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  • Months After Russian Annexation, Hopes Start to Dim in Crimea - The New York Times
    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/world/europe/power-outage-forces-crimeans-to-reconsider-their-enthusiasm-for-secession.h

    When residents in this typical Soviet factory town voted enthusiastically to secede from Ukraine and to become Russians, they thought the chaos and corruption that made daily life a struggle were a thing of the past.

    Now that many of them are being forced to cook and boil drinking water on open fires, however, they are beginning to reconsider.

    There has been no steady electricity supply in this hard-hit town since Nov. 22, when protesters in Ukraine blew up the lines still feeding Crimea with most of its electric power. The bigger towns and cities are only marginally better off.

    11ème jour sans électricité en Crimée…

    • Russia blames Ukraine of ’sabotage’ over Crimean power shortages Vatican Radio
      http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/12/01/russia_blames_ukraine_of_sabotage_over_crimea/1191307

      Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has accused Ukraine of “sabotage” as damage to key electricity pylons left some two million people on the Crimean peninsula without power for more than a week. The loss of electricity to Crimea has sparked a reduction of coal supplies to Ukraine from Russia and from the pro-Russian rebel-held eastern Ukraine. Despite the tensions, a prisoner exchange was reported Tuesday between pro-Russian rebels and Kiev.
      […]
      Ukraine says Tatar activists will need to allow repairs before power supplies can be resumed.
      However speaking through an interpreter an activist says this can only happen if Russia meets at least some of their demands. “As soon as at least one political prisoner is released than we give permission to repair one pylon and to run electricity as well,” the masked man said.
      In response, coal supplies to Ukraine have been reduced from Russia and from the pro-Russian rebel-held eastern Ukraine.

  • Vatican pledges to continue campaign of homophobia and bigotry

    Vatican doubles down on homophobia and bigotry

    In opposition to justice, the Vatican will continue to fight against marriage equality. According to the Vatican, the Roman Catholic Church will continue their immoral campaign of bigotry and homophobia in an attempt to deny gay and lesbian individuals the right to same-sex marriage.

    In two separate, strongly worded editorials this weekend, the Vatican reaffirmed the Roman Catholic Church’s unequivocal opposition to marriage equality. Despite the recent moral progress of the West, the Catholic Church is determined to cling to their immoral and unjust homophobia and bigotry.

    The Vatican editorials come after recent victories for same sex marriage in the U.S., France and Spain. Speaking on Vatican Radio, Father Federico Lombardi said:

    “It is clear that in Western countries there is a widespread tendency to modify the classic vision of marriage between a man and woman, or rather to try to give it up, erasing its specific and privileged legal recognition compared to other forms of union.”

    One must marvel at the moral audacity of Father Lombardi and the Catholic Church. To think that a morally corrupt institution like the Catholic Church presumes to make any moral directives is astonishing. An institution with a long and well established history of protecting and enabling pedophiles, an institution that puts its own reputation above the health and welfare of children, has no business making any moral pronouncements.

    The Catholic Church is a morally backward, bankrupt and corrupt institution. Their continued endorsement of homophobia and bigotry is just one of their many crimes against humanity. By continuing their campaign opposing same-sex marriage, they only confirm that they are a dangerous and despicable institution that stands opposed to human decency and human happiness.

    • Well, as it took the Vatican to acknowledge and realize that the Sun was not circling around the Earth, but that facts were the other way round, it will probably take centuries for the RCC to acknowledge that human beings are intended to be together, regardless of gender....

      In time even the RCC will see the light, and if not... the light will go out for the RCC

      “The Last Member Of The RCC Turns Off The Light”