I wrote about Latvia and "New Wave" moving out of Jurmala in the post above. Now the "Screaming Kivin" - the musical version of the popular humoristic game KVN is also moving out, and a humour show is expected to follow. Jurmala will again turn into a sleepy village, like many other villages on the BAltic coast of Latvia. The only reason Jurmala became popular in the first place, was because Latvia was a very popular place, like travelling to the West, in the USSR times, so many of the Soviet pop-stars bought property there and acted as a magnet. Oh, the irony. Also, I wrote that Latvia asked EU for more money for anti-Russian propaganda. I thought that was in the connection with the above, but it seems the reason is quite different: http://www.rg.ru/2015/01/13/latviya.htmlMore than 70 percent of Russian-speaking residents of Latvia support the policy of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Nearly 60 percent of respondents said the embodiment of evil in the world is the United States and NATO. In the conflict between Ukraine and Russia the majority of Russian-speaking residents of Latvia are on the side of Moscow. Position of Kiev is supported by only 15 percent of respondents.
These are the results of a public opinion poll conducted among the Russian-speaking environment in the Baltic republic. The poll was ordered by the authorities of Latvia. According to the journalists of program Neka "Personi" ga" channel TV3, Latvian officials did not expect such results and still keep them secret. The correspondents of the TV channel managed to find out only some of the figures obtained in the survey.
Meanwhile in France: Russia may break contract with France if no Mistral delivery in January — sourcehttp://itar-tass.com/en/economy/771110The deadline expires in January and after that the contract will be broken or performed, the source in the Russian Defense Ministry says |
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This is awful.
I feel sick.
Ah, sounds like it's time to buy more.  |
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The more I read about the coup d'etat of October 1917 in Russia, the more I come to the conclusion that it was the first "colour revolution" - the red one. The goals then were just as they are now: to destroy a state and to steal its gold reserve. Consider the following article in Siberian Times: http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/features/where-in-siberia-is-the-last-tsar-of-russias-missing-gold/Not in dispute is that as Russia descended into chaos during the First World War, treasures were shifted in 1915 from the capital city of Petrograd (now St Petersburg) to Kazan, east of Moscow, and later controlled by anti-Bolshevik forces, for safe-keeping.
In the months leading up to July 1918, when abdicated ruler Nicholas II and his family were shot on Lenin's orders, it is estimated that 73 per cent of the world's largest gold reserves were held in this Tatar city on the Volga River before most was shifted further east into Siberia.
Grainy pictures from the vaults of a Kazan bank highlight that gold and other other precious metals of untold value were held here.
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I actually think it's time to resurrect the old name of UKraine- "Little Russia"- in order to bring back some class. Little Russia or "Littlerus" will be far more elegant, the admiration of the world for Russia in fighting the bankrupt WEstern clowns will rub off if bankrupt Ukraine uses the word "rus" , or for more classier effect- use the whole world "Russia" itself. Suggestions as new names of Ukraine: LittleRus or Little Russia PoorRus Bankruptrus BwahaharusI like the last one best  There is no call to resort to petty mocking. Yes, Ukraine is an artificial state, comprised of Novorossia, Malorossia, Galicia ad several territories, nabbed from Romania, Hungary, Chechia. What you refer to is Malorossia (the better translation for it is Russia Minor) and it is the central part of Ukraine:  The famous and much-liked in Russia author Taras Shevchenko was a Maloross.
Back to the topic and the sad state of affairs. It looks like Ukro-Nazis started the war in earnest, using the same scenario that NATO-backed Horvats used when they genocided 250000 Serbs from the Serbian Kraina. Note that the shelling is intensifying a couple of days after Soros visited Kiev. Suddenly there is a bombing of a bus in Kiev, that is so conveniently being used as an excuse to start new round of mobilisation and an aggression against Novorossia. Another false flag. In the meantime, Ukro-Nazis shelled Donetsk and suburbs 82 times over the last 24 hours, resulting in murder of 5 civilians and wounding 15 more. |
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Donetsk and its suburbs were shelled 35 times today. Ukro-Nazis are meticulously destroy residential quarters, block of houses one after the other.
Two people were killed as the result of shelling by Ukro-Nazis: a 14-year-old boy and his mother.
Ukro-Nazis send also terrorist/diversion groups into the DNR territory, but the local population usually timely alert the resistance about the threats.
As of today, the leadership of DNR sees Minsk agreements as void because of the constant shelling, and are now pulling their forces back to the front line.
Oh, and Soros visited Kiev today. A coincidence?
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The resent step-up of artillery shelling of Donetsk may be a sign of a coming offensive by Ukro-Nazi insurgents against the Novorossian republics. The following snippet is also revealing: http://rt.com/news/221759-lavrov-ukraine-plane-crash/ Kiev may again use force in eastern Ukraine
Lavrov has also warned that Kiev might be getting ready for a new military operation in eastern Ukraine.
“We have quite alarming information - we are trying to verify it right now - that [Ukrainian] forces are planning in the near future another attempt to solve the crisis by force,” he said, stressing “this would be a catastrophe.”
According to Lavrov, Moscow has information that Ukraine is mobilizing troops.
“Various numbers are reported. From 50,000 to over 200,000 people should be mobilized in the army and other security forces.” |
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West has forgotten MH17 Ukraine crash probe – Lavrovhttp://rt.com/news/221759-lavrov-ukraine-plane-crash/The West appears to have forgotten about investigating the tragedy of the Malaysian plane that was shot down in eastern Ukraine in July, says Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, adding that Moscow wants at least some preliminary results published.
“The West imposed sanctions [on Russia] under the pretext of the catastrophe of the Malaysian Boeing,” said Lavrov, after a meeting with his Latvian counterpart Edgars Rinkevics.
And now our Western colleagues “have completely forgotten this problem,” the Russian foreign minister added.
“Russia alone is saying that it would be good to release at least preliminary results of the investigation and explain why this probe was conducted with flagrant violations of the norms, which are applied specifically for such cases within the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).”
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It is interesting to see how the attendance of this march by RF's Sergej Lavrov lead to a rebuke from Le Monde (one of "those" MSMs). They classified him as a "questionable person" and were saying something about absence of "freedom of mass media" (note the formulation!). They also bundled the head of Hungary Orban (he is guilty of not toeing the American line and doing what is best for Hungary): http://russian.rt.com/inotv/2015-01-12/Uchastie-Lavrova-v-parizhskom-shestvii |
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Last year Latvia banned 3 Russian singers (one of them is Ukrainian: Kobzon) from attending the musical festival "New Wave" because of their standpoint on the reunification of Crimea with Russia. This year "New Wave" will be conducted in Sochi, instead of Jurmala: http://www.gazeta.ru/business/news/2015/01/12/n_6816269.shtmlAnd Latvia will loose €17 million because of their own foolishness. http://www.gazeta.ru/business/news/2015/01/12/n_6816269.shtmlBy the way, when Yatsenjuk equated Nazi Ukraine to Nazi Germany, painting both as natural allies, the official German response to it: everyone has the right to their own opinion: http://ria.ru/world/20150112/1042238993.htmlSo, yes, hypocrisy as the primary European value. The secondary European value is Nazism, the spectre of which walks across Europe now. Latvia asked for funds from EU to step up their anti-Russian propaganda, while a representative of "Latvian "Future Institute" called to kill all non-sitizens in Latvia (people who were born there, but are denied citizenship - there are about 300.000 of those, another Human Right "European value"): http://lenta.ru/news/2015/01/12/latvia/
And only Nazi-Ukraine and their USA backers have not understood that sanctions are not affecting Russia. USA's man in Kiev, Poroshenko, says that sanctions against Russia work and demands that they be prolonged. Good for Russia. http://www.gazeta.ru/business/news/2015/01/12/n_6816561.shtmlhttp://www.gazeta.ru/business/news/2014/09/18/n_6490301.shtml
Oh, and the comedy club of the rating agencies: Fitch downgrade will have 'limited' effect on Russiahttp://rt.com/business/221791-fitch-russia-limited-effect/Someone is desperate here to pull a rating stunt in denial of the obvious contradiction. Notice in the following quote, how the reality is expected to follow the rating, and not the other way around, the rating being a gauge of reality: “There’s 40-50 percent likelihood that Russia will be downgraded to ‘junk’ status. If it happens the Russian market will start falling sharply and the pressure on the ruble will increase,” Tikhomirov added. However: “It is obvious that a country with US$400 billion of reserves and a public debt of 12 percent of GDP cannot be considered as ‘junk’. The ratings do not reflect the reality anymore,” he said, adding that Russia received an investment grade rating in 2004 when it had $80 billion of reserves and the oil price was around $35. |
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Donetsk was shelled 20 times over the course of the last night. 2 civilians are wounded. 3 residential houses are still in flames, with several more sustaining damage. Some "Minsk agreement" compliance from Ukro-Nazis. UN: death toll in eastern Ukraine conflict rises to 4,808 peoplehttp://itar-tass.com/en/world/770674UN, January 12. /TASS/. The number of victims of the conflict in the east of Ukraine has reached 4,808 people, and more than 1.2 million people have been driven from their homes by the military conflict, says a UN report.
According to the UN humanitarian agency, 633,523 people were internally displaced in Ukraine, while 593,622 people fled to neighbouring countries from December 27 to January 9. Russia has been the main destination for refugees, fleeing hostilities in Ukraine's provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk. |
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Even if you stay away from politics there, politics might not stay away from you. I wouldn't go there for the same reason I wouldn't go to Lybia, Tunis, Iraq or Egypt. An event, such a marathon might be a magnet for some nutcases or for a false flag (Boston comes to mind). Keep an eye on the local news resources (though even the anti-Russian ones are in Russian). Here is one that seems to be neutral, Evening Harkov: http://vecherniy.kharkov.ua/
Yatsenjuk made another one of his brilliantly dumb statements to the German press. He said that Ukraine will not let Russia waltz over Germany like Soviet Union did back in 1940s. Basically he sets equality sign between present day Nazi-Ukraine and Nazi-GErmany of the past. I wonder if he really thought he'd score political points with the Germans by bringing back the past that try to distance themselves from? http://ria.ru/world/20150111/1042060189.htmlHead-Nazi, Turchinov prohibits use of Hrivna in Donbass: http://ria.ru/world/20150111/1042076811.html |
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Head of human rights in DNR reported that during the conflict in the young republic, the Ukrainian army killed there 2251 people, including 35 children younger than 18 years. In the meantime, Poroshenko reported about evacuating 6 wounded Ukro-soldiers from Donetsk airport: http://www.gazeta.ru/social/news/2015/01/11/n_6813045.shtml |
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Europe decided not to invest into Ukrainian gas pipe. Those who took power in Kiev expected that there will be a lot of offers coming to invest into Ukrainian gas pipe infrastructure during 2014, but none came so far: http://ria.ru/world/20150111/1042052280.html |
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One other thing, that I didn't put on my prior lists: The Nuclear ice breaker fleet, the only one in the world capable of navigating to anywhere in the frozen Arctic Sea. About vodka. It is more of an invention coming from the northern territories, from Finlandia. Russia is big, and various types of drinks are consumed across it. Traditionally, Russians drank mjod (honey), beer and kvas, the fist being alcoholic, the second (almost) non-alcoholic. If you haven't drunk kvas, you haven't tasted Russia. I can recommend Ochakovo, if you manage to come across it: http://www.ochakovo.ru/en/kvassDon't forget the typical pre-tale: "я там был, мёд-пиво пил, по усам текло, да в рот не попало." "I was there, drank honey and beer, it ran down my moustache, but none ended up in my mouth." |
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He did more than that: How Yatsenjuk Admitted that Novorossia and Malorossia Are Not Ukrainehttp://stanislavs.org/how-yatsenjuk-admitted-that-novorossia-and-malorossia-are-not-ukraine/The Ukrainian prime minister, who has been appointed to this position by Nuland(Nudelman) even befor eUSA conducted the Nazi coup d’etat in Ukraine in February 2014, has in essence made two lies and one admission in his statement:
Lie 1: Soviet Union did not attack Germany.
Lie 2: Ukraine was a part of Soviet Union, and, before that a part of Russia under the names of Novorossia and Malorossia, and could not be thus attacked by USSR.
Admission: Galicia was not at that time a part of USSR, it was annexed to Ukraine by Stalin after WWII. But Galicia was known as “Ukraine” (edge) of Austra-Hungarian empire. By saying that USSR attacked “Ukraine”, Yatskenjuk acknowledges, that Glaicia was Ukraine, while Malorossia and Novorossia were not (they did the attacking as part of USSR). Incidentally, all of the current toxic ultra-nationalism in Ukraine comes from Galicia. |
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Featured on The Drudge Report today and I'm sure many people are hating on that he's living in a 'great' place. Especially the neocons that think he should be 6 feet under.  Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden wants his critics to know that living is Russia is "great" and that, despite reports to the contrary, he doesn't need alcohol to enjoy his time there.
"Mike Hayden, former NSA, CIA director ... was talking about how I was—everybody in Russia is miserable," Snowden told journalist James Bamford, according to a transcript of an interview released Thursday. "And I'm going to end up miserable and I'm going to be a drunk and I'm never going to do anything. I don't drink. I've never been drunk in my life. And they talk about Russia like it's the worst place on earth. Russia's great."
Snowden's interview, which contained no new revelations about government spying, took place last June in a Moscow hotel room and will air soon on PBS. The discussion largely focused on U.S. cyber capabilities, but Snowden's favorable comments toward Russia are likely to again irk many of his critics, some of whom have suggested he has been sharing U.S. secrets with the Russian government.
This is not the first time Snowden has appeared to speak approvingly of the increasingly pugilistic country, which spent the better part of the past year chilling its relations with the U.S. after invading part of Ukraine. Last spring Snowden made a surprise appearance at an annual telecast with Russian President Vladimir Putin to ask if the country engaged in mass surveillance of its citizens.
The query gave Putin a chance to refute the suggestion without further challenge, giving the exchange the markings of choreographed propaganda. Snowden later defended the question as an attempt to challenge Putin on surveillance matters.
In the new interview, Snowden also spoke at length about the U.S. being poorly equipped to handle cyberattacks from foreign governments or from sophisticated hackers due to the intelligence community prioritizing offensive capabilities at the expense—and sometimes detriment—of defensive schemes.
More... http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/edward-snowden-living-in-russia-is-great-20150108The article itself is non-news. He has it well in Russia, good for him. He is not drinking, great, a man after my own heart! What I find interesting in this article, is the compulsory appearance of anti-Russian propaganda, designed to sledgehammer into the minds of the Western readers the image of Russia as a new designated foe. I highlighted those passages above, which appear quite unobtrusively in the overall text. Last thing first: I don't know it that exchange was choreographed, and I don't really care. The important bit was Putin's response, which in a way is a public binding statement, that Russia will not do indiscriminate mass-surveliance, especially without court orders. Oh, and Putin is known for unscripted Q&A sessions and grillings, so I won't be surprised if it was not choreographed. Then... If my memory serves me well (and it does  ), it was US/EU that "spent the better part of the past year chilling its relations with" Russia, pushing it out of international organisations, freezing dialogue venues, subjecting it to massive onslaught of propaganda and vilification. The vague "invading part of Ukraine" is an outright lie. No one invaded anything. In Crimea people simply disagreed with the coup d'etat that happened in Kiev, got fed up with the demeaning treatment of the past 25+ years so the people of Crimea said that they have "certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." ( For those wondering where that came from). And the above equally applies to Novorossia. |
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Intel has 4 offices in Russia. Intel could easy store personal data of Russian users in Russia. Intel Russia among the top five in terms of income that goes to the company.
The fact that they closed the blog, it's only because the US government to put pressure on Intel.
There have also been cases in the US where companies shut down their service rather than comply with totalitarian dictates to hand over user data to the government. This could simply be a way of resisting the law rather than the US exerting pressure. Not everything is a plot by the US (though I admit there are many). This is not a question of "totalitarian dictates" and "handing user data to the government", but about keeping the data of Russian users on the servers, residing in Russia, and not, say in US. It's a matter of national security. The data would be available to the Russian government, provided valid court procedures are observed. If the information is stored in the US, and Russia has need for that information (e.g. on suspicion of terrorism), do you think US would cooperate? To turn the question around: how would you, as an American, feel if your personal data was stored somewhere in North Korea. How would US government feel about it? For my part, I am not particularly happy about the "know your customer" stuff that companies doing business in or with US are obliged to compile, and the information collected being kept in US, available to the American government, as we learned from Snowden, even without court orders. |
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As you mentioned before, the "big lie", this is just so horrific, people's minds refuse to believe it, just to avoid the mental anguish of having consciousness of such a horrible system that literally eats children for profit. Furthermore that instantly begs them to question... what are you going to do about it? People would rather pretend that these things don't exist so they can continue their lives an not feel obligated to correct society and humanity by simply denying reality.
Truer words have not been spoken. Hear! Hear! |
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