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I love Gerald Celente despite his tendency to get coarse and despite the impotency of his attempts to sloganize the endless perfidies of the psychopaths. I know he does it to galvanize the attention of the morons who can't parse this stuff for themselves, so there is real value in his approach, but it depresses me and bores me silly.
Thanks to jo6pac's intermittent reminders, I keep an eye on a fellow who knows how to read Russian. I don't always agree with his assessments and opinions, but he regularly provides good information. Like today:
The new authorities in Banderastan have taken the decision to block all Russian TV channels previously received in the Ukraine.[emphasis mine]
The latest polls in Crimea indicate a 85% for a 'yes' in the upcoming referendum.
Crimean Tatars have indicated that they will accept the will of the majority of the people as expressed in the referendum.
OSCE observers, which had been invited to monitor the referendum, have refused to come even though they had actively participated in the preparation and execution of a similar referendum in Kosovo.
Crimean authorities have announced that the Crimean Self-Defense forces now have 3,000 soldiers on active duty and 7,000 reserves.
The new authorities of Banderastan have closed the airspace over Crimea, forcing the President of Tatarstan to travel 15 hours by road to get to the Peninsula. The Crimean authorities have now taken control of the local ATC station. The airspace over Crimea will be closed until the end of the voting next Sunday.
The Banderastani authorities have threatened to cut-off the supply of electricity to the Crimean Peninsula on the day of the referendum. In response the local authorities have prepared a plan to deploy over 200 generators.
Russian banks are actively opening branches in Crimea and the Pensions for April will be paid in Rubles.
The former head of the Ukrainian SBU (state security service) under Yanukovich, Alexander Iakimenko has declared that 20 men armed with automatic and sniper rifles were shooting from a building controlled by Maidan commander Andrei Parubii, now Secretary of the National Security Council of the Ukraine and member of the, I kid you not, Social-National Party of the Ukraine (now renamed Freedom Party). A sniper of the Russian anti-terrorist group "A" (often erroneously referred to as "Alpha") has declared that according to his analysis there were 4 sniper stations overseeing the Maidan, all in insurgency controlled buildings. Russia is still demanding an official international investigation about the sniper shootings on the Maidan.
In response to the transfer of 15 NATO combat aircraft from Italy to the Baltic states Belarussian President Lukashenko has offered to increase the number of Russian combat aircraft stationed in Belarus by 15 aircraft.
There are certain to be many more Ukrainian regions wishing to avail themselves of protection and stability from Russia. There are certain to be many of them even in the west of the country where pro-EU sentiment is thought to be strongest... highest percentage of anti-Russian sentiment will be in the western population in people between 25 and 45, and, perhaps, some of those left old enough to remember being starved by Stalin, but, considering how much news there has been highlighting the perfidies and atrocities of the US and EU over the last five years, that percentage will already be much less than it has been. Then when you factor in the snipers, that percentage will be dropping more.
The people of Ukraine will want stability, knowing where their next meal is coming from, over any airy-fairy notions of "independence" by now. It's not to be had, no matter what people want to call it. The West offers enrichment of the already wealthy and hardship for the masses. Russia offers stability for the masses and difficulty for the already wealthy in the project of further enriching themselves at the expense of the masses. Anyone able to take an objective look can see that.
Anyone able to take an objective look could see it when their rightful president chose real help from Russia over rape from the EU. It's the mindfucked population manipulated by the psychopaths' agents who have been the problem, and they are fewer now than just a few weeks ago. I would not be surprised to see most of Ukraine end up asking to be Russian again... which would not have been the case if the government of the United States had not pushed the button for this revolution... this coup.
What scares me is that they will have known this going in, and opted for it anyway, either because they have to have the instability at any cost or because it was their only option to try to milk back some support for their efforts to take global control... a Hail Mary. Some people are comforted by the notion that they are so desperate they don't mind that intelligent people can see them flailing. I know that desperate people lose their morals. Desperate psychopaths didn't have any to begin with, but lose their fear of being seen as amoral when the chips are this far down.
That means they are very close to doing something even more flagrant, which means to me that I must not drop into a well of impotent vigilance over this or I'm adding to weakness and futility instead of strength and clarity.
