Not for long because between the lies and the censorship I'm going back into orbit.
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Down About Ukraine Coverage
Israel's Ground Invasion of Gaza
Israel's Ground Assault in Gaza Continues
"US says Russia is taking military action against Ukraine; Obama, EU move to enact more sanctions" Associated Press July 25, 2014
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Thursday accused Russia of firing artillery from its territory into Ukraine to hit Ukrainian military sites and asserted that Moscow is boosting its supply of weaponry to pro-Russian separatists.
‘‘We have new evidence that the Russians intend to deliver heavier and more powerful multiple rocket launchers to separatist forces in Ukraine and have evidence that Russia is firing artillery from within Russian to attack Ukrainian military positions,’’ State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters.
Harf said the evidence derived from ‘‘some intelligence information’’ but declined to elaborate, saying it would compromise sources and methods of intelligence collection.
PFFFFFFFFTT!
Iraq, WMD. Now shaddup!!!!
The allegations come amid an increasingly bitter war of words between Washington and Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine and conflicting claims over the downing of a Malaysian passenger jet over eastern Ukraine last week.
The United States has repeatedly accused Russia of stoking the Ukraine rebellion and has said it believes separatists shot down the Malaysian plane, killing nearly 300 people, with a Russian-provided surface-to-air missile.
Harf said Wednesday the ultimate responsibility for the downing of the plane rests with President Vladimir Putin and the Russian government.
Yeah, who cares about FACTS or EVIDENCE!??
President Obama said Thursday that the downing of the jet ‘‘may stiffen the spine of our European partners’’ as they consider additional sanctions against Russia.
Oh, that is a REAL WHO BENEFITS STENCH there!
It is looking MORE and MORE like KIEV SHOT the PLANE DOWN (if it was shot down at all).
In an interview on CNBC, Obama welcomed Europe’s earlier sanctions against Russia but said the actions have come ‘‘not always as fast as we’d like.’’
So the plane incident was to give them a big push, huh? You evil f***.
The European Union agreed Thursday to add more names to the list of Russians and pro-Russian Ukrainians subject to EU-wide asset freezes and travel bans. The EU is also considering broader measures that target key sectors of the Russian economy and could act on those penalties next week.
Washington is preparing to deepen its own sanctions against Russian banks, as well as energy and defense companies, and could levy those penalties next week.
In Ukraine, Australian and Dutch diplomats joined forces Thursday to promote a plan for a UN team to secure the plane crash site which has been controlled by pro-Russian rebels. Two more military aircraft carrying remains of victims arrived in the Netherlands.
Human remains continue to be found a full week after the plane went down — underlining concerns about the halting and chaotic recovery effort at the sprawling site spread across farmland in eastern Ukraine. Armed separatists control the area and have hindered access by investigators.
That's a LIE!
All 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 — most of them Dutch citizens — were killed when the plane was shot down on July 17. US officials say the Boeing 777 was probably shot down by a missile from territory held by pro-Russian rebels.
At this point in time, you are much safer believing the opposite of whatever AmeriKa's ma$$ media tells you. It may not be the truth, but it is likely a lot closer than what is being reported.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott of Australia, who said he fears some remains will never be recovered unless security is tightened, has proposed a multinational force mounted by countries that lost citizens in the disaster. Abbott said Thursday he had dispatched 50 police officers to London to be ready to join any organization that may result.
Australia’s foreign minister, Julie Bishop, was traveling with her Dutch counterpart, Frans Timmermans, to Kiev to seek an agreement with the Ukraine government to allow international police to secure the wreckage, Abbott said.
Details including which countries would contribute and whether officers would be armed and protected by international troops were yet to be agreed, Abbott said.
It is anything or everything when western forces need to occupy someplace, 'eh? Kidnap girls, plane crashes, chemical weapons use, nuclear bombs that don't exist, whatever.
International experts found more remains still at the crash site both Wednesday and Thursday, Michael Bociurkiw, a spokesman for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, told reporters in Donetsk on Thursday. The organization’s observers, sent to monitor the conflict, escorted a delegation from Australia to examine the wreckage Thursday for the first time. More Australian specialists are expected Friday, Bociurkiw said.
But they aren't being allowed in, blah, blah, blah.
You know, the propaganda would be a lot more effective if you didn't contradict it in the same f***ing article!
On Monday, the United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution proposed by Australia demanding that rebels cooperate with an independent investigation and allow all remaining bodies to be recovered.
THEY ARE!
The first remains arrived in the Netherlands on Wednesday and were met by King Willem-Alexander, Queen Maxima, and hundreds of relatives. The two planes Thursday brought a total of 74 more coffins back to the Netherlands, said government spokesman Lodewijk Hekking.
Patricia Zorko, head of the National Police Unit that includes the Dutch national forensic team, said some 200 experts, including 80 from overseas, were working at a military barracks on the outskirts of Hilversum to identify the dead.
Zorko warned that the process of identification could be drawn out. ‘‘Unfortunately this type of investigation often takes time,’’ she said. ‘‘Count on weeks and maybe even months.’’
And by that time the story will have gone down the ma$$ media memory hole, ready for mind-manipulating retrieval at the appropriate time.
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I said I'm back on the ground, and this is what the Globe has given me today:
"Ukrainian prime minister quits, sets stage for elections" by David McHugh | Associated Press July 25, 2014
KIEV — Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced his resignation Thursday, opening the way for new elections that would reflect Ukraine’s starkly changed political scene after the ouster of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in February.
This is a major blow to the U.S., but this pos spin will leave you with nothing but vagueness and confusion as you are told this is a good thing.
Yatsenyuk, a supporter of closer ties with Europe and a key participant in the protests that toppled Yanukovych, made the announcement from the dais of Parliament after two parties said they would pull out of the governing coalition. He said Parliament could no longer do its work and pass necessary laws.
President Petro Poroshenko, elected to replace Yanukovych May 25, earlier praised the withdrawal of the two parties. He said that ‘‘all opinion polls, and direct conversations with people, show that society wants a complete rebooting of the government.’’
The DICTATOR of Ukraine!
Poroshenko’s calls for political renewal suggests the resignation and new elections are the result of planning and political maneuvering, not chaos.
Yatsenyuk took over as prime minister just short of five months ago supported by a coalition of pro-European parties. They took power after Yanukovych was driven from office by months of street protests on Kiev’s Independence Square, or Maidan.
That is what started all this, the U.S.-backed overthrow of a duly-elected government.
The protests began over Yanukovych’s refusal to sign a sweeping trade deal with the European Union, but swelled to include wider grievances such as the government’s attempts to suppress the protests with riot police, corruption, and lack of progress in modernizing the economy.
And the signing of a better deal with Russia. That really ticked 'em off.
‘‘I think this is a fully expected and planned development,’’ said Balazs Jarabik, visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. ‘‘The president and the government coalition looked for ways to clear the legal way for an early election, as they are under a lot of pressure from Maidan and the public.’’
Why are they under pressure from the public that just elected them, unless.... sigh!
Btw, this spin is really sickening.
The president can dismiss Parliament for new elections if no new government is formed in 30 days.
The current Parliament was originally dominated by Yanukovych supporters in the pro-Russian Party of Regions.
That group has shrunk through defections and its members face an uncertain fate in new elections.
When he took office, Yatsenyuk’s administration was expected to be a brief one because it was taking over with the government almost broke and facing the likelihood of adopting unpopular measures to satisfy conditions for rescue loans from the International Monetary Fund.
Oh, that is why the Ukrainians are unhappy. They were $OLD a FAL$E BILL of GOODS by the USURPING OVERTHROWERS!
Well, we WARNED THEM BACK THEN they wouldn't like it!
It succeeded in landing the IMF bailout and last week IMF officials said the government was meeting almost all its financial targets.
What else can they say? Anything else would be admitting failure.
The government faces tensions with Russia which termed Yanukovych’s ouster a coup, seized Ukraine’s Crimea region, and cut off natural gas supplies in a price dispute.
Yeah, those bad Russians!
Never mind the LIE about "seizing" the Crimea after CRIMEA VOTED to JOIN RUSSIA!
And they WONDER WHY WE DON'T BELIEVE a F***ING WORD anymore?
Or DO THEY? Are they that far gone in $elf-deluded $upremaci$m that they are willfully IGNORANT?
It has also battled a pro-Russian insurgency in which rebels armed with heavy weapons such as tanks and anti-aircraft missiles have seized public buildings and battled government troops. Russia denies supporting the rebels.
And what has the U.S. given Ukraine with the billions in aid sent?
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Notice there was NOTHING REPORTED on the ACTUAL ON-THE-GROUND CONFLICT? It's as if nothing happened and everything is static if you didn't see it reported in the propaganda pre$$. World just stays still, right? If the propaganda pre$$ omitted it, it doesn't exist.
Time to get back in the air:
Air Algérie jetliner crashes in Mali with 116 people aboard; Incident is third international air disaster in a week" by Adam Nossiter and Nicola Clark | New York Times
That was not what I saw in print, and I hope you understand why when I see NYT bylines I dismiss it. Funny thing is they pretty much read the same.
"Air Algerie jet with 116 aboard 'probably crashed' in Mali" Associated Press
ALGIERS, Algeria — An Air Algerie jetliner carrying 116 people vanished Thursday in a rainstorm over restive northern Mali, and French officials say it has probably crashed - the third major international aviation disaster in a week.
The plane, owned by Spanish company Swiftair and leased by Air Algerie, disappeared from radar screens less than an hour after takeoff....
Now the fun begins.
The disappearance of the plane comes at a time when the aviation industry is already reeling from the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine last Thursday, the crash of TransAsia Airways Flight 222 in Taiwan on Wednesday, and the suspension of flights to and from Tel Aviv this week because of rocket fire from Gaza.
The italics are the verbatim print I saw in my paper. This will get interesting.
French fighter jets, U.N. peacekeepers and others hunted for signs of wreckage of the MD-83 plane in the remote region, where scattered separatist violence may hamper the search and any eventual investigation into what happened.
Families from France to Canada and beyond waited anxiously for signs of Flight 5017 and their loved ones aboard. Nearly half of the passengers were French, many en route home from Africa.
If this is all as reported and it is God's own truth then this is a terrible tragedy.
Sorry I no longer have faith in my ma$$ media, but can you blame me?
Before vanishing, the pilots sent a final message to ask Niger air control to change its route because of heavy rain, Burkina Faso Transport Minister Jean Bertin Ouedraogo said.
Burkina Faso's government spokesman said on national television the country will observe 48 hours of mourning.
French President Francois Hollande said after an emergency meeting in Paris. He said the crew changed its flight path because of "particularly difficult weather conditions."
Air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane, a Boeing MD-83, sometime before 2.a.m. local time Thursday....
Another Boeing, huh? What pieces of crap they are turning out these days, huh?
The plane's route would have taken it over large desert areas where militant groups have been active, including northern Mali, which was overrun by Al Qaeda's North African affiliate in 2012.
When French and African troops drove the militants out of towns in the region, the militants left behind stacks of manuals with detailed instructions on how to use an SA-7a or SA-7b surface to air missile, a shoulder-fired weapon capable of taking down an airliner at short range, such as during takeoff or landing.
Related: Al-CIA-Duh Playbook
This page must have been ripped out and taken by the wind.
But those militants are not known to possess heavier weapons that could strike an aircraft at cruising altitude.
Early guesses about the cause of the disappearance focused instead on bad weather in the region.
Residents of northern Mali reported a heavy sandstorm overnight....
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What is with ALL the F***ING GOD-DAMN REWRITES, REEDITS, and CENSORSHIP, huh?
WHAT is the MA$$ MEDIA trying to HIDE?!!!!!!!
