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Happy May Day.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri May 2nd, 2014 at 07:18:45 PM EST
Saw this.  I've been sort of out of it, and that came through in this diary.  (Missing words, etc.)

Nonetheless, I think that we are pretty much at the point that we can say there is: 1) a Ukrainian Civil War, 2) this is a gift of "colored" revolution crowd.

Yanukovich was a cad, and the old government deeply corrupt.  But, in the end this revolution is going to produce a worse outcome than if things had simply been left as they were.  The vague hope for an Egyptian outcome is rapidly fleeting, unless the Russians intervene to kill this thing in its cradle.  And our leaders in the West would rather that millions die than concede the warmongers among them pushing regime change fucked up.

Oops apocalypse!  

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Fri May 2nd, 2014 at 11:56:46 PM EST
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This is disgusting, by the way.Apparently people died in "clashes" and the building "caught fire"...

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat May 3rd, 2014 at 05:21:59 AM EST
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This is bad, but I think that the news that the local authorities were apparently congratulating these Right Sector fools for burning people alive. Worse, there were some reports of people shouting in English among the attackers.  Which is leading Russian media to suggest that American mercenaries are in the ground.  I'm not sure if that's the case, or if there are "volunteers" from the diaspora who've come to fight. Or, could be total bullshit.  

"Humanitarian" intervention by Russia is really starting to look like the least bad solution to this hot mess. I can't find the comment now, but at the start of this thing I said that I thought in the end this would be the outcome, and we'd all be thankful that it halted mass killing.

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Sat May 3rd, 2014 at 07:46:43 AM EST
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Russia will intervene when refugees start fleeing across the border.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon May 5th, 2014 at 01:01:46 AM EST
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