It is Friday, February 28, 2014, and I'm Leigh Ann McAdoo.
Here's what's coming up tonight.
Tonight, the TSA detains a libertarian blogger after seeing Bitcoin in his bag.
And a Mexican holiday trumps the Bill of Rights in a t-shirt case that has reached federal court.
Then, tension in the Ukraine builds as Russia moves into position for a possible military strike.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin stoked concerns that Moscow might begin using its military might to sway the outcome of the three-month standoff in the Ukraine.
They have already ordered snap combat drills near the border involving 150,000 troops and nearly 900 tanks, as well as Air Force drills training pilots to attack enemy forces.
It seems like a clear indicator that Russia is preparing to invade the Ukraine.
And now the interim government that set up in the Ukraine after the violent coup that took place this week is calling on the United States and Britain to intervene militarily after unidentified soldiers stormed an airport in Crimea.
The troops there, they made no apparent attempt to interfere with the running of the airport or trying to take over any key infrastructure.
In fact, they were content with just strolling up and down the car park at a leisurely place, apparently deliberately for the benefit of television cameras.
But today, Russia has admitted that it has moved troops into the Ukraine to protect Black Sea Fleet's positions.
Now, Ukraine, of course, this interim government, is accusing Russia of staging an armed invasion.
Crimea is along Ukraine's peninsula and it has very strong ties to Russia.
The population there is nearly 60% ethnic Russian and it's very pro-Russian as a whole.
So just on the heels of Russian troops moving into Crimea, Russian lawmakers are now proposing two bills that would simplify both the annexation of new territories into the Russian Federation and the process of granting Russian citizens citizenship to Ukrainians.
This signals that Moscow may be attempting to absorb Crimea.
An unidentified Russian official told the Financial Times if Ukraine breaks apart, it will trigger a war.
They will lose Crimea because first we will go in and protect it just as we did in Georgia in 2008.
Now, given the latest developments, including Russia's recent military buildup and Sevastopol's city council handing power to a Russian citizen Monday evening, while more than a thousand protesters were outside chanting Russia, Russia, it's highly unlikely that Moscow will be Russia, it's highly unlikely that Moscow will be giving up Crimea without a fight.
But clearly indicating just how involved and what a central role the US played in the overthrow of their democratically elected government there.
Ukraine's new interim prime minister is a former banker who met with both John McCain And Victoria Nuland, weeks before Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych, had even fled Kiev.
So they were planning this weeks in advance.
Now back in December, around the same time that top U.S.
diplomat Victoria Nuland announced that the U.S.
had invested $5 billion to help Ukrainians achieve a new form of government, Senator John McCain met with Svoboda party leader Oleg Tyanabok And they shared the same stage at an event during which McCain gave the United States blessing for the opposition revolt.
As recently as three weeks ago, Nuland met with both Tiana Bak and Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who is now Ukraine's interim prime minister.
And in a leaked phone conversation that we played on InfoWars.com, again, Nuland was caught red-handed scheming to install Yatsenyuk in the government before President Viktor Yanukovych had even fled Kiev.
So we can definitely see the New World Order banks or motives going on there to set up this EU puppet government.
Now Yatsenyuk's history as a banker makes him the perfect candidate to help assume this role of technocrat and give over, you know, sell the Ukraine into the IMF debt slavery.
And according to Zero Hedge, they report today, it's already begun.
The annexation of the country's banking system by a benevolent Europe is complete.
Ukraine's National Bank has imposed temporary limits to withdraw money from foreign currency deposits to sums equivalent to no more than what would amount to about $1,500 a day, also known as capital controls.
Now, Ukraine's currency is crashing at a record pace, and so they'll limit the amount of foreign currency in circulation.
The people there are, of course, able to withdraw as much of the country's currency as they wish, because the country can just print up as much as they want to.
So, in summary, first the banks are going to abdicate their control to a pro-European central bank, and now the citizens face the first of many capital controls, which will simply aggravate the fund outflow even more.
It's going to lead to an even faster drop in foreign reserves, and then they report that we will see inflation and a counter-coup, much like we saw happen in Egypt.
Now today on the Alex Jones Show, Joel Skousen came on and he offered an alternative angle to what's happening in the Ukraine.
I highly recommend you check that out.
What he had to say was that the Russians aren't just so innocent as we might seem, that they might have a little bit more
Going on it might not be as simple as just the EU and Soros in there But perhaps the Russians manufactured this crisis as well as well Sent some fake Ukrainians in to take over this actual authentic Ukrainian uprising because no doubt the people there are well and truly tired of being controlled by Russian corruption
So I definitely highly recommend that you check out that interview with Joel Skousen today on the Alex Jones Show if you're interested in what's going on in the Ukraine.
It gives a different angle.
It's complicated, very complicated.
So that's a really, really good interview.
But now for a bit of hilarity coming out of our own country and our bumbling TSA.
A liberal blogger was detained by the TSA after he had opted out of a body scanner and the official word for why they were detaining him, the TSA agent said, we saw Bitcoin in your bag and we need to check it.
Well, anyone who is living under a rock, Bitcoin is a virtual currency.
It does not exist in physical form.
So this man, Barker, he's a co-founder of Bitcoin Not Bombs, and he says that it must have been either clothing or promotional lapel pins for his Bitcoin Not Bombs in his bag that prompted the curiosity from the TSA screeners.
Barker says, obviously the TSA has been trained, although poorly, to look for Bitcoin.
When they saw all the metal lapel pins in my bag, they probably thought they hit the jackpot on a stockpile of coins.
Whatever training they had, it probably included that stock photo of brass tokens that everyone uses.
My evasiveness only quickened their bloodlust as they imagined a big bust and possibly A free pizza and soda in the break room.
So apparently in addition to catching terrorists, the TSA is also trying to stop virtual money laundering there in the airport.
But in true Dick Johnston wonderkind fashion, another TSA moment.
A woman reported that a TSA agent in Phoenix didn't think her Washington, D.C.-issued driver's license was valid for flight.
According to the woman, an agent with the TSA took a look at her DC license and began to shake her head and said, I don't know if we can accept these.
Do you have a U.S.
passport?
The issue here is that the district is not a state.
The TSA requires a state-issued ID in order to fly.
Everyone, the entire population of D.C.
has to use their D.C.
driver's licenses to fly.
So that's incredible.
Now, while I do think that this is hilarious because it means that all of our D.C.-based politicians are going to be put on the no-fly list, These are the brainiacs that are being trained to harass you while you travel.
So, that's amazing.
Can't wait for my next trip out of the country.
Now, in California, a federal court has denied the First Amendment, saying a school has the right to suppress the First Amendment in the name of safety.
During the Mexican Cinco de Mayo holiday, students wearing American flag t-shirts were asked to turn them inside out.
They took that case to court and the court said that fears of racial violence by students outraged over the American flag displayed on these t-shirts outweighed the right guaranteed by the Constitution.
One of the judges there said, our role is not to second-guess the decision to have a Cinco de Mayo celebration, and whether that would be offensive, or the precautions put in place to avoid violence.
The racial issues unrelated to the Bill of Rights made it reasonable for school officials to proceed as though the threat of a potentially violent disturbance was real.
So just the threat of violence, potential violence, means that your First Amendment right will be squashed there.
Now, one of the attorneys representing the students says they're going to appeal, and his argument was that the Ninth Circuit upheld the right of these Mexican students celebrating a holiday of another country over U.S. students who are proudly supporting this country. and his argument was that the Ninth Circuit upheld the So what do you all think about that ruling today?
Do you think that that was right?
Do you think they should never have had a Cinco de Mayo party in the first place?
Do you think these kids should have been allowed to wear their American flag t-shirt?
Do you think that the court needed to get involved and the school is right to say that safety trumps the Bill of Rights?
If you have an opinion on that, and I'm sure you do, please leave your comments below this video on YouTube and let's get a discussion going.
Now, coming up after the break, John Bowne and I took to the streets of 6th Street, Austin.
It's a notoriously Lined with bar after bar, and we met up with some really amazing American geniuses out there.
Same kind that we meet on our average man on the street, but these folks had been partaking in the truth serum.
So we went out there to find out if there is indeed any hope for America, and hilarity ensued.
So stick around, that's coming right up.
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Well, what's going on in the Ukraine?
Certainly the State Department is playing a very dangerous game.
We had Victoria Nuland place a call on an unsecured line to the Ukrainian ambassador in the midst of all this unrest and made very, very provocative statements.
As Dr. Petchenik said, it was just out there to taunt the Russians, to taunt the Europeans.
We also see bankers who are now moving in for the kill, offering $35 billion to the Ukraine country, trying to get them on the hook.
But do the Ukrainian people really understand that?
Do the American people understand what's going on with the Federal Reserve?
Do most of the Americans really understand how the bankers are controlling this country?
Well, there is one organization I wanted to talk to, and that was the Ukraine Gun Owners Association.
Because on their site, in English, they do understand that the crux of the issue is whether or not people are going to be allowed to have firearms.
That's how you tell if you've got a dictatorship or a representative government that trusts the people.
So that's how you tell the difference.
And that applies in America.
It applies in the Ukraine.
So we have on the phone, George Uchaikin.
He's of the Ukrainian Gun Owners Association.
And we want to ask him about his efforts to get something recognizing the inherent right of the people to keep and bear arms, to see that right recognized by their government.
We're going to see what the status of that is, see what the status of firearms in the Ukraine are, and talk to him about the recent troubles.
Tell me what the current legal status is of the right to keep and bear arms and what practical obstacles are.
You were just telling me as we were talking off the air that there's an embargo of European arms.
Tell me, please, what are the statuses of legal possession of arms in Ukraine now?
And how does this position apply to a large number of European arms manufacturers?
Good afternoon, first of all.
What is this situation?
Good morning.
Look at that.
In Ukraine there is no law about the law of weapons in Ukraine at all.
All that is happening in Ukraine in the area of civil weapons, only on the inside of the internal affairs and internal laws
which we have in Ukraine in local situations.
According to any point, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can change That is, no one can forbid them to do so.
So, no one can't prevent them.
Today we can get to know that the stores in our frontiers have to be the maximum number of 10 tanks.
Any time we can wait for the changes from the Ministry of Internal Affairs concerning this law.
So one day we can wake up and know that the magazines in our rifles will have only three rounds or five rounds at all.
Let me ask you a question.
When you say that there is no law, are you saying that there's no law that protects your right to keep arms, or are you saying there's no law that prohibits anything?
Are you allowed to keep arms now under the current law?
You say that Ukraine does not exist in a law that allows you to protect yourself with weapons.
Or you say that Ukraine has no law about the weapon.
In Ukraine there is no law that is related to weapons and weapons.
Ukraine has no law at all concerning people with weapons and weapons in general.
So you are free to have weapons and the Ukrainian people do have firearms, is that correct?
Am I right that Ukrainians have the right and they are free to buy this weapon and carry it and keep it?
We can buy weapons, but the weapons that are on the list are hunting rifles and rifles.
We do not have the right to buy pistols.
We buy this weapon only because we allow the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
So what you're trying to do, and we've seen your English language site, and we know that what you're trying to do is to get them to establish the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
We see that in America as a test of whether or not the government trusts the people.
Is there a political party there that you think is going to support the right to keep and bear arms being put in the Constitution?
What does it look like from our point of view?
How can our partners help us in this situation?
which can help us in this situation?
Is there a political force in Ukraine that can help us to change these laws regarding the rights of the war?
There is only one political force, which is It is open to our political force, which supports our weaponry initiative and law.
This is Party of Freedom.
All the others have taken the expected position, which will be more slow, because in our eyes there are those people, those dangerous cameras of video recordings, which were shot right in the those dangerous cameras of video recordings, which were shot right in the center of Europe,
Other forces have their waiting position, which is very unstable in the...
This time, when people were shot directly in the center of the capital of Ukraine, in the center of Europe.
We understand that if this time we don't really demand, give us the right that someone illegally took from us, we will never be able to do it.
we can't do it.
And this situation can absolutely hurt.
So until we wait for the moment which we will ask for somebody to change these laws concerning the weapon.
So, if we will not do these changes, nobody will do these changes at all.
Ukrainians have paid for the right of, for the earning weapon with the rivers of their own blood. - Let me ask you about the conflict for the earning weapon with the rivers of their own blood.
When we saw video pictures, most of what we saw were people fighting in the streets with improvised weapons, hand-to-hand with clubs and shields, the reports of sniper fire.
What's your What was your take on the use of firearms?
Was there very much use of firearms on your side or on the other side?
Did the protesters, did they have firearms?
We saw people who hit the gun with bullets and shields.
We saw the gun for sniper gun, How can you comment on this situation?
I don't know.
Look, despite the fact that in Ukraine, on the legal side of the country, there is enough to be a number of weapons.
We all have to consider that we will not be able to do such a force, such a force and such a force.
So, the Ukrainian have quite a lot of weapons.
And by their own, but we didn't accept that the situation will go out of control.
We didn't even expect this situation, that police will use firearms against people with improvised slugs and chutes.
Let me ask you then, you said that basically the current status of firearms, just to clarify, because I have a little bit of issues with the translations, just to clarify, right now you predominantly just have hunting weapons that you're allowed to have, is that correct?
And did you say that you were allowed to have pistols or not allowed to have pistols legally?
Tell me, please, to make a conclusion, that we can own only hunting weapons, without any pistols, revolvers, etc.?
There is a problem with that.
In that way there is a problem.
Ukrainians can buy muslims and muslims, but they can't carry with them with pistols and revolvers.
And the carrying of the city with the Kalašnikov's automatic in the civil version is not easy.
People can only buy hunting weapons and no pistols and revolvers at all.
And movement in the city with Kalashnikovs, with the civilian version of Kalashnikov, it's not useful.
Okay.
Let me ask you to give us your perspective on why it's important for the people to have the right to keep and bear arms.
Give us your plea.
Tell us, please, what are the perspectives for people who want to own such weapons?
Today, the attention of the entire Ukrainian arms community, and not only, we have support from Europe and, as I understand, from America, For now we're rather close to our law which will allow us to carry any weapon with the support of European colleagues and American also.
It's enough to hold it a little.
For now we are rather close to our law which will allow us to carry any weapon with the support of European colleagues and American also.
We need just a little push, a little support to have this problem solved.
We hope that in the near future we will be able to do this.
But we would like to have people who can help us to do some things.
First of all, we would like you to at least somehow prove to the producers that importers have taken a position that completely ignores our activities.
First we want you to inform people that the importance of the weapon have their position with any, absolutely with no protection and help us in this situation.
I would also like to, for the reason of you, the European Union realized that the embargo, which they brought, will simply push people to the illegal market.
And the situation, without that, will become more vulnerable.
Also, I want you to inform people that this embargo, which had provided the European Union, will push people to the illegal market of the weapon.
And this will make this problem more vulnerable.
much bigger than it is.
Of course, I would ask Barack Obama to help us with this problem, but now I see that I would ask Barack Obama to help us with this problem, but now I see that he is not very fond of weapon and Yeah, that's kind of an understatement that Obama doesn't like the idea of citizens having arms.
We're having to fight him for that right here.
Today, with the fact that Barack Obama doesn't have a weapon, I want to warn all the communities.
We will start on our own terms.
If only you will take your weapons, you will turn into Ukraine for 20 years.
And you will be looking at the streets.
The government is on the streets.
I want to tell all the Americans that if someone will take away your weapon, in 20 years you will become Ukrainians, and your power will shoot you in the middle of your city, just on the street.
Yes, yes.
We definitely believe that.
Well, I just want to have one follow-up question.
In your opinion, as we see pressure building up, what do you think is going to happen in the Crimea?
Is Russia going to occupy that, split it off from the Ukraine?
what do you think is going to happen with that?
From now, none of the Ukrainian political powers can tell this annexation or occupation.
The situation is very pleasant.
We always knew and felt that Russia is a very pleasant.
This is quite an unpleasant situation.
we also have known that Russia were involving somehow to the situation on the Maidan.
But we have such hope that it's enough to give a blouse.
In Russia there are their problems, although they are dealing with their problems, because they can be more than they think about it.
Russia actually develops into parts of the separatist attacks in Russia.
We think that Russia has enough of her own problems.
She is running.
Russia is struggling from the separatist movements inside Russia.
So we want Russia to solve their own problems.
They have Siberia, which is strictly connected with China.
They have Kuril Islands.
They have also Ural Mountains.
There is Ural, where people call themselves not Russians, but Uralians.
And finally, there is their Kavkaz.
Let's take their problems.
Russia has a number of their own problems, the separatical things, and they also have Ural, Kavkaz, or Siberia, Kurelian islands.
So it's enough problems to solve directly in Russia without taking part in Ukrainian events.
Yes, we feel that way about our government as well.
We feel like they have enough problems here domestically that they don't need to get involved in every conflict around the world, but they do it anyway.
Why? - America has the same problem, that there are quite a lot of conflict situations in the middle of the country.
But, nevertheless, the government takes part in the conflict.
I hope I don't need to comment on this.
Yes.
Well, let me ask you what you would like to say to the American people in closing about the Ukrainian revolution.
Let me ask you, what can you say to the American people regarding... Our revolution?
Yes, yes, our revolution and the situation as a whole.
You know, today we're actually looking at what's left of the Soviet Union.
You know, we actually look at how we die in the world what we left from the Soviet Union.
That part of the communist system.
In fact, we see now how dies this part of the communist period which we were having left from the Soviet epoch.
Ukrainians have changed.
They want to build a new Ukraine on their own.
They don't need these scoundrels, thieves, these criminals who have been in power for 22 years.
Ukrainians have changed.
They don't want to have these criminals helping them with their rules.
So they will build Ukraine by their own.
I want you to know that the Ukrainians love each other.
It doesn't matter from the south and from the north where we are, from the west and from the east.
I want you to know that the Ukrainians love each other.
It doesn't matter from the south and from north where we are, from the west and from the east.
And mostly we love each other when we have a weapon in our arms.
Yes, well, we wish you, we hope that you can achieve liberty and true independence.
And if you've got a government that recognizes your right to protect yourself and keep and bear arms, then you will have a legitimate government.
That'll be the test to see whether you've got it.
We wish you success in that.
Thank you for talking to us.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Bye bye.
Best of luck.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
Best of luck.
Best of luck to you.
Well, that was the Ukrainian Gun Owners Association.
And on their site, in English, much of it is in Cyrillic, but in English, we could see many quotes about the right to keep and bear arms and the fact that if you don't have it, you're slaves.
And you heard him say that in the interview.
He understands that.
That's why I wanted to talk to him.
It's difficult to get a fix on what's going on there.
We certainly know what's going on at the level between the U.S.
and the American government.
It's a very dangerous game that the State Department is playing.
But we certainly hope that they can get their freedom and independence from both international bankers as well as any domination from dictators at home.
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