https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYd-tn1Z17U
The Tragic Day in the History of Donbass
Published on Jun 5, 2015
This video is prepared by citizens of Lugansk People’s Republic. Please help to disseminate it!
Disseminate it … I can’t even watch it — 18+ — without signing in to youtube/google so they know my information, including email address. There are many videos I never see because it would require my divulging personal information, including political interests, of course as they accumulate data about me.
You can see it without a problem at LiveLeak. They issue a +18 warning, but don’t require you being digitally frisked or your privacy captured by the dolts at Google (NSA) via subsidiary YouTube. Of course, the NSA captures everything from everybody but can’t find their ass in the dark using both hands when it comes to terrorists.
Always check LiveLeak/Ukraine for an alternative site.
Thanks. I saw it SOTT, and see it at live leak — I can’t download for archives at either site, and many of the download software I used to use no longer works.
As for the content, there is much more shocking stuff around that I’ve seen. Heck — I could likely see much worse in a TV show, ovie, or video game. So it’s not the violent content but the political content which google et al objects to; they look for an excuse.
Thanks. I saw it SOTT, and see it at live leak — I can’t download for archives at either site, and many of the download software I used to use no longer works.
If you use windows and firefox, there is a firefox extension that works quite well for downloading internet video and is pretty simple to use. It will download videos at most video hosting sites, including Liveleak.
Russia is really out of touch with reality.
3rd world war is being waged agasint russia and rest of nonanglo world andthis russia is still dreaming that prospective us presidents-more of evil than before-would not wreck us-russia relationship!
no wonder Russia is doomed due to her dim political class.
lavrov and all his atlanticist types are really a comporador class-slave to the core.
There’s a workaround for avoiding sign-in for most of those 18+ videos. This is accomplished by changing the string “/watch?v=” to “/embed/” in the original link. In the present case, this would give the URL: https://www.youtube.com/embed/eYd-tn1Z17U
You can do this “on site” at YouTube by editing the address line in this way whenever you get one of those sign-in requests.
OK, good — I can watch it — but don’t know how to download it from youtube. Full screen doesn’t give me usual download icons from plugins.
(I was able to download it from liveleak with downloadhelper, though.)
@blue
To download the video file directly from YouTube, modify the “watch” URL as I described above, and then go to this site (SaveFrom.net), where you can paste theYouTube URL into a box and download the file. If there are several quality versions, you can choose among them before starting the download, and if there are subtitle files, you can download those as well (or just the subtitles if you already have the video file via other means). You can also use the SaveFrom site for downloading from other places besides YouTube.
Yes, Google + You tube now are working to stop to watch what is happening in Ukraine.
It is intentional, many independent blogs are reporting the same information. The media war is in a full swing.
If they don’t request it, someone will make a complaint and the item will be removed completely, perhaps the whole channel blocked or disabled after 2 or 3 complaints. .
A spot of good news. Little Vanya, wounded by a mine nearly 5 months ago, is not going to lose his sight. He is starting to discern colours. And his legs are being prepared to take prosthetic legs.
He confirms that UAF had planned and started the fight at Mariyanka before NAF counter-attacked. He also talks about large UAF casualties, much more then official number from Ukraine MOD.
Sometimes it looks like people think Russian PM Putin is at the helm of a high speed, speedboat. He’s not. The vastness of the Russian territory [9 timezones] and the complexity of its citizenry, turn Russia into an Über, super-sized, mega oil tanker and the captain [Mr. Putin] has no choice but to act accordingly.
Next to that, he has to maneuver the vessel through extremely murky waters [thank you, FUKUS].
Is there room for improvement?
No doubt.
Could I bring it about?
No way!
That leads me to the simple question; “If I would be walking in Vova’s shoes, what would I do?”
Thanks for the report. I see very little mention on this page of recent claims of captured Russian soldiers within Ukraine – here is one that claims that he was on active duty when captured, and that he was shocked to see his wife on Russian state TV claiming that he had resigned last year:
A recent Reuters report points towards recent deployment of heavy weapons and artillery near the Russian-Ukrainian border, where insignias have been taken off vehicles etc:
On the same day as that article was published, Putin signed a decree “classifying information on the deaths of military servicemen “during peacetime when carrying out special operations.””
Additionally, there have been mentions that a new emergency session might be held in the Duma. It was during an emergency session in March last year that Putin was given the right to deploy Russian troops abroad:
Given all of these recent reports, is it really possible to continue to deny Russian involvement in this conflict…?
The websayan spams 4 worthless propaganda pieces from the zionazi media and then asks that. That’s funny. :D
What’s not so funny is obvious disinfo from the likes of sorcha fal (spelling?) are dumped, but promotion of zio-media propaganda rubbish, as obvious disinfo as sorcha fal is, is allowed to waste the space. Sad, actually.
A fair few Donbass fighters admit to being Russian citizens. Most of them live in Donbass though. Some live and work in Russia and just came back to fight. Some were in the army — some in Russian Federation, some in Soviet, some in both.
A law about keeping military deaths secret? guess what, they are not allowed to say where they are when they are ALIVE either, outside of their bases. Simple basic security. Certainly does not prove a single thing about where there are soldiers and where not.
Emergency sessions can be held for lots of reasons. “Emergency” indicates not only that it’s urgent but that it is OUT OF THE ORDINARY. So really by definition one emergency is not going to be the same as the previous one. On your logic, if I broke my leg at my birthday party last year, sending invitations to another party means I am planning to break the other leg?
Actually Pianoman YOU will break a leg, if you keep bending so far backwards to try proving something with these silly “proofs”.
<A recent Reuters report points towards recent deployment of heavy weapons and artillery near the Russian-Ukrainian border, where insignias have been taken off vehicles etc:
Are you an expert in Russian military practice? do they have a law that says they have to have number plates etc on their military vehicles ion their own training grounds? can you quote the law and section number please? THINK about it: they are at home, their own training area. Do they really need to mark any vehicles? why? to know whose they are? Do you write your name on the base of all your PLATES in your house?
Oh and the concept of border. Everything on one side belongs to the country on that side. They can go where they darned well want on it. How do figure this proves they are involved in Ukraine?
If your neighbor parks his car in his own yard, can you sensibly claim he is parked in your living room?
Kat Kan, thanks for the response. I have something to admit, but let’s start with making a few points. By Russian involvement, I would refer to Russian citizens serving in the Russian army and being sent to Ukraine while serving in the Russian army. You seem to have missed that I pointed out that one of the captured Russian soldiers admitted to serving in the army, and was shocked seeing his wife say on Russian TV that he had not been serving in the army since last year. How would you comment that? To illustrate that point further, here are some quotes by Russian soldiers that allegedly were sent across the border, and in some cases decided to resign:
“One of the five, from Moscow, said he was sent on exercises in southern Russia last year but ended up going into Ukraine in an armored convoy.
“After we crossed the border, a lieutenant colonel said we could be sent to jail if we didn’t fulfil orders. Some soldiers refused to stay there,” said the soldier, who served with the elite Russian Kantemirovskaya tank division. He gave Reuters his full name but spoke on condition of anonymity, saying he feared reprisals.”
“The former Russian soldiers who spoke to Reuters, as well as human rights activists, said some soldiers were fearful of being sent to Ukraine, were pressured into going, or disgruntled at the way they were treated after fighting there.
The former tank soldier from Moscow said he would not have gone to Ukraine voluntarily. “No, what for? That’s not our war. If our troops were officially there it would be a different story.”
He said he had been sent to fight in Ukraine last summer and returned to Russia in September when the first peace talks took place. His crew operated a modernized Russian T-72B3 tank, he said.
“(Back in Russia) we were lined up and told that everyone would get a daily allowance, extras for fighting and medals,” he said. But he said that they did not get the extras they expected. “We decided to quit. There were 14 of us.”
Would you say that such stories are fabrications? I never claimed that what’s happening in Donbass is a ‘Russian invasion’, but I’m asking whether the complete denial of involvement from the Russian side is so accurate. We do know of cases from the past year where Russian conscript soldiers have perished – I believe most notably in the battle of Ilovaisk.
Next issue, could you clarify how a 96K6 Pantsyr-S1 (SA-22 ‘Greyhound’) SPAAGM system, which is not in use in Ukraine, found its way across the border without involvement of the Russian military…? This is sophisticated weaponry – are you going to tell me that it’s out there to be found on the Voentorg…? http://www.janes.com/article/48685/russian-tos-1-and-pantsyr-s1-systems-reported-in-east-ukraine
This is just one example out of many, obviously. Relating to what I just mentioned, I guess the point the Reuters article is making with regards to Russian weaponry with insignias removed arriving close to the Ukrainian border, is that given how weaponry has been gathered on one side of the border only to show up on the other side, there are obvious reasons for seeing a pattern here. You may disagree, of course.
And now for my admission. Whatever you may think based on my postings here, I’m all for the right of people in Donbass/Crimea etc to self-determination (actually, my girlfriend is from Crimea, so…). But perhaps partially due to living in a country neighboring Russia, with a lot of anti-Russian propaganda, I’ve also taken certain interest in arguing certain issues from several different perspectives. Thus, I’ve been happy to argue that there are no Russian soldiers in Ukraine when confronting people in my nearest surroundings who believe otherwise, and similarly, I have liked to argue against the mainstream on this site. It actually has given me some good arguments and ideas when confronting differing viewpoints, and I can also thank you for that to a certain extent. I’ll be frank – to me, the issue of Russian involvement is not clear at all. Even if we ignore the most obvious bullshit from Poroshenko, Breedlove and others, I’d say it is pretty clear that Russia has had a hand in what’s been going on in eastern Ukraine in one way or the other. Obviously less than what is claimed in the press where I live. But we do have documented cases of soldiers who have been killed in action and buried under mysterious circumstances. You aren’t going to deny that they died as Russian army concripts, in a foreign country, are you…?
Pianoman,
everything you’ve quoted so far is MSM (mainstream media) which is totally on the US/NATO side. So you have to take them with a big grain of salt. And read every single word, not just assume they wrote something: they are experts are making up stories to look like true.
The Pantsyr: the caption says ” This image of a 96K6 Pantsyr-S1 (SA-22 ‘Greyhound’) SPAAGM system was supposedly taken in east Ukraine on 28 January. Source: Unknown authorship “
Then then goes on for a whole page trying to give the impression that it is definitely in Ukraine and this definitely proves Russia is supplying arms there.
Now please go back to your comment and see what you seem to have believed, based on this. YOU WERE CONNED AND FOOLED. I was not, because (a) I can read well and (b) I know the tricks they get up to. You too can learn both these skills.
Reuters: they and The Guardian between them are responsible for around 60% of all “Russian convoys entering Ukraine” sightings. Oddly, they never manage to get a single picture of one, except well inside Russia where they have every right to be.
They LIE. Example, re MH17, they interviewed a man who supposedly said he saw and heard a BUK being fired and it was Ukrainian. Then supposedly, once the camera was off he said it was actually a REBEL BUK but he was afraid to say so on camera for fear of retaliation. (So in one hit the writer says not only that it was a Rebel BUK but that people are in fear of the rebels). The man when he was told of this article loudly complained — he had said nothing of the sort, all he said when the camera was off was “goodbye” . How often do they get away with this?
In the particular story you linked — they give no names or addresses or photos to even show the people exist; they don’t even specify how and where they spoke with them. Nor what language they spoke in, with or without interpreters etc etc. So as far as we know these people don’t even exist. Well, that is an advantage, isn’t it? non-existent people at least won’t complain later that they were misquoted.
Oh, wait… their names came from a list held by “Valentina Melnikova, who runs the Alliance of Soldiers’ Mothers Committees”, and Reuters claims to have seen this and a reply from the Russian defence ministry about when these men left military service. But… why not a photo of the letters? Oh and who is Valentina? she’s been alleging Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine for a year, and this is about the best level of evidence she ever comes up with.
She DID once publish a list of names, when people were insisting. It turned out to be the names of a football team (not missing). So she just “found” some names when pressed to produce some. Her organisation is funded by a George Soros fund, how unbiased do you think they are?
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It is total desperation, scraping the bottom of the barrel, to make this sort of claim. If Russia wanted to intervene militarily, it would be 5000 men and 300 tanks, or some similar useful number.
What EARTHLY benefit is it to them or to Donbas, to send in 2 or 5 or 11 dumb conscripts with no training and no idea what to do? how does that help anyone? But I do believe some would go by themselves, after all there are fighters from 8 or 10 other countries, too..
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It is quite probable that there are some advisers or trainers there (same as NATO has). On the other hand there are plenty of local people who had serious military experience, in Soviet or Russian armies, so how much advice do they need?
Russia does have POLITICAL involvement: they’ve spoken numerous times to the republic leaders. Openly. And clearly have pressure on them to maintain the Minsk agreement (because if they break it, the blowback goes on Russia).
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So, always look WHO is saying something. What’s their record for accuracy? for bias? HOW checkable is what they’re saying. Be careful about “local colour”….the description of the cafe decoration or what they were drinking, to make an interview look “real”… but never say the name or location of the cafe they’re in (which might be checkable). Very clever writing, to lull your mind into thinking they’ve told you something substantial.
I mean, if a site quotes Putin, what he says might not be true, but you can check on his official website that he actually said it, and I think it’s fairly well established he really exists and really is President of Russia. If they quote anonymous people under unexplained circumstances, you have to start taking those grains of salt.
If you don’t want to end up with salt poisoning, stop reading MSM.
I looked at the reuters story and then the authors and editors and googled on them. Not much, but I saw other stories which were basically putin bashing and others on russians in ukraine — sort of a pattern of this spin. Then I got tired and stopped looking — one can go for hors trying to track this stuff down and end with the same basic conclusion: western media can’t be believed.
The Pantsyr IS in Ukraine, it was one of like 65 sent to Syria and Iran. Being very short range it is nothing like the S300 that Israel is afraid off. Syrian officers sell equipment to anyone they can find and in fact most of the armor used by the terrorists were bought off the Syrian armed forces. How they were able to transport it to Ukraine is a question.. But Syria is missing a few of them. At the very least it is better that it ended up in Ukraine as the militia does not operate planes while in Syria the air force does.
I’m aware of the original article with the picture being of ‘unknown authorship’ and so on, but this video seems to confirm the sighting. This system entered service in Russia in 2010, hasn’t been exported much. How did it end up in Ukraine without involvement of the Russian military…?
I do understand the problem of quoting anonymous persons and so on, but there are reasons why some would not want to disclose identities. Remember the story of Svetlana Davydova, who was in the middle of breastfeeding the youngest of her 7 kids when she was taken from home, and getting accused of treason for contacting the Ukrainian embassy about Russian troops movements in or near the Ukrainian border, something she just overheard on the bus…? No doubt did she act foolishly – I mean, she has no way of knowing where those troops went…In this case, mentioning the story to her neighbors was not such a good idea. In any case. I still think you are cherry-picking what I’ve posted to some extent – the two recently-captured soldiers have talked to the press by themselves and their identities are revealed, and at least one of them has admitted to serving the army, feeling surprised that the state (and his wife) claim he resigned last year. That’s not an anonymous source – we know the name and the background of this person.
Well that video doesn’t show a lot more, and the blog it is supposedly associated with is error 404. Who filmed it? where? when? Never mind, I can see you are trying very hard to prove “Russian involvement”. So we have one Pantsyr and 2 soldiers, against what? 600 NATO advisers and how many million dollars worth of weapons from the USA, which has NOTHING TO DO with the area at all? (except for trying to steal it maybe). The woman with the 7 kids had deliberately spied on troop movements, took photos and made friends with officers to wheedle information out of them over several months, according to court documents. And proves nothing about Russian troops in Ukraine.
If you want to keep believing it as a matter of faith, go right ahead. If you want to believe unsourced and uncheckable stories “quoting” unnamed people, from authors who have been proven to invent stories many times, go right ahead. You’re just letting them fool you, to save the trouble of fooling yourself. It’s sad to see someone who can write as well as you do, but is totally unable to read critically.
Hey Pianoman. You think the US allows the deaths of their special ops guys o be known? They won’t even allow us to know the BUDGET of the CIA, or any other division of intelligence.
The US does “body washing” when they want to hide deaths of special operators.
They announce a training accident, dump the bodies into the ‘accident’ and voila. You wash away the place and how they died to the new locale of the accident.
What would you have Russia to do, Anon? Keep in mind that using overt military force to solve the Ukraine crisis was precisely what the Banking Empire was hoping for. They wanted to then blame Russia for “starting” the war; they’ve done this before.
“Mr. Putin further announced that Russian troops along the Ukraine-Russian border had returned to their usual (pre-crisis)positions.
The question is why?Why has he adopted a posture of accommodation with the US?
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While there may be more than one reason for Mr. Putin’s conciliatory gestures, the main factor seems to be economics, especially the financial interests of the powerful oligarchs that are deeply integrated into the financial networks and institutions of the West, and which are therefore threatened by economic sanctions and geopolitical turbulence. According to Forbes Magazine’s list of world billionaires for 2014, Russia has the third highest number of billionaires
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Russia’s financial moguls are mostly former bureaucrats (or their children and cronies) of the Soviet era who quickly became billionaires by virtue of fire-sale privatizations of state industries and other public properties when the Soviet Union collapsed. Contrary to the generally industrious and innovative entrepreneurs of the early stages of capitalism in the West, who were sometimes called revolutionary bourgeoisie, Russia’s oligarchic nouveau-riche have had largely a parasitic economic/financial role. By having scandalously ascended to the commanding heights of Russia’s economy, they have thus made the entire national economy dependent upon and, therefore, vulnerable to the fate or performance of their own fortunes in the marketplace, especially international markets
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The winning or losing of one side or the other in the ongoing crisis in Ukraine is secondary to thesefinancial tycoons; their primary concern is how to preserve their fortunes.
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Despite his nationalist/populist tendencies and affirmations, the fact remains that President Putin has a strong social base among Russia’s financial elites. One of his major concerns in dealing with the crisis in Ukraine and the threat of economic sanctions by Western powers is, therefore, how to preserve the loyalty of the oligarchs “who provide his regime with its social base, in the face of efforts by the US to drive a wedge between the oligarchs and the Kremlin.” This seems to be a decisive factor in Mr. Putin’s moves to seek accommodation with Western powers, which have been escalating economic sanctions and military threats against Russia .
President Putin’s inability or unwillingness to stand up more vigorously to the geopolitical aggressions of the Unites States and its allies stems, therefore, not so much from military weakness, or lack of economic resources per se, as it is from the way its economy has become dependent on oligarch’s economic role and, therefore, on the skittish global markets, or the imperialistic whims of Western powers. Sadly, Russia is not alone in grappling with this dilemma of economic dependency and/or vulnerability to globalization of markets—in essence, to the whims of international financial markets, or the aspirations of the global plutocracy.
… It is all a Matter of Class
The answer, in a nutshell, is class: in dealing with the imperial policies of Western powers, these countries (like Russia itself) are hamstrung by their own oligarchs. Like Russian oligarchs, the financial elites in these countries have closer affinity with their class counterparts in the West than with their fellow citizens at home. To these folks, issues such as national sovereignty and social justice are secondary to “peaceful” co-existence in a neoliberal world order led by the US. Consciously or instinctively, they perceive cross-border alliances (or hostilities) more as inter-class than international.
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A look back at the US-USSR relationship prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union can be instructive here. Despite its much smaller economy and the notoriously inefficient bureaucratic rule of those earlier days, the Soviet Union was able to resist or react to US aggressions more robustly than Russia can today. Why? Because in spite of their bureaucratic and corrupt character, the ruling circles of the timespoke with one voice in dealing with imperialistic Western powers. To deal with the challenges posed by the United States and its allies, they tried (and to a large extent succeeded) to become as economically self-sufficient as possible and, therefore, as independent or immune to global market fluctuations as possible. This stood in sharp contrast to today’s situation where Russia’s economy has become (largely through the economic power and behavior of oligarchs) intertwined with Western economies and, therefore, vulnerable to global market vacillations and threats of economic sanctions. The unified and cohesive foreign policy decisions of the Soviet era also stood in sharp contrast to today’s divided economic policies and geopolitical positions in Russia—where the financial aristocracy gladly accommodates the geopolitical and economic designs of Western powers, and is eagerly willing to implement policies of neoliberal economics in Russia.”
Iceland is already throwing banksters in jail, Greece could very well default and return to the drachma: Stretching this charade out is actually hurting the Banking Empire.
… Russia’s oligarchic nouveau-riche have had largely a parasitic economic/financial role.
And that’s the charade I’m talking about: The idea that people need a class of parasite plutocrats for something – the kind of fabrication an abuser would tell their victim.
“The treasury, lacking confidence in the country, delivered itself bound hand and foot to bold and bankrupt adventurers and bankers pretending to have money, whom it could have crushed at any moment… These jugglers were at the feet of government. For it was not, any confidence in their frothy bubbles, but the lack of all other money, which induced… people to take their paper… We are now without any common measure of value of property, and private fortunes are up or down at the will of the worst of our citizens… As little seems to be known of the principles of political economy as if nothing had ever been written or practiced on the subject.”
~ President Thomas Jefferson, 1815; one year after the 2nd Bank of the US was chartered
… the Soviet Union was able to resist or react to US aggressions more robustly than Russia can today.
The Soviets also played Eurasia to the US’s Oceania, so that’s not much of a point. Helping construct the Holocaust helped no one but the Empire, plenty of labor went into the arms race instead of bettering the people, and the Soviets were supposed to stay in Afghanistan forever [like the US is doing now].
Is it a realization by more and more of the world that USA is no longer “land of the free, home of the brave” ? If even refugees know this, how long could ROW realize the same ?
South Front continues to shine in the world of journalism, one of the few. Well done video. They have now renewed their military events reports. This is their newest one (both sites):
Intercepting a military convoy in Manipur, a group of nearly 50 militants attacked the Indian Army. Killing at least 20 soldiers, sources say the attackers used rocket launchers made in the United States.
Just as details of a secret alliance between Saudi Arabia and Israel against Iran begin to emerge, a new survey reveals that it isn’t just the Saudi government that’s changing its tone on the Jewish state: it’s also the Saudi public.
Considering how the sods support the Israeli ISIL terrorists, intended to attack Iran, as one of the “greater” Israeli destabilisation strategies, of course the Saudi colony favours massa Israel. No doubt, the media in Saudi Arabia has “benefited” from zionazi media population manipulation “help”. Dumbing down the goy world and making the marks pliable for zionazi interests is what the zio-media is there for.
IDC Herzliya is a dream realized; an academic institution that changed the face of higher education in Israel and became a successful, pioneering model and a source of inspiration.
Founded by renowned Israeli Professor Uriel Reichman in 1994, IDC Herzliya is a non-profit organization modeled after Ivy League universities in the U.S. In the twenty years since its establishment, IDC Herzliya’s success has drawn both international recognition and some of the finest lecturers and researchers from around the world to our doorstep.
IDC Herzliya’s founders sought to create an Israeli university in which personal achievements go hand in hand with social responsibility. Our outlook is rooted in the concepts of “freedom and responsibility” and emphasizes initiative and leadership alongside community service .
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In the center, over the ” _____” part of the comment is a little movie like hollywood graphic on a loop counting down 7 – 6 – 5 – 4 – 3 … it just loops until you click it and now noticed it does it on southfront’s homepage so i assume its there issue but it has been days.
A number of Chinese tech firms have become disenchanted with the United States and are looking to drop their listings in New York and return home to Beijing, where stock markets are surging.
Many Chinese tech executives are betting on higher share valuations in China. They also hope to avoid being ensnared in a legal mess when Beijing formally outlaws foreign shareholder control of firms in protected tech sectors.
A Chinese exodus would mean Wall Street underwriters are going to miss out on profitable fees, like the $300 million generated by the $25 billion IPO of e-commerce giant Alibaba – the world’s largest initial public offering ever.
The numbers certainly are enticing. China’s tech-driven ChiNext composite index has gained nearly 180% this year, eclipsing the 30% rise in the Nasdaq OMX China Technology Index that tracks offshore listed mainland firms, Reuters reported.
Firms listed on the Nasdaq index get an average share price equal to 11 times their earnings. On ChiNext, they get 133 times. Chinese executives attribute the disparity to US ignorance of China.
“American investors don’t understand the business model of Chinese gaming companies,” a senior exec of one firm planning to move from New York to China was quoted as saying by Reuters.
Analysts predict fewer and fewer Chinese companies trying to list in New York.
“The possibility of stirring interest among US investors is slim,” said Shu Yi, CEO of Beijing-based advertising technology company Limei Technology, which abandoned plans to list in New York and now is hoping to go public in Shanghai or Shenzhen.
Couple that with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s call for tech firms to return home. those with “special ownership structures,” referring to the contractual loopholes employed by many Chinese firms to evade restrictions on foreign ownership.
Previously, Chinese regulators prohibited many firms from listing in the United States. The China Securities Regulatory Commission used to require that any company be profitable for several years before listing, which eliminated most Chinese internet companies.
But Beijing is aiming to make Shanghai a global financial center among the likes of London, Hong Kong and New York by 2020, and to do that, and it has to make room its most innovative companies.
“The obstacle to coming back has been removed,” said a representative from China Renaissance bank in an email to Reuters. “The issue is not whatever valuation you can get in China. Hot market themes are fleeting.”
Cheers to the Chinese dumping the NY zio-organised crime-cesspool. Everybody should be doing it.
While comparing China to Nazi Germany earlier this week, the Philippine president is now seeking a military alliance with Japan, a former Axis power which occupied his nation 70 years ago.
“If somebody said stop to Hitler…would we have avoided World War II,” Philippines President Benigno Aquino told an audience on Wednesday during his four-day tour of Japan. The hypothetical was meant to draw comparisons to Nazi Germany’s spread through Europe to China’s land reclamation projects in the South China Sea.
“I’m an amateur student of history…” Aquino said. So amateur, in fact, that he’s overlooked Japan’s role in the war.
In 1941, Imperial Japanese forces invaded the Philippines mere hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The occupation lasted for three years, during which time a number of war crimes were documented. The Manila massacre, one of the many atrocities conducted by the Japanese military throughout their occupied territories, resulted in the death of between 100,000 and 500,000 civilians.
Yet on Friday, Aquino indicated a desire to begin negotiations which would allow military cooperation between the two countries.
Under pressure from Washington, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is working to expand his military’s jurisdiction. While Japan’s constitution currently restricts troops to act only within its own territory, Abe has sought new legislation which would allow Tokyo to defend foreign allies.
That means that Japan could soon be monitoring the South China Sea, and using the Philippines as a base of operations.
Obviously the Japan of today is a far cry from the Japan of World War II. It has changed exponentially in the last 70 years, just as any nation has. But before Aquino begins tossing Nazi comparisons around, he should consider how that equivocation looks while actively seeking a partnership with Nazi Germany’s primary ally.
A Philippine equivalent to the quislings in the Ukraine. The WW2 Axis forces were good because they attacked the evil commie Russians and Chinese, is the zionazi/nazi mantra these quisling sods are promoting.
Actually, looking at the photo of the Aquino quisling, one is struck by the resemblance to the Yats the Suk quisling in the Ukraine. Have the ZPC/NWO mastered the science of human cloning? Or are these disgusting things the result of some android production works?
Beijing on Friday dismissed as “irresponsible” Washington’s accusations that Chinese hackers perpetrated a massive cyber-attack on the personal information of millions of current and former US federal employees.
“Cyber-attacks are generally anonymous and conducted across borders and their origins are hard to trace,” foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a regular briefing.
“Not to carry out a deep investigation and keep using words such as ‘possible’ is irresponsible and unscientific,” he added.
Israeli-American scum continue to play the projection card in their propaganda.
Syria fighting ISIS, the US interfering. Maybe someone has more on this incident.
Twitter:
Nizar Nayouf @nizarnayouf Jun 3
#Syrian pilot:#US jets jammed our bombers 3 times yesterday and prevented us from bombing #ISIS sites over the city of #Hasakah(northeast)
The neo-cons who are drolling for more war will want to know why the US is shielding ISIS.
McCain would want the US jets to allow ISIS to be bombed, then to have the US jets shoot down the Syrians. Senator Senile John McMoreWar wants everyone to die.
5/29/15 The Russian Federation intends to create an air bridge through its military aviation in order to connect with the break-away region of Moldova, Transnistria. The initiative follows Ukraine’s decision to ban the transit of Russian military troops to Transnistria.
The announcement was made by Yuri Yakubov, the coordinator of General Inspectors Department of the Defense Ministry of Russia. He stressed that the air bridge will be built to supply the Russian army from Transnistria and the peace-keeping troops.
“Now, when Ukraine denounced all the military agreements (with us), the Ministry of Defense has nothing but to transport the necessary supplies to these military units by using the military aviation”, stated Yakubov, quoted by Interfax.
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4/9/15 Transnistrians angry at false Russian reports that they are prosperous. http://www.moldova.org/people-of-transnistria-angry-of-false-reports-released-by-the-russian-press/
MOLDOVA (from Moldova.org)
Moldova’s pro-Moscow Socialist party opposes unification w Roumania as does Russia. Roumania is member EU.
4/28/15 Moldova’s governing alliance no longer has accession to the EU as an objective, according to IDIS “Viitorul” expert Leonid Litra. In the latest Foreign Policy Statewatch, he analyses the sudden change in the discourse of Moldovan officials after the last parliamentary elections, at end of 2014.
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5/15/15 According to the experts, Moldova faces an ideological crisis caused by the governing political parties that associated the idea of European integration with their own policies and actions.
“Since 2009 we have had a pro-European government and the situation has worsened. The citizens’ conclusion is that the pro-European parties cannot ensure what they promised and thus, the citizens’ hopes and expectations did not find any answer in the performance of the government. Hence the great disappointment and conclusions like: They are liars and what they promise cannot in principle be realized”, says Arcadie Barbaroșie. ” Moreover, the governments that we have had in the last years had in their name, in one form or another, the word “European” – the pro-European alliance and the pro-European coalition”, he added.
“The citizens conclude that under the guise of European integration the corrupt political clans are solving their own problems, getting richer, while the citizens are getting disappointed and desperate. This involution of the expectations for the European vector is explained by the fact that the banner carriers proved to be false. The banner remains for a large part of society as a landmark, while the carriers have to be probably changed”, claims Igor Boțan.
Others disagree. Continued application for EU membership or not is a live controversy.
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Ten ambassadors of the Republic of Moldova have been recalled from their positions. The decision was taken by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Natalia Gherman, on Tuesday, May 26th, at the meeting of the Government. The chief of the Moldovan diplomacy didn’t offer any explanation for her decision and the question wasn’t discussed by the Ministers.
Recalled ambassadors:
permanent representative of the Republic of Moldova at the Council of Europe; Moldovan ambassador for Sweden, Finland and Norway.
Also ambassador for Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg; amb for Portugal & Morocco; amb for Bulgaria, Albania & Macedonia; amb for Azerbaijan, Georgia & Kyrgystan; amb for US, Brazil & Mexico. Individual ambassadors for Latvia, for Estonia, and for Lithuania
The Foreign Minister will now ask for the President’s approval to recall the ambassadors from their positions.
An interesting look at Microsoft and how they are part of the US government and spies on everyone. Supposedly a balanced look.. Since micro has screwed us over and we don’t even need to talk about the US government, I wont not trust them even if they paid me and I sure would not spend a dime on anything they have to sell to me. But hey, go ahead.. support the very people compromising your life.
Also, another captured UAF soldier says the punishers include mercenaries, Chechens and Georgians. This was his third mobilization and he does not want to engage any further in this ‘fratricidal’ war.
Basurin says three ‘TOCHKA’ missiles were launched at complexes – I assume he means high-rise buildings.
I see another video at the channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYd-tn1Z17U
The Tragic Day in the History of Donbass
Published on Jun 5, 2015
This video is prepared by citizens of Lugansk People’s Republic. Please help to disseminate it!
Disseminate it … I can’t even watch it — 18+ — without signing in to youtube/google so they know my information, including email address. There are many videos I never see because it would require my divulging personal information, including political interests, of course as they accumulate data about me.
You can see it without a problem at LiveLeak. They issue a +18 warning, but don’t require you being digitally frisked or your privacy captured by the dolts at Google (NSA) via subsidiary YouTube. Of course, the NSA captures everything from everybody but can’t find their ass in the dark using both hands when it comes to terrorists.
Always check LiveLeak/Ukraine for an alternative site.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=123_1433509112
Thanks. I saw it SOTT, and see it at live leak — I can’t download for archives at either site, and many of the download software I used to use no longer works.
As for the content, there is much more shocking stuff around that I’ve seen. Heck — I could likely see much worse in a TV show, ovie, or video game. So it’s not the violent content but the political content which google et al objects to; they look for an excuse.
blue
Thanks. I saw it SOTT, and see it at live leak — I can’t download for archives at either site, and many of the download software I used to use no longer works.
If you use windows and firefox, there is a firefox extension that works quite well for downloading internet video and is pretty simple to use. It will download videos at most video hosting sites, including Liveleak.
Video DownloadHelper
Thanks. I had that installed once and it stopped working with the FF version I was using then. Now it works again.
WTF headine of the day, I mean of the year:
Kremlin hopes Russian-American relations not to be sacrificed to US presidential race
http://tass.ru/en/russia/799183
Is this the twilight zone or what?
Russia is really out of touch with reality.
3rd world war is being waged agasint russia and rest of nonanglo world andthis russia is still dreaming that prospective us presidents-more of evil than before-would not wreck us-russia relationship!
no wonder Russia is doomed due to her dim political class.
lavrov and all his atlanticist types are really a comporador class-slave to the core.
There’s a workaround for avoiding sign-in for most of those 18+ videos. This is accomplished by changing the string “/watch?v=” to “/embed/” in the original link. In the present case, this would give the URL: https://www.youtube.com/embed/eYd-tn1Z17U
You can do this “on site” at YouTube by editing the address line in this way whenever you get one of those sign-in requests.
OK, good — I can watch it — but don’t know how to download it from youtube. Full screen doesn’t give me usual download icons from plugins.
(I was able to download it from liveleak with downloadhelper, though.)
@blue
To download the video file directly from YouTube, modify the “watch” URL as I described above, and then go to this site (SaveFrom.net), where you can paste theYouTube URL into a box and download the file. If there are several quality versions, you can choose among them before starting the download, and if there are subtitle files, you can download those as well (or just the subtitles if you already have the video file via other means). You can also use the SaveFrom site for downloading from other places besides YouTube.
Yes, Google + You tube now are working to stop to watch what is happening in Ukraine.
It is intentional, many independent blogs are reporting the same information. The media war is in a full swing.
In this I see the notice:
“Age-restricted video (requested by uploader).”
So they are censoring themselves.
If they don’t request it, someone will make a complaint and the item will be removed completely, perhaps the whole channel blocked or disabled after 2 or 3 complaints. .
Is that what happened to RT?
I think if they dont put the 18+ that will be used as a reason to close that account by google….
A spot of good news. Little Vanya, wounded by a mine nearly 5 months ago, is not going to lose his sight. He is starting to discern colours. And his legs are being prepared to take prosthetic legs.
http://novorossia.today/news-from-vanya-lesya-friends/
Good news — and yet that he, or anyone, would have to go through these things for the insanity of the sociopaths is appalling, horrifying.
of course blue.
Also Kat Kan, yes, at least for Vanya, fantastic news. I hope he has a great life ahead.
Thank God the human race has evolved up to media wars. That’s better than nuclear wars. We’ve come a long way, baby.
Blue
You can find it on sott.net 4th of june under south front news of that day as comment
Here’s the Update on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mOLOA_pug0
http://fortruss.blogspot.com.au/2015/06/west-vs-russia-point-of-no-return.html?m=1
Oh Well, thank you; that was an excellent summation link. I would only add
https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/ru-en.en/izvestia.ru/news/587438
It’s full of tough, authoritative statements including a warning about appeasement.
Penelope that link is in Russian
Video of UAF 28th brigade soldier captured at Mariynka Streamed live on Jun 5, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjO0vlF6_v0
He confirms that UAF had planned and started the fight at Mariyanka before NAF counter-attacked. He also talks about large UAF casualties, much more then official number from Ukraine MOD.
Sometimes it looks like people think Russian PM Putin is at the helm of a high speed, speedboat. He’s not. The vastness of the Russian territory [9 timezones] and the complexity of its citizenry, turn Russia into an Über, super-sized, mega oil tanker and the captain [Mr. Putin] has no choice but to act accordingly.
Next to that, he has to maneuver the vessel through extremely murky waters [thank you, FUKUS].
Is there room for improvement?
No doubt.
Could I bring it about?
No way!
That leads me to the simple question; “If I would be walking in Vova’s shoes, what would I do?”
No idea.
Thanks for the report. I see very little mention on this page of recent claims of captured Russian soldiers within Ukraine – here is one that claims that he was on active duty when captured, and that he was shocked to see his wife on Russian state TV claiming that he had resigned last year:
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/captured-russian-soldier-admits-to-mission-in-ukraine
A recent Reuters report points towards recent deployment of heavy weapons and artillery near the Russian-Ukrainian border, where insignias have been taken off vehicles etc:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/27/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-military-idUSKBN0OC2K820150527
On the same day as that article was published, Putin signed a decree “classifying information on the deaths of military servicemen “during peacetime when carrying out special operations.””
https://meduza.io/en/news/2015/05/28/putin-classifies-information-on-peacetime-military-deaths
Additionally, there have been mentions that a new emergency session might be held in the Duma. It was during an emergency session in March last year that Putin was given the right to deploy Russian troops abroad:
https://meduza.io/en/news/2015/06/03/russia-s-senate-speaker-warns-another-emergency-session-could-be-imminent
Given all of these recent reports, is it really possible to continue to deny Russian involvement in this conflict…?
Píanoman on June 05, 2015 · at 9:53 pm UTC
Given all of these recent reports, is it really possible to continue to deny Russian involvement in this conflict…?
The websayan spams 4 worthless propaganda pieces from the zionazi media and then asks that. That’s funny. :D
What’s not so funny is obvious disinfo from the likes of sorcha fal (spelling?) are dumped, but promotion of zio-media propaganda rubbish, as obvious disinfo as sorcha fal is, is allowed to waste the space. Sad, actually.
Define Russian.
Define involvement.
A fair few Donbass fighters admit to being Russian citizens. Most of them live in Donbass though. Some live and work in Russia and just came back to fight. Some were in the army — some in Russian Federation, some in Soviet, some in both.
A law about keeping military deaths secret? guess what, they are not allowed to say where they are when they are ALIVE either, outside of their bases. Simple basic security. Certainly does not prove a single thing about where there are soldiers and where not.
Emergency sessions can be held for lots of reasons. “Emergency” indicates not only that it’s urgent but that it is OUT OF THE ORDINARY. So really by definition one emergency is not going to be the same as the previous one. On your logic, if I broke my leg at my birthday party last year, sending invitations to another party means I am planning to break the other leg?
Actually Pianoman YOU will break a leg, if you keep bending so far backwards to try proving something with these silly “proofs”.
<A recent Reuters report points towards recent deployment of heavy weapons and artillery near the Russian-Ukrainian border, where insignias have been taken off vehicles etc:
Are you an expert in Russian military practice? do they have a law that says they have to have number plates etc on their military vehicles ion their own training grounds? can you quote the law and section number please? THINK about it: they are at home, their own training area. Do they really need to mark any vehicles? why? to know whose they are? Do you write your name on the base of all your PLATES in your house?
Oh and the concept of border. Everything on one side belongs to the country on that side. They can go where they darned well want on it. How do figure this proves they are involved in Ukraine?
If your neighbor parks his car in his own yard, can you sensibly claim he is parked in your living room?
Reilly grasping at straws there, man.,
Kat Kan, thanks for the response. I have something to admit, but let’s start with making a few points. By Russian involvement, I would refer to Russian citizens serving in the Russian army and being sent to Ukraine while serving in the Russian army. You seem to have missed that I pointed out that one of the captured Russian soldiers admitted to serving in the army, and was shocked seeing his wife say on Russian TV that he had not been serving in the army since last year. How would you comment that? To illustrate that point further, here are some quotes by Russian soldiers that allegedly were sent across the border, and in some cases decided to resign:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/10/us-ukraine-crisis-soldiers-specialreport-idUSKBN0NV06Q20150510
“One of the five, from Moscow, said he was sent on exercises in southern Russia last year but ended up going into Ukraine in an armored convoy.
“After we crossed the border, a lieutenant colonel said we could be sent to jail if we didn’t fulfil orders. Some soldiers refused to stay there,” said the soldier, who served with the elite Russian Kantemirovskaya tank division. He gave Reuters his full name but spoke on condition of anonymity, saying he feared reprisals.”
“The former Russian soldiers who spoke to Reuters, as well as human rights activists, said some soldiers were fearful of being sent to Ukraine, were pressured into going, or disgruntled at the way they were treated after fighting there.
The former tank soldier from Moscow said he would not have gone to Ukraine voluntarily. “No, what for? That’s not our war. If our troops were officially there it would be a different story.”
He said he had been sent to fight in Ukraine last summer and returned to Russia in September when the first peace talks took place. His crew operated a modernized Russian T-72B3 tank, he said.
“(Back in Russia) we were lined up and told that everyone would get a daily allowance, extras for fighting and medals,” he said. But he said that they did not get the extras they expected. “We decided to quit. There were 14 of us.”
Would you say that such stories are fabrications? I never claimed that what’s happening in Donbass is a ‘Russian invasion’, but I’m asking whether the complete denial of involvement from the Russian side is so accurate. We do know of cases from the past year where Russian conscript soldiers have perished – I believe most notably in the battle of Ilovaisk.
Next issue, could you clarify how a 96K6 Pantsyr-S1 (SA-22 ‘Greyhound’) SPAAGM system, which is not in use in Ukraine, found its way across the border without involvement of the Russian military…? This is sophisticated weaponry – are you going to tell me that it’s out there to be found on the Voentorg…?
http://www.janes.com/article/48685/russian-tos-1-and-pantsyr-s1-systems-reported-in-east-ukraine
This is just one example out of many, obviously. Relating to what I just mentioned, I guess the point the Reuters article is making with regards to Russian weaponry with insignias removed arriving close to the Ukrainian border, is that given how weaponry has been gathered on one side of the border only to show up on the other side, there are obvious reasons for seeing a pattern here. You may disagree, of course.
And now for my admission. Whatever you may think based on my postings here, I’m all for the right of people in Donbass/Crimea etc to self-determination (actually, my girlfriend is from Crimea, so…). But perhaps partially due to living in a country neighboring Russia, with a lot of anti-Russian propaganda, I’ve also taken certain interest in arguing certain issues from several different perspectives. Thus, I’ve been happy to argue that there are no Russian soldiers in Ukraine when confronting people in my nearest surroundings who believe otherwise, and similarly, I have liked to argue against the mainstream on this site. It actually has given me some good arguments and ideas when confronting differing viewpoints, and I can also thank you for that to a certain extent. I’ll be frank – to me, the issue of Russian involvement is not clear at all. Even if we ignore the most obvious bullshit from Poroshenko, Breedlove and others, I’d say it is pretty clear that Russia has had a hand in what’s been going on in eastern Ukraine in one way or the other. Obviously less than what is claimed in the press where I live. But we do have documented cases of soldiers who have been killed in action and buried under mysterious circumstances. You aren’t going to deny that they died as Russian army concripts, in a foreign country, are you…?
Pianoman,
everything you’ve quoted so far is MSM (mainstream media) which is totally on the US/NATO side. So you have to take them with a big grain of salt. And read every single word, not just assume they wrote something: they are experts are making up stories to look like true.
The Pantsyr: the caption says ” This image of a 96K6 Pantsyr-S1 (SA-22 ‘Greyhound’) SPAAGM system was supposedly taken in east Ukraine on 28 January. Source: Unknown authorship “
Then then goes on for a whole page trying to give the impression that it is definitely in Ukraine and this definitely proves Russia is supplying arms there.
Now please go back to your comment and see what you seem to have believed, based on this. YOU WERE CONNED AND FOOLED. I was not, because (a) I can read well and (b) I know the tricks they get up to. You too can learn both these skills.
Reuters: they and The Guardian between them are responsible for around 60% of all “Russian convoys entering Ukraine” sightings. Oddly, they never manage to get a single picture of one, except well inside Russia where they have every right to be.
They LIE. Example, re MH17, they interviewed a man who supposedly said he saw and heard a BUK being fired and it was Ukrainian. Then supposedly, once the camera was off he said it was actually a REBEL BUK but he was afraid to say so on camera for fear of retaliation. (So in one hit the writer says not only that it was a Rebel BUK but that people are in fear of the rebels). The man when he was told of this article loudly complained — he had said nothing of the sort, all he said when the camera was off was “goodbye” . How often do they get away with this?
In the particular story you linked — they give no names or addresses or photos to even show the people exist; they don’t even specify how and where they spoke with them. Nor what language they spoke in, with or without interpreters etc etc. So as far as we know these people don’t even exist. Well, that is an advantage, isn’t it? non-existent people at least won’t complain later that they were misquoted.
Oh, wait… their names came from a list held by “Valentina Melnikova, who runs the Alliance of Soldiers’ Mothers Committees”, and Reuters claims to have seen this and a reply from the Russian defence ministry about when these men left military service. But… why not a photo of the letters? Oh and who is Valentina? she’s been alleging Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine for a year, and this is about the best level of evidence she ever comes up with.
She DID once publish a list of names, when people were insisting. It turned out to be the names of a football team (not missing). So she just “found” some names when pressed to produce some. Her organisation is funded by a George Soros fund, how unbiased do you think they are?
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It is total desperation, scraping the bottom of the barrel, to make this sort of claim. If Russia wanted to intervene militarily, it would be 5000 men and 300 tanks, or some similar useful number.
What EARTHLY benefit is it to them or to Donbas, to send in 2 or 5 or 11 dumb conscripts with no training and no idea what to do? how does that help anyone? But I do believe some would go by themselves, after all there are fighters from 8 or 10 other countries, too..
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It is quite probable that there are some advisers or trainers there (same as NATO has). On the other hand there are plenty of local people who had serious military experience, in Soviet or Russian armies, so how much advice do they need?
Russia does have POLITICAL involvement: they’ve spoken numerous times to the republic leaders. Openly. And clearly have pressure on them to maintain the Minsk agreement (because if they break it, the blowback goes on Russia).
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So, always look WHO is saying something. What’s their record for accuracy? for bias? HOW checkable is what they’re saying. Be careful about “local colour”….the description of the cafe decoration or what they were drinking, to make an interview look “real”… but never say the name or location of the cafe they’re in (which might be checkable). Very clever writing, to lull your mind into thinking they’ve told you something substantial.
I mean, if a site quotes Putin, what he says might not be true, but you can check on his official website that he actually said it, and I think it’s fairly well established he really exists and really is President of Russia. If they quote anonymous people under unexplained circumstances, you have to start taking those grains of salt.
If you don’t want to end up with salt poisoning, stop reading MSM.
I looked at the reuters story and then the authors and editors and googled on them. Not much, but I saw other stories which were basically putin bashing and others on russians in ukraine — sort of a pattern of this spin. Then I got tired and stopped looking — one can go for hors trying to track this stuff down and end with the same basic conclusion: western media can’t be believed.
The Pantsyr IS in Ukraine, it was one of like 65 sent to Syria and Iran. Being very short range it is nothing like the S300 that Israel is afraid off. Syrian officers sell equipment to anyone they can find and in fact most of the armor used by the terrorists were bought off the Syrian armed forces. How they were able to transport it to Ukraine is a question.. But Syria is missing a few of them. At the very least it is better that it ended up in Ukraine as the militia does not operate planes while in Syria the air force does.
The Pantsyr has been geolocated as being inside Ukrainian territory, please see this video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igPIcEM6RLA
I’m aware of the original article with the picture being of ‘unknown authorship’ and so on, but this video seems to confirm the sighting. This system entered service in Russia in 2010, hasn’t been exported much. How did it end up in Ukraine without involvement of the Russian military…?
I do understand the problem of quoting anonymous persons and so on, but there are reasons why some would not want to disclose identities. Remember the story of Svetlana Davydova, who was in the middle of breastfeeding the youngest of her 7 kids when she was taken from home, and getting accused of treason for contacting the Ukrainian embassy about Russian troops movements in or near the Ukrainian border, something she just overheard on the bus…? No doubt did she act foolishly – I mean, she has no way of knowing where those troops went…In this case, mentioning the story to her neighbors was not such a good idea. In any case. I still think you are cherry-picking what I’ve posted to some extent – the two recently-captured soldiers have talked to the press by themselves and their identities are revealed, and at least one of them has admitted to serving the army, feeling surprised that the state (and his wife) claim he resigned last year. That’s not an anonymous source – we know the name and the background of this person.
Well that video doesn’t show a lot more, and the blog it is supposedly associated with is error 404. Who filmed it? where? when? Never mind, I can see you are trying very hard to prove “Russian involvement”. So we have one Pantsyr and 2 soldiers, against what? 600 NATO advisers and how many million dollars worth of weapons from the USA, which has NOTHING TO DO with the area at all? (except for trying to steal it maybe). The woman with the 7 kids had deliberately spied on troop movements, took photos and made friends with officers to wheedle information out of them over several months, according to court documents. And proves nothing about Russian troops in Ukraine.
If you want to keep believing it as a matter of faith, go right ahead. If you want to believe unsourced and uncheckable stories “quoting” unnamed people, from authors who have been proven to invent stories many times, go right ahead. You’re just letting them fool you, to save the trouble of fooling yourself. It’s sad to see someone who can write as well as you do, but is totally unable to read critically.
Hey Pianoman. You think the US allows the deaths of their special ops guys o be known? They won’t even allow us to know the BUDGET of the CIA, or any other division of intelligence.
The US does “body washing” when they want to hide deaths of special operators.
They announce a training accident, dump the bodies into the ‘accident’ and voila. You wash away the place and how they died to the new locale of the accident.
Ukraine Approves Stationing Of Foreign Armies, Including Nukes
Aka, ‘I wanna be a bully, but I ain’t got no balls [or money… Please help me…].’
Presumably Mongolian troops are welcome, then…
… or DPR troops.
And Bloomberg keeps spilling the
bearsbeans on Russia.Putin’s Rule May Come to ‘Chaotic’ End in Russia, Report Says.
Insider news, you know…
Well, things are not looking good at all. How does ignoring reality help Russia?
They made way too many mistakes. Did not act when they needed to. Backpedaled when they did not have to, etc.
Strelkov was right all along.
What would you have Russia to do, Anon? Keep in mind that using overt military force to solve the Ukraine crisis was precisely what the Banking Empire was hoping for. They wanted to then blame Russia for “starting” the war; they’ve done this before.
“What would you have Russia to do, Anon?”
Russia has already been beaten – from the inside http://www.globalresearch.ca/putin-blinks-in-ukraine-standoff-with-the-us-the-role-of-oligarchs/5382611
“Mr. Putin further announced that Russian troops along the Ukraine-Russian border had returned to their usual (pre-crisis)positions.
The question is why?Why has he adopted a posture of accommodation with the US?
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While there may be more than one reason for Mr. Putin’s conciliatory gestures, the main factor seems to be economics, especially the financial interests of the powerful oligarchs that are deeply integrated into the financial networks and institutions of the West, and which are therefore threatened by economic sanctions and geopolitical turbulence. According to Forbes Magazine’s list of world billionaires for 2014, Russia has the third highest number of billionaires
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Russia’s financial moguls are mostly former bureaucrats (or their children and cronies) of the Soviet era who quickly became billionaires by virtue of fire-sale privatizations of state industries and other public properties when the Soviet Union collapsed. Contrary to the generally industrious and innovative entrepreneurs of the early stages of capitalism in the West, who were sometimes called revolutionary bourgeoisie, Russia’s oligarchic nouveau-riche have had largely a parasitic economic/financial role. By having scandalously ascended to the commanding heights of Russia’s economy, they have thus made the entire national economy dependent upon and, therefore, vulnerable to the fate or performance of their own fortunes in the marketplace, especially international markets
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The winning or losing of one side or the other in the ongoing crisis in Ukraine is secondary to thesefinancial tycoons; their primary concern is how to preserve their fortunes.
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Despite his nationalist/populist tendencies and affirmations, the fact remains that President Putin has a strong social base among Russia’s financial elites. One of his major concerns in dealing with the crisis in Ukraine and the threat of economic sanctions by Western powers is, therefore, how to preserve the loyalty of the oligarchs “who provide his regime with its social base, in the face of efforts by the US to drive a wedge between the oligarchs and the Kremlin.” This seems to be a decisive factor in Mr. Putin’s moves to seek accommodation with Western powers, which have been escalating economic sanctions and military threats against Russia .
President Putin’s inability or unwillingness to stand up more vigorously to the geopolitical aggressions of the Unites States and its allies stems, therefore, not so much from military weakness, or lack of economic resources per se, as it is from the way its economy has become dependent on oligarch’s economic role and, therefore, on the skittish global markets, or the imperialistic whims of Western powers. Sadly, Russia is not alone in grappling with this dilemma of economic dependency and/or vulnerability to globalization of markets—in essence, to the whims of international financial markets, or the aspirations of the global plutocracy.
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It is all a Matter of Class
The answer, in a nutshell, is class: in dealing with the imperial policies of Western powers, these countries (like Russia itself) are hamstrung by their own oligarchs. Like Russian oligarchs, the financial elites in these countries have closer affinity with their class counterparts in the West than with their fellow citizens at home. To these folks, issues such as national sovereignty and social justice are secondary to “peaceful” co-existence in a neoliberal world order led by the US. Consciously or instinctively, they perceive cross-border alliances (or hostilities) more as inter-class than international.
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A look back at the US-USSR relationship prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union can be instructive here. Despite its much smaller economy and the notoriously inefficient bureaucratic rule of those earlier days, the Soviet Union was able to resist or react to US aggressions more robustly than Russia can today. Why? Because in spite of their bureaucratic and corrupt character, the ruling circles of the timespoke with one voice in dealing with imperialistic Western powers. To deal with the challenges posed by the United States and its allies, they tried (and to a large extent succeeded) to become as economically self-sufficient as possible and, therefore, as independent or immune to global market fluctuations as possible. This stood in sharp contrast to today’s situation where Russia’s economy has become (largely through the economic power and behavior of oligarchs) intertwined with Western economies and, therefore, vulnerable to global market vacillations and threats of economic sanctions. The unified and cohesive foreign policy decisions of the Soviet era also stood in sharp contrast to today’s divided economic policies and geopolitical positions in Russia—where the financial aristocracy gladly accommodates the geopolitical and economic designs of Western powers, and is eagerly willing to implement policies of neoliberal economics in Russia.”
The question is why?Why has he adopted a posture of accommodation with the US?
If Putin wanted to “accommodate the US,” he would not keep getting in the way of a bigger war. This is more obvious in places like Greece or Spain, but even the US has massive unemployment problems. The only way to put people back to work in a way that does not make their lives better is through war. The current war is not big enough, and the housing bubble eventually burst.
Iceland is already throwing banksters in jail, Greece could very well default and return to the drachma: Stretching this charade out is actually hurting the Banking Empire.
… Russia’s oligarchic nouveau-riche have had largely a parasitic economic/financial role.
And that’s the charade I’m talking about: The idea that people need a class of parasite plutocrats for something – the kind of fabrication an abuser would tell their victim.
“The treasury, lacking confidence in the country, delivered itself bound hand and foot to bold and bankrupt adventurers and bankers pretending to have money, whom it could have crushed at any moment… These jugglers were at the feet of government. For it was not, any confidence in their frothy bubbles, but the lack of all other money, which induced… people to take their paper… We are now without any common measure of value of property, and private fortunes are up or down at the will of the worst of our citizens… As little seems to be known of the principles of political economy as if nothing had ever been written or practiced on the subject.”
~ President Thomas Jefferson, 1815; one year after the 2nd Bank of the US was chartered
… the Soviet Union was able to resist or react to US aggressions more robustly than Russia can today.
The Soviets also played Eurasia to the US’s Oceania, so that’s not much of a point. Helping construct the Holocaust helped no one but the Empire, plenty of labor went into the arms race instead of bettering the people, and the Soviets were supposed to stay in Afghanistan forever [like the US is doing now].
Wow, even these Rohingja refugees do not want to come to the USA, according to
http://sputniknews.com/asia/20150602/1022838985.html
Is it a realization by more and more of the world that USA is no longer “land of the free, home of the brave” ? If even refugees know this, how long could ROW realize the same ?
LOL, thanks, Alan
South Front continues to shine in the world of journalism, one of the few. Well done video. They have now renewed their military events reports. This is their newest one (both sites):
5.06.2015 Military Report of Novorossia
05.06.2015 Military Report of Novorossia
The ZPC/NWO expands their 3rd world war to India:
Militants Armed With US-Made Rocket Launchers Kill at Least 20 in India
Intercepting a military convoy in Manipur, a group of nearly 50 militants attacked the Indian Army. Killing at least 20 soldiers, sources say the attackers used rocket launchers made in the United States.
Survey Says: Saudis Consider Iran a Greater Threat Than Israel, ISIL
Just as details of a secret alliance between Saudi Arabia and Israel against Iran begin to emerge, a new survey reveals that it isn’t just the Saudi government that’s changing its tone on the Jewish state: it’s also the Saudi public.
Considering how the sods support the Israeli ISIL terrorists, intended to attack Iran, as one of the “greater” Israeli destabilisation strategies, of course the Saudi colony favours massa Israel. No doubt, the media in Saudi Arabia has “benefited” from zionazi media population manipulation “help”. Dumbing down the goy world and making the marks pliable for zionazi interests is what the zio-media is there for.
Survey by
http://portal.idc.ac.il/en/main/homepage/pages/about-idc-herzliya.aspx
IDC Herzliya is a dream realized; an academic institution that changed the face of higher education in Israel and became a successful, pioneering model and a source of inspiration.
Founded by renowned Israeli Professor Uriel Reichman in 1994, IDC Herzliya is a non-profit organization modeled after Ivy League universities in the U.S. In the twenty years since its establishment, IDC Herzliya’s success has drawn both international recognition and some of the finest lecturers and researchers from around the world to our doorstep.
IDC Herzliya’s founders sought to create an Israeli university in which personal achievements go hand in hand with social responsibility. Our outlook is rooted in the concepts of “freedom and responsibility” and emphasizes initiative and leadership alongside community service .
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Bot Tak, Iran IS more dangerous to the Saudis. Israel has been a secret ally since they killed King Faisal. And ISIS is their paid mercenary army.
Also Iran uses that non-secret weapon: the TRUTH
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I think it is from the southfront.org website … It is a red box with a pink background and states “The skin icon with label http://southfront.org/wp-content/plugins/fwduvp/content/modern_Skin_white/faceb___ng cant be loaded. check path! Click or tap to close window”
In the center, over the ” _____” part of the comment is a little movie like hollywood graphic on a loop counting down 7 – 6 – 5 – 4 – 3 … it just loops until you click it and now noticed it does it on southfront’s homepage so i assume its there issue but it has been days.
Am I the only one???
every time we and they think it’s been fixed, it goes strange again. Bookmark and use their YouTube, for now.https://www.youtube.com/user/crimeanfront/videos
Another nail in the zio-pindo coffin. This is wonderful news:
So Long Big Apple! Chinese Firms Look to Drop NYSE Listings, Return Home
A number of Chinese tech firms have become disenchanted with the United States and are looking to drop their listings in New York and return home to Beijing, where stock markets are surging.
Many Chinese tech executives are betting on higher share valuations in China. They also hope to avoid being ensnared in a legal mess when Beijing formally outlaws foreign shareholder control of firms in protected tech sectors.
A Chinese exodus would mean Wall Street underwriters are going to miss out on profitable fees, like the $300 million generated by the $25 billion IPO of e-commerce giant Alibaba – the world’s largest initial public offering ever.
The numbers certainly are enticing. China’s tech-driven ChiNext composite index has gained nearly 180% this year, eclipsing the 30% rise in the Nasdaq OMX China Technology Index that tracks offshore listed mainland firms, Reuters reported.
Firms listed on the Nasdaq index get an average share price equal to 11 times their earnings. On ChiNext, they get 133 times. Chinese executives attribute the disparity to US ignorance of China.
“American investors don’t understand the business model of Chinese gaming companies,” a senior exec of one firm planning to move from New York to China was quoted as saying by Reuters.
Analysts predict fewer and fewer Chinese companies trying to list in New York.
“The possibility of stirring interest among US investors is slim,” said Shu Yi, CEO of Beijing-based advertising technology company Limei Technology, which abandoned plans to list in New York and now is hoping to go public in Shanghai or Shenzhen.
Couple that with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s call for tech firms to return home. those with “special ownership structures,” referring to the contractual loopholes employed by many Chinese firms to evade restrictions on foreign ownership.
Previously, Chinese regulators prohibited many firms from listing in the United States. The China Securities Regulatory Commission used to require that any company be profitable for several years before listing, which eliminated most Chinese internet companies.
But Beijing is aiming to make Shanghai a global financial center among the likes of London, Hong Kong and New York by 2020, and to do that, and it has to make room its most innovative companies.
“The obstacle to coming back has been removed,” said a representative from China Renaissance bank in an email to Reuters. “The issue is not whatever valuation you can get in China. Hot market themes are fleeting.”
Cheers to the Chinese dumping the NY zio-organised crime-cesspool. Everybody should be doing it.
WWII Forgotten? Philippines President Wants Japanese Troops in His Country
While comparing China to Nazi Germany earlier this week, the Philippine president is now seeking a military alliance with Japan, a former Axis power which occupied his nation 70 years ago.
“If somebody said stop to Hitler…would we have avoided World War II,” Philippines President Benigno Aquino told an audience on Wednesday during his four-day tour of Japan. The hypothetical was meant to draw comparisons to Nazi Germany’s spread through Europe to China’s land reclamation projects in the South China Sea.
“I’m an amateur student of history…” Aquino said. So amateur, in fact, that he’s overlooked Japan’s role in the war.
In 1941, Imperial Japanese forces invaded the Philippines mere hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The occupation lasted for three years, during which time a number of war crimes were documented. The Manila massacre, one of the many atrocities conducted by the Japanese military throughout their occupied territories, resulted in the death of between 100,000 and 500,000 civilians.
Yet on Friday, Aquino indicated a desire to begin negotiations which would allow military cooperation between the two countries.
Under pressure from Washington, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is working to expand his military’s jurisdiction. While Japan’s constitution currently restricts troops to act only within its own territory, Abe has sought new legislation which would allow Tokyo to defend foreign allies.
That means that Japan could soon be monitoring the South China Sea, and using the Philippines as a base of operations.
Obviously the Japan of today is a far cry from the Japan of World War II. It has changed exponentially in the last 70 years, just as any nation has. But before Aquino begins tossing Nazi comparisons around, he should consider how that equivocation looks while actively seeking a partnership with Nazi Germany’s primary ally.
A Philippine equivalent to the quislings in the Ukraine. The WW2 Axis forces were good because they attacked the evil commie Russians and Chinese, is the zionazi/nazi mantra these quisling sods are promoting.
Actually, looking at the photo of the Aquino quisling, one is struck by the resemblance to the Yats the Suk quisling in the Ukraine. Have the ZPC/NWO mastered the science of human cloning? Or are these disgusting things the result of some android production works?
China Demands Evidence After US Accuses Beijing of Hacking Federal Database
Beijing on Friday dismissed as “irresponsible” Washington’s accusations that Chinese hackers perpetrated a massive cyber-attack on the personal information of millions of current and former US federal employees.
“Cyber-attacks are generally anonymous and conducted across borders and their origins are hard to trace,” foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a regular briefing.
“Not to carry out a deep investigation and keep using words such as ‘possible’ is irresponsible and unscientific,” he added.
Israeli-American scum continue to play the projection card in their propaganda.
Syria fighting ISIS, the US interfering. Maybe someone has more on this incident.
Twitter:
Nizar Nayouf @nizarnayouf Jun 3
#Syrian pilot:#US jets jammed our bombers 3 times yesterday and prevented us from bombing #ISIS sites over the city of #Hasakah(northeast)
The neo-cons who are drolling for more war will want to know why the US is shielding ISIS.
McCain would want the US jets to allow ISIS to be bombed, then to have the US jets shoot down the Syrians. Senator Senile John McMoreWar wants everyone to die.
But this is interesting if true.
This material is informative & clever. I wish it were possible that he would speak more slowly.
That’s one reason I like to see it on youtube — there is usually a transcript of the material in case I have trouble hearing it.
TRANSNISTRIA (From Moldova.org/eng}
5/29/15 The Russian Federation intends to create an air bridge through its military aviation in order to connect with the break-away region of Moldova, Transnistria. The initiative follows Ukraine’s decision to ban the transit of Russian military troops to Transnistria.
The announcement was made by Yuri Yakubov, the coordinator of General Inspectors Department of the Defense Ministry of Russia. He stressed that the air bridge will be built to supply the Russian army from Transnistria and the peace-keeping troops.
“Now, when Ukraine denounced all the military agreements (with us), the Ministry of Defense has nothing but to transport the necessary supplies to these military units by using the military aviation”, stated Yakubov, quoted by Interfax.
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4/9/15 Transnistrians angry at false Russian reports that they are prosperous. http://www.moldova.org/people-of-transnistria-angry-of-false-reports-released-by-the-russian-press/
MOLDOVA (from Moldova.org)
Moldova’s pro-Moscow Socialist party opposes unification w Roumania as does Russia. Roumania is member EU.
4/28/15 Moldova’s governing alliance no longer has accession to the EU as an objective, according to IDIS “Viitorul” expert Leonid Litra. In the latest Foreign Policy Statewatch, he analyses the sudden change in the discourse of Moldovan officials after the last parliamentary elections, at end of 2014.
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5/15/15 According to the experts, Moldova faces an ideological crisis caused by the governing political parties that associated the idea of European integration with their own policies and actions.
“Since 2009 we have had a pro-European government and the situation has worsened. The citizens’ conclusion is that the pro-European parties cannot ensure what they promised and thus, the citizens’ hopes and expectations did not find any answer in the performance of the government. Hence the great disappointment and conclusions like: They are liars and what they promise cannot in principle be realized”, says Arcadie Barbaroșie. ” Moreover, the governments that we have had in the last years had in their name, in one form or another, the word “European” – the pro-European alliance and the pro-European coalition”, he added.
“The citizens conclude that under the guise of European integration the corrupt political clans are solving their own problems, getting richer, while the citizens are getting disappointed and desperate. This involution of the expectations for the European vector is explained by the fact that the banner carriers proved to be false. The banner remains for a large part of society as a landmark, while the carriers have to be probably changed”, claims Igor Boțan.
Others disagree. Continued application for EU membership or not is a live controversy.
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Ten ambassadors of the Republic of Moldova have been recalled from their positions. The decision was taken by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Natalia Gherman, on Tuesday, May 26th, at the meeting of the Government. The chief of the Moldovan diplomacy didn’t offer any explanation for her decision and the question wasn’t discussed by the Ministers.
Recalled ambassadors:
permanent representative of the Republic of Moldova at the Council of Europe; Moldovan ambassador for Sweden, Finland and Norway.
Also ambassador for Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg; amb for Portugal & Morocco; amb for Bulgaria, Albania & Macedonia; amb for Azerbaijan, Georgia & Kyrgystan; amb for US, Brazil & Mexico. Individual ambassadors for Latvia, for Estonia, and for Lithuania
The Foreign Minister will now ask for the President’s approval to recall the ambassadors from their positions.
An interesting look at Microsoft and how they are part of the US government and spies on everyone. Supposedly a balanced look.. Since micro has screwed us over and we don’t even need to talk about the US government, I wont not trust them even if they paid me and I sure would not spend a dime on anything they have to sell to me. But hey, go ahead.. support the very people compromising your life.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/04/microsoft-disk-encryption/
News today from Novorossiya – call-sign ‘Varyag’ sounds like morale is still pretty good.
http://news-front.info/2015/06/06/utrennyaya-svodka-ot-varyaga-20/
Also, another captured UAF soldier says the punishers include mercenaries, Chechens and Georgians. This was his third mobilization and he does not want to engage any further in this ‘fratricidal’ war.
Basurin says three ‘TOCHKA’ missiles were launched at complexes – I assume he means high-rise buildings.