It is a big country with lots of agricultural land and resources, they should declare independence and become a neutral country. 

Recent satellite images show that Kiev is deliberately trying to cut off Crimea peninsula's water supply by building a dam. In the meantime Russian scientists are trying to find ways to supply Crimea with fresh water.

Experts from the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources are developing ways to supply fresh water to the Crimea from the Kuban River in the Krasnodar region to the North Crimean Canal which now receives limited water-flow, as Kiev tightens the lid on Simferopol.

“As one of options of providing the peninsula with water, we are considering an option of drawing water supply from the Kuban River and channeling it through the Strait of Kerch to the end portion of North Crimean Canal,” director of the department of public policy and regulation in the field of water resources ministry of Russia Dmitry Kirillov told Ria Novosti.

“The harvest will be partially or fully lost across 120,000 hectares of farmland that should be irrigated [by water from the canal],” Agriculture Minister Nikolai Fyodorov said in April, as cited by the Moscow Times.

Shooting resumes in Ukraine's Mariupol, APC on fire



Several Mariupol locals say they were on the fence yesterday about the referendum. After the deadly violence, they say they have made up their minds: For independence.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPJ3clZ5mtw

“What happened here was mayhem and genocide,” a Mariupol resident who only gave his first name, Aleksandr, told RT. “Ordinary citizens were killed. They started with the police officers, who approved of the idea of an independent Donetsk People’s Republic… If you go online and search through the social media, you’ll quickly come across videos of people being shot in the streets. How can one possibly conduct a military operation against peaceful citizens, unarmed and unable to fight back?”

Indeed , no laughing about this one.
We had on the last election a village where more than 100% of the population voted there.

It was claimed that tourists voted there ... in a remote village where probably no tourist even set foot or there is no hotel, there were more than 180% votes compared to the actual population.

LOL

Friends, something must be done about the referendum in the East. We can't influence the fact that it will be conducted and that 85% will vote for joining Russia. If we prohibit it or somehow disperse it using force - they'll say that we are shutting people up, etc.

Here's what I suggest: we must obtain a voting ballot and create our own copies, lots of copies, and start distributing them wherever we can, push into post boxes, give away on the streets, intersections, squares. All this should be documented and pushed to the mass media.

The goal is simple - to demonstrate that this is all bullshit, so that every granny in every village understands this. That results can be falsified easily. Then the referendum will be discredited.

The country’s caretaker government can be accused of trying to blow out flickering hopes of peace by launching a military operation on one of the most revered anniversaries in the Russian-speaking half of the country, the commemoration of victory over Nazi Germany.

The military action is accompanied by stridently aggressive rhetoric from politicians in Kiev who are crowing about the numbers of “terrorists” killed and threatening further lethal punishment.

By the evening there are differing body counts ranging from 20 to five, with around another 25 injured. But the accuracy of statistics has meant little in this confrontation. What matters is the perception. For many in this port on the Azov Sea, today greatly reinforced the view – relentlessly promoted by the separatist leadership – that fascists from the west of the country are coming to attack.

“This is not about 2014 in Ukraine, this is taking us back to Berlin in 1945, that is what they want to avenge, the defeat of their Nazi masters”, is the view of Captain Zorin Aleksandr Nicolaivitch, who spent 18 years in the navy.

“At 12.50, 14 tanks were spotted coming from the agricultural base towards Mariupol. According to medics, there are two dead and 8 wounded,” 0629.ua portal stated.

RT’s stringer in Mariupol has been injured while trying to film and is now in hospital. Doctors say that in spite of his bulletproof vest he has sustained a serious injury in the abdomen.

"Your employee was on [Georgievskaya] street,” Andrey, a Mariupol resident, told RT. “He was showing the armed and masked people in uniform that he is unarmed, that he was a journalist. But then he decided to abruptly cross the street. A shot was heard and he fell... He could not have provoked [the attack]. As I understood, he showed that he was a journalist and wanted to come closer to get a good picture.”

Oh my gosh!   I’ve got some friends in Ukraine and Venezuella.. By the things they speak about I believe that they both have the same problems for different reasons. I wish it would just end as soon as it is possible..

The Federal Election Commission made a first-of-its-kind decision Thursday, issuing guidance to allow political action committees to accept Bitcoin donations from their supporters.

The FEC voted 6-0 to allow Make Your Laws PAC to accept up to $100 worth of bitcoin per contributor each election, but must “sell the bitcoins it purchases and deposit the proceeds into its campaign depository before spending those funds,” the panel said in its advisory opinion memo to the PAC. It also said that PACs “should value that contribution based on the market value of bitcoins at the time the contribution is received,” and that “earnings (or losses) realized upon the sale of any bitcoins ... must be reported like other investment earnings or losses."

“That means anytime you use it, you must account for it in the same way you would the sale of a stock for capital gains purposes. Not doing so is illegal and punishable as tax avoidance,” Boom Bust producer Edward Harrison said in an e-mail. “Using bitcoin as payment for PACs, therefore makes PACs subject to IRS search warrants to catch individuals avoiding taxes illegally. And given what we have seen in Switzerland in cracking down on tax avoidance, we should fully expect the IRS to use this to justify PAC search warrants, whether politically motivated or not.”

Despite the potential legal ramifications from the Pentagon, SEC or the IRS, politicians are already jumping on the Bitcoin wagon. Rep. Jared Polis (D-Co.) was the first pol out of the gate, less than six hours after the FEC decision.

Chris Mills 09.05.2014 01:12

WOW, I'm shocked! Who'd have thought the government would want to control digital currency!?
There is NOTHING we can create that they won't control us with.
If I was God I'd apologise for any inconvenience and then send a few solar flares to wipe us all out. It's only 6 days of work lost.