Selling My Books on the Streets of Brooklyn 8/22 - Quintessential
Last night ThisTV, 111 on Cablevision in NYC, ran The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974), an absurd thriller that remains great fun. The late Robert Shaw leads a group of four that hijacks a subway train. When facing capture, he commits suicide by placing his foot against the third rail, while Walter Matth ...
Rusting Rustavi
In November 1993, I went to Rustavi, an industrial city in the Republic of Georgia. I was invited there by the Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia, whose son had a connection with my transportation and logistics business. Former Soviet Union politicians never believed that pursuing personal free enterp ...
Conservative Read
Conservative Read The origin of specious thinking: public schools The Myth of the Palestinian Underdog Eric Holder is Black? ‘I Am the Attorney General… but I’m Also a Black Man’ CDC: 30 States Plus D.C. Have Requested Help with Possible Ebola Cases Ferguson: No Justice in the American Police State ...
Ukraine accuses Russia of invasion after aid convoy crosses border - Reuters UK
Reuters UK Ukraine accuses Russia of invasion after aid convoy crosses border Reuters UK KIEV/DONETSK-IZVARINO BORDER CROSSING Russia (Reuters) - Ukraine declared on Friday that Russia had launched a "direct invasion" of its territory after Moscow sent a convoy of aid trucks across the border into e ...
Russia aid convoy moving into Ukraine - Aljazeera.com
Aljazeera.com Russia aid convoy moving into Ukraine Aljazeera.com Ukrainian authorities have said that trucks from a Russian aid convoy crossed into Ukraine without permission and Ukraine's state security chief said this amounted to a "direct invasion" by Russia, news agencies have reported. "They p ...
the lost country
you know, now, I try to move to Europe, I try to become closer to foreigners, I try to write in english more, I can translate any phrase or idioma, but... to explain nuances of russian quotes I have to explain from which film\book\person it came, and here I crash with... you know nothing. Nothing fr ...
Ukraine: Russia’s convoy a set-up for provocation
DAVYDO-MYKILSKE, Ukraine • Russia sent over 130 aid trucks rolling into rebel-held eastern Ukraine on Friday without Kiev’s approval, saying it had lost patience with the Ukrainian government’s stalling tactics. Ukraine called the move a "direct ...
U.S. says Russia must pull convoy from Ukraine or face more sanctions
Moscow, which has thousands of troops close to the Russian side of the border, warned against any attempt to "disrupt" the convoy, which it said was purely humanitarian. It did not say what action it might take if the Ukrainian military intervened.
West condemns Russia over convoy to Ukraine
LUHANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Tensions between Russia and Ukraine escalated sharply on Friday as Moscow sent more than 130 trucks rolling across the border in what it said was a mission to deliver humanitarian aid. Ukraine called it a "direct invasion," and ...
Has Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Begun?
The white-painted military trucks that have been stopped at the Ukraine border for more than a week are rolling across it. The war begins a new stage. YEVPATORIA, Crimea — Hundreds of Russian military trucks painted white began driving across the ...
Russia sends truck convoy into Ukraine; Kiev government calls it a 'direct invasion'
In another ominous turn in the crisis, NATO said it has mounting evidence that Russian troops are operating inside Ukraine and launching artillery attacks from Ukrainian soil — significantly deeper involvement in the fighting than the West has previously ...
