Posted on 09/17/2015 7:35:05 AM PDT by mac_truck
You think Soros is in your underpants.
This thread is about the government of Ukraine showing it’s fascist underpinnings by banning over 400 journalists including several from respected western sources.
Do you have a comment about that?
Did you think Phillips should have been banned the first time?
You think Putin is outside your bunker.
So then he was banned?
Yes, predictable behavior from the fascist regime in Kiev and diametrically opposite from what the neocon bobble heads assured us would happen after power was seized from a democratically elected European president.
I think Putin is always on your mind, like the way a teenage girl pins up pictures of their favorite pop star. I think you fantasize about meeting him, having a lovely and loving chat while you discuss how to undermine the decadent West, while you rub his back. Well, you know how you love him.
I’m certainly no fan of Putin. I think this is important information to know about the conflict in that region though don’t you?
Is this story (the OP) false? Has Ukrane banned journalists?
Anyone following along knows about Putin’s heavy handed treatment of the press in Russia. Only a fool would deny it. The same principle applies here though. If this story is true, Ukrane isn’t much better morally speaking.
Again, if true.
A year ago Graham Phillips was kidnapped, beaten, robbed, and deported from the Ukraine with a warning not to come back.
Not sure if Kiev felt it was necessary to improve on that message,
(Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko ordered six European journalists to be removed from a newly-published sanctions list, officials said on Thursday, in a swift U-turn after the list was criticised by the country’s Western allies.
Poroshenko signed a decree on Wednesday naming more than 900 people to a blacklist to face penalties for reasons of “national security”, after pro-Russian separatists who have seized parts of Ukraine set a date for what Kiev sees as “illegal elections”.
The government has not specified precisely what penalties it would impose
http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/09/17/ukraine-crisis-sanctions-idINL5N11N1TE20150917
There’s many more sources for this same story.
I don't know. But, even if there is at least some truth to it, if Russia had any input on the story, I would expect it to be far from entirely accurate.
Anyway, that wasn't the main reason I posted. I was primarily warning any unsuspecting FReeper of our local group of Putin-supporting phonies. aka Putin's Trolls/Putinistas.
He later claimed he wasn’t beaten, but his assistant was.
Scores of journalists have been murdered under Putin.
List of journalists killed in Russia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia
2011 -0
2012 -0
2013-0
2014 May Andrea Ronchelli, Italian photojournalist killed in unclear circumstances while covering the Siege of Sloviansk. Ronchelli's Russian interpreter, Andrey Mironov, was also killed.
2014 June Igor Kornelyuk, Russian reporter died in hospital of wounds sustained in a mortar firefight staged by Ukrainian forces. Anton Voloshin, sound engineer, killed in same incident.
2014 June Anatoly Klyan, Russian cameraman for Russia's Channel One was shot in the stomach as the bus he was riding in came under fire by Ukrainian forces near the entrance to a military base in Donetsk.
2014 July Sergei Dolgov, editor of the Hochu v SSSR and Vestnik Priazovya newspapers, was found dead in a park in Dnipropetrovsk in early July. Relatives say his body showed signs of torture.
2014 August Andrey Stenin, photojournalist for Rossiya Segodnya.
2014 November Aleksandr Kuchinsky, prominent crime reporter, and his wife were murdered.
2015 March Olga Moroz, editor of the Neteshinsky Vestnik
2015 April Oles Buzina, pro-Russian journalist and writer opposed to the Ukrainian government.
I fail to see the downside. We need to ban some journalists too. Was that you who added the “fascist” tag to this thread? You’re outdoing your usual Pro-Russian/Anti-Ukrainian hysteria.
I think what we have learned here in America is that the media can be the most destructive force in the nation. The US media essentially went all in for Obama and holds a high degree of responsibility for subjecting us to the evil we are living through.
I have no problem with a foreign country muzzling, ejecting, and refusing to treat the media as if they are some higher caste of people.
At this point many European peoples are fighting for survival. Just as the USA restricted journalists in WW2, so must countries like Ukraine restrict hard-tards from providing aid and comfort to the enemies of the nation.
President Petro Poroshenko has reversed his decision to ban three BBC journalists from Ukraine after an international outcry.
Correspondent Steve Rosenberg, producer Emma Wells and cameraman Anton Chicherov were among 400 people and 90 organisations barred from Ukraine, according to an expanded sanctions list against people posing a “threat to national security” signed by Poroshenko on Wednesday.
Many Russian officials, journalists and television channels were also banned, as well as two Spanish journalists who went missing in Syria in July.
After the move to bar the British journalists caused a minor uproar, Poroshenko ordered the national security council to remove the names of the BBC employees from the list.
Not any longer.
Did you get the list from Moscow?
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