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Civil war heating up...
Ukraine clashes: dozens dead after Odessa building fire
More than 30 people were killed in violent and chaotic clashes in the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa on Friday as pro-Ukraine activists stormed a building defended by protesters opposed to the current government in Kiev and in favour of closer ties with Russia.
Odessa's large Soviet-era trade union building was set alight as the pro-Ukraine activists mounted an assault as dusk fell. Police said at least 31 people choked to death on smoke or were killed when jumping out of windows after the trade union building was set on fire. ...
Some people fell from the burning building as they hung on to windowsills in an attempt to avoid the fire that had taken hold inside. Pro-Ukraine protesters made desperate efforts to reach people with ropes and improvised scaffolding.
"At first we broke through the side, and then we came through the main entrance," said one pro-Ukrainian fighter, 20, who said he was a member of the extreme nationalist group Right Sector. ...
Bloody and dazed pro-Russia protesters were eventually escorted from the building. Many were handed over to police, and loaded on to police vans. Some were assaulted by the crowd.
"The aim is to completely clear Odessa [of pro-Russians]," said Dmitry Rogovsky, another activist from Right Sector whose hand had been injured during the fighting.
Rebels down Ukraine helicopters, Putin denounces city assault
Pro-Russian rebels shot down two Ukrainian helicopters on Friday, killing two crew, as troops tightened their siege of separatist-held Slaviansk and Moscow accused Kiev of launching a "criminal" assault that wrecked hopes of peace.
Though Ukrainian forces appeared to be carrying out one of their most concerted military operations yet, their advance on the ground was limited. Nevertheless, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman accused Kiev of firing on civilians from the air in a "punitive operation" that destroyed an international peace plan.
Russia was "extremely worried" about the fate of Russians in the city, including an envoy sent to help free German and other foreign hostages, the Kremlin spokesman said. ...
Reuters journalists in Slaviansk, the most heavily fortified bastion of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, heard shooting break out and saw one helicopter opening fire before dawn. ... The separatist pro-Russian militants also made more moves on Thursday, seizing a rail control center for the Donetsk region, a railway official said. By cutting off power, they had all but paralyzed train traffic.
Kiev said the firing of missiles that brought down its helicopters was evidence that Russian forces were present in the town. Moscow denies that its troops are on the ground.
Ukraine troops storm east Slavyansk with helicopters, APCs
Ukraine reintroduces conscription to counter threat of pro-Russia separatists
Ukraine's embattled government has announced that it is bringing back military conscription to help counter a growing pro-Russia insurgency in the east of the country.
The announcement came after pro-Russia separatists stormed another key public building in Donetsk on Thursday, forcing the surrender of riot police trapped inside, in the latest humiliation for the Kiev government.
A decree issued by Ukraine's interim president, Oleksandr Turchynov, said that compulsory military service – which was scrapped earlier this year – was being reinstated "given the deteriorating situation in the east and the south … the rising force of armed pro-Russian units and the taking of public administration buildings … which threaten territorial integrity".
Earlier, about 1,500 protesters gathered in Donetsk's Lenin Square for May Day celebrations, then marched through the city, chanting "Russia" and "referendum". At the registry office, they pulled down its Ukrainian flag and, to loud cheers, ran up the Russian tricolour instead.
The demonstrators – some in military fatigues and balaclavas, and armed with baseball bats – later laid siege to the regional prosecutor's office. Youths smashed windows and clambered inside. A Ukrainian armoured personnel carrier trundled towards the building then, spotting a large hostile group, reversed at high speed.
About 100 riot police who were supposed to defend the building fell back to an internal courtyard. They formed a tortoise with their shields, but were surrounded by the attackers. Soon afterwards the police gave up, handing their helmets, truncheons and shields to the crowd. The young officers were allowed to file out through a gauntlet of protesters; old women slapped them as they exited. Fifteen people were reportedly injured.
Putin says Geneva agreement no longer viable after Ukrainian military action
A spokesman for Vladimir Putin said the Geneva agreement to defuse the situation in eastern Ukraine was no longer viable after Kiev launched a military operation against the rebel-held city of Slavyansk on Friday.
The Ukrainian military launched its first serious offensive to retake the city, which is being held by pro-Russia militia, early on Friday morning. The rebel militia said Ukrainian troops had launched attacks on several checkpoints. Ukraine's defence minister, Arsen Avakov, said his forces had taken control of nine checkpoints to form a "tight ring" around the city.
Two Ukrainian helicopters were shot down and their pilots killed, both Russian and Ukrainian media reported. ... "Basically, at the same time that Russia is taking pains to de-escalate and regulate the conflict, the Kiev regime has begun shooting up peaceful towns with military helicopters and has started a punitive operation, essentially destroying the last hope for the viability of the Geneva agreement," Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said. ...
In a statement on Friday, Russia's foreign ministry accused the Ukrainian military of launching rocket strikes at protesters and claimed it had used ultranationalists from the group Right Sector and "English-speaking foreigners", who it suggested were American mercenaries.
"As we have warned many times before, the use of the army against its own people is a crime and is leading Ukraine to catastrophe," the statement said.
Samantha Power is apparently immune to irony. She denounces pro-Russian "peaceful protesters with baseball bats and knives," but the thugs at the Euromaidan presumably were "freedom fighters" or something borrowed from Reagan's book of misty-eyed praise for fascists, right-wing lunatics and al-Qaeda jihadis. Perhaps Power could go lay a wreath at Bitburg for old time's sake.
Samantha Power: "Russia is looking for a pretext to invade" Ukraine
"Russia is looking for a pretext to invade" Ukraine, US ambassador Samantha Power told the UN Security Council emergency meeting called Friday by Russia.
Power's remarks followed an address by Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin, who blamed the Ukrainian government for unrest in the east. "If Kiev's criminal misadventures do not end, catastrophic consequences for Ukraine will be inevitable," Churkin warned.
Power responded by accusing Russia of "destabilizing, threatening" Ukraine and for "its inexcusable failure" to fulfil the Geneva agreement. She outlined arguments against Russia's language of "peaceful protesters" by pointing out the "baseball bats" and "knives" of pro-Russian militants and attacks on journalists and pro-Ukrainian locals.
"They are trying to exactly replicate the charade [enacted] in Crimea. … that Ukraine has taken steps to restore order is expected, justified, and what other states would have done [long ago]," Power said.
Shorter Obama: "We're going to slap you around and call you Hitler, but please don't turn off the energy supply, Mr. Putin."
Guardian liveblog summary
The Obama-Merkel news conference has wrapped.
• The US and Europe will remain united in support of Ukrainian sovereignty, the leaders said. There was still time for Moscow to help craft a diplomatic solution to the crisis, they said.
• Obama said Russia's disruptive role in eastern Ukraine created a broader security threat. "Russia's actions in Ukraine pose a direct challenge that brought the US and Europe together in the first place," Obama says. "That is a united Europe."
• The planned 25 May elections were presented as a trigger date for a new round of sanctions on Russia. If the elections are disrupted, the leaders said, "sectoral" sanctions would follow. "This is not necessarily what we want but we're ready, and prepared," Merkel said.
• Obama implied, however, that new sanctions might not target Russia's energy sector. Energy flows from Russia to Europe continued "at the height of the Cold War," he pointed out.
• The leaders decried the treatment of captive OSCE observers at the hands of pro-Russia forces. Obama said the US and Germany are "united in our outrage over the appalling treatment of OSCE observers... It is disgraceful and it is inexcusable."
• Obama said unidentified militants in east Ukraine "receive report from Russia." He said they are armed and trained, "with the capacity to shoot down helicopters. Generally protesters ... do not have that ability."
• Merkel called on Moscow to cooperate in defusing the crisis. "Mr Putin needs to play a role … and his arguments need to be weighed," she said.
Ukraine says 'many' rebels killed, wounded in crackdown
Ukraine's president said Friday that "many" pro-Russian rebels were killed and wounded in a crackdown by Ukrainian troops in the restive eastern city of Slovyansk.
Russia has called an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council because of the "serious escalation of violence" in Ukraine.
Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov said two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and seven wounded in Friday's fighting reported "many insurgents dead, wounded and arrested."
He did not provide specific casualties figures for Russian forces.
The news website www.o1.ua reported that one loyalist was killed and as many as 15 injured when a planned unity march in the port city of Odessa turned into a clash between pro-Russian forces and those supporting Kiev. The news site said the body of the victim was covered in the street by a Ukrainian flag. ...
Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said Slovyansk is now fully blocked by Ukrainian forces, who have taken over roadblocks previously held by separatist rebels loyal to the Kremlin.,
A spokesman for Russia's permanent mission at the United Nations told ITAR-TASS on Friday that Ukrainian special forces were engaged in a "punitive operation" in the city.
A rare note of sanity in the US media from USNews:
Dirt on Our Hands - Misguided U.S. foreign policy is partly to blame for the crisis in Ukraine
The most recent manifestation of misplaced hubris is the current crisis involving Russia, Ukraine and the Crimea. ... What’s needed, claim many, is for the U.S. government to “get tough” with Moscow, a sort of reprise of Ronald Reagan’s “peace through strength.” Unfortunately, this rendering of events wholly eliminates more than two decades of U.S. missteps – from both Republican and Democrat administrations and Congresses – that have contributed to the current crisis. If we fail to recognize and admit that our collective actions have contributed to the current state of affairs, the risk of further instability increases.
When the U.S. was pushing for the expansion of NATO in 1997, 50 foreign policy experts, including Susan Eisenhower and former Sens. Sam Nunn and Gary Hart, wrote an open letter to President Bill Clinton arguing against NATO expansion, warning of the potential for future consequences to America. The letter claimed that NATO expansion would “decrease allied security and unsettle European stability” and presciently warned that “in Russia, NATO expansion, which continues to be opposed across the entire political spectrum, will strengthen the nondemocratic opposition, undercut those who favor reform and cooperation with the West, bring the Russians to question the entire post-Cold War settlement, and galvanize resistance in the Duma to the START II and III treaties.”
Virtually every one of their concerns came to pass, as START II never went into effect and START III was never completed, directly attributable, in part, to NATO expansion. ...
[Article cites further examples of US disregarding Russian interests in Iraq and the breakup of Yugoslavia. - js]
[I]f American policy continues to place all the blame on Russia for this current crisis without accepting any responsibility for our actions over the past two decades, the danger of escalation rises. The longer this deteriorating situation persists, it is clear that all sides will suffer increasing economic loss. [And we'll be damned lucky if it's only money that is lost. - js]
Snowden, Poitras Awarded for 'Truth-Telling'
Pair receives Ridenhour Prize for actions that 'sparked a critical and transformative debate about mass surveillance'
National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden and filmmaker and journalist Laura Poitras were honored Wednesday with the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling.
"We have selected Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras for their work in exposing the NSA's llegal and unconstitutional bulk collection of the ommunications of millions of people living in the United States," the award committee explained in a statement.
"Their act of courage was undertaken at great personal risk and has sparked a critical and transformative debate about mass surveillance in a country where privacy is considered a constitutional right. We particularly wanted to salute the role that Poitras has played in this story, as we feel that her contribution has not been adequately recognized by the American media." ...
On Wednesday, the whistleblower, who was received at the event with a standing ovation, said he thought his actions would have left him behind bars for life. ...
"When Clapper raised his hand and lied to the American public, was anyone tried? Were any charges brought?" Snowden asked. "Within 24 hours of going public, I had three charges against me."
Crackdown on National Security Reporting Tanked US Press Freedom: Report
In annual index, Freedom House charges U.S. media freedom suffered steepest decline in a decade
U.S. press freedom has suffered its steepest decline in a decade due to the government's efforts to block reporting on the NSA spying scandal exposed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, obstruction of information, and the decimation of media diversity.
This is according to global index on media freedom (pdf) released Thursday by U.S.-based Freedom House.
The report cites "attempts by the government to inhibit reporting on national security issues" as the number one reason for this plummet.
Factors include "government attempts to control official information flows, particularly concerning national security–related issues; the legal harassment of journalists with regard to protection of sources; and revelations of surveillance that included both the bulk collection of communications data by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the targeted wiretapping of media outlets."
Responding to the report, Betty Yu from the Center for Media Justice told Common Dreams, "In the U.S., the government has tried to suppress and downplay the severity of the Edward Snowden NSA revelations in the press. To many of us in the social justice movement, we know that surveillance and eavesdropping on communities of color and progressive movements is not new. But his revelations exposed that every person in the U.S. is being spied on. Fighting digital surveillance and the right to privacy is absolutely a freedom of the press issue. We need to be allowed to communicate and share information freely."
White House seeks legal immunity for firms that hand over customer data
The White House has asked legislators crafting competing reforms of the National Security Agency to provide legal immunity for telecommunications firms that provide the government with customer data, the Guardian has learned.
In a statement of principles privately delivered to lawmakers some weeks ago to guide surveillance reforms, the White House said it wanted legislation protecting “any person who complies in good faith with an order to produce records” from legal liability for complying with court orders for phone records to the government once the NSA no longer collects the data in bulk.
The brief request, contained in a four-page document, echoes a highly controversial provision of the 2008 Fisa Amendments Act, which provided retroactive immunity to the telecommunications companies that allowed the NSA to access calls and call data between Americans and foreigners, voiding lawsuits against them. Barack Obama’s vote for that bill as a senator and presidential candidate disappointed many supporters. ...
But another aspect of the White House document points to an obstacle that congressional sources said is holding up the House intelligence bill – something its opponents consider an opportunity.
That bill, sponsored by Republican chairman Mike Rogers of Michigan and ranking Democrat Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, would permit the government to access phone records without specific prior approval by a judge. Ruppersberger said while unveiling the bill in late March that they were “very, very close” to a deal with the White House, though the principles document favors prior court orders. ...
Several congressional aides said that the discrepancy between the White House and the intelligence committee on the issue had stalled the momentum of a bill backed by the House leadership over a rival effort [the USA Freedom Act] in the judiciary committee – also stalled – that would go far further in reining in bulk data collection.
"You Might Get Hit by a Car": On Secret Tape, FBI Threatens American Muslim Refusing To Be Informant
Apple, Facebook, others defy authorities, notify users of secret data demands
Major U.S. technology companies have largely ended the practice of quietly complying with investigators’ demands for e-mail records and other online data, saying that users have a right to know in advance when their information is targeted for government seizure.
This increasingly defiant industry stand is giving some of the tens of thousands of Americans whose Internet data gets swept into criminal investigations each year the opportunity to fight in court to prevent disclosures. Prosecutors, however, warn that tech companies may undermine cases by tipping off criminals, giving them time to destroy vital electronic evidence before it can be gathered.
Fueling the shift is the industry’s eagerness to distance itself from the government after last year’s disclosures about National Security Agency surveillance of online services. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google all are updating their policies to expand routine notification of users about government data seizures, unless specifically gagged by a judge or other legal authority, officials at all four companies said. Yahoo announced similar changes in July.
As this position becomes uniform across the industry, U.S. tech companies will ignore the instructions stamped on the fronts of subpoenas urging them not to alert subjects about data requests, industry lawyers say. Companies that already routinely notify users have found that investigators often drop data demands to avoid having suspects learn of inquiries.
“It serves to chill the unbridled, cost-free collection of data,” said Albert Gidari Jr., a partner at Perkins Coie who represents several technology companies. “And I think that’s a good thing.”
Reseachers blast U.S. prison policies
The United States incarcerates too many people, a new National Research Council report concludes.
Adding more evidence to a growing debate, the elite scientific panel noted with alarm that “the U.S. penal population of 2.2 million adults is by far the largest in the world.” Nearly one out of every 100 U.S. adults is in prison or jail, a rate five to 10 times higher than that in Western Europe and other democracies.
“We are concerned that the United States is past the point where the number of people in prison can be justified by social benefits,” said committee chair Jeremy Travis, president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. “We need to embark on a national conversation to rethink the role of prison in society.”
How a national spike in incarcerations affects communities
In UK, The "People's Assembly" Vows to Destroy "Austerity Government"
"No more cuts. No more austerity. Demand the alternative."
That's the message of a growing network of individual campaigners and organizations in the UK which have come together under the banner of the People's Assembly Against Austerity and announced their promise "to take down" the ruling coalition government led by Prime Minister David Cameron and put an end to the destructive economic policies that have sacrificed the needs of the working, marginalized and middle classes of the county in order to appease the interests of the nation's wealthy and powerful elite.
Well-known comedian and British activist Russell Brand came out in support of the effort on Thursday and announced that he will be among others speaking at the group's large-scale rally scheduled for June 21st in London.
“The People's Assembly will bring down any government that doesn't end austerity," said Brand in a public statement in support of the leftist coalition that includes labor unions, anti-war campaigners, environmental groups, and those from various sectors calling for a new economic paradigm.
He described the economics of austerity as a set of policies that keeps "all the money among people who have loads of it" and said it is the most urgent crisis to address because "all other problems radiate from this toxic swindle."
Organizers are calling for tens of thousands of Britons to join the People's Assembly for the June protest as they target both the BBC and Parliament for the role both institutions have played in undermining the common good.
Why Aren't North American Workers More Militant?
The Evening Greens
Starfish deaths off US coasts continue to puzzle scientists
Scientists are struggling to find the cause of a disease that is killing off numerous species of starfish on both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America, dispatching the five-armed creatures in a particularly gruesome way.
Researchers said this week that they have ruled out some possible culprits including fungi, some parasites and certain other microorganisms and are taking a hard look at whether viruses or bacteria may be to blame.
The starfish, also called sea stars, are being obliterated by an unexplained wasting disease that causes white lesions to appear before the animal's body sags and ruptures and it spills out its internal organs.
"The magnitude of it is very concerning. There's the potential that some of these species could actually go extinct," said Cornell University ecologist Drew Harvell, one of the scientists involved in the loosely organised search for a cause. ...
Scientists prefer to call the animal a sea star rather than a starfish because these marine creatures are not fish but rather echinoderms, cousins of sand dollars, sea cucumbers and sea urchins. Most have five arms, although some have many more.
Ocean Acidification Dissolving Shells of Key Marine Creature
Scientists have documented how ocean acidification, sometimes referred to as climate change's "evil twin," is already taking a toll on an essential part of the marine food chain in an area off the U.S. northwest coast, and with runaway greenhouse gas emissions continuing, it looks like the problem is only set to worsen.
As oceans have absorbed increasing amounts of CO2, they've become more acid, and that means the shells of pteropods, small, free-swimming marine snails, are dissolving — a change the researchers hadn't expected to see for years.
In samples they took from northern Washington to central California, 53 percent of the pteropods had severely dissolved shells.
"Our findings are the first evidence that a large fraction of the West Coast pteropod population is being affected by ocean acidification," stated lead author Nina Bednarsek, Ph.D., of NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle. ... The tiny snails, which are about one-eighth to one-half inch in length, are a food source for pink salmon, mackerel and herring, so a plummet in the pteropod population will have far-reaching effects.
Posing as U.S. Officials, Yes Men Announce Renewable Energy Revolution at Homeland Security Congress
Florida senator calls on EPA to review oil-drilling incident
Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., requested that the Environmental Protection Agency weigh in on an unauthorized oil drilling incident close to the Florida Everglades.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection already has intervened in the situation, which happened south of Lake Trafford in Collier County. According to the state, Texas-based Dan A. Hughes Co. conducted unauthorized activities at its Collier County site, moving ahead with a new extraction procedure even though the state had requested it wait.
The activities took place in December 2013. The company proposed what the state called an “enhanced extraction procedure that had not previously been used in Florida,” one that would involve injecting a dissolving solution at sufficient pressure to help enhance oil production. ...
Nelson, in his letter to the EPA, said the process used was akin to fracking, the controversial procedure in which high-pressure water and chemicals are pumped underground to break up shale rock and release the oil and natural gas inside.
“We cannot tolerate expanded industrial drilling activities that pose a threat to the drinking and surface water so close to the Florida Everglades,” Nelson said in his letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. “The recent discovery of a fracking-like incident there raises serious concerns about whether outside wildcatters would soil one of the world’s great environmental treasures.”
Barack Obama's emissions plan comes under new line of attack
The central pillar of Barack Obama's climate change agenda has come under a new line of co-ordinated attack from influential lobbying networks involving Republican politicians and big business.
The Guardian has learned that the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec), a free market group of state legislators funded in part by coal and oil companies such as Peabody Energy and Koch Industries, launched a much broader style of campaigning in 2014 to block the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from cutting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
Documents obtained by the Guardian offer a rare glimpse into the inner workings of Alec as the organisation tried to drum up opposition from coal, oil and electricity industry groups and state officials.
The documents showed Alec adopting a new tactic of encouraging state attorney generals to bring lawsuits against the new EPA regulations – and so sink the emissions controls before they come into effect. Alec also encouraged legislators to lobby attorney generals and governors in other states on the EPA rules, the documents showed. ...
The strategy was a departure for Alec, which has a reputation for crafting and promoting pro-industry legislation in the states, but has not generally been involved in broader campaigning.
Senators introduce pro-Keystone XL bill to bypass Obama administration
Barack Obama faced a new challenge on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline on Thursday when Democrats and Republicans in the Senate introduced a bill taking the decision out of his hands.
The bill, introduced by Louisiana Democrat Mary Landrieu and North Dakota Republican John Hoeven, would bypass Obama, authorising immediate construction of the 1,660-mile pipeline.
The two senators said they were hoping for a vote as early as next week. Landrieu said she hoped to “greenlight construction of the pipeline immediately”. The senators claimed they had the support of all 45 Republicans and 11 Democrats.
But it was unclear whether there would be a binding vote on the bill, or whether the senators would gather the 67 votes needed to over-ride a likely veto from the White House. ...
The Louisiana Democrat, who recently took over the Senate energy committee, has been pressing the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, for a vote on Keystone.
Reid, who has expressed concerns about the environmental impacts of the Keystone, has indicated he would support a non-binding vote that would not have any legal effect.
That would avoid any showdown with the White House while providing cover to endangered Democrats, like Landrieu.
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
Government Plays Fast and Loose with Technology in Supreme Court Cell Phone Cases
Regime Change in America: This Land Isn’t Your Land, This Land Is Their Land
DOE Office of Civil Rights extends Title IX protections to transgender students
PBO: "What happened in Oklahoma is deeply troubling"
A Little Night Music
Professor Longhair - Big Chief
Professor Longhair - Go To The Mardi Gras
Dr. John Talks about Professor Longhair
Professor Longhair - Tell Me Pretty Baby
Professor Longhair - Every Day I Have The Blues
Professor Longhair - Jambalaya
Professor Longhair - Bald Head
Professor Longhair - Her Mind Has Gone
Professor Longhair - In The Night
Professor Longhair - The Mess Around
Professor Longhair - 501 Boogie
Professor Longhair - They Call Me Doctor Professor
Professor Longhair - How Long Has That Train Been Gone?
Professor Longhair - Rockin' Pneumonia
Professor Longhair - Mean Ol' World
Professor Longhair - Junco Partner
Professor Longhair, Dr. John, Earl King, The Meters - Soundstage
Professor Longhair - Nice Jazz Festival 1979
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