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No popular support! Anger rising in Ukrainian army over Kiev policies


Voice of Russia
Sun, 18 May 2014 10:16 UTC
Ukrainian soldier
© REUTERS/Marko Djurica
There have been signs of brewing anger in the Ukrainian Armed Forces as many servicemen are increasingly displeased with Kiev's policies.

On Saturday, a group of self-defense fighters held talks with servicemen deployed at an airfield near Kramatorsk.

"They say they don't want war, they don't want to shoot or kill anyone. Many come from our region. But they refuse to surrender - they have orders to obey," a spokesman for the self-defense forces told reporters.

Discontent among the servicemen has been fueled by worsening food supplies, the spokesman said.

Also stationed at the airport are about 70 representatives of some unknown organizations, probably Right Sector radicals.

"They wear black uniforms without any insignia and don't communicate with the military," the spokesman said.
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USA

Kentucky sues feds over right to grow hemp


Russia Today
Sun, 18 May 2014 08:33 UTC
Hemp
© Reuters / Baz Ratner
Hemp, the non-psychoactive variant of marijuana
Attorneys for the state of Kentucky are in federal court Friday afternoon attempting to have the United States government release hemp seeds imported from abroad that were intended to be used in pilot growing projects.

It became lawful to use industrial hemp in Kentucky starting in 2013, and a farm bill signed by US President Barack Obama earlier this year paved the way for states to grow the crop for research. The US Drug Enforcement Agency nevertheless seized around 250 pounds of hemp seeds shipped from Italy to the University of Kentucky earlier this month, prompting state officials to turn around and sue that agency and others.

Comment: Hemp is a huge potential source of new income for farmers in the US. It can be used to make rope, clothing, and a host of other useful products. With the US economy in shambles, it's a wonder why any government agency would interfere with discovering new sources of income.

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Attention

Turkish police fire water, gas at protesters in mining disaster town


Russia Today
Fri, 16 May 2014 00:00 UTC
Turkish riot police use tear gas against protesters in Ankara on May 14, 2014.
© AFP Photo / Adem Altan
Turkish riot police use tear gas against protesters in Ankara on May 14, 2014.

Police have fired water cannons and used tear gas to disperse several thousand demonstrators in the Turkish town of Soma, which became the scene of the country's worst mining disaster earlier this week.

People scattered into side streets as the police were dispatched onto one of Soma's main commercial thoroughfares, where the offices of the local government and labor union are situated, an eyewitness told Reuters.
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Bad Guys

Murdering the Opposition: UN Ukraine report shows double standards in attempt to whitewash Kiev's actions


Russia Today
Fri, 16 May 2014 00:00 UTC
Training in hand combat among opposition fighters
© RIA Novosti / Andrey Stenin
Training in hand combat among opposition fighters from the nationalist organization "Right sector" in a camp on Independence Square in Kiev.

Moscow has accused a UN report on violence in Ukraine's Odessa of being purposefully blind to hard facts and simply "carrying out a political order to whitewash" the actions of the coup-appointed government in Kiev.

The Russian foreign ministry believes that the report presented by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is marked by a systematic and routine ignorance of any Kiev involvement in sparking the Odessa carnage, while placing all the blame unequivocally with the pro-Russian self-defense forces. The ministry statement remarks that not a single word was said about neo-Nazi elements who engaged in setting buildings on fire with people inside, shooting dead anyone who opposed them and finishing off the wounded in plain sight.
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Family

Thousands of Ukrainian refugees and forced migrants entering Slovakia


RT.com
Fri, 16 May 2014 11:38 UTC
customs post slovakia
© Reuters / Petr Josek
People wait at a customs post at the renovated pedestrian crossing between Slovakia and Ukraine at the east Slovakian village of Velke Slemence.
Amid Ukraine's looming political crisis, thousands of illegal immigrants from the country may soon flood its neighboring country - Slovakia, a tendency which raises concern, says the Slovakian prime minister.

"We can speak of thousands of illegal migrants from Ukraine who are motivated to cross the Schengen borders in our or other zones," said Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico at the GLOBSEC annual conference in the country's capital, Bratislava, reported Itar-Tass.

Meanwhile, organized criminal groups have recently been stepping up illegal transportation of migrants across the Slovak-Ukrainian border, according to Mr Fico.

Slovakia borders Ukraine's Transcarpathia region in the West. This is Ukraine's shortest border - only 98 km long.

In February, Jozef Danko, spokeman for the Slovakian village of Vysne Nemecke on the border with Ukraine, told Voice of Russia radio that the inflow of vehicles from Ukraine has recently increased, not only from the nearest cities which border Vysne Nemecke but also from other parts of Ukraine.

"If earlier there were many cars from Uzhhorod [Ukrainian city] and Transcarpathia [region], now there are more cars from Kiev," he added.
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Bulb

Crimea's biggest banks switch to Russian Sberbank payment system amid card payment crisis


RT.com
Fri, 16 May 2014 12:07 UTC
russian national commercial bank
© RIA Novosti / Mihail Mokrushin
A woman enters the Russian National Commercial Bank building in Sevastopol.
Russia's National Commercial Bank, Crimea's biggest lender, has begun issuing cards on the basis of the PRO 100 payment system, developed by Russia's biggest financial institution, Sberbank.

The other two biggest banks of the peninsula - Morskoy Bank and the Black Sea Bank of Reconstruction and Development - also plan to join in the near future.

The Crimean banks chose the PRO100 payment system amid the urgent situation with card payments on the peninsula and the need to take quick action, Kommersant says. Russia's National Commercial Bank isn't a member of international payment systems like Visa and MasterCard, while the other two can neither service their existing cards nor issue new ones.
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Smoking

100,000 sign petition against smoking ban in Russia


Russia Today
Sat, 17 May 2014 18:51 UTC
Smoking
© RIA Novosti/Alexandr Kryazhev
Could cigarettes contain the latest clue to an anti-ageing drug?
100,000 signatures have been collected for the petition calling Russian lawmakers to backpedal on the smoking ban. Also, restaurants and bars have found a way to partially avoid the ban that's due to come into effect on June 1.

The Association of Restaurateurs and Hoteliers of Russia that unites over 3,000 food and beverage establishments is also demanding to postpone or cancel the ban on smoking in restaurants, cafes and bars.

The organization, along with the all-Russia movement "For the rights of smokers," has drafted a list of amendments to the legislation and launched a petition, which collected 100,000 signatures in favor of the changes.
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Dollar

Millions of taxpayer dollars wasted on Obamacare websites that still don't work

Lily Dane
The Daily Sheeple
Tue, 13 May 2014 16:18 UTC
obamacare cartoon
© Joe Heller
Obamacare was officially launched nearly seven months ago, and there are still four states that still have broken exchanges.

Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon and Nevada have spent $474 federal tax dollars on their websites so far, and will likely spend far more repairing them, or on moving them to the federal exchange.

The Fiscal Times reported the numbers, and they are shocking:
Maryland will spend an additional $40 million to save its website, which has already cost $90 million. Nevada has spent $50 million to date and will decide in the coming weeks how much more it will spend on repair efforts. Massachusetts will pour an additional $121 million into fixing its severely troubled state portal, while also using the federal portal as a back up plan.

Meanwhile, Oregon's website, which already cost $259 million, is so troubled that the state has opted to scrap the site entirely and spend an extra $5 million to use Healthcare.gov instead. CoverOregon executives said repairing their website would cost an additional $75 million.
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Bullseye

Comedian Rob Schneider: We are sliding very fast towards fascism

Chris Stigall
CBS News - Philadelphia
Fri, 02 May 2014 10:20 UTC
Image
© Noel Vasquez/Getty Images
Chris Stigall spoke with comedian Rob Schneider on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT about the struggle comedians face in today's current political environment.

Schneider struck on ominous tone when discussing the path he sees the country on.

"Democracies don't end well. We are sliding very fast towards fascism. It's an ugly kind of thing. There's this kind of mob mentality that we have to be careful of," he said.

He believes comedians are pressured toward one side of the political spectrum.

"There's a polarization that's happening...I do think you look can look at government and go, 'Wow, it is out of control now,' and if you do criticize or tend to be not directly along a liberal stand, you can get murdered," Schneider commented.

Schneider was very critical of the President's handling of the economy and he feels certain policies are impacting businesses.
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Snakes in Suits

Snakes in suits: Turkish politician reveals his true nature by kicking mining disaster protester

Harriet Sherwood
The Guardian
Thu, 15 May 2014 08:51 UTC
Image
© AP
Yusuf Yerkel kicks a protester already held by special forces.
Incident came as Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was jostled by crowds during visit to scene of country's worst mining disaster

His face contorted in anger, a man in a suit and tie takes aim for a running kick at a protester pinned to the ground by two soldiers.

Yusef Yerkel, an aide to the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was photographed making the violent assault during a visit to the town of Soma, the scene of the country's worst ever mining disaster. He kicked the man three or four times, according to Turkish media.

The image of Yerkel - a former PhD student at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies - caused a furious response on social media and could fuel anti-government protests in the aftermath of the mining accident. He later promised that an explanation of the incident would be delivered in a statement on Thursday.

The incident happened on Wednesday as Erdoğan was jostled by a large angry crowd as he tried to enter a building. Amid jeers, whistling and chanting, security aides were forced to hold back protesters to allow a visibly shaken Erdoğan to pass.
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