This is an excerpt from an article by Ian Shilling

[video:http://youtu.be/YWhNSQVWMlE]

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. 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 The Guardian has previously reported, the US government utilizes propaganda and social media manipulation on an industrial scale.

March 2013

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.

Related: "US Air Force research: How to use social media to control people like drones"

A transcript of the video is below: