President Obama has placed whole nations on his Kill List. Syria and Venezuela are to join Libya and Iraq as states that have been made to fail, while Ukraine is snatched into the NATO-EU orbit. "The neo-conservative project for a new American century has reached full fruition under a Democratic president, who now has many notches on his gun."

"A superpower can foment conflict anywhere it wants to at anytime it chooses."

China's top paper, the People's Daily, has lambasted the West for being stuck in a "Cold War mentality" against Russia.

On Thursday, the daily staged the strongest reaction so far in China to the rift between the West and Russia over the political state of affairs in Ukraine.

"The theories related to politics, economics and security during the Cold War period are still influencing many people on their concept of the world, and some Western people are still imbued with resentment towards Russia," the daily wrote in a commentary.

It called on Western countries to "abandon their outdated thinking" and expand cooperation.

"Ridding the shackles of the Cold War mentality will reduce unnecessary confrontation, thereby allowing for a smoother transition in international relations."

US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that he is confident the next president of Afghanistan will sign a bilateral security deal with Washington that would authorize an enduring US military presence in the country beyond 2014.

The deal could allow thousands of US troops to stay in Afghanistan for up to a decade after the end of this year. Nevertheless, despite mounting pressure from Washington, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has so far refused to sign it.

"Whether it's signed by him or not we obviously have serious reservations, but all six of the candidates for the presidency of Afghanistan have said that they will sign it," Kerry told a group of reporters on Wednesday.

US National Intelligence Director James Clapper also indicated before the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier this month that it would be better for Washington to wait until after Afghanistan's presidential elections in April, hoping a new Afghan president might sign the deal.

The fight of Cape Coral, Florida resident Robin Speronis to live "off the grid" has escalated with the city's recent decision to cap her access to the sewer so she can no longer use it. It's a move she calls, "pure evil."

Since November 2013, WFTX Fox 4 has reported on Ms. Speronis' ongoing battle with the city to live without most utilities. The self-sufficient woman has lived for more than a year-and-a-half using solar energy, a propane camping stove, rain water, and eating mainly non-perishable food. However, the day after the station's first profile of her lifestyle Speronis' home was tagged by the city code enforcement with a notice to vacate.
The story of her plight spread and many rallied around Speronis' cause sending Cape Coral officials complaints in support of the woman. WFTX reported that the city clarified that, "...municipalities don't have the power to evict," and that the notice was placed because they, "...merely [wanted] access to the home to provide suggestion so Speronis can live off the grid in Cape Coral." After that incident, Speronis told the station, "Cape Coral needs to be afraid of me, I'm not afraid of them."

In Thailand, in 1980, one third of the rural population lived in absolute poverty.

This could mean one meal a day and no money to buy shoes or typhoid medicine.

In 1980, a child working 11 hours a day, in a workshop in Bangkok, would earn £36 per year!

Great for the Americans getting their cheap shoes and clothes made by child labour.

Hope and uncertainty reign in Kiev Saturday, after the alleged downfall of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych. Opposition leaders, declaring that "the dictatorship has fallen," have prepared the populace for the possibility of a batter future.

But one thing is clear: whether or not the protest will ultimately be beneficial for Ukraine as a whole, they have led to a worrying upswing in violence against Ukrainian Jewry.

Arutz Sheva's Russian-language sources reported disturbing facts on the ground Saturday, claiming that the Ukrainian police forces - who are loyal to Yanukovych - have been making open threats against the Jewish community there.

They have also been promoting anti-Semitic propaganda, according to the report.

"The police know that the damage to the Jewish community could ignite harsh reactions from European countries," a source stated to Arutz Sheva Saturday night. "Because of this, senior police forces there are attempting to bring the Jewish community into the turmoil."

On Tuesday evening, UK's Foreign Minister William Hague gave the world's diplomats a clinic in hypocrisy, asking Russia to foot the bill for Ukraine's economic recovery. After supporting an armed coup in Kiev, the British government has the audacity and insolence to suggest that Russia should pay to support the so-called "new authorities".

In a statement broadcasted by SkyNews, Hague said that it is not in Russia's interest to see Ukraine's economy collapse, claiming that what happened in Ukraine is not about creating "a binary choice" between Russia and the EU. That's a hypocritical statement. The whole armed mutiny against the legitimate authorities in Kiev was about tearing Ukraine from Russia and destroying any forms of economic cooperation between the two countries. The UK offered outright support to so-called "peaceful protesters" who shot the police, took the children and relatives of government officials as hostages and assaulted the parliament. Now, William Hague is trying to prove that the government formed with support from Ukrainian neo-nazis is a good partner for Russia. If Her Majesty's Government likes the new power in Kiev so much, then it should help it financially.

According to the calculations made by the country's "interim government", Ukraine requires at least 35 billion dollars in order to avoid default in 2014. It will be interesting to see whether the British public will agree to help the "young Ukrainian democracy" with their own money.

In another devastating blow to freedom, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police don't need a warrant to search your property. As long as two occupants disagree about allowing officers to enter, and the resident who refuses access is then arrested, police may enter the residence.

"Instead of adhering to the warrant requirement," Ginsburg wrote, "today's decision tells the police they may dodge it, nevermind ample time to secure the approval of a neutral magistrate." Tuesday's ruling, she added, "shrinks to petite size our holding in Georgia v. Randolph."

Georgia v. Randolph was a similar case the Supreme Court addressed in 2006, in which a domestic violence suspect would not allow police to enter his home, though his wife did offer police consent. The police ultimately entered the home. The Court ruled in the case that the man's refusal while being present in the home should have kept authorities from entering.

"A physically present inhabitant's express refusal of consent to a police search [of his home] is dispositive as to him, regardless of the consent of a fellow occupant," the majority ruled in that case.

The majority, led by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., said police need not take the time to get a magistrate's approval before entering a home in such cases. But dissenters, led by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, warned that the decision would erode protections against warrantless home searches. The court had previously held that such protections were at the "very core" of the 4th Amendment and its ban on unreasonable searches and seizures, reports the LA Times.

Ukraine's parliament approved a resolution Tuesday to have deposed President Viktor Yanukovych tried at the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

Under the motion, approved by 324 deputies in the 450-seat chamber, top officials who have been linked to the killing of protesters in the period from late November through to last week should face prosecution at the tribunal.

"The main purpose of this resolution is to ensure an independent investigation and punishment of those responsible of crimes against humanity in Ukraine," according to a note attached to the motion.

The group of politicians that has been running the country since Yanukovych was ousted Saturday by parliamentary decree accuses the former president of direct responsibility in the death of dozens of protesters during clashes with police last week.

I am a great fan of Kiev, an affable city of pleasing bourgeois character, with its plentiful small restaurants, clean tree-lined streets, and bonhomie of its beer gardens. A hundred years ago Kiev was predominantly a Russian resort, and some central areas have retained this flavour. Now Kiev is patrolled by armed thugs from the Western Ukraine, by fighters from the neo-Nazi -Right Sector, descendants of Stepan Bandera, the Ukrainian Quisling's troopers, and by their local comrades-in-arms of nationalist persuasion.

After a month of confrontation, President Viktor Yanukovych gave in, signed the EU-prepared surrender and escaped their rough revolutionary justice by the skin of his teeth. The ruling party MPs were beaten and dispersed, the communists almost lynched, the opposition have the parliament all to themselves, and they've appointed new ministers and taken over the Ukraine. The Brown Revolution has won in the Ukraine. This big East European country of fifty million inhabitants has gone the way of Libya. The US and the EU won this round, and pushed Russia back eastwards, just as they intended.

It remains to be seen whether the neo-Nazi thugs who won the battle will agree to surrender the sweet fruits of victory to politicians, who are, God knows, nasty enough. And more importantly, it remains to be seen whether the Russian-speaking East and South East of the country will accept the Brown rule of Kiev, or split off and go their own way, as the people of Israel (so relates the Bible) after King Solomon's death rebelled against his heir saying "To your tents, o Israel!" and proclaimed independence of their fief (I Kings 12:16). Meanwhile it seems that the Easterners' desire to preserve Ukrainian state integrity is stronger than their dislike for the victorious Browns. Though they assembled their representatives for what could be a declaration of independence, they did not dare to claim power. These peaceful people have little stamina for strife.