Foreign Policy Diary – ‘The New War of Transnistria’

Anonymous on June 29, 2015 · at 2:12 pm EST/EDT

OT: Armenian Maidan.

One more item for the checklist. People wearing identical colored shirts (jackets in Ukraine) dispersed throughout the protestors. Described as “Stand in one place and often talking on the phone.”

http://www.e-news.su/uploads/posts/2015-06/1435576822_182916_600.jpg

https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/ru-en.en/www.e-news.su/politics/64575-v-armenii-poyavilis-lyudi-v-krasnom.html

Kat Kan on June 29, 2015 · at 3:28 pm EST/EDT

It is usually red. In Odessa they only had red duck tape on their arms.

One sneaky defence against this. Put the same colour on your own people, get them into the crowd and give them opposite directions, eg “go to the side street” “we need 100 around the back” and then they can be cut off and sent home. Getting hold of one of their phones would help. Or go up to 5 or 6 of them and hand them new phones (cheap ones).

Or just set up 3 of your own guys to shadow each one, ideally guys with some unarmed hand to hand combat training, to take them down if they start to provoke violence. Down and out, arrested.
- Rootman on June 29, 2015 · at 4:05 pm EST/EDT
  
  Don´t forget to place countersnipers!
  - Kat Kan on June 29, 2015 · at 7:03 pm EST/EDT
    
    Snipers with paintball guns. Yes. Splatter green paint on people, as a warning that it might be bullets next. Indelible dye, so the red-jacket provocateurs get marked and can’t get rid of it for a few weeks.
    
    Set up free food stall. No walking around with bags of cookies. Make it a stall, in a side street. Advertise it. Catch, ID and send people home as they go there. Let them keep the sandwich.
- blue on June 30, 2015 · at 3:26 am EST/EDT
  
  I’m not sure, but it seemed that during the live broadcast at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap8g-wnzJ8g I watched for a few hours last night covering the protest in Armenia that a group of people in white tee-shirts were organizing, while 2 with red shirts were manning bullhorns (bigger and more powerful than the police had). They collected at specific time in the morning and then there was just normal passer-bys after the demonstration, excpet for a bout 2 dozen people that stayed.
  
  It definitely had the look of a well arganized thing, although I couldn’t understand what was said or who the organizers were, and not some spontaneous popular uprising at all.
  
  (The channel at the link is broadcastng live as I write this — Tuesday, 3:32 UTC)
  - Stephen on June 30, 2015 · at 12:53 pm EST/EDT
    
    Reminds me of the “riot control” training in the RAN. The Officer would give the order, “At the man in the red shirt, take aim. At the man in the red shirt, Fire!”
    - Anonymous on June 30, 2015 · at 3:51 pm EST/EDT
      
      They are still at it at that link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap8g-wnzJ8g
      
      “Live Protesters holding ground against rising electricity prices in a central Yerevan
      1in.am LIVE” Armenian TV.
      
      It’s Armenia, not the US, but watching it, it has a different look and feel from the actions I’ve seen here. Maybe part movie set with the extras arriving for the crew call, or people gathering waiting for a fireworks display or box store sale. Some people just walk by, and some seem to stop just to watch what’s going on, but others walk in a group directly from somewhere, as prearranged meeting, sometimes ‘accompanied by a staff member’ looks like. Knots of people with someone speaking, to the group, maybe giving instructions or explaining something.
      
      Then someone speaking through a bullhorn, like ‘OK everyone, quiet on the set…’ — then banging on a trash container. Looks more like a ‘production’ than a protest.
      
      Last night I saw some meetings, and often white t-shirted people were doing most of the talking, but I also am starting to recognize ‘regulars’ in other colors. I’m not sure what to make of it, but it seems strange. Overall a lot of people milling around waiting for ‘it’ to start, and with lots of good quality video cameras.

Anonymous on June 29, 2015 · at 2:15 pm EST/EDT

Attn Moderators:

I posted a fairly long comment yesterday about potential for a Maidan in Kygyzstan. It included many links (~15 or so). It doesn’t seem to have appeared. Are such posts discarded automatically? Thanks.

Vineyard Moderator - K.K. on June 29, 2015 · at 2:42 pm EST/EDT

We would not kill it but it may have ended up in spam, automatically. But, few will open 15 links anyway. Could you select 4 or 5 more comprehensive ones? If a very good one is not English, could you put it into a machine translator first then give the link to that version?
- Anonymous on June 29, 2015 · at 5:14 pm EST/EDT
  
  Thanks for the info.

Amerikanski on June 29, 2015 · at 11:03 pm EST/EDT

By the way, I see that Southfront is asking for donations to continue producing these videos:
http://southfront.org/donate/

… looks like they need some donations in the next couple days, or must close.

Penelope on June 29, 2015 · at 11:31 pm EST/EDT

GREECE. Michael Hudson has written an article. Includes text of the Delphi Declaration, his group addressed to the German people on Greece’s behalf. Excerpt:

We call upon you, the German people, to stop such a Faustian alliance between German political elites and international finance. We call upon the German people not to permit to their government to continue doing to the Greeks exactly what the Allies did to Germans after their victory in the First World War. Do not let your elites and leaders to transform the entire continent, ultimately including Germany, into a dominion of Finance.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/on-greece-and-europe-what-is-called-negotiation-is-a-demand-for-total-surrender/5458853

Ben on June 29, 2015 · at 11:56 pm EST/EDT

This is the question that will be put to Greeks in the referendum on Sunday. It has supposedly been translated into English:

Should the plan of agreement be accepted, which was submitted by the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund in the Eurogroup of 25.06.2015 and comprises of two parts, which constitute their unified proposal? The first document is entitled ‘Reforms for the completion of the current program and beyond’ and the second ‘Preliminary debt sustainability analysis’.”

It sounds confusing. Is here anybody who has access to the original and can verify the supposed translation?

Ben on June 29, 2015 · at 11:51 pm EST/EDT

“The situation here is very bad… Economic production is going down, foreign trade is shrinking, the security situation is equally alarming with our Moldovan partners holding military drills with NATO and the Ukrainian pressure mounting every day,” said Vitaly Ignatyev, the deputy foreign minister of Transnistria.

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150629/1024000838.html

What are critical dates for Transnistria blockade relief?