Report from Crimea by Auslander (The situation in Krimea and Sevastopol is serious)

Auslander posted this sitrep in our comment section. I have reposted it here for all to read. (Webmaster)

The situation in Krimea and Sevastopol is serious.

The power coming to Krimea was actually Russian electric, ‘transshipped’ to Krimea via uke power system, at great cost I might add. Included in this formal agreement and written contract was Russia supplying the ukes with substantially more electric than was ‘shipped’ to Krimea. Part of the payment for the transport fees was the high quality coal found only in Donbas within ukeland. Uke heating and electric generating plants are designed for specifically this coal and nothing else. The coal was shipped from Novorossiya to Rostov, then shipped north and west where it entered ukeland.

War on Syria; Not Quite According to Plan Part 3: A USA Unable To Bomb Syria

by Ghassan Kadi

With all the different components of the “Anti-Syrian Cocktail”, the most lethal is undoubtedly the USA. We should therefore take a deeper look at the military hopes and gambles that the USA took, in desperate attempts, to be able to bomb Syria in order to understand why those several attempts have failed for more than two decades.

In Part 2, we saw how the USA was hoping to be able to bomb Syria in 1991 and later on in 2003 following the first and second wars on Iraq. In this part, we shall see how and why America has to date remained unable to achieve this objective.

West Signals U-Turn Over Syria, Seeks Dialogue With Russia

The former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, has called for dialogue with Russia in an effort to support the government of Syria to defend itself against ISIL, following a similar call from the White House in what is seen as a U-turn by the West.

Two years after both the US and the UK dropped plans to launch a bombing strike against the government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria over claims he was using chemical weapons against opposition forces, there are growing calls for military assistance to be given to Assad by the West. Sarkozy told Le Parisien newspaper:

Coup in Burkina Faso: As Military Overthrows Civilian Government Detains Prime Minister, Arrest Several Ministers

Members of Burkina Faso’s Presidential Guard on Thursday announced the dissolution of the government on national television, saying President Michel Kafando had been ousted.
A military official said on state-run media in Ouagadougou that they had put in place a national democracy council charged with organizing democratic and inclusive elections.

Hundreds of Thousands of Catalans Join Rally in Barcelona

Hundreds of thousands of Catalans participated in independance rally that was held ahead of regional elections on September 27.

Supporters of an independant state of Catalonia and Republicans display a huge Catalan flag. File photo


 Hundreds of thousands of Catalans took to the streets of Barcelona to participate in a mass independence demonstration, called Gateway to the Catalan Republic.
The march began at 17:14 local time (19:14 GMT), a time chosen as a reminder of the year 1714, when Catalonia was defeated during the War of the Spanish Succession.

Photos: 4 members of the same family die after entering sewage hole in UAE

Saeed Abdullah Rashid Al Sereidi, 50, his two sons Abdul Aziz Saeed Abdullah, 24 and Ahmad Saeed Abdullah, 23, and son-in-law Mohammad Saeed Rashid, 37, died inside their home’s septic tank while trying to clean the sewage tank.The incident took place in the Rol Dhana area in Fujairah on Saturday, August 29th.
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Acid attack victim weds. "It was a day I thought I'd never have" she writes

Sonali Mukherjee-Tewary's world came crashing on April 22, 2003 after three men poured acid on her face. The horrific attack left her disfigured and blind. Then one day, a stranger contacted her and offered to pay for her surgery. What began as a phone call turned into a love story. Here is Sonali's story of pain, courage, healing, and finding love...
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Explosions Reported at US Military Base in Japan

Multiple explosions were heard at about 1 a.m. local time at a warehouse at the US army base in Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo. No injuries have been reported yet.
The site is located near residential areas.

Sagami General Depot is used for the storage of fuel and munitions. As the facility has been underused lately, Washington and Tokyo held talks on the return of most of the 200-hectare territory to Japan.

Russia Vows Response to New US Sanctions

© Sputnik/ Maxim Blinov

The United States chose to deepen the void in bilateral relations with Moscow by expanding the sanctions list against Russian companies and individuals, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.

 – Moscow will respond to the expansion of the US sanctions list, which is destroying bilateral relations and leading to the escalation of confrontation, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday.
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Nabbed: Gisele Bundchen turns Ninja(Burqa ) as she hits plastic surgeon's office in Paris.

How do you hide to go see a plastic surgeon, disguise yourself but ask your driver of 5 years to drive you there? That's exactly what super model and mother of 2 Gisele Bündchen did. In newly-released photos, Gisele and her younger sister are pictured stepping out of car outside a plastic surgeon's office in Paris on July 15, both of them dressed in burqas. Unfortunately her identity is given away by the presence of her longtime driver.

Gisele was at the plastic surgeon's office reportedly to have an eye and breast surgery. And just a day before she went there, she was seen somewhere else in Paris with the same driver. Plus Gisele had visited the clinic on June 30 - without any disguise - two weeks before she allegedly had plastic surgery there. She shouldn't have gone with him. See the photos after the jump

Yemen Map of War, July 18-21, 2015

With your support SouthFront has released the second article of the Yemen Map of War Series, July 18-21, 2015. See Yemen Map of War, July 14-17, 2015 for additional information about the developments in the region. The “Maps of War” series is dedicated to explain ongoing global conflicts by consolidated data reports including high resolution maps.
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Senator Patrick Leahy: With "Friends" like this - By FFK (Must read)

The United States government helped Boko Haram immensely by refusing to classify them as a terrorist organization until 2014 and by refusing to sell us arms to fight them. Worst still, they imposed an international arms embargo on us so that we could not buy arms from anyone else in the international community. When asked why they are doing this to us they tell us that it is because of the Leahy Act which prohibits them from selling arms to governments that violate the human rights of their own citizens.
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Poverty ? Boy collapses in plane after wearing 12 layers of clothing to avoid excess luggage fee

I don't know how he came up with the idea but I doubt he will try it again after his experience. James McElvar, 19 (pictured above) an upcoming singer with a Scottish group called Rewind, collapsed from heat exhaustion on a plane because he was wearing all his clothes - all 12 layers of them comprising of 6 t-shirts, 4 jumpers, 3 pairs of jeans, 2 pairs of jogging bottoms, a pair of jackets and two hats to avoid paying excess luggage fee. The airline told him he was carrying too many luggages and he would have to pay £50 for excess baggage. To avoid paying the money, he wore his clothes.

Why Nigerian Army Can’t Defeat Boko Haram – Uk High Commissioner

The outgoing British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Andrew Pocock, has said the problem of Boko Haram insurgency in North-east Nigeria is not something that can be resolved with the use of the army, the police or the security agencies only.

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Photo: Two pilots fired for allowing busty model fly a passenger plane during take-off

When big boobs confuse grown men. Two Argentine pilots have been fired after they allowed a busty model to fly their passenger plane during take-off.

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French woman goes on trial for deaths of 8 of her babies

 One day in the summer of 2010, a man was digging in his garden in northern France when he discovered a trash bag containing the remains of an infant. When he summoned the police, they found the body of another newborn. A few days later, they found more bags in the garage - with six additional small corpses.
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Chinese student, 18, pleads guilty to sex in busy street after explicit video leads her to hand herself into police

Chinese students who were caught having sex in public have landed in trouble after being charged to court for the shameful act. The girl, known as Wu Xinyi, 18, was caught having sex with a man outside her university halls at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Ho Man Tin.

Uber Violent: Paris Cabbies Burn Cars in Protest Against Illegal Ride Share

Just when you thought Europe had seen enough drama for one day - there have been chaotic scenes on French roads following protests from taxi drivers against the mobile phone app Uber, with cabbies burning tires, flipping cars and even blocking access to Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport.

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Mother And Baby Survive Colombia Plane Crash

• Mother and infant son found five days after plane crashes in dense jungle in what authorities describe as "a miracle".

A mother and her infant son who disappeared in a plane crash in the dense jungle of western Colombia have been found alive and well five days later in what authorities have described as a "miracle".
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Mother killed, baby injured, when tree limb falls on playground

A 16-year-old Polk County mother was killed Friday when a tree limb fell on her and her young son.
LaRena Drayton was killed in Peek Park when the limb fell while she and 1-year-old Jeremiah Drayton were sitting on a park bench.

According to LaRena’s sister, the young mom had just moved her son from the baby swings to a park bench when they heard “something crack.”
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