Today in Ukraine.
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Ukraine now says it repelled Russian military effort to enter area near Crimea washingtonpost.com/world/europe/t…
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David Beard (@dabeard) March 15, 2014U.S. resolution in UN Security Council condemning Crimea referendum got 13 of 15 votes. Russia vetoed it, and China abstained. #Ukraine
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Paul Waldie (@pwaldieGLOBE) March 15, 2014Map: Where Russian troops are massing near Ukraine nyti.ms/1gkfyDc
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(@grasswire) March 15, 2014UPDATED:
TURMOIL IN UKRAINE
A Drift Toward Cold War That Some in Russia Welcome nytimes.com/2014/03/16/wor…
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Andrew Ginsburg (@GinsburgJobs) March 15, 2014Putin's world.
I came.
I saw.
I conquered.
Now, I am isolated from the world.
#Ukraine
#UnResolution
Hmmm
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KSK(africa) (@lawalazu) March 15, 2014Russian Stock Market Collapse Continues. Down 20% Since Invading Ukraine businessinsider.com/russias-micex-…
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Jeff Gauvin (@JeffersonObama) March 15, 2014Russia totally isolated at UNSC. 13 vote for Resolution. Even China abstains. Russia alone in refusing to affirm sovereignty of #Ukraine
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Ben Rhodes (@rhodes44) March 15, 2014Just heard a so called expert say EU should protect the border between Slovenia and Ukraine which will be tough because they have no border.
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John (@linnyitssn) March 15, 2014Here we go: Russia says it will look into pleas for protection in Kharkiv, Lugansk and Donetsk in eastern #Ukraine. interfax.ru/russia/364892
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Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) March 15, 2014French ambassador on Russia’s veto of Ukraine resolution: “Russia has just vetoed the UN charter.” alj.am/UkraineCrisis
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AJAM Live (@ajamlive) March 15, 2014SHUT UP @SenJohnMcCain slams Obama 4 weakness, but offers game-plan 4 #Ukraine identical 2 what #WH is doing: nytimes.com/2014/03/15/opi… …
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Nancy Mitchell (@NancyWonderful) March 15, 2014***
Keep calm, and chat on.
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Good Saturday Afternoon, LL.
Still morning in my bailiwick.
The only thing I envy folks on EDT is that they get to watch English football at a much more reasonable hour.
Good Afternoon TODVille, Chips, but most of all Good Afternoon Danny-the-Boy. How handsome you look!
MARCH 15, 2014
UN Security Council: Ukraine Resolution
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The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting on Ukraine. Russia, one of five permanent members of the Security Council, vetoed a resolution that reaffirms Ukraine’s sovereignty & declares Sunday’s referendum on Crimea’s future illegitimate.
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http://www.c-span.org/video/?318324-1/un-security-council-meeting-ukraine
Awesome!
LMAO. Way cool.
Sweet!
Thank you Mr LL, a perfect way of catching up with developments.
WE are the media.
Indeed!
Absolutely, there’s more truth and facts in those tweets than in 24 hours of MSM coverage.
The serial complainers in the MSM are getting some deserved pushback:
http://www.everygoddamnday.com/2014/03/abe-lincoln-would-not-have-done-it.html?m=1
I liked that article, primarily because it confirms what an idiot O’Reily is. Thanks
And as they are no longer the “Party of Lincoln”, how in heck would they know what Lincoln would do!? What a bunch of lazy posers.
Suggest all of you send him some support, he was simply amazing during today’s #UNSC ….
All alone ….
And, yes, everyone is noticing ….
Thanks for the heads up, Bobfr. I did tweet him.
Oh no wonder…conflict of interest…like KatrinaNation, etc…
GM all from SoCal. So Ms Rozen’s true colors are coming out, which explains her recent tweets.
What about being “shocked and saddened” by what is happening to the blameless Ukrainians. What the hell is wrong with people like her?
veni, vidi, oops! crack me up, you win Saturday JO’B!
Thanks, Kathleen!
Prescient. From de Tocqueville:
Ah yes, LL, quite prescient indeed.
And, today, the only necessary modification would be:
“…. one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.”
to:
“…. one day to hold in its hands the destinies of the entire world.”
Nuclear winter being outside the scope of anyone’s imagination at the time de Tocqueville published ‘Democracy in America’ in 1835.
Thanks for the tweet, hf2.
I had to chuckle a bit at Steve. Like duh, dude … they’ve likely been meeting around the clock for the past 2+ weeks and I suspect they’ll be nothing else through the weekend. Only questions are when will the President address the Nation/World, and from which WH venue will he speak. I suspect it will be sometime Sunday afternoon, early evening EDT unless in the next several hours Ukraine is forced to fight the invading Russians.
#TrustBarack
problem is that many still believe the anti-O hype from a few loud mouths;
at the same time these dimwits ignore the dedicated work of Team Obama, diplomats and other leaders who understand that maintaining peace is hard and needs focus on a complex evaluation of long-term options and (obvious and unanticipated) results
That thing about pictures ….
Isn’t the caption to the top picture incorrect, Bobfr? I thought today’s march in Russia was anti-war?
Right wing racists conservatives have three role models……Stalin and Hitler.and Putin.
No wonder Reince & the GOP love them some Putin ….
I would not confuse talking with listening to yourself speak
Father traumatizes his young daughter while telling her that pro-choice demonstrators “believe in killing babies.”
J. Bradley Horner, former candidate for Mayor of Athens Alabama. The windchill at this time was in the upper 30’s. This video was taken in Huntsville AL.
This is the same kind of man who would kneel down to his little daughter and tell her that a black man and white woman being together is a sin, it is not right for races to mix.
While my missus still lived in Indiana, I went out to visit her and finally met her Dad and stepmom. Dad’s wonderful, stepmom was, well, not.
We pulled into a parking lot and at the same time a convertible with a black man and a white woman pulled in next to us. After that couple was out of earshot, the stepmom said “She’s just with him because of the car.”
THAT IMO was a sin! If that little girl ends up being home schooled *I* would also call it child abuse (+ another generation with a poisoned and intolerant mind). He’s probably the first person to brag of rearing his child in a Christian family, and will be the first to kick her out of his loving home a few years down the road if she makes a decision he doesn’t favour. Wonder where the mother was while daddy was mentally abusing her daughter? Self-righteous sicko!
I can imagine the response of certain folk ….
Oh, look at this gem from War Room Tom. OK, Then.
Ohhh Tom, your BFF Puttin will be very disappointed in you!
“like an angry teenage girl.” – He doesn’t even recognize the patronizing patriarchy dripping from his words. What an ignoramus.
So, Tom’s a misogynist as well as a silly boy …
Yup. He’s gone from trying to demean PBO for wearing jeans in the Oval office to dumping on teen girls. What a gem, eh?
Link to full UN Security Council meeting, 15 March 2014
http://webtv.un.org/watch/ukraine-security-council-7138th-meeting/3344058917001/
Link to Ambassador Power’s comments after the meeting
http://webtv.un.org/watch/samantha-power-usa-on-ukraine-security-council-media-stakeout-15-march-2014/3344058900001/
Link to Ambassador Sergeyev’s comments after the meeting
http://webtv.un.org/watch/yuriy-sergeyev-ukraine-on-ukraine-security-council-media-stakeout-15-march-2014/3343899282001
Federal judge strikes down Arkansas’ 12-week abortion ban –
See more at: http://arkansasnews.com/news/arkansas/update-federal-judge-strikes-down-arkansas-12-week-abortion-ban#sthash.llQXdqiJ.dpuf
KaBooooooooooM!!…AMB Power for the Win!
in the case of Ukraine (as it is so many cases), many in global politics fail because they listen to the criticism of PBO coming from the same usual suspects who have loud megaphones and are singularly focused on undermining and destroying this POTUS;
when events prove them wrong they just move on to the next and don’t acknowledge they were wrong about PBO;
I always remember that the usual lying O-hating characters with megaphones convinced the world that PBO was not going to be reelected or that if he was then the vote difference would be very small and would require counting for days if not weeks;
recall how a number of media outlets had staff on standby to wait for results many hours/days after the voting ended?
New post: http://theobamadiary.com/2014/03/15/de-tocquevilles-prophecy/