Ukraine: da

[Sturminator]

Alaska is next.

Wouldn't that require a functioning navy?

[Dr_Chimera]

Russia releases neo-nazi military advisor (for Aidar)

Western media: "servicewoman" a "symbol of resistance against Moscow"

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36378173

[Slick Nick]

Russia releases neo-nazi military advisor (for Aidar)

Western media: "servicewoman" a "symbol of resistance against Moscow"

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36378173

Russian coverage was pretty awesome too: "Savchenko looks very high, we don't know on which drug exactly but it is obvious she is stoned as fuck"

[Dr_Chimera]

That barely makes any sense.

[Slick Nick]

[Dr_Chimera]

Pro-Russia trolls is what New York Times calls progressives and Marxists.

[Slick Nick]

You two are so cute. If you were Americans, you'd be white guys from Tennessee throwing darts at the excesses of the Black Lives Matter movement.

"The Sentencing Reforn Act was, like, thirty years ago. Get over it, Tyrone."

Surprislingly I wasn't the one comparing Ukrainians to blacks.

[Dr_Chimera]

You two are so cute. If you were Americans, you'd be white guys from Tennessee throwing darts at the excesses of the Black Lives Matter movement.

"The Sentencing Reforn Act was, like, thirty years ago. Get over it, Tyrone."

Wow. What.

[Dr_Chimera]

What is going on here. http://www.timesofisrael.com/ukraine-ho ... 0000-jews/

... the director of Ukraine’s Institute of National Remembrance, Vladimir Vyatrovich, said in a statement on Monday that Kiev will soon name a street for two other Ukrainian nationalists — Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych — who are widely believed to be responsible for lethal violence against Jews. Another street is to be named for Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, a Polish Jewish teacher who was murdered in Auschwitz.

[Slick Nick]

Graham taunting ukies.

[Slick Nick]

[Slick Nick]

Humans, man....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... raine.html

[Dr_Chimera]

Neoliberalism comes to Ukraine.

[Slick Nick]

No one talk about Ukraine anymore...



They are democratic now, aren't they?

[Dr_Chimera]

A taste of freedom.

[Slick Nick]

[Slick Nick]

The war will end when the people in Kiev will want it to end. It's a very good scapegoat for all their failures and keeps collective IQ very low SLAAAAVA UKARIIINEEEE HEEROOYAM SLAAAVAA.

[Slick Nick]

[Slick Nick]

As much as I dislike Saakashvili, I have to say that while in Gerogia I was really impressed with the police and the govmt officials. The reforms he put in place seemed to have had a profound impact on society at large, I hope Ukraine enjoys the same kind of improvement.

[Dr_Chimera]

http://www.stripes.com/news/nato-approv ... t-1.418085

Top U.S. military officials in Europe have warned Russia’s edge in regional firepower means it has the ability to restrict NATO access to the Baltics and Black Sea regions — known as Anti-Access/Area Denial. Yet, allies spend little time focused on developing their own capabilities in that area, experts say.

Had Crimea remained Ukrainian (err... became American), this problem (Black sea region access) would have gone away.

[Dr_Chimera]

Russia is so freaking horrifying and NATO is so weak. But oops, their respective spending suggests otherwise.

In 2015, NATO’s 28 states spent a total of $892 billion on defense, according to a recent NATO press release. European members accounted for $235 billion of that total.

Meanwhile, Russia’s defense budget last year amounted to $66 billion, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, an influential think-tank which tracks arms expenditure around the world.

[Dr_Chimera]

The report, by the way, was written by Jeffrey Lewis, a former employee of the State department.

[Dr_Chimera]

Partisan Western thinktanks and newspapers have been relying on fraudsters like Bellingcat to feed them with analysis on MH17. Problem is that Bellingcat used this guy's program and did it incorrectly. Read his post here: http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/

More context also here: https://consortiumnews.com/2016/07/22/w ... ian-fraud/

The clear implication of the article by Andrew E. Kramer was that the Russians were covering up their complicity in shooting down the civilian airliner by allegedly doctoring photos to shift the blame to the Ukrainian military. Beyond citing this analysis by armscontrolwonk.com, Kramer noted that the “citizen journalists” at Bellingcat had reached the same conclusion earlier.

But Kramer and the Times left out that the earlier Bellingcat analysis was thoroughly torn apart by photo-forensic experts including Dr. Neal Krawetz, founder of the FotoForensics digital image analytical tool that Bellingcat had used. Over the past week, Bellingcat has been aggressively pushing the new analysis by armscontrolwonk.com, with which Bellingcat has close relationships.

This past week, Krawetz and other forensic specialists began weighing in on the new analysis and concluding that it suffered the same fundamental errors as the previous analysis, albeit using a different analytical tool. Given Bellingcat’s promotion of this second analysis by a group with links to Bellingcat and its founder Eliot Higgins, Krawetz viewed the two analyses as essentially coming from the same place, Bellingcat.

“Jumping to the wrong conclusion one time can be due to ignorance,” Krawetz explained in a blog post. “However, using a different tool on the same data that yields similar results, and still jumping to the same wrong conclusion is intentional misrepresentation and deception. It is fraud.”

Some other interesting stuff. Is it too much to ask for the New York Times to question the objectivity of these 'studies'?

Research on the credentials of the authors of the Arms Control Wonk blog post http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/ ... niversary/ offers a glimpse at the constantly revolving door between the US intelligence establishment and the private sector.

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk and principal author of the “MH17 Anniversary” blog post, works at the Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey (MIIM).

Lewis’ main collaborator at Arms Control Wonk is Aaron Stein, a fellow at the Atlantic Council “regime change” think tank. Founded at the height of Cold War, the Atlantic Council is managed by a who’s who of Pentagon and Western intelligence, including four former Directors of the US Central Intelligence Agency.

Eliot Higgins has been a principal co-author of multiple recent Atlantic Council “reports” on Syria and Ukraine. These propaganda documents produced by the Atlantic Council heavily rely on “digital forensics” chicanery amply supplied by Higgins and Bellingcat.

Higgins’ fellow principal author of the Atlantic Council “reports” was John E. Herbst, United States Ambassador to Ukraine from September 2003 to May 2006 (the period that became known as the Orange Revolution) and Director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center.

Lewis and his team of “researchers” at Arms Control Wonk have been colluding with the faux “independent investigative journalists” at Bellingcat for some time.

In a Twitter exchange on 22 April 2016, Bellingcat contributor Veli-Pekka Kivimäki asked if Lewis was “using Tungstene now”. Lewis exclaimed in response that it was “really fun running photos through it” twitter.com:723425393256984576

Lewis’ MH17 blog post co-author Catherine Dill http://www.nonproliferation.org/experts/catherine_dill/ previously worked as a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, one of America’s biggest security contractors. Dill holds an MA degree from MIIS, and a BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

Lewis’ other MH17 blog post co-author, Melissa Hanham https://www.linkedin.com/in/mhanham is a former Research Analyst for the George Soros founded International Crisis Group (2006-2008) http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/about/board.aspx

A Graduate Assistant (2010) turned Research Associate (2012) turned faculty at MIIM, Hanham is described on her “experts” bio as “a regular contributor to Arms Control Wonk and Bellingcat” http://www.nonproliferation.org/experts/melissa-hanham/

However, Hanham’s bio linked to the Arms Control Wonk blog post http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/author/melissa/ curiously neglects to mention her multiple contributions to Bellingcat https://www.bellingcat.com/author/melissa-hanham/

Apparently Hanham does “very neat stuff” for Bellingcat twitter.com:591657534244556800

Regardless of their credentials in other areas, not one of the “researchers” at Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey has expertise in digital image analysis.

Just like Higgins and his crew at Bellingcat, the authors of the Arms Control Wonk “MH17 Anniversary” blog post are just having “fun” with Tungstene.

Under "Abe" in https://consortiumnews.com/2016/07/19/f ... 17-report/

[Elvid]

terrible piece. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/opini ... .html?_r=0

[Dr_Chimera]

McFaul deleted some of his tweets in the convo, but here he is being taken to school: twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/748291969588338688

See:


Yet:


Then:
* crickets *

[Shawnathan Horcoff]

Then:
* crickets *

Oh little town in U.S.A, your time has come to see
There's nothing you believe you want
But where were you when it all came down on me?
Did you call me now?

[Dr_Chimera]

[Craig]

People from Ukraine, he means.

[Dr_Chimera]

Oligarchs from Ukraine, he means.

ftfy

[Craig]

Oligarchs are people too, chim.

[AD]

Oligarch lives matter.

[Dr_Chimera]

[Slick Nick]

It's heating up in SLAAAAVA UKRAINEEEE HERROOYAM SLAAAAVAAAA. Heavy equipement being moved in Crimea apparently and Russia accuses ukies of killing a border guard there...

[Slick Nick]

Face saving aggressive gestures to make up for the broken siege in Aleppo. Putin's manhood (and therefore all Russians') is on the line.

So he decided to kill his own countrymens in Krym (the classic ruski falsflag) and do nothing in retaliation because Aleppo. American logic people, light years ahead of classic logic.

[Dr_Chimera]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridg ... _headlines

[Slick Nick]

The Minsk agreement and the reasons for current Russia-Ukraine tensions

http://rbth.com/opinion/2016/08/12/the- ... ons_620637

[Slick Nick]

Now that's solid evidence chaos lol

[senate]

If the Americans could fake a moon landing to embarrass the Soviets, then surely they could also fake a full moon to embarrass the Russians.

[Slick Nick]

Now that's solid evidence chaos lol

It's not quite up to the standard of the Pepe race science memes you get from Stormfront-RUS?

k

[Slick Nick]

[Dr_Chimera]

What would be the motivation for Putin to lie about this alleged attack on Crimea? If anything, this is embarrassing for him.

[Slick Nick]

What would be the motivation for Putin to lie about this alleged attack on Crimea? If anything, this is embarrassing for him.

Full moons don't lie Chims. Besides, the official version of Kiev is that drunken russian border guards shot drunken FSB agents and that's how the ukrainian ATO member got caught in Crimea.

[Elvid]

It's Time To Consign Nato To History, And Look To Future
September 02, 1994

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994 ... al-defense

[Slick Nick]

It's Time To Consign Nato To History, And Look To Future
September 02, 1994

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994 ... al-defense

Russian-German friendship.

200 years of hard work to make it impossible.

[Dr_Chimera]

I am developing nostalgia for all the Interpretermag neocon content we used to get in this thread.

[Slick Nick]

We're not russian, we're not soviet lol

[Dr_Chimera]

[Dr_Chimera]

Brother of a friend joined the Ukes' war effort a couple of months back to fight the dreaded Russians (but mostly because he was unemployed and hoped to make a career in the military).

Stepped on a mine and blew off his legs.

[Slick Nick]

mdaaa... sad thing, really.

[Slick Nick]