The endless delays hampering the initial deliveries of the Russian humanitarian relief aid to southeastern Ukraine have become intolerable.
A lorry convoy with many hundreds of tonnes of humanitarian relief aid, urgently needed by the people in these regions, has been standing idle for a week now on the Russian-Ukrainian border. Over this period, the Russian side has made unprecedented efforts in all areas and at all levels in order to complete the required formalities. We have met all conceivable and inconceivable demands of the Ukrainian side and have submitted to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) exhaustive lists of food, drinking water, medications, essential items and diesel generators due to be delivered to Lugansk, where they are urgently needed by women, children and the elderly. These people are experiencing the horrors of daily artillery attacks and air strikes that have resulted in an increasing number of killed and wounded and destroyed the entire vital infrastructure in the area. Time and again, we met requests to check and recheck the shipment route, to coordinate procedures for the shipment’s delivery, and have signed the required documents with the ICRC. We have provided all essential security guarantees and have ensured similar guarantees on the part of the self-defense forces. These guarantees apply to the Russian convoy as well as other humanitarian relief aid being sent to Lugansk by the Kiev authorities.
At the same time, Kiev has delayed granting its formal consent required by the ICRC for several days, while repeatedly inventing new pretexts and stepping up attacks on Lugansk and Donetsk that involve military aircraft and heavy-duty armored vehicles, targeting residential areas and other civilian facilities. Over the past few days, the Ukrainian side has been launching ballistic missiles, including the deadly Tochka-U missiles, ever more frequently.
On 21 August, the situation appeared to have been resolved when the Ukrainian authorities finally informed the ICRC of their readiness to start clearing humanitarian shipments for prompt delivery to Lugansk. The Ukrainian side officially confirmed its unconditional consent for the convoy to start moving during a phone conversation between the Foreign Affairs Ministers of Russia and Ukraine. On 20 August, customs clearance and border control procedures were launched at the Donetsk checkpoint. On 21 August, however, this process was stopped, with officials citing much more intensive bombardment of Lugansk. In other words, the Ukrainian authorities are bombing the destination and are using this as a pretext to stop the delivery of humanitarian relief aid.
It appears that Kiev has set out to complete its “cleansing” of Lugansk and Donetsk in time for the 24 August Independence Day celebrations. It seems increasingly credible that the incumbent Ukrainian leadership is deliberately delaying the delivery of the humanitarian relief aid until there is nobody left to deliver this aid to. Quite possibly, they hope to achieve this result prior to the planned 26 August meetings in Minsk.
Russia is outraged by the blatant external manipulation of the international experts involved in preparing this operation. An endless succession of contradictory and mutually exclusive signals and messages we have been receiving is a true indication of behind the scenes games for purposes that have nothing to do with accomplishing a set humanitarian objective. Those who are holding the reins and hampering efforts to save human lives, to mitigate the suffering of sick and wounded people neglect the basic principles of society. We have called on the UN Security Council to promptly declare a humanitarian armistice, but these proposals are being invariably blocked by those who pay lip service to universal human values. Last time, this happened on 20 August, when the United States and some Western members of the UNSC declined to issue a statement in support of a ceasefire during the delivery of humanitarian relief aid to Lugansk by Russian and Ukrainian convoys.
We hereby state once again: All the required security guarantees regarding the passage of the humanitarian convoy have been provided. The ICRC has officially recognised these guarantees. The delivery routes are known, and they have been checked by an ICRC mission. The documents have been drawn up. The shipments have long been ready for inspection by Ukrainian border guards and customs officers who have been waiting at the Donetsk checkpoint in the Rostov Region for a week now. The capitals that display heightened concern for the situation in southeastern Ukraine are well aware of this. The endless artificial demands and pretexts have become unconscionable.
It is no longer possible to tolerate this lawlessness, outright lies and inability to reach agreements. All pretexts for delaying the delivery of aid to people in the humanitarian disaster zone have been depleted. The Russian side has decided to act. Our humanitarian relief convoy is setting out towards Lugansk. Naturally, we are ready to allow ICRC officials to escort the convoy and to take part in distributing aid. We hope that representatives of the Russian Red Cross Society will also be able to take part in this mission.
We are warning against any attempts to thwart this purely humanitarian mission which took a long time to prepare in conditions of complete transparency and cooperation with the Ukrainian side and the ICRC. Those who are ready to continue sacrificing human lives to their own ambitions and geopolitical designs and who are rudely trampling on the norms and principles of international humanitarian law will assume complete responsibility for the possible consequences of provocations against the humanitarian relief convoy. (emphasis added by me – the Saker)
We are once again calling on the Ukrainian leadership, as well as the United States and the European Union, which are exerting their influence on Kiev, to promptly launch negotiations in southeastern Ukraine and start complying with the accords formalised in the 17 April 2014 Geneva Statement by Russia, Ukraine, the United States and the EU on stopping the use of force, mitigating the humanitarian situation and immediately launching nationwide dialogue that would involve all Ukrainian regions.
Past time. All falls on deaf ears. Whoever wanted to listen, heard. Now go in and should they threaten the convoy – eliminate the threat.
I see that the first trucks have arrived safely in Lugansk.
I have a huge amount of respect for the drivers and crews on the convoy. They have balls of steel.
This was the right decision to take and taken at the right time as we can see by the manner in which the junta quickly chose to back down from their initial claims as the trucks rolled out.
Again, huge respect to the guys driving and accompanying the convoy.
JerseyJeffersonian says…
Good news, and news being followed widely. Vide, this post from The Twisted Genius, over at Pat Lang’s blog, Sic Semper Tyrannis:
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2014/08/russian-aid-rolling-towards-lugansk-ttg.html#comment-6a00d8341c72e153ef01a511fb4752970c
TTG has been putting up posts on the situation for some little while.
Godspeed to the aid convoy.
all the best from my side too!
and yes, the drivers are heros!!!!
WW from Germany
Perfect pitch and tone. May it all reach the destinations safely. We all know how much it is needed
Very well played!
Reminds me of a saying of the French army NCO’s
“Si vous voulez jouer au con on sera deux et c’est pas vous qui gagnerez”
Roughly:
“If the game is to be a dick you won’t play alone and you will not win”.
As Sic Semper’s TTG says, a real turd in the punch bowl for the Ukies.
Finally the decision to move the convoy across the border has been made.
Dmitri Orlov wrote about the corrupt disgusting culture in Ukraine suggesting that most likely officials were trying to find ways to steal the content of the trucks:
http://cluborlov.blogspot.ca/2014/08/permission-to-steal-everything.html
Everything is for sale in this poor demoralized country.
Baboo here.
Correct me if I’m wrong but this event is a de facto declaration from both sides that Russia controls the border crossing. The gloves, it seems, are coming off.
Why did not NATO-EU countries send aid, their mouths a full of humanism?
Graham Phillips is on the scene.
https://twitter.com/GrahamWP_UK
The people who drove to deliver this are pretty brave. The nazi’s wont hesitate a second to fire a few rockets to burn the trucks and what they carry rather than any of he residents of those towns to receive them.
I am pretty sure the militia had a lot to do with it reaching the city as well. As we all can be sure if they could have, they would have destroyed the convoy. Still 90 drivers were brave enough to risk their lives not knowing if they would survive to drive back.
Oh yea I also the hint at the end about the warning on provocations.. I am sure if they had shot up the convoy those responsible would have slowly ended up in unmarked land marks.. I am sure russia still has a lot of intel in the system. How else could so many ukies keep shelling each other thinking they are shelling Russian invaders..
Wow! Just plain wow.
Russia saddles slowly but sure does ride fast.
This was played perfectly, for all the world to see. First, the utterly brilliant food embargo, now this. I’m in awe. And the timing was perfect: just as all the world was starting to see behind the horrible propaganda. The contrast between Russia and the US just could not be greater.
And yes, those drivers — how does one ever thank them sufficiently?
Well, Russia is certainly going on the diplomatic offensive:
“More and more questions are being raised about the ability of the current US administration to participate in the development of realistic and pragmatic approaches to international problems, to adequately assess the situation in the various regions of the world,” the Russia Foreign Ministry noted.
We’ll see how far this goes…
Bravo, Russia. Bravo.
A quick survey of the online news (MSM variety) tells me that it is being spun as an invasion or provocation by Russia.
Maybe Putin is realizing that no matter what he does, the Western public will never get the real story. So why bother to wait?
It’s time to move against evil.
I do believe that Junta and their neo-idiot sponsors just had their bluff called and true to their cowardly nature turned tail and ran. A believe the Russian threat is directed to the very top of the leadership (the language is pretty clear).
Note: Definiton of a Neoidiot – Both neocon or neoliberal 5th-Columnists that have more loyalty to their homeland and ethnic group than the United States. For example of a traitorous neoliberal we have Zbigniew Brezinzski, a genocidal psychopath that has more loyalty to his European roots and his Polish Schlakta class of vermin than to the US – the same can be said of the Neocons and their fake rightwing patriotism.
Well done Russia! This is the sort of bold action thats needed. And the word ‘partners’ did not appear once in the statement!
If the Ukrainian Army does attack the relief convoy, Kiev will say that the militias did it as an act of terror. The western press will echo this line and people will believe it.
Everyone was wondering why none of the trucks were heavily loaded and some appeared to be half or more empty. The reply to that wonderment is Russia well knew that the orks would try to delay and prevent the delivery of humanitarian aid to the poor civilians of Novorossiya and would do their level best to prevent use of the major roads,which the orks have done. These trucks are Russian made, they don’t need smooth or even hard surface roads. If you follow the routes they used and are using you will see that a good portion of the route is a bit off the beaten track. A heavily loaded truck will have more difficulty negotiating the back roads than a half loaded truck let alone the weight limits of some of the bridges, hence the load weight levels on all the trucks.
I have no doubts that the orks will attempt to dump arty and/or missiles on at least some of the distribution spots. According to our sources it has been pointedly mentioned to the orks and their EU and US masters that such an event would not be a career enhancing move.
My hat is doffed to those brave boys driving the Kamaziki and to the brave boys in Novorossiya who have done their level best to clear the way for them. They are all heroes and are willing to sacrifice their all for the civilians of Novorossiya.
Salute to the courageous drivers of the convoy and kudos to Russian authorities for going ahead regardless of the consequences. Acted in right time and in right manner. I suppose they are making ready another shipments I guess. Once its done it can be done once more is the underlying thought. And it will give a relief to the Novorossiyan militias and for the Russian authorities as they have a taken a giant leap in setting the things straight. Calling a spade a spade I guess. Let Uncle Sam scratch his head in despair.
Regards
What this convoy moving in through militia-held crossings into militia-held cities proves is the militia is “losing” according to the MSM, ignoring the reality of their own reports.
I am impressed with the calm of Russia operatives. Sitting in trucks for days, waiting and waiting, standing inspections by Red Cross and Ukie officials for two weeks! It’s been two weeks since they began this journey.
So refreshing to find so much information and analysis from the other side. Let us hope there are Western Journalists on hand in Lugansk to witness the distribution of aid and the destruction wrought by Kiev.
After looking at the pictures of death and slaughter I appreciate the honest humanitarian nature of this as much as the political skill. I hope this makes it in time to save many lives.
Up to the end of the Cold War the West assumed it held the moral high ground.
Since the Cold War the West has been going down and in Ukraine has reached a new low.
Aaah, finally!
A crystal clear statement with hard talk. In deed: “If you wanna play dirty, there will be two, and it’s not you who will win.”
I have more and more respect and love for this kind of Russians.
The Pentagons answer: The presence of Russian vehicles in Ukraine is an “unauthorized entry,” a Pentagon spokesman says, and the personnel and vehicles must be removed immediately.
Really – who buys that crap!?
To quote Gerald Celente, a bunch of losers!
this is my first post here, but i’ve been using this site with relatively balanced comments section as one of my top info feeds for many months. i thank you for that.
i have a question. as Merkel is scheduled to visit Kiev tomorrow: how does the timing of aid convoy interfere with that? or, if you have time for more indepth answer, how wil the german stance and german-russian relationship develop in the near future?
thx, “juan de argentina”
Prof. Savelyev, who is an expert on, among other things, human evolution, ventured to explain. Human evolution, he said in an interview, has been primarily the evolution of the brain. In the short time that Homo Sapiens Sapiens has been in existence, its brain size increased dramatically. Although it is possible to declare that intelligence is of direct survival value, there is a more reasoned explanation for the pressure to increase brain size.
Most of the size gains have been in the prefrontal cortex—a part of the brain that does not have a strictly defined function but is implicated in modulating social behavior. Indeed, people with a lobotomized prefrontal cortex go on to function more or less normally (but do sometimes exhibit a startling lack of ethical or moral sense). But a lobotomy is by no means necessary to produce individuals with stunted morals and ethics: there is a critical learning period for developing a conception of the common good, the ability to cooperate with others in absence of selfish motivations, and a morality not directly grounded in biological self-interest. A social environment such as that which has prevailed in Ukraine during its period of “independence,” during which theft and prostitution were prized above all, is not conducive to developing any of these. A case can be made that such an environment exerts the opposite evolutionary pressure: if all desirable women are prostitutes and the only economic opportunities involve theft, then biological survival requires theft. This makes a large prefrontal cortex redundant, and those who have a smaller one perhaps make more efficient criminals. The result is a population dominated by people free of any human values, who pursue strictly biological goals of resource accumulation and reproduction.
With regard to the convoy, getting the cargo off-loaded and put on Ukrainian trucks would have made stealing it easy, but that couldn’t happen due to lack of trucks. (Remember, Ukrainian officials have been selling off government property and pocketing the proceeds for two decades now, so that very little is now left.) Forcing the trucks to carry Ukrainian license plates is a small concession, since these probably require a bribe (nothing happens there without a bribe) but perhaps they are looking for opportunities to waylay a few of these trucks and break them up for spare parts. Getting a Ukrainian representative on board each truck is another small concession: he will need to be fed, pacified with vodka and given walking-around money. But the main problem—how to steal a substantial portion, ideally all, of the humanitarian aid going to Novorossiya—remains unsolved, and until it is solved there will be deadlock.
http://cluborlov.blogspot.ca/2014/08/permission-to-steal-everything.html
Well maybe it is not mind control and the ukies all got lobotomies by aliens.. Heck their behaviour says something is very wrong
ALSO.. anyone notice the trauma the most powerful country faced when 2 buildings were demolished? Looking at it in any way logically, it was not a big event. The asian tsunami washed away how many people and villages? Entire countries should have gone into shock, despair and full scale mad max but they didnt. Not like the exceptionalists.. Maybe losing Crimea had a breaking point in the psyche. It broke what ever reality kiev had. Their thinking they were superior, why else would they follow nazi ideology? was suddenly turned upside down and they felt powerless. The stress of that turned reality into a fictional world devoid of anything that resembled a logical assessment to the situation. Forget critical thinking, these people now have the mental functionality of children. Those nato idots are only taking advantage of them. Rasmussen should be tried for child molestation and mental rape.
Pentagon statement on aid convoy: It is Pure bluster–a quenelle to them and a pox on them! The convoys caught the Ukis off guard because they used back roads that skimmed the border areas not held by Uki forces avoiding the main road.
The zio-media and zio-quislings are in overdrive. This is what the headline for the article link at AP [asinine propaganda] says:
“Direct invasion”: Russian convoy enters Ukraine”
Then the actual Reuters article headline and first paras:
“Ukraine accuses Russia of invasion after aid convoy crosses border
Ukraine declared on Friday that Russia had launched a “direct invasion” of its territory after Moscow sent a convoy of trucks across the border into eastern Ukraine where pro-Russian rebels are fighting government forces.
NATO called it a blatant breach of Russia’s international commitments and said Russia had been using artillery against Ukrainian troops both across the border and within Ukraine, the closest the alliance has come to accusing Russia of direct war.
“These developments are even more worrying as they coincide with a major escalation in Russian military involvement in eastern Ukraine since mid-August, including the use of Russian forces,” NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said…”
This is what happens when nazis and zio-nazis become allies. Orwell would probably never believe the level of dishonesty from the ZPC if he was alive today to see it.
вот так
I asked in another thread how much it would cost to support an army of at least 50,000.. How much support personal it would need.. Usually for such a large number of troops, you need infrastructure that supports millions. You can only forage form the land if you sent advance parties to plant the crops. You can steal and plunder but usually a good tactic by the enemy is to burn the crops. As many armies have found, you can invade but cant stay there without support.
Here is something I found in a situational report..
As it was already noted, by the end of June after encountering the failure of its offensive operation the Kiev regime will inevitably arrive to the necessity of inviting the military mission of NATO, which will be able to build the system of logistic support and recouping losses. This was the only way to ensure continuity of military action. At the same time it was noted that between one and three months from the moment of the decision will be required for this work. The failure of the July offensive of the punitive corpus was absolutely clear by July 15-16. There are all grounds to suppose that the corresponding decision was made at the same time as well. I would like to emphasize that the military mission will work only on the questions of logistics and preparation and not on operational planning. The picture of the operations of the punitive corpus won’t change, but post-Soviet military personnel is unable to support continuous military action by 50-thousand strong group on its own, even with the resources of a 37-million country in its disposal.
So how is Daash able to support an army of 80,000 without direct support from Israel, US, Turkey, Saudi Arbia and Qatar? Yea by now all terrorists in Syria are daash except for the FSA which is pretty much wiped out and most in Iraq are as well. By comparison Al quida the original had at the most a few thousand members. And even the Syrian Arab army numbered less than that.
It is also the reason WHY US/UK primarily carpet bomb civilians because it is the civilians that supply the soldiers with food and clothing.
Ukies wasted time arguing with the ref,but once the Russkies took the penalty it was a clear net burster from Putin’s Drivers and the score is Russkies 3,Orkies o,and we haven’t reached half time.
The crowd is going crazy here.
XbNB
Nseizer,
Omigosh, yes! Neoidiot or neojerk, but man o man, are we loaded with them! And can’t you see ’em all jumping ship the minute the going gets rough here? (What will poor Morning Joe do when Mika goes “home” along with her father?)
Bravo and thanks to the Russians!
Archimedes said, give me a long enough lever and a fulcrum and I can move the world. That convoy of aid trucks is the lever, and the Russian Federation is the fulcrum.
Let it move the world!1050
On a slightly unrelated note, RIA is reporting that four Frenchmen are fighting with the Novorossia Defense Force as volunteers.
http://de.ria.ru/politics/20140821/269355732.html [German — I couldn’t find the story in English]
This is becoming the Spanish Civil War of our time! I think it’s obvious whose side Orwell would be on.
Accordingly yesterday I had this vision, which appeared to me quite ancient chinese: If the Kaiser is good, everything is good.
Great for people living in such a time.
@Auslander. The trucks are half full b/c Putin doesn’t want the contents stolen by the thieves in Ukraine who are so debased in their shakedowns that anything that moves must pay a toll in tribute/schwag
What is the Ukrainian word for baksheesh?
Alien Tech, it certainly is a question of psychology, and the interaction of individuals with the others about them who comprise families, neighbourhoods, work-places, societies and humanity.
We know that a certain fraction of humanity lack important psychological attributes, entirely or in varying degree. Prime amongst those necessary for a decent, civil, humane, society are empathy and compassion, and the absence or control of one’s egotism and personal greed.
Unfortunately those most lacking in empathy and compassion, and most over-burdened with egomania, insatiable greed, love of violence, unscrupulousness in personal affairs etc, are in total control in the West. They have been so for forty years, since the neo-liberal reaction set in, and the bien pensants ‘social democrats'(the likes of vermin like Clinton and Blair)sold out to the money power.
This type, who psychology label psychopaths, or ‘The Rightwing Authoritarian Personality’, basically operate on hatred as an existential fuel driving their machinations.Hence the prevalence of hatred in the West, whether class hatred, race hatred, misogyny, homophobia, inter-generational hatred, ideological hatred, xenophobia etc. The fomenting of these hatreds is the work of politicians, the MSM and entertainment sewers and all Right-thinking people. The ‘two minutes hate’ now operating 24 hours every day, is designed both to divide society against itself, to the elite parasites’ benefit, and to take the ‘losers’ and ‘moochers’, ‘chavs’ and ‘skivers” minds off their vanishing life prospects.
Neo-liberal capitalism is both the creation of the psychopaths amongst us, and a system that empowers and privileges the same misanthropes and hate-mongers. There really is no way out of this disastrous state of affairs, as the Masters are mad and spiritually rotten to the very core, and will destroy the Earth before giving up suzerainty over it.
Great move, thanks a lot Russians !
From Italy :-)
Nora !
Watch this !!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=EnJEeHND_lQ
Alien Tech said…
I asked in another thread how much it would cost to support an army of at least 50,000.. How much support personal it would need.. Usually for such a large number of troops, you need infrastructure that supports millions. You can only forage form the land if you sent advance parties to plant the crops. You can steal and plunder but usually a good tactic by the enemy is to burn the crops. As many armies have found, you can invade but cant stay there without support.
Within the past few weeks and before the MSM jumped on the bandwagon, IS “robbed” one of Iraq’s central banks and acquired approx 1/2 billion $$$ in cash and gold. In addition, they gained control of an oil refinery and have been allowed to sell the product via the black market. They have all the “assets” they need to fund this endeavour for a very long time, with or without ziosaud or neocon cash flow. This was obviously a well coordinated effort. Sorry, don’t have the links handy but surely the interwebz can provide them.
Whoever made the point about the convey drivers – I’d never thought of that…heroes. Well done the good guys – a win for the good guys for a change. I know ‘good’ is an emotive word of dubious epistemological foundation but you know wtf I mean…..respect is due
Ann,
OMG! Boy, that sure takes me back. It really was a whole different world back then, wasn’t it? Things worked — hell, people worked! — We The People weren’t so hideously divided, cops were at least polite to white people instead of Mossad-trained to be afraid of anything that moves, you know, bc we’re all terrorists or something. A totally different world — still had its problems but there was still the sense that, working together, we could solve them. Just feel the optimism in that song — and compare that to now. Whew. I think I’ll go listen again, and this time hold onto some of it!
Thank you. ;~)
@ Alien tech: mr Orlov has brilliant ideas, but his story about the frontal lobe is way too black and white, and is influenced by Lamarckism. In any society ravaged by war and corruption (Ukraine, Liberia, Iraq, Congo) a large section of the affected people become hardened, and anyone with latent psychopatic treats will do very well. This is still not a majority. But it will not be genetic. DNA cannot be guided, only selection can.
And I did not like his aversion towards Yezidis as ´devil worshippers´.
These ancient pockets of pre-biblical root beliefs, a mix from pre- flood, zoroastrian and some judeochrislamic influences, even with all their faults and prejudices, they are very important to preserve (just like the followers of John the Baptist who did not recognize Jezus in Iraq). The tomb of the prophet Jonah has just been blown to pieces.
I am not a christian, agnostic.
But what is being done is eliminating all archeologic and antropologic sources of our culture! In the year 2525 people will only have words to rely on.
If I was a believer, I would certainly assume a very satanic component doing this.
V V Anand from India.
Just a line to draw attention to an earlier precedent. When Sri Lankan forces were shelling civilian tamil people in Northern Sri Lanka, in 1986, Rajiv Gandhi, the Indian PM implemented a humanitarian air supply of food to the trapped people of North Sri Lanka. The first Indian transport aircraft landed in jaffna in Sri Lankan territorry without any help from Sri Lankan Air Traffic Control and afterwards that aircraft became the ATC for the Indian Air Force planes that followed. Sri Lankan president, Jayawardene could do nothing and soon came round to reach agreement with India. Unfortunately,the Sri Lankans proved to be cunning and that agreement unravelled.India must repay its debt to Russia which alone stood by India when we liberated East pakistan to create bangladesh. In 1971. India’s stance was that pakistan’s sovereignty ends when 10 million refugees came into India. Today there are a million refugees from Ukraine in Russia. Russia has every right to end Ukraine’s sovereignty. India owes it to support Russia.
Fwd from Canuckistan:
Updated from previous comment re: CBC reporting.
The CBC website does have an article this am that certainly does not jive with the on-air reporting. There is no mention of the rather elaborate conspiracy theory about the convoy being sent to the manufacturing facilities being peddled and as a footnote, the anchors have been swapped out but the on-air “story” is being peddled. Also. Noteworthy is that this “article” does not have comments enabled. Either they do not want the two versions to collide or they do not have sufficient troll agents and scripts available or they have lost any hope of swaying public opinion to suit the false narrative. Then again, it may be a combo of all three considering the trolling efforts over the past few days on the other AP (Associated Propaganda) pieces have been ineffective at best. The Harper Regime is in serious disarray and adding this fiasco with their utterly failed neocon domestic agenda may be a turning point of sorts..
Russian aid convoy leaves Ukraine
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper calls convoy ‘disgraceful’
The Associated Press
Posted: Aug 23, 2014 6:43 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 23, 2014 8:31 AM ET
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russian-aid-convoy-leaves-ukraine-1.2744837
v v anand said…
Well what he did nto say..
The people Rajiv Gandhi tried to help assassinated him. They also fought Indian peace keepers. On the other hand the Sri Lankans hate india as well and now are closer to Pakistan and China as a result..
On the other hand, in 1991 India got rid of the 10 mil refugees.. It only cost them what 3000 or so soldiers a few planes and tanks and turned out that the people India tried to help hated them and resent them even now. The people India fought then sent in terrorists that killed tens of thousands of people. So here again we have both sides hating the ones who tried to help.
So what peomple want is for everyone to just hate Russians.. Turn Ukrainians into suicide bombers, get a lot of soldiers killed, get nato a huge leap, save the US and EU from imploding..
Good lord! If the example of what happened to India is what Putin can expect, he should run as far away from this as he can. And he seems to think it is what WILL happen to him.
Merkel supports Ukraine power decentralization
I am sure this is the best plan Putin will support.. Anything else is a lose lose.. Peopel always ask for help but offering it usually only gets a whole lotta grief..
Rootman said it:
“But what is being done is eliminating all archeologic and antropologic sources of our culture! “
In the US, the Cult of Liberalism, as I call the Elites, we have forty years of the disassembly of content and curriculum. It has gone through various forms and emphases over the decades, the latest is called Common Core.
The result is elimination of facts. Then comes the substitution with the Cult of Liberalism’s primary version the way they need it.
I call the governments (national, state and local and the supporting institutions—the teachers’ union and the bureaucratic administrators, laughingly called educators—all of them are ‘the Cultural Revolution 2.0’.
The process is to attack all prior knowledge, all spirituality, and all familial structures (parents lose control under the “laws” of education).
And many of these new programs and processes of the Cultural Revolution 2.0 were enacted by conservative authorities. Ritilin use to control children’s behavior was huge in Orange County’s Anaheim school district (the center of California right wing activism).
Tyrannies begin when morals and science are perverted, truths are overthrown, fear and confusion are used to control, and sources are destroyed (Book banning, Wikis reedited, Search Engines programmed away from facts, and a monopoly controls the libraries and source materials).
Bill Gates bought all the photo libraries not just for profits, but to restrict access. [See Corbis]. They were the reservoirs of the actualities of world events. There was truth in the photo collections.
I used those archives many times in my documentary films, two of which were nominated for Academy Awards, ten others ran on ABC-TV.)
Eventually, history loses all value. Context is lost. And the content becomes whatever the Cult wants or needs it to be. There is no thesis, anti-thesis, synthesis. Just dogma, rules.
Zionism does this readily. The Left are masters of this political tool. Governments are more clumsy at it, but they do it. Corporations and NGOs are very artful at the task.
What is really sad is when professional scientists sellout for gain, fame and awards or merely join the Cult and gather acclaim for bogus work.
Homeschooling is the only way to defeat this phenomenon. The transfer of knowledge must be protected. Humanity requires it, if Freedom is to triumph.
We are facing the global hegemony because the Tyrants are running the largest developed countries. They not only ‘produce’ the truth, they crush any challenges.
Mao nearly destroyed China in ten years (1967-76). His wife and gang of four almost shredded every aspect of a five thousand year-old culture.
The US has been at it for forty years, four times as long as Mao and Madam Jiang. This is why Americans are overwhelmed by their government. (It’s not just the NSA. They are being ‘taught” stupidity and quiescence.)
As I say about the ruinous economic policies of the Cult, look at California. It was the gem of American education and the engine of world in nearly all things that mattered—agriculture, science, technology, medicine, an incubator for innovation. It’s progressive environment was captured and smothered by the Cult.
Now, California suffocates on its own narcissistic ideology. It has gone from number 1 in education to number 49, yet it is number one in costs.
Tyranny attacks culture, morals, values, art, music, family, gender, and science. It’s use of ideology is the means of attack. And it is called Cultural Revolution for that very reason.
The Elite Liberal Cult is tearing out by the roots the core of humanity’s beauty.
What we are witnessing in Donbass and the Middle East and North Africa and other parts of Africa is not what we saw in the fifties, sixties, seventies and even the eighties—the struggle against oppressive dictatorship, uprisings.
We are watching the obliteration of culture.
@Larchmonter
23 August, 2014 18:48
Very well said. Just right on the mark. The obliteration of culture is so accurate… and when they are finished they will sweep in and offer us a solution in the form of a new political/cultural/social order that nobody wants.
Pat
Larchmonter,
What you term the Cult of Liberalism is no more than Neoliberal Capitalism at its finest — and as you rightly note it’s taken elements from both the Left and the Right, so why name it for just one of ’em? Robert on the next thread up astutely pointed out,
“Market fundamentalism is “the antireligion of Communism. It was founded by the Russian expatriate Ayn Rand and has become the central faith of much of America’s current pseudoconservative movement. There is of course nothing actually conservative about Rand’s Objectivism; it’s simply what you get when you accept the presuppositions of Marxism—atheism, materialism, class warfare, and the rest of it—but say “Evil, be thou my good” to all its value judgments. If you’ve ever wondered why so many American pseudoconservatives sound as though they’re trying to imitate the cackling capitalist villains of traditional Communist demonology, now you know.”
So Libertarianism is in there too — any kind of market-worship-at-the-expense-of-We-The-People. But as a contributing factor, bc it’s not just “done to” us, we’ve all been willing participants with our over-spending, consumer ethos and hours spent lifelong passively watching the teevee. Part of the reason typical volunteer groups are struggling may be the job situation but they were struggling before the economy sank too: people just aren’t as invested in giving back to the community. Maybe the soccer club their kids play in, but generally only when their kids are playing. And those are personal choices people make bc plenty of folks thirty or more years ago worked long hours and still were very, very involved in all sorts of things from which neither they nor their kids necessarily derived any direct benefit. And they still are — but their children aren’t.
Pat,
I kind of think they already have! ;~)
We’re here bc, regardless of where we’re coming from, We. Don’t. Like. It. Also, I left you a comment on, gosh, whatever post it was…
Nora,
I term it Cult of Liberalism because they are ascendent, in power everywhere, running the show, calling the shots, dominating, corrupting and killing.
It is generally accepted that Liberalism is the term most appropriate for the Tyranny, the Cult of the governments.
And all the hyphenates are less than accurate.
Cult of Liberalism nails it. And when I refer to it as the Cultural Revolution 2.0 it drives them nuts.
So it’s fun, too.
Larchmonter,
Ascendant where? The entire corporatocracy is Republican and they own Congress, the lower house of which is likewise Republican, as are most of the state legislatures and governors and six members of the Supreme Court, including the Chief Justice. Only Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of anyone in the official Washington power structure could possibly be conceived as a Liberal; Sotomayor and Kagan are basically Center Right. As are most of the state legislatures and governors.
And where’s the cult? What do you have to believe or do to become a member, and are you really telling me that the Republicans running the House of Representatives share the same beliefs as the NEA? So I still don’t get your use of Cult or Liberalism. Neoliberal works pretty well for the finance end of it, and Neocon for the war part. I’d LUV to see us come up with a new name (or acronym, if someone’s good at that) for these creeps, but please, show me who the “they” is you’re talking about that are running the show, calling the shots, dominating, corrupting and killing. Cuz this isn’t just Hollywood, it’s everywhere.