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Situations report from the frontlines in Ukraine June 13th by Juan

Juan
The vineyard of the Saker
Sat, 14 Jun 2014 05:15 UTC

1. Fighting central Mariupol near Novorossiya command post. Increasing intensity 06:15 13 June.

2. Minimum 3 main battle tanks Nats Army outside Lugansk captured by Army Novorossiya and are in use by new owners.

3. White Phosphor artillery shells used to bombard several villages around Slavyansk and Slavyansk City late evening and night. Fires in one village and Slavyansk City.

4. Unconfirmed but deemed reliable sources indicate chemical weapons and/or biological weapons to be used in Peoples Republic of Donetsk against civilian and Army Novorossiya targets coupled with simultaneous high casualty attacks against civilian targets in central and west Ukraine. Unconfirmed but reliable reports state Ambassador J. Pyatt of USA knows of this plan. Operations are scheduled for 3 to 5 days from 12 June 2014. Army Novorossiya is to be implicated in chemical and terror attacks.

5. Strong Nats armor column advancing on Lugansk City has been stopped on the outskirts by local self defense units. Several Nats tanks and BTR's destroyed in fighting.

6. Civilian dead from bombardments Slavyansk area night of 12 June including at least 2 children.

Kiev junta shoots itself in the foot yet again: Refuses to pay debts and prepares for cuts in Russian gas supplies

RT.com
Fri, 13 Jun 2014 15:18 UTC

© AFP
A picture taken on May 21, 2014 shows a gas metering station "Uzhgorod" near the Chaslivci village, not far from western Ukrainian city of Uzhgorod.

Ukrainian Prime Minster Arseny Yatsenyuk has ordered Energy and Coal ministries, regional governments, and Naftogaz to get ready for Russian gas supplies to be cut starting Monday, the cabinet's website said.

The measure is dubbed "the energy sector's functioning plan which involves the cessation of gas deliveries from the Russian Federation" and comes into effect on June 16, the document states.

With that, Kiev will launch its case against the Russian energy giant Gazprom at the Stockholm Court of Arbitration, the statement said. Yatsenyuk called for "preparations to be completed" for the process.

Moscow set Monday as a deadline for Ukraine to pay off part of its gas debt of $1.95 billion.

Yatseniuk also ordered the national regulator to revise transportation tariffs for Russian gas via Ukraine as Russia ships around a half of its gas exports to Europe through Ukraine.

Despite ordering the measures effectively undermining current gas talks with Russia, Yatsenyuk still blamed Moscow for the failure of the talks.

Comment: Well there you have it, "Yats" is completely insane and will destroy his country, all the while blaming Russia for everything like a spoiled child. Just the kind of puppet that the US loves!

The war on compassion: In 33 U.S. cities, it's illegal to do the one thing that helps the homeless most

Tom McKay
PolicyMic
Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:59 UTC

The news: In case the United States' problem with homelessness wasn't bad enough, a forthcoming National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) report says that 33 U.S. cities now ban or are considering banning the practice of sharing food with homeless people. Four municipalities (Raleigh, N.C.; Myrtle Beach, S.C.; Birmingham, Ala.; and Daytona Beach, Fla.) have recently gone as far as to fine, remove or threaten to throw in jail private groups that work to serve food to the needy instead of letting government-run services do the job.

Why it's happening: The bans are officially instituted to prevent government-run anti-homelessness programs from being diluted. But in practice, many of the same places that are banning food-sharing are the same ones that have criminalized homelessness with harsh and punitive measures. Essentially, they're designed to make being homeless within city limits so unpleasant that the downtrodden have no choice but to leave. Tampa, for example, criminalizes sleeping or storing property in public. Columbia, South Carolina, passed a measure that essentially would have empowered police to ship all homeless people out of town. Detroit PD officers have been accused of illegally taking the homeless and driving them out of the city.

Comment: Basic human values like compassion, decency, morality are all foreign and threatening to psychopaths, those who are ruling societies. That is why they are doing everything they could to destroy those values and turn normal people into pseudo-psychopaths.

Pentagon spent millions on boats that were never delivered to landlocked Afghanistan

RT
Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:11 UTC

© Courtesy of the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
One of the patrol boats purchased.

Despite being billed a "top priority" for American efforts in Afghanistan, a new government watchdog report found that the United States spent more than $3 million obtaining eight patrol boats that were never used.

Authored by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, the report stated the purchases were made back in 2010, but about four years later the boats are still sitting unused in a Virginia warehouse.

What's more, the report is raising questions about why the boats were needed in the first place. After all, Afghanistan is a landlocked country, with no coastline or prominent waters to speak of.

According to the Washington Post, military officials said the boats were originally intended desired as a way to move government supplies along the Amu Darya River near the border of Uzbekistan, as well as to "deter smuggling and illegal entry into Afghanistan."

Additionally, the cost of each boat turned out to be about $375,000 - far more than the $50,000 they usually sell for in the US. As noted by Fox News, the SIGAR report also raised concerns over how the boats would be repaired, since the nearest port would have been 1,000 miles away in Pakistan.

Yet despite authorizing the expenditure of millions of dollars, just nine months later US and NATO officials determined the boats were not needed. Since 80 percent of the money was already spent and the boats were nearly completed, inspector general John Sopko found that "it was decided that the contract should be allowed to proceed to completion."

During his investigation into the matter, Sopko discovered that records related to the purchase and cancellation of the patrol boats are severely lacking, and his questions to the military have not resulted in adequate answers.

"The military has been unable to provide records that would answer the most basic questions surrounding this $3 million purchase," his office told the Post in a statement.

Iraqi army collapses against Al-Qaeda spinoff in Mosul

Omar al-Jaffal
Al-Monitor
Thu, 12 Jun 2014 20:19 UTC

An armored vehicle belonging to Iraqi security forces engulfed in flames in Mosul, Iraq on Tuesday.

The governor of Ninevah province, Athil al-Nujaifi, blames "Maliki and his policies" for the fall of Mosul.

After a long night of shelling between government forces and armed groups in the province of Ninevah in northern Iraq, Ahmed al-Muslawi and his family decided to flee Mosul for Iraqi Kurdistan. When he awoke the next morning, he learned that the city had fallen into the hands of radical organizations, and that the shelling had stopped.

Speaking to Al-Monitor by phone, Muslawi said he didn't expect the city to fall that way. Mosul residents, according to him, expected the course of events in their city to resemble what happened in Anbar province in western Iraq, where government military operations have continued for more than six months.

Muslawi, a clothing store owner, said, "When the militants took control of the city, they knocked on the doors of houses and told residents that they would not be targeted at all ... and that their dispute was with the central government and its army."

According to Muslawi, the militants forced the owners of bakeries and gas stations to return to their jobs.

Iraq's terrorists are becoming a full-blown army

Eli Lake, Jamie Dettmer and Nadette de Visser
The Daily Beast
Wed, 11 Jun 2014 20:30 UTC

The group so extreme it got booted from al Qaeda controls huge swaths of territory. And now ISIS has got the heavy weaponry to back it up.
With the fall of Mosul on Tuesday, Iraq's al Qaeda offshoot has not only seized the country's second-largest city, it appears it also has come into possession of the heavy weapons and vehicles the U.S. military had provided Iraq's military to fight them.

That's terrible news for America's few allies left in Iraq as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) morph from terrorist menace to a military force capable of over-running an army the U.S. military trained for nearly a decade. It also calls into question the American government's decision to withdraw the last of its forces from Iraq in 2011. Three years later that withdrawal now appears premature.

ISIS themselves appear to be pleased with the booty of the Mosul campaign. On Twitter the group posted a photo of a beaming Umar al-Shishani, a senior ISIS commander, examining a captured American-made Humvee, which had already been driven from the Iraqi city to the eastern Syrian town of Deir ez-Zor. "Umar al-Shishani inspects spoils of war...Looks quite pleased," the tweet said.

Congress's Iraq invaders helplessly watch their conquests lost to new conquerors

Clara Ritger
National Journal
Thu, 12 Jun 2014 19:06 UTC

Americans are tired of war. For the 17 members of Congress who served in Iraq, that means watching helplessly as the cities they fought for fall once more to extremists.

Militants believed to be associated with al-Qaida overtook Mosul, the second-largest city in Iraq, on Tuesday. The group then seized Tikrit, hometown of former President Saddam Hussein, on Wednesday.

Three Republican congressmen who served in Iraq - Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Doug Collins of Georgia, and Brad Wenstrup of Ohio - said it feels like the progress they made has been thrown away.

"Going out across the desert I remember the feelings that you have, wondering if you're going to make it out alive," Perry said. "Right now I wonder what that was all about. What was the point of all of that?"

Comment: Indeed, what was the point? Oil? Israel? The U.S. made this mess, and it should be the one to clean it up. Unfortunately, it's unlikely the U.S. has the intelligence, means, or motivation to do anything about it. When their list of options can be counted on two fingers (military intervention, or do nothing), that should be a sign that the U.S. government is a complete and utter failure. Future historians will be right to look back at the present time and shake their heads at the West's catastrophic arrogance, stupidity, and blind cruelty.

ISIS too hot to handle: American 'contractors' being evacuated from Iraqi air base?

Lara Jakes and Julie Pace
Yahoo! News
Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:52 UTC

Officials say three planeloads of Americans are being evacuated from a major Iraqi air base in Sunni territory north of Baghdad to escape potential threats from a fast-moving insurgency.

A current U.S. official and a former senior Obama administration official say that means the American training mission at the air field in Balad has been grounded indefinitely.

Twelve U.S. personnel who were stationed at Balad were the first to be evacuated. Several hundred American contractors are still waiting to leave.

They have been training Iraqi forces to use fighter jets and surveillance drones.

Other U.S. contractors at a tank training ground in the city of Taji are still continuing for now.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they refused to be named in discussing the sensitive situation.

Comment: After more than a decade of 'war' against Al-Qaeda (CIA brainchild), now an uncontrollable Al-Qaeda offshoot is finally scaring the U.S. out of Iraq. How's that for karma? Unfortunately, Iraq is in chaos, bearing the brunt of the West's myopic insanity and hubris.

Mission accomplished? VP Biden once called Iraq one of Obama's 'great achievements'

Daniel Halper
Weekly Standard
Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:37 UTC

As Iraq falls apart, it's worth remembering Vice President Joe Biden hailing that country as one of President Obama's "great achievements" in a 2010 interview with then CNN host Larry King:

"I am very optimistic about -- about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government," said Biden.

"I spent -- I've been there 17 times now. I go about every two months -- three months. I know every one of the major players in all of the segments of that society. It's impressed me. I've been impressed how they have been deciding to use the political process rather than guns to settle their differences."

Comment: Biden couldn't have been more wrong. And the US (Obama included) has no one to blame but themselves for the chaos currently embroiling Iraq.

Isis a cruel goddess: Medieval Sharia law imposed on millions in Nineveh province

Jack Moore
International Business Times
Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:04 UTC

© Reuters
Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) patrol on a vehicle in Tikrit, which the group overran.

The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams (Isis) has imposed a strict set of Sharia laws on the citizens of Nineveh province just days after capturing the provincial capital of Mosul.

In a document circulating on social media attributed to the group, Isis warned tribal leaders and sheikhs not to "work with [the Iraqi] government and be traitors" while proclaiming that women should only go outside if absolutely necessary.

"For women, dress decently and wear wide clothes. Only go out if needed," read the document as translated by Al Aan TV reporter Jenan Moussa.

Further rules included bans on drugs, alcohol and cigarettes while public gatherings, the possession of guns and the carrying of flags not of the Islamic state were outlawed.

Comment: As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said recently, "events that are taking place in Iraq are an illustration of a complete failure of the venture started by the US and the UK that allowed it to spiral out of control completely." We wouldn't necessarily call it a failure. After all, medieval Sharia law meshes quite well with the Western ideal of 'democracy': an empty word masking pathocracy.

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Situations report from the frontlines in Ukraine June 13th by Juan

Kiev junta shoots itself in the foot yet again: Refuses to pay debts and prepares for cuts in Russian gas supplies

The war on compassion: In 33 U.S. cities, it's illegal to do the one thing that helps the homeless most

Pentagon spent millions on boats that were never delivered to landlocked Afghanistan

Iraqi army collapses against Al-Qaeda spinoff in Mosul

Iraq's terrorists are becoming a full-blown army

Congress's Iraq invaders helplessly watch their conquests lost to new conquerors

ISIS too hot to handle: American 'contractors' being evacuated from Iraqi air base?

Mission accomplished? VP Biden once called Iraq one of Obama's 'great achievements'

Isis a cruel goddess: Medieval Sharia law imposed on millions in Nineveh province

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