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Europe Fractures: France Pivots To Putin, Cyprus Offers Moscow Military Base, Germany-US Splinter On Ukraine

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Following yesterday's summary of the utter farce that the Minsk Summit/Ukraine "peace" deal talks have become, the various parties involved appear to be fracturing even faster today. The headlines are coming thick and fast but most prescient appears to be: Despite John Kerry's denial of any split between Germany and US over arms deliveries to Ukraine, German Foreign Minister Steinmeier slammed Washington's strategy for being "not just risky but counterproductive." But perhaps most significantly is France's continued apparent pivot towards Russia... Following Francois Hollande's calls for greater autonomy for Eastern Ukraine, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has come out in apparent support of Russia (and specifically against the US), "we are part of a common civilization with Russia,” adding, "the interests of the Americans with the Russians are not the interests of Europe and Russia." Even NATO appears to have given up hope of peace as Stoltenberg's statements show little optimism and the decision by Cyprus to allow Russia to use its soil for military facilities suggests all is not at all well in the European 'union'.

 

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier doubled down on Germany's rejection of weapons deliveries to Ukraine in a speech here Sunday...

  • *GABRIEL SAYS GERMAN SPD WOULD NEVER BACK ARMS TO UKRAINE
  • *EUROPE SEES U.S. ARMS DELIVERIES TO UKRAINE AS BAD IDEA: LAVROV

"I see this, to say it openly, as not just for risky but for counter-productive," Mr. Steinmeier said at the Munich Security Conference. Mr. Steinmeier also hit back at open criticism of Germany's position on weapons deliveries from U.S. Senators and others here on Saturday. The White House is mulling delivering weapons to Ukraine to support the country's fight against pro-Russia separatists in the country's east.

 

"Perhaps we are so insistent because we know the region a bit," Mr. Steinmeier said.

But John Kerry says, everything's fine... as he denies any split between U.S. and Europe on Russia policy...

Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday denied any divisions between the U.S. and Europe over how to handle Russia, as Germany announced another high-level summit aimed at stemming the crisis in Ukraine.

 

Kerry told a security conference in Munich that he wanted to "assure everybody there is no division, there is no split" between Washington and its European allies amid the crisis in Ukraine.

 

 

"We are united, we are working closely together," he told the conference following meetings with his French and German counterparts. "We all agree that this challenge will not end through military force. We are united in our diplomacy."

But perhaps most significantly is France's continued apparent pivot towards Russia... Following Francois Hollande's calls for greater autonomy for Eastern Ukraine, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has come out in apparent support of Russia (and specifically against the US).

“We are part of a common civilization with Russia,” said Sarkozy, speaking on Saturday at the congress of the Union for a Popular Movement Party (UMP), which the former president heads.

 

“The interests of the Americans with the Russians are not the interests of Europe and Russia,” he said adding that “we do not want the revival of a Cold War between Europe and Russia.”

 

“Crimea has chosen Russia, and we cannot blame it [for doing so],” he said pointing out that “we must find the means to create a peacekeeping force to protect Russian speakers in Ukraine.”

And then Cyprus joins the fracture party, offering to sign a military cooperation agreement on Feb 25th offering Russia the use of military facilities on its soil...

The air force base at which Russian planes will use is about 40 kilometers from Britain's sovereign Air Force base at Akrotiri, on the south shores of Cyprus, which provides support to NATO operations in the Middle and Near East regions

Even NATO appears to know the "peace deal" is not coming...

  • STOLTENBERG: 'IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY' IF MINSK PRODUCES CEASE-FIRE

But there is still hope.. as Germany's Vice-Chanceller hopes...

  • *GERMANY'S GABRIEL `CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC' ABOUT MINSK SUMMIT

demands...

  • *PUTIN MUST TAKE EU'S `OUTSTRETCHED HAND,' GABRIEL SAYS

But adds...

  • *EU SEEKS POST-CRISIS PARTNERSHIP RENEWAL WITH RUSSIA: GABRIEL

We will know soon...

  • *RUSSIA SAYS FEB. 9-10 UKRAINE MEETINGS TO PREPARE MINSK SUMMIT

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Sun, 02/08/2015 - 14:35 | 5758799 Renfield
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Both Hollande and Merkel sent their "advisors" out of the room for the talks with Putin. I am very curious what they wanted to say (or hear) that they did not want to be recorded by spies.

(Sorry for no link; I don't remember where I read this.)

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 14:39 | 5758822 Xibalba
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Probably wanted to know why...WTF...is the US doing in Ukraine?  How does this serve the MIC and TBTB?  And how does this benefit the EU...?  I dunno...maybe they were more concerned with their own populations instead of those in Iowa. 

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 14:44 | 5758858 Renfield
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Found it:

http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.ca/2015/02/talks-in-moscow-two-part-analys...

<<One of the most interesting things about the Moscow talks is that they mainly happened without the presence of aides and officials i.e. Putin, Hollande and Merkel were by themselves save for interpreters and stenographers. Putin and Merkel are known to be masters of detail and given his background as an enarque I presume Hollande also is. However the German and French officials will be very unhappy about this. The Russians less so because since the meeting is taking place in the Kremlin they are listening in to the discussions via hidden microphones.>>

Xibalba - you may be correct. The only Russian response that I've yet seen cryptically called the talks "constructive". Certainly the US and the UK were pretty pointedly excluded from these talks. That in itself sends a message.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 14:57 | 5758906 knukles
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John Kerry.... does he know his ass form a hole in the wall or is he reading the teleprompter of Happy Propaganda?
Humph...
Maybe a good day for gold and bonds, huh?

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:03 | 5758933 remain calm
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At what point does the CIA assainate Obama?

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:07 | 5758957 BaBaBouy
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Looks Like EU Is Saying ""Sorry Kerrie"", You Cannot Have Your Proxy War In The UKR With Russia... Sorry... ..... Where's That Reset Button Again???

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:11 | 5758971 Macchendra
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But... but... our american freedom is at stake:  http://rt.com/business/217803-cbr-swift-alternative-system/

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:29 | 5759059 eatthebanksters
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Say whatever you want about Putin, that he's a bad actor, a criminal or more, it is clear that the world sees him as less of a bad actor than Obama.  Putin is seen at home as a strong leader, even by those who don't like him.  He has challenged the status quo of the world and his people thus far have bought in becasue above all, they believe overall he wants best for his people. In his wildest dreams Obama could not achieve this having fucked up just about every foreign relationship we have and dividing the country at home.  This shit is not going to end well for us.  Obama's naivite coupled with his sense of self grandeur makes him think everything he does is good and people love him.  When it all goes bad I guess we are then going to be able to say,"I told you so", to all the sheeple getting the freebies, all the overpaid people in the bankster world and all the overpaid union workersor basically the current beneficiaries of the progressive socialist utopia. It could get real fugly in the next two to three weeks. 

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:37 | 5759087 Publicus
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To Kiev! East Ukraine freedom fighters will unify the country! Bringing peace to Ukraine.

 

That is the peace plan.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:37 | 5759097 Dakota Kid
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Putin: "Winning"

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 16:23 | 5759235 Squid-puppets a...
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Syria's Assad: "Et tu, Cyprus?"

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 16:49 | 5759308 weburke
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Heck, those leaders wanted to be alone to party. They are all part of the same royal families arent they? Wasnt ww1 fought amongst 3 cousins? 

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 17:01 | 5759330 Self-enslavement
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Hysterical is the word that best describes the Chosenites in this moment. They're terrified that we the people are going to take OUR money printing presses BACK from them. Greece just took theirs back. Who will be next?

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 17:02 | 5759358 UselessEater
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Really? Slamming down the west is not a desired outcome? How many civilisations have they aided in its rise with the desire and plan to crash before?

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 17:12 | 5759398 rccalhoun
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new all time highs here shortly

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 17:50 | 5759489 Latina Lover
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Yep,as the world realizes that the EU is not willing to destroy itself in a war with Russia to make the USSA richer.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 17:54 | 5759507 Self-enslavement
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The axis of evil (U.S. / Israel) Chosenite parasites hate it when their plans for world dominance are thwarted...

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 18:41 | 5759592 Latina Lover
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The split between the EU and USSA was evident with Nudelmans/Nulands famous 'Fuck the EU' phone call.  The USSA decided to overthrow Yanukovich outright, with the end result that the Ukrainian adventure became a failed operation shortly thereafter. Had Yanukovich stayed in office for 6-7 more  months as agreed, he would have lost, the Ukies would have voted in a pro western government,  and there would be no civil war, no breakup of the Ukraine, no sanctions hurting Russia and EU, no oil war harming Norway, England etc

The USSA proxy attack against Russia was and is an epic fail, and like bad gamblers, Obama and crew are trying to double down, with everyone in the room knowing that it is a losing bet. Even if the USSA armed the Ukies, they would still be destroyed by  the Russian Military since they are clearly not an effective fighting force.  If the Ukie army cannot beat novorossiyan irregulars using 30-40 year old soviet equipment, what hope do they have against a professional russian military with air power, supersonic missiles, tactical nukes and directed EMP's? ? Without a trained military to operate advanced systems, they are so much junk, and Putin gets  the green light to give the Novorossiyans better equipment and permission to visit Lvov and Kiev.

If NATO is not willing to send in Americans, Germans, French soldiers to die in the Ukraine, it is obvious that the Ukies will never win a war againt Russia, something all the EU leaders comprehend. Further sanctions will only hurt the EU and Russia without benefiting anyone, and with the Grexit looming, the time has passed for any military solution. Further, there is no money to sustain the bankrupt Ukie economy and mass desertions by Ukie forces show that the locals no

longer want to seriously fight.  Porky and crew are already roasted,they are merely to be served up as sacrifices by the USSA.    The only thing worse than being an enemy of the USSA, is to be their  Ally/vassal.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 18:53 | 5759727 Latina Lover
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I should also mention  that  Nudelman/Nuland and crew accomplishing something that billions of rubles in Russia propaganda could not achieve, the undying hatred of 10's  of millions of russians and ukrainians forced to restory a devastated war zone and utterly ruined economy.

 

Without  a mulatto messiah to buy them cell phones and pay their mortgages, it will take a generation to recover, LOL>

If the Ukies are smart, they will default on their debts and stick it to the EU, USSA and Banksters.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 20:33 | 5760133 Bay Area Guy
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Nice analysis.  Fully agree.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 22:27 | 5760514 Truthseeker2
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Are tactical nuclear weapons being used in the Eastern Ukraine by the Kiev Junta?

 

"The photos of mushrooms clouds in Donestsk are unmistakable!"

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 23:43 | 5760686 Slave
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I saw some hit job on the MSM talking about how Putin has signs of retardation.

These fuckers want WWIII bad.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 01:03 | 5760850 sun tzu
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The stories were planted by the scumbags at the CIA and Pentagram. Pay a presstitute a few hundred bucks and you can have any story dispersed to the sheeple

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 03:07 | 5761016 malek
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Like last Monday, when I accidentally looked onto a TV screen at an airport.

"Putin's Aggression" was the big headline on the comedy channel network, a/k/a CNN.
Talking about all you need to know for a certain moment... rarely had it been filled quicker for me!

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 05:16 | 5761096 El Vaquero
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Any big explosion can cause a mushroom cloud, it need not be nuclear. 

 

Tactical nuke:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiM-RzPHyGs

 

Notice the very brief but extraordinarily bright flash at the moment of detonation. 

 

Conventional MOAB:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrYDlkD2eWQ

 

100 tons of ammunition (heartbreaking):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mB-q52hVLI

 

Massive TNT explosion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8SooMQBFVE

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 17:26 | 5759425 Not Too Important
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Something about 'blood in the streets' . . .

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 17:26 | 5759421 Not Too Important
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"Who will be next?"

Canada.

'The Case to “Reinstate” the Bank of Canada'

"There is a very interesting legal case that is playing out in Canada at the moment. William Krehm, Anne Emmett, and COMER (The Committee for Monetary and Economic Reform: http://www.comer.org/) filed a lawsuit on December 12th, 2011, in Federal Court to try to force a restoration of the Bank of Canada to its mandated purposes. In essence, they want the Bank of Canada to provide interest-free loans to the federal, provincial, and municipal governments, as provided for in the Bank of Canada Act.

This money would be used to finance public expenditures whenever there is a budgetary deficit. Apparently, the federal government used to borrow interest-free (to at least some extent) from the Bank of Canada up until 1974. At present, governments borrow all of the necessary money (apart from any bonds they may sell to the public) from private banks at the going rate of interest. Canadians are economically burdened with the resultant debt-servicing charges because the Bank of Canada does not make use of its prerogatives in the interests of the Canadian public. The case is being prosecuted by Rocco Galati, who is widely considered to be Canada’s top constitutional lawyer."

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-case-to-reinstate-the-bank-of-canada/54...

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 17:54 | 5759505 Advoc8tr
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Exactly the same shit happened here (Australia) with our Commonwealth Bank .... which has since been privatized.  It was created to help drag drag us out of the depression by providing said interest free "infrastructure" loans - it worked and when everything was rosey again the politicians started with the "independent central bank" meme and killed it off to be sold for peanuts.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 18:57 | 5759765 BolshevikPartyP...
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"The establishment of a central bank is 90% of communizing a Nation"  Vladdy Lenin (Chosenite)

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 19:08 | 5759801 UselessEater
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bombs and independant central banks have a strong correlation

smell the propoganda and endorse or sleep walk through the slaughter

every nation improves exactly how??? once its central bank joins & cooperates with the global economy

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 04:43 | 5761079 Carpenter1
Sun, 02/08/2015 - 18:10 | 5759568 Clarabell
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Interestingly news of this legal case is being almost completely censored in the Canadian MSM. The truth is the media in Canada is as completely controlled as in the U.S., maybe even more so!

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 21:12 | 5760283 Real Estate Geek
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Here's a preview of next week's headlines:  "Rocco Galati killed in freak accident."

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 18:49 | 5759702 ThirteenthFloor
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Turkey is most likely next to head east. They have to stabilize the Lira. This will be bigger than Greece since US has CIA/narco operations in Ankara. Ergodan bashed New York Times owners last week. Fun ahead.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 20:33 | 5760115 WhackoWarner
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This is landmark. I mentioned it a week or so back as Galati & plaintiffs had prevailed in a challenge to proceed.  Again it got zero coverage in Canadian media.

Curious as this lawyer, as you say, is a top constitutional lawyer (of Charter of Riights etc.).  All hhis other cases have been given attention but not this.

AND Harper has not managed to buy off the Supreme Court (unlike the USA USA).  There is still a sliver (or is that silver?) of hope that this case will progress to the top.

 

I apologize profusely to the former Finance Minister whose name and website I cannot find right now....but the basis of this case I read years and years ago.  Bank of Canada has the mandate.  It is the law and in 1974 it was bypassed.

 

Now ask yourself what happened south of the border in 1974?

EDIT:  http://www.comer.org/

 

And edit again for those Canadians here too impatient to research:  "“TWO CANADIANS AND A CANADIAN ECONOMIC THINK TANK CONFRONT THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL POWERS IN THE CANADIAN FEDERAL COURT. THE CANADIANS PLEAD FOR DECLARATIONS THAT WOULD RESTORE THE USE OF THE BANK OF CANADA FOR THE BENEFIT OF CANADIANS AND REMOVE IT FROM THE CONTROL OF INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTITIES WHOSE INTERESTS AND DIRECTIVES ARE PLACED ABOVE THE INTEREST OF CANADIANS AND THE PRIMACY OF THE CONSTITUTION OF CANADA"....from pressfortruth.ca

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 18:10 | 5759570 HowdyDoody
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The Nazis have to be dealt with, even if it means leaving them in the Galician rump state, surrouded by massive walls and no trade / energy routes.

 

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 18:47 | 5759717 Self-enslavement
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The Chosenites need to be dealt with, even if it means dropping nuclear bombs from house to house.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 18:55 | 5759752 Not Too Important
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The first nuclear bomb just went off.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:49 | 5759116 Calmyourself
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STOP WITH THIS!!  His actions and those around him (Jarrett, Kerry, Brennan) are not mistakes they are deliberate measures to weaken us internally.  These moves are designed to weaken us politically and militarily domestically and internationally there can be no other rational explanation...   INTERNALIZE THIS TRUTH!

"Obama could not achieve this having fucked up just about every foreign relationship we have and dividing the country at home."

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 16:52 | 5759319 Self-enslavement
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Chosenites are known to be insane from inbreeding for thousands of years...

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 17:05 | 5759373 UselessEater
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insane - purely from an outsider point of view

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 17:58 | 5759524 Self-enslavement
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Typical of you chosenites, you only see your own point of view. You never see the other side of the coin or tell the whole story. Like I said, thousands of years of inbreeding does interesting things to human genetics...

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 18:15 | 5759591 UselessEater
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you missed my point

I, like 99% are an outsider, it appears insane to us. Totally sane to them.

I incoorectly assumed my point was obvious. The 0.001% do not read ZH. They are busy with other things.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 22:42 | 5760563 New Kid
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IOW, they are insane...like a fox.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 00:14 | 5760757 Anusocracy
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They manipulate others to do irrational things by inciting moral indignation in them. All without conscience or remorse.

It is insanity imposed on others.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 18:23 | 5759631 TheReplacement
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No, he has a point.  Imagine how someone else sees you - maybe insane and maybe not (don't care why).

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 18:36 | 5759665 UselessEater
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Are you suggesting he is correct and the 99% should quibble about each others sanity when it is we who are missing the big picture? Listen to Catherine Austin Fitts. She explains well that "they, Mr Global" are operating in a perfectly sane way for their way of thinking and their goals. It is we who are insanely assuming they will operate in another way. In a general sense, I couldn't give a toot how another 99% sees me (at least one of their causes will somehow find a way to criminalize and trap me) - I'm actually just interested in my family surviving how Mr Global sees me.

 

edit - Sir, I think my comment was misdirected, but that aside it may be a relevant one.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 18:12 | 5759583 HowdyDoody
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The guys with the Napoleon complex wandering around insane asylums believe they really are Napoleon.

 

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 18:51 | 5759736 Self-enslavement
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Maybe they're the sane ones...

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 19:03 | 5759783 BolshevikPartyP...
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Very true.  In fact, they have over 100 chosenite specific diseases, which is one of the reasons for their big demand for organs.  They are definitely a mixed mongrel edomite race or the sinnagogues give you diseases.....

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 22:51 | 5760579 tarsubil
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The tradition of marrying inside the race has caused the huge number of recessive genetic disorders to appear in their population. Same thing with the Pennsylvania Dutch population. The Pennsylvania Dutch aren't as big a blight on the globe so I don't think the restriction on intermarriage is deciding factor.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 04:19 | 5761066 Eirik Magnus Larssen
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There is a reason why "opposites attract", as the saying goes. It is rather ironic that for all the "laws of nature" rethoric of right-wingers, they seem to be obsessed with placing all manner of restrictions on spontaneous urges.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 10:01 | 5761529 tarsubil
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For all their Bible thumping, they never read the Song of Solomon.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 22:20 | 5760498 OhNo
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Carn't we just call them what they are -Lizards from the bloodline that created man. Hell bent on our desruction.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 17:01 | 5759327 Lore
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"Order Out Of Chaos," bitchez.

Many ZHers still focus too much on the particular face behind the podium. Everything that we see unfolding is the culmination of many years of scheming by a very large pool of manipulative psychopaths and their witting and unwitting peons, all expendable, all easily replaced. 

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 17:07 | 5759377 UselessEater
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Yes. ZH offers information that is much more useful if one reads books. There is a much wider context that this day to day info is operating within.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 18:26 | 5759643 UselessEater
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I assume the red arrow folks are extensively read. The correlation between today's events and the writings of various folks like Sutton, Farrell, Watts. Griffin, Kahhn, Mullins, Quigley are among many that provide verification there is a very long range planning scheme by a few that appears incredulous to most but provides a much broader context within which one should read many of these articles.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 18:56 | 5759756 Not Too Important
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Je Suis Useless Eater!

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 01:00 | 5760844 Latina Lover
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Lore, thank you for reminding us of the wider context. I write little about it but perhaps I need to say it more often.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 20:11 | 5760058 Steal Your Face
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Yes, the things happening today seem to have been planned a long time ago. Some posters here have made comments that made me dig deeper than I had before and I am learning a bunch. Once you have some idea of what the plan seems to be it makes it easier to prepare yourself and your family for what is coming.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 00:44 | 5760808 Thaxter
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Probably true, which is why the situation is escalating so rapidly and is so very dangerous. The US cannot admit it made a terrific mistake, and pull back. Germany and France are left holding the bag, and are going to Putin in a last ditch attempt to stop the major blow against the Ukes in Debaltseve, which is now surrounded by Russian backed forces that can easily take out the Ukes inside that city. They are trapepd, and Merkel and Hollande are probably desperately seeking some kind of solution to this major defeat, even though any such solution will probably be short lived, due to the insanity of the Nuland gang and other neocons in Washington.

To think that this could not lead to a very serious major world war that would affect all of us is misguided; the current situation in Ukraine bears hallmarks to the Spanish War that preceded World War II. We have seen that the neocons will stop at nothing . . . even if not a single European nation supports the US sending expensive weaponry to Kiev, Washington still intends to do it. The situation for the hapless Ukrainian civilians is horrific and a war crime in itself; and we have only the usual inbred psychopaths in Washington to blame for all this murder and mayhem, thinking they could wage yet another colonialist proxy war.

The best chance now is to checkmate their intentions by brokering a serious peace negotiation that entails the take-down of the current Kiev regime, and the removal of Poroshenko, who can best be considered as not a president but a mere translator of American and British instructions. The situation is dire and whoever is at liberty in Washington to stop these fanatics, they must do so immediately. There must be someone in Washington who can stop this absolute mad rush to a full blown Continental war.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 01:39 | 5760912 Sandmann
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Poland has the firelighters and the US has the matches. Ukraine is headed for breakup like Syria with Poland taking Galicia through "popular uprising" and the collapse of the Kiev governmental structure

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 10:04 | 5761480 Lore
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I agree with your picture in this context. The Banderan junta has to go, with meaningful consequences for war crimes. 

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 06:38 | 5761151 Eirik Magnus Larssen
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Disturbingly, this does appear an accurate description of the world we live in.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 22:03 | 5760448 2handband
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I can't believe people are still spouting this garbage. You've got Obama all wrong. Ever read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Specifically, the bit where the galactic president's job wasn't to wield power but to distract attention away from it. That's what we're dealing with here. Here you are spouting off drivel about Obama's naivete and the damage he's done to foreign relations... bullshit. He does nothing, not one fucking thing, that he isn't told to. Meanwhile he becomes one of the most hated figures in the wold while the people pulling his strings are virtually ignored. This is the plan. Obama is not bad at his job, he is stunningly good at it. So was Bush.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 23:54 | 5760712 SirBarksAlot
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Are you posting from the white house? 

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:11 | 5758972 silverbullet
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You think Biden is any better

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:18 | 5759002 El Vaquero
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It would be tough for him to be any worse, and at least we'd get to laugh at him repeatedly sticking his foot in his mouth.  We don't even get to laugh at Obama's mistakes.  He's that disgusting. 

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 17:04 | 5759369 Lore
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Fair point. Kerry is just one phony fucker among many. "We are Legion." 

There are times when I miss Baghdad Bob.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 20:09 | 5760049 MisterMousePotato
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Did you ever - in your wildest imagination - think that you might miss Madelaine Albright? Or, for that matter, Warren Christopher?

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 22:14 | 5760477 Lore
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What is it about international affairs that seems to attract the most hard-looking women? 

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 22:45 | 5760568 New Kid
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International affairs is tough.Only for manly men or women who are manlier than most men.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 00:04 | 5760736 JAFAH
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Tymoshenko is manlier than most men, but she was hot when she was younger. The others on that list, not so much.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 00:19 | 5760769 Lore
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That woman Tymoshenko is one evil snake, definitely a psychopath: "8 million Ukraine Russians must be killed with nuclear weapons," et cetera...

America supports these sick deviants, and wonders what happened to the moral high ground?!

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 00:06 | 5760742 SirBarksAlot
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I miss Mass-murdering Madeline Albright?

 

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 17:34 | 5759022 trulz4lulz
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Sun, 02/08/2015 - 17:34 | 5759023 trulz4lulz
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Sun, 02/08/2015 - 17:35 | 5759025 trulz4lulz
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Never? Why would they need to do that, he seems to be doing their bidding marvelously.

<edited, grammar, magical triple hitter>

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:09 | 5758941 BaBaBouy
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...

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:12 | 5758969 tenpanhandle
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John Kerry is a horse-faced...I mean bald-faced liar.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:49 | 5759133 angel_of_joy
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Kerry is a simptom of a much bigger disease. America, as a country, has gone full retard. There is no recovery out of this civilizational flat spin. Just the crash...

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 16:33 | 5759265 JohnG
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The sad part is is that it may take 100 or more years before anything can get better.  I guess Mr. Yellen would tell me I should have picked a different time to be alive.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 20:59 | 5760234 Berspankme
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You mean Yellen is a dude? dammit

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 21:22 | 5760317 SofaPapa
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At the rate things are moving right now, I don't think it will take this long.  The US is being isolated.  That is huge.  The unipolar axis is dying a rapid death.  The people at the top of that axis have the potential to do more damage as they go out, but that is not guaranteed.  If at some point in the next 24 months or so, someone strong enough to matter makes the decision to allow the oligarchs to take a hit (not fatal, but a significant hit), then there could still be a new stasis reached within 10 years or so, I think.  That, of course is a huge "if".  There are splits within the oligarchy.  It is not a pure, monolithic block.  The one piece that has reined them in for a long time now is the nuclear MAD paradigm.  If there are enough of the group who wield power who still recognize the insanity of truly giving in to their inner rage, we may get through this without disaster.  I pray that someone is foresighted enough to devote as much energy as they have devoted to their egotistical grab for power, to the serious resource destruction and scarcity issues we face as a species.  Probably that's asking too much, however.  One thing at a time.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 22:09 | 5760458 gatorboat
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I don't think America will come back period.   Going down and staying down (for the count).

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 18:12 | 5759581 QQQBall
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I think simptim has two "i"s

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 02:04 | 5760943 JAFAH
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I think it's simpltim.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 20:01 | 5760018 Lore
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"Retard" is not politically correct; the expression "Full Retard" might offend someone. The appropriate substitute in Newspeak is "Special Needs."  So:  "America has Special Needs."

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 23:03 | 5760600 angel_of_joy
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Offend someone ? To paraphrase a once famous character, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a fuck !". Atlanta is gonna to burn anyway... again !

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:20 | 5759016 Arrrr
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Hey, Kerry, why the long face?

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 22:22 | 5760494 conscious being
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Re. KERRY - Look up what happened to Senator Heinz, the dead former husband of the woman who is now known as Mrs. Kerry-Kohn.

Its like a scene out of "Good Fellas"

The wealthy, patriotic, American senator said he had the goods to bring down The Fed. Of course, he gets killed and here's the real mafiosa part. The widow of the guy they just wacked, along with his family's wealth, gets handed to the up and coming Zino-capo, Kerry-Kohn. The wife must know what happened, but full of fear after seeing her [appearently] powerful husband taken out, probably could not object to the new arraingement. So they killed him, took all his stuff and his woman. Like pissing on his grave as an example to others who might get uppity.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 00:09 | 5760747 SofaPapa
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Also Senator Reed, and his "excercise bike accident".  The signs are there, even for those of us in the cheap seats.

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 13:44 | 5762510 Ass Burger
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Ok, that's 534 "Yes" and...who is that lone "Nay"?

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:41 | 5759110 TheFourthStooge-ing
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John Kerry.... does he know his ass form a hole in the wall or is he reading the teleprompter of Happy Propaganda?

Best picture yet of Kerry and Yats, suitable for a caption contest:

https://pp.vk.me/c623626/v623626154/1a888/CfWc0YcS5Kw.jpg

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 18:04 | 5759548 tip e. canoe
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seriously...WTF?

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 22:26 | 5760512 conscious being
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Yats is just giving his bro the secret Kkazaria hand shake.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 18:23 | 5759635 HowdyDoody
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All the boyz together

http://i.imgur.com/rEgkiZj.jpg

 

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 20:12 | 5760061 MisterMousePotato
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If that is not Photoshopped, I am going to go kill myself now.

Was that your intention?

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 17:31 | 5759435 sgt_doom
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John Forbes Withrop Dudley Kerry is a first cousin, once removed, to Michael Paine (on the Forbes/Dudley side), who together with his wife, Ruth Avery Paine, rented living space to alleged presidential assassin, Lee Oswald (whom no one sane in America really believes did it, and it was never proven), as well as helping Mr. Oswald obtain work at the Texas School Book Depository.

Michael Paine was also related to Henry Cabot Lodge, the ambassador to Vietnam whom President Kennedy was about to fire prior to his assassination.

Ruth Avery Paine was related to the Rockefeller/Morgan families on the Avery side, as was John Foster Dulles, who married into those families when he married Janet Avery.

That's the way Washington works!

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 17:42 | 5759465 Clashfan
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TY for that, Sarge. You rock.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 18:21 | 5759626 Clarabell
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Those were the days when we were ruled by the WASPs. Now however that roll is slowly being taken over by the Chosen Ones

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 19:51 | 5759996 UselessEater
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IMO a short term view, regardless it is more important to recognize their heritage....its is not national, has never been national. "Mr Global" has a very very very long history.

Mr Global will and is switching his useful idiots around the board. Mr Global invested in preferred nation status for China in recent years, coincidentally China is part of the BRICS & able to accumulate gold whilst other nations have been selling/robbed of theirs. It is odd that those playing chess since the days of Babylon, carefully interfering with the rise and fall of many civilizations across the globe would somehow become stupid and incapable of plotting chess strategies.

Run to your version of a footy team!

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 22:30 | 5760525 conscious being
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Clarabell - Kerry was born John Khon, not a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 22:10 | 5760464 drendebe10
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...a horse is a horse, of course, of course...

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 09:18 | 5761347 DonGenaro
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never believe anything until it's officially denied

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:02 | 5758930 DeadFred
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The big question is if Angela had her iPhone in her purse. If so they might as well have let the aides tape record the whole thing. I also wonder who owned the translators and stenographers.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:12 | 5758980 BigJim
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Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 22:37 | 5760542 conscious being
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DeadFred - if you wanted to meet and talk in the one place in the world where you could feel most confident that NSA could not listen in, where would you go? The Kremlin. This looks like Angela switching sides.

Edit - late to the party, after posting, I see August is saying the same thing VS brought to my attention as well.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:09 | 5758964 August
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As per the Saker, holding meetings within the walls of the Kremlin, without the presence of staff/advisors, is the only way to be certain that the discussions are not made available to the CIA-NSA usw.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:49 | 5759137 Not Too Important
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I knew an engineer back in the day when they were building US Consulate I. The whole building was a Farraday Cage, but it turns out the Russian workers made sure to not let the wire mesh in the walls touch, off by just hundreths. Just enough to let the Soviets hear everything. Finally the whole building was scrapped.

Imagine the listening technology they have today.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 16:03 | 5759178 tired1
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The walls were also constructed out of parallel so that sound would amplify and be detedtable at certain points.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 16:08 | 5759199 Not Too Important
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He was pretty pissed off about the whole thing. They planned for 'every eventuality', and they didn't even come close.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 18:14 | 5759557 Fukushima Fricassee
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The message is no one trusts Obama, no one, Reggie Love does not even trust him anymore.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 22:12 | 5760469 drendebe10
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..... the liar in chief fudgepacker says:  "Please pass me the azz burgers."

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 13:48 | 5762522 Ass Burger
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?

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 18:17 | 5759558 Fukushima Fricassee
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Obama needs to call another one of thoses concerts in Germany front fake popularity , give a big speech like he did in 08.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 22:18 | 5760492 lakecity55
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Only the Russians would have the tapes- unless they gave copies to the other two. Vlad would have had the room swept before the meeting.

There is no reason for each of the 3 heads of state not to have a transcript of the meeting. I am quite sure they will try to hide them from the USG.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 19:15 | 5759831 godiva chocolate
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Putin said months ago that allthe US's action in the Ukraine crisis were done to put a wedge between Russia and Europe... and it appears he was right.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 21:47 | 5760407 Remington IV
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Kenyan strategy at work

Mon, 02/09/2015 - 00:58 | 5760833 drendebe10
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Good thing amerika has such a highly respected, competent international leader and diplomat with a long record of successful foreign policies as the divisive despicable corrupt arrogant narcissistic illegal indonesian kenyan alien muslim sociopathic pathological liar in chief only interested in its celebrity grand imperial golf lifestyle and eating azz burgers.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 14:39 | 5758823 Millivanilli
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Recent US foreign policy successes-

Iraq= Civil War

Syria= Civil War

Egypt= Military Junta

Ukraine= Civil War

Afghanistan = Civil War

Libya = Civil War

Think about this for one second- Zionists like the Crown family- a big Chicago supporter of Obama, are selling tanks to Egypt- see General Dynamics

Egypt Cannot Possibly Use All Of Its US-Made Tanks 'Short Of An Alien Invasion'

War, arms sales and debt are tools for the control of sovereign nations. The death and destruction are mere after thoughts of the monsters who yield them. The people of the world are simply collateral damage.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 14:41 | 5758840 Rootin' for Putin
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theres no money in peace it seems.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 14:50 | 5758856 Millivanilli
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Remember this headline?

These mother fuckers are batshit crazy- starve your people, give goldman sachs a pass and buy weapons- on credit no less.

German 'hypocrisy' over Greek military spending has critics up in arms Athens' fondness for weaponry, and willingness of Germany and France to feed it, under fire as Greece struggles with debt crisis http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/19/greece-military-spending-de... If the citizenry were to confront the truth, only one conclusion could be drawn.  Revolt before you are collateralized.  Now, back to the Bruce Jenner car crash sex change show.
Sun, 02/08/2015 - 14:47 | 5758873 Xibalba
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In simplistic terms, it's easier to control/exploit/plunder a land-mass that's politically fractured than united.  Can you imagine a United States of Africa?!?  The US would become irrelevant in two days.  Best to keep everyone under the gun, living in fear, enslaved to debt they didn't want, and in need of the SAVIOR- the Mighty USA....  

 

 

 

 

 

or not.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:20 | 5759015 tenpanhandle
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With all due respect and commiseration to your ideal of the current state of the union (USAmerica), a United States of Africa would be a monumental fail and can not support your thesis.  After all, the US has become the United States of Africa and that is a part of the problem here.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:29 | 5759069 Xibalba
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hahaha!  I see where you're coming from having visited states like Pa., and Tn., although it could be argued that the US is more of a Hispanic nation than an African one.  However, I was referring to the mineral rights, the oil, and the natural 'wealth' of the continent vs. the population demographics.     

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:51 | 5759143 Not Too Important
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Racism goes hand in hand with Eugenics, and we know who supports Eugenics today.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 21:21 | 5760312 Real Estate Geek
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Hey, spend a day at the DMV and you'll support eugenics too!

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 14:55 | 5758905 Heavy
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money based on debt slavery is bound to run a bit short in the peace department

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:01 | 5758927 fascismlover
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true...everyone is looking for the exit before the whole stinkpile explodes. People running for the sides with the safest umbrellas before the poo flies.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:23 | 5759042 tenpanhandle
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Apparently that is not the case.  Where is the flight to the exits? All I see is most everyone hanging on like ticks to the bloated sow that is the USA. 

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 21:57 | 5760434 WTFUD
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The Flight to the Exists is happening and many examples have been reported in depth on Z/H over the past 3/4 years.
The flight may not be so apparent as it takes more time to disengage than one would wish for in order to avoid the complete implosion and resultant chaos.

Also the captured MSM have a big part to play in the non reporting of the FACTS.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:07 | 5758958 Not Too Important
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"theres no money in peace it seems."

The 'Report From Iron Mountain' made that clear decades ago.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 17:11 | 5759391 Consumer Farm
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"theres no money in peace it seems."

ocean colour scene made that clear too.

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

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 03:37 | 5765352 w a l k - a w a y
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 Profit In Peace

h/t for the link

 

No profit in peace? That, then, is a job to be done.

 

How to make Peace Profitable?

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 14:49 | 5758879 OutaTime43
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"But one thing we did learn [from the Persian Gulf War] is that we can use our military in the region – in the Middle East – and the Soviets won’t stop us. And we’ve got about 5 or 10 years to clean up those old Soviet regimes – Syria, Iran [sic], Iraq – before the next great superpower comes on to challenge us.” - Paul Wolfowitz, 1991

 

Mission Accomplished

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:21 | 5759032 papaswamp
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Dont forget Yemen...

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:31 | 5759082 Youri Carma
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A new term came up and I think it's a good one: 'Nazionist'.

Coined by Benjamin Fulford.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 16:45 | 5759296 Dugald
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"Egypt Cannot Possibly Use All Of Its US-Made Tanks 'Short Of An Alien Invasion'"

Yes they can, Egyptian soldiers are such shit warriors each will have his own tank to hide in...

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 14:39 | 5758831 Jack Burton
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Yes, I noticed that unprecedented move too. In order to speak without US ears listening, they had to be alone with the Russians. I suspect it was because they had things to say that Obama and his Republican Congress would not approve of.

Just a point, when I say Obama and his Republican Congress, I mean just that. Obama is a proven radical neoconservative zionist, even more radical than most democrats, so Obama's drive to war with Russia is best supported by a Republican War Congress. Obama has set the entire Middle East on fire, and is proud of it. Now he alone gave orders for the Junta's coup in Kiev, and sent his CIA director to order Kiev to launch all out war on Russian ethincs, all 8 + million of them.

I assess Obama as a worse war monger than Bush. Bush had a fig leaf of reason for war, Obama has nothing to offer for reason, just the Zionist bloodlust of republican and democratic zionists.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 14:51 | 5758880 Socratic Dog
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No.  Bush made up a pretext for war.  Or, just possibly, had it imposed on him.  It was called 9/11.  Until you see that 9/11 was state-sponsored terrorism, by the US government against its people, likely with the involvement of Israel, you can't understand what's happening.

9/11 provided the pretext for a permanent state of war.  It was extremely successful.  It continues to be extremely profitable.

It's called treason.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:01 | 5758924 knukles
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See.  It's Bush's fault.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:29 | 5759070 LocalBoy
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YES - Prescott Bush and Alan Dulles.......

Smedley Butler - 

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 21:09 | 5760275 joe6px
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+1 for the Smedley Butler ref. War IS a racket.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:02 | 5758929 LetThemEatRand
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You're both right.  It's a floor wax and a dessert topping.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:54 | 5758982 Not Too Important
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Interesting that you bring up 9/11. Have you heard of the new book, 'Methodical Illusion'? It's supposedly one of the fastest selling books in the world right now:

"Dr. Kevin Barrett interviews retired  stewardess of 30 years, Rebekah  Roth. She is the author of the new  runaway hit book, 'Methodical Illusion,'  a novelized version of the events of  9/11 that is flying off the shelves at  Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

The reason that it's a mega hit is  because, apparently Roth has finally  solved the logistics of what befell the  airplanes and the passengers on the  pivotal flights of that day. An insider  who worked at a certain hangar  confirmed to her, personally that she had nailed the truth." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WENF2txFHk Some detailed comments/passages from the book: http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2785175/pg1

Tue, 02/10/2015 - 04:09 | 5765379 w a l k - a w a y
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 Methodical Illusion

I good read, I could not put it down!

 

Roth tells a great story, and indeed, brings most of the story together.

 

A very well-done 'alternative' means of introducing facts into fiction, both in the book and in society at large.

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:14 | 5758983 tired1
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Jack,

I think you give O too much credit, I just cant see what motivation he might have. The State department and the folks that control it on the other hand are highly motivated, especially since they have no specific allegiance to the US.

If one looks at this as a continuation of 911's goal to destabilze the ME in general, combined with the desire to punish Putin for his transgressions against the western banking establishment - things fall in place nicely.

I do wonder... If reasonable heads do prevail in this latest effort to promote chaos in Russia - what's the next power play?

So many litlle countries, so many opportunities to do pure evil. What to do?

Sun, 02/08/2015 - 15:16 | 5758994 tired1
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BTW, there's a storry about Nudleman's flunky being arrested in Germany with one billion in phoney benji bucks. Is there any more news as to its' veracity?

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