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Political parties in Ukraine
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This article lists political parties in Ukraine. Ukraine has a multi-party system with numerous political parties, in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments. In the (October 2014 and last) Ukrainian parliamentary election 52 political parties nominated candidates.[1]
Many parties in Ukraine have very small memberships and are unknown to the general public. Party membership in Ukraine is lower than 1% of the population eligible to vote (compared to an average 4.7% in the European Union[2]).[3][4] National parties currently not represented in Ukraine's national parliament Verkhovna Rada do have representatives in municipal counsels.[5][6][7][8] Small parties used to join in multi-party coalitions (electoral blocks) for the purpose of participating in parliamentary elections; but on November 17, 2011 the Ukrainian Parliament approved an election law that banned the participation of blocs of political parties in parliamentary elections.[9] Ukrainian society's trust of political parties is very low overall.[10] According to an April 2014 poll by Razumkov Centre 14.7%.[11] Ukraine's election law forbids outside financing of political parties or campaigns.[12]
- 1 Overview
- 2 Current parliamentary factions
- 3 Former parliamentarian parties
- 4 Political alliances and blocs (1998–2012)
- 5 Minor parties
- 6 Major Regional Parties and electoral blocs
- 7 Defunct parties (and electoral blocs)
- 8 Ukrainian parties before 1991
- 9 See also
- 10 Notes
- 11 References
- 12 External links
|This section needs additional citations for verification. (October 2012)
|Number of parties
|January 2009
|July 2009
|May 2010
|July 2010
|September 2011
|November 2012
Even before Ukraine became independent in August 1991, political parties in Ukraine started to form around intellectuals and former Soviet dissidents.[19][not specific enough to verify] They posed the main opposition to the ruling Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine (CP(b)U). At the first convocation of the Verkhovna Rada[when?] those parties formed the parliamentary opposition People's Council. The most noticeable parties of the parliamentary opposition included the People's Movement of Ukraine (The Movement) and the Ukrainian Republican Party. Due to the August Putsch in Moscow (19–21 August 1991), a process to prohibit communist parties in Ukraine took place. Led by Oleksandr Moroz, the parliamentary faction of the CP(b)U, Group of 239, started a process to re-form the CP(b)U into the Socialist Party of Ukraine. The restriction on the existence of communist parties in Ukraine was successfully adopted soon after the Ukrainian independence, however in the couple of years the resolution was later challenged and eventually the restriction was lifted. In 1993 in Donetsk the first congress of the reinstated Communist Party of Ukraine took place, with the Party led by Petro Symonenko.
In the hastily organized 1994 parliamentary elections the communists surprisingly achieved the highest party rating, while the main opposing party, the Movement, did not gain even a quarter of their earned[clarification needed] seats. The re-formed party of the CP(b)U, the Socialist Party of Ukraine, and its major ally, the Peasant Party of Ukraine, performed relatively strongly. About a third of the elected parliamentarians were not affiliated. The elections became a major fiasco of the Democratic forces in Ukraine. After the 1994 elections numerous independent political parties were elected to the Ukrainian parliament, leading to the formation of nine deputy groups and parliamentary factions: Communists, Socialists, Agrarians, Inter-regional Deputy Group (MDG), Unity, Center, Statehood, Reforms, and the Movement. The concept of a "situational majority" was first used during that convocation to form a parliamentary coalition. The ruling coalition in the parliament often included the Communist Party of Ukraine, the Socialist Party of Ukraine, Agrarians, MDG, and Unity.
During the Kuchma presidency (1994–2004) parties started to form around politicians who had achieved power; these parties were often a vehicle of Ukrainian oligarchs.[19][not specific enough to verify] Those parties took their root from the next ruling coalition of the third convocation of Ukrainian parliament that consisted of factions "Fatherland", "Hromada", Party of Greens of Ukraine, People's Democratic Party, the Movement (K), the Movement, Reforms and Order - Reforms-Congress, Social Democratic Party (united), Labor Party of Ukraine, Revival of Regions group, Independents group and non-affiliated deputies. It was the first parliamentary coalition which did not include the Communist Party of Ukraine and since then there was a signification decline in an explicit communist presence in the Ukrainian politics. Scholars have defined several "Clans" in Ukrainian politics grouped around businessmen and politicians from particular Ukrainian mayor cities; the "Donetsk-clan" (Rinat Akhmetov, Viktor Yanukovich and Mykola Azarov), the "Dnipropetrovsk-clan" (Yulia Tymoshenko, Leonid Kuchma, Viktor Pinchuk, Sergey Tigipko and Pavlo Lazarenko), the "Kiev-clan" (Viktor Medvedchuk and the brothers Surkis; this clan has also been linked to Zakarpattia) and the smaller "Kharkiv-clan".[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] Professor Paul D'Anieri has argued (in 2006) that Ukrainian parties are "elite-based rather than mass-based".[29] While former Ambassador of Germany to Ukraine (2000–2006) Dietmar Studemann believes that personalities are more important in Ukrainian politics than (ideological) platforms. "Parties in the proper meaning of this word do not exist in Ukraine so far. A party for Germans is its platform first, and its personalities later."[30]
Ukrainian parties tend not to have a clear ideology but to contain different political groups with diverging ideological outlooks.[31] Unlike in Western politics, civilizational and geostrategic orientations play a more important role than economic and socio-political agendas for parties.[32] This has led to coalition governments that would be unusual from a Western point of view; for example: the Azarov Government which included the Party of Regions with the financial backing of some Ukrainian oligarchs and the Communist Party of Ukraine and the social-democratic Batkivshchyna and the economically liberal European Party of Ukraine in the Second Tymoshenko Government.[32]
|Participating parties
In 1998 there was introduced voting procedure for the party-list proportional representation where half of parliamentary seats (225) were assigned to parties that would pass an established election threshold. For that purpose each party or electoral bloc of parties (political alliance) was required to registered to be included in the ballot for the particular election.
After the 2002 elections the Ukrainian parliament saw some consolidation of democratic political parties and the establishment of the main political camps in Ukraine: a coalition of nationally oriented deputies with the pro-European vector, a coalition of left-wing parties, and the pro-Russian parties coalition of the former Soviet nomenklatura. A major change took place during the Orange revolution when finally the two opposing political camps were established after the left-wing coalition split.
Major parties and political camps[edit]
There have developed two major movements[nb 1] in the Ukrainian parliament since its independence:[25][32][34]
- a pro-Western and pro-European general liberal national democrats[35][33] who from time to time featured individual politicians with a nationalist past (for example Andriy Shkil, Andriy Parubiy and Levko Lukyanenko) with the Our Ukraine Blocs and Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (now Fatherland[36]) as its frontrunners;[37] UDAR replaced the Our Ukraine Bloc in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[38][39] In this bloc may also be included more conservative or radical Ukrainian nationalists who share the broadly pro-western orientation of the liberal parties, primarily represented by All-Ukrainian Union "Svoboda", Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, People's Movement of Ukraine and People's Front.
- a pro-Russian, latently Eurosceptic, often anti-American and partly anti-liberal group of parties, which in the 1990s was dominated by the Communist Party of Ukraine, and is now dominated by the Party of Regions.[32][37]
The first movement (mentioned above) gets its voters mainly from Western Ukraine and Central Ukraine; the latter from Eastern Ukraine and Southern Ukraine.[40] The electorate of CPU and Party of Regions is very loyal to them.[40] Since the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election Fatherland and UDAR cooperate with the far more radical nationalistic[41] All-Ukrainian Union "Svoboda".[42] "Svoboda" (37 seats in the Ukrainian parliament[43]) can not be placed in the above-mentioned two major movements.[32] "Svoboda" gets the lion share of its votes from Western Ukraine.[44]
After the 2007 parliamentary election the parties associated with the Our Ukraine Bloc (named Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc in 2007) lost popular support greatly while Front of Changes (the party of former Our Ukraine politician Arseniy Yatsenyuk[45]) and Strong Ukraine achieved good results in polls for the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election and in the 2010 local elections; so did All-Ukrainian Union "Svoboda".[46] Till the 2009 Ternopil Oblast local election "Svoboda"'s role in Ukrainian politics had been extremely marginal.[41]
November 17, 2011 the Ukrainian Parliament approved an election law that banned the participation of blocs of political parties in parliamentary elections;[9] since then several parties have merged with other parties.[48][49][50] Strong Ukraine merged with the Party of Regions on 17 March 2012.[51] Front of Changes and former Our Ukraine Bloc and Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko members performed in the 2012 parliamentary elections under "umbrella" party Fatherland.[52][53][54][55][56] Front for Changes leader Yatsenyuk headed this election list; because Fatherland-leader Yulia Tymoshenko was imprisoned.[57][58]
On 15 June 2013 Reforms and Order Party and Front for Change merged into Fatherland.[59] A part of People's Movement of Ukraine (including its former chairman Borys Tarasyuk[60]) also merged with Fatherland (the rest of this party had merged with Ukrainian People's Party in May 2013[61]).[62][63]
In preparation for the upcoming 2014 parliamentary elections, several ministers of the Fatherland party in the government of Arseniy Yatsenyuk moved to the new party People's Front, which elected as its party leader Yatsenyuk on 10 September 2014.[64][65]
Current parliamentary factions[edit]
It is possible for 15 or more deputies to form a parliamentary faction (a lawmaker can join only one faction; the chairman and his two assistants cannot head factions of deputies).[66][67][68][69][70]
(Shading indicates majority caucus)
|Petro Poroshenko Bloc
|People's Front
|Opposition Bloc
|Self Reliance
|Radical Party
|Revival[a 1]
|People's Will[a 1][a 2]
|Non-affiliated[a 3]
|End of previous convocation
|DNP[a 4]
|DNP[a 5]
|DNP[a 6]
|Seats won in 2014 election[71]
|November 27, 2014
(first session)[77][73]
|December 2, 2014[78][73]
|February 5, 2015[73]
|June 24, 2015[73]
|Latest voting share
Former parliamentarian parties[edit]
A faction of nonpartisan deputies under the name Reforms for the Future existed between 16 February 2011[79] and 15 December 2012.[80][81][82][73] A faction of nonpartisan deputies under the name For Peace and Stability existed between 2 July 2014 and 27 November 2014.[83][77]
In 1998 - 2000 there was another parliamentary faction Labour Ukraine that existed without its political party until it was registered by the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice in June 2000.[84]
The Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) was prohibited in 1991, however its members were not excluded from the Ukrainian parliament. They formed a parliamentary faction of the Socialist Party of Ukraine. For the 1994 parliamentary elections however the ban on communist parties was lifted and there were two parties with similar ideologies running for parliament the Socialist Party of Ukraine and the Communist Party of Ukraine that was reestablished in 1993.
Political alliances and blocs (1998–2012)[edit]
The idea of electoral blocs as a loose association of parties was introduced in 1998, however it did not become popular right away. The real success of electoral blocks came in 2002 when the Bloc of Victor Yushchenko "Our Ukraine" gained the most parliamentary seats. The electoral blocs system was liquidated in 2011[9] forcing registration of individual parties for the next 2012 parliamentary elections. The longest existing political blocs were Our Ukraine and Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko.
The association of parties however was transformed into a new concept of an "umbrella party" when several parties temporarily unite under such party that becomes a core party of informal electoral bloc.[36][57][85] Below is the list of official electoral blocs in 1998 - 2012 that led to creation of their own parliamentary factions.
- Bloc of SPU-SelPU (1998–2002)
- Our Ukraine (2002-2012; Bloc of Viktor Yushchenko, Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc)
- For United Ukraine (2002–2006)
- Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (2002–2012)
- Bloc of Volodymyr Lytvyn (2007–2012)
Minor blocs[edit]
The following blocs did not form their parliamentary factions due to small number of their representatives.
- Labor Ukraine Bloc
- National Front (Ukraine)
- Party of Labor (Ukraine) - Liberal Party of Ukraine
- Bloc of Democratic Parties NEP
- Social Liberal Union SLOn
- Fewer Words
- Unity (Ukraine)
- Democratic Party of Ukraine - Democratic Union (Ukraine)
Minor parties[edit]
List of parties that did not make to the parliament of Ukraine or parties that are spin offs of former parliamentary factions.
- Political Party "Cathedral Ukraine"
- All-Ukrainian Union "Center"
- All-Ukrainian Chornobyl People's Party "For the Welfare and Protection of the People"
- Civil Position, (merged with All-Ukrainian Union Fatherland (United Opposition) for 2012 parliamentary elections)
- Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed)
- Conscience of Ukraine
- All-Ukrainian Political Party "Ecology and Social Protection"
- For Fairness and Prosperity[15]
- Party of Free Democrats
- Internet Party of Ukraine
- National-Democratic Association "Ukraine"
- All-Ukrainian Party of Peace and Unity
- People's Party New Ukraine
- All-Ukrainian Party of People's Trust
- Political Party of Small and Medium-sized Businesses of Ukraine
- Social-Christian Party
- Union of Leftists
- United Left and Peasants
- Viche
- Your Ukraine[16]
- For Ukraine! (formerly Party of Social Protection),[86]
- Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party[87]
- People Power,[87] merged with United Left and Peasants
- Justice Party[87]
- Rural Revival Party[87]
- All-Ukrainian Patriotic Union.[87]
- Workers Resistance
- Ukrainian Beer Lovers Party
Major Regional Parties and electoral blocs[edit]
Kiev Oblast/City[edit]
- Leonid Chernovetskyi Bloc (Disbanded itself on September 22, 2011[88])
- For Yanukovych! (associated with Party of Regions; (only) participated in the 2006 Crimean parliamentary election[90])
- Solidarity (associated with Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united))
- Krym
Defunct parties (and electoral blocs)[edit]
This list of other alliances (on November 17, 2011 the Ukrainian Parliament approved an election law that banned the participation of blocs of political parties in parliamentary elections[9]) and defunct parties is based on the parties and alliance that did take part in parliamentary elections before the 2007 Ukrainian national election but have not taken part in any national election since then, some party's did change to different political alliances since then.
- Toiling Ukraine (later as Unity and Yevhen Marchuk - Unity) (1998–2007)
- Ukrainian Party of Justice (1998–2006)
- Unity (2002–2007)
- Slavonic Party (as Civil Congress of Ukraine)
- Social Democratic Union (2002)
- Young Ukraine (2002)
- Force and Honor (as Party of Liberty) (2006)
- Women Solidarity of Ukraine (2006)
- National Front, bloc split into Viktor Yushchenko Bloc and Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc
- Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists
- Ukrainian Republican Party
- Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party (merged into Fatherland)
- For truth, for people, for Ukraine!
- Party of Labor and Liberal Party - TOGETHER!, bloc split into Viktor Yushchenko Bloc and For United Ukraine
- Party of Labor (merged into Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine)
- Liberal Party of Ukraine
- Forward, Ukraine, both parties merged into Christian Democratic Union
- Ukrainian Christian Democratic Party
- Christian People's Union
- Bloc of Democratic parties (later as DemPU-DS) (1998–2006)
- Democratic Party of Ukraine (1998–2006)
Party of Economic Revival(1998, dissolved in 2003)
- Democratic Union (2002)
- Social Liberal Association
- Constitutional Democratic Party
Interregional Bloc of Reforms(a Russian split off from Party of Democratic Revival of Ukraine, dissolved in 2001)
- Less Words
- All-Ukrainian Association "Svoboda"
State Sovereignty of Ukraine(dissolved in 2003)
- European Choice of Ukraine (later as Team of Winter Generation, People's Bloc of Lytvyn and Volodymyr Lytvyn Bloc) (1998–2012)
- Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party (1998–2007)
- People's Party (2006–2012)
- Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine (1998–2006)
- Constitutional Democratic Party (2002)
- Party of Private Property (2002)
- Justice (2006)
- Strong Ukraine (as Labor Party of Ukraine) (2007)
- Viktor Yushchenko Bloc "Our Ukraine" (later as Our Ukraine and Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense) (2002–2012)
- People's Movement of Ukraine (2002–2012)
- Christian Democratic Union (2002–2012)
- Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (National Front) (2002–2007)
- Our Ukraine (2006–2012)
- Ukrainian Platform "Assembly" (as Ukrainian Republican Party "Assembly") (2006–2012)
- People's Self-Defense (originally as Forward, Ukraine!) (2002–06 and 2007–12)
- Ukrainian People's Party (originally as Ukrainian People's Movement) (2002–06 and 2007–12)
- Liberal Party of Ukraine (Party of Labor and Liberal Party - TOGETHER)
- Youth Party of Ukraine
- Party of Reforms and Order
- Solidarity
- Republican Christian Party
- Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine (2006)
- Time (2007)
- Party of Homeland Defenders (2007)
- European Party of Ukraine (2007)
- For United Ukraine (later as Lyudmyla Suprun Bloc and Ukrainian Regional Asset) (2002–2012)
- People's Democratic Party (2002–2012)
- Democratic Party of Ukraine (2006–2012)
- People's Party (as People Agrarian Party of Ukraine) (later took over Team of Winter Generation)
- Party of Regions (as Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine)
- Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine
- Toiling Ukraine
- Christian Democratic Party of Ukraine (2006)
- Christian Liberal Party of Ukraine (2006)
- Republican Christian Party (2007)
- Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (2002–2012)
- Fatherland (2002–2012)
- Ukrainian Social Democratic Party (2002–2012)
- Ukrainian Platform "Assembly" (as Ukrainian People's Party "Assembly)
- Ukrainian Republican Party (National Front) (merged with Assembly, later reestablished)
- Party of Reforms and Order (2007)
- Natliya Vitrenko Bloc (later as People's Opposition) (2002–2007)
- Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine (2002–2007)
- Party of Educators of Ukraine
- Ruthenian Ukrainian Union (2006)
- Ruthenian bloc (later as For Union and KUCMA) (2002–2017)
- Union (2002–2012)
- Ruthenian bloc (as For United Ruthenia) (2002-06 and 2012-17)
- Ruthenian Ukrainian Union
- Socialist Ukraine (2006)
- Homeland (2006)
- Slavonic Party (2006)
- Union of Labor
- Light from the East
- People's Movement of Ukraine
- People's Movement of Ukraine for Unity
- All-Ukrainian Association "Center"
- Against all (later as Patriots of Ukraine) (2002–2007)
- Patriotic Party of Ukraine (2002–2007)
- Political Party of Small and Middle Business
- Ukrainian National Conservative Party (2006)
- Ukrainian Party - New World
- Ukrainian Party
- New World
- Ukrainian People's Bloc (2006–2012)
- Ukraine Assembled (2006–2012)
- Party of Rural Revival
- Ukrainian People's Party
- All-Ukrainian Chornobyl People's Party (2007)
- Civil Bloc Time - Party of Reforms and Order (split between Our Ukraine and BYuT)
- Time
- Party of Reforms and Order (PRP)
- Opposition Bloc "Ne tak!"
- Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)
- Women for the Future
- Republican Party of Ukraine
- All-Ukrainian Association "Center"
- Yuriy Karmazin Bloc
- Party of Homeland Defenders
- National Democratic Association "Ukraine"
- All-Ukrainian Party of Peace and Unity
- Lazarenko Bloc
- All-Ukrainian Association Hromada
- Social Democratic Party of Ukraine
- Social Democratic Union
- State - Toiling Union
- All-Ukrainian Party of Workers
- State
- Power of People (later as Bloc of Pensioners' Parties of Ukraine) (2006–2012)
- Party of Protection of Pensioners of Ukraine (2006–2012)
- All-Ukrainian Party of Spirituality and Patriotism
- All-Ukrainian Chornobyl People's Party
- Party of Pensioners of Ukraine (2007)
- Bloc of Borys Oliynyk and Mykhailo Syrota
- Informative Ukraine
- Party of Health
- Strong Ukraine (as Labor Party of Ukraine)
- Bloc of Independents "Sun"
- United Family
- Women of Ukraine
- Peasant Bloc "Agrarian Ukraine"
- Peasant Bloc "Agrarian Ukraine"
- Party of Rural Revival
- Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party
- Christian Bloc
- All-Ukrainian Community
Parliamentary coalitions[edit]
First convocation[edit]
- People's Council
- Group of 239
Second convocation[edit]
- Situational majority
Third convocation[edit]
- Pro-presidential coalition
- Left coalition
Fourth convocation[edit]
- For United Ukraine
- Left coalition
- Democratic coalition
Fifth convocation[edit]
- Coalition of democratic forces
- Anti-crisis coalition
Sixth convocation[edit]
- National development, stability and order
- Stability and reforms
Ukrainian parties before 1991[edit]
- Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party
- Ukrainian Socialist Revolutionary Party
- Ukrainian Communist Party
- Borotbists
- Ukrainian Socialist Party (1900)
- Ukrainian Socialist Party (1950)
See also[edit]
- ^ Some Ukrainian parties could not be clearly classified as belonging to one of these two major movements, they were either synthesising the ideas of the two camps and/or strove to position themselves as a balancing force; examples of these parties are Socialist Party of Ukraine, Lytvyn Bloc and Labour Ukraine.[33]
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- ^ a b Justice Ministry registers Your Ukraine Party, Kyiv Post (May 5, 2010)
- ^ Youth into Power party registered, Kyiv Post (July 2, 2010)
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- ^ Former German Ambassador Studemann views superiority of personality factor as fundamental defect of Ukrainian politics, Kyiv Post (December 21, 2009)
- ^ Against All Odds:Aiding Political Parties in Georgia and Ukraine by Max Bader, Vossiuspers UvA, 2010, ISBN 978-90-5629-631-5 (page 82)
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- ^ a b Ukraine's Party System in Transition? The Rise of the Radically Right-Wing All-Ukrainian Association "Svoboda" by Andreas Umland, Centre for Geopolitical Studies (1 May 2011)
- ^ Pro-Russian bloc leads in Ukraine, BBC News (March 26, 2006)
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Ukraine on its Meandering Path Between East and West by Andrej Lushnycky and Mykola Riabchuk, Peter Lang, 2009, ISBN 303911607X (page 122)
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- ^ a b Communist and Post-Communist Parties in Europe by Uwe Backes and Patrick Moreau, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-36912-8 (page 396)
- ^ Party of Regions gets 185 seats in Ukrainian parliament, Batkivschyna 101 - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (12 November 2012)
UDAR submits to Rada resolution on Ukraine's integration with EU, Interfax-Ukraine (8 January 2013)
- ^ (Ukrainian) Electronic Bulletin "Your Choice - 2012". Issue 4: Batkivshchyna, Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research (24 October 2012)
- ^ a b Eight Reasons Why Ukraine's Party of Regions Will Win the 2012 Elections by Taras Kuzio, The Jamestown Foundation (17 October 2012)
UKRAINE: Yushchenko needs Tymoshenko as ally again by Taras Kuzio, Oxford Analytica (5 October 2007)
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- ^ Batkivschyna, UDAR, Svoboda to create opposition council to coordinate activity in Rada, Kyiv Post (17 December 2012)
Batkivschyna, UDAR, Svoboda to coordinate their actions at presidential election, Interfax-Ukraine (16 May 2013)
- ^ Party of Regions gets 185 seats in Ukrainian parliament, Batkivschyna 101 - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (12 November 2012)
- ^ Svoboda: The rise of Ukraine's ultra-nationalists, BBC News (26 December 2012)
- ^ Yatsenyuk forecasts immigration flow-out due to economic crisis, Kyiv Post (November 28, 2008)
- ^ (Ukrainian) Results of the elections, preliminary data, on interactive maps by Ukrayinska Pravda (November 8, 2010)
(Ukrainian) GFK exit-poll
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(Ukrainian) Razumkov Center 23.08.2010
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- ^ (Ukrainian) "Наша Україна" й УНП почали об'єднання з Дніпропетровська, Ukrayinska Pravda (December 18, 2011)
- ^ Tymoshenko, Lutsenko aware of their parties' unification, Kyiv Post (December 29, 2011)
- ^ (Ukrainian) Одна з партій НУНС перейменувалася та змінила голову, Ukrayinska Pravda (December 3, 2011)
- ^ Tigipko hooks up with Party of Regions, Kyiv Post (March 20, 2012)
Strong Ukraine party decides on disbanding to join Regions Party, Kyiv Post (March 17, 2012)
- ^ (Ukrainian) Соціально-християнська партія вирішила приєднатися до об'єднаної опозиції, Den (newspaper) (24 April 2012)
- ^ Opposition to form single list to participate in parliamentary elections, Kyiv Post (2 March 2012)
(Ukrainian) "ФРОНТ ЗМІН" ІДЕ В РАДУ З "БАТЬКІВЩИНОЮ", Ukrayinska Pravda (7 April 2012)
Yatseniuk wants to meet with Tymoshenko to discuss reunion of opposition, Kyiv Post (7 April 2012)
- ^ (Ukrainian) Tymoshenko and Yatsenyuk united ("Тимошенко та Яценюк об'єдналися"), Ukrayinska Pravda (23 April 2012)
- ^ Civil Position party joins Ukraine's united opposition, Kyiv Post (20 June 2012)
- ^ Mustafa Dzhemiliov is number 12 on the list of the United Opposition "Fatherland", Den (2 August 2012)
- ^ a b They Call Themselves the Opposition, The Ukrainian Week (31 August 2012)
- ^ (Ukrainian) Список депутатів нової Верховної Ради, Ukrayinska Pravda (11 November 2012)
- ^ Sobolev: Front for Change and Reform and Order Party to join Batkivschyna, Interfax-Ukraine (11 June 2013)
Front for Change, Reforms and Order to dissolve for merger with Batkivshchyna - Sobolev, Ukrinform (11 June 2013))
- ^ Ukraine-Russia relations didn't get any better, ex-Foreign Minister Borys Tarasiuk says, z i k (February 5, 2011)
- ^ Ukrainian People's Party, People's Movement Of Ukraine Decide Unite Into Rukh, Elect Kuibida Its Leader, Ukrainian News Agency (19 May 2013)
- ^ Batkivschyna, Front for Change, Reform and Order Party, part of NRU unite for victory – Tymoshenko's address to congress, Interfax-Ukraine (15 June 2013)
- ^ Tymoshenko re-elected Batkivshchyna leader, Yatseniuk council chair, Ukrinform (15 June 2013)
- ^ Yatseniuk heads People's Front Party, Ukrinform (10 September 2014)
Jatzenjuk an die Spitze der Partei "Volksfront" gestellt, Ukrinform (10 September 2014)
- ^ «Народний фронт» представив кандидатів, Hromadske.TV (10 September 2014)
- ^ Rada Approves Cancellation Of Rule That Bans Deputies From Switching Factions, FINANCIAL (October 8, 2010)
- ^ Update: Return to 1996 Constitution strengthens president, raises legal questions, Kyiv Post (October 1, 2010)
- ^ Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: The functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine, Kyiv Post (October 5, 2010)
- ^ Laws of Ukraine. Verkhovna Rada decree No. 2222-IV: About the amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine. Adopted on December 8, 2004. (Ukrainian)
- ^ Rada amends regulations of its activities, Kyiv Post (October 8, 2010)
- ^ a b Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament, Ukrinform (8 November 2014)
People's Front 0.33% ahead of Poroshenko Bloc with all ballots counted in Ukraine elections - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014)
Poroshenko Bloc to get 132 seats in parliament - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014)
- ^ (Ukrainian) Block Poroshenko and kick off to the polls together, TVi (2 September 2014)
- ^ a b c d e f (Ukrainian) Депутатські фракції і групи VIII скликання Deputy fractions and Groups VIII convocation, Verkhovna Rada
- ^ (Ukrainian)Yatsenyuk became a leader of the "People's Front" political council, while Turchynov is a head of its headquarters. Ukrayinska Pravda. 10 September 2014
Ukrainian PM, Parliament Speaker to Head Newly Formed Popular Front Party, RIA Novosti (10 September 2014)
- ^ Ukraine's united opposition discussing formation of single party, Kyiv Post (7 December 2012)(subscription required)
Five factions, including Communist Party, registered in parliament, Kyiv Post (12 December 2012)(subscription required)
Sobolev: Front for Change and Reform and Order Party to join Batkivschyna, Interfax-Ukraine (11 June 2013)
Front for Change, Reforms and Order to dissolve for merger with Batkivshchyna - Sobolev, Ukrinform (11 June 2013)
(Ukrainian) Sobolev heads "Batkivshchyna" in the Rada, Televiziyna Sluzhba Novyn (20 March 2014)
"Turchynov is summoned for interrogation to SBU today – BYUT". UNIAN. 20 September 2010. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
"Batkivschyna to nominate Tymoshenko for presidency, Yatseniuk heads party's political council". Kyiv Post. Interfax-Ukraine. 14 June 2013. Archived from the original on 15 June 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
"BYT-Batkivschyna replaces its leader". Kyiv Post. Interfax-Ukraine. 7 December 2011. Archived from the original on 7 December 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
- ^ Grytsenko, Oksana (September 21, 2014). "Allies of Yanukovych trying for parliament". Kyiv Post. Retrieved 8 December 2014.
- ^ a b (Ukrainian) In Parliament created a faction, Ukrayinska Pravda (27 November 2014)
- ^ (Ukrainian) Two more deputies entered the Poroshenko Bloc faction, Ukrayinska Pravda (2 December 2014)
- ^ Individual deputies create Reforms for the Sake of Future group in parliament, Kyiv Post (February 16, 2011)
- ^ Parliament of sixth convocation ends its work, Kyiv Post (6 December 2012)
- ^ You Scratch My Back, and I'll Scratch Yours, The Ukrainian Week (26 September 2012)
Voting for the Verkhovna Rada regulations amendment
Stenogram of November 6, 2012 session
Політичний цирк: кнопкодави попалися на своїх звичках (Political circus: the "button-pushers" got caught on its habits). Ukrayinska Pravda.
- ^ Yefremov: Regions Party faction already has 223 members, Kyiv Post (28 November 2012 2012)
A difficult victory for the Party of Regions, Centre for Eastern Studies (31 October 2012)
- ^ (Ukrainian) [4], Ukrayinska Pravda (2 July 2014)
- ^ (Ukrainian) Політична партія "Трудова Україна", Database DATA
Explaining State Capture and State Capture Modes by Oleksiy Omelyanchuk, Central European University, 2001 (page 22)
Trudova Ukraina elects a new chairman, Policy Documentation Center (November 27, 2000)
Explaining State Capture: Russia and Ukraine, Central European University (2001)
- ^ Voters head to polls in Ukraine, China Central Television (28 October 2012)
- ^ (Ukrainian) Кириленко об'єднався з Яценюком, Ukrayinska Pravda (December 22, 2011)
- ^ a b c d e (Ukrainian) Соцпартії не сподобалася назва "Об'єднані ліві і селяни", Gazeta.ua (December 16, 2011)
- ^ Faction of Chernovetksyi's Bloc stopped its existence, UNIAN (September 23, 2011)
Chernovetsky Bloc in Kyiv City Council disbanded, Kyiv Post (September 22, 2011)
- ^ a b "Ukrainian News". Ukranews.com. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
- ^ Kiev fails to end Crimea's ethnic tension, Oxford Analytica (February 7, 2007)
(Ukrainian) У Януковича в Криму проблеми, Gazeta.ua (March 26, 2009)
(Ukrainian) Соратник Януковича розповів, за що його вигнали з партії, Ukrayinska Pravda (September 15, 2009)
Local government elections in Ukraine: last stage in the Party of Regions' takeover of power, Centre for Eastern Studies (October 4, 2010)
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|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Political parties in Ukraine.
- Official databases of political parties in Ukraine of the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice (Ukrainian)
- Databases DA-TA: Political parties in Ukraine (Ukrainian)
- Databases ASD: Political parties in Ukraine (Ukrainian)
- Ukraine's party system: specifics of establishment, problems of functioning, trends of evolution, 2010 analysis by Razumkov Centre


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No Wi-Fi at site unless you are close to the office/house. Bathrooms were old, but clean. Sites close together. Only campground in area. Note: don't expect to see any falls in International Falls as there aren't any. - lburas
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Adequate campground for a couple of days to see the area. Tight roads and sites, but close to town and convenient to the area attractions. No on site laundry, but a laundromat is just down the street. No Wi-Fi, but our Verizon aircard worked fine. Lots of trees that might hinder satellite reception, but you can pick up some local over the air channels with your crank up antennae. We would stay here again when in the area. - TX Camper
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The Provider Backbone Bridges (PBB) standard, IEEE 802.1ah, has been studied in this paper to understand the limitations that come with this standard. The paper suggests that when compared with a Provider Bridges (PB) network, the deployment of a Provider Backbone Bridges (PBB) network offers simpler operations. This bridges standard is also cost effective because of lower capital expenditures and better scalability. This is particularly relevant because of the number of customers it can support. PBBs also have an advantage when used with Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS). This is because the backbone bridges reduce the overall MAC address learning requirements. Within this paper is also an overview of Provider Backbone Bridges to help readers understand the advantages it has over the usually used provider bridges. For the same, the paper discusses common PBB deployment situations, and examines the benefits of PBB when it is deployed with a core MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS) network supporting VPLS.


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I was picking berries and I got off balance in the weeds and fell. I am OK!! I think I may have twisted the bad knee. Just rode the exercise bike for 30 min.
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We went to town to see the Fireworks last night, but just after We parked it started thundering, lightening, raining and small hail!! We left and came home. We thought they would do them tonight. but they did them later last night when the we... Read more
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I slept a little later this morning. Went for breakfast. I rested for about an hour. Then I mowed for 4 hours. I got My bird feeders fixed. We went for supper. In awhile We are going back into town to see the fireworks. I think I will res... Read more
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We are closed tomorrow! WooHoo! I had 2 meeting for today. One happened and We got done what We needed to. The Health Ins. Lady did not show. I will have to call Her Monday!! No riding the exercise bike tonight. II did other stuff today. ... Read more
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I got up this morning and got ready for work. I drove to work. When I got out of the car I had a pain in My hip. It has bothered Me all day. I walked to try to walk it out.
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Sunday, June 28, 2015
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British Army expert casts doubt on 'liquid explosives' threat, Al Qaeda network in UK Identified
Filed by Nafeez Ahmed
Lieutenant-Colonel (ret.) Nigel Wylde, a former senior British Army Intelligence Officer, has suggested that the police and government story about the "terror plot" revealed on 10th August was part of a "pattern of lies and deceit."
British and American government officials have described the operation which resulting in the arrest of 24 mostly British Muslim suspects, as a resounding success. Thirteen of the suspects have been charged, and two released without charges.
According to security sources, the terror suspects were planning to board up to ten civilian airliners and detonate highly volatile liquid explosives on the planes in a spectacular terrorist operation. The liquid explosives — either TATP (Triacetone Triperoxide), DADP (diacetone diperoxide) or the less sensitive HMTD (hexamethylene triperoxide diamine) — were reportedly to be made on board the planes by mixing sports drinks with a peroxide-based household gel and then be detonated using an MP3 player or mobile phone.
But Lt. Col. Wylde, who was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal for his command of the Belfast Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit in 1974, described this scenario as a "fiction." Creating liquid explosives is a "highly dangerous and sophisticated task," he states, one that requires not only significant chemical expertise but also appropriate equipment.
Terror plot scenario "untenable"
"The idea that these people could sit in the plane toilet and simply mix together these normal household fluids to create a high explosive capable of blowing up the entire aircraft is untenable," said Lt.…Continue reading
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National Security Whistleblowers Coalition
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September 5, 2006
A wag once famously said that Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot was a play where nothing happened . . . twice. The two former co-chairmen of the 9-11 commission report, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, have released a new book, "Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9-11 Commission." This book goes Beckett one better — it is the third act of veneer over substance, self-aggrandizement over serious analysis, and cliché over perspicacity. It is another calculated attempt by the former commissioners to place themselves in the media spotlight, and to overcome the humiliation of their widely criticized and mostly debunked report. It is a vapid and substanceless attempt to claim moral high ground and present the co-chairmen as heroes of honesty. It would be a farce, except that it has no story line, save the aggrandizement of the authors. At least they are consistent in doing nothing and proclaiming that to be a sign of their devotion to the country and the government. Beckett once said that "habit is the ballast that chains the dog to its vomit," and by this measure the chain restraining Kean and Hamilton is a short one indeed.
Lawyers Point to Fine Line Between Sting and Entrapment
by Walter Pincus
Washington Post
September 2, 2006
Standing in an empty Miami warehouse on May 24 with a man he believed had ties to Osama bin Laden, a dejected Narseal Batiste talked of the setbacks to their terrorist plot and then uttered the words that helped put him in a federal prison cell.
"I want to fight some jihad," he allegedly said. "That's all I live for."
What Batiste did not know was that the bin Laden representative was really an FBI informant. The warehouse in which they were meeting had been rented and wired for sound and video by bureau agents, who were monitoring his every word.
Within a month, Batiste, 32, and six of his compatriots were arrested and charged with conspiracy to aid a terrorist organization and bomb a federal building. On June 23, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales held a news conference to announce the destruction of a terrorist cell inside the United States, hailing "our commitment to preventing terrorism through energetic law enforcement efforts aimed at detecting and thwarting terrorist acts."
But court records released since then suggest that what Gonzales described as a "deadly plot" was virtually the pipe dream of a few men with almost no ability to pull it off on their own. The suspects have raised questions in court about the FBI informants' role in keeping the plan alive.
The plot featured self-proclaimed militant religious leaders who referred to themselves as kings, talked of establishing their own nation inside the United States, called their headquarters an embassy and discussed plans to train their recruits to use bows and arrows.…Continue reading
By Mark Mazzetti
New York Times
WASHINGTON, July 3 — The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence officials confirmed Monday.
The unit, known as Alec Station, was disbanded late last year and its analysts reassigned within the C.I.A. Counterterrorist Center, the officials said.
The decision is a milestone for the agency, which formed the unit before Osama bin Laden became a household name and bolstered its ranks after the Sept. 11 attacks, when President Bush pledged to bring Mr. bin Laden to justice "dead or alive."
The realignment reflects a view that Al Qaeda is no longer as hierarchical as it once was, intelligence officials said, and a growing concern about Qaeda-inspired groups that have begun carrying out attacks independent of Mr. bin Laden and his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Agency officials said that tracking Mr. bin Laden and his deputies remained a high priority, and that the decision to disband the unit was not a sign that the effort had slackened. Instead, the officials said, it reflects a belief that the agency can better deal with high-level threats by focusing on regional trends rather than on specific organizations or individuals.
"The efforts to find Osama bin Laden are as strong as ever,"… Continue reading
by Derek Rose
New York Daily News
The feds bungled a key opportunity to possibly nix the 9/11 terror plot, it was reported yesterday.
An Arabic-speaking FBI agent had requested information about a Jan. 5, 2000, Al Qaeda meeting in Malaysia, but the CIA never turned it over, The New Yorker reported.
The ambitious FBI detective, Ali Soufan, was so upset when he eventually got the information – after 9/11 – that he vomited.
Soufan, who had been investigating the 2000 attack on the U.S. Navy destroyer Cole that killed 17 sailors, realized the two plots were linked.
"And if the CIA had not withheld information from him he likely would have drawn the connection months before Sept. 11," The New Yorker reported. The intelligence Soufan had sought showed that a one-legged jihadi named Khallad – a key Al Qaeda lieutenant linked to the Cole bombing – had attended the Malaysia meeting where the Sept. 11 plot was hatched.
According to the magazine, the CIA also learned in March 2000 that Al Qaeda operative Nawaf Alhazmi was in the United States, but the CIA never alerted the FBI. Alhazmi ended up on the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Pentagon.
The CIA may not have told the FBI about Alhazmi and another Qaeda operative, Khalid… Continue reading
by Reprehensor
NINE-ONE-ONE — This three number combination is etched into the public psyche and instantly conjures up images of America's most recent Day of Infamy. The images of chaos and terror were speedily delivered via satellite to anyone near a television set. At first, these images burst into the minds of the TV audience without context, but television viewers were not left long to worry their beautiful minds with troublesome questions like: "Who perpetrated these crimes?"
The narrative vacuum was quickly filled by the "official" story. This version of the events of 9/11 is forever enshrined in the volume known as The 9/11 Commission Report.
Proceeding apace with the development of the official story was an entire universe of unofficial stories. These alternative points of view were helpfully framed by President George Walker Bush on November 10th, 2001:
"We must speak the truth about terror. Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty." (1)
More than a few watching the President address the UN that day were puzzled by the phrase "outrageous conspiracy theories" regarding 9/11. As they logged on to their dial-up Internet connections that evening, trying to understand what the President was talking about, they were privy to the nascent chatter that over time has morphed into a kaleidoscope of alternative narratives, fueled by 9/11 skepticism.
As new… Continue reading
What is striking about agent Samit's account, like the account of his office-mate Coleen Rowley, is the assumption of "criminal negligence" on the part of FBI headquarters, and RFU head David Frasca and Michael Maltbie in particular. Best I can see, criminal complicity has not been ruled out whatsoever.
I'm grateful for the testimony of Mr. Samit, and for Rowley's whistleblowing, but how exactly can either know for sure that the RFU's obstructionism was the result of careerism or 'criminal incompetence' rather than something else? I don't claim to know the reasons, but Samit and Rowley certainly cannot know for sure, either.
Remember, there is evidence that Frasca intentionally and without good cause (and thus not negligently) obstructed the flow of information up the FBI's chain of command. You may recall the 'Time' magazine story early in 2002 which detailed agent Rowley's charges. The story's authors claimed that Ken Williams' infamous "Phoenix Memo" was received by Frasca a couple of months in advance of 9/11:
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Rowley's letter lays out the case that the FBI made fateful miscalculations by failing to see a possible connection between the Minneapolis investigation of flight student Moussaoui and the hunch of Phoenix agent Kenneth Williams — posited in a report to HQ two months earlier — that al-Qaeda operatives were attending U.S.
Despite Pentagon stonewalling and intimidation of whistleblowers, the story that a hardline Republican congressman says is "bigger than Watergate" refuses to go away.
Five former operatives of a US military intelligence project say they identified Mohamed Atta and three other men later alleged to have been the lead 9/11 hijackers as suspected al Qaeda terrorists working in the United States more than a year before September 11, 2001. The five whistleblowers say their superiors at the US Special Operations Command chose to suppress the information and keep it from law enforcement authorities, thus protecting Atta and Co. – at the very least in effect, if not as a matter of intent. They were forced to destroy their data on Atta; and their program, Able Danger, was killed by the Bush administration prior to September 11.
Years after the destruction of the World Trade Center, they told their story to the 9/11 Commission, only to be soundly ignored. When they finally came forward as whistleblowers last year, they were placed under gag orders by the Pentagon. The most prominent of them, Col. Anthony Shaffer, was investigated on charges that he stole pens and overcharged the Defense Department for $67 in phone calls. He claims the investigation of him to date has cost the taxpayers $2 million.
That, at any rate, is the Able Danger saga as we know it so far.
In the latest wrinkle, blog reporter Rory O'Connor (Mar 1, archived below) says a Pentagon inspector general's investigation has identified… Continue reading
Details: Wednesday, 15 February 2006 at 2:30 p.m. in 2118 Rayburn House Office Building.
Email from Rep. Weldon: "Thank you for taking the time over the past few months to contact me regarding the Able Danger – a Department of Defense planning effort prior to 9/11 tasked to identify and target the linkages and relationships of Al-Qaeda worldwide. Your voice has played a crucial role in getting 248 Members of Congress to ask for Congressional Hearings. I wanted to update you about the progress that has been made on Able Danger with your help.
"First, I would like to thank the House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter for his leadership in pursuing Able Danger hearings, as well as Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England for his support on behalf of the Pentagon.
"Following a long congressional recess where staff was busy preparing for this hearing, I am pleased to announce that on Wednesday, 15 February 2006 at 2:30 p.m. in 2118 Rayburn House Office Building, the House Armed Services Strategic Forces and Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittees have tentatively scheduled a joint hearing for open and closed testimony on the Able Danger effort. Witnesses have not yet been scheduled as interviews are ongoing. A complete list of witnesses should be available by close of business on Monday, February 13, 2006.
"Thank you for your ongoing interest. I would ask that you communicate with your Member of Congress and express how important Able Danger hearings are and thank them… Continue reading
Review by Russ Wellen
The Big Wedding: 9/11, the Whistle-Blowers and the Cover-Up
by Sander Hicks
Vox Pop, 2005
180 pages, $14.00
Includes Index, Over 100 Footnotes, and Bibliography
The term "conspiracy theory," with the image it invokes of a cabal of black-hearted men who convene on a regular basis to consolidate their power, reduces alternate history to a cartoon. By using it to discredit, however, journalists only reveal how inadequate their inability to untangle webs the powerful weave makes them feel.
One who's undaunted by the degree of difficulty is Sander Hicks, who endeavors to shed new light on events leading up to 9/11 mostly through meetings with, if not remarkable men, remarkable maniacs. In fact, his book, The Big Wedding, named after Al Qaeda code for 9/11, could just as easily be called "My Adventures Covering the Terror Beat."
The first portrait in his rogues' gallery is Randy Glass, an informant for an ATF/FBI terrorist sting. Pre-9/11, he dined out in Manhattan with a Pakistani arms dealer, who, gesturing toward the World Trade Center, exclaimed, "Those towers are coming down."
"The 9/11 Commission Report," Hicks concludes, "has topped the Warren Report…as the greatest cover-up of all time."
A State Department official told Glass they were aware of bin Laden's plans. But to keep Pakistani President Musharraf and his nuclear arsenal in their corner, they were banking on his guarantee that he could stop the attack. After all, as Hicks maintains, where Al Qaeda ends,… Continue reading
Senators Accuse Pentagon of Obstructing Inquiry on Sept. 11 Plot
By DOUGLAS JEHL
September 22, 2005
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 – Senators from both parties accused the Defense Department on Wednesday of obstructing an investigation into whether a highly classified intelligence program known as Able Danger did indeed identify Mohamed Atta and other future hijackers as potential threats well before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The complaints came after the Pentagon blocked several witnesses from testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee at a public hearing on Wednesday. The only testimony provided by the Defense Department came from a senior official who would say only that he did not know whether the claims were true.
But members of the panel, led by Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, said they regarded as credible assertions by current and former officers in the program. The officers have said they were prevented by the Pentagon from sharing information about Mr. Atta and others with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
A Pentagon spokesman had said the decision to limit testimony was based on concerns about disclosing classified information, but Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, said he believed the reason was a concern "that they'll just have egg on their face."
Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., Democrat of Delaware, accused the Pentagon of "a cover-up" and said, "I don't get why people aren't coming forward and saying, 'Here's the deal, here's what happened.' "
The Pentagon has acknowledged that at least five members… Continue reading
A US military intelligence team code-named "Able Danger" identified Mohamed Atta and three other alleged 9/11 hijackers as potential terrorists in the summer of 2000, at a time when Atta was living in Florida, according to yesterday's New York Times .
But the Times story obscures at least as much as it reveals.
The 9/11 Commission was made aware of the Able Danger program in 2003, but failed to mention it in its 2004 report.
The Times calls yesterday's revelation "the first assertion that Mr. Atta… was identified by any American government agency as a potential threat before the Sept. 11 attacks." In fact, such assertions date back to German press reports of September 2001 and October 2002, when several German newspapers reported that the CIA had Atta under observation during the first six months of 2000, while he was still living in Germany.
According to the German reports of Sept. 2001, the CIA in 2000 watched as Atta "bought chemicals" in Frankfurt and later tracked him to Berlin, where he received an entry visa from the US consulate in May 2000.
(According to official US timelines of his activities, Atta entered the United States for the first time in June 2000, although witness accounts reported in local papers after 9/11 place him in Florida months earlier.)
The CIA did not inform German authorities about its surveillance of Atta on their soil in 2000, and the Germans learned about it only after the 9/11/01 attacks. The German authorities themselves also… Continue reading
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The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation, and the Anatomy of Terrorism
by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Description: Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed outlines the relationship between the West and radical Muslim groups like the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) in Algeria, and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in Serbia. Mr. Ahmed says that these groups, parts of which are now affiliated with Al Qaeda, were used by the United States and Britain to further Western political and economic goals. He argues that a more complete investigation of this relationship is necessary to understand what happened on 9/11. Mr. Ahmed also talks about the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 1996 British attempt to assassinate Libya's Muammar Gaddafi in this light. This talk, held at American University in Washington, DC, was organized by the DC Emergency Truth Convergence (www.truthemergency.us). Includes Q&A.
Author Bio: Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is executive director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development (www.globalresearch.org) based in Brighton, UK. He is the author of "The War on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001."
Publisher: Olive Branch Press 46 Crosby Street Northhampton, MA 01060
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by Kristen Breitweiser
Mr. Rove, the first thing that I would like to address is Afghanistan – the place that anyone with a true "understanding of 9/11″ knows is a nation that actually has a connection to the 9/11 attacks. One month after 9/11, we invaded Afghanistan, took down the Taliban, and left without capturing Usama Bin Laden – the alleged perpetrator of the September 11th attacks. In the meantime, Afghanistan has carried out democratic elections, but continues to suffer from extreme violence and unrest. Poppy production (yes, Karl, the drug trade) is at an all time high, thus flooding the world market with heroin. And of course, the oil pipeline (a.k.a. the Caspian Sea pipeline) is better protected by U.S. troops who now have a "legitimate" excuse to be in that part of Afghanistan. Interesting isn't it Karl that the drug "rat line" parallels the oil pipeline. (Yet, with all those troops guarding that same sliver of land, can you please explain how those drugs keep getting through?)
Now Karl, a question for you, since you seem to be the… Continue reading
by Dr. David Ray Griffin
In discussing my second 9/11 book, The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, I have often said, only half in jest, that a better title might have been "a 571-page lie." (Actually, I was saying "a 567-page lie," because I was forgetting to count the four pages of the Preface.) In making this statement, one of my points has been that the entire Report is constructed in support of one big lie: that the official story about 9/11 is true.
Another point, however, is that in the process of telling this overall lie, The 9/11 Commission Report tells many lies about particular issues. This point is implied by my critique's subtitle, "Omissions and Distortions." It might be thought, to be sure, that of the two types of problems signaled by those two terms, only those designated "distortions" can be considered lies.
It is better, however, to understand the two terms as referring to two types of lies: implicit and explicit. We have an explicit lie when the Report claims that the core of each of the Twin Towers consisted of a hollow steel shaft or when it claims that Vice President Cheney did not give the shoot-down order until after 10:10 that morning. But we have an implicit lie when the Commission, in its discussion of the 19 alleged suicide hijackers, omits the fact that at least six of them have credibly been reported to be still alive, or when it fails to mention the fact that Building 7 of the World Trade Center collapsed.…Continue reading
The bipartisan 9/11 Commission was created in the wake of our national
tragedy to rise above partisan politics and tackle the tough questions
vital to keeping our citizens safe from terrorist attack. The
Congressional Committee on Government Reform should hold hearings to
determine whether the Bush Administration improperly classified findings
from the Commission to protect key administration officials from scrutiny
and influence voters in an election year.
Call to action Urge your representative to call on the Committee on
Government Reform and its chairman Rep. Tom Davis to hold hearings on
whether the Bush administration delayed the release of findings by the
9/11 Commission in a cynical, election-year ploy.
Deadline: Ongoing
I was alarmed to read that despite repeated Bush administration claims
that it had no inkling prior to 9/11 that terrorists might use airplanes
in suicide missions on American soil, the FAA received 52 intelligence
reports referencing Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in the months before
September 11.
Even though this information was documented by the bipartisan 9/11
Commission over six months ago — well before the November election — the
Bush administration classified this particular report and delayed its
release until just two weeks ago.
Equally disturbing is the fact that the report calls into question the
veracity Condoleezza Rice's sworn testimony before the Commission. Could
it be a mere coincidence that the Bush administration's declassification
of the report came less than 48 hours after Rice was confirmed as
Secretary of State?
The bipartisan 9/11 Commission… Continue reading
Editor's Note:
There has been so little journalistic attention to 9/11 truth that glaring factual contradictions in the "official narrative" can go unremarked in the media for months if not years. In the following letter, 911truth.org co-founder Kyle Hence urges Richard Clarke (former counter-terrorism 'czar' for both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, Author, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror) to deal with the fundamental inconsistencies between his writing and testimony regarding 9/11 and the version released as gospel by the 9/11 Commission. Clarke has yet to respond but Kyle's letter is an education in itself.
Open Letter to Richard A. Clarke
From: Kyle Hence
February 23, 2005
Subject: Pertaining to accounts in Clarke's book Against All Enemies, neither retracted or refuted, regarding 9/11 war games and the participation of General Myers and Sec. Rumsfeld in a video conference managed from the White House Situation Room by Richard Clarke with the assistance of his Deputy, Roger Cressey.
Note of Explanation: This letter/email was presented (via email or in person) to Mr. Clarke on four occasions without a response of any kind to the specific questions raised regarding the actions (or lack of) from our military and top officials in positions of responsibility on 9/11. Given no response, and Rep. Cynthia McKinney's attempt to raise the issue at February 16th Armed Services Committee hearing, CitizensWatch is taking the step of making this letter public.
This letter (see below) with questions pertaining to 9/11 (wargames, sworn testimony by Rumsfeld & Myers) was first sent as an email in June of 2004 to Mr. Clarke via his consulting company, Good Harbor. This note and these questions were presented personally to Mr. Clarke a second time on October 6, 2004 – and via email (3rd attempt) directly to his personal email box on October 15. When presented with a second opportunity in person (4th attempt) to respond to these queries backstage at a December 7th function at the Institute for Ethical Culture in New York City, Mr. Clarke refused to acknowledge the author and instead quickly left the room.
Receiving no response despite repeated attempts I am now releasing this to the public as an 'open letter' in the hopes responsible members of the press, family members and/or dedicated investigators will follow up publicly and personally with Mr. Clarke and the Commissioners who failed to examine the glaring discrepancies between Clarke's accounts and those offered in public statements and in sworn testimony by Chairman Myers and Sec. Rumsfeld.
It should be noted that Richard Clarke is the only member of the Bush Administration to publicly apologize to the 9/11 families. While generating controversy at the time, his testimony before the 9/11 Commission regarding the warnings and plan for dealing with Al-Qaeda that he presented to Condi Rice and the Bush Administration in January of 2001 has been recently bolstered by the release of an unclassified version of his January memo to then National Security Advisor Rice.
This controversy could pale in comparison, however, to what could be revealed in sworn testimonies before the appropriate Committee regarding Sept. 11th war games (including "Vigilant Warrior" mentioned by Gen. Myers on the morning of Sept. 11th), changing NORAD timelines and the testimony already offered by Chairman Myers and Sec. Rumsfeld regarding their whereabouts and actions taken in the first and most critical minutes immediately following the attack on the World Trade Center. {see pages 1-7; Against All Enemies)
This is being made public now in an effort to force this issue into the public's eye and ultimately to see full accountability and disclosure. Another 9/11 commemoration must not pass without these issues being addressed forthrightly and honestly before the American people; either in Manhattan before an AG Spitzer or DA Morganthau-convened Grand Jury or public hearings, in Albany before the appropriate Committee or on Capitol Hill. We offer this in hope that those with integrity in a position of responsibility will rise to this challenge. In this case above all others we must not allow the truth to continue to be veiled or obfuscated.
Kyle F. Hence
Co-founder, 9/11 CitizensWatch
February 23, 2005
by Robert Scheer
Los Angeles Times
February 15, 2005
"What we do know calls into question our government's explanation that a diabolical international terrorist conspiracy exploited our liberal, naive society. What has emerged, instead, is a portrait of an often bumbling terrorist gang allowed to wreak havoc because the top tiers of the administration were so indifferent to the alarms, which former CIA Director George Tenet described so graphically: "The system was blinking red…"
The title says it all — another major media figure tiptoes closer to the truth. Substitute "top tiers of the administration were indifferent to the alarms" in the excerpt above with "top tiers… welcomed and then deliberately ignored the alarms" and we start to set the stage for a national awakening and rebirth. — Editor
Would George W. Bush have been reelected president if the public understood how much responsibility his administration bears for allowing the 9/11 attacks to succeed?
The answer is unknowable and, at this date, moot. Yet it was appalling to learn last week that the White House suppressed until after the election a damning report that exposes the administration as woefully incompetent if not criminally negligent. Belatedly declassified excerpts from still-secret sections of the 9/11 commission report, which focus on the failure of the Federal Aviation Administration to heed multiple warnings that Al Qaeda terrorists were planning to hijack planes as suicide weapons, make clear that this tragedy could have been avoided.
For the last three years, administration apologists have tried to… Continue reading


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If you love to travel the world or simply want to remember a special place, then you have to check out this Recycled Map Christmas Ornament. In a few simple steps, this tutorial will help you learn how to create a truly unique, homemade Christmas ornament. Give it an extra special touch by reusing a map you used on a recent trip to commemorate a vacation or any other town that has a special place in your heart. This is a great way to add a personal touch to your Christmas tree.
- STYROFOAM™ Brand Foam: 4" ball
- Map
- Mod Podge, matte finish
- White or iridescent glitter
- Ribbon, 3/8" x 8"
- Thick, white craft glue
- Scissors
- Ruler
- Wooden skewer
- Stiff bristle paintbrush
Insert wooden skewer into the foam ball to use as a handle. Cut map into 1-1/2" squares. Working on a small section at a time, brush Mod Podge onto the ball of STYROFOAM Brand Foam, and apply paper squares. Repeat, overlapping the squares as you go, until the ball is covered. If needed, cut tiny slits along the edges of the paper squares so they will lay flat. Let dry.
Seal the ball with Mod Podge, and sprinkle with glitter while still wet. Let dry.
Knot together the ribbon ends, forming a loop. Poke a small hole in the top of the ornament using the wooden skewer. Add glue to hole, and push the knot into the hole. Let dry.
For more antique looking maps, Mix ¼ cup of water and 1 T. of light brown, acrylic craft paint or sepia ink in a glass bowl. Mix well. Adjust the color by adding more paint, ink or water.
Crumple into a ball a 6" x 18" piece of a map. Smooth out the paper and paint it with a generous coat of the tinted water.
Blot the paper unevenly with a sponge or rag, creating a mottled finish.
Repeat, if you'd like a darker finish.
- You can also age the baker's twine by dipping it in the mixture, and then letting it dry.
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THIRTEEN's American Masters Series to Premiere Dance Documentary Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon of a Faun, 6/20
Of all the great ballerinas, Tanaquil Le Clercq (19292000), known as "Tanny," was surely among the most transcendent. With a body unlike any before hers, she mesmerized viewers and choreographers alike as principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, and became a muse to both her husband George Balanchine and friend Jerome Robbins. Then, at age 27 and the height of her fame, Le Clercq was stricken with polio and paralyzed; she never danced again. Emmy- and Peabody-winning filmmaker Nancy Buirski (The Loving Story) brings Tanny's poignant story to the screen for the first time in American Masters Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon of a Faun, premiering nationally Friday, June 20, 10-11:30 p.m. on PBS (check local listings, New York metro area at 9 p.m. on THIRTEEN).
To illustrate Tanny's personality, exquisite dancing and long, racehorse physique, which became the new prototype for Balanchine's ballet dancers, the film uses photos, home movies, kinescopes and a rare recording of her voice. American Masters Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon of a Faun also features new interviews with those who knew her, including fellow New York City Ballet dancers Jacques d'Amboise and Arthur Mitchell as well as friends Randy Bourscheidt (former president of the Alliance for the Arts), Barbara Horgan (Balanchine's long-time assistant) and Pat McBride Lousada (former dancer). These first-hand stories combined with evocative music and archival footage reveal how one woman influenced an entire art form and sparked the creative imagination and adoration of two of its most prolific, renowned creators.
"Tanny was the nexus of inspiration, beauty and invention, suddenly turned into a statistic. I wanted to treat her dramatic experience as poetry and create an intimate film that captured this mood," said writer, director and producer Nancy Buirski. "I'm thrilled Tanny will join Balanchine and Robbins the men she inspired as 'American Masters.'"
"I'm eager for our viewers to discover Tanny and her inspiring life story," said Michael Kantor, executive producer of American Masters. "Films like Nancy's are what make the series unique. Masters are not just the names you know, but the creators, performers and industry titans who leave an indelible impact on our culture."
A DVD will be available June 24 from Kino Lorber. The documentary had its world premiere at the 51 st New York Film Festival and was an official selection at the 64 th Berlin International Film Festival.
Launched in 1986 by series creator Susan Lacy, American Masters has earned 26 Emmy Awards including nine for Outstanding Non-Fiction Series since 1999 and five for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special 12 Peabodys, an Oscar, three Grammys, two Producers Guild Awards, and many other honors. Now in its 28 th season on PBS, the series is a production of THIRTEEN Productions LLC for WNET. WNET is the parent company of THIRTEEN and WLIW21, New York's public television stations, and operator of NJTV. For more than 50 years, THIRTEEN has been a partner with the tri-state community, using its rich resources to inform and inspire the passionate people of New York and the world to better understand and address the issues that challenge our diverse communities.
To take American Masters beyond the television broadcast and further explore the themes, stories and personalities of masters past and present, the companion website (http://pbs.org/americanmasters) offers streaming video of select films, interviews, photos, outtakes, essays, and other resources. American Masters is also seen on the WORLD channel, a 24/7, full-service multicast channel featuring public television's signature nonfiction documentary, Science and news programming, broadcast in nearly two-thirds of the United States.
Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon of a Faun is a production of Augusta Films in association with Steeplechase films and THIRTEEN Productions LLC's American Masters for WNET. Nancy Buirski is writer, director and producer. Ric Burns is producer. Damian Rodriguez is editor. Rick Rodgers is director of photography. Martin Scorsese is project advisor. Barbara Horgan is consultant. Derek Britt, Krysanne Katsoolis and Susan Lacy are executive producers. For American Masters: Michael Kantor is executive producer and Stephen Segaller is executive-in-charge.
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Vivalogue Publishing Releases New Mother's Day Book
Vivalogue Publishing has launched a new Mother's Day book project for 2013, following on from last year's successful Because You're My Mother anthology that raised money for Plan Canada's Because I Am a Girl Initiative. Once again, contributors will be able to purchase pages in the book and use them to pay tribute to their mothers, using their own words and photos, and will receive a copy of the book in time for Mother's Day giving.
"This is a collaborative book project that engages a widespread community of people in a creative venture," said Lynn Duncan, Vivalogue Publishing's Canadian director. "This is one of three self-funding book publishing models we have developed to enable groups, societies, organizations and companies to produce professional books."
The Mother's Day Book 2013 venture is the self-funding community model, in which Contributors buy a page or pages and upload personal content which is then professionally edited and laid-out. The page purchase price covers the cost of producing the book, plus a fund-raising element based on the goals of the project organizers. This model is particularly suitable for groups with well established communication channels, especially social media. It also requires a strong theme to allow for the integration of diverse content.
Vivalogue Publishing also a subscription model, where books are funded from pre-sales generated through a marketing campaign which includes special recognition opportunities, such as having major supporters listed in the preface to the book and signed, limited edition special copies for benefactors.
Book production costs in the sponsorship model are covered through a combination of grants and corporate sponsors. Volunteers provide the book's content and proceeds from sales are donated to a thematically appropriate non-profit organization. The content created should appeal to an audience beyond the circle of the organization and add to the social and public record.
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Kroger Board of Directors Declares Quarterly Dividend
Thursday, March 08, 2012
Kroger Board of Directors Declares Quarterly Dividend15:00 EST Thursday, March 08, 2012CINCINNATI, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kroger Co.'s (NYSE: KR) Board of Directors today declared a quarterly dividend of 11.5 cents per share to be paid on June 1, 2012, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on May 15, 2012.Kroger, the nation's largest traditional grocery retailer, employs more than 339,000 associates who serve customers in 2,435 supermarkets and multi-department stores in 31 states under two dozen local banner names including Kroger, City Market, Dillons, Jay C, Food 4 Less, Fred Meyer, Fry's, King Soopers, QFC, Ralphs and Smith's. The company also operates 791 convenience stores, 348 fine jewelry stores, 1,090 supermarket fuel centers and 39 food processing plants in the U.S. Recognized by Forbes as the most generous company in America, Kroger supports hunger relief, breast cancer awareness, the military and their families, and more than 30,000 schools and grassroots organizations in the communities it serves. Kroger contributes food and funds equal to 125 million meals a year through more than 80 Feeding America food bank partners. For more information please visit Kroger.com.SOURCE The Kroger Co.For further information: Media, Keith Dailey, +1-513-762-1304; Investors, Cindy Holmes, +1-513-762-4969


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Chicken Fajitas Wrapped In Tortillas
4 Chicken- skinless breasts
3 tablespoons Maple syrup/ Honey
6 pods Garlic- crushed
2 inches Red Peppers- de-seeded and cut into 1 strips
2 teaspoons Oregano dried
2 teaspoons Red Chilli Flakes
3 tablespoons Olive oil-plus extra for drizzling
Heat a pan until hot. Lift the chicken strips from the marinade with a slotted spoon, lay on the pan and cook on medium- high flame for 3-4minutes until cooked through. Remove the chicken to a serving plat and keep warm. Add the peppers, skin down to the pan and cook for 2minutes on each side. Transfer to serving plate. Place the chicken and peppers into a wrap, along with a salsa to dip and enjoy.
2.0 dozen
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - 12:12pm