The Ukrainian offensive against the population of the eastern Ukraine is large, but does not seem to yield any tangible results so far. Here is a map of the affected cities:
The worst situation appears to be in Kramatorsk were attacking force has fully surrounded the city and a number of elements have penetrated inside using secondary roads. It is hard to get a clear image of what is going on but my personal feeling is that the attackers are making a show of force and then they withdraw without really attempting to storm any key building or hunt down and destroy defending forces. I have to stress that the information coming out of the region is exceptionally sketchy and that it is impossible for me to get a better picture of what is going.
The cities not yet attacked by the Ukrainians are reportedly on full mobilization and are preparing for an attack.
The big story is, of course, the massacre in Odessa. There is evidence coming out that this was a very carefully orchestrated event with agent provocateurs infiltrated into both groups. For those of you who can understand Russian, here is an extremely interesting report about the “red-banded” infiltrators seen amongst the pro-Russian, pro-junta and even the police (I will try to have the audio translated as soon as possible and post it her):
That’s it for now. Tomorrow should bring some clarity to these issues.
I will try to keep you posted. Stay tuned,
The Saker
Kiev and its fascist/nazi backbone have spiked the center. Now its all out civil war. The secessionists in the East need to get armed, and fast. Russia probably will not move its army into Eastern Ukraine – that is a trap set by the US to divide Europe from Asia and Putin knows it. They just need weapons to stop APCs, tanks, and helicopters, then what is left of the Ukrainian army will be checked.
Saker, can you post verified sites where we in the West (inside the belly of the beast) can make donations to the cause of the Eastern Ukrainians? I want to help, and many others want to help, but we don’t know what legitimate sites to approach.
Can you also post the names and bios of those that perished in the building in Odessa? They are martyrs that should not be forgotten and will inspire us to fight on. I was especially saddened to see that young women died in that building.
Dear The Saker,
I hope you get better – don’t push yourself too hard.
Isn’t it interesting that the red bands have their faces covered…….divide and conquer is the USG/CIA style….the truth will come out…
A bit of light relief for you from cluborlov:
http://cluborlov.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/statecraft-or-witchcraft.html
His description of Nuland, Clinton and Powers gave a little light relief in this dreadful time.
Rgds,
Veritas
@Arius:Saker, can you post verified sites where we in the West (inside the belly of the beast) can make donations to the cause of the Eastern Ukrainians? I want to help, and many others want to help, but we don’t know what legitimate sites to approach.
Unfortunately I don’t have that kind of info. Also, be very careful with this, the US has jailed people on charges of “material assistance to terrorism” for contributing money to Palestinian organizations which at that time were no considered terroristic by the USA. What the regime in DC did is basically to declare these organization “terrorist” and then they RETROACTIVELY accused those who had donated to these organizations of “material assistance to terrorism”. Considering that the US backed junta in Kiev considers all Russian-speakers and their organizations as terrorist, I would not be surprised one bit if one morning we find out that the US State Department has also listed them as terrorists.
Bottom line: if you, like I, live in the Belly of the Beast, you can fight with ideas, but you cannot in any way shape of form provide any direct assistance.
Sorry, but that is the society we live in :-(
Kind regards and thanks for your compassion and desire to help.
The Saker
Strelkov, head of Donetsk military branch who is located in Slavyansk, says that several days ago he has sent some of his people to Kostantinovka (with most of the guys, including their commander, being from that town) and Kramatorsk.
In Kostantinovka self-defense have repelled all the attacks without any losses. There have been no losses in Kramatorsk, either. 2 self-defense guys were wounded.
This town is too big both for Kiev goons, or for self-defense, to keep control as a whole. But the town centre is under control of self-defense people…
The 95th Kiev brigade losses in two days: 5 killed & 13 wounded.
Info in Russian, pictures:
http://aftershock.su/?q=node/217960
Последние данные: Константиновку сегодня удержали — там сплошняком местные в нашем отряде (я их командировал несколько дней назад из Славянска, чтобы поставить в городе гарнизон). Командир тоже местный там. „Нацгвардейцы“ атаковать горисполком так и не решились — он остался за нашими. Послал туда подкрепление небольшое и боеприпасы — будут драться дальше. Аваков, кстати, в своем „твиттере“ признал потери (раненными), понесенные десантом у телевышки. А среди ополченцев потерь нет. В Краматорске — примерно тоже самое с поправкой на то, что гарнизон там немного посильнее. Из-за хаотических обстрелов раскатывавших по городу на БТР уродов погибло довольно много мирных жителей. В перестрелках ранено 2 местных ополченца. Противник (»нацгвардия”) потерял 3 человека раненными. Центр города прочно в руках нашего гарнизона, а весь город не способны имеющимися силами удержать ни наши, ни укропы. Их подразделения сосредоточились в районе аэродрома. У нас в Славянске за день подразделением антиснайперской борьбы в районе севернее Соболевки (северная городская окраина) уничтожено еще 2 снайпера противника (предположительно — из ПС или ЧВК). За день потерь в гарнизоне нет. Вернулись еще на несколько ранее оставленных позиций. Сейчас пока тихо, хотя нас стращают очередным «штурмом» в 3 часа ночи. Если наконец соберутся — слава Богу! А то надоело безрезультатно гонять отряды за постоянно маневрирующими бронегруппами. Ждем-с! Общие потери 95-й бригады за два дня — 5 убитых и 13 раненых, как мне любезно сообщили. Думаю, основные понесены в ходе штурма Карачуна.”
Best Regards,
shed
Here’s a report about pre-planned provocation that led to the massacre in Odessa, IN ENGLISH:
http://ars.livejournal.com/12135.html
Protesters were shot to death INSIDE the Trade Unions House (in Russian, lots of 18+ photos):
http://frallik.livejournal.com/781599.html
Saker, if you can, please post the latter on your blog!
Sorry – a wrong link given in the previous post. Corrected:
http://www.voicesevas.ru/news/yugo-vostok/voina-na-yugo-vostoke-onlain-04-05-2014-.html
Best Regards
shed
Saker, the reports coming in from Odessa indicate an execution in the Trade Union building. Several sources now picking up on it.
Colonelcassad has rumors about the numbers, but around 100+. Police is apparently going to remove the bodies during the week in small numbers, to keep it quiet.
Note the women chocked to death. I’m amazed no one has earlier noticed how the bodies were moved or burned only from the top up.
http://vvv-ig.livejournal.com/690116.html
Also,
lots of videos here
http://scampalone.livejournal.com/33969.html
From Green’s link at 04 May, 2014 23:30 – the account in English of the Odessa massacre and the coordinated work that led up to it.
The author has learned first hand from field experience the classic method of false flag and the Big Lie. It would be hard to find a better description of it:
“By the way, giving a common Ukraine informational overview – I understood a simple and genius Idea of the Maidan. Maidan is built on the Lie, completely from start to the end. Lie loud, lie crazy, lie first, and immediately condemn your opponent: 1) in the things you did, 2) in lying. Be loud and repeat. Keep your mass emotional, for them not to start thinking and see the real guilties in people troubles.”
Dear The Saker:
There is a very interesting and profound article by Boris Kagarlistsky entitled “Logic of a Revolt” on the ZNet website. His assessment of Russia and Putin is very different from yours. His analysis shows WHY Russia has been acting weak in the Ukrainian crisis. Now your position all along has been that Russia is playing a smart game and has the upper hand. I have not been able to accept that. Retreat after retreat does not show strength, it shows weakness. Nor does not being able to defend your backyard. But the Boris article does a very detailed analysis of Russian society and its political classes to show how and why Russia has no bold long-term policy but merely stumbles from one crisis response to another. Good wishes.
The ever reliably filthy ‘liberal’ voice, ‘The Guardian’, has declared war on the ‘Putin trolls’ in its CiF section. Apparently, according to this exemplary model of really existing Western ‘Freedom of the Press’, if you support Putin, say that the ‘government’ in Kiev are ‘fascists’ or deny that Russia invaded Crimea and stole it from poor, little, freedom-loving Ukraine, then you are a troll, a Putin-bot in the pay of ‘the Kremlin'(full of gremlins!). To back up his assertions he, with a droll comic touch, quotes Luke Harding, the Syrian jihadis little mate, and thoroughly unbiased hater of the evil Putin.
Yet more evidence that the Western ruling fascisti, and their sub-fascisti MSM droogs are getting rather frightened that their clever little plan is coming awry, and are growing quite hysterical, and their authoritarian roots are coming out. The Comments started out very contemptuous and dismissive of this bulldust, but, after a while, the Empire Loyalists emerged from beneath their virtual rocks. None of them, of course, are trolls. Perish the thought.
Hi, Saker,
WARNING: Horrific images of the bodies inside the burned building in Odessa.
Someone posted this url at CNN (Source: http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/04/world/europe/ukraine-crisis/ )
http://frallik.livejournal.com/781599.html which shwos what the fascists did in Odessa and also has pictures of snipers? on the roofs.
Comment:
A picture is worth a thousand words, this is a picture of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis:
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2014-05-04/innf
FARS is reporting that Saudi Arabia has sent fighters from Syria to the Ukraine and that they have been dispatched to Kramatosk.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13930214000824
Stivan
Thank you for keeping the light shining in the darkness.
Just a short comment on the question of the Donbass miners, and the fact that they keep working instead of striking or fighting.
Pro-junta spin doctors interpret this as a sign of miners’ pro-Kiev support. Quoting: “Most miners’ stance is ‘work quietly and keep wages coming,” due to “patriotism.”
Pro-federalists tend to interpret the miners dedication to their jobs “as political passivity towards the fascist regime.”
Of cause neither of these statements are true.
The true reasons why the majority of miners keep working are the following:
1. The Donbass mines cannot be left unattended for more than three days. They would carve in and collapse, even with the water pumps working. The miners have already declared their mines nationalized and to be the property of the People Republic of Donetsk. People want to keep mines open and operational till the region obtains independence.
2. The miners are feeding and supporting the fulltime fighters and their families.
Cheers
daisy2
Some sites discussing the Odessa massacre:
Кто готовил бойню в Одессе http://mikle1.livejournal.com/4081923.html (auto trans) Who prepared the massacre in Odessa http://tinyurl.com/mx39lml
Discussion of how the event proceeded. Red armbands are discussed.
http://oper.ru/news/read.php?t=1051613634&page=4#408 Also http://scampalone.livejournal.com/33969.html click “[Раскрыть…]” below 1st video.
Listing about a dozen videos. I believe Brian posted links to at least some of these already.
http://mikle1.livejournal.com/4079671.html
Photos, some comments.
http://vott.ru/entry/284812 (auto trans) http://tinyurl.com/neab82u
Statements by survivors.
Свидетельство врача о том, что майданаци не давали оказывать помощь пострадавшим http://varjag-2007.livejournal.com/6086256.html Also https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1375136832773724&id=100008322601683
Livejournal link is followed by comments. This is an auto trans of the doctor’s words.
“Certificate doctor that maydanatsi not allowed to assist the affected
Hello, my name is Igor Rozovskii, I’m 39 years old , I live in the city of Odessa . For 15 years I have been working as a doctor in the ambulance service .
Yesterday, as you know , in our city there was a terrible tragedy , some people kill others. Brutally murdered – burned alive. Not intoxicated, not for the inheritance of my grandmother , but because they do not share the political views of the nationalists. First, severely beaten , and then burned .
As a physician , I hurried to help those who could have been saved , but I was stopped by gunmen , not allowing to approach the wounded . One of them pushed me roughly , promising that soon me and other Jews of Odessa face the same fate .
I saw a guy who could have been saved if I could take him to the hospital , but all persuasions run blow to my face and the loss of points .
For 15 years I have seen a lot, but yesterday I wanted to cry no, not from pain or humiliation and helplessness , to do something . In my town there was something that was not even the Nazi occupation. I wonder why the world is silent ?”
Very good up close account of what happened in Building in Odessa. This man one of the lucky ones !!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7DLMvsHmcI
This is a GOOD English version of what happened in Odessa http://ars.livejournal.com/12135.html
More sites with material on the Odessa massacre.
Я была там, в горящем Доме профсоюзов… http://echo.msk.ru/blog/sofa_/1312398-echo/ (auto trans) I was there in the burning house unions … http://tinyurl.com/pnojubu
Personal account.
http://etherealstation.livejournal.com/ (auto trans) http://tinyurl.com/l9q73t3
This looks like info acquired from the coroner’s reports of the victims. Mentions the banderivtsy regime wants info on the bodies to be kept secret.
Одесса: итоги евромайдановской Хатыни http://da-dzi.livejournal.com/206721.html (auto trans) Odessa: results evromaydanovskoy Khatyn http://tinyurl.com/kdz4r88
Situation in Odessa, with comments.
В Одессе все спокойно http://mikle1.livejournal.com/4082374.html
(auto trans) “In Odessa, everything is quiet
Utilities Odessa vyvorochennye clean paving, sweep the streets. Around the burned area on the Greek minibus photographed a few tourists who constantly look back with fear. On Deribasovsky unusually empty. Mega “Steakhouse” and “Compote” without visitors. They all wanted to be covered over, but then decided to work yet. C for 11 hours.
Polite waiters apologize and say that breakfast will not come today. Everyone is trying to pretend that nothing happened. Although only talk about it. Nobody wants to believe that in a calm Odessa yesterday burned 42 people alive. Declared three days of mourning and Ukrainian flags black ribbons. That’s all. No other signs of the tragedy.
This, of course, is not a provocation FSB, as stated by Mr. Pashinsky. The house burned unions not Russian saboteurs, but ordinary guys Odessa. They burned for what they were “Colorado”. So they disparagingly referred to those who have a different perspective on what is happening in the country and the city. Burned football fans “Chernomorets” and “Metalist”. Kharkovites and Odessa. Do not believe the media that talk excitedly about the attack on the pro-Russian activists peaceful rally for a united Ukraine. From the very beginning set themselves the same goal – to terror. Ultras became the vanguard of the Kiev junta. Their roof Kiev government.
No wonder that the local police did not intervene in almost massacre. Yes, and there was no one to interfere too much. Only when people become charred jump out of windows, the firemen arrived. Hundreds of Nazis just walked around the town and caught “Colorado”. They reveled in their impunity. You must realize that the bulk of the ultras of 15-20 years. It was a flock of zverevshaya born regime. Fucking for IMF money they started the war. In Odessa, and Slavic. They cling to power, set against the people that animals have tasted first blood and shoot Slovyansk human shields. Shields they call people.
In Odessa, still do not fully understand what actually happened. The Nazis left. All was quiet. Externally. This is the first reaction to the shock. But many people realize that a quiet life is no more. Something happened that would change everything. It’s true.
Alexander Zubchenko”
Also comments.
Anonymous said…05 May, 2014 00:55
“There is a very interesting and profound article by Boris Kagarlistsky entitled “Logic of a Revolt” on the ZNet website.”
Kagarlistsky is zionazi disinformation and has been since the late 1980’s. He was one of the original perestroika era Israeli-American agents in Russia. And extremely dull disinformation at that. I’ve never seen any one who could write so many words yet keep it completely “content free”.
Mulga Mumblebrain said…05 May, 2014 01:04
The Guardian proves once again Israel/zionazis are intimately involved in trying to destroy Russia. The Guardian is part of a family of Israeli zionazi disinformation sites. Other members I know of are haaretz (hq), New York Times, Der Speigel. There is probably one of these in every major EU country, but those are the ones I know about. These rags essentially push the same material and “borrow” from each other, one could call them “sister papers” in the pre-internet past.
What is clear is that these propaganda organs represent Israeli policy (think of them as an extension of official Israeli PR), and their job is to sell this policy to middle, upper middle class westerners.
Hi guys,
I was talking to my grandpa today about the events in Odessa. Before going to bed he came to my room and told me how Hitler came to power in Germany. He said Hitler was financially backed up by other countries because they needed any war to boost their economies. And that the Reichstag was burned and communists were blamed. That helped Hitler to get all necessary power and win the elections and become a chancellor. And start the war.
Gramps thinks history might be repeating but this time the elections might go to Yarosh or Poroshenko aca new Hitler backed up by their nationalists and will eventually become a war with Russia.
Is this a possible outcome?
Thank you, be safe
More sites about the Odessa massacre.
Одесса 2 мая.Что это было и почему Путин не ввел войска. http://esperovintro.livejournal.com/27837.html (auto trans) Odessa 2 maya.Chto it be and why Putin has not sent troops. http://tinyurl.com/kcc8tkt
Info on red armband agents.
Внимание! Ю.Тимошенко призывает организовать нападение на ветеранов в Одессе! http://tertiaroma.livejournal.com/534342.html Attention! Tymoshenko calls on veterans to organize an attack in Odessa!
Tymopsycho at her usual.
Ярема: люди умирали мгновенно из-за горения неизвестного вещества. Они сожгли себя сами http://varjag-2007.livejournal.com/6087730.html (auto trans) Yarema: people died instantly due to the combustion of an unknown substance. They burned themselves http://tinyurl.com/n3coq64
Also includes video of those teenaged nazi girls cheerfully making molotovs Одесса девушки готовят коктейли Молотова 02,05,2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCpP0VRqgAI
I suspect now that the reason the banderivtsy regime is making up stories about “mysterious gas that killed instantly” is to cover up the fact many of the victims appear to have been murdered and then set alight by their death squadies.
What the new Militsiya head in Odessa actually said (we watched him live) was first profuse praise of the right sector thugs, telling them they are ‘hero’s of maidan and Odessa’, then asking them for their help and assistance in ‘arresting the separatists and criminal gangs’ in Odessa. There will be more blood in the streets you can be sure, and Odessa will be destroyed in the process.
The protesters that the citizens demanded be freed, most were arrested at the Trade Union Hall during and after the fire, some suffering from serious injuries, and charged with ‘separatism’, a non existent ‘crime’ in the Ukraine Law Code.
EU and USA’s version of the fire is amazing, saying the people trapped in the building, which included many employees of the Trade Union, set the building on fire themselves whilst tossing molotov cocktails at ‘the peaceful demonstrators’ outside. Sorry, too many vids of the whole fracas (which we watched live and in color, start to finish) extant on you tube showing otherwise. What were those trapped using, the famous ‘Russian boomerang molotov’ that does a 180 degree turn and hits the people who tossed it?
While I have seen much in my more than a few years on this rock hurtling through space, I’ve never seen such an underwhelming outpouring of sympathy for the dead in Odessa. The total lack of even a few words of sympathy and compassion from EU and USA dignitaries says all. They, and those who are howling with glee at what happened in Odessa, disgust me totally.
Ukraine will now dissolve in to civil war, which in reality is what EU and USA want.
As for the ongoing probes and small attacks in the east, give me a team of eight, two RPG units and ammo for same plus security and recon, and I’ll pretty much end that foolishness on one night. I’ve watched them muchly but I certainly will not mention what, if anything, they are doing wrong. No sense in giving them ideas. Most are right sector thugs dressed up in either Militsiya black or their own bits and pieces of ‘uniform’, the surplus German flektarn being preferred. The Russian flectarn copy is similar to the German version but different enough to instantly tell the difference. For the laymen out there just look for the green velcro strip over the left upper blouse pocket. Dead giveaway that it’s Bundeswehr surplus, readily available all over EU and former SSSR.
For any of you here who are thinking of donating to the Odessa tragedy or to help the Self Defense Units in east Ukraine, don’t do it! Already the false sights are up and rolling. The general rule of thumb in Ukraine is anything you donate will be in someone’s pocket. Not a kopek will go where the sight says it will. Unsavory but reality.
Keep your money in your pocket and help by posting the truth everywhere you can.
I see that the 95th airmobile brigade is from Zytomyr oblast west of Kiev, that it has one ‘professional’ battalion (3 companies), a conscript battalion (3 comp + HQ co) and a token third conscript bat with just a HQ company. Not enough people to occupy two cities, one of 200k, the other half that size.
Any indication on units involved i attacks other that those on Kramatorsk and Konstantinovska.
It seems obvious that the Kiev gang got some indication around May 1 that convinced them that Moscow was bluffing and that they were free to attack.
I hope they are wrong. If–even after the Odessa massacre–Putin & Co continue to sit on their hands millions of people will feel betrayed. All the Russians may need to do is to convince local garrisons they mean business.”OK Guys. Time’s is running out. You can become heroes or you can become prisoners or worse. If you want to be heroes schedule your press conferences and announce you’re joining the people. Otherwise we’re coming in.”
My sense is that a couple of cities,like Lugansk and Donetsk, coming over will start a domino effect. The Russians might not have to do much, other than in Odessa and Dnipropetrovsk, except control the air and some key road junctions.
The longer they wait, the worse it’s liable to get.
Getting late. Goodnight.
Photo of the US flag on the building of the Ukrainian intelligence headquarters:
http://grozny-ivan.livejournal.com/1034436.html
CS
Fire planned to hide a massacre(??…)
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/frallik/12164489/874668/874668_original.jpg
http://aftershock.su/?q=node/227855
What would be good would be for some decent element within the Ukrainian army itself to do the right thing and decapitate the whole junta, the Right Sector leadership, and importantly the US embassy. A true night of the long knives.
It isn’t like Putin didn’t try to warn them last June at the G8.
Putin: ““You want Russia to abandon Asad and his regime and go along with an Opposition whose leaders don’t know anything except issuing fatwas declaring people heretics, and whose members – who come from a bunch of different countries and have multiple orientations – don’t know anything except how to slaughter people and eat human flesh. You use double standards and approach the crisis in Syria using summer and winter styles under one roof. You lie to your own peoples so as to further your interests. This is none of our business. But it is impermissible for you to lie to us and to the countries and peoples of the world, because the international stage is no longer yours alone. Your ability to monopolize it the way you did two decades ago is now gone for good.” How sad of a statement is it when the Russian President has to stand up to our leaders and tell them that Americans aren’t as stupid as they think?
@Where-Wolf, @Penny – others
I posted this comment in the previous thread before noticing the new one. I judge the subject is so important that I’m posting it again:
>>>>>>>
Ref: Corbett/Skaskiw:
A truly bizarre interview. I have sent the following to Corbett and will post any reply in comments here if one is forthcoming:
I was appalled by this interview – I really had difficulty believing what I was hearing and for a while thought it had to be some sort of wind-up. Sadly, it clearly was not.
I run the Wikispooks web site and have been a long-time supporter of both your work and that of Sibel Edmonds. This piece has me reconsidering that support VERY carefully indeed.
In view of the near-completion of the military encirclement of Russia and the clear, in-your-face-obvious intent by the West to destroy Russia if it cannot be made to submit to Anglo-US-NATO uni-polar global project requirements, I really would like to understand why it is that you – of all people – are so ready to jump on the anti-Russian bandwagon. I find it both bizarre and truly puzzling.
Please help me out here.
I urge others to listen to the interview. Here’s the link again. Then provide some feedback to corbett from his feedback form here
I’d like him to get so many such responses that he is forced to explain himself publicly. If he does not, then the conclusion is clear enough.
PaulaSlier_RT @PaulaSlier_RT 4h
#Turchinov admits in interview to #Channel5 “ATO” in SE.#Ukraine is bogged down ’cause “ppl & security forces there support #federalization”
PaulaSlier_RT @PaulaSlier_RT 2h
I tell him if my parents in South Africa see me they will kill me!
PaulaSlier_RT @PaulaSlier_RT 2h
Crawling past guy in sand pointing rifle — tells us not to film him says that if his sister sees him, she will kill him.
PaulaSlier_RT @PaulaSlier_RT 2h
And I am with a vest that says “press” on it — don’t know if that’s helping me or not.
PaulaSlier_RT @PaulaSlier_RT 2h
Guy just warned me sniper can see my face. Guys keep telling us not to film faces.
PaulaSlier_RT @PaulaSlier_RT 2h
#Lugansk: Activists take control of the Police HQ. Pro-#Kiev authorities don’t confirm information yet.
PaulaSlier_RT @PaulaSlier_RT 2h
One of the guys asks if I want a cup of tea!!!! really!!!!
PaulaSlier_RT @PaulaSlier_RT 2h
Guys telling us to go for cover!!!! Crouching in nearby building.
PaulaSlier_RT @PaulaSlier_RT 2h
#Avakov is near #Slavyansk and affirms the “number of #fatalities” following the today’s action in the city is being “double-checked” now
Wikispooks, and everyone else astounded by Corbett,
I haven’t been following this very closely but this wouldn’t be the first time someone challenging the Anglo-Zionist Empire has changed their tune. And I’m thinking threats, serious threats. After all, those challenging the Empire know quite well what its minions are capable of doing.
Re: Corbett interview.
Corbett is human, makes mistakes, is incredibly prolific, has done great work, is a truth seeker, is typically now very over-tired, and does periodically say things like “I blew it on that occasion. Here’s how I now see that’
It’s possible that he was set up, or was half asleep.
Corbett does in my opinion have some ideological weaknesses, but his body of work, again, contains much valuable material. An early influence on Corbett was Alex Jones, who for all his good work has an unfortunate tendency to diss all government, all socialism, all democracy, all political leaders, except for a few like Ron Paul, who for all his virtues has blemishes, for example I believe has never been up front on 9/11.
Corbett’s integrity is not in doubt imo; His judgment, occasionally.
wikispooks
I hope people do let him know how they feel if they are so inclined.
As stated I have written to him, previously and he doesn’t reply
But, if people are bothered by his interview the best means of making that clear is to not get his mailings and not support him financially if one is a supporter.
That is clear and concise
I looked today at the way James presented Skaskiw to the audience
He did not claim he was a native born Ukrainian
He said he was ‘resident’ in Lviv
“Today we fill in the gap by talking to Roman Skaskiw, a resident of Lviv and someone who is working to correct the misunderstandings and misinformation about the Ukraine crisis that have been spread by the Kremlin and parroted in much of the alt media”
Though James omitted the American born, american military service, fulbright scholar and all those other clues that would have tipped off spookiness….
James has been on the anti-russian bandwagon before regarding the Polish government plane crash…
which was one of the most one sided ‘investigations’ i have ever heard…
It also bothers me about the timing of this interview coming hot on the heels of Kerry bashing RT
He does some good work, he really does, but, his work should be taken caveat emptor.
As for Sibel Edmonds???
(not really a fan)
Re Corbett/Skaskiw interview.
Penny:
Agreed the intro, but v early on he does ask about kaskiw’s origins and the reply includes born in NYC (1:25).
Does anyone know if either (or both) are homosexual? In light of the furious western manufactured hoo-ha around that as an issue just prior to the Sochi Olympics, it would explain a lot. I vividly recall the ridiculous apoplexy of the UK’s Stephen Fry over it all for example. It does seem as though so-called ‘progressive’ – ie trendy liberal-left opinion in the West – elevates the issue to number one on the list of orthodoxies that absolutely MUST be adhered to – and Putin thus becomes their number one bogie-man
@wikispooks
I remember from Corbett’s past shows that he said he has wife and child(ren?).
If the estimates of the number of troops loyal to Kiev are correct, the junta has roughly 15 – 20K armed men it can use. This is enough to slowly grind down resistance in Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and some smaller localities. Kiev also has advantages in unhindered resupply and reinforcement capability for its units. In addition, it has a more or less unified command structure that is augmented by foreign advisors. The insurgents have none of the above.
The longer this operation is going to continue, the better will the junta troops perform – if only because the elements unwilling to perform will be eliminated and replaced with more reliable ones. And even the Right Sector thugs are capable of learning.
If Russia does not intervene, the insurgency will inevitably be severely mauled. Slavyansk and Kramatorsk will inevitably be lost. But there’s a but. Controlling the cities will be nearly impossible with 20K troops. Should the insurgents opt to carry on guerilla operations, they could create severe pressure on Kiev. In fact, they should’ve already started doing that some days ago. The fact that they haven’t tells me that a) they don’t have the physical and organizational means which is most likely because b) Moscow is unwilling to intervene at this point.
So I’m sad to say that Slavyansk and Kramatorsk will likely end up being sacrificed. Whether this will be meaningful or not I can’t say.
P.S. I still can’t fathom the fact that the insurgents around Lugansk haven’t made a determined attempt to take over any significant number of border crossings. This lack of foresight is appaling and is one of several factors that gives the insurgency an air of a farce.
BOPOH
Here are some terrible pictures with comments in English of what happened in final phase of tragedy in Odessa: http://ersieesist.livejournal.com/813.html
50% of electricity comes from the source of coal in Ukraine. Mines in Donetsk are profitable mostly by 2025 while in the past heavily were subsidized. What is the reason your voices couldn′t reach though different from pro-junta groups as if show-down ? Do you still possibly keep the collective mechanism for negotiation as the union for coal industry as EU members seem federalist putting quite importance on rights issues. Right for negotiation including collective action has been addressed by lawyers in their countries as crucial.
Is there a primary source available for the statement that the miners in Donbass have declared their mines nationalised?