The War of Lies Against Russia

R-I: Daniele Ganser Interview : America’s Objective in Ukraine to Set Germany Against Russia

HuffPo: Rick Mercer Rant: Either Jason Kenney Or NATO Is Lying About Russian Fighter Jets

TruthDig: Canadian, Former US State Department Advisor, James Carden: Vladimir Putin Not Responsible for Ukrainian Civil War

Harper-backed Kievite Russophobes with Wolfsangel armbands.

James Carden: "We have never sought to apply any pressure on Kiev."

LOL.

The Government of Canada has done just about everything it could get away with short of adopting the Wolfsangel in place of the maple leaf as the national emblem to inflame and intensify the Russophobia of Ukraine's Kiev junta, which is engaged in a genocidal struggle with the people of East Ukraine.

Related:

CanSpeccy: Reaping the Ukrainian Whirlwind: Tyranny in Kiev, Russian Nukes 90 Miles off America's Southern Shore

CanSpeccy: Stephen Harper in Europe to Relaunch the Cold War

CanSpeccy: Globalization, the Ukraine Coup, the Vilification of Russia and the Endless Printing of Money

CanSpeccy: Ukraine: Catapulting the Propaganda, the National Putz and Stephen Harper, the Mighty Mouse of the North

CanSpeccy: Why Stephen Harper Has Sent Canadian Armed Forces to Back a Nazi Government in Ukraine

CanSpeccy: Stephen Harper's Belligerent Russophobia

CanSpeccy: Ukraine: Nazi NATO Setting the Stage for a Proxy War on Russia

CanSpeccy: Harper Government backs Ukraine's Nazi Junta in Crushing Separtists: Quebec Separatists Take Note

CanSpeccy: Steve Harper's Friends in Kyiv Killing Their Own People in Eastern Ukraine

CanSpeccy: In Canada We're All Nazi-lovers Now

CanSpeccy: How Canada's Government Came to Love Ethnic Cleansers Wearing Swastikas

CanSpeccy: Canada Prepares for War in Europe: Sends Military Police to Kiev

CanSpeccy: Ukrainian Civil War — It's About Killing Ukrainians, Not Russians

R-I: Ukraine Signs Deal with Canadian Export Agency for $160 Million Loan

Fort Russ: Ex-Chancellor Schroeder attacks Merkel's Russia policy

Crackpot American Architects and Engineers: Why New York's World Trade Center Towers Collapsed

The resolution accepted for debate at the May 2015 annual convention of the American Institute of Architects (see text below) raises many questions including the following:

Did New York's Twin Towers plus World Trade Center Building 7 (a 49-story building not hit by an aircraft) collapse on 9/11 because they were designed by crackpot architects and engineers, thus becoming the first and only steel-frame high-rise buildings anywhere in the World to collapse because of fire (as claimed by the US Government-sponsored NIST report)?

Or are the architects and engineers who reject the conclusions of the NIST report on the collapse of Building 7 not crackpots at all?

And, if the Twin Towers and Building 7 collapsed on 9/11 due, not to office fires, but to explosives-driven demolition, then does that not transform the US Government's "War Against Terror" into the "Terror War Against Americans and the World"?

Collapse of World Trade Center Tower 7: Resolution for Debate at the 2015 Annual Convention of the American Institute of Architects

WHEREAS, under the AIA Public Policies and Position Statements, it is the responsibility of architects to design a resilient environment that can more successfully adapt to natural conditions and that can more readily absorb and recover from adverse events; and

WHEREAS, architects and others involved in the design and construction of buildings depend upon the information obtained from investigations into building failures to inform the development of model building codes; and

WHEREAS, on September 11, 2001, 7 World Trade Center, a 47-story high-rise building, suffered a complete collapse; and

WHEREAS, on November 20, 2008, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released the final report of its three-year investigation into the complete collapse of 7 World Trade Center, which concluded that fires, an unprecedented cause of failure for a modern high-rise building, were the primary cause of failure; and

WHEREAS, the cause of failure identified by the NIST investigation would mean that hundreds of high-rise buildings in the United States are susceptible to similar failure from fire; and

WHEREAS, thousands of members of the architecture and engineering professions, including the 55 sponsors of this resolution, believe the NIST investigation did not adhere to the principles of the scientific method and, as a result, the conclusions of the NIST investigation are fatally flawed.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the AIA Board of Directors shall adopt a Position Statement, to be published in the AIA Directory of Public Policies and Position Statements, stating:

The AIA’s belief that incidents involving the catastrophic failure of buildings and other structures must be investigated using the highest standards of science-based investigation and analysis in order to provide accurate and meaningful information in the development of model building codes;

The AIA’s recognition that many members of the architecture profession believe the NIST investigation into the complete collapse of 7 World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, did not adhere to the principles of the scientific method and, as a result, the conclusions of the NIST investigation are fatally flawed;

The AIA’s belief that this perspective merits further study; and

The AIA’s support for a new investigation into the complete collapse of 7 World Trade Center.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that it is advised that this Position Statement be incorporated as Position Statement #3 under the Construction Industry Regulation Public Policy. The recommended language of this Position Statement is as follows:

World Trade Center 7

The AIA believes that incidents involving the catastrophic failure of buildings and other structures must be investigated using the highest standards of science-based investigation and analysis in order to provide accurate and meaningful information in the development of model building codes. In adherence to the scientific method, investigations should:

Consider all available data;
Consider hypotheses that most readily explain the available data;
Test those hypotheses and analyze the results without bias; and
Provide for external review and replication by making all data available.

The AIA recognizes that many members of the architecture profession believe the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) investigation into the complete collapse of 7 World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, did not adhere to these principles and, as a result, the conclusions of the NIST investigation are fatally flawed. The AIA believes this perspective merits further study and supports a new investigation into the complete collapse of 7 World Trade Center.

Jewish Power in America

In an interview with the Saker, former US Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, Paul Craig Roberts, said:

All the evidence is that Israel controls the US, but only its MidEast policy.

This I believe is incorrect. In particular I believe that the qualification "only its MidEast Policy", is incorrect.

The United States is a plutocracy with the trappings of democracy. The money power finances election campaigns and owns the media. Mostly, the outcome of an election is determined before the vote is counted or the campaign begun through the selection of candidates committed to the interests of the money power. Insofar as elections matter at all, they amount only to faction fights among plutocrats, the outcome dependent on campaign funding and manipulation of opinion through control of the media.

First, then, what is the power of Jews within plutocratic America?

According to Forbes Magazine, more than one quarter of America's richest citizens are Jews, although Jews are said to account for less than 2% of America's population. Potentially, therefore, Jews have great power in America. That power can only be enhanced by the evident readiness of many rich Jews to contribute generously to political causes. Moreover, Jews have a tremendous sense of group identity, continually reinforced by the Holocaust Industry, which insures that their political influence tends to be concentrated on achieving quite specific and, among Jews, generally agreed objectives. It is reasonable to suppose therefore that Jews are the most powerful ethnic group in the USA.

Second, then, what are the political objectives of rich Jews in America.

Seemingly, most Jewish-American plutocrats are Zionists, which is to say they are committed to the interests of the state of Israel. But the state of Israel does not encompass all or even the majority of the Jewish nation, the greatest proportion of which resides in America. It is reasonable, therefore, to suppose that the primary objective of plutocratic Jews in America is to promote the interest of American Jews — in politics, academia, the bureaucracy and business.

To tribally-oriented Jews, it must be seen that this objective can be furthered by destroying the dominance in America of ethnic Europeans, an objective now approaching fulfillment through mass multiracial immigration, multiculturalism, and the suppression of white pride, the Christian faith and Western culture, the latter objectives being accomplished through brainwashing, aka education, and political correctness enforced by police and administrative action.

Not all Jews are committed to such a program, obviously, and some publicly oppose it. Among ordinary American Jews many, perhaps most, may be as clueless about what is really happening in their country as are the majority of Euro-Americans now well on their way to minority status, not only in what were formerly great American cities such as Detroit, Miami, Atlanta, St. Louis, Baltimore, Oakland, etc., but state by state and, within a generation, nationally.

Thus American government is powerfully influenced by a plutocratic Jewish minority, not only in the interests of Israel but in the interests of the Jewish nation in America and world-wide. This is not to say that others in America are without power. It is the case, however, that non-Jews in America are not only disinclined to think in racial terms but have for the most part been indoctrinated to believe that to serve first the interests of one's own people constitutes an intolerable evil. So long as that view prevails — which is to say, as long as that view continues to be effectively imposed — the European people, both in Europe and America will continue on the path to early extinction: inundated by aliens, out-reproduced, stripped of their culture and religious tradition, while their jobs and future prospects are off-shored and out-sourced by the money power, both Jewish and otherwise.

Related: 

Occidental Review: A Review of Jewcentricity by Adam Garfinkle


Justin Raimondo: Espionage, Treason, and the Congressional Fifth Column

Sputnik: Weinstein Urges Jews to Get Organized 'As Mafia' to Take On Anti-Semites

Irish Savant: What's the deal with Jews and gun control?

Spiked: The Brit Media Hounding an Opponent of Political Correctness

HuffPo: The New American Order

Genocide: It's the Jewish Way — They Win Some, They Lose Some

The Times of Israel, March 11, 2015:

Op-ed calls on Israel to nuke Germany, Iran

"20-30 nuclear bombs will assure the job gets done," opinion piece on right-wing Israel National News site says ...

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The Neoconservative Threat to International Order

By Paul Craig Roberts

Washington’s reckless and irresponsible destruction of the trust achieved by Reagan and Gorbachev has resurrected the possibility of nuclear war.

Foreign Policy Journal, February 27, 2015: This week I was invited to address an important conference of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Scholars from Russia and from around the world, Russian government officials, and the Russian people seek an answer as to why Washington destroyed during the past year the friendly relations between America and Russia that President Reagan and President Gorbachev succeeded in establishing. All of Russia is distressed that Washington alone has destroyed the trust between the two major nuclear powers that had been created during the Reagan-Gorbachev era, trust that had removed the threat of nuclear armageddon. Russians at every level are astonished at the virulent propaganda and lies constantly issuing from Washington and the Western media. Washington’s gratuitous demonization of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has rallied the Russian people behind him. Putin has the highest approval rating ever achieved by any leader in my lifetime.

Washington’s reckless and irresponsible destruction of the trust achieved by Reagan and Gorbachev has resurrected the possibility of nuclear war from the grave in which Reagan and Gorbachev buried it. Again, as during the Cold War, the specter of nuclear armageddon stalks the earth.

Why did Washington revive the threat of world annihilation? Why is this threat to all of humanity supported by the majority of the US Congress, by the entirety of the presstitute media, and by academics and think-tank inhabitants in the US, such as Motyl and Weiss, about whom I wrote recently?

The Threat Posed to International Relations By The Neoconservative Ideology of American Hegemony

Address to the 70th Anniversary of the Yalta Conference, Hosted by Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Moscow, February 25, 2015, Hon. Paul Craig Roberts

Colleagues,

What I propose to you is that the current difficulties in the international order are unrelated to Yalta and its consequences, but have their origin in the rise of the neoconservative ideology in the post-Soviet era and its influence on Washington’s foreign policy.

The collapse of the Soviet Union removed the only constraint on Washington’s power to act unilaterally abroad. At that time China’s rise was estimated to require a half century. Suddenly the United States found itself to be the Uni-power, the “world’s only superpower.” Neoconservatives proclaimed “the end of history.”

By the “end of history” neoconservatives mean that the competition between socio-economic-political systems is at an end. History has chosen “American Democratic-Capitalism.” It is Washington’s responsibility to exercise the hegemony over the world given to Washington by History and to bring the world in line with History’s choice of American democratic-capitalism.

In other words, Marx has been proven wrong. The future does not belong to the proletariat but to Washington.

The neoconservative ideology raises the United States to the unique status of being “the exceptional country,” and the American people acquire exalted status as “the indispensable people.”

If a country is “the exceptional country,” it means that all other countries are unexceptional. If a people are “indispensable,” it means other peoples are dispensable. We have seen this attitude at work in Washington’s 14 years of wars of aggression in the Middle East. These wars have left countries destroyed and millions of people dead, maimed, and displaced. Yet Washington continues to speak of its commitment to protect smaller countries from the aggression of larger countries. The explanation for this hypocrisy is that Washington does not regard Washington’s aggression as aggression, but as History’s purpose.

We have also seen this attitude at work in Washington’s disdain for Russia’s national interests and in Washington’s propagandistic response to Russian diplomacy.

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Von Marco Maier: NATO Baiting Russia But the Bear Won't Bite

Mike Whitney: Washington’s War on Russia

Yu Shan: The Rage of the Cultural Elites

J. Hawk: The End of History, the Third Way, and the Ukrainian Civil War

The Saker: Zionism and Empire: Interview with Gilad Atzmon

Ron Holland interview by Pravda: How Putin can win global economic war against Russia

Impending Threat to Canadian Democracy: Harper Government’s “Anti-Terrorism Act” isn’t about Terrorism, it’s a Torture Act

Professor Michael Keefer

The Harper government’s Bill C-51, or Anti-Terrorism Act, has been in the public domain for over a month. Long enough for us to know that it subverts basic principles of constitutional law, assaults rights of free speech and free assembly, and is viciously anti-democratic.

Global Research, March 11, 2015: An unprecedented torrent of criticism has been directed against this bill as the government rushes it through Parliament. This has included stern or at least sceptical editorials in all the major newspapers; an open letter, signed by four former Prime Ministers and five former Supreme Court judges, denouncing the bill for exposing Canadians to major violations of their rights; and another letter, signed by a hundred Canadian law professors, explaining the dangers it poses to justice and legality.

As its critics have shown, the bill isn’t really about terrorism: it’s about smearing other activities by association—and then suppressing them in ways that would formerly have been flagrantly illegal. The bill targets, among others, people who defend the treaty rights of First Nations, people who oppose tar sands, fracking, and bitumen-carrying pipelines as threats to health and the environment, and people who urge that international law be peacefully applied to ending Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territories. (Members of this latter group include significant numbers of Canadian Jews.)

But the Anti-Terrorism Act is more mortally dangerous to Canadian democracy than even these indications would suggest. A central section of the act empowers CSIS agents to obtain judicial warrants—on mere suspicion, with no requirement for supporting evidence—that will allow them to supplement other disruptive actions against purported enemies of Harperland with acts that directly violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and other Canadian laws.

German Government Calls American NATO Chief a Liar on Russia in Ukraine

Der Spiegel: Breedlove's Bellicosity: Berlin Alarmed by Aggressive NATO Stance on Ukraine

Meantime:

Zero Hedge:  Crackpot Russophobic Pole and EU President, Claude Juncker, plus the looney Baltic trivialities, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, call for a European army to put Russia in its place

Related:

R-I: Seinfeld — To some, the fate of Ukraine is merely a game

Finian Cunningham: Berlin Rumbles Washington’s Hidden War Agenda

Ron Paul Institute: German Intel: Breedlove is Bonkers!

Mish: Warmongers United: Juncker Requests Creation of EU Army; Peace by War

Ukrainian Civil War — It's About Killing Ukrainians, Not Russians

Nato/EU and their Kiev puppets are waging war in Ukraine not on Russia or Russian-backed separatists but on Ukrainians. The instigation of civil war by the neo-Nazi-enabled Kiev junta is the manifestation of a genocidal project to eliminate as many Ukrainians as possible. Not only the eight million Russians in Ukraine that Yulia Tymoshenko wished to nuke, or the 50,000 Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel killed mainly by "friendly fire", or the thousands of Donbas civilians murdered by neoNazis, but also the many elderly throughout Ukraine who will die prematurely due to the stress of a collapsed economy, and the many who will not be born as economic failure drives a further slump in Ukraine's already catastrophically low fertility rate.

Purposefully, Ukrainians have been driven to kill one another. The beneficiaries are the oligarchs who will pick up the assets of the ruined middle class for little or nothing, while the principal functions of the increasingly dysfunctional Ukrainian state are transferred by the globalist tools Yatsenyuk and Poroshenko to  the institutions of global governance, the UN, the WTO, NAFTA, TPP, NATO, SEATO, IMF, World Bank, etc.

This is the New World Order plan for all nation states: it is the neutron bomb option, which aims to destroy people, few of whom will be needed in the new economy of computerization, automation, robots and artificial intelligence, while leaving intact land and resources to be accumulated at minimal cost in the hands of plutocracy.

The globalist plutocracy is in the process of taking ownership of the World, which they will rule by way of the anti-democratic global institutions over which they have proprietary control. The common people, those that are allowed to remain, will exist chiefly as domesticated beasts to be bred, culled, and brainwashed as required by a ruthless elite of the very rich.

Related:

The Saker: Ukraine’s Right Sector Leader Wants Donbas Residents Deported

Russia-Insider: Confirmed by Kiev: Ukrainian Land Being Transferred to Oligarchs and Seed Companies

Investment Watch: Soros says ready to invest $1 billion in Ukraine if West helps

LOL, Ol' Break-the-Bank of England Soros ain't content with knock-down civil war prices for Ukrainian assets, but needs a government handout too.

UK's Nigel Farage Throws Opponents of Mass Immigration and Multiculturalism Under the Bus As Nick Griffin Did in 2011

Farage is fighting for a multi-culti Britain of Jews, Christians, Muslims and, presumably, adherents of witch-craft and Voodoo. The only unifying cultural belief that Farage talks of is the "belief in Britain," which seems to mean nothing other than a desire for more Asian immigrants.

Farage, apparently, is about to do what Nick Griffin did during the last election: throw the campaign and destroy the hopes of those foolish enough to believe that UKIP, the party Farage leads, opposes the the racial and cultural genocide of the British people through mass immigration and multiculturalism.

That Farage is a two-faced bastard fronting for the Security Service is strongly suggested by the sheepish expression he wears as he curries favor with this bunch supporters not one of whom appears to be of British descent.

Related:




U-Tube: Barbara Lerner Spectre calls for destruction of Christian European ethnic societies

Harry J.: Is Nick Griffin A Freemason (Why The New World Order Needs The BNP)?

Ukraine Realpolitic, A Concise Summary

The commentator's valuation of Novorossiya's resources is crazy, e.g., coal at $100 per ton. Russia sells mined coal for $30.00 per ton so the value of the resource in the ground, which is expensive to mine in Donbas, is probably only a dollar or two per ton, not one hundred. Likewise, oil and gas resource values are greatly overstated. The political evaluation, however, makes good sense. Via the Saker

Quote: US Grand Strategy

Deep Resource defines rather well, I think, what I take to be the objective of US foreign policy.

The US is facing a failed grand strategy of trying to turn the world into a mongrelized Menschenpark of IQ 90 Obama look-a-likes without a sense of identity, all speaking English, all eating at McDonald’s, watching CNN, listening to what the Wolf Blitzer du jour has to say about the holocaust, and paying interest to the globalized Federal Reserve.

Or as Dave comments over at the Vinyard of the Saker, the basic belief of American policy makers is:

that everyone wants to live in a democratic, meritocratic, feminist, tribe-less melting-pot society, and only the reign of brutal tyrants like Saddam, Assad, Mubarak, and Gaddafi prevents this.

The truth is that [Arabs] can only live in either (a) tribal anarchy, (b) one-man rule, or (c) as a colony of a civilized nation. This truth cannot be spoken or even thought by any American because it is "racist"!

Consistent with these views, the US project to inflict racial and cultural genocide in the ME, appears set to go disastrously awry, as outlined by Brad Cabana at RockSolidPolitics.

Meantime, the Minsk II Ukraine ceasefire agreement may mark the end, or at least the beginning of the end, of the US-inspired attempt to genocide the Russian-speakers of Ukraine, while the likely wave of nationalist party election victories across Europe (Greece, Spain? France? UK? ...)  could mark the beginning of the end of the project to genocide the European peoples through mass immigration and multi-culturalism.

That's It For Now

I've written nothing for the last week or so, due to medical and other distractions. And after ten years of comment, starting at the CanadianSpectator,ca then migrating to various other less labor-intensive places, including this blog, Canspeccy on Wordpress, iLucretius and the Diary of an Inexact Scientist, I have probably said about as much as I can usefully say — if anything I have said can be said to have been useful at all. In any case, I don't expect to have time or energy to say very much more for several months, if not all eternity. Moreover, I am not sure that there is much more to be said, at least by me, on the themes with which I have been mainly concerned: namely, the transformation of Western society into a brutal, decadent, fraudulent, hypocritical, pseudo-democratic tyranny that promotes hatred for the Christian moral traditions of the West, a genocidal program for the European peoples, and a contempt for the rule of law. But to all those better informed and more articulate that I, who will surely continue to write along these lines, my best wishes.

Funny Anti-Russian Bullshit

Conflict News tweets:

"Russia only has about twice as much cash* as Apple. It also just got downgraded to junk status."

Here's the joke:

With foreign currency reserves valued at US$130 billion,* the United States has $30 billion less cash than Apple, and less than half what Russia has.**

What's even funnier is this:

Reflections on MH17

Related:

Finian Cunningham: Gas Theft and Auschwitz Snub… Russia’s Every Right to End the Insults

Examining Key Premises in the “Je suis Charlie” Discourse

 By Jonathan Revusky

Pretty much all the public discussion of the [Charlie Hebdo] incident centres around a series of premises that, as far as I can see, do not withstand logical scrutiny. They include:

The premise that it is some kind of "core western value" to insult other people's religious beliefs.

If the "Je suis Charlie" crowd is to be believed, my right to draw a cartoon portraying the Virgin Mary as a street whore and her son Jesus pimping her, is of paramount importance, no matter how offensive other people find it. However, it is not important to be able to:

(i) have a public discussion of the implausibilities of the official story of 9/11

(ii) have intellectually honest discussion of the events of WW2, in particularly the atrocities in which Jews were the victims, i.e. the “Holocaust”.

(iii) even mention the power or organized world Jewry (and I mean, even mention it without bothering to say whether you think it is a good or bad thing, it is simply taboo to mention it.)

(iv) have serious discussion of issues like gender, ethnicity, race outside the imposed straight jacket of "political correctness”.

Why are the above topics of discussion taboo? Apparently, it is because such speech offends people. It is hurtful to them!!!???

This is a bizarre paradox and it baffled me for the longest while. Finally, I did resolve the conundrum. Apparently, in France, and in the West generally, unrestricted free speech is only important in the case of people, who, like the ageing hipster cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo, actually have nothing to say!

Read this article by Jonathan Revusky in full as published by the Saker.

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iPolitics: France’s free speech controversy lands in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Moon of Alabama: Liberté D´Expression?

Olga Chetverikova: Charlie Hebdo Slaughter: Tragic Lesson for Europe to Learn

John Chuckman: The Extremely Dark and Unexamined Underside of the Charlie Hebdo Affair

Taking Imperialist Humbug to the Next Level: Forty US Stooges in Paris

Petro Porochenko of Ukraine took part in Paris photo-op to honor the staff of the Islamophobic magazine Charlie Hebdo murdered by terrorists (curiously described by President Hollande of France as "illuminé"), while Porochenko's army and Nazified militias continue murdering his own citizens in Donestsk.

Porochenko is one of 40 heads of state who are said to "lead a march of millions" in Paris. But the photos show something different: most of the greatest humbugs and hypocrites in the World, with the exception of the Peace Prize winner, O'Bomber, converged on Paris not to lead a march, but to participate in a photo op, well segregated from the teaming masses.

Arseney Yatsenyuk: Silly Arse, Hitlerian Liar or Obama's Stooge?

Thursday, January 8, Arseney Yatsenyuk on an official visit to Berlin, told an interviewer on German TV channel ARD that the USSR had kicked off the Second World War by invading Germany.

"All of us still clearly remember the Soviet invasion of Ukraine and Germany,"

which is absurd not only because few of the present population of Germany were born 70 years ago, or can, therefore,"still clearly remember" anything about the Soviet march on Berlin, but also because the implication that Russia's invasion of Germany was an act of aggression ignores the fact that it occurred after Hitler's Germany had:

• (a) invaded Ukraine, then a part of the Soviet Union, thereby launching the largest land battles the world has ever seen;


• (b) for 872 days besieged and repeatedly bombed Leningrad (St Petersburg) during which time 700 to 1000 citizens died each day, chiefly of starvation; and 


• (c) launched a direct and bloody assault on Russia's capital city, Moscow.

Is Putin Creating a New World Order? Oil Price Blowback

By Mike Whitney

CounterPunch, January 6, 2015:

“If undercharging for energy products occurs deliberately, it also effects those who introduce these limitations. Problems will arise and grow, worsening the situation not only for Russia but also for our partners.” – Russian President Vladimir Putin

It’s hard to know which country is going to suffer the most from falling oil prices. Up to now, of course, Russia, Iran and Venezuela have taken the biggest hit, but that will probably change as time goes on. What the Obama administration should be worried about is the second-order effects that will eventually show up in terms of higher unemployment, market volatility, and wobbly bank balance sheets. That’s where the real damage is going to crop up because that’s where red ink and bad loans can metastasize into a full-blown financial crisis. Check out this blurb from Nick Cunningham at Oilprice.com and you’ll see what I mean:

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The Road to War With Russia

By Chris Martenson

Peak Prosperity, January 8 2015: For several weeks now the anti-Russian stance in the US press has quieted down. Presumably because the political leadership has moved its attention on to other things, and the media flock has followed suit.

Have you read much about Ukraine and Russia recently?

I thought not, despite the fact that there's plenty of serious action -- both there as well as related activity in the US -- going on that deserves our careful attention.

As I recently wrote, the plunging oil price is a potential catalyst for stock market turmoil and sovereign instability. Venezuela is already circling the drain, and numerous other oil exporters are in deep trouble as they foolishly expanded their national budgets and social programs to match the price of oil; something that is easy to do on the way up and devilishly tricky on the way down.

But consider the impact on Russia. From the Russian point of view, everything from their plunging ruble to bitter sanctions to the falling price of oil are the fault of the US, either directly or indirectly. Whether that is fair or not is irrelevant; that's the view of the Russians right now. So no surprise,  it doesn't dispose them towards much in the way of good-will towards the West generally, and the US specifically.

The fall in the price of oil is creating serious difficulties economically and financially for Russia. We'll get to those facets in a minute. But right now, I want to focus on the continued belligerence of the US towards Russia -- some of which is overt and some of which, you can be certain, is covert -- which could very well end up provoking a more kinetic and dangerous response than the West is prepared for.

Russia Forced To Act

Before anyone jumps in to say "Why are you defending Putin? He's a bad man", let me just say that I have been closely analyzing each move by Russia and the West since then President of Ukraine Yanukovych declined to sign the European Association Agreement back in November of 2013.
Based on the preponderance of evidence, its' clear to me that the West/US deserve the lion's share of the blame for the conflict that now rages with Ukraine and between Russia and the western world.

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Finian Cunningham: NATO Trips on Own Lies with U-Turn on ‘Russian Aggressor’

Zero Hedge: Mikhail Gorbachev Warns of Major (Nuclear) War In Europe Over Ukraine

Dmitry Orlov: US Is on Its Way out of Eurasia. What Trouble Will It Cook up as It Exits?

Charlie Hebdo Police Killing: Wot, No Blood?

Here's a video at Live Leak (It was on You-Tube but soon deleted) showing a wounded police officer in Paris being shot by one gunmen responsible for the multiple murder at the office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

Note the lack of blood, and the absence of either rifle recoil or reaction in the motion of the victim's head. Strange that, and rather different from the Zapruder movie images of the shooting of President Kennedy.

[A truculent commenter (Larchmonter) over at the saker's blog states from a claimed position of expertise that at close range no blood or spatter would be expected, and further points out that the shot was to the neck not the head, which may well be the case. Still the apparent lack of weapon recoil seems surprising if the shot was not a blank. But then my expertise, other than a knowledge of basic physics, is zilch. In which connection, it is interesting to discover the vehemence of those who condemn speculation that contradicts the official narrative, e.g., some seemingly rather dumb commenters over at Craig Murray's blog. Is that because most people have an essentially binary way of thinking — something must be either black or white, yes or no — so that to ask them to entertain a hypothesis causes serious cognitive difficulty? Or is it that are there are great many shills for the mainstream narrative? In either the case, the result is not a useful or intelligent discussion, just an exchange of bald assertions and stupid insults.]

 But not to worry about the lack of blood. Someone added it later (Thanks to Aangirfan for the link:
PARIS INSIDE JOB; JE SUIS CIA LIE.).



As the Sky News reporters states at 1:02

"You can see the blood on the ground that was put there because of the blood that was shed at this spot yesterday."

So what happened to the blood that was shed at this spot yesterday. Did someone scrub it off and then add fresh blood, or what?

But the Sky News report didn't last long on U-Tube. LOL.

It's a pity, though, that the video's gone as it prevents one from checking an interesting point made by LoopDLoop on the Let's Roll Forum. What he says is:

Notice anything?

The cars that are parked there are exactly the same. They have not been moved since the night before. You can clearly match them up. Starting from back up the street a little way there is: a large white van, followed by a small black car, followed by the large white rental van, followed by the small red car with the white sign on the side, followed by the grey car with the yellow roof, followed by a grey sedan.

Watch both videos clearly and you will agree: the same cars are parked in exactly the same locations. So, there can be no question about it: the film of the policeman being shot was certainly taken the day before.

So instead of speculating that it was shot months before, focus instead on the greater mystery: how could these same 5 or 6 cars have remained in exactly the same paid parking positions for over 24 hours in a busy Parisian street?

Suggestion: it's a controlled location.

If anyone has a link to the Sky News report on Live Leak or else where, I'd be glad if they'd pass it on so we can restore the video here.

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