with friends like these who needs enemies

WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE WHO NEEDS ENEMIES DRIVERS

Instead of writing all of this out in exhaustive detail, I compiled a rather lengthy (almost 14 minutes) video, which you can see below:

The American government can shout and scream about how unfair all of this is but after a year of Snowden’s revelations of the NSA’s activities, frankly (almost) no one cares.īut what is the significance of what Pyatt and Nuland were discussing? Well that’s what I spent most of yesterday researching. The would-be spy might not pick up the specific phone call (or mobile phone user) that they want to but as the trick works via proximity, I’m sure sooner or later you’d be able to successfully listen in on your target’s phone calls.Įither way, whether it was an amateur with a $100 radio scanner or the work of a government espionage unit, someone caught the American government with their pants down and revealed the true nature of their interference in Ukraine’s sovereignty and independence. The hyper-paranoid American government has already admitted that its diplomats don’t use encrypted mobile phones (the only way to defeat a simple radio scanner like I used to have), so anyone wanting to spy on the embassy could just stand nearby and have a listen. I never found it very interesting as most people’s phone calls are incredibly tedious and boring ( What do you want for dinner? No, what do you want?) but occasionally it was a neat “parlor trick” for my friends.

WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE WHO NEEDS ENEMIES DRIVERS

I used to sit in my living room and listen to snatches of calls from the drivers that were passing by on the street out front. The “catch” is that you have to be physically close to the mobile phone in question for it to work. If you have a radio scanner which can tune in to these frequencies (which I did), you can easily intercept and listen to anyone’s phone calls. Landline (RO: telefon fix) phone calls are a different story but all mobile phones are just fancy radios. and I didn’t even need any spy equipment to do it. I used to intercept mobile phone calls all the time from my apartment in the U.S. So who then intercepted these two phone calls? Believe it or not, it doesn’t have to be a government intelligence agency. I can’t find a single English-language news source reporting this but the Russian media is reporting that Dmitry Rogozin has flatly denied that the Russian government had anything to do with the interceptions and that he only learned about it via social media. Victoria Nuland and Geoff Pyatt surveying America’s future domain When the American press questioned the State Department about Nuland and Pyatt cursing the EU and plotting the future of the Ukrainian government, State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki blasted the Russian government, blaming them for the leak and saying that the tweet somehow proved that the Russian government was responsible and had thus sunk to an “all-time low” (video here). This led the previously clueless Western media to find out about the YT video. The YouTube video “went viral” in the Russian social media networks and at some point Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dimitry Rogozin‘s aide Dmitry Loskutov posted a Tweet about it. Had the opposition agreed to this plan, a peaceful resolution to this crisis could’ve been accomplished and all sides would’ve had a legal, democratic way forward to sort out the future of their country.Ī Russian-speaking anonymous YouTube user from Ukraine was responsible for uploading the intercepted phone call between Nuland and Pyatt (and a second and separate phone call between an EU official named Helga Schmid and EU ambassador to Ukraine Jan Tombinski, speaking in German), complete with Russian-language subtitles. Sadly, the Washington Post and most other media sources focused on the epithet and downplayed the significant fact that Nuland and Pyatt had evidently sabotaged Ukrainian President Yanukovich’s offer at the end of January 2014 to both reduce his powers (and increase those of the parliament) and have two leaders of the opposition (Yatsenyuk and Vitaly Klitschko) become the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister respectively. Most media reports focus heavily on the fact that Nuland said, at one point, “fuck the E.U.” and their efforts to mediate a solution to the protests that have been going on in that country since the end of November 2013.

You can read a fairly comprehensive transcript of that phone call here. I spent several hours yesterday and this morning in the disagreeable task of digging through the career of Victoria Nuland after the western media reported on a YouTube video of an intercepted telephone call in which Nuland and American Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey “Geoff” Pyatt are heard discussing their plans for the future of Ukraine’s government.

With friends like these who needs enemies