Propaganda 101 - When America's War on Russia Went Full Retard

Propaganda 101 Podcast: When Putin's Ukraine War Went Global One year after the downing of Flight MH17 killed 298 people from 10 countries on four continents, the evidence continues to mount that pro-Moscow seperatists in Ukraine -- and perhaps Russia itself -- were responsible. And as the evidence piles up, pressure is building for an international tribunal to prosecute the guilty parties -- pressure Russia is strenuously trying to resist. On the latest Power Vertical Podcast, we discuss MH17 one year later. Joining me are James Miller, managing editor of The Interpreter magazine, who authored a new report on MH17; and Andreas Umland, a senior research fellow at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation and editor of the academic book series Soviet And Post-Soviet Politics And Society. Also making an appearance on the podcast is Han ten Broeke, a member of the Dutch parliament who chairs its Defense Committee and the Netherlands' delegation to the NATO Assembly. http://www.rferl.org/content/podcast-when-putins-ukraine-war-went-global/27134600.html --------------------- COMMENT This isn't news; it's Propaganda 101.  1) James Miller, THE INTERPRETER The Interpreter = Institute of Modern Russia  (IMR)     & Herzen Foundation (London, seed money) IMR = USA think tank assoc with: oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky (son, Pavel Khodorkovsky President IMR) HERZEN FOUNDATION Also behind The Interpreter = Herzen Foundation originally est. 1960s by dutch 'Slavist' for publication of USSR dissidents { LOL ... sounds very CIA, Cold War style tool that was in vogue } Herzen Foundation ended 1988 b/c end of cold war, Wikipedia indicates. But IMR think tank says it partnered in set up of The Interpreter (ie seed money). 2) Andreas Umland, fellow Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation =  political action committee based Ukraine Institute for Euro-Atlantic Co-op = funded by Western doners = campaigns for NATO & EU membership of Ukraine Andreas Umland fellow IEAC = academic, teaching at National Uni of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", Kiev pt quals. Stanford & Cambridge Andreas Umland fellow IEAC was also a visiting fellow at Stanford’s HOOVER Institution, in 1997-99 Kyiv-Mohyla Academy "The university is known as pro-Western and served as headquarters for Orange Revolution activists." [*] -- Borys Tarasyuk is the founder of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation (IEAC) Borys Tarasyuk, Ukraine politician (former diplomat) lobbying for EU / NATO membership for Ukraine since early 2000s, at least. Borys Tarasyuk = diplomat - moved to ministerial post 1991 on Ukraine independence = dismissed but reappointed after Orange Rev. mid 2000 UKRAINE 2005- 2010 received more than USD 30 billion in foreign investment 2005 alone > foreign companies invested USD 9 billion source: Borys Tarasyuk - balticworlds -- 3) HAN TEN BROEKE, NETHERLANDS - DEFENCE / NATO Han ten Broeke People's Party for Freedom & Democracy Netherlands centre-right / liberalism pro EU / NATO Just checking out the guests on US govt's RFE/RL ('Radio CIA'), it's pretty clear that there's a US-Ukraine agenda being put forward.  All the propaganda ducks are neatly lined up in a row:  it's Putin's war on Ukraine; it's Global!  'Evidence continues to mount'.  LMAO.  That's a good one. This thing is hilarious.  Might be fun to do a transcription of the podcast. --------------------- RESOURCES https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Modern_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Herzen_Foundation http://imrussia.org/en/project/135-projects/special-projects/448-the-interpreter-a-new-online-publication-from-imr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Euro-Atlantic_Cooperation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Party_for_Freedom_and_Democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_University_of_Kyiv-Mohyla_Academy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borys_Tarasyuk http://www.voltairenet.org/article30105.html

MH17 - RUSSIAN CEASE-FIRE PROPOSAL BLOCKED BY U.S., AUSTRALIA & TAG-ALONG LITHUANIA

West blocks Moscow’s UN plea to reinstate ceasefire at MH17 crash site Published time: August 08, 2014 11:07 The UN Security Council failed to adopt a resolution on reinstating the ceasefire at the site of the Malaysian Airlines plane crash in eastern Ukraine after Russia’s draft was blocked by Western states. “Unfortunately, some UNSC members have reacted in their usual way as they oppose any criticism of the Ukrainian leadership,” Churkin said, adding that Lithuania, the US, and Australia began proposing inappropriate amendments to the text. In July, The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution calling for an international investigation into the MH17 incident and demanded safe access to the site for investigators. In the wake of the decision, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced a unilateral ceasefire in a 20-kilometer (12.4-mile) area around the site of the crash. However, shelling and fighting in the area has continued, hampering the experts' work several times in the past weeks. But on Thursday Kiev suspended the truce with self-defense forces at the crash site. "The ceasefire in the plane crash zone, announced by the President of Ukraine at the request of international experts, which has been thoroughly observed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, will not be in place at the beginning of the second phase of the investigation," the Ukrainian government said. The government claims that the international mission has been halted because of “terrorists’ provocations” who “posed threats to the lives” of the recovery mission members. The suspension of the ceasefire in the MH17 crash area is a direct violation of the UN resolution, Vitaly Churkin stressed: “The truce was approved by UN Security Council resolution 2166, thus it is a clear violation of the resolution and will have very serious consequences for international inspectors' abilities to conduct the investigation when they decide to return to the area.” Before the ceasefire was cancelled, the Netherlands, who lead the international probe, announced it was halting the mission to recover victims and debris of the July 17 MH17 crash because of fighting between Ukrainian forces and rebels in the area. The international investigating team arrived at the site days after the tragic incident, delayed for security reasons. Experts are expected to resume their efforts once the situation allows. Currently, at least three areas containing the Boeing-777’s debris remain unexamined by the international mission, according to the Ukrainian government. The majority of experts will leave Ukraine until a decision on resuming the operation is made, it said in a statement.  SOURCE - RT NEWS - HERE.

What's the bet that the US aligned mob think there's some advantage in not pursuing a ceasefire.

Love how Lithuania is brown-nosing the US.  Maybe Lithuania should worry about their human trafficking problem instead of worrying about the drafting of Russia's ceasefire proposal.  

As for Australia, when you're bound up in protection/defence agreements, you're owned.  And someone like Rupert Murdoch's boy, Tony Abbott, would just love the US boot-licking that's part and parcel of that.  I'm sure he'd even think he was rather 'special'.  LOL.

US - JEN PSAKI - GAZA - US JUSTIFIES ISRAEL KILLING OF PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS

NEW YORK POST ARTICLE Egging Hamas on By Post Editorial Board August 5, 2014 Note to John Kerry: If America is serious about protecting innocent Palestinians, get your State Department to stop encouraging Hamas to use them as human shields. This was the inadvertent effect of spokeswoman Jan Psaki’s remarks Sunday. ... FULL @ SOURCE http://nypost.com/2014/08/05/egging-hamas-on/

COMMENT

So what happened to the Israeli 'Iron Dome' ... is it on the blink?

Psaki is just providing the Israelis with the same 'excuse' for kill Palestinian civilians.

Don't know that I'd take anything Jen Psaki's got to say about Hamas as gospel.

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Here's Jen Psaki briefing the press on behalf of the US State Department -- but the brief is full of holes and based on 'evidence' that does not stand up to examination of the FACTS:

YouTube

Psaki: “Masters of saying one thing & doing another.” 28 July 2014 (Ukraine)

Published on 28 Jul 2014

Jen Psaki, State Department Spokesperson.
U.S. Department of State - Daily Briefing: July.28.2014
... 28 July - The US government has been desperate to produce information to back up its claims, but it would not release important information in such an unprofessional way if it was true, the head of the Institute for Political Economy Paul Craig Roberts told RT.

On July 27 the US State Department released satellite images via email “proving” that Russia was firing rockets at Ukrainian troops across the border. The images were posted on Twitter by the US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt. The four-page document, titled 'Evidence of Russian Shelling into Ukraine,' contains four satellite images, all dating between July 21 and July 25/26. The slides were prepared by the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), and have a short description.
Read more: http://rt.com/op-edge/176072-us-image...

Source - ARKANAR (YouTube) - here.

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RT NEWS ARTICLE

‘Wrong time, altered images’: Moscow slams Kiev’s MH17 satellite data

Published time: August 01, 2014 10:27
Edited time: August 03, 2014 16:11 

Satellite images Kiev published as ‘proof’ it didn’t deploy anti-aircraft batteries around the MH17 crash site carry altered time-stamps and are from days after the MH17 tragedy, the Russian Defense Ministry has revealed.

The images, which Kiev claims were taken by its satellites at the same time as those taken by Russian satellites, are neither Ukrainian nor authentic, according to Moscow's statement.

The Defense Ministry said the images were apparently made by an American KeyHole reconnaissance satellite, because the two Ukrainian satellites currently in orbit, Sich-1 and Sich-2, were not positioned over the part of Ukraine’s Donetsk Region shown in the pictures.

Moscow claims weather and lighting conditions in the images were not possible at the dates and times Ukraine claims they were made, the Russian ministry said.

At least one of the images published by Ukraine shows signs of being altered by an image editor, the statement added. 

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FULL @ SOURCE

SOURCE - RT NEWS - HERE.

 RT NEWS VIDEO

SOURCE - RT NEWS - HERE.

Kiev's (SBU secret services) evidence does not hold up to examination of FACTS. 

So it's fake.  LOL

I'm inclined to believe everything coming out of the US is FAKE.

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SBU - The Security Service of Ukraine (Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrayiny), or SBU, is Ukraine's special purpose law enforcement agency and main government security agency in a sphere of counter-intelligence activity and combating terrorism. [wikipedia]

Sounds like the Ukraine SBU should be renamed 'The Propaganda Ministry'.

MH17 - US - Civilian aircraft anti-missile systems

Lawmakers push for airline anti-missile systems

Associated Press 4:53 p.m. EDT July 27, 2014

ALBANY – Two U.S. legislators on Sunday urged the government to study whether American passenger jets should be equipped with devices protecting them against missiles like the one that brought down a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine and projectiles fired near Tel Aviv's airport.

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer and Rep. Steve Israel are asking the Department of Homeland Security, Defense Department and Federal Aviation Administration to consider technologies that would shield commercial aircraft.

A government study should include specific recommendations on the best technology needed to combat both shoulder-fired and surface-to-air missiles, they said. Anti-missile devices include onboard lasers, warning systems, flares and infrared countermeasure systems, costing from $1 million to $2 million per plane, Schumer and Israel said.

The Democratic lawmakers say two major events have raised red flags that require a quick study of defense technologies.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down on July 17 by what U.S. officials believe may have been a Russian-made surface-to-air missile fired by separatists in Eastern Ukraine. All 298 people aboard died. And last week, the FAA banned American flights to Israel after a rocket landed near Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport.

"The tragedy of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, plus numerous missiles being fired near the Tel Aviv airport have made one thing clear this week: we cannot let this happen to an American passenger plane," Schumer said.

As a result, "we are once again reminded that an attack on a civilian aircraft remains a significant threat," Israel said.

The Government Accountability Office believes there are between 500,000 and 750,000 portable surface-to-air missiles in existence worldwide. The State Department estimates thousands may be in the hands of terrorists.

Packaged in tubes, portable missiles can be concealed in a car trunk along with a launching mechanism and battery, making them especially dangerous, the lawmakers said.

Schumer noted that since 1973, at least 30 civilian aircraft have been downed by shoulder fired missiles, killing about 920 people, according to Stratfor, a Global Intelligence firm in Austin, Texas.

http://www.lohud.com/story/news/2014/07/27/lawmakers-push-airline-anti-missile-systems/13241951/

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[wikipedia]

Charles Ellis "Chuck" "Pro-Israeli Hack" Schumer ... is the senior United States Senator from New York and a member of the Democratic Party.

He attended Harvard College ... passed the New York State Bar Exam in early 1975, but never practised law, entering politics instead.

Steven J. "Steve" Israel ... is a U.S. Representative for New York's 3rd congressional district, serving since 2001. He is a member of the Democratic Party and head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

[wikipedia]

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MANPADS

Man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS or MPADS) are shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles (SAMs). They are typically guided weapons and are a threat to low-flying aircraft, especially helicopters. [wikipedia]

They look like a big shoulder-steadied portable 'telescopes' that have a barrel to fire off what I'd consider 'snack-sized' missiles at targets -- ie small sized missiles.

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 [ wikileaks.org/gifiles/attach/25/25335_MANPADS%20for%20c.e..doc ]

Civilian Attack History

The first known cases of attempted MANPADS attacks against civilian aircraft were in 1973 in Rome. In both January and September of that year, Black September militants attempted to strike Israeli flights, one of which was carrying then-prime minister Golda Meir. Both attempts were thwarted in their final minutes. In the case of Golda Meir’s plane in January, the militants who were positioned around the airport with the weapons were caught before her plane touched down. In the second attempt, police raided the militants’ apartment as the militants, who had positioned themselves outside on the balcony, prepared to shoot at the plane as it taxied down the runway.

Two years later, the first successful MANPADS attack against a civilian aircraft came in the form of an SA-7 missile launched by North Vietnamese forces against a Douglas C-54D Air Vietnam flight, resulting in the deaths of all 26 passengers and crew members. One of the most famous civilian MANPADS attacks was in 1994, when two SA-16s were used to shoot down a Rwandan government flight whose passengers (and victims) included the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi. This event sparked the Rwandan genocide, which resulted in approximately 800,000 deaths in 100 days. (The identity of those responsible for this attack remains a matter of debate.) Over the years, MANPADS attacks have been plotted and actively attempted in at least 20 countries, resulting in more than 900 civilian fatalities.

[ wikileaks.org/gifiles/attach/25/25335_MANPADS%20for%20c.e..doc ]

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Source US Dept of State:  http://2001-2009.state.gov/t/pm/rls/fs/107632.htm

Site lists some of the strategies of decommissioning MANPADS and provides links.

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RAND REPORT - 2005 - Infrastructure, Safety and Environment

http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/occasional_papers/2005/RAND_OP106.pdf

Rand Corporation - Figure 2.1

Proliferation of MANPADS among Selected NON-State Groups

Rand Corporation - Figure 6.1

Summary of Potential Counters to MANPADS

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COMMENT

Civilian aircraft anti-missile systems became the subject of debate post 9/11.

The New York politicians calling for civilian aircraft anti-missile technologies, do so citing the recent downing of a civilian aircraft (MH17) flying over a Ukrainian war zone and citing rockets fired at Tel Aviv airport, in what is a Middle Eastern war zone in a conflict that has now spanned how many decades?

It's unclear how these two war zone examples could possibly amount to a perceived "significant threat" of attack on civilian aircraft that are under the control of US authorities.

There's a bunch of MANPADS that have gone missing in Libya:

U.S. Still Hunting for Missing Libyan MANPADS
Feb. 2, 2012 - 05:38PM 

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However, while there is no definitive evidence that any of the weapons left the country, the U.S. government is not ruling out that possibility, according to Andrew Shapiro, assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs.
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The weapons, also called man-portable air defense systems, or MANPADS, pose a threat to commercial and military aircraft worldwide. The real concern for the United States is that the weapons could fall into the hands of terrorists.

It’s believed Gadhafi had an estimated 20,000 MANPADS when his regime collapsed, posing a “major proliferation challenge,” Shapiro said.

To date, about 5,000 MANPADS have been identified, recovered and secured, Shapiro said.

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20120202/DEFREG02/302020009/U-S-Still-Hunting-Missing-Libyan-MANPADS

A more detailed New York politician (ie Schumer and Israel) and MANPADS story (later disovered) is here -

 http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140727/NEWS/140729730/-1/NEWS

... terrorist organizations like Hamas in Gaza, Al Qaeda in the Maghreb, Boko Haram in Nigeria, Syrian insurgents, and groups in Mali, Yemen, Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, and other places. The U.S. led a $40 million buyback program to acquire loose missiles in the region, but were only able to secure 5,000 of an estimated 20,000 anti – aircraft systems that once belonged to the Gadhafi regime. After tensions rose in November 2012 between Israel and the Hamas in the Gaza strip, Hamas released a video of it possessing MANPADS. In Syria, thousands of soldiers have defected and set up new battalions that have shot down military helicopters and jets and in Iraq the radical Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group has taken large swaths of territory and seized weapons depots of the Iraqi Army along the way.

 http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140727/NEWS/140729730/-1/NEWS

Check out that whopping $40 million buy-back program!!!

Buy-back doesn't seem very successful despite the tempting cash offer.

In my view, it's doubtful that missing MANPADS are all within the confines of the Libyan territory.  The bet is they're somewhere in the Middle East or maybe some have reached Africa or gone north. [*Still get Libya and Syria mixed up!  LOL.  They're already in Africa if they're Libyan MANPADS.  LOL.]

However, the likelihood of MANPADS threatening civilian aircraft beyond world hotspots and war zones is probably minimal.

So what are the New York politicians currently lobbying for?  

It looks like some pie in the sky civil aviation protection scheme that is going to raise the cost of travel and raise a whole lot of other costs and issues along the way.

But, first, there must be an expensive, US tax-payer funded study on the subject.

Are these guys for real or is this just a publicity stunt?  

What about a common sense approach like, uuuumm, maybe not flying over war zones?

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RAND CORPORATION

RAND Corporation (Research ANd Development) is a non-profit global policy think tank formed to offer research and analysis to the United States armed forces by Douglas Aircraft Company. It is financed by the U.S. government and private endowment, corporations including the health care industry, universities and private individuals.

New to looking at politics and organisations, so I'm a little confused about the status of Rand Corporation. 

Is it an NGO or a GO?

Quickie check to see what others have to say:

The RAND Corporation is a notoriously powerful NGO with deep ties to the U.S. military-industrial complex as well as interlocking connections with the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations. [here]

The author of that quote (Daily Paul) wrote back in 2008 that Rand Corporation is lobbying for the goverment to start a war with China or Russia, to stimulate the economy.

Anyway, I take it Rand Corporation is an NGO.