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Crimea Parliament "Accelerates Crisis", Votes To Join Russia
While the world is convinced that Putin's Tuesday press conference was an admission of blinking to the west, the reality is anything but that, and hours ago Crimea's parliament voted to join Russia on Thursday and its Moscow-backed government set a referendum within 10 days on the decision in what Reuters said is a "a dramatic escalation of the crisis over the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula." To be sure, the Crimea - which has an ethnic Russian majority - affiliation to Moscow as opposed to Kiev is well-known, yet still the sudden acceleration of moves to bring Crimea formally under Moscow's rule came as European Union leaders gathered for an emergency summit to seek ways to pressure Russia to back down and accept mediation. And now all Putin has to do is sit back and say the people have spoken and without spilling a drop of blood has effectively split the country in two parts, with the entire east of Ukraine, where pro-Russian sentiment also runs high - sure to follow Crimea. Just as we said from the very beginning.
From Reuters:
The Crimean parliament voted unanimously "to enter into the Russian Federation with the rights of a subject of the Russian Federation". The vice premier of Crimea, home to Russia's Black Sea military base in Sevastopol, said a referendum on the status would take place on March 16. The announcement, which diplomats said could not have been made without Russian President Vladimir Putin's approval, raised the stakes in the most serious east-west confrontation since the end of the Cold War.
Far from seeking a diplomatic way out, Putin appears to have chosen to create facts on the ground before the West can agree on more than token action against him.
EU leaders had been set to warn but not sanction Russia over its military intervention after Moscow rebuffed Western diplomatic efforts to persuade it to pull forces in Crimea, with a population of about 2 million, back to their bases. It was not immediately clear what impact the Crimean moves would have.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said in a Twitter message: "We stand by a united and inclusive #Ukraine."
French President Francois Hollande told reporters on arrival at the summit: "There will be the strongest possible pressure on Russia to begin lowering the tension and in the pressure there is, of course, eventual recourse to sanctions."
To be sure, the new Kiev government - which may or may not have killed its own citizens in order to rise to power while blaming the atrocities on Yanukovich as described yesterday - has responded in kind to how Putin views them, and declared the referendum illegal and opened a criminal investigation against Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Askyonov, who was appointed by the region's parliament last week. The Ukrainian government does not recognise his authority or that of the parliament. Still, it is by now far too late for Kiev to enforce its will in Crimea.
In the meantime, and confirming that Putin has all the cards, EU leaders had been set to warn but not sanction Russia over its military intervention in Ukraine after Moscow rebuffed Western diplomatic efforts to persuade it to pull forces in Crimea back to their bases. According to EU sources the leaders gathered in Brussels delayed the discussion on sanctions to Russia to a new meeting in two weeks. As we stated yesterday, due to stern German industrial lobby objection, Europe will never implement full blown sanctions and at best will stick to some optical wristslap which has no real adverse impact on Russia.
But back to the Crimea, where a parliament official said voters will be asked two questions: should Crimea be part of the Russian Federation and should Crimea return to an earlier constitution (1992) that gave the region more autonomy?
"If there weren't constant threats from the current illegal Ukrainian authorities, maybe we would have taken a different path," deputy parliament speaker Sergei Tsekov told reporters outside the parliament building in Crimea's main city of Simferopol.
"I think there was an annexation of Crimea by Ukraine, if we are going to call things by their name. Because of this mood and feeling we took the decision to join Russia. I think we will feel much more comfortable there."
All the while, Europe is engaged in idiotic meetings and summits, spearheaded by John Kerry, who was quick to point out how constructive the meeting has been. Perhaps it would have been more so if Russia had participated:
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov refused to meet his new Ukrainian counterpart or to launch a "contact group" to seek a solution to the crisis at talks in Paris on Wednesday despite arm-twisting by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and European colleagues. The two men will meet again in Rome on Thursday.
Tension was high in Crimea after a senior United Nations envoy was surrounded by a pro-Russian crowd, threatened and forced to get back on his plane and leave the country on Wednesday.
The EU summit in Brussels seemed unlikely to adopt more than symbolic measures against Europe's biggest gas supplier, because neither industrial powerhouse Germany nor financial centre Britain is keen to start down that road.
The short, informal EU summit will mostly be dedicated to displaying support for Ukraine's new pro-Western government, represented by Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk, who will attend even though Kiev is neither an EU member nor a recognised candidate for membership.
After meeting European Parliament President Martin Schulz, Yatseniuk appealed to Russia to respond to mediation efforts.
After a day of high-stakes diplomacy in Paris on Wednesday, Lavrov refused to talk to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchitsya, whose new government is not recognised by Moscow.
As he left the French Foreign Ministry, Lavrov was asked if he had met his Ukrainian counterpart. "Who is that?" the Russian minister asked.
He stuck to Putin's line - ridiculed by the West - that Moscow does not command the troops without national insignia which have taken control of Crimea, besieging Ukrainian forces, and hence cannot order them back to bases.
Kerry said afterwards he had never expected to get Lavrov and Deshchitsya into the same room right away, but diplomats said France and Germany had tried to achieve that.
Western diplomats said there was still hope that once Lavrov had reported back to Putin, Russia would accept the idea of a "contact group" involving both Moscow and Kiev as well as the United States and European powers to seek a solution.
Keep hoping. In the meantime, with each passing day, Putin consolidates his new territory even as the west dithers, Europe is unable to obtain the bailout loans it has promised Ukraine, and Kerry keeps talking.
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To cut through all the bullshit the only real difference so far is the Russians are violating the spirit but not the letter of the law in this chess match while US/EU/NATO are acting like bunch of pigeons shitting all over the board and violating the letter and spirit whenever it suites their needs and calling everyone else racissss if they don't like it.
both parties violate the law
as to russian party - they for example have the right to have 24000 troops in Crimea AT THE BASE and not all around Crimea. Multiple times russian troops were cauth outside the base but of cause without russian army ensignia (so formally one can call them local self defence militia until of cause you ask them to show IDs and find out they are russian citizens without visas to Ukrain)
Multiple times russian troops were cauth outside the base but of cause without russian army ensignia (so formally one can call them local self defence militia until of cause you ask them to show IDs and find out they are russian citizens without visas to Ukrain)
And thank you for proving my point. Flooding the place with 'off duty' military personal during off hours is not illegal even when you stack the place with 24,000 of them when you really only need 500 for example.
re "All the while, Europe is engaged in idiotic meetings and summits":
This is the CWO (Caterer's World Order) in action.
There running *everything*, I tell ya !
... and the USD gets cracked back through 80
So if the Western Oblasts voted to join the EU, that would NOT be acceptable to you pro-Russia posters but this is OK?
Russia can play games behind the scenes, and that's ok.
EU or USA cannot because that is oligarchy manipulation.
What the hell?
If the western portions agree to split with the east and form a new Ukraine, it's OK with me.
Now, Vlad allowing the new Ukraine to position IRBMs on its soil is another matter.
After the end of the Cold War, our leaders, being as super corrupt as we now know, decided to surround Russia instead of allowing them to build free markets. My own naive assumption at the time was that the West would invest in Russia and increase business opportunities for everyone, which is obviously really naive. Power trumps making money to the Bankster Cartel. They are like Pinky and the Brain, the cartoon with the Orson Welles-accented Mouse, who is constantly plotting to Rule the World. Putin is more like Road Runner. I guess that leaves Secy of State Kohn as the coyote. I do not like the new character, the Gay Queen, however. Maybe one of those Acme products will backfire on him!
Ultimately because the US / EU neo Bolsheviks are printing money out if thin air to bvuy "assets". Just like in US ot buy up all "cheap" land and real estate. They are now using it to buy up cheap ,countries like Ukraine.
Do you understand that the neo Bolsheviks are just using the "trust" of the American people to rally 'round the flag and allow them to acquire cheap assets from under the "oppression" of Russia?
They would try that in Far East.... but China has already figured out the neo Boslsheviks.
The oligarchs in the east and west are all pantaloons facing imminent death.
The last stage before DEATH. All the world's a stage....
dude, who is printing?
If the majority there vote to (re)join Russia, what's the big deal?
Isn't that called "Self-Determination?"
"Just as we said from the very beginning."
You were correct. But this one didn't exactly take a rocket scientist to predict.
If you want Western Ukraine, ... You can have YOUR Western Ukraine.
Choke on it CIA/MOSSAD bitches, and after you invest $40Billion USD, the UKRANIANS will be on their knees begging for Russian love.
The Ways of Peace dictates strangling your enemy with a smile.
YOSSI, the psychopath. The misanthrope.
Fonestar Finds Satoshi in Cass Sunsteins Anus
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10680492/Has-Bitcoin-creator-...
So its a done deal the world now knows all about Satoshi, ... funny how the MSM kept him hidden until the BItch IMLODED
California votes to join Mexico in 3... 2...
As an Arizonan, that would be great news. Let New York and New England go to Canada while we're at it.
Somehow the media spinning off the last 36 hours--Putin is crazy, Putin is Hitler makes me want to break out my old copy of People of the Lie. All these people know are lies and spin and appearances. They can't look below appearances because that might shed light on who they really are.
I give Abby Martin another week before she resigns for a better opportunity with the CIA. Women like that always take the path of least resistance. It's the American way.
bastiat the voice of reason i agree with you putin is crazy and the new hitler.
maybe worse than adof hiltler.
maybe worse than ivan the terrible
marcey dung of china
chanck i check of vietnam
jorge bush snr
hyman rough of cambodia
and golda my yawn of isra hell
we have to stop him putin.
i would go fight him but i got flat feet and would slow the navy seals down
good luck and tally ho
Better than Al Koholic that's running this shit show...
Or even Phil McCracken over at the State Department......
The veneer wore out when the people of the holocaust didn't get at all excited about the FEMA camps.
I think Putin's goal is to destroy all of the Queen's vacation plans and golf outings. For that reason only, I support Putin.
Chuck = fundamentally sound!
Oh we are referring to the Teleprompter-In-Chief as "The Queen" now? I am on board.
You didn't annex that!
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose
i think the events in Crimea is exactly about the difference in the meaning of Freedom:
is it a freedom from being looted (as understood by Putin)
or
is it a freedom to loot (as understood by Obama)
we usually use the same words but put different meaning into them hence the misunderstanding
This whole thing feels like a Europa Universalis playthrough.
Meaning it's fun!
More popcorn and Mt. Dew please.
Interfax 03/06 19:10 - Lavrov, Russian FM : US State Dept’s factological calculations on Ukraine situation are cynical, low-grade propaganda
Reuters 03/06 19:09 - Russia's foreign ministry says the US is unable to accept that things in Ukraine are not developing as they expected them to
Denial, Land of. (US)
There is a Presidential vacation crisis looming damn it!
BBC 03/06 15:17 - Russian President Vladimir Putin is not among those targeted by US sanctions in connection with the Ukraine crisis, Reuters quotes a senior US official as saying. "It is an unusual and extraordinary circumstance to sanction a head of state, and we would not begin our designations by doing so," the official said.
Something for next week, then.
Interfax 03/06 19:02 – Lavrov, Russian FM : Moscow checking reports about Russians having problems in crossing Russia-Ukraine border; such actions by Ukrainian border guards run counter existing agreements
BBC 03/06 15:07 – The pro-Russian protest leader in Ukraine's eastern city of Donetsk, Pavel Gubarev, has been arrested in his apartment. BBC reporters on the ground witnessed the arrest taking place by Ukrainian security services in the last few minutes. Pro-Moscow protesters led by Mr Gubarev blockaded Donetsk's regional administration building and flew the Russian flag. He was detained on charges of "infringing the territorial integrity and independence of the state".
Interfax 03/06 19:26 - Russia to react to NATO decision to temporarily suspend cooperation - Foreign Ministry
The whole action is from the KGB/Soviet playbook. Putin has played this masterfully.
I do find it odd that I don't even need to read the comment sections anymore bearing the fact that everything now is becoming a "screed."
So let me be blunt: "women and children should now leave Crime(s)a"
Russia has no more claim over this island than the world has a claim on "air." Anyone here who wants to show on up over there and "party on Garth!" be my guest...bu you just say the word "Crimea" over there and people cringe. This site wants to throw it around like "voting" there matters?
Bwhahahahaha. The terms "democracy" and "Crimea" go together about as well as "National" and "Intelligence."
This much I do agree...the last twelve years of war was just a warm up. "Lessons learned" will now be applied.
The game in Western Ukraine is far from over. NaZi rule is certainly not what a majority voted for, and with the Internet and TV broadcasts from Eastern Ukraine, Russia and Byelorus, the story of who it was that actually shot the demonstrators - and the police - will spread like wildfire and certainly generate outrage. How many will be immune to that outrage, how effectively it can be mobilized and focused remains to be seen, but it will be there.
Even if Russia wins all of Eastern and Southern Ukraine, a Nazi-led Western Ukraine will pose a continuous danger and a militant base for NATO and the US. Thus Putin must be concerned about fanning the flames of Ukrainian nationalism.
However, pro-Russian sentiment on the ground may be beyond his control.
I bet the Justice Department will send Lois Learner to Kiev to confront TPTB and demand to be told “who did what, when”?
I vote for Russia to rule Washington D.C. and free the United States of America from Globalist Bankster Occupation so they can form a new government that runs under the Constitution of the United States of America.
Go Putin.
alQaida 'freedom fighters' show up in Crimea in 3...2...1...
Only saw this is in Russian news outlets so far but worrisome if true:
Yatsenyuk dismisses generals that opposed to Right Sector’s legal status
So the new "government" is giving Right Sector militants the status of regular military units? What could go wrong.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend foreign policy.
Fuck Ukraine.
It is obvious the majority in the Crimea want to join Russia.
We took Hawaii under much weaker pretexts.
Are you saying that the US annexed Hawaii in 1898? We did that for humanitarian reasons, right? We were afraid the Danish might install cruise missiles aimed at California, right? We just wanted to steal the sugarcane, right? President McKinley sent John Kerry to negotiate the peace, right? What happened to President McKinley? Is there a TR waiting in the wings to take the stage? Joe Biden is no TR.
What concerns me is the nakedness of the heist. Smells of desperation. Bad sign for future events in the world.
We annexed hawaii as a humanitarian mission to save the souls of the savages. Now that we have converted to being savages and to paganism, I think it's time to give it back.
Hawaii got us into WW2 -it's been nothing but trouble.
JP Morgan can help finance the return, since they helped with the original theft.
Crisis template: start crisis on a friday....have weekend to develop and work through worst of said crisis. Come to some resolution by Monday evening/ Tues morning in order to "save" the markets. By Thurs it is revealed there was no actual substantial resolution, market drop on Friday.
Didn't we do this before?
China, YOSSI isn't giving up on you. He wants to feed your desires, and steal your land too. Give in to the dark side.
As I read Henry Kissinger's OpEd piece at the WashPost regarding Ukraine, I couldn't help but be amused that the Russophiles and/or Elders of Zion promoters here at ZH apparently have a friend in ole Henry. :)
I don't know if there is any truth to this what so ever, I know nothing about how reliable turner radio network may or may not be as a source but given the content I figured it was worth bringing to everybody's attention.
U.S. Satellites Detect Planes at Russian Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility Wednesday, 05 March 2014 22:36in brief, according to the report there are now 30 of what looks like tu-22 backfire bombers staged on the runway at the borisoglebsk national level nuclear weapons storage facility, the report further states that transfers from the facility to the aircraft have taken place and the bombers have aux power units attached, apparently this indicates preparation for rapid deployment. the report states there were only two bombers on the runway as of yesterday. the report provides what they claim to be authentic dated and time stamped sat. photos showing the rapid increase in aircraft on the runway.
once again I don't know how accurate or true any of this is, but given the increase in tensions over the past 24 hrs any report of Russians gearing up for what could possibly be a preemptive nuclear strike is worth passing on. the fact that this is not appearing on any of the typical government shill propaganda sites leads me to believe this is not orchestrated fear mongering.
also the report states that ham radio operators have been monitoring a large increase in US military emergency action message activity of late. I don't know if this is even possible, but for those of you with ham radios the frequency listed to listen in is 8992.0 khz.
if anybody comes across any info or can point out why this is defiantly a load of bullshit please post, I think we would all feel better knowing mother Russia is not gearing up for nuclear war.
Planes won't fly actual bombing runs until satellites are destroyed over the region. Is a war in space about to begin? What do you think this is, the Gulf War? Russia is no Iraq.
Russia has no choice but to remain on alert-there are powerful neocons and Neolibs of influence who believe we can (and should) win a first strike nuclear war against Russia and China. This is sad and frightening-but true.
I'm scared now those bombers could backfire.
At least we'll find out what kind of technology DARPA has been funding for the last 30 years. The epiphany may be brief.
Et tu, 22?
The Germans tried this, more specificly the Prussians, and it did not go over to well for them. In short, almost co-incidently, they were absolutly destroyed by the Russians and their godless communist Annihilationism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map-DR-Prussia.svg
http://www.wilhelmgustloff.com/unknown.htm
Drunk Nationalists on Democratic Koolaid needing a Google intervention.
This is psychopathic vengeance against mankind. I smell YOSSI!
Let the good times roll.
The EU will not accept this.
The words or frases "referendum", "peoples choise", "freedom" and "democracy" are used here.
This is good for another +300 on the DOW, no?
What side has the most psychotics in power, west or east? That side is more likely to start this thing.
the side that hired snipers to shoot at their own protestors should answer your question
"17.34 Britain is sending experts in financial intelligence, money laundering and tracing criminal assets have travelled to Kiev to help the Ukrainian government recover misappropriated assets, the Foreign Office has announced in a statement"
Experts, so with the next goverment change the "misappropiated assest" will not be that easy to recover.
Or just to make sure no trace to London points to London.
Scan through all the PO Box "London" addressed accounts and where a value in that account matches a "missing" amount, assume fraud and start chasing the paper trail.
Red flags are - account is in the name of someone living in Nigeria or a member of a foreign governement
LA Times: Russians sink a boat off Ukraine coast - their own
The Russian navy sank one of its own, junked vessels to create an obstacle, a Ukrainian official said Wednesday. Ukraine Defense Ministry spokesman Lt. Col. Alexei Mazepa said Russian sailors pulled the anti-submarine vessel Ochakov out of a naval junkyard and sank it in the straits that connect the Black Sea with a body of water known as Donuzlav Lake. He said the act was intended to prevent Ukrainian navy ships from leaving a nearby base and going to sea.
Photo: Exact position, where the Russians are reported to have sunk the 176 meter long vessel. Donuzlav blocked for months!
Video: Russian have flooded BOD Ochakov to block the exit
Boating accident.
"...with the entire east of Ukraine, .. sure to follow Crimea."
I wouldn't be too sure. Especially with arrest of the self-proclaimed governor of Donbass: http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2014/03/6/7017892/
Keep dreaming Taylor. Too much RT?
The bankster funded thugs are resorting to forces to suppress the people wishes in the Eastern Ukrainian. I'm awaiting to see the people there arm themselves to teeth to fight back the thugs and NAZI supporters... anytime the thug gangs are stronger than you folks, just remember to ask the help from your bigger brother :-)
after all what's the meaning of the blood brotherhood if they just let the strangers and criminals take over your blood families???
How does one negotiate with the bankster enough pay to get the bullet through ones neck?
Self proclaimed illegal in Kiev arrest self-proclaimed governor of Donbass region...
You just don't understand, do you?
ILLUMINATI TARGETS RUSSIA
December 20, 2011 — Dean Henderson
(Excerpted from Chapter 17: Caspian Sea Oil Grab: Big Oil & Their Bankers…)
December 4th parliamentary elections in Russia were marked by outside interference by US-based NGO’s. Nearly 50,000 Muscovites – most members of the Communist Party – protested the fraudulent results in Bolotnaya Square near the Kremlin.
Despite the National Endowment for Democracy/Freedom House-funded ruse, the United Russia Party still picked up the most seats. These results, along with Putin’s sending of an aircraft carrier to Syria and Russia’s Ambassador being kicked out of Qatar, indicate a Russia moving in a leftward direction.
This makes the Illuminati banksters very nervous.
Last week Mikhail Dmitrievitch Prokhorov announced that he would run for President in 2012. Prokhorov owns the New Jersey Nets basketball team and is worth $18 billion. He is the 3rd richest man in Russia and the 32nd richest man in the world.
Prokhorov is likely a Mikail Khodorkovsky-protégé front-man for the international bankers. He will play the same role that Croat billionaire Milan Panic filled when he ran for President of Yugoslavia in 1992. Panic lost to Slobodan Milosevic, whose country was shortly thereafter torn asunder by the banksters. Milosevic was later poisoned in the Hague after he embarrassed prosecutors via his vigorous defense.
If Prokohorov loses, will the banksters resort to violence against the Russian state?
It certainly wouldn’t be the first time the Illuminati has targeted resource-rich Russia.
[...] . Read the rest here.Yatsenyuk is a an evil banker fuck, who is nothing but the tip of the spear for the EU/IMF rape of that country, whose only growth will consist of McDonalds' and NATO bases.
If you are on the side Yatsenyuk is on, you're either an evil banker fuck, too, or you just haven't been paying attention to what the IMF does best.
Particularly in concert with the "oligarchs."
Arseniy Yatsenyuk was born in Chernivtsi in 1974 to Jewish-Ukrainian parents.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk founded and was affiliated with a local legal firm for most of the 1990s.
Ukrainian gold reserves loaded on an unidentified transport aircraft in Kiev’s Borispol airport and flown to Uncle Sam’s vault
BY MARCUS BROOKS on MARCH 7, 2014
According to the iskra-news.info last night ,Ukrainian gold reserves (40 sealed boxes) were loaded on an unidentified transport aircraft in Kiev’s Borispol airport. The board took off immediately.
A source in the Ukrainian government confirmed that the transfer of the gold reserves of Ukraine to the United States was ordered by the acting PM Arseny Yatsenyuk.
So my guess is, that is if indeed this report is true it either means the new ruling elite have stolen the gold bullion or perhaps their is a legitimate fear of the Russians taking possession of this bullion, whatever the facts, it still looks very shady indeed.
Conclusion
Official narrative: gold bullion is going to USA. Real narrative: probably to Switzerland where it is divided between Yulia Tymoshenko and her cronies.
http://newswire-24.com/2014/03/07/4827/