In South Ossetia, was held an anti-fascist rally of solidarity of the people of South Ossetia with the people of Ukraine, Odessa residents, Kramatorsk, Slavyansk, Kharkov and Luhansk. On the church square of Tskhinval gathered a lot of people – the leadership, the public and guests of the Republic.
The participants strongly condemned the criminal actions of the current Ukrainian authorities against the civilian population of the country.
Participants of the meeting made an appeal to the UN Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the OSCE chairman Mr Didier Burkhalter and PACE President Ms Anne Brasseur, which contribute to call an immediate halt of the carnage in the south-east of Ukraine.
Below is the complete text of the letter:

Lao Tzu Putin is far from going to checkmate. He may – and will – wait. The exceptionalist empire will keep doing what it does best – foment chaos – even as sensible Europeans, Merkel included, try somewhat for appeasement. Well, at least Washington‘s prayers have been answered. It took a while, but they finally found the new bogeyman: Osama Bin Putin.

With the open support of Washington and its European allies, the regime installed by Washington and Berlin in last February’s fascist-led putsch is now extending its reign of terror against all popular resistance in Ukraine. That is the significance of the events in the major eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol yesterday.

Die Ukraine habe zunächst den Überflug für die russische Delegation, der Staatsduma-Abgeordnete, Mitarbeiter des Außenministeriums und Regierungsmitglieder angehören, genehmigt und dann sich eines anderen besonnen und das Flugzeug zur Umkehr gezwungen, so der Minister.

Wie RIA Novosti vom Delegationsmitglied Leonid Sluzki, Chef des Duma-Ausschusses für die Angelegenheiten der GUS, erfuhr, sollen die Delegationsmitglieder, die sich derzeit auf dem Flughafen von Chisinau aufhalten, in allernächster Zeit mit einer Linienmaschine abfliegen.

A Pew Research Center/USA Today poll found this week that 65 percent of Americans would “like to see a president who offers different policies and programs.” Only 30 percent said they wanted ones “similar to those of the Obama administration.”

“Their school had recently been closed due to terrorist threats, but these girls still insisted on returning to take their exams,” Obama said in a video posted on the White House website.

When looking at images of Oum al-Zennar Church in Homs Old City before and after terrorists passed through it, the contrast can be quite jarring. The wounded church stands today as a testament to the hate-fueled Wahabi mentality of the terrorist groups wreaking havoc in Syria.

The Church, whose Arabic name means „she who bears the girdle“ in reference to the Virgin Mary and the Girdle of Thomas, the relic which the Virgin Mary gave to Saint Thomas the Apostle before her assumption to heaven, can now be rebuilt anew after the terrorists who desecrated it have fled Homs Old City.

Human rights group says military had warning four hours before kidnapping as questions mount over why school was opened

(05.05.) Der Chefposten der EU-Kommission steht formal zwar nicht zur Wahl. Aber von den Mehrheiten im Parlament wird abhängen, wer künftig die Kommission führt. Es dürfe keine Gedankenspiele geben, andere als einen der Spitzenkandidaten der Parteienfamilien an der Spitze der Kommission zu installieren, warnte Gabriel: „Wer das nach dem 25. Mai versucht, der wird die europäische Demokratie auf lange Zeit zerstören.“

„It will certainly take a period of several weeks before one can come to the necessary decisions,“ Merkel said.

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(17.05.2013) Das deutlichste Anzeichen dafür, dass sich nun die Abgeordneten um Barbara Lee gegen die Kriegslobby langsam und zäh durchsetzen und die Stimmung auf dem Parlamentshügel Capitol Hill kippt, sind Äußerungen von Wetterhähnen wie Angus King. Der unabhängige Senator und ex-Gouverneur, Mitglied in den Senatsausschüssen für Geheimdienste, Militär und Staatsfinanzen (Haushalt), zeigte sich während der gestrigen Anhörung im Militärausschuss gegenüber Chuck Hagels Vize Sheehan und Pentagon-Berater Robert Taylor ungewöhnlich unverblümt. Nachdem beide Militärfunktionäre Kriegseinsätze wie in Pakistan und Somalia mit der A.U.M.F.-Ermächtigung aus 2001 gerechtfertigt hatten, äußerte sich der Senator wie folgt:

“Das ist die beunruhigendste Anhörung die ich seit langem erlebt habe. Ihr Kerle habt die Verfassung umgeschrieben.”

King warf den beiden Pentagon-Funktionären vor, sich sich selbst die Macht des Kongresses angemaßt zu haben den Krieg zu erklären.

Congresswoman Barbara Lee introduced the bipartisan War Authorization Review and Determination Act (WARD Act, H.R. 4608), to reinsert Congressional oversight and determination into any future use of military force, as well as repeal the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF). As the House prepares to take up the FY15 National Defense Authorization Act, Congresswoman Lee introduced this legislation to end the executive branch’s “blank check” for military action.

Since her lone vote against the AUMF in 2001, Congresswoman Lee has consistently called for the repeal of this legislation, which has been used as legal justification for a wide range of activities, including targeted drone killings, warrantless surveillance and wiretapping, and the ongoing war in Afghanistan.

The irony grows even greater as over the winter we celebrated the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Kiev and the heart of Ukraine from the Nazi tyranny. Yet the current interim government in Kiev which was established, not by democratic process and lawful elections, but through a violent coup, is already moving to lift the ban on expressions of Nazism that was maintained by all previous Ukrainian governments of both the left and right since national independence at the end of 1991.

The May 2 horrific events in Odessa reminded many of its citizens of the similar tragedy in Katyn, a village in Belarus where on March 22, 1943, the entire population was massacred by the 118th Schutzmannschaft Nazi battalion, The battalion was formed in July 1942 in Kiev and was made up mostly of Ukrainian nationalists from Western Ukraine and collaborators.

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An APC, allegedly captured by self-defense forces from Ukrainian troops, was set ablaze in the center of Mariupol in the aftermath of Friday’s bloody clashes. The Ukrainian National Guard has announced it will temporarily withdraw from the city center.

On Saturday afternoon, the sound of gunshots and explosions was once again heard in the center of the city, which is located on the Black Sea coast in southeast Ukraine.

„Upon the U.S. request, Romania has closed its air space for my plane. Ukraine doesn‘t allow me to pass through,“ Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin tweeted

Der vom “Präsidenten” des Kiewer Putsch-Regimes Alexander Turtschinow Anfang März eingesetzte Gouverneur der ukrainischen Region Kherson, Yuri Odarchenko, gestern bei einer Gedenkveranstaltung in Kherson zum 9. Mai, dem Jahrestag der Kapitulation des faschistischen Deutschlands, dem Ende des 2. Weltkriegs auf dem Kontinent Europa:

Unter Hinweis auf die völkerrechtlichen Verpflichtungen Wiens, die aus dem Staatsvertrag über die Wiederherstellung eines unabhängigen und demokratischen Österreich im Jahr 1955 hervorgehen, und unter Berücksichtigung des sich wiederholenden Charakters der Vandalenakte appellieren wir an die österreichischen Behörden, entsprechende Maßnahmen zur Gewährung eines sicheren Schutzes für das Denkmal auf dem Schwarzenbergplatz zu treffen.

Ukrainian law enforcers reportedly attacked participants in the Victory Day rally on May 9 in Mariupol as they gathered in front of the local police department building in an attempt to prevent its seizure by law enforcers.

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In dem Dokument werden die Todesursachen genannt: Schusswunden, Gasvergiftungen, Brandwunden, Stürze und Vergiftungen.

Bei dem Großbrand, den rechtsradikale Extremisten und ihre Anhänger am 2. Mai im Gewerkschaftshaus der Schwarzmeerstadt gestiftet hatten, starben Dutzende Aktivisten der Antimaidan-Bewegung. Laut behördlichen Informationen gab es 46 Tote und 214 Verletzte

“Those [Soviet] aggressors justified their capture not only by their desire to seize others‘ territory and enslave the people, but they also put forward slogans about liberating nations and people that inhabit the lands which Hitler hoped to capture,” Odarchenko told the crowd.

Painting his version of the events further, he challenged history by saying that “if you read history books, we have a number of documentaries on this, then we see that he [Hitler] first of all put forward a slogan of liberating people from the communist yoke, and liberating people from the tyrant Stalin,” Odarchenko said, sparking anger and outraged by the crowd.

As thousands yelled out “shame”, a young woman with a child approached the governor, stripped him of the microphone, before throwing it away.

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In the 36-year existence of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the government has never disclosed classified FISA materials—the specific applications for surveillance and the factual affidavits that support the surveillance request—to a criminal defendant. That all changed in January 2014 when a federal judge in Chicago ordered the government to turn over surveillance applications and affidavits to the attorneys representing Adel Daoud, a 19 year-old accused of attempting to blow up a bar in Chicago. As the government appeals that decision to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, we‘ve signed onto an amicus brief written by the ACLU and the ACLU of Illinois filed today that explains why Judge Sharon Coleman was right to order disclosure.