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"The Ukrainian Armed Forces had the only fighters in the country at that time. (They may all have rusted to bits by now, or fallen to pieces for lack of maintenance). So if a fighter did the deed, it could only have been on the orders of the Kiev junta."

Not that using words like "Kiev junta" don't give the fact away that you're a Putin apologist, but might I note that the plane was hit from a missile at the front when it's position was extremely close to the Russian border meaning any aircraft in that position to fire at the airliner from that position would have had to cross into Russia proper to get into the correct firing position?

This would beg the question as to:
a) Why Russia didn't intercept or shoot down the intruding aircraft.

b) Why it has no radar or photograph evidence of this incursion.

c) What type of Ukrainian aircraft could possibly both carry and launch a BUK missile given that report evidence shows that this is what the missile was and that Ukraine has no air-launch platform for this missile type and also remain completely undetected by the Russian military (Hint: No such aircraft exists).

"Here is some insight into the feelings of the victims' relatives: http://www.rt.com/news/310195-..." ...on Russia's very own state propagandist's website. That doesn't paint a very strong picture for your argument. It's equivalent to posting a link to Fox News as evidence that George Bush never did anything wrong ever.

Stop apologising for Putin, you're making a fool of yourself in trying to defend the indefensible and acting as someone who thinks it's okay for a nation state to kill hundreds of civilians (it's not, no matter who does it - just because America has fucked up a lot too doesn't mean Russia gets a free pass on murder).

WTF? The only claims I've ever seen to the effect that MH-117 had been shot down by *another plane* have come from the Russians.

Everybody else says and has been saying all along that it was a Russian-made AA battery, probably used by the rebels after getting it from the Russians. The Dutch investigation appears to confirm this.

Of course the Russians are the only people saying MH-17 might have been shot down by a fighter. The Ukrainian Armed Forces had the only fighters in the country at that time. (They may all have rusted to bits by now, or fallen to pieces for lack of maintenance). So if a fighter did the deed, it could only have been on the orders of the Kiev junta.

The term "Russian-made" is an interesting though disingenuous piece of sophistry. Of course, as Ukraine was part of the USSR, all its military equipment was "Russian-made" (although it might have been manufactured and even designed anywhere in the USSR, including Ukraine itself). Logically, the fact that a weapon is "Russian-made" implies that it might be used by the UAF - or not. It definitely cannot be used to imply that it wasn't used by the UAF. Incidentally, it would be interesting to notice where the weapons come from that ISIS, Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups use. Namely the USA; although the US armed forces lose so much of their weapons and equipment through negligence and sheer forgetfulness that it's hard to know if this is deliberate or not in any given case. However the Russian helicopter that was shot down and destroyed by terrorists while trying to rescue the crew of the shot-down Su-24 was definitely hit by an American TOW missile.

The Dutch inquiry hasn't decided much of anything, and certainly hasn't published much useful evidence. Here is some insight into the feelings of the victims' relatives: http://www.rt.com/news/310195-...

Why is Russia making its own chips when computer chips are cheap and plentiful/quote>
âIâ(TM)d move heaven and Earthâ(TM) to access Lavrovâ(TM)s emails â" former head of NSA and CIA
http://on.rt.com/75nh

Surely Snowden is aware of the NDAA indefinite detention law and given all the Constitutional violations he observed the government performing he needs strong public assurances he will receive the legal protections he is entitled to.

Iraq is already poisoned by radioactive materials from uranium ammunitons that the US has used. Studies show many birth problems, cancers. An article I found about congenital anomalies in Fallujah https://www.rt.com/op-edge/who...

Russian lawmakers consider banning state officials from using foreign-made smartphones, such as iPhones, over spying concerns: https://www.rt.com/politics/ip...

The level of arrogance and ignorance in both your post and the grandparent would be astounding if it wasn't for the fact that it appears to be all-too-common. That "landlocked Asian minor country" has the largest coastline of any nation in the world. They are in the midst of rapid deployment of technologies to exploit the resources and opportunities of the arctic region including many new icebreakers in an effort to open a northern sea route (which may become very viable if the global warming predictions come true). Further, their current military campaign in Syria has proven remarkably effective, especially in contrast to the anemic actions of the United States and our western allies before they entered the conflict. They have demonstrated the capabilities of submarines being able to fire missiles while submerged to the effective use of some of their most modern fighters (as opposed to our failed F-35) and effective long range cruise missiles. They are growing increasingly capable while we appear to be stagnating.

It should also be noted that Russia has been signing major deals with some of the world's largest nations at the same time that we seem to be alienating our friends here in the United States. Far from being a needy border-line-third-world-nation, Russia seems to be showing us up time and again. Twice now the United States in the past few years, the United States has been forced to back down when Russia asserted their will in Syria, and despite economic pressure on Russia over Ukraine, they have not backed down at all. A lot of talk has been made over how Russia has a shrinking cash reserve and yet everyone seems to forget that _they_actually_have_a_reserve. Further, their foreign debt is currently decreasing at the same time our national debt has just reached $19 trillion. When one considers that our proposed defense budget is as large at the combined total of the next 8 countries and yet we have a fighter that cannot fight and a high-tech destroyer that cannot float, I don't think we have much room at all to speak of Russian corruption (though it almost certainly exists).

Given current trajectories, it seems to me that our country is more likely to face a future of irrelevancy than the Russians right now. Our press is very selective about what they cover, but reality has a nasty way of asserting itself and often in very painful ways.

nice story, but apparently you don't realize the black panthers were labeled as terrorists. If you want to be pedantic the term in the 1970s was more often "extremist" than "terrorist" but in this context they are synonyms (which is why the link refers to putting a black panther on the "terrorist" list).

https://www.rt.com/usa/black-p...

As to the "to everyone's credit there was no violence" you may want to look into the role of the FBI with the Black Panthers.

If you look at the right wing religious extremist and the Black Panthers there is no particular similarity outside a willingness to brandish arms. If that is all it takes for you to paint their respective activities with the same brush, you are missing the details of a lot of recent history.

German courts and currrent administration do not know what online free speech is. This is just another nail in the coffin for regulating the the people and moving backwards to another governmental controlled system:
merkel polices zuc
zuc is on it

Let's not forget Merkels initiative to take care of the German voters first:
Germany yro

Wonder why ccc has not been updated or so quite ?

On Jan 25th, 2016 "the world will reach a point of no return".

Of course, the world did not just continue on its pre-2006 path, but has been making changes. In the US and Europe, GHG emissions are down by 5-10%. Even globally, CO2 emissions seem to be leveling off and that before the recent global agreement. Nevermind that the "point of no return" was about conditions likely to produce a couple of degrees temperature rise in 2100, not the date when New York City would be taken back into the sea.

Sure, the activists tend to use worse-case predictions (in exactly the same way that the "deniers" use better-case predictions). But it's disingenuous to pick out some 10-year old predictions, ignore the corrective actions taken to prevent disaster, and claim that the predictors were idiots. Remember the Y2K problem and how it turned out to be no-big-deal? That's not an argument to ignore the Epoch bug.

The same miscalculation happened in Nebraska in 2014.
https://www.rt.com/usa/169080-nebraska-inmates-release-mistake/

No, that would be Obama, whose approval rating is down once again. No less than 70% of the American people think he is steering the country in the wrong direction. At this point, the people who approve of Obama are those who will support him no matter how poor of a job he does. He could knife an old lady in the street and they'd still approve of him. I think a cold bucket of reality is in order and everyone needs to realize just in what dire straits the country is currently in.

How do you internalize the cost of a rare catastrophe (which would probably bankrupt any insurance company)?

There is a report by russia today that fukushima has cost $105 bn. Greenpeace (which hates nuclear power) claims a damage of $205 bn. So, the range of nuclear meltdown damages is in the range of hundreds of billions of dollars. Now, the insurance company munich re reports that they had to pay $31bn in 2014. I really think that it is doable to scale their business. So basically, there is one nuclear incident every 20 years world-wide. Lets be generous and say it costs around $400 bn. Now, the nuclear industry would have to pay $20 bn every year for such an insurance, world-wide. With a number of 438 reactors, that's $44 million per year. Energy companies make much much more with nuclear power on reactors in average than this amount, don't you think?

Why don't we start by internalizing the external costs of fossil fuels? That will drive us to alternatives REALLY quick.

Full agree. This is improperly internalized.

http://hinduexistence.org/category/attack-upon-hindus-by-muslims/

https://www.rt.com/news/buddhist-temples-torched-bangladesh-342/

And yes, these types of attacks have led to wars where Hindus and Buddhist (monks!) are now attacking Muslims back.

Muslims attack all non-Muslims and their goal, as your parent post stated is to turn every country on earth into a Muslim hellhole.

Don't pay much attention to the news, do you?

https://www.rt.com/news/256729...

Oh, we've been paying attention. Question is, how much of these "anti" monitoring actions being taken are we supposed to believe are legitimate?

Hmmm, look what I found in TFA:

"However, the BND will continue to garner telephone calls and fax messages for Washington as this service falls under a different agreement."

So, requests merely hitting the BND in a different fucking format are a loophole big enough to drive a fleet of Mack trucks through. Gee, why am I not fucking surprised...

Behind our backs is where they've been illegally operating for years. Why the hell ignorant citizens of any country think governments will actually grow ethics and morals out of this is beyond even common sense.

Don't pay much attention to the news, do you?

https://www.rt.com/news/256729...

The drones can only do better than current situation, where a french submarine was able to virtually sink a US carrier during an joint drill

How many toddlers are hurt by kitchen knives?

We have drawer locks for this.

electrical outlets?

Just about every electrical outlet is now too small for a toddler to stick things into, even the US Type B socket. We have also mandated RCD's (Residual Current Devcies) to prevent accidental electrocution.

heavy objects knocked of tables?

If you need a law for this, you're seriously broken.

Falls onto hard surface such as stone from furniture?

See above.

However what measures do we take to prevent kids from getting access to firearms? In Australia we have to keep them unloaded and locked up when not in use which is a very sensible thing as we don't have daily toddler shootings (accidental or otherwise) however in the US people seem fit to keep guns loaded in their purse.

https://www.rt.com/usa/266899-ohio-child-shoots-himself/

I'm also willing to bet the gun wasn't safetied either.

Incidents like this are commonplace in the US and not commonplace in other developed countries because of the insane attitude Americans have towards guns. You shouldn't need to carry guns around for defence, if you do your society is broken. You should have to take responsibility for keeping dangerous objects and locations secure. People should have to be trained and licensed in the operation of a firearm (like we are with cars, which are less dangerous considering their frequency of use). Until this attitude changes, you'll continue to have toddler shootings and mass shootings on a regular basis and gun controls will happen as a natural result of this change in attitude.

Police have been charged with murder for on duty shootings so your premise is false.

That's not how things work here. The police typically interview you before charges are file. Assange has refused the interview.

No he hasn't. The Swedes are refusing to interview him in the Embassy. Now, why would that be? Think, think...

Because in Sweden, the defendant investigation is the last thing that happens before trial, and by law, trial must occur within one week?

That's not how things work here. The police typically interview you before charges are file. Assange has refused the interview.

No he hasn't. The Swedes are refusing to interview him in the Embassy. Now, why would that be? Think, think...

but would it be too much to ask for a cite of one or two cases where Monsanto sued farmers that did not deliberately violate Monsanto patents?

Not at all! I was thinking back to stuff like this Slashdot story from a few years ago and to similar reports that have come up in the comments here in the years since. The link to the article referenced in the summary is dead, but a bit of searching around turned up the original article. The site, admittedly, seems rather biased.

And, to be fair, I'm biased too, since I have a major problem with the notion that genetic material can be patented. It's one thing to patent the process for engineering something, be it a chemical or a particular type of seed, but it's something else entirely to patent the material itself, whether it's chemical or genetic in nature, such that no one else can devise their own method. Seems to me that it should be protected by copyright since it's an expression of information, in which case it wouldn't be protected in the case of pollination like what I was talking about, given that they would have effectively been giving it away for free, akin to people living near an amphitheater being able to enjoy concerts since the music is loud enough to be heard from outside.

Thank the Lord of Hosts that we have conservatives to save us from ourselves.

We tried but to our shame we failed.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...

https://www.rt.com/news/316705...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/re...

There is only so much you can do for willfully stupid children

The US dropped 1600 bombs just in March of this year just against Daesh.

.... SO why the ISIL is still strong, right!?? and U.S still lectures Russia how to kill terrorists??

5) Most of civilian deaths source is SOHR (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)

Rami Abdulrahman's UK based SOHR has been cited by virtually every western news outlet since the beginning of the uprising.
The United Kingdom-based SOHR is run out of a two-bedroom terraced home in Coventry by one person, Rami Abdulrahman,[3] a Syrian Sunni Muslim who also runs a clothes shop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Who is behind Syrian Observatory for Human Rights? http://www.rt.com/news/317372-...

Many contradictions because of many lies.

A large part of the cost of housing in the US these days is due to codes. Yes, that is a big drain on the economy and a big obstacle to housing affordability.

You said it. If only big government would let people who clearly know what they are doing take care of hooking up their own gas lines, stop having so-called inspectors shut down private homes because they "smell funny", not harass honest builders over which materials they use in construction, and allow small busineses to take care of maintenance on their own, then life would be much better.

Think of all the money that could be saved!

The story, by Greg Miller, recounts daily meetings with senior officials from the FBI, CIA, and State Department, all desperately trying to come up with ways to capture Snowden. One official told Miller: “We were hoping he was going to be stupid enough to get on some kind of airplane, and then have an ally say: ‘You’re in our airspace. Land.’ ” He wasn’t. And since he disappeared into Russia, the US seems to have lost all trace of him.

Thirdly, because of outside CIS reader can't read Russian, the MSM can spin story likely: 'suspected Russian submarine' crashed Irish fishing boat in May and silently revealed in September it is really the Royal Navy one (of course without apology).

How to write a propaganda piece on Russia (RT)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Fourthly, yes Russians are not smart enough to use 'creative propaganda' (misleading headline, hit-n-run stories, redirected tactics, buried 'harmful' article under tons of entertainment stories...), but compare to Ukraine:
TheMoscowTimes, Novaya Gazeta (have English version) are explicitly against government, their articles are mostly in this direction, there is no 'positive' news. There Echo, NEWS.ru ... I can't confirm when I don't read Russian.

Compare to Ukraine, the Kiyvtimes, was actively against Yanukovich, now actively support the government (surprised!?). The opposition journalists, politicians of Ukraine were kills (about 6-7 of them) in bloody week not long after the death of Nemtsov.
The western medias not interested in this story, if they reported, they did not forget to add the story of Nemtsov beside these.
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/...
http://www.rt.com/news/250245-...

or beaten, force head of National TV to resign. (RT had some transcript):
http://www.rt.com/news/ukraine...
The MP in the video, Igor Miroshnichenko, is a member of the new parliamentary committee on freedom of speech.
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

Klitschko said that the prosecutor general, who is also from Svoboda, should launch an open and transparent investigation into the incident

Igor Miroshnichenko is still strong and healthy. (searching for Ukraine rada fighting in Youtube)

Recently, Ukraine ban 'pro-Russian' from European countries (later lifted the ban, EU journalists only), but if this is Russia, the reaction must be different:
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

The story, by Greg Miller, recounts daily meetings with senior officials from the FBI, CIA, and State Department, all desperately trying to come up with ways to capture Snowden. One official told Miller: “We were hoping he was going to be stupid enough to get on some kind of airplane, and then have an ally say: ‘You’re in our airspace. Land.’ ” He wasn’t. And since he disappeared into Russia, the US seems to have lost all trace of him.

Thirdly, because of outside CIS reader can't read Russian, the MSM can spin story likely: 'suspected Russian submarine' crashed Irish fishing boat in May and silently revealed in September it is really the Royal Navy one (of course without apology).

How to write a propaganda piece on Russia (RT)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Fourthly, yes Russians are not smart enough to use 'creative propaganda' (misleading headline, hit-n-run stories, redirected tactics, buried 'harmful' article under tons of entertainment stories...), but compare to Ukraine:
TheMoscowTimes, Novaya Gazeta (have English version) are explicitly against government, their articles are mostly in this direction, there is no 'positive' news. There Echo, NEWS.ru ... I can't confirm when I don't read Russian.

Compare to Ukraine, the Kiyvtimes, was actively against Yanukovich, now actively support the government (surprised!?). The opposition journalists, politicians of Ukraine were kills (about 6-7 of them) in bloody week not long after the death of Nemtsov.
The western medias not interested in this story, if they reported, they did not forget to add the story of Nemtsov beside these.
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/...
http://www.rt.com/news/250245-...

or beaten, force head of National TV to resign. (RT had some transcript):
http://www.rt.com/news/ukraine...
The MP in the video, Igor Miroshnichenko, is a member of the new parliamentary committee on freedom of speech.
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

Klitschko said that the prosecutor general, who is also from Svoboda, should launch an open and transparent investigation into the incident

Igor Miroshnichenko is still strong and healthy. (searching for Ukraine rada fighting in Youtube)

Recently, Ukraine ban 'pro-Russian' from European countries (later lifted the ban, EU journalists only), but if this is Russia, the reaction must be different:
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

Even at that, considering how much material Earth and Mars have exchanged over billions of years, it wouldn't even really be that amazing for single cell life to be on Mars, especially if it has a common origin with life on Earth. If we proved beyond doubt that it had an independent origin, THAT would be big.

Let's put aside the long timelines and asteroid impacts and focus on more recent exchanges. We keep sending probes to Mars, and I don't think we sterilize them before we send them. I know space is a harsh place, but bacteria on Earth live in some exceedingly harsh environments. Is there any way to guarantee that nothing survived the journey, and that any life that may be on Mars wasn't in fact brought over by us in the first place?

And if we found bacteria there, how would we prove whether it is native or our own? We haven't even discovered all forms of higher life on Earth, let alone created a database of every bacterial strain. Could a "new" bacteria we find there actually be a less common form native to Earth that we've never catalogued, that managed to survive a probe ride and thrive over there? I keep expecting scientists to announce they've found bacterial life over there, only to eventually realize far later that it's actually Earth life.

indeed https://www.rt.com/usa/160636-...
and to quote Laszlo Toth on the older probes which searched for Martian life by digging a scoop of Martian soil and vaporizing it to look for organic compounds to indicate there might be life there, "No! It means there was life, but you just burned it up!"

I honestly don't know about Johnson, but I've often seen guys of his age involved in science such as him to be quite pro-nuclear: quite enough for most to not be particularly thorough when it comes to researching positive outlooks. That brings me to the IAEA which is the source cited and has been criticised a lot for its very positive stance about nuclear power.

Last of all, when talking about Fukushima workers, let's not dig too deep, it could lead to taking a look at the sub-sub-contracting (often through the yakuza) of people and the way their eventual issues may get handled afterward :

http://www.rt.com/news/fukushi...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/wi...

http://www.reuters.com/article...

Those are a few among all the various scandals surrounding the Fukushima disaster (still ongoing, by the way). But please, do keep downplaying what the risks are in using nuclear power. In any case, most of the vocal crowd on ./ will cheer on.

Yes, however, a lot of those differences are for the average men and women. On average, men are stronger than women. However, there are quite a few women who are stronger than a lot of men, for example, this lady.

So, those differences are on an individual basis, the only mandatory difference is the dangly bits. The problem is that the current society model is still trying to fit everyone into roles based on the existence (or lack) of the dangly bits.

Just look at movies etc. A fat guy is OK, an ugly guy is OK, an old guy is OK as the main character. But if the main character is a woman, no matter if she is portrayed to be physically strong or not, she is always slim, young and pretty. Even if the character is supposed to be a nerd. A nerdy guy, who looks nerdy is OK, but a nerdy girl still has to look like a supermodel, and if she doesn't, then it means that she should change her appearance to look pretty. Now, I'm not saying that supermodels cannot be nerds, just that variety is good, but we get variety only with male characters.

Recently, a drunk (0.2%) lorry driver killed a policewoman (one month after graduation from the academy) in my country (hit her and did not even notice, dragging her for about a kilometer until other cops managed to stop him). One comment for this story said that this is why women should not be allowed to be cops. Yea, because a man would have fared better against a lorry.

Perhaps you should google what a "trust" is.
A single company can not form a trust or be anti-trust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
http://www.rt.com/news/249733-...

You, fella, are the one, eho, needs to check your facts. It took me all of five seconds to find multiple articles for both gold and platinum-rich asteroids. https://news.ycombinator.com/i... https://www.rt.com/news/310170...

I'll admit that I *would* need to check back through my records to be explicit. I'm not even sure it wasn't DES. This isn't something I track carefully, and so I don't tend to remember details, but only highlights. This http://www.rt.com/usa/rsa-nsa-... could be the story I'm not-quite remembering, or it could have been one of the others.

So I don't know which story I'm remembering, but a simple google search for "NSA cryptographic key weakening" turns up a bunch. In only some of them does the NSA appear to have acted dubiously, but since everything it does is so secretive the key word may well be "appear". Of course we can't know...which is what secretive is all about.

... its been common knowledge from the start and has been reaffirmed repeatedly... here is Obama doing it again:
http://www.rt.com/usa/obama-sh...

but it goes back to reagan... just doing some basic google searches gets me this:
http://www.thereaganvision.org...

Do I need better links than that... fine... its a waste of time but whatever:
https://www.larouchepub.com/ot...

That is Bill Clinton saying he would also share missile defense tech with Russia... LIKE REAGAN.

But lets see if I can find a better link.
http://www.washingtonexaminer....

That cites that the Russians even opposed a shared missile shield.

I mean... do I really need to go on? I'm sure I do... I'm sure you just couldn't accept anything short of the giant 18 inch dildo right up your ass... Sigh... why is it so annoying to find these links. Its a fucking well known fact but all I can get are sideways references to it. God damn it.

http://www.heritage.org/resear...

Another link referencing the same thing.

Every US president since Reagan has supported the idea of sharing the tech with Russia. Every single fucking one.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Comme...

That's Henry fucking Kissinger saying the idea is a good one.

I think I've got enough there that you can see the US has had this position from the very beginning and has not wavered from it since. The Russians basically are addicted to scaring people. They don't feel right with the world unless they make people afraid which is part of why the US and Russia don't get along. We're never going to be afraid of those idiots.

There are big cultural differences between the US and the Russians. They think hissing at us like a fucking snake is going to get them respect at the table. That is the LAST thing we'll ever respect. Hissing at us gets this response:
https://youtu.be/SoswyNaAIUA?t...

The Russians just don't get it. You don't get the US's respect by acting like a punk.

As to you never hearing this before... it has been in the policy from the beginning and repeated by every president in this context from the start. So your failure to hear it is on YOU. Feel shame.

I'll just leave this right here...

Here is a link to an article about the email that Snowden sent:

http://www.rt.com/usa/187484-n...

If you think that is raising concerns, you don't get it.

The only email that has come out was a request for clarification of a training video. What emails have you seen? The NSA published the emails right here:

http://www.rt.com/usa/187484-n...

Educate yourself before trying to call someone else a troll.

Here is some information on testing:
http://www.rt.com/news/219799-...

>> I will go to any extent necessary, to never allow this on my vehicle.

I completely echo your sentiment but already see that the car manufacturers and legislators are already removing such freedoms of choice from us. New US laws have already been made that all new cars must include tech to spy on drivers and new tech is being added to remotely control cars.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ne...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wh...
http://rt.com/news/remote-car-...

I quite seriously expect the value of old pre-computerized cars to go up significantly just because of stuff like this, however you can bet the legislators will also keep finding new ways to get cars they cant spy with or control off the roads.

I dunno if AC will check back or not - but in no particular order:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
http://www.reuters.com/
http://rt.com/
http://www.cbc.ca/
http://www.news.com.au/
http://www.dailytelegraph.com....
http://news.sky.com/
http://kurdishdailynews.org/
http://rt.com/
http://www.jpost.com/
http://www.aljazeera.com/
http://www.china.org.cn/
http://www.scientificamerican....
http://timesofindia.indiatimes...
http://english.pravda.ru/
http://www.projectcensored.org...
http://www.arabtimesonline.com...

I think I've covered the best - be aware, some national sites are heavy into propaganda. Pravda very much so, RT somewhat less so.

Depending on your own interests - you might type in some country in a Google search, and add "times" or "post" or "news". From time to time, I do something like that - the earthquake in Tibet for instance. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=pale... That search offered up a number of sites, but I didn't add any of them to my feeds. Note that many of the hits are very politicized, but you can still find Tibetan news sources among them.

Have fun!

I dunno if AC will check back or not - but in no particular order:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
http://www.reuters.com/
http://rt.com/
http://www.cbc.ca/
http://www.news.com.au/
http://www.dailytelegraph.com....
http://news.sky.com/
http://kurdishdailynews.org/
http://rt.com/
http://www.jpost.com/
http://www.aljazeera.com/
http://www.china.org.cn/
http://www.scientificamerican....
http://timesofindia.indiatimes...
http://english.pravda.ru/
http://www.projectcensored.org...
http://www.arabtimesonline.com...

I think I've covered the best - be aware, some national sites are heavy into propaganda. Pravda very much so, RT somewhat less so.

Depending on your own interests - you might type in some country in a Google search, and add "times" or "post" or "news". From time to time, I do something like that - the earthquake in Tibet for instance. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=pale... That search offered up a number of sites, but I didn't add any of them to my feeds. Note that many of the hits are very politicized, but you can still find Tibetan news sources among them.

Have fun!

Here is what happens when you get carried away with printing money Zimbabwe dollars

"I really have no idea why you tried the ole cold war propaganda routine, but it does not make any sense here at all."

I would imagine the fact that Tsipras has had numerous face to face and phone meetings with Putin in both Greece and Russia in the last 6 months alone:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...

http://www.theguardian.com/bus...

http://rt.com/business/265210-...

http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

Tsipras loves the soviet leftism of old, and he's been trying to cozy up with Putin because he incorrectly believes Putin stands for that (whilst many of Putin's actions in recent years look like those of old soviet leftism, Putin's tends much more firmly far right e.g. the anti-homosexuality stance)

Dude, to any cop "Fun" and "Taser" are synonymous, with or without the batshit crazy.

“first attack of its kind” “We’re using state-of-the-art computer systems, so this could potentially be a threat to others in the industry” ref

"United Airlines Flights Grounded Over Flight Plan Hacking"

I don't expect to read such long post! ;)
1. My previous post is simple, and my respond for this point is also simple.
All of actions of all sides are known in history, it's just matter if one want to learn from this.
Why I compare Kosovo with Cambodia and Syria? All the Western powers did/do for their own interest, not for people. That why they need (so-called) *allies*, despite how bastard they are.
Look at how Libya become, much worse than Quaddafi era, and they, the "free" medias called this "the path to democracy are not always with roses". More and more people died to seek asylum in Europe, which is the result of Western intervention.

2. I did not assume that the pro-separatists are good, pro-government are bad. When I see young people in both side are going to die, I feel sorry for them.
Yes, I saw videos before, but like Maidan events, the matter of "who did this first" is not important, compare to who shot the policemen, and protesters, in this case, who burnt more than 40 people alive.
After almost year, no one is went to jail for these. Just blaming!

3. In "Great Patriot War" everyone loved Stalin? Not so much, right!?
Every soldier were ready to died for their Motherland? Some of them were not, right!?
Every German Nazis soldier were truly sympathy toward Nazis ideology? No, right!?
If you use "cherry-picking" method, there is countless example for "nazis" on both side.

While pro-separatist are mostly in the East, where is known for many people with Soviet nostalgia, with support of Communists. Many of leftists in Europe support and eventually voluntary fighting side-by-side with the separatists.

I know a Ukrainian of minor ethnic group, lived in the Western Ukraine. When Soviet broke-up, she (was young), there something of "witch-hunt" in there, toward every "non-Ukrainian" group. She moved to USA. I have never heard such thing in Eastern Ukraine.

4. Azov, Right Sector, etc... are official small number. But they are the most active groups.
Remember, or if you don't know, search for action of Oleh Lyashko (funny that Wikipedia lists them as "left-wing" as Democratic Party of U.S.A), and Right Sector illegal captured, beaten oppositions, force officials to resign. They are useful tools, just not need to be the head of nation.

On the other side, despite that Eastern Ukraine was part of Russia, before Lenin change this. I don't think the separatists are right to be independent. But they are right to have their voices on things happened on Maidan, which they did *NOT* have, completely ignored.
Everyone against the "move to the West" were branded "tituska", were public beaten. Search youtube, if you like.

I would support the changes of Ukraine, if like in Myanmar, the woman who fought for people of Myanmar was released, former communist (or socialist), who may not really influenced by the West.
But in Ukraine, there something like "president vows to fight oligarchs" appears frequently in "free" medias like comedy shows. No, I don't swallow this.
And I think if those people, who withstood on days under below zero temperature, to demand "bright future", and "fight like heroes, they would do this right now. But where are they!? Who pay them now? Who send them winter clothes and boot? Who give them cookies now?

Oh, they did, but what happened to them:
http://rt.com/news/265648-ukra...

it was actively killing those very Albanians.

In very long history, to initiate a war, every powers need (to create) *good reasons*.
I would support NATO if they were good judges.
But in reality, in Kosovo, NATO bombing, and KILLING ordinary Yugo citizens. They are not good either.
When KLA is in power, they suppressed Serbians community, to drag them out. The West was silent.
All the top official figures of Kosovo *ARE* crimes, but whitewashed by their master.
The same were/are happened with Lon Nol/Kherme Rough in Cambodia (e.g) in the past or Syria at the moment.
Yes, Assad is not a good guy, but definitely better than the "moderate" groups, which is actually terrorists.

Meanwhile, nothing of a kind happened in Ukraine.

Odessa massacre, how about this after one year? No one was convicted despite that dozens were burnt alive.
This is just very little of that news came out in Western press:
Two mother and daughter were killed just for be sympathy to rebels.
http://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-...

Ukraine use convicts to fight "terrorists", just like KLA:
http://www.kyivpost.com/conten...
...And they committed crimes:
http://rt.com/news/268105-ukra...
You could search for Ukraine media for that news, too.
Eventually, U.S.A confirmed which Russia loudly claimed long before,
https://twitter.com/repjohncon...
..Which ban to support Azov battalion (which is now part of Ukrainian National Guard ;)

Glory to heroes!

Don't post that in front of a Polish!

Other than forfeited assets, perhaps.

Well, among other things, he revealed that:

1) The NSA intercepts and stores virtually all communications sent on electronic networks anywhere it can reach. Not just metadata. In the case of phone calls, they also speech->text them and make that archive searchable.

http://rt.com/news/172284-nsa-...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/n...
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

2) The NSA constantly works at ways to break into encrypted communications, including hacking into the VPNs of supposedly friendly governments.

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

3) The NSA listens to the cell calls of friendly foreign leaders. (hopefully, also, unfriendly ones).

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

4) The NSA may have worked to weaken encryption standards in order to make their task easier.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9...
http://www.scientificamerican....

5) The NSA has physically broken into the fiber plants of major public Internet companies (ie. Google), supposedly without their knowledge, in order to steal data sent only internally.

http://www.extremetech.com/int...

6) Major Internet companies, and all telcos, have willingly shared much or all of their client's communications with the NSA.

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/ar...

7) The NSA and foreign intelligence agencies share data in order to evade domestic spying restrictions.

https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

8) The NSA has hacked into at least one major supplier of SIM cards, in order to spy on calls made from the phones made with them.

http://news.softpedia.com/news...

US says ‘no evidence of Russia’s direct involvement’

** Russian provided BUK-M1... then captured BUK from Ukraine army. There is also BUK driver "released" from separatists confirmed that (Where is he now??).

** No Russian involvement, so how separatist could launch the BUK. New theory:
http://touch.latimes.com/#sect...

U.S. intelligence agencies have so far been unable to determine the nationalities or identities of the crew that launched the missile. U.S. officials said it was possible the SA-11 was launched by a defector from the Ukrainian military who was trained to use similar missile systems.

Robert Parry confirmed that: https://consortiumnews.com/201...

2+3. Unverifiable. Also, fake photo, provided by SBU (Ukraine security agency), which claimed BUK no.312 launched missile downed the MH-17, is still in Ukraine service:
http://rt.com/news/174868-ukra...
http://web.archive.org/web/201...
http://www.sbu.gov.ua/sbu/cont...

The last photo was **DELETED** (silently).
The first photo, is interesting too.
This is the first, and **ONLY** photo which captured the smoke-trail of missile, provided by a pro-Kiev "witness", here some analysis from Dutch blogger (he may be hired by Kremlin, but his logic is interesting):
http://7mei.nl/2015/05/18/mh17...

Here some fact:
* This is the **ONLY** photo about smoke-trail, despite several video from locals capture the moment of the planed burning.
* The photo was in BMP, no EXIF data (Bellingcats to "protect" the "witness", yes here have contact with pro-Kiev medias, blogger, too)
* His interviews contradicted themselves.
* Minor detail, the blogger of 7meil.nl wen to the room of "witness", taken a photo as "witness" described, and there is (electric) wires in photo, not like the "original" photo.

4. After the incident, locals, in some videos, cheering because they thought government airplane shot down. May be, the separatists think so, too.

5. Which satellite images!?
IF satellite images provided by Russian Government after the accident, there not claim that is fake (yet).
Meanwhile, the satellite images provided by Ukraine Government, to counter the Russian ones, was analyzed by Russians, that was faked