Classic Irish Slipping Up! Reposting for those who haven't seen it!

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By: jironde on: 7:53 AM

McCain : I'm ashamed of my country cause it wouldn't give weapons to Ukraine

Serious passions flared up in Washington, DC, around the cooperation with Ukraine. It seems after all, Ukraine is no where near the US but very large and influential group of American parliamentarians concern about nothing these days but the issues of lethal weapons supply to Kiev -- We adhere to the view that lethal military assistance can't be delivered to Ukraine fast enough to change the military balance of forces - said on Thursday the head of the parliamentary hearings Intelligence Agency US Department of Defense (DOD), Lieutenant-General Stuart Vincent and repeated, probably for those who do not understood the first time. - Unable to deliver weapons fast enough to change the situation. But the general clearly didn't realize that in the presence of Senator John McCain it should be repeated at least once more even after the addition of a separate explanation for slowpokes. And for the third time his thesis was not repeated and McCain did not fail to take advantage of it.-- This is ridiculous. US could deliver weapons to Ukraine tomorrow. Especially, when we have transport cargo aircraft there, for such cases - McCain said proudly, then triumphantly and mockingly said that the head of the DOD was "absolutely illogical." Meanwhile, Stewart clearly had in mind not just the transport of weapons delivery, but also commission of their service into the Armed Forces of Ukraine, preparation and training of local staff to the use of weapons and many other nuances associated with the supply of equipment, weapons and ammunition. Which is clearly not comprehended by the brain of the American 78-year-old senator. Meanwhile, what happens to supply Ukraine lethal weapons now, even in Kiev hardly anyone knows. On Friday, Deputy Secretary of Defense Council of Ukraine Oleg Gladkovsky said that Kiev has already received lethal weapons from othercountries. - We work with the world ... Where there is no hype, where there is no impact that we,unfortunately, are creating, from these countries, we geta lethal weapon - he said, but refused to disclose details of deliveries. And just a couple of hours later, the official representative of the General Staff Vladislav Seleznev denied Gladkovsky's statement, stressing that from abroad Kiev currently receives only non-lethal weapons. Imagine foreign lawmaker in US on anti-government rally egging on violant protesters calling them to overthrow US president , how would US government react and what would McCain call that person



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Lightning then Thunder

The strike hit the TV aerial on the house 2 doors up and burnt out everything electronic that was connected to it. The lightning rod was built into the brickwork, as a result chunks of the wall blew out. Slowmo at the end. Translation. "Whoa, fuckin hell"



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7 Reasons the U.S. Should Stay Out of the Ukraine-Russia Fight

url]http://ift.tt/17CNWfS Huffington post/ forbes article The ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia appears to be holding, after Kiev's forces lost ground in a recent spate of fighting. Fortune could yet smile upon Ukraine, but as long as Russia is determined not to let the separatists fail, the former's efforts likely will be for naught. Only a negotiated settlement, no matter how unsatisfying, offers the possibility of a stable resolution of the ongoing conflict. Indeed, the alternative may be the collapse of the Ukrainian state and long-term confrontation between the West and Russia, at great cost to all sides. Agreeing to a compromise might be as hard for Washington as Kiev. The latter has more to lose, but U.S. policymakers have come to believe that they have been anointed to govern the entire Earth. However, while the U.S. and Europe can weaken Russia's economy and target Moscow's elite, they are not willing to risk military conflict with a nuclear-armed power, nor should they. Ukraine's most fervent advocates assume anyone not ready to commit self-immolation on Kiev's behalf must be a Russian asset left over from Soviet times. However, Washington policymakers should put America's interests before those of other nations, in which case there's no justification for jumping into the Ukraine-Russia imbroglio. There are at least a baker's dozen good reasons for the U.S. to avoid the fight. I recently covered the first six elsewhere : Ukraine isn't important geographically; Russia matters to America more than Ukraine does; blame is widely shared for Ukraine's travails; Washington never guaranteed Ukraine's security; Vladimir Putin is not Hitler, and Russia is not Nazi Germany (or Stalin's Soviet Union); and there's no genocide. But these are just the start. Seven more complete the baker's dozen. 1) Russia isn't Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya. Americans have come to expect quick, easy, almost costless victories. The Pentagon hasn't had a tough time defeating another government since Vietnam. It is the aftermath that has been difficult, an important reason that Washington didn't try to occupy Libya. While the Obama administration has resisted proposals for military confrontation with Moscow, a gaggle of ivory tower warriors has pushed to arm Ukraine, bring Kiev into NATO, and station U.S. men and planes in Ukraine. These steps could lead to war. However, Russia would be no pushover. The U.S., especially in alliance with Europe, should be able to defeat any nation in full-scale combat. However, Moscow has improved its conventional forces since their mixed performance in the 2008 war with Georgia. Russia has an air defense system that would preclude America's usual costless control of the skies. Worse, Moscow has a full range of nuclear weapons. It could respond to allied conventional superiority with use of tactical nukes. It's one thing to play military chicken with an impoverished third-world nation. It's quite another to challenge a nuclear-armed state. 2) Moscow has more at stake in Ukraine than the West has and will act accordingly. America's war-happy chattering classes often assume that but one harsh word from Washington will cause other nations to beat a swift retreat. If only President Barack Obama would "exercise leadership" and "demonstrate resolve," Vladimir Putin would admit he was wrong, abandon Ukrainian separatists, disgorge Crimea, and go into exile in Siberia. In fact, the status of Ukraine matters far more to Moscow than to Washington. America has no interests of comparable strength regarding Ukraine. Imagine if the Soviet Union had proposed bringing Mexico into the Warsaw Pact after having helped oust a democratically elected government allied with America. Washington's reaction would have been swift, strong, and exceedingly hostile. Since Russia has far more at stake in Ukraine's orientation, the former will devote far greater resources and take far greater risks than will the allies. Ukraine is a minor economic and security issue for Europe and of marginal concern for America. That's why no allied government is prepared to take military action in Ukraine. In fact, Kiev can expect only limited financial transfers along with financial sanctions against Russia. In contrast, the Putin government has accepted financial losses, economic isolation, human casualties, and political hostility. 3) Alliances should enhance U.S. security, not provide foreign charity. In 2008 NATO first agreed in principle to bring Ukraine into the alliance. Several European nations remain opposed, but Ukraine's most fervent advocates continue pushing to include Kiev. Last month Ukraine's Rada repealed the law barring membership, and President Petro Poroshenko advocated joining. It's impossible to blame Kiev for wanting the West to protect it. But it makes no sense for the allies to do so. Indeed, Washington has played the sucker throughout NATO's expansion. Adding new nations did not make America more secure. Rather, the U.S. treated its premier military alliance like international charity, bringing in nations that amount to security black holes. Washington paid to upgrade small militaries with minimal capabilities while promising to protect new members from threats irrelevant to America. Adding Ukraine (and Georgia) would be even more dangerous. Both have been at war with Russia. Both have had irresponsible political leadership. Both have an incentive to entangle the globe's superpower in their territorial disputes. Bringing them into NATO would dramatically degrade U.S. security by transforming minor conflicts irrelevant to Washington into potential military disputes between America and Russia. 4) Security guarantees and alliance commitments often spread, rather than deter, conflict. NATO advocates presume that membership would dissuade Russia from taking military action. Alas, deterrence often fails. History is replete with examples of alliances that did not stop conflict. And when deterrence fails, alliances become transmission belts of war. The worst war in human history, World War II, began despite defense promises made to Poland by France and Great Britain in an attempt to forestall a German invasion. World War I provided an even more dramatic example of alliances expanding rather than restricting conflict. An assassination in Sarajevo, Bosnia, spread war to most of Europe as well as to parts of Asia and North America. In many cases contending parties either discount the likelihood of countries acting on their promises or believe the stakes warrant risking war. Both likely apply to Russia in Ukraine. 5) U.S. foreign policy should be based on the interests of America, not on those of other nations. Perhaps the greatest distortion to U.S. foreign policy comes from ethnic lobbying. There's nothing wrong with having affection for one's ancestral homeland. But there's a lot wrong in designing U.S. foreign policy to benefit another nation rather than America, such as pushing Washington to risk war on behalf of Kiev. Doing so clearly is not in the interests of America or Americans. Of course, advocates of Ukraine are not the only offenders. Lots of ethnic Americans seem to forget who their government is supposed to represent. Descendants of Eastern Europeans were among the most fervent advocates of NATO expansion. For a half century the voting clout of Cuban Americans in Florida held U.S. policy toward Havana hostage. There is no worse political cat fight than between Greek and Turkish Americans. Ethnic Koreans express horror at proposals to shift responsibility for South Korea's defense to Seoul. There are several other examples. Ukrainian Americans are only the latest to urge Washington to risk war for their friends, family, and heritage. Some advocates for Kiev argue that Ukraine deserves support since France helped the American colonists win their independence during the American Revolution. Of course it makes sense for Kiev to ask for U.S. support, just as it made sense for the American colonies to request aid from Paris. But a request does not require a yes. France intervened in the American Revolution because Paris believed it was in France's interests to weaken Britain by splitting off one of its most important colonies. Going to war with Moscow would offer Americans no similar benefit. Indeed, France's aid to America pulled a weak monarchy into a much larger global conflict -- which Paris lost. That further weakened the monarchy, hastening the French Revolution. France might have avoided that horror had it not intervened on America's behalf! 6) It's Europe's turn to act. If Ukraine matters geopolitically, it is to Europe. If anyone should be providing subsidies and weapons to Kiev, it is Europe. If anyone should be offering military guarantees to Ukraine, it is Europe. If anyone should be introducing forces into Ukraine, it is Europe. If anyone should be bolstering Europe's military defenses, it is Europe. But Europe can't seem to be bothered. Just three European countries meet NATO's suggested level of military spending, 2 percent of GDP. Even Poland, demanding "reassurance" in the face of potential Russian aggression, fell short of that anemic level last year. The Baltic states are even worse: Among the three, only Estonia hits 2 percent. Nor is anyone else in Europe much interested in doing anything more, even for NATO states. When Poland and the Baltics insisted that other members station troops in their nations, Germany, the Cold War border state protected for decades by American, British, and other personnel, said, "Nein!" Other NATO members continue to shrink their militaries. Ukraine poses a crisis, the Europeans say, but, as always, the U.S. is supposed to do any military heavy lifting. 7) A negotiated settlement is the only solution. Ukrainians insist that Ukraine must be free to decide its own future. Yes, after the Second Coming, when the lion has lain down with the lamb. After people representing all the world's religions, ethnic groups, political philosophies, races, and everything else have joined together to sing "Kumbaya" around a global bonfire. After men and women again live in the Garden of Eden. The world is an unfair place, and many people are stuck in bad neighborhoods. Weaker parties must make accommodations as necessary. During the Cold War Finland maintained its domestic liberties by not antagonizing the Soviet Union. Taiwan lives in the shadow of an ever-more-powerful China. Qatar abandoned its independent foreign policy under pressure from its Gulf neighbors. Small Caribbean and European nations are bullied by America and the European Union on tax matters. The world is similarly unfair to Ukraine today. America and Europe will not go to war on Kiev's behalf. Ukrainians must recognize their limitations in deciding what to do. Military victory is unlikely. On their own, the separatists would lose to Ukraine's central government. But Moscow will not allow Ukraine to defeat its allies. In fact, in December President Poroshenko admitted, "There's no military solution in Donbas," since his nation lacked the resources to win. Even more so, Kiev will not recover Crimea -- militarily, at least. Stalemate is no solution either. Ukraine faces economic crisis. Government expenditures are up, revenues are down, and foreign investment is on hold. The economy has tanked. Ukraine needs to reform and rebuild, which will be difficult as long as the crisis persists. Kiev can't afford the war, which is costing $10 million a day. This year Kiev faces a $15-billion financing gap. Moody's warned of a possible debt default. Some economists worry about hyperinflation. The head of Ukraine's central bank spoke of a "full-blown financial crisis." Famed currency speculator George Soros argued that Kiev needed at least $50 billion in support. But neither America nor Europe is going to come up with anything close to that -- they currently have offered about $4 billion total. The allies hope that sanctions will force Russia to concede. Before Christmas Congress approved a new round of penalties without debate. The West's sanctions have been painful for Moscow, especially combined with the fall in energy prices. Still, Putin won't be retreating voluntarily. His term runs until 2018, and no one, in or out of government, appears able to challenge him. Massive public discontent could spark a popular revolution. However, foreign sanctions cause people to rally around their governments more often than they cause people to abandon their governments. As of December Putin's popularity remained at 85 percent, with the majority of Russians opining that their country was on the right track. If Putin's support starts to fall as the economy continues its downward slide, pressure on Putin to act will rise. However, he is not likely to yield to the West, which would be catastrophic politically. It's more likely that he would tighten authoritarian controls at home to stifle opposition activists and strike overseas to revive nationalist sentiments. An extended conflict would continue to spread economic pain well beyond Russia, especially as European economies continue to stall. Some European states already are lobbying to lift or moderate sanctions. In early January French President Francois Hollande called for dropping the penalties. In December the Czech Republic's finance minister, Andrej Babis, complained, "It brings nothing, these sanctions. They will only have a negative impact." Perhaps even worse than sanctions that do not force Moscow to its knees would be those that do. The prospect of Weimar Russia should cause Ukrainians and their friends in the West to be careful what they wish for. Europe especially has much at stake in Russia economically. Worse, there is little reason to expect a Russia in crisis to be democratic and docile. Greater nationalism at home and adventurism abroad would be more likely. Western-style liberals would not be the natural beneficiaries of an implosion at home. With no one prepared to yield, prospects increase for a "frozen conflict" involving Ukraine and ethnic-Russian separatists. Worse is unending confrontation between America/Europe and Russia. Who gains from a Ukraine that's bankrupt and divided? Who benefits from a Europe that's bleeding economically and a Russia that's responding sullenly? What of the future if the U.S. and Russia are increasingly at economic, political, and military odds? Warned Henry Kissinger, " resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy." A modus vivendi won't be easy, but it is essential. Ukrainians could say no, but they should do so in realization that they would be acting on their own. Their destiny is in their hands, but they cannot expect everyone else to back a destructive outcome. America and Europe should initiate discussions with Moscow, using sanctions as a negotiating tool rather than an endless penalty. A ceasefire should be policed by international monitors. Russia should acknowledge Ukraine's sovereignty and end military support for the rebels. Kiev should halt military operations and formalize further devolution of power on the Donbas. Ukraine should declare its military neutrality, endorsed by the West. Russia should accept Kiev's economic orientation both west and east. Of course, Moscow also could say no. However, such an agreement would meet Putin's security concerns and halt Russia's economic slide. He is an authoritarian, not a fool. And if a diplomatic resolution is impossible, it is better to find out now than to do so only after suffering through an extended Cold War lite. The Ukraine-Russia conflict is an unnecessary tragedy. But the only ending in something other than disaster is likely to come through negotiation. That might not satisfy any of the parties, but it likely is better than the alternative for all of them. Thankfully the ongoing battle doesn't much threaten America. But the U.S. still would benefit from peace between the two, as would the Ukrainian people, in particular. Instead of acting as a belligerent party, Washington should focus on shaping a diplomatic solution. Doing so won't be easy, but the Obama administration should make the attempt.



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7 Reasons the U.S. Should Stay Out of the Ukraine-Russia Fight

By: jironde on: 5:46 PM

Baby Black Tip Shark Attack Short Blooper Fail Owned

I TOLD YOU !



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CNN Mixes Photos of Putin and 'Jihadi John'

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By: jironde on: 7:55 AM

When Puberty Comes to an End

It's about time to change music son



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Ukraine's currency is totally collapsing: Welcome to EU, Ukraine. You asked for this, and now you see it. Now you can "enjoy" it!

Ukraine To Halt Currency Trading Again Any Minute Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/26/2015 10:41 -0500 With Prime Minister Yatsenyuk putting his foot down and squeezing the central bank to lift capital controls, Ukraine's currency is totally collapsing this morning. Up over 5 handles to a fresh record low of 33.75/USD, we suspect currency trading will be halted any minute . While we discussed the endgame for Ukraine last night, on the street, things are dire with ATM lines, shelves emptied, and local currency exchanges marking up levels dramatically more than the 'official' rates... The 'independent' Central Bank halted currency trading, and then the government screamed ... "I learned this morning on the Internet that the National Bank of Ukraine has, as usual on its own without any sort of consultations, made the decision to close the interbank currency market, which will absolutely not add to the stability of the national currency that the national bank is responsible for. This situation has a very complex and negative influence on the country's economy," Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said. And it was unhalted... and this happened... UAH collapsed... As Colonel Cassad report, Mariupol exchangers Today the dollar has broken another record. Buy 1 dollar for 44 hryvnia can sell for 32 hryvnia, according to the city's website 0629.com. Related to this is a panic in the city - in many shops in the city are buying cereals, flour, sugar. By the way, the price of sugar already reached 18 hryvnia per kilogram. "Soon people will buy cookies to drink tea without sugar," - joked seller. broke the record and the cost of a liter of gasoline - more than 26 hryvnia per liter of A-95. According to experts, now the price rise for imported goods and products. For example, the city has increased dramatically the cost of a kilogram of herring - up to 60 hryvnia. For the same money you can buy a kilo of meat. It is noteworthy that the dollar in Kiev a little different - there you can buy a dollar for 36 hryvnia, but also to sell for 32 hryvnia. According to the workers exchangers, such a situation has developed in Mariupol for the area ATO. with lines at the ATMs http://ift.tt/1FYQhAC "The Fall of the Hryvnya is Our Financial Ilovaysk"--Kiev nerves start to crack Rada Deputy Sergey Kaplin The Fall of the Hryvnya is Our Financial Ilovaysk By Sergey Kaplin Translated from Russian by J.Hawk The entire country is now a financial cauldron, we are surrounded by the infantility and self-importance of the National Bank, government, and power ministries. Those who took bribes in dollars are the winners, while those who paid their last hryvnyas in taxes are the losers. There are two reasons for this: Putin and Gontareva. Every cauldron, starting with Ilovaysk, was the result of a strategic miscalculation. The reasons are simple: ministers are not ministers, military commanders are not military commanders, but mere scum, children who think that the Motherland is a board game in which one can always throw the dice one more time. They were not born and destined to be the elite, this cheap not-quite-government which assembled 10km from the Maidan and watched the revolution from coffee houses, from the offices of Arbuzov and Klyuyev, even Azarov. They are not willing to give even their attention, let alone their lives, for the lives of ordinary people. Mr. President, show them the door! Adopt strict and consistent personnel policies! Clan people are always worse than the obsessed and the professionals, don't allow the government to be paralyzed! They already lost your Rada campaign for you, they are losing the war for you, they have buried the hryvnya, what's next? You are next! What's next is your devaluation and your defeat and the collapse of the State! God forbid! What is to be done about the hryvnya? First, the truth concerning what happened. There are two reasons, Gontareva and Putin. The second caused a crisis in the balance of payments: there is no coal, and we have to pay for it with hard currency, but there is no more hard currency because its main source was the Donbass and associated industries in the South. All assets have been expended to support the army, and we are not developing the internal market. Then there's Yatsenyuk and the failure of his reforms: we are living only thanks to imports. Then, Gontareva...She gave out financing to anyone and everyone, saved billionaires and multi-millionnaires, but her second crime was that she allowed them to use that money to play games on currency markets: they borrowed hryvnya at 20% and waited until it ballooned to 200. The third crime was that she allowed hard currency to desert to the West through fictitious import contracts. The fourth crime was that she dropped the hryvnya in the search for a more balanced exchange rate under the conditions of wartime-which is nonsense. The fifth crime is that she gave birth to a monster through her lack of activity, which is the black market which sees a turnover of two billion a day. Neither Yatsenyuk nor the Rada said a word about it. While Ukraine's "population" grew richer with every day! What is to be done? First, the Rada must investigate hyperspeculation and non-professionalism. Prison, prison, prison! The head of the NBU must be immediately fired, and the President and the Prime Minister must take the reins of control into their own hands. Both of them are competent financiers with the necessary political authority and a mandate to conduct surgery on the hryvnya. Secondly, establish an absolute military discipline over refinancing, those banks which need them "for balancing" ought to surrender their vault keys to the state, those who want to remain banks ought to start working like banks and not as currency trading kiosks on a giant scale. Thirdly, create an inter-agency commission to control the currency market: Finance Ministry, Customs, Tax Policy, Ministry of Economy, NBU, SBU, Prosecutor's General Office, MVD. Every import contract must be reviewed. Fourthly, limit, destroy, burn out with white-hot iron currency speculation by banks using refinancing. Everything that was stolen must be returned even if you have to use administrative resources and political influence. Fifth, immediately convene the Rada to strengthen the criminalization of speculation and black market activity, up to the "firing squad" or the ban to do anything financial for 50 years. Next to last, strictly regulate imports, allowing only that which is absolutely necessary to ordinary people. It's a temporary stabilizing measure. Last, form a strategy for redressing the balance of payments, mainly by increasing exports which would require a couple of years. Pay particular attention to the Military Industrial Complex, which will both help the army and will provide an influx of hard currency which will anchor the course of the hryvnya. For God's sake, try at least one of those measures! Do it immediately! J.Hawk's Comment: None of these measures are even remotely plausible. Ironically, the Yanukovych government was potentially better prepared to deal with a crisis like that due to his successful centralization of executive authority which, ironically enough, the Maidan protested against. There are too many vested interests to be overcome, except maybe through the introduction of a totalitarian regime--which, come to think of it, just might be right around the corner. The one thing that the writer, a Rada Deputy from the UDAR Party, does not mention is...improving relations with Russia. He is wrong to blame Putin for Ukraine's woes--they are entirely self-inflicted, and they were inflicted by Ukraine's original cauldron that was the Maidan. It was obvious from the outset that any policy of using Russophobia as a rallying cry for the new regime would quickly become a very costly one economically, not only because it would antagonize Russia, but because it also threatened to alienate big swaths of the country, like the Donbass, which Kaplin acknowledges was Ukraine's main source of hard currency. But the junta cannot reverse course now. Too many things were said, too many people killed, and none of those things can be undone. http://ift.tt/1LLePvg 26th February 2015, city Kiev, failed state Ukraine Today in the Kiev near building of city administration was 3rd protest against economical politic of city authorities. Protesters blocked traffic and demanded the resignation of Klitschko. Vitaliy Klitschko told to the journalists that these protesters are terrorists. Near building of Kiev City State Administration has launched a campaign "March of white handkerchiefs." Activists are protesting against the increase of tickets prices in public transport. Protesters almost completely blocked vehicular traffic on str. Kreschatik near the building of the KSCA. At the same time near the mayor's office has launched a campaign, which involves about a thousand people. People holding flags with the inscription "Peace, justice." They demanded the resignation of Vitaliy Klitschko, the mayor of Kiev. Participants of the action "March of white handkerchiefs" were from two categories of people: the vast majority - pensioners, about 100 people - young people aged between 14 and 18 years. About 30 cars of protesters with yellow flags "Peace, Justice" blocked traffic, leaving open only one lane on the road. At the same time they open the hood, as if their cars were broken. Kiev mayor Vitaly Klitschko has compared these protests and block of road traffic in front of the Kiev City State Administration to the terrorist attacks in Kharkov and Odessa. "They are people who aren't interested in returning to peaceful life in Ukraine, who aren't interested in the success of our state, so they don't abandon their attempts to undermine the situation not only in the East of Ukraine, but also in other cities. The terrorist attack in Kharkov, explosions in Odessa, blocking traffic in the capital and other provocation aimed at one thing - to destabilize the country, "- said Klitschko. Independent journalists report that part of people protested today for money, 50 UAN or 1,5 USD earned part of protesters today. I want to remind that in Maidan people got about 200 UAN or 24 USD as minimal payment for day of protest. Because economical situation became much worse, protesters cost less than before. Sources, Kiev junta media http://ift.tt/1BinTXo... http://ift.tt/1LLePvm... Maksim Ravreba, independent journalist http://ift.tt/1BinTXs http://ift.tt/1LLeMzO "We are losing"--Maidan die-hard toys with the idea of military dictatorship 2/26/2015 We are losing By Yuriy Kasyanov Translated from Russian by J.Hawk Let's speak openly. We are losing the war. The string of battlefield defeats, punctuated by the so-called "peace agreements" demonstrates the political powerlessness of the government and the total inadequacy of the military high command. Let's count. The agreement to let Girkin from Slavyansk, the destruction of our forces in the border sector D, Ilovaysk, the retreat from Lugansk airport, the loss of Novoazovsk, 32nd and 32st checkpoints, the defeat at Donetsk Airport, Debaltsevo...It's a far from complete list of our failures. The list of victorious lies is even longer: we tend to call our defeats victories, and to blame the Kremlin for all the failures. If the retreat cannot be prevented then it has to be renamed, by calling it a "planned withdrawal" with subsequent military decorations and commemorative photos. The treacherous Putin can serve as an alibi personal cowardice and incompetence. Our losses are under-reported by a wide margin. We are short of equipment, artillery ammunition is nearly all gone; we can't expect military aid from the glorious Western democracies. We can see the specter of total military catastrophe, the loss of even greater territories, an economic collapse, and the break-up of the state system of governance. We are losing. We are losing because we are fighting an enemy which we do not want to defeat. The enemy is not the homegrown separatists, not Russian occupiers, and not even the entire "Russian world" of Putin. We are our own enemy number one: our cowardly short-sighted leaders and clumsy commanders; our new/old Rada, incapable of accepting the responsibility for the country; the mindless corruption which had become a part of our lives; our serf worldview which expects favors from a good master. We do have enlightened minds, clean hands, and burning hearts. Nearly all of them are at the front. In general brains work better at war; life becomes more understandable and people show their true nature. Here you are valued by your deeds and not by your words; no rank, expensive equipment, or fashionable assault rifle are worth anything if the person is a craven coward. Here they fight well enough, to the extent that our GenStaff does not interfere; they consider each peace agreement the prelude to an even bigger war, and they know what needs to be done for that victory. It's different behind the front. Some are praying for the president, others curse him. While cursing, they find themselves a new icon on the blue screen, and pray to it. Behind the front, people put their hopes in the West, sanctions, and military aid. They consider all volunteers heroes, and the prominent battalion commanders Napoleons. Behind the front they don't want to fight and don't like bad news. In the battle between the truth about the war and the TV, the latter wins. When the reality of war penetrates mass consciousness, the citizens fall into cognitive dissonance with the propaganda inculcated earlier. It may end with a blind rebellion-an assault on the presidential administration, a siege of the GenStaff, the burning of the Rada, or the destruction of other foundations of the state which would only make our northern neighbor happy. The northern neighbor wants Ukraine. Putin dreams of rebuilding the USSR. The majority of Russia's population wants the same thing. Chauvinism is reaching unheard-of heights, military hysteria is growing, peaceful inhabitants of affluent Russian cities are ready to come to kill us. Putin is prepared to launch a direct aggression. The West and the US will not fight for us. Kremlin had won a convincing victory in the war of nerves against the entire civilized world: Ukraine was surrendered to Putin like Czechoslovakia to Hitler. We are losing. We are, in fact, alone, one on one with a cruel enemy. But we want to win. What is to be done? Fight in the rear areas and fight at war. Don't rebel but forcefully change the system. Change yourselves. Build a new army. Advance talented combat commanders. Develop the military-industrial complex. It's too early to give up. The struggle will be a long one...We'll talk about winning in the next article. What is to be done? What is to be done when the country is facing aggression, but no war has been declared? What to do, when the president shakes hands with the main enemy? How to fight, when GenStaff only creates obstacles, and plans defeat after defeat? What to hope for, if the West has chickened out and does not help? Where to find a fulcrum, when the majority of the country does not know and does not want to know the truth about the war? How to win? We have to admit we are at war. Don't declare war on Russia, but don't negotiate with the aggressor, in hopes for a mythical peace. One has to fight for real. The work of state agencies, the entire economy, societal life, everything has to be oriented toward victory. Victory is the achievement of the ultimate objective of the war. The objectives are understood and just: reestablishment of territorial integrity, reestablishment of the Constitution and the rule of law on the entire territory of the country, punishment of collaborators, criminals, and killers. Those are the national objectives, and not the "peace agreements" which should animate all of our ideas and deeds. One must not compromise with enemies of Ukraine, the state, and the people. The more consistent we are in pursuing our goals, the faster and with fewer casualties will our victory arrive. The West will not support us, or it will support us conditionally. NATO troops will not defend us, the US will not step in. Europe is too fat and peaceful, and is not ready to sacrifice for Ukraine. Obama is not Reagan or Bush, he is a weak president. We cannot expect military aid, serious arms supplies, or even full diplomatic support. The Old World is too dependent on Russian energy, and the US president is very afraid of the Kremlin midget with the nuclear button. We can count only on our own strength. This awareness will help us mobilize and win. The government should be up to the challenge, namely, the war. It's obvious our president is no commander-in-chief. Not a warrior. We need a Ben Gurion, who tore Israel out of centuries of non-existence, a Churchill who could mobilize the nation for a national struggle against fascism, our Vaclav Havel or Lech Walesa. We have none. (Timoshenko, Gritsenko, Lyashko, and Tyagnibok don't count). The country has no national leader, therefore all appeals for a "Third Maidan" are senseless and harmful. We'll get a pig in a poke or, worse, we'll get open traitors or marginal. Any destabilization of the country will be destructive to Ukrainian statehood, and will totally discredit the national idea. We need to influence the government. We need to insist. We need to argue. Through authoritative national representatives. Through the media. By meetings and demonstrations. Lawfully, but forcefully. Incidentally, the president is only part of the government. We are de jure a parliamentary-presidential republic. We need to demand action from our deputies. Meet with your deputies. Picket the Rada, organize meetings and demonstrations. This is a perfectly normal means of influencing the government in a civilized society. But no rebellions or coups. Unless we want to bury Ukraine. Our task is to force the president and parliament to adopt a range of important personnel and legislative decisions which will bring effective managers into positions of authority over the country's defense and untie their hands. First of all, we need to replace the military high command which has already established its inadequacy. In the army, as the saying goes, "the fish rots from the head"-all the problems, victories, and defeats are created from above. We fight in accordance with the quality of our leadership. We fight better when we ignore the leaders. It's stupid to blame soldiers and officers in their lack of preparedness, their inability to use equipment and weapons, in unwillingness to fight, in cowardice. It's stupid, because commanders are responsible for the cadre selection and for training. The soldier is only allowed to take initiative by dying in battle. The role of personality in the army and at war is very high. Military history is the history of war leaders. Everything depends on who commands. We're still yet to see any victories, and the long list of defeats is the responsibility of the president, the GenStaff chief. The Minister of Defense has the role of ensuring the logistical support of the military. The National Defense Council is an advisory institution. The Rada committee on defense has no authority whatsoever, therefore it's completely ignored. Only the president and the GenStaff chief are truly responsible for the war. To be more specific, only the president is responsible, because Muzhenko is the creature and subordinate of the president. Removing Muzhenko should be simple. The problem is in replacing him. There are officers at the front or in the GenStaff who are talented and who can lead the army to victory (Semenchenko, Melnichuk, Gritsenko, and Lyashko don't count). But will the president choose the best one, or at least one of the glorious pantheon of experienced combat commanders? What will he take into account, other than personal loyalty? The new GenStaff chief, should one appear, ought to receive a carte blanche from the president and Rada to wage the war. It means that the people, the Rada, the government, and the President will adopt the idea of preserving Ukraine as the national idea, and will entrust its implementation through military means to the new command. The new command should not have its hands tied by pseudo-piece with occupiers and bandits. The army ought not to languish on the perimeter of the occupied zone while the enemy is preparing new offensives and cauldrons. One should not merely react to attacks after the fact, but attempt to prevent them. The army ought to be constantly on the move, quickly and effectively. Plan offensive operations, destroy occupier basis and march columns as soon as they cross the borders of Ukraine. The tragedy of Debaltsevo was that after the "peace" agreement the command undertook no measures, except for unsuccessful attempts to create a "corridor". The enemy was counting on that, and carried out a regrouping which included the withdrawal of forces from other sectors of the front. At that time we could have easily liberated Pervomaysk and Gorlovka which were practically abandoned. We could have created a corridor to Debaltsevo from Krymskoye through Fruze and Stakhanov, attacking from the rear and surrounding the enemy forces near Bakhmutka. None of that was attempted. We strictly abided by the "ceasefire" while the enemy destroyed our forces at Debaltsevo... We can win, return our lands, and defend Ukraine only by attacking. It must be understood and implemented. It must become our military doctrine in the east. We must place talented commanders at the head of the army and give them real authority. We must reorganize the army and the front. We must act. We have very little time left. The enemy is mustering his forces. The real war will begin soon. J.Hawk's Comment: The Ukrainian internet is positively overflowing with the "Do Something!" genre of political analysis which, alas, tends to be rather divorced from reality. Because if eternal conflict with Novorossia and Russia is the dogma on which the post-Maidan Ukraine is founded, then any advice rendered on the basis of such assumptions is bound to belong to the realm of fantasy . This, too, is a highly unrealistic set of proposals. What, exactly, has kept Poroshenko from doing any of these things since he became president? We can safely assume nothing Kasyanov wants will come to pass. Which brings us to the next question: then what? Kasyanov comes very, very close to arguing in favor of a military dictatorship, both in his depiction of the front as the repository of Ukraine's real patriots who know how to get things done (not unlike the Frontsoldaten who would fix Germany once they came to power in the 1930s...) and in his call for the next GenStaff chief to have virtually unlimited authority. Should Poroshenko fail to deliver the hoped-for victory, might Kasyanov not place his hopes in a military strongman next? http://ift.tt/1BinWm7 Professor Faces Persecution for Supporting Novorossia 2/24/2015 They are killing me By Olga Zagulskaya Translated from Russian by J.Hawk The two weeks of persecution have had their effect. Now I am suffering from hypertension. Yet another act of psychological torture had its intended effect. When I was going to work, I was warned that the students are preparing a boycott. Young people easily agreed to attack a person who always acted on the principle "I'll give children my heart." They were set upon me by the "intelligentsia" of Miroslav Popovich, Yuriy Vinnichuk ,and Otar Dovzhenko. At least three SBU men were circling around me, which means it's not a purely student event. Journalists targeted me even earlier. In response to my sincere expression of beliefs and their sources, they titled their articles "Lvov National University professor openly supports terrorists," in other words, without any pangs of conscience they accused me of violating the Criminal Code. I asked them not to publish their materials in those issues which contain the TV guide, since my 77-year-old mother reads them, and she's ill. Why cause her the stress? But that's exactly what they did, they even published a photo of me. When my mother went to church on Sunday, they showed them those newspapers. Even during the Stalin era there was a saying that children are not responsible for their parents. But the perpetrators of the so-called "dignity revolution" don't know how to act in a humane manner. Journalists from the TV channel 24 were invited to the event, so as to make my suffering even more public. The dean called me to ask why I wasn't in class. My absence was noted and witnessed probably for the first time in the modern history of the department. I, someone who has not taken even sick leave the whole time I was at the university, am about to be fired for absenteeism. So as to avoid any legal proceedings. Only three years before retirement. At one point I felt so dizzy that I could no longer stand. I sat for a little while and went to the doctor. He performed all the necessary procedures, and now I am in treatment, possibly for a long time. All because I am not indifferent to what is happening in my Motherland and to the fates of people, because I have my own understanding of events, my own position, and which I express in public. But, as Taras Shevchenko once said: I incur punishment, I suffer, but I do not repent! J.Hawk's Comment: Olga Zagulskaya's "crime" was to criticize the Kiev authorities on her blog for the war on the people of Donbass, including naming them as the responsible party for the rocket bombardment of Mariupol. I doubt we'll see a "Je suis Zagulskaya" movement in Europe any time soon. Freedom of speech is not meant for people like her. http://ift.tt/1LLePvu Google Auto-Complete Reveals the Truth About Ukraine 2/25/2015 Google Auto-Complete Reveals the Truth About Ukraine Posted on Facebook by Baron Subbota Translated from Ukrainian by J.Hawk "Which illnesses Which illnesses make you exempt from military service Which illnesses make you exempt from ATO Which illnesses make you exempt from mobilization Which illnesses disqualify you Which illnesses classify as disabilities" J.Hawk's Comment: One has to keep in mind that the junta's support is actually very limited. The "true believers" are noisy and well organized (and now also well-armed...), but they are a tiny minority of Ukraine's population. We can already see how many Ukrainians voted with their feet to avoid being sent to fight Novorossia. Many more are "dissidents in place," waiting for an opportune moment to let their beliefs known. The example of Professor Zagulskaya shows that even in Lvov there a normal and brave people who reject fascism. http://ift.tt/1LLeMzP You lose because you're a criminal illegitimate dictatorship that has bombed Novorussia, are chasing the free press from the country, killing every voter who do not like the dictatorship, and you give your country away to US. Therefore you lose. Long live Novorussia and the partisan in Ukraine.



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Ukraine's currency is totally collapsing: Welcome to EU, Ukraine. You asked for this, and now you see it. Now you can "enjoy" it!

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CNN fail again in his propaganda videos.

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CNN fail again in his propaganda videos.

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How USA ignore laws of strategy

2400 years ago Chinese general and military thinker Sun Tzu created his famous The Art of War which summarize eternal laws of military strategy, leadership and waging of a warfare. His language is naturally archaic now but his rules are still actual, proven by thousands wars and battles. USA, in their utter arrogance ignore these rules, living in their own military mythology based on myth that brute power is everything in any war. Full text (English) of The Art of War you can find eg. at http://ift.tt/wQDMB6 You may go through and tick one point after another. Few examples: Sun Tzu says: I.18. All warfare is based on deception. - So why they cry Putin is not telling them full truth... I.19. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. - Russian army are incapable drunkers, are not? You can imagine who is spreading such ideas and for whose good... I.20. Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. - Slavyansk was good bait, wasn't. Ukies and their masters lost war owing to bombastic idea of "Impudent Strelkov, challenger of our Empire, finally in cage!" I.22. If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. - Mother Russia thanks for McCain and similar no-brainers... Putin is a judo master, he knows how to use opponent's energy of vicious agression... I.24. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected. - Americans have strange habit to be absolutely predictable. They are talking about sanctions months ahead their putting in force, they are talking on types of weapons they want to deliver to Ukraine... III.1. Sun Tzu said: In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them. - The physical destruction of enemy army after it surrended is strange American hobby. Look at Iraq... III.2. Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. - Don't say it to McCain... III.3. Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans; the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces; the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field; and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities. - Walled means defended now. Stupid sieges of Slavyansk, Gorlovka and Luhansk already brought their fruits, attacking army is utterly demoralised, defenders have long queues front their recruitment offices. III.5. The general, unable to control his irritation, will launch his men to the assault like swarming ants, with the result that one-third of his men are slain, while the town still remains untaken. Such are the disastrous effects of a siege. - Looks like Sun Tze was in Donetsk aeroport:-) III.12. There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune upon his army:-- III.13. (1) By commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant of the fact that it cannot obey. This is called hobbling the army. III.14. (2) By attempting to govern an army in the same way as he administers a kingdom, being ignorant of the conditions which obtain in an army. This causes restlessness in the soldier's minds. III. 15. (3) By employing the officers of his army without discrimination, through ignorance of the military principle of adaptation to circumstances. This shakes the confidence of the soldiers. - Commanding the army to sit calmly in cauldron was obviously beyond Sun Tzu's imagination... VI.5. Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected. - For some reasons, Americans always attacks places where they are expected for months. VI.17. For should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left, he will weaken his right; should he strengthen his right, he will weaken his left. If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak. - US military still tries to be strong (even strongest) everywhere. Predictable fail. etc. etc. What are roots of such strategic incompetence of US military? Probably in the fact that US military doesn't exist for purposes of waging war but for purposes of weapon manufacturers profits. Quickly won wars are not in their interests, they need stupid prolonged, bloody, material demanding wars, the very opposite of Sun Tzu's effective low cost high thinking war.



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Nominee for "Best Mom of the year 2015"

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US Condemns Attacks on Assyrian Christians: Just words: Make it Kinetic!

Statement by NSC Spokesperson Bernadette Meehan on Recent ISIL Attacks The United States strongly condemns ISIL's recent attacks on Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria, including the burning of homes and churches, the displacement of thousands, and the abduction of a large number of Syrian Christian civilians, among them women, children, and the elderly. This is but the latest round of atrocities perpetrated by ISIL against the innocent people of the region. Along with the targeting of minority and religious groups, in recent days ISIL reportedly took captive over 100 Iraqi Sunni tribespeople, including children, near the city of Tikrit. ISIL has also caged and paraded Kurdish Iraqi prisoners, displaying its trademark brutality and disregard for human dignity. The international community stands united and undeterred in its resolve to bring an end to ISIL's depravity. ISIL seeks to control people through fear and oppression, but ultimately ISIL and all that it represents will fail due to the collective strength, determination, and unity of all those who stand against it. Along with our coalition partners, and on behalf of all those persecuted by this terrorist organization, the United States will continue to lead the fight to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL. http://ift.tt/1A8jFMy That's great, but NOW DO SOMETHING KINETIC ABOUT IT TO HELP THEM! http://ift.tt/1Auitbh Some LL posts. Obviously the 1st OP is a .... http://ift.tt/1AMWxH7 http://ift.tt/1Auitrv Here are articles in the media, ranked in order of importance -- http://ift.tt/1GqRwWy http://ift.tt/1Auitrw http://ift.tt/1AuivzM http://ift.tt/1AMWA5C http://ift.tt/1BknlSC There are lots of pics of Assyrians who gave it all defending their people. Here is a teenager who fell. Here are images related to this topic: Here is an older related video: Here is a letter on the matter from a pertinent religious authority:



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US Condemns Attacks on Assyrian Christians: Just words: Make it Kinetic!

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Grade A EOD fail in Casablanca, Morocco

This video should be screened in every police/military academy to showcase exactly what NOT to do in case of a bomb threat. EOD guy wearing converse sneakers, another guy with no protective gear uses the latest EOD device called the R.O.P.E to violently pull the suspicious looking suitcase, because everyone knows the secret to disarming a bomb is slamming it to the ground. All this takes place within less than 50m away from civilans. If ISIS ever sees this video they'll probably leave Iraq and come to Morocco



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Fail while playing golf

Fail while playing golf



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Madonna brit awards fall best vines

Fat dude is the best!



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"Let's Jump in the Bushes!"

I think this bloke's been on the Special Brew.



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"Let's Jump in the Bushes!"

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Madonna falls of stage at the Brits

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prank with surfing board

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[Mission Failed] Thug failed to rob victim and get judge by angy mob,..

this is happen in my country when thug fail to rob victim and get judge by angry mob, burned and killed aftermath,.. aftermath for thug life :



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Diplomats swap warnings as West and Russia glower over Ukraine

During the uneasy ceasefire along the eastern Ukrainian frontline diplomats from all sides are trying to cross the Ts and dot the Is on the "Minsk 2" agreement which Kyiv already claims is being flouted. Russia's foreign minister appears to be anticipating just such a breakdown, and making it clear the fault will not be Moscow's. "A lot now depends on an honest, objective and unbiased approach by OSCE monitors who should observe what is happening on the ground so none of us succumb to attempts to make it look as though the Minsk agreements have already failed. There are many who want them to fail, both outside Ukraine and in Kyiv," said Sergei Lavrov. The west turned a blind eye to the ceasefire-breaking onslaught that sealed the Russian-backed rebels' grip on the Luhansk and Donetsk area, eliminating a bulge in the Ukrainian army's frontline that cut communications between the two rebel cities and severely compromised their economic viability. But the West is warning any fresh attacks will not be ignored. "We've told the Russians clearly that any attack by separatists in the direction of Mariupol will drastically alter things, including sanctions. I told Mr. Lavrov clearly if this happened then at a European level sanctions would be raised again," said French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Wednesday. However Mariupol, a city of some half a million people, is also critical for the economic future of Luhansk and Donetsk, as its port is the outlet for the Donbass's iron, steel and coal, despite the fact that it too has clapped-out production facilities dating from the Soviet era producing low-quality goods, and that any viable assets were long-ago stripped by oligarchs who either stole the money or invested it elsewhere in newer enterprises. A military buildup continues on the rebel side, while Ukrainian volunteer forces have ignored Kyiv's calls to respect the ceasefire and are trying to push the enemy out of positions from where it can fire on the city. Despite Mariupol's limited value, it appears a battle is on the horizon, although some analysts are suggesting the city could be by-passed while the ultimate goal, a land bridge to Crimea, is secured. On Wednesday German Chancellor Angela Merkel supported the French position, warning sanctions would indeed be back on the table if Russia supported continued violence, and that Europe was united on this point, adding this was a "very important signal" that needed to be heeded by Vladimir Putin.



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Fail: A close shell shuts these terrorists yappin

Aleppo: ShaM terrorists plotting their next terror acts, pray and receive a close shell blessing from allah



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Novaya Gazeta Misquoted by the West to Impute the Kremlin, says CSIS

UA Today, along with other trash like VOA and Vice write: A Russian newspaper has leaked what it's called a Kremlin policy document that details Russia's takeover of Ukraine. Novoya Gazeta has leaked the document, which it says was written by policy officials inside the Kremlin in the period between February 4 and 12 - just before the Euromaidan massacre and before the former president fled the country. The document lists Russia's takeover of Crimea, the need for a Russian PR campaign to win hearts and minds, and calls for a referendum in eastern Ukraine to give the appearance of legitimacy. Unlike much of Russian media which is controlled by the Kremlin, Novaya Gazeta has a reputation for being independent and critical of the Kremlin. Since 2001 six of its journalists from the newspaper have been murdered. Last year Novaya Gazeta was targeted by the Kremlin for publishing an expose on Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine. UA Today Link: http://ift.tt/17VauIP Vice Link: http://ift.tt/1Eo67Tv VOA Link: http://ift.tt/1B5bXd7 Now the truth about this document, written by Gordon M. Hahn Senior Associate of CSIS: Sorry to report this, but regrettably its constitutes the facts. Americans please be wary of what you read from the US mainstream media and DC think tank community. The owner of the falsified data presented below is a frequent presenter on Ukraine and Russia at the Heritage Foundation and elsewhere. He is a former writer at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and has taught in a university in Estonia. In a recent post published in Johnson's Russia List on February 20th, Paul Goble claimed that Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta editor Dmitrii Muratov discussed on the 'Osoboe mnenie' (Personal or Special Opinion) talk show on radio station Ekho Moskvy (Echo of Moscow) said a document in his possession "confirmed that 'the plan of war in Ukraine was developed in the administration of the president of Russia," that is, by Putin's entourage" (Paul Goble, "Putin Aide Linked to Maidan Killings," Window on Eurasia posted in Jounson's Russia List, No. 32, 20 February 2015, http://ift.tt/1AIVqIw ). Goble has falsified the facts. Nowhere in this interview or anywhere elese does Muratov say this. He in fact said: "This document, which purportedly was prepared by a group of people, in which, purportedly, participated the well-known oligarch, a man, who stole credit in VTB (VneshTorgBank or the Foreign Trade Bank), who is close to AFK 'Sistema' (a major Russian hiolding company), a person who is the creator of his own large foundation - I have in mind that Orthodox Christian, major oligarch Konstantin Malofeev... (interviewer interrupts) ... Someone from his circle, I think, that people (in his circle) have greater opportunity than he to go to the administration of the president, to the Kremlin, and they brought this scenario of possible events there" (http://ift.tt/1CMVQOM). So instead of a plan drafted in the Kremlin, as Goble falsely claims, the scenario was written by a private group. Some in the group, in the editor's opinion, had better access to the Kremlin than the groups's leader, the oligarch Malofeev, and, in Muratov's opinion, they were in a position or actually took this draft of scenarios and contingencies to the Kremlin. Even if the report was brought or sent to the Kremlin, it would have been one of tens of such reports, some of which would have been from much more powerful entities than a private group - the SVR, GRU, FSB, and MoD, just to mention a few. Goble further claims: "The 'document shows, Muratov said, that this plan was developed in the Kremlin between February 4 and February 15 of last year, that is, before Viktor Yanukovich fled from Kyiv'." Again Goble has falsified Muratov's claims: In fact, Muratov said nothing about the document being drafted 'in the Kremlin.' He said: "We can presuppose that this (the occurrence of the drafting) was in the period approximately from 4 to 15 February 2014, and there had still not been any overthrow of Yanukovich" (Russian: "



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Ultimate Redneck Fail Compilation

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How the Military Will Fight ISIS on the Dark Web

The Dark Web is not so much a place as it is a method of achieving a level of anonymity online. It refers to web sites that mask the IP addresses of the servers on which they reside, making it impossible to know who or what is behind the site or sites. They don't show up on search engines like Google so, unless you know exactly how to reach them, they're effectively invisible. Activists and dissidents in countries like China and Iran use the Dark Web to get around state surveillance; journalists use it to reach sources and whistleblowers rely on it to spread the word about institutional abuse or malpractices. New evidence suggests that the Islamic State, or ISIS, or at least ISIS supporting groups, are seeking the Dark Web's anonymity for operations beyond simple propaganda. Thus yet another challenge for law enforcement and the military: to track users on the Dark Web in a way that's effective against ISIS but that doesn't violate privacy. Adm. Michael Rogers, commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, speaking at the Cybersecurity for a New America Event on Monday in Washington said that groups like ISIS raising money on the Dark Web was "clearly a concern. It's something that we're paying attention to." Without addressing explicitly how the NSA, goes about the task of paying attention, he added simply: "We spend a lot of time tracking people that can't be found." A new report from the Chertoff group illustrates some of the ways that the national security community will be keeping tabs on those who have taken steps to make themselves untraceable online. First, while the Dark Web is incredibly valuable as a tool for dissident action, it also has some real dark spots. Ido Wulkan, the senior analyst at S2T, a Singapore-based technology company that develops Dark Web harvesting technologies, recently revealed to Isreali newspaper Haaretz that his company has found a number of websites raising funds for ISIS through bitcoin donations. Though researchers and journalists have reported on some indications of bitcoin use by ISIS and supporting groups, this is the first actual documented case, Wulkan told Defense One. "This specific website was found in several of the online communities which share information concerning the Dark Web. I originally came across it on a closed Turkish forum used by hackers." Some Dark Web content is accessible only via special software like Tor, a package that encrypts a user's IP address and routes Internet traffic through a series of volunteer servers around the world (so-called onion routing.) Like the Internet itself, Tor was a product of the military, originally designed by the Office of Naval Research to give sailors a secure means of communication. Today, an explosion of Tor usage in a specific place or among a certain group is one indicator of increased secret communication activity. That could mean different things in different places. In June 2014, when the government of Iraq blocked Twitter and Facebook as part of its response to the growing ISIS situation, Tor usage in that country exploded, according to Tor metrics data. Usage has since calmed down in Iraq significantly. ISIS activity on the Dark Web is growing, particularly on Tor sites, said Wulkon. "For several years now Jihadists have been sharing information online concerning Tor and its usage thus indicating clearly that is used by many of them. However, up until now I have not come across specific websites used for Jihadi purposes. I therefore assume many of them use Tor in the same way the general population does, through black markets and general forums where they can achieve material and information and remain anonymous. Moreover, since the Dark is far less indexed and far harder to come across than regular Websites are, there is the possibility that there are Websites used by ISIS of which we do not know yet." This does not suggest that people aren't looking. Last year, an investigation of the source code in one NSA program called XKeyscore, (revealed by the Edward Snowden leaks) showed that any user simply attempting to download Tor was automatically fingerprinted, essentially enabling the NSA to know the identity of millions of Tor users. But there's a difference between finding people who are on the Dark Web and revealing the nature of their interest and their behaviors within it. Recently, the Chertoff Group put out a new paper detailing some of the methodologies that they advise law enforcement to use to monitor Tor users and sites. Since it was co-written by former DHS director and Jeb Bush national security team member Michael Chertoff, it's safe to say it provides a good indication of current law enforcement thinking. The name of the paper is the Impact of the Dark Web on Internet Governance and Cyber Security, co-written with Toby Smith. The recommendations include mapping the hidden service directory, customer data monitoring, social site monitoring, hidden service monitoring and marketplace profiling. Most of those are fairly self-explanatory. Customer data monitoring refers to watching the visible web to see how user behavior relates to or telegraphs attempted connections to non-standard domains. Social site monitoring applies in this case not the usual players like FaceBook (though Facebook does have a Tor link) but also sites like Pastebin, which the paper refers to as a site "often used to exchange contact information and addresses for new hidden services." Hidden service monitoring just means staking out Dark Web sites and marketplace profiling means constructing models of how deals on the Dark Web go down. Mapping the hidden service directory presents a technical challenge that's a bit more unique. Tor uses a domain database built on what's called a distributed hash table. If Tor were a city, the distributed hash table, DHT, would be the architectural plans for the structures in it. Each node in a DHT can store information that, in turn, is retrievable if the user knows the exact address of that node. Mapping the DHT can reveal how those nodes relate to one another, providing a sense of shape for the broader network. The rest of the recommendations are somewhat self-explanatory. Will they do any good? To what extent do they represent future potential privacy violations? Cooper Quintin, a technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy watchdog group, answered: "the recommendations about monitoring Pastebin, semantic analysis of hidden services and grabbing snapshots of hidden services are fine and ethical things to do. I am concerned about the customer data monitoring suggestion however. To me, that seems like it could easily become a pretty serious invasion of privacy. Even if the IP address is not collected (as recommended in the report) it may still be possible to de-anonymize someone just through the metadata." In making this statement, Quintin is echoing the concerns of others in the data research community, such as MIT researchers Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye and C'esar A. Hidalgo who have shown how easy it is to identify cloaked IP addresses, work that could conceivably be useful to Dark Web searching. (Related: Terrorism Finance Trackers Worry ISIS Already Using Bitcoin) The privacy concerns of the techniques outlined in the Chertoff report are small relative to some other tactics that law enforcement uses to conduct investigations, so it's reasonable to expect that the above methods would play a role in future Dark Web investigations, if they don't play a part already. But law enforcement would hardly be limited to the strategies described in the report. Recently disclosed court documents show that the FBI has used some code from a software product called the Metasploit Decloaking Engine for Dark Web investigations. Metasploit isn't new. It's been an essential hacker tool for years. Kevin Paulson describes it for WIRED thus "If your Tor install was buttoned down, the site would fail to identify you. But if you'd made a mistake, your IP would appear on the screen, proving you weren't as anonymous as you thought." The court documents Paulson discovered reveal that in 2012, the FBI retooled an aspect of that code for something called Operation Torpedo, which was effective in revealing the activities of Tor users. It's becoming easier to find people on Tor as well as discover the sites they're visiting. Recently, Dan Kaufman, director of the information innovation office at the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency, or DARPA, appeared on 60 Minutes to discuss the agency's Memex project, which some have called a search engine for the Dark Web. Memex, according to Kaufman, has played a role in 20 different investigations. But you don't have to be DARPA or the NSA to search the unsearchable. A new service called Onion City (named after Tor's onion routing structure) claims to offer "search and global access to Tor's onionsites." As the Dark Web evolves, people will begin to organize within it in order to make it more useful. That's inevitable. As any organism grows it becomes complex; and as it becomes complex it seeks organization as a means to grow efficiently and minimize cost. It is in that organization that the hidden Web is revealing itself both to individuals who would seek to give funds to groups like ISIS and to spies who would seek out those people. http://ift.tt/1BaiHon



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Daily Mail geography fail: The British paper claimed Israel flooded 'Gaza's major West Bank cities'

Lessons learned by the Daily Mail: 1. There are no dams in southern Israel with which to intentionally flood Gaza; 2. Nablus and Jenin are not "two of Gaza's major West Bank cities." - The Daily Mail published a story on Monday that originally accused Israel of intentionally opening dams in southern Israel in order to flood Gaza. The only problem is, as writer and Lydia Willgress has learned the hard way, there are no dams in southern Israel. Honest Reporting, an NGO that according to its website "monitors the news for bias, inaccuracy, or other breach of journalistic standards in coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict," took screen shots of the article before amendments were made. However, after amending the article's headline to remove the charge that Israel was responsible for the flooding, the pretense for the charge - official Palestinian accusations of the charge - remained. "Brigadier General Said Al-Saudi, chief of the civil defense agency in Gaza, said that the dams were opened without warning." "Israel opened water dams, without warning, last night, causing serious damage to Gazan villages near the border,' he told Al Jazeera. This quote from the chief of the civil defense agency in Gaza remained in the article even after the article's headline was altered. The original Al Jazeera article now has a redacted quote, removing the baseless intentional flooding accusation, which still appears in full in an article written by Vice News , entitled "Israel Denies Flooding of Gaza Despite Palestinian Accusations." Libby Wiess, the Head of IDF Spokesperson's North American Media Desk, was quick to fire back at Vice News. Libby Weiss @Libby_weissFollowI wish @vicenews would at least check if dams in south Israel existed before asking us if we used it to flood #Gaza http://ift.tt/17vEJpA ... 2:11 PM - 24 Feb 2015 The intentional flooding accusation was also published and propagated in a video by the AFP news agency, which included interviews from Gazans blaming Israel for the flooding. Even more embarrassing than the baseless dam-opening allegation propagated by these news outlets, the Daily Mail's article attempted to connect the flooding in Gaza with the Israel Electric Company's decision to cut power to the West Bank cities of Nablus and Jenin for 45 minutes on Monday due to a 1.9 billion shekel debt, reported Monday by The Jerusalem Post "The flooding was today compounded after an Israeli power company cut electricity to two of Gaza's major West Bank cities," said the Daily Mail's article, even after a few revisions of the article. As Gaza and the West Bank are unconnected, separate geographical entities, obviously: (1) power cuts in the West Bank do not effect Gaza flooding, and (2) the writer of the article tried to redraw the map of the Middle East to try to connect the baseless claim of intentional flooding in Gaza to a totally separate phenomenon happening in the West Bank. Even after striking out with this major geographical failure, The Daily Mail's article continued to attempt to make a connection, saying "The decision came hours after the flood waters had settled." Furthermore, the article, despite "happily" clarifying at the bottom that southern Israel has no dams, continued to run the accusation that Israel is responsible for the flooding. The current flooding in Gaza is undoubtedly a tragedy, and The Daily Mail is right to help publicize this. However, that tragedy should not be "compounded" by the tragedy of shabby journalism.



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Wrong Man

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Good balance, almost fail

First time was lucky.



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Ridiculous Towing Fail

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Ultimate Girls Fail Compilation!

I though us guys were the only fucktarts on earth! We are not alone!



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forbes:Boycott Israel Movement Stunts The Palestinian Economy

A push to "boycott, divest and sanction" (BDS) Israeli companies has limited impact on the credit profile of Israel, yet it directly harms its intended beneficiaries, the Palestinians. The BDS movement, including universities, pension funds and leaders of some Christian denominations (to the chagrin of many congregants), ignores economic data. And it coincides with a disturbing rise of violent anti-Semitism across Europe . "The impact of BDS is more psychological than real so far and has had no discernible impact on Israeli trade or the broader economy," Kristin Lindow, senior vice president at Moody's Investors Service and Moody's lead analyst for Israel (in full disclosure, a former Moody's colleague) told Forbes. "That said, the sanctions do run the risk of hurting the Palestinian economy, which is much smaller and poorer than that of Israel, as seen in the case of SodaStream." While the broader Israeli economy is presently shielded from BDS, one victim is SodaStream, an Israeli company manufacturing DIY soda that shuttered a West Bank factory and moved it to southern Israel. This cut hundreds of jobs for Palestinians that reportedly paid between three and five times the local prevailing wage. SodaStream's CEO Daniel Birnbaum denied the move was BDS-related, though its profits plunged after BDS activists locked the fizzy pop maker in its crosshairs. "It has nothing to do with politics; we're relocating to a modern facility that is three times the size," Birnbaum told The Independent . "But if it was up to me, I would have stayed. We showed the world Arabs and Jews can work together." The numbers speak for themselves: Israel (population 8.3 million) has GDP of $291 billion, the Palestinian Territories (population 4.1 million), $11.3 billion . In 2012, Israeli sales to the Palestinian Authority were $4.3 billion, about 5% of Israeli exports (excluding diamonds) less than 2% of Israeli GDP, according to the Bank of Israel . In 2012, Palestinian sales to Israel accounted for about 81% of Palestinian exports and less than a percentage point of Israeli GDP. Palestinian purchases from Israel were two-thirds of total Palestinian imports (or 27% of Palestinian GDP). Such trade flow asymmetry shows Palestine needs Israel, economically speaking. Yet the BDS crowd would impair economic ties between these areas, despite evidence that trade between peoples lessens outbreak of war. BDS-ers want to obliterate the vast trade surplus Israel extends to Palestine and offer nothing in its place. Source: Bank of Israel, 2014 It's easy to cast digital stones from the comfort of a California dorm room or a posh British mansion . It's difficult to gainfully employ some 110,000 Palestinians as Israel does, or build 16 industrial parks in the West Bank and East Jerusalem hosting 1,000 facilities where Jews and Arabs work shoulder-to-shoulder. Despite overheated BDS rhetoric about exploitation, last year the Palestinian Authority's official newspaper hailed working conditions for Palestinians employed by Israelis in West Bank settlements. It also scolded Palestinians hiring other Palestinians for low wages with no benefits. We typecast librarians and mainline Protestants as mild-mannered pleasers, yetThe American Library Association, along with the United Church of Christ and the Episcopal Church, have considered BDS in this misguided Holy War against Israel. Throw in White House and congressional Democrats who, against the will of most Americans , might snub Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his U.S. visit next month. And a nuclear Iran, a regime vowing ethnic cleansing against Jews, grows more likely each day as Secretary of State John Kerry dithers. Through all this, Israel grows increasingly vulnerable, even as it continues to economically bolster Palestine. The BDS movement inflames rather than enlightens global dialogue around the peace process. Israel invests heavily in Palestine; the rest of the world doesn't bother. One bright spot is leadership in Congress from Peter Roskam (R-IL) and Juan Vargas (D-CA), who just introduced The Israel Trade and Commercial Enhancement Act. It would require U.S. negotiators to discourage Israeli BDS within countries seeking U.S. trade agreements. This would apply, for example, to a deal currently under negotiation with the European Union, where anti-Semitism and BDS are growing. This bill makes moral and economic sense; it would protect the shared prosperity of both Palestine and Israel. http://ift.tt/1CcqhO8



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Net Neutrality: From Internet to Obamanet

BlackBerry and AT&T are already making moves that could exploit new 'utility' regulations. By L. GORDON CROVITZ Feb. 22, 2015 http://ift.tt/1DIPLpA Critics of President Obama's "net neutrality" plan call it ObamaCare for the Internet. That's unfair to ObamaCare. Both ObamaCare and "Obamanet" submit huge industries to complex regulations. Their supporters say the new rules had to be passed before anyone could read them. But at least ObamaCare claimed it would solve long-standing problems. Obamanet promises to fix an Internet that isn't broken. The permissionless Internet, which allows anyone to introduce a website, app or device without government review, ends this week. On Thursday the three Democrats among the five commissioners on the Federal Communications Commission will vote to regulate the Internet under rules written for monopoly utilities. No one, including the bullied FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler, thought the agency would go this far. The big politicization came when President Obama in November demanded that the supposedly independent FCC apply the agency's most extreme regulation to the Internet. A recent page-one Wall Street Journal story headlined "Net Neutrality: How White House Thwarted FCC Chief" documented "an unusual, secretive effort inside the White House . . . acting as a parallel version of the FCC itself." Congress is demanding details of this interference. In the early 1980s, a congressional investigation blasted President Reagan for telling his FCC chairman his view of regulations about television reruns. "I believe it is imperative for the integrity of all regulatory processes that the president unequivocally declare that he will express no view in the matter and that he will do nothing to intervene in the work of the FCC," said Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a New York Democrat. Mr. Obama's role raises legal as well as political questions. Those harmed by the new rules could argue in court that political pressure made the agency's actions "arbitrary and capricious." The more than 300 pages of new regulations are secret, but Mr. Wheeler says they will subject the Internet to the key provisions of Title II of the Communications Act of 1934, under which the FCC oversaw Ma Bell. Title II authorizes the commission to decide what "charges" and "practices" are "just and reasonable"-an enormous amount of discretion. Former FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell has found 290 federal appeals court opinions on this section and more than 1,700 FCC administrative interpretations. Defenders of the Obama plan claim that there will be regulatory "forbearance," though not from the just-and-reasonable test. They also promise not to regulate prices, a pledge that Republican FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai has called "flat-out false." He added: "The only limit on the FCC's discretion to regulate rates is its own determination of whether rates are 'just and reasonable,' which isn't much of a restriction at all." The Supreme Court has ruled that if the FCC applies Title II to the Internet, all uses of telecommunications will have to pass the "just and reasonable" test. Bureaucrats can review the fairness of Google 's search results, Facebook 's news feeds and news sites' links to one another and to advertisers. BlackBerry is already lobbying the FCC to force Apple and Netflix to offer apps for BlackBerry's unpopular phones. Bureaucrats will oversee peering, content-delivery networks and other parts of the interconnected network that enables everything from Netflix and YouTube to security drones and online surgery. Supporters of Obamanet describe it as a counter to the broadband duopoly of cable and telecom companies. In reality, it gives duopolists another tool to block competition. Utility regulations let dominant companies complain that innovations from upstarts fail the "just and reasonable" test-as truly disruptive innovations often do. AT&T has decades of experience leveraging FCC regulations to stop competition. Last week AT&T announced a high-speed broadband plan that charges an extra $29 a month to people who don't want to be tracked for online advertising. New competitor Google Fiber can offer low-cost broadband only because it also earns revenues from online advertising. In other words, AT&T has already built a case against Google Fiber that Google's cross-subsidization from advertising is not "just and reasonable." Utility regulation was designed to maintain the status quo, and it succeeds. This is why the railroads, Ma Bell and the local water monopoly were never known for innovation. The Internet was different because its technologies, business models and creativity were permissionless. This week Mr. Obama's bureaucrats will give him the regulated Internet he demands. Unless Congress or the courts block Obamanet, it will be the end of the Internet as we know it. Read more: http://ift.tt/1DIPLpA



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Douche bag in corvette attempts to show off and fails

Volume Warning As above.



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Bill Gates Makes Me Sick (How The World Will Change By 2030)

I have a hard time digesting the motives of a man who is supposedly so "smart," all this feed the poor bullshit has not worked and will never work because flooding the planet with more people = FAIL Especially if those people are poor and backwards...Gates has donated over 20 billion dollars to the poor and my only question is who is gonna pay 100 more billion for the poor and uneducated created by this donation? People are not helping to end poverty they are giving to make themselves feel like good people while creating more poverty. Donating to the poor should just be called "donating to create more poor people." Used to have alot of respect for this guy...now he's Mr "FEED THE POOR"...hahaha . Mods please allow anyone to comment on my posts, thank you.



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By: jironde on: 11:49 AM

Pelvic Thrust workout goes viral

Haha this is great!



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By: jironde on: 8:53 AM

Panties Stuck in Dress

How embarrassing!



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Asian? First bong toke?

Sure looks asian to me at the end.



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By: jironde on: 8:53 AM

Is this the funniest goal in football / soccer history?

Original video: http://ift.tt/17sbxQi One of the funniest goals in football / soccer history.



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Is this the funniest goal in football / soccer history?

By: jironde on: 8:53 AM

Ice Shanty + wind = epic fail

Wait for it... Windy day out the lake...dude takes an ice shanty to the face.



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3 Attempts 3 Fail

Follow us on: http://ift.tt/1Lz89Cc And se all shot on http://ift.tt/1BHOT3H



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3 Attempts 3 Fail

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Fail Girl when lift leg

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snowmobile fail

dude inspects his snowmobile hood.



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snowmobile fail

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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail

Ungifted robber tries to break into a house



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U.S. Cop Fights to Keep His Secret Mercenary Army

300 residents. 100 reservist cops who paid handsomely for their badges. One embattled police chief, trying to hide the names of his pay-for-play deputies. Welcome to Oakley, MI.Oakley is a hamlet barely the size of a gnat on a Michigan map, but it has a cyclopean police problem. The 300 person town is farming out its law enforcement to 100 wealthy, mostly anonymous out-of-towners who pay big money to become reservist cops-complete with bulletproof vests and special gun permits. And while outrage has mounted over Oakley's glut of faceless reservists, the top cop there continues to lord over a pay-to-play-police racket. Now, state lawmakers and the feds are closing in with new laws and investigations focusing on town's cop kingmaker to force him to out his secret posse. Oakley Police Chief Robert Reznick But Oakley Police Chief Robert Reznick said there's no way he'll give up the names. ISIS, he claimed, maybe after his auxiliary police force. "These are brutal people who absolutely have no value of life," Reznick told me. "Whether or not it's far-fetched doesn't matter. Why would you want to put them in harm's way?" Oakley's reservist force isn't unique. In fact, they are a routine part of police departments throughout Michigan. But few towns have turned volunteer cops into a money-making machine like Police Chief Robert Reznick. In his last interview since lawyering up entirely months ago, The Daily Beast got a firsthand account of how Reznick runs his cop shop. "I bring in thousands and thousands of dollars," Reznick told me back in October. "Without that money from the police department the town would not be running." The formula worked for years in Oakley, where Reznick served as chief. This past year, Reznick was hired to be the police chief in nearby Waterloo Township, as well ( PDF ). Once there, Reznick pulled the same pay-for-play reservist move. A donor list acquired by The Daily Beast reveals a doctor named Jonathan D. Rose giving Waterloo's police force a 2013 Chevy Tahoe worth almost $50,000. A man named Albert Rabil shelled out $25,000 cash. And Harry A. Brink, the owner of US Speedo, a time device manufacturer, gave Waterloo's police department $10,000. Last May, Harry Brink made headlines when he was caught trying to make shoddy loans in return for lux cars while running an illicit pot enterprise . When Brink was busted with 200 pot plants, sources close to the case told The Daily Beast, had $500,000 in cash. Waterloo is now disbanding its police force. "We stopped patrol Feb. 1," a Waterloo Township cop named Bob said. He added that Chief Reznick was working on "a part-time kind of basis" to help their fire sale of weapons and equipment. "We're going to sell off whatever is of any value to other departments in the county and meanwhile we're getting police services from the county and the state." Oakely, on the other hand, has doubled down on Reznick-despite the fact that the police department was shut down from September through November because it was unable to get insurance because of the ongoing investigations. *** Oakley only stretches one-square mile, has a single streetlight, a grain elevator, a bar and a couple churches. But Reznick nevertheless maintains his force of 300 reservists to "police" the town. Almost every single one of his reservists lives more than an hour away. And these tourist lawmen don't have to do much beyond plunking down thousands of tax-deductible dollars. The auxiliary cops range from high-powered attorneys, celebrity doctors and even NFL players. To get an Oakley badge and an ID these wannabe cops pony up $700 for a bulletproof vest, $400 for their weapon, and a couple hundred for the uniform, Reznick said. Reznick said his cop perform house checks when locals are on vacation, as well as wellness visits for the sick and even deliver hams to residents each Christmas. Most importantly, perhaps, the reservists pay up. Reznick said $30,000 of the funds went into the town's Playscape, renovated the Village Hall, fit the police department with a new cruiser and a golf cart, and helped officers acquire new shotguns. In 2011, Oakley also managed to get some almost $30,000 to purchase 85 bulletproof vests courtesy of Uncle Sam ( PDF ). But Oakley couldn't collect the armor in time, and since then Oakley reservists "ended up picking up the bill" and buying the bulletproof vests, Reznick said. Stranger still, Oakley reservists are granted special firearms permits, which give them the ability pack heat almost anywhere in Michigan-including places deemed off-limits to civilians. Place like casinos, bars, stadiums, and daycare centers. Why the pseudo cops would need to carry an unrestricted pistol permit, don a cop uniform, and wear a bulletproof vest in a town virtually without felonies is anyone's guess. "There isn't any crime," Chief Reznick conceded. "The surrounding Township and adjoining county all have crime... The reason we don't have any is because of the police presence is here." But these supposed heroes of law enforcement don't want their identities revealed. And for months, Oakley's police chief has vowed those names would never come out. "Who gives a shit who is on the reserve unit," Reznick said about keeping the names private. "These are people who don't want their names out there, that do good for the community and do good for town and do good for individuals." But some of the who's who on Chief Reznick's reservist roster have leaked out. They include: Michael S. Kent, a fixture on infomercials for the face-lift procedure Lifestyle Lift . The plastic surgery outfit was under investigation by the attorney general's office in both New York and Florida when customers claimed the surgery was overhyped. Michael S. Kent Kent's lawyer Ken Zorn on Wednesday told The Daily Beast the doctor forfeited his badge: "He's already gotten rid of it some time ago." Jason Fox, is one of a pair of NFL players who defend Oakley from across the country. The Texas native is currently a tackle for the Miami Dolphins. Jason Fox Asked about Fox being an Oakley reservist while he's based in Miami, Reznick answered that pro football players can protect and serve even from afar. "Most NFL team players don't live in the state of the team that they play in most of the time." Asked about other out-of-towners who are also reservists Reznick became nonplussed: "So what if they are?" Reznick, who said he earns $500 a month salary as Oakley's chief, claimed he only turned to reservists when Oakley's denizens chickened out. "Nobody ever stepped forward and said 'Well do it. We'll serve.' It's also expensive. You have to buy your uniforms and you gotta pay for the equipment." Still, the reservists' names remain hidden. That could change. Especially after Saginaw News reporter Brad Devereaux faced off against the predominantly pro-police chief board in Oakley and filed a Freedom of Information Request and was flat out told "No document exists." "How can a government have a bunch of supposed citizen-reservists and no list of their names," attorney Philip Ellison, who represents several Oakley residents fighting against the village to release the names of the reservists, told The Daily Beast. "It was a bureaucratic lie in the worst way." *** Then in October, an Oakley reservist tossed a Hail Mary to keep the names anonymous. ISIS. Yes, ISIS! In a letter dated Oct. 15, Herschel Fink, a notable copyright and libel lawyer who reps The Detroit Free Press, warned that releasing the names would deliver a death sentence to Oakley's reservists. Fink cited an FBI bulletin released two days prior suggesting "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and online supporters call for attacks against law enforcement and government personnel." This week, when The Daily Beast reached Herschel Fink about the ISIS letter, he had little to say. "I have no clue. You probably have to talk to the police chief. There's nothing much I can tell you." Reznick said there are a litany of reasons to protect his reservists' identities. "The ISIS claim and the terrorist claim are only part of it," Reznick added. "The majority of them are friends of mine and I'm going to protect them." Beyond the reservist controversy, Reznick has managed to dodge accusations of his own misconduct. One alleged incident took place before Oakley's annual biker rally hosted by the local Oakley Family Tavern in September 2013. Reznick fanned out with over a dozen of his reservists that day to deal with over "600 bikers." "They're yelling over the loudspeaker, you could hear them all over town. 'Ladies: show us your fucking tits.'" Reznick said. "That's not the kind of thing that should be going on in a small community like Oakley." Family Tavern co-owner Shannon Bitterman said the police presence was overkill and that Reznick wanted revenge for a failed romance. " was bothering our barmaid for months and months asking her to work for him and clean his house," Bitterman told The Daily Beast. When the advances were rebuffed, Reznick threatened violence. "The last straw was he came into the bar and told her that he'd put her in his trunk and take her for a ride." The woman was so spooked, she went to work everyday wielding a kitchen knife. Reznick blamed that incident on a big confusion about a missing knife, not a malicious threat: "The barmaid had to take a knife out of the kitchen and she never took it back so they were out of knives." Yet another accuser appeared on Facebook saying Chief Reznick stalked her in Perry, Michigan, where he was once on the police payroll. "Reznick stalked me for a while before making his move," she wrote last week. "He had set up a life with me without ever meeting me." Reznick allegedly demanded to be invited to her house for a "relationship." She said she was forced to sign a statement that his overtures were reciprocated or else "he threatened to arrest me." Reznick said he's innocent. "The lady said I didn't do anything wrong," Reznick told me. "I took a polygraph and passed." Perhaps. But Reznick and his mini-army are now facing new troubles. On Feb. 10 the state's Attorney General put out a formal document accusing Oakley, and specifically Police Chief Reznick, acted illegally by letting its "improperly-appointed" reservists run rip shod. Oakley's "reserve officers have no authority to perform law enforcement functions for the Oakley Police Force," because they fail to meet state standards, according to the Attorney General's brief, released last week. Minting civilians as police reservists was done under "the wrongful assumption of governmental power." A bill is moving through the State Legislature proposing to help regulate towns like Oakley whose reservist programs operate without any oversight. State Sen. Tonya Schuitmaker told The Daily Beast Wednesday she is hoping a reservist regulating bill passes. "You should have a governing structure that sets the parameters on what reserve officers can and cannot do." The names of the donors, who essentially are all of Oakley's reservists, may be outed by March unless the Village of Oakley decides to fight the case in Michigan's Supreme Court. As for Reznick, he's been ordered to appear in circuit court in Corunna, Michigan on March 4 to testify about the secrets of the reservist program. But the police chief told The Daily Beast he'll never sing. "When I give people my word I'm going to give them my word. They want me to protect their anonymity and I told them I would." http://ift.tt/1CVpi2x



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