Ukraine steel and mine workers to the rescue?

Post #389,507 by Another Scott 5/15/14 8:46:02 PM Reply	Ukraine steel and mine workers to the rescue? http://www.nytimes.c...upol.html?hp&_r=0 MARIUPOL, Ukraine Â In what could represent a decisive turning point in the Ukrainian conflict and a setback for Russia, thousands of steelworkers fanned out Thursday over the city of Mariupol, establishing control over the streets and routing the pro-Kremlin militants who seized control several weeks ago. By late Thursday, miners and steelworkers had deployed in at least five cities, including the regional capital, Donetsk, though they had not yet become the dominant force there that they are in Mariupol, the regionÂs second largest city and the site just last week of bloody confrontations between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian militants. The workers are employees of Rinat Akhmetov, UkraineÂs richest man and a recent convert to the side of Ukrainian unity, who on Wednesday issued a statement rejecting the separatist cause of the self-styled Donetsk PeopleÂs Republic but endorsing greater local autonomy. His decision to throw his weight fully behind the interim government in Kiev could inflict a body blow to the separatists, already reeling from Russian President Vladimir V. PutinÂs withdrawal of full-throated support last week. [...] Interesting. I hope it works. Cheers, Scott.
Post #389,519 by mmoffitt 5/16/14 9:05:53 AM Reply	Hmmm. Side thought. Apparently, we no longer have the lock on corporations being more powerful than governments.
Post #389,527 by a6l6e6x 5/16/14 11:58:41 AM Reply	A distinction w/o a difference. Russia is a KGB Mafia controlled entity. It is a fine point that they are not legally incorporated. That Russia appears to be governed and that there are elections are a just sham. Alex ÂThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.Â -- Isaac Asimov
Post #389,534 by mmoffitt 5/16/14 1:30:38 PM Reply	Which begs the question. Were the Bolsheviks better for the common, non-Party, non-Mafiosa Russian?
Post #389,536 by Andrew Grygus 5/16/14 2:03:50 PM Reply	A recent Russian comment. "Before, we had money and there was nothing to buy. Now there is everything to buy, and we have no money."
Post #389,782 by Ashton 5/23/14 5:36:00 PM Reply	May be the briefest accurate description yet !? (But only on Murican flics/videos are such apparatchiks' fucked-psyches turned into heroes of some demented sort.) So which is the Larger travesty: theirs or ours? I get so confused..
Post #389,528 by a6l6e6x 5/16/14 11:59:33 AM Reply	I'm with you on the hope it works. Alex ÂThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.Â -- Isaac Asimov

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