This amazing speech in Ukraine's Rada (Parliament) details how 300 people, under the direction of the US Embassy in Kiev, were to mobilize and manipulate social media in order to provoke protests that would lead to a Coup to oust Yanukovych and then start a Civil War.
This speech was made on 20th November 2013, i.e. the day before the sudden suspension of talks with the EU
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/21/ukraine-suspends-preparations-eu-trade-pact
So this was BEFORE the Maidan protests ever got going because everybody up to this point thought that Yanukovych was going to sign the EU association agreement.
The speech above specifies that 5 "TechCamps" had already been conducted by November.
As reported in the Guardian in 2011, The US government are utilizing propaganda & social media manipulation on an industrial scale
March 2013 on
Training and mobilizing of 300 people started in March 2013 (or earlier) under the direct supervision of the US Embassy in Kiev.
This is the US Embassy's report of one of the camps held at Microsoft's Ukraine headquarters on March 1st and details a number of areas and methods within social media that were to be utilized to spread pro EU and pro US propaganda.
As the speech above says, this is how the pro-democracy protests were agitated and provoked in the past in places like Egypt, Tunisia and Libya to overthrow their governments. The same process was used to build support for Maidan - at the instigation of and with the active participation of the US government via the US Embassy in Kiev.
August 2013
Arriving in the Ukrainian capital on August 3, Pyatt almost immediately authorized a grant for an online television outlet called Hromadske.TV, which would prove essential to building the Euromaidan street demonstrations against Yanukovych. The grant was only $43,737, with an additional $4,796 by November 13. Just enough to buy the modest equipment the project needed, to broadcast the expected coming street protests.
September 2013
In September 2013, one of Ukraine’s richest oligarchs, Viktor Pinchuk, paid for an elite strategic conference on Ukraine’s future that was held in the same Palace in Yalta, Crimea, where Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill met to decide the future of Europe in 1945. The Economist, one of the elite media reporting on what it called a “display of fierce diplomacy”, stated that: “The future of Ukraine, a country of 48m people, and of Europe was being decided in real time.” The participants included Bill and Hillary Clinton, former CIA head General David Petraeus, former U.S. Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers, former World Bank head Robert Zoellick, Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt, Shimon Peres, Tony Blair, Gerhard Schröder, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Mario Monti, Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaite, and Poland’s influential foreign minister Radek Sikorski. Both President Viktor Yanukovych, deposed five months later, and his recently elected successor Petro Poroshenko were present. Former U.S. energy secretary Bill Richardson was there to talk about the shale-gas revolution which the United States hopes to use to weaken Russia by substituting fracking for Russia’s natural gas reserves. The center of discussion was the “Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement” (DCFTA) between Ukraine and the European Union, and the prospect of Ukraine’s integration with the West. The general tone was euphoria over the prospect of breaking Ukraine’s ties with Russia in favor of the West.
Read more at:- http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2014/06/09/washington-s-iron-curtain
U.S. policy, already evident at the September 2013 Yalta meeting, was carried out on the ground by Victoria Nuland, former advisor to Dick Cheney, deputy ambassador to NATO, spokeswoman for Hillary Clinton, wife of neocon theorist Robert Kagan. Her leading role in the Ukraine events proves that the neo-con influence in the State Department, established under Bush II, was retained by Obama, whose only visible contribution to foreign policy change has been the presence of a man of African descent in the presidency, calculated to impress the world with U.S. multicultural virtue. Like most other recent presidents, Obama is there as a temporary salesman for policies made and executed by others.
As Victoria Nuland boasted in Washington, since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States has spent five billion dollars to gain political influence in Ukraine (this is called “promoting democracy”). This investment is not “for oil”, or for any immediate economic advantage. The primary motives are geopolitical, because Ukraine is Russia’s Achilles’ heel, the territory with the greatest potential for causing trouble to Russia.
Putin's represntative Glazyev warned of dire consequences for Ukraine's economy and future debt defaults should Ukraine sign the EU trade agreement.
It would later be reported that the free trade agreement would cost the Ukraine economy something like $19bn a year for the next decade, by flooding Ukraine with EU goods at the expense of it's own economy. (This is without any other adverse factors, such as a Civil War or Russia no longer wanting Ukraine's exports or loss of Russian gas transit fees, or higher gas prices.)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10483303/Ukraine-EU-trade-deal-QandA-why-Ukraines-refusal-to-sign-is-significant.html
Syria
Also in September, Putin foiled the plot by the US to start mass bombing of Assad in Syria by initiating negotiations to destroy Assad's chemical weapons.
There was already a huge public outcry against it and an almost total lack of international support for the bombing (even the UK's parliament voted against supporting it).
Congress was already lining up to reject it.
October and November 2013
The details of the failed negotiations between the EU and Yanukovych in 2013, which led to the Euromaidan protests, which the US then exacerbated and turned violent to execute the Coup D'Etat in Kiev
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/war-in-ukraine-a-result-of-misunderstandings-between-europe-and-russia-a-1004706-2.html
The above report is from a German mainstream paper and is thus biased towards a EU and US perspective and against Putin and Russia.
Putin offered a $15bn loan plus cheap Russian gas and this deal was accepted by Yanukovych.
Mid December 2013
Both Victoria Nuland and John McCain visit Kiev to finalize the preparations of the Coup.
Meetings are held with Yatsenuk, Klitschko and Oleg Tyannybok leader of the Neo Nazi Svoboda Party in Ukraine.
In the picture below Tyannybok is standing on McCain's left.
The person on McCain's right is US Democratic Senator Chris Murphy (Connecticut)
http://www.businessinsider.com/john-mccain-meets-oleh-tyahnybok-in-ukraine-2013-12
The EU had previously warned against associating with the racist Neo Nazi Svoboda Party in 2012
http://www.channel4.com/news/ukraine-mccain-far-right-svoboda-anti-semitic-protests?x
February 2014
Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt discuss who they would like to instal as the interim PM in Kiev.
(Nuland's infamous "Fuck the EU" tape)
The Not-So-Secret Ukraine Phone Call - Victoria Nuland's connections to Dick Cheney and the Neocons
The full resources of the NED (aka National Endowment for Regime Change) and George Soros's Foundations had already been brought to bear to produce pro EU propaganda, ready for the protests.
This included the making of the video "I am a Ukrainian" which now has over 8 million views.
The "inspiration and Executive Producer" of this video was Larry Diamond - NED and CFR member.
The Violence in Maidan Square which led directly to the ousting of the legitimate (if deeply corrupt) Ukrainian President - Yanukovych
The previously peaceful protests in Maidan Square rapidly became extremely violent during February. This was achieved by infiltrating the protestors with thugs from Neo Nazi parties such as Pravy (Right) Sektor and Svoboda.
9 facts that prove the U S is behind Ukraine crisis
An ex-IDF (Israeli Defense Force) who now lives in Ukraine and who commanded a force of 35 to 40 in a violent protest group, says that he was taking orders from the Neo Nazi Svoboda party.
(Other pictures show the Berkut Police firing - but they are firing downwards in front of the protestors to try and stop their advance NOT firing at them.)
An academic analysis by a Canadian.
Kiev snipers were hired by Maidan leaders - the leaked EU's Ashton phone tape
Full Videoproof of Maidan snipers killing Ukraine Civilians Shooting From Behind! GRAPHIC !
A German TV Documentary from April (with English subtitles) that came to the conclusion that the protestors who were shot in Maidan were murdered by Maidan supporters.
‘No evidence of Berkut police behind mass killing in Kiev’ – probe head
There is no forensic evidence linking the victims of mass killings in Kiev on February 20 with officers from the Berkut police unit, the head of the parliamentary commission investigating the murders told journalists.
"This will be yet another case, like the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, which is still being investigated today,” Gennady Moskal reported.
The MP made the statements at a media conference on Tuesday gathered to announce preliminary results of his commission’s probe. He assured that despite the Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s office having arrested 12 Berkut officers on allegations of committing the mass killings, forensic evidence suggests their innocence.
He said the bullets that killed people in Kiev on the bloodies day of confrontation between protesters seeking to oust President Viktor Yanukovich and riot police didn’t match any of the firearms issued to Berkut’s special unit, which, unlike the majority of riot police, was allowed to carry lethal weapons.
http://rt.com/news/158864-kiev-snipers-not-berkut/
The man in charge of the buildings from which the snipers fired at both protesters and police was Andrey Parubiy, co-founder (with Tyannybok) of the Svoboda Nazi Party, who after the Coup was appointed head of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine and later became the Speaker of Ukraine's Parliament..
End the violence
Withdraw forces on both sides
Call early elections by December 2014.
Full text of the agreement
The Berkut police withdrew as agreed, whereupon armed forces from Right Sector took over multiple government buildings.
On February 22nd Yanukovych fled Ukraine and has not since returned.
Victoria Nuland's designated choice, Yatsenuk, was duly installed as Ukraine's interim PM.
A Monster Reawakens: The Rise of Ukrainian Fascism
8 ministries in the "Yats" interim Ukrainian government were given to members of Ukrainian Fascist parties.
The Coup was complete.
For more details on the Coup and the events soon after see this
For the background to the Coup, why the US wanted regime change in Kiev and what has happened since - see this
The broad historical context from the end of the cold war and some great articles by knowledgeable writers on Ukraine and Russia is in here:-
http://ian56.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/knowledgeable-writers-on-ukraine-and.html
The Winners and Losers from the US engineered Coup in Kiev V2.0
The purpose of the Coup in Ukraine was to wreck Ukraine's economy, start a civil war and make trouble for Russia.
While the first two objectives have been met (and Ukraine's economy is still sinking) the effect on Russia has been minor.
The overall effect has been to drive Russia and China closer together faster in the face of US aggression.
Ukraine and Ukrainians are the biggest losers.
China is the biggest winner.
For the other winners and losers and the details - see this:-
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-winners-and-losers-from-us.html
Update 02/09
Otpor - the forerunner of "TechCamp".
How the US uses "Revolution Consultants" & social media to agitate for protests and overthrow regimes such as was recently done in Tunisia, Egypt and Ukraine. It was first used in Serbia in the 1990's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpXbA6yZY-8
From comments received, it seems that some people fail to see how 300 people actively manipulating social media could help change public opinion enough to assist in some sort of political campaign or change - when there are several instances when it has very obviously done so.
The US government employs hundreds of social media trolls for various purposes to "manage public perceptions" in the US - i.e. push propaganda, vote rig, post comments and otherwise manipulate social media. Obama employed a whole bunch to manipulate public perceptions on Obamacare for example when a number of adverse stories appeared about it in US media.
The US embassy in Kiev recruited 300 Ukrainians to "manage perceptions" on social media, write propaganda and produce videos etc. When the EU talks were called off these 300 people were called into action in earnest to get the Maidan protests going and get more people to join it. Just like social media was used to utilize, build and encourage existing dissent and dissatisfaction to build support for the protests in Tahrir square in Egypt and for the "Green Protests" in Iran a few years ago. People in general are very easy to manipulate and deceive - they will mostly believe what they want to believe in the first place (whatever the actual evidence says).
Of course nobody told the Euromaiden crowd that signing the EU deal would cost the Ukraine economy something like $160bn over 10 years and cause a major recession (similar but not quite as bad as the major recession and financial collapse Ukraine is in now).
The US has been doing Coups like this since 1953 - when they overthrew the PM of Iran who was going to nationalize the oil instead of BP keeping all the profits.
The US has been involved in at least 30 similar Coups over the course of the last 60 years - some succeeded (like Ukraine) and some didn't (like Venezuela).
The US is now doing exactly what it did in Ukraine by being actively engaged in and encouraging, regime change in Belarus and Russia. The US has also been busy manipulating social media in the Baltic states and in Poland to bolster support for the US.
I would be very surprised if the US was not currently ramping up it's activities in Hungary, Greece and Serbia etc.
US Air Force research: How to use social media to control people like drones
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/07/air-force-research-how-to-use-social-media-to-control-people-like-drones/
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