Posted on 05/04/2014 8:14:05 PM PDT by Rusty0604
Now that the situation in Ukraine has officially been upgraded to "war", what really happens on the ground will remain largely wrapped by the fog of war on either side, with just one thing assured: a war it may be but more than anything it is a proxy war - one in which both western and Russian interests are manifest in the fighting, and killing, of mostly innocent civilians in Ukraine - a carbon copy replica of what happened last year in Syria.
The latest reminder of just this comes from AFP which reports, citing Germany's Bild, that "dozens of specialists from the US Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation are advising the Ukrainian government."
From AFP:
Citing unnamed German security sources, Bild am Sonntag said the CIA and FBI agents were helping Kiev end the rebellion in the east of Ukraine and set up a functioning security structure.
It said the agents were not directly involved in fighting with pro-Russian militants. "Their activity is limited to the capital Kiev," the paper said.
The FBI agents are also helping the Kiev government fight organised crime, it added.
A group specialised in financial matters is to help trace the wealth of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, according to the report.
On the surface, this report is hardly surprising: we reported a month ago, subsequently confirmed by the White House, that CIA director Brennan had "secretly" visited Kiev in early April. It stands to logic that he was hardly alone and continuing the proud tradition of Libya, Egypt and Syria, the CIA was merely getting started unfolding the agency's core competency: regional destabilization.
What is very surprising is that Germany's press is finally stepping away from the western media propaganda umbrella and starting to report the side of the narrative that is in direct opposition to US interests in either Ukraine, or Germany.
So just who, and why, is pulling the strings on Germany's media outlets in a way that goes against the official Merkel fiction, if in agreement with Germany's commercial and industrial interests (as well as those of Europe's commission himself)?
And how soon before Germany's position, one clearly against the imposition of further sanctions on Russia and the additional alienation of the Kremlin, puts Germany on direct collision course with Obama and the US state department? And what then: will Germany, shunned by the US, have no choice but to reallign with the ascendent Eurasian axis of China and Russia. Stay tuned.
“A purifying market crash that leads to the elimination of the big banks altogether and the reinstatement of genuine free-market capitalism.
Is that a bad thing? “
Yes! Yes it is.
Playing right into the Russians’ hands. Brilliant. Just brilliant. And apparently, we’re determined to involve ourselves in an East European war. I guess Lockheed’s stock price is too low.
It's purifying the way the plague was purifying. Letting the market collapse so a few short-sellers can make massive profits is not the mission of government policy-makers. The government's role is to limit the effects of all disasters, ranging from financial, natural to epidemiological ones. In theory, why not let all disasters run their course - surely the species will be better off having cleansed those unfit for survival from the gene pool?
So be honest. Do you really doubt that the FBI has agents assisting Ukraine?
“The government’s role is to limit the effects of all disasters”
You mean like bailing out banks and QE? Or do you mean the stimulus package?
Could you expand on your response?
“The government’s role is to limit the effects of all disasters, ranging from financial, natural to epidemiological ones.”
My copy of the Constitution must be defective, because I can’t find that anywhere.
Sure. Major market crashes are not a good thing. Everyday people lose jobs, homes, businesses and retirement security. The stories I heard from the depression didn’t sound good and the period from 2008 on didn’t feel all that good. I don’t think another major crash is going to make very many people better off. Most people will suffer.
The depression only lasted so long because of FDR’s interference. Government played a big part in creating the crash in 2008 and thanks to the government we still haven’t recovered.
I believe in free market capitalism, not socialism.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States.Is there anything in the Constitution that that says anything not expressly mentioned there is forbidden? The Army Corps of Engineers has been around since the founding of the Republic, and is currently involved in flood control in LA, but there's no mention of it in the Constitution. Should it be disbanded and its functions handed out to the states?To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
If FDR hadn't intervened, we might have had a Bolshevik revolution. The problem is very simple - debt balances remained the same, whereas demand and prices plunged, causing tens of millions to become unemployed, as debt defaults cascaded. The (standard at the time) five-year non-amortizing home loans with balloon payments at the end led to millions of homeless, as property prices plunged, banks were unable to refinance the principal owed by home-owners, and ended up having to repo those homes, losing huge sums in the process. FDR went overboard and made things worse, but something had to be done to slow the avalanche. The banks needed short term liquidity from the Fed to keep the wheels of commerce from seizing up, but he didn't have to start the welfare scheme known as Social Security. Interest rates needed to go to nothing to that overstressed debtors could refinance their debts and keep their employees on the payroll. The total destruction of the banking system would have taken interest rates through the roof.
This was all (depression and 2008 recession) caused in the first place by the Federal reserve inflating the money supply and easy credit policies. What you see as the cause of the problems was actually the effect of intervention by the gov’t and the federal reserve.
Dodgy source and with the ever popular unnamed source.
Come on folks be a little bit more discerning would ya?
“CIA, FBI agents ‘advising Ukraine government’: report”
Berlin (AFP) - Dozens of specialists from the US Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation are advising the Ukrainian government, a German newspaper reported Sunday.
http://news.yahoo.com/cia-fbi-agents-advising-ukraine-government-report-101508429.html
Citing unnamed sources....May as we’ll come from RT
Audio interview - it appears to be a credible story:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/05/04/361282/report-about-cia-fbi-in-kiev-credible/
Not surprised. They do whatever Dorhn, the MB,
al Qaeda, and their Obama and Soros want.
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