This topic should probably have been added some time ago.
[Updated publish date to bring back to the top]
A Country Divided in Two?
2010 Ukraine Presidential Election Results
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os-4Na9yUW0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS_gfoALj00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igTd-QBe8w4
EDIT: News updates, videos and links in the comments below]
More disturbing reading from Professor Michel Chossudovsky founder of Global Research in Canada. His questions are based on whether there are any similarities between the US/NATO destabilisation of Syria and the US/NATO destabilisation of Ukraine.
http://nsnbc.me/2014/05/07/us-nato-applying-syria-model-ukraine/
Same destabilisation as Libya too John….Now Targeting Reporters as well… AND as Ben has Pointed out earlier – also from G.R – Here is a part of a piece By Stephen Lendman
“A large number of terrorist Takfiri fighters in Syria, who bear Saudi and Chechnian nationalities and receive financial and military backup from the Saudi intelligence agency, have been transferred to the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, on several planes to help the Ukrainian army in its fight against the pro-Russian population.”
“The forces have been immediately dispatched to Kramatosk city in Eastern Ukraine, and are now fighting beside the Ukrainian army forces against the pro-Russians under the name of militias who support the government.”
Rabbi Avraham Wold represents Chabad community hassidic Jews. He said they’re taking extra security precautions.
They posted armed guards. They prepared for possible evacuation. They allied with International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
They have 70 buses fueled. They’re ready to go if needed. Odessa’s population approaches one million. Nearly one-third are Jews.
They’re justifiably scared. Nazis murdered many thousands in Ukraine in cold blood. Some were burned alive.
Odessans remember. They know how fascists operate. Anti-Semitism is rife. Neo-Nazi Right Sector thugs threaten them. So do likeminded extremists.
They may have to flee for their lives. They may have on short notice. They fear the worst if not.
On May 5, RT International said Kiev fascists targeted independent journalist Graham Phillips. He’s an RT stringer.
He reports daily from the Eastern Ukrainian front lines. He explains accurately what’s going on. He commented, saying:
He “received threats putting a bounty on (his) head to be kidnapped and that has been offered from Dnepropetrovsk, as (he) understand(s), connected to the Right Sector.”
Reportedly it offered $10,000 for capturing “a Russian spy.” A Twitter message said:
“ANYONE WHO CAN CAPTURE RUSSIAN SPY @Graham WP_UK GETS 10.000$ FROM DNIPRO. SO LETS DO IT!”
Right Sector thugs have one of RT’s cameramen.
According to RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan:
“Our camera-man-stringer in Odessa received a call from the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU).”
It “said that he is now on the radar of the Right Sector.(His) former colleagues gave him up.”
“SBU said that the Right Sector now has all his phone numbers and addresses.”
“They gave him up for his anti-Maidan views which he never kept secret.”
RT’s Irina Galushko said her cameraman was threatened. She twittered:
“cam’man i’m working with just informed his addresses and contacts are in hands of Security Service, Right Sector and Nat’l Guard #Odessa.”
Kiev fascists want only their own message getting out. Truth-tellers are endangered.
Full Piece @
http://www.globalresearch.ca/fascist-aggression-in-ukraine-saudi-arabia-sending-takfiri-fighters-to-kiev/5380715
Mariupol. Ukrainian army fire their weapons, surrounded by hostile crowd after the military take control of town council building. Some reports say the army has withdrawn again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnEx7OYPzLc
Squonk it’s bad when the army opens fire to frighten clearly unarmed people. Disturbing footage. They probably do not want to kill their fellow Ukrainians but these things can get out of hand.
When the three-pronged (or four-pronged) illegal government, which includes right sector and Svoboda, took over in Kiev they probably had no idea that there would be counter uprisings in different parts of the country.
I cannot see any elections coming any time soon. Putin appears to have done everything to try and broker peace, while the Yanks keep pouring money in to try and take over areas that they could not win in an election. So that is democracy. It annoys me that the big mouths who claim to support democracy are actually supporting a Yankee Doodle Dandy puppet state.
https://twitter.com/codycoyote37/status/464449658580779008/photo/1
Brave wee Woman AA/Sqounk… .
They Certainly have been trying to Trap Putin John…. And it looks like Putin had to pull the troops back due to a possible False flag opp… For TODAY, or Tomorrow…
” It is not impossible that the pullback order was linked to a Novosti RIA report dated May 6, which indicated that the Ukrainian secret service was planning an imminent false flag operation in order to accuse Russia of violating the border with Ukraine.
Novosti said it had learned from security circles in Kiev that the Ukrainian secret service SBU had secretly shipped about 200 Russian army uniforms and some 70 forged Russian officer ID into the Eastern Ukrainian protest stronghold of Donetz, to be used to stage a false attack on Ukrainian border patrols.
Novosti said the reports were unconfirmed, but they could nevertheless be taken seriously by the Russians. “The plan would be to simulate an attack on Ukrainian border troops and to film it for the media”, the report said. In connection with the plan, a dozen or so combatants from the ultranationalist Right Sector were to cross the border and kidnap a Russian soldier in order to present him as “proof” of Russian military incursion. The operation was scheduled for May 8 or 9.
By pulling Russian troops farther away from the border, Putin could hope to make the false flag operation less plausible and perhaps to forestall it.
More from the Above Piece by DIANA JOHNSTONE @
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/08/to-understand-or-not-to-understand-putin/
Brian, the really brave people are those who have infiltrated the nasty NAZIS to get this information out. The report is highly believable because the masters of Yatsenyuk are also the masters of the false flag.
Well said John… these masters only get away with it all, because they are masters of the MsM… and of course Big money….
But i cant believe this one Regarding a Mr Peter Gabriel….Just Two days before a show he cancels for Kiev ….i’ve been watching and waiting for this announcement …. Two Days.. WTF…
BACK TO FRONT SHOW IN KIEV CANCELLED
It is with great regret that today the decision has been made to cancel the forthcoming Peter Gabriel show in Kiev on 10 May.
Due to the on-going unrest in Ukraine it has become clear that the security of the touring personnel and equipment cannot be guaranteed during the planned visit to the country and this has presented us with significant logistical difficulties that we have been unable to resolve.
https://petergabriel.com/news/back-front-show-kiev-cancelled/
Don’t know about Peter Gabriel Show ‘Back to Front’ and whether it is genuine. Perhaps he fears for his life having seen what can happen to humanists in Odessa. Or perhaps he has been warned off by UK secret services. A high-profile act could get different factions in confrontational mood. My understanding is that things are not calm on the square in Kiev but the BBC is not covering it at all.
It is beyond my comprehension why people I would expect to be able to see the bigger picture cannot. This is from Professor James Petras and written for Global Research in Canada. It gives a very good analysis of what went right, or mostly wrong, in Ukraine since the US-funded putsch which has left the country divided.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-kiev-putsch-rebel-workers-take-power-in-the-east/5380866
Things are getting more insane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhfPkHvFBvE
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27342458
Some more from Mariupol today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfIcyxtevuE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am5grM7VbPg
It’s a port with access to the Black Sea, AA. Strategic value seems to make it hotter, as they weren’t firing over people’s heads.
How can these NAZIS be allowed to drive tanks into ordinary but very brave unarmed civilians? I think we have to prepare for a civil war and another failed state. Putin has done everything to avoid it. I cannot see it ending well, short of partition. Don’t the Yanks love their wars thousands of miles away from home?
ITN footage from Mariupol
http://www.itv.com/news/story/2014-04-23/russia-ukraine-tensions/
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-05-09/ukrainian-troops-fire-in-the-air-to-warn-off-crowd/
BBC1 10pm news just led with Mariupol. The report seemed sympathetic to the pro-Russian side this time.
Sickening to watch the Junta’s henchman murdering unarmed civilians, who show unbelievable courage in confronting the retreating killers ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC4dzizUlYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJx-t6ahGg
Some reports (from journalists quoting medical sources) are that possibly 100 or more died in Mariupol today. An RT journalist has also been shot.
http://rt.com/news/157976-mariupol-rt-stringer-wounded/
Where are all the hypocritical R2P advocates ? Seems like the Humanitarian Bombers are very particular about who they profess to care for.
Exactly Macky…
” Putin said Western nations can use satellite intelligence to confirm what he announced.
Not according to Psaki, saying: “We have not seen evidence of such movement to date.”
“(T)here are still efforts underway to hinder the preparations for the May 25th elections,” she claimed.
Tougher US sanctions are being considered, she added. She ludicrously called Kiev’s coup-appointed government “legitimate.”
She blames Russia irresponsibly for US crimes. So do other US officials. They represent the worst of Washington’s dark side.
Mainstream media support what demands denunciation. The New York Times responded dismissively to Putin’s responsible diplomatic proposal. It did so offensively, saying:
“(I)t remain(s) unclear to analysts and political leaders on both sides of the Atlantic whether he was truly reversing course on Ukraine or if this was just another of his judo-inspired feints.”
According to Times editors:
“NATO officials said they saw no pullback of the 40,000 Russian troops who have been threateningly massed on the Ukrainian border for several weeks now.”
Ongoing Eastern Ukrainian events “may have demonstrated to the Russian president that his strategy of manipulated rebellion could be getting out of hand.”
“Moreover, a referendum on secession in rebel-controlled zones would have produced a predictably lopsided vote without a shred of credibility, but would have curtailed Mr. Putin’s exit options.”
Fact: Putin’s announced pullback was genuine.
Fact: He wouldn’t have publicly said so otherwise.
Fact: Redeployment takes time.
Fact: By now, satellite images may show it clearly.
Fact: Washington bears full responsibility for Ukrainian crisis conditions.
Fact: Eastern Ukrainians acted solely on their own volition.
Fact: No evidence whatever suggests Russian involvement.
Fact: As of May 8, Donetsk and Lugansk referendum will be held as planned….
Putin said Western nations can use satellite intelligence to confirm what he announced.
Not according to Psaki, saying: “We have not seen evidence of such movement to date.”
“(T)here are still efforts underway to hinder the preparations for the May 25th elections,” she claimed.
Tougher US sanctions are being considered, she added. She ludicrously called Kiev’s coup-appointed government “legitimate.”
She blames Russia irresponsibly for US crimes. So do other US officials. They represent the worst of Washington’s dark side.
Mainstream media support what demands denunciation. The New York Times responded dismissively to Putin’s responsible diplomatic proposal. It did so offensively, saying:
“(I)t remain(s) unclear to analysts and political leaders on both sides of the Atlantic whether he was truly reversing course on Ukraine or if this was just another of his judo-inspired feints.”
According to Times editors:
“NATO officials said they saw no pullback of the 40,000 Russian troops who have been threateningly massed on the Ukrainian border for several weeks now.”
Ongoing Eastern Ukrainian events “may have demonstrated to the Russian president that his strategy of manipulated rebellion could be getting out of hand.”
“Moreover, a referendum on secession in rebel-controlled zones would have produced a predictably lopsided vote without a shred of credibility, but would have curtailed Mr. Putin’s exit options.”
Fact: Putin’s announced pullback was genuine.
Fact: He wouldn’t have publicly said so otherwise.
Fact: Redeployment takes time.
Fact: By now, satellite images may show it clearly.
Fact: Washington bears full responsibility for Ukrainian crisis conditions.
Fact: Eastern Ukrainians acted solely on their own volition.
Fact: No evidence whatever suggests Russian involvement.
Fact: As of May 8, Donetsk and Lugansk referendum will be held as planned….
On May 7, it misinformed readers saying “key questions remained about whether Putin’s efforts would actually rein in violence, including whether Russia retained control over the bands of armed separatists who have taken over cities across eastern Ukraine and whether his proposals were palatable to the Ukrainians.”
Fact: Eastern Ukrainians aren’t “separatists.”
Fact: They’re ordinary people.
Fact: They’re freedom fighters.
Fact: They want rights everyone deserves.
Fact: Putin has no involvement in their activism.
Fact: Coup-appointed putschists unleashed violence.
Fact: They did so at Washington’s behest.
Chicago Tribune editors asked if Putin “blinked on Ukraine.”
They irresponsibly accused him of perhaps wanting diplomacy to resolve crisis conditions “he had a huge hand in creating.”
Fact: Since trouble erupted last November, he’s gone all-out to resolve things responsibly.
Fact: Washington escalated conflict lawlessly.
Fact: It deplores peaceful conflict resolution.
Fact: Longstanding policy prioritizes violence and instability.
Former national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinsk is a notorious Russian hater. Tribune editors irresponsibly quoted him, saying:
“What is at stake is a secure and open Europe.” The alternative is “some sort of a Russian imperial enterprise next door, based largely on force, and as a result probably quite unstable. So the stakes are really enormous.”
Tribune editors added:
“Russian tanks may or may not roll into Kiev one day, the way Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest in 1956 or Prague in 1968.”
“Europe can’t pursue business as usual with Russia. Not unless it wants to be responsible for losing Ukraine.”
Fact: Soviet Russia bears no relation to today’s. Any more than Berlin matches Nazi era harshness.
Don’t expect Tribune editors to explain. Putin bashing remains official policy….
Leading Kiev presidential aspirant/ MULTI BILLIONAIRE Petro Poroshenko said:
“We are even ready to have a (national) referendum but not under the barrels of machine guns or automatic rifles.”
“After the presidential election. After restoring law and order, we are ready to discuss any referendum and…constitutional changes…with anyone.”
Fact: After Kiev fascists solidify power!
Fact: After they crush democratic resistance.
Fact: After they eliminate freedom initiatives.
Fact: After more Odessa massacres.
Fact: After potentially replicating Cambodia’s Killing Fields.
The full piece By Stephen Lendman @
http://www.globalresearch.ca/bashing-putins-diplomatic-proposal/5381471
I’ve been trying to watch the BBC and Russia Today. The BBC is hardly covering Mariupul at all. They are running stories like a person who has had three kidney transplants from family-member donors.
But the evidence as to who the aggressors are in Mariupul is plain to see on Russia Today. Yatsenyuk’s cowards, driving tanks at unarmed civilians, burning out a police station just because the police are sympathetic to the townspeople. I was convinced before this that the illegal government in Kiev was a bunch of NAZI thugs. This just confirms it.
I noticed this as I expect everyone else has done. The bias is SO obvious.
From Medialens
BBC suddenly give prominence to the Eurovision Song “contest”
Posted by Richard27 on May 10, 2014, 11:16 am
A few years ago the maligned and quite awful Eurovision song contest was mocked and ridiculed by BBC presenters like Terry Wogan following a series of shows where the UK always ended up bottom, (one year with “nil point”) Despite this crass “musical” contest being the one of the most banal and awful to appear, the BBC has been promoting it since the Russian entry was “booed”. So the contest has become a political football between the Ukrainian entry and the Russian. Much to the glee of the childish producers at the BBC. No doubt they will be revelling if the Russians are booed again tonight and it will be all over their news broadcasts.
How low they sink in their anti-Russian propaganda.
Putin as well as Kyev wanting to delay the referendum, which they fear would result in Secession, I believe.
Parallel; from Wki (Confederacy)
“During the actual vote for secession—with South Carolina (voting in 1860) once again the exception—there were no other Southern states which considered the question in 1861, where support for leaving the Union was unanimous. All had a population which cast significant numbers of Unionist votes in either the legislature, conventions, popular referendums, or in all three. This did not, however, necessarily translate into being a northern sympathizer and, once hostilities actually commenced, many of these—particularly in the Lower South—accepted the majority decision, and supported the Confederacy.[15]
The American Civil War became an American tragedy, the Brothers’ War according to some scholars, “brother against brother, father against son, kith against kin of every degree”.[16]
A bloody conflict which resulted in a resource-poor Southern loss with countless casualties. Musket-balls leave nasty wounds which went septic if the victim survived initially.
“Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, said the referendum being staged by pro-Russia separatists in parts of eastern Ukraine on Sunday should be postponed. If the referendum goes ahead, it will provide an argument for the region joining Russia as happened in Crimea in March.
Overt Russian support for the plebiscite could have triggered more substantive EU and US sanctions against Russia. Putin’s statement, following talks with the president of Switzerland in Moscow, looked likely to delay the imposition of a harsher round of economic penalties.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/07/ukraine-crisis-putin-referendum-autonomy-postponed
Putin doesn’t fear sanctions, I believe. Nor is he afraid of casualties. He’s being eminently practical as an economic safeguard. This Region is important to his GDP.
Another Master piece from Bill Blum –
“The Russians are coming … again … and they’re still ten feet tall!”
….” Arseniy Yatsenuk, it should be noted, has something called the Arseniy Yatsenuk Foundation. If you go to the foundation’s website you will see the logos of the foundation’s “partners”. Among these partners we find NATO, the National Endowment for Democracy, the US State Department, Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs in the UK), the German Marshall Fund (a think tank founded by the German government in honor of the US Marshall Plan), as well as a couple of international banks. Is any comment needed?
Getting away with supporting al-Qaeda and Nazi types may be giving US officials the idea that they can say or do anything they want in their foreign policy. In a May 2 press conference, President Obama, referring to Ukraine and the NATO Treaty, said: “We’re united in our unwavering Article 5 commitment to the security of our NATO allies”. (Article 5 states: “The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them … shall be considered an attack against them all.”) Did the president forget that Ukraine is not (yet) a member of NATO? And in the same press conference, the president referred to the “duly elected government in Kyiv (Kiev)”, when in fact it had come to power via a coup and then proceeded to establish a new regime in which the vice-premier, minister of defense, minister of agriculture, and minister of environment, all belonged to far-right neo-Nazi parties. …
More from Bulm’s Brilliant Piece – @
http://williamblum.org/aer/read/128
Couldn’t make it up.
BBC News – Russia booed at Eurovision semi-final – BBC.com
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27306108
3 days ago – Crowds in Copenhagen boo as Russia makes it through to the final of the Eurovision Song Contest, amid political tensions with Ukraine.
What journalists are saying about #Eurovision on Twitter
muckrack.com/topic/%23eurovision
Twitter / davidmacdougall: Song number 18 at #Eurovision … Open in Who … Anti-Russian sentiment rises as Tolmachevy Sisters advance to #Eurovision final
Twitter / WSJ: Anti-Russian sentiment rises …
https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/464882902158049280
18 hours ago – Anti-Russian sentiment rises ahead of Eurovision final: http://trib.al/ …
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Orchestrated? Ukraine to win everybody? 😉
Slavyansk under attack.
http://rt.com/news/158132-slavyansk-fire-shooting-referendum/
The rise is being taken out of Craig on Medialens on two fronts. Painful for those of us who have supported him over the years but expected.
Craig Murray Beyond the Pale
http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/msg/1399749314.html
and
Damn! Just when I thought feminists were safe from Craigmurrayesque Nigerian-kidnap-shaming … http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/thread/1399739835.html
Mary; Craig, has thrice re-invented himself. I suspect he can do it again. Hab continues efforts to dismantle Craig’s blog, with Craig’s approval, so far. It’s amazing how lightly he takes deletions. HIS blog; IMPERIOUS REX! lol.
More likely to try to embarrass me not caring who he hurts in the process. A nasty piece of work.
I was looking back earlier and noticed that his previous avatar is different to the current one. Presumably a change of IP address/e-mail address?
No. His work has to do with command and control. Chaos is easy to manufacture if your motives run counter to the mainstream. Throw a bomb or two and watch everyone scatter. Power without responsibility is why terrorists keep us off balance.
“The American Deep State, Deep Events, and Off-the-Books Financing ”
http://www.japanfocus.org/-Peter_Dale-Scott/4104
“US/NATO/EU and the desperate subversion of Ukraine”
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?s=d39d8233c465b0c62398791c071e7afc&showtopic=20879&page=19
“Putin’s statement, following talks with the president of Switzerland in Moscow, looked likely to delay the imposition of a harsher round of economic penalties.””
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I realise that Switzerland is a small country especially when seen by an anxious Gadfly from far away California, but Ben could nevertheless have taken the trouble to find out that the “president of Switzerland” and Monsieur Didier Burkhalter, Chairperson of the OSCE are separate persons….and that it was the latter with whom Putin had talks in Moscow.
Beaucoup Harem=Hab= Jimmy Saville? Only Craig can know for sure.
Venezuela
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=21050&page=2
Californian Gadfly
“Beaucoup Harem=Hab= Jimmy Saville? Only Craig can know for sure.”
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Or his moderators. If you’re really anxious to find out, why don’t you ask on Craig’s blog?
I have no access to media lense and don’t seek one as their replies should have, surprise, an open channel with minimum registration. Their critique of Craig is self defeatist of their overall aims and objectives, a bunch of indiscriminate scribblers who fail to see the overall picture and are unable to form an alternative to the existing political structures.
This is my reply to their critique of Craig and if anybody want to post it there under my moniker, feel free, I can’t be bothered.
“Whilst many are still grapplin’ with this possible false flag action, fanned by western induced thugs, Craigs piece is not beyond the pale. What is beyond the pale is inconsequential rambling, disunited squabbling and false accusations by righteous sticklers who dare not do anything active beyond moving their fingers. Craig stood up in Blackburn and Norwich North and I’m looking forward to medialenses multiple posters to prepare for next years GE, get ready boys and girls, you are so wound up that you must want to be actively trying to offer voters a new agenda, away from the nasty party politics that has got us to this point in time. So, rather than trying to spit at people inside the tent, who you know are approachable and able to discuss issues, you should try and focus your ire on those who are clearly pulling the strings. What a load of fiddle farting for nowt here.”
BTW. now that the referendum nobody likes is going ahead and Ukrainians vote with their feet to seceed, should we ask pour politicians to support bilateral negotiations on borders mutual interests, time frames, access to relatives,etc. visavis Academi’s 400 mercenaries who are, no doubt, will bring the fervour of republicans into the estern Ukraine as we speak.
Thes people are not coerced or look as if they are voting under regress, with or without the OSCE. http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/referendum-in-der-ostukraine-separatisten-verkuenden-grosse-teilnahme-a-968762.html
Yes, cuz BDSM and gay follies trump the issues.
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_05_11/Ukraines-National-Guard-confiscates-15-thousand-of-ballots-in-Lugansk-region-election-commission-4580/
Just like the Teabaggers, diddling with the right to vote. But I am worried the referendum will not end well.
These Eurovision voting results are interesting.
http://www.eurovision.tv/page/results?event=1893&voter=UA
http://www.eurovision.tv/page/results?event=1893&voter=RU
http://www.eurovision.tv/page/results?event=1893&voter=GB
50% of the vote came from phone voting and 50% from a panel vote.
The Russian entry was the third most popular song in telephone votes from Ukraine.
Voter suppression is all the rage.
http://rt.com/news/158184-kiev-attack-referendum-lugansk/
“A town in the Lugansk region has come under attack by Kiev’s APCs, while in the Donetsk region Ukrainian troops have seized four polling stations, self-defense forces claim. This comes as autonomy referendums kick off in the country’s southeast.
“Around 15 APCs have come near Novoaydar,” Aleksey Chmilenko said. “Our self-defense guards are trying to stop the attack and prevent the vehicles moving farther in the direction of Lugansk.”
More of the same
7:16pm UK, Sunday 11 May 2014
Fatalities As Ukraine Guardsmen Fire On Crowds
Ukrainian forces open fire on crowds as separatists hold an independence referendum in the east of the country
‘Ukrainian national guardsmen have reportedly opened fire on a crowd in the eastern town of Krasnoarmeisk where separatists had been attempting to hold an independence vote.
Insurgent leader Denis Pushilin was quoted by the ITAR-Tass news agency as saying there were an unspecified number of deaths.
The shooting took place outside Krasnoarmeisk town hall where guardsmen had shut down voting hours earlier.’
/..
http://news.sky.com/story/1259209/fatalities-as-ukraine-guardsmen-fire-on-crowds
Sounds familiar…
http://historyatstate.tumblr.com/post/66776985822/germanelections
” The victory marked the bitter end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of Adolf Hitler’s uncontested reign over Germany. The absolute triumph of the Nazi Party resulted from the simple fact that all other parties were outlawed, and voter intimidation was widespread. The U.S. Ambassador to Germany, William Edward Dodd (1933–37), reported that even “in the concentration camp at Dachau 2,231 inmates voted for the Government (Hitler), while only 9 cast invalid ballots and 3 voted against the Government.” (November 15, 1933; Berlin 263) Regardless of the election’s inevitable outcome, the Enabling Act, passed earlier that year, granted Chancellor Hitler the power to enact laws without submission to or ratification by the Reichstag.”
WWII; The serial war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38472.htm
“European fascism headed up by Nazi Germany, along with Mussolini in Italy, Franco in Spain and Salazar in Portugal, was not some aberrant force that sprang from nowhere during the 1920s-1930s. The movement was a deliberate cultivation by the rulers of Anglo-American capitalism. European fascism may have been labeled “national socialism” but its root ideology was very much one opposed to overturning the fundamental capitalist order. It was an authoritarian drive to safeguard the capitalist order, which viewed genuine worker-based socialism as an enemy to be ruthlessly crushed.
This is what made European fascism so appealing to the Western capitalist ruling class in those times. In particular, Nazi Germany was viewed by the Western elite as a bulwark against possible socialist revolution inspired by the Russian revolution of 1917.
It is no coincidence that American capital investment in Nazi Germany between 1929-1940 far outpaced that in any other European country, according to historian Christopher Simpson, in his book, The Splendid Blond Beast.
The industrial rearmament of Germany – despite the strictures of the Versailles Treaty signed at the end of World War One – was ignored, indeed facilitated by the American and British capitalist ruling classes. When Hitler annexed Austria and the Czech Sudetenland in 1938, it was ignored. This was not out of complacent appeasement, as
widely believed, but rather out of a far more active, albeit secretive, policy of collusion”
Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. The problem with the system is the motives and agendas of those elected. We have fabricated the best worst system by allowing centralized power to control the outcome. That, and disinterested members of the electorate. They are fed up with those they have ceded their decisions to, but must we keep returning to the same polluted water-hole?
http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/05/the-paris-commune-1871-replacing-the-bourgeois-state/#more-54114
3. Abolition of Parliamentarism
This year, 2014, is an election year in the US and there is great concern for how the House of Representatives and the Senate will be constituted; i.e., which of the two bourgeois parties will be in control. Lenin, following Marx, maintains the real meaning of the election (and it is the same in every bourgeois democracy) is to “decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people.”
If we understand that, we can get over certain illusions about bourgeois democracy and its relation to working class interests. While it is important to try to minimize “the crushing” whichever party intends for you, it is also important to keep in mind the only remedy to being crushed at all. There should be no conflict between these two goals. The way elections are conducted today, the very existence of the House and Senate, the separation of powers between legislature and executive powers are inimical to working class interests and the workers, while struggling for positive and realistic reforms, should constantly keep this in mind.”
Mary
Some more on that Story –
New details came to light in the morning events ATC Mariupol.
The police chief Valery Androschuk in Mariupol ordered the use of force [including live ammunition] against protesting citizens.
Rank and file policemen told their the police chief that they [were unwilling to shoot at civilians] In response Androschuk pulled out his gun and shot one of his subordinates, seriously wounding him.
Androschuk barricaded himself in one of the offices in the building and called the police department to help the National Guard (Natsgvardiyu). Those promptly arrived and started the attack.
At the time of the assault on the city streets , there were many people taking part in the May 9 Victory Day parade.
National Guard fighters shot to kill both civilians and police. One policeman and two civilians were killed. More than two dozen people were injured.
Androschuk during the assault tried to escape. Locals caught him and beat him up. There is no information as yet on the fate of the police chief
City residents were shocked that the National Guard (Natsgvardiya) was using heavy equipment [and live ammunition] against civilians. [A large part of the funding of the National Guard is provided by the US. Western special forces are involved in training the National Guard, M.Ch. GR Editor]
They expressed their willingness to defend [the city] to the best of their abilities and at any cost.
Currently, The National Guard ( Natsgvardiya) has left the city, fearing people’s vengeance, as well as barricades established in the city .
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-regime-police-shooting-his-subordinates-for-refusing-to-kill-civilians/5381668
“I’m flying out despite the ban”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-10/ukraine-scrambles-figher-jets-intercepts-airplane-carrying-russian-deputy-premier
What could go wrong?
http://rt.com/news/158212-academi-blackwater-ukraine-military/
“About 400 elite mercenaries from the notorious US private security firm Academi (formerly Blackwater) are taking part in the Ukrainian military operation against anti-government protesters in southeastern regions of the country, German media reports.”
http://en.itar-tass.com/economy/731309