I'll get up to speed with liking. Twitter to come soon. I found a few articles and some of it could possibly go on SOTT. The short of the long is that there is SO much coming out.Laura said:Thorbiorn and others, are ya'll posting these things on FB and/or Twitter so that others can be sharing and re-tweeting??? If they exist, ya'll could be pulling up and sharing the SOTT articles on the topics and making comments. And if they don't exist on sott, maybe they should get put there for that purpose?
_http://en.hunternews.ru/?p=63 said:Polish politicians plan to send their troops for war in the Donbass
Posted By admin on 23.01.2015
The main and deadly enemy for Poland is Russia, think some Polish political leaders.
Poland should consider its participation of their militaries in combat actions in Ukraine to support the neighbor in the struggle against the Russian aggression, said Thursday in the interview with Polish radio station RMF FM the presidential candidate of the Poland’s largest opposition party “Zakon I spravedlivost” Andjey Duda.
“Poland could provide support. We should think about this”, – said the opposition leader. According to him, if the decision to field forces troops were taken at the level of NATO and Poland is a member of the Alliance, it would have to do.
Duda underlined that if he becomes the President of Poland, he could help Ukraine and send Poland militaries to battle in the Donbass.
One of the founders of the Polish independent trade union movement “Solidarnost” Zbigniew Bujak also supports the idea of war in the Donbass on the Ukrainian side. Earlier this week he has said that Poland should send its troops to Ukraine.
“It would be fantastic if Polish soldiers fought in Donetsk. So we will show that we are building the deep, long-term and strategic Alliance that will ensure not only our security, but security of Europe too,” said Bujak.
“If our neighbor is fighting against our common, deadly enemy, then we need to help the neighbor,” – underlined the politician whose main enemy is Russia which he does not keep in secret.
The next presidential elections in Poland would be held in the summer 2015.
And there was the report about the visit of the US General to Kiev : _https://www.facebook.com/groups/IOUCO/permalink/700457680067289/
_http://en.hunternews.ru/?p=60 said:Have the arm or leg shot off? No problem – get a memorable tag from American General
Posted By admin on 23.01.2015
American General thanked crippled Ukrainian soldiers by giving them memorable tags.
It was the commander-in-chief of the US Army in Europe General Ben Hodges.
The American military, who arrived in Kyiv for providing consultations on methods of warfare, after visiting of the hospital said about the courage and talent of Ukrainian leaders and soldiers.
“We were given an order to shoot at a certain point from the infantry combat vehicle, but it didn’t work. Then we were given an order to fire from the tank. The tank answered that it had no pressure for a shot… I was lucky that my friend, a grenade launcher, whose skull was just smashed, fell on me,” – says the wounded 24-year-old soldier, who has two children left at home.
From his further words it becomes clear that he spent a month in training, after which he was sent to the battlefield. His war was over in 2 weeks: September 1, he got to the front, on the 14th of the same month he lost his arm, and now he is still is in the hospital.
After listening to the story of the crippled Ukrainian, American General presented him a tag of the United States Army in Europe, on the reverse side of which was indicated that it was handed personally be the commander-in-chief.
Whether it is a worthful compensation for the lack of left arm the prosthesis price of which, by words of the cripple, is 100 thousand euros? The soldier who was given this American souvenir doesn’t think so.
Remember that Russia’s permanent representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin has directly linked the visit of General Ben Hodges Kiev with the intensification of the combat actions in the Donbass.
“After each visit of senior U.S. persons to Ukraine Kyiv authorities are increasing confrontation of their actions. And the current military escalation has miraculously coincided with the visit to Kiev of the U.S. troops in Europe commander,” – said the Russian diplomat, answering to criticism of the US Permanent Representative Samantha Power.
The above US general supports the US economy not Ukraine:
US needs to keep the wheels going and so does Ukraine:_http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/01/23/2695 said:US Military-Industrial Complex Celebrated the Outbreak of US-Russia Tensions
Correctly figured it meant happy days were back again
Andrew Cockburn (Harper's Magazine - Excerpt) 9 hours ago |
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The dreaded “sequester” of 2013, which threatened to cut half a trillion dollars from the long-term defense budget, had been temporarily deflected by artful negotiation, but without further negotiations the defense cuts were likely to resume with savage force in fiscal 2016.
There was ugly talk of mothballing one of the Navy’s nuclear-powered carriers, slashing the Army to a mere 420,000 troops, retiring drone programs, cutting headquarters staffs, and more.
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The ebullience expressed by defense lobbyists at Mike Rogers’s breakfast back in March has been amply justified. “Vladimir Putin has solved the sequestration problem for us because he has proven that ground forces are needed to deter Russian aggression,” declared Congressman Mike Turner, an Ohio Republican and chair of an important defense subcommittee, in October.
Meanwhile, the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington entity that numbers, inevitably, Norm Augustine among the panjandrums adorning its board of directors, sponsored a panel on “Ensuring a Strong U.S. Defense for the Future.”
Michèle Flournoy, defense undersecretary for policy during Obama’s first term, warned the panel, “You can’t expect to defend the nation under sequestration.”Fellow panelist and former Cheney adviser Eric Edelman, who preceded Flournoy in the Pentagon post, echoed her theme. Other speakers demanded that NATO members increase their defense budgets.
At the end of October 2014, as European economies quivered, thanks in part to the sanctions-driven slowdown in trade with Russia, the United States reported a gratifying 3.5 percent jump in gross domestic product for the quarter ending September 3.
This spurt was driven, so government economists reported, by a sharp uptick in military spending.
_http://www.salon.com/2015/01/21/distortions_lies_and_omissions_the_new_york_times_wont_tell_you_the_real_story_behind_ukraine_russian_economic_collapse/ said:Distortions, lies and omissions: The New York Times won’t tell you the real story behind Ukraine, Russian economic collapse
International papers will cover America's role in the world honestly. Only our best paper willingly blinds itself
Patrick L. Smith
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“The presid. of Ukr cannot sue for peace, whatever he says, as the extreme right nationalists will not allow it…. So the only other way to get some resolution is to provoke war with Russia, which would then give cover to the U.S.-led blockade to move to another level. The state of the Ukr economy and politics are such that they desperately need a clash with Russia to draw the US / EU in more deeply….”
Now Yatsenyuk is preparing to put Ukraine on a complete war economy according to a notice on a FB page in Russian (Патриотические Силы Донбасса):
Where is all this going to lead?_https://www.facebook.com/patrioticforcesofdonbass/photos/a.1402640650001640.1073741828.1402224693376569/1522591504673220/?type=1 said:Yatsenyuk instructed to prepare the economy to full transition to the military sphere
Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk has instructed the heads of regional state administrations to provide "final mobilization plans of the national economy in case we need to go to the military sphere". He said this today on a conference call with the heads of regional administrations and law enforcement agencies of the country.
"We had a conversation for clarification of the mobilization plans of the national economy. Unfortunately, not all areas took it carefully," said he, demanding to intensify this work, reports TASS.
In addition Yatsenyuk has instructed the Ministry of internal Affairs, machardie and SBU to take under enhanced protection of the marine ports, airports, objects on the railway, power station. With regard to the protection of sites of local importance, the Prime Minister asked the governors together with the interior Ministry and the security service of Ukraine to determine such lists. "First and foremost, this applies to water, electricity, gas and places of a mass congestion of people," the Prime Minister said.