Ultimatum of the Finger Wagger: Kerry Again Threatens Russia

Secretary of State John Kerry, the epitome of the ugly American is once again wagging his finger in the face of Russia and President Vladimir Putin. According to Reuters, the top Skull and Bones alum over at Foggy Bottom has ordered Putin to immediately disarm anti-austerity, anti-fascist freedom fighters in Eastern Ukraine. Currently engaged in more plotting with his EU counterparts in Brussels to complete the absorption of Ukraine into the EU and later NATO, the buffoon that is the American top diplomat continues to push the envelope. The Obama regime's ongoing reckless actions towards Russia endanger the lives of billions and if just one hot-headed idiot decides to unleash a tactical nuke or two in a burst of the emotion that is being nurtured by their bellicosity it could bring doom on a global scale. This incredibly stupid personal vendetta by Kerry and Obama and their cadre of neocon fanatics is not going to end well for any of us and the only ones who are unable to see it are those with the ability to stop it.

The Reuters Story, entitled "Kerry tells Russia to disarm Ukraine separatists 'in hours'" states that:

Washington and other Western powers have stepped up pressure on Russia to take concrete action to defuse the conflict in eastern Ukraine, where a ceasefire between Russian-speaking rebels and government forces has appeared to be crumbling.

"We are in full agreement that it is critical for Russia to show in the next hours, literally, that they're moving to help disarm the separatists, to encourage them to disarm, to call on them to lay down their weapons and to begin to become part of a legitimate process," Kerry told reporters in Paris.

He added that EU leaders would discuss possible sanctions on Russia at their summit in Belgium on Friday.

Washington has said it also has new sanctions ready to go, but Kerry said the United States would prefer not to be in "sanctions mode" and wanted Russia to take action without pressure.

"We would like to see a cooperative effort between the United States, Europe and Russia and the Ukrainians," Kerry added.

Separatist rebellions erupted in eastern Ukraine in early April after street protests in Kiev toppled Moscow-backed leader Viktor Yanukovich, and Russia in turn annexed the Crimean peninsula. Eastern rebels have called for union with Russia. Moscow denies Western accusations that it has allowed fighters to cross into Ukraine along with heavy weapons to confront Ukrainian government forces.

The proposed next round of U.S. and EU sanctions would target Russia's financial, defense and high-tech industries, said U.S. officials.

Could the act of war that is the launching "financial neutron bomb" be coming soon? Pay no mind that Putin just acted to deescalate the situation by requesting parliament revoke his authorization to use military force in Ukraine and is continuing to be the the only rational party involved in this mess. It wasn't Putin who started it, that is unless you go back to last summer when he intervened to prevent the imminent US massive air attack on Damascus bringing both Obama and Kerry much embarrassment and then there is that Snowden asylum thing too. The propaganda machine is already spinning Putin's move as just another one of this devilish acts of trickery while the new Cold War and all of the trillions of dollars that it would generate in profits to the death industry gets ever closer.

Americans have no idea whatsoever of the reality in Ukraine, the state-corporate media has covered up this gross violation of international law from the onset. There was the fomenting of unrest by organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy to turn out the protesters in the streets of Kiev against legitimately elected president at the time Viktor Yanukovych and the subsequent infiltration and hijacking of the protests by bloodthirsty neo-Nazi thugs who were able to introduce violence. Senator John McCain, a psychopath and by the way that he is treated by the media, the de facto US President was photographed in Kiev palling around with neo-Nazis right before the sh*t hit the fan. Then there was that still mysterious killing of both police and protesters by snipers that ignited the smoldering powder keg and led to the ouster of Yanukovych along with the installation of a US backed puppet regime lead by former central banker Arseniy Yatsenyuk or "Yats" as he is affectionately known by former Dick Cheney aide and current Assistant US Secretary of State Victoria "f*ck the EU" Nuland. She is also the woman who handed out cookies to anti-government protesters in Kiev in a public relations exercise and boasted to US corporate interests about the $5 billion dollars of American taxpayer money that has been funneled into Ukraine over the years to ensure that the country would be safe for corporate plunder when the time came.

The best laid plans to surprise Putin with the Ukraine coup d'etat being executed while he was occupied with the Sochi Winter Olympics naturally weren't without failures. Really, anything that the neocons touch as a result of their lunatic dreams of global conquest carry within it the seeds of their own destruction and Ukraine is the latest example. There was Putin's initial request to use military force in Ukraine and then the lightning fast secession of Crimea along with the subsequent vote to join Russia along with the official annexation. This was an unforgivable transgression despite the fact that Crimea always was a part of Russia until Nikita Kruschev (legend has it he was drunk at the time) gave it away in 1954. The corporate forces that were ready to pillage and loot with impunity after the installation of "Yats" were furious as were the neocon geniuses whose prized target - the Russian naval base at Sevastopol was snatched from their claws immediately. The puppet government struck back and into the east went the goons and neo-Nazi militias to commit their heinous atrocities such as the murderous and barbaric acts at the Odessa trade union building which has for all intents and purposes been flushed down the memory hole. Christ know that we can't tell Americans the truth that their government is now on the side of the same Nazi scum that their fathers and grandfathers risked all to defeat in World War II.

The people in the east, knowing from history the full potential of the horrors wrought by Nazi ideology unleashed did what they could do - they fought back and are holding their own to this day despite the US-EU-NATO Axis of Aggression sanctioned use of they military on civilians - including the use of incendiary munitions such as the ones used in Gazaand Fallujah. Ukraine has a new puppet leader, a corrupt oligarch installed to much hoopla in a bogus election named Petro Poroshenko aka "the Chocolate King" and early indications show that he is hellbent on doing the bidding of the US power structure in crushing the uprising in the east under that evil and ubiquitous justification of fighting "terrorists" - which is coming very soon to America.

Poroshenko is eager to please his western masters and after formalizing the deal with the devil for the Ukranian people that is the EU austerity agreement his is upping his rhetoric towards Putin. According to The Guardian in a story entitled "Ukraine president accuses Russia of doing nothing to end 'disastrous' war" the Chocolate King was providing the cover for the coming round of sanctions in the Obama regime's ongoing provocations of Russia. I excerpt the following:

Speaking in Brussels, Poroshenko stated bluntly that the rebels were under the control of Vladimir Putin's Kremlin. "I think now Russia has done nothing," he said. "We are talking of Russian citizens, Russian officers, Russians by origin, Russian soldiers of fortune." He characterised the Kremlin's strategy in Ukraine as "not very pragmatic" and "very emotional".

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Asked if Ukraine would get Crimea back during his presidential term, Poroshenko smiled and said: "Yes"

It was more of the same vintage Russia-baiting as that recent absurd accusation from NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen that the Putin government was secretly working in close coordination with European environmentalists in fighting the "fracking" industry. From The Guardian story "Russia 'secretly working with environmentalists to oppose fracking'":

The head of one of the world's leading groups of democratic nations has accused Russia of undermining projects using hydraulic fracturing technology in Europe.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), and former premier of Denmark, told the Chatham House thinktank in London on Thursday that Vladimir Putin's government was behind attempts to discredit fracking, according to reports.

Rasmussen said: "I have met allies who can report that Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so-called non-governmental organisations - environmental organisations working against shale gas - to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas."

It was something straight out of the John Birch Society Blue Book and yet here is the leader of NATO hurling about a dangerous and baseless charge that could have dire ramifications in the United States where the fight against the destructive practice of "fracking" is facing growing opposition. Given the actions of the NSA and the constitutional wrecking crew of both the Obama and Bush administrations it is not much of a reach to believe that US domestic activists are already being subjected to surveillance and cases are already being built against them. it is a certainty that these are exactly the targets that the NSA is really going after and this will likely be exposed once Snowden's list is revealed. They will have good company too in that antiwar activists and bloggers and independent media writers who dare to question the corrupt system that now dominates politics in The Homeland are going to be on it too.

The runaway train that is hurtling towards a hideous endgame over Ukraine that will likely result in World War III continues to pick up speed, Poroshenko's demagoguery and the predictable reaction by Russian political figures who have again been stabbed in the back by the west continue to jack up the tensions. Not that Putin adviser Sergei Glazyev was wrong when he called the new boss in Kiev "a Nazi" for the recently inked austerity deal as reported by The Guardian:

Sergei Glazyev, an adviser to Putin, told the BBC before the signing that "Europe is trying to push Ukraine to sign this agreement by force" and said Petro Poroshenko, the president, lacked the legitimacy to make the deal.

"They organised [a] military coup in Ukraine; they helped Nazis to come to power. This Nazi government is bombing the largest region in Ukraine." He said he "of course" believed the Ukrainian president was a Nazi.

Not that you will read about that in the US state-corporate media, at least not in anything even resembling the actual context but his is correct - the coming carnage in the east is going to make that slaughter at the Odessa trade union building look like a picnic. The real way that the Kiev junta think about their Russian speaking countrymen has been made obvious by not only the murderous actions of rampaging neo-Nazi militias but also by Yatsenyuk himself when he slipped up about two weeks ago and referred to the anti-austerity fighters as "subhumans" or as the many in Ukraine who cling to the legend of their hero, Nazi-collaborator and mass-murderer Stepan Bandera would describe them - untermensch.

But Kerry continues to pontificate, threaten and wave that damned finger of his as though this country still has that most priceless commodity that is the moral high ground - only the rubes, drunk on their star-spangled fat asses off of the toxic elixir of "American exceptionalism" as preached by snake oil salesmen like Obama believe that garbage - because when you throw in with the admirers of the twentieth century's greatest criminals the Nazis, it has been ceded forever.

Corrupt US Establishment Sells “Yats” to Pitch their War

While Obama and his Secretary of State John Kerry frantically work to push for the war over Ukraine that the neocon ideologues, global finance mafia, big corporations and the military machine so badly desire an emerging strategy is becoming obvious. The establishment is going to sell the illegitimately installed puppet Prime Minster in Kiev, Arseniy "Yats" Yatsenyuk as a credible pitchman for their lies.

"Yats", a former central banker is of course the chosen man for the US backed coup government annexation of Ukraine into the western domain of looter capitalism and ultimately into NATO. This much has been apparent ever since that famously intercepted phone call between assistant US Secretary of State Victoria "Fuck the EU" Nuland and US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt discussing the installation of Yatsenyuk before neo-Nazi and fascist thugs turned the streets of Kiev into a battle zone to violently topple sitting democratically elected leader Viktor Yanukovych. It was already a done deal and Nuland had just gone in front of corporate interests to boast about the billions already invested in opening up of Ukraine for exploitation. Now as the situation teeters on the edge of a massive US backed slaughter of anti-austerity, pro-Russian Eastern Ukraine protesters the American people need to be able do identify with the leader tasked with the upcoming carnage.

So there is the marketing of "Yats" for domestic consumption. There was the Easter Sunday appearance on Meet The Press to push the talking points about the menace of Russian leader Vladimir Putin's mythical restoration of the Soviet Empire and peddle the discredited sleaze about the bogus Jew registration leaflets passed out by masked men in Donestk. David Gregory served up the question to "Yats" who then whipped out a shovel of bloody red meat to the sheeple on their hallowed day of religious reverence:

DAVID GREGORY: Final question. There have been ghastly reports coming out of eastern Ukraine this week about some kind of forces forcing Jews in the eastern part of the country to register with local authorities. What do you make of this? Are these accurate? Are Jews particularly at risk?

ARSENIY YATSENYUK: We got information that these so-called peaceful protesters with light ammunition in their hands, that they sent a number of bulletins saying that everyone who is a Jew to be indicated as a Jew. And today in the morning, I made a clear statement urged Ukrainian military and security forces and Ukrainian Department of Homeland Security urgently to find these bastards and to bring them to justice.

The "bastards" of course are working in the employ of the Empire, probably culled from the same gaggle of rancid neo-Nazis that were used for the coup and Yatasenyuk's search for them will be undertaken with as much a fervor as O.J's avowed hunt for the real killers. If they are found at all it will likely be a bunch of patsies gunned down by Kiev's thugs with a massive amount of planted 'evidence'.

This weekend in order to further burnish the image of "Yats" he was provided an audience with the Pope himself. He was shoehorned into the busy Vatican schedule for the ceremonies for the canonization of opes John Paul II and John XXIII. It is more than a bit ironic that the current pontiff, Pope Francis received Yatsenyuk when a far more appropriate host would have been his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI. Herr Ratzinger, as a former member of the Hitler Youth had much more in common with "Yats" and his Svoboda and Right Sector infested junta than Pope Francis, whose calls for peace and moderation kind of fly in the face of the Ukrainian occupiers neo-Nazi ideology. But of course Americans can't be bothered with such inconvenient trivialities, it is the fucking Pope for God's sake and the sheep will devour it as the obscene spectacle that it is - not that they know better given the dismal sources of information that they rely upon in The Homeland.

The key is in legitimizing the man since all of the reports of events in Ukraine are promoted in the state-corporate media as being the official account of the Ukrainian government. I would suggest that Russia Today (RT) be regularly checked for some well need balance to the propaganda even if Secretary of Skull and Bones John Kerry has virulently denounced it as propaganda "bullhorn"  while omitting any reference to the lies pumped out by FOX,CNN and MSNBC but that's the way that Kerry rolls. Hell, it's not like you have to buy into everything at RT but at least you are getting the other side  rather than the horseshit pumped out here by the Obama regime. Sure the Pope promised to help Ukraine but he is the Pope for Christ's sake, he promises to help everybody - like Jesus would do. But this is all for show set up by those more cynical than the Pope could ever aspire to be were he so inclined.

Yatsenyuk is really nothing more than a product sold under false pretenses just like Obama himself and it would be silly to expect that he wouldn't be embraced by the masses of asses here in our flag-swaddled, god-kissed, armed to the teeth land of Idiocracy.

Comrade McCain Warns US Corporations on Doing Business in Russia

De facto President of the United States and preeminent warmongering psychotic Senator John McCain has slipped the chain again. On Friday McCain issued a veiled warning to US corporations seeking to do business with Russia in the frenzied reincarnation of the Cold War that the neocons have been so relentlessly pushing through every propaganda organ in the land. With McCain fully invested in the unelected occupying government in Kiev, he spent much time over there palling around with neo-Nazis before the US backed coup d'etat went down he is in this thing to win it.

In an interview given to Bloomberg TV the globe-trotting bloodsucker who feeds on death and destruction took it upon himself to caution major corporations about exactly how and where they are to do business as Cold War II begins. This will surely go over real well with the crazed neocons, after all their ideological roots sprang from Russia and the diktat from the longtime face of bomb them back to the stone age American foreign policy. I excerpt from the Bloomberg piece entitled "McCain Looks to U.S. Companies in Russia If Putin Pushes":

The U.S. should consider forcing major American companies such as General Electric (GE) and Exxon Mobil to suspend business in or pull out of Russia if President Vladimir Putin attempts to take more territory from Ukraine or other neighboring nations, said Senator John McCain of Arizona.

“I know that that’s a tough call and I know that we don’t want to hurt our own economy, but what are the consequences of Vladimir Putin just being able to act?” McCain, a Republican from Arizona who advocates military assistance for Ukraine, said in an interview for Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt” airing this weekend.

Such a move likely would come through formal sanctions rather than political pressure on individual corporations, McCain said, and “would only be considered” if Putin “went much further.”

In addition to GE and Exxon-Mobil (XOM) Corp., the companies with the largest business interest in Russia include Ford Motor Co. (F), General Motors Co. (GM), Citigroup Inc. (C), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and PepsiCo Inc. (PEP)

Putin, who annexed Crimea from Ukraine earlier this month, has amassed tens of thousands of troops along the border, which McCain says indicates Russia may strike soon.

It takes a serious egomaniac as well as a real set of stones to threaten, even implicitly the profitability of such enormous American corporations and this may effectively be McCain's political death warrant as CEO's of such huge entities do not take kindly in having some foolish ass tell them how and where to do business, let alone to call them out in such a public manner.  The Arizona Republican party has already censured McCain and he has just opened his mouth one time too many which will likely ensure that there will be a biblical sized tidal wave of campaign funding coming to the Grand Canyon state to primary his ass come 2016.

Not that anyone should ever mistake John Sidney McCain III for representing American values with his ongoing crusade to bankrupt the country by involving it in innumerable wars, civil wars and other insurrections, his sheer contempt for what is left of democracy by not just shutting the fuck up and acknowledging that he lost to the black guy in 2008 and now his open contempt for free enterprise.  The cowardly McCain who has hyped himself as a war hero despite dropping napalm on Vietnamese women and children and then being dumb enough to get shot down and thrown into a prisoner of war camp instead of just doing the honorable thing by killing himself to avoid capture has always been one of the biggest frauds in modern American history. He may be wrap all of his bullshit up in old glory but what he is truly preaching with his message to those corporations is nothing short of Communist style centralized planning and enforcement by a corrupt pack of government jackals.

Let's see those corporations put their money into something that would truly benefit this country by funneling several million dollars into Arizona to fund McCain's opponents.

Eat This! Americans Go Without as Billions Sent to Ukraine

If there was any remaining shadow of a doubt about where regular Americans stand in the sewer of corruption that is Obamaworld let it now be removed. While food stamp programs, long-term unemployment and veterans benefits are cut to the bone there is plenty of money to send to support Neo-Nazis in Ukraine. Both Barack Obama as well as the real enemies of the American people in the US Congress just stuck it to us all good and hard. In yet another of those truly amazing shows of bipartisanship that is always able to cut through the gridlock whenever it comes time to fuck over the citizens of this country in order to shower undeserving foreign governments with money stolen from the US taxpayer the Congress voted overwhelmingly today to send billions in aid to the illegitimate, coup d'etat installed puppet government in Kiev and its neo-Nazi component.

This big star-spangled bag of loot is only awaiting Barry's signature but that is of course a formality. Never has a US president been such a complete stooge of the global finance mafia nor has a sitting US Congress approached this level of wanton - in your face - corruption. Where Americans anything but the television lobotomized sheep that they are they would be the ones out in the streets where the would be quickly confronted with all of the force that the rogue government has to bear and the blood would be knee deep in the streets. The audacity of the government here daring to engage in demagoguery over an inside job of extremist instigation and questionable sniper fire in Kiev when the fully militarized police state would turn any similar mass protest into piles of bloody chunks of human hamburger.

But in Der Homeland it is always about contradictions and hypocrisy, look at polls that show an enormous level of disapproval with the way that Obama has handled the now fully Hitlerized Russian president Vladimir Putin. The squadrons of couch bound warriors want Putin's head on a fucking pike paraded through the streets, mummified and then used as the game ball during the next Super Bowl in Tempe, and of course the immediate nuclear attack that would turn Moscow into a the world's largest parking lot  However it never once occurs to the average American thumb-sucking dumbass that the money going to fund the endless wars of imperial aggression and prop up puppet governments that enforce crushing austerity measures sold as "democracy" that the money is being stolen from them to finance it all. Not that long ago I thought that the movie Idiocracy was a prediction of the future of this country but given the ability of boobus Americanus to be once again suckered into supporting the planetary looting spree and the likes of Obama and the bought and paid for Congress it is obvious that it is already here.

Adding insult to injury is the inconvenient truth that Americans are being squeezed by spiking inflation - not of course that which is revealed by official government statistics which are total horseshit as food and energy costs are conveniently omitted in the calculation. Food prices are already up 19 percent this year, the prices are going up and the packages are getting smaller by the month as our criminal political class continues to enrich themselves at the public trough and earn every dime that big energy cartels, agribusiness conglomerates, the military industrial complex, the surveillance industrial complex, Wall Street gamblers and the global high finance parasites are paying them.  The average American schmuck who is all for a war with a nuclear power like Russia can't be bothered with such vagaries though as their long and slow slide into slavery continues. 

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