“At press time, the U.S. national team was leading defending champions Germany in the World Cup opening match after being awarded 12 penalties in the game first three minutes.”
Hahaha, that’s especially hilarious to a Canadian hockey fan. Something like that actually happened, and, yes, the US were the sleaze balls.
Picture the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, USA. It’s the women’s gold medal game in ice hockey, between the U.S. and Canada. Yes, one game for all the marbles.
Now you must remember that it’s normal and quite sensible that the referee of an international game can’t be a citizen of either of the countries in that game. So you can imagine how incredulous we Canadians were when we learned that our game against the U.S. would be refereed by an American.
And our fears that the fix was in came true! When Canada began to dominate the game, the referee called 18 straight penalties on our team. In hockey, guilty players are punished by being sent off for two minutes; the other team has an extra woman during this “power play”. Unlike soccer, where the difference between 11 players and 10 is slight, in hockey the drop from 6 to 5 can be quite a catastrophe. And that’s for just one penalty. Now imagine eighteen of them in a row. The totally corrupt American referee wasn’t being subtle about favoring her country’s team.
And now the good news. In spite of the gross American sleaziness, the Canadian women won! As you can imagine, to defend those 18 penalties was beyond exhausting. But our women somehow found the heart to win the game (and the gold medal). This is one of Canada’s proudest memories — and it deserves a prominent place in the American hall of shame.
Leasing enough bandwidth to host videos (for an audience of more than a dozen), worldwide, is an expensive challenge. In a hostile political atmosphere, even moreso.
My guess is that Southfront is encountering a DoS attack today.
I got an error the first time I tried to load the French war page and went to https://www.youtube.com/user/crimeanfront/videos and found that and this video listed first, and was able to click on those and download them and and the text with little problem. The direct links seem to work much better.
But I also find the web in general does not work nearly as well as it used to, and my old machine makes it that much worse — it’s almost unusable much of the time. I went to Russia insider last night and kept getting hung up with their ‘recommend this’ popup and gave up.
Too much stuff on web sites, and too much stuff over the internet ‘tubes’, as well as bloated updates to software and complicating user interface and everything. MY ISP lost the network connection several times yesterday and cost me well over 1/2 hour waiting for it to come back.
I’m often tempted to just give trying to things on the internet, besides weather reports and some email, any more. More and more I end up having to ‘hack’ stuff just to get it to work in a reasonable way.
I finally just bookmarked the RSS feeds of Saker, Fort Russ and Russia Insider, my three first sites to read. It makes it a lot more sane than trying to load all the stuff on today’s “rich” homepage.
Since securing and encrypting I have stopped having problems with south front and other sites that were being affected. Start with a free service it may help?
Leaders of the ultra-Orthodox Belz sect in north London wrote to parents saying “no child will be allowed to learn in our school” if their mother drives.
Women driving “goes against the laws of modesty within our society”, it said.
The Home Office issued a response saying it was “developing a strategy to tackle extremism in all its forms”.
The Belz, who originated in Ukraine in the early 19th Century, are an ultra-Orthodox sect who follow Haredi Judaism.
Let’s look on the bright side: If the Nobel Committee is stupid enough to do as the doc suggests, it will simply be ONE MORE NAIL in the Nobel Prize’s coffin. More and more people around the world will simply treat that prize as a laughing stock!
To all those still have high hopes of spreading Democracy around the world, just look at what the current “Beacon of Democracy” has brought!
China will never back down. The United States is expressing criminal insanity in it’s obssession of American exceptionalism under which it freely commits genocide, ethnic cleansing and insane medical experiments on humans on mass or one at a time.Like the Human Brain Project tried en mass on the Vietnamese during the US war of extinction on the Vietnamese. The US did exterminate 30,000 Vietnamese found dangerous to the US winning through the brain chips, but lost the war anyway.
US getting nervous about Greece?
At the meeting between Tsipras and Putin some time ago, both looked happy with what they had talked about, although much in the news about no handouts ect.
“Russia’s army is massing troops and hundreds of pieces of weaponry including mobile rocket launchers, tanks and artillery at a makeshift base near the border with Ukraine, a Reuters reporter saw this week.
Many of the vehicles have number plates and identifying marks removed while many of the servicemen had taken insignia off their fatigues. As such, they match the appearance of some of the forces spotted in eastern Ukraine, which Kiev and its Western allies allege are covert Russian detachments.”
HAHA. It is the usual Reuters nonsense. They have tried this about 20 or 30 times before. They get pictures of Russian equipment or people, legally and legitimately moving around inside Russia. Then they try to make out they are heading towards Ukraine. Then they use this as “evidence” that the Russian army is inside Ukraine.
If it was all that secret and nefarious, they would not be allowed to roam around there taking photos, would they?
I find it funny they think not having insignia PROVES you’re Russian. In real life, I don’t think they bother with insignia on their rough work clothes in ANY army. What next, they have to have insignia on their pajamas and underpants?
If one carefully follows all the news written about Russia by the corporate media, there is no question that the news agencies seem to be engaged in government coordinated propaganda.
How is this happening? We don’t know. Is it just goofy reporters who are easily led by the nose by government employees, is it a sort of operation Mockingbird 2.0, or is it government operatives actually embedded into the news agencies?
By Robert Parry. Based on Reagan papers. US began taking control of media after Vietnam.
Guardian was perhaps the last. They must have seen the light through the holes in their circuit boards and hard drives after Greenwald left for independent media.
The leader of al-Nusra Front — the al Qaeda-affiliate group in Syria — insisted on Wednesday that he is under orders from the organization’s central leadership not to attack Western interests in Syria, but rather focus on toppling President Bashar al-Assad. “The orders from Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri are we should not attack the West from Syria” Abu Mohammad al-Golani said, speaking in a television interview with the Al Jazeera Arabic-language network. Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian doctor by training, is the current leader of al Qaeda therefore one of the most powerful terroristic organizations in the world bluntly stated its allegiance to the United States in the region. Wow!
Assad is about to fall now, after the capture by ISIS of the last lucrative source of income for the Syrian government, huge phosphate mines. Once Syria falls, Jordan will be next and Saudi-Arabia there after.
Putin shouldn’t worry too much about the loss of an old ally. because the ‘New Syria’ will be even more hostile to western interests than the old one. And when Saudi-Arabia falls to ISIS, the West is toast, certainly Europe, the old US-oriented regime that is.
This is the religious-fundamentalist counterpart of the Bolshevik revolution of a century ago, equally with global reach.
Nobody reads old threads, so I’m replying here.
“At press time, the U.S. national team was leading defending champions Germany in the World Cup opening match after being awarded 12 penalties in the game first three minutes.”
Hahaha, that’s especially hilarious to a Canadian hockey fan. Something like that actually happened, and, yes, the US were the sleaze balls.
Picture the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, USA. It’s the women’s gold medal game in ice hockey, between the U.S. and Canada. Yes, one game for all the marbles.
Now you must remember that it’s normal and quite sensible that the referee of an international game can’t be a citizen of either of the countries in that game. So you can imagine how incredulous we Canadians were when we learned that our game against the U.S. would be refereed by an American.
And our fears that the fix was in came true! When Canada began to dominate the game, the referee called 18 straight penalties on our team. In hockey, guilty players are punished by being sent off for two minutes; the other team has an extra woman during this “power play”. Unlike soccer, where the difference between 11 players and 10 is slight, in hockey the drop from 6 to 5 can be quite a catastrophe. And that’s for just one penalty. Now imagine eighteen of them in a row. The totally corrupt American referee wasn’t being subtle about favoring her country’s team.
And now the good news. In spite of the gross American sleaziness, the Canadian women won! As you can imagine, to defend those 18 penalties was beyond exhausting. But our women somehow found the heart to win the game (and the gold medal). This is one of Canada’s proudest memories — and it deserves a prominent place in the American hall of shame.
That’s not surprising, Cyril, pindos cheat at everything. The saying “as American as apple pie” would be better put: as American as cheating.
What is going on with SouthFront videos?
Link?
Their server? Bandwidth?
Leasing enough bandwidth to host videos (for an audience of more than a dozen), worldwide, is an expensive challenge. In a hostile political atmosphere, even moreso.
My guess is that Southfront is encountering a DoS attack today.
I got an error the first time I tried to load the French war page and went to https://www.youtube.com/user/crimeanfront/videos and found that and this video listed first, and was able to click on those and download them and and the text with little problem. The direct links seem to work much better.
But I also find the web in general does not work nearly as well as it used to, and my old machine makes it that much worse — it’s almost unusable much of the time. I went to Russia insider last night and kept getting hung up with their ‘recommend this’ popup and gave up.
Too much stuff on web sites, and too much stuff over the internet ‘tubes’, as well as bloated updates to software and complicating user interface and everything. MY ISP lost the network connection several times yesterday and cost me well over 1/2 hour waiting for it to come back.
I’m often tempted to just give trying to things on the internet, besides weather reports and some email, any more. More and more I end up having to ‘hack’ stuff just to get it to work in a reasonable way.
I finally just bookmarked the RSS feeds of Saker, Fort Russ and Russia Insider, my three first sites to read. It makes it a lot more sane than trying to load all the stuff on today’s “rich” homepage.
Those feeds are:
/feed/
http://feeds.feedburner.com/FortRuss
http://russia-insider.com/all-content/rss
Since securing and encrypting I have stopped having problems with south front and other sites that were being affected. Start with a free service it may help?
132 MB. It was easier to download first, then view. Possibility of lower quality/bandwidth versions??
Oh, and I just read this:
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150529/1022710642.html
.. maybe an outbreak of sanity in the Ukraine? Could the Kiev freakshow be ejected more or less peacefully?
Just btw, Poroshenko owns Channel 5.
Probably Azov’s idea of how to complete a military takeover. Ten of their guys are in command now, purge the rest.
I am very familiar with this area,they are very ‘exceptional’ people.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32935767
extract:
Leaders of the ultra-Orthodox Belz sect in north London wrote to parents saying “no child will be allowed to learn in our school” if their mother drives.
Women driving “goes against the laws of modesty within our society”, it said.
The Home Office issued a response saying it was “developing a strategy to tackle extremism in all its forms”.
The Belz, who originated in Ukraine in the early 19th Century, are an ultra-Orthodox sect who follow Haredi Judaism.
Letter has been leaked, written by commisson that wants to push for Poroshenko to get Nobel Peace Prize. You can’t make this stuff up!
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2015/05/29/nobel-peace-price-howler-donbass-butcher-poroshenko-nominated/
Let’s look on the bright side: If the Nobel Committee is stupid enough to do as the doc suggests, it will simply be ONE MORE NAIL in the Nobel Prize’s coffin. More and more people around the world will simply treat that prize as a laughing stock!
To all those still have high hopes of spreading Democracy around the world, just look at what the current “Beacon of Democracy” has brought!
southfront.org seems to be ok
China will never back down. The United States is expressing criminal insanity in it’s obssession of American exceptionalism under which it freely commits genocide, ethnic cleansing and insane medical experiments on humans on mass or one at a time.Like the Human Brain Project tried en mass on the Vietnamese during the US war of extinction on the Vietnamese. The US did exterminate 30,000 Vietnamese found dangerous to the US winning through the brain chips, but lost the war anyway.
OT
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/29/us-eurozone-greece-idUSKBN0OE1R620150529
The United States warned on Friday of a possible accident for the world economy if Greece and its creditors miss their June deadlines to avert a debt default.
US getting nervous about Greece?
At the meeting between Tsipras and Putin some time ago, both looked happy with what they had talked about, although much in the news about no handouts ect.
Now the US is looking nervous. Interesting.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/27/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-military-idUSKBN0OC2K820150527
“Russia’s army is massing troops and hundreds of pieces of weaponry including mobile rocket launchers, tanks and artillery at a makeshift base near the border with Ukraine, a Reuters reporter saw this week.
Many of the vehicles have number plates and identifying marks removed while many of the servicemen had taken insignia off their fatigues. As such, they match the appearance of some of the forces spotted in eastern Ukraine, which Kiev and its Western allies allege are covert Russian detachments.”
Anybody has any comments?
HAHA. It is the usual Reuters nonsense. They have tried this about 20 or 30 times before. They get pictures of Russian equipment or people, legally and legitimately moving around inside Russia. Then they try to make out they are heading towards Ukraine. Then they use this as “evidence” that the Russian army is inside Ukraine.
If it was all that secret and nefarious, they would not be allowed to roam around there taking photos, would they?
I find it funny they think not having insignia PROVES you’re Russian. In real life, I don’t think they bother with insignia on their rough work clothes in ANY army. What next, they have to have insignia on their pajamas and underpants?
If one carefully follows all the news written about Russia by the corporate media, there is no question that the news agencies seem to be engaged in government coordinated propaganda.
How is this happening? We don’t know. Is it just goofy reporters who are easily led by the nose by government employees, is it a sort of operation Mockingbird 2.0, or is it government operatives actually embedded into the news agencies?
Take a look for yourself : http://russia-insider.com/en/reuters-exclusive-russian-troops-near-ukraines-border/ri7537
By Robert Parry. Based on Reagan papers. US began taking control of media after Vietnam.
Guardian was perhaps the last. They must have seen the light through the holes in their circuit boards and hard drives after Greenwald left for independent media.
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/12/31/murdoch-scaife-and-cia-propaganda/
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/12/28/the-victory-of-perception-management/
This is an article from Bill Holter…… China the US $ and gold.
http://www.silverdoctors.com/yuan-gold-revaluation-dollar-double-whammy/#more-53886
Blatter wins!
Putin wins!
Russia-2018 will go through!
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2015/05/29/old-europe-unites-states-1-0/
Europe’s most senior politician Giscard d’Estaing visited Russia and Vladimir Putin yesterday:
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2015/05/29/giscard-destaing-visits-moscow-and-meets-vladimir-putin/
Giscard d’Estaing is from the Gaullist tradition and as such very Russia-friendly, just like Helmut Schmidt and Gerhard Schroeder.
The leader of al-Nusra Front — the al Qaeda-affiliate group in Syria — insisted on Wednesday that he is under orders from the organization’s central leadership not to attack Western interests in Syria, but rather focus on toppling President Bashar al-Assad. “The orders from Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri are we should not attack the West from Syria” Abu Mohammad al-Golani said, speaking in a television interview with the Al Jazeera Arabic-language network. Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian doctor by training, is the current leader of al Qaeda therefore one of the most powerful terroristic organizations in the world bluntly stated its allegiance to the United States in the region. Wow!
Double wow!
al-Nusra is not ISIS.
The later represents the real game in town.
Besides, what on earth are ‘western interests in Syria’ anyway?
These statues in Palmyra, visited by western tourists?
Any oil fields around? (“interest” of course not being synonymous with ownership).
No substantial oil fields in Syria.
Assad is about to fall now, after the capture by ISIS of the last lucrative source of income for the Syrian government, huge phosphate mines. Once Syria falls, Jordan will be next and Saudi-Arabia there after.
Putin shouldn’t worry too much about the loss of an old ally. because the ‘New Syria’ will be even more hostile to western interests than the old one. And when Saudi-Arabia falls to ISIS, the West is toast, certainly Europe, the old US-oriented regime that is.
This is the religious-fundamentalist counterpart of the Bolshevik revolution of a century ago, equally with global reach.
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2015/05/30/islamic-state-on-the-verge-of-victory-in-syria/