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SAVCHENKO IS FREE... "Nadiya Savchenko has returned to Ukraine and greeted by huge crowds, as well as by their president. Now, her name is known to every Ukrainian elementary school student, most every free person in the world. Meanwhile, our two captives, Yerofeev and Aleksandrow, returned to Russia with their heads bowed down. No one met them in the airport, except their wives. Their names are known only to their colleagues from Putin's GRU (military intelligence). This illustrates the difference between what this war is for Ukrainians and what it is with russians. For them, it is a fight for...

According to preliminary results, the vast majority of Ukrainians – nearly 60% – have voted for Petro Poroshenko, an active participant in the Euromaidan protests and a multi-millionaire businessman. The two far-right nationalist parties, Svoboda and Right Sector, received less than 2 percent of the votes between them. These results debunk the Kremlin-sponsored myth about neo-Nazis coming to power in Ukraine. The May 25 presidential elections ended a transitional period in Ukrainian politics: since former president Viktor Yanukovych fled the country in late February, Ukraine has been governed by an Acting Head of State, an Acting Prime Minister and an...

Rep. Greg Walden will be at the Klamath County Fairgrounds tomorrow at 3PM to announce the preliminary findings of the National Academy of Science. Word is the preliminary report is positive news for the irrigation community. Please pass the word along and attend tomorrows meeting. This is short notice, so we are relying on neighbors telling neighbors!

THE CLEAR LAKE AQUEDUCT PROPOSAL. A group of us on klamathbasincrisis.org, who are supporting the farmers and the community, are studying and supporting a plan to store excess winter water in Clear Lake for use in the summer by farms and refuges.A huge amount of water is going to the ocean, right now, to prevent flooding; an amount larger than the biological opinion that BOR operates under calls for.And the BIO-OP only lets the BOR move about 300,000 acre ft out of Upper Klamath Lake(UKL)to the river,by court order.And a lot of farmers will not live long enough to see ...