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Administration Is Handling TheSituation

March 11, 2014 Pew Research Center [Excerpts]


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As Russian troops remain in Ukraines Crimea region and Crimeas Parliament has setup a secession vote, Americans prefer the U.S. to not get too involved in the situation.

By a roughly two-to-one margin (56% vs. 29%), the public says it is more important forthe U.S. to not get involved in the situation with Russia and Ukraine than to take a firm

stand against Russian actions.

The new national survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted March 6-9, 2014among 1,003 adults, finds more disapprove (44%) than approve (30%) of the way theObama administration is handling the situation involving Russia and Ukraine, whileroughly a quarter (26%) offer no opinion.

Just 16% of Republicans and smaller shares of Democrats and independents (5% each)say that military options should be considered.

Among Democrats, 55% prefer not getting too involved and three-in-ten (30%) say theU.S. should take a firm stand.

But partisans generally agree that the U.S. shouldnt get too involved in the situation.Half of Republicans (50%) say it is more important for the United States not to get tooinvolved; just 37% think the U.S. should take a firm stand against Russian actions.

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Today Around 50 000 TookPart In The March For Peace In

The Centre Of Moscow There Were Also Some Anti-War

Actions In St. Petersburg,Ekaterinburg (With The Mayor OfThe City, Who Supported It AndSpoke There), Nizny Novgorod

And Some Other Cities


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At The Same Time There Were TwoDemonstrations For A Russian

Crimea The Total Number Of Participants Around 5000

15 March 2014 by Ilya Boudratskis in Moscow; Internationalviewpoint.org/ & CommonDreams

Today around 50 000 took part in the March for Peace in the centre of Moscow.

The demo was organized by the liberal opposition such Alexei Navalnys Progress Party.

The rally filled the streets from Pushkin Square to Sakharov Prospekt.

A lot of young and middle-aged people with Ukrain ian and Russian f lags andpeace posters marched through the Moscow boulevards for 3 hours.

At the end in the ral ly there was a speaker f rom Ukrainian Maidan, who came toMoscow specially, Nadya Tolokonnikova from Pussy Riot and some of theprominent musicians and journalists.


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There was a visible sector of the far left on the demo Russian SocialistMovement, the CWI group, anarchists , LGBT contingent and some others.

At the same time there were two demonstrations for a Russian Crimea, organized bysome far-right and Orthodox fundamentalist groups.

The total number of participants around 5000.

There were also some anti-war actions in St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg (with the mayorof the city, who supported it and spoke there), Nizny Novgorod and some other cities.

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This Is To Show UkrainianCitizens Our Solidarity, So They

Will See There Is AnotherRussia

No War! Russia Without Putin

No Blood. No Tears. We Dont Need

Any More

People take part in an anti-war procession and a rally in Moscow. (Photo: Reuters)


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March 15 By Will Englund, The Washington Post [Excerpts]

MOSCOW Opposition to Russias intervention in Ukraine sparked an unexpectedlylarge protest march here Saturday, as tens of thousands of demonstrators wavingUkrainian, Russian and European Union flags chanted No war! and Russia without

Putin.

They wore armbands and ribbons in the Ukrainian colors of blue and yellow, ribbons inRussias white, blue and red, and the plain white ribbons that were a hallmark of thelarge rallies against President Vladimir Putin that blossomed and then faltered in 2012.

Saturdays protest revived many of the slogans and attitudes that first arose on thestreets two years ago.

But several of the opposition leaders of 2012 including Alexei Navalny and SergeiUdaltsov were missing, both under house arrest.

Protesters also focused on the recent Kremlin crackdown on the remnants of afree press here, which they see as an issue related to the moves against Ukraine.

As if to underscore their point, the Russ ian wi re serv ices quoted police as saying3,000 people had taken part in the rally which was nowhere near reality.

[Everybody knows or will know this is an incredibly stupid lie. And everybodyknows or wil l know th is kind of stupid lie merely betrays a bit of panic beginningto rattle the Putin dictatorship. The oligarchs are already pissing their pants: seeBloomberg report next below. T]

Crowds walked from Pushkin Square to Sakharov Prospekt, which they filled. Dozhd

TV, an independent channel that earned the Kremlin's ire and now faces closure, put thenumber at 50,000. Organizers said 70,000 had come out.

This is to show Ukrainian citizens our solidarity, so they will see there is another Russia,a Russia that doesnt want war, said Maria Lobanova, 30, who had come to the rallywith her father, husband and two sons, ages 4 and 1.

One marcher carried an icon. Another had a cardboard dove.

A s ign made fun of Sergei Aksyonov, the newly instal led head of the Crimeanregional government, who is said to have connections to organized crime and isknown as the Goblin.

Goblin for Russia Hooray! it said.

Crimea is ours. Give us Alaska, said another, tongue in cheek.

No blood. No tears. We dont need any more, read a third.

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Dmitry Firtash, a 48-year-old Ukrainian billionaire who made his fortune importingRussian natural gas, was arrested in Vienna Wednesday by an organized-crime unit ofthe Austrian police on a warrant issued by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation,according to a statement by the countrys Interior Ministry.

He is alleged to have paid bribes and formed a criminal organization, according to thewarrant, issued after an FBI investigation that began in 2006, the ministry said.

One Russian billionaire, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of thesituation, said he was concerned about the effect potential sanctions might have onbusiness.

He said hed consider buying assets outside of Russia if sanctions were imposed.

Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman, said in a March 11 telephone interview that therewere no consultations with Russian businessmen and that they have not expressedany concern over the situation.

According to a March 13 repor t in the Wal l Street Journal , a spokesman forPresident Vladimir Putin acknowledged that business leaders in Russia have beenin constant contact, and that Putin had not met with any of them.

The report said a recent meeting between the countrys industrialis ts and high-ranking government officials turned tense when the subject of sanctions cameup.

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Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraines richest person, has lost more than $550 million since

Feb. 28.

The 47-year-old bil lionaire, who owns Donetsk, Ukraine-based conglomerateSystem Capital Management Group, expanded his business with help fromYanukovych.

Akhmetovs DTEK Holdings BV was the only bidder in two of five auct ions ofstate-owned energy assets, which were organized by the former presidentsgovernment.

The billionaire no longer supports his longtime ally and has committed to rebuilding thegovernment of Ukraine, according to a March 10 report in Londons Telegraph

newspaper.

He understands that the previous state of things is over, Ihor Burakovsky, head of theBoard of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting in Kiev, said byphone. He will try to maintain relations with all the significant players in the country.

Ahkmetov on March 9 met with Vitali Klitschko, leader of Ukraines UDAR party and apotential candidate for Ukraines presidency, to discuss the situation, according to astatement from UDAR.


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The use of force and lawless actions from outside are unacceptable, the bill ionaire saidin a separate statement on March 2.

I state with all due responsibility that SCM Group, which today employs 300,000 peopleand represents Ukraine from west to east and from north to south, will do everything

possible to maintain the integrity of our country.

The Cris is Also Threatens To Derail The Relationship Between The WestAnd The Russian Businesses The Bil lionaires Cont ro l

The 19 Russian billi onaires on the Bloomberg ranking have businesses, homesand bank accounts scattered around the globe valued at more than $208 billion.

Some of that wealth was accumulated through government ties that enabled them toacquire former state assets during privatization in the 1990s, transactions Putin calledunfair in 2012. They have since moved control of the assets out of Russia and into the

West.

Al isher Usmanov, the country s ri chest person, controls his most valuable asset ,Metalloinvest Holding Co., Russias largest iron ore producer, through threesubsidiaries, one of which i s located in Cyprus, an EU member nation.

The 60-year-old also owns a Victorian mansion in London that he bought in 2008 for $70million, according to a May 18, 2008, Sunday Times newspaper report.

Hes lost $1.5 billion since the crisis began, according to the Bloomberg ranking.

We are concerned with the possible sanctions against Russia but dont see any

dramatic repercussions for our business, Ivan Streshinsky, CEO at USM Advisors LLC,which manages Usmanovs assets, including stakes in Megafon OAO and Mail.RuGroup Ltd., said in an interview at Bloombergs offices in Moscow today.

Mail.Ru and Megafon revenue is coming from Russia and people wont stop makingcalls and using the Internet, he said. Metalloinvest may face closure in European and

American markets, but it can re-direct sales to China and other markets.

Transferring ownership abroad may prove problematic if sanctions are imposed. TheU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulatory authorities may tellU.S.-based banks to exhibit greater compliance with the existing Foreign CorruptPractices Act, Standard Bank (STAN) Group Ltd. said in a March 11 report.

The report also said the U.S. might investigate Russias compliance with the FinancialActions Task Force on Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing in an effort to pushthe country onto a black list, a move that would prevent global banks from dealing withRussian lenders.

The third escalation would be actual asset freezes, which perhaps would be the nuclearblow, as it would risk countermeasures from the Russian authorities, according to theStandard Bank report.


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Currently, there is no clear link between events taking place in Ukraine and any stepsthat might be available to freeze assets of wealthy Russian citizens overseas, MartaKhomyak, a partner of London-based PCB Litigation, said in a telephone interview.

However, given the pace of events and the underlying political tensions, I would not rule

out attempts being made to attack various Russian interests overseas.

Sanctions related to the Crimea crisis so far have been levied on individuals the EU saidwere responsible for the misappropriation of state funds and human rights violations,according to the regulation passed by the Council of the European Union on March 5.President Obama echoed the language in a briefing with journalists at the White Housethe next day.

Russians who are making bank transactions and opening new accounts will now beconfronted with increased suspicion, Valery Tutykhin, an attorney with John Tiner &Partners, a Geneva-based law firm that specializes in wealth management, said in an e-mail.

The cris is also threatens to derail the relationsh ip between the West and theRussian businesses the billionaires control.

Among the companies potentially affected is OAO Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK), thecountrys most-valuable steelmaker, which is controlled by Vladimir Lisin, Russias 13th-richest person. The company derived 21 percent of its $12.1 billion in 2012 revenuefrom Europe, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Sergey Babichenko, aspokesman for NLMK, declined to comment.

In the event of a European and U.S. ban on exports of the metal, NLMKs positionwould be weakest among Russian steelmakers, because it ships steel slabs to its own

mills in Europe, Kirill Chuyko, head of equity research at BCS Financial Group said.We see such actions as unlikely for the time being.

With its stock market falling and interest rates rising, Russia has suffered most ofthe financial pain the crisis has inflicted.

To the extent that they can, the businessmen in Moscow will be making theirsentiments and voices heard, said Credit Suisse (CSGN)s OSullivan. Im notsure the Kremlin will listen to them.

Billionaire Naguib Sawiris, Egypts second-richest person, whos done business withNorth Korea, Russia and Pakistan through his telecommunications companies, said hes

concerned about potential sanctions.

Putin has proven that toward the end of any crisis, he always goes back to reason andfinds compromises, Sawiris, 59, said in a March 14 e-mail. Therefore, I bet this crisiswill end amicably.


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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh hadI the abili ty, and could reach the nations ear, I would, pour out a fiery stream ofbiting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke.

For it is not ligh t that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.

We need the storm, the whir lwind, and the earthquake.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom theyoppose.

Frederick Douglass, 1852

The philosophers have only interpreted the world , in various ways; the point is tochange it.-- Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach

Navy Orders More Maintenance ToEnsure Machinery Stays Properly

Broken: Then Well Hire Contractors To Fix It

A sailor working hard to break a jet engine. (Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

March 13, 2014 By drew, The Duffle Blog


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SAN DIEGO The Navys top maintenance officer claims sailors have to work harderto keep their equipment broken.

Ive done my best to ensure sailors receive no training on maintenance they have todo, Adm. Dwayne Rodney said earlier today. Now they need to spend more time

maintaining their equipment without knowing how, so it breaks.

Then well hire contractors to fix it. This is the most cost effective way to keep our fleetlimping along in a state of semi-readiness.

Speaking to reporters, Rodney said he was proud to see his policies in action during arecent visit to the USS Decatur.

I watched a pair of sailors do some preventive maintenance on electrical equipment,Rodney said. First they turned it on to see if it worked, which it did. Next, they took itapart to wipe out some dust. After they put it back together it didnt work, as Godintended. Unfortunately, they were being unsafe while working with hazardous materials.

They used a tube of grease and didnt have the address of the company that made it.

What if they needed to send the manufacturer a letter? Safety first shipmates, headded.

Other sailors were observed preparing the boat report by turning on the water-cooledengine, sticking a hose in it, and running it at max RPM for five minutes. If they didntdo that every day the boat might work on a regular basis.

Source confided that Rodneys plan took years to implement.

First, he had supply change all orders for replacement parts to orders for rubber gaskets

and screws.

Second, he ordered every ship to spend the majority of their funding on TVs and leatherchairs for the supply office.

Third, he created the spot check program, where sailors would have to follow everyregulation required to do maintenance, turning each five minute maintenance check intosix or seven hours.

The constant breaking of equipment has been great for Navy Chiefs, who are now ableto gather in passageways several times a day to get in the way of sailors trying to fixthings.

The only flaw in this plan is minimal manning, Rodney told Duffel Blog.

Personnel is removing as many people as possible from each ship, which means thereis no possible way to do all the required maintenance. Machinery is sitting idle, whichmeans its remaining in working order for longer than it should. Im doing my best to fixthis problem.


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CLASS WAR REPORTS

Bosnia And Herzegovinas

Institutions Were Designed NotTo Represent Citizens AndDesigned Not To Function

The Political Class HasEstablished An Enduring Model Of

Officials Who Believe ThatCitizens Exist To Serve Them, AndAct On That Belief


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Bosnians Want An End To The Self-Serving Of The Polit ical Class, They

Want To Be Able To Work, And TheyWant Social Rights Improved AcrossThe Board

None Of Them Are Basing Any ClaimsOn Nationality, Religion, Or Any Of TheOther Divisions That Characterise BH In

The Stubborn International Stereotype OfIt

But it may be a sign that patience with predatory government and enforceddecline is coming to an end. The future depends on what happens, but apromising sign is that now this may depend on what a larger rather than a tinygroup of people may do.

2014/02/08 by Eric Gordy, EastEthnia [Excerpts]

At the root of every pol it ical problem in BH is the way that the state was

established through an agreement that was brokered between large-scale killersand international powerwielders in Dayton in 1995.

The killers were offered a great deal: take a break from kil ling folks, and we wil lfinance you, guarantee that you occupy pol itical off ice forever, and design asystem that absolves you of all accountability.

The citizens werent at the talks, and were not offered much of a deal, just the killersfantasy that every one of them was a manifestation of one of three never-coincidinggroups that somehow exhaust all of the possibilities that are around with regard toidentity and interest.

Think of the Dayton constitu tion as an outl ine for the plo t of a Star Trek episode.They even named one of their entities the Federation.

Over the two decades since Dayton, the immovable poli tical class that itestablished has taken every opportunity to demonstrate its irresponsibility andutter uselessness.

Last years JMBG protests were catalysed because of the inability of parties in theparliament to reach an agreement that would allow state agencies to issue identity


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documents to newborns, resulting in the death of a young child who wasprevented from crossing the border to get urgent medical attention.

The response of high- (and long-) ranking government off icials was to accusecitizens of endangering their security.

These feats of concern are carried out by politicians who are the highest paid in theregion.

In addition to the generous salaries they award themselves, officeholders are able tofurther supplement their earnings by claiming pay for membership in boards,commissions, consultative bodies and so on.

This in an environment in which unemployment among young people exceeds 60%.

The Daytonian political class has established an enduring model of officials who believethat citizens exist to serve them, and act on that belief.

One of the mantras of the political class, encouraged by its international overseers, hasbeen privatisation. In the broad context of an environment where most of the companieswhere most people used to work took the form of social property, that meant takinggoods that had been built through public investment and transferring them into privatehands.

And since private owners do not have the obligat ions that social owners have,this means a lot o f publi cly subsid ised asset-stripping, budget-skimming andcredit-bouncing. Many of the institutions that used to employ people have notdone so for years.

To take a specific example, lets look at Tuzla, where the protests began.

The local chemical factory SODASO used to produce 80% of the table salt consumed inYugoslavia, 208,000 tonnes of it in 1991.

By 1999 it was producing 21,000 tonnes.

Privatised in 2002, by 2013 the company employed only 422 people, down from 2500 in1998.

That local government bui lding that was at first defended by police with batonsand tear gas, then overrun by c itizens and then set ablaze?

Thats the former SODASO headquarters, being used by the local government asthe company languishes in receivership.

It is probably not too diffi cult to imagine the anger attracted by a building that hascome to symbolise how once a big functioning industry provided a livelihood forpeople, and now a bigger functionless bureaucracy lives off them.

Bosnia and Herzegovinas Dayton-made institutions were designed not to representcitizens and designed not to function.


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There is a High Representative who can (but generally does not) nullify governmentdecisions and replace officials.

There is a Consti tutional Court whose membership is made up of one-thirdforeigners which can reverse decisions by other courts and the parliament.

There have been some periods in which the international overseers of BHs governmenttook an active role.

But not lately: the tendency has been for institutions like OHR to think of the dominantpoliticians as potential clients who can be turned into protgs and eventually gain thecapacity to carry processes forward.

When OHR and related institutions were seen as overly active, this was a problem sincethere was a sense that they were impeding the development of institutions.

At the other extreme they are also satisfying nobody, as they have become the

guarantors of the unimpeded power of the useless elite.

As long as they wait for that tapeworm to transform itself into a cuddly little puppy, theyarent helping.

You want a taste?

Heres a nice essay by a former OSCE official who rearranges the words bold,customized, imagination and determination, dual integration, buy-in and goes on tosay zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..

This is not, at least in its gentler daytime incarnations, one of those protest movementsthat shouts a lot and has no orientation.

Well, the part of it that has been setting stuff on fire may be, but there are meaningfulparts of it that have been engaged in a different kind of articulation.

The six demands from the Tuzla workers, include investigation of il legitimatelyobtained pub lic property, elimination of special pri vileges for the political class,and formation of a new government that excludes participants in the existing one(which has since resigned).

The eleven original demands of the Tuzla protesters, published by the group Jer mi setie, include social welfare and the right to work.

There are a few other documents with lists of demands out there, and there will be a fewmore over the next few days, but they have some themes in common.

They want an end to the self-serving of the political class, they want to be able to work,and they want social rights improved across the board.


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None of them are basing any claims on nationality, religion, or any of the other divisionsthat characterise BH in the stubborn international stereotype of it.

Above all it is not a savage attack by hool igans on legit imate insti tutions andorder.

The existing institutions have not bothered to try justi fying themselves for sometime now.

And yes, whi le burning th ings is on the nasty and stup id side, there has probablyan excess of crocodi le tears shed about the fact that angry people are likely to actlike angry people.

The way this is prevented is by meeting peoples needs, not by stocking up ontear gas.

But it may be a sign that patience with predatory government and enforced decline iscoming to an end. Impatience itself, though, does not tell us very much about the future.

The future depends on what happens, but a promising sign is that now this may dependon what a larger rather than a tiny group of people may do.

OCCUPATION PALESTINE

Zionist Occupation Regime

Demolishes All Structures OfKhirbet Um Al-Jamal, Northern

Jordan Valley: Residents Attempted To RebuildTheir Tents And Sheep Pens, But

Soldiers On Site Would Not AllowThem To Do So


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This Policy Is Aimed At RemovingThe Palestinian Population From The

Jordan Valley After Being Obliged To Spend The NextTwo Nights Out In The Open, WithoutAny Shelter From The Elements, The

Residents Managed To Erect TenTemporary Tents, Using Materials

Salvaged From The Wreckage

Resident of Um al-Jamal, the Jordan Valley amid the communitys demolished homes.Photo: Atef Abu a-Rub, B'Tselem, 9 February 2014

20 Feb 2014 B'Tselem

On 30 January, 2014, Civil Administrative officials arrived with a military escort at theshepherding community of Khirbet Um al-Jamal in the northern Jordan Valley andproceeded to demolish all of the structures there, namely 16 tents and 12 sheep pens.

Twelve families with a total population of 61, including 31 minors reside in Um al-Jamal.

The demolitions were carried out on grounds of construction without permits. TheInternational Committee of the Red Cross, in a departure from its actions in previoushome demolitions by the military and in view of past confiscations by the military,


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announced it would not supply Khirbet Um al-Jamal residents with replacement tents orother humanitarian gear.

A resident of Um al-Jamal and her grandchild. Photo: Atef Abu a-Rub, B'Tselem, 9 February2014

Immediately after the demolition, the residents attempted to rebuild what was left of theirtents and sheep pens, but soldiers on site would not allow them to do so.

In addition, the military prevented Palestinian Authority officials of Tubas District fromsending humanitarian aid and tents to the community.

The military permitted the PA officials to send only thick plastic sheeting to cover theresidents belongings.

The soldiers eventually left and.

After being obliged to spend the next two nights out in the open, without any shelter fromthe elements, the residents managed to erect ten temporary tents, using materialssalvaged from the wreckage.

The community owns, a cow, 21 camels and more than a thousand sheep. Theresidents managed to rebuild about 20 temporary sheep pens and covered some withcloths to protect the young lambs.

Ever since the demolition the community has been living in fear that the Civil

Administration bulldozers might return.

The residents have nowhere else to live and rely on the local pastures for theirlivelihood.

The community is located in an area that the military has declared a firing zone.

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Children amid the ruins of Kh. Um al-Jamal. Photo: Atef Abu a-Rub, B'Tselem, 9 February 2014

Demolitions of this type are part of a longstanding policy Israel implements withregard to shepherding communities in the Jordan Valley; the Civil Administrationhas adopted various measures to keep these communi ties from remaining wherethey are and from using the land.

Palestinian have been denied access to most of the Jordan Valley, on various grounds.

The Civil Administration avoids making master plans for the communities living in thefew areas still available to Palestinians.

When Palestinians build without permits, which they cannot obtain, the CivilAdminist rat ion issues demol it ion orders for the s tructures and carries out some

of the orders.

This policy is aimed at removing the Palestinian population from the JordanValley, including for the purpose of establishing Israeli control o f the area andannexing it de facto to Israel, while exploiting the lands resources and minimizingPalestinian presence there.

In the long term, this policy is intended to ensure Israeli presence in the area, evenwithin the framework of a diplomatic agreement.

Israel as the occupying power in the West Bank must allow the local residents to leadnormal lives. This means that Israel must allow residents to build their homes legally as

well as grant them access to water resources.

In Um al-Jamal, the mili tary not only did not enable this, but would not even allowthe residents to rebuild their homes and also kept away any aid offered byhumanitarian organizations. Consequently, the military condemned them toexpulsion from their homes.

Yet under international law the expulsion of residents of an occupied territory ispermissible only under exceptional circumstances, such as urgent military necessity or in


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order to protect the local population. Yet even under these circumstances expulsionmust be temporary and, insofar as possible, residents must be provided with reasonablealternative accommodation until they can return to their homes.

Regardless, residents must be allowed to return home as soon as possible. Clearly, theexpulsion of the residents of in this case does not meet any of these criteria. Moreover,

in breach of Israels duties under international humanitarian law, the residents have beenoffered no alternative solution.

BTselem calls on the relevant Israeli authorities to enable the residents to rebuild theirhomes and to allow them to continue grazing their flocks on the land from which themilitary is attempting to expel them.

To check out what life is like under a murderous mil itary occupation commandedby foreign terrorists, go to:

http://www.palestinemonitor.org/list.php?id=ej898ra7yff0ukmf16The occupied nation is Palestine. The foreign terrorists call themselves Israeli.

DANGER: POLITICIANS AT WORK

Unarmed Father Beaten ToDeath By Police While Trying To

Settle Family Dispute:
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/list.php?id=ej898ra7yff0ukmf16http://www.palestinemonitor.org/list.php?id=ej898ra7yff0ukmf16http://www.palestinemonitor.org/list.php?id=ej898ra7yff0ukmf16


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Five Guys Got On Top Of Him,Beating Him Ruthlessly With

Fists, Knees, And Pepper SprayUntil He Was Bloody And Lifeless

Even Though The Man Is On TheGround, Motionless, Officers Tell Him ToCalm Down, As He Suffers Under The

Weight Of Several Police Officers

He Doesnt Move! You Kil led Him! YouKilled My Husband!

Officers press Mr. Rodriguezs skull into the pavement. (Source: Cell phone video)

February 25, 2014, Police State USA'

MOORE, OK A familys night at the movies on Valentines Day turned into a horrorshow when a husband and father was beaten to death outside a cinema by policeofficers.
http://www.policestateusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Luis-Rodriguez-2.png


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Things had not gone smoothly for the Rodriguez family who reside in Norman, OK due to a dispute which took place between Mrs. Nair Rodriguez and her 19-year-olddaughter, Luinahi. Mrs. Rodriguez says her daughter had been lying to her so sheslapped her during the argument, which took place outside the Warren Theater duringthe early hours of February 15th.

A bystander reported the incident and got the government involved. A bad situationwould soon turn horribly worse.

Mrs. Rodriguez had stormed away from her daughter, upset at what had happened.Luis went after her to calm her down.

Thats when several Moore Police off icers approached.

Luinahi and Nair both witnessed what happened next.

They say Luis, age 44, tried to bypass the officers as they were attempting to askhim for identification. Luis didn t want his wife to drive away while she was angry,

so he continued towards her.

Thats when Mr. Rodriguez was taken down, and beaten to death by five officers.

His family witnessed him getting pummeled with fists, knees, and pepper spray until hewas bloody and lifeless.

Five guys got on top of him, beating him ruthlessly. On the head just pow, pow, pow.Even with knees, Luinahi tearfully explained.

Mrs. Rodriguez pulled out a cell phone to record the incident. Im recording becausethis is too much, she says.

Her video began after the brutal beating was over, and only captured the moments whenLuis was already on the ground, being pressed into the cement by five men, and thenloaded onto a stretcher.

Even though the man is on the ground, motionless, officers tell him to calmdown, as he suffers under the weight of several poli ce officers. They handcuf fhim with ease and slow ly roll h im over, revealing his battered appearance. Hecannot sit up under his own strength.

Papa? Are you OK? asks his wife of 22 years. Then a stretcher rol ls out and thegravity of the situation sets in. Is he OK?! He doesnt move! You killed him!

You killed my husband!

When they flipped him over you could see all the blood on his face, it was, he wasdisfigured, you couldnt recognize him, his daughter Luinahi later described.

An officer assured Mrs. Rodriguez her that the government was taking good care of herhusband and kept insisting she produce her ID.


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An officer intercepts Mrs. Rodriguez as she tries to record and communicate with her dyinghusband. (Source: Cell phone video)

The cop then deftly told her that he would hold her cell phone as she searched forher identification. The officer then quickly shut off the camera and confiscatedthe device.

The family says they waited at the hospital, hoping that he would pull through.

They say they were kept from him for hours and were lied to when he was moved.Moments they could have spent saying goodbye were denied.

The department refused to return the cell phone or show the video to the mediaupon request. For a week and a half, the silence grated on those expectinganswers.

They are trying to h ide what they did viciously, Mrs. Rodriguez said.

After pressure from the public and the media, the department relented and turned overthe seized cell phone.

Police confi rmed that the Warren Theater has a surveillance video of the parkinglot, but they have not released it.

Michael Brooks-Jimenez, the Rodriguez familys attorney, made the following statementupon making the video public: He was not involved in the disturbance. However, whenpolice came, they focused their attention on Luis.

Taking him face down onto the pavement, pepper-spraying his mouth, nose andeyes and putting the weight of five grown men on top of him, and thenhandcuffing him as he was unconscious or already dead.
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Were obligated to detain and investigate, said Jerry Stillings, Moore PoliceChief. If someone does not cooperate with that investigation, we have to do whatwe have to do to get that information.

The chief claimed that Mr. Rodriguez was uncooperative and tried to leave.

According to the chief: one of the officers tried to detain Mr. Rodriguez, at which time,Mr. Rodriguez tossed the officer off of his arm.

The chief alleges that Rodriguez took an aggressive stance, leaving the officers feeling threatened.

Police neutralized the threat.

Its always impor tant to cooperate, the chief said.

Friends describe Luis Rodriguez as a sweet spirit and a peaceful, Christian man whowas nicknamed Pastor by those to whom he ministered.

Three of the officers have been put on paid administrative leave, according to NewsOn6.

NY Police Say You Cant SubmitFreedom Of Information Request ForOur Freedom Of Information Manual:

This Ruling Is A Concise Page OfBabbling Pseudo-Legalese

March 9th, 2014 Popular Resistance

Last month, NYPD rejected my request for the departments guides to processingfreedom of information requests, the latest in a baffling series of denials.

I appealed immediately, noting that the determination constituted a rejection forinformation on the very process of transparency with in NYPD.

This week, NYPDs ru ling came back: NYPDs lead freedom of information counselrefused to release the departments freedom of in formation guides, citingattorney-client privilege.

In his appeal rejection letter, Mr. David cites two statutes that bar disclosure of attorney-client communications. He argues that the records I requested reflect confidentialcommunications between members of the FOIL unit and their attorneys in the context ofthe providing of legal advice concerning the meaning and requirements of the Freedomof Information law.


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He further suggests that preparation of these records called upon attorneys to apply theskills and talents of an attorney, making these records attorney work product.

As I wrote in my appeal, I have no doubt that a team of lawyers drafted NYPDstransparency training materials and that they applied every ounce of barrister skill they

possess. I hope such qualified individuals would be charged with that task.

However, that a lawyer reviewed or even drafted these documents does not makethem exempt from disclosure.

I havent requested NYPDs case notes for FOIL litigation, or strategy memos forhow to respond to a particular request.

Im after the handbook that delineates generally which documents to disclose tothe public, and which to withhold.

Handbooks and training materials hardly qualify as confidential

communications, particularly when the subject matter is transparency itself.

Whats more, the New York statutes cited by Mr. David apply to the li tigationdiscovery process not the Freedom of Information Law.

While NYPD claims to have no say in the matter the cited laws prohibit disclosure ofthe requested records, Davids letter said the New York Committee on OpenGovernment contradicts that stance.

In an Apr il 2001 opinion, among others, COOG Executive Director Robert Freemanwrote that the attorney-client privilege applies only when records are preparedsolely for litigation.

Unless NYPD prepared their FOIL manuals solely for litigation, this ruling is a concisepage of babbling pseudo-legalese.

Mirroring the initial rejection, NYPDs appeal rejection starkly undercuts CommissionerBrattons commitment to do more to open up the organization, to make it moreinclusive, to make our information more readily available to the public.

Here, the department has dug in its heels: to get the NYPD Freedom of Information unitto divulge how it understands and applies principles of transparency, a freedom ofinformation request apparently is not enough.

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From: MSTo: Military Resistance NewsletterSubject: Re: Military Resistance 12C12: 50,000 March In Moscow Against PutinDate: Mar 15, 2014

Don't you think it's a little more complicated than just Hands off Ukraine?

Vivir es luchar....

Reply: T

Yes indeed!

Heres a comment from another reader:

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From: SR

To: Military Resistance Newsletter via AmericanConsienceSubject: Re: Military Resistance 12C12: 50,000 March In Moscow Against PutinDate: Mar 15, 2014

Thank you, this is most helpful.

In most wars there are no good guys - just rulers fighting it out with the blood ofordinary people.

It is imperative for good people in every country first and foremost oppose the warmaking and aggression by their own rulers.

It is good to see such a loud voice for peace in Russia.

Plainly a lot of Russians do not believe Czar Putin is a man of peace.

Certainly he is no more so than our warmaker in chief, Obomber.

P.S. - Don't hold your breath for this Russian peace demonstration to get any coveragein Russia Today or in many of the so called alternative news sources that parrot it.

Comment: TAnd i t's the responsibi li ty of those of us in the USA to oppose the Obama reg imesImperial policy towards the Ukraine with not one bit less determination.

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