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    Footsteps of Ukrainian impeachment echo all the way back to America

    Canada Free Press

    Judi McLeod
    2/23/2014

    Excerpt:

    The forced Parliamentary impeachment of Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych just cancelled out President Barack Obama’s puny pen and telephone.

    Russian President Vladimir Putin was Yankovych’s pen and telephone, but with the entire world watching, the prime minister, who only three months ago made a deal in favor of the Russians over the European Union, has hightailed it for safer ground by abandoning the battle field.

    “Parliament on Feb. 22 voted overwhelmingly to impeach embattled Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych. Lawmakers applauded as the votes came in—328 in all—to oust the president. Following the vote, parliamentarian(s) stood and sang the national anthem.” (Kyiv Post, Feb. 22, 2014)

    How many victims of ongoing Obama tyranny in the U.S. are beginning to hear the strains of The Stars and Stripes?

    In America, the voice of We the People has been ignored for more than five years while the current administration is doing everything possible to curtail ‘dissidents’ now under threat by the IRS, NSA, and an FCC that backed off on sending monitors into America’s news rooms—until they can come up with a more malleable way.

    From his alleged hideout in Karkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, this is what Yanukovych is now saying: “What we witness now resembles Nazi occupation. The Communist Party is under restriction as then. My car was shot at, but I am not afraid for my life. I am afraid of my country. I will stay in Ukraine and try to stop the criminals. (Russian President Vladimir) Putin told me that he talked to (U.S. President Barack) Obama and we will negotiate.”

    Seems Yanukovych is happily unaware that Obama the Negotiator is an abject failure. He took the coward’s way out from the Green Revolution in Iran ignoring their countless pleas for help; took the side of the Muslim Brotherhood over 30 million protesters in Egypt; was vacationing at the start of the Kiev protests and was vacationing and playing golf when 82 protesters shed their blood with more than 1,100 injured.

    In the now promised Communist comeback, all the Ukraine Communists can count on is Obama’s caught but covert promise from an open mike to President Dmitry Medvedev in March of 2012, when he said he would have “more flexibility” after the coming presidential election. The one Medvedev said he would relay to incoming President Vladimir Putin.

    Flexibility in Obama’s cases stretches all the way to the Muslim Brotherhood. But when it comes to saving his own pampered skin, he’s been known for throwing anyone, including personal friends, under the bus.

    No matter how dire the need or passionate the cause, one can really count on Obama.

    By now pulses should be racing in U.S. Congress. In spite of massive media hype stating otherwise, Iran, Egypt and now Ukraine prove that the Arab Spring is one provable failure.

    For the record, Obama is the de facto titular head of the Arab Spring that began on December 18, 2010.

    Touted as heroic by a worldwide mainstream media, Arab Spring has been knocking out relatively stable governments and replacing them with Iran-friendly, Sharia-compliant regimes from the get-go.

    “By December 2013, rulers have been forced from power in Tunisia, Egypt (twice), Libya and Yemen; civil uprisings have erupted in Bahrain and Syria; major protests have broken out in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco and Sudan; and minor protests have occurred in Mauritania, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Western Sahara, and the Palestinian territories.” (Wikipedia)

    Arab Spring in America translates to the Fundamental Transformation of America, during which massive job losses compete with the loss of individual rights with no party coming forward to bring America back to what it was before Jan. 20, 2009.

    The failure of Arab Spring should be thrown back to the one elected activist who started it all: Barack Hussein Obama.
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    View the complete article at:

    http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/61341
    B. Steadman

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    Thousands of Protestors Gather in Kiev’s Independence Square: WATCH LIVE HERE

    Mediaite TV

    2/22/2014

    Excerpt:

    Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was impeached by parliament early Sunday morning, leaving the fate of the country uncertain as protests continue to mount against his government.

    On Saturday, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko addressed a calmer Independence Square, absent the brutal violence that has shaken Kiev and much of the rest of the country over the past couple weeks. Tymoshenko was released from prison earlier on Saturday.

    The protests were initially sparked by President Yanukovych’s decision to turn away from a trade deal with the European Union and towards Russia instead. They have grown more violent as authorities have cracked down on new laws limiting the right to protest in Ukraine.


    View the complete article, including video, at:

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/thous...tch-live-here/
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    • #3
      New day new questions for Ukraine

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      • #4
        Ukraine ushers in new era as president flees

        Yahoo News

        Dmitry Zaks - AFP
        2/23/2014

        Excerpt:

        Kiev (AFP) - A new era dawned in Ukraine on Sunday as parliament appointed a pro-Western interim leader after ousted president Viktor Yanukovych fled Kiev to escape retribution for a week of deadly carnage.

        The ex-Soviet state's tumultuous three-month crisis culminated in a dizzying flurry of historic changes over the weekend that saw parliament sideline the pro-Russian head of state and call a new presidential poll for May 25.

        Lawmakers then went a step further by approving the release from her seven-year jail sentence of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko -- a star of the 2004 Orange Revolution who was thrown behind bars less than a year after Yanukovych came to power in 2010.

        The constitutional legitimacy of parliament's actions remains an open question and Yanukovych vowed in a taped interview to fight the "bandits" who now claimed to rule Ukraine.

        But Yanukovych's authority was nowhere in evidence in Kiev on Sunday. The city's police presence had vanished and protesters were in control of everything from traffic management to protection of government buildings after a week of bloodshed that claimed nearly 100 lives.

        Hundreds of candles and a field of red carnations and roses lay across spots of central Kiev where many of the protesters were mowed down by police snipers in clashes that left the nation of 46 million in shock.

        But Ukraine's new leader received their first crucial votes of confidence from Western powers on Sunday even as Russia showed growing signs of displeasure and concern.

        Both Washington and European leaders vowed to drum up aid that could pull Ukraine out of a crisis sparked in November when Yanukovych spurned a historic EU deal and later secured a $15-billion bailout for the struggling nation from its old master Russia.

        US National Security Adviser Susan Rice also bluntly warned Russia that sending in troops to restore a more Kremlin-friendly leadership in Kiev "would be a grave mistake".

        - 'Government of the people' -

        Lawmakers voted on Sunday to name close Tymoshenko ally Oleksandr Turchynov -- himself only appointed parliament speaker on Saturday in place of a veteran Yanukovych supporter -- as interim president tasked with forming a new government by Tuesday.

        Turchynov immediately vowed to draw up a "government of the people" and warned Russia that he expected the Kremlin to respect his country's pivot.

        "We are ready for a dialogue with Russia... that recognises and takes into account Ukraine's European choice," the 49-year-old said in a television address.

        Yanukovych was dealt another blow when his own Regions Party condemned him for issuing "criminal orders" that led to so many deaths.

        Parliament also voted to dismiss Ukraine's Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara after sacking the federal police chief and prosecutor general on Saturday.

        Western countries gave cautious but vital backing to the sweeping changes while Russia once again warned that payment of its huge bailout package was on hold.

        Ukraine owes nearly $13 billion in debt payments this year -- money it cannot drum up on financial markets because of prohibitively expensive borrowing costs.

        Turchynov warned on Sunday that Ukraine was "rolling toward an (economic) abyss".

        But US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew told a G20 meeting in Sydney that Washington now "stands ready to assist Ukraine as it implements reforms".

        German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said a "bankrupt Ukraine was too much of a weight" for the European Union and "terms and possibilities of stabilising Ukraine economically" needed to be worked out.

        - Fears of Russian tanks -

        European powers also took steps to halt any potential retaliation from the Kremlin following the swift and unanticipated fall of a leader who had been backed up personally by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

        A spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she and Putin agreed on the need to preserve Ukraine territorial integrity -- a reference to the deep cultural fissure that runs between the pro-European west of the country and its far more Russified east.

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        View the complete article at:

        http://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-ushers...pTHFoAUjjQtDMD
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        • #5
          Ukraine parliament head takes presidential powers

          By JIM HEINTZ and ANGELA CHARLTON

          Associated Press

          Jim Heintz and Angela Charlton
          2/23/2014

          Excerpt:

          KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- With an ally claiming presidential powers Sunday and the whereabouts and legitimacy of the nominal president unclear, newly freed opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko may feel her chance to take Ukraine's leadership has come. But even among protesters who detest President Viktor Yanukovych, Tymoshenko sparks misgivings.

          The former prime minister, who was convicted of abuse of office in a case widely seen as political revenge by her arch-foe Yanukovych, is a polarizing figure in a country staggering from political tensions that exploded into violence. Admired and even adored by many for her flair and fiery rhetoric, Tymoshenko is regarded by others as driven by intense ego and tainted with corruption.

          Just a day after she left the hospital where she was imprisoned, demonstrators outside the Cabinet of Ministers expressed dismay that she could be Ukraine's next president. One of them held a placard depicting Tymoshenko taking power from Yanukovych and reading, "People didn't die for this."

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          View the complete article at:

          http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...02-22-09-30-17
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