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My newest comment is posted on the site of the Int. Business Times (UK ed) at the end of an article: "Ukraine's Neo-Fascist...Leader to Run for President," March 7, 2014).  My next comment is from a story on RT about pro-Russian protests in eastern Ukraine against the new, Kiev coup "government."  Then, from a Yahoo Story "Ukraine mobilises army as West warns Russia" by Dmitry Zakson from AFP about recent events in the Ukraine.  The next is a comment by someone else, off-subject, but quite worth repeating.  The 2nd is my analogy about events in Ukraine.---Hugh Murray

hu.murray60 (signed in using yahoo)

The Kiev coup klan "government" began by trying to restrict the Russian language, thereby inciting the large Russian minority to rebellion. Crimea is leaving. Will all of eastern Ukraine also secede? The Coup Kiev klan is pushing many provinces out of the nation.

Hugh Murray 08.03.2014 17:44

The Kiev coup klan made its hostility to things Russian clear when they immediately enacted a law to restrict the Russian language. It is then natural for Russian-speaking and Russian-cultural areas to object and protest the unelected Kiev coup laws. If Kiev continues with its hostility to the ethnic Russians in Ukraine, then the Kiev coup klan is inviting the break-up of the Ukraine.  (post on RT)

RT has become a story itself, when an anchor quit on air, stating that she was an American, and would not report the stories that were pro-Russian on RT, Russia Today, a media arm paid for by the Russian government.  She won praise for her integrity by other American journalists.  However, one blogger Zaid Jilani for a tax-exempt American Center for American Progress Action Fund to write on national security matters, was condemned by his bosses whenever he wrote something critical of Obama.  It may have been tax exempt, but the purpose of the organization was to promote Obama propaganda.  Eventually, the writer had to leave the tax exempt organization because he disagreed with Obama's foreign policy.  (I assume Lois Lerner's IRS had no problems giving the pro-Obama organization a tax-exempt status, while denying such to conservative groups.) [For more on this story see The Daily Caller's story, March 7, 2014 about White House censorship.] 

Fat Lazy Democrat 54 minutes ago

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The President's Cabinet, along with leading Democrats in the House and Senate, met today for a strategy meeting. President Obama blamed Rush Limbaugh, Joe Biden blamed a lack of gun control, John Kerry blamed global warming, Nancy Pelosi blamed Fox News, Harry Reid blamed the Koch Brothers, Richard Durbin blamed the TEA Party, Kathleen Sebelius blamed Rand Paul for bad-mouthing the Affordable Care Act, Michelle Obama laid blame on childhood obesity, Barbara Boxer blamed rich Republicans for not paying higher taxes, Eric Holder blamed Arizona’s Freedom of
 Religion Law, Chuck Schumer blamed conservatives for not accepting amnesty, and HIllary Clinton 
was heard saying, "What difference does it make?"

 Religion Law, Chuck Schumer blamed conservatives for not accepting amnesty, and HIllary Clinton was heard saying, "What difference does it make?"

Hugh Murray

Imagine drug gangs in Mexico City taking over major government buildings there, setting up their own new "revolutionary government, and threatening the elected Mexican President. That duly-elected Mexican President then flees to the US and asks America for help. If the US then sent in troops to restore the legitimate Mexican government against the self-appointed rebel junta, would you call that a foreign invasion? Or help from a friendly nation seeking to restore legitimate authority against a rebel putsch?
Putin seems to be simply doing that in Ukraine, restoring legitimate authority against the self-appointed leaders of the coup in Kiev.