No big mystery. It’s because they keep the oil flowing and park a lot of money in the UK.

Posted by: dh | May 31 2014 16:10 utc | 3

Not to mention their huge collection of expensive weaponry.

Posted by: dh | May 31 2014 16:16 utc | 5

Have Saudis annoyed the British, recently?
BBC, May 30
Shia voice discontent at Saudi Arabia’s ruling Sunni

In a special investigation for the BBC’s Our World, Saudi journalist Safa Al Ahmad has gained unprecedented access to film in the region.
She spoke to activists, some of whom were on the government’s most wanted list, and uncovered how the Shia community was reacting to a violent government crackdown.

Posted by: somebody | May 31 2014 16:18 utc | 7

and don’t forget the policeman’s shoe…
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-27622710

Posted by: dh | May 31 2014 16:28 utc | 9

@10 I think a lot of them genuinely believe all that Wahabbi stuff. I don’t understand how they equate it with boozing and whoring in London.

Posted by: dh | May 31 2014 16:36 utc | 11

Now Poroshenko declared that the Maidan is the enemy of the people. Things are getting interesting.
http://rt.com/news/162748-kiev-maidan-tires-burning/

One of his[Klitshchko] first public statements after securing office was a call to Maidan activists still residing in the city center to leave.
“The key goal of the Maidan – ousting the dictator – has been reached, so the barricades should be dismantled,” he said.
Similar statements came from the elected president, Petro Poroshenko.
“No Maidans would affect the president, no matter how much anyone would want it. Otherwise Maidan would no longer be the will of the people and would turn into a common spin technique. I know how to deal with such techniques,” he said.

Posted by: PuppetMaster | May 31 2014 17:11 utc | 13

Or maybe this development?
Saudi Gazette – China’s Xinjiang choices

Saudi Arabia or the OIC should represent the Muslim world and start diplomatic discussions with Chinese officials on this issue. As of now, there are no Muslim countries protecting the rights of the world’s Muslims. The OIC should roll out confidence building measures and strategies to safeguard the interests of Islam and Muslims worldwide.

or this

Saudi Aramco awards China Harbour $550m Jizan contract
Port and harbour specialist awarded water intyake facilities for gasification scheme

Posted by: somebody | May 31 2014 17:49 utc | 15

Geopolitics – Saudi Style

The role played by the Saudis in Syria fits into the broader framework of Riyadh’s support to Islamic extremism throughout Eurasia, from the Balkans to Central Asia, passing through the Caucasus. Nevertheless, while in the Balkans the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army, though financially helped by Saudi Arabia, was mostly trained and equipped by the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the increasing Salafist character of the insurgencies in Russian Northern Caucasus and Chinese Xinjiang underlines a much greater Saudi involvement.
The transformation of both regions into independent, Wahhabi states, is conceived by Riyadh as part of a preventive containment strategy against a nuclear Iran, whose regional influence might be so extended as to include majority-Shia Iraq and Azerbaijan, as well as Persian-speaking Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Hence the importance of encircling a potential Persian bloc from the West through the establishment of the Syrian Islamic State promoted by the Syrian Islamic front, from the North through the independence of the self-proclaimed Caucasus Emirate, and from the East through the independence of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic State promoted by the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement.
Despite widespread conviction that control of the Tartus naval facility, currently Russia’s only base in the Mediterranean, is the mail goal at stake in the Syrian war, Iran is indeed the major objective of the external forces involved in the conflict. Nevertheless, while the United States and its allies often find themselves facing the dilemma whether to support or not Wahhabi fundamentalism as a means to put pressure on Tehran, as well as on Moscow and Beijing, Riyadh’s policy proves to be much more resolute, as well as far-sighted.

And this info – from Russia

U.S. President Barack Obama tried to convince the King of Saudi Arabia to coordinate actions in the oil market to reduce world oil prices, the main source of Russia’s export revenues, and “punish its behavior” in Crimea. Experts estimate that if the prices are reduced by as little as 12 dollars per barrel, the Russian Federation will lose $40 billion in revenue. There has been a precedent, because this is precisely how the USSR collapsed.
…
It would seem that a price reduction of $12 dollars is possible, but the situation in Saudi Arabia is not easy, said Sergey Demidenko. “First, there are not that many readily available deposits, and there is a need to develop more complex fields. This automatically increases the cost of a barrel. Moreover, the country is now facing an unstable social situation and needs a serious financial cushion to solve social problems. The Kingdom remains an island of calm, but only because they push their opposition out of the country to the outside edges of global jihad, and this is a boomerang that sooner or later will come back to them. To ensure that the people do not follow the extremists, they must be bribed. This is why Saudi Arabia will not agree to this plan, it’s quite obvious,” said the expert.

Posted by: somebody | May 31 2014 18:17 utc | 17

Frontline broadcast “The Battle for Ukraine”. It is worth the time to watch to see what corporate funded Public Broadcasting System is telling Americans:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/battle-for-ukraine/
This is the best documentary I have seen of a country falling into a Civil War. The video recording taken by the father of one of Maiden protestors of being under sniper fire is harrowing. The Right Sector is shown to be authoritarian Nazi thugs they are. Their hatred of Russians is clearly depicted.
Yet, exactly opposite is what was shown, the documentary blames Vladimir Putin for Ukraine’s break up. There is no mention of Western support and training for the revolt. Nothing is said about the Oligarch’s looting of Ukraine and the breakdown of civil society. The ethnic hatred between Western Ukrainians and Russians is centuries old not decades. There is no mention of Western support for the Nazis and that the intent is to destabilize and loot Russia. It does not mention the restraint of Russia to date. But, most importantly the documentary does not indicate that if the slaughter of civilian Russians by the Right Sector and National Guard continues in Eastern Ukraine, Russia will have to intervene. NATO will then counter invade and the world will be one incident away from WWIII.

Posted by: VietnamVet | May 31 2014 18:31 utc | 19

Saudis believe that when a man talks with a women, it’s already a threesome because Mr Devil is here to stimulate them into ‘sin’, even on social network.
Then they are bound to go to hell, therefore the role of the Ministry of Virtue is to prevent this to happen. Saudi Arabia does not want to have the highest number of their citizens in hell.

Posted by: Virgile | May 31 2014 19:06 utc | 21

The situation in Novorossiya as of 30 May:

“1. Sporadic and heavy at times fighting around Slavyansk and the outlying villages on 29 May with no notable successes for the Nats Army and national guard units. Some losses reported for the national guard units.
2. A half battery of Grad missile launchers, BM-21, is in position within range of Mariupol. As of this morning that unit has not fired. Range of Grad missile is up to 35 kilometers.
3. A half battery of Grad missile launchers is in position within range of Slavyansk.
4. I have no positive verification of a Grad missile attack on Slavyansk. This does not mean an attack did not occur. Something very large and multiple did hit the outskirts of an outlying village but I have no source at the impact spots to verify what the impacts were.
5. Sources report that the Donbas Army action at Donetsk Airport was a trap involving proposed negotiations with certain Ukraine Army units under the auspices of a western organization in Donetsk at that time. Sources report that shortly after the negotiations started the Ukraine Army sent in by air strong reinforcements to their unit in airport as the Ukraine Army units in airport attacked the Donbas Army unit.
6. The transport of the Donbas Army wounded in convoy out of the airport area late Monday evening was arranged as a truce to succor the wounded. The two Kamaz transport trucks were each flying a red cross flag and a white flag of truce. They drove in to an ambush set up by right sector/national guard units. The drivers of both trucks were killed. One truck overturned after striking a curb. The other truck was hit by an RPG round. The surviving wounded were killed by right sector on the spot. As the wounded were being killed the two flags were removed from each truck by right sector operatives.
7. Partisan activity has started 3 days ago in Kharkov Oblast around Kharkov City among other areas targeting national guard/right sector units. 29 May losses to two national guard/right sector units were heavy in ambushes.
8. Vostok Battalion 29 May started an operation around Donetsk Administration Building of the Donbas Republic to stop looting by certain Donbas Army members after strong complaints from citizens. Metro supermarket near the airport was heavily looted by Donbas Army members as were several other shops and stores and much of the loot was stored in 3 tents in the area of Donbas Administration Building, one tent having the contents and perpetrators shown on video. Reports are 7 looters were arrested and are awaiting trial. Reports from Ukraine and west media that the looters were shot are false.
9. After the anti looting operation was completed Vostok Battalion had the square in front of Donbas Administration Building cleared of the barricades to provide access for citizens to the facility and to facilitate easier defense of the area in the event of a Ukraine attack.
10. Civilian casualties in Donbas are mounting with the random artillery attacks by units of the Ukraine Army and national guard/right sector. 29 May saw 8 civilians killed in Donbas and a like number of wounded. Some of these casualties were caused by air burst antipersonnel rounds fired from howitzers of the Ukraine Army. Targets are living areas with flats buildings with no visible Donbas Army units in the areas.
12. Families of mobilized Ukraine Army reservists held a large demonstration in Kiev at the Ukraine Parliament Building demanding the return of their husbands and sons. By Ukraine law reservists can not be mobilized for more than 45 days without a declaration of war against another sovereign state by Ukraine. This declaration of war has not been made. Kiev has ordered the mobilization extended indefinitely.
13. One of the two Ukrainian helicopters shot down on 29 May was carrying the commanding general of the ‘national guard’ who was also ‘the commander of field operations for national guard units’.
14. Ukraine has rejected the offer of humanitarian aid from Russian Federation for the two Oblasti of Donetsk and Lugansk.
15. An attempt on 29 May to evacuate children from certain areas of Slavyansk was unsuccessful. Ukraine Army units blockading the city refused passage to the buses carrying the children.
16. A refugee processing center has been set up in the Federal City of Sevastopol of the Russian Federation to aid in the settlement of refugees arriving from areas of fighting in Ukraine. Several hundred refugees have arrived in Sevastopol as of 17:00 29 May and are being housed and fed in the city. A like number are being succored in Simferopol, the capitol of the Autonomous Republic of Krimea of the Russian Federation. A processing center is schedule to be set up 30 May in Simferopol to help the refugees. More refugees are expected in both cities. A like facility for refugees will be set up in the eastern Krimea city of Kerch if needed.”

Posted by: scalawag | May 31 2014 20:24 utc | 23

With most of the focus on Ukraine, Russia and various nascent conflicts in the South and East China Seas, what is interesting is how this week Obama’s “Africa pivot” became a hot topic in the mainstream press. First, there was Eric Schmitt’s Tuesday frontpage story in the NYT, “U.S. Training Elite Antiterror Troops in Four African Nations,” where he basically synopsizes what Nick Turse and other writers have been saying on TomDispatch.com for a long time. Then there was this story, again from Schmitt, on Friday, “U.S. Strategy to Fight Terrorism Increasingly Uses Proxies.” Take a look at this quote:

Across Africa this year, soldiers from a 3,500-member brigade in the Army’s First Infantry Division are conducting more than 100 missions, ranging from a two-man sniper team in Burundi to humanitarian exercises in South Africa.
Since 2006, the Defense Department has spent about $2.2 billion in more than 40 countries to train and equip foreign troops in counterterrorism and stability operations, according to the Congressional Research Service. This year alone, the Pentagon is spending $290 million on programs that include border security assistance to Lebanon and a counterterrorism battalion in Niger, in West Africa.
Mr. Obama on Wednesday proposed a Counterterrorism Partnerships Fund of up to $5 billion to “facilitate partner countries on the front lines.”
In explaining the rationale for the fund, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, said: “We’re dealing with networks, and not just regional networks, but global networks of terrorists. So this fund would be used to deal with all of our efforts on counterterrorism.”

As a reporter, Eric Schmitt is indistinguishable from a government employee. What he reports has an official imprimatur. This is clearly a public diplomacy roll out, situated both before and after Obama’s West Point address, announcing Africa as the primary future focus of GWOT. In other words, expect many more drones and special forces crusades to fill the newspapers.

Posted by: Mike Maloney | May 31 2014 21:18 utc | 25

Resisting the Drums of War

“Resisting the Drums of War” demonstrates how images and messages are used to frame a topic to influence the viewer. (See David Giles article in this issue for a discussion on Media Framing). In this case, the video tackles the war in Iraq showing that it was promoted by targeting the audience’s concerns about vulnerability, injustice, distrust, superiority, and helplessness. This video is not only an example of how media can be used to influence perceptions, but how the power of media can be used to counteract inaccuracies and political agendas. Available also on YouTube.

Overall there looks to be a lot of information on this site (this is my first time seeing it though), Media Psychology Review, for those interested in the psychological effect of media framing and narrative.

Posted by: guest77 | May 31 2014 23:15 utc | 27

Ronald Thomas West: Military Sock Puppets, NSA Trolls & CIA Shills
New info on an old topic: How the Military Uses Twitter Sock Puppets to Control Debate and Suppress Dissent March 7, 2014

In 2011, activists claiming to belong to Anonymous hacked private intelligence contractor HBGary. The resulting treasure trove of leaked documents, among other things, proved the US military had ordered persona management software — sometimes called “Metal Gear” — that would allow, per installation, fifty people to control up to 500 fake Twitter accounts. The contracts stipulated that the sock puppet accounts be “replete with background, history, supporting details, and cyber presences that are technically, culturally, and geographically consistent.”

Also, a great takedown of that soulless old vampire Zbigniew Brzezinski and his Washington Post article that came out just after Crimea became Russian territory again.

Posted by: guest77 | Jun 1 2014 0:00 utc | 29

@Virgile #30:
Speaking of Turkey, it has always mystified me that Turkey gets essentially no bad press in the West for continuing to occupy Cyprus, especially considering how much animus there is in the West against Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
Before scalawag accuses me of engaging in hasbara, I will note that Israel’s occupation has destroyed many more lives, and continues to destroy them, than Turkey’s has. Still, that is no reason to give Turkey a free pass when it comes to Cyprus.

Posted by: Demian | Jun 1 2014 0:56 utc | 31

Posted by: Demian | May 31, 2014 8:56:38 PM | 31
“Before scalawag accuses me of engaging in hasbara”
You want to be a bevin mk.2? 😉
Both Turkey and Greece are colonies of the “new” capitalist master race. So they have a squabble over crumbs, who cares…their regimes are both colonies of Israel. It’s Syria and Lebanon who count here.

Posted by: scalawag | Jun 1 2014 1:18 utc | 33

The fact that Greece is still hitched to the austerity wagon is exhibit #1 for the empty promises of democracy in the West in general and the EU in particular.

Posted by: guest77 | Jun 1 2014 1:53 utc | 35

Posted by: guest77 | May 31, 2014 9:55:33 PM | 36
“Is there any evidence that Sisi will be a Nasser? At this point he is just looking like Mubarak in a stupid hat.”
About as much of the former as there is of the latter.
Sisi is less owned by the west than Mubarak, and very much less owned than Morsi. That does not make him another Nasser, by a long shot, somewhere in between.

Posted by: scalawag | Jun 1 2014 2:04 utc | 37

Something is up in Saudi Arabia :-))

A major challenge for Saudi Arabia in attracting more foreign investment will be to change perceptions of the kingdom. Although its strict adherence to Sharia law and issues concerning the rights of woman have drawn some international criticism, the kingdom is undergoing a process of gradual liberalisation and modernisation under the leadership of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud.
The Dutch government was recently forced to send a diplomatic mission to Riyadh to diffuse tensions over anti-Islamic stickers distributed by far-right politician Geert Wilders. The episode had threatened to provoke a ban on Dutch companies in Saudi and endangered $2.7bn-worth of exports to the kingdom.
Despite these cultural sensitivities, Al-Othman says that the kingdom is opening up quickly and shrugging off the “misperception” of being a difficult place for foreign investors to access, work and do business.
“There is no doubt that we haven’t been doing enough to tell the story of Saudi Arabia. We can do more to change the misperceptions about the ease of doing business in the kingdom,” said Al-Othman.

Of course, the Telegraph gets it wrong, here (which is fun). It is Britain that is trying to attract Saudi contracts, not the other way round.

Posted by: somebody | Jun 1 2014 3:05 utc | 39

SS Titanic

Posted by: scalawag | Jun 1 2014 6:04 utc | 41

The pro-Kiev side displays some realism; this was posted in the Kiev Post:

Poroshenko’s Vietnam
Boris Danik
June 1, 2014, 8:56 a.m
… Disengaging from Donbas will require political courage, but it seems the only way to stop the bleeding, deprive Mr. Putin of his pressure engine, and deal first with the European Union rather than checking with the Kremlin.
The status quo is degenerating into more destabilization and bloodletting. The quasi-military tactics employed by Ukrainian side, with a sparse network of extremely vulnerable roadside checkpoints manned by a few dozen fighters, some of them with marginal training, are utterly inadequate if the separatists are to be “crushed”, as recently promised by some government officials.
Petro Poroshenko’[s] vowing of revenge for the loss of lives in the downing of Ukrainian helicopter on a transport mission near Donetsk shows the absence of a coherent plan for dealing with the messy trap in Donbas. It is because no sensible plan is feasible, except to extricate from this conundrum.
Ukraine is in no position to pacify Donbas by force. It would require sending an army of occupation (call the spade a spade), many thousands of troops to secure large cities and the countryside, even if Russia stayed out. The argument that the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts are mostly ethnically Ukrainian, and therefore can be coaxed to reason with a mix of checkpoints and some poetic approach is outdated. …

Posted by: fairleft | Jun 1 2014 8:43 utc | 43

Posted by: fairleft | Jun 1, 2014 4:43:54 AM | 43
From the Kiev Post article:

“can be coaxed to reason with a mix of checkpoints and some poetic approach”

Interesting way of describing the indiscriminate murder of children in order to instil terror and submission of the local population. But, then, look who their western instructors in “perception management” are. You are right, though, the piece is a little more realistic in the sense they admit they have essentially been defeated in winning over the east to the nazi side.

Posted by: scalawag | Jun 1 2014 8:59 utc | 45

Ukraine’s (and Poroshenko’s) Vietnam
…At the risk, well certainty, that this piece is becoming a b lovefest…

Posted by: fairleft | Jun 1 2014 10:16 utc | 47

From an interview of Kolomoisky, Tribune de Genève, 31 may.
My excerpts, trans, and /paraphrase./
? It is not a civil war. These are terrorist attacks organised and financed with money stolen from the Ukranian people, by, amongst others, Yanukovitch and his family. (…) They are carried out by mercenaries coming from Russia. There will be no peace until they are annihilated.
Putin? I think Putin has decided to destroy Ukraine by dividing it. (…) he won’t stop, until he realises we are resisting, which we are. At the same time, I think Putin doesn’t know how to get out of this situation (…)
? I am the governor of the Dnierpropetrosk oblast, this region is under the command of the southern section of the regular army, which we support. We have created a fund that compensates their lack of money. So far (27 May) we have collected about 10 million CHF. Half the money comes from oligarchs, the other half from small businesses and individuals. (…) 100 CHF given by an individual means more than my millions!
Troops? Yes. We are forming a battalion of 423 volunteers, who will be placed under the command of the regular army. /Explains that not anyone can join, only previous army – trained – etc. /
Why are you offering money for arms or for arresting saboteurs? These rewards are designed to collect arms that are circulating freely, which can fall into the hands of anyone, alcoholics, bandits, drug addicts. Ok! I’ll up the ante (1): 5,000 dollars for a Kalash’. And from 10,000 to 100,000 dollars for a Russian agent. That’s normal! These guys are well trained for combat, they can easily kill 10 people before they are caught.
From another article in F (linked below)
Amongst oligarchs we decided, to calm the political situation, to share out the regions. Rinat Akhmetov to Donesk, Victor Pinchuk to Zaporijiya and me to Dniepropetrovsk.
http://tinyurl.com/ksa7ay6
1. He had announced the day before he would increase the sums.

Posted by: Noirette | Jun 1 2014 11:53 utc | 49

The German-speakers here may be familiar with this story, but a lot of the English-speakers may not be:
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/File:Maidan_snipers.pdf
This a translation of the transcript of an intensive investigative report on the Maidan killings in February done by the German news program ‘Monitor’. It originally aired on April 10th. It went viral on the German social media, and I kept expecting that some English-language source would pick up the story and follow it, but it hasn’t happened yet. So I did my own translation and posted it to WikiSpooks. Enjoy…
Seamus Padraig

Posted by: Seamus Padraig | Jun 1 2014 13:48 utc | 51

@16 bevin.. thanks. i was aware of all that and it is truly disturbing which is why i find it so fascinating how saudi arabia gets a regular pass in the mainstream media.
somebody. thanks for those links related to saudi arabia. very interesting.
@46 fairleft and @47 noirette. thanks.
all the western powers seem in cahoots with keeping a lid the bullshit. as one of somebody’s links showed, the west doesn’t appear to want to jeopardize any possible flow of money (or oil) to their own country and are willing to do whatever it takes – basically complete silence on the bullshit from saudi arabia is considered acceptable which tells us just how selective news reporting on the international scene is..

Posted by: james | Jun 1 2014 15:33 utc | 53

Step by step:
‘Taken under control’: GPS sites in Russia can’t be used now for ‘military purposes’ — RT News

Russia has “taken under control” the operation of 11 American GPS sites and ensured they cannot be used for military purposes, as Washington and Moscow show no progress in negotiations on setting up Russian GLONASS stations on US territory.

May 31 was the last day when Russia and the US could have reached a deal on the issue.

“In compliance with the Russian government’s instruction, Roscosmos and the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations implemented measures on June 1, 2014, which excluded the use of information from global seismographic network stations working on signals from the GPS system and located on the territory of the Russian Federation for purposes not stipulated by the existing agreements, including for military purposes,” Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said on Sunday morning.

The statement referring to agreements between Russia and the US, which date back to 1993 and 2001, stirred up some confusion in the media with some outlets reporting GPS stations work has been suspended, while other said they continued to work. Russia’s deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, the official behind the move elaborated:

“We have worked out and implemented measures that exclude the use of these [GPS] stations for military purposes. Now they are under our full control,” Rogozin, who is in charge of space and defense industries, wrote in his Twitter micro blog.

Posted by: Fran | Jun 1 2014 15:41 utc | 55

re 31: Still, that is no reason to give Turkey a free pass when it comes to Cyprus.
You’ve got it the wrong way round. There’s no reason to give the Greek Cypriots a free pass. You conveniently forget that it was the Greek Cypriots who carried out a coup d’état in 1974. The Turkish invasion was the only solution to defending the Turkish community on the island. Even now the Greeks refuse to make peace. They’re extremely nationalistic and bellicose – all characteristics which you oppose, Demian, in Ukraine.

Posted by: alexno | Jun 1 2014 16:43 utc | 57

An article on the state of Ukrainian regular army troops, by Gennady Volkov, a Ukrainian reporter.
Meanwhile, in the Ukrainian Army…
It’s been translated into English and contains many photos showing what he describes in the article.

Posted by: scalawag | Jun 1 2014 18:13 utc | 59

China gets it right:

The toppling of the legitimate Ukrainian authorities by Maidan protesters is the main cause of the Ukrainian crisis, Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping told Russian reporters in Beijing on Tuesday.
“Concerning the ongoing violence in Ukraine, I think this is the result of the toppling of the legitimate authorities of this country in the course of disturbances and provocations staged on Maidan,” the deputy minister said.
“This is the direct cause of the crisis,” Cheng said. …
“External influence, primarily, that of the United States and Western countries which are trying for force Ukraine to follow the development path of Western democracies, cannot be ignored either,” the senior diplomat said.

Posted by: fairleft | Jun 1 2014 18:36 utc | 61

Crosstalk RT on ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZqCm7pyZCY#t=1388

Posted by: Anonymous | Jun 1 2014 19:24 utc | 63

Posted by: bevin | Jun 1, 2014 2:20:28 PM | 60
“Scalawag, you are an idiot.”
Blow me.

Posted by: scalawags | Jun 1 2014 20:00 utc | 65

http://www.c-span.org/video/?319506-1/ambassador-deborah-jones-libya
The Libyan ambassador absolutely throws her weight behind Haftar, while acknowledging he has little support precisely because of “his background” (meaning, a US citizen).
It’s the last question of the event.

Posted by: guest77 | Jun 1 2014 20:49 utc | 67

If anyone is still posting here, Marine Le Pen, the advocate for the NATION STATE has said that she wants to bury the EU.
“The EU is a Soviet Union” she says. As it were she wants to preserve EUROPE. Her words and attitudes are balanced, coherent, honest and refreshing.
I believe we all want the same thing.
For those of you in power to treat us like ADULTS, not as your children. We have education and maturity enough to deal with whatever is happening, thereby the ongoing global revolt, reaction and agency against this NWO.
In Latin America, the current NATION STATES, are becoming more and more anti-USA in the sense that they wish less meddling and manipulation but yes to any and all investment.
Likewise, many of us would wish that some people or “somebody” to cease the ceaseless diversion to BS and the return of Mr. Pragma or and Kalithea.
Their commentary were in spite of the constant jew baiting, apropo.

Posted by: Fernando | Jun 2 2014 0:36 utc | 69

Posted by: Fete | Jun 1, 2014 11:37:57 PM | 70
Thanks. Your translations make these Strelkov reports and interviews more understandable than the machine translations do. It’s a great help.

Posted by: scalawag | Jun 2 2014 5:13 utc | 71

1
An associate just got back from KSA and said the American employee enclave there was horribly depressing, like a Death Valley version of Disney World, or some old Gunsmoke backdrop. So they spent their off-time in the city, where nobody paid any attention to them, as anyone who has traveled to Dubai can attest, wow, they say the most beautiful harems on earth, and of course are incredibly rich. It was 50ºC when I passed through there, …too rich for my blood.

Posted by: chip nikh | Jun 2 2014 10:21 utc | 73

Regime attack with jets, many dead.
http://rt.com/news/163076-ukraine-lugansk-clashes-jet/

Posted by: Anonymous | Jun 2 2014 13:03 utc | 75

Brussels Terror Attack and Mossad Connection
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2014/05/26/brussels-terror-attack-and-mossad-connection/

Posted by: Paty Kerry | Jun 2 2014 18:43 utc | 77

paty kerry,
thanks for the link.
his latest article including the comment section is also interesting.
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2014/06/01/israel-and-jihadis-fanning-flames-of-terror/#comments

Posted by: james | Jun 2 2014 20:52 utc | 79

Probably just rumor
Bandar Bin Sultan injected with poison: Report
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/365262.html
A Lebanese media report says Saudi Arabia’s spymaster Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz has been injected with an incurable poison.
Some Lebanese media outlets quoting Saudi sources as saying that the prince was injected with an unknown kind of poison.
Prince was slipped into a coma and rushed for treatment to Morocco and the United States, the report added.

Posted by: guest77 | Jun 2 2014 23:28 utc | 81

Didn’t see this here:
The apartheid genocidal state of Israel going cashless.
Obviously the reasons such as tax evasion and fighting money laundering are total fucking bullshit.
Basically, a cashless society means that 1) people will be limited to the amount of their own money you can have access to at any given time 2) there is a record of every single fucking transaction that a person engages in 3) this will allow one of the sought after Holy Grails of farcical neoliberal economics to become a reality – i.e, negative interest rates and 4) since crime/illegal activities will STILL be carried on using some sort of non-traceable asset – e.g., PMs – a secondary black monetary market/economy will develop but which will also obviously be controlled by the same people who will be controlling the cashless economy cf. HSBC et al doing business with drug cartels, CIA heroin/cocaine operations etc.
Yeah, with former head of the Bank of Israel – Stanley Fischer – now number two at the US Fed, I’m sure this idea is right around the corner for American peons.
Cue the Mark of the Beast discussions….

Posted by: JSorrentine | Jun 3 2014 1:58 utc | 83

Monopolist financial fraud and butt rape being instituted as a societal norm of human relations. Israel in a nutshell.

Posted by: scalawag | Jun 3 2014 4:02 utc | 85

@PP4Ever 80
Every claim is dubious. Local collapses do produce seismic waves:
http://www.bssaonline.org/content/84/5/1523.abstract
Note that the Richter scale is long superceded, yet the seismologists use it.
As to Barium and Strontium, recall that in those years, the dominant computer and television displays were CRTs, than would have both (and lead), and that there were Lead Acid batteries, including those of the famous flowing metal pictures… Here’s the paper in question (notice, no Uranium mentioned):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1241534/pdf/ehp0111-000972.pdf
There is another matter—if the strontium were from a bomb, they’d see Sr-90—recall that they are using activation analysis, so isotope matters.
Cerenkov radiation is seen in water, because water’s refractive index (speed of light) is quite a bit lower than vacuum, and it scatters more readily. Why would it be visible (presumably in the air) at Chernobyl? If they mean in the water tank, so what? It is even visible (with the rooms lights off) at a SLOWPOKE (if you look into the reactor)…
The top and second photographs don’t suggest a nuclear blast at all. Rather, one sees vehicles that rusted due to paint being disturbed, often by burning falling debris (which would account for vehicles so close to each other having such radically different outcomes, unlike a nuclear type blast). Heck, coke poured on a car can remove paint, let alone burning paper.
http://www.freefoto.com/preview/21-20-5/Burnt-out-car
I have enough problems with rust just from (baseball-sized) hail damage to my car.
Go read the nuclear civil engineering paper that they posted: per 1kt bomb, in the ditching experiment, you get almost 10^5 cubic meters displaced, yet for the collapse (by whatever means) of the towers, you get a(n alleged) crater of volume one tenth of that, despite the gravitational energy released by the collapse being a quarter kiloton… And cavities inside the buildings proper (as opposed to underneath them) say precious little that is relevant to the claimed cause. And I want to emphasize alleged, as under the foundation, the ground was saturated (with water) at building time, leading to some innovative methods of laying the foundation, which was 21 meters tall (to bedrock). I’m really curious for evidence that they removed the foundation, especially as even truthers make no mention of this…
The bit about tensile strength in the context of pulverization is utterly confusing. One simply doesn’t pulverise concrete by pulling on it, as one gets large chunks; compressive force is needed, and the alleged pressure would thus be 30 times the ultimate compressive strength, which sounds a bit less impressive than 300 times the tensile strength. If you can get some PPC cement, fill a thimble, and let it set for a month (80-90% of final strength). Two to five blows with a normal nail metal head hammer should pulverize it, though do wear safety glasses.
The seismic wave argument is obscure. Higher frequency waves are usually body waves, versus lower frequency surface waves:
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/UPSeis/making.html
I couldn’t find anything that suggested that subsurface explosions generally produced more body waves.
Note that the seismologist is assuming that seismic concerns motivate the concern for structural integrity, rather than local structural damage; upon searching, I found almost identical language in a seismic paper on the collapse, which explicitly states that the concern is not seismic, but mechanical above-ground damage from debris and air pressure from the collapse (right-most column, page 3):
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/01EO00330/pdf
As to the implied notion that the hurricane removed the dust, that is novel. I suggest that you do a month of construction work, and get experience with dry-walling (hint: it produces a lot of dust). After doing the first sanding, notice how dusty the air is in a room the next day. Note that by weight, concrete is largely aggregate (thus the small pieces)—its relative density is 2.2, and will thus sink even in water, much less air; some of the asbestos might float, but the rest will sink. The winds recorded for NY City from the 11th to the 15th seem quite calm (typically below 16km/h), thus begging the obvious questions wrt the hurricane theory.
The nuclear claim is a bit odd for another reason. Go watch the videos of the collapse: the facades of the buildings collapse almost at once, not floor by floor or toppling, which your scenario seems to require. The columns had two thicknesses, which largely were consistent, with one set below a certain floor, and the other above. The collapse of a set of floors would have put the lower part of the building under huge stress. The consistent thicknesses would make each section (three stories, if memory serves) have the same buckling strength. Apply Newton’s third law, and the sections should fail at roughly the same time, not floor by floor.
The proposed bomb would be between 1 and 10 kt yield, with a corresponding mass of 100kg to 10t. SR90 yields are typically 4.5-7%, so we are looking at 4.5kg-700kg of strontium. The towers had about 100kt concrete; assuming that most of this is dust, and that most of the dust mass is concrete (as per the paper cited by your website), and given the found concentrations of strontium of about 500-1000ppm, we should expect 50-100 ton of strontium, or about 70-140 times the suggested quantity for the nuclear bomb scenario’s maximum quantity. As such, the presence of strontium without knowledge of isotopes, tells us nothing about whether or not a bomb was used. Alloys and CRTs are far more likely sources of such a mass of Strontium and Barium.
And no mention of Russians, that I could find.
Anyhow, enough gatekeeping from me for one night.

Posted by: Johan Meyer | Jun 3 2014 6:48 utc | 87

JDL threat PressTv reporter.
http://presstv.com/detail/2014/06/03/365373/jdl-threatens-press-tv-reporter/

Posted by: Anonymous | Jun 4 2014 9:20 utc | 89

Why is organ trafficking so “popular” in Israel?
Israel organ trafficker arrested in cyprus.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/alleged-israeli-organ-trafficker-arrested-in-cyprus/

Posted by: Anonymous | Jun 4 2014 11:57 utc | 91

I see the english are dead set on proceeding with their star chamber trial against Naveed Baluch, along with un-named defendants one each of Azerbaijani, Turk & Algerian ethnicity tho english citizenship.
Needless to say the origins of the defendants antecedents is receiving far more publicity via strategic ‘leaks’ than the accused’s englishness.
Shit happens to unwhites eh!
It will be no surprise to anyone that the total secrecy which the crown is claiming is essential for the survival of england, has absolutely nothing to do with the alleged activities of the alleged terrorists, or, potential activities of alleged confederates, and everything to do with the way the evidence against them has been obtained.
In other words; according to the Crown Prosecution Service reported here “there was a “serious possibility that the trial may not be able to go ahead” if it had to be held in public.”
Yawn. – god knows how many innocents have been let die or even actively murdered, just because the greedy little information hoarders aka the security services, consider their means out-trumps any end, no matter how harmful.
This attitude permeates all the way through 21st century corporate & governmental systems as anyone in need of medical treatment quickly discovers. The ‘health care industry’ as the medical profession is now loosely termed, is the easisest & most obvious of the myriad examples of ‘process before people’.
Those paper pushers laughably dubbed health care workers, devote themselves to adhering to labouriously constructed ‘protocols’ having no regard at all for the result of their robotic interventions.
I digress again -sorry- the point is that in the topsy turvey world the functionaries have created, it may be that from time to time they get lucky and actually apprehend a person or group of people dead set on killing innocents; yet instead of trying these types in a blaze of carefully constructed publicity, these ‘protectors’ decide to suppress the news of the trial.
Why?
Not because they are concerned about ‘the other side’ uncovering their methodology -if the case against Baluch et al is fair dinkum, the other side will have sussed out the leak and taken steps to prevent a recurrence by Monday the 14th of October.
So if this stuff is being kept secret, but not from ‘the enemy’ who needs to be kept in the dark & why?
I don’t really need to answer that do I? Nevertheless I shall.
It is Joe Public/Johnny English who needs to be kept in the dark lest he/she be forced to consider the deliberate sabotage of the internet which his/her security services have instigated.
Although establishment media have begun a half-assed campaign to overturn this tyranny, I don’t reckon they will succeed & will be surprised if the campaign generates any momentum at all, in reality establishment media lurves this stuff.
The old fashioned print & broadcast media will have the juicy bits leaked & cop sales & maybe even awards.
The english courts have been building up to this, a few years ago, back in 2008 they suppressed all details of a murder trial on the grounds of ‘national security’ see here .
Neither the victim nor the protagonist/s were spooks, soldiers or politicians. The trial was suppressed chiefly because the old bloke, the victim still had sufficient pull in establishment circles to get the sheet sniffers to track the trail thru the net of the money the killers stole.
As well it is likely that as in cases such as this one where some luddite is blaming himself for the security lapse, the murder victim’s emails had been available for hacking simply because the spooks insist on backdoors in all security e.g. the open ssl farce where transport layer security remained compromised for years thanks to Heartbleed© , despite various engineers publicising the flaw & the need for a fix.
Just sayin – I doubt sufficient englanders will care about this travesty to change security agencies light-bulbs let alone their pernicious practices.

Posted by: Debs is dead | Jun 5 2014 3:01 utc | 93

Not that what I put in @94 should eclipse this…
Year of the whistleblower: 10 things we didn’t know before Snowden

Posted by: guest77 | Jun 5 2014 3:05 utc | 95

since Wall Street (via CIA) is an ultimate source of terrorism, the WSJ is the best of establishment media in covering terrorism and if one knows how to read between the lines it is quite informative; I wonder how many of its readers take these things at face value?
http://online.wsj.com/articles/seth-jones-the-accelerating-spread-of-terrorism-1401837824
here is a taxonomy of 3 classes of terrorist, according to their function on behalf the empire

Posted by: Cu Chulainn | Jun 5 2014 21:47 utc | 97

hinese workers killed by boko harm, currently the *terrarists in vogue* , actually, its the cunts *top security concern* accodring to washington.
a plane load of chinese including some high value technies disappeared in thin air , presumably dead, followed by mutiple kidnappings of chinese in philippines, by known cia patsy, the abu sayyaf gangs.
chinese sailors brutally murdered in mekong, 9 personnels of the pro us military was implicated.
a bus load of hk tourists slain by lone gun man in ph.
bloodbath in xinjiang every other week, perpetrated by muricunt sponsored uighurs death squads.
chinese engineers, workers, tourists hunted down n shot in cold blood by known cia patsy, the pakistan ttp.
chinese boatmen killed by sk coast guards.
chinese fishermen killed by palau coast guards.
tw fisher man shot by ph navy.
is it just a coincidence all the above happen to be muricun bitches. ?
fleming’s law anyone ?
*post 911, the yanks got its foot in all the *stans* around china under the cover of gwot, china’s frontyard become uncle sham’s backyard overnite.
thats when a series of mysterious “terrarists” attacks against chinese started to occur, inexplicably, china seemed to have become the target of the *jihadists*, china became the new “great satan” , all the while when the *original article * was busy bombing and strafing at “terrarists” in af-pak and beyond*……………[1]
images of grieving chinese parents, children, husbands, wifes crying over the loss of their family members [1] started popping up in newspaper frontpage after 911, such tragedies have been recurring at alarming rate ever since , culminating to an orgy of bloodbaths lately.
now we see it practically every other day !!! [2]
now guess who issues this warning….
*terrarists are targeting us everywhere, no place on earth is safe for us,
my dear countrymen* [3]
really, when was the last time a cun got wasted by a terrarist since the 911 ff, er, i mean *terrarist attack* ?
hehehehe
[1]
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2012/09/open-thread-2012-23.html#c6a00d8341c640e53ef017d3c1c26ea970c
[3]
http://www.globalresearch.ca/americas-war-on-terror-no-u-s-citizen-is-safe-throughout-the-world/5383991

Posted by: denk | Jun 7 2014 18:08 utc | 99