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Russian Troops Storm Ukraine Air Force Base In Crimea, Reuters Confirms

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Update 2: ARMED ATTACKERS LEAVE UKRAINE MILITARY BASE IN SEVASTOPOL: TV5

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Update, and this time from Reuters:  

  • ARMED MEN ENTER UKRAINIAN MILITARY POST IN CRIMEA AND TAKE CONTROL, NO SHOTS FIRED - REUTERS REPORTER ON THE SCENE
  • UKRAINIANS AND FORCES THOUGHT TO BE RUSSIANS HOLD NEGOTIATIONS AFTER MILITARY POST TAKEN, NO ARMS SEIZED - REUTERS REPORTER

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More lies, propaganda, or for once, the truth? Just out from Time's Simon Shuster:

Then again, considering the source is disinformation central Ukraine Pravda, take it with a huge grain of salt.

More from Ukraine's version of Interfax:

Russian military assault Ukrainian military unit in Sevastopol

 

In Sevastopol, the Russian soldiers stormed the Ukrainian military unit A2355 , said the agency " Interfax- Ukraine " duty of the assistant .

 

He said the Russian military army "KAMAZ" struck the gate of a military unit , captured near building and break out to the command post .

 

Part of the territory located about 100 Ukrainian military strength is unknown assailants .

 

Military unit - 2355 located in Sevastopol Yuharyniy beam.

 

As reported , March 5, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the Russian troops in the Crimea there.

For now the AUDJPY, and its S&P500 derivative are not too happy about the rumor.

 

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Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:58 | 4522784 syntaxterror
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Hopefully Food Stamp didn't shank his drive after learning about this news.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:00 | 4522790 Johnny Cocknballs
Fri, 03/07/2014 - 18:01 | 4522867 Debugas
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we live in the world defined by the famous Bush phrase - "Might is Right"

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:27 | 4522915 nowhereman
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Johnny, a late commer, but an enjoyable addition, I must say.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 19:31 | 4523330 forwardho
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True a great mind and welcome addition.

Too bad He's stuck on the whole zionist/jew misdirection mindf-ck. Follow that trail into an endless tunnel to alice's wunderland.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 20:01 | 4523424 Absinthe Minded
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What misdirection, it is the US silent leaders that are allowing us to be manipulated by TPTB. It is a truly sad situation.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:03 | 4522801 NuYawkFrankie
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"Lurching Towards War"

Definition: John Kerry/Kohn/Cohen in a Swift Boat

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 18:45 | 4523200 kurt
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Franken Kerry

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:05 | 4522815 Piranhanoia
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Or in other words;  Russian troops drove up to the anti aircraft command center and found no one at the locked gate.  They called for several hours to see if someone would come open it.  Sergei forgot the bolt cutters so they finally had to open it with a truck, and invited everyone on the inside to come and talk about things.  They asked if the Ukrainian troops would agree not to shoot anything out of the sky, they agreed, and everyone had coffee.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 18:45 | 4523193 kurt
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It was vodka. Yanos forgot the bolt cutters and the cutting torch was empty. 

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:06 | 4522816 gearbaby
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and so it begins...

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:24 | 4522895 nowhereman
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Or so they want you to believe so.

These dickwads are so transparent that I"m laughing sohard my sides hurt.

Soon to be followed by, "Russian troops rape and pillage."

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:07 | 4522821 yogibear
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Putin will cut the Ukraine in half. Break the country in parts and take over.

Russia and China need to destroy the US dollar next

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 18:27 | 4523115 Peter Pan
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It is not a question of destroying the dollar but its exhorbitant privilege. In other words clip the wings but don't cut them off.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:54 | 4522849 Johnny Cocknballs
Fri, 03/07/2014 - 18:44 | 4523166 NuYawkFrankie
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re. Mega Hypocrites USRAEL

Don't forget France & especially the UK - FUKUSRAEL

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 19:40 | 4523363 Absinthe Minded
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Johnny C
This is getting pretty divided, I have to wonder how many "plants" are among us here at ZH. I don't know how anybody can argue with your logic. I am from the noertheast and although I was not raised among many minorities I have no prejudice against them. I'm sure I was raised among many Jewish kids but don't know which ones. Like I said no bias whatsoever. But from what I see as an adult I cannot ignore the fact that Israel runs the US. As sad as it may sound, the fact that Netanyahu and Obama do not see eye to eye is about the only positive I see fot the TOTUS. Help yourselves because there isn't any God going to help any of us. Learn gardening and guns. I hope the net stays up so that we can continue to learn from one another. I wish ZH would come up with a contingency plan. If the internet goes dark, they release a mass mailing of the address of all ZH members to all ZH members so we could meet and form communities off line. TYLERS PLEASE WORK ON THIS!

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 19:54 | 4523404 forwardho
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Sir, that list is made, but it won't be going out to your friendly ZH'ers. Understand how small ZH-world is, A concentrated Group of bright, anti .gov folks.

Please don't mention lists, they tend to make the asshole pucker.

 

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 20:04 | 4523435 kurt
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Business Opportunity: Preppers

We need archived How to's for when the internet goes down. Sell them on SD cards or similar. Their needs to be a convenient way to archive, off line stuff you may need to know, like making lye from ashes, internally consistent referencial database navigated by any devise that can support a browser. Solar cell charged Ipad with subject based mini-nets on storage.

Come to think of it, we need the same for the evidence we need to archive for use in public trials against the perpetrators of The Long Con. Think of it as a mini-anti-NSA on a disk. Sure things will get a little sloppy, Robspierre.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:30 | 4522926 FiatFapper
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There's a book called 'The Great Game' or something like that; has anyone got a link to the pdf please?

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:32 | 4522936 RevRex
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And the commander in chief goes for another romantic walk with his husband on the beach for his third vacation this year!

https://www.google.com/search?q=reggie+love's+wife&rlz=1T4GFRE_enUS327US327&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=pjkaU9bLG4bs0wGF-oDACg&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAg&biw=1024&bih=488

 

WHY is the Sociaist Semite Democrat Media enabling Obama's continual homosexual affairs?

Why does the media treat both partys so differently if both parties are exactly the same?

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:45 | 4522987 lakecity55
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They're all fags.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:55 | 4523025 Accounting101
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Keep your fucking eye on the ball. Stop with the bullshit and pay attention. You are enabling the very same condition that you abhore.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:56 | 4523027 Accounting101
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Keep your fucking eye on the ball. Stop with the bullshit and pay attention. You are enabling the very same condition that you abhore.

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 04:26 | 4524469 Tall Tom
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Why does the media treat both partys (sic) so differently if both parties are exactly the same?

BOTH PARTIES ARE THE SAME. I have answered you before. If you are not trolling you will listen to the video and understand that you are being played.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8ERfxWouXs

 

If you are trolling for the Red Team/Blue Team bullshit then get lost and go listen to Fox News...

 

Stop your crap.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:34 | 4522944 Joebloinvestor
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The EU expects the US to save them from themselves.

AGAIN.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:40 | 4522967 besnook
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a case of vodka plus military vehicle plus a bunch of soldiers plus a locked airbase equals a bunch of russian soldiers with info that the local px has a liquor store but access is limited by a locked gate crashing through the gate to get vodka being used as propaganda by the west because they got nothing.

 

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:43 | 4522981 NOPOMO
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Well, it sounds like up another 300 Points on the Dow and possibly 50 on the S&P come Monday or Tuesday.  To Infinity and Beyond.

 

 

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:43 | 4522982 SheepDog-One
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So awesome that they waited util after close or S n P might have closed red!

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:46 | 4522992 syntaxterror
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Yep, Food Stamp instructed Vlad to conduct all tactical operations AFTER 4pm EST on Friday.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 22:51 | 4523931 monad
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To prevent heterosexual unions.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:46 | 4522989 falconflight
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Sure hope that Papa Doc Barak and his homo/feminized military doesn't try something stupid...well on second thought.  Glad we moved outta the big city.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:54 | 4523017 Silver Exterior
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...war on...

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:56 | 4523026 rsnoble
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WTF did the FED's send Russia a few billion to wait till afterhours so they can have a 'diplomacy prevails' meeting monday am before the open?

Eventually this will deteriorate to the point of not playing by the rules.

'war crimes'..........now that's a fucking joke if I ever heard one.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:58 | 4523031 Johnny Cocknballs
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The ‘We-Hate-Putin’ Group Think

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Who Were the Snipers?

There is also new evidence suggesting that the sniper shootings in Kiev — a pivotal moment in the uprising to overthrow President Viktor Yanukovych — may have been the work of neo-Nazi provocateurs trying to foment a coup, not the police trying to stop one.

According to an intercepted phone conversation between Estonia’s Foreign Minister Urmas Paet and European Union foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton, Paet reported on a conversation that he had with a doctor in Kiev who said the sniper fire that killed protesters was the same that killed police officers. As reported by the UK Guardian, “During the conversation, Paet quoted a woman named Olga – who the Russian media identified her as Olga Bogomolets, a doctor – blaming snipers from the opposition shooting the protesters.”

Paet said, “What was quite disturbing, this same Olga told that, well, all the evidence shows that people who were killed by snipers from both sides, among policemen and people from the streets, that they were the same snipers killing people from both sides.

“So she also showed me some photos, she said that as medical doctor, she can say it is the same handwriting, the same type of bullets, and it’s really disturbing that now the new coalition, that they don’t want to investigate what exactly happened. … So there is a stronger and stronger understanding that behind snipers it was not Yanukovych, it was somebody from the new coalition.”

Ashton replied: “I think we do want to investigate. I didn’t pick that up, that’s interesting. Gosh.”

However, the sniper fire has been cited by the U.S. government and major U.S. news outlets as evidence of Yanukovych’s depravity, thus justifying his violent removal from office last month when he was forced to flee for his life after neo-Nazi militias seized control of government buildings.

Yet, despite the new evidence suggesting that the coup-makers may have been responsible for instigating the violence, the mainstream U.S. press continues to revise the preferred narrative by putting white hats on the coup-makers and black hats on the Yanukovych government. For instance, the New York Times has stopped reporting that more than a dozen police officers were among the 80 or so people killed as protests in Kiev turned violent. The typical new version in the U.S. press is simply that Yanukovych’s police opened fire on peaceful demonstrators, killing 80 of them.

And to take a contradictory view of this conventional wisdom marks you as “crazy.” When Yanukovych and Putin raised questions about who actually opened fire, the U.S. news media dismissed their suspicions as “conspiracy theories” and proof of “delusional” thinking. It is now a virtual consensus across the U.S. news media that Putin is “unstable” and “disconnected from reality.”

The Washington Post called Putin’s Tuesday news conference “rambling.” However, if you read the transcript, it is anything but “rambling” or “delusional.” Putin comes across as quite coherent, expressing a detailed understanding of the Ukraine crisis and the legal issues involved.

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Fri, 03/07/2014 - 18:44 | 4523189 Volkodav
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Good post....would be nice if the ignorants posting inane here would come up with something constructive.

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 01:34 | 4524320 gallistic
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The "sniper fire" ruse was effectively used in the 2002 Venezuela coup. The US .gov quickly and breathlessly screamed that "Hugo Chavez is killing his own people" and threw their support and recognition behind the putschists. Their first order was the infamous "Carmona Decree" which immediately dissolved the Venezuelan National Assembly, the Supreme Court, and declared the country's Constitution null and void.

The Venezuelan people came out in overwhelming force and took matters into their own hands. The putschists fled for their lives and in less than two days Chavez was released and restored to the Presidency.

It was later shown conclusively that it was not security forces, but provocateurs, and they were not too picky on who they iced. It was a deliberate technique to pin blame on the government forces.

It is already coming out who was behind the sniper attacks in Ukraine (surprise! it was the putschists!). The MSM will never play that tune, no matter what the facts are. Like Winston, they will conveniently slide the facts that do not conform to the official narrative down the memory hole. As the article illustrates, the "Gray Lady" is already doing that (more than a dozen police officers killed by snipers are not mentioned).

Right now as I type this, the same "sniper" techniques are being used again in Venezuela. They are not too picky either...

 

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 18:02 | 4523038 rsnoble
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So are the elites cocktail hour fucked up today?  I hope your maids put habenros in your fucking jack off lube and anthrax on your fucking pancakes.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 18:20 | 4523088 Peter Pan
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Maybe there were no red lines at the gate.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 21:14 | 4523643 rwe2late
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 The British (and the Light Brigade) left long ago.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 18:34 | 4523152 Peter Pan
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If the Crimea is split in two as well will the two parts be known as CrimeA and CrimeB?

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 18:36 | 4523160 devo
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Haha right after market closes. You can't make this up! Sucks for anyone who sold gold today.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 18:50 | 4523220 polak potrafi
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pojechac

po bandzie

 

Ona jedna tam zostala

sikoreczka moja moja mala

a ja tutaj w obcej stronie

dniem i noca tesknie do niej

 

Hej hej hej sokoly

omijajcie pola lasy gory doly

dzwon dzwon dzwon dzwoneczku

moj stepowy skowroneczku

 

Hej hej hej sokoly

omijajcie pola lasy gory doly

dzwon dzwon dzwon dzwoneczku

moj stepowy dzwon dzwon dzwon

 

Lecz sikorek tez ma zone

z nia juz wszystko ulozone

i za dlugi Ukraine

biora w jasyr saczac sline

 

Hej hej hej sokoly

szczur dziennikarzykarzyna chla wesoly

szmata zdrajca i wywloka

na mlyn jego plynie Twa posoka

 

Hej hej hej sokoly

szczur dziennikarzyna cznia wesoly

na mlyn jego Twa posoka

wiec lze z oka poka ron ron ron

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 01:48 | 4524336 PolishErick
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wszyscy zrozumieli :P

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 18:52 | 4523225 blacktusk
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Of course this happens AFTER markets are closed...

 

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 19:01 | 4523246 falak pema
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Poignant article here by Gary Kasparov.

But talking to Pax Americana today about a despot's encroaching and recurrent strategy is ironic to say the least; whatever the merits of his case against Putinistan in the making. 

Charybdis and Scylla.

Where have all the flowers gone long time passing...long time ago.

Garry Kasparov: Cut Off the Russian Oligarchs and They'll Dump Putin - WSJ.com

Yes INDEED, "Cut off ALL those Oligarchs from ALL countries including the whole damn first world"; if you have the guts to see the economy react to such an act. 

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 19:06 | 4523269 Karl von Bahnhof
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Kasparov is sulin (little dick) and traitor and russophobe and idiot and also egomaniac.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 19:08 | 4523274 Debugas
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I disagree with Kasparov on many counts but i do agree on this one - cutting off oligarchs is what the whole world populations need

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 19:03 | 4523258 kurt
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There is a theory, possibly by Barbara Tuchman, that civilization moves around the world east to west. America is in a fallen state. China is on the rise, followed by Russia.

America tanked when monopolistic oil and finance conspired to ratchet up oil prices starting in 2004 and lead DIRECTLY to the 2007 breakdown and continued failure to break out of a depression. The Long Con thought that the American resource usage had to be reigned in, and middle classes had to be scaled back, around the world.

Wouldn't it be hilarious if Russia starts selling petroleum products at Venezuela prices outside of the petro-dollar web. There would develop a Prosperity Zone of untold proportion and the US would be back to the pre-industrial revolution, exporting tobacco, cotton, wheat, corn, and little of that.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 19:48 | 4523388 Escrava Isaura
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Great comment, Kurt, about the middle class and US exports. However, US empire peaked in 1949.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 19:10 | 4523262 22winmag
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The NWO fiat-money viper cabal is circling the drain and about to get flushed down the shitter of history. Financially raping third world hellholes has reached it's apex. The pushback (which this is just a modest portion of) will more than just tear down the curtain and expose the slime pushing the buttons and throwing the levers. The pushback will snowball into their downfall and their extinction.

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 01:37 | 4524322 Seek_Truth
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Indeed, the destruction of the seventh king (US/NATO), and the rise of the eigth king are both on the horizon. (Rev 17:7-13)

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 19:06 | 4523268 Debugas
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BBC reports no shots were fired

so what kind of a storm was it ?

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 19:16 | 4523290 forwardho
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The kind where reason prevails.

Ukrainian forces have to show some token resistance.

Its a manner of face.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 19:34 | 4523343 monad
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We are here with the babes and the vodka, let us in! 

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 19:07 | 4523270 Leraconteur
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Ukraine air force Colonel tells to TIME that Russian commander in charge of siege now demanding Ukraine forces lay down arms and surrender

— Simon Shuster (@shustry) March 7, 2014

What do you Moscow Shills say now?
That's not a RUSSIAN BASE they are securing. It's a UKRAINIAN military installation they are attacking and invading and demanding surrender at discretion.

That's called "WAR". 

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 20:23 | 4523475 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Leraconteur said:

What do you Moscow Shills say now?

Good one. When you begin with an ad hominem, it is a sign of a strong argument based on solid facts. Or it could be projection.

That's not a RUSSIAN BASE they are securing. It's a UKRAINIAN military installation they are attacking and invading and demanding surrender at discretion.

Considering that it's in Crimea, which still has a legitimate government to which the police and security forces and 6000 Ukrainian troops have pledged their allegiance, the case can be made that it's a Crimean military installation occupied by a few Kievan troops.

In any event, it is more properly characterized as a police action than an attack, as no shots were fired nor any prisoners taken.

That's called "WAR".

You're not fooling anybody.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 20:27 | 4523495 walküre
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Indeed but don't let the facts get into the way of the Putin idolization here and elsewhere. I hope for their sake that KGB is paying them for the work.

Can't upvote you because your post starts with a quote.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 19:24 | 4523301 tony wilson
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What do you Moscow Shills say now?

tells time

tells time

is that time magazine

time

saturn satanic jewish rule time

 

lecaconteur we say why not meet up with simon shyster on the spot twat speak to your rabbi and ask if you both can have a gay wedding.

maybe you can adopt a child from syria to rape.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 20:25 | 4523486 Leraconteur
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I am a Catholic who lives in Asia.

So Time is a biased Jewish Shill, and you guys are not biased Lubyanka shills on the Moscow payroll?

Since this conflict nearly all the posts, comments and blog entries here on ZH read like ex-KGB message for pay.

Those Ukrainian troops, by the fact they are there, prove that those Ukrainians don't want this Russian Invasion. 

Or are those beseiged troops all Joooos on Time's payroll and all CIA operatives?

How is the weather in Moscow this week? Spring arrive yet?

You guys are transparently obvious.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 21:47 | 4523736 tony wilson
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YOU ARE CATHOLIC.

you are a child rapist if not your pope is.

Pope Francis, Jesuits and Anglicans Face Prosecution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP6-cCK5MvE

 

 

 

 

this is all it is about.

Ah, here we go:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/05/us-ukraine-chevron-idUSBRE9A40...

"Ukraine signs $10 billion shale gas deal with Chevron"

Any fucking questions?

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 05:08 | 4524485 The Wedge
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Oh good grief. Seriously? A 10 billion dollar deal. A 10 billion dollar deal.

A 10 billion dollar deal.

A 10 billion dollar deal.

And all priests are child rapists and all Catholics are too.

A 10 billion dollar deal.

OK

A 10 billion dollar deal.

A 10 fucking billion dollar deal...WHOOOO....WHOOOO..ding ding we have...

A 10 billion dollar deal.

Your honor, you were serious 'bout that?

Lt. Dan, you got new legs!

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 19:24 | 4523307 401-Kulak
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Whats with the Pogo Shark routine?  Give it up - this Putie worship is getting old.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 21:55 | 4523758 downwiththebanks
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401 Kulak loves the National Endowment for Democracy.

And fascist marauders!

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 19:29 | 4523319 SpanishGoop
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Knock, knock

Who is there ?

A truck

What kind of truck ?

A big Russian army truck !

 

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 19:30 | 4523328 Debt Slave
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Well we know how yesterday's telephone conference call went. Putin told Obama to go pound sand.

Waa hahaha.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 19:56 | 4523409 SpanishGoop
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"Vlad, be a bit carefull with the doors, the country is poor already. I rather give you a key if you want it.".

 

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 20:09 | 4523447 arnoldsimage
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" ramming the gates with their truck." lions and tigers and bears, oh my. is this all you got tyler? c'mon man... enough with all this petty nonsense. we want some hard hitting, jaw-dropping news, not the sos we hear and read daily. dow makes new high crappity-crap. another threat of war song being played. blah....

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 20:19 | 4523463 rwe2late
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Assuming one is a US citizen, one's attention is best directed on the actions of one's own government.

Hypocritical jingoism, "this means war",  "incredible aggression", "Putin is Hitler" only serve to conceal the real nature and cause of this Ukranian situation, and impede any realistic resolution.

None of this development in Ukraine would have happened except for the initial and current US intrusions and meddling. The US illegally supported (e.g. MCCain) and financed (e.g. Nuland) the violent overthrow of an elected government and the establishment of a rump regional one. The US immediately recognized the rump regional government and the rump's exaggerated claim to possess and govern Ukraine regions hostile to the overthrow.
This was all done in the context of unnecessary NATO expansion, something rejected by the overthrown elected Ukraine government.

Obama has issued an executive order which should first be applied against himself and his underlings:

Section 1. (a) All property and interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person (including any foreign branch) of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State:
(i) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have engaged in, directly or indirectly, any of the following:
(A) actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or institutions in Ukraine;
(B) actions or policies that threaten the peace, security, stability, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine; or
...
(iii) to be a leader of an entity that has, or whose members have, engaged in any activity described in subsection

www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/06/executive-order-blocking-...

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 21:55 | 4523559 Cthonic
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Meanwhile, it's a party in the CIA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-CG5w4YwOI

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 20:47 | 4523576 Seize Mars
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Ah, here we go:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/05/us-ukraine-chevron-idUSBRE9A40...

"Ukraine signs $10 billion shale gas deal with Chevron"

Any fucking questions?

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 21:50 | 4523747 windcatcher
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OK-- ZH bean counters, figure this out: The public debt state department will spend 11 billion dollars of our debt for a private 10 billion deal between Chevron/Shell and the Ukraine (government)!

The nut jobs in control are insane! WW 3

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 01:42 | 4524331 Seek_Truth
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Debt = 1s + 0s and sometimes even paper.

Just an electronic ledger entry.

Sometimes <CNTRL-P>

Yellen is okay with that.

As are her Zioverlords.

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 00:05 | 4524143 jomama
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10b is chump change nowadays

 

 

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 06:36 | 4524528 Tall Tom
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It is only One Third of One Percent of the US Government Tax Revenues. WE have a bunch of innumerates online tonight.

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 04:56 | 4524482 The Wedge
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Sure I have questions.

What does this have to do with anything? Are you implying that western powers conspired to get a 10 billion dollar deal? A 10 b i l l i o n dollar deal. Seriously? I realize it's popular to demagog oil companies but this is a little silly don't you think? Besides, considering Russia is jacking the price of gas for Ukrainians, don't you think they're going to need it? Or at least the revenue?

The west and Russia are playing non-symmetrical games for much, much higher stakes seriously jeopardizing world stability and you find an oil company doing what they do and eureka, you've found the the real reason behind this. Must be this oil company providing a product the entire planet needs. I wish people could understand how far down in the pecking order oil companies are. It's the time and memorial basics. He with the biggest army holds the power. All else come after. The telecoms and Google types now wield more power than oil companies because information is much more valuable than oil. Information is power. It rivals the gun.

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 06:22 | 4524520 22winmag
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Ideas are power. They are more powerful than the gun.

 

There, I fixed your post.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 22:13 | 4523796 Chuck Knoblauch
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Muslim separatists may have brought down a Malaysian jet Flight 370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China killing 227 passengers!

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 22:55 | 4523935 tony wilson
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china plane crash

 

nato operation gladio.

cia,mi6 and the mossad

soros ngo funding freedom

are putting a little fake muslim terror on china tis all.

same old tired rothschild play book

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 23:12 | 4523954 Chuck Knoblauch
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160 chinese on board.

239 passengers and crew from 13 countries.

last contact over South China Sea.

another destabilization mission by the banking cartel.

i wonder if any bankers were on board?

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 22:10 | 4523807 Leraconteur
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Leraconteur said:

What do you Moscow Shills say now?

Good one. When you begin with an ad hominem, it is a sign of a strong argument based on solid facts. Or it could be projection.

 

 

It's not Ad Hominem, it's an accurate assessment based upon reading the threads, blog posts and comments here on ZH since this conflict began.

If you have read any other comments on ZH then you would know that based upon the comments here and the response to any criticism, that it is likely, logical and probable that many of the pro-Russia supporters here are paid Lubyanka agents.

The language, ideas and verbiage used are, in many cases, EXACTLY that used by Russian talking heads, politicos, nationals and government officials.

IOW Moscow Shills.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 22:40 | 4523909 Arkadaba
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So would you classify Paul Craig Roberts former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration as a Moscow shill?

The White House Fool has repeatedly declared erroneously and foolishly that it is “against international law” for Crimea to exercise self-determination. Self-determination, as used by Washington, is a propaganda term that serves Washington’s empire but is not permissible for real people to exercise. On March 6 Obama telephoned Putin to tell the Russian President again that only Washington has the right to interfere in Ukraine and to insist against all logic that only the “government” in Kiev installed by the Washington-organized coup is “legitimate” and “democratic.”

In other words, the elected government in Crimea pushed by the people in Crimea to give them a vote on their future is “undemocratic” and “illegitimate,” but a non-elected government in Kiev imposed by Washington is the voice of self-determination and legitimacy.

Washington is so arrogant that it never occurs to the hubris-infected fools what the world thinks of Washington’s blatant hypocrisy.

Since the Clinton regime, Washington has done nothing but violate international law–Serbia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Honduras, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia.

Does Russia have an Africa Command? No, but Washington does.

Is Russia surrounding the US with military bases? No, but Washington has used the NATO organization, whose purpose disappeared 23 years ago, to organize western, eastern, and southern Europe into an empire army with forward bases on Russia’s borders. Washington is determined to extend the boundaries of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization to Georgia in central Asia and to Ukraine on the Black Sea. Both Georgia and Ukraine are former constituent parts of both Russia and the Soviet Union.

Washington is doing the same thing to China and Iran. Washington is working to establish new air and naval bases in Philippines, South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia, with which to block the flow of oil and other resources into China. Iran

is surrounded by some 40 US military bases and has US fleets standing off its coastline.

In Washington’s propaganda, this rank militarism is presented as “defending democracy.”

The Russian government continues to act as though Washington’s thrusts at Russia’s independence and strategic interests can be defused with good sense and good will.

But Washington has neither.

Since the Clinton regime, Washington has been in the hands of a collection of ideologues who are convinced that the US is “the exceptional indispensable country” with the right to world hegemony. Everything that Washington has done in the 21st century is in pursuit of this goal.

Washington intends to break up the Russian Federation itself. Washington funnels huge sums of money into NGOs inside Russia that serve as Washington Fifth Columns and work hand-in-hand with Washington to discredit Russian free elections, to demonize Putin and the Russian government, to spread anti-Russian propaganda and agitation. It is amazing how many Russians actually believe the Western propaganda.

Washington is also working to isolate China with the Trans-Pacific-Partnership, but at this time is primarily focused on destabilizing and isolating Russia. Washington is desperate to break up the BRICS, the emerging organization of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. With the largest countries and half of the world’s population, the BRICS organization is emerging as a political and economic power, especially with the organization’s plan to cease using the US dollar as reserve currency. Ringing Russia with US missile bases on Russia’s borders impairs Russian sovereignty and independence and, thus, weakens the BRICS as a countervailing power to Washington.

Many have been deceived by Washington’s propaganda. The world is slowly waking up, but is it in time?

The US media and much of Europe’s speak with one voice parroting Washington’s propaganda, demonizing Washington’s targets, and preparing insouciant Western populations for more war. The Western media, like Western governments, is devoid of integrity. Liars and whores rule.

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/03/07/obama-comes-self-determinatio...

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 09:40 | 4524683 therearetoomany...
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I feel that while PCR is covering this, ZH should link to each new article on it.   The man's background on all things russian from his experience in the early 60s forward makes him, most likely, the 'most trusted man in america", or anywhere for that matter, on this issue (not to mention all the other BS in DC).  

Also, he isn't 'pro-republican', 'anti-obama' or anything like that, he's come out of the belly of the beast to tell us all what is going on at all levels with DC, the fed, MSM.  

IMO

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 03:12 | 4524410 Johnny Cocknballs
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Or maybe, just maybe, you have the less rational assessment of the matters under discussion.

 

I vote that.

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 04:30 | 4524473 Johnny Cocknballs
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Or maybe, just maybe, you have the less rational assessment of the matters under discussion.

 

I vote that.

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 05:10 | 4524487 Leraconteur
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Or maybe you are biased and in a desire to see the USA taken down a notch you are blind to the fact that Russia is invading Ukraine by force.

The fact that Ukrainian troops are surrounded PROVES that SOME of the Ukrainians do NOT want the Russians there.

I know you want to believe that every action any Ukrainian takes is at the end of a puppetmasters strings, but that's just not probable.

It is likely that many Ukrainains want to be freed of Russian, EU, USA and other oligarchs - but that is not possible in your biased, pro-Russia, anti-USA agenda.

You guys are tools.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 22:16 | 4523835 Kina
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Paid for pro Russian supporters. . hahh.

 

The US Installs neo Nazis as unelected Ukrain govt In a coup and to oppose that makes people pro Russian.

 

If people didn't notice for the last 40 years only one country has been fomenting rebellions wars coups and invasions.

 

Nobody loves Russian thug govt. However USA are global super thugs.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 22:16 | 4523836 Chuck Knoblauch
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March 7, 2014, 5:55 p.m.

Malaysia Airlines and authorities on Saturday activated a search and rescue team to locate a passenger plane that went missing while on the way to Beijing a few hours earlier.

"The plane left Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 00:55 a.m. and lost contact with the air traffic controller at about 02:40 am," an airline official said.

"We have organized a team to help locate the plane," she said without elaborating.

Malaysia Airlines said in a statement that Flight 370 was carrying a total of 227 passengers, including two infants, and 12 crew members.

The Boeing 777-200 aircraft was expected to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 22:59 | 4523952 walcott
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does anybody really give a shit one way or the other?

Would be great to import some of their beautiful babes.

 

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 23:09 | 4523986 Chuck Knoblauch
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I heard a rumor that they dry up fast after 40 years.

 

Babushka grannies at 40+.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 23:46 | 4524095 dexter_morgan
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Our prez just don't get no rspect, that the problem.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/video/passantino/president-obama-misspells-respe...

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 00:15 | 4524167 tony wilson
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that guy is just a ghost

who nobody knows

a soros creation

software with error built in

a jason bourne without the skillset.

married to michelle a man i here.

clintons,bushes obamies monster rapists all.

 

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 00:30 | 4524215 yrbmegr
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Not on the Reuters web site, because....?

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 00:34 | 4524223 observer007
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The headline seems not to be true - check here:

Newsticker Ukraine

Latest Videos Ukraine

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 00:50 | 4524250 general ambivalent
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Are you Americans aware of Rex Murphy? Sit down beforehand, and hold on.

http://www.cbc.ca/thenational/content/analysis/rexmurphy/putin_and_obama...

Edit: Youtube link because cbc player is terrible.

http://youtu.be/yZJj3Eg9-hM

Also a link here showing very anti-Western sentiment as demonstrators attempt to block videotaping of cbc, on multiple occasions where they feared for their safety.

http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/TV%20Shows/The%20National/ID/2440826683/

Hopefully that works outside the country.

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 09:12 | 4524586 NuYawkFrankie
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You're sourcing the Canadian Broadcasting Corp ???

Are you for real? GULP!!! Oh Man! 

Psst... here's a few more you might want to add to your "Research List":

PBS, NPR, BBC, NY Times, WaSh Post, ZNN, Faux, Adult Dating Channel...

You're welcome.

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 10:29 | 4524751 general ambivalent
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I was sourcing it because it is interesting at the propaganda level, not because I agree with it. Sheesh.

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 02:35 | 4524384 nah
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donughts bitchez!

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 02:43 | 4524388 Atomizer
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Conficker variant strikes Ukraine. An Airline transponder is turned off. You know the end is near for the multinationals’, when elites conjure up repeated fears. Someone has to dig deeper in the toy chest of deception.

 

/LOL

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 03:08 | 4524407 Johnny Cocknballs
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Paul craig roberts, has been solid on ukraine...

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/03/06/looting-ukraine-begun/

Surprising, even worrying lack of press about whatever is happening now inveastern ukraine...

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 03:15 | 4524413 Alpha Dog Food
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Barry is still saying he won't take any action on Ukraine until he has found out what the people think (30 seconds in):

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80gPwcIV2vw

 

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 03:38 | 4524433 gann1212
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the last place i would send my gold is the u.s. unless i was a crook banker. then i would send it there. so what does that tell you. the so called new leaders are crooks just like the old leaders . ha ha u cant make this stuff up

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 03:54 | 4524441 observer007
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Malaysia Airlines plane crashes off Vietnam coast

http://tersee.com/#!q=Malaysia+Airlines&t=text

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 06:43 | 4524532 lakecity55
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are those the new ones they glue together?

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 04:51 | 4524480 Runs-With_Toast
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Reuters has always been rooted

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 06:42 | 4524531 lakecity55
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"First sgt, the ukes have a huge stash of vodka!"

"Is the intel accurate?"

"Yes! The bastards have been holding out--after we gave them a case!"

"Let's go, men! Charge!"

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 07:23 | 4524561 beaglebog
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The alternative story is that Ukrainian troops are mobilising to attack Crimea.  Sounds detailed and credible.

 

The idea could be to embroil Western forces.

 

If the West doesn't neuter Putin, then those "traitors" in Kiev are all dog-meat. They'll not live to pick up their fat pensions.

 

So, it is plausible that they'd launch a desperate attempt to bring outside forces into the mix, in the hope of ousting Putin. It's not much of a strategy, but, they don't have much else.

 

https://www.facebook.com/ukrainiandefensenewsnetwork/posts/1015210687351...

 

The link eventually goes to a source in Cyrillic ... I can't read that stuff.

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 09:19 | 4524660 ejhickey
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you know we could just walk away from this

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