Posted on 02/23/2014 10:39:13 AM PST by 1rudeboy
KIEV, Ukraine — A day after President Viktor F. Yanukovych fled the Ukrainian capital and was removed from power by a unanimous vote in Parliament, lawmakers moved swiftly on Sunday to dismantle the remaining vestiges of his government by firing top cabinet members, including the foreign minister.
With Parliament, led by the speaker, Oleksandr V. Turchynov, firmly in control of the federal government — if not yet the country as a whole — lawmakers began an emergency session on Sunday by adopting a law restoring state ownership of Mr. Yanukovych’s opulent presidential palace, which he had privatized.
Parliament voted to grant Mr. Turchynov authority to carry out the duties of the president of Ukraine, adding to his authority to lead the government that lawmakers had approved on Saturday.
Beyond that, Parliament did not take any further action to appoint interim leaders, but speculation about an immediate major role for the freed former prime minister, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, was squashed on Saturday afternoon when she issued a statement asking not to be considered for the post again.
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A European Conservative commentator said yesterday: “This is the kind of uprising that the people of the West are no longer capable of!”
Because don’t forget that the corrupt oligarchy of Ukraine had been democratically elected. Just like ours.
Wise words.
I don't know much about Ukraine, but I remember the former President over there who was poisoned. Yushchenko. I had always assumed what with the poisoning and all that he wasn't a fan of Putin. He was ousted in 2010. Apparently, he's also on the outs with this Yulia Tymoshenko that was just released from prison. Does anyone here know anything about her?
“Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say ‘what should be the reward of such sacrifices?’ Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!”
Samuel Adams
Hey mac_truck. Why don’t you come over here at enlighten Jim about how kind and benevent your buddy Yanukovych was. How wrong we are to support those protestors fighting against him...
Watched that a couple days ago. Some pretty courageous people there. Armed with nothing but homemade shields and Molotov cocktails while taking on corrupt government snipers.
I think Putin is waiting for the Olympics to be over. Then he’s going to bring the hammer. It’s not going to be pretty.
Amen Boss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSvj8F_Br4M
Posted by Jeff Head:
Watch this video. It is long, but it shows brave Ukrainian people advancing and making gains in the face of heavy fire and loss. Dragging their wounded and dead comrades out of the line of fire even as more go down. Would to God they had a whole bunch of our 300 million firearms in this country to return the heavy fire they were under. But they advanced just the same. Folks...this is what liberty and unalienable rights cost...a willingness to do what these people are doing. God bless them. God rest them. God help us remember what our own forefathers taught us and be willing to stand.
Yep.
Alexander Kerensky spent most of the last 30 years of his life in the USA, and died here in 1970.
natural gas is so much more important than freedom and stuff?
For all those think it can’t happen here, they should watch that.
Tough to watch...
did you cringe or tear up when they tore down the Lenin statues?
Gives us hope for America.
Amen to that.
I'd be willing to bet that Putin is not "watching a movie".
" "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!” "
We are the resistance!!
Remember, Rush said we were the genesis of the TEA party movement.
5.56mm
LOL! Rush knows his history. We were the tea party before there was a tea party.
Resist!! Do not submit!!
I was impressed by the way they worked together to take care of their injured and dead.
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