Posted on 02/18/2014 11:55:44 AM PST by Beave Meister
Violent clashes have erupted during anti-government protests in Ukraine's capital, Kiev, with at least nine people, including two policemen, dead.
In the worst violence in weeks, police used rubber bullets and stun grenades as thousands of protesters marching on parliament.
A deadline set by the security forces for the violence to end has passed with no immediate sign of police action.
The clashes came as MPs were due to debate changes to the constitution.
The proposals would curb the powers of President Viktor Yanukovych, but the opposition say they were blocked from submitting their draft, meaning no debate could take place.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said she was "deeply worried" by the escalation of violence, and urged politicians to "address the root causes".
Russia blamed the upsurge in violence on "connivance by Western politicians and European structures" and their refusal to consider the "aggressive actions" of radical factions within the protest movement.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Defending Soros, again, I see...
That’s just to throw you of the scent. I actually work for the House of Rothschild.
It looked like some of the riot police were overpowered. I saw what looked like protestors surrounding one and moving him out of harm’s way.
The world will be a better place when Putin and the savages who support him reach room temperature.
Not so with the EU, WTO, IMF deal.
Remember the deal Clinton gave Serbia for refusing the imposition of Western European policy.
LOL
Pretty sure I am hearing Orthodox prayers
Bread and Circuses to keep the plebians occupied.
Just throwing it out there - why aren’t protesters using cars to ram through the riot police? Get a truck, and pedal to the medal
This is just awful. May St Mikhail protect the people of Ukraine.
Agreements with Russia are not worth the paper they’re printed on (Bismarck)
Cossacks made an agreement once in 1653, had no idea the slavery they were selling their grandchildren into
Sports serves the peasants as a mobile does an infant:
Color, movement, noise...
and in the case of football and basketball...
sluts!
or, cheerleaders, as you may.
This is all you need to know about Yanukovich:
Viktor Yanukovych: From partner to violent kleptocrat
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Analysis/Outside-View/2014/02/14/Viktor-Yanukovych-From-partner-to-violent-kleptocrat/UPI-74961392386437/#ixzz2tPS7hnw0
These people are defying the tyranny of their own government because they do not want to once again be subjugated under the iron boot of Russia. They are fighting to remain free because they have taken the following words of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to heart:
The following excerpt on “resisting tyranny” found in “The Gulag Archipelago” best explains why the people of the Ukraine are taking action to defend themselves from their own government:
"During an arrest, you think since you are not guilty, how can they arrest you? Why should you run away? And how can you resist right then? After all, you’ll only make your situation worse; you will make it more difficult for them to sort out the mistake.
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family?
Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?
The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! We did not love freedom enough. Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself."
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
As you can see for yourself from the live feeds, the Ukrainian people will not "go quietly into the night" of another Russian oppression and Holodomor by again becoming a satellite "puppet state" of Russia. They have been and will continue to do everything within their power to fight to remain free.
Please be praying. Just as Russia attacked Georgia while the world had its eyes on "The Olympics", so the puppet king Yanukovich and Putin are using the same tactics here in the Ukraine to subjugate the people by force while the world focuses its attention on "The Olympics".
Agreements with the European Union are not worth the paper Euros are printed on. 2014
Agreements with Obama are not worth the paper they’re printed on. 2014
“sluts!”
you say that like it’s a bad thing...;)
Actually Al Jazeera America been cover both protests Ukraine and Venezulea
There is only one reason on the whole planet. That reason is national unity. Everything else (costs of separate radio and TV channels, for example) is irrelevant.
Quebec wants to build a French-speaking province because it is more likely to vote for independence. Ukraine wants to have a single Ukrainian language because it solidifies the nation. The USA [should] want to have a single state language so that the country remains united, and that nobody is pushed into national ghettos just because he cannot speak the official language of the state.
Generally speaking, countries with more than one official language are in trouble. There are examples to the contrary, like Switzerland with their four languages. But typically existence of several distinct languages indicates presence of several distinct, often incompatible cultures. Divisions between cultures serve as fracture lines whenever tensions arise. Tribes quickly form based on language alone. That's human nature.
In other words, language is a powerful weapon against the single, united country. That's the only reason why language is justly feared by governments; and that's why language is often used by revolutionaries of all colors to create fractures inside the society. In Ukraine it's something that separates "us" from "them," among a few other things. Spanish is not the only language that has potential for harm; ebonics is actively used to create a subculture that has a markedly different set of values, compared to the traditional US culture.
The language, as opposed to political beliefs, is also a very convenient document that can be instantly presented and instantly verified. This simple ID was described in Tales of Till Eulenspiegel that were recorded in Middle Ages.
“No, they want corrupt pro-Russian government to step down. “
No, these are neo-Nazi Soros butt-boys paid by Soros to establish a crony-capitalist criminal government that the Nazi Soros can rob.
Research the topic before posting.
They’ve been playing relatively nice up to now. Smart money says the gloves are coming off on both sides.
Clearly, the Ukrainians should run to the embrace of Mother Russia. Why don’t these protestors understand? /s
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