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A new German documentary corroborates involvement of the Right Sector along with the Maidan Self-Defence and the Ukrainian government in the Odesa massacre. worth watching even thouth little Russian bashing



Украинская бронетехника осталась без импортных моторов. Наша страна начнет выпускать армейские грузовики совместно с Hyundai | Бизнес Вест

In short - MTU, Mercedes-Benz, IVECO and Deutz refuze to sell Ukraine engines that can be used in military vehicles (to replace Russian made YAMZ ones) they make do with Hundai for now, but writing on the wall is quite interesting.
 
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Transcarpathia Ruthenians demand autonomy from Kiev

3/14/2015
Transcarpathia Rusyns demand autonomy from Kiev
Translated from Russian by J.Hawk




The congress of Rusyn organizations decided to form a Coordinating Council to enter into a dialogue with the government. The decision was made last Saturday.

"The decisions made at the congress serve the following goals: demand the recognition of Rusyns as a nationality, and demand the implementation of the 1991 referendum on autonomy through dialogue. None of that had happened earlier. Right now we are opting for a dialogue, not a confrontation," said the leader of Transcarpathian Rusyns Pyotr Getsko.

The congress also decided to form a Coordinating Council, whose main objectives will be the unification and coordination of efforts to ensure the rights and freedoms of the Rusyn community.

The Council is also intended to enter into a dialogue with Kiev "to reach a decision on acknowledging the results of the 1991 referendum at which about 80% of inhabitants voted for the region's autonomy."

J.Hawk's Comment: I think we can reasonably assume Kiev's participation in the dialogue will be limited to the word "no." Will the Rusyns then opt for confrontation?
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Many soldiers from Transcarpathian Mountain Brigade were trapped in Debaltsevo. Their local leader (almost always an oligarch in Ukraine), Viktor Baloga, demanded from the chocolate seller that he withdraw the forces form Debaltsevo, and was upset at the number of casualties taken by the Kiev regime forces in the hands of the NovoRossiyan militia. It is understandable why these people would be upset with the Kiev regime.
 

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This is a EU discussion on 11/MAR/2015. that too coming from a British delegate, while Finnish are eager to Finnish themselves!



In my opinion, if the EU wants to be economically independent and sovereign, it must be able to protect its interests, and for that, a military is necessary. If it outsources its security to the US, then it will also surrender its sovereignty to the US.

There is no charity. No country does anything out of benevolence. There is always self interest at play.
Well that explains it! in that case. All this while, I was wondering why would the British ( virtually the USA's 51st state) be opposing a US policy to attack Russia. .... well maybe what the British delegate here was trying to do here was just an eyewash and just preventing the EU from forming its own army ... so that they are forever dependent on the US and so that the EU will ALWAYS be be forced to forward the US foreign policies.
 
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Well that explains it! in that case. All this while, I was wondering why would the British ( virtually the USA's 51st state) be opposing a US policy to attack Russia. .... well maybe what the British delegate here was trying to do here was just an eyewash and just preventing the EU from forming its own army ... so that they are independent of the US and so that the EU will ALWAYS be dependent on US and be forced to forward their policies
UK is like an appendage to the EU. It serves the purpose of dragging the EU down every time it tries to get up and learn to stand on its own feet. It is like tying a brick to your leg and then trying to run.

The UK does contribute a lot to the EU GDP, and a lot of trade is handled through London. However, there is a catch. If you look at manufacturing, UK is nowhere close to other western European countries. That is the catch. The UK has a very extensive banking and finance sector. A lot of the revenue generated is just by playing with numbers. Much of the GDP figures that UK contributes are simply pen-pushing and paper-pushing.

Yet another thing that keeps London relevant is Bank of England. It is the bank "of England," but the people of England have very little control over it. In practice, it functions like a private bank. It is a counterpart of the Bank of International Settlements. Basically, they have vaults, where they store gold bars, and these gold bars act as collateral for all the money that is tossed around, and works in very intimate collaboration with the Federal Reserve of the US, and you probably know that the Federal Reserve is also a private bank, and the US Dollar is a currency issued by the Federal Reserve, and hence is a currency that is issued, essentially by a private company.

The US government borrows dollars from this bank. How does it do that? The US Treasury sells bonds (Treasury bonds, or government bonds) to the Federal Reserve, and the Federal Reserve in turn "prints" money (much of the printing is done electronically, i.e., the virtual money is created and they live in computer servers) and gives to the Treasury, who then uses that money to pay the bills the government accumulates, while they collect revenue via tax and other proceeds, and returns some dollars back to the Federal Reserve, which does not pay back the loan's principal, but does pay back the loan's interest. This is the tip of the iceberg, and of the conundrum that "debt is money and money is debt" concept, which right now is on the decline.

Similarly, the Bank of England plays a similar role in the UK. Both the banks are backed by financiers, who you will rarely hear about. These banks wield considerable influence over the US and UK governments, due to the fact that these governments of so called "wealthy" countries owe an exorbitant amount of money to these banks and their financiers. Politicians, therefore, would rarely go against these banks in a major way.

Now, you might say, what if the government chooses to take over these banks? That will not happen, because, these banks have most likely hedged against the possibility by trading with Treasury bonds or government bonds, and any attempt at nationalization of these bonds will result in the international financial markets being flooded with Treasury bonds, which will bring down the credibility of the respective government that attempts a nationalization. This, in turn will result in loss of trade, and there will be financial collapse in the country whose government attempts a nationalization.

This is the reason why the US and UK work closely together.

It is unclear whether the UK is the 51st state of the US, or the US is still a financial colony of the UK.

Similarly, the Swiss Banks have remained largely safe throughout the two World Wars. That is also another financial hub that is of interest to financiers. Even if one financier might finance one belligerent and another finance the opposing belligerent, they both can have a common interest in Switzerland, and its safety.
 

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France Ready to Assist in Restoration of Eastern Ukraine's Banking System


French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius confirmed that France could provide technical assistance in restoration of banking services to the population of the south-eastern regions of Ukraine.


MOSCOW (Sputnik) — French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Saturday expressed readiness to assist in restoration of banking system in Ukraine's eastern regions, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Earlier in the day, Fabius had a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, the ministry said in a statement published on its website.

"The French side confirmed its readiness to provide technical assistance in restoration of banking services to the population of the south-eastern regions of Ukraine," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Paris together with Berlin promised to help renew the banking system in eastern Ukraine in a joint declaration agreed by the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine on February 12. The declaration is intended to support the measures toward Ukrainian reconciliation outlined by the leaders after talks in Minsk the same day.

In November 2014, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree, essentially imposing an economic blockade in southeastern Ukraine. The decree, in particular, stipulated the suspension of operation of state institutions and banks on the territories beyond the control of Kiev forces. The move left residents of Donbas without pensions and other social benefits.

Following the Ukrainian president's decision, Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the presidential decree, saying that Kiev was "cutting off those territories with their own hands."

Both UN refugee agency and the Organization for Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have repeatedly voiced concerns over the cessation of social welfare payments in militia-controlled areas of Ukraine, saying it brought the region on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe.

Read more: France Ready to Assist in Restoration of Eastern Ukraine's Banking System / Sputnik International
 

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The chocolate seller cutting off pensions to the eastern regions legitimizes the concept that Donbass is no longer part of Ukraine. In practise, this will have little impact. The Hryvnia is of little value, and due to the disappearance of tonnes of gold from Ukraine's reserves, the Kiev regime is at the mercy of those who now are in possession of all that gold. Currency with no collateral is currency with no value, unless it is backed by overwhelming military force, which the Kiev regime does not have.

I will call it the "Яц effect," or given the Galicians' love for ancient Cyrillic letters, we can call it the "Ѧц effect." The pronunciation is the same — "Yatz effect."

If you are wondering who this "Yatz" is, well, he is the nouveau bogatyr (богатырь in Russian or bahadur in Hindi) of the Kiev regime. See his mug below:



"I can't bring the gold back!"
 

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Ya I did watch quite a few documentaries on the banking system in the US..... hell I wouldn't like India to have any kind of contact with either the US or UK, every time the developing countries come close to removing poverty from their countries .... these guys change the the rules by adding a carbon tax or creating an artificial demand for the dollar. I think India should diversify its trading partners and concentrate on trading with Asian economies.
 

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Finnish forums write that Rus embassy staff in UK had left the country.
 

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Ya I did watch quite a few documentaries on the banking system in the US..... hell I wouldn't like India to have any kind of contact with either the US or UK, every time the developing countries come close to removing poverty from their countries .... these guys change the the rules by adding a carbon tax or creating an artificial demand for the dollar. I think India should diversify its trading partners and concentrate on trading with Asian economies.
Most of the people who talk about "wealth" and "development" are so mind-numbingly oblivious to these realities, that it comes across as a breath of fresh air to see those that actually understand the system. Thank you for reading. All the materials are freely available on the internet, but it is not easy to understand without some basic understanding of mathematics and history, and the most unfortunate part is that many people don't bother to do some research before arguing.
 

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Well yes education is a problem, but in poor countries.... but education itself has never stopped people from criticizing their/ foreign governments in the past. If this was the anytime before the 80's [the era of television] , people would have come out on the streets protesting.

Unfortunately, with technological inventions like the T.V, Computer, and lately smart phones.... people have reached a level that they are so engrossed in their FB, whatsapp and instagram, that they just don't care about the real world ...its like they are trapped in the Matrix. They have abundant information at their finger tips .... but they are so addicted to their life styles that they no longer care about the real issues. its not that they don't know , they just don't care enough
 
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Ya I know that, I just want to hear your thoughts on that ..... you portray as if Nato and the US care a lot about you, so how do you justify your statement
EU as an organization is weak. That is why is the talk of EU army etc. In few decades we will see USE I think.
 

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EU as an organization is weak. That is why is the talk of EU army etc. In few decades we will see USE I think.
It is overwhelming force of USA military that keeps EU together. This has to be remembered. Europe is in the protection of American military might.

Without the USA, EU is not possible. We shall see how long USA can keep over-extending itself. The idea of EU army is sound and logical BUT will EU dance??
 
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