V N Baranets: “Serious Disorders Observed in Poroshenko’s Team”

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Retired Colonel V N Baranets, a well-known military expert, spoke on the military and political events in the former Ukraine, saying, “The American special services prepared for the Maidan for many years. I tell you that as a military man; it’s not merely my opinion… it’s a fact. There’s plenty of evidence; we have testimony from eyewitnesses. The US Embassy in the Ukraine took a very active role in preparing the Euromaidan events. They carried out their subversion openly, it didn’t embarrass them one bit… I find it all disgusting. You remember how McCain behaved in Kiev… he acted like he was in his own home, he was quite open about it, he didn’t hide what he was doing, he bossed around the so-called Ukrainian ‘government’”.

Viktor Nikolayevich also gave us his views on the military operations in the Donbass, noting, “Poroshenko operates on the principle, ‘If the Ukraine doesn’t rule the Donbass, then, no one else will get it either’. That’s why he continues to bombard Novorossiya mercilessly. We Russians understand why the opolchenie want to throw Ukrainian forces out of the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics, why they want the war in their homeland to end, and why they want recognition of their independence. We all know that if the opolchenie laid down their arms, then, the junta would immediately begin mass arrests and throw people into concentration camps, it’s a logical consequence of the fascist ideology now regnant in the Ukraine”.

“If Poroshenko retains even the smallest shred of sanity, then, during the 26 August negotiations, he’d seek to resolve the situation in the Donbas. We’ve observed serious disorders in Poroshenko’s team… the army is melting away, the anti-war movement of the Soldier’s Mothers group is gaining momentum, his adversaries are gathering against him on all sides, and he’s running out of money. Therefore, the so-called ‘President of the Ukraine’ faces acute problems; he has to start looking for ways to resolve the conflict. However, at the same time, I believe that if representatives of the People’s Republics don’t attend these negotiations, then, such negotiations won’t bear fruit”.

 21 August 2014

ANNA News

http://anna-news.info/node/20524

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Ersatz “Bread” Appeared in Kiev Shops

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Of course, they don’t come out and say it plainly. You have to look at a small placard on the bottom shelf, almost near the baseboard… it says, “Bread from a simplified recipe”. That is, it’s just flour and water. There’s no fat at all, there isn’t any milk, not to mention higher-quality white flour or vitamin supplements. It’s nothing but pig swill… just bran and water. However, the price is pleasing… just over 3 Grivna (8.25 Roubles. 0.23 USD. 0.25 CAD. 0.25 AUD. 0.17 Euros. 0.14 UK Pounds) per loaf. It’s a brazen trick to disguise price increases on bread and flour, crop failures, and other signs of “new life”. When people ask at the shops, “Just what is this new kind of bread?”, the shop assistants look away or they pretend that they don’t know what kind of orphan loaves are in the plastic bags near the toasted walnuts and ciabatta. The price of bread in Kiev increased by at least one Grivna per loaf… “Ukrainian” bread costs more than 5 Grivna (13.75 Roubles. 0.38 USD. 0.41 CAD. 0.41 AUD. 0.28 Euros. 0.23 UK Pounds) and French bread is almost 6 Grivna (16.50 Roubles. 0.46 USD. 0.50 CAD. 0.50 AUD. 0.34 Euros. 0.28 UK Pounds). Sweet pastries like “Dnepr Bulki” cost 10.50 Grivna (29 Roubles. 0.80 USD. 0.86 CAD. 0.86 AUD. 0.60 Euros. 0.49 UK Pounds), cheese palochka are 3.45 Grivna (9.50 Roubles. 0.26 USD. 0.29 CAD. 0.29 AUD. 0.19 Euros. 0.16 UK Pounds), and ordinary pita bread ranges from 6 to 7 Grivna (16.50-19.25 Roubles. 0.46-0.54 USD. 0.50-0.58 CAD. 0.50-0.58 AUD. 0.34-0.40 Euros. 0.28-0.32 UK Pounds). Managers of many large retailers already recognise what’s happening, so, they’re reducing the variety of their products… for buns and tarts are going stale on the shelves.

21 August 2014

Novorusinform

http://www.novorosinform.org/news/id/6699

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The average pension in the Ukraine is 500 Grivna (1,375 Roubles. 38 USD. 42 CAD. 41 AUD. 28 Euros. 23 UK Pounds) per month… the average wage is only double that. If a pensioner bought only the cheapest “bread”… a loaf a day to make up the bulk of their food, it’d cost them 90 Grivna (248 Roubles. 7 USD. 7.50 CAD. 7.50 AUD. 5.25 Euros. 4.25 UK Pounds) a month JUST FOR BREAD, that’s 18 percent of their income! Just you watch… adulterated bread is next. The junta is in the deep shit. Oligarch shits and political banditti like Rabbit Yatsenyuk and Turdchinov stole the money that it got from the West (I’ll bet ya that Darlin’ Yuliya had her hand in the cookie jar, too). Ah, the joys of unbridled laissez-faire crapitalism… as endorsed by Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Rod Dreher, and Willy Romney…

Yuliya, the Rabbit, the Klichkos, and Turdchinov are dining on filet mignon and truffles… their heavily armed bodyguards are outside to keep the unwashed out… oh, yes… that’s what the USA slobbers over and calls “democratic”… so does the UGKTs, by the way. Christ Himself recoils at their swinish and slavish obsequiousness to power… how much longer will such evil go unpunished and unrequited?

BMD

21 August 2014. A Map to Help You Sort Out the Truth About Novorossiya, Malorossiya, the Lvovshchina, and Podkarpatskaya Rus… the so-called “Ukraine”

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Only lands that were under Polish papist occupation are “Ukrainian”… only lands raped by the Brest Unia are “Ukrainian”… only lands oppressed by the Polish Jesuits such as Skarga are “Ukrainian”. The “Ukraine” is the portion of Holy Rus that Poland stole after the Mongol invasions weakened Russia. Podkarpatskaya Rus is NOT Ukrainian as it wasn’t part of the Partitions, it wasn’t part of the Brest Unia, and it wasn’t oppressed by Polish officials, landlords, and Catholic clergy (a situation that continued under the Habsburgs by the way… the Habsburgs used the Poles as their “middleman” agents of rule). It’s history was completely divergent, and it only became “Ukrainian” in 1946. The lands added to the Ukrainian SSR in 1920 are Novorossiya, again, it’s NOT “Ukrainian”… it’s the seat of the present Ukrainian Civil War. Do note the abysmally poor performance of the Uniate junta forces fighting in Novorossiya. One reason is that the locals hated and resented Galician Uniate hillbillies to begin with (and the attempts by them to ram Galician hillbilly pidgin down everyone’s throat)… the present repressions and murders by the junta fascists has only reinforced that feeling. Yes… remember the dead of the Dom Profsoyuzov… remember the dead of Khatyn… remember those hung by the Habsburgs after Galician Uniate running dogs denounced them to the powers-that-be (St Maksim Sandovich)… this map tells you why most of the “Ukraine” hates Galician Uniates… I fear that it’s going to get much worse before it’s all ends… shall we pay in full for the folly of the Unia and its evil? I do hope not…

BMD

25 Percent of Military Households Rely on Food Banks

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Here’s my modest suggestion… in the contemporary USA, two incomes are necessary to raise a family due to the draconian anti-family programme of the US Republican Party (they have the brass balls to call themselves “pro-lifers”). When the economy crashed in 2008 due to the stresses upon it by the unfunded Bush wars and notional giveaways to the Affluent Effluent, many spouses of military personnel lost their jobs. As this situation arose due to the crank policies of the Republican Party, we should raise a special tax on all Republican politicians/lawmakers (including GOP-appointed judges on all levels) and Rightwing pundits… we should levy a 20 percent surcharge on their incomes “to support the troops”… I think that you’d hear some loud yelps. Here’s the Vaseline, Antonin n’ Willy n’ Rush n’ Paul… note well that they enjoy fucking others, but hoo boy, when it hits them… you get my drift…

BMD

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Recently, an exhaustive hunger report concluded that 25 percent of military members rely on food banks. After compiling four years of data, Feeding America (FA)… the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity… released its largest and most comprehensive study on the topic and found that one in seven people rely on food banks to get their basic nutrition needs. Perhaps one of the most stunning figures was that in 2012, almost 620,000 of the households who relied on FA services had at least one member now in the military. That’s 25 percent of all American military households. These figures included military members serving full or part-time in either the Armed Forces, Reserves, or National Guard.

However, the Pentagon was quick to take issue with the study’s methodology in measuring the number of struggling military members. Military.com reported that officials said that surveying households instead of individuals and using those figures against military data creates an inaccurate picture. Navy Commander Nathan Christensen, a Pentagon spokesman, told the news outlet, “Without performing appropriate statistical adjustments to match the survey sample with the military population, it’s impossible to accurately calculate an estimated percentage of military households served by the Feeding America’s programs based on the survey data”. Christensen also told NPR that military pay and benefits compare favourably with the private sector, and that service members can always seek counselling should they face financial problems.

However, advocates say that troops are often too ashamed to draw such attention to themselves within the confines of the military, which is why getting help from food banks is often more appealing. Joyce Raezer, executive director of the National Military Family Association, told NPR, “The reason they go to the food bank is it’s anonymous” . Back in 2011, the FISH food bank in Lakewood WA, located near Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM), started to see a “surprising” increase in the numbers of military members in need of help. While JBLM offers a housing allowance to families who live off-post and programmes to help struggling families, some say it’s not enough. Frances Anderson, whose husband was on active duty at the time, told KING 5 News, “My husband is embarrassed because he doesn’t feel that we should have to be here. The economy is terrible. I just tell the people on post that I need help and they just look at me like I’m crazy”.

Find out how you can get involved with Feeding America’s efforts here

19 August 2014

Eleanor Goldberg

Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/19/military-families-food-banks_n_5691790.html