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1001  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk - way to Russia. on: March 27, 2015, 11:08:10 PM
Ukraine´s wannabe Himmler to become Defense Minister ?

3/26/2015

Poroshenko offers Yarosh a Ministry of Defense job



I wonder how this can work with the following:

Russia puts Ukraine far-right leader on international wanted list over calls for terrorism
http://rt.com/news/yarosh-interpol-wanted-terrorism-954/

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The leader of the Ukrainian radical group, Pravy Sektor (Right Sector), Dmitry Yarosh, has been put on an international wanted list and charged with inciting terrorism, after asking Doku Umarov to attack Russia.

“The investigators believe that Yarosh has been publicly calling upon anti-Russian forces for extreme actions and terror on the territory of Russia,” said Vladimir Markin, the spokesman for Russia’s Investigative Committee.

In the near future, Russian investigators are going to demand Yarosh’s arrest, he added.



Meantime in Novorossia and in Ukraine...

Ukrainian forces opened fire at the observation UAV, belonging to OCSE. It happens now for the second time, this time near Berdjanskoe that is controlled by Kiev. The observers were about 400 meters from those shooting. The also noted in the report that half of the houses in Shirokino are destroyed:
http://www.kp.ru/online/news/2013351/

Previously it happened in February:
http://www.newsru.com/world/04feb2015/oscebpla.html

Kiev moves up to 200 self-propelled artillery weapons in Luhansk Region — militia
http://tass.ru/en/world/785313

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MOSCOW, March 27. /TASS/. Kiev forces, in violation of the Minsk agreements, have moved up to 200 self-propelled artillery weapons to the area of the Stanitsa Luganskaya city overnight, a spokesman for the militia of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) said on Friday.

"From 11:00 pm yesterday evening to 06:00 am this morning representatives of the people’s militia were recording the movement of armoured vehicles of the armed forces of Ukraine from the city of Belovodsk, which is under Ukrainian control, towards Stanitsa Luganskaya," the LuganskInformCentre agency quotes his a saying.

Russia supplies 300 million cubic meters of gas to Ukraine’s Donbas — Energy Minister
http://tass.ru/en/world/785462

A Rada parliamentary said that Jatsenjuk agreed to sack Kolomojskij after a phone call from Biden:
http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/news/2015/03/27/n_7056429.shtml

Ukraine straying away from European values despite its integration slogans — expert
http://tass.ru/en/world/785502
1002  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 70 years after the Victory: Lest We Forget (despite every effort to do so) on: March 27, 2015, 04:58:59 PM
The following fragment of a comment by Lada Ray to a reader comment to her post here
https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/2015/03/26/crazy-asylum-called-ukraine-west-wont-give-us-weapons-if-we-have-peace/
is very much worth reading on its own:

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Changing the mindset – here’s a very well known historic example: still in April 1945 Germans, based on Nazi propaganda, not only believed Russia was the enemy, but also thought that German army was winning the war and they just had to wait a few more months for their final victory. By May 2-8, 1945, when Russian army took Berlin, Germans were forming lines to Russian soup kitchens, happy Russians fed them. When several months later most Russian troops were leaving Berlin, locals were running after tanks with flowers and tears in their eyes, sorry to let them go. Communist Party took over East Germany not only because Russian troops were there, but also because people rightly saw that Russians didn’t bomb them into oblivion, after Germans had done so to the Russian cities.

Incidentally, UK and US aviation mass bombed Dresden and other German cities into a pulp, just before Russian army rolled in. You would think Germans and Japanese should hate them, but no, best buddies. That’s why hatred towards a certain people is almost always an artificially induced psychosis that has no connection to reality, and most time absolutely superficial, present in a small %age of the population – others are just parroting. People in general don’t think and they are were good parrots, as we see in Ukraine.
Incidentally, Russians don’t hate Germans, despite what Germans did to Russia during WWII. Because there never was anti-German propaganda in Russia.

I’ve been to Dresden – US/UK bombings completely destroyed the city, which had no military or any other significance other than the fact that it was on the way of advancement of the Soviet Army, to show Russians they could do it. Same as they did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In Dresden, they used napalm and other chemicals too, so the population would burn alive and die from suffocation. Not because it was needed, but because they were trying to intimidate Russians. Hiroshima was also a warning to Russia, which of course didn’t work, as we know from history as Russians had their own A-bomb in a jiffy. Generally, trying to intimidate Russians has the opposite effect.

So, they killed hundreds of thousands and destroyed whole cities to SEND A WARNING TO RUSSIA! And of course so Russians would have to spend resources to raise the city out of ruins later, when peace came, since it was already known that Dresden would be in the Russian occupation zone. They purposefully destroyed something they knew would fall on the Russian shoulders. Same as they are doing now to Ukraine, I might add!

Who is the evil empire again – and always has been? Those of my naive US readers (not you, of course) who think US was at one point or another a nice, gentle, democratic country, should really open their eyes. The documentaries, with footage of the brutal Dresden bombings should be available on YouTube. I am sure after a search one can also find the documentaries with people all over Europe throwing flowers, hugging and greeting Soviet soldiers as liberators.

Again, this info is very thoroughly suppressed by the West; they may even delete documentaries about how Europe greeted the Soviet army. These documentraries are available in Russian on YT I think, if not in English. I saw plenty of such documentaries growing up, because they were understandably not suppressed in Russia.

(As to brainwashing and falsification of history: I have so many facts – too many, as history has been completely and totally falsified – that I could talk for hours.)

All over Europe, Russia was considered THE liberator. That was when people still knew first-hand who did what during the war and before they were brainwashed. Stalin and communist party were the most popular party in most European countries. Italy, Greece, France and some other countries were leaning towards communism. So much so that US/UK/global capitalist elites panicked and started acting fast to ERAZE THE IMAGE OF RUSSIA AS LIBERATOR AND RE-CREATE THE IMAGE OF RUSSIA AS A VILLAIN. What they will never tell you in US or EU (god forbid admitting it) is that in 1945-1955 ALL of Europe was deeply communist, or communist sympathising, because they saw who liberated them and were convinced communism or socialism were the way to go.

Do you know what happened in Italy? After the war, communists had the majority in parliament, but the country was destroyed and people were starving. US gave ultimatum: Italy will get money and food, if they boot out communists. And Italians did, to get US loans. Same happened in some other countries.

Then US moved in with its MSM. And within 10-20 years they completely falsified history and convinced the popualtion AGAIN! that Russia was evil. The Marshall Plan was a bribe and a dangling carrot for Europe, and especially for the elites. Elites, for money and because they had no choice as they had to rebuild the destroyed continent, all started singing ‘Russia is evil’ song for money and percieved US protection. How’s that different from mafia?
Then US MSM took over the whole Europe and the globe. US was the last man standing, and after WWII, US got control over the rich Western Europe. Russia had to rebuild herself after war, and also drag along the poorest countries of Eastern Europe. And still USSR did better than US until…
Then, certain mistakes by USSR, specifically Khrushev, such as allowing dollar to become world reserve currency, created a time bomb we are dealing with now. This is a long story and has to do with Stalin and his death by poisoning.

So, blaming Russia for not doing enough in Ukraine, or for not having enough influence in the EU, or not having a good MSM propaganda, isn’t right, if all facts are understood. Russia had to fight a very unequal fight, which started long before WWII (in fact, 1000 years ago, when the Galactic Night began). But between 1917, and especially after WWII, this fight entered its acute and final phase before the great Earth Shift, or the beginning of the Galactic Dawn, which we are experiencing now.
1003  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is the West gearing up to invade Russia once again? on: March 27, 2015, 04:29:17 PM
Latest from Paul Craig Roberts:
http://rt.com/news/244317-usa-poland-thunderbolt-drills/

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Four US A-10 Thunderbolt II attack planes are taking part in war games in Poland, as the nation expects about 10,000 NATO forces at drills this year. Moscow says the military build-up at Russia’s borders will have a negative long-term impact.

And the worst yet to come. The president of Lithuania is a daughter of a KGB/NKVD officer, and herself was in the Communist tops, so she knows how to squash dissent:

Lithuanians Under Police State Attack: and the world under Washington’s attack — Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/03/25/lithuanians-police-state-attack-world-washingtons-attack-paul-craig-roberts/

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According to news reports https://ltnacionalistas.wordpress.com/angliskai/lithuanian-government-intensifies-persecutions-against-anti-imperialist-activists/ and to this appeal by Kristoferis Voishka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6MDj2uvyLk
the pro-American government installed in Lithuania is persecuting Lithuanians who dissent from the anti-Russian propaganda that is driving Washington’s NATO puppets to war with Russia. Unlike their puppet government, Lithuanians understand that war with Russia means that Lithuania on the front line will be utterly destroyed, a result that would not bother Washington in the least, just as Washington is undisturbed when its forces obliterate weddings, funerals, and children’s soccer games.

...

As I have said so many times, Americans are the worst informed people on the planet.
The are unaware of the growing momentum toward war with Russia. The presstitute media throughout Europe, especially in the Baltic states and Poland, is hard at work creating in people’s minds the fear of a Russian invasion. The orchestrated fear then provides the basis for the American puppet governments to beg troops and tanks and missiles from Washington, and the US military/security complex, counting its profits, is pleased to comply.

...

Lithuania is going now the same path as Ukraine, where it is a criminal offence to say that Russia is not an aggressor.
1004  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk - way to Russia. on: March 27, 2015, 11:15:06 AM
Crazy Asylum Called Ukraine: “West Won’t Give Us Weapons If We Have Peace”
https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/2015/03/26/crazy-asylum-called-ukraine-west-wont-give-us-weapons-if-we-have-peace/

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This is an excerpt of a Ukraine MSM TV debate, conducted in Ukrainian (provided by News-Front). Video link.

I’ve translated the whole thing verbatim, with no editing:

The blond says: “We finally managed to label Russia as aggressor (in Kiev Rada – LR) to prepare for the Hague Tribunal, to collect evidence for the tribunal, and to do all those things that are necessary in order to win.”

Brunette says: “We need to show Europeans how seriously we are motivated. Because they won’t give us weapons if we have peace. I remember, I was on air with pan (mr.) Chaliy after Minsk 2, when pan Chaliy 10 times repeated the word ‘peremoha’ = ‘victory’ in one TV show. He returned from Minsk and you can’t say ‘victory’ and at the same time ask for high-tech modern weapons. No one will give us weapons if we supposedly won.”

...

And an alert from the same post!

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On a different note, intel from the Kharkov partizans!

Philip Ekozyants, whom I mentioned previously, is reporting that Kiev has brought thousands of troops to surround Kharkov, and more are arriving – all exclusively from western Ukraine. Heavy artillery, including Western weapons, are being brought semi-disassembled. Some of the artillery is hidden underground (in order to avoid Russian satellite detection, no doubt – LR). Underground facilities built in the fields surrounding Kharkov house artillery, weapons stockpiles, and one half of soldiers. Another half lives in the above-ground barracks and nearby village. Villagers report that all these soldiers buy tons of ‘samogon’ from them (Russian/Ukr for illegal self-made vodka, or ‘moonshine’ – LR) – about 200 liters of samogon is sold to them daily. Intel says that Kiev troops have blocked the road leading from Kharkov to Kiev (apparently preparing for the uprising in Kharkov, following Donbass – LR). Part of the artillery has been positioned on the outskirts of Kharkov, aimed at the heavily populated living quarters of this 2+ mln city. Kharkov partisans are worried Kiev may start shelling peaceful citizens.

LR: Kharkov is the #2 city in Ukraine and a former capital, rivaling Kiev. It is very pro-Russian, but people are scared to protest. It is Ukraine’s intelligencia hub, but many have lost their jobs due to closures after Ukraine lost all Russian contracts and after the unprecedented contraction of the economy (25% is the official number – real number is much higher of course).
1005  Other / Politics & Society / Re: France plane crash: No survivors expected [Condolences to the families] on: March 26, 2015, 11:04:03 PM
Where the fuck are huge parachutes for whole cabin? Totally technically plausible.
The flight recorder revealed the passengers were calm until seconds before the crash, there was no time to evacuate even if they had parachutes.

It's harder than you might think. Usually people are afraid of heights and would hesitate or even panic before the jump, so the evacuation would take at least 10 min. What is more, you wouldn't be able to use front doors because they would be sucked by the engines, so everyone would have to jump out the rear.


What about a modular construction, where the whole seat groups of 3 are ejected with a common parachute...
1006  Other / Politics & Society / Re: France plane crash: No survivors expected [Condolences to the families] on: March 26, 2015, 10:53:28 PM
Where the fuck are huge parachutes for whole cabin? Totally technically plausible.

That's what I always think about when they start yet another demonstration of how to employ the floating vests...

Such a senseless tragedy... What absurd reason can any human conjure up to calmly descend into the nearest mountain with 150 innocent souls on board without so much as a verbal justification or sigh of relief?

Someone who has been hypnotised. The co-pilot might not have been aware of what he was doing. The captain going out might have been a trigger condition for him to take action. The prosecutor mentioned the the co-pilots responses changed from jovial/normal to short when the captain mentioned that he is about to go out of the cabin.

I watched a documentary on Discovery about such "programming".
1007  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk - way to Russia. on: March 26, 2015, 10:45:06 PM
I have mentioned a few times before how U.S. military "training" has resulted in totally useless military forces of Uncle Sam´s vassals here and there. Now Yemen joins that list, very predictably. I guess when the gist of your military doctrine is blowing up things from afar, shooting up defenseless people and sitting on asses in countless bases doing nothing this leads to endless military failures. And now this mess wants to take on the Russian Bear. What a laugh.

The cover image of a recent issue of Argumenty i Fakty newspaper, reading "Enemy at the gate?"



3 or 4 people dead and 11 wounded as a result of a passenger bus blowing up on a mine in Donbass, near Gorlovka. The driver tried to go around a blockade and was crossing a field:
http://lenta.ru/news/2015/03/25/bus/

Tragic.... the bus was taking passengers from the junta area to the rebel area. The driver probably tried to save time by evading the checkpoint (it takes up to 24 hours to get the necessary permission from junta forces).

Watched an interview with a survivor. That is exactly what happened. The driver tried to save time by driving on the field along the queue - it was either that or camping for the night. The passengers agreed to this. Predictably, Ukraine classified it as an act of terrorism. Will Poroshenko, Jarosh or Kolomojskij be held responsible as it was their troops that set the booby traps?



Zaharchenko said in his daily interview that the activity of the provocation/sabotage groups has increased. These drive around Donbass, on vans equipped with mortars, pretend that they are from the militia, and shoot at Ukrainian positions, often with Ukrainian reporters being nearby to "document" it as if Novorossia is breaking Minsk-2 agreements.

Over the last 24 hours one person was killed and 7 wounded from Ukrainian shooting.
1008  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Under US Pressure Paypal Nukes Mega For Encrypting Files on: March 25, 2015, 10:12:18 PM
PayPal has been ordered to cough up $7.7 million to the US government as a penalty for violating various US sanctions lists:
http://ria.ru/economy/20150325/1054492393.html

It's strange that they were so proactive with Mega... Huh
1009  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk - way to Russia. on: March 25, 2015, 10:10:07 PM
3 or 4 people dead and 11 wounded as a result of a passenger bus blowing up on a mine in Donbass, near Gorlovka. The driver tried to go around a blockade and was crossing a field:
http://lenta.ru/news/2015/03/25/bus/

The Parliament of the Chechen Republic threatens to start deliveries of weapons to Mexico as a response to US' deliveries of weapons to Ukraine:
http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/news/2015/03/25/n_7049117.shtml
1010  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Crimea on: March 25, 2015, 10:05:49 PM
Some news pertaining Crimea.

Kiev puppets were instructed to make enemies with Turkey. Turkish trade ship was arrested and impounded by Ukraine for stopping over in Sevastopol last year:
http://www.vz.ru/news/2015/3/25/736295.html

And Ukrainian Rada decided how elections will be conducted in a foreign state - in Crimea.  Grin
1011  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Congress Demands War in Ukraine! on: March 25, 2015, 09:43:14 PM
The US has nothing to do there.

Its a conflict within Ukraine.

Russia has nothing to do there either.
Its Ukrainian soil.

Ukraine, as an artificial state was de juro created by Lenin after a coup d'etet in Russia in 1917, consisting of Russian county of Novorossia. After the War, Stalin annexed Galicia to Ukraine, and a couple of decades later Khrushov robbed Russia of Crimea and anenxed it to Ukraine. Thus Ukraine was born. Now the Galicians have taken to arms and say that Ukraine is for Galicians, and that Russians must be killed.  It does not change the fact that people living in Ukraine, in its Eastern part are Russian.

Russia has quite a lot to do there, in fact. It's a pity that Russia does so little to defend the Russians that are under siege there by the Galicians.

As for US - it has a strong lobby consisting of Ukrainia emigree, which basically bought up the American political top.

Let's take a hypothetical scenario. The Dutch-speaking citizens of Belgium start killing the French speaking ones, calling for full extermination of the French there, saying that Belgium is only for the Dutch. US sends lethal weapons to the Dutch-speaking residents and endorses the genocide. Should France just sit idly and see the French-speaking population of Belgium be exterminated?
1012  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Fighters within reach of Denmark/Sweden Air Space.. AGAIN! on: March 25, 2015, 09:34:00 PM
It is clear that the Russian aircraft was being operated in a reckless manner.
Having the transponder off in close proximity to civilian air traffic endangers innocents.
It is entirely consistent with their prior aggressive actions towards airliners and disregard for safety.
You know that people in the past were starting wars from less trivial reasons than violation of airspace? Russian pilots are not careless, they are ORDERED to do that - It is their mission. They test european countries whenever will they react to kremlin's provocations and how far russians can go with it...

Stop perverting the facts. Russian pilots didn't violated the airspace. The flight was conducted in the international airspace.

Here is a case of an American warplane that violated Swedish airspace, when escaping from Russian forces after it was spotted spying on Russian radar systems:
http://www.newsru.com/world/04aug2014/swedenspy.html

Can you tell me anything about NATO testing Russia by driving along its borders and conducting countless exercises.
http://rt.com/news/239021-us-tanks-latvia-arrive/
In fact, the frequency of NATO exercises near Russian borders is such, that as soon as one is over, the next is started.
1013  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Congress Demands War in Ukraine! on: March 25, 2015, 04:05:40 PM
Ron Paul, Eisenhower, JFK, Paul Craig Roberts. The sane voices in the Amrican politics. Pity they are too few to make an impact.
1014  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Fighters within reach of Denmark/Sweden Air Space.. AGAIN! on: March 25, 2015, 04:03:28 PM
Russian Fighter planes flew in international Air space around Gotland and Bornholm.
The Russian fighters disabled their transponderes to avoid detection.

Danish and Italian Fighters where sent to intercept.

Cant find source on BBC.

But was found on Danish news site.

This comes only after a few days where russia threatned Denmark because we were upgrading our missile shield with the US on our Ships.

Thoughts?

~Hamuki

Oh, give me a break!

And how is it different from American airplanes flying in international (and oftentimes venturing into Russian) airspace?
This is just presstitute hysteria again, a repeat of that alleged "almost hit", when in reality the planes were flying very far apart.
And check geography - Russia has access to the Baltic sea - it's not something that is exclusive to Danes or Swedes.

Also, Russia didn't threaten Denmark, it informed about a standard procedure, when it comes to installation of hardware, threatening Russian security (balance of power).

You are Pro-Russian so cant really blame you for your statement.
But 100 meters between a fighter and a civilian aircraft that has no idea that there is other planes around them is very dangerous.

First, I like to classify myself as pro-sanity and pro-truth. If Russia does something wrong, I'll be the first to condemn it.

Second, read this:

http://www.thelocal.se/20141214/reports-sas-plane-involved-in-airspace-drama
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After initially denying an SAS plane was involved in the incident, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to Swedish news agency TT that it was an aircraft belonging to the airline.

"In this particular case, no security boundary has been broken," Knut Morten Johansen, Norwegian Communications Manager at SAS, told TT.

He added: "It is therefore important for SAS to say that nobody has been put in danger, both the pilot and traffic management have had control of the situation."

Johansen added that he was unaware how far apart the passenger aircraft and the military plane were to each other, but said that they were never closer than 3,000 feet (900 metres) apart.

But such this tiny detail as truth is irrelevant, when prescribed presstitute rossophbia is being spun.
1015  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is the West gearing up to invade Russia once again? on: March 25, 2015, 03:50:09 PM
When I first started this topic a year ago, I formulated it as a question, following some indicators that were similar to those that preceded previous invasions of Russia by the West.

Now, one year later, the topic can be titled in the affirmative.

Yes, the West is gearing up to invade Russia once again. The veil is off and America is on an offensive.

Congress Demands War in Ukraine!
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/march/23/congress-demands-war-in-ukraine/
1016  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk - way to Russia. on: March 25, 2015, 02:11:47 PM
Poroshenko issued an order to start a large armed "special operation". No details are given. The excuse is Volnovaha.
http://russian.rt.com/article/81666?ghj



Yesterday, in a vote that largely slid under the radar, the House of Representatives passed a resolution urging Obama to send lethal aid to Ukraine, providing offensive, not just "defensive" weapons to the Ukraine army - the same insolvent, hyperinflating Ukraine which, with a Caa3/CC credit rating, last week started preparations to issue sovereign debt with a US guarantee, in essence making it a part of the United States (something the US previously did as a favor to Egypt before the Muslim Brotherhood puppet regime was swept from power by the local army). ...

That already happened when US appo9inted the Ukrainian government and President, and when one of the radicals in the government threatened Kolomojskij with the US forces.



According to the latest UN numbers, over 6000 people perished in the US-instigated civil war in Ukraine.



Congress Demands War in Ukraine!
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/march/23/congress-demands-war-in-ukraine/

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Just weeks after a European-brokered ceasefire greatly reduced the violence in Ukraine, the US House of Representatives today takes a big step toward re-igniting -- and expanding -- the bloody civil war.

A Resolution, "Calling on the President to provide Ukraine with military assistance to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity," stealthily made its way to the House Floor today without having been debated in the relevant House Committees and without even being given a bill number before appearing on the Floor!
1017  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Fighters within reach of Denmark/Sweden Air Space.. AGAIN! on: March 25, 2015, 02:01:32 PM
Russian Fighter planes flew in international Air space around Gotland and Bornholm.
The Russian fighters disabled their transponderes to avoid detection.

Danish and Italian Fighters where sent to intercept.

Cant find source on BBC.

But was found on Danish news site.

This comes only after a few days where russia threatned Denmark because we were upgrading our missile shield with the US on our Ships.

Thoughts?

~Hamuki

Oh, give me a break!

And how is it different from American airplanes flying in international (and oftentimes venturing into Russian) airspace?
This is just presstitute hysteria again, a repeat of that alleged "almost hit", when in reality the planes were flying very far apart.
And check geography - Russia has access to the Baltic sea - it's not something that is exclusive to Danes or Swedes.

Also, Russia didn't threaten Denmark, it informed about a standard procedure, when it comes to installation of hardware, threatening Russian security (balance of power).
1018  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk - way to Russia. on: March 24, 2015, 10:57:48 PM
Ukrainian forces continue their massive provocations. There were several artillery barrages near village Shirokino today. OCSE convoy came under fire in one case, in the other a film crew of the Russian REN TV channel.

OSCE observers, Russian journalists come under fire in eastern Ukraine — DPR
http://tass.ru/en/world/784646

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MOSCOW, March 24. /TASS/. A group of observers of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Russian journalists have come under fire near the village of Shirokino in eastern Ukraine, the defense ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk republic reported Tuesday.

"When the OSCE joint monitoring mission was moving in the inhabited locality of Shirokino to control the regime of ceasefire, the convoy came under fire from the Ukrainian armed forces," the Donetsk news agency quoted an army spokesman as saying.

"A group of Russian journalists also came under fire," the agency said.

OSCE drones register shelling of east Ukraine's Shirokino by Kiev troops — daily update
http://tass.ru/en/world/784660



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VIENNA, March 24. /TASS/. Drones of the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe /OSCE/ registered an episode of shelling of the settlement of Shirokino by Ukrainian troops, according to an SMM daily update for March 23 issued on Tuesday.

"The SMM unarmed/unmanned aerial vehicle [UAV] monitored both sides of the contact line east of Mariupol. At 17:38hrs, in Shirokino the SMM UAV observed outgoing mortar fire from a Ukrainian Armed Forces position," the report says.

Looks like neither O'Bomber, nor Porky care any more...

DPR militia leader: US already supplying lethal weapons to Ukraine
http://tass.ru/en/world/784667

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KIEV, March 24. /TASS/. The United States is already supplying weapons to the Ukrainian armed forces, the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, has said.

"The United States is already supplying weapons there. For instance, in Debaltsevo we saw US ammunition. That’s a lethal weapon," he told a news briefing. "NATO planes land at the airports of Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia and Kharkiv every day."
1019  Other / Politics & Society / Re: France plane crash: No survivors expected, French President says on: March 24, 2015, 09:45:09 PM
Damn, it seems like there's been a lot or air disasters recently. Has there been any comment on the cause of it?

<snip>

There was only 1 other plane crash this year, which still makes planes very safe and reliable. Just think about it, most airports in the world have over 10 takeoffs every hour and out of these thousands of planes in air every day we have maybe one crash every 2 months. I read a lot about plane crashes and most are due to human error.

Just like cars, plane travel will become a lot safer when humans are taken out of the equation and only used for emergencies (mechanical problems).

Is that not how planes operate now? I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that the pilots are mainly used for takeoffs and landings and the majority of the flight time is now spent on autopilot or to reroute around storms or turbulence.

Your assumption is correct. And even landings are often performed on autopilot in the larger airports with ILS CAT III. During the flight, the pilot will set the plane on autopilot and only adjust settings through the autopilot to change the course or altitude.

There was a disaster when the plane's autopilot was automatically switched off without the pilot being notified, when too much pressure was applied to the yoke.

Each plane crash is a tragedy, but speculation as to what happened in France are fruitless until the flight recorders are found and decoded.

Sincere condolences to the families...
1020  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk - way to Russia. on: March 24, 2015, 09:37:57 PM
Poroshenko will personally welcome tomorrow the American plane carrying Humvees, which will arrive at 15:10 in Borispol Airport. It'The Humvees is a fulfilment of a personal promise from Biden from November last year. personal :
http://www.vz.ru/news/2015/3/24/736183.html
No wonder, he must make sure that they are in good order before he passes them on to DNR and LNR. Previously Zaharchenko already thanked Obama for sending American weapons and machines to DNR, saying that Obama could use a less roundabout way of doing so.  Grin



Enakievsk metallurgical factory in Donbass resumed production of steel after 1.5 months of standstill due to the war waged by Ukrainians:
http://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/1852313
The biggest difficulty is to warm up and start the melting ovens after such a prolonged pause.
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