“A child was murdered with a weapon of mass destruction, two young women as well, a police officer was executed in the line of duty. So when you look at the gravity and the harm and when you look as well at the many many victims who became amputees … and then you look at the motives … these were political motives.” [Source]
Let me guess…a judge said this about the bombing of Gaza civilians while delivering her guilty verdict against the government of Israel. No, she didn’t. Did she say it against the NATO bombing of civilians in Yugoslavia killing thousands and violating every international law and treaty in the book? Nope, that didn’t happen either. About the bombing of Syria? Nein… Maybe, she said this about the Western backed Wahabbies who attacked the elementary school in Russian Beslan on September 1, 2004? No. Quite the opposite. The US called those militants the “rebels,” as also those terrorist groups who killed hundreds of hostages in the Moscow Nord-Ost theater in 2002. Instead, the Western media condemned the rescuers in the death of hundreds innocent children and adults, while white-washing the terrorists as “freedom fighters.”
Did an American judge say this about the continuing terroristic shelling by the Kiev junta of Donetsk and other Donbass towns and villages where thousands of perfectly innocent people are being killed, while leaving the survivors to exist as mutilated amputees? Did she say this about 48 innocent civilians, including a university student, a local poet, a pregnant woman and a child, who were burned alive in Odessa on May 2, 2014, by the Right Sector Ukro-Nazis, while the survivors of this vicious attack are still imprisoned by the Kiev fascist regime? Wrong again. According to the US Senate’s new military budget [Source] simply states that the genocide of Russians in Ukraine is done with a lofty task of “(2) Protecting and defending the Ukrainian people from attacks posed by Russian-backed separatists.” And, in case you ask, those people in Donesk all killed themselves.
Make no mistake. There is no Western judge who would ever condemn the killings of non-English speaking people.
“We the people” has reached the pinnacle of the US civilization, climbing in their humanity almost as high as 7th century Illyrian anarcho-pirates. The ancestors of the British empire and the destroyers of Rome. Part of the people who came to Britannia from the Iberian peninsula, and are now constituting the majority of genetic makeup of Britannia today, were Phoenicians. They came to the Iberian peninsula from Northern Africa, sometime after Rome had destroyed Carthage. The “treacherous” Punics were people of trade mostly, but they managed to end Rome and have been wearing the Romans’ cultural skin ever since. Capable organizers, and even better pretenders. Intensely focused on the protection of their genetic makeup, in other word racists.
The US calls the killing of English speakers a terrorist act, while the killings of non-English speakers a necessary justifiable extrajudicial punishment.
Quoted at the opening are the words of the female prosecutor Nadine Pellegrini, who got her successful death penalty verdict on April 15, 2015 against the youngest of the two Tsarnaevs brothers. She has it done in a state that banned the death penalty 30 years ago. It will look good on her resume. The US court condemned the younger brother to death, despite of the fact that he was still a teenager at the time of the alleged bombing and despite polls that “show that more than two-thirds of Bostonians wanted Mr Tsarnaev to receive a life sentence without possibility of parole.” [Source]
The conviction rate for the Justice Department is 98%. Any US jury will convict anybody in any crime. People in Massachusetts, apparently, en mess were against the death sentence and the court looked near and high to find those jury members “without prejudice” who would condemn Tsarnaev to death just for being a Muslim and having really good hair.
Apparently, Dzhokhar Anzorovich “Jahar” Tsarnaev’s guild is said “to believe in an ideology of hate and he expressed those beliefs by “killing, mutilating, and maiming.” That’s why he was sentence to death.
Considering that his “ideology of hate” is presumably seeking to punish the US for the crimes against the Muslims, Tsarnaev stands in opposition to those Chechen nationals whom the U.S., the EU, and NATO herald as the “freedom fighters,” simply because they practice an ideology of hate towards Russia and express those beliefs by killing, mutilating, and maiming Russian people in Russia and in Ukraine. That is because Russia is the only stable and peaceful home for several Muslim nations, and does not follow in the Western practice of just letting some very rich Muslim families buy real estate while bombing out of existence multiple other Muslim countries simultaneously.
“It was a political crime designed to intimidate and coerce the Untied <sic!>States,” the Guardian goes on. Interesting, how being above everybody else doesn’t necessitate learning your own grammar.
“Our goal in trying this case was to ensure that the jury had all the information that they needed” to deliver a fair verdict, she says. I bet that “all the information needed” to condemn Tsarnaev to death was “Muslims are evil.” At least, that’s is the prevailing sentiment on Twitter.
“We believe that they accomplished that goal,” she continues, and “shown the world what a fair and impartial jury trial is like.” Once against, the delusional US officials become the voices of their own defeat.
The biggest snafu of this trial is that the prosecutor arbitrarily and propagandistically calls the brothers Tsarnaev’s crime “political” and not “religious,” despite what the brothers declared. Political would mean that the brothers acted in the interest of some countries, or governments, or political parties. No country, as far as I know, were implicated in backing the brothers Tsarnaev. Why does the prosecutor Pellegrini insist that the crime against the innocent people of Boston was “political” rather then driven by their purportedly misguided religious beliefs?
I believe that this unsubstantiated “political” angle is left lingering from the initial plot of CIA grooming the elder brother and promising him the US citizenship in exchange for the staged attack to implicate Russia before the Olympic games and before the Ukrainian coupe. I even remember hearing the very first media coverage coming from Boston and initially brothers were called Russians and from Russia without mentioning Chechnya.
However, Russia in its honest work against the terrorism had cautioned the US about the brothers’ unsavory activities prior and proved this right away. That’s why the CIA was so reluctant to respond to Russia’s calls. Considering that all the existing terrorist groups in Chechnya are backed and directed by the US, NATO, and the Saudis in order to destabilize Russia, how great it would be to implicate Russia in something that is done against her?
The president of Chechnya, Kadyrov writes: “If they actually did that attack, I don’t believe the US special intelligence services didn’t know about it.” “Who can guarantee that after executing Tsarnaev he won’t be found innocent tomorrow? This happens often in the USA. He was nine years old when he came to the US. And the America that he has faith in has made him into a terrorist.” Ramzan Kadyrov [Source]
Despite to what the prosecutor says, this American court failed to “shown the world what a fair and impartial jury trial is like.” By rejecting the obvious, and acting as a propaganda tool, this trial demonstrated to the world once again the American judicial system is running nothing but the kangaroo court designed to lynch, and to turn a man into a martyr, not to discover the truth.
I leave you to read at your leisure the macabre bloodthirsty statements posted by the Guardian and made by the people, the majority of whom, for the rare exception, are tagalongs and weren’t even effected personally in any way, shape, or form. Remarkably, I couldn’t find one example of Christian forgiveness, for the exception of those who make a living out of being Christians.[Source]
Still, the US and the EU consider as unlawful the arrest and prosecution by the Russian court of a Ukrainian female military pilot, previously known for her participation in killing innocent civilians in Syria. The military pilot who executed two civilian unarmed Russian journalists, and killed other civilians in the process in a terroristic act designed to intimidate and coerce Russian people and Russian freedom of speech.
My thesis is that if the US condemns the killing of the innocent civilians within its borders as acts of terrorism punishable by death, the US has to equate the killing of civilians around the word to the same standards. If the US keeps maintaining that “killing, mutilating, and maiming” of civilians outside of the US borders is for “freedom fighting,” then the US has to award Tsarnaev Jr. like they award the Nazi Right Sector in Ukraine, and let him go to back home to his parents.
If the US rejects the Tsarnaev’s appeal and ends up executing him, the US will only widen and deepen the rift between the self-entitled and self proclaimed exceptional American passport holders and the rest of the world. The Americans, dead serious of demonstrating that the non-English speaking world is made up of non-people, will end up justifiably treated by the rest of the world as non-people as well.
Ukraine Economy
1. Kremlin: imposing moratorium on foreign debt payment in Ukraine means step towards default [Source]
May 19, Ukraine’s parliament has approved the law granting the government the right to impose moratorium on foreign debts payments
2. Ukrainian Finance Minister Does Not See Ukraine’s Future Without Russia [Source]
3. The Verkhovna Rada’s decision to suspend foreign debt payments is illegitimate, adviser of the Russian President Sergey Glazyev said [Source]
Решение Украины не выплачивать долги нелигитимно, а киевский режим не имеет права на существование, – Глазьев
“This decision is absolutely illegitimate, as illegitimate as the Ukrainian government itself. We need to convince the world community that the Ukrainian regime in Kiev has no right to exist. This regime is oppressing the people of Ukraine,” Glazyev said in an interview with the radio station “Moscow Speaks” “Govorit Moskva”.
4. Ukraine is Europe. Kiev daily. You don’t really need translation for this one
If you thing that your town hall meetings about the new development project are tough, compare how protest of the construction of a new mall in Kiev.
Part I [Source]
Just another day in the madhouse Banderastan formerly known as Ukraine. Maidan – mission accomplished
Part II [Source]
NATO War on Donbass Novorossia
Ukraine regime has conducted a terrorist war on civilians, homes, hospitals, schools & towns for over a year while west media silent.
1. Donetsk: A Defiant and Besieged City [Source]
May 18, 201 – The report on the ground. A fresh look at the life of the capital of Donetsk People’s republic.
2. China’s Red Cross gifts $1miln in medical supply for the refugees from Ukraine to Rostov region [Source]
3. Ukrainian soldiers tortured the LPR [Source]
May 20th, 2015 – Ukrainian soldiers tortured the LPR servicemen captured near Schastye, the head of the Lugansk People’s Republic Igor Plotnitsky said at a press conference at the Lugansk Information Center today.
Ukrainian soldiers wounded and took captive Yevgeniy Yerofeyev and Alexander Alexandrov in an attack on the observation post of the LPR people’s militia near the town of Schastye on May 16.
“I can tell you one thing… I know the details of the battle that took place, and I know what injuries our servicemen had. If you watch the video from the Ukrainian side, you’d notice that Yerofeyev, when captured, had a gunshot wound to the shoulder, but afterwards, when they paraded him on TV, his other arm had injuries too. I can tell you for sure that they used torture on these servicemen,” – Igor Plotnitsky said.
Plotnitsky then showed the journalists extracts from documentation about the LPR servicemen captured by the Ukrainian soldiers.
“Alexander Alexandrov was the commander of a recon group, he joined the LPR people’s militia in Lugansk on 12 January 2015. Captain Yevgeniy Yerofeyev, a reserve officer, was the commander of the recon company, he joined the LPR people’s militia on 17 February 2015,″ – Plotnitsky said.
Igor Plotnitsky scornfully refuted Kiev’s allegations that the captured LPR servicemen were members of the Russian Armed Forces.
“To say what they did before they joined up in the Republic, I don’t know. However, the Kiev officials have been looking for the Russians, Russian spetsnaz and soldiers all the time, but they never can give evidence of such. If they captured our scouts, that fact that they may have once served in the Russian forces doesn’t prove anything. Well, if Ukrainian soldiers captured a Spaniard or Frenchman, who are here with us, well what would that mean? Now, the Ukrainian government just passed a law that allows foreigners to serve in their forces. That’s contrary to all the Minsk agreements. Why, the Ukrainian side tries all sorts of tricks, they use any means to weasel out of implementing the Minsk agreements. The LPR government is making active efforts to free our servicemen. Right now, negotiations are underway on the exchange of these prisoners; we’ve had two meetings already,” – Igor Plotnitsky said.
4. Donbass: the revolution of conscience [Source]
May 20th, 1015 – Dmitriy Rodionov on the perspectives of Novorossian statehood
5. Minsk Agreement allows all the regions of Ukraine to get out from under the Kiev regime’s tyranny [Source]
6. Every child of the Lugansk republic will participate in health improving programs in Russia’s health resorts [Source] About 10,000 children are expected to spent summer in Crimea. All this at no cost to their parents, apparently. A newly created children’s charitable foundation is taking care of this program.
7. Donetsk Botanical Garden – one of the largest gardens in Europe – celebrates its 50th anniversary [Source]
The ceremony for the anniversary attracted retired staff, government officials, and Deputies of the DPR People’s Council.
8. Kiev has failed to destroy Donbass industry despite the blockade [Source]
Киеву не удалось уничтожить промышленность Донбасса, несмотря на блокаду – Плотницкий
20th of May, 2015. Lugansk People’s Republic, Novorossiya.
Kiev has failed to destroy Donbass industry despite the blockade, the head of the Lugansk People’s Republic Igor Plotnitsky said at a press conference at the Lugansk Information Center today.
“The object of the economic blockade against Donbass imposed by Kiev was destruction of our economic base. They did everything possible to ensure that we could never run any of our factories and enterprises. However, yesterday, I was at the Stal steel-casting company, I saw how everyone is slowly rebuilding their operations, and I saw how our Republic provides all possible assistance. Any blockade, whether it is economic or political, is a boomerang that always comes back. At the same time, the economic blockade imposed by Kiev had negative effects for Ukraine itself. Look at, for example, their purchase of coal in South Africa… therefore, the economic blockade, I think, won’t last a very long time,” – Igor Plotnitsky said.
9. Ukrainian Armed Forces more than 30 times shelled the territory of the DPR — MoD
Donetsk, May 20, DNA. Army of the Donetsk People’s Republic registered 33 instances of Ukrainian shelling in the course of the last 24 hours, the representative of the DPR Ministry of Defense told the Donetsk News Agency.
“33 instances of shelling on the part of Ukrainian Armed Forces had been registered, — the spokesperson said. — The enemy keeps on using heavy armaments”.
According to the Ministry’s data, Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled the territory of the Republic from artillery five times, from tanks – once and from APCs – twice. Besides, 17 instances of mortar-gun shelling, two instances of anti-aircraft systems use, one — of anti-tank missile use, and five instances of grenade launchers and firearms use had been registered.
The ministry spokesperson said that Ukrainian army targeted the city of Donetsk (Kiyevskiy district, the area of the airport) and the town of Gorlovka. Also localities Zhabichevo, Nizhneye Lozovoye, Shirokino, Кalinovkа, Ozeryanovka and Belaya Kamenka were shelled.
The data on casualties are being specified.
10. Battle intensified in LNR, where Ukrainians broke NAF perimeter, but lost 1 armored vehicle & suffered 13 casualties, retreated. Village Zolotoe;
Kiev junta claims it lost at least 13 KIA/WIA near Zolotoe & Katerinovka;
11. DPR Foreign Affairs chief: Novorossiya project closed for the time being!
Глава МИД ДНР: Проект «Новороссия» закрыт на какое-то время
http://www.regnum.ru/news/polit/1925368.html
12. BREAKING.. OSCE caught red handed planting covert cameras and listening devices near Shirokino to spy on NAF [Source]
13. “CTF IRL” – Epic battles for Shirokino explained in simple terms by a mortarman [Source]
14. Documentary about the war in Donbas will be shown at the Cannes Film Festival [Source]
War with Russia is a Good thing says Washington
1. A Bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. Many thanks to Saibot for providing a link and commentaries. [Source]
The US House of Representatives has passed yesterday a new defense policy bill, enabling the US to provide lethal weapons to Ukrainian forces in Section 1532:
The Secretary of Defense is authorized, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, to provide assistance, including training, equipment, lethal weapons of a defensive nature, logistics support, supplies and services, and sustainment to the military and national security forces of Ukraine, through September 30, 2016, to assist the government of Ukraine for the following purposes:
(1) Securing its sovereign territory against foreign aggressors.
(2) Protecting and defending the Ukrainian people from attacks posed by Russian-backed separatists.
(3) Promoting the conditions for a negotiated settlement to end the conflict.
We are getting to watch, live and in real time, the kind of massive, global shuffle that set up the axis/allies in WWII.
Nothing is boding well for the Anglo-Saxon world at this point. Rather unfortunate that the moral majority is mindfucked and the intelligent minority is a well boiled frog.
2. Ukrainian crisis escalation will have adverse impacts on entire Europe — Russian FM [Source]
May 19, 2015 – It is necessary to have Kiev establish dialogue with Donetsk and Luhansk, lift economic blockade, carry out amnesty, conduct inclusive constitutional, court and other reforms in Ukraine.
3. Russia to take measures if Ukraine hosts foreign missile defense elements — Kremlin [Source]
MOSCOW, May 19. /TASS/. Russia will take measures to protect its own security if Ukraine hosts components of a foreign missile defense system, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
4. War criminal Ukraine’s President Poroshenko says Ukrainians should prepare for a major Russian offensive [Source]
5. Ukraine troops in basic training — with U.S. instructors [Source]
“It’s been a long time since I heard a target called an Ivan,” 1st Sgt. David Dzwik, one of the trainers, said in an interview out in the sunny forest, while observing the Ukrainians run through drills. “Now, I’m hearing it again.” David Dzwik, a career soldier from Michigan. He went for a couple of tours to Afghanistan. Has a wife and three kids, who live in a 2 bathroom single family house in Traverse city, Michigan, according to the public records. I hope his children are doing well in school and are proud of their father who came to Ukraine to teach Ukro- Nazis how to kill the Russian children.
He was featured in the Vanity Fair article December 2011 article Echoes from a Distant Battlefield.
Another American pig who came to kill Russians is Capt. Nicholas “It’s going to be an awesome” Salimbene, commander, Company B, 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade.
6. American, Lithuanian forces begin combined tactical field exercise [Source]
RUKLA, Lithuania (May 14, 2014) – Capt. Nicholas A. Salimbene, commander, Company B, 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade “Sky Soldiers,” stands in front of American paratroopers as they join NATO allies from the Lithuanian army’s “Iron Wolf” Mechanized…
7. US paratroops train Ukrainian forces to take on Russian-backed militants [Source]
A joint Ukrainian-U.S. flag detail marches to position before the ceremony that marked the beginning of the U.S.-Ukrainian exercise Fearless Guardian in Yavoriv, Ukraine, Monday, April 20, 2015.
They are training Nazi Ukrainian national guard forces. A joint Ukrainian-U.S. flag detail marches to position before the ceremony that marked the beginning of the U.S.-Ukrainian exercise Fearless Guardian in Yavoriv, Ukraine, Monday, April 20, 2015.
8. NATO to consider permanent brigade in Baltics [Source]
NATO was already in the midst of its most substantial reinforcement since the end of the Cold War, with preparations to double its quick-reaction force to 30,000 troops.
9. Black Sea: From NATO No-Go Zone to Prospective Battlefield [Source]
Once seen as no-go zone for US the Black Sea has become the backdrop for one NATO military exercise after another and now even Chinese military presence on the side of Russia
At no time during the Cold War did the US engage in such openly hostile and belligerent actions designed more to provoke than to defend. It seems the policy now is to both prepare for war and work to ensure that it comes to fruition
a. the US committed a significant monetary investment to the permanent expansion of its military presence in and around the Black Sea;
b. The US Army is currently, or will soon be, leading a series of critical military exercises in the Black Sea;
c. as part of the US military training, a significant amount of military hardware is being shuttled across the Black Sea;
d. There are other important military moves that the US-NATO have made in the Black Sea in recent months, all designed to send a stern warning to Russia. NATO’s Standing NATO Maritime Group Two (SNMG2) recently completed its training exercises “designed to improve interoperability and enhance rapid integration of Alliance maritime assets… The force trained on anti-air, anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare procedures during separate exercises with the Turkish, Bulgarian and Romanian navies.” As part of SNMG2, NATO deployed significant military assets to the Romanian port of Constanta, not coincidentally a short distance across the Black Sea from Crimea and Russia’s fleet at Sevastopol. Participating in the SNMG2 was the USS Vicksburg with its Mark 41 Vertical Launching System, Harpoon anti-ship missiles, and arsenal of guns. In addition were Canadian, Italian, and Turkish warships, all carrying significant firepower of their own.
10. US increases money flow to anti-government NGOs in Russia [Source]
США увеличили финансирование российских НКО
11. US Blinks in Face-Off with Russia [Source]
May 18, 2015 – An analysis of the Kerry’s visit to Russia by Finian CUNNINGHAM.
12. Net of the US Dangerous Biochemical labs extends from Odessa to Chernigov and Kharkov in Ukraine [Source]
Cеть лабораторий особо опасных инфекций раскинулась от Одессы до Чернигова
13. Mortar attack on Russian embassy in Damascus an ‘act of terror’ – Moscow [Source]
May 19th, 2015 – The Russian embassy in the Syrian capital of Damascus was shelled on Tuesday. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the shells were fired from the Jobar district of Damascus, which is controlled by “illegal armed groups.”
14. The US think that the Russian C-300 won’t be able to protect Iran from the US air attacks [Source]
В США считают, что российские С-300 не защитят Иран от возможного военного удара
Russia and Beyond
1. Russians are not very well known for their humor. Not because the Russian humor is hard to translate into foreign languages, but because no one ever bothered to do this. Humor has become a part of the Russian’s response to the Western information war.
Only misanthropes and Russophobes claim that Russians don’t smile. Those who do claim have never been to bed with one, or to a Victory Day parade. [Source]
2. Russian Business Correspondent John Helmer – are legal dominoes about to fall over Russian Sanctions? Audio interview with John Helmer [Source] [Source]
3. Before You Buy That Rothko – How The CIA Covertly Nurtured Modern Art As A Cold War “Weapon” [Source]
The CIA program was originally set up in 1947, under the not so covert division called the Propaganda Assets Inventory. You really can’t make this up.
The same was with the literature. Nobel prize in literature given with the help of CIA to Pasternak and Brodsky. Same with the other literary awards like the Booker and Pen used during the cold war to support the Liberal (unregulated open market proponent) opposition. That’s why Rockefeller was one of the biggest backers of Abstract Expressionism (which he called “free enterprise painting.”) In other words, painting in support of the unregulated open market that exist for the expense of the civil society and against its interests.
Part of this was the push of the Jewish art collectors and art sellers to destroy the realistic depiction of the people and the world as banned by the Judaism.
This is a source of the staggering difference in evaluation between the figural and non-figural art.
The irony of this all is that while in 20th century the classically trained artists, so strong in Russia and the Soviet Union, were sidelined and ridiculed by the mainstream media, in order to push forward the non-figural painting to propagate the free enterprise and unregulated market, the Western art world completely lost the ability to teach, produce and understand the figural art.
4. Putin Turns the Media Tides, But Who Is the Real Loser? [Source]
Russia’s and Vladimir Putin’s victory over western aggression the last few days is so apparent to all, but perhaps we are missing some greater point?
If a crocodile shows its teeth, don’t assume it’s smiling at you. The current US’s pretend in rapprochement of Russia is an attempt to throw Germany under the bus.
My guess was the last week rapid feverish warming up the US – Russia relations has its aim to isolate Russia from all its allies.
Last, but Not Least
“Give me my pen back..”
Classic Putin
There are no judges in the West, only chaos makers.
“Ukraine is Europe” is not quite accurate, the correct statement is: “Ukraine is just as Europe: broke” – to be bankrupt looks like the first European feature the Ukraininas could catch up with!.
NATO proves to be at war with everybody abroad and at home.
That is NATO’s mission.
Mobsters have their muscle and gunslingers.
Hegemon has its NATO.
We used to call this war criminality. Crimes against humanity.
Not too long ago, too.
Mario, these judges are not exactly chaos-makers– they’re the kind of judges that the Hitler regime installed as one of its first acts to secure state power. The corruption of the judicial system and the strategy of NATO only seem chaotic to those who haven’t seriously studied the (first) rise to power of the Third Reich.
Thanks Scott.
Looks like DPR suspects Georgian special forces were involved in the capture of the 2 Russian citizens:
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150520/1022380115.html
This whole episode is getting more and more murky.
Rgds,
Veritas
Scott
Thanks for the sitrep, lots of material. Agree with your take about pindo kangaroo courts and that the Tsarnaevs were set-up by the CIA to do the attack so it could be blamed Russia.
Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Sentenced To Death
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-15/boston-marathon-bomber-tsarnaev-penalty-decision-live-feed
Sentenced to death in order to continue with the perpetration of a hoax. See a new authoritative analysis of the Boston Marathon Bombing hoax, with preponderant journalistic, video, and photographic evidence): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMxhdiBrqTM
“Lord, give me my Russia back…”
Classic Russian
… “Lord, give me my Russia back…” Classic Russian…
Fair enough…
Make no mistake, we, classic Russians, are working around the clock to get Russia back. When we succeed, it’s going to be the best country to live, ever.
P.S. BTW, under “classic Russians” I mean everyone who wants to live in Russia and likes her culture and language, and not just those who possess Russian Imperial coats of arms.
Check this out: Out of the 20 Best Places To Live Overseas, Russia is #17
“The media might demonize US foreign policy (deservedly so IMO) but it has zero effect on Americans living in Russia. I’ve only been treated kindly and friendly by the Russian people without exception.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-20-best-countries-for-expats-2014-10
I was interested in story #5 in the NATO War on Donbass section: “The Minsk agreement will allow Ukraine to get rid of the dictatorship of the Kiev – expert”
With much discussion here as to the future of Ukraine, and Russia’s goals, we tend to forget the Minsk agreement, which is a powerful road map. Yandex gives a great translation of the story by the way. Here’s the first three paragraphs:
That link:
http://lug-info.com/news/one/vse-deti-respubliki-etim-letom-proidut-kurs-ozdorovleniya-plotnitskii-3353
An important source regarding the nature and actions of the Outlaw Empire’s two-tiered “justice” system is Glenn Greenwald and the online “Intercept” magazine, https://firstlook.org/theintercept/ I highly recommend Glenn’s recent book, “With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful.” Interesting judges have become targets in Egypt for essentially the same reasons described above.
“Before You Buy That Rothko – How The CIA Covertly Nurtured Modern Art As A Cold War “Weapon””
I always suspected that these type of manipulations of art (or uses of art) were very common in the US. Awhile back, I also read in “Vanity Fair” how art dealers in UK often create false hype around some ‘artists” and directing this “hypnotic hype” at some unsuspected oligarchs from S.A or ex USSR etc. Basically dumping worthless canvases for millions of dollars to all sorts of imbeciles deprived of any taste or even common sense.
Incongruity:
Top Secret AF Space Vehicle lifted into orbit by Atlas 5 (Russian engines).
Yep, you have to love it and dod has asked congress for permission to buy more Russian rockets
Sad we in Amerika were pretty good at this but not any more and with the non-science repugs in charge we’ll slip further into the abyss of stupid.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/scientists-earth-endangered-by-new-strain-of-fact-resistant-humans
Sad we in Amerika were pretty good at this but not any more and with the non-science repugs in charge we’ll slip further into the abyss of stupid.
“So long as defeat meant the loss of independence, or some other result generally held to be undesirable, the precautions against defeat had to be serious. Physical facts could not be ignored… Inefficient nations were always conquered sooner or later, and the struggle for efficiency was inimical to illusions.”
~ “1984,” George Orwell
If Russia is really challenging the Banking Empire, the banksters will need to compete with Russia militarily. There’s no way around this. Humanity can only be trapped into an Orwellian/Huxleyan dystopia if everyone is playing the game, and if the Empire thought they were going to lose the game, they would have rage quit and flipped the table by now.
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
They probably have something up their sleeves. The abyss of stupid can easily be lifted for the military-industrial complex; the West’s rampant unemployment needs to end somehow. As Orwell also said, “The economy of many countries was allowed to stagnate… this, too, entailed military weakness… it made opposition inevitable… in practice the only way of achieving [poverty and ignorance] was by continuous warfare.” And you don’t need a functioning national economy to tuck away a secret weapon lab or two.
Remember, these guys haven’t been victimizing civilizations for centuries because they’re completely insane and irresponsible.
As usual thank you very much for this ukrainian sitrep.
The European Press is so blatantly biased (corrupted?), it’s astonishing.
Here for example, the lastest one :
This Headline Shows Why Germans Hate What Their Media Says About Russia:
“Putin the Liar, and the Russians Who Love Him”
http://russia-insider.com/en/society/putin-liar-and-russians-who-love-him/ri7111
… And that means, the european citizen have got a very, very big problem. They can’t trust their mass-media when it comes to serious matters (foreign situation, the EU, the Euro, Economics, Banksters, etc…)
The only solution I see would be to make more and more people realize how they are violently lied to. (mass media not being a counter-power. Not the 4th power as we were told). Here, everybody knows that of course, but in real life, how many are aware of this? 5-10%? 20%?
That’s why, I think, it’s *these people*, that should be awaken. (because circles of friends don’t mix so much I suppose).
How many people did know this for example? [and you won’t probably like what you’re about to read]
“Robert Mundell, evil genius of the Euro.”
– For the architect of the Euro, taking macroeconomics away from elected politicians and forcing deregulation were part of the plan –
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jun/26/robert-mundell-evil-genius-euro
The idea that the euro has “failed” is dangerously naive. The euro is doing exactly what its progenitor – and the wealthy 1%-ers who adopted it – predicted and planned for it to do …
“It puts monetary policy out of the reach of politicians,” he said. “[And] without fiscal policy, the only way nations can keep jobs is by the competitive reduction of rules on business.”
etc…
Dear The Saker,
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/president-putins-15-years-power-en-subtitles-video/ri7089
New Must-See Putin Documentary.
Rgds,
Veritas
The accurate analysis of the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial shows that the US so-called Justice System is frankly a joke, materially, morally and philosophically equivalent to Hollywood, to the tabloid papers, and to the society of the spectacle in general. With the Tsarnaev trial the publicity is greater, hence the greater the incentive of the so-called prosecutor to say things that appeal to Hollywood and the tabloids. That the “success” of a prosecutor translates in obtaining a death sentence, especially in this case, tells volumes about current American “justice”, “rationality” and (lack of) conscience. For, as the writer says, the Tsarnaev brothers did what the Americans do directly or pay and prompt others to do in umpteen other countries. It would be interesting to know (but we probably never will) what turned the brothers against the system that had apparently accepted them. Disillusionment? Broken promises? Chronic indifference? Perception of prevailing values?
Talking of conscience, the link at the end of this note connects to an article of a trial, in which the judge threatened the members of the jury to disqualify them if they listened to their conscience (sic).
Just one more example of warped minds creating and giving the tone to a warped society.
http://yourdailyshakespeare.com/shakespeare-the-environment-utah-a-hero-and-the-justice-system/equalities
So it’s okay to do what the Hegemon does?
Not hardly. Justice isn’t relative.
These two Islamic freaks who blew up innocent people are criminals. They then went on to kill a cop, and would have killed and killed more.
Has nothing to do what the Hegemon does. They deserved justice. One got it already. And the other hopefully soon.
Thou Shall Not Kill. It applies to individuals first and foremost.
So, who were those guys in the black jackets, beige pants, army boots and wearing black backpacks (with labels remarkably similar to the pack that exploded)?
BTW, it’s ‘Thou Shall Not Commit Murder’ and it only applies to the members of that tribe. Killing of animals and other non-humans is permitted. You might look into that talmud thingy for clarification of what constitutes a ‘human’.
Idiot Troll!
What a nonsense. The younger brother did nothing. He almost got killed by crazy cops altough he was without any gun and hidden lying in a ship. There are no witnesses and no real evidence against him.
Are you trolling here?
I still contend that Oswald did it, either that or Bin Ladin.
Sorry that all I can offer is sarcasm enstead of insights but this is just one more in a series of murderous jokes.
The bombing being a false flag hoax has been obvious for a while. The Boston Globe’s tweets announcing the drill are a dead giveaway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaWCumjviWg
Here is an interesting article from the mainstream press in North America about Kerry’s latest meeting with Lavrov and Putin. It may be originally from Salon, but it’s a start.
I would love to read Saker’s comments, no matter how brief, on this article.
One thing I find interesting, that the article points out, is how the neocons are oddly silent about all this. No exasperated screams making parallels to Neville Chamberlain and “Peace in our time”. It’s like they’ve been told to “heel”.
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/the-adults-are-back-kerry-throws-in-the-towel-on-ukraine/
I also found Stephen Cohen’s comments interesting. Or rather, that he’s being trotted out to explain the about-face.
I don’t trust the West, but this really could be the beginning of the end of troubles in the Ukraine. Has the West conceded that the best course of action is to make nice with Russia? They’ve got simply too many pots going (both political and economic) and taking things to a boil over the Ukraine makes no sense.
By the way for any of you out there who like to read about economics from a common-sense (non-keynesian) point of view, David Stockman’s blog is the best.
David Stockman is the neocon who introduced what GHW Bush called “Voodoo Economics”, otherwise known as Reaganomics, saying that “supply-side economics and the running of vast budget deficits would balance the budget. He’s a total charlatan!
According to
http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=2594774 ,
Alexandr Alexandrov wife says that he quit the Russian AF in December; and that videos show him in poor shape. She received phone calls from unknowns from her husband phone, but there was no official contact by Ukraine.
Pepe Escobar on Kerry’s vist to Sochi
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41919.htm
Moreover, nothing has basically changed other than the original, dissuasive Cold War era MAD – Mutually Assured Destruction – doctrine being over.
The US still retains PGS (Prompt Global Strike) capability. Ukraine is just a detail. The real game-changer will happen when Russia is able to seal its whole territory, via the S-500s, against PGS. That will happen sooner than anyone thinks. And that’s why the real Masters of the Universe – via their emissaries – feel compelled to talk.
US surveillance aircraft flying over the Spratly Islands warned off eight times. CNN can’t understand why China would be building the islans, other than territorial ambitions. Washington announcing it was moving 60% of its military forces to the region some years ago perhaps?
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/20/politics/south-china-sea-navy-flight/
Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell told CNN’s Erin Burnett Wednesday night that the confrontation indicates there is “absolutely” a risk of the U.S. and China going to war sometime in the future.
It would be possible to make a plausible case that the Tsarnaev brothers were patsies, that the bombing was a false flag operation, intended partly to justify an exercise in the lock-down of an entire city, as well, of course, as furthering the usual demonization of Muslims.
The brothers Tsarnajev were are the graduates of the same “academy” Timmy McVeigh graduated from. His faith is sealed, I don’t expect years and years or delays and repeals. He’ll b morted within a few mohths…while the “civil rights” of the perpetrators of the “whichita massacre” are lovingly nursed, or the other myriads of the other black on white crimes, the “knockout game” are hushed over…
Amerikwa, the dog of the jew is eating it’s own tail, biting @ anything, that moves…
It seems the trend is to screw Russia financially (French reneging on Mistral, Ukies not going to honour their bonds). The legal recourse will be arbitration by whatever bodies exist for this, but unfortunately those are all Western instruments, and it’s a foregone conclusion that they will rule in favour of Russia’s opponents, no matter what has been stipulated in the contracts.
Time to put the whole of Europe on an “advance payment” plan for gas, just like is done for deadbeat Ukraine. That would be leverage. Sure, it will breach the contract in place… so fucking what? The EU has already made a mockery of legal procedure. Time to take the gloves off. Even a bunch of pygmies armed with pointed sticks actually can take down a bull elephant.
It will b a lifetime education in doublespeak to follow the official western narrative over the issue of the Ukie vs the Greek abortions.
Don’t you just love this line from the US Senate’s military budget:
“Despite Russia signing the February 2015 Minsk Agreement, it has continued to violate the terms of the agreement, as noted by Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland, at the German Marshall Fund Brussels Forum in March 2015: “We’ve seen month on month, more lethal weaponry of a higher caliber…poured into Ukraine by the separatist Russian allies…the number one thing is for Russia to stop sending arms over the border so we can have real politics.”. ”
Nuland’s Realpolitik AKA death and destruction.
The Angel of Death herself .
The likes of Nuland as an international ambassador for what was once a great nation? The terminal end of a decaying political system?
At worst, nuclear armageddon. At best a lot of shitty little wars that will kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people. What a choice.
Peter…
you are absolutely right,there must be and will be judgement for those innocents killed in IRAQ,SYRIA,LYBIA,UKRAINE and many others places around globe.
Quick side note:
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/leaked-memo-shows-soros-ngos-payed-macedonian-students-1500-come-regime-change-ideas/ri7179
Leaked Memo Shows George Soros NGOs Paid Macedonian Students $1,500 to Think of Regime Change Ideas
George Soros NGOs commissioned Serbian regime change specialist group, Canvas, to recruit Macedonian students to push for protest ideas, with the best two winning $1,500 for betraying their nation
(Red Pill Times)
14 hours ago
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Color revolutions are out. Refugees are in. The new fashion for the powers that be.
What’s the rambling about Tsarnaev ? I don’t care if he is a useful idiot in a false flag, if he did plant the bomb he has to pay the price.
As far as I know there’s no doubt about his guilt, the doubt lie about who sent him to do the deed.
Get real. There were no bombs there as we know and the whole thing was set up by the clearly photographed and documented mercenaries.
I’m actually disgusted that this blog is supporting the false narrative about the alleged “bombing”, performed by a bunch of third-rate crisis actors.
Indeed, quite disappointing.
“Part of the people who came to Britannia from the Iberian peninsula, and are now constituting the majority of genetic makeup of Britannia today, were Phoenicians.”
I’m sorry, Saker. You’ll never find a degreed anthropologist anywhere on the planet who’ll agree with this statement. Yes, Phoenician traders intermingled with the pre-Celts and Celts, and gave them some of their religious views and metalworking technology. But there was no substantial Phoenician settlement in Britain, as there was in what’s now Spain and Portugal. And to say they contributed a significant portion to the genetic make-up of any but the Welsh and Cornish Celts runs counter to the known evidence. The modern Britons are preponderantly Celtic, Saxon, and Norse. But what sort of lingering Roman racist prejudice against the Phoenicians is this, anyway? If anyone can be said to have inherited the genetic traits of the Phoenicians (who gave the world its first alphabet), it’s the Sicilians, Syrians, and Palestinians.
And the Lebanese, of course.
Plus, what’s that thing about the Phoenicians ending Rome? Or pretending to be Romans? Or being racists? What the hell? Where does that come from?
Those Punics had been at war with Rome for a very long time before Rome finally managed to destroy them. Have you heard about Punic wars? Obviously not. You can google about it. Educate yourself before making stupid statements.
Huh? What do the Punic wars have to do with my statements? Could you please elaborate?
I agree about racism comment of author though. Ignorant thing to say, not to mention stupid also.
Do you even know where those Phoenicians were? Author is right and you can find plenty of work (most from geneticists) who will confirm that today Britannia’s population (before mass immigration I should say) had largely origins from Iberian peninsula. And here are a couple of maps showing the lands those Punics author is talking about inhabited:
http://web.schc.sc.edu/Samantha_Ward_Senior_Thesis/pics/carthage.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Map_of_Rome_and_Carthage_at_the_start_of_the_Second_Punic_War-fr.svg/1024px-Map_of_Rome_and_Carthage_at_the_start_of_the_Second_Punic_War-fr.svg.png
You can clearly see that large part of Spain was theirs and for very long time. How else do you think those British population have the genes which can only be found on Iberian peninsula? Because population from Iberian peninsula moved there. That is the only explanation.
geneticists be damned.
“who will confirm that today Britannia’s population (before mass immigration I should say) had largely origins from Iberian peninsula”
Thousands of years before Rome or Carthage the Celt Iberians migrated through Breton / Britanny to Cornwall, many centuries later Angles & Jutes first, then Saxons, invaded and colonized.
Centuries later the Danes invaded & created the Danelaw,basically northern England.
The Norsemen of Rollo, by treaty with the Frankish King Charles, created Normandy……..leading to the Conquest of 1066.
The more recent invasions I do not bother commenting on.
And your rude remark to an earlier commenter “educate yourself”
“Et Tu Brute!”
Iberia was largely Celtic except for the southern region. Maybe that’s where those British genes came from. Perhaps Celtic culture reached Britain throught migrations from Northern-Central Iberia. Carthage did found several settlements along the mediterranean coast, however, so their impact on the genetic makeup of Iberia can be debated.
I read somewhere that Phoenicians were originally a tribe from the area of modern-day Bahrain, who later move to modern-day Lebanon. Probably related to Gulf Arabs. Nothing to do with Britons.
Iberia was largely Celtic except for the southern region. Maybe that’s where those British genes came from? Perhaps Celtic culture reached Britain through migrations from Northern-Central Iberia? Carthage did found several settlements along the mediterranean coast, however, so their impact on the genetic makeup of Iberia can be debated.
I read somewhere that Phoenicians were originally a tribe from the area of modern-day Bahrain, who later move to modern-day Lebanon. Probably related to Gulf Arabs. Not much to do with Britons.
Sorry but wtf??? Since when does anyone believe that there was any real bombing there or that the brothers were even remotely involved?
We all saw the photos of those mercenaries setting up the performance, we all saw the “witnesses” known from other scams, the whole show was a joke.
To even remotely support the official narrative is just disgusting.
Dear The Saker,
Well the Ukie Junta are on a roll today. Cancelling lots of agreements with Russia – and we all know who visited last week:
http://tass.ru/en/world/795922
http://tass.ru/en/world/795919
……They are also refuse to gte. Human Rights in East Ukraine:
http://tass.ru/en/world/795933
and foregin mercenaries spotted:
http://tass.ru/en/world/795951
Just on news – Russian Embassy in Syria has been shelled! – one person dead….this is getting dangerous now…….
Rgds,
Veritas
“There is no Western judge who would ever condemn the killings of non-English speaking people.” This is either bigotry or hollow formalism (e.g., a “Western Judge” is conventionally defined as one who “would never consider condemning the killings of non-English speaking people.”)
“Intensely focused on the protection of their genetic makeup, in other word racists.” Whoa whoa whoa. Wanting your people to go on existing as a unique group is “racist”? If you believe that, you’re a lunatic Scott.
“The US calls the killing of English speakers a terrorist act, while the killings of non-English speakers a necessary justifiable extrajudicial punishment.” It has NOTHING to do with whether they speak English – or are white – or not, Scott. The Empire is perfectly willing and able to kill English speakers and whites who go against the empire. The US calls certain people victims and certain people terrorists on the basis of their POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC AFFILIATION/ORIENTATION, not their race, religion or ethnicity. To claim that the leaders of the Jewish-occupied West are “white supremacists” is beyond ridiculous. They are “Weath & Power Supremacists” and just because the majority happen to have white skin does NOT mean they represent the interests of white people.
The leaders of the “West” have no interest in race whatsoever other than destroying the very notion of it – for whites anyway. The Western elites promote race tribalism and supremacism among blacks and latinos (as evidence by USG support for anti-white racist groups like ADL, NAACP and La Raza). When the “West” supports neo-Nazi “racists” in Ukraine it is NOT because they actually believe in “racism” or “white supremacism”, it is because neo-Nazi racist are the mots CONVENIENT force to use to effect the Empire’s goals. Your obsession with the illegitimate, Marxist-Trotskyite concept of “racism” discredits you, Scott. America’s leaders actually HATE WHITE PEOPLE as evidenced by the endless hate campaigns orchestrated against us in the imperial media and their desire to disempower whites in America by importing millions of Latinos who consciously seek to turn America into a Latinized ethnic polity – that’s called “genocide” Greg, and the target is white Americans.
“One of them stressed repeatedly that there were no Russian troops involved in fighting in Ukraine,” it (OSCE)said.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Monday it hoped that the former servicemen held by the Ukrainian Security Service would be released. Russian citizens Alexander Alexandrov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev were not active-duty servicemen at the moment of their detention, the ministry’s official spokesman Gen Igor Konashenkov said.
extract re OSCE visiting captured militia…..http://tass.ru/en/world/796000
brave man.
I got yet another phone call from the ‘medicare health care help line’ — some insurance company trying to sell me something I neither want nor need, of course. I get other junk calls from people trying to scam me by selling me electricity, gas, funeral insurance — all sorts of things — and they all pretend to be something ‘official’ or be connected to the utility companies or whatever. At least 2/3 of the calls I get are people trying scam me or sell me garbage. Don’t even ask about the postal and email spam I get.
That’s America now — and it’s not just companies, or crooks, or mass media, but the whole culture, and especially the government. Capitalism! Squeeze every cent out of everyone, and being deceptive about doing it is just par for the course. Goes for gathering power, and personal information as well. No human beings left by this thinking — just lambs for the slaughter or to be fleeced. And they never give up.
Even Russia can’t get on the ‘no call list’, and if they did the list is ignored anyway. No country can get on a ‘no call list’ that’s followed, any more than a person can. Capitalism! Just an earlier stage of Fascism and imperialism — take over the world and own everything.
Western culture — there it is. Like a black hole, or The Blob, sucking everything in. Once this is understood then most everything else is understandable.
Thanks Scott.
Good call on the nauseating hypocrisy of one arm of the US admin condemning attacks on civilians, while another kills them by the millions – most of them abroad.
However, I find ‘gene-determinant’ ( your Iberian reference ) explanations, especially one that reachs so far back in time, basically ..WTH??!!
This has nothing to do with the friggin’ Phoenicians, who have long since evaporated – culturally, linguistically, ethnically, geographically!
Laws do not deliver justice unless they protect the vulnerable from abuse of power. But possession has always been nine tenths of British law, since it was mostly concerned with acquisition/control of property/resources.
The establishment of guilt or innocence is incidental to the Anglo-Saxon judiciary: they have a long history of punishing theft by example – a warning to the teeming underclass not to take up a life of crime, even if it is necessary to survival. (Hundreds of thousands of impoverished Englishmen were sent to Australia (the colonies) in the late 18c on the slightest pretext, as a way of thinning- out a burgeoning underclass that threatened the wealth-class.)
That’s why they call them ‘show’ trials.
Politically, that is overwhelmingly a class, not a genetic issue.
Keep Russia out and Germany down. Classic England.
It won’t work anymore, and Putin knows it. German and Russian peoples are closer than they have ever been, and that bond was born in the blood of WW II. Angela Merkel is just out of touch with her own people. It is no accident that Germans lay flowers and wreaths at Soviet war memorials on their own soil. It is their humble way of asking for forgiveness, forgiving themselves, and forgiving God. When Putin tells the world that his parents forgave the German people for their own personal suffering in Leningrad, he is telling the world that the purpose of life on this planet is to learn how to love and how to forgive. Not an easy task, the hardest part learning to forgive God, but the most effective way to cleanse and release karma so that individuals, and the world as a whole, can evolve and ascend to a higher level of consciousness so lasting peace and joy can break out. Sounds totally kooky to Western ears, but completely normal to the Eastern mindset.
Putin is bombarding Ukraine with love and forgiveness, not out of weakness, but out of strength, because love is more powerful than hate. It has far more lasting consequences. This is a very interesting guy. He must have absorbed a lot of the residual psychic pain lingering in the city of Dresden all those years he lived there, and he has a very deep empathy for the common German people who have suffered almost as much trauma from the “divide and conquer” strategy as the Russian people. By the time Dresden was fire-bombed, ordinary German civilians already accepted that they lost the war and they just wanted the agony to be over and to return to peace; like any normal average person would. Who drops incendiary bombs on a city full of innocent refugees and destroys it on St. Valentine’s Day? Only somebody who wants to eradicate love from the world.