M Files. Ukraine and geopolitics for April 28 2014

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1. This is alleged to be a Neo-Nazi march video: Lvov remembers Ukrainian Waffen SS division 

Members and supporters of the Svoboda party joined a march in Lvov on Sunday in commemoration of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, initially formed from Ukrainian volunteer fighters.

(I don’t know enough about the styles of the 40s but it looks more like a reunion of Bavarian bar maids to me)

2. VICE Journalist who has been sending generally excellent daily reports from Ukraine, speaks about his captivity by unnamed kidnappers.

I believe there will be more in the comments under this post shortly

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47 Replies to “M Files. Ukraine and geopolitics for April 28 2014”

  1. Hello there……its me again……Don Laird…….

    In regards to the banners being carried by the Ukrainians….openly and proudly………match them to this…..

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_%281st_Ukrainian%29

    And then, no negative reflection on Tundra Tab…….read an article regarding a very very very stupid question pondered on the Jerusalem Post.

    http://tundratabloids.com/2014/04/dr-manfred-gerstenfeld-asks-in-jpost-is-a-second-holocaust-possible.html

    Ladies and Gentlemen…….

    Oft have I said, and say once more…….

    The Zyklon-B, is being stockpiled can by murderous can.

    Brick by grotesque brick the ovens are being rebuilt.

    The crematoria yawn their languid and cavernous yawns, hungry once again.

    The cattle-trains creak and groan, restless and impatient, eager for their second wind.

    Mass murder and genocide, the darkest and maddest of debutantes, stand impatiently on our doorsteps awaiting the invitation to dine and dance, once again, at Hell’s Banquet, awaiting the invitation wrought from rhetoric, the invitation borne on the mitigation provided by ignorance and dull-witted amnesia.

    The Human Race, we are nothing if not predictable, we are nothing if not blind……and this as the Jew sits in Berlin’s cafe’s, oblivious to the storm clouds that rolled and boiled on the horizon……so too the Jew today, hastily crosses his legs, snaps his newspaper and bids the waiter bring another cappuccino…….

    Does the Jerusalem Post have any more stupid questions??……stupid questions to ask before the skies across Europe darken with the foul and oily smoke that will pour from crematoria chimneys…..the final reward paid little girls,boys and their butchered parents.

    Ahhhh yes…..history, ever the faithful servant of Mankind, repeats itself once again.

    Here are a few paragraphs from an essay I wrote called “Of Doctorates and Duplicity”, I wrote this essay in response to Western academia’s sickening and culpatory fascination with all things terroristic.

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    To quote:

    I find quite remarkable the willingness of sneering academia, these lovers of Middle Eastern psychopathy, these enlightened educators of our children, to sit in campus coffee shops engaged in self-important tete’a’tete, wrapped in shemaghs: the preferred couture of terrorists. To wear with pride the fashion affectations of those who whisper a murderous lie into the ears of the lonely, the unloved, the dull witted and the easily impressed… to celebrate those who turn wombs into arms factories…. the same monsters who wrap explosives around children and set them alight in marketplaces…the batterers of women who assure the bruised and bloodied their agony satisfies and maintains the delicate balance of Islamic sensibility…. the very same ones who lurk in doorways watching their handiwork from a distance as, in the twinkling of an eye, in a blinding flash of light, peace and quiet become chaos and death, the slaughtered borne away on rivers of blood…..oh how immersed in culture they must feel, how empowered and enriched, these academics who admire murderers.

    It is easy to be brave when privilege, comfort and ease are your constant companions. How far away from the killing fields the enlightened and educated are, how far away from the stench of burning hair, human skin and fat. How removed they are from the agony of tens of thousands who perish to satisfy political agenda. How tolerant they are to turn a blind eye to mass murder and genocide, how we marvel at the colors their cowardice and complicit delusions weave into the coat of multiculturalism. What diversity they bring to institutions of higher learning with their ignorance of a murderous political ideology that comes wrapped in the robes of religious propriety.

    Were it my choice, the next mass grave of “the cleansed” that was discovered, and only God knows how many of those are waiting to be discovered, I would empty faculty lounges across North America, hand them all shovels, and let them wade through a sea of miserable putrefied flesh. I would let them catalogue little girls whose last moments on this earth were an agony of rape, the same girls who, throats cut, lay rotting beside their mothers. Then let them catalogue the mothers. The mothers whose agony, in being forced to witness the manner of the daughters’ departure, screams horrified volumes. The mothers, in whose ears rang the mocking laughter of their children’s killers as they too suffered rape, torture and murder.

    I would force these professors, so enamored with all things fanatical, to pour the mortal coil of butchered men and boys into bags and buckets….I would let them wretch and choke and vomit as, clinging to their last vestiges of sanity, they begged to be turned away from these places of horror and madness. Then let them return to the quiet sanctuary of democratic Western civilization, let them return to the manicured sprawl upon which sit their hallowed halls of enlightenment and education. Let them return to campus coffee shops where, over fancy cups of coffee, they can tell me to my face of the depth of their new understanding of the words, “tolerance and diversity”.

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    Well kiddies…..Ladies and Gentlemen………perhaps the time for trivial pursuits, for newspapers and cappuccino has drawn to a close…….perhaps the time has come to tend to more pressing matters.

    Food for thought.

    Regards, Don Laird
    Dogtown Bastard
    Alberta, Canada

  2. UKRAINE – April 28 2014 – Blasts, fierce fighting in Donetsk as pro- & anti-Kiev demos clash

  5. @Lean et al…….

    Yes, I have noticed…..that and so much more like that……

    Strange Lena…..we are facing times in which many of us will have to make decisions, and those decisions may shorten our lives or make them a living hell, depending on those whose will is opposed……

    It is when those decisions are made that those men and women best remember a brief conversation between King Baldwin IV and Balian……..(its from the movie Kingdom of Heaven)….sage advice indeed.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCC8tjrXYE8

    Regards, Don Laird
    Dogtown Bastard
    Alberta, Canada

  6. #1 I don’t know how many of that unit were Nazi’s and how many were simply fighting to get out from under communism, when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union many locals greeted them as liberators and willingly joined to fight the communists. By the time they discovered that the Nazi’s were almost as bad as the communists it was too late, if they deserted they were hunted and killed by both sides, and surrender to the communists simply brought about death by torture. So it is possible the people marching are simply trying be anti-Russian.

    I want to know much more about the march and the marchers before I say what the represent.

  8. FORBES – – Here’s How Obama’s Russia Sanctions Will Destroy Vladimir Putin

    The US Treasury Department announced further sanctions today on seven Russian officials and 17 Russian companies, including Igor Sechin, the head of Rosneft, Russia’s largest oil company, several financial institutions and a number of firms connected to the energy sector. These will include visa bans, asset freezes and further restrictions on trade.

    When the first round of sanctions were imposed, the Russians largely laughed them off and critics of the administration pounced. How could visa bans and asset freezes affect the calculus of Putin’s most ardent supporters? What effect will it have on the ones don’t travel extensively the West or keep assets in foreign banks?

    Yet this line of reasoning betrays a deep misunderstanding about the purpose and effects of the sanctions. They are, in fact, a new breed of financial warfare that the Treasury department has been honing since 9/11, which rely on new legislation such as Section 311 of the Patriot Act and “know your customer” banking rules.

    more on the page :

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2014/04/28/heres-how-obamas-sanctions-will-destroy-vladimir-putin/

  17. Visa, MasterCard Required to Pay $3.8Bln Security Deposit to Work in Russia

    The State Duma on Friday passed a law tightening requirements on embattled foreign payment systems Visa and MasterCard and giving them new competition in the form of a national payment system.

    Visa and MasterCard have been at the center of a political storm since U.S. sanctions forced them to cut services to two Russian banks in March. Faced with this demonstration of U.S. power, President Vladimir Putin led the charge to restrict their influence and turn the creation of a Russian payment system into a national security issue.

    The law passed on Friday will require payment systems to ensure uninterrupted service, and obliges them to pay a security deposit to the Central Bank to guarantee their good behavior.

    Foreign payment systems will have to leave a security deposit at the Central Bank equivalent to the value of two days of transactions processed in Russia. Visa and MasterCard together processed $1.9 billion per day last year, meaning that they will between them be obliged to relinquish about $3.8 billion to the Central Bank.

    The legislation comes into force on July 1, after which payment system operators will begin handing over the deposits in quarterly installments worth 25 percent of one day’s transaction volume.

    […]Visa is already feeling the squeeze — the company warned last week that U.S. sanctions were damaging its transaction volumes, pulling its revenue growth rate down to four-year lows.

    http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/visa-mastercard-required-to-pay-38bln-security-deposit-to-work-in-russia/498998.html/

  18. Ashton, limping along, weird dress sense, in Serbia, lecturing others on how to behave the neo liberal group think order, she says pledges support to Serbia. Pigs fly, when the EU is happily screwing up the lives of Serbs in Kosovo and metohija, gets the Serbian government to dance to their tune, trying to screw up Ukraine with the same model as the bulldozer revolution in Belgrade. Trying to put a spanner in the works of the Russian people and government, and somehow thinks that Putin and co don’t notice the similarities!

    Meanwhile in Kosovo itself, the Serbs and the Serbian church still aren’t liked at all by the Albanians,

    http://inserbia.info/today/2014/04/kosovo-kla-prepares-attack-on-visoki-decani-monastery/

  23. The mayor of Ukraine’s second-biggest city, Kharkiv, is in serious condition after being shot in the back while riding his bicycle.

    Gennady Kernes, who is pro-Russian, was taking his usual cycle route when it is believed someone opened fire from nearby woods.

    He was immediately rushed to hospital by his bodyguards.

  24. April 29 2014 -UKRAINE – Video: Pro-Russian activists storm Lugansk govt HQ, police escape building

  25. April 29 2014 – Ukraine: Lugansk administration building stormed by Pro-Russians

  27. AFP – UKRAINE – KiEV – April 29 2014 – Clashes break out near Independence Square in Kiev

    <b<Pro-Kiev activists clashed with unknown ultra-nationalists activists Tuesday to prevent them marching through the Independence Square in Kiev

  28. April 30 2014 – RT – Geert Wilders on Ukraine – ‘Two steps back: Both EU and Russia should not meddle in Ukraine’

  29. Combat alert: Ukraine on ‘full military readiness’ in anticipation of Russian invasion

  33. April 30 2014 – Ukraine Gets IMF Approval for $17 Billion Loan Amid Unrest

    The International Monetary Fund approved a $17-billion loan to Ukraine with an immediate disbursement of $3.2 billion to help the country pay its debts as separatist unrest threatens to split the nation’s east.

    “This program does have risks,” IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said after a board meeting in Washington, citing the geopolitical tension and challenges in implementing new policies. “Ukraine has an opportunity to seize the moment, to break away from previous practices, both from a fiscal, from a monetary and from a governance point of view.”

    After twice freezing loans to Ukraine since 2008, the fund is banking on the interim government’s resolve to tackle unpopular measures such as the phasing out of natural-gas subsidies. IMF approval clears the way for additional aid from the European Union and the U.S. just as they widen sanctions against Russia for its actions in Ukraine.

    Ukrainian Deputy Finance Minister Vitaliy Lisovenko in an interview last week said the loan will help turn around investors’ sentiment over its shrinking economy and may enable a return to international debt markets this year. The government has to meet $9 billion in foreign-currency debt payments due this year, he said.

    […]“The authorities’ economic program supported by the fund aims to restore macroeconomic stability, strengthen economic governance and transparency, and launch sound and sustainable economic growth, while protecting the most vulnerable,” the Washington-based IMF said in an e-mailed statement today.

    […]In exchange for the loan, Ukraine plans to gradually cancel capital controls, a document obtained by Bloomberg shows. Even as Ukraine limited the amount of foreign currency individuals are allowed to buy, the hryvnia has lost 29 percent against the dollar this year, the most among more than 150 global currencies tracked by Bloomberg. The central bank halted its defense of the hryvnia so as not to burn through reserves.

    […]Part of the IMF money will help Ukraine settle $2.2 billion in back payments to Russian state-controlled OAO Gazprom for natural gas and pay for future imports.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-30/ukraine-gets-imf-approval-for-17-billion-loan-amid-unrest.html

  34. euronews – Eastern Ukraine shows support for Russia during May Day celebrations

  35. MAY 1 2014 – Moscow – Crimea annexation celebrated at Red Square marches

  36. April 30 – IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde says “urgent action was necessary” as IMF approves $17 billion bailout for Ukraine.

  38. May 1 2014 UKRAINE – Anti-govt protesters form human corridor, beat police in Donetsk