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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

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INFO: Russian military, Crimea earthquake hid by USGS, near ‘world’s oldest pyramid’ by Sevastopol

The Ukraine situation is getting strange. There are reports that the occupation in Crimea is curiously located near what is said to be the world’s oldest pyramid.

AFP via Pakistan Observer?
Monday, September 03, 2012 – Tblisi—A Ukrainian scientist discovered the oldest pyramid in the world in Crimea. As the ICTV channel reported, the finding was revealed by accident, when during his test alternative methods of finding water Ukrainian scientist Vitalii Goh discovered underground unknown object, which proved to be a giant pyramid of 45 meters in height and a length of about 72 meters. Goh said that the pyramid was built during the time of the dinosaurs, Crimea news agency or QHA reported.
“Crimean pyramid” has a truncated top, like a Mayan pyramid, but its appearance is more like an Egyptian. It is hollow inside, and a mummy of unknown creature is buried under the foundation. “Under the foundation is a small body in the form of a mummy long 1.3-1.4 meters with a crown on his head.”
“There is a resonance chamber of so-called Sphinx. The pyramids were built in the era of the dinosaurs,” says the scientist in an interview with ICTV.—AFP

There was an earthquake close to Russian-occupied Crimea, which remains unreported by the USGS and has caused a lot of confusion. This is very close to the same site.

WTF News
An earthquake struck early Sunday morning about 60 miles south of Simferopol, in Russian-occupied Crimea. The proximity to the crisis in Ukraine sparked internet speculation ranging from a possible nuclear blast, to underwater/ground activity and HAARP interference.
The quake was a minor rumble less than 20 miles off the southern coast, reported between 3.2 and 3.8 magnitude. Reports on the depth varied from 80 kilometers deep, settling between 30 or 40km.
Via Global Incident Map

This is close to the largest end of Russia’s military occupation in Sevastopol. Russians blocked the bay and have remained.

The scene at Belbek military airport has been tense on this March 4.

en.for-ua.com
Tens of scientists from different countries explore a place in Sevastopol, where seven ancient pyramids are presumably hidden underground. Archeological dig is underway.
Sevastopol researcher Vitaly Gokh found the whereabouts of pyramids with the help of his unique patented invention, which lets to define any substances underground. For several years he has made a search of minerals and water. Detailed analysis of one of the found constructions showed not natural, but artificial character of its creation.
“We found extremely strong formation, which includes animal protein, gypsum, liquid glass, gravel. It is a man-caused pyramid, which radiates specific energy in certain periods, “Vitaly Gokh narrated.
Ihor Kotelyanets, aid of the head of Sevastopol national university of nuclear energy and industry, together with enthusiasts decided to confirm or refute the discovery.
More than 20 commissions, including international ones, have visited the place recently. The majority of scientists consider that underground pyramids of Sevastopol confirm the guess of American scientists about that 65 million years ago an ancient civilization died out because of fall of giant meteorite.

european-pyramids.eu

THE CRIMEAN PYRAMIDS
There are said to exist 37 pyramids on the Crimean peninsula down southeast along the coast line. 7 underground pyramids – as claimed - were found by Dr.Gokh near Sebastopol (lat.44°36’14” N/33°33′ E).
http://www.tryukraine.com/news/2007/05.shtml report of a personal meeting with Dr.Gokh
http://www.philipcoppens.com/nap_art1.html report by the renowned author Ph.Coppens

Scientists to dig mysterious pyramids in Sebastopol
Tens of scientists from different countries explore a place in Sebastopol, where seven ancient pyramids are presumably hidden underground. Archeological dig is underway.
Sebastopol researcher Vitaly Gokh found the whereabouts of pyramids with the help of his unique patented invention, which lets to define any substances underground. For several years he has made a search of minerals and water. Detailed analysis of one of the found constructions showed not natural, but artificial character of its creation.
“We found extremely strong formation, which includes animal protein, gypsum, liquid glass, gravel. It is a man-caused pyramid, which radiates specific energy in certain periods“ Vitaly Gokh narrated.
Ihor Kotelyanets, aid of the head of Sebastopol national university of nuclear energy and industry, together with enthusiasts decided to confirm or refute the discovery.
More than 20 commissions, including international ones, have visited the place recently. The majority of scientists consider that underground pyramids of Sebastopol confirm the guess of American scientists about that 65 million years ago an ancient civilization died out because of fall of giant meteorite.
ForUm http://en.for-ua.com/news/2006/07/17/122656.html
Pyramids of Dew an interesting article on the possible use of pyramids to gain water on the dry Crimean peninsula.
CRIMEAN PENINSULA:city of Kerch another “Atlantis location”

Map of Crimea with the supposed underground pyramids south of Sebastopol
A possible connection to the Ring of Brogdar/Scotland is claimed by Graham Hancock

Down the rabbit hole

DAHBOO
There is even an article trying to debunk it.

bibliotecapleyades.net
It is near that city that one Vitalij Gokh claimed to have discovered a pyramid in 1999.
Gokh had worked for the Soviet military for more than thirty years, before retiring to his dacha in Sevastopol. With time on hand, he decided to engage in lines of research that his career had never allowed him to do. One of these was the exploration of his new surroundings. This led him to discover… a pyramid… but not as anyone would know one.
The public were told of the “pyramids of the Crimea” in the summer of 2002, when Gokh made his claim: there were pyramids buried underneath the earth, as well as under some of the coastal waters of the Crimea – an area known to contain some submerged towns.
How had he made this discovery?
As a former engineer, he was well-acquainted with instruments using magnetic resonance, and had built a device of his own making. As the area of Sevastopol was known for its poor water supplies, he developed an instrument to search for subterranean naps of waters; the instrument performed extremely well during testing, and Gokh was ready to begin a survey of the Sevastopol area, in search of potable water.
Their fame spread; in 2002, Gokh’s group was invited by the government of Mauritania to find water in the Western Sahara. In the area of the town of Atar, the team claimed that a large supply of fresh underground water was located. This preliminary conclusion was confirmed by drilling. Under the layer of solid eruptive rock, at a depth of 240 meters, an underwater stream was indeed discovered. The value of these resources was enough to provide all necessaries in water of the region.
Before, he had refined the system so that specific type of photography could occur from the air, thus able to cover larger areas; he also adapted the system for the search of oil, gas and precious metals, finding a willing partner in the oil company Chernomornefte-gaz.

As early as the summer of 1999, his instrument had uncovered an underground anomaly on the periphery of Sevastopol: it was, as Gokh would later claim, the first pyramid. On site inspection revealed at first a rather ordinary, rocky landscape, but they then found an opening, leading down. At a depth of 9.20 meters, there was one solid slab of chalk.
Trying to penetrate through the slab – with little success at first – Gokh and his partners in exploration succeeded to shine a lamp into the cavity: it was empty, even though from the ceiling, some quartz stalactites hung down – matched by similar ones that grew from the ground up. The team believed they had stumbled upon an old crucible, but could not find any traces of metal. They continued digging, but it was equally clear that Gokh’s group of three (both of his colleagues, Dr. Mukhudin and Dr. Taran, being engineers as well) needed more manpower; five other people were invited to join.
Soon, several limestone blocks were found. As these had regular dimensions, ca. 2.5 by 1.5 meters, it was assumed these had been man-made. Having worked over a distance of thirty meters and analyzing what they had discovered so far, one member of the team, Taran, suggested they had definitely discovered a pyramid.
The problem was: it was underground.
By the spring of 2000, Gokh had once again improved his instrument, which now also allowed for vertical surveys. This could potentially corroborate the shape of the structure they had found. The result was that they were indeed inside a structure that had a square base, each side measuring 72 meters long: it was a pyramid. Its height was ca. 45-52 meters, its top almost at ground level.
The instrument also apparently revealed that from the top of the structure, three beams of energy emanated, at frequencies 900×109 Hz, 700×109 Hz and 500×109 Hz. Around the pyramid, a field of 10×109 Hz was noticed.
The digging also revealed signs in the surrounding layers that the pyramid had originally been open to the air, but that flooding at some point had brought in clay and other substances that one would associate with an area that became flooded.

If there is one pyramid, could there be more?
The search area was extended. Eventually, the team concluded that on a straight line, that went from Sarych to Baia Kamyshovaia, and which runs northwest-southeast, a total of seven pyramids were present. One of these pyramids was located under water, near the city of Foros.
Finally, Gokh extended his search for the entire Crimea peninsula and concluded that there was the possibility of a total of thirty-odd pyramidal structures for the whole country. At the same time, the scans had revealed another anomaly, of an object that was not pyramidal in shape; its curious profile, turned towards the west, suggested a structure that might be quite similar to that of a Sphinx.
Spirits were high and something seemed to be moving. But as all of these pyramids seemed to be located underground, excavation would be both costly and time-consuming. The next step was thus the most difficult of all: money. Only money would allow the team to continue the excavations in such a manner that would result in the confirmation that the Crimea had at least one – if not several – pyramids.
The next step was also the problematic one. The town of Sevastopol and the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine were not interested. Still, Gokh’s insistence resulted in some form of co-operation, which resulted in a ground survey of the area. It stated that the area had been inhabited, with signs from the 4th century BC until the first centuries AD. Such a survey did not contribute much, nor reveal anything that wasn’t already known.
But there were certain reasons why these institutions were unwilling to fund further research: as is so often the case, they boiled down to rather extra-ordinary claims made by the discoverer himself. If Gokh had merely argued that the Crimea had at least one, potentially up to thirty pyramids, it would have laid a solid foundation for further archaeological research.
Instead, Gokh added further speculation that these pyramids were part of a global system, whereby various rather high-tech regulators – the pyramids – were used to receive cosmic energy, which was modified, and then distributed across the planet. According to Gokh, the pyramids were scientific instruments, there to control and stabilize the land masses of planet Earth. Add to this the date he proposed for their construction: the system would be approximately 16,000 years old – or date from 14,000 BC.
Even Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval or John Anthony West only dared to posit 10,000 BC for the Sphinx – and leave any speculation about the age of the Great Pyramid up to the reader’s mental workings.

Rather than these rather extravagant claims, the Crimean pyramids did not make it into the book for a more mundane reason: all we know for sure is that there is one vertical shaft, descending near Sevastopol, in which Gokh’s team have been doing excavations. Though they have produced some rather nice graphs as to how the entire pyramid is supposed to look, I did not see any actual scans from the instrument Gokh had developed to back the graph up.
Though I discovered two email addresses for Gokh, one was defunct; from the other I never received a reply. It was therefore possible that there was something to it, but it was still far too early to say what. Furthermore, my judgment was that even if they proved to be pyramids, they were unlikely to transform the overall pyramid debate.
Just after the completion of the manuscript, in July 2006, Gokh tried to use the interest in the Bosnian pyramid to gather interest in the Crimean pyramid, repeating that he needed money to finish his excavations. Despite needing more money, the statement said that tens of scientists from different countries were now performing an archaeological excavation of the pyramid, and that a result was expected later in the summer. Several months on, there was no information made public and Gokh’s contact details once again did not solicit a reply.
Unfortunately, Gokh not only stood by his previous rather extravagant claims, he now elaborated on them, stating that,
“the majority of scientists [that had visited the site] consider that the underground pyramids of Sevastopol confirm the guess of American scientists [that] about 65 million years ago an ancient civilization died out because of the fall of giant meteorite.”
This is something of a muddled statement: indeed, American scientists such as Luis Alvarez argued that the dinosaurs became extinct when a giant meteorite hit the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 65 million years ago. But the likes of Alvarez do not make any provisions for pyramids, or an advanced human civilization building these pyramids – let alone the Crimean pyramids being part of such a theoretical network.
Furthermore, would “real scientists” claim that these pyramids were 65 million years old? It seemed very unlikely.
Gokh did not stop there: the line along which the seven pyramid sites on the peninsula were found, runs, as mentioned, from northwest to the southeast. Gokh had now extended this line to gigantic proportions, arguing that Stonehenge was located on this line, while on the other side, he located “the pyramid of Tibet” and “sunken pyramids of Easter Island” – both rather imaginary pyramids.
Worse, he then linked both imaginary pyramids to the lost civilizations of Atlantis and Mu.
Gokh obviously had hung the theory before the pyramid, and not the other way around. In good 19th century tradition to link the dimensions of the Great Pyramid with the Bible and a biblical timeline, Gokh had used an unexcavated pyramid – which might not be a pyramid at all – as “proof” of a lost, global civilization. The worst was his speculation that this pyramid, together with other, non-discovered and hence most likely non-existing pyramids, were there to “balance out” the Earth – potentially in 14000 BC – or 65 million years BC.
Not to cut any pyramid theory short without giving it a proper airing, Gokh claims that, Not to cut any pyramid theory short without giving it a proper airing, Gokh claims that, “astronomers already noticed that some planets radiate more energy, than receive from the Sun. The similar situation is observed also with some stars.”
According to Gokh, this was due to “torsion energy”, developed inside the centre of the Earth.
“The source of fuel for such a reactor is a physical vacuum – the torsion field of the Universe. It consists of two opposite kinds of particles: torsions and antitorsions. In a torsion reactor […] an effect of torsion and antitorsion ‘frequency acceleration’ is taking place up to such degree that they begin to merge and initiate a chain reaction.”
He continues:
“the source of a subtle feed of celestial objects is provided by a Galactic Beam, emanating from the centre of the Galaxy. Consistently passing seven cosmic belts, it synchronizes its vibration. The energy liberated as a result of such frequency reduction (braking frequency), is directed on power maintenance of celestial objects’ live ability.”
In case you wonder what this has to do with the pyramids:
“These energies come, in particular, to a nucleus of the Earth, from stars through pyramids, mixing up in a power cocktail by means of a Shamballa Crystal – a kind of a carburetor – and then are delivered to the Earth Nucleus.”

Worse is yet to come: the claim was made that there were 144,000 pyramids on Earth, varying in size and location. The basic pyramids were grouped in twelve places on all populated continents. All pyramids were connected by power channels, to other “pyramid fields” and to the crystal nucleus of the Earth, which controlled the operation of the system.
Twelve basic groups of pyramids, control, in turn, another twelve smaller groups, or, to throw in some mathematics: 12 times 12 equals, 144 times 1000, equals 144,000. In case you are wondering, each of the 144 basic pyramids controls the operation of another 1000 pyramids.
And just like the Great Pyramid before was linked with the Bible, guess what: the 144,000 pyramids of the Earth correspond to the 144,000 Biblical Chosen Ones.
“Each of the 144,000 chosen has a pyramid of ‘his own’.”
I have not written this expose of the Crimean pyramids to make fun of Gokh’s theories or thinking. I have used it to show that Gokh is a modern-day example of “the pyramidiot”, a term used by archaeologists and Egyptologist largely to denote a profile of people who read much – too much – into a pyramid (specifically the Great Pyramid), a practice that was common in the late 19th century, and which saw, in the eyes of the Egyptologists, a resurgence in the late 20th century, specifically with the likes of Robert Bauval and co.
The “pyramidiot” is typically “an amateur”, in the best sense of the word, who believe, often rightfully so, to have made a discovery. They try to interest archaeologists, but this seldom works. Consequently, they often begin to formulate stronger claims, or theories, in the hope that some people will hear, and in a rather vain hope that archaeologists will now definitely have to take note. Then, often, archaeologists still do not engage, and a dangerous chasm is breached, in which the mind does indeed seem to spin out of control, and “the pyramidiot” is born.
Most discoverers, in whatever field, take it to “step two”: going slightly too far in their claims, thus exposing themselves as someone who is easily shot down. It is unfortunate, and unfortunately, few interested parties seem able to show forgiveness for unguarded, often one-off remarks, said in the best of interest. The best example of this is Sam Osmanagich, who may have once said that possibly the Bosnian “Pyramid of the Sun” might have been 12,000 years old.
Archaeologists entered an endless debate whether he said it, where, and used the very fact that they were debating the issue as proof that they should not direct any attention to the pyramid itself. It is typical of how the field of archaeology often spins incredible tales themselves, creates character assassinations that are as idiotic as the pyramidiots are supposed to be in their theories.
Unfortunately, in the case of Gokh, his claims were so outlandish, that the Crimean pyramids have gone largely unreported. But it seems that there is at least something there. It may even be a pyramid.
It seems, however, that no-one is willing to do even the most basic validation of that possibility.
And that is idiotic too…

DAILYMAIL: Gas and oil prices soar and petrol could be next: Ukraine crisis shocks world markets amid fears Russia's energy resources will be hit by trade sanctions

Gas and oil prices soar and petrol could be next: Ukraine crisis shocks world markets amid fears Russia's energy resources will be hit by trade sanctions

Fears supplies to western Europe could be affected by crisis in Ukraine
Price of gas surged by 10 per cent at one point yesterday
Crude oil cost also up - driven by fears Russia might be hit with sanctions
Kremlin aide suggests Russia may refuse to pay loans if US issues sanctions
Sergei Glazyev said Moscow might also drop the dollar as reserve currency
Moscow sold £6billion gold and foreign currency to protect the rouble

By Sean Poulter and Ray Massey

Wholesale gas prices rose the most in two years yesterday as markets reacted to the crisis in Ukraine.
Fears that supplies to western Europe could be affected saw the price surge by 10 per cent at one point.
The cost of crude oil also rose – driven by fears that Russia, which is a major producer, might be hit by trade sanctions.
The turmoil spilled over into stockmarkets, with big falls in share prices in London and New York.
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The cost of crude oil - a plant in Tuapse, Russia, pictured - and gas increased today following fears the country might be hit by trade sanctions

This morning a Kremlin aide said that if the United States were to impose sanctions on Russia over Ukraine, Moscow might be forced to drop the dollar as a reserve currency and refuse to pay off loans to U.S. banks.
Sergei Glazyev, an adviser to the Kremlin who is often used by the authorities to stake out a hardline stance but does not make policy, added that if Washington froze the accounts of Russian businesses and individuals, Moscow would recommend that all holders of U.S. treasuries sell them.

The statement comes as the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee admitted it is preparing legislation to provide support to Ukraine, and consulting the Obama administration on possible sanctions against individual Russians - ranging from visa bans and asset freezes to suspending military cooperation and sales, as well as economic sanctions.
Moscow has been forced to sell off gold and foreign currency worth £6billion to try to protect the sliding value of the rouble.

RUSSIA’S EMPTY ECONOMIC THREAT

The threat from Kremlin Aide Sergei Glazyev that Russia could sell all its US Treasuries, drop the dollar as a reserve currency and default on loans from the US is an idle one according to analyst Mark Oswald at Monument Securites.
‘It would be a declaration of economic war - and it would hurt Russia a lot more than the US.
'Russia’s main exports are oil and gas, which are traded in dollars and which means Russia receives constant huge inflows of dollars.

‘Russia would have to find A buyer for what is probably in the region of $100billion in US Treasuries, which, if not impossible, would in any case mean they would get a terrible deal. By defaulting on loans their access to funding globally would be cut off.
‘In the unlikely hypothetical event the threat was carried through, the main impact would be upward pressure on long-term US interest rates – but it is likely that the Federal Reserve could take steps to counter that. There would be passing disruption for the US and world markets but lasting damage to Russia itself.’

Russia’s central bank raised its key interest rate from 5.5 per cent to 7 per cent to try to stop investors taking their money out of the country.
The £34billion tumble in the value of shares on the biggest Russian stock exchange, the MICEX, was greater than the cost of hosting and running the Winter Olympics last month.
Andrei Klepach, Russia’s deputy economy minister, described the reaction of the financial markets as ‘hysteria’, which would subside in the coming days.
Meanwhile, Moscow seemed to be initiating economic sanctions against the Ukraine, with Russia's top gas producer Gazprom announcing it will remove a discount on gas prices for Ukraine from April
Motorists were warned of potential fuel price rises as speculators bought up stocks to capitalise on the political uncertainty.
An RAC spokesman said: ‘Fuel traders have already begun to buy up stocks to guard against being caught out in the event of the situation worsening, which automatically causes prices to increase due to a tightening in supply.
‘And, to make matters worse, the price of oil will almost certainly be negatively affected, further increasing fuel costs and, in turn, forecourt prices.’
Luke Bosdet, a spokesman for the AA, said: ‘Experience from previous crises shows that commodity market speculation tends to be a greater problem than the actual threat to supply. Over recent weeks, reduced oil flow from Libya has put upward pressure on the price of oil yet it has had little impact on the UK pump price. This is primarily due to the strength of the pound.

Guards battle weapon wielding pro-Russian activists in Odessa

Menacing pro-Russian activists take to the streets in Odessa yesterday, many of whom were waving weapons

‘The average price of petrol is 10p a litre lower than a year ago, when it peaked at 140p a litre. Now it is still below 130p. The $2-a-barrel rise in today’s Brent oil price represents a possible 1p rise in the pump price of petrol, but only if sustained.’
Gas from Russia, some of which is exported through pipelines that run across Ukraine, makes up around 25 per cent of supplies to the Continent’s homes and businesses.

PRO-PUTIN MOB GROWS

Masked and wielding makeshift weapons, a crowd of around 3,000 pro-Russian activists led a demonstration in the Ukrainian port of Odessa yesterday.

Members of the group managed to break into a session of the local parliament, smashing windows and injuring an official, according to local reports.

Congregating outside the building, activists in balaclavas and helmets, waved Russian flags and wooden clubs with screws in and chanted ‘referendum’.

Police had to move in to after dozens of young people from the far-right Pravy Sektor arrived on the scene demanding that the pro-Russian demonstrators leave and remove a Russian flag that had been placed on the building.

In the eastern city of Donetsk, around 100 pro-Russian protesters seized two floors of a regional government building after the self-imposed Kiev government appointed a local oligarch as a regional governor.

It is feared that Moscow will use its control over the supply as economic leverage to head off opposition to its decision to send troops in to Crimea. It supplies gas to Ukraine at a deep discount – a concession it warns will end in April.
This could affect supplies to other countries if Ukraine decides to grab gas from the Russian pipelines crossing its territory.
It used this tactic during a dispute in 2009 and prices rose sharply. Russia does not supply gas directly to the UK, however any increase in international wholesale prices will feed through to customers here.
Analysts point out that Western Europe is less reliant on Russian gas than before.
The unusually mild winter means that the UK has 25 per cent more in storage than normal.
At the same time, European nations have spent billions on wind power with the result that many gas-fired power stations have been mothballed.
And strong westerly winds have allowed UK windfarms to consistently produce more than 10 per cent of the country’s electricity in recent weeks.
The wholesale cost of gas had been falling for three weeks and – despite the Ukraine crisis – it is still below the level of February 2012.
Joe Conlan, an energy trader at Inenco, said: ‘Gas prices remain volatile and are closely linked to the power price – further price rises may be seen.
‘The situation could be worse but, with Europe having had a mild winter, prices have fallen significantly of late. However, this morning’s rise has eradicated three weeks of constant falls.

Riot police outside the government building targeted by the protesters in Odessa

‘Should this continue, prices are likely to carry on rising in the medium term.’
UK gas prices rose as high as 61.95p a therm – up 9.4 per cent – at one stage before falling back to around 60p a therm.
The events in Russia will be watched with particular concern by the British energy giant BP. Last year it ended a troubled partnership with Russian oligarchs and decided to get into bed with the Russian state-owned oil giant Rosneft, where it owns 20 per cent of the shares.
Sanctions imposed against Russia could directly impact BP and its desire to be the partner of the Kremlin in exploiting oil and gas reserves in Siberia and the Arctic.

ZEROHEDGE:As Russian Troops In The Ukraine Hit 16,000, US Department Of Defense Orders Them To Go Home

While it has gotten to the point where the propaganda is so bad on both sides of the Ukraine crisis, that any numbers thrown about are ridiculous, made up gibberish more fabricated than anything the Chinese Department of Truth or US Bureau of Labor can possibly goalseek, it is worth pointing out that according to AP, Ukraine's ambassador to the UN said 16,000 Russian troops are now deployed in the Ukraine. This was "revealed" at the third emergency Security Council session meeting in the last four days, shortly after Ukraine's fugitive president requested Russian soldiers in the strategic Crimea region "to establish legitimacy, peace, law and order," Russia's U.N. ambassador said Monday, contradicting the president's own comments last week.
However, while Russian hypocrisy is to be expected - after all they are the "Evil Empire" to quote a famous actor and president - it is the humor from the self-appointed moral watchdog of all the world's evils, the US, that was the highlight of today's UN session:

U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power dismissed Moscow's contention that it intervened militarily in Crimea to protect the human rights of Russian civilians there as "baseless," insisting there is no evidence of any threats against ethnic Russians in Ukraine.

"One might think that Moscow has just become the rapid response arm of the High Commissioner for Human Rights," she told the council. "Russian military action is not a human rights protection mission."

Speaking of high commissioners for human rights, at least Russia never invaded a country using made up WMDs as pretext, and did not almost launch World War III to satisfy a nat gas-rich ally over a fabricated YouTube clip. Oh, and all that "innocent civilian casualty" drone stuff too.
So what does the world's most irrelevant organization do? They send in monitors:

OSCE MONITORS TO BE DEPLOYED TO CRIMEA TONIGHT, POWER SAYS
POWER CALLS ON RUSSIA TO ENSURE OSCE NOT BLOCKED IN CRIMEA
CHURKIN SAYS RUSSIA SUPPORTS UN OFFICIAL'S VISIT TO UKRAINE
CHURKIN DECLINES TO COMMENT IF RUSSIA SUPPORTS OSCE MISSION

Well, monitors did miracles during the Yugoslav war, maybe they will "work" this time too.
But the piece de resistance, regardless if the real number of Russian troops in the Ukraine is 1,000 or 100,000, was the following:

DOD CALLS ON RUSSIAN FORCES IN CRIMEA TO RETURN TO THEIR BASES

Wait, so the US Department of Defense, that of the United States if it was somehow unclear, suddenly has authority to control the troops... of Russia?
One wonders: did the US Department of Education tell Gazprom to maintain gas supplies to Germany no matter how many CIA agents are operating in Kiev?
Or did ACORN tell whoever is the current pre-countercoup Ukraine president to hike minimum wages?
Or maybe the Department of Justice is quietly trying to collect its Fedex guns sent "erroneously" to Ukraine mercenaries, having confused them with Mexican drug lords?
Whatever the confusion, we are confident that following this latest "escalation" in the US response narrative, that Russia will promptly CTRL-Z everything it has done in the Ukraine in the past two weeks, and say it was only kidding.
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Tangentially, while it has been made abundantly clear just how terrified Russia is of NATO, of Europe and of the US, for an indication of what China thinks of the latter, the WSJ reports the following:

The departing U.S. ambassador to China, Gary Locke inspired mixed reactions during his two-and-a-half-year tenure. Though his unpretentious manner was widely praised, as the first American of Chinese descent to hold the job, criticism of him had a special bite... The state-run China News Service... published a derisive editorial late last week (in Chinese) that described Mr. Locke as “a banana, with yellow skin and a white heart.”

Because when America respects itself and its symbolic headpiece, the president, so very much how can the rest of the world not follow?

RT: Russian troops ordered home from surprise war games

2127 OPINION: THIS COULD MEAN 1 OF 2 THINGS.
1: THEY ARE ALL STANDING DOWN AND IT IS ALMOST OVER (HIGHLY UNLIKELY)
2: RETURNING TO BASE TO REST UP AND GET READY FOR THE REAL GAMES! (SEEMS AS THOUGH THATS HOW THEY DO THINGS)
-LATEST UPDATE FROM BELBEK AIRBASE - UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS ARE WAITING ORDERS TO GET ON PLANES, RUSSIA IS BLOCKING THEM, GUNS READY. HOWEVER, BOTH SIDES ARE AWAITING ORDERS.
WHY IS THIS SUCH A WAITING GAME..... WAITING ON WHAT THE ECONOMY....
RT POST BELOW!
Published time: March 04, 2014 06:06

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T-72 tanks of the separate tank battalion of the Baltic Fleet motorized infantry brigade, during dislocation, being loaded on flatcars and sent to the district selected for military exercises, in the city of Gusev, Kaliningrad Region on February 28, 2014 (RIA Novosti / Igor Zarembo)

President Putin has ordered troops sent last week to a surprise military exercise in western and central Russia to return to their bases.

RUSSIAN WEBSITE: Evromajdana Facebook activist contends that Yanukovych had died of a heart attack-MEDIA

Активист Евромайдана в Facebook утверждает, что Янукович скончался от сердечного приступа - СМИ

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Media reports about the death of Viktor Yanukovych

On his Facebook page Evromajdana activist Michael Swan wrote that Viktor Yanukovych died in the Rostov hospital

Evromajdana, a human rights activist Mikhail Lebed announces the death of the former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovich, of a heart attack, wrote the left coast.

Swan refers to a friend from Rostov Institute of cardiology.

"The Only thing about this on the phone told me a friend of Rostov Institute of cardiology. Ânyka brought back about 11 a.m. March 3 with a heart attack, and an hour later he died, "says Swan in Facebook.

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