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2014/03/24 17:01:36
Subject: Ukraine: Witness the rise of a new Russian Empire, live!
so, we now have the new revolutionary paramilitary in ukraine robbing trains.
"On March 21, the train, en route from Moscow to the capital of Moldova, Chisinau, made a scheduled stop in the city of Vinnitsa in central Ukraine.
“To the horror of passengers…people dressed in the uniform of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) got into carriages and began a ‘document check’. People who showed Russian passports were then made to hand over their money and golden jewelry,” the Russian Ministry said on Monday in a statement published on its website.
The robbery was accompanied with “political sensitization,” diplomats said.
Moscow also said it was “bewildered” by the refusal of the Ukrainian police to take any action when the victims attempted to file a report.
“That is the kind of ‘rule of law’ that is currently being formed in Ukraine,” the ministry said. “It seems that the anarchy of the beginning of the 20th century is reviving.”
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2014/03/24 17:37:20
Subject: Ukraine: Witness the rise of a new Russian Empire, live!
I was flicking through a copy of the Daily Fail earlier, and happened on the column by Peter Hitchen. He noted that one story not currently being reported by the Western media is how one of the far-right Ukrainian MP's forced his way into the office of the head of the largest Ukrainian television company with five muscular friends, and then started issuing threats and anti-ethnic Russian invective and insults. This same MP is currently on the new Ukrainian Committee for Free Speech.
2014/03/24 18:22:59
Subject: Re:Ukraine: Witness the rise of a new Russian Empire, live!
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2014/03/24 18:34:28
Subject: Ukraine: Witness the rise of a new Russian Empire, live!
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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
2014/03/24 19:01:32
Subject: Ukraine: Witness the rise of a new Russian Empire, live!
Its in the background when it should be front page though...
That the neo nazi party literally BEAT a man to force him to resign should be much more prominent news... same with the train robbery story, and the attempted gas line seizure by the Ukrainian militants.
But that would be too much like confirming that the neo nazi party is doing nazi type stuff.
2014/03/24 19:10:56
Subject: Ukraine: Witness the rise of a new Russian Empire, live!
easysauce wrote: Its in the background when it should be front page though...
That the neo nazi party literally BEAT a man to force him to resign should be much more prominent news... same with the train robbery story, and the attempted gas line seizure by the Ukrainian militants.
But that would be too much like confirming that the neo nazi party is doing nazi type stuff.
You expect the world to admit it might have been wrong to jump on a side?
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2014/03/25 16:17:50
Subject: Ukraine: Witness the rise of a new Russian Empire, live!
wow... the revolutionary government now has even more internal strife,
One of right sectors prominent leaders has been killed by police in a shoot out.
the police claim they had to shoot him 5 times to kill him, while right sector claims he was already tied up and wounded before he was killed execution style to get him out of the way.
either way, he is dead, and now right sector is vowing revenge.
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2014/03/25 21:31:33
Subject: Re:Ukraine: Witness the rise of a new Russian Empire, live!
I've been saying this from the beginning, The West is going to end up looking like fools because of their knee jerk "Putin Bad" reaction, while Putin's Gambit will come out looking better and better and better.
Could US foreign policy be any worse than it has been in the last 10 years? Seriously.
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2014/03/26 03:05:15
Subject: Re:Ukraine: Witness the rise of a new Russian Empire, live!
Eastern Ukraine in Putin hand in six month.....1 Billion dollar loan/frant/whatever going to go pay off what Western Ukraine owes Russia....US got fleeced...Western Europe on the petroleum nipple Russia provides...gets better and better
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2014/03/27 18:58:59
Subject: Ukraine: Witness the rise of a new Russian Empire, live!
So in other words, just another Thursday in Europe?
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2014/03/27 19:41:40
Subject: Re:Ukraine: Witness the rise of a new Russian Empire, live!
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2014/03/27 20:08:58
Subject: Ukraine: Witness the rise of a new Russian Empire, live!
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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2014/03/28 03:02:40
Subject: Ukraine: Witness the rise of a new Russian Empire, live!
Over 1,500 nationalists from the Right Sector have circled Ukrainian parliament in Kiev threatening to storm it on Thursday. They demanded the resignation of the interior minister after their leader Muzychko was killed in a police operation.
Up to 2,000 members of the Right Sector, which recently was revamped into a political party, flooded the square in front of Verkhovna Rada in the Ukrainian capital on Thursday night. The radicals, who brought car tires to burn with them, were banging on the Parliament’s doors, smashing the glass parts in them.
Wearing masks and brandishing bats, they were shouting "Avakov, get out!"
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2014/03/28 04:31:59
Subject: Re:Ukraine: Witness the rise of a new Russian Empire, live!
If anyone is interested, this flowchart from Nomura is how their internal risk team is attempting to quantify the political uncertainty in the Ukraine.
“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
2014/03/28 05:26:07
Subject: Re:Ukraine: Witness the rise of a new Russian Empire, live!
sebster wrote: If anyone is interested, this flowchart from Nomura is how their internal risk team is attempting to quantify the political uncertainty in the Ukraine.
Weird, where is the "Russia tears Ukraine apart/Ukraine tears itself apart option?"
2014/03/28 10:54:40
Subject: Ukraine: Witness the rise of a new Russian Empire, live!
easysauce wrote: Over 1,500 nationalists from the Right Sector have circled Ukrainian parliament in Kiev threatening to storm it on Thursday. They demanded the resignation of the interior minister after their leader Muzychko was killed in a police operation.
Up to 2,000 members of the Right Sector, which recently was revamped into a political party, flooded the square in front of Verkhovna Rada in the Ukrainian capital on Thursday night. The radicals, who brought car tires to burn with them, were banging on the Parliament’s doors, smashing the glass parts in them.
Wearing masks and brandishing bats, they were shouting "Avakov, get out!"
Ukraine will never get its act together until its developed a quality women's beach volleyball team.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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2014/03/28 14:43:51
Subject: Re:Ukraine: Witness the rise of a new Russian Empire, live!
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Eventually....someone might put Putin "In Check". The talk of "putting boots on ground" is getting out o hand.....That armor Corp going to steam roll right to the halfway point in Ukraine. Only thing holding it back is "attacks on ethnic Russians".
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