Ukraine SITREP April 9th, 2015, by Duff | The Vineyard of the Saker

8th April in the History

Today, on this day, April 8, 232 years ago, in 1783, Catherine the Great, Empress of the Russian Empire signed the Manifesto (decree) of joining Crimea to the Russian Empire. Crimean Khanate, part of Ottoman Empire [modern Turkey], which raided the towns and villages of the Russian Empire and took people into slavery, was defeated in 1774 year. Ukraine didn’t exist then, only the Malorussiyan and Novorossiyan provinces of the Russian Empire.

Polish president in Kiev promises a joint fight against Moscow

Польский президент в Киеве обещает совместную борьбу с Москвой

http ://www .politnavigator .net /polskijj –prezident –v –kieve –obeshhaet –sovmestnuyu –borbu –s –moskvojj .html

Hitler unleashed The Second World War together with Stalin
Порошенко: Вторую мировую войну Гитлер развязал вместе со Сталиным

http ://news –front .info /2015/04/09/poroshenko –vtoruyu –mirovuyu –vojnu –gitler –razvyazal –vmeste –so –stalinym /

Poroshenko made his statement during a joint with Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski to Bykivnia memorial graves.

Poroshenko squeezing Yatseniuk: Admit defeat or I’ll crush you down

Порошенко давит на Яценюка: Согласись на поражение, или придавлю

http ://www .politnavigator .net /polskijj –prezident –v –kieve –obeshhaet –sovmestnuyu –borbu –s –moskvojj .html

«Yatsenyuk is a traitor! The carcass of the oligarchs! “- A rally in Kiev (PHOTOS,VIDEO)

«Яценюк — предатель! Тушка олигархов!» — митинг в Киеве

http ://www .politnavigator .net /yacenyuk –predatel –tushka –oligarkhov –miting –v –kieve –foto –video .html

Тyagnibok wants to take Yatseniuk’s throne Тягнибок хочет занять кресло Яценюка

http ://www .politnavigator .net /tyagnibok –khochet –zanyat –kreslo –yacenyuka –video .html

Yatseniuk under investigation. Poroshenko prepares a coup?

ЯЦЕНЮК ПОД СЛЕДСТВИЕМ. ПОРОШЕНКО ГОТОВИТ ПЕРЕВОРОТ?

http ://news –front .info /2015/04/07/yacenyuk –pod –sledstviem –poroshenko –gotovit –perevorot –aleksandr –zubchenko /

Corruption Yatsenyuk Cabinet will be examined by Parliament: the main witness gets security guard

Коррупцию в Кабмине Яценюка изучит Рада: к главному свидетелю приставят охрану

http ://www .politnavigator .net /korrupciyu –v –kabmine –yacenyuka –izuchit –rabochaya –gruppa –rady –k –glavnomu –svidetelyu –pristavyat –okhranu .html

SBU will be reformed on the model of

Ukrainian Insurgent Army

Тымчук: СБУ будет реформирована по образцу ОУН-УПА

http ://www .politnavigator .net /tymchuk –sbu –budet –reformirovana –po –obrazcu –oun –upa .html

In the centre of Kiev battalion Azov fighters crashed into BMW of Poroshenko junior

В Киеве автомобиль с боевиками батальона «Азов» протаранил авто сына Порошенко

http ://news –front .info /2015/04/07/v –kieve –avtomobil –s –boevikami –batalona –azov –protaranili –avto –syna –poroshenko /

interesting video

https ://www .youtube .com /watch ?v =3 iSt 1 kmu 8 oU

Poroshenko earned in 2014 a dizzying amount of 368 million grivna. (about 15,5 million $)

Порошенко за 2014 год заработал головокружительную сумму — 368 миллионов

http ://www .politnavigator .net /poroshenko –za –god –zarabotal -368-millionov .html

Poroshenko upset by social networks comments

Порошенко рассказал, что расстраивается из-за комментариев в соцсетях

http ://ria .ru /world /20150407/1057156352.html #ixzz 3 WdyiZ 6 ZE

The President of Ukraine admitted that he is addicted to the internet, where he regularly spends time at night. In his own words, he is not always pleased with what he finds, especially with user comments.

Two symbols – two destinies, one Ukraine: Yarosh and Semenchenko

Два символа и две судьбы одной Украины : Ярош и Семенченко

http ://news –front .info /2015/04/07/dva –simvola –i –dve –sudby –odnoj –ukrainy –yarosh –i –semenchenko –zaxar –vinogradov /

Two events are discussed in Ukraine in last two days: humiliation of Simon Semenchenko, the symbol of Ukraine fight against Donbass terrorist. He turned out not to be Semen at all but Constantine, and not Semenchenko, but some Grishin, from Crimea, who even tried in the past, to become a deputy of Sevastopol under pro Russian slogans.

Plus the appointment of Dmitry Yarosh as top military advisor to General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the same establishment which he, not long ago have threatened to eliminate.

Battalion “Donbass” renounced Semen Semenchenko

Батальон «Донбасс » отрекся от Семена Семенченко

http ://news –front .info /2015/04/09/batalon –donbass –otreksya –ot –semena –semenchenko /

The situation in Mariupol at the beginning of April 2015

Ситуация в Мариуполе на начало апреля 2015 года

http ://colonelcassad .livejournal .com /2128004.html

Two upper floors in SBU building, previously empty, are now occupied by the analytical department, bussy wiretapping phones and analysing all of the Internet traffic. Every day at noon from the speakers mounted on the central streets national anthem and other “patriotic” songs are played. Special attention is payed to the schools where kids are given the lessons about courage and the need to fight for Ukraine.

Donbass militia joined by Kiev citizens whose homes are seized for nonpayment (VIDEO)

Ополчение Донбасса пполнят киевляне , у которых отберут квартиры за неуплату

http ://www .politnavigator .net /opolchenie –donbassa –popolnyat –kievlyane –u –kotorykh –otberut –kvartiry –za –neuplatu –video .html

How to recognize a domestic separatist?

SBU Как распознать “бытового ” сепаратиста ?

http ://colonelcassad .livejournal .com /2129918.html

The hunt for “domestic separatists” has begun

Posters and leaflets appeared in various locations across the country, explaining who are “domestic separatists”, how to identify them and where to give them in, when detected.

“Domestic separatist” is a person who unknowingly or purposefully disseminate information threatening to the integrity of the state, who protests against mobilization, praises DPR and LPR, spreads rumors about threats to Russian language and Russian-speaking population, appeals surrender to Russia, spreads Russian propaganda and imposes Russian symbols

Also, separatists are those who participate in protests against government. Separatist caught, will be sentenced from 12 years to lifetime prison.

A man in Kiev called the police and filed a lawsuit against pharmacy because they talked to him in Russian

Киевлянин вызвал милицию и подает в суд из –за обслуживания в аптеке на русском языке

http ://www .politnavigator .net /kievlyanin –vyzval –miliciyu –i –podaet –v –sud –iz –za –obsluzhivanie –v –apteke –na –russkom –yazyke .html

SBU has blocked more than 10 000 web sites in Ukraine

На Украине СБУ заблокировала более 10 тыс . сайтов

http ://news –front .info /2015/04/09/na –ukraine –sbu –zablokirovala –bolee -10-tys –sajtov /

Published a list of Ukrainian universities, which are going to be closed

Опубликован список украинских вузов , которые будут закрыты

http ://patriot .donetsk .ua /cgi –bin /p –s /m 1.cgi ?info 2=2172

Right Sector is raising money for the army, by selling “Eggs of Destiny”

«Правый сектор » зарабатывает деньги для армии на продаже «яиц судьбы »

Right Sector Eggs on Facebook – Ukraina Uber Alles

http ://nahnews .com .ua /201382-pravyj –sektor –zarabatyvaet –dengi –dlya –armii –na –prodazhe –yaic –sudby /

They came after Ahmetov

За Ахметовым пришли

http ://patriot .donetsk .ua /cgi –bin /p –s /m 1.cgi ?info 1=2468 http ://patriot .donetsk .ua /cgi –bin /p –s /m 1.cgi ?info 1=2468

Kiev has already made it clear that Ahmetov empire should be eliminated. Getting rid of oligarchs, thus, clears the field for foreign mega-corporations.

Uncle Bob 1 on April 10, 2015 · at 4:31 am EST/EDT

A comparison of Latvia and Ukraine,very interesting:

Introduction: my friend Sergei has a small business in Donetsk. He’s not rich, works hard and is far away from tunneling out any state budgets. His credo is “Guys, let’s live as friends”. Sergei and I have a longstanding dispute. I tell him what will happen in the Ukraine next, he gives me his standard reply – “don’t paint such a bleak picture, it’s not so bad” and then wonders – “How did you know”? Let me explain.

Latvia is the Ukraine in miniature
Or rather: Latvia is Western Ukraine in miniature. The historical experience of Latvians is close to Ukraine’s westerners. For hundreds of years they went from under one master to another as servants. They only achieved their statehood in the 20th century and not as a result of battles for national self-determination but as a gift. Both peoples are experiencing “birth trauma”. Both – an inferiority complex.

During the war, both the Ukrainian westerners and Latvians provided Hitler’s occupiers with a large number of punitive battalions that liquidated Jews, Gypsies, Russians, Belarusians and Poles with such zeal that even the Nazis were nauseous from it. Both nations were trying to earn their “independence” by standing with Hitler; both got graves and shame.

After the war, I don’t know why, the Soviet leadership began actively building up their high-tech industry, synchronously at that. In Latvia – “Radiotechnika”, in Lvov – “Elektron”, in Latvia – RAF, in Lvov – LAZ, in Latvia – Rigaselmas, in Lvov – Lvovselmas etc.

In the post-Soviet period both the Ukrainian westerners and Latvians, with song and dance, tunneled out these industries, left them for scrap, sold them and ate through the gains. Then both nations engaged in the Ukrainisation/Latvianisation of their Russians and rewriting history. In Latvia, SS legionaries became national heroes, in Lvovstein – the Banderites. In both nations descendants of SS-immigrants actively participated in building their contemporary states. Vengeful and deceiving.

How they differ: Latvia’s expanse is no more than 200 km from its capital. And the border of Ukraine, well, as far it is from Lvov. The Latvians quickly ran into their border, the westerners had space to expand for upwards of 20 years. Another difference: the EU managed to absorb microscopic Latvia before the 2008 crisis, while the Ukraine remained hung somewhere halfway between the USSR and the “Great Uki Nation”.

Why these Parallels? Because Latvia is 10-12 years ahead of Ukraine on its path of post-Soviet degradation and many processes in the Ukraine are copying those that Latvians went through. This is also where my prognoses’ on the future of Ukraine come from.

Banderite Facial Expression

10 years ago, when I was observing the first Kiev Maidan, I wrote to my friend: “First your “oranges” will claw amongst themselves for the seats and troughs, then they’ll start a march on the Russian language, then they’ll start rewriting history textbooks, finally they’ll turn some Bandera into a national hero… and then the next elections will be won by Yanukovych…”

“Da ty šo! – exclaimed Sergei – they don’t dare touch the Russian language, half of the country speaks it, you’re making silly jokes about Bandera and Yanukovych is a political corpse, in 5 years time no one will remember him!”… Every time a part of my predictions came true, I called Sergei in Donetsk and wryly asked, “Well?”

The point is, that we in Latvia had went through all of this. The difference is that our maidan took place at the moment the Soviet Union had collapsed. Then it continued along the classic scenario: a battle of the “democrats” over troughs, the assault on the Russian language, the glorification of Latvian SS… and within 5 years, professional thieves had nestled themselves into power and looted everything that still remained.

Last fall, when the scene of Maidan-2 had just begun making proclamations about “European integration”, I wrote Sergei: there will be blood. “Blood from where? – he wondered – they’ll make some proclamations and part ways”. For me, just looking into the faces of those who were jumping on the Maidan was enough to understand – blood there is bound to be.

For clarification: 10 years ago, the Latvian government had decided to convert all schools instructing in Russian to the Latvian language. Russian teachers, in Russian schools were prescribed by law to conduct their lessons exclusively in Latvian. The following situation ensued: Russian school, Russian children and Russian teachers but instruction in Russian prohibited.

We went out on demonstrations. Would you believe, my dear Ukrainians that we didn’t set alight even one tire? We simply demonstrated that WE are against this and that there are many of us. At that time I was intently looking into the faces of young Latvians… they were looking at us with that same “Ukrainian-glory” “Moscals-on-knives” stare, just as your Maidanettes are looking at you now. Hatefully, blankly, with outright condescension. To them we are “cattle”, “colorado beetles”… just as you are to your westerners.

Blood wasn’t shed back then in Latvia. The country had just acceded into the EU; the authorities were frightened of unwanted clamor and retreated. But I remember well this “SS-Bandera-Maidan” expression on the faces of Latvian youth. A few years later a monument to the Soviet soldier was demolished in neighboring Estonia. The exact same expression was on the faces of young Estonian police officers beating Russian protesters with batons. Beating with pleasure, SS style! And Estonian youth on the Internet were applauding.

My father, George Alekseiev went through the war as a mortar man from the Dnieper to Berlin. Awarded two orders, six medals, injured four times – without a single graying hair. After the war, he qualified and worked as a war crimes investigator. He investigated the “exploits” of Banderite and Latvian punitive battalions… by 30 years of age his hair had turned gray.

He regretted only one thing – not managing to bring all of them justice. In the early 50’s the humane Soviet government decided thusly: prosecute – those up to their shoulders in blood and let free – those only up to their elbows. In vain! In a country, where Nazis killed 20 million people, Nazism needs an aspen stake hammered into it as long as it still moves. So that the descendants of Nazis even unto the seventh generation would inadvertently wet their pants from the words “Bandera”, “Suchevic” and “Glory to the Nation!”… We didn’t – and we have what we have.

Nationality – Oligarch

I set forth these thoughts somewhat to my Sergei. “You’re exaggerating again – he sighed. What Banderites? Children! Besides, they’re sponsored by a Jew, Kolomoisky. He wouldn’t sponsor Nazis”.

This is wherein the problem lays, Sergei! Unlike us, the Nazis do not fight for an idea (for them an idea is used to justify methods) but in their avaricious interests. Hitler’s soldiers weren’t thinking about a “great mission of the Aryan race” when they came at us. They were basking in the idea, that after the war they will get a farm on Russian black earth and a few dozen Slavic slaves along with it…

Kolomoisky no Jew, he is an oligarch (there is such a particular nationality). In Latvia we went through this in the 90s, when the parties of Latvian Nazis with the ideology of your “Right Sector” were sponsored by our oligarchs. They gave money for monuments to the victims of the holocaust from one hand and – to the descendents of those, who carried out the Holocaust from the other. More to the latter.

We got ahead of you. Latvia is small, its assets, accumulated during the Soviet period were quickly plundered. In the Ukraine, the supply of “cake” ended only now. Don’t think, Sergei, that Yarosh-Kolomoisky’s “men in black” have come to you to discuss the “federalization of the Ukraine” and the “status of the Russian language”. They came to make money. The Kolomoisky’s big time and their “meat” – small time.

By the way, about the Russian language. These days I now hear the proclamations of your parliament members before your supreme committee (V. Rada) of the type “One nation – one language!”, “We’ll save the great Ukrainian culture” and so on… The deputies in our assembly were proclaiming exactly the same in the 90s. But one of them, a former SS Legionnaire (lived to very old age) let slip: “We don’t need you to know our language; we need you to know your place”. This concerns you as well, Sergei.

You have no choice

It is more difficult to predict Ukraine’s fate further. In 2004, Latvia entered into the EU, the Schengen area was opened and their hopping Nazi offspring quietly spread themselves throughout Europe. The main contingent of Latvian “right-sectors” can now be found there, where they belong – cleaning European toilets. And our Kolomoiskys, when convinced that there was nothing left to steal are writing memoirs from their villas by the sea. From a nearly three million strong, developed country, Latvia was transformed into a senior citizens’ home with a population of less than 2 million, quietly living out the end of our lives…

The situation in your country is worse. They will never open Schengen to you. Europe needs 45 million Ukrainians as organ donors at best. This is why you will continue to stew in the same pot with Yaroshes, Parubiys, Kolomoiskys, Turchinovs, Poroshenkos and Timoshenkos. And the worst thing: Ukrainian Nazis have already crossed the point of no return, they have nowhere to retreat. Prison awaits them from the rear, which means that they will go on killing you. Or you – them…

I wrote this text, when the shooting in Slavyansk and hellish fire in Odessa were still another two weeks away. I was afraid to publish it because the written word has a tendency to materialize but I did send it to Sergei. This time, he did not answer me with the usual “don’t paint such a bleak picture”. He said, that he sent his family to his Aunt’s in Krasnodar and bought a bulletproof vest and bullets for his hunting rifle…

Hang in there, Sergei!
http://russia-insider.com/en/letter-latvian-friend-donetsk/5355

59 Comments

John Tieber (formerly JT 97205) on April 09, 2015 · at 4:53 pm EST/EDT

Considering the vast and growing US domestic surveillance/security state, one can’t help but wonder if at least one of the purposes of this very systematic and very overt development of domestic tyranny within Ukraine is as a trial run by the US for what they plan to implement domestically.

[40 actions/behaviors that could result in a US citizen labeled a “suspected terrorist”]
Washington’s Blog
- John Tieber (formerly JT 97205) on April 09, 2015 · at 5:52 pm EST/EDT
  
  LINK FIXED (I hope: I had brackets in the plain text to indicate I wasn’t using the actual article title and I suspect they may have interfered with the link):
  
  40 actions/behaviors that could result in a US citizen labeled a suspected terrorist
  - John Tieber (formerly JT 97205) on April 10, 2015 · at 12:01 am EST/EDT
    
    OK, one more attempt, for future comments, to clear this up, especially considering that I embed links in comments elsewhere dozens of times monthly without a hitch, including the former Saker blog and this new blog soon after it was launched.
    
    I copied and pasted the template directly from this page, then pasted the URL into it (right from the browser bar, as I always do, including the two attempts above), then pasted the actual name of the article (though I can’t imagine how it could matter what is pasted there) into the Name of your link area, then proofread the entire thing, though as every element was pasted that could hardly have been necessary:
    
    Scorecard: How Many Rights Have Americans REALLY Lost?
    - Vineyard Moderator - K.K. on April 10, 2015 · at 12:19 am EST/EDT
      
      and still didn’t work. Paste the actual link as well, so we can fix it for you if necessary, and so Webmaster can diagnose the issue.
      - Anonymous on April 10, 2015 · at 11:47 pm EST/EDT
        
        Here’s the URL I was attempting to embed:
        
        http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/02/constitution.html
        
        Article, at Washington’s Blog:
        
        Scorecard: How Many Rights Have Americans REALLY Lost?
        
        I’m running Safari 5.1.10 on OSX 10.6.8.
        
        Duff’s link, posted prior to mine, displays the same way on my system when cursored over, but his works for me.
        
        John Tieber (formerly JT 97205) on April 11, 2015 · at 1:32 am EST/EDT
        
        Comment above is from me.
        
        I forgot to complete my info prior to pressing Post a comment.
        
        Perhaps I’ve grown weary of the article from Washington’s Blog — it’s not that good.
        
        ;-)
    - Ann on April 10, 2015 · at 5:21 am EST/EDT
      
      by the way john, thanks for all your work in doing this .. for now failed attempt at passing on info.
- Duff on April 09, 2015 · at 9:24 pm EST/EDT
  
  Not having Facebook is also suspicious (according to the article you’ve mention) It would be hilarious like Monty Python show, if it is not so dangerous.
  https://www.facebook.com/thevineyardsaker?fref=ts
- SanctuaryOne on April 10, 2015 · at 4:59 am EST/EDT
  
  Is this what you are linking to?
  
  http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/09/take-the-test-to-see-if-you-might-be-considered-a-potential-terrorist-by-government-officials.html
  - John Tieber (formerly JT 97205) on April 11, 2015 · at 12:01 am EST/EDT
    
    [MODERATOR: I pasted the URL both in the URL area and the plain text area below.]
    
    No, this is…
    
    Scorecard: How Many Rights Have Americans REALLY Lost?
    http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/02/constitution.html
    
    …and I haven’t compared the two other than skimming side-by-side; yours certainly would have worked for my purpose as well; mine might be better, as it was posted five months later.
    
    (Washington’s Blog tends to re-work past posts to create new posts, borrowing too much from the past posts; a minor criticism considering how prolific that site is, but can be annoying if one is subscribed to 375 or so RSS feeds.)
Anonymous on April 09, 2015 · at 5:11 pm EST/EDT

Looks like Jerry Garcia really is getting the heave-ho overboard?

two Crimea stories, possibly connected, since maybe Kolomoisky still has many entrenched goons on his side there doing some pushback:

Ukraine starts arresting foreign ships that entered Russian ports in Crimea

April 09, 19:49 UTC+3
Investigators say the ship’s captain, citizen of Ukraine, committed a crime – organizing illegal transportation of individuals across the state border
http://tass.ru/en/world/788309

http://tass.ru/en/russia/788298
Crimea plans to sell Ukrainian tycoon Kolomoisky’s property this month
April 09, 18:55 UTC+3
The authorities have earlier launched similar measures to nationalize the Crimean property of other oligarchs – Rinat Akhmetov and Sergey Taruta
Anonymous on April 09, 2015 · at 5:18 pm EST/EDT

http://tass.ru/en/russia/788304

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has openly said that the aggravation of the Ukraine crisis and growing foreign military presence off Russian borders have impelled Russia to introduce some changes in the work of the command of the Southern Military District, which comprises Crimea. That is why the deployment of a full-fledged and self-sufficient group of troops in the Crimean direction has become a priority task for the Russian military leadership.
Anonymous on April 09, 2015 · at 5:51 pm EST/EDT

They have no shortage of nerve blockage points to kill any Turk Stream pipeline even if Greece goes along.
here’s a reminder about recent ‘diplomatic’ goings on in Macedonia from Madsen:

http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/15671

U.S. Ambassador Jess Baily has been accused by the Macedonian government of working with his British counterpart in Skopje to attempt a Ukrainian-style coup d’état in the country by trying to have the democratically-elected government of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski resign and have the pro-U.S. opposition leader Zoran Zaev participate in forming a new government under European Union supervision. To help coup plans along, Baily arranged for National Security Agency FIVE EYES wiretapped conversations among government officials, including Gruevski, to be leaked to Zaev and the pro-U.S. media in Macedonia. The U.S. wants to remove Macedonia as a transit nation for Russia’s Turkish Stream pipeline that will bring natural gas to Hungary via Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, and Serbia.

Macedonia :
jencarey.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/balkans.jpg
Spiral on April 09, 2015 · at 5:52 pm EST/EDT

It was in that year, 1783, in that place, Saint Petersburg, that the greatest mathematician of XVIII century , Leonhard Euler died, about a week after Catherine the Great signed the Crimean Manifesto.

His contribution to the development of mathematics in Russia and the world has been stupendous, so much so that his collected works, about 900 publications, are not yet fully collected, 232 years after his departure.

He participated in reviewing plans for building of the bridges and military fortifications in Saint Petersburg.

And while walking over the 7 bridges in Konigsberg/Kaliningrad he posed and solved the problem that started a new field in mathematics, called graph theory.

Now , with your permission, I will get off the tangent (so to speak) and mention that in the top 5 most beautiful equations of mathematics there are two Euler’s equation:

a)

i π
e + 1 = 0

This simple equation relates 5 most important numbers, 0, 1, i = √-1, π = 3.14159… , and e = 2.71828…, a.k.a. Euler’s number , a.k.a. base of the natural logarithm.

b) Take a regular 3d convex polyhedron with V-vertices, E-edges and F-faces. Then,

V – E + F = 2

For example,

tetrahedron has V=4, E=6 F=4,
cube has V=8, E=12, F=6,
dodecahedron has V=20 E=30, F=12 (dodeka)

Some authors called this relation Descartes-Euler formula.

Regards, Spiral
- Ann on April 10, 2015 · at 5:24 am EST/EDT
  
  thanks spiral…that’s amazing…
Anonymous on April 09, 2015 · at 6:11 pm EST/EDT

I wonder how many high tech toys they left undestroyed b4 fleeing!
Amazing first I’ve seen in print about this massive foreign-run drone base right in their own country.

This map from 2013 shows nothing in Yemen–just across is Djibouti, though:
apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/us-military-drone-network-in-the-middle-east-and-africa/325/

http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/15635

Freedom Rider: American hell for Yemen
By Margaret Kimberley
Posted on April 7, 2015 by Margaret Kimberley

The United States used the Al Anad airbase in Yemen as the staging area for drone attacks which killed some 1,000 people since 2009. Those crimes were committed under the guise of fighting terrorism but now that same place is the location of karmic justice for the American government and its ally, Saudi Arabia. United States Special Forces fled from Al Anad before it was overrun by Ansar Allah rebels, also known as the Houthis.
Anonymous on April 09, 2015 · at 6:19 pm EST/EDT

This SitRep was too cluttered… I much prefer the Saker ones
- Anonymous on April 09, 2015 · at 8:33 pm EST/EDT
  
  Yes, it’s technical we are working ont it.
  - Duff on April 09, 2015 · at 9:20 pm EST/EDT
    
    It, was me, Duff, I haven’t noticed that I’m not logged in.
    - Ann on April 10, 2015 · at 5:25 am EST/EDT
      
      Duff, I thought it was fabulous…thanks for the additional sentences so we can just read and not go to links…thanks buddy !!!
      - Duff on April 10, 2015 · at 10:11 am EST/EDT
        
        Thanks Ann.
  - Grieved on April 10, 2015 · at 1:56 am EST/EDT
    
    I’m grateful for everything you do. Two things would make the sitrep more readable.
    
    1. Change the style of a link. The dark highlighting is NOT what Internet users are accustomed to in a link, it goes against many years of tradition. A simple underline or change of color is enough. Anything more is too much and clutters up the rest of the text by taking away white space. This change could be done by the webmaster with no change by any of the editors. I recommend this change throughout the entire site.
    
    2. If possible, add a Title to each item. This requires work by the editors, but it would help us to distinguish where one item ends and another begins. You could even make each title be Item 1, Item 2, etc. and make each title an H2 or something. This would involve the minimum extra work but should be straightforward for an editor.
    
    Sorry to recommend more work, but I think it’s important for getting the information across to readers.
Veritas on April 09, 2015 · at 6:41 pm EST/EDT

Thank you Duff for the report.

So many things going on at once. A police state with a meglomaniac head whose ego is so bruised by comments!

Now it was Stalin and Hitler who started the war – hmm the Polish actually were the sprak that lit the fire of WWII. So rather ironic he declares this with the Polish President….and they will light the fire of WWIII – anyone else see the irony?

We need to keep an eye on Turkmenistan too…..the US seems to be trying to light as many flames as possible….

Rgds,

Veritas
- Duff on April 09, 2015 · at 9:30 pm EST/EDT
  
  You are welcome Veritas.
  The irony? It’s hard to find the words. Blasphemy would do.
Anonymous on April 09, 2015 · at 6:46 pm EST/EDT

http://sputniknews.com/military/20150409/1020679792.html

Ukraine has gained access to Canadian satellite images that Ottawa’s own military forces could hardly afford; it still remains unclear how much the agreement with the Kiev regime will cost Canadian taxpayers.

Canadian authorities have announced they would provide Ukraine with satellite imagery from its Radarsat-2 satellite; however, Ottawa’s decision has sparked controversy among Canadian politicians, who say the Canadian Forces have been suffering from a “critical shortage” in funding access to the satellite.
Eimar on April 09, 2015 · at 7:01 pm EST/EDT

“…,people of the free Western world. The Polish hand —not a political environment, but our understanding of historical processes. It is not about the past, and about the future of the Polish Ukrainian relations” —he declared. Komorovsky gave entry of present Ukrainian lands into structure of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as a positive example —according to him, the general state “Polish, Lithuanian and Russian, that is, Ukrainian” the people today. “Already then there was a feeling of belonging to the general European community” —the president emphasized. “We are united by the general historical..,”

I am getting *very* suspicious about Komorovsky..
- Anonymous on April 13, 2015 · at 11:16 am EST/EDT
  
  ” getting *very* suspicious about Komorovsky”
  
  Well, he did come to power after the suspicious crash that killed the ex-president, much of polish leadership and top military people.. Which was of course blamed on Russia, as usual. Nobody would of course down a plane for political reasons, such conspiracies don´t exist.
the pug on April 09, 2015 · at 7:22 pm EST/EDT

I truly hope that Porky visits this website and reads the comments here – he’ll definitely become upset!
- Duff on April 09, 2015 · at 10:43 pm EST/EDT
  
  Oh, they are mocking him mercilessly on VK and forums. I’m sure he’ll become chronically upset if he saw just 10% percent of jokes on his expense.
Uncle Bob 1 on April 09, 2015 · at 7:40 pm EST/EDT

A saw an article from Fort Russ that added a bit of humor that I thought I would share here:

Putin’s New Agents
Yep, it’s Timoshenko and Tyagnibok. What is a surefire sign you might be an agent of Putin in the Rada? Calling for the investigation of corruption within the Yats government, which prompted the above accusation.
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How to recognize a “lifestyle separatist”
Guess what. Are you criticizing mobilization? Praise LPR and DPR? Have doubts about the existence of the Ukrainian nation? Argue that Maidan might not have been such a great idea after all? Propagate Russian symbols? Spread rumors about non-existent threats to the Russian language in Ukraine? Describe the government of Ukraine as a pack of thieves? Discuss the state of the economy? If the answer to any of these questions is “yes”, you too might be a lifestyle separatist. Please report to the nearest SBU office immediately.

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Donbass battalion officially breaks ties with Semenchenko
But is sure was fun while it lasted, no? The move was prompted by the growing number of scandals in which Semenchenko is mixed up. Somebody up there must really hate him.

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Caught himself in time
Anton Gerashchenko is an advisor to MVD head Avakov. In this interview with Ukrainian TV, he was relating a story of a large arms cache being found in Kharkov. What’s of interest is that the list of weapons allegedly confiscated included a MON-50 directional anti-personnel mine which, Gerashchenko said was used in…and then he caught himself at the last second. The only incident of recent year in which MON-50 figured at all was the Volnovakha bus massacre, which was attributed to the DPR rocket artillery bombardment, even though evidence suggested a directional AP mine.
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Poles will be Poles
Data from flight recorders of the Tu-154 airplane which crashed in Smolensk in 2010, killing Poland’s president Lech Kaczynski and many other senior officials indicates the pilots were under pressure from the head of the Polish Air Force to land no matter what, in spite of the fatal weather conditions and ground control warnings not to land. Kaczynski’s supporters and Polish nationalists in general still believe that Putin had Kaczynski murdered.

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Gerashchenko: “Putin owns the Inter TV channel”
Once again, Gerashchenko is an advisor to MVD chief Avakov, and is displeased with Inter for reporting on corruption within the MVD. However, Gerashchenko’s accusation raises another important point. Considering that everyone in Ukraine is Putin’s agent and everything of note is owned by Putin, how do we know Ukraine is not part of Russia already?
GrandmaR on April 09, 2015 · at 8:14 pm EST/EDT

Thanks, Duff — this way, whenever I have some time, I have something instructive to read. I love the history tidbits and funny stuff, too. I am more and more often reading and hearing “news” that makes me ask, “What? Have they gone totally crazy?” And this extends from local governments and police all the way to governments that are obviously intentionally causing death and destruction in as many countries as they can infiltrate for the purpose of doing so.

And no, it is not “too cluttered.” If Granny can figure it out, anybody can. : )
Paul Rigby on April 09, 2015 · at 8:45 pm EST/EDT

Thoroughly enjoying the new sitreps – thanks to all concerned.
E on April 09, 2015 · at 9:54 pm EST/EDT

Can the URLs please be hidden behind the article titles? This format is a bit messy.
Anonymous on April 09, 2015 · at 11:29 pm EST/EDT

Odessa People’s Republic declares its independence and secession from Ukraine.

http://fortruss.blogspot.be/2015/04/odessa-peoples-republic-declares-its.html
Anonymous on April 10, 2015 · at 12:37 am EST/EDT

That Wile E. coyote sure does get around.

Turns out on the wh.gov site is this “pictorial” out up:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/image/iran-deal_bomb.jpg

Even our slimy sycophantic CBC has been lampooning it:
http://cbc.ca/strombo/content/images/Is-This-The-UN-Or-A-Wile-E-Coyote-Cartoon-Plus-The-Top-5-Most-Bizarre-Speeches-Ever-at-the-United-Nations-feature4.jpg
FarAwayObserver on April 10, 2015 · at 1:33 am EST/EDT

What’s happened with Bezler and Mozgovoy? Where are they? Don’t answer if it would harm a good cause.
Uncle Bob 1 on April 10, 2015 · at 1:53 am EST/EDT

I saw this comment on RI that I saw was interesting to share:

“However, yesterday I listened to Prof Cohen on the John Batchelor Show. He stated that during his visit to Moscow in early March he heard from reliable sources (reliable to him) that in Russia there are a number of very serious factions who wonder, if the United States is just inept or whether it follows a grand plan for war against Russia. Prof. Cohen said yesterday, that he believes that now the faction following the “grand plan” theory has won the ear of President Putin, hence Russia is preparing for a war with the United States, which is now a real threat to them.”
- Anonymous on April 10, 2015 · at 11:32 am EST/EDT
  
  I assume Putin is not basing his decisions on factions. There must be objective evidence to support the ‘grand plan’ belief.
  
  There certainly is a lot of activity around the world that indicates it. The good news is that US planning is unbelievably inept and has serious internal problems, not least major policy differences between competing factions itself.
  
  @Duff
  
  Pardon the delayed thanks. The links were really interesting, particularly the one about Yarosh.
- zweistein on April 10, 2015 · at 2:48 pm EST/EDT
  
  I love to listen to Stephen Cohen. He has always a lot of interesting intel. Here is the direct link to the John Batchelor Show from 2015-04-07.
  
  http://traffic.libsyn.com/batchelorshow/JBS_2015_04_07BB.mp3
Anonymous on April 10, 2015 · at 3:51 am EST/EDT

http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/canadian-war-jets-carry-out-first-strikes-in-syria/

By Al-Masdar News on April 9, 2015 Americas

Canada carried out its first air strikes in Syria on Wednesday, the military said, expanding Ottawa’s contribution to the US-led coalition against the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) takfiri group, after parliament approved a larger role in the conflict.

Two F-18s using precision-guided munitions struck a IS position near the Syrian city of Raqqa, before safely returning to base, the military announced.
Uncle Bob 1 on April 10, 2015 · at 4:31 am EST/EDT

A comparison of Latvia and Ukraine,very interesting:

Introduction: my friend Sergei has a small business in Donetsk. He’s not rich, works hard and is far away from tunneling out any state budgets. His credo is “Guys, let’s live as friends”. Sergei and I have a longstanding dispute. I tell him what will happen in the Ukraine next, he gives me his standard reply – “don’t paint such a bleak picture, it’s not so bad” and then wonders – “How did you know”? Let me explain.

Latvia is the Ukraine in miniature
Or rather: Latvia is Western Ukraine in miniature. The historical experience of Latvians is close to Ukraine’s westerners. For hundreds of years they went from under one master to another as servants. They only achieved their statehood in the 20th century and not as a result of battles for national self-determination but as a gift. Both peoples are experiencing “birth trauma”. Both – an inferiority complex.

During the war, both the Ukrainian westerners and Latvians provided Hitler’s occupiers with a large number of punitive battalions that liquidated Jews, Gypsies, Russians, Belarusians and Poles with such zeal that even the Nazis were nauseous from it. Both nations were trying to earn their “independence” by standing with Hitler; both got graves and shame.

After the war, I don’t know why, the Soviet leadership began actively building up their high-tech industry, synchronously at that. In Latvia – “Radiotechnika”, in Lvov – “Elektron”, in Latvia – RAF, in Lvov – LAZ, in Latvia – Rigaselmas, in Lvov – Lvovselmas etc.

In the post-Soviet period both the Ukrainian westerners and Latvians, with song and dance, tunneled out these industries, left them for scrap, sold them and ate through the gains. Then both nations engaged in the Ukrainisation/Latvianisation of their Russians and rewriting history. In Latvia, SS legionaries became national heroes, in Lvovstein – the Banderites. In both nations descendants of SS-immigrants actively participated in building their contemporary states. Vengeful and deceiving.

How they differ: Latvia’s expanse is no more than 200 km from its capital. And the border of Ukraine, well, as far it is from Lvov. The Latvians quickly ran into their border, the westerners had space to expand for upwards of 20 years. Another difference: the EU managed to absorb microscopic Latvia before the 2008 crisis, while the Ukraine remained hung somewhere halfway between the USSR and the “Great Uki Nation”.

Why these Parallels? Because Latvia is 10-12 years ahead of Ukraine on its path of post-Soviet degradation and many processes in the Ukraine are copying those that Latvians went through. This is also where my prognoses’ on the future of Ukraine come from.

Banderite Facial Expression

10 years ago, when I was observing the first Kiev Maidan, I wrote to my friend: “First your “oranges” will claw amongst themselves for the seats and troughs, then they’ll start a march on the Russian language, then they’ll start rewriting history textbooks, finally they’ll turn some Bandera into a national hero… and then the next elections will be won by Yanukovych…”

“Da ty šo! – exclaimed Sergei – they don’t dare touch the Russian language, half of the country speaks it, you’re making silly jokes about Bandera and Yanukovych is a political corpse, in 5 years time no one will remember him!”… Every time a part of my predictions came true, I called Sergei in Donetsk and wryly asked, “Well?”

The point is, that we in Latvia had went through all of this. The difference is that our maidan took place at the moment the Soviet Union had collapsed. Then it continued along the classic scenario: a battle of the “democrats” over troughs, the assault on the Russian language, the glorification of Latvian SS… and within 5 years, professional thieves had nestled themselves into power and looted everything that still remained.

Last fall, when the scene of Maidan-2 had just begun making proclamations about “European integration”, I wrote Sergei: there will be blood. “Blood from where? – he wondered – they’ll make some proclamations and part ways”. For me, just looking into the faces of those who were jumping on the Maidan was enough to understand – blood there is bound to be.

For clarification: 10 years ago, the Latvian government had decided to convert all schools instructing in Russian to the Latvian language. Russian teachers, in Russian schools were prescribed by law to conduct their lessons exclusively in Latvian. The following situation ensued: Russian school, Russian children and Russian teachers but instruction in Russian prohibited.

We went out on demonstrations. Would you believe, my dear Ukrainians that we didn’t set alight even one tire? We simply demonstrated that WE are against this and that there are many of us. At that time I was intently looking into the faces of young Latvians… they were looking at us with that same “Ukrainian-glory” “Moscals-on-knives” stare, just as your Maidanettes are looking at you now. Hatefully, blankly, with outright condescension. To them we are “cattle”, “colorado beetles”… just as you are to your westerners.

Blood wasn’t shed back then in Latvia. The country had just acceded into the EU; the authorities were frightened of unwanted clamor and retreated. But I remember well this “SS-Bandera-Maidan” expression on the faces of Latvian youth. A few years later a monument to the Soviet soldier was demolished in neighboring Estonia. The exact same expression was on the faces of young Estonian police officers beating Russian protesters with batons. Beating with pleasure, SS style! And Estonian youth on the Internet were applauding.

My father, George Alekseiev went through the war as a mortar man from the Dnieper to Berlin. Awarded two orders, six medals, injured four times – without a single graying hair. After the war, he qualified and worked as a war crimes investigator. He investigated the “exploits” of Banderite and Latvian punitive battalions… by 30 years of age his hair had turned gray.

He regretted only one thing – not managing to bring all of them justice. In the early 50’s the humane Soviet government decided thusly: prosecute – those up to their shoulders in blood and let free – those only up to their elbows. In vain! In a country, where Nazis killed 20 million people, Nazism needs an aspen stake hammered into it as long as it still moves. So that the descendants of Nazis even unto the seventh generation would inadvertently wet their pants from the words “Bandera”, “Suchevic” and “Glory to the Nation!”… We didn’t – and we have what we have.

Nationality – Oligarch

I set forth these thoughts somewhat to my Sergei. “You’re exaggerating again – he sighed. What Banderites? Children! Besides, they’re sponsored by a Jew, Kolomoisky. He wouldn’t sponsor Nazis”.

This is wherein the problem lays, Sergei! Unlike us, the Nazis do not fight for an idea (for them an idea is used to justify methods) but in their avaricious interests. Hitler’s soldiers weren’t thinking about a “great mission of the Aryan race” when they came at us. They were basking in the idea, that after the war they will get a farm on Russian black earth and a few dozen Slavic slaves along with it…

Kolomoisky no Jew, he is an oligarch (there is such a particular nationality). In Latvia we went through this in the 90s, when the parties of Latvian Nazis with the ideology of your “Right Sector” were sponsored by our oligarchs. They gave money for monuments to the victims of the holocaust from one hand and – to the descendents of those, who carried out the Holocaust from the other. More to the latter.

We got ahead of you. Latvia is small, its assets, accumulated during the Soviet period were quickly plundered. In the Ukraine, the supply of “cake” ended only now. Don’t think, Sergei, that Yarosh-Kolomoisky’s “men in black” have come to you to discuss the “federalization of the Ukraine” and the “status of the Russian language”. They came to make money. The Kolomoisky’s big time and their “meat” – small time.

By the way, about the Russian language. These days I now hear the proclamations of your parliament members before your supreme committee (V. Rada) of the type “One nation – one language!”, “We’ll save the great Ukrainian culture” and so on… The deputies in our assembly were proclaiming exactly the same in the 90s. But one of them, a former SS Legionnaire (lived to very old age) let slip: “We don’t need you to know our language; we need you to know your place”. This concerns you as well, Sergei.

You have no choice

It is more difficult to predict Ukraine’s fate further. In 2004, Latvia entered into the EU, the Schengen area was opened and their hopping Nazi offspring quietly spread themselves throughout Europe. The main contingent of Latvian “right-sectors” can now be found there, where they belong – cleaning European toilets. And our Kolomoiskys, when convinced that there was nothing left to steal are writing memoirs from their villas by the sea. From a nearly three million strong, developed country, Latvia was transformed into a senior citizens’ home with a population of less than 2 million, quietly living out the end of our lives…

The situation in your country is worse. They will never open Schengen to you. Europe needs 45 million Ukrainians as organ donors at best. This is why you will continue to stew in the same pot with Yaroshes, Parubiys, Kolomoiskys, Turchinovs, Poroshenkos and Timoshenkos. And the worst thing: Ukrainian Nazis have already crossed the point of no return, they have nowhere to retreat. Prison awaits them from the rear, which means that they will go on killing you. Or you – them…

I wrote this text, when the shooting in Slavyansk and hellish fire in Odessa were still another two weeks away. I was afraid to publish it because the written word has a tendency to materialize but I did send it to Sergei. This time, he did not answer me with the usual “don’t paint such a bleak picture”. He said, that he sent his family to his Aunt’s in Krasnodar and bought a bulletproof vest and bullets for his hunting rifle…

Hang in there, Sergei!
http://russia-insider.com/en/letter-latvian-friend-donetsk/5355
- Anonymous on April 10, 2015 · at 12:55 pm EST/EDT
  
  documentary on RT today in the Uk, re Latvias “part” in Nazi concentration camp holding including Russians,in Latvia I think I saw, denial of the truth of history , Banderist movement etc-chilling, eg children’s blood pumped out til they died.
- zweistein on April 10, 2015 · at 2:52 pm EST/EDT
  
  Wow, great write-up. Thanks!
Anonymous on April 10, 2015 · at 5:17 am EST/EDT

I don’t know how much has been posted here on Valentina Lisitsa, but here is the link to the tweets that Toronto Symphony CEO Jeff Melanson found so offensive. Knowing the context, I actually find them quite funny (amusing).

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61455732/Lisitsa_Social_Media_Posts.pdf

Use the password “MusicalToronto”

The article is at http://www.musicaltoronto.org/2015/04/08/interview-toronto-symphony-ceo-jeff-melanson-breaks-his-silence/

If anyone’s wondering about the importance of this, here is a comment by Thomas Walkom of the Toronto Star:

To supporters of Ukraine’s central government, the TSO decision is a great victory. “Valentina Lisitsa concerts cancelled for racism and hate speech,” crowed the Euromaidan Press Tuesday.

Buoyed by this success, the Ukrainian Weekly now has its sights set on two other Western concert performers deemed overly sympathetic to Russia. The ground war in Ukraine sputters on. The ideological purges here are just beginning.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/04/07/pianist-punished-for-daring-to-challenge-political-orthodoxy-in-ukraine-walkom.html
From Aztlan... on April 10, 2015 · at 5:48 am EST/EDT

Not to forget their tradition to stir up trouble during religious holidays, the Ukrainian Terrorist Operation went into full swing in Donbass.

http://voicesevas.ru/news/yugo-vostok/12083-nad-donbassom-stoit-tyazhelyy-gul-vrazheskoy-artillerii-pod-ognem-doneck-gorlovka-dokuchaevsk-yasinovataya-video.html

Donetsk is under fire from Peski and Avdeyevka, the strong point of Spartak has been under heavy shelling.
Yasinovataya has been attacked as well.
On the Western front of Donetsk, the Town of Dokuchayevsk is under fire from Volnovakha where over 8,000 Ukrainian Pro-American Forces have been gathered.
The Ukrainian Terrorist Operation has been using all Heavy artillery except for Tornado, Hurricanes and Tochka.
Easter will be a grim celebration. Already there are reports of Wounded among civilians, no fatal casualties yet.
Militia has suffered losses.
Lugansk remains ominously quiet, but heavy concentrations of Ukrainian Terrrorists are reported on Bahmutke.
- Daniel Rich on April 10, 2015 · at 9:09 am EST/EDT
  
  @ From Aztlan
  
  As expected and predicted; FUKUS tells the world Russia will attack all the Baltic States [from now onward to be referred to as BS], most of Europe [except Switzerland, coz the chocolate is so darn, dang yummy] and the rest of Asia, after the May 9 victory parade, so FUKUS attacks before Easter, to ensure all religious people in the region, will not be allowed to enjoy their beliefs. Worse, they might even lose their lives.
  
  I think a lot of lives are about to be lost [again] …
Once Nazi, today Natoist on April 10, 2015 · at 7:23 am EST/EDT

Acording to Anglo-Nato newspapers

In Russia are operaiting trolls.
The trolls were firmly instructed that there should never be anything bad written about the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) or the Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR), and never anything good about the Ukrainian government.

However, the position of Anglo-Nato nespapers is:

The journalists were firmly instructed that there should never be anything good written about the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) or the Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR), and never anything bad about the Ukrainian government.
Croat [ Hrvat ] on April 10, 2015 · at 7:33 am EST/EDT

The majority of experts agree that the US is deliberately trying to weaken Russia in order to wipe her off the map , and Ukraine is being used only as a way to achieve this goal
Ingrid on April 10, 2015 · at 8:08 am EST/EDT

Interesting article about Elvira Nabiullina, Putin’s biggest weapon:

Russia’s Central Bank Governor Is Way Smarter Than Ours
Daniel Rich on April 10, 2015 · at 8:27 am EST/EDT

Ukraine separatist leader warns of possible return to war, but FUKUS wants him to sit on his hands.
Amigos de la Tierra. on April 10, 2015 · at 8:47 am EST/EDT

A video provided to the environmental group Amazon Watch by a whistleblower from oil giant Chevron, appears to show what the group is describing as “smoking gun evidence” of corruption, as Chevron attempted to cover up their contamination of the Amazon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=l618BhvWkz4

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/news/20150410/1020690300.html#ixzz3WtVhSX1j
- Daniel Rich on April 10, 2015 · at 11:12 am EST/EDT
  
  @ Amigo de la Terra,
  
  You might also be interested in Cowspiracy – Link to HD trailer on youtube, to find out that those who actually are destroying the Amazon, are not the ones driving cars [or making them]…
pc on April 10, 2015 · at 10:06 am EST/EDT

This is OT, but very interesting.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/christian-culture-war-trenches/

excerpt:

An Orthodox priest, Father John Whiteford, messaged me on Facebook today to ask a couple of questions, but the messages showed up on my screen as having been removed for either being spam or “abusive.” When I tried to contact him via Facebook, I saw that he no longer had an account. I found his e-mail address and wrote to him to ask what he wanted, and what on earth he could have said to have been kicked off of Facebook.

He wrote back (and gives me permission to post here):

My account was disabled because Facebook is harassing priests and monastics who use “Father” or “Mother” in their name. First, I was forced to delete “Fr.” from my name, and then “Archpriest”, and this time, because I switched to “FrJohn”, they have sent me a message that I have provide them with photo ID to prove that I am using the name that I actually go by in real life.

After submitting the required ID along with a letter asking them what the hell was wrong with them, I was told that I would be notified by e-mail of their decision.

This is the cyber equivalent of the communists forbidding clergy from wearing clerical attire in public.

The message I sent you was my thought that we should begin to speak of those on the otherside of the gay marriage war as “Progressive Totalitarians” or “Progressive Fascists”, because the play on the word “progressive” is very descriptive of the unfolding reality.
Daniel Rich on April 10, 2015 · at 10:15 am EST/EDT

From the other end of the ‘Blah-Blah’ spectrum, Bloomberg’s applying its own, downtrodden spin, in a true and tried “Damned if you do, damned if your don’t” ploy; Putin’s Surprising New Ruble Problem Threatens Russian Coffers.

Can’t live a day without a proper ~~thread~~ threat now, can we?
eimar on April 10, 2015 · at 12:42 pm EST/EDT

This is a good piece on Japan. I wonder about Abe. He could act as an accelerator for tensions in the region. Lets hope the Chinese get him to see Asian Bank investment, not US-instigated progressive militarization is the best way forward:

http://www.rense.com/general96/scandaljapan.html

Will Carter try and spark a false-flag event ? Something to be alert to ..
- zweistein on April 10, 2015 · at 3:04 pm EST/EDT
  
  Abe is one of the few CIA agents that speaks fluently Japanese – that is why he was chosen as Prime Minister :-) The CIA owns the whole Japanese government, obviously the Central bank, etc.
  
  Nonetheless, the Japanese are well aware that they have to get rid of the American plague. And they will. Earlier or later.
  
  For the time being, only behind closed doors meetings with the Chinese.
JJ on April 10, 2015 · at 12:52 pm EST/EDT

sitrep format, and info is absolutely fine for me many thanks

just some extras from scouring the usual sources:
http://cassad-eng.livejournal.com/153079.html
article from russ stategic intelligence centre how it works( think I saw this in RI yesterday too?)
absolutely believes no chance of NR being incorporated into ukraine

http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/wagenknecht-eu-policy-has-destroyed.html

Sara Wagenknacht recent speech March translated against Merkel.
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http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/dusha-russian-soul-and-collapse-of-west.html
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http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/the-final-45-years-of-anglo-saxon.html
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Ex-Minister of Defence of DPR Igor Strelkov: April 9th

“In general, we can say that the ceasefire is over – the entire front is under fire, including artillery. Shock troops of the enemy moved to the forefront.”
http://fortruss.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/kiev-junta-launches-large-scale-attack.html
details here
http://en.voicesevas.ru/news/yugo-vostok/4149-the-war-in-novorossia-online-04092015-chronicle.html

“The head of the DPR Alexander Zakharchenko said that the Ukrainian parliament launched an irreversible process leading to the final disintegration of Ukraine by its assertion that the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) were “freedom fighters”.

“Kiev’s actions towards Novorossiya convinces its people that Ukraine is a hostile state, the head of the “Special Status” Centre for Sociological Research Alexander Protsenko told the Lugansk Information Center.”
Over 2 million children have suffered as a result of the civil war, there are more than 200 killed children among them.
Over 490 schools were destroyed in the DPR, along with 78 hospitals.
100,000 children have not attended school for one year, hiding in basements.
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150410/1020696561.html
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http://novorossia.today/the-problem-of-ukrainian-debt-europe-in-between-frenzy-and-panic/
as it says
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Ukraine officially recognized notorious ultranationalist groups, active in the 20th century, as freedom fighters, meaning Kiev authorities have chosen neo-Nazism as state ideology, a prominent Polish political scientist said.

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150410/1020700318.html#ixzz3WuHBGu9G
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The protest is aimed at showing Poles’ “real relationship” with Ukraine, and the fact that Polish citizens do not want conflicts with Russia, protest organizer Mlodzi Malopolscy Patrioci told Sputnik last week.
According to the event’s Facebook page, some 6,700 people are planning to attend the rally.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150410/1020706540.html#ixzz3WuHktcqF
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Five Northern European states, including Sweden and Finland, have signed a joint declaration on the expansion of military cooperation amid what the countries’ defense ministers called “Russian aggression against Ukraine,” the Norwegian Aftenposten newspaper reports.
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In Odessa, mass round-up of dissidents. Arrested several dozen people. Some then disappeared without a trace. All those arrested were suspected of separatism and terrorism. The main proof – allegedly found during searches of St. George ribbon and Russian flags.
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Asked about the possibility of creating a so-called “dirty” nuclear bomb in Ukraine Turchynov said that this will be used all the resources available.

“We will use all available resources, including the establishment of an effective weapon. I do not think that it is worth talking about it on the air. This is a closed military-technical programs that we implement,” – said Turchinov.

He stressed that Ukraine is important that the weapon was effective, “What is there: dirty or clean – this is a separate issue of Technology.”
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Milton's Hell on April 10, 2015 · at 6:49 pm EST/EDT

Komorovsky is just another bought and paid for piece of sh*t. I wonder where this filthy scum is going to be in some years, when from a country called Ukraine there are going to be only memories. The likes of Schetyna, Komorovsky, Cameron are perhaps the lowest point civilization has ever reached. I’m ashamed to be part of it.
вот так on April 11, 2015 · at 2:53 am EST/EDT

The former Ukraine gets more zio-gay by the day… ;D

A lot of info, but it needs to be fleshed out more. Also, I’ve found in the past that politnavigator.net isn’t a very reliable site.