Your time zones are way off. It is eight minutes before nine pm here. Oh, and your posts are still complete horseshit.Quote:
Originally Posted by sabang
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Your time zones are way off. It is eight minutes before nine pm here. Oh, and your posts are still complete horseshit.Quote:
Originally Posted by sabang
sabang, are you so desperate for someone to help prosecute your case that you promote the writings of David StockmanQuote:
Originally Posted by sabang
Apart from his excellent first name, he has little to offer.
A 2 term US politician and a Wall Street worker for 20 years.
Penning this classic ...
" Sleepy Joe Cradles the Dead Hand of the Soviet Presidium
by David Stockman Posted on December 09, 2021 What’s wrong with these people?
We are referring to the dipshit NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, who recently informed the Kremlin that what happens on Russia’s border is none of Russia’s damn business:"
Sleepy Joe Cradles the Dead Hand of the Soviet Presidium - Antiwar.com Original
Next :rolleyes:
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Originally Posted by bsnub
When does daylight saving (excuse my ignorance of what the US refer to it as ... the time when you roll the clocks forward in Summer) kick in?
There's nothing venerable about a Trump shill.Quote:
Originally Posted by sabang
Was he the one feeding you info about how Russia wouldn't invade?
Kicked in near the end of March. I need to know it as my kids are on the same time as snubs. Was 15 hours behind Thailand, now its 14. So 11:10 am here is 9:10pm the day before there.Quote:
Originally Posted by David48atTD
An EU advisory body, with absolutely no jurisdiction over Ukraine, Crimean Republic or Russia (actually, as an advisory body, it has no jurisdiction as best I'm aware- it can only give opinions). They can whistle dixie all they want, but it's relevance and authority can be compared to Iraq trying to take the US before the International Criminal Court over war crimes- but the USA is not a member of the ICC or signatory to it. Whistlin' sweet dixie.Quote:
The Venice Commission
Absolutely no qualms quoting David Stockman- apart from holding a highly influential position in the Reagan admin, he went on to a highly successful Wall St career. More pertinently, in these crazed times, he is one of the few who has a grip on the actual Ukrainian situation- and is not scared or intimidated to come out and say it. Guess he doesn't need your money or patronage, uncle sam. I'll say one thing though- his view of how Ukraine should be partitioned is considerably more severe than my own.
It started March 13th. Personally I hate it.Quote:
Originally Posted by David48atTD
Sorry I got yer time wrong snubs- that was DC time!
^ I warmly appreciate when a Man admits his mistakes ... respect.
Why the fuck does Ukraine need to be 'partitioned' at all?Quote:
Originally Posted by sabang
Ask the People.
:smileylaughing:Quote:
Originally Posted by sabang
The descendants of the Russian people who were sent there to repopulate and work the farms after Stalin starved the Ukranians to death. Those people?Quote:
Originally Posted by sabang
You are suggesting an EU official, asking an EU entity, to provide its opinion, on whether a foreign country's actions are compatible with EU practises, are a matter applicable to foreign countries and is regarded as a lawful conclusion.Quote:
Originally Posted by David48atTD
Possibly inside the EU, of which Ukraine was and remains outside, elsewhere in the world it may not have been and is not within their jurisdiction legally.
:rolleyes:
"This document will not be distributed at the meeting. Please bring this copy.
www.venice.coe.int
Venice, 21 March 2014
Opinion no.762/2014
CDL-AD(2014)002
Engl. only
EUROPEAN COMMISSION FOR DEMOCRACY THROUGH LAW
(VENICE COMMISSION)
OPINION
ON
“WHETHER THE DECISION TAKEN
BY THE SUPREME COUNCIL
OF THE AUTONOMOUS REPUBLIC OF CRIMEA IN UKRAINE
TO ORGANISE A REFERENDUM
ON BECOMING A CONSTITUENT TERRITORY
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
OR RESTORING CRIMEA’S 1992 CONSTITUTION IS COMPATIBLE
WITH CONSTITUTIONALPRINCIPLES
I. Introduction
1. By letter dated 7 March 2014 the Secretary General of the Council of Europe,
Mr Jagland, asked the Venice Commission to provide an opinion on “whether the decision taken by the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Ukraine to organise a referendum on becoming a constituent territory of the Russian Federation or restoring Crimea’s 1992 Constitution is compatible with constitutional principles”.
2. Mr Paczolay, Ms Suchocka, Mr Tanchev and Mr Tuori were appointed as rapporteurs for this opinion.
3. The present opinion was adopted by the Venice Commission at its 98th Plenary session in
Venice on 21 March 2014."
28. Moreover, circumstances in Crimea did not allow the holding of a referendum in line with European democratic standards. Any referendum on the status of a territory should havebeen preceded by serious negotiations among all stakeholders. Such negotiations did not take place.
https://www.venice.coe.int/webforms/documents/default.aspx?pdffile=CDL-AD(2014)002-e
One only has to look back at other European countries being split up recently, by foreign decree, to conclude the EU decision is invalid.
To suggest that "WIKI" is a legal source of knowledge, being editable by anybody in the world, needs this:
https://teakdoor.com/images/smilies/cheesyrdn2.gif.
Wiki as a source of publications of international treaties, because of their references to the original sources, is one thing.
Legal opinions, not so much.
A recap of the situation in Ukraine
Now that daylight has broken in Ukraine, let's go over what we're expecting to hear more about today:
- Mariupol evacuations — A Red Cross aid convoy will be heading to Mariupol to again try to evacuate civilians after being denied access to the city yesterday
- Russia's repositioning of troops — We've seen pictures of utter devastation in places like Bucha and Irpin on the outskirts of Kyiv after Russian forces pulled back from those regions. But even though it looks like troops have long gone — having left some of their dead and burnt-out tanks in their wake — locals have been told to stay well away in case of further attacks. They've also been warned to watch out for landmines
- Attacks in Ukraine's east — In his nightly national address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that while troops were "slowly" but "noticeably" pulling back in the north, he was very much braced for attacks in the east, particularly around the city of Kharkiv and in the Donbas region. He said the situation was still "extremely difficult" there
- The Russian oil depot fire — The facility is located in Belgorod, about 35km from the Ukrainian border. A fire there prompted evacuations locally, with Russia saying it was the result of a Ukrainian attack. Russia said two Ukrainian choppers flew over the border and struck the facility. Ukraine's Security Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov denied this
Ukraine-Russia live updates: Volodymyr Zelenskyy warns of landmines in territory left by withdrawing Russian troops - ABC News
China says it's contributing to the economy by continuing with Russian trade
Yesterday, the EU told China not to allow Russia to work around Western sanctions imposed over its invasion of Ukraine.
Today, a Chinese diplomat said China was not deliberately circumventing sanctions on Russia.
Wang Lutong, the director-general of European affairs at China's foreign ministry, told reporters that China is contributing to the global economy by conducting normal trade with Russia. Fucking chinks :durh:
Reuters
What if China told us to stop doing business with Taiwan? Or India told us to stop trading with the Pakis? Bit of a larf, e'hhh.
Agreed, the EU can't tell China anything about who to do trade with :fuckyou:, however ...Quote:
Originally Posted by sabang
China lies in saying 'was not deliberately circumventing sanctions on Russia'.
You know what they say, if their lips are moving...Quote:
Originally Posted by David48atTD
The French write that on board the downed helicopter near Mariupol there may have been two French intelligence officers who died.
https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca88...l66kFM8WuxtHFs
So it seems, under the guise of concern for civilians, Macron was worried about his agents. Civilain corridors were open after all. No suspicious at all, that the French are urgently worried about certain civilians in a certain city out of the blue
Macron urges Putin to allow Ukraine’s besieged cities to be evacuated | Ukraine | The Guardian
“The [humanitarian] situation is difficult” in Mariupol, a French official said. “Our demands remain the same: we want Russia to respond to these demands … very quickly and clearly.”
^ Link?
Got a link for the French actually writing that? All you've posted is a meme from a blogger that isn't French.Quote:
Originally Posted by Backspin
Mostly contrived. There was a famine, in part to do with commi policy. But the idea that the famine was going full bore on the west Ukranian part of the country and everything was fine and dendy in the Russophone part of Ukraine is simply untrue. The east Ukranians suffered just as much from the famine as the west Ukraine partisans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cujo
Im working on it. But currently I have no more hard proof than Bsnot does with all of his fake news about dead Russian generals, sunken Russian ships, the ghost of Kiev and snake island martyrs that everyone gets from the Kiev Independant, which gets picked up by parroted by mainstream mediaQuote:
Originally Posted by David48atTD
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Originally Posted by Backspin
It's OK ... got it.
https://twitter.com/gbazov
He's the same guy who tweeted ...
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^ From one of his fellow bloggers ...
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