Vanishing point …

By Pepe Escobar Link

First, passenger airliner MH370 vanished from Planet Earth. Then MH370 vanished from the news cycle. First, MH17 was shot down by "Putin's missile" - as Planet Earth was told. Then MH17 vanished from the news cycle. 

Where's Baudrillard when we need him? Had he been alive, the dervish of simulacra would have already deconstructed these two Malaysian planes as mirror images; from absolute vanishing to maximum exposure, then vanished again. They might as well have been abducted - and shot - by aliens. Now you seem them, now you don't. 

Black boxes, data recorders - everything MH17 is now floating in a black void. The British are taking forever to analyze the data - and if they have already done so, they are not talking. It's as if they were singing, I see a black box / and I want it painted black … void. 

The Pentagon, with 20-20 vision over Ukraine, knows what happened. Russian intelligence not only knows what happened but offered a tantalizing glimpse of it in an official presentation, dismissed by the "West". The best technical analyses point not to "Putin's missile" - a BUK - but to a combination of R-60 air-to-air missile and the auto-cannon of an Su-25. WEITER LESEN LINK

QUELLE

The Latest in the New Cold War

My Money’s on Putin

by MIKE WHITNEY

“History shows that the United States has benefited politically and economically from wars in Europe. The huge outflow of capital from Europe following the First and Second World Wars, transformed the U.S. into a superpower … Today, faced with economic decline, the US is trying to precipitate another European war to achieve the same objective.”

– Sergey Glazyev, Russian politician and economist

“The discovery of the world’s largest, known gas reserves in the Persian Gulf, shared by Qatar and Iran, and new assessments which found 70 percent more gas in the Levantine in 2007, are key to understanding the dynamics of the conflicts we see today. After a completion of the PARS pipeline, from Iran, through Iraq and Syria to the Eastern Mediterranean coast, the European Union would receive more than an estimated 45 percent of the gas it consumes over the next 100 – 120 years from Russian and Iranian sources. Under non-conflict circumstances, this would warrant an increased integration of the European, Russian and Iranian energy sectors and national economies.”

– Christof Lehmann, Interview with Route Magazine

WEITER LESEN LINK oder HIER

Western plutocracy goes bear hunting

QUELLE
By Pepe Escobar

The post-Cold War status quo in Eastern Europe, not to mention in Western Europe, is now dead.

For Western plutocracy, that 0.00001% at the top, the real Masters of the Universe, Russia is the ultimate prize; an immense treasure of natural resources, forests, pristine water, minerals, oil and gas. Enough to drive any NSA-to-CIA Orwellian/Panopticon war game to ecstasy. How to pounce and profit from such a formidable loot?

Enter Globocop NATO. Barely out of having its collective behind unceremoniously kicked by a bunch of mountain warriors with Kalashnikovs, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is now fast "pivoting" - that same old Mackinder to Brzezinski game - to Russia. The road map will be put in place at the group's summit in early September in Wales.

Meanwhile, the MH17 tragedy is undergoing a fast metamorphosis. When the on-site observations by this Canadian OSCE monitor (watch the video carefully) are compounded with this analysis by a German pilot, a strong probability points to a Ukrainian Su-25's 30 mm auto-cannon firing at the cockpit of MH17, leading to massive decompression and the crash.

WEITER LESEN LINK ODER HIER

Zen of Poland’s fruits and veggies

QUELLE

Ignore the thug for the present and instead thrash his sidekick to send across the message first — that’s a moribund cold-war era method, which Russia may just have resuscitated by notifying that it is suspending the import of fruits and vegetables from Poland with effect from today, while similar measures are being contemplated against the European Union countries as a whole. 

WEITER LESEN LINK ODER HIER

Obama Press Briefing with Questions on Gaza, Ukraine, Other Topics

01 August 2014

THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
Washington, D.C.
August 1, 2014

PRESS CONFERENCE BY THE PRESIDENT

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
2:45 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. Happy Friday. I thought I’d take some questions, but first, let me say a few words about the economy. Weiter lesen LINK oder HIER

Rebellion in Transkarpatien ...General Кее Randy Alan ist verwundet

Von dem Kommentar auf YouTube:
Rebellion in Transkarpatien ... Alle Straßen sind blockiert. Den Züge sind gestoppt werden...  Rebellen haben unter Schutz strategischer Objekte genommen ... Ruthenen sind die Waffen genommen...

Aufklärungs- und Sabotagegruppe des slawischen Partisanen angegriffen einen Konvoi von US-Militär-Trainer. Während des Angriffs wurden getötet  drei amerikanischen Offiziere, von denen eine, vermutlich, in ihren Leben war eine Frau.
Außerdem, General Кее Randy Alan ist verwundet, der ist Chef von Strafoperation und ukrainische Truppen im Wirklichkeit.
Zusammen mit ein Militärberater, der von einem Scharfschützen am 30. Juli am Strand in Mariupol erschossen wurde, von etwa 180 Kommenden in die Ukraine US-Militär 10 sind getötet. Und seit nur eine Woche.

It was Putin's missile!

Quelle
By Pepe Escobar 

And here's the spin war verdict: the current Malaysia Airlines tragedy - the second in four months - is "terrorism" perpetrated by "pro-Russian separatists", armed by Russia, and Vladimir Putin is the main culprit. End of story. Anyone who believes otherwise, shut up. 

Why? Because the CIA said so. Because Hillary "We came, we saw, he died" Clinton said so. Because batshit crazy Samantha "R2P" Power said so - thundering at the UN, everything duly printed by the neo-con infested Washington Post. [1] 

Because Anglo-American corporate media - from CNN to Fox (who tried to buy Time Warner, which owns CNN) - said so. Because the President of the United States (POTUS) said so. And mostly because Kiev had vociferously said so in the first place. 
WEITER LESEN LINK ODER HIER

Book review: Hitler was mad on technology

QUELLE

The prologue to Annie Jacobsen’s “Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America” opens with Adolph Hitler in 1942 telling his inner circle, “I’m mad on technology.”

Hitler didn’t mean “technology” in the sense that we do today—electronics and the like; he meant warfare technology: rocket science, aerospace, chemicals, biological weaponry, and the technology of intelligence gathering, including the gruesome technology of prisoner interrogations. 

Weiter lesen LINK oder HIER

America's Ukraine-Policy Disaster

"We are the keepers and guardians of our own national security and, yes, our own sphere of influence—but Ukraine never was, and never will be, a part of that."

James W. Carden QUELLE

In the face of Russian opposition and the likelihood of exacerbating the burgeoning civil war in the eastern half of his country, newly elected Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed the EU-Ukrainian Association Agreement in Brussels last Friday. At the signing,Poroshenko, giving the lie to the claim that the agreement is simply a free-trade agreement, noted that “…the external aggression faced by Ukraine is another strong reason for this crucial step.”

Indeed, Russia’s primary objection to the agreement from the onset of the Ukraine crisis in November 2013, was that it was far more than a simple free-trade agreement and that because it required Ukraine to adopt a large number of the EU’s acquis communautaire, the agreement was not only economically exclusionary towards Russia, the agreement’s Foreign Policy and Security Protocols amounted to a security challenge within Russia’s traditional sphere of influence. It is appropriate to note here that unlike the EU Agreement, the much derided Eurasian Union, which the Yale-historian-turned-pro-Maidan mouthpiece Timothy Snyder has likened to some sinister ideological plot hatched by Vladimir Putin and a virulent Russian nationalist by the name of Alexander Dugin, has no protocols requiring either a coordinated foreign policy, or a common passport.

Weiter lesen LINK oder HIER

Ukraine ist bereit, chemische Waffen gegen die Bevölkerung zu nutzen.

Nach Informationen von Zeugen, vor ein paar Tagen zu einem Militärflughafen in der Nähe von Charkow wurden zwei Geräte gebracht, die auf den Flugzeuge angebracht sein sollen.

Die Landebahn wurde unter schwerer Bewachung Bewaffneten von Junta übernommen.
WEITER LESEN

Was ist wirklich los?

Quelle

Yesterday in the mail came a letter from Germany, which sets forth the contents of the conversation high ranking officers of the National Security Agency with representatives of the German media about the events in Ukraine. The contents of the conversation so openly and firmly tells US policy in Europe and the world, that I felt compelled to publish this correspondence.

“We offer you to get acquainted with excerpts from the interview with the Executive Director of the Institute of global perspectives” at Columbia University, Professor, doctor of philosophy Floors Christie’s, held in the editorial office of the weekly “European Economic Bulletin” (Bremen, lower Saxony, Germany).

WEITER LESEN

Can Germans afford it third time?

Quelle

M. I. Bhat for Veterans Today

After enjoying a little over two decades of post-Soviet threat-free environment from Russian tanks and short range missiles, Europe is on the verge of losing its peace. It has none to blame except its Union leadership that remains afflicted with Cold War Syndrome and willingly ready to get manipulated by Washington to serve its exclusive global agenda. First it was color revolutions in the Eastern Europe and then raining blood and gore on one after another Muslim country — and the European Union was there shoulder to shoulder with the US in all these regime change and destabilization missions.
weiter lesen

Sorry America, Ukraine isn’t all about you

Quelle

As the Ukraine crisis tips further into full-scale bloodbath and civil war, we seem to be getting more clueless than we were before this crisis started. That’s a pretty low bar to measure against, and the consequences of our cluelessness about what’s driving the various sides could be catastrophic for everyone.
One of the biggest problems is that everyone who riffs on Putin and Ukraine frames their analysis through a very narrow, Americanized lens, as if the only thing on everyone’s minds out there is us, America. Either Putin is behaving evilly because he fears America’s empire of liberty and freedom; or Putin is behaving perfectly rationally because the evil American empire has bullied Putin into a corner, forcing him to annex Crimea and support pro-Russian separatists.
weiter lesen

Beziehung zwischen Nazis auf Ukraine und CDU?

1. Die Klitschkos Partei "Udar" finanziert Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.

2. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung  finanziert sich zu 96,8 % aus öffentlichen Zuwendungen. Quelle

3. Valentin Nalyvaychenko

Bis 24. Februar 2014 - Volksbeauftragten der Ukraine VII Einberufung, Mitglied der Bundestagsfraktion "Udar" des Vitali Klitschko,Erster Stellvertreter des Vorsitzenden der Werchowna Rada Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten, Mitglied der Ständigen Delegation der Werchowna Rada der Ukraine der Parlamentarischen Versammlung der OSZE. 

Weiter lesen