Ex-president of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk, in an interview with "112 Ukraine" TV channel, predicted a possible "death of Russia."

"If the crazy idea to subjugate Ukraine occurs to the Kremlin, it will be the last day of Russia's life. The whole world will isolate her, not only with sanctions," Kravchuk said. 

In his opinion, Ukraine will never surrender, whereas Russia will not have enough strength to take it. 

The politician did not specify, why he had such fantasies about the enslavement of Ukraine by Russia. Kravchuk added that Ukraine would be able to get rid of Russia's influence. The ex-President of Ukraine believes that Ukraine has been able to get rid of its dependence on Russia in energy, politics, as well as in the socio-economic field. 

Leonid Kravchuk, 82, also said that Ukraine should have conducted the process of de-communization immediately after the collapse of the USSR. The politician is convinced that the Ukrainian people were the "main destroyer of the USSR", when Ukraine voted for independence in 1991.

"Ukraine can be proud that it was the country that destroyed the Soviet Union in 1991 - the last and the most terrible empire," Kravchuk said. 

Noteworthy, ex-President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, 85, has made a sarcastic joke about Kravchuk's statement about the role of Ukraine in the collapse of the USSR. 

"The prime responsibility for the breakup of the USSR lies on Yeltsin's team," Gorbachev told NSN, RIA Novosti reports. 

Gorbachev also noted that Kravchuk could make such a statement because of his advanced age. 

"Well, I don't know, maybe Leonid Makarovich said such a thing because of his age. I feel my age showing influence on my way of thinking sometimes as well," Gorbachev said. - See more at:

http://www.pravdareport.com/news/world/ussr/ukraine/23-08-2016/135411-uk...

 

It should be said here that anyone with a smart computer can hack anything that is "online". All you need is encoding knowledge and a "guesser", an algorithm than can project several billion passwords a second, all derived from an original steal through the gateways. It has been demonstrated that any bank account can be accessed within 30 seconds by nasty thieves, before the encoding is changed but the new encoding can be decrypted by smart computers within 24.7 seconds or less. Bingo.

August 14’s Washington Post print edition featured news articles, op-eds, an editorial, and three letters to the editor all attacking Donald Trump. And the paper’s other bête noire, Vladimir Putin, was featured in the front-page lead story as well as in an op-ed. On the preceding Friday, Putin had been attacked in an editorial for allegedly seeking to start a war in Ukraine.

Trump is running for president and certainly has dropped enough verbal bombs to justify many of the attacks against him. But there is a certain danger inherent in the media’s slanting its coverage to such an extent as to be making the news rather than just reporting it. And when it comes to Russia, the way the stories are reported becomes critically important, as there is a real risk that media hostility toward Putin, even if deployed as a way to get at Trump, could produce a conflict no one actually wants—just as the Hearst and Pulitzer newspapers’ yellow journalism, rife with “melodrama, romance, and hyperbole,” more or less brought about the Spanish-American War.

As a case in point, examine the aforementioned front-page story, entitled “Russia’s Tactics Roil Europe” in the print edition and “Alleged Russian involvement in DNC hack gives U.S. a taste of Kremlin meddling” online. It is credited to Michael Birnbaum, the Post’s correspondent in Brussels.

In its lead-in, the article claims that “Russia has tried hard in recent years to tug Europe to its side, bankrolling the continent’s extremist political parties, working to fuel a backlash against migrants and using its vast energy resources as a cudgel.” It goes on to relate that “Obama administration officials say that the Kremlin may now be engaging in similar trickery in the U.S. presidential campaign in an effort to boost Russia-friendly Republican nominee Donald Trump.”

The evidence cited regarding Trump and Putin evidently comes from unnamed members of President Obama’s team, which has pulled out all the stops to defeat the GOP candidate, including denouncing Trump as unfit to be president. Part of the anti-Trump drive orchestrated by the Democrats and Hillary Clinton has been to associate the candidate with Russia at every turn, implying that he is somehow disloyal or worse for seeking to establish friendly relations with Putin.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/trump-russia-and-the-washington-post/

See toon at top...

 

Russia loses appeal over Paralympic ban
Russian athletes will not be going to the Paralympics after the Court of Administration for Sport upheld a ban issued by the IPC. Russia's Prime Minister Medvedev decried the decision as a blow to all disabled people.
In a ruling handed down on Tuesday, the Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) dismissed an appeal filed by the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) against the decision of the International Paralympic (IPC) Committee to ban all Russian athletes from the Rio Games.
The ruling is final and means that no Russian athletes will be allowed to compete in the Paralympics, which begin on September 7.
"The CAS Panel in charge of this matter found that the IPC did not violate any procedural rule in dealing with the disciplinary process leading to the RPC’s suspension and that the decision to ban the RPC was made in accordance with the IPC Rules and was proportionate in the circumstances," a statement posted on the website of the CAS said.
It added that a full ruling would be issued in a few days' time.
The Governing Board of the IPC handed down the ban on August 7 after the publication of a report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which found that the Russian government and the FSB security service had covered up hundreds of doping cases affecting a wide range of Olympic and Paralympic sports.
http://www.dw.com/en/russia-loses-appeal-over-paralympic-ban/a-19494699

I know it's unfair of my part, on the many Paralympians, but this blanket ban is MORE THAN TRAGICALLY POLITICAL. It has nothing to do with "doping" and drugs in sports, but to do with the CAS playing the US game of hitting Russia with more crap.

May all the US Paralypians drugged to the eyeballs win more medals than ever before...

 

 

see also: the sad politics of an unfair despicable olympic organisation

 

Australia could be losing billions of dollars a year in trade with Iran thanks to ties that at least one domestic bank has to the United States.

An Australian businessman has told the ABC he would like to trade with Iran, but his financial institution said it wanted no part in his trade, fearing a backlash from the US.

Australia has dropped trade sanctions with Iran, but in the United States they remain in place.

Sydney-based exporter and importer Christopher Cox told PM he took his business to the ANZ bank because of its far-reaching international branch network, compared with other local banks.

But ANZ said it would not provide the channel needed to send and receive between Australia and Iran, leaving Mr Cox extremely frustrated, as all the other necessary financial and business infrastructures to do business abroad are in place.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-24/anz-denies-customers-business-with-iran/7782656

 

A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories

By NEIL MacFARQUHAR

AUG. 28, 2016

STOCKHOLM — With a vigorous national debate underway on whether Sweden should enter a military partnership with NATO, officials in Stockholm suddenly encountered an unsettling problem: a flood of distorted and outright false information on social media, confusing public perceptions of the issue.

The claims were alarming: If Sweden, a non-NATO member, signed the deal, the alliance would stockpile secret nuclear weapons on Swedish soil; NATO could attack Russia from Sweden without government approval; NATO soldiers, immune from prosecution, could rape Swedish women without fear of criminal charges.

They were all false, but the disinformation had begun spilling into the traditional news media, and as the defense minister, Peter Hultqvist, traveled the country to promote the pact in speeches and town hall meetings, he was repeatedly grilled about the bogus stories.

“People were not used to it, and they got scared, asking what can be believed, what should be believed?” said Marinette Nyh Radebo, Mr. Hultqvist’s spokeswoman.

As often happens in such cases, Swedish officials were never able to pin down the source of the false reports. But they, numerous analysts and experts in American and European intelligence point to Russia as the prime suspect, noting that preventing NATO expansion is a centerpiece of the foreign policy of President Vladimir V. Putin, who invaded Georgia in 2008 largely to forestall that possibility.

In Crimea, eastern Ukraine and now Syria, Mr. Putin has flaunted a modernized and more muscular military. But he lacks the economic strength and overall might to openly confront NATO, the European Union or the United States. Instead, he has invested heavily in a program of “weaponized” information, using a variety of means to sow doubt and division. The goal is to weaken cohesion among member states, stir discord in their domestic politics and blunt opposition to Russia.

“Moscow views world affairs as a system of special operations, and very sincerely believes that it itself is an object of Western special operations,” said Gleb Pavlovsky, who helped establish the Kremlin’s information machine before 2008. “I am sure that there are a lot of centers, some linked to the state, that are involved in inventing these kinds of fake stories.”

 

GUS:

Here we must be circumspect. There is no evidence linking the social comments nor any fake documents in Sweden to the Russian government. Even a loony idiot like me could create twenty fake documents by Wednesday. FIRST contrarily to what Farquhar states, Russia did not invade Georgia, but helped a sliver of this country become independent after the mostly Russian population demanded Russian protection and intervention. Meantime NATO has been pushing along the Russian borders with unprecedented vigour. This is not an illusion. Meanwhile the USA have been stirring Ukraine to stop being friends with Russia and Crimea voted to be independent from Ukraine in the same fashion the Scots voted to stay in the UK. 

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The biggest disinformation war so far IN THIS CENTURY was created by the USA to go to war on Saddam. Fake story are part and parcel of communication, but when these fake stories end up killing nearly one million people, 5000 dead US soldiers plus about 50,000 US soldiers injured, we must demand the truth. We will never get it, even the Chilcot report is a whitewash. 

So where is the truth? The USA will never tell us that they bullshitted us by inventing the weapons of mass destruction story but the USA will tell us it was a failure of "intelligence". BULLSHIT. BULLSHIT. BULLSHIT!.

Failures of intelligence on such a scale cannot happen. But our lazy media bought the crap. The bullshit we were fed by the US and the Europeans about Libya did not make any sense but they still manage to bullshit the United Nation with an "Arab Spring" bullshit story and then bombed the shit out of the place for no reason. Even la femme Annoying, La Clinton was very flippant about the mess she created. "We saw, we went, he died" or something like that with a wry smile is BULLSHIT.

The Russian press is actually closer to the truth than our westernised lying sheets. 

 

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Farquhar continues:

 

In Sweden recently, that has meant a series of bizarre forged letters and news articles about NATO and linked to Russia.

One forgery, on Defense Ministry letterhead over Mr. Hultqvist’s signature, encouraged a major Swedish firm to sell artillery to Ukraine, a move that would be illegal in Sweden. Ms. Nyh Radebo, his spokeswoman, put an end to that story in Sweden, but at international conferences, Mr. Hultqvist still faced questions about the nonexistent sales.

Russia also made at least one overt attempt to influence the debate. During a seminar in the spring, Vladimir Kozin, a senior adviser to the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, a think tank linked to the Kremlin and Russian foreign intelligence, argued against any change in Sweden’s neutral status.

“Do they really need to lose their neutral status?” he said of the Swedes. “To permit fielding new U.S. military bases on their territory and to send their national troops to take part in dubious regional conflicts?”

Whatever the method or message, Russia clearly wants to win any information war, as Dmitry Kiselyev, Russia’s most famous television anchor and the director of the organization that runs Sputnik, made clear recently.

Speaking this summer on the 75th anniversary of the Soviet Information Bureau, Mr. Kiselyev said the age of neutral journalism was over. “If we do propaganda, then you do propaganda, too,” he said, directing his message to Western journalists.

“Today, it is much more costly to kill one enemy soldier than during World War II, World War I or in the Middle Ages,” he said in an interview on the state-run Rossiya 24 network. While the business of “persuasion” is more expensive now, too, he said, “if you can persuade a person, you don’t need to kill him.”

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/29/world/europe/russia-sweden-disinformation.html?_r=0

 

The main problem here is that the USA had the disinformation channel opened exclusively to itself for far to long. The other side has woken up and is using a lot of truth as disinformation. And this is pissing off the Americans, including their news outlets... The Olympic ban on Russian athletes were politically motivated, especially those on the disabled. And the Western media was vying for blood. Disgusting. Ugly

Here is a bit of information/disinformation:

zionist media