My comments to the Silvester speech of Angela Merkel:
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2014/12/31/angela-merkel-silvester-speech/
All the best for 2015, a year that hopefully will be not too exiting.
Kind regards,
Dutch
Russia needs to create security firms, where volunteer Russians and veteran soldiers can join up and receive military training.. These can then form private armies, that Russia can hire out to allies for aid..Without Russia officially getting involved… These troops would also become battlen harded and could be used to test new weapons and tactics.. It would also be perfect to have troops that could go anywhere, and instaed of becoming displeased, would be happy, since more war would mean more money.. They would of course be psychologically scanned and trained so they are loyal and pro-Russian..And they would have all the best and latest gear..
Imagine an private army like that of perhaps 100 000 troops, that could be sent anywhere in the world to support the Russian cause without any offical Russian involvment… A bad word for these would be mercanaries.. But given that they are pro-Russian and only serve Russians causes that term would not be totally correct…
And even if for example Syria could not afford to hire the Russian security firms.. Then the Russian government could just loan the money to the Syrian government..
Then in a month there could be 30 000 Russian troops in Syria butchering ISIS.
The article astutely notes: “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.” There is another article that goes into detail on the subject of hate in Ukraine today, published on the Global Research website. It talks about the fact that the genocidal movement in Ukraine is actually on the rise and getting worse. The Global Research website seems to be having technical problems right now and is hard to read, however the article has been reprinted here:
http://quemadoinstitute.wordpress.com/2014/12/31/donbass-news-opinion-december-27-31/
Scroll down the page to the topic “Global Research Guest Article on Kiev Genocide”. This opinion piece made it clearer to me than anything I’ve read the kind of hatred and propaganda that abounds in Kiev-controlled Ukraine. I hope the world takes notice.
I generally agree. Moscow will buy time and delay ad infinitum, exerting pressure via the NAF, business deals, charity, etc. But to the extent the US pushes, Nazi Ukraine will lose more territory. This will go on for decades. I’d like to see the NAF go full out socialist/communist and take Slavyansk and Mariupol at a minimum. The Nazi death squads need to turn around and move on Kiev – if they want to attempt to keep it. Certainly, Odessa will not remain ‘Ukrainian’ – but how long will it take? And will the rest of us live through the experience?
Fuck the EU, and fuck the USA.
Yes. Victoria Noland was indeed only half correct. She shied away from completing her sentence.
Nikolai Starikov
You could perhaps learn from BBC how to write an article…
“He is [ Putin ] an aggressor. How can we have dialogue with such country?”
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30552815
Has 15 years of power gone to Putin’s head?
By Steve Rosenberg BBC
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30533034
An 11-minute video version of the Starikov article, with English subtitles (almost the same content):
Donbass prevents full Ukraine-Russia war. Nikolai Starikov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLmi75q3iRM
<> Proud to be an American, land of Ivy League dumbasses.
This comment really made me laugh. So true and so sad at the same time.
UKUSA is one nasty, nasty, hateful, oppressive country towards Russia.
Anonymous said…
I generally agree. Moscow will buy time and delay ad infinitum, exerting pressure via the NAF, business deals, …. Odessa will not remain ‘Ukrainian’ – but how long will it take? And will the rest of us live through the experience?
Fuck the EU, and fuck the USA.
31 December, 2014 21:22
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Fanculo il NATO, Fanculo BBC, Fanculo L’America
Anonymous’ link to globalresearch guest article isn’t working. Just search http://quemadoinstitute.wordpress.com/
Then scroll down.
People being paid to kill and dispossess others– satanic.
So far 2014, this crude crash is near same 50% drop as 1990- 1991, but then it happened in 3 months from $41 to $18.60.
use dropdown boxes below chart to enter any 3-yr max timeblock of price.
i used 1990- 93, since this includes the very specific time of fall/1990 to early 1991, when the plutocrat controllers got a 2:1 deal–the invasion of iraq in gw 1, coordinated with the first attack ransack/looting of russia under gorby (to be finalized under the owned stooge drunkard yeltzman after the faux putsch summer/1991).
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?c=$WTIC:$ONE,uu%5Bd,a%5Dwaclyyay%5Bdf%5D%5Bpb50!b200!f%5D%5Bvc60%5D%5BiUd20!Uk14%5D&pref=G
The oil price is absolutely impossible to stay low in this day and age. Back in the eighties and the nineties, there was still much easily accessible crude sloshing around. This is definitely not the case anyone.
Only a matter of time before oil prices bounce back again.
I would expect the oil price to rise to a level even higher than one hundred dollars per barrel within less than two years.
Yeah, but Stavros, I doubt the higher price for oil was a true market price. Wm Engdahl, who specializes in this area always said that 60% of the price was due to speculation. Sorry, don’t have the link handy but he was specific about how they did it & with which stock exchanges. So that means they cd simply NOT speculate to raise the price.
And peak oil, you know was just a hoax. Engdahl also documents.
Stavros, here’s the Engdahl links re Peak Oil is a hoax & speculation accounted for 60% of the price before they let it fall.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/perhaps-60-of-today-s-oil-price-is-pure-speculation/8878
http://www.globalresearch.ca/war-and-peak-oil/6880
http://www.globalresearch.ca/why-the-huge-spike-in-oil-prices-peak-oil-or-wall-street-speculation/29803
There’s an old Cold War joke — pre-pantyhose — that to defeat communism we should empty our B-52 bombers of nuclear weapons and instead drop nylons over the Soviet Union. Flood the Russians with the soft consumer culture of capitalism, seduce them with contact and commerce, love-bomb them into freedom.
We did win the Cold War, but differently. We contained, constrained, squeezed and eventually exhausted the Soviets into giving up. The dissidents inside subsequently told us how much they were sustained by our support for them and our implacable pressure on their oppressors.
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER a Jew boy
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-on-the-right/123114-732785-cuba-ties-restored-but-not-freedom-for-castros-captives.htm
Anglo-Zion propaganda
Ugo Z. said…
“This is how desperate the propaganda machine is today:
Google News aggregator is featuring how short Putin is. You can measure yourself against Putin’s height.
Amazing. Pathetic.
Imagine the IQ that came up with this attack.”
Ugo, in Spanish we have an expression for someone of small moral stature. It is properly said with a sneer & looking down one’s nose: “Que poca cosa!”
Those who devised such an infantile attack, while seeing nothing wrong w ethnic cleansing in Donbass? Que poca cosa!
Bonne année de France!
Merci pour tout Saker pour votre formidable travail!
Not EVERYBODY in the UK is English #Anonymous, since it seems like you are unaware of that.
Also NOT everybody supports the elites and their eternal government of one of the 2 main parties (who are the same as we all know).
Quite a bit of your analysis of Brisith imperialism and history is correct (well done), but a LOT of it is NOT and is just plain nuts, I am sorry.
And the clear associations you make of EVERYBODY living here being thieves and genocidal murderers and exploiters is offensive in the extreme.
Those of us who are not English don’t appreciate being called thieves and murderers – since you associate the English with everybody in the UK (there are over 161 different nationalities living here fyi).
But do you know what we find most offensive on your part?
Being called ENGLISH!!! :(
The English murdered and oppressed my people (the Irish) for 800+ years and we fought them ALL the way, with horrendous losses and defeats – a longer struggle than many other nations under a nasty oppressor.
I don’t think the Scottish or Welsh people living in the UK would appreciate it either.
In my shoes would you like it?
No?
Stop it then.
P.1
Interesting piece by Starikov, a lot of things to think about. One area which he did not explain to my satisfaction, though, is the whole business of the Ukraine actually going to war against Russia and that the independence of Novorossia is blocking those ZPC/NWO plans.
He explains the current Ukraine as “anti-Russia”, and describes other antis created by the ZPC/NWO and earlier, Americans. But these didn’t always got to war. An example of that listed by him being Taiwan, who never tried to invade China – and would have stood very little chance had they tried. A Ukraine attack on Russia would have about as much success as a Taiwanese assault on China. Or a Georgian attack of Russia, for that matter.
Which brings me to what I think the role the ZPC/NWO planned for the Ukraine. They wanted another Georgia/Poland/the Baltics to stage covert sponsored terrorism against Russia from. With the whole of the Ukraine in their pocket as such a quisling, ZPC/NWO would have greatly reduced Russian presence in the Black Sea. from that point, Georgia would have another go (once regime changed again), the rest of Russian allies in the region would also be eliminated. It’s obvious, they had ops planned for in places like Moldova, and several others, that they are still going ahead with, though at reduced tempo. The reduction being caused by Crimea being able to hold out and escape their clutches.
Crimea escaping nixed their original plan. The gay hysterical screaming from the assets of Israel since that happened makes that obviously clear. This is when the idea of enticing Russia to invade the Ukraine became the main short term goal. And it is here that I think Novorossia has been a mixed blessing for the Russians.
A mixed blessing because Russia needs to defend them, but at the same time do so without actually being there. Or it will serve the propaganda interests of the ZPC/NWO.
In my opinion, the war on Russia intended by the ZPC/NWO is not an invasion of regular troops (by GATO or any of their official military assets), by an invasion by every other means. A very important aspect of those means is propaganda used to isolate Russia. Russia occupying the Ukraine will be used that way to isolate Russia, the same way Soviet defense of Afghanistan was used 40+ years ago.
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What would cause the plane to suddenly drop off transponder signal? And there it is, right where that happened. Makes you think, doesn’t it?
Finally, the most troubling question of all is “why no distress call from the pilots?”
Aviate. Navigate. Communicate. They are busy trying to control the plane, nothing ATC can do for them, calling help is the last thing on their list.
From my reading of the pilot’s forum:
Thunderstorms can toss a plane around very badly, and there are pockets of varying air pressure. These can combine to give very false readings of altitude and airspeed. There are conditions under which the plane (fully computerised) “thinks” it is going too slow, so it puts the nose down to try gaining speed.
If they then find themselves going too fast, they can try climbing, which slows them down. Inside a storm, being buffeted, they may be going a lot slower than the “speedo” tells them, so they can end up stalling. This is kind of what happened to Air Franc 447 (without the storm).
OR there is one FAULT condition where an “angle of attack” indicator (which works on air pressure) gets jammed, so the plane always think it needs to keep nose down. It will NOT RESPOND to controls to pull up. The AoA meters have to be switched off before the plane will again respond. If this is not done, in a few seconds the plane can be heading down so fast that it goes into a stall (ie not enough air over the wings to keep it flying, as the wings are nowhere near level), starts to spin, and the g-forces start to break it up.
This fault was only discovered TWO MONTHS AGO when a plane started heading down by itself for no reason. Airbus sent out instructions about it, explaining how the meter had to be switched off to regain manual control of the plane. WE DON”T KNOW if these pilots had been told it yet or not. There would not have been time for them to practice it in the simulator, anyway.
And it would not be the first time the over-fancy auto-pilot system crashed a plane. Could have been lightning strike/decompression maybe.
Either way, being so close to where contact was lost, they just literally FELL out of the sky.
The weather is still atrocious, huge waves, hampering finding and picking up bodies. I hope most are inside still, so easier to find and bring up.
Extraordinario análisis. no puedo mas que encontrarle la razón, por lo científico que es.
Obviamente China se dio cuenta que ellos iban en el “plato” siguiente y por eso el apoyo decidido a Rusia.
Mucha Gracias por la información.
Politically, the first value in Ukraine was Crimea. Push Russia out of the Black Sea. First thing Turchynov did as coup “president” was cancel the lease renewal on the base. With a NATO base there, they could get on with supplying the various terrorists for splitting up Russia.
Meanwhile the project was meant to pay for itself. Oil and gas concessions (all fracked), gas pipe blackmail, land sold for bulk mechanised farming, factories mostly sold off (to oligarchs for pennies, or for scrap). Taxes up, pensions down.
It will no longer pay for itself, even if they get rid of ALL the troublemakers. But they need to feed the western ones or THEY will turn against the junta, too. They can’t feed them if they’re spending $5 million a day on the war. So the Donbass has to be wiped off the map as soon as possible. Also with fewer people, and no industry, there are huge savings in fuel, gas and electricity. Even in food imports.
In a few days the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination will be ready to sign protocols on the actual armaments pull back. In a few days Ukrops will break it and come back in force. NAF of course will be ready for them. Depending on how hard they hit, this may be a Back to Square One situation, or NAF might make some progress. Then more talks.
This could go on until spring, at which time Russia can stop being so generous with helping the western side. Everyone will want to go out and plant crops. IMF will have to come through with loans for everyone to buy seed.
Kiev will attack in 2 weeks, or in spring. Or they’ll be extra nasty, as they like to be, and attack on Orthodox Christmas, January 7.
Meanwhile….2 months ago they had more volunteers than they had guns for. I am certain that shortage has been rectified. With only a little bit of desultory shelling here and there, 4 places at most, where are 20,000 fighting men? sitting around stoves keeping warm? I’d say they are out training up new ones. Out of the way, where not too visible, but close to supply lines for the new gear. A place they went close to with a big conspicuous convoy a few weeks ago. A convoy containing a few of everything new guys might need to learn. A place they have not allowed OSCE close to for 40 days (even OSCE has noticed this now).
The only time Russia can’t stay in deniability mode is if there’s serious air attacks to get rid of. Shooting down planes daily over populated areas is risky.
P2
An interesting poll I saw at Sputnik this week of European views:
What Europeans Think About EU Foreign Policy
http://sputniknews.com/infographics/20141219/1016037705.html
Look over the results to the questions. There is not a whole lot of Russia-friendly attitude there. The poll is limited, maybe even grossly inaccurate, but one thing is rather certain. The Jewish owned/run zionist media has affected a similar change among European people, as it has in the USA. Not as extreme, yet, the Ami are the most pathetic people on the planet when it comes to susceptibility to authoritarian engineered dumbing down of reason capabilities, but Europeans are fast catching up. The European people are probably more hostile to Russia, now, than they were to the Soviet Union in the early 80’s. I mean people, not their quisling Euro regimes.
And that Jewish zionist media engineered hostility increase is not unique to Europe. For the most part, the Jewish zionist propaganda machine (in zio-safe sterilized terminology, the western corporate media or MSM) has expanded its influence throughout the world, and similar dumbing down brainwashing is a problem throughout. A simple web search on a geopolitically important event will quickly show how unified the propaganda is among zio-media sources worldwide and how pervasive the zionazi marketing and propaganda is. One can bet that all of this Jewish zionist media clout would be used to demonise Russian into the ground if they invaded the Ukraine without a UN mandate (which they would never get).
On the other side, the ZPC/NWO has been operating not on a conquering mode since the escape of Crimean and rise of Novorossia, but in a provocation mode. This means that a conquest of the lost regions was not on the zionazi table. The military ops by the ZPC/NWO orc quislings have been obviously intended to elicit a Russian occupation response, they are not the result of serious military planning to take over Novorossia. The rumours of new orc stockpiling weapons and equipment, likewise feed into this same strategic scenario.
So far, by holding the line, and not letting themselves be baited, the Russians have defeated the ZPC/NWO strategy. The panic in the Israeli aligned moneychanger side is quite apparent when they switched their main thrust from terrorism towards Novorossia to Soros-ican bringing down the Russian economy to effect regime change.
There is a lot to be said for not letting one’s enemy determine one’s moves. But such philosophy can be used in an inverted form against one, too. There are alternatives… ;D
(this comment, and the one prior…well probably the wrong evening to try and write something :D )
Happy New Year all. Let’s hope, better work towards, that things significantly improve in 2015.
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GIVI says
“Have patience. Everything will be over soon”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWGtU33MISs
US cannot start a major war in the Ukraine:
1. Good article: but it does not mean that they will not try and even try elsewhere–Poland and the Baltics perhaps. I note that Finland firmed up its position of neutrality recently.
2. And instead of death from one blow perhaps the bleeding death from many wounds ?
3. Putin needs two years and the unity of the Russian people in this next period will be important–who cares about the lies of the Western media? What matters is the Russians — how they define themselves in coming situations and how focussed they can be. The population in the USA has a 30 sec attention span trained from childhood by 30 sec. commercial breaks. No long term focus is possible and certainly not one which requires group sacrifice.
AMAZING, all they’ve been bombed and shelled and they still put on fireworks
Donetsk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXhg3kgmC4Y
One Malaysian plane crash – accident,
Second Malaysian plane crash – coincidence,
Third Malaysian plane crash – ???????????
Deadly Shanghai Stampede Could Happen Over Fake Money: Reports
http://sputniknews.com/asia/20150101/1016446362.html
“According to a witness, paper money resembling dollar “coupons” was thrown out of a window in a building standing close to the Shanghai’s seafront area Bund, which attracts hundreds of thousands during all major events.
The fatal stampede in downtown Shanghai that killed at least 35 people just before midnight on New Year’s Eve could have started as people rushed to grab fake dollar bills that had been thrown out of a window from a nearby building, the Xinhua news agency reported Thursday.
The Chinese agency cited a witness as saying that paper money resembling dollar “coupons” had been thrown out of a window in a building standing close to the seafront area Bund, which attracts hundreds of thousands during all major events.
The stampede occurred less than half an hour before the clock struck midnight, according to the Chinese press.
The city government has not commented on this allegation. An investigation into the cause of the incident is now open, and a special team is working to look for those injured and clean up the area.
At least 28 people of the 42 wounded New Year revelers have been brought to Shanghai No. 1 People’s Hospital, the facility’s deputy director Xia Shujie was quoted by Shanghai Daily as saying. The paper also cited China’s President Xi Jinping as calling on medical workers to do everything in their power to save those injured in the stampede.”
Some what different, but like encouraging Tibetans to immolate themselves, like brainwashing despondent Muslims to become suicide bombers, the tactics may be different, but the Jewish zionist/capitalist nazi mentality behind such ops, the lack of all humanity among the chickenshit planners in Tel Aviv and Langley makes the source, and its trademark buggered cowardice, a certainty.
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BOT TAK,
Don’t forget that many have said a ZATO goal is to build a wall in Eastern Europe that could contain Russia. From the Baltics to Romania, or something like that. The point is that Germany, Austria, France, and Italy are not really anti-Russian, but the Eastern European countries can be turned into very anti-Russian states. Then the pipelines and various business relations will be really strained. Of course, we get back to the question of whether Russia’s diplomatic strategy over the last 15 years has been effective. And then there is the pathetic ideological and infowar work. Pepe Escobar has perhaps done more for Russia than the entire Russian establishment.
Per Blomberg News, an unnamed top US Security Council official has indicated the US intended to restart a working relationship with Russia despite sanctions this past month. The plan was cancelled due to lack of progress. Apparently John Kerry proposed the plan which would include dropping some sanctions if Russia complied with conditions aimed at restoring peace in eastern Ukraine.
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150101/1016447651.html
Thesis-><Antithesis=Synthesis this is how Mankind is ruled for centuries as crazy as it sounds.
BOT TAk, Chinese are capability of those stupid actions that cause the stampede, there is no reason to blame others. Lets say those ideas were not original, but no one hold guns to their heads to threw the coupons in that specific time. I am sure the responsible party will be found, and guide line to prevent it from happening will issued.
@ Laszlo
they’ve been offering to reduce sanctions under certain conditions for months now. But there is no progress. I wonder why?
* They’ll promise to remove say 10 sanctions, end up removing 1
* Russia doesn’t care, she’s made arrangements to survive well despite the sanctions
* “certain conditions” would be things like
* removing from Ukraine troops they don’t have
* possibly admit to having shot down MH17
* maybe give back Crimea
* maybe undertake something irrelevant like let US inspect their weapons stock or something
It’s BS. They are just talking to show their own people at home how reasonable they are being. And they’d love to reverse some sanctions because Europe is hurting from them and starting to blame the US for it. So Europe is now dragging its feet on signing a trade deal the US wanted signed a year ago.
It is starting to drive them mad they can’t get any traction on Putin. They’d love to see him crawling on his knees begging for mercy, but they’d better not hold their breaths waiting.
This post gives me confidence the Russians know what they are doing. The same, however, cannot be said about the US. Who knows what desperate, reckless policies they will come up with and employ? A false flag nuclear reactor explosion instead of a nuclear bomb?
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.
I have not followed this incident at all and the above is not a complete answer but other than bad weather ahead as a fact, everything is speculation at this point. Recovery of the black boxes would eliminate much of the speculation and likely give most of the answers needed.
Anonymous said…
‘BOT TAK, Chinese are capability of those stupid actions that cause the stampede,…’ etc etc
That may be a bit naïve at best…
and BOT TAK’s closer to the mark…
‘the stupid actions’ criticism may well be placed at the feet of those who ‘stampeded’ – maybe horses should be left to stampede?
Anyhow, Happy new Year Saker, and all, and just to mention…
… Russia needs Ukraine, Russia needs Germany and Europe, and they will be broken and on their knees before Russia one day, begging for forgiveness for the great lie, for the great betrayal, and Russia, that noblest and most wondrous home of the brave will hopefully show mercy…
for:
The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
‘T is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown:
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God’s
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
To mitigate the justice of thy plea;
Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
Must needs give sentence ‘gainst the merchant there.
What better way to begin the year than with a comment on the Saker blog with Shakespeare..
(from The Merchant of Venice)
pb
@thelovegovernment.com
You are referring to this article from Orlov about the ‘Big Picture’:
http://cluborlov.blogspot.nl/2014/12/the-imperial-collapse-playbook.html
It is a good article, but Dmitri has some trouble embracing Saker’s concept of ‘AngloZionist’. He prefers ‘Anglo-imperialist’ instead.
Now, I wonder why that is.lol
Upshot: everybody is a chauvinist, everybody.
Kind regards,
Dutch (chauvinist)
Lenin was a partly Jewish, and Stalin was a Jew but it was concealed with Forged Documents.
With only a very few exceptions, those Leading Bolshevik Marxists in the Soviet Union, were Jewish, and Lenin and Stalin were Secret Puppets of Anglo-America.
The Rulers of the Jewish Marxist Soviet Union were a Stateless People, and this meant that it was Logical that they be Jewish, because these People would have no Patriotism for any Country.
The term Anglo-Zionist Empire is used, but the World Empire is Anglo-America, which has Some Allies such as Jewish Leaders and France and they assist Anglo-America’s in its dirty work.
Bolshevism and Marxist Communism, were Jewish proposed (Jewish Karl Marx), Jewish financed (Jewish Bankers), and it was Managed by Jews for Nazi Anglo-America, who gave Palestine to the Zionists.
Nazi Anglo-America (the English) Ruled Soviet Union, which was a murderous Regime, and America murdered 30 Million of its Native Americans.
The very few Non Jewish People in Positions of Real Authority were just following Orders for their own Benefit, and they knew that the Ruling Soviet Jews were Traitors who were Following Orders of Foreign Countries, and they were doing that as Secret Puppets of Nazi Britain (Greater England) and Nazi America.
There are People who say that Stalin could not have been Jewish, because he murdered Jews, but Psychopaths do not like anyone who are not Evil, and there were Many Jews and other People during the Lenin and Stalin era who were Good People with a Conscience.
The 1917 Russian Revolution was Foreign Engineered Coup which is Euphemistically called a Colour Revolution as we have seen in Ukraine, Georgia, Serbia, and other Countries.
If the Russian Revolution had placed Ethnic Russians in Power, then they would not have been Puppets of Anglo-America, and they would have had a Democracy, and they would not have wanted to control any other Countries.
This would be Totally Useless to Anti Democratic Anglo-America, because it needed the Soviet Union to keep Japan from taking Siberia to help Germany, and it needed to keep the British Colony of India which included Pakistan in those days, from becoming an Empire by expanding Northwards and Westwards, and the other reason was that the Puppet Soviet Union was needed against Germany.
If we look at old Maps of Asia, then we can see that India, which included Pakistan in those days, could have marched into what later became Soviet Republics, and these are Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan.
If India had achieved that, then it would have ceased to be an English Puppet Colony, and it would have been an Empire, and the British Empire only wants other Countries to be their Puppets.
Germany knew that the Soviet Union was run by Jews, and the Jews Declared War on Germany in 1933, and while Democratic Paul von Hindenburg was President of Germany, and Hitler only became the Fuhrer in 1934, and Hitler knew that Anglo-America and its Puppet of the Soviet Union were intent on causing WW 2, and this is why in 1935, Germany annexed German Land to try to Prevent WW 2 at http://www.whale.to/b/jewish_hostility_q.html , and at http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/map.cfm?map_id=2884 .
Anglo-America did the same Injustice to Serbia to try to steal Kosovo for WW 3, which will kill All Humans, and Nazi Anglo-America is doing the same thing to Russia, and to the Anti Nazi People of East Ukraine, and Anglo-America Cannot be trusted, and must not be trusted, because Nazi Anglo-America has clearly shown that it no good intentions for Continental Europe.
This is why the Entire World needs Anglo-America to keep their Promise not to expand NATO east of Eastern Germany, in order to Prevent All Humans being killed in WW 3, and this current Broken Promise was not made only to President Mikhail Gorbachev, because it was made to All of the World, and so Anglo-America should keep that Promise and leave Central Europe and the Balkans in order to Prevent WW 3.
Regime change. Rinse and repeat.
http://yourdailyshakespeare.com/shakespeare-memories-2014/equalities
At midnight of Dec 20, 1989 began the bombardment of Panama City – not, however, the residential area housing the elite in their fancy homes, but the poorer areas where brown people lived – notably the barrio of El Chorrillo.
Present local journalists were strictly prohibited from taking pictures. US soldiers removed cameras and exposed the rolls. Still, in the scant photographic evidence that survived, the barrio of El Chorrillo is enveloped in a massive glow of fire. Survivors talk of hundreds of bombs exploded plus missiles. The aftermath showed what was essentially scorched earth.
The country was left in ruin with thousands of Panamanians hosted in hastily arranged concentration camps.
2015 Will Be All About Iran, China and Russia Pepe Escobar
For all the immense challenges the Chinese face, all over Beijing it’s easy to detect unmistakable signs of a self-assured, self-confident, fully emerged commercial superpower. President Xi Jinping and the current leadership will keep investing heavily in the urbanization drive and the fight against corruption, including at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Internationally, the Chinese will accelerate their overwhelming push for new ‘Silk Roads’ – both overland and maritime – which will underpin the long-term Chinese master strategy of unifying Eurasia with trade and commerce.
Global oil prices are bound to remain low. All bets are off on whether a nuclear deal will be reached by this summer between Iran and the P5+1. If sanctions (actually economic war) against Iran remain and continue to seriously hurt its economy, Tehran’s reaction will be firm, and will include even more integration with Asia, not the West.
The declaration of economic war by the US and EU on Russia – via the run on the ruble and the oil derivative attack – was essentially a derivatives racket. Derivatives – in theory – may be multiplied to infinity. Derivative operators attacked both the ruble and oil prices in order to destroy the Russian economy. The problem is, the Russian economy is more soundly financed than America’s.
Considering that this swift move was conceived as a checkmate, Moscow’s defensive strategy was not that bad. On the key energy front, the problem remains the West’s – not Russia’s. If the EU does not buy what Gazprom has to offer, it will collapse.
The EU’s declaration of economic war against Russia makes no sense whatsoever. Russia controls, directly or indirectly, most of the oil and natural gas between Russia and China: roughly 25% of the world’s supply. The Middle East is bound to remain a mess. Africa is unstable. The EU is doing everything it can to cut itself off from its most stable supply of hydrocarbons, prompting Moscow to redirect energy to China and the rest of Asia. What a gift for Beijing – as it minimizes the alarm about the US Navy playing with “containment” across the high seas.
http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20141231/1016436434.html
As Oliver Stone writes “It is not Russia in Crimea and Novorussia that is the cause of Ukrainian crisis its US and EU in Kiev that have caused the Crisis. http://rt.com/news/218899-stone-kiev-massacre-cia/
If you are not familiar with “Operation Gladio” or NATO’s Secret Armies it’s time to get familiars. These secret armies were created in post WWII Europe using Nazi sympathizers and former Nazi secret service operatives to undermine the left wing political movements in Italy, Franc, the Netherlands, Hungary . I might say they were successful. These secret cells were created in almost every state in Europe where Nazis had a political presence during WWII including Ukraine.
During WWII many émigré organizations in Canada and US were united patriotic supporters of the war effort in Europe. When the war ended and Europe was divided US, Canada and Latin America took in thousands of former Nazi soldiers and their families as they were fleeing from Yugoslavia and Eastern and Central Europe.
Rather than joining the existing émigré organizations they created their own anti Tito, anti Russia, anti everything socialist organizations with full support of NATO. In fact many former heads of Nazi secret services were recruited by the CIA and became their operatives. These pro Nazi organizations in US and Canada raised funds and supplied operatives to undermine and discredit the socialist movement in Europe. They assassinated a moderate socialist leaders like Aldo Moro in Italy and blamed it on the communists, they also blamed the Red Army Faction in Germany for acts of terrorism that was actually done by the Nazi Gladio types. They were particularly successful in stopping the rise of communism in France and Italy.
The émigré factions became very influential in Western government circles funding political parties and their own candidates thus promoting revolutions in their homelands. This was all done with the blessing of the Vatican. Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia are good examples of this. In Each case the former Nazis came back home and formed governments who were rabid nationalists and anti-Semites.
The leading elements in the present crisis in Ukraine come from these émigré circles —the children of the WWII Nazis who were taken in to serve the new master in Washington and Ottawa are now doing the dirty work that their fathers did during WWII. The ” ‘shooters’ who killed 14 police men, wounded some 85, and killed 45 protesting civilians, [in Kiev]were outside third party agitators” or agents of Nazi sleeper cells created after world WWII.
@ZeroZero
I’m Chinese, and it will happen anywhere. In Singapore, China, Taiwan, or otherwise.
The fact that fake money is thrown about in an extremely crowded area points obviously to sabotage.
Dear The Saker,
Happy New Year for 2015. Wishing you and your family all the best, peace, joy, love and prosperity for the coming year. God bless you all.
Rgds,
Veritas
On another note an interesting piece by Pepe E:
http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20141231/1016436434.html
Meet one of the rulers of Ukraine. The oligarch Kolomoisky had too much vodka, was caught on camera and made a spectacle of himself. You don’t need to be fluent in Russian to understand how he lives.
This man, who loves to feed his aquarium sharks (real sharks), commands armies, seems to control the courts and much more, what state is he in when he makes decisions?
I dare not ask for a translation, the Russian team needs a couple of days of rest, but I do think the video is worth seeing.
Пьяный Коломойский «Губареву»: в фашистской Германии нас бы расстреляли
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rj67zI58OQ
A very through and interesting take on the global economy.. He takes a look at Iron ore as an example.. If there is any truth in the matter, underdeveloped economies become imperative to prevent an implosion. Since western developed countries are already built up, only the poor countries are left to take up the slack. So it is not only the EU who are going to be in a world of pain.. The US, Japan and China are also in a bind.. Which makes Russia even more important to China.. The only other major economy that can be built up is the indian subcontinent.. Which again makes south east asia the place that will define who is left standing the longest.
Commodity Prices Are Cliff-Diving Due To The Fracturing Monetary Supernova—The Case Of Iron Ore
First, most of the world is at “peak debt”. That is, the ratio of total credit market debt to current national income ranges between 350% and 500% in every major economy; and that is the limit of what can be serviced even at today’s aberrantly low interest rates.
The second reason for no commodity price rebound is the monumental overhang of the malinvestments which have been made, especially since the 2008 crisis. That is obviously what is now pummeling the petroleum sector.
The huge expansion of high cost crude oil capacity—–in the shale patch, tar sands and deep off-shore—-was due to the aberrationally high price of oil and the inordinately cheap cost of capital which were generated during the last two decades by the global central banks. The above price chart for the WTI marker price of crude, for example, is what explains the eruption of shale oil production from 1 million bbls/day prior to the financial crisis to more than 4 million at present., not an alleged technological miracle called “fracking”.
So the cliff-diving price action here is not just another commodity cycle, but instead is a proxy for the fracturing global credit bubble, led by China department.
During the course of its mad scramble to become the world’s export factory and then its greatest infrastructure construction site, China’s expansion of domestic credit broke every historical record and has ultimately landed in the zone of pure financial madness. To wit, during the 14 years since the turn of the century China’s total debt outstanding–including its vast, opaque, wild west shadow banking system—soared from $1 trillion to $25 trillion, and from 1X GDP to upwards of 3X.
Nowhere is this more evident than in China’s vastly overbuilt steel industry, where capacity has soared from about 100 million tons in 1995 to upwards of 1.2 billion tons today. Again, this 12X growth in less than two decades is not just red capitalism getting rambunctious; its actually an economically cancerous deformation that will eventually dislocate the entire global economy. Stated differently, the 1 billion ton growth of China’s steel industry since 1995 represents 2X the entire capacity of the global steel industry at the time; 7X the size of Japan’s then world champion steel industry; and 10X the then size of the US industry.
Stated differently, upwards of 50% of the 800 million tons of steel produced by China in 2013 likely went into one-time demand from the frenzy in infrastructure spending.
In short, when the credit and building frenzy stops, China will be drowning in excess steel capacity and will try to export its way out— flooding the world with cheap steel. A trade crisis will soon ensue, and we will shortly have the kind of globalized import quota system that was imposed on Japan in the early 1980s. Needless to say, the latter may stabilize steel prices at levels far below current quotes, but it will also mean a drastic cutback in global steel production and iron ore demand.
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/why-commodity-prices-are-cliff-diving-the-iron-ore-collapse-reflects-the-end-of-the-monetary-super-cycle/
@Kat Kan ‘Russia … in deniability mode ..’
Yeah, I guess there is a bit of that, but there seem to be few better options either.
Lavrov is making his caustic statements. Shoigu is moving his troops on his side of the border. Putin is making his Valdai speeches, and sends New Year greetings to Merkel and Obama. –They are just not amused. Maybe if he is a Nobel peace prize winning Kissinger, that would make a difference,-but he is not. (Although Kissinger himself now may get involved).
I don’t think a direct intervention is a good idea. It’s like walking into a swamp. There is no natural border for this, and it will further escalate the whole situation.
I have never read any of Karl Marx’s Literature, because he was Told by the English what to write to help create the Jewish Ruled Soviet Union.
This is why I think that I should Only look at why Capitalists think that Socialism is inferior to Capitalism, and that may not be the best approach, but I am not going to read Volumes on where someone asks 2 Economists a question, and they give several different answers.
I will use the term Socialist Economic Theory, or Public Ownership of Essential Industries, because this sounds better than the word Communist.
I think that there simply Must be Several Deceptive Lies with regards to Capitalist Economic Theory, because they have a Vested Interest to Lie.
To be Fair, it needs to be said that we do not have a Free Market, or Regulated Free Enterprise with which to compare matters, but I heard that we have Fascistic Capitalism or Crony Capitalism.
I think that as long as there is no laziness, no corruption, and no incompetence, then there is no advantage of Public Ownership and Management over Regulated Free Enterprise, or of Regulated Free Enterprise over Public Ownership and Management.
The reason I mentioned this was to encourage a group of Experts to write a New Socialist Economic Theory, knowing that Several Lies by Capitalists will be told, and the term no laziness means that People are working at a Normal Human Comfortable Sustainable Rate at work.
It has been said that Subsidizing Industries is Inefficient, but I think that as long as there is No laziness, No Corruption, and No Incompetence,
A Subsidy may be a Reduction in Taxation to the Consumers, and a Reduction in Taxation will stimulate the Economy, and it will create more Employment, and it will Increase Government Revenues.
I think that Subsidies to Industries, means lower prices for Consumers of Subsidized Products from Public Industries, where the Subsidies are Funded by Taxation increases Could be Anti Inflationary.
I am in Favour of a very simple and fair Taxation legislation, and I think that a 15 % Goods and Services Tax (GST) on Most Goods and Services, would be right, and low income earners or Social Security Recipients can be Compensated by means of Social Security Payments.
If the Government were to build a Car Industry where it needed the equivalent of 5 % of the GST for 3 years to Fund it, then for those years, the GST will be 15 % + 5 % , which is 20 %, and People would automatically be given a Reduction in their Water, Gas, Electricity or Rent to cover that 5 % GST Tax Rise, and overall prices to the Country, rather than to each and every Individual would be 5 % lower because of this, and a Laziness Free, Corruption Free, and Incompetence Free Subsided Industries, will create Employment and Increase Government Revenue, and after those 3 years, the GST will be 15 % , and the price of Water, Gas, Electricity or Rent will be increased by 5 % , until the next Socialist Investment.
This approach may discourage Spending, and therefore be Anti Inflationary, and it may be Contradictory, but I only thought of it recently , and I might do some Research, but I would like Unbiased Experts to consider it, and improve on it if there is any worth in any aspects of my opinions on Economics, because Innovation is an Investment.
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 Good and Useful because I know that this Principle is Self Evident and True, because it is Obvious.
It is Only People who are inefficient or efficient, and it is Only People who are lazy and corrupt, or hardworking and honest, and it has nothing to do with Capitalism or Socialism.
The Soviet Union was made to be Marxist, and then Russia was Deceived to go too much with Unregulated Capitalism, and I think that every Country should have a Proper Combination of Regulated Free Enterprise of Agriculture the Less Essential Industries, but Public Ownership of what they consider to be the Vital Essential Industries.
@thelovegovernment.com:
As long as “liberty and justice for all” still live on in our hearts, it is not dead. However fearful and deluded they may presently be, we cannot give up on the people.
@Menelion Culain:
And the clear associations you make of EVERYBODY living here being thieves and genocidal murderers and exploiters is offensive in the extreme.
There’s something you need to understand about this blog, Menelion. When we use the term ‘AngloZionist’, for example, we are not attacking all Anglophones and Jews. We are simply describing a historical nexus of wealth and power that arose first in London, and after WW2 moved to Washington & New York.
Unless you believe in the bogus concept of collective guilt, all English people alike are not to blame for crimes such as imperialism and slavery. And that applies to Celtic people as well.
Happy new year!
[from Blue]
Most New Years is like bosses: ‘here is the new boss, same as the old boss’.
2015, however, sees a change in the US congress, house and senate, with the Republicans now in control.
This could mean a shift in policies domestically, which could impact the economy, social programs, and other areas which could lead to a reaction from the people, perhaps waking up to the need for a ‘revolution’ of some sort. Not that the Republican wing of the fascist elites in control are that much different from the Democratic wing, of course, in general direction and goals, but there are a few areas where actions against the society, the environmnet, and so forth can be accelerated and more extreme.
Likewise, the US may become more overt and aggressive in foreign policy as the small constraints imposed by the few Democrats against the insanity are weakened.
Or, the US, as it become less, ‘liberal’ in American terms, might even do a few things that are in a more positive direction regarding war. It’s difficult to know now that both parties have deviated so much from their more traditional ideologies — but the new bosses are not quite the same as the old bosses, and things may well become even more chaotic.
__Blue
A commenter above advocated sending 30000 russians to Syria in order to “butcher” ISIS. I imagine this guy is being provocative, but whatever his motivation, please, enough already with the butchering. I got this note the last time I was worshipping Satan. Evidently, Hell is virtually overflowing from the previous butcherings, not from lack of accommodations, but a huge bottleneck in HS*, partially related to sheer numbers, but mostly because of legacy criteria, (one strike, you’re in). They haven’t worked their way past about 1930 yet. From the memo:
“A lot of these new migrants have no records of behavior that might bar admittance; they mostly just seem to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Frankly, I believe the problem is external; that [redacted] is sending their less desirables along with our guys, for whatever reason, or our methods have worked too well, and that many are really that anxious to emigrate. It seems more likely that the higher value immigrants that we would like to see are still “hedging”, and meanwhile we’re stretched simply processing in these draftees and slackers. We need more with some leadership and know-how and a proven record of service.
This system was built to handle a couple of dozen daily, with a good mix of easily accommodated and enthusiastic souls, along with the dregs, of course, but this mix is just toxic, and not in a good way. Where are Poppy, Cheney, Kissinger? Do they still have “other priorities”? I’d say they earned their rightful place, and about time. We need some help down here; even the demons are starting to just phone it in, but we are more than ready to resume the morale-boosting as soon as we get some better quality volunteers.”
Screwetape
*Hell Security
Were it true.
The US, unfortunately, can start a war anywhere, and logic or morality doesn’t enter into the discussion. If Russia would just hand over its oil industry the US State Department will play nice.
Were it true.
The US, unfortunately, can start a war anywhere, and logic or morality doesn’t enter into the discussion. If Russia would just hand over its oil industry the US State Department will play nice.
“Lenin was a partly Jewish, and Stalin was a Jew but it was concealed with Forged Documents.
With only a very few exceptions, those Leading Bolshevik Marxists in the Soviet Union, were Jewish, and Lenin and Stalin were Secret Puppets of Anglo-America.”
Stalin was absolutely NOT a Jew and NOT a secret puppet of America. Trotsky perhaps, but not Stalin. Stalin was a closet anti-semite, who quietly opposed Jewish domination of communism and finally managed to get rid of it at the cost of his personal life.
Hitler in 1939 fooled himself in thinking that the worst in Jewish-run USSR was over and thus he justified to himself that he could have this non-aggression agreement with former arch-enemy Stalin, which should give him protection against Britain and France, when he wanted to solve ‘the Polish problem’, created in Versailles. Stalin openly admitted to von Ribbentrop that Jews had indeed a dominating role and that he planned to do something about it. And he did, in 1953. It got Stalin killed (“doctorsplot”), but in the same year the Soviet army intervened and that was the end of ZOG-USSR and the ‘anti-semitic period’ in the USSR began, which lasted until the end and at the same time, the worst atrocities were over.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors%27_plot
Roosevelt and his government of crypto-communists were Stalin groupies, but Stalin did not return the favor. Roosevelt, under advice of his Jewish right-hand man William Bullet (the one who pushed Britain and France in the Polish war guarantee, that would lead to the outbreak of war in Europe, exactly what Hitler had hoped to avoid with his Molotov-Ribbentrop accord), diplomatically recognized the USSR in 1933.
Hitler attacked Poland to come to aid of the Germans forced to live in Versailles Poland, who were persecuted by the Poles over an escalating Danzig situation. It was intended to remain purely a localized conflict. But the declaration of war by Britain and France was what made it a real world war.
1939 – 2014
Poland – Ukraine
Danzig – Donbass
Anglo-Zionists – Anglo-Zionists
Hitler – Putin
Hitler intervened –> world war
Putin does not intervene –> no world war
Kind regards,
Dutch
“Guest Post: 2014 – A Russian Viewpoint”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-31/guest-post-2014-russian-viewpoint
The guest post of The Saker has by now already more then 51.000 reads.
Congrats, Saker!
A happy and healty New Year to the Saker community from Germany.
I realized after rereading my comment on Socialist Economic Theory, that the figures balance, and that the 5 % of Goods and Services Tax (GST) for the 3 years for a Car Industry is not there.
I think that what is needed is for the Government to borrow that Money from the Central Bank at 0 % Interest Rate (Print the Money), and pay it back in 3 years.
I think that because the GST Rate is 20 % rather than 15 % , will Discourage Businesses from putting Prices up, because they know that there is more Money in the Economy.
This is because the higher GST Rate will increase the price of the Goods and Services even higher, and this will Discourage enough People to Spend Less if Businesses put their Prices up more than the Inflation Rate.
This will have an Anti Inflationary effect, and it will encourage some People to save more of their Money.
The things that the reductions by 5 % overall for the Country, rather than each and every Individual in Prices to offset the increase in the GST Rate of 5 % could in include everyday items such as fuel for Cars and Trucks, etc, and Water, Gas, Electricity or Rent etc.
If the Government collects 35 % of the Total Income of the Country, then Perhaps, a GST Rate of 35 % as the Only Tax that People Pay.
The low income earners, and Social Security Recipients would be compensated for this with a sufficient Payment from the Social Security Department.
It could be that if the GST Rate was 35 % , then this would Truly Discourage Businesses from putting up their Prices, because the High GST Rate will push the Price up to Discourage Consumption, and Genuine Competition is what will keep price as Fair as possible.
If the price of Oil and Gas are low, and if the GST Rate is at 45 % to Discourage Inflation, then Perhaps if the Oil and Gas were given to Citizens for free, the Government could Print Lots of Money to Compensate for the loss of Oil and Gas Revenue for Russian Citizens Only, and Perhaps this Combination will Not cause Inflation or Reduce Consumption.
These opinions are different ways to look at possibilities that might work, because I know that Ants accomplish everything they need to, and they do not use Money, and they would be Considered to be Socialists, rather than Capitalists, because they do not use Money, and so Interest Free Money can be Printed to create Economic Activity and then it can be Taxed so that there is acceptable inflation and Full Employment and a Strong Economy.
There is a way out for Russia in Ukraine . Be serious in organzing a coup d’etat in Kiev using Ukrainan disaffected personnell . Make sure that the CIA agents are targeted for certain assassination and so the
thiefs of Ukrainan gold .
Morte al Nuovo Ordine
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I wouldn’t normally post this kind of link but I liked the background music and it seems so symbolic of the present boorish, cultural ignorance of the USA administration vs. Russia.
I keep thinking of Psaki as a look-alike younger version of Colonel Rosa Klebb of James Bond fame. But not as smart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8qsc9CobdA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Klebb
Important message from the White House:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2GyyVfjAmvA
Tonight in banderastan ‘nazi parade’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKMzwhHzRps
And a real president spend the night with his army:
https://www.facebook.com/486141661491780/photos/a.486146121491334.1073741828.486141661491780/618257094946902/?type=1&fref=nf&pnref=story
” Anonymous said…
These opinions are different ways to look at possibilities that might work, because I know that Ants accomplish everything they need to, and they do not use Money, and they would be Considered to be Socialists, rather than Capitalists, because they do not use Money, and so Interest Free Money can be Printed to create Economic Activity and then it can be Taxed so that there is acceptable inflation and Full Employment and a Strong Economy.”
I am not sure where you live. In most States, nobody is stopping you from trying your theory (business plan). It was tried in the USA In the 1960’s and 1970’s with no success. The people involved normally called it communes. Socialism usually takes the force of the state to implement.
The Yugo is a good example of a socialist car company forced on the people by the state. If you want a blueprint. I consider it one of the worst cars in history. I realize everything is relative and an item I consider junk can be considered priceless by another individual.
Happy New Year.
PA President Mahmoud Abbas signed the application for Palestine’s accession to the Rome Statute and the International Criminal Court (ICC). Abbas signed the application on Wednesday, in response to the UN Security Council’s rejection of a Jordanian sponsored draft resolution on Tuesday. The resolution called for a fixed timeline for the end of the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
http://nsnbc.me/2015/01/01/abbas-signs-application-for-palestinian-icc-membership-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place/