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400 Blackwater Mercs Deployed In Ukraine Against Separatists, German Press Reports
In what is becoming a weekly ritual, the German press continues to demolish the US case of "idealistic humaniatrian" Ukraine intervention. Recall, that it was a week ago that German tabloid Bild am Sonntag, hardly the most reputable source but certainly one which reaches the broadest audience, reported that dozens of CIA and FBI agents were "advising the Ukraine government." This conclusion is hardly a stretch and certainly based on facts considering the recent semi-secret jaunt by CIA head Brennan to Kiev. Fast forward one week when overnight the same Bild reported that about 400 elite mercenary commandos of the private US security firm, Academi, f/k/a Xe Services, f/k/a Blackwater "are involved in a punitive operation mounted by Ukraine's new government" against east Ukraine separatists.
Bild cites sources who report that on April 29, Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND) informed the Angela Merkel government about Academi commandos' involvement in Kiev's military operations in eastern Ukraine. Spiegel adds that "the information originates from U.S. intelligence services and was presented during a meeting chaired by the Chancellor's Office chief Peter Altmaier (CDU). At the meeting were present the president of the intelligence agencies and the Federal Criminal Office, as well as the intelligence coordinator of the Chancellor's Office and senior Ministry officials."
Bild am Sontag did not have information about who was paying the Blackwater commandos: it is well-known they do not come cheap.
RT has more:
In March, media reports appeared suggesting that the coup-imposed government in Kiev could have employed up to 300 mercenaries.That was before the new government launched a military operation against anti-Maidan activists, or “terrorists” as Kiev put it, in southeast Ukraine.
At the time, the Russian Foreign Ministry said then that reports claiming Kiev was planning to involve “involve staff from foreign military companies to ‘ensure the rule of law,’” could suggest that it wanted “to suppress civil protests and dissatisfaction.”
In particular, Greystone Limited, which is currently registered in Barbados and is a part of Academi Corporation, is a candidate for such a gendarme role. It is a similar and probably an affiliated structure of the Blackwater private army, whose staff have been accused of cruel and systematic violations of human rights in various trouble spots on many occasions.
“Among the candidates for the role of gendarme is the Barbados-registered company Greystone Limited, which is integrated with the Academi corporation,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “It is an analogue, and, probably and affiliated body of the Blackwater private army, whose employees have repeatedly been accused of committing grievous and systematic human rights abuses in different troubled regions.”
As this is not the first time Academi has been implicated in the Ukraine, its canned response is already prepared. This is what it said back on March 17:
Some irresponsible bloggers and an online reporter have recently posted rumors that ACADEMI employees (operating under the name of Blackwater) are present in Ukraine. They are not and ACADEMI has no relationship with any entity named Blackwater or with the former owner of Blackwater, Erik Prince. Such unfounded statements combined with the lack of factual reporting to support them and the lack of context about the company, are nothing more than sensationalistic efforts to create hysteria and headlines in times of genuine crisis.
The basics: Those who understand the facts know that Erik Prince sold the company (which he had renamed 'Xe') in 2010 and retained the rights to the 'Blackwater' name. The new management of ACADEMI has made tremendous efforts to build a responsible, transparent company ethos, evidenced by the numerous awards ACADEMI has received for being among the most compliant companies in our industry. More information can be found here.
Sure enough, moments ago the soldier for hire company followed up with a second denial, when as German Zeit reported, "the U.S. security services denied a ZEIT ONLINE report, that it has put mercenaries in Ukraine."
Of course, since no western entity, and certainly not the company itself, would ever admit its involvement in the Ukraine as it would promptly crash the official US foreign policy track claiming US non-involvement in Ukraine, none of this is surprising.
Readers may have greater luck inquiring Blackwater directly via their Twitter account. After all #AskJPM was such a smashing success we don't see a reason why #AskBlackwater wouldn't work just as well.
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— ACADEMI, LLC (@AcademiElite) May 9, 2014
Finally, in this proxy war between west and east, to believe that the US won't throw everything it can at Putin is naive, and as such the involvement of trained US mercenaries in Ukraine is beyond debate.
However what is certainly surprising and far more interesting, is the persistent attempts by the German press to discredit none other than their biggest "Developed world" ally, the US. It is almost as if someone (a quite wealthy and powerful someone) has material interests that diverge with those of the Obama administration, and hence converge with those of Putin. Alongside the emerging China-Russia axis, keeping tabs on just how close to Russia Germany is willing to get, is easily the most notable story in the entire Ukraine conflict.
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What a tangled web.
My best guess is that the person(s) behind the German media reporting of US mercs in Ukraine (fighting FOR the fascists) may be none other than the German government itself. By quiet encouragement if not by order. After all, it has been known for some while that Merkel would be talking with two tongues over Ukraine and Russian sanctions. One tongue to keep on-side with Obama, and the other to keep on-side with Russia/Putin where she sees a great future for the Fatherland. Exposing the US merc fiasco is an excellent excuse to limit her public condemnation of Ukraine separatists and Russian involvement.
Many years ago in the 30s when a lot of British young men went to fight AGAINST Franco's fascists in Spain, they were classed as brave heros. There's a memorial to those of them who died fighting in that civil war in a park in London's Hammersmith & Fulham, near the River Thames. Things change. Today, the young British Moslems who have sneaked over to Syria to fight in that war are now being described by the British Home Secretary as "potential terrorists" when they return. Those who return alive will probably be arrested, interrogated and possibly prosecuted under one of the terror laws.
I suspect a proxy war between the most insolvent bank in the world, Deutschebank, and the German industrialists are playing out in the press. Merkel will have to decide whether it is worth sacrificing Germany's trade balance to save Deutschebank by financializing the assests of the Ukraine to save Deutschebank.
Based on the reports, ARD "Maiden", the mercs, etc., I think the industrialists are winning. But, meantime, the German press is more interesting. All reports seem to be uncensored.
Stalin and his gang slaughtered how many Ukranians? Low estimate is 8 million, high is 20 million. Now the Russians that moved in are voting to join Russia. Funny how it all plays out. Neville Chamberlin would be proud at the low cost of peace.
Stalin was not a Russian
Soviet was never a Russian construct.
From 1917 thru Stalin, Russians were never in control.
You are ignorant of facts.
And you're delusional. Who was it that forced those Russians to enslave Poland and Hungary? The Cossaks maybe? Ah, those benevolent Russians, always getting forced into conquring some poor populace.
rodonmeguro, member for 12 weeks 2 days, are you ignorant of history and fucked in the head, or a paid shill and fucked in the head?
There's no country for old men, mercenaries.
When all you have becomed is a Ghostbuster, you need Ghosts!
"When all you have becomed is a Ghostbuster, you need Ghosts!"
That's funny. What translation App are you using? Here it is in English:
"when all you have is a hammer, every problem is a nail"
Am I the only one who remembers Russia used un-uniformed Spatnaz troops into Crimea breaking their Geneva Conventions laws, just prior to the official invasion?
So how is it different if the US sends Blackwater?
Its not. Everyone here is just "cheering" for their own team and making excuses for them.
This is now becomeing a proxy war just like the old days during the cold war.
You remember what you do not know?
Russia was allowed to have 30K military in Crimea under treaty.
There was plenty of Crimean citizen vets, ex specialists, etc to fulfill self defense roles there...
the guys were Afgantsy and other conflict experienced
You know nothing about on the ground there...
25K, but close enough.
Was an invasion of the entire Crimea also part of the agreement?
What invasion? You use big word.......Crimeans invaded themselve?
Crimea is still celebrating.....no Crimean care what you think..
is it important to you?
better worry about your own country
RE:"So how is it different if the US sends Blackwater?"
Its HUGELY DIFFERENT, didn't you observed that on ZH if Russia and US makes THE SAME think,
RUSSIA IS HERO and US is DEVIL?
My concern isn't whether the US is deploying mercenaries (I assume this is occurring), but at what point will we the people have to oppose the mercs in our own towns, following their large-scale domestic deployment. The mercs are gaining an edge via their overseas deployment, and they will be tougher to destroy than the Fedcoat forces.
Gawd but I wish I were about 25 years younger. I'd LOVE to be mercenary in Blackwater!
get lost idiot
Just cuz you are a nutless wonder with no stomach for fighting doesn't mean everyon else is, jackass.
Too bad you aren't. You might have got your head blwn off hopefully.
Fuck you, dickhead.
I wish you were a mercenary 25 years ago.
There werent' free standing PMCs all those years ago, asshole.
Look at all the gutless pussies who don't understand the role of mercenary soldiers, or are ignorant of the kind of life they lead. Perhaps all you lot ought to GET SOME BALLS.
Just a thought. These same "JerkWater" contractors who today serve the fascist coup leaders on Kiev, will one day serve the fascist coup leaders of America. In that event, they will gladly blow our heads off for money, this is what they do. A Ukrainian school girl in their gunsights is just as deserving of a bullet as any American civilian caught in the ginsight of these "JerlkWater" murdering cunts. They are just as ready to kill us Americans and they are any Ukrainian. If they get paid, they will pull the trigger. Ukraine today, hometown America tomorrow.
True, and not too many days away. A merc is a merc, same as during our Revolutionary War, they work both sides, same as the oligarchs, which is why, IMO, the umbilical cord needs to be cut in Kiev, and let all the mercs respond to a cutoff to their supply line, which would expose them to the reality of being unwanted scum in a foreign country most don't speak the language of, let alone understand it's culture.
How about this little reality check, and yes, that is a mother holding her child going up to protest the Ukrainian governor who won't shut up about his love for Hitler and his kin.
Kiev junta's Nazi revisionism on Victory Day didn't go down too well in province next to Crimea: Watch what happened when Kherson governor described Hitler as 'liberator' www.sott.net/article/278822-Kiev-juntas-Nazi-revisionism-on-Victory-Day-didnt-go-down-too-well-in-province-next-to-Crimea-Watch-what-happened-when-Kherson-governor-described-Hitler-as-liberatorjack burton - these are not nice people. they are real assasins. i remember well when i met my first real mafia assasin in the nyc area. i didn't believe it at first. they take great pleasure in killing. great. perverse. it's not a job. in a sense, they are the luckiest people around, because they get paid to do what the love - destroy life brutally and inflict real damage to very often innocent people. they don't care, innoncent or not.
these aren't boys with guns running at each other terrified and in the end shot because they realize they do not want to be shot. these aren't crimes of passion where a mistake was made as to the consequences.
these are pure killers. as an american, i'm not proud of us having sent them there. and we are paying for it. 'ukraine' may be paying on the face of it, the same ukraine that just got a 17Billion loan from us. not real money. we are paying. it's down right disgusting.
what this country has become is a disgrace.
DeutcheBank defaults on 73 trillion, Germany joins the BRICS and shatters the quadrillion dollars worth of toilet paper balancing on a vertical string. If the "largest"* global derivatives holder can be stuffed under the rug.....Im going to live in the woods either way.
Hows it going to be a pronounceable acronym now..?
RIPS
On topic:
http://rt.com/news/158264-dead-ukraine-krasnoarmeysk-shooting/
Committing these action are right sector and like minded useful idiots gathered and sent to Novi Petrovici and other initiation/training camps as "national guard" then bused across country to make havoc.
Question: How the flying fuck can Blackwater guys clear customs?
Private flights? Or if they are really organised by the Obama government, by-pass customs altogether.
They pass through the express 'friends of the CIA' airport customs line.
Visas. They've been hired by Ukraine as security and been issued work permits. As for their all gear, it is either supplied by Ukraine or goes through whatever channel is typical for legal armament shipments.
Same way the Russians cleared customs in Crimea.
Russia had a naval base there. They could just come in and leave as they pleased.
The fact that these assholes are not US military but rather are private citizens means that they are not protected from prosecution for War Crimes. Attention Hague War Crimes prosecutors - aren't you obligated to issue warrants, arrest, indict and try them all as War Criminals and then go after their leadership, who are also not protected just because the US hasn't signed the Convention?
And while you're at it, shouldn't InterPol issue arrest warrants for any US Government officials responsible for hiring, funding, and sending them to act as War Criminals - like "potty mouth" Nuland. Let's see her yell "Fuck The EU" from inside a cage at the Hague?
Laws like this do not apply to anybody who works for the government.
Tony Blair is still a free man, earning millions from claptrapping and wheeling/dealing.
Smacker - check it out. These mercenaries do not work for the government. They work for a private corporation that has a contract with the government, but they are not protected. If they commit war crimes they are liable to being arrested, charged and tried as such. Just like any other civilian who goes to another country and engages in war crimes as part of a terrorist organization. Yep - that's exactly what Blackwater/Xe/Acadxemi are - terrorists. And they should be treated just like the criminals they are.
I believe everything you say, but somehow, people like this never get prosecuted, except as a PR sacrifice.
My reference to Tony Blair was to point out that theoretically he is subject to the same laws as the rest of us and should be arrested for war crimes. He never has been. Worse, British taxpayers pay for inordinate amounts of security for him wherever he goes.
The armed British police officer who fired 8 gunshots into the head of an innocent Brazilian on the London Tube was never prosecuted. Nobody was ever held to account.
There really is one law for us and one law for them.
Assisted suicide.
Move along...
I believe the Hague is in a NATO country.
Dear Academi Soldier/Merc:
Even with face coverings, when you are on r & r your image is being captured and compiled by face recognition equipment, in the bar, from your own phones. Therefore, who you are and the fact of your presence, and hence your "guilt" is an easily established fact. It is likely that you have bought into the illusion of an international hegemony by your supervison, that staus may be temporarily true, but terminal in that the situation is very changeable. Basically, "you in trouble bro". Sadly, if you still affilate with the USA and feel you are a part of its history and legacy, the people, the ones who are not deceived by the media, and various NGO's, thinktanks, and the super-rich, DON'T THINK WHAT YOU ARE DOING IS RIGHT.
Oh, your doing it for the money.
Let's see how that plays out.
The last foreigners that murdered Russians and Ukrainians in Ukraine were the German Wehrmacht and SS. US following in their footsteps.
Expect Blow Back.
The last time there was a world war, the US was pretty much unscathed, the mainland anyway. We never had to live through that war, up close and personal, like some of our European and Asian friends. Our geographical position, and the limits of the technology of the day, made it very difficult for anyone to get in a direct hit.
Our geographical position no longer means squat. There are nations that CAN hit us directly now, and with some pretty catastrophic stuff. It is a WHOLE new ballgame! And it is something these war-drum beaters (on both sides) had better fucking well UNDERSTAND!
Some of these people are going to be in for a rude shock if they get their wish and start a real war. Especially the money boys who think they will profit somehow. Because air raid sirens and having entire blocks reduced to rubble in our major cities are going to have a very negative effect on markets...
The non-moneyed small citizen pounding his scrawny chest at the "Russkies" is going to find out what living in a war zone actually MEANS, and he isn't going to like it. Not at all...it's not going to be like Red Dawn, and he's gonna be too busy saving his own ass (and changing his underwear frequently!) to be roaming the woods in cammo with a knife in his teeth.
The first foreign missle that lands in an American city is going to be one of the greatest traumas in our history. The proof that we are NOT invincible...9/11 on steroids.
Agreed, the US mainland and particularly cities are in the crosshairs should a hot war begin. However, there are benefits to this scenario. First, it would catalyze a resurgence in US manufacturing and industry. Second, it would 'thin the herd.' Third, it would shift the city/rural balance toward the rural/agrarian end of the spectrum. Fourth, it would force the government to focus on defeating a real enemy rather than tyrannizing its citizenry. Fifth, it would be a catastrophy for the gurus of 'global warming' and the EPA. All the false arguments and Goldman Sachs carbon taxation schemes would be shelved in favor of preserving our nation. Fifth, it would usher in a coal-fired NRG renaissance. Sixth, it would put the surviving Americans back to work. So to conclude, war would be hell. In all liklihood several to many large cities would be pounded by explosives, perhaps even WMDs, leading to many deaths and the loss of lots of residential real estate fortunes. However, should America survive at all, it may be a more authentic America, with real jobs paying decent wages.
Yeah,
Russia is going to brave Norad to drop non nuclear weapons on american cities. Poof, boom, wow! We're back in 1958 and we're gonna put in that there corn crop. Say, Sully, could you change my oil? I'm on guard duty down at the town center. The Kiwanas are having a chicken fry! Jeepers, it's swell them ol' Ruskies bombed us STRAIGHT! Ya' hear? George Strait is playin' at the Granger Hall. I'm thinkin' 'bout tappin' the sugar maples. Suppose you get that hay wagon out to help me. Hey, pardner, think your sister would like to come out with us? I kinda' cotton to her. She's a swell gal, shucks.
They will just instruct the FED to carry out more QE, got to keep that DOW going up.
THe Psychopaths had much cooler uniforms in those days though,
A basic problem is that the USA and it's ability to print the reserve currency has become an unrestrained force in the world. Since it does not rely on taxation the opinions of voters doesn't count much. Politicians here seem to be happy with the ability to spend without consequence so they don't speak up. All the USA (or whatever part of the government that is runnuing the show) has to do is command...and poof...the money appears and things happen. Things do not have to be well considered...the right guy just has to say 'make it happen'. Public opinion is not very important.
That is why I quit giving money to politicians. Too few care and there is never a group that can change things. The Executive Branch seems to be all we have calling the shots. Congress has quit the field.
You just need to go buy some free speech, and quit the hand wringing.
Russia-China-Germany axis is the last thing BHO Administration would like to see.
How else would they get to divide up Poland again? And China will get Japan this time around.
China will get Japan?
For what?
Their aging population, natural resources, Fukushima or their superior technical knowledge of nuclear power plants?
For revenge. And to remove a potential enemy; an enemy that could engineer and build the weapons to obliterate China in a premptive attack.
Japan is doing a really great job of eliminating itself, it does not need any help, restrictive immigration policy and low birth rate combined with unlimited QE and a touch of radiation for desert will accomplish the destruction of Japan within 20 years.
US to but by different means
Hang em.
The evil empire rises from the ashes, a phoenix with its claws pointing at Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, et al. Eastern Europe to be enslaved again.
These countries are already enlaved by their bad economic situation and the debt they carry. Why would anyone want to conquer basket cases.
The US is bad, but I don't think it wants Poland etc, leave that to the Russians.
We should know for sure: There are foreign soldier in Ukraine from BOTH Russia and West.
As Tyler stated: Influential German press informed about soldiers from West,
I do not remember that Russia's press informed about Russian soldiers in Ukraine.
Hmmm. It only means that German press is less censored than Russian one.
Tyler I would be interested also about Russian soldiers in Ukraine, could you share some info about their tasks in Ukraine, please?
I am not sure how many Russian intel guys or solidiers are in the Ukraine but there are a lot of Russian speaking Ukrainians in the East who want no part of this criminal clown show in Kiev.
The most interesting aspect of German press reporting Blackwater mercs in the Ukriane is Germany is choosing sides. Germany is probably really tired of this State Dept clown show. It is bad for business and the Germans and Russians do a lot of business together.
Yup, like marching together in 1939 Poland after it's occupation by joint Nazi-Communist alliance forces.
History does not repeat, but it rhymes.
As a result of what you mentioned, Poland got German: West Pomerania, Lower Silesia, Danzig/Gdansk and a big chunk of East Prussia. Do you want more? And if the Germans are so bad, why 1-2 millions of Poles moved to Germany since the end of WW2?
Yup, Tyler should know... Unfortunately Kremlin does not pay to disclose it.
I know. They should be as forthcoming as our White House.
Russian soldiers?
Many residents of these regions are ex soviet soldiers, specialists and other.
hard to make a line, as they are mostly born there and Ukrainian citizenship.
mostly "Ukrainians"and Rus are same, except poles west and others from moved borders
King Henry IV to Prince Harry:
"Thou art not firm enough, since griefs are green;
And all my friends, which thou must make thy friends,
Have but their stings and teeth newly ta'en out;
By whose fell working I was first advanced
And by whose power I well might lodge a fear
To be again displaced: which to avoid,
I cut them off; and had a purpose now
To lead out many to the Holy Land,
Lest rest and lying still might make them look
Too near unto my state. Therefore, my Harry,
Be it thy course to busy giddy minds
With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out,
May waste the memory of the former days."
- Shakespeare
Translation:
Make them look not at what is happening under their nose but distract them away.
Yawn... The wannabe tough guy Blackwater idiots will just end up getting burned alive and hung from their balls like in Falluja in 2004. Only this time it will be Russian Speznaz rather than teenage Muslim boys that kick their lame azzzes.
everybody almost think GRU does everything..
US media for simple minded says it so must be true
comprehend there are plenty of vets, ex specialist that live in these regions..Ukrainian citizens.
older guys, Afgantsy and other experienced..
Is Blackwater publicly traded? Seems like a growth business to me.
...... And instead of getting fired, you get fired at -- interesting
business model.
They have to keep changing there name. The bad reputation follows them.
I would buy, usurping governments is a growth business especially if you can bring all their Gold back, nothing beats making a profit at the end of a gun..
This
Alongside the emerging China-Russia axis, keeping tabs on just how close to Russia Germany is willing to get, is easily the most notable story in the entire Ukraine conflict.
Many speculate about how much Germany is under the boot of "Washington". If it is apparent that the Germans have found some collective balls after all this time and there may be some evidence of it - for example; "Please sir, can we have our gold back?" Things really will start to wobble in the Dollar Empire.
excellent point. i had not thought of that. gold ain't coming back if they back putin. (but) - it's a bluff - because THE GOLD AIN'T THERE ANYWAY. nice point. let's all ponder that one. so - what is germany to do now? that is very funny.
i know it's a day late, but this really is an excellent point. and - i give the US powers that be the credit for seeing this was a possibility. because - they can play the bluff. stick with us and we will leak you gold back over a number of years. (i'm sure germany knows the gold is gone, but the us could eventually pull that back together from various places). so - if i'm germany, i have to do some serious number crunching on the plus and minus economics, besides, what will the US do once i'm actually their 'bitch' again waiting for my gold that everybody knows they already sold and can't afford to give back.
I am thinking that 400 mercenaries cannot change the course of the east breaking away, so perhaps their goal is to inflame Russia into interfering and sending troops.
bingo
they aren't troops. they are there to cause real, specific, horrible pain and create a spark that otherwise might not have existed, and since they are 'fake' they can create a spark against anyone and make it look like anyone else caused the problem.
ever hear of 9/11? boston marathon? all done by 'bad guys - enemies of the united states'.
agents provocateurs; red flag and bull.
One thing that I can't understand is that during the Serbian war organised by US/Nato against Milosevic; the US deemed the separatist desires of Kosovo, part of Greater Serbia, as legitimate. And Kosovo today exists.
How does the West justify the referendum in Kosovo--apparently run by a Mafia type government since then--and deny the same to Donetsk?
What does the UN have to say on this?
Calling bankymoonboots!
You people understand if Eastern Ukraine (Donetsk) goes independent then joins Russia afterwards attacking Eastern Ukraine (Donetsk) is technically an attack directly on Russia now. Everyone can lip flap about legitimate and legal but possession is pretty much the law when the UN is impotent. If the UN was going to be involved it would have happened when the interm government first took office to oversea Ukrainian Constitutional fucking law. We see how well that piece of paper protected against potentially illegal governments being installed in the first place.
As a reminder yet again.
http://www.rferl.org/content/was-yanukovychs-ouster-constitutional/25274...
Dueling Constitutions
But a legal gap remains. According to the terms of an EU-brokered peace deal finalized on February 21, Yanukovych was due to sign a measure returning Ukraine to its 2004 constitution. (In 2010, Yanukovych restored the country's 1996 constitution, which hands greater power to the presidency.)
Yanukovych, however, failed to sign the measure. The omission appears to leave Kyiv in the kind of legal limbo that may prove fodder for future arguments against the current government transition.The 1996 and the 2004 constitutions are uniform when it comes to the reasons for removing a president, with Article 111 stating the parliament has the right to initiate a procedure of impeachment "if he commits treason or other crime."
However, it is not clear that the hasty February 22 vote upholds constitutional guidelines, which call for a review of the case by Ukraine's Constitutional Court and a three-fourths majority vote by the Verkhovna Rada -- i.e., 338 lawmakers. Pro-Yanukovych lawmakers may also argue that under the 1996 constitution, it should have been the current acting prime minister, Serhiy Arbuzov, who assumed power after Yanukovych's removal. The 2004 constitution designates the parliament speaker as the No. 2 position. ... If the UN had stepped in right there this probably wouldn't have gotten to this point in the first place. You assholes keep thinking laws, pieces of paper, god given rights matter when you won't don't anything about when the counterparty refuses to abide by the terms of the contract that the association is based upon.The law is a totally separate issue from justice, the law is simply the wishes of whoever is behind the curtain.
Justice does not remotely resemble the law .... Judge Dredd
They obviously had trolls in Plato's time
To paraphrase Plato, strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught iniquity, and anyone that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.
Don't know about using a Judge Dredd quote, but yes the law is simply a creation of those in power, people go on about 'rights' but you only really have privileges that can be taken away when required, ask any US citizen ofJapanese descent living in the US at the start of WW2 about their rights and what they counted for.
http://themindunleashed.org/2013/11/nonconformity-and-freethinking-now.html
Please understand that you all are now considered mentally ill according to the DSM IV and the newly minted "ODD" affliction.
oppositional defiant disorder
...unless of course you are a bitchass troll
So true, so true...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaS2bRGS86c
Twitter blocks my public tweets from appearing. I would have no idea that was happening since when I'm logged in I see them. It's just others CAN'T see them. I deleted a former account for that very reason and started a new one, but it happened again and this time deleting the account and starting a new account does not work.
I got suspicious and tested it when I noticed there were few replies to @SCOTUS after a fascist ruling and mine was the only negative tweet.
Twitter became compromised the second it became a publicly traded company. There is an important lesson concern socially and privately or on one entity controlled vs social and government backdoor controlled
I care who not writes the tweets as long as I control the Twitter.
http://twister.net.co/
Twister or platforms like it bitchez.
twister is the fully decentralized P2P microblogging platform leveraging from the free software implementations of Bitcoin and BitTorrent protocols.
Because twister is completely decentralized no one can censor you. No one can remove your posts. Your account cannot be blocked.
Private communication (Direct Messages) are protected with end-to-end encryption. Both content and metadata (the recipient address) are protected.
The IP address you use to access twister is not recorded on any server. Your online presence is not announced.
If social media platfroms aren't based on concepts and underlying technologies to implement things like this well it is only a matter of time until the platform becomes completely compromised and controlled censorship propaganda tool.
I would like to see them use more secure cryptography than Bitcoin.
SHA256 - NSA designed.
RIPEMD160 - Been hacked
secpk1 - Not a fully rigid curve
What about the TOR browser?
You can use Tor to interface Twister. Adds another layer. Twister isn't the only platform taking this type of approach for social media but my main point is it needs to be the direction forward as the governments get more and more paranoid and crazy as they see control slipping away.
When I try and comment ob google or wordpress now, I get a block that says you are not the owner of that identity.
Odd considering Twitter makes no money, you would think they would want every customer they could get.
Not when you are subsidized via the rigged stock market and the FED liquidity pump. Pump and dump someone in on the scam as an investor is requred to take said profits after they sell to fund the overhead expenses. There is plenty of money sloshing around to do it. TBTF stocks. Just to make sure the fix is in Twitter and all TBTF systematically important to corporate companies stocks will be considered a Tier 1 collateral for Basel III bank balance sheet purposes. M.A.D. gone mad.
Jordanian hotel operators hardest hit.
blackwater is just there to protect the oil pipeline till this all cools down
Alongside the emerging China-Russia axis, keeping tabs on just how close to Russia Germany is willing to get, is easily the most notable story in the entire Ukraine conflict.
Ok, I'm not sure about the political situation. But concerning German media: even if there seems to be some alternative articles now and then in German press, I wouldn't put too much hope in those journalists and also not in the readers/voters.
Check out the most clicked articles on bild.de on 11 May 2014 (Germany's most important tabloid):
1) Eurovision song contest - Sensational victory for Conchita Wurst
2) In one night! Teacher had sex with three pupils
3) Rapper Bearer - This is why he cut his penis off
4) Final of "Topmodel" - a naked scandal and an early retirement
5) ESC-Final 2014 - Europe in Wurst-Craziness
You forget that Bild put this thing on a new media called the INternet; which makes it unstoppable in terms of speed of dissemination and depth.
This news is now on the screens of every person to whom the word Ukraine means anything.
I know that Ukraine is not as popular on the net as "phuck" or "rape"... but thank god for small mercies.
Black Water - Doobie Brothers (with lyrics)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km4-eKvv3EM (4:21)
.and US futures and DAX gap up open, and Gold and Silver open down....that's logical I guess
Half of Ukraine goes to Russia, other half becomes part of NATO/EU. Guess we will have to wait for round 2.
The article is shocking and the implication that America is destabilizing Ukraine, if true, really crosses the line. The idea of America getting involved or jumping into a war in Ukraine would have been hard to imagine a few years ago. As I write this we are engaged in a war of words but the potential for this to escalate into a shooting war is real. Allowing events to deteriorate into a major war or possibly into what some see as World War III is becoming a reality.
As insane as it appears this could become the final outcome. The location of this as a military confrontation is right in Putin's backyard and this is a strong advantage for Russia. It is silly to think Putin and Russia will back down. This means poking the bear is not a smart move. It should be noted the military of Ukraine is divided and extremely weak. More about this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/04/war-in-ukraine-bad-idea_26.html
putin knows he has a soft underbelly in his crosshairs. we earned it.
Sooo we have a monkey with a handgrenade taunting a russian bear at the door of his den. This is the ver defenition of insanity
What restrains Russia from sending a missile directly into the mercenary's HQ and eliminating them at once?
Common sense.
If Russia takes action at this time, it will lend credence to the hysterical 'news' reports of "Russian aggression".
If Russia allows this thing to stew in its own toxic juices, then it may come in later as a savior and peace-maker.
Exactly with every atrocity by the Neo Nazi's and US mercenaries more and more of the worlds population sees the US and Europe as the evil empires, this works out well for Russia, all it has to do is wait, damage to US credibility mounts with every day that passes.
The US is trapped into having to publicly defend the actions of Neo Nazis atrocities, with the Internet now days trying to manipulate the truth it is like trying to herd cats.
Good luck to them, there are no real good guys here, load up with popcorn and watch the psychopaths at play.
Rumor has it that old John McCain got an ever so brief stiffie when he first heard about American Blackwater mercenaries starting to shoot the place up in eastern Ukraine. Thankfully, his faithful effeminate man-crush, Lindsey Graham, was there as usual to service him.
It makes perfect sense, of course McCain is Graham boyfriend. How could such a queen like Graham not have been outed by now. Cuz his partner is someone with the same high stakes.
Gold and Silver getting killed here
Shock Video From Ukraine: Governor of Kherson, “Hitler tried to bring freedom to our land.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A05s6GrztbQ
INSPIRING VIDEO – Governor of Kherson region Yuri Odarchenko was booed by thousands including WWII veterans when he told the previously cheering crowd that the Soviet Union tried to enslave Ukraine,
while Hitler on the other hand tried to bring freedom to their land.
As thousands yelled out “shame”, a young woman with a child approached the governor, stripped him of the microphone, before throwing it away.
That is month old news.
It was true:
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/03/us-private-military-companies...
"...hardly the most reputable source..." Yet you are citing that source? Typical.
what is truly astonishing these past couple months is how putin has toyed with us/eu. we are absolutely no match for this guy.
fuck em let em get killed or taken to a russian prison for the rest of thier lives.
Did the Chinese approve the money to the Mercs? Is it me or exactly why does Russia, China , EU, need history's biggest creditor? Yes they do I forgot the Chinese have our industral equiptment... Alibaba bullets companies to profit Yahoo. It ain't checkers or Chess it'a Machiavellianism... Al CIA DUH USA USA USA RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA
Terror Terror Terror Fight Club Fight Club Fight Club THEY WERE BANKS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVof0qj7SOw
"The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents -- men who never think of lending a shilling to their next-door neighbors, for purposes of honest industry, unless upon the most ample security, and at the highest rate of interest -- stand ready, at all times, to lend money in unlimited amounts to those robbers and murderers, who call themselves governments, to be expended in shooting down those who do not submit quietly to being robbed and enslaved." Lysander Spooner "No Treason #6" (1870)did the chinese give money and aid to bin laden (common border with afghanistan)? we can print the money to pay the mercs. it goes back a long ways. iran contra you name it. china is in on the deal, but al qaeda is another branch of the CIA, so wtf
Well organized heavily armed men are a better credit risk and besides, they might shoot you.
Sounds like about $1 million per day in US taxpayer's money.
High crime.
not when bernanke yellen can print 85b a month
The good ol boys in the patriot days would decorate the trees with Hessians.
Those German boys at Trenton was damn lucky the boss was there to save their bacon.
Any US citizens bangin on Ukrainians better fight like the dickens to the end cuz ain't nobody got your back in DC.
yes we can
So Michelle Obama is out there lamenting the kidnapped African school girls/daughters.......
.....but obviously doesn't lament the killing of many girls boys daughters sons and adults by her husbands mercanries in Ukraine. I guess she thinks it ok for Obama's drones to kill of any group of people ...like wedding parties in Afgahnistan.....just in case they may be a future enemy.
Obama's mercanries in the Ukraine have from before the coup..shot into crowds killing people to create excuses for themsleves to start wars and coups.
Michelle Obama obviouly thinks this sort of policy is ok since she hasn't divorced her husband. She is concerned about three hundred school girls but not the many hundres and thousands killed by her husbands goons and military....for no reason at all.
American military wives don't seem too concerned about it it either.
People's abillity to sell their soul is amazing.
More than 1,800 African American babies are aborted EVERY DAY here in the US.
FYI...
Let's hope Putin gets frustrated and chooses the nuke Langley option. It's where all this shit originates from.
All that needs to be done is make Blackwater too big to fail as every corporation hires it.
War, bitchez.
Just about the time we all thought Obama couldn't get any scummier, he goes and gets even scummier.
It's quite possible one of the local oligarchs hired them to protect their buildings. The guys in the picture aren't Blackwater - at least not the expensive American kind.
Geez, what a nice round figure of Blackwater boys and girls. Surely their there to assist in a humanitarian way. Awfully nice of the Whitehouse to send their best. We all belong to e very sick world. Too bad all the imbeciles are in government and belong to banks.
Ukraine Re-Redux
RE
SAKER Update and Donbass referendum:
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-donbass-referendum-yet-ano...
If this is true, then it is very dangerous as Russia would likely respond militarily as it would have every right to do. It is probably not true for that very reason. However, there are some in the US military foreign policy establishent who would like for Russia to invade Ukraine as it would give NATO a reason to demand a bigger chunk of the taxpayers' monies. So to that end, this is probably a leaked, but fake, story.
your logic is flawed. a number of these rambos have been taken out already. they don't belong to anyone so it is not necessary to report them missing.
I was drawn to the headline by curiosity; why would they use such conspicuous cars?
Much of the American South-West is already claimed by indigenous Mexican immigrants. If these Spanish speaking citizens want to realign with Mexico should Congress allow Nieto to roll troops in to assist.
"However what is certainly surprising and far more interesting, is the persistent attempts by the German press to discredit none other than their biggest "Developed world" ally,"
it is not persistent. it is new. you only have to go back a couple of weeks to read a very russophobic DE press. this coincides with the trashing Merkel experienced from Obama at their last meeting. hopefully DE will wake up to the fact that they are nothing but tools. but it's going to take more than just a couple of articles. Putin played this one correctly. he never did alienate the europeans. europe has a chance to grow up and join a multipolar world or sink with the amis. that is the choice.
germans dont like being COLD.... (It is almost as if someone has material interests that diverge with those of the Obama administration, and hence converge with those of Putin.)
Mercenaries! We are now using mercenaries to try to get our way in the world. Last stage of decay and collapse. Our government is now too cowardly to do it out in the open, in broad daylight, because they know it's morally wrong and cowardly and evil. So they pay others to do this dirty work, while they hide out, behind the scenes, like the frightened little weasels they are.
I'd like to know who is paying for this crime against humanity. It would explain and reveal much. Follow the money.
Those Blackwater guys get the reward of coming home to a Mexican Socialist criminal invasion and occupation.