Posted on 03/14/2015 10:09:29 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
An odd report from state TV has sparked a new round of speculation
Kremlin-controlled TV informed millions of Russians about a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and his Kyrgyz counterpart Almazbek Atambayev. Nothing unusual about that, right?
Wrong.
The meeting between the two leaders of the former Soviet republics isnt due to take place until Monday. But that didnt stop the newsreader on the Rossiya 24 channel reading out the following item all in the past tense.
The Kremlin also reports that Vladimir Putin met with Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev on Monday. They talked about cooperation in investment and humanitarian spheres, as well as the energy sector. They also discussed the possibility of Kyrgyzstan joining the Eurasian Economic Union.
Before we get to Monday, as most of you are undoubtedly aware, we have to get past the weekend first. A spokesperson for Rossiya 24 quickly announced the news item had been a mistake. And, on a normal day, that would have been that.
But these are not normal times in Russia. Putin hasnt been seen in public for over a week. This prolonged absence has sparked rumors that Russias long-serving national leader is ill. Or has been deposed in a coup. Or is dead. Or is visiting his alleged lover, the extremely flexible gymnast, Alina Kabaeva, who reportedly gave birth to a baby Putin in Switzerland today. Take your pick.
Rossiya 24s inadvertent act of fortune-telling has already been labeled Guests from the Future on social media, a reference to a well-loved Soviet childrens film. But beneath the laughter, there is concern that Russia could be on the edge of another one of the cataclysmic events that seem to swing around these parts every few years. Was Rossiya 24s report on Putins meeting prepared in advance, because the Kremlin knew he would not be attending? Was it part of a cover up that was inadvertently aired ahead of time? Either way, its added to a general atmosphere of confusion and apprehension in Russia right now. I was dreaming of Putin all night, a friend in Moscow told me. I dreamed hed been kidnapped and was being marched off somewhere.
True, the NTV channel aired images Friday of Putin meeting with supreme court president Vyacheslav Lebedev at his Novo-Ogaryovo presidential residence outside Moscow. But as there was no proof the footage was actually filmed Friday, that did little to stop the rumors. After all, the Kremlin has already been caught out once before this week, when it tried to pass off old photographs as new ones as evidence of Putins activities.
So when a line of mysterious trucks was photographed outside the Kremlins walls Friday evening, and seating for hundreds of people was laid out on Red Square, the rumor mill went into overdrive again. Someone quickly spliced together footage of Putin saying and snuffed it, over a grimy hip-hop beat, and uploaded the clip to YouTube.
Has he really snuffed it? asked one Facebook user. But the trucks and seating, it turned out, are for a concert to celebrate the first anniversary of the Kremlins annexation of Crimea. What are you all on about? asked another Facebook user. Putins fine, dont you know? Hes already met the president of Kyrgyzstan on Monday.
Will Putin finally show on Monday? Or will the mystery deepen? All will be revealed after the weekend. That is, of course, if there are no twists in this story before then. Keep watching Russia.
I’m betting on cancer. Followed by any of the above... dangerous to be weak in a thugocracy...
Tomorrow is the Ides of March.
The Russian word “czar” is derived from “caesar”.
Hmmm.
Well, Putin’s the one that made his nation risible and his own over-the-top “I’m muy macho” schtick makes him an easy person to parody.
All true and a very good points. Let’s hope Brutus has already slayed the wretch.
Think more broadly.
Just like on Halloween, Halloween is the highest day for the occult, so to are certain days of the year.
The Masonic Masons, the Illumini, Witchcraft, mystery religions.
The Jerusalem speech on March 21st 2013.
Serious, true.
However, whatever is happening, we can’t do squat about it. All we can do is at the worst: load magazines, clean your weapon and make sure to pick up some extra can goods and bottled water at the IGA.
So you think maybe he’s taking a couple of weeks off work to get ready for the 21st of March? I hope someone asks his spokesman if that’s what he’s up to.
Nice, and oh the car is okay too.
No, him personally, no, but the New World Order folks getting ready for some world changing event.
Nothing is by accident in the government, all is staged.
What we hear in the news is what they want us to hear.
They could be keeping him in some highly secure mountain because they suspect that some astorld , meteor could be ready to hit Russia like the one back in the early 20th century.
Or staging things to commence a major war in the middle east.
Or a coup.
I think he’s been booked with Maury regarding some woman looking for her baby daddy.
Bare-chested, I suppose. Point is, these people have succumbed to the cult of personality. This is (to dream) a desired response. I'm sure there's a lot going on but Putin's disappearance should be looked at as but a cover for things that are hidden and that if the people knew of would create real problems for the leaders. It's a cover.
I look at the Hillary email situation in the same light and ask this question: Is it beyond the realm of possibility that the Putin and Hillary situations have been coordinated (including even their being timed to happen at the same time) for the purpose of hiding deeper and more nefarious goings-on?
In particular, with both Hillaty and Putin I'm guessing power is being consolidated at a world-wide level. It really doesn't matter who exactly is doing it. It is only important to understand that the main target of this disinfo is the American people because they are the only people who can stop it.
As Obama has cackled sarcastically in the past with respect to his Republican friends (paraphrasing), "You'd think that they thought it was a Bolshevik plot." This was said to some Republicans he was meeting with over Obamacare. The fact that nobody picked up on his use of the words "Bolshevik plot" as a tell that he actually is a commie is sad. I mean really, what is the percentge of Americans who have a clue about Bolshevik plots?
Pretty tough to stop Bolshevik plots if you don't know what they are and this is why the powers that be are happy to see people dreaming about Putin.
He’s getting plastic surgery.
You think the Russkies are just gonna come marching over the mountain or something?
If the struggle between USA and Russia goes hot, it means nukes...
That’s why America should support a strong leader in Russia. Over and over we have seen with our help strong leaders being displaced and chaos and war the result...
Comparing pictures of Putin from recent photos in the last few years compared to him about 10 years ago Putin has a almost not human look, plastic look in his face.
I believe he already has had plastic surgery.
You assumed too much.
I only was speaking of the global ramifications of war and general widespread panic and how it can effect global markets to include food and commodity prices and how that could upset the generally thin veneer of our society.
Russia does seem to bear the brunt of meteor strikes, it seems.
Putin is in Switzerland with his new baby and the mother of the child.
“This could be Hugh, unpresident.”
Has anyone thought that Putin is doing this as a ploy to take the murder off the front pages?
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