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... this one is the last one, we promise...

 

 

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Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:00 | 4458916 tradebot
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Black line

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:02 | 4458919 Cult_of_Reason
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Media report the speaker of Ukrainian parliament Volodymyr Rybak flew to Budapest

Yanukovytch rats are jump off the ship.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:02 | 4458930 Jim in MN
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BBC feed says this too:

17:43:

Unconfirmed reports that some of the top officials and their families have been leaving Kiev. Journalist Hanna Babynets from independent Hromadske TV reported this from Kiev's Zhulyany Airport: "Three planes have taken off in the past five minutes. It's very likely that they are carrying cash: suitcases have been unloaded under guard from armoured vans usually used to transport cash... scheduled flights have been suspended, the airport administration says."

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:03 | 4458939 nuclearsquid
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WB7 should 'shop one up of DC.

 

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:06 | 4458952 NoDebt
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Calling any of these pictures "after" implies it's over.  We're not there yet.  Those buildings might be flat to the ground in a few months.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:16 | 4458985 ZerOhead
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Bonesman Kerry says the Ukrainian government should hand over power to the guys with the matches and molotovs because it is corrupt and the citizens do not support it.

I guess by extension that also means that with support for the corrupt American Congress currently at only 9% we should hand over power to the first mob that can burn Washington to the ground.

Paging Ron Paul supporters and some tanker trucks of gasoline...

http://www.gallup.com/poll/165809/congressional-approval-sinks-record-lo...

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:22 | 4459015 Chupacabra-322
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More destabilization campaigns bought to you by the The Criminal UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. & its affiliates The Criminal STATE DEPT. CORP & CIA CORP. INC.

$5 Billlion dollars & a visit from Criminal Foreign Agent McCain goes a long way.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:28 | 4459037 Cult_of_Reason
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VIP's private jets mass take offs from Kiev Borispol airport (at least 64 flights tonight).

Yanukovytch rats are fleeing like chickens without the heads before EU entry visas ban come into effect.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:30 | 4459053 johnQpublic
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looks like before and after pictures of Detroit

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:41 | 4459094 DaddyO
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What do you think NYC and <insert_city_name_here> will look like if the EBT system has another hiccup?

It's the hand outs that are keeping the same thing from happening in this country.

Many here on ZH, myself included have talked about the difference between the soup lines of the Great Depression and the EBT system of today.

Yesteryear you had to line up, today it all happens electronically.

DaddyO

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:58 | 4459175 Richard Chesler
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Don't worry. Obozo has been told to keep the handouts.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/obama-2015-budget-chained-cpi-1037...

 

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:03 | 4459191 Obchelli
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This turmoil is also weather related

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:31 | 4459308 Pure Evil
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It kinda looks like Berlin at the end of WW2.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:37 | 4459319 Cult_of_Reason
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Ironic that the corrupt Ukraine officials that rejected the EU are now running to Europe.

Why not Kazakhstan or Belarus or Russia corrupt assholes?

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:51 | 4459373 Paveway IV
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Too many loose shoulder-fired surface-to-air missles?

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 19:27 | 4459758 negue
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Not to mention plane crashes that tend to happen in Russia. *cough* Kaczynski *cough* , with witness to the crash being suicided later.

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 01:10 | 4460891 Volkodav
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BS  It is well know that little idiot would get stupid drunk and bossy. There was history of ordering pilots around and overriding their judgement...entering cockpit and such...general blatant abuse...

Bad weather, hijack by ass drunk tyrant don't make good result.

Better look the facts.

Media will dumb you down

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 01:01 | 4460873 Volkodav
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You assume too much.

Any proof what is actually happening?

but you asked right question...why not to east?  well...

If they would be Putin aligned as you fantasize...they would not head west..

only if owned and controlled by EU would they go Europe..otherwise they walk into alien territory

mostly the real Oligarch criminals run from Russian to quick asylum in UK

 

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 21:00 | 4460073 Calling Elvis
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It kinda looks like Berlin at the end of WW2.-Pure Evil

 

only for 500 meters in diameter - but give it time we have the ability to make it look like Belin 1945 in about what say an hour?

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:42 | 4459315 Cult_of_Reason
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First fruits from the painful for Ukrainian oligarchs EU sanctions?

Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) votes in favor of ceasefire. Resolution obliges army and internal troops to return to their bases...

https://twitter.com/MaximEristavi/status/436607546078814208/photo/1

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 19:23 | 4459739 negue
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Let them come to EU, they are easier to apprehend here if need be.

I just saw a flight manifest on Twitter; the poster said it was for a plane leaving Kyev today, and then claimed most of the people boarded were either businessmen or officials of the Yanukovich regime. Lower ranks I assume, since they don't have private jets. I tried to read the paper, but it was all greek russian ukrainian to me. 

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 20:23 | 4459948 scrappy
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The antidote to the corp (se) People? - they are as cold as ice!

Listen to this radio interview, the founder carries himself well and is from NYC of all places!

http://www.nationallibertyalliance.org/files/radio/14-1-24%20Awake%20and%20Empowered%20Radio.mp3

This is what has happened to us.

 http://www.nationallibertyalliance.org/what-happend-constitution

If we convene a “Common Law Grand Jury”, the people will come.

Please consider joining us.

 http://www.nationallibertyalliance.org/

* HONOR * JUSTICE * MERCY *

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 22:24 | 4460274 HardAssets
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Either a majority of people in Ukraine will figure it out , or they won't.

Either a majoriity of people in America will figure it out , or they won't.

 

https://www.scriptonitedaily.com/2013/08/27/us-general-wesley-clark-war-...

 

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/02/ukraine-and-the-betrayal-of-hope-and-ch...

 

http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-and-the-rebirth-of-fascism-in-europ...

 

And remember the now allies 'good terrorists on our side' guys in Syria ?

Are people really that dumb as to not be able to figure this out ?  Really ?

Maybe too much westernized t.v, movies, and music have completely fried peoples brains ?

 

 

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 00:52 | 4460850 Volkodav
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"Just think of how stupid  the average American is..

and realize that half of them are dumber than that"

                          George Carlin

 

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:27 | 4459038 Doubleguns
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IN!!!

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:48 | 4459362 Berspankme
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Fuck that misearable cocksucking shitstain Kerry. Shut the fuck up Thurston. Oh, BTW- Gofuck yourself

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 08:53 | 4461339 Ar-Pharazôn
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yeah.

good luck in going fully armed to washington.

good luck............

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 08:57 | 4461343 Archduke
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that would be Canada.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:18 | 4458940 Cult_of_Reason
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UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT WILLING TO HOLD EARLY VOTE - Polish PM

Yanukovych tells EU envoys willing to hold early elections: Polish PM

Ukraine athletes leave Sochi Olympics reportedly in protest
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/olympics/wp/2014/02/20/ukraine-athlet...

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:37 | 4459078 layman_please
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thank god, finally! voting will fix everything.

i'm sure we won't see a candidate who would stand for an independent ukraine.

 

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:03 | 4459141 Cult_of_Reason
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Not everything, but at least will remove one corrupt Kremlin puppet.

Don't worry, to please the flock of Putin's sheep, pro-Kremlin Zero Hedge will spin the news as "all mighty Putin is winning again" and will copy and paste another clueless delusion of grandeur from Martin Armstrong.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:57 | 4459401 N_Jones
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Yep voting solves all ills...... Replace the Kremlin puppet with a EU/US puppet and all will be well....... It's the Red vs Blue game coming to a Nation near you!

 

Noel

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 23:21 | 4460649 jez
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Kick the bums out!

 

Kick some new bums in!

 

Become disillusioned with the new bums!

 

Kick the new bums out!

 

Kick some even newer bums in!

 

(Christ, the tedium.)

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 18:03 | 4459416 Paveway IV
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As long as the replacement takes the oath:

"I solemly swear I am not a crony capitalist or a crony socialist. Ukrainian citizens are authorized and obligated to remove me from office and fire my administration if I even appear to be one or the other. We will be immedeately banned from any government positon, employment or contract for life. Violation will be punishable by seizure of all personal and business assets, followed by summary execution. So help me, Ukrainian God."

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 21:07 | 4460103 Calling Elvis
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Paveway - I like it - a lot

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 00:42 | 4460836 Volkodav
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Washington Post?

media dumb you down much?

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:18 | 4458975 Martin Silenus
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Someone needs to be Ceau?escued.  (Guess there's an HTML code for that lol)

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:12 | 4459229 El Tuco
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Now were talking!

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 19:31 | 4459771 negue
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nope, not working. Leave it to Ceausescu, people that matter to the discussion will get the point. 

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:14 | 4458984 krispkritter
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The lights come on and the cockroaches scatter.  Same as it ever was...

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:45 | 4459113 earnyermoney
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probably the women and children of the rats leaving the country.

Not a good sign if you ask me. Tanks probably roll as the athletes march out of the Olympic stadium on Sunday.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:14 | 4458978 ZerOhead
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.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:19 | 4459005 TBT or not TBT
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Ryback? He saved Hawaii from getting nuked by Gary Busey and the guy from US Marshalls and No Country For Old Men and the MIB series.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:51 | 4459144 Kirk2NCC1701
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"...jumping ship"?  Yeah, well, it doesn't take much EUR or USD fiat to bribe these people into a new lifestyle. 

It's not like our ploticians in CONgress aren't For Rent. /s

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:01 | 4458927 DoChenRollingBearing
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Well, my guess is that there are plenty more pictures of Kiev to come.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 20:22 | 4459945 JuliaS
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That's some serious shit! Even the skies turned grey!

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 20:33 | 4459984 A Nanny Moose
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Rayciss

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:00 | 4458921 _ConanTheLibert...
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I like the clouds.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:00 | 4458923 Jumbotron
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Can't see the red line for the black line.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:01 | 4458928 magpie
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Welcome to Europe, folks !

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:06 | 4458950 Mad Mohel
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Not Europe my friend, but the WORLD!

The weaker nations and those laying along strategic lines are falling first, but rest assured all will follow.

Perilous times we live in.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:18 | 4459001 Oh regional Indian
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Unfortunately, too true...

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:21 | 4459013 magpie
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Far from over for the Ukraine

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:25 | 4459029 TBT or not TBT
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"Ukraine" is a better name for the place, as there is hardly any such nation, historically, and it's a grab bag of ethnicities and crisscrosssing borders of wildly different empires. Most importantly, like Russia, the place has such dismal demographics that it is disappearing. The USA should focus on cooperating with Russia to prevent nuclear proliferation rather than winding up the waterworks and high dudgeon over this dying hodgepodge way the hell out of our sphere of influence.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:28 | 4459042 magpie
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Sounds like the plot of "Bear and Dragon"...

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:19 | 4459261 El Tuco
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Yeah that's what happens when Stalin takes millions of you and ships you off to Siberia and distribute millions more to the grave. Then resettles half your country with Russians and Tatars, etc until there is barely an identity.

Then 90 years later folks like yourself say there was no nation or such a place like Ukraine. Nothing like denying a people of an identity.  I guess there is no Russia either since most of them interbred with the Mongols for 400 years and what about the Fins they must be the only true Russians so there should be no country like Finland either. I could go on but you're being an idiot so I will leave it at that.....

Oh and I forgot to add....eat shit cock sucker.....

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 19:48 | 4459821 Jorgen
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Yeah that's what happens when Stalin takes millions of you and ships you off to Siberia and distribute millions more to the grave. Then resettles half your country with Russians and Tatars, etc until there is barely an identity.

El Tuco, please educate yourself before posting this nonsense on ZH. Tatars in Ukraine are indigenous people. It was the opposite to what you wrote. They were forcefully resettled by Stalin and only after the collapse of the Soviet Union, they started coming back to their ancestral lands.

From Wikipedia:

All Crimean Tatars were deported en masse, in a form of collective punishment, on 18 May 1944 as"special settlers" to Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic and other distant parts of the Soviet Union.[28] The decree "On Crimean Tatars" describes the resettlement as a very humane procedure. The reality described by the victims in their memoirs was different. 46.3% of the resettled population died of diseases and malnutrition.[citation needed] This event is called Sürgün in the Crimean Tatar language. Many of them were re-located to toil as indentured workers in the Soviet GULAG system.[29]

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 22:02 | 4460305 Son of Captain Nemo
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Jorgen

Per your usual a very thoughtful and historically accurate rebuttle.

While we're on the subject of relocating and erasing "permanently" indigenous population(s) which the East certainly didn't perfect, I found this the other day on one of my favorite sites.

 

In all it's glory... What never got "modified" in the Western gene through time and attrition with the words about "inalienable rights" for all men.  Some amazing photos.

Who ever said My Lai and Abu Ghraib were alone?!

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2014/01/02/wounded-knee-1890-1973-photos/6496/

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 00:38 | 4460826 Volkodav
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Agree good post

Head of Russian Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina is Tatar blood..She was trusted aide to President Putin prior to her appointment.

Many Tatar in banker and other business.

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 00:31 | 4460815 Volkodav
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Stalin was not a Russian.

From 1917 thru Stalin was never Russians in control.

There is not anywhere near the dna mongol as you fantasize...Actually German is the suprise..some region more German than Germany

Tomsk Oblast Governor is German...and so on

but Lyiv is poles, so can't much be called  Ukrainian blood...did you spot that?

Your selective abuse of Russia is noted..

 

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 08:56 | 4461342 Ar-Pharazôn
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boris is that you in disguise?

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 00:38 | 4460827 Johnny Cocknballs
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its not the russians flooding european countries, the us, canada and australia with 3rd world immigrants.

That's the Modern Bolsheviks, friendo.

Not sure, by your logic, why you'd want them having power to rape and rob Ukraine then flood them with immigrants.

Which is the fucking plan, you cunt.

I think the Ukrainians have suffered enough at the hands of the Nulands and Kagans of the world.

 

Why don't you?

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:33 | 4459066 Anusocracy
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Probably not.

The US, the Shining White Internment Camp on the Hill, the Bastion of Tyranny, the Bringer of the New World Disorder, will slaughter all of its protesters and stand alone amidst the ruin.

Just think of the printer backed worldwide Marshall Plan.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:02 | 4458931 Sofa King Confused
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I dont know what to say

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:04 | 4458941 Skateboarder
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It will look less black after the next rain.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:09 | 4458960 101 years and c...
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i know what to say: when will america awaken from its coma and do this to marriner eccles?

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:11 | 4458969 NOTaREALmerican
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When the peasants are actually suffering.

Know any suffering peasants in America that aren't "those people"?

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:41 | 4459095 walküre
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Are you sure the revolutionaries in Ukraine are suffering as in starving and without shelter? That's not the case. This is a conflict of ideologies. The current government is screwing the pooch.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:01 | 4459183 NOTaREALmerican
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Re:  This is a conflict of ideologies.

Yeah,   but in the US everybody loves socialism because we've got the best socialist state on the planet.  So, the ONLY thing we disagree about is the OTHER guy getting socialism.   Not the ideology of it (well, besides are few pissed of Libertarians, but who cares about 0.0001% of the population).

I think in the Ukraine not enough people were in on the scams.   We don't really have that problem here.   Over 50% of the population is getting loot from our govenment.  Kinda tough to have a revolution when so many are participating.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:48 | 4459366 Addicted
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Ideologies??? You mean National Socialism, or call it Nazism...

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:46 | 4459353 JoBob
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Nothing like living in interesting times!

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 18:37 | 4459547 newworldorder
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If you earned that "symbol of rank," you can keep the symbol of rank.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 22:08 | 4460325 HardAssets
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"If you earned that "symbol of rank," you can keep the symbol of rank."

Unless youre dedicated to your oath to defend the US Constitution, of course.  In that case you might get early retirement.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:02 | 4458933 RockRiver
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Now is time for vodka!

 

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 19:33 | 4459781 negue
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Everyday is time for vodka!

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 20:25 | 4459955 scrappy
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DA!

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:03 | 4458935 rtalcott
Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:21 | 4459012 fuu
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Emerson, Lake, & Powell - Touch and Go

 

You see this woman on a T.V. show

She's drippin' in diamonds from head to toe

They make you believe it's the status quo

You're runnin' with the devil it's touch and go

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:04 | 4458942 krispkritter
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Left: DC now.   Right: DC the way it should be.

Left: Detroit before 1970.  Right: Detroit now. etc.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:06 | 4458949 kralizec
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Like that fantasy-reality duality thing ya did there.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:30 | 4458958 Mad Mohel
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Could also apply to Gox.

Left: The way the nerds imagined it.      Right: The way we all knew it would end.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 20:02 | 4459873 krispkritter
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I get a mental image of Fonestar crying, huddled next to the dryer in his mother's basement. Oh the Humanity!

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:08 | 4458956 Jason T
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seasons of war

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:12 | 4458959 fuu
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This picture supports a false dichotomy. The left is shown as pristine while the right is ruined.

As a matter of fact it's all dark.

Also what's with the green alien egg looking thing in the lower right quadrant?

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:28 | 4459044 Mad Mohel
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I'm not saying it's aliens.

(Insert picture of History Channel Anicent Aliens crazy hair/brown suit guy)

But it's aliens!

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:32 | 4459063 fuu
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Oddly enough the picture is oriented north/south so the West is pristine and the East is ruined.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:47 | 4459124 weyes1
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Maybe, but its not my guys!

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:10 | 4458963 Martin Silenus
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All that shit will clean right off.  (Talking about the government)

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:12 | 4458972 NOTaREALmerican
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Re:  Talking about the government

The next government won't be more sociopaths working for richer sociopaths than themselves?

Is there any other government possible?

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:13 | 4458973 carbonmutant
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Ukraine Facing Civil War: Lviv Just Declared Independence from Yanukovich Rule

http://tinyurl.com/pdckjul

 

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:30 | 4459051 TBT or not TBT
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Well, it's a hodgepodge of ethnicities with much to hate each other across history right up through living memory. I'm predicting that there will be either a) authoritarian govt. or b) civil war and authoritarian govt.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:43 | 4459109 johnQpublic
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...but...diversity...

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:49 | 4459096 Jorgen
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Possible map of Ukraine after the civil war (if it comes to that):

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Dos_ucranias.png

Western Ukraine - independent with  the capital in Lviv

Eastern Ukraine along with Transdniestria  incorporated as one of the republics of Russian Federation

 

 

 

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:51 | 4459143 Jim in MN
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Screw that, the Ukrainians take Kiev.  Let the Russians loll around in Odessa.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:54 | 4459154 Kirk2NCC1701
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4 more days till the sh!t hits the fan:  the Day After Sochi.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 18:01 | 4459413 Addicted
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When Uncle Putin can stop smiling...

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:26 | 4459289 lakecity55
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Then it is civil war if the photo is real.

Countdown to Action by the Red Army. Russkies are fueling and stocking ordinance right now in their Armored Corps.

Russia will never let Ukraine go, period. If Backdoor Barry tries anything, he might actually get hurt, because Putin will not tolerate much moar idiocacy from the cretin at 1600 PA.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 19:36 | 4459789 negue
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You americans love to talk about war.

You also seem to vigurously overestimate the capacity of the "red army" to wage war. Also, why would russians go to war when they have other pain-inflicting means at their disposal?

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 09:01 | 4461346 Ar-Pharazôn
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which means are you referring to?

 

closing the pipelines? yeah, and where are they selling the gas if they close them?

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:13 | 4458982 BiteMeBO
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I love the smelled of charred remains and human flesh from my scenic balcony.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:14 | 4458986 Rising Sun
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Barry and the EU.  Nice job you fucking cocksuckers!!!!!

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:22 | 4459014 NOTaREALmerican
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I've forgotten...

Which side are the good guys?

This is getting as hard to figure out as the sandbox and our Freedum-spread (helping build strong democracies, 12 ways).

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:31 | 4459059 earnyermoney
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Ukranian people are the good guys

 

All the politicians and their agent provocateurs are the bad guys.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:35 | 4459077 TBT or not TBT
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Is there such a thing as a "Ukrainian" ethnicity or nationality, given the wild mix of ethnic groups inside its borders? They are, the majority of them, hyphenated Ukrainians.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:42 | 4459103 earnyermoney
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let's go with the 99% of Ukraine as the good guys. The 1% and their agent provocateurs not so much.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:49 | 4459134 TBT or not TBT
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Yeah the Occupy Wall Street metaphors totally apply here. Maybe fly over there and preach that to the various ethnicities to get them singing kumbayah to the tune of the marxist international. They've all heard that song before, for decades on end, and those were not the good old days.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:21 | 4459270 El Tuco
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Whats your ethnicity? Cocksucker? That seems to fit you well.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:28 | 4459296 lakecity55
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+10!

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:32 | 4459062 TheFourthStooge-ing
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.

I've forgotten...

Which side are the good guys?

When in doubt, follow the slow-motion eagle as it craps democracy onto the unworthy peasants beneath it.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:44 | 4459112 TBT or not TBT
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With the Team America theme song winding up.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:26 | 4459034 SlipStitchPass
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" Fuck the EU"

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:17 | 4459260 lakecity55
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"Fuck Bath House!"

no, wait. he gets off on that.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:17 | 4458994 gaoptimize
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I spent a dream-like week with my now wife in 2003 on that square (middle upper right, 90 degrees from the McDonalds that was at the middle upper left of this picture) .  It hurts me to see it this way.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:19 | 4459004 lasvegaspersona
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oh no

the ukraine is out of Kodacrome, only black and white left.....or

oh no

Ukraine only has access to one filter in Instrgram

 

 

what I'm sayin is...cheesey way to convince us that things have changed...

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 09:06 | 4461360 Ar-Pharazôn
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you know.... people are REALLY dying.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:19 | 4459007 Duke Dog
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More evidence of US involvement? Just connecting the dots:

 

http://www.infowars.com/exposed-ukrainian-protesters-backed-by-kony-2012...

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:25 | 4459031 DarthVaderMentor
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This story will not have any legs until one of the 200 missing Russian nukes that went missing in the Ukraine a few years ago suddenly detonates deep in Russian soil. The assasination of archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 started WW1, the detonation of a missing Russian warhead from the Ukraine back deep in Russia in 2014 will start WW3.

 

BTW, that's what Obama WANTS TO HAVE HAPPEN NOW. He wants to be the new FDR as his legacy. The moment the warhead detonates, Obamacare, the IRS investigations, the corruption of the White House and even Hillary become irrelevant footnotes to history in deferrence to Obama and Kerry. 

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:52 | 4459145 TBT or not TBT
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Might be one or two of those buried in the mud along the Potomac, waiting for the signal, for all our bureaucracy knows.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:57 | 4459170 Jim in MN
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They are right next to the Israeli ones....starting to make sense now innit?

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:56 | 4459166 Jim in MN
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Paging Ashton Carter, ex-Harvard professor formerly in charge of loose nukes for the Pentagon...he skipped town after being passed over for DefSec recently.....

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:15 | 4459252 lakecity55
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Yes, and that is also when he begins murdering US citizenisms who have become "subversives."

Long William Ayers Guevarra.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:36 | 4459317 mt paul
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some guy with big stick

and a few stones 

 

will start WW IV

Fri, 02/21/2014 - 09:08 | 4461361 Ar-Pharazôn
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quoting others people words (in this case Einstein) without saying it, doesnt make you smater.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:30 | 4459055 Levadiakos
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I want Bill Griffiths job. Work one hour a day, Tell us where the Dow is every 5 minutes. Make $200k.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 19:50 | 4459829 BeetleBailey
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Proving that gentile douchebags CAN bank dough.

Griffiths, however, is chained nude to the cnbc toilet stall hand rail when he is off-camera, and for part of that 200 balloons, he must service Pissonya, Liesman's little pud, and ass-lick Kernan.

Tough sledding....

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:34 | 4459072 icanhasbailout
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wake me when it looks like Stalingrad

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:47 | 4459125 magpie
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Give it another four or five hours...

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:48 | 4459128 Uncle Remus
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Before or after...

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:46 | 4459116 Josh Randall
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I do know some of that $hit ain't washing off anytime soon

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:48 | 4459123 starman
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Didn't they hear Obama said stop it?! 

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:48 | 4459133 Blue Horshoe Lo...
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Bravo United States government, more subversion & fomenting chaos!

You haven't fucked up enough countries, including the US.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:56 | 4459162 TrustbutVerify
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I wonder if Putin and/or the national government, wanted to put monitors in various news outlets.  But here...United States sheeple would just stay at home.  

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:13 | 4459235 lakecity55
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"Hey, Bill, is that the new "FCC" guy?"
"Yeah, Jim."
"What's with the uniform and the sidearm?"
"I dunno, but I am printing this handout he gave me right now!"

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 16:56 | 4459169 Uber Vandal
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The chaos that is unfolding reminds me of this line from the movie The Lord of War:

Did you ever consider that I wanted both sides to lose? Bullets change governments far surer than votes.

 

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:07 | 4459208 NoWayJose
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Now I know why we are getting all the executive orders, expansion of NSA/CIA activities, huge ammo purchases, etc - when our government 'leaders' see scenes like this they begin to expect that the people of the United States are not far from taking back their own country...

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:41 | 4459338 Pure Evil
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All the fat asses would have to turn off the TV and get off the couch before that could happen.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:10 | 4459222 lakecity55
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"I am declaring a Red Line in Uk. and also a Red Line in Amerika. At least in Amerika I can shoot and gas the population."

via EO#1,987,245.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:15 | 4459249 saulysw
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Looks like now is the right time to buy real estate in Kiev!

 

Suzanne researched this!

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:27 | 4459290 magpie
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So now the West has Ukraine...do the crops start failing immediately ?

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:28 | 4459292 Son of Captain Nemo
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Adding insult to injury a letter I received from a friend on a tragedy of the U.S. and NATO's deliberate choosing

 

Because you will never hear this in the western controlled main stream media. And because this could trigger a war with Russia. You should know!

This message comes from “” a contact inside of Russia.

Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 8:54 AM
To:
Subject: Rant on Ukraine

From the very start of Euromaydan each team leader of the "neo-Nazi"

Right Wing Sector, RWS, receives a cash reward (for each active

fighter for $ 200 per day and an additional $ 500 if the group is over

10 people; group coordinators - from U.S. $ 2,000 per day of riots,

provided that controlled group performs direct offensive action

against law enforcement officials and representatives of public

authorities ) .

The cash for RWS flows from the U.S. Embassy in Kiev [through

diplomatic channels] to the central offices of the "neo-Nazi" Freedom

Party [leader - Tyagnibok-Frotman, half-Jew] and "Fatherland" party

[leaders - Jewess Julia Kapitelman-"Timoshenko", Jew Arseniy Jacenyuk,

from the family of Rabbis]: about $ 20 million per week; PRIVATBANK of

the Jewish tycoon Igor Kolomoisky is the main part of this financial

backing [Kolomoisky is the main financial backer of Frotman` Freedom

party and Bandera-Stetzko-Shukhevich` Organization of the Ukrainian

Nationalists]. In turn, these funds are distributed for the support of

Euromaydan/RWS - for daily payments to active fighters, for bribes,

drugs, weapons, Molotov cocktails etc. RWS leaders receive money by

bank transfers on their personal accounts in Kolomoisky` Jewish

PRIVATBANK. It is confirmed also, main financial backer of RWS is

another Jewish tycoon Poroshenko; some assume, RWS is simply

Poroshenko` private army. Interestingly, in 2006 already the future

militants of RWS were taught special forces` and guerrilla` warfare in

Estonia by NATO military instructors.

The main political backer of Euromaydan in the USA is the Jewess

Victoria Nuland.

Btw - here: Jewish MP from the Fatherland Party Sergey Pashinsky with

a sniper rifle in his car: presumably he shoots both at Berkut Riot

police` guys [REAL ARYAN HEROES!] and RWS "rebels" - typically Jewish

false flag` mode of operations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?noredirect=1&v=kl6RUgAMaiA&desktop_uri=%2Fw...

However, it was confirmed, Ukrainian "far-Right" leaders, at their

request, received firm guarantees from the USA and EU for an emergency

evacuation from the territory of Ukraine, and the provision of

accommodation and facilities in any EU country [a vivid examples are

the Avtomaydan` leader Sergey Koba, who escaped to Germany, and Spilna

sprava` chief Aleksandr Danylyuk, who lives in London already].

Yes, RWS` rank-and-file` militants are presumably Jew-haters -

likewise, Libyan and Syrian Western-Wahhabi-Israeli backed "rebels".

At any rate, generally the Ukrainian war is in the same pattern as the

wars in Libya and Syria. NB: RWS` heroes are Syrian "rebels", RWS

hoists Free Syria` flag together with Bandera` one. As the American

blockhead John Friend writes in the recent issue of American Free

Press, "Nationalism is on the rise in Ukraine". Aha. And this naive

idiot is the staff writer now for AFP, although Michael Collins Piper

was sacked recently.

John Friend` Ukrainian favorites have NO allies among the Slavonic

Nationalists, but collaborate closely with Meir Kahane` types

http://isradem.com/

As my buddy Manuel Ochsenreiter tells during our Victory Hour podcast

- after Ukraine next frontlines for THEM will be Byelorussia and

Russia. Jewish\American-backed "far Rightists" are ready, already

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/09/russian-nationalism-challen...

All the best from Evil Empire,

 

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:50 | 4459361 jesusonline
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Ukraine is on the brink of default - both politically and financially. The most visible outcome is a breakup into West and East. I have no doubts that the industrial base of the Eastern part of Ukraine would be of use to Russia - simply because of the interlinkedness, the chains of production that managed to survive after the USSR break up. Not so sure the EU is going to make a "second France" out of the western part of what's left of Ukraine. Could this be a Czech republic - Slovakia kind of thing? Probably. Not very likely though.

There's another scenario when violence won't stop after the West - East breakup (which is going to be messy and violent). Kept saying "breakup", I mean I'd love to see Ukraine independent but it's just not doesn't seem like a viable state. It always gravitated between Europe and Russia.

The weaker countries - preferably with lots of resources - energy or geopolik - like Ukraine - are on their way to failure. The world is squizzed out of what's left, that's why you got that new WTO deal, talk about EU-US etc trade pacts.

Oil majors are struggling. I think that is the main worry for the near future - apart from a world war - which you know is somewhere down the pipe of the collapsing state of the world economy. 

Chevron, Exxon and Shell Spent More Than $120 Billion in 2013 to Boost Oil and Gas Output, but Production Is Down

You can paper over a financial crises, but not the energy one. The production isn't looking too bright. And then you got places like Libya, Nigeria, Iraq fucked up and destabilized. When shale starts to disappoint you will see a Batistaing of the world economy. It looks like a slowburn as of now, but when it hits the snag it will blow out. 

Having to drill and produce in places like Arctic - which Gazprom managed to do end of last year, went totally unnoticed at that (kept under the rug, rather) - that looks like squizzing out as well. 

There are lots of resources, but it just gets harder and costlier to produce. Yes I'm a peak-oiler. 

As to Ukraine - the West once again lines up with the darker side of things. WWII didn't start in 1939 with Poland. Started in 1938 with Czechoslovakia and it's fate been decided by Munich agreement. Europe and "fuck-the-EU" States handshaking the very same hand again.  You have to know the people from that photo.

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 18:01 | 4459415 magpie
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The ethnic cleansing will begin next week 

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 17:54 | 4459384 Addicted
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Latest news...Police from multiple cities switch sites....

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 18:12 | 4459454 pot_and_kettle
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Can't wait to see the before/after of DC in the near future

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 18:17 | 4459474 Manipuflation
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From what I have heard from reliable sources it has turned to full scale civil war.  Both sides have arms and it seems that some arms were "stolen" from the armories.  I have serious questions though.  What are you all fighting for again?  It's not my fight.  Let them go then and let the rest of us keep our miltary faces out if it.

If I could offer any advice it would be the following:  Stop fighting each other, join arms, and go address the real problem which is right here....

  http://www.bank.gov.ua/control/en/

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 18:29 | 4459512 diana_in_spain
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What! A building that burned on several floors and didnt collapse in six seconds like WTC 7?  They must have better construction in the Ukraine than in New York

Thu, 02/20/2014 - 18:38 | 4459554 muleskinner
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The time to speak up has passed, now is the time for senseless bickering.

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