History teaches us that millions years of evolution can be easily reversed by a meteor or maidan.
Today, January 1th, 2016 is the first day without a free trade agreement between Russia and Ukraine. As I have already wrote here,
Russia was occupied by the US in the 1990s and forced to support Ukraine to the extent of $100bln annually. Apparently, it’s all ending now. Ukraine finally gets its full independence from Russia’s money. Belarus however still very much depends on the FTA with Russia. It was just announced by the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine on Twitter that Belarus and Ukraine have “decided” to keep a free trade zone between them.
With the EU tree trade zone coming into full bloom on eponymous January 1, 2016, Belarus is becoming a hub for the EU, US, Ukraine and countless others, a situation which Russia wanted to avoided by protecting its markets out in an open, only this time it’s not Ukraine, but Belarus. Now, it’s Lukashenko who sees himself as the go-to man between Russia and Europe. We have already seen the plight of those politicians who spread their legs too far apart. Kremlin doesn’t want to rock the boat now, but I give it three to six months before Lukashenko’s Belarus will go down in flames Ukrainian style.
With Belarusian treason, Russia will have only enemies on its Western border, it’s just a matter of time before Ukraine and Belarus start trading baseball cards and used condoms.
Aivaras Abromavicius, a minister of Economic Development of Ukraine, announced on Monday quoting Yatsenyuk that Rada adopted a law #3704, that give the government go ahead with sanctions against Russia (on the top of the EU and the US sanctions) in a “trade war that Russia has started.” As we all know very well that the trade war on Russia was started first by the US and the EU, but whatever. Junta doesn’t let facts stand in the way of its delusion.
“We will protect the domestic market of Ukraine“, – said Yatsenyuk.
“The Prime Minister of Ukraine also stressed that only Russia announced its withdrawal from the FTA: “moreover, this statement is illegal, does not conform to international treaties. Neither Kazakhstan, nor Belarus no such Declaration is made. That is why Russia will receive a response from the Ukrainian Government in the form of a trade embargo and mirror sanctions against Russian goods“.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk reminded that the Government of Ukraine was submitted to the Parliament the law on sanctions which was adopted for the first time in the history of Ukraine there was a mechanism for application of sanctions. In September last year the Cabinet of Ministers has approved the list of individual and sectoral sanctions against the Russian Federation. The decision of the Council of national security and defense and a presidential decree were imposed sectoral and individual declarat sanctions against Russian companies and individuals.
He also recalled that the Government of Ukraine had filed several lawsuits to the European court of human rights against the Russian Federation for the illegal annexation of Crimea. The illegal annexation of Crimea was condemned by resolution of the United Nations in the amount of 100 States.”
“Public companies also filed against the Russian Federation for damage. In particular, the NJSC “Naftogaz of Ukraine” has filed two lawsuits in the Stockholm arbitration court – as the gas contract and the contract on the transit of natural gas through the territory of Ukraine.
“We have practically refused from the Russian gas monopoly in Ukraine“, – said Yatsenyuk.
“Ukraine closed the airspace to all Russian airlines, Ukraine filed a lawsuit in the WTO against the Russian Federation, and the debate began. Ukraine also attract Russia to justice at the International court of justice for violating Convention against terrorism. And this is only one-tenth of the list that this Government made to protect Ukraine”, – said Yatsenyuk.”
As I wrote past summer, filing outrages frivolous lawsuit in European and American courts has become the weapon in war on Russian taxpayers.
• There are two major ground shifting consequences to the Russia’s assets freeze in Europe.
• Russia vs. ECHR: The Rise and Fall of the European Courts
Make no mistake, all those courts, without exemption, are ruling against Russia. It looks like fines and charges that are being piled up on Russian taxpayers fast exceeding the GDP of the country.
How it’s going to be solved remains truly a mystery, and your guess is as good as mine. I think it could be done easily if Russia officially declares that the NATO countries and also the countries of the EU are at war on Russia, and the courts of the war adversary can never be considered neither just, no valid.
Serhiy Kiral @serhiykiral Member of Verkhovna Rada – Parliament of Ukraine from Samopomich Party twitted on December 28 that “Belarus will not discontinue FTA with Ukraine, via Nataliya Mykolska… Probably good news for UA exporters ” I tweeted him that Belarus will lose a FTA with Russia, if it keeps a FTA with Ukraine and EU. He responded saying “it’s not only Russia to decide.” He didn’t explain who else would be deciding on this for Russia. The question is, how would Belarus (with Ukraine, and EU) would trade if Russia doesn’t want their products? Drop it of helicopters?
What Abromavicius failed to mention, was a Straford prediction of Yatsenyuk’s resignation in 2016. [Source] [source]
Obozrevatel or Observer reminds us that MP Oleg Barna openly called Yatsenyuk’ “seksot” “сексотом” (секретным сотрудником) or secret operative of the President of Russia.
Ukraine to abandon anti-Russia sanctions if Moscow keeps free trade zone agreement
December 29. Last week Ukraine’s parliament passed a law enabling the government to impose economic sanctions against Russia in response to Moscow’s decisions regarding the free trade zone and food embargo. [Source]
Since December 23, 2015 Russia started organizing tighter cooperation between the customs services on banning any Ukrainian exports from other territories, whether it is Kazakhstan or Belarus. [Source]
As Russian’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after the 6th Russia-Ukraine-EU ministerial meeting with his trademark straightforwardness that Russia has no intention of sacrificing its economic interests for the sake of satisfying others ambitions. His statement, as it has become customary, was met with rage, since Russia’s “sacrificing itself for the others ambitions” is the only way “the Others” want to have it.
At first, after Maidan upended life for Ukraine and its innocent great northern benevolent neighbor, Russians were reluctant to express any hostility towards Ukrainians. Two years later, after endless exchange of unpleasantries, Russians started enjoying kicking Ukraine in its most sensitive organ: its economy.
Instead of proudly shutting the eponymous geopolitical door and walking away from Russia forever, which is what everyone in Russia hopes for, Kiev regime continues its schizophrenic game of push and tug. It’s like screaming to your boss “I quit” after being fired, and to demand future paychecks in perpetuity. For Russia, to continue buying Ukrainian food is detrimental to its’ own food industry and to its nation’s health, since the quality of food produced in Ukraine is absolutely terrible. The only reason Russia had been buying Ukrainian produced food was to support Ukraine. Now, Russia stepped aside, so it’s the EU and US who should be buying thousands of tones made in Ukraine palm tree oil based “cheese products” and milk based salmonella. You shall not eat from the hands of your enemies, say I, who never ate at my ex mother-in-law’s.
The truth of the matter is that the so-called Ukrainian agricultural complex is owned by foreign and supranational companies, not Ukrainian nationals.
According to the Oakland Institute, over 2.2 million ha of Ukrainian farmland is controlled by foreign companies. Among them: The Danish “Trigon Agri,” holds over 52,000 ha. Trigon was established in 2006 using start-up capital from Finnish “high net-worth individuals.” The company is traded in Stockholm (NASDAQ), and its largest shareholders include: JPM Chase (UK, 9.5 percent); Swedbank (Sweden, 9.4 percent); UB Securities (Finland, 7.9 percent); Euroclear Bank (Belgium, 6.6 percent); and JP Morgan Clearing Corp (USA, 6.2 percent).
Ukrainian here is just dirt and slave labor.
“The United Farmers Holding Company, which is owned by a group of Saudi Arabian investors, controls some 33,000 ha of Ukrainian farmland through Continental Farmers Group PLC. AgroGeneration, which holds 120,000 ha of Ukrainian farmland, is incorporated in France, with over 62 percent of its shares managed by SigmaBleyzer, a Texas-based investment company.
US pension fund NCH Capital holds 450,000 ha. The company began in 1993 and boasts being some of the earliest western investors in Ukraine after the break-up of the Soviet Union. Over the past decade, the company has systematically leased out small parcels of agricultural land (around two to six hectares in size) across Ukraine, aggregating these into large-scale farms that now operate industrially. According to NCH Capital’s General Partner, George Rohr, the leases give the company the right to buy the currently-leased farmland once the moratorium on the sale of land in Ukraine is lifted.”
For more foreign corporations owning Ukraine’s lands here
I would also add Monsanto, John Deere, DuPont, Pioneer, Eli Lilly, and Cargill.
I posted prior here
1. USDA Ukraine reports for 2014-2015
2. ADM Averts DQ With Waiver After $54M FCPA Fine. A curious case of the Western “justice.“
Essentially, what we wrongly call “Ukrainian” products, are nothing but American and European Union produced products. By buying from Ukraine, Russia would support economies of countries that are at war with Russia.
Ukraine’s ideal fix for the future is to turn Ukraine into an Eastern European Switzerland with cows grazing on green loans in front of big houses, which shows how painfully naive these people are. Switzerland is all about dark endless banking labyrinths, which is something that they were born with. If Swiss people relayed on cows, they wouldn’t last a year.
Money remittance from Ukrainian economic migrants working in Russia reduced 2.3 times. In 2014 it was $1.8 billon and in 2015 its $770,5 million.
Ukraine is concerned that Russia will stop transfer of the Ukrainian goods via its territory to the third country like Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, China and others. [source]
Full text of their concern here:
Інформація щодо можливого ускладнення транзитних перевезень українських товарів через територію Російської Федерації в треті країни з 1 січня 2016 року
We have to remember that Ukraine has already closed its airspace for the Russian flights, closed its railroads and roads for Russian transpiration. The demands of Ukraine from Russia to keep its transportation opened for the Ukrainians goods is simple preposterous.
Ukraine survives because 65% of its economy went into grey and black market. [source]
Ukraine – 2015: Russophobia as state politics, fruits and lessons
Украина—2015: русофобия как государственный курс. Итоги и плоды.
According to the estimates done by Medialogia,
which is Russian first automated real-time media monitoring and analysis system, in 2015 Ukraine had been number one topic of the Russia’s media.
• the political life in Ukraine is nothing short of absurd;
• Russophobia (irrational hate towards Russian people) has become an official state philosophy, and not just sentiments of the marginalized part of the population;
• It’s had become official requirement for all the Ukrainians living under the NATO occupation to proclaim hate for Russia in all their affairs: in parliament, in schools, in press. You can actually see how even thesaker’s Ukrainian commentator, Marco, proclaims hate of Russians every time he/she/it posts a comments;
• Now, Russia is not just called a “country-aggressor’ in media and in government issued publications. Military doctrine of Ukraine, newly adopted in August, with the help of NATO, made it an official status of Russia to be “the main threat” to the national security of Ukraine;
• 2015 had become the most fruitful for Rada in terms of adoption of anti-Russia laws. “De-communization” package of laws was adopted that equal communists to their enemies, Nazis, but simultaneously in the most screaming case of cognitive dissonance, the Nazi collaborators, that killed more civilians in Ukraine and Belarus then German armies, are now erected on pedestals as “heroes;”
• Simultaneously, Ukraine keep demanding via courts, and other political venues from Russia to support its economy;
• The Great Patriotic War has been erased from the Ukrainian history completely, along with the May 9th victory day;
• If you don’t see any rhyme and reason to any of these, it’s because you are actually witnessing a very interesting process as American and European corporations, banks, the US military complex, agricultural complexes, pension funds, socials security funds, sovereign wealth funds, press, and military are making new artificial nation. With the artificial history, with artificial goals, with international and domestic policies openly based on the Nazi philosophy, and openly and military proclaiming its aggression towards Russia. The Wall Street, London and Swiss banks, NATO and EU and shaping Ukraine into Germany of the 21 century, into the country that that will at some point attack Russia. Europeans don’t want to go to war on Russia, but the US desperately needs a big war in Europe. So, the US is putting together from dust this Golem monster to go and fight Russians for the US and EU benefit. Traditionally, the West ignores the new Military doctrine of Russia which states that if a conventional ground war in wedged on Russia, no matter who does this, Turkey, Ukraine or anyone else, Russia will nuclear strike the US. No ifs, or buts.
• The Ukrainians nurture this bizarre idea, that after Putin is overthrown, Medvedev, being a liberal enemy of Russia, would undo all the reforms that Putin’s government have implemented: Medvedev will give back Crimea and Donbass, undo the entire cooperation with China, give up all the modern weaponry to the West and dismantle its military, abandon the Middle East, pay for “all the damages,” give back oil and gas industries to Khodorkovsky and Rothschild. Medvedev will also break the Russian Federation into small managed by the West countries, and assist in ethnically cleaning all the people of Russian ethnicity. Everyone and their drunk uncle is missing one point: Russia’s military decided that to serve the country better they have to start participating in its political and economical decision making. As long as the war on Russia is being conducted, there will be no pro-west liberals in power in Russia.
• Ukraine Total Gross External Debt 2003-2016
• Ukrainian national debt is 100% of GDP
• Inflation – 47%
• Ukraine named one of the five “most miserable economies”.
• Ukrainians were promised by the new owners the European “values,” and European standards of living. This delusion is not based on any real economic output, but purely on demagogy and propaganda;
• the only positive development for Ukraine, is that it’s still nominally one state, with very minimal Kiev power over the regions;
• Ukraine completely ignored experiences of the other former parts of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union that had become a parts of the EU. All those countries had lost their industrial capacity, the Baltic countries are literally de-populated. Yugoslavia was bombed by the Clintons and broken into pieces. Constant ethnic tensions and conflicts in the Balkans. The emigration crisis in Poland and Germany. Finland admits that it was a mistake to join the eurozone. Turkey is pushing its way in with the help of the US. Finland added the “Fixit” to the eurozone lexicon of nations expected to exit. The EU is officially in “creative destruction phase”; http://seekingalpha.com/article/3780486-nudge-theory-contagion-and-the-paneuropa-project
• The idea that Ukraine is going to save European Union from falling apart is wildly circulated in Ukraine. The plan here is for Ukrainians to go to “Europa” and beat them up to make them stay together. Since Ukrainians are being prepared to defeat Russia, holding the EU together should be a small undertaking for this great new nation;
• Yanukovych was moving Ukraine away from Russia and closer to Europe, and Russia was paying for it. Now, Russia finally realized that you won’t get flowers by sowing dragon teeth, and stopped paying for Ukrainian wellbeing;
• Russophobia and militarism are the only ideology that keeps the country together, otherwise Ukrainians have to admit that they made huge mistake by allowing the US to colonize them. To be a true Ukrainian means to never admit your mistakes.
• 2016 is expected to be another year of anti-Russian hysteria, militarism and fascism in Ukraine. It means we on thesaker will have plenty of things to discuss.
Politically, Kiev regime in Ukraine is unstable
Ongoing infighting in pro-European block of parties, expected ousting of Yatsenyuk, a Victoria Nuland’s favorite, who is universally hated by many and despised by some.
• There are some progress on the Kiev’s regime reforms of the tax system, visa system, deregulation of capital market and business that always result in a collapse of the national ownership of lands, properties and means of production. IMF claims that Ukraine’s GDP fell 9% and inflation is up 46%. However, because 65% of economy is essentially criminalized, it might be not as bad as it looks.
• During 2015, the main efforts of Kiev were aimed at stabilizing the financial situation the country was in danger of default because of the inability to repay foreign debts. In the beginning of the year foreign exchange reserves declined to critical 5.6 billion dollars and the national debt has exceeded 71% of GDP.
• A lifeline for Ukraine is a new IMF program of expanded financing to $17.5 billion dollars for the next four years. In addition, Kyiv plans to restructure part of its debt.
• In 2015, Kyiv managed to stabilize the financial situation, by building up foreign exchange reserves to $13.3 billion and by reducing the national debt from $73 to $66 billion.
• However, the cooperation with the IMF slowed down due to its debt restructuring. Kiev slowly complied with the requirements of the Fund, but was able to get only $6.7 billion dollars instead of the planned $10bln.
• While Kiev was able to restructure debt at $ 15 billion. Ukraine has been trying to include into this basket of private debt the sovereign debt to Russia to $ 3 billion. The Russian Federation refused to accept the terms of Ukraine, as the result Kiev declared a technical default.
• Now the financial future of the country in question. On the one hand, the continuation of mission-critical lending from the IMF depends on the opinion of the Fund, the adopted state budget (adopted in haste on the basis of new tax base is not harmonized with the IMF).
• On the other hand, Ukraine is waiting for the international court of justice decision on the lawsuit that the Russian Federation filed against Ukraine on the debt, in which experts give Kiev has little chance to win. In addition, in 2016 it is expected the decision of the Stockholm arbitration on the gas case on which the amount of the claim of the Russian Federation to Ukraine is $29.2 billion. If decisions are not in favor of Ukraine, it will be difficult for the country to meet all the financial obligations.
• Curious enough that due to the fact of default on the debt to the Russian Federation , Ukraine can’t attract financial assistance from sources other than the IMF, according to the former researcher of Institute of world economy of the NAS of Ukraine Vsevolod Stepanyuk.
• “The fact that the country will enter in 2016 in the state formal state of default, will have a negative impact on corporate finances of many Ukrainian banks and, of course, the only creditor will remain the IMF and the United States, which is only exacerbates Ukraine’s dependence on the U.S.,” the expert said.
Frozen Conflict in Donbass
• In 2015, the implementation of the Minsk agreements to settle the conflict in Donbass, involving the return of the region to Ukraine as an Autonomous Republic until 2016, has failed. Instead, the Donbas has actually turned into a frozen conflict zone.
• Among intermediate results — relative ceasefire and improvement of the security situation achieved through removal from the frontline heavy weapon, a partial exchange of prisoners and the improvement of the humanitarian situation.
• The talks have stalled because of different views of Kiev and DPR and LPR to resolve the conflict. Kyiv demands to hold elections in Donbass to reach a complete ceasefire, to return to its control state border in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions and elections with the participation of the Ukrainian parties.
• In turn, the DPR and LPR from Ukraine to adopt amendments to the Constitution on decentralization with regard to the autonomy of Donbass (the constitutional reform was adopted only on first reading without approval from DPR and LPR), Amnesty participants of the events in the Donbass, to adopt a law on elections in the region. Also DPR and LPR noted that in accordance with the Minsk agreements, control over the border should be handed over to Kyiv only after the elections.
• The trilateral contact group of Kiev, the OSCE and the Russian Federation, at the last meeting in 2015 has decided to extend its work in 2016, until Minsk agreement is fully implemented.
• Expert Ruslan Bortnik believes that the conflict can only be resolved by a compromise between key geopolitical players — the U.S. and Russia, which is possible no earlier than 2017, after the election of the new American president. While the analyst believes that at best in 2016, the conflict will be in the frozen stage, the settlement will go slow; in the worst scenario, there will be the escalation of the military conflict in Donbass.
Confrontation with Russia
• 2015 for Ukraine was marked by continuation of the rupture in relations with Russia in all possible directions.
• The first hostile steps taken by Rada became the naming Russia as an “aggressor country, introduction of new foreign passport regime for the entry for Russian citizens, and also ban on all Russia’s media.
• Kiev also imposed sanctions against 388 citizens of the Russian Federation, in the sanctions list includes the Russian journalists, politicians and officials. In addition, the Ministry of culture added to the “blacklist” 83 Russian actors, writers, producers and singers.
• Ukraine imposed sanctions against 105 Russian legal entities, in particular, prohibited the air traffic with the Russian Federation. The Russia imposed retaliatory measures. As a result, the direct air service between the countries is now completely blocked.
• Moscow has consistently opposed Kiev, stressing that Ukrainian journalists do not meet obstacles in its work on the territory of the Russian Federation and Ukraine citizens can still enter Russia with internal passports.
• Despite of the consultations between the European Commission, Ukraine and Russia, by the beginning of 2016 a free trade zone (FTZ) between Ukraine and the EU has not removed Russia’s concerns about possible threats for the Russian market from the commencement of the FTA, the Russian Federation introduced against Kiev a new food embargo and halt the operation of a free trade area with Ukraine within the CIS.
• The trade turnover of Ukraine with Russia and already in 2015 has decreased 50% (the export of Ukrainian goods to Russia dropped by 55.6% to $ 3.6 billion, and imports by 47.9 per cent to $5.5 billion), this restrictive measures threaten to cut all economic ties between the countries.
• Kiev hopes to reorient its economy to the Western market, but companies need time, to switch to European standards, and have to overcome the EU restrictive quotes. According to experts, it will take at least 2-3 years, or never.
• Reductions touched also the gas market. Kiev for the second year reduced the volume of imports of Russian gas by reverse-flow gas supply from Europe. (Which is the same Russian gas, only twice more expensive.) According to the statements of the Ukrainian authorities, in 2015 the share of Russian gas in imports could be reduced to 30%.
In conclusion, I want to remind you an anecdote about President Putin. I don’t know either this took place or not, but this is how it goes: During one of the press conferences, journalists asked Putin why Russia didn’t interfere military during Maidan, and didn’t arrest junta. He responded: Imagine a very large pile of shit. Now, imagine striking this pile with your fist. That’s why.
Donbass Novorossia
1. Alexander Zakharchenko, the head of the Donbass region, New Year message to Novorossia and Ukraine.
This is a “creatively edited” video of the Alexander Zakharchenko new year speech with background of Zaporozhye, Kharkov, Kherson, Nikolaev, Dnepropetrovsk and Odessa and the following text:
New year message of the leader of the Donbass region, Alexander Zakharchenko, as we think, by all means can be addressed to all residents of Novorossia and even Ukraine: a new growth point with the fall of Ukraine as a background; a new people’s economy without oligarchs, freedom and security for all citizens, the preservation of traditional Christian moral values on the background of the neo-pagan cruelty and non-traditional values in post-Christian Europe.
Because that is exactly what they want in Novorossiya.
And in this sense, the Donbass can become not only a point of growth, and the point of assembly of Novorossia and new Ukraine, to be free from the oligarchs, the Western occupiers and guest con-artists.
Ukraine, which again should become unique, and not European, with its lack of character.
People’s Committee “Zakharchenko is the leader of Novorossia”
2. Kiev military formations started shelling northern suburb of Donetsk [source]
´On December 29th, at about 5 pm Ukrainian side started shelling Zhabichevo. It was longstanding attack´ it was told to the agency.
In regard to the information of the resource, the hostility conduct shelling from their positions in Peski with the use of grenade launchers, small arms and APC.
Be reminded that the contact group in Minsk called sides of the conflict to establish total ceasefire regime in Donbass since midnight of 23rd December 2015. It is the 6 agreement since the autumn of 2014.
3. Gorlovka was subjected to shelling the entire night from 26th to 27th December (VIDEO) One woman was killed as a result of shelling.
4. Russia Urges OSCE To Stop The Kiev Junta From Attacks And Seizure Of Churches [source]
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) should regard Kiev’s position on the seizure of churches in Ukraine as the violation of the international commitments in the sphere of human rights, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday December 29th. “We believe that the OSCE should unambiguously qualify the position of the Kiev authorities in the situation with the seizure of churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate as the violation of Kiev’s international commitments in the human rights sphere.”
The OSCE leadership and its Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine [SMM], have been refusing to admit that any “serious incidents” or damage have been taken place.
Orthodox Missionary Center of Fr. Daniel Sysoev gives multiple reports the churches of Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Moscow Patriarchy churches being seized, or, burned or otherwise destroyed, and also of priests and parishioners being killed, arrested and threatened.
4. Elena Zaslavskaja, a poetess from Lugansk People republic went to Kharkov, as a first ever ambassador of good will, for a face to face political debates. She was ambushed by two dozen fascists from the Right Sector military group. In the best European tradition, they screamed “Death to Enemies! Glory to the Nation!” 20 enraged military men ambushing one small young woman was the best discreditation of the Kiev anti-people regime. She stood her grounds and made all of them retreat. Video
It’s remarkable that she had managed to get back home from NATO occupied Ukraine, considering that in Ukraine people are being killed and imprisoned for posts on the Internet.
Ukrainian fascists lock people up in prisons for posts on the Internet, like two days ago a young man was arrested and charged for being an “internet fighter” for Donetsk people republics. [source]
Thank you and Happy New Year!
I was listening to some good music:
New Year: To bad boys and girls from NATO, We’ll send Kalibr-K and Sineva and then we will take Manhattan and Berlin
When the song of the great Leonard Cohen is being performed by the Russians, it takes a completely new meaning.
First We Take Manhattan (complete, German TV, February 17, 1988)
Dear Scott,
Thank you for the Sitrep – I will sit down and read it thoroughly shortly. In addition Russia has released its national security strategy in 9 key points. Ukraine is point 4:
https://www.rt.com/news/327608-russia-national-security-strategy/
Happy New Year to everyone.
Rgds,
Veritas
A couple of points:
1) In regard to law suits by Ukraine and the EU/US – Russia has dealt with this now
https://www.rt.com/politics/327435-putin-signs-russian-bill-allowing/
“Also in July, the Russian Constitutional Court decided that no international treaty or convention has precedence over national sovereignty, and decisions by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) should be upheld only when they don’t contradict basic Russian law. In mid-December, President Putin signed into law a bill allowing the Constitutional Court to overrule the decisions of international courts if such decisions contradict the principle of supremacy of the Russian Constitution.”
So good luck with their court rulings now….
2) Yats comment about a UN resolutionon Crimea – there is no UN resolution. Back in 2014 the UN general assembly (after US proding) said at the time about Crimea. This is not legally binding and I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried this again the number of countries supporting this would be much lower……and Yats Ukraine has no defined borders and technically doesn’t exist as an independent country…..
3) The other area “Western” nations and their allies have tried to steal from Ukraine is the Russian technology not just land. This is an area to watch closely.
4) Poroshenko desperate in Israel – he supports the Nazi’s in Ukraine and didnot vote against Naziism in the UN but hey still spouts rubbish
http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2015/12/poroshenko-tried-to-embroil-russia-and.html
Note in this article – as point 3 above “The Ukrainian President met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and even signed several documents of cooperation, including in the sphere of high technologies.”
In regard to Belarus – it is part of the EAEU – so Russia can block goods coming from Belarus or any other member that is from the EU – I think Russia knows full well that the EU will try and circumvent in anyway possible trying to use other EAEU countries.
Ukraine hasn’t brought sanctions against these other EAEU countries so there is no reason why they should drop their free trade agreements. I just see it as business as usual for them at this stage.
New bill on confiscation of foreign state assets is ‘political signal’
The Kommersant business daily reports that Russian courts will have the right to review legal disputes with foreign countries if they involve businesses or property related to that country, extending to the confiscation of state assets. The government has sent the bill to the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament.
The Foreign Ministry remarked that the bill’s purpose is not to “create countermeasures,” but rather have Russia fulfill its international obligations in giving foreign countries and their property immunity. The ministry also explains that Russia will take into consideration “how and to what extent the given foreign country respects Russia’s immunity, its property and assets used for sovereign purposes.” rbth
Thanks Veritas, for that link, where it mentions this: ‘“Our goal was not to take Crimea by annexing it. Our final goal was to allow the people express their wishes on how they want to live,” he said.
“I decided for myself: what the people want will happen. If they want greater autonomy with some extra rights within Ukraine, so be it. If they decide otherwise, we cannot fail them. You know the results of the referendum. We did what we had to do,” Putin said.’
I hope Putin means exactly this for the Donbass republics too. I can’t decide whether the Donbass should join Russia, or whether they should try for independence status – after the elections next month hopefully, does anybody know if there is going to be any vote too for independence/joining Russia? – but with many agreements with Russia, especially a defence pact.
Belarus is not alone: Kazakhstan will join the cancelling of the free trade agreement with Ukraine either.
However, I don’t understand Scott’s anger about this. Belarus has always played both sides. Of course that results in some smuggling and other effects that Russia doesn’t like. But on the other side it helps Russia too.
A broke Ukraine (or any other neighbor) is much more harmful to the Russian economy on the long term than a bit of smuggling.
VVP has stated and passed a decree that all goods from Ukraine to Kaz must go via Belarus:
http://sputniknews.com/business/20160101/1032579499/putin-goods-ukraine-kazakhstan.html
“The idea that Ukraine is going to save European Union from falling apart is wildly circulated in Ukraine. The plan here is for Ukrainians to go to “Europa” and beat them up to make them stay together. Since Ukrainians are being prepared to defeat Russia, holding the EU together should be a small undertaking for this great new nation”
Brilliant :)
First of all a happy and peacefull new year to all of you!
After I read the Sitrep I think Scott you miss one point. By writing “Ukrainians were promised by the new owners the European “values,” and European standards of living.” and assuming thats only propaganda I thing thats acctualy where we are heading. The aim is not to bring the Ukrofashists on too the currant living standard of Western Europe, it’s more to to bring the Rest of Europe down to Ukrainian Standard. Hope I’m wrong, but my experiance of 25 years of living in East Germany and the destruction there, as well as 20 years of beeing on and of in Lithuania tells me otherwise.
Yes – I think you have made a good point, I also think you are on the right track
@ Soldat82
Ha, this could be exactly one of my sayings.
Well done.
Many thanks.
If I were Donetsk, I’d insist on cash in advance before selling them my coal.Also AFU claimed that AFN had dressed up soldiers in ukr uniforms as a provocation when attacking something or other,whereas it was their own forces much more likely…….the increasing desparation of ukr will produce even more insane acts,mistakes,provocations,anything to continue the USA intention that Rus is an aggressor nation and President, the last thing that Ukr wishes is to lose face against Rus, to prove itself to be a laughing stock. I note that the usual sense of sardonic humour is not obvious in the report,but hey maybe it is all getting to be too much of a joke for innocents caught up in these machinations by outrageous and certifiable politicians.
It will be interesting to keep a tally of the court cases that ukr brings and fails,noting that VP recently signed the reciprocal seizure of foreign proprty law.
extensive article published today here
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160101/1032576602/ukraine-civil-war-minsk-agreements-analysis.html
extracts
“Unfortunately, Bezpalko explains, “the conditions under which the Ukrainian president has found himself are pushing him toward the continuation of the armed conflict…For Ukraine, the violation of the Minsk II and an attempt to advance in the east are seen as a way out of the impasse in which the country has found itself.”
and
“As things stand,” Ischenko notes, “Kiev already has little control over the country. And when the loss of control becomes fraught with the prospect of a coup d’état, and ground starts to crumble beneath the authorities’ feet, Poroshenko will play his last trump card – beginning a war in the east.”
In any case, the analyst suggests, “everyone understands that the outbreak of war would result in the rapid defeat of Ukraine. Poroshenko also fears this – such a scenario threatens his authority, and his personal well-being. Nevertheless, war for him is his last chance. Therefore, so long as it remains possible to hang on to power without war, Poroshenko will stall. As soon as it becomes clear that preserving peace without war is impossible, Poroshenko will authorize military action – or it will start without him.”
Some omissions:
Ukraine is supplying ISIS with weapons laundered via Qatar
ISIS and Turkish Grey Wolves are established in Ukraine
Russia has invoked the UN procedure for self-defense against ISIS and its supporters.
Russia has started court procedures to recover the 3 billion euro bond state debt. Ukraine is officially bankrupt.
The Ukrainians have totally cut electricity supply to Crimea. It will only be re-supplied if Crimeans declare Crimea is Ukrainian. A poll gave a 93% result in favor of rejectig this bs, and accpted short-term difficulties. Russia will accelerate construction of power supply feeds across the Kerch Strait.
Here is a link for readers about the poll
https://www.rt.com/politics/327569-crimea-electric-supply-phone-survey/
and results
http://tass.ru/en/society/848176
background of the neo-pagan cruelty and non-traditional values in post-Christian Europe.
We understand what you mean in Context, however let us remember that pagan is the real tradition of europe. Roman emperor Julian compared christian missionaries to child abductors. & Charlemagne spread christianity by the sword with much cruelty. Let us not forget #never forget the pagan genocide by abrahamic powers.
Have you seen this?
I read this in “Tass news” – last night. here it is in todays “New York Times”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/01/world/europe/russia-crimea-ukraine-energy.html?ref=todayspaper
If Russia’s elected president, Vladimir Putin, actually offers to Conceive of signing an agreement to recognize Crimea as part of the Ukraine… (I know, it is some brilliant move by Putin). I sure hope it is/was.
In printed discussion with the Auslander (on this forum), I warned about the consequences and significance of the Crimean/Russian government allowing the Zionist-American puppet Kiev Nazis to reconnect electricity to the Crimea.
One must not rely on Nazis, or their imperialist masters. Once they shut off the electric power to the Crimea, the only sane and responsible response on the part of Russia’s leaders was to connect Crimea’s electric grid to the Russian mainland, ASAP.
I am not discussing military matters here, only a rational (structural-economic infrastructure) response to Zio-US-Nazi disruption.
Good news here: – from TASS. Back from the brink. The Crimean people are wonderful (Auslander too).
http://tass.ru/en/society/848176
The people of Crimea should not have been asked such a terrible question (by Putin) through the pollsters. Surrender should not ever be conceived. Surrender means slavery and death.
For the Democratic Republics!
On the contrary, it is a good move by Putin to remove any basis for the usual suspects to twist the situation and to accuse him of letting the Crimeans freeze in the dark to protect his so-called “land grab” and “imperial” ambitions. Now, there is yet another strong statement by Crimeans of their overwhelming rejection of the Ukraine, and of their overwhelming choice of self-determination within membership of the RF. Crimea continues as an “autonomous” republic fully responsible for its own domestic policy, and not just as dictated to by the Kremlin. Putin the lawyer again abides by strict legality in national, as well as international, law. That is the key to Putin’s prestige with the vast majority of the world, all except for the small, self-serving, unscrupulous and lawless coalition of “western” powers. In all overt actions, he proceeds in strict accordance with established law, and, no matter how viciously provoked, he does not react aggressively outside of the law.
Anonymous 2,
” In all overt actions, he proceeds in strict accordance with established law, and, no matter how viciously provoked, he does not react aggressively outside of the law.”
You left out the part where Putin walks on water.
You might try reading my missive next time. Or not. No harm done!
I like Vladimir Putin too. I also like Ron Paul and Sheryl Crow, but I don’t worship them. Well, maybe Sheryl Crow.
I hope the issue is settled, and no more one-sided deals (that mostly benefit the Kiev puppet regime), between the Russian leaders, and the Zionist American puppets in Kiev, will be made.
The Crimea is an inalienable (so I’ve read) part of the Russian Nation, as much as New York State is of the United States. That is why the Zionist American imperialists are foaming at the mouth and issuing sanctions, and their puppet Nazi regime in Kiev is cutting power lines. The imperialists want it, and the citizens of the Crimea just said No, for the 2nd time.
For the Democratic Republics!
“… I hope the issue is settled, and no more one-sided deals (that mostly benefit the Kiev puppet regime), between the Russian leaders, and the Zionist American puppets in Kiev, will be made. …”
Don’t bet on it…
Thanks for the reminder, Peter. I must agree with you that Putin does indeed walk on water, in the figurative sense, and, of course, when he goes out skating on the frozen version. However, there must be something of divine providence in a poor street kid from the slums of Leningrad, born to a woman almost past childbearing age, who rises to be the effective emperor of the Русский мир, despite a corrupt номенклатура, which was intent only on profiting from the chaos of state failure, and with a huge hostile power steadily encroaching on the borders with intent to envelop, consume and destroy. I used to think that such occurrences only happened in fantasy fiction. It’s a common theme.
It is simply beyond belief that Putin had gone to such a low as to actually announce such a “referendum”.
Just try to imagine great Stalin, somewhere in the middle of those horrible 900 days and nights of the Nazi uninterrupted siege of Leningrad 1941-1944, where over 800,000 people eventually died of starvation, running a “referendum”, asking the Leningrad citizens whether they would rather become part of the Third Reich than die.
And here in Crimea, at stake is merely a temporary inconvenience of housewives having to ration a little electricity.
But then, nobody ever said that V.V. Putin was I.V. Stalin.
Perhaps the idea is to show that local democracy works,by consultation……which is missing in a
many other areas of life,…
JJ
“Perhaps the idea is to show that local democracy works,by consultation……which is missing in a
many other areas of life,…”
Certainly hope you are correct.
I found it odd – to a very weak response – on the part of Russia’s leader, to hold a Poll, just when the people of the Crimea were under stress from outside Zio-American-Nazi Terrorists, who had just, for the second time (and in the season of Winter), shut off their electric power.
There should be no more deals with the Nazis, and no more unnecessary wobbling polls. Just connect Crimea’s infrastructure to Russia’s mainland, ASAP.
Just to the north:
Novorossiya is still being bombarded; another woman died, others injured, and more homes destroyed. How long will the Russian leaders permit that to continue? Thirty million Russians remain imprisoned in their own homeland by the Kiev puppet regime.
For the Democratic Republics!
This looks the best:
I think it could be done easily if Russia officially declares that the NATO countries and also the countries of the EU are at war on Russia, and the courts of the war adversary can never be considered neither just, no valid.
Ukraine is like the panhandler or homeless guy who, before the psychosis finally hits full force, smiles a bit, but is obviously playing on the generosity and charity of people in the neighborhood.
But eventually, the beggar turns thief, turns dangerously unpredictable, is a menace and ends his stay in the neighborhood by shitting in public, right in front of some public building.
It’s the feces not the theft that is the turning point.
Ukraine is presently squatting in front of Brussels’ doorsteps.
Belarus is playing a dangerous game. I imagine the Kremlin has a rapid action plan to keep Minsk from going to EU sphere of influence. It is vital military base for forward Russian weapons and defenses. It, like Ukraine, should have ideally been inside the RF, not independent.
The dictator in charge has a huge ego, but only outside the presence of Putin. When VV Putin is in the house,Lukashenko shrinks.
He benefits enormously from Russia, more so than any other neighbor. The only thing asked of him is loyalty. He is playing with his own mortality dallying with the bitches of Brussels.
Happy New Year!
Proof: Soviet Union is Sexy!!! SILENZIUM The battle goes on (“Неба утреннего стяг” cover)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBnCo2SKafU
(p.s. Soviet Union 2.0 _without_ Zionists (no matter if jewish or non-jewish!), without Oligarchs (no matter if jewish or non-jewish!), without Religion, not caring a sh* about genetics or races!)
BelaRus: I had this feeling for over a year now (since the Minsk 1 talks), that Lukashenko is playing with fire aka is a genuinely hypocrit western bought TRAITOR.
Then I wasn’t sure, but now it sadly gets confirmed 100%.
What a fool who sold his soul to the devil.
Switzerland:
As for:
“””””Ukraine’s ideal fix for the future is to turn Ukraine into an Eastern European Switzerland with cows grazing on green loans in front of big houses, which shows how painfully naive these people are. Switzerland is all about dark endless banking labyrinths, which is something that they were born with. If Swiss people relayed on cows, they wouldn’t last a year.”””””
Very well said!!
Haha, that’s what I told (so called) Serbian Girl 2 weeks ago when she was bashing Yugoslavia as an evil dictatorship with no economy (what a nonsense!).
Tnx for your paragraph about the real power structures of Switzerland ….
@Martin
Regarding Switzerland, yes the Swiss have opened their country to foreign wealth, yes there are many dodgy things going on, (!!) but Switzerland does not need to live off cows I assure you.
The Swiss have very strong real economy or have you never heard of Nestle, Swatch, Roche, Novartis, Lindt? The Swiss also have a strong social support system, pensions, healthcare, which is why I made the comment about Switzerland in our previous cconversation.
May I suggest some New Years Resolutions for you?
1.Get informed about finance/economics before you make blanket comments about this or that economic situation (start with Yugoslavia’s economy and external debt) and
2. put aside your edited comments about me. I really am just a Serbian girl. I think the readers of this blog deserve better from you. Happy New Year!
I have approved this comment, after editing some words which could lead to start a fight, in a right turn to reply as I have seen that Martin was referring you in his comment, but I suggest you both to finish the fight here and make your arguments in a polite way and avoiding personal attacks, please. It is new year also for me. Thanks.
http://www.economywatch.com/world_economy/switzerland/structure-of-economy.html
“””””The Swiss service sector is the most vital component of Switzerland’s economic structure, accounting for approximately 70% of the nation’s GDP. Finance and banking services are the main component of the service sector, with a value addition of 11.6% to the Swiss economy, according to Swiss Federal Statistical Office report, 2008. Swiss tourism is another key part of Switzerland’s economic structure, contributing a net income of CHF 30.4 billion to the Swiss economy in 2005.”””””
Is Switzerland really the country of bankers?
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/by-the-numbers_is-switzerland-really-the-country-of-bankers-/40473658
p.s. Nestle is a tyrant who bought off half of its competition.
I avoid their products (which is not easy!, because like Netherland/British Unilever they are behind many pseudo labels)
Nevertheless the entire Swiss Exports sector of Food, Beverages, Tobacco _together_ amounted to only a tiny 3% even back during pseudo-golden times in 2008:
Lets compare this to Yugoslavia (before 1980 and the later economic crisis of the 80ties, let alone 90ties and its devastating vaporization since then) :
Better than most Eastern bloc countries (except CCCP and East-Germany) :
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Eastern_bloc_economies_GDP_1990.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia
Things of influence and international power which won’t ever show up in any GDP statistics:
One Bank to Rule Them All: The Bank for International Settlements
http://www.globalresearch.ca/one-bank-to-rule-them-all-the-bank-for-international-settlements/5480852
The Bank of International Settlements: Meet The Secretive Group That Runs The World
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-bank-of-international-settlements-meet-the-secretive-group-that-runs-the-world/5442583
http://www.bilderberg.org/bis.htm
“”””” The World Central Bank: centeralbahnplatz – Basel the Bank of International SettlementsThe Bank for International Settlements
Address: The Tower of Basel – Centralbahnplatz 2, 4051, Basel, Switzerland
http://www.bis.org/about/baselmap.htm “””””
Davos – The World Economic Forum
http://www.bilderberg.org/davos.htm
ADAM LE BOR EXPOSES THE PRO NAZI BANK OF INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS (the bank that runs the world)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRX3rcgSu3A
History of Switzerland
Switzerland’s Role
in World War II
http://history-switzerland.geschichte-schweiz.ch/switzerland-second-world-war-ii.html
And the best things you can come up with are sweet chocolate from Lindt or unhealthy instant-coffee from Nestle or healthy real coffee from Dallmayr Prodomo (also a Nestle brand)???
Nevertheless, thanks for the cup of Dallmayr Prodomo (which is really good)!
The International Banking Cartel (I)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OU9AGUv4lk
Who are the US 1% & what they do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJOljjRbT1U
If you suggest that Switzerland is “more fair” and “socially better” than communist Yugoslavia, then maybe you have been trapped by western Marketing propaganda (which is unfortunately omnipresent in modern day RS).
The big biz TOP500 companies some of which you named are part of the problem (Internationalists’ CANCER), rather than part of the solution.
Yugoslavia on the other hand could produce all it needed by itself, without having to depend on such Oligarch thugs. Wealth distribution was more fair and just/equal than in any country on the map today worldwide including RF! In contrast to most other Eastern Bloc countries people were even allowed to travel freely and could live in western countries if they wished and send back funds to support their families. Many moved to France and Western-Germany for some years, later returned (we have friends there who once came from Serbia 40 years ago).
If you call YU a “dictatorship” with “a joke of an industry”, don’t wonder that I feel pain from such statements and will correct you.
p.s. ((some female from Serbia) != (Serbian girl))
It would be as much representative for Germany if I with my views and findings would call myself “German Boy”.
Whatever, please think about the points, rather than fighting on a personal tit for tat level.
If you have good(!) arguments to change my views, you are heartily invited to bring them up to the table.
@Martin
The only point I was making to you with regards to Scott’s excellent SITREP is that Switzerland unlike Cayman Islands, Monaco or even London, actually has an industrial base. That’s all !
I’m not going to discuss previous conversations regarding social benefits or Yugoslavia anymore with you.
> I’m not going to discuss previous conversations regarding social benefits or Yugoslavia anymore
> with you.
No? Why not?
In fact I never saw you discussing these things.
I only noticed flat statements and unverified claims, such as “Yugoslavia was a dictatorship and Tito an egocentric macho” or what it was.
No better arguments?
I thought this blog is all about _discussing_ things, rather than about _not_ doing so.
This blog deserves better from you.
@ Serbian girl
Your comments are indeed well informed, speaking the truth. And you are wise not wishing to “duel”.
Happy New Year!
Петар
@Петар:
But you are not that “wise” then … ?
Tell me precisely and with exact links and line numbers where “Serbian girl” has brought arguments in this matter (including in her her SitReps). For a start go up 200 lines and start over again.
Then compare who of her vs. myself has provided any arguments, and how many.
Asked too much?
She and you argue that you have the better arguments, unfortunately I cannot see any.
Hot air?
@ Serbian girl on January 01, 2016 · at 9:39 pm UTC
> May I suggest some New Years Resolutions for you?
> 1.Get informed about finance/economics before you make blanket comments about this or that
> economic situation (start with Yugoslavia’s economy and external debt) and
YES, you _may_, if you first do your own homework.
Your “””””Get informed about finance/economics before you make blanket comments about this or that economic situation (start with Yugoslavia’s economy and external debt) and””””” makes it hard for me to stay calm, but I will try, because it is Christmas.
What does it mean economically or morally or socially if a country (that needs to stick to some externally enforced rules [because it cannot print FIAT zeroes from fractional thin air {unlike those private families enforcing these debt enslavement games}]) has some “external debt” ?????
This question of yours alone shows, that you really must be in the dark.
So here just one of the links I posted in large quantities since 2 years ago:
The Money Masters – Bill Still
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwqUr7PSRO8
Also, are you aware of “debts” mean or don’t mean???
Communist Romania for example was the only Eastern-bloc country which had paid back all its intl. trap-debts by the late 1980ties! Did you expect Romania to be a debts free country??? I guess, you also have little or no clue about what really happened in Timisoara in 1989 (CIA op with western snipers and also some already dead fake bodies).
So, before expecting more help from me go to a mirror and ask yourself: What is (so called) “Money”?????
And what are (so called) debts?????
Hint:
http://www.petersdurchblick.com/2012/04/der-deutsche-schuldenberg.html
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4X6NHZEG1zk/T4aZzlzeMNI/AAAAAAAAAfA/Hg6TPddUUmw/s1600/Staatsverschuldung5.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_debt
Country Public Debt
(billion USD) % of GDP per capita (USD) % of World Public Debt
World 56,308 64% 7,936 100.00%
United States* 17,607 73.60% 55,630 31.27%
Japan 9,872 214.30% 77,577 17.53%
China 3,894 31.70% 2,885 6.91%
Germany 2,592 81.70% 31,945 4.60%
Italy 2,334 126.10% 37,956 4.14%
France 2,105 89.90% 31,915 3.74%
United Kingdom 2,064 88.70% 32,553 3.67%
Brazil 1,324 54.90% 6,588 2.35%
Spain 1,228 85.30% 25,931 2.18%
Canada 1,206 84.10% 34,902 2.14%
India 995 51.90% 830 1.75%
Mexico 629 35.40% 5,416 1.12%
South Korea 535 33.70% 10,919 0.95%
Turkey 489 40.40% 6,060 0.87%
Netherlands 488 68.70% 29,060 0.87%
Egypt 479 85% 5,610 0.85%
Greece 436 161.30% 40,486 0.77%
Poland 434 53.80% 11,298 0.77%
Belgium 396 99.60% 37,948 0.70%
Singapore 370 111.40% 67,843 0.66%
Taiwan 323 36% 13,860 0.57%
Argentina 323 41.60% 7,571 0.57%
Indonesia 311 24.80% 1,240 0.55%
Russia 308 12.20% 2,159 0.55%
Portugal 297 119.70% 27,531 0.53%
Thailand 292 43.30% 4,330 0.52%
Pakistan 283 50.40% 1,462 0.50%
Who of us two do you think needs a lesson in finance/economics(?)
p.s. I’m a years long reader of ZH, watcher of KeiserReport and also studied a few semesters of Mathematics with direction Economics.
Zeitgeist – The Movie: Federal Reserve (Part 1 of 5)
NULL Clothing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dmPchuXIXQ
fractional reserve banking
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fractional+reserve+banking
Exponential Growth – The Most IMPORTANT Video You’ll Ever See Part 1 of 8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5iFESMAU58
Is is comments section about beliefs or about facts?
Who of us three provided some facts to the matter?
@some female residing in Serbia and @Petar:
If you want to believe such NeoCon fairy tales such as detailed here (which is in fact what your narrative appears to be!):
The Economy of Tito’s Yugoslavia: Delaying the Inevitable Collapse
https://www.mises.ca/the-economy-of-titos-yugoslavia-delaying-the-inevitable-collapse/
… especially without putting it into context of other so called more developed economies:
http://www.petersdurchblick.com/2012/04/der-deutsche-schuldenberg.html
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4X6NHZEG1zk/T4aZzlzeMNI/AAAAAAAAAfA/Hg6TPddUUmw/s1600/Staatsverschuldung5.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_debt
Country Public Debt
(billion USD) % of GDP per capita (USD) % of World Public Debt
World 56,308 64% 7,936 100.00%
United States* 17,607 73.60% 55,630 31.27%
Japan 9,872 214.30% 77,577 17.53%
China 3,894 31.70% 2,885 6.91%
Germany 2,592 81.70% 31,945 4.60%
Italy 2,334 126.10% 37,956 4.14%
France 2,105 89.90% 31,915 3.74%
United Kingdom 2,064 88.70% 32,553 3.67%
Brazil 1,324 54.90% 6,588 2.35%
Spain 1,228 85.30% 25,931 2.18%
Canada 1,206 84.10% 34,902 2.14%
India 995 51.90% 830 1.75%
Mexico 629 35.40% 5,416 1.12%
South Korea 535 33.70% 10,919 0.95%
Turkey 489 40.40% 6,060 0.87%
Netherlands 488 68.70% 29,060 0.87%
Egypt 479 85% 5,610 0.85%
Greece 436 161.30% 40,486 0.77%
Poland 434 53.80% 11,298 0.77%
Belgium 396 99.60% 37,948 0.70%
Singapore 370 111.40% 67,843 0.66%
Taiwan 323 36% 13,860 0.57%
Argentina 323 41.60% 7,571 0.57%
Indonesia 311 24.80% 1,240 0.55%
Russia 308 12.20% 2,159 0.55%
Portugal 297 119.70% 27,531 0.53%
Thailand 292 43.30% 4,330 0.52%
Pakistan 283 50.40% 1,462 0.50%
… then you are free to do so.
But one must wonder what you have lost on this otherwise excellent platform here.
And I’m probably not the only one wonderdering about this.
If you are from Serbia but hate Yugoslavia, then you are not typical Serbians.
Hey dear Serbian Girl, I think your articles that I’ve read were really informed…and I wish you a happy new year….and I have a new Caucasian Shepherd….I think Serbia loves these dogs….
I sure do…
Hi Petar and Ann,
I just found your comments (buried under the avalanche;-)) and was most grateful to read them!!!
Thank you so much! Xo
This is wookie logic… One I can understand unlike the hour I wasted and got a headache reading the contortions of the ukie politics..
The government claims that Shafi believed U.S. politics were heading in the wrong direction—like the Supreme Court’s ruling on gay marriage a few days prior—and that he wanted to live in a country run under Muslim values.
“Adam was discouraged with the politics and direction of the United States, citing the recent Supreme Court decision allowing gay marriage, and wanted to be in a country of people of similar mindset and religion as himself,” the criminal complaint reads.
But ISIS was too brutal and killed too many Muslims for his taste, the complaint alleges. For Shafi, an American disillusioned with U.S. policy and worried about the plight of Muslims around the world, Jabhat al Nusra, which executes regime soldiers and alleged adulterers, seemed like the more moderate choice.
http://www.syriareport.net/american-who-was-afraid-of-gay-marriage-caught-before-allegedly-flying-to-join-al-qaeda/
Perhaps Putin could create a poll for westerners to pick who their favourite head-choppers are -so as to properly rank them?.
We could have ‘head-choppers’ of the month too.
Good idea.
Off Topic
I’m reading other things instead of this blog right now, but I ran into some things that some might find interesting. The article link I posted by Ramsey Baroud was posted to a list I subscribe to by Samir Abushakrah who apparently has or writes for the uglytruth blog (Intelligent ‘anti-Semitism’ for thinking Gentiles), and I found the following there. (along with a nice link to article by Gilad Atzmon — https://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/misrepresentation-and-moral-cowardice-gilad-atzmon-responds-to-ali-abunimah-and-company/ )
This material, then, has more or less fallen into my lap this morning, or placed for me to trip over by the gods or elves, and it seemed unseemly for me to ignore it and not forward it here since it is of high quality and apropos to material here. removed.Your links are here – it is up to the reader if they wish to visit the sites or not.Mod TR
Now that I have observed and acted upon the omens I can go have a happy new year (and you can do likewise, if you choose).
https://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2016/01/01/vladimir-putin-the-fear-of-death-and-the-human-need-for-heroes-must-read/
http://www.sott.net/article/309526-The-Fear-of-Death-and-the-Human-Need-for-Heroes
Blue
Thanks for the posting of the Atzmon reply to the phony left wing, stealth zionist slander and smear corps. Hard to find a suitable quote from him there as so much is worth quoting and easily ends up quoting the whole piece. The intro from the link provides a useful over view:
“Gilad Atzmon debunks a statement signed by Ali Abunimah and others in which they misrepresent his critique of Jewish identity politics, and he vows to continue his fight for the truth. By publishing this, we reaffirm our support for Mr Atzmon and hope that the signatories of the statement will turn their focus to the real enemies of the Palestinian people.
ed note–Gilad is 1000% corrrect–Until the world (or at least that portion of it working to understand and/or solve the problem of Israel and Zionist violence) begin to understand that the root of this problem is Jewish indentity and how it manifests itself in the modern world, all that will be accomplished is a lot of wasted time, energy and money. Abunimah & co who bend over backwards to try and discuss Israel, Zionism and what has been done to the Palestinian people while simultaneously avoiding and/or condeming the discussion of Jewish supremacy are in effect working towards the continued suffering of the Palestinian (and other) people under the jack-booted heel of Israel.”
My favorite quote from Gilad’s article:
” Shalom does not mean peace, reconciliation or harmony. Its accurate English translation is “security for the Jews”. Israeli culture lacks a clear notion of “peace” as we know it – i.e. harmony and reconciliation. “
Blue – you have posted links to these sites 3 times in your comment. You have already informed everyone about the sites and your views. Therefore there was no need to promote these sites again with repeating 2 further links to the sites (which are already there 3 times in your post) telling people to visit. Your message has been made. Thank you for bringing everyone’s attention to them. You are correct that you are also off topic. No one is censoring you and the promotion of these sites is there for all to see – no links have gone apart from 2 repetitions of the same sites. So please don’t attack moderators or the Saker – who has one of the more open comments on the internet where different views are heard – even if we don’t agree with them. If you wish to not comment – that is your choice – it is a shame as you say you wish to fight for the truth and have been doing so for many years but to use this matter and a disagreement on another topic about Karen Armstrong as the reason. I have to stay neutral as a moderator – but I am very very aware there is a very harsh information war going on!
I have sent your final post to the Saker for approval.
Note to all commenters – the Saker has the final say if posts are published – for those of you who are unaware.
Blue …”I expect this to be my last post here.”
Please stay – you have much to contribute.
Thanks.
Well, TR has already seen the post, of course, so any (unintentional) insult already did the damage (and I apologize if that was the case).
BTW, it occurred to me just before taking a nap that the American ‘Indians’ (Redskins) were called subhuman heathens and uncivilized violent savages by the Europeans who discovered the New World and all the resources (which no human beings ever knew about before), before they slaughtered them and took the stuff, and the dark heart of Africa did not fare much better. This demonization is a rather old strategy by empires, apparently. Syria, Ukraine, Iran, and Palestine are not new any more, but it’s occupied by the heathens and terrorist natives too.
This seems to be the ‘B’ plan when leaders of a place can’t be converted to puppets, and for some reason can’t be eliminated by Perkin’s Economic Hitman methods — so then it’s color revolution time, install a puppet after a coup (as in Iran, Iraq, and Chile, and use him as an excuse to invade (RTP) if he strays — or hold a civil war. Variations on a theme. Create the enemy (using local or nearby fanatics if possible), destroy the enemy, grab the loot. We have seen this movie before — and we’ll see it again if people don’t become sensitive to it and refuse to watch it. It’s in progress with Russia, and beginning with China.
I also beg You, please stay. I find everything You write very interesting.
Take some rest and then come back. You are an atheist, like me, and it is important to adress the religions issues from a more neutral point of view. To build a multipolar world we have to leave religious fanatism and confusion.
Haven’t had the time to peruse your links Blue, but I will, especially since they go against the current zeitgeist (Islam vilification). I’ve heard it said that thought is the enemy of action, so conversely, knee-jerk re-action would be the enemy of thought. Very easy to appoint a demon, whether a personality or an ideology or religion. Dispenses with the need for critical thinking.
My best wishes to you, the other contributors, the Saker, and especially the mods.
May 2016 bring victory to the righteous, and if that is not yet meant to be, then at least faith and perseverance.
С НОВЫМ ГОДОМ!
Blue
What you talked about I’ve noticed as well. There is definitely a problem, and it isn’t you. I hope you reconsider and stick around.
I am trying, but physically I need some recovery time, especially between the cold weather and some medical conditions which are not that serious but drain time energy. It’s less fun getting old and decrepit than it’s cracked up to be — and the issues here are also tiring to deal with.
Yeah — something here, I think, but I don’t know quite what, although some of the posters and posts seem a bit strange and the tone has changed.
As for religion, I’d say it should be a problem but that it’s been weaponized, as have other issues to drive people apart, and is inserted into areas where it is not appropriate — including, of course, the wars and factions fighting, even in Ukraine where it should not be much problem and had not been in the past, and not really to the extent it is in the Mideast either, for that matter, as in Iraq where people largely did not know what sect their neighbors followed until the empire agitated people.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott about the blue eyes / brown eyes exercise if you haven’t heard of it, and check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment. These were a long time ago, and we should expect that those who watched, including imperialists, have better information and tools now — better than the Nazi propagandists — in how to divide and victimize people, and create the propaganda — turning ordinary people in Donbas into ‘terrorists’ for instance, and Russians into war-loving monsters. We pretty much already know this is happening, but how exactly, and what does it look like on the local level. That’s important to ask. You can bet the bunch in Kiev have been schooled in what to say and do, as with the “trade war that Russia has started” — or who is jumping in the crowd and who isn’t. And who really spent the money to hire an ‘army of trolls’? The worst thing about propaganda is that it so often works.
Hey Blue, please don’t go…your cat stories come not-often-enough and you are a friend to lots of people here.
Its fun debating with you…even if I might be one of the ones you don’t like so much….
Bye for now, and I hope your nose behaves itself…please write more cat stories…
Have a good year, and see you soon !!
Ann
I can’t remain here and maintain my integrity as a writer. My posts (in defense of personal attacks on me) are being blocked by at least one moderator, and the anti-Muslim propagandist post continue. Goodby to all, and I shall stop accessing this blog as soon as my farewell is published.
If anyone has some pressing need to contact me a message can be left at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/intermindcollective which also has some old writings and discussion which may be of interest, but I think it’s time for this old man to retire from this sort of thing and ride off into the sunset.
I can’t stay — too many of my posts are being blocked.
Hello Blue:
While certainly I don’t always agree with you as you know, I always found many of your posts very interesting and valuable.
I don’t understand what goes wrong with you versus the really good moderators here.
It will be a loss to us all if you leave this blog as regular commentator.
As for exhaustion: Comment less, don’t allow the InfoWar to eat you alive.
The Information War is a thankless one. It needs to be fought, but it can be tough and ugly.
Relax more. Or revive your other hobbies.
p.s. The Stanford Prison experiment is a thing which everybody must watch.
After that one understands many things better. Such as USA’s so called “Police” or their so called “US-Army”.
Perhaps we need an offtopic sandbox for contributors?
Well instead of fighting losing battles..
Like
do a lot of women have one leg shorter than the other?
https://twitter.com/IvanSidorenko1/status/683030575389782016
It might be why so few women are found at the front lines… cant aim the gun properly if one leg is mismatched with the other…
And dont even start with the hair.. the number one complaint of women.. How would the hair fit into the helmet… and would it go with the uniform.
https://twitter.com/MEXODOX/status/679389572082593792
Notice the slant… they might fall over on uneven surfaces…
https://twitter.com/jo_seeker/status/678332670892462080
The need for extra extra large helmets…
https://twitter.com/noorabaloch2/status/676615897595908096
The need for pope head’s…
https://twitter.com/Russ_Warrior/status/676119386726506497
Men on the other hand have no such problems.. Its one size fits all.. a basketball with holes for the eyes and nose…
https://twitter.com/JPY_Kurdish/status/675568242211950593
I prefer the fabulous voice of Jennifer Warnes/ Leonard Cohen video – First We Take Manhattan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0rZ2CPCYBQ
Copyright of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf expires
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35209185
I was particularly taken by this last line:
“However, German officials have said they will limit public access to the text amid fears that this could stir neo-Nazi sentiment.”
I am sure the irony -and not just with reference to the Kiev junta and owners- is not lost on anybody here.
Happy New Year everyone -there is much work to do in this wicked world.
If you can stand a short visit to a neo-nazi site, you can download Mein Kampf from “The Noontide Press: Books On-Line.”
I’d never read it, and thought that it would help round out my education. I have read both Shirer’s “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” and his “Berlin Diary.” I was interested to see what I might learn about Hitler’s thought processes, so I’m reading it a bit at a time.
I already have it -found at a used book sale long ago, although I did read of controversy about there being more than one translation and some sort of coverup involved.
Regardless, the BBC did say one word of truth when they described it as ‘rambling’. I finally gave up in boredom trying to read the drivel.
Strange all this hype over mein kampf. I read it as a teenager. It was in my school library when I was in high school. Remember zilch about the content, though. Unlike other works I read at the same time, such as the autobiographical work of a Japanese WW2 soldier who served on SE Asia and Marshal Zhukov’s account of his experiences, which were also available at the same high school library.
I believe it was totally banned in Germany until now -perhaps national embarrassment but probably just posturing for effect.
The only danger I found in reading it was excruciating boredom and the resulting threat of possible catatonic trance.
Since it can be read if someone “really” wants to. Its foolish for Germany to ban it. It just makes it more “exciting” for young people to want to read it. They would do better to just debate the points made in it. Show people where mistakes were made in it. Ideas can only really be fought by showing they aren’t right. Just to ban them is the worst way to try and fight them (in my opinion at least).
Thanks for the sitrep, Scott, and happy New Year everybody.
From the mid East and interesting article from the Mossad site: Again this is disinformation but can be revealing in what is missing and what gets mentioned in passing. If this is totally bogus, then, why post it at this point in time? The Germans appear to be playing a rather active role since the US is feckless these days in the mid East especially.
http://www.debka.com/article/25120/IDF-Russian-Iranian-forces-on-war-alert-for-Hizballah-attack-on-Israel-–-and-backlash
Man it really makes my blood boil when I read of dic*heads like this General complaining that NATO is not investing enough taxpayers money into “beefing” up its defences :
“While Russia’s modernization has resulted in flexible and effective armed forces, Germany’s head NATO general believes the alliance has fallen behind due to a lack of investment.
Russia has invested in the development of modern, flexible and effective armed forces, while NATO has neglected the necessary investment, said Germany’s top NATO commander General Hans-Lothar Domrose on Wednesday.
“Russia has invested so heavily that its armed forces are highly modern, flexible and effective today – and also numerically strong,” said Domrose, who contrasted Russian investment with what he called a 25 percent decrease in NATO investment over the last 25 years”.
The US alone is spending well over half a trillion dollars, over half of its yearly budget, on its armed forces while its citizens are facing a daily struggle to make ends meet with tent cities growing daily and 50 million people on food stamps and no affordable universal health care for its people. Its cities infrastructure is crumbling through lack of maintainance while more and more cities are going bankrupt.
As for its EU vassals they are being coerced into spending 2% of their nations GDP on NATO which since they are forced to purchase American armaments translates into more money for the US military industrial complex. How much is the UK spending on bombing Syria without any permission from the Syrian government while making swingeing so called “Austerity” cuts at home ? How much is it spending on building its new military base in Bharain ? or how much has it got earmarked for renewal of the Trident programme ? How much is France spending on its military budget while its economy falls apart ? How much are they all spending on the military ?, on maintaining a presence in Afghanistan ?, and this turd complains NATO needs to spend yet more on defence. Maybe they will finally be satisfied when America is spending 100% of its yearly budget on the department of defence.
Maybe if they try getting their snouts out of the trough of free flowing taxpayers money for five minutes to address the highly corrupt and incestuous relationship between the pentagon and private defence contractors and put a stop to the wholesale looting of taxpayers money going on they might find they actually do have enough dough to get things done at a fraction of the price but Im not going to hold my breath. The greatest scam in the history of mankind is being perpetrated against the citizens of the west but the sheeple are too brainwashed and pacified to see. Just bend over to get shafted some more.
The full article can be read below :
http://sputniknews.com/world/20160101/1032584484/nato-general-russia-better-army.html
You are right there. One of the greatest scams (history has so many,I’m not sure about “the” greatest) in history is the so-called “war on terror” and its side-kick “Russia is the greatest threat”. But it isn’t the money that is the worst part of that. Its the brainwashing that is going with it. It is dividing the World’s people from each other. Its building “fear” and hatred throughout the World. The Islamophobia and Russophobia is greater than I’ve ever seen it in my lifetime. With millions of people buying into those idiocies. Some just one or the other. But many in the World buying into them both.
Happy new year, everybody! On second thought: maybe not to the Ukro-trash. I was pondering on this particular passage in Scott’s submission:
“The Ukrainians nurture this bizarre idea, that after Putin is overthrown, Medvedev, being a liberal enemy of Russia, would undo all the reforms that Putin’s government have implemented: Medvedev will give back Crimea and Donbass, undo the entire cooperation with China, give up all the modern weaponry to the West and dismantle its military, abandon the Middle East, pay for ‘all the damages’ , give back oil and gas industries to Khodorkovsky and Rothschild. Medvedev will also break the Russian Federation into small managed by the West countries, and assist in ethnically cleaning all the people of Russian ethnicity.”
I agree Medvedev is unreliable, but if the above perspective is actually representative of current Ukro perceptions, then one wonders who told them. Given their psychotic Russophobia, it would seem perfectly logical if each and every Russian politician were held in total contempt, only worthy of hate and disgust, no matter what. Or is the tacit assumption here that Medvedev would be taking orders straight from the Kiev Nazis (ultimately from their sponsors) at gunpoint, even suffering physical abuse, for good measure?
This much is clear, anyhow: If Russia is to be defeated, enslaved, and annihilated, the only way achieving that is by High Treason.
Medvedev is much misunderstood. In my opinion, he is a “stalking horse” intended to give “liberals” a sympathetic ear, some hope and, especially, to draw them all together under his wing to be a controlled opposition, distracted, compromised and unable to advance much mischief or sabotage. Putin is following the old dictum, “Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” Also, as Scott notes above, the Russian military has resumed its role as guarantor of last resort of the Русский мир. As Scott rightly observes, “As long as the war on Russia is being conducted, there will be no pro-west liberals in power in Russia.”
If they do think that way they are very foolish (OK,more foolish,than they already are).Medvedev,for whatever his faults might be. Has a sense of survival in him. And forcing Crimea back to Ukraine is a sure way to get executed by the patriots in Russia. No Russian leader could survive doing that (and I mean “no Russian leader” ). There would be a permanent death warrant on their head’s. And sooner or later someone would assassinate them because of it. As some Russians have already said (and I read them say a lot). The future without Putin won’t be a “liberal” 5th column leader (except maybe for a few days). It would be someone much harder. The “poll” in Crimea I think was very interesting,for several reasons. Even with all the hardships going on. And ethnic Russians only being 60% of the population. An overwhelming 92.6% supported telling Ukraine “to stick it”. And 94% said that even without power for a while they wouldn’t agree to the wording of the contract. If you could take a “photo” of a united people that would be it. The 5th column at best (and really not even that high) is 6.5%. And I suspect the results in mainland Russia wouldn’t be much (if any) higher.
Ooops! I have an amendment to the statistics I posted. I see in another story that the figure for telling Ukraine “no” to the contract was 93.1% instead of 92.6% (even more overwhelming a rejection). The 94% figure I posted seems to have been the final breakdown on the question of accepting hardships until the power lines are completed from mainland Russia.
I just read Scott’s great Ukraine 1/1/16 siterep. I might be talked into editing a couple of articles per week for grammer.
Sincerely,
George F.
grammar
LOL :D
Hilarious!
OK, George Faraco, you’re hired.
It looks like you are perfectly qualified.
Email me at vmr6kk at gmail dot com
You’re just the man for the job George!!
Do you offer a spellcheck service too?
:O
A Happy New Year to the Saker and the site’s readers.
This is a site with the most “inconvenient truths”, and yet with the most sensible readers!
There is no hope with Western Media and leaders, as even just yesterday morning when I happened to tune in to NPR, they are continuing their propaganda and demonizing campaign on Putin, saying stuff like Putin has wealth of upwards of 45Billions, etc. Total psychos. Similarly, George Friedman of STRATFOR continues to recycle the mantra that Russia’s economy is in deep trouble and will collapse soon…
On the other hand, I did noticed a significant change in some of my friends, many of whom by now realized that MSM is not really “free press” and are getting “filtered news”! This to me, is a significant event!
Wishing all the good people who inhabit this brilliant blog a happy new year in 2016.
To the forces of darkness, i hope you lose everything in the year ahead, your minds have gone already.
Peace from The Celtic Socialist Republic of Scotland, in waiting……….
I do not understand why if ukraine is not paying pensions and other entitlements to Donbass why Donbass continues to do any kind of business with them.Take back out ancient lands and lets use the dneiper river as the border. And to hades with ukraine .The word makes me sick and makes my blood boil everytime I hear it and I am sure my father is rolling in his grave over this also.
Scott, thanks for your detailed report.
Does anyone have more information regarding…
https://02varvara.wordpress.com/2015/12/31/donetsk-uptsmp-priest-in-serious-condition-in-ukrop-prison-in-mariupol/
Why are these crimes not being reported? (Rhetorical question… the answer is self evident)
Does anyone have more information about the restoration and rebuilding in DPR and LPR?
Who is doing the rebuilding?
Who is paying for the rebuilding?
Is it private housing or communal housing?
Are there any photos?
http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2015/12/restoration-in-debaltsevo-3-schools.html
And the big question… will it be a waste of time and labour if the Ukies attack again???
I’ve seen those stories. They are very heartening. But yes they will be in danger if the junta attacks again. But if they do,I’m hoping this time they can be pushed out of Donbass completely. And maybe destroyed utterly.Finally ending this whole mess.
An interesting short story on Fort Russ today. It seems the “arch” Russian traitor…I mean…5th columnist Maria Gaidar is back in Russia and was “fired” from her job in Odessa. It never ceases to amaze me how forgiving Russians can be at times:
“Pregnant Maria Gaidar Dismissed From Odessa Administration”
Information is in circulation that Maria Gaidar has returned to Russia. She was dismissed from the post of Deputy head of the Odessa regional state administration for absenteeism without being given a valid reason.
And what was the reason for such a quick dismissal recently and who took on the position of Maria Gaidar? Saakashvili got tired of the whims of a pregnant Gaydar, who increasingly began to demand for herself special preferences. Probably the last straw was a recent interview with Maria to a correspondent for Radio News (Ukraine), in which she stated that Mikhail Saakashvili is the father of the unborn child.
Immediately after her dismissal, Maria Gaidar returned to Russia to her husband Oleg Vinogradov and now is in Moscow. Maria never gave up Russian citizenship and immediately took advantage. Also, the former Vice Governor of the Odessa region has, in Moscow, three own apartments (75,8, and 33.6 53.6 per square meter), with her husband being the founder of the company “Profitable insurance” and CJSC “Plant of automobile equipment” in the Kaluga region. Incidentally, the US had refused Gaidar citizenship.
http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2016/01/pregnant-maria-gaidar-dismissed-from.html
The only real choice Russia has is to first strike US/Canada/Australia/ New Zealand/Japan and fight a ground war in Europe. War has already started, I am sure Russia has come to the same conclusion.
“US/Canada/Australia/New Zealand/Japan … Europe”
And how ’bout “Israel” first? Like that Sheriff’s line from The Night of The Living Dead says: “You shoot the brain – you kill the ghoul.”
Yeah, the zio-zombies pretty much spout the same govno. Thanks Mars for pointing that out.
Govno = The Natoists
The US dollar and the US military is all that needs taking out. Without the US military, the AZ/neo-con psychopaths would be nothing more than common crims
You know things are bad when real reporters have to take time out on the front lines to debunk armchair generals at their comfortable and warm desks hiding on the in the closet of downtown nato…
crazy Murad Gazdiev went to see new years fire works on the front lines
Just in case anyone still takes jihadijulian seriously: within 4 hours he accuses RT of lying, admits RT was correct
https://twitter.com/MuradoRT/status/683031848583315457
Noted EU extremist supporters seemingly angry about SAA progress. jihadijulian says rebels & govt wrong, he is right
https://twitter.com/MuradoRT/status/683027160299343875
this is why you don’t trust online “analytics”. Take a random screenshot, claim its the “frontline” – disinformation
https://twitter.com/MuradoRT/status/683020536637734912
A Great Deal Becomes Clear – Russian Foreign Ministry on Erdogan’s Comments
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160102/1032593783/zakharova-erdogan-hitler-comments.html
Well, yeah, hitler, was a similar over ego’d pawn for essentially the same lot of meglomanical fascist parasites.
An aspect of Russian special forces few would even suspect… ;D
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hr-xBtVU4lg?autoplay=1&FORM=VIRE2
thanks Scott. yeah that’s amazing…its like Lenard Cohen could be speaking for Russia…I hope so much that this happens….
His dear sister…God bless her soul.
The Saudis may have “crossed the Rubicon” today. They executed a prominent Shia cleric. Iran warned them that executing Nimr “would cost Saudi Arabia dearly”. Maybe now the Iranians will follow through with what I’ve always thought they should have long before. Arm the huge Shia minority in Eastern Saudi Arabia to rise up and destroy the Saudi regime. Coordinate that rising with the Yemeni advances in Southwestern Saudi Arabia. And collapse that evil regime.
Did China buy this aircraft carrier from Ukraine? Is this ukie bait and switch?
https://twitter.com/Ald_Aba/status/682484715211862017
Things just got real…. Would be like executing mother Theresa,,,
Sheikh Nimr was shot & arrested two years ago in his home for peacefully protesting Saudi regime’s harassment of religious minorities. R.I.P
Despite worldwide protests, the Saudi regime has executed prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr
Irony – SaudiArabia a Snr member of UN Human rights council, brought in the new year by executing 47 people inc freedom fighter SheikhNimr
Very sad and a real reflection on just how corrupt and useless the UN truly is. Where is the outrage?
The House of Saud is truly evil. The Shia’s in the ME are all calling for calm as they see this as the Saudi’s desperation to ignite a Shia/Sunni secterian war.
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160102/1032600023/saudi-arabia-al-nimr.html
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160102/1032604015/execution-shiite-cleric-consequences.html
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160102/1032605466/hezbollah-us-cleric-execution.html
The Third World War, Russia and “the springs”:
http://www.elespiadigital.com/index.php/noticias/defensa/11732-la-tercera-guerra-mundial-rusia-y-las-primaveras-
Interesting analysis / account on the dark incidents with aircrafts involved which took place last year compared with the equally dark and conveniently occurred in the past, the situation after “arab springs” and the implications that all this “pre-global war” scenario has for Spain.
Two helicopters ‘classified secret’ take off from the Moscow Kremlin:
http://www.elespiadigital.com/index.php/noticias/empresas/11797-dos-helicopteros-clasificados-como-secretos-despegan-desde-el-kremlin-de-moscu-
Guys, Saker, what about this news? What about this kind of helicopters? Which is that building in the other side of the river, opposite to The Kremlin, where the helicopters seem to have landed?
Thanks a lot, Scott, for the Sitrep, I will read it quietly when I have some time.
Happy New Year to all!
re: Kremlin helicopters. A year ago during the period in Moscow when a street coup was contemplated under the cover of an assassination of a minor celebrity/ washed up politico, Putin stopped going to the Kremlin via limo which required traffic snarl ups etc. and security nightmares. Thus the helicopters.
Martin Smith’s Full FRONTLINE Documentary “Inside Assads Syria”
https://youtu.be/XDsXTOjwv28
Well this is western propaganda.. But they cant hide what the people think.. And almost everyone they interviewed must exhibit similar thoughts for them to have overwhelming support for Assad.. Don’t forget to add in the barrel bombs in there..
and no matter how they try to portray it, it don’t fit the western narrative..
It is surprising that even with heavy propaganda tricks, the message still gets across…
Now what?
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2016/01/former-leader-of-right-sector.html
Former Leader Of Right Sector Disappeared From Interpol List
Translated by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ
2nd January, 2016
Tvzvezda
The former head of the Ukrainian organization “Right sector”, Dmitry Yarosh, has disappeared from the open database of the Interpol wanted list, TASS reported. Searching his name on the organization’s website does not provide results. A working hyperlink to a page about him leads to a blank page. Interpol has not commented on this information.
[…]
You forget this is an 80% information war.
Polls like this are a record of what people – the alleged ‘victims’ of Russian takeover – really think and want.
The polls are as statistically random-sampled as possible to give a true picture of local desires.
It was precisely that famous Crimean referendum that cut the ground from under NATO’s feet. The US was force to back off and content itself with sanctions rather than calls to ‘restore sovereignity’ to the Ukraine through direct military intervention.
True records are important to counteract the propaganda, as well as testing the temperature for tolerance of temporary hardships of the affected population.
A fascinating account of a psyops in Syria (2012) shows the level of control exerted by the NATO over apparently ‘independent’ media and why Putin appears so obsessed with establishing an actual record:
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.de/2012/11/urgent-nato-preparing-psy-op-in-syria.html?m=1
Thanks eimar, interesting link.
Also regarding:
“””””In 2011, France 24 served as information ministry for the Libyan CNT, according to a signed contract. During the battle of Tripoli, NATO produced fake studio films, then transmitted them via Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya, showing phantom images of Libyan rebels on the central square of the capital city, while in reality they were still far away. As a consequence, the inhabitants of Tripoli were persuaded that the war was lost and gave up all resistance.”””””
It is important to keep records!
And the 1991 and 1994 Crimea referendums are also such matters of undeniable matter (yet never mentioned in MSM). But true (honest) historians will always be able to learn the truth, thanks to such data.
Links may get deleted, but http://archive.org/web/ saves quite a large number of the www’s timestamps.
Scott and others who know Russian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFveiQ3VUD8
link to 1 recent video-youtube will bring up others-Ukrainian Margaret Montayan, ex consultant lawyer to Yanokovich government, says Poro government need her consultation so she still does it now and then, she leads her own party but will not participate in the current political situation so my mrs says until the government changes….but has very realistic appraisals of the current situation re Donetsk, Lughansk, tries to point out the truth of the situation etc to Ukraine….in Russian…my mrs says very interesting……..
@JJ: I understand enough to wonder how she can be so brave and couragous in this so called “country”.
Very interesting. There are also other videos with her on yt.
She is repeatedly asking her fellow Ukranians why they were shooting against their own peaceful citizens in Donbass and why they continue to claim that these are “Terrorists” and “Russians”.
As an example she mentiones Motorola.
But they all don’t want to listen. Then she repaets her remarks and nobody wants to hear it.
Unbelievable!
Tnx for the pointer, your Mrs. is absolutely right.
Glad to assist!
Apparently at a press conference the deputy head of OSCE prposes a kind of Minsk 3……..anna-news node 50477 as existing agreements are not enough to settle outstanding issues
ah
the important stuff
“According to a notice, Russia will discount its previous gas price of $230 per 1,000 cubic meters (TCM) by $17.8, bringing it to $212.2 per TCM, an official Russian government notice said January 1.
Ukraine’s Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn previously said Ukraine was ready to buy Russian gas in the first quarter of 2016 if the price was reduced to under $200 per TCM. Ukraine halted gas purchases from Russia’s top producer Gazprom in July 2015 after Kiev and Moscow failed to reach a deal on gas deliveries for the third quarter of the year. Kiev has since been importing gas via reverse flows from the EU, mainly from Slovakia.
Currently, gas is trading at a price of around $170 per TCM in European markets.
http://southfront.org/russia-discounts-gas-delivery-price-to-ukraine/
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mind you Poro was saying few weeks ago that not enough coal was stored for winter, Ukr still gonna push for UN peace keepers, reminder OSCE deputy called for a type of Minsk 3 at the weekend, ukr state pensions have fallen to 2008-9 levels,looting pillaging by military etc around Mariupol from local peoples,
http://www.anna-news.info/node/50539
“Ukrainian fascist invaders from the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s so-called blown up by mine own moving truck on the Russian “Ural”. Good quality of Russian military equipment has allowed to avoid casualties among the Ukrainian warriors.
“The news came from the village of Lugansk. I undermine “Ural” with the soldiers of the 53rd Brigade APU. Everyone is alive. The soldiers went to collect firewood, “- said a source in one of social networks.
Recall that similar cases for the Ukrainian armed gangs from different groups and neo-Nazi gangs APU is quite frequent. It is known that on the Ukrainian side are fighting incompetent people who came to the Donbas only plunder and kill.”
maybe that last bit should go under Rus humour from Scott………plus SBU are setting up networks of spies, informers etc…………………
and the recently ereceted stone tablet to Bandera has been knocked over according to anna-news
maybe that should be under rus humour also,
but ukr has drastically reduced freshwater supply to Lughansk also reported……………
“All progressive forces, who fight against fascism, Nazism, capitalism and imperialism to take part in the 4th International Anti-Fascist Conference in Novorossiya.”
scheduled for May sometime
http://antifascist-conference.antiimp.org/index.php?module=main
“Ukraine’s Junta security forces are continuing to deploy armored vehicles along the demarcation line and setting positions for conventional and missile artillery violating the Minsk agreements, Colonel Igor Yaschenko, acting Chief of Staff of Militia corps of the People’s Republic of Lugansk, said on Sunday. “Our scouting elements continue to register deployment of heavy weapons and personnel to the demarcation line. according to them, various equipment has been spotted at a railway station in the village of Luganskaya, 1 km away from the demarcation line. In particular it includes ten T-64 tanks and five 122-mm self-propelled artillery guns,”-
http://novorossia.today/fascist-forces-on-the-move-with-heavy-weapons-at-our-sister-republic-lugansk/
“Ukrainian security officials this morning bombarded the territory of the former airport of Donetsk. This Donetsk news agency reported today, a source in the security agencies DNR. “Ukrainian military in the morning around 7:00 began shelling the airport, which ended close to nine in the morning”, – he said. The enemy was shooting, using a 82-mm mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms. “The shelling was carried out from the position of Ukrainian penal battalions in the village of Experimental Yasinovatskiy district,” – said the agency. Kiev broke in the conflict zone in the Donbas mercenaries from Latvia, artillery, tanks and ammunition. This was announced today at a briefing in the press center DAN deputy corps commander Eduard Eduard Basurin DNI Defense Ministry, citing intelligence data. Two self-propelled guns, “Acacia”, five armored vehicles and 17 vehicles with ammunition and mercenaries Kiev placed in villages Novoselovka second Yasinovatskiy area (8 km away from the front line), Granite and Nikolaevka in southern Donbass (1.5 km from the line of contact). Eduard Basurin added that “intelligence suggests pursuit of the enemy to the aggravation of the situation on the demarcation line and the preparation of the APU to the offensive.” Ukrainian security officials over the past day five times fired at frontline zone DNI. This DAN Defense Ministry reported today in the DNI. The Defense Ministry added that the bombardment of the village of Peter Starobeshevskiy area Sahanka Zaichenko and the south of the NPT, as well as the territory of the Donetsk airport. According to the agency, only opponent was released five minutes caliber 82 mm and produced more than 30 rounds of small arms, anti-aircraft and infantry fighting vehicles”
anna-news google translate
Dennis I cannot approve your post – you simply throw in a link with no accompanying comment re it’s relevance to anything, then it turns out to be totally in spoken / sung Russian which I have no way of estimating and assessing.
Sorry, but can you at least tell us something about your link adn why you have included it, and make sure it’s in English. Thanks. mod PS