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Dozens Of CIA, FBI Agents "Advising Ukraine Government", German Press Reports

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Now that the situation in Ukraine has officially been upgraded to "war", what really happens on the ground will remain largely wrapped by the fog of war on either side, with just one thing assured: a war it may be but more than anything it is a proxy war - one in which both western and Russian interests are manifest in the fighting, and killing, of mostly innocent civilians in Ukraine - a carbon copy replica of what happened last year in Syria.

The latest reminder of just this comes from AFP which reports, citing Germany's Bild, that "dozens of specialists from the US Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation are advising the Ukrainian government."

From AFP:

Citing unnamed German security sources, Bild am Sonntag said the CIA and FBI agents were helping Kiev end the rebellion in the east of Ukraine and set up a functioning security structure.

 

It said the agents were not directly involved in fighting with pro-Russian militants. "Their activity is limited to the capital Kiev," the paper said.

 

The FBI agents are also helping the Kiev government fight organised crime, it added.

 

A group specialised in financial matters is to help trace the wealth of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, according to the report.

On the surface, this report is hardly surprising: we reported a month ago, subsequently confirmed by the White House, that CIA director Brennan had "secretly" visited Kiev in early April. It stands to logic that he was hardly alone and continuing the proud tradition of Libya, Egypt and Syria, the CIA was merely getting started unfolding the agency's core competency: regional destabilization.

What is very surprising is that Germany's press is finally stepping away from the western media propaganda umbrella and starting to report the side of the narrative that is in direct opposition to US interests in either Ukraine, or Germany.

So just who, and why, is pulling the strings on Germany's media outlets in a way that goes against the official Merkel fiction, if in agreement with Germany's commercial and industrial interests (as well as those of Europe's commission himself)?

And how soon before Germany's position, one clearly against the imposition of further sanctions on Russia and the additional alienation of the Kremlin, puts Germany on direct collision course with Obama and the US state department? And what then: will Germany, shunned by the US, have no choice but to reallign with the ascendent Eurasian axis of China and Russia. Stay tuned.

 

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Sun, 05/04/2014 - 16:04 | 4726434 FightingtheFed
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How in the fuck did this happen?? What in the hell are they doing?

This is so damn Insane!!!

Can we not mind our own fucking business!!!

Damn Jews!!

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 16:04 | 4726435 FightingtheFed
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How in the fuck did this happen?? What in the hell are they doing?

This is so damn Insane!!!

Can we not mind our own fucking business!!!

Damn Jews!!

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 17:43 | 4726638 post turtle saver
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I don't see the problem here... we'll send over George W to give Merkel a backrub and that'll set everything right

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 11:51 | 4725837 davidalan1
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"proxy war"  oh lord, kinda like vietnam? yikes

Here we go folks..

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:03 | 4725872 CH1
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Yup, for those of us of a certain age, "military advisors" carries an ominous meaning.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:28 | 4725956 davidalan1
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I.e kennedy circa early sixties

French south vietna, china north vietnam...

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 14:30 | 4726231 Dublinmick
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Yes is does CH1, that is what they were called before I was drafted into the Vietnam war. I can still remember being herded into a large theatre and watching the drunken Lyndon Johnson scream about how we wll stop "communist aggression" in Vietnam and thinking what in the hell am I doing here.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 16:12 | 4726457 shovelhead
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You should have paid more attention to Arlo and you could have got the "Group W" bench.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:11 | 4725906 Kirk2NCC1701
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What's good for the goose...begs a question like:

When is the Mexican government or its drug lords going to get similar Advisors from Russia?

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 16:21 | 4726475 sablya
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Right after they pull their blyad sukha mudhaki out of Cuba, Venezuala, and the rest of Latin America.  

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:18 | 4725922 tsuki
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More like the Spanish Civil War.  This is The Fourth Reich vs Russia without the Soviet influence.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:38 | 4726133 Mountainview
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Bosnia is the model of the final outcome. Three members of a very loose federation. From now to then all options are open.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 11:53 | 4725838 LetThemEatRand
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"Let me give you some advice: Next time you have the chance to kill someone, don't hesitate."  Die Hard.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:03 | 4725871 Ignatius
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No change there until there's revolution here.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 20:50 | 4727067 Flagit
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Wasnt the last sighting of John Mclain in the Ukraine, saving lost nukes?

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 11:55 | 4725844 Everybodys All ...
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IMF - international military fund. Follow the money.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 11:55 | 4725845 Smegley Wanxalot
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Vietnam redux. 

Great going, Oblowhard.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 17:12 | 4726585 machineh
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Relax.

Obarky's in his golf cart, and all's well with the world.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 11:59 | 4725851 FieldingMellish
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Now the "kidnapping" of Germany's gold becomes all too clear.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 11:58 | 4725854 Winston Churchill
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Paging Herr Ribbentrop , you are required in Moscow stat.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:01 | 4725864 Uncle Remus
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."Piece(s) for our time."

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 11:59 | 4725855 Uncle Remus
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Redefining dubious.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 11:59 | 4725856 LetThemEatRand
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Mr. CIA: I just want to say two words to you. Just two words.

Ukraine: Yes, sir.

Mr. CIA: Are you listening?

Ukraine: Yes, I am.

Mr. CIA: Plastic explosives.

 

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:00 | 4725863 Winston Churchill
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Polonium cocktails all round, on the house.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:09 | 4725900 LetThemEatRand
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They give you the first few Polonium cocktails for free, and then pretty soon you're in an alley blowing Legarde for IMF loans to buy more.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:16 | 4725920 Uncle Remus
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JFC - that is some demented shit right there.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 14:49 | 4726272 DoChenRollingBearing
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I saw you smile though...  So did I!

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:40 | 4725992 Rock On Roger
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Legarde must achieve that nice orange tan by bathing in blood.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:43 | 4725995 ebworthen
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Heh-heh, iodine on the rim just to keep you buying more.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:57 | 4726180 Volkodav
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"The Phony Litvinenko Murder" William Dunkerley

lately the brits found involved and don't want to talk about it anymore...

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:00 | 4725858 IridiumRebel
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Target has a sale on yellow ribbon....you know, for the old oak tree.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:18 | 4725868 Uncle Remus
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Pffft. Plenty of time - home by Hanukkah.

 

EDIT - I think white/yellow rope is in this year. And, it's after EAster.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:01 | 4725865 ronsterizor
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THE MUNITIONS COMPANIES AND BANKSTERS ARE CELEBRATING WAAAAAAAAA HOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:02 | 4725866 ronsterizor
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IMF:  INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FOOLS

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 17:15 | 4726595 machineh
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iMFers

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:03 | 4725874 A_Nejad
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Well Duh!!

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:28 | 4725878 socalbeach
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YouTube video showing aircraft activity over Crimea. Don't speak Russian and Google isn't translating the comments.  Interesting though.

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Russia in the Crimea relocate fighters and bombers

(May 3, 2014)

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fw...

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edit, may just be this: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_05_04/Preparations-for-Victory-Day-pa...

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:05 | 4725882 savagegoose
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germany should just buy the gold on world markets and send the bill for it to US

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:28 | 4725953 DoChenRollingBearing
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If Germany were to buy gold in size, large amounts, that would likely do tremendous damage to the US$.  That is something Germany should consider if it is true that they really want their gold back.*

 

* It still is not clear that Germany really wants its gold back any faster than they have gotten it.  Maybe the 5 tonnes is all they really wanted for now.  If they really want more, they could make their statement by just buying large amounts of gold now.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 15:56 | 4726415 Dublinmick
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Germany has no gold, it belongs to the IMF/UN. Germany in fact has no government, they are still under occupation. They are just a mark on the books. Sometimes the IMF lets their gold stay in Germany allowing them to believe it is theirs and at other times it is moved to NY and London or Paris for "safe" keeping.

Paper money is issued in oder to buy up all gold and silver and then it is moved to the vaults of Mr. Goldstein and Mr. Silverstein.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 16:23 | 4726482 DoChenRollingBearing
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Dublinmick, you wrote:

"Sometimes the IMF lets their gold stay in Germany allowing them to believe it is theirs and at other times it is moved to NY and London or Paris for "safe" keeping."

I presume you have a reference or two that you would share with us re movement of German gold as you state?

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 17:05 | 4726574 Dublinmick
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Common sense is your link. Where is Germany's gold then. Come to think of it they are still looking for Hitler's gold that he looted.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 00:47 | 4727469 August
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The German gold is in New York and London.  The Nazi gold is in Switzerland.

(Well, that's waht I heard.)

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:47 | 4726005 Infinite QE
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Germany needs to join the Anti-Bolshevik Federation then go to the world court and then they and Russia should go to the world court and demand reparations for the handiwork of the Old and New Bolsheviks. Give Israel 48 hours to surrender all of their nuclear weapons or face the long overdue music.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:06 | 4725886 bag holder
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Angela: "give us zee gold"

Barry: "no"

Angela: "release zee hounds"

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:10 | 4725903 Marigold
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Merkel speeks fluent Russian , Putin speaks fluent German . Cultural ties between Germany & Russia go back before the USSA was even thought of. Germany needs Russian energy and Russia needs German technology. Also the Germans are tired of being occupied by the USSA and they also want their gold back . Expect wider divisions in German policy towards Russia from NATO in the coming months.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:20 | 4725930 Uncle Remus
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But, can they sing the each others respective national anthem?

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:22 | 4725939 Kirk2NCC1701
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The Germans have every right to be fed up ("Nase voll") with the Ami occupiers. Same for the rest of the EU:  the last damn thing they need is their ECB to be an extension of The Fed (Fed2, Fed+, Fed_EU), and have the tentacles of the Vampire Squid (GS) operating its shadow government through the ECB.

The US knows that Germany is the pivotal player in the EU and the ECB.  If Germany goes Neutral ("best move"), then the gig's up for the Neocons.  The UST sales to "Brussels" (ECB!) would stop overnight, and the USD would tank.

Folks, we are already in the early moves of WW3.  You're watching the show previews and ads, with the Main Feature to come.

You'll need much more than popcorn and drinks.  Plan accordingly.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:37 | 4725982 Winston Churchill
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Escalating very quickly.
Unconfirmed reports of trains ,loaded with tanks. traversing
supposedly neutral Austria going east.
UK royal army shipping 6000 vehicles to Germany , because they sold their depot in the UK for development.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:07 | 4726070 Oh regional Indian
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That last line, sold their depot...ironic.

The UK is a friggin dangerous joke (leadership) and joke (drunk population)...

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:54 | 4726169 Volkodav
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Where is link  for that???  why not post link firstly...?

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 15:54 | 4726411 Telemakhos
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I'll second the call for a link.  I've seen nothing on this.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 21:29 | 4727134 Telemakhos
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Exactly.  Here's the Guardian's version in English from February 16, 2012: 

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/feb/16/british-tanks-sent-germany-storage  

Until someone comes up with some credible and recently dated reports of tanks being transported through Austria as claimed above, I'm inclined to disbelieve the notion that Europe might be coordinated enough to ship thousands of tanks around during a geopolitical crisis without some cell phone video of said materiel hitting the nets even before it could reach its destination.  

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 23:13 | 4727331 nostromo17
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Yah but what about German trains and running on time and such?

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 23:14 | 4727335 nostromo17
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Yah but what about German trains and running on time and such?

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:26 | 4725951 Joenobody12
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Not to mention Merkel got spied on or should I say has been spied on. 

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:53 | 4726168 One of We
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Is being spied on, there......

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:10 | 4725904 JR
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Tyler, thanks for this - the kind of courageous reporting I come to ZH to find.

Europeans clearly see the Ukrainian crisis more clearly than Americans because of the cartel-controlled American media; and Americans thought Pravda was an evil state media.

But these days, the truth is finding a way.

As for the proxy war, no nation is more skilled than the American Empire. Working with the interests of the state of Israel, American military has been devastating cities and villages throughout the Middle East and now is moving into Eastern Europe -- and it ain’t for freedom. It’s for conquest.

Even the undependable, exploitive American Left sees the churning war machine. Yesterday’s Doonesbury shows “an old woman” apparently testifying: “Sirs, I know nothing of politics. I know only that the airplane came and destroyed my village.”

From the questioner: “But can you be sure it was an American plane, Mrs. Loo? This, of course, is of vital importance! You see Mrs. Loo, there are many different kinds of planes—there are big ones, little ones, jet planes and…”

Mrs. Loo interrupts: “It was a Navy McDonnell F48-1 Phantom II.”

The questioner: “Oh yes, that’s ours.”

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:41 | 4726142 ObamaDepression
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Our National Guard doesn't even fly  Phantoms anymore.

Those planes are from the Vietnam era.

Sounds more like evidence of a Putin plant for DIS-information. Imagine that from a former KGB guy?

 

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 15:12 | 4726333 bruce1337
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While Ukraine is going down the, Loo doesn't sound like a typical Slavic surname, now does it? 

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 15:57 | 4726417 Telemakhos
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The strip is about Cambodian refugees from the Vietnam War era, so I suppose it's a fitting name.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:11 | 4725907 uno
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I was wondering when Germany would finally have enough of US Central control.  DC is going to put Germany on the terriorist watch list.  Also remember when the CIA agent in Russia was found with the fake blonde wig and cartoonish disguise.  Thats the thing, if they were actually capable and intelligent, instead of just passing plane loads of cash around and torturing innocent people to confess to anything.

OK Gemany, you finally got the memo, how about the rest of europe, had enough.  DC only accepts complete submission, anything less is a direct threat.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:11 | 4725908 falak pema
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Is Merkel's ex Stasi playing peekaboo on Obama's CIA ops?

That lady has not forgiven Potus for allowing the NSA to read her I-phone. 

You can see the cracks appear when the German press contradicts the US official party line. 

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 16:53 | 4726539 N57Mike
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So this is why America is spying so much on Merkel and the Germans ....

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:14 | 4725915 asierguti
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Drones coming to Ukraine, unless Russia grounds them, as they did in Crimea. All very democratic.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 00:51 | 4727477 August
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No-fly zone coming to Ukraine.  Probably two of them.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:18 | 4725921 Joenobody12
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May be the CIA and FBI are there to plot to assasinate Putin. 

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:22 | 4725936 Clowns on Acid
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So does the Fed tapering mean that an extra $5B / mth can go to Ukraine?

Or maybe is just does't matter anymore and the Fed has lost control of the printing press , and they are just crediting 1's and 0's into anyone they feel likes bank account.

Duestchemark could make a comeback sooner rather than later, perhaps thats why Fed is slow to repatriate.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:56 | 4726018 socalbeach
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If anything, it's the opposite. Tapering means less "money printing", which means less revenue to the US Treasury.  See below.  Cost of QE is very small, IOER of 0.25%/year on that portion of QE that goes to excess reserves, and minting and printing costs for coins and dollar bills - so it's mostly profit.

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Seigniorage

"Seigniorage ... fom Old French seigneuriage: right of the lord (seigneur) to mint money, is the difference between the value of money and the cost to produce and distribute it...

Seigniorage is a convenient source of revenue for some governments..."

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:29 | 4726115 Clowns on Acid
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Tapering means less money to buy USTs/ MBS / ABS from the banks, it does nopt mesn the end of "printing money" by the Fed.

SoCal you must stop mwith the cobwebbed thinking... the Fed is now fully criminalized. Fisher is the Vice Chair... connect the dots.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:58 | 4726157 socalbeach
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All other things being equal, tapering means less nearly free money to the Treasury.  As I understand it, currency swaps with say the ECB could be used to offset tapering, and it wouldn't increase the monetary base.  But if the Fed is criminal, I think they could easily be interested in crashing the world economy at this stage in order to reduce demand for oil, Russia's major export.  They could accomplish that by tightening liquidity. US Treasury interest rates could be kept low by letting the stock market crash. I'm not saying that's likely but it's certainly possible.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:22 | 4725937 Seize Mars
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quote

 "The FBI agents are also helping the Kiev government fight organised crime..."

Ha ha ha! Like what, the CIA?

"So just who, and why, is pulling the strings on Germany's media outlets in a way that goes against the official Merkel fiction..."

This is planned. It's all theater. If it's all the same, Lord R and DRock, let's just skip the foreplay.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:57 | 4726030 tonyw
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if they want to fight organised crime then the first thing they should do is investigate the newly appointed oligarch governors.


Sun, 05/04/2014 - 18:52 | 4726824 mccvilb
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"So just who, and why, is pulling the strings on Germany's media outlets in a way that goes against the official Merkel fiction..."

Why the Palestinian decentralized banking cartel of course. Everybody knows that.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 21:41 | 4727149 Flagit
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Seize Mars

The interim Kiev government took charge in late February after months of street protests forced the ouster of Kremlin-friendly Yanukovych.

Apparently Yahoo has nevever heard of a coup.

coup ko?o/ noun noun: coup; plural noun: coups; noun: coup d'état; plural noun: coups d'état; plural noun: coup d'états 1. a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government. "he was overthrown in an army coup" synonyms: seizure of power, coup d'état, putsch, overthrow, takeover, deposition;

 

who owns Bild?

http://www.bild.de/politik/ausland/ukraine/die-lage-in-der-ukraine-im-li...

Supposedly 2000 sepretats in Odessa stormed the jail and demanded the release of 70 people arrested.

 

And from the comments of that article, its about to get messy. This guy has a good twitter feed if you want something to follow from the front lines. Funny story, Tyler follows him too.

https://twitter.com/howardamos

 

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:22 | 4725940 BullyBearish
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Does "The Great Satan" ring a bell?

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:23 | 4725945 message2gowri
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Russian's are Fucked as well the American(middle class) Tax Payers!!

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:39 | 4726097 Jreb
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True statement. Why the down arrows?

The people that suffer the most in these situations have always been those caught in the middle.

I would add many more groups to that list:

Ukranians, Pols, Canadian middle class, Japense middle class, almost all of China - for the same reason as the Russians, Australian middle class, all of North Korea, all of South Korea etc etc etc. In fact everyone on both sides who is not in on the scam.

That means pretty much everyone on planet earth with the exception of th .1% that run things and the minions that do their bidding.

 

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:25 | 4725950 Seek_Truth
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The Rubicon has been crossed.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:26 | 4725955 lakecity55
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America will continue to sink--unless we get rid of the people with TWO passports.

JUSA-the Dog, wagged by the Tail, Israel.

We need Orkin to rid ourselves of these destructive termites...

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:46 | 4725997 chunga
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Dual citizenship is just plain wrong if one wants to be some big-shot govt. crony, like say fed chairman.

Not just for the one obvious nation but for all. Yeah, yeah, that's racist, bigoted, hateful, and true.

It hurts to even think that way but after a while...geez.

(There are some termites that do not chew wood but get lumped in with all the bad termites just the same)

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:52 | 4726020 lakecity55
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Especially when your puppet president has no known citizenship at all.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:57 | 4726029 chunga
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I've got three dogs running around the yard with better papers than that clown.

Really, I hate thinking that way but the reality is there.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:28 | 4725957 BiteMeBO
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1 Tablespoon Community Organizer

5 Qts. Puppet Masters

2 Cups Foreign Policy

Bake at faux Global Warming Temperature for 5+ yrs.

 

Serve WWIII cold.

 

 

 

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:30 | 4725960 jumped_ship_and_swam
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You sandbaggers!  You post this highly biased stuff, then allow your partisans to post their comments before we commoners get a chance.  Are you on Moscow's payroll?

Very briefly, this is Urkaine.  I am a Russian speaker in Ukraine.  We are in no danger except from the Russians.  They should get the hell out and mind their own business.

Russia has 100 years experience meddling in other countries' business.  They are experts.  The new government in Ukraine has been (somewhat) out from under Russia's thumb since February.  Yes, if they are going to push back the Russian bear, they could use some advice.  

The CIA has not been effective up until now, and I doubt that they will be.  I appreciate their concern that Russia is invading a sovereign country.  I wish that the sorry SOBs were more effective and had not burned up their credibility in places they don't belong.  

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:38 | 4725989 JR
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Is that you, Victoria?

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:41 | 4725993 bardot63
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I think most ZHer's would agree, Mr. Jumped, that neither Russia nor the US has any biz in Ukraine.  But, that ain't gonna happen, is it.  As Vickie Nuland said, fuck the EU.  She also probably said off tape  'fuck Ukraine, too.' 

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:47 | 4726156 One of We
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All the while I just keep hearing a Bolshevik saying fuck the US, fuck the children, fuck humanity, fuck the future.....

 

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:01 | 4726050 tonyw
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Russia  US has 100 years experience meddling in other countries' business.

There fixed it for you, i can't be bothered to list all the coutries where coups have overthrown governments, elected or otherwise over the last century nor list the countries directly invaded or bombed. You can look it up if you are remotely interested.

 

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:24 | 4726102 bag holder
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In spite of the echo chamber here, I have figured for a while that there must be Ukrainians who don't want to join the Putin club. My question, though: when you say "we", which city or oblast are you speaking for? I would imagine people in Lviv probably do feel like Russia is the only danger, but those people in Kramatorsk yesterday certainly looked like they were being endangered by the Ukrainian government.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:49 | 4726159 Volkodav
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Lyiv would be poles mainly.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 07:01 | 4727662 jumped_ship_and_swam
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How can I avoid double-posting?  Don't mean to shout.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 06:30 | 4727663 jumped_ship_and_swam
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Is there somebody out there who genuinely wants to know?  I am shocked, shocked.  Also quite disappointed, as I have heretofore respected zerohedge.  I am a longtime reader and appreciate the analysis of the impending financial crises and collapse of values in the west.  zerohedge is on the money with regard to HFT, bankers, corporate cronyism and cowardice and the failures of the Obama administration.  The only other place I greatly disagree is Fukajima.  GeorgeWashington has vastly overblown it.  Therefore, I am saddened to see zerohedge emerge as a cheerleader for the invasion of a defenseless sovereign country, all the more so because I happen to live in that country.  The extent to which zerohedge has been captured by Moscow should be evident in the number of down votes I have gotten.  I am flattered - the truth as I see it must seem quite dangerous to Moscow.

I am an American living in Kiev.  I learned Russian because Ukrainian is not of much use.  A minor language that would have painted me into a linguistic backwater.  There are more books published here in Russian than Ukrainian.  The major business publications and newsmagazines are more in Russian.  Not to speak Russian would be like not speaking English in Ireland.

Kiev is the capital.  The best and brightest come here from all over the country.  My friends have self-selected for brains but not geography.  They are from Crimea, Donetsk, Odessa, Kherson, Kharkiv and Lugansk.  Many grew up in the Soviet Union.  They know the Russians and they absolutely do not want to live under them.  The people they left behind in their hometowns are more easily swayed.  And intimidated.  Russia is employing vast amounts of both intimidation and propaganda, and it is having an effect.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:30 | 4725961 jumped_ship_and_swam
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You sandbaggers!  You post this highly biased stuff, then allow your partisans to post their comments before we commoners get a chance.  Are you on Moscow's payroll?

Very briefly, this is Urkaine.  I am a Russian speaker in Ukraine.  We are in no danger except from the Russians.  They should get the hell out and mind their own business.

Russia has 100 years experience meddling in other countries' business.  They are experts.  The new government in Ukraine has been (somewhat) out from under Russia's thumb since February.  Yes, if they are going to push back the Russian bear, they could use some advice.  

The CIA has not been effective up until now, and I doubt that they will be.  I appreciate their concern that Russia is invading a sovereign country.  I wish that the sorry SOBs were more effective and had not burned up their credibility in places they don't belong.  

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:36 | 4725980 cherry picker
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Best thing that could happen to the USA is the CIA and NSA disbanded.

After all, how many enforcement types do you need?  IRS, FBI, State and Local Police, BLS, Customs, DEA all carry firepower.  For what?  To kill 95 year old men suffering from demetia?

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:50 | 4726017 lakecity55
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"I will break the CIA into a thousand pieces."
---JFK

"If had known what was going to happen, I would never have signed their Charter."
--H S Truman

"We are puppets of the International Jew."
---Unk, found scrawled on men's room wall in bar on Bleecker St.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 07:06 | 4727693 jumped_ship_and_swam
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If you read "Legacy of Ashes," you will find that Kennedy abused the CIA as much as any president in history.  

The issue here is Russia's invasion of Ukraine.  I do not mean to defend the CIA in any way, shape or form, or the Obama administration.  That is a separate issue, one on which we agree.  Let me state it simply.

Russia is invading Ukraine, a sovereign country, with a vast network of covert operatives brought across the unguarded borders to raise hell.  It is defending them with a massive, worldwide propaganda effort.  Zerohedge, whether paid or simply as "useful idiots," is supporting that propaganda offensive.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:47 | 4726003 lakecity55
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nice try, fedz, but your syntax is wrong.

wait until the Germans tell you crooked fucks to fucking fuck off, fuckers!

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:55 | 4726024 NickVegas
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Very nice English writing skills for a Russian speaker, but you need to keep the mistakes consistent in your verbiage.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:58 | 4726038 tsuki
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You are a Russian speaker in Ukraine.  Well, if you are you are doing it illegally. Following the Estonian template, speaking Russian was criminalized after the coup. 

And about the meddling, I would direct you to speak to Brazil, Ecuador, Boliva, Argentina, Chile, Panama, Nicaragua, Venezuala, Cuba, Columbia, Granada, and Haiti on the benevolence of the CIA.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:43 | 4726147 foxenburg
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I think you left out Iran, Viet Nam, Libya, Syria, Costa Rica, Tunisia, Thailand, Eqypt....zizzzzzz.............

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 16:04 | 4726432 CuttingEdge
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To give some scale, there's been about 80 sucessful or failed coups courtesy of the CIA since 1953. Probably a quarter of the world's population have taken it directly up the arse from those cunts.

 

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 07:37 | 4727734 jumped_ship_and_swam
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Whaaaat?  Everybody I know here speaks Russian.  I have been trying to learn Ukrainian, and there is hardly any educated person to speak it with.  

I have spent a lot of time in Latin America, especially Nicaragua, and I am very familiar with the contempt in which they hold "la Seee-yaaa", aka the CIA.  They had similar contempt for the less effective (generally) NKVD - KGB.  Neither one was on the side of the campeseño.  

 

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:06 | 4726065 Farqued Up
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If you place any hope in the Ivy League cabal know as the CIA, you are in for a big letdown. I can only speak for me but if you are a believer in patriotism, I strongly suggest that you gather your friends, many of the latest AK autos and head underground for the war. You may want to start with killing the scum that you think are your fearless leaders whereas they're really a bunch of power hungry whores that could give a rat shit about you and your clan.

A country is nothing but dirt and people, I can't eat dirt and I personally wouldn't give two shits for the average American, collectively a bunch of lazy, shiftless, beggars. I look back to my US Army days, what a fool and a tool I was. Patriotism? Fresh out of that concept, but I reserve the right to revert on the one in 200 trillion chances it will be righted. Or did my banker say it's now 300 trillion? I can't count that high.

Meanwhile, not holding my breath, getting worse.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:34 | 4726125 arby63
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+ 2.75 gabillion.

 

FBI and CIA BOTH suck at what they do. A bunch of Ivy League HACKS with no true view of the world.

 

Might as well send the IRS too. Someone has to pay for this right?

 

Has our government maybe figured out we know them well?

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 16:06 | 4726441 CuttingEdge
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Can we add James T Clapper and his Starship NSA to that cabal?

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:33 | 4725974 pupdog1
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"The FBI agents are also helping the Kiev government fight organised crime, it added."

No reason to do this in Chicago when American taxpayers can fund the FBI to do this in a place that most Americans couldn't find on a map.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:45 | 4726000 lakecity55
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I'm Rick James, Bitch! What you Fedz doin' in some way off country? Merica not good enuff?

Hahha, dat means nobody watchin the cocaine. Time for a ghostly score.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:34 | 4725977 ebworthen
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Right about now would be a good time for the magnetic poles to reverse, disable all technology, and thin the herd.

It's that - or we are going to nuke each other to nothingness and kill a lot of cool plants and animals in the process.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 16:49 | 4726533 N57Mike
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Edgar Casey predicted a reversing of the poles, I think sometime within the next generation or so

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 18:37 | 4726789 Dapper Dan
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a

Prophecy that has come true:

The Shifting of the Earth's Poles Has Begun,

as predicted by Edgar Cayce in 1936
NOVA, the PBS television program from WGBH in Boston, reported startling discoveries about our planet’s electromagnetic poles and fields. The program was titled “Magnetic Storm” and was written and produced by David Sington. The reason this is of interest to us is that Edgar Cayce predicted that the beginning of the New Age would coincide with a pole shift.

http://www.caycesprophecies.com/caycesprophecies3.html

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 00:03 | 4727422 Flagit
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disable all technology,

 

Uhh, not to be a dick, but how do you disable uranium-235?

 

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:36 | 4725978 Rock On Roger
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Yankees - Pick up your toys and go home.

 

Stack On

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:08 | 4726073 DoChenRollingBearing
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I wish we Americans would.  We have no business monkeying around in Ukraine.

 

Stack On?  + $55,000

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:44 | 4725998 Stuck on Zero
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Grab your popcorn and watch the events.  It's US and European agents vs. Soviet agents.  Exciting.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:53 | 4726022 lakecity55
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SPY VS. SPY Vs. SPY
JUSA-RUSSIA-GERMY.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 16:34 | 4726002 Youri Carma
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So now the U.S. orchestrated the Odessa Massacre in Waco Texas Massacre fashion. ‘Ukrainian troops’ from an illegal unelected fascist government moves on to massacre even more civilians.
 
Ukrainian troops move to encircle rebels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1IoO8BH3aA

Odessa Horror: How clashes turned into massacre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vef3UJcCEPA

Shocking Aftermath: Burnt floors, blood stains inside Odessa fire scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKthvVL7BhM

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 16:44 | 4726518 Kirk2NCC1701
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It prompts me to re-read European history leading up to WW1.  Eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavrilo_Princip#Assassination_of_the_Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand

Parallels can be drawn to today, with intra-European alliances and rivalries (UK vs France, UK vs Germany), and other parties (US, Russia, China, ME, BRICS) interested in or affected by the EU.  It's a complex web, that can probably be reduced to "Global and regional resistance to US domination" vs. TPTB.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:57 | 4726028 smacker
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"So just who, and why, is pulling the strings on Germany's media outlets in a way that goes against the official Merkel fiction"

Merkel's government itself, perhaps.

 

Also, whilst we now know CIA/FBI are in Ukraine stirring the pot, it would be interesting to know if there are Moscow sponsored people there too.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 12:57 | 4726034 redwater
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-------------------from their website------------------

U.S. Department of State

Diplomacy in Action

 

Department Mission Statement
Shape and sustain a peaceful, prosperous, just, and democratic world and foster conditions for stability and progress for the benefit of the American people and people everywhere.

---------------------

 

 

Sounds like a pretty peaceful and innocuous bunch.

They're all about hugs and lollipops and candy canes.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:00 | 4726039 Bernoulli
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CIA and FBI in the Ukraine? WTF? Was that a precondition for the IMF bailout?

Well at least FBI can help find out who the snipers were on Maidan square earlier this year.... oh wait... no....

And this information is coming from Bild Zeitung: That's pretty cool. True, Germany, Russia & China would be quite some axis...and that would mean the end of the Euro (good for the US dollar?).

But I don't see it happening. No matter what the German population or media think and say, Merkel would never (NEVER EVER) admit the EURO was a mistake although she knows all too well it was. She will prefer go down with Brussels.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:05 | 4726066 Rock On Roger
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Blood was the precondition for the IMF bailout.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 14:50 | 4726151 Jackagain
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Maybe both the EURO & the Dollar are now designed to fail so they can bring in the solution...the new & improved world currency.

They don't talk about the weather at Bilderberger meetings....(unless they intend to involve HAARP of course)

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:00 | 4726043 22winmag
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This whole Ukraine saga is a stinking buffet of troll bait, but not many hearts and minds are going to be won or lost by the troll parade.

 

My pointing out that the moon landings were faked woke up a few trolls, but it was small potatoes by comparison.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:43 | 4726145 Jackagain
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I wish they would fake everything NASA does.....it would save tax payers a lot of money.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 14:42 | 4726253 Seek_Truth
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It's all fake. And no, it won't save a single dollar. Deception is NASA's
Raison D'etere.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 16:15 | 4726464 CuttingEdge
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I didn't know NASA did much hardware lifting these days. They subcontract Russia for their sat launches. Oops...

 

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:00 | 4726044 hognutz
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Shouldn't they be oppressing us at The Bundy ranch?

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:40 | 4726139 Jackagain
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Hey Hoggie....Red says not to mention the Bundy Ranch. (He's under the bed right now counting his silver)

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 14:01 | 4726187 hognutz
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Long Time no see man!    Hows it hangin"?!

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 14:49 | 4726269 Jackagain
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Hangin' in there with some of the old group at the Safehouse Lounge. Shorty, Waddy, Red, Val, Bearish, TFP, Rojo....

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:00 | 4726046 VWAndy
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Of course the Russians are there. To provide another bad choice.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:07 | 4726071 B2u
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and the FBI is involved because...???

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 14:10 | 4726204 Haager
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I've heard they're looking for the trillions of Dollars Janukovic is said to have owned along with all these gold. They must be totally desperate...

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:11 | 4726074 BullyBearish
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With record wealth inequality and corruption globally, could this be the beginning of the Blow Off Top for the Button Pushers?

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:11 | 4726075 q99x2
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CIA and FBI risk their lives as Bankster mercenaries. They kiss financial pervert ass..

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:27 | 4726107 Mesquite
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CIA and FBI....

If they're looking for work...

Lots to in DC...

Even save on travel expense...

Just trying to be helpful...

/s

 

 

 

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:13 | 4726079 VWAndy
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Pick your poison. Or stay thirsty. Dont drink any koolaid.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:23 | 4726096 valkir
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tens of thousands march in Berlin,listening old USSR antem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCSscaHDVcw

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:24 | 4726101 tuttisaluti
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Watch here in odessa        http://on.rt.com/5pelpb 

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:25 | 4726103 arby63
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Great. Two moronic and poorly trained agencies leading us into another mess. Don't we have anything better to do?

 

I have the very unfortunate privilege of working with many of these clowns in the recent past. We are going to make matters much worse.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:31 | 4726117 ObamaDepression
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Russian bombers, fighter jets 'seen over Crimea'

Simferopol (Undefined) (AFP) - Several dozen Russian planes including what appeared to be strategic bombers and fighter jets have been spotted in the sky above the Moscow-controlled peninsula of Crimea, witnesses and experts said.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/russian-bombers-fighter-jets-seen-over-crimea-1433...

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:35 | 4726127 Obamanism
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"The FBI agents are also helping the Kiev government fight organised crime, it added."

Is this a mis-quote it should be

"The FBI agents are also helping the Kiev government become more organised in crime, it added."

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:42 | 4726144 Canucklehead
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Everybody meddles in everyone elses' government:
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/01/07/obama-campaign-fined-big-...
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/Obama-fundraising-illegal/2008/09/29/id/...
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/10/08/exposing_barack_oba...
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/obamas_donor_contributions_sil.html

So, who messed with the US elections? The likely candidates are the Chinese, Russians, Saudis, British, etc.

My point is Putin will not go to war over the low level fracas in the Ukraine. If a proper civil war can get started, he might enter. If it stays low level, Russia will not be the first to enter the fight.

I believe Putin was part of the financial engineering team that got Obama elected. Putin and the team of investors have invested much to get Obama to rule over America. They are not going to make Obama look bad, just prior to the mid-term elections. What is the point of getting your man in power only to nip his authority at a time when he can most exercise it for your benefit.

Now there are internal American powers that are battling with Obama. That is a good thing.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 16:05 | 4726437 Dublinmick
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Canucklehead Diebold voting machines are made in Israel. What elections? It is the same in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Canada is also a corporation under the crown. The image of the elections are just something for the sheeple to fret and strut about. Why would China Russia et al need to get involved when they are most likely not capable of even finding anyone who could destroy us faster.

 

They west is not hated because of their freedoms, we hare hated because of our stupidity.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 22:29 | 4727259 Canucklehead
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I think the west is hated because of our poor sentence structure... and our spelling.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:45 | 4726153 1stepcloser
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If you want the IMF money, you will take the CIA's advice LOLOLOL

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