Poroshenko surprises - hopefully not too late - Poroshenko urges Nato to send ships

Finally(and more than just ships weapons for Ukrainian military is necessary).

I have anticipated news as seen here for a very very long time - all unavailable till now...why not earlier is now("NOW" BECAUSE I WOULD HAVE NEVER EVER ANTICIPATED ANYTHING LIKE THIS WOULD COME OUT OF POROSHENKO) a real mystery if anything positive is to ever come out for Ukraine anyways...

From bbc.com:

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has urged Nato to send ships to the Sea of Azov following a naval confrontation with Russia off Crimea.

He told Germany's Bild newspaper he hoped the ships could be relocated "to assist Ukraine and provide security".

On Sunday, Russia opened fire on three Ukrainian ships and seized their crews in the Kerch Strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.

Nato has expressed "full support" for Ukraine, which is not a member state.

Amid worsening relations on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Mr Poroshenko of creating the naval "provocation" to boost his ratings ahead of 2019 elections.

President Poroshenko has implemented martial law across Ukraine's border regions for 30 days in response to the crisis.

What did Poroshenko say?

In the interview with Bild, Mr Poroshenko said Vladimir Putin wanted "nothing less than to occupy the [Azov] sea".

"Germany is one of our closest allies and we hope that states within Nato are now ready to relocate naval ships to the Sea of Azov in order to assist Ukraine and provide security," he said.

"We cannot accept this aggressive policy of Russia. First it was Crimea, then eastern Ukraine, now he wants the Sea of Azov. Germany, too, has to ask itself: What will Putin do next if we do not stop him?"

A Nato spokeswoman would not comment directly on Mr Poroshenko's request, but stressed that "since Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014, Nato has substantially increased its presence in the Black Sea."

Earlier this week, Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg called on Russia to free the Ukrainian ships and sailors and said the bloc would continue to provide "political and practical support" to Ukraine, which is a Nato partner country.

'Hardly likely'

Analysis by Jonathan Marcus, BBC Diplomatic correspondent

The call for Nato to deploy warships to the Sea of Azov raises a variety of diplomatic and practical problems.

In strict legal terms Russia and Ukraine share access to its waters under a 2003 treaty. This though specifically states that warships from third countries can only enter the Sea or make port visits there with the express permission of the other party.

Russia is hardly likely to give such permission. In practical terms it could easily block the Kerch Strait as it did earlier this week by placing a merchant vessel across the channel.

Nato in any case might see such a visit as more likely to inflame tensions.

It's more likely that Nato might seek to boost its naval deployments to the Black Sea where its members - Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey - are uneasy about Russia's more assertive behaviour.

Indeed the alliance says that its vessels have already spent some 120 days on patrol or exercises in the Black Sea this year, compared with 80 in 2017.

What happened off Crimea?

At least three Ukrainian sailors were wounded when Russian FSB border guards opened fire on two Ukrainian gunboats and a tug off Crimea.

The peninsula was annexed by Russia in 2014, but officially remains part of Ukraine.

The naval boats had been sailing from Odessa to Mariupol, a Ukrainian port on the Azov sea, when they were confronted by the FSB vessels.

Ukraine says Russia is deliberately blockading Mariupol and another port, Berdyansk, preventing ships from getting through the Kerch Strait.

The 24 captured Ukrainian sailors have now been given two months in pre-trial detention by a court in Crimea.

Russia's decision to open a bridge across the Kerch Strait earlier this year had already exacerbated tensions.

What did Putin say?

The Russian president said the incident was "undoubtedly a provocation".

He said that it had been organised by Ukraine's authorities "and, I think, the incumbent president in the run-up to the Ukrainian presidential election in March 2019".

Mr Poroshenko has low popularity ratings. Recent polls suggest that only about 10% of the electorate plans to vote for him next year, with nearly 50% saying they would not vote for him under any circumstances, the Kyiv Post newspaper reported.

Mr Putin added that the Ukrainian president's decision to impose martial law after a mere "border incident" was extreme, because martial law was not even imposed at the height of the conflict with pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014.

Mr Putin insisted that Russia's military response was appropriate as the Ukrainians had "trespassed" into Russia's territorial waters.

Ukrainian officials published a map on Wednesday, placing all three Ukrainian boats just outside Crimea's territorial waters at the time they were seized.

What other reaction has there been?
Western governments have backed the Ukrainian government.

On Wednesday the EU strongly condemned Russia's actions but failed to agree on new sanctions against Russia.

After three days of debate, the EU issued a statement expressing "utmost concern about the dangerous increase of tensions" and dismay at the "unacceptable" use of force by Russia.

It called on Russia to release the ships and their crews and respect Ukraine's sovereignty. Poland had wanted new sanctions on Moscow while Germany and France stressed the need to ease tensions.


US President Donald Trump has also said he may cancel a planned meeting with Mr Putin on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires later this week.

Kremlin denies Ukrainian charge it is restricting shipping near Ukrainian Crimea

Kremlin knows nothing about restricting shipping near by Russians occupied Ukrainian Crimea...

From reuters.com:

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Thursday denied a Ukrainian allegation that Russia was restricting shipping near Crimea as part of what Kiev said was a de facto blockade of its ports on the Sea of Azov.

Ukraine’s infrastructure minister, Volodymyr Omelyan, earlier on Thursday accused Russia of barring ships from leaving and entering the sea, days after Moscow seized three Ukrainian naval vessels and their crews.

Speaking to reporters on a conference call, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he was unaware of any such problems and said shipping traffic was moving normally through the Russian-controlled Kerch Strait which separates the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.

Peskov said delays did sometimes occur in the area as a result of bad weather however.

Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.

If only possible, Jewish neuroscience would prefer brain transplantation on non Jews which reject rape/ killings/ torture/ terrorism and other oppressive methods chosen by Israel as the way of coexistence on this world

You can consider yourself as lucky if not in one or if not neighbor of one...

State of Holocaust descendants which went from being victims of Hitler into full time Hitler state. The forbidden after WWII became fist allowed(within reach) to foreign governments on the territory of the Israel where most outrageous human experiment took place on live subjects for the sake of "science". Off course it is always in the name of the science and to "help" people(system/formula used via main stream media suggests to public a concept in which as an example three people are saved and 100.000 killed about whom, however, you will never ever get to hear).

MKultra or lets say involuntary psychiatric treatment(came up even with psychiatric drug implants) are darlings of Jewish science. Ethics the main concern due to international scrutiny about what goes on(truth totally blocked by main stream media) in this part of the world. Hitler's Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler could have only dreamed about something like back then...it became reality ever since.

Some call it Apartheid state, but I would instead refer to one as totally inhumane and unacceptable for humanity(its not only about Lebanese/Semitic, but instead also black, white, yellow etc. to whom they would do the same as they do to Lebanese if they only could). 

It is unethical(lawless and hateful) state to be well aware off. As long they can get away with it, nothing in this world is holly to them.

State of the Israel have exercised against me personally along with Russian KGB the worst of possible in modern history and for no less than 23 years(since 1995 they tried to kill will for life in me and have deprived me via most oppressive brutal ways even of family of my own - via forced unemployment and parallel to MKultra torture and then psychiatry that grew into what you have witnessed right here for no less than two years now). Note that I am European with US citizenship and not Lebanese or Syrian etc...

As medicine converges with technology, Israel faces ‘tremendous opportunity’

The shifting landscape of the global pharma industry, in which medicine is becoming more personalized as well as digitized, represents a huge opportunity for Israel, as the nation is a hotbed for life sciences research which can now be merged with the country’s strong digital technologies and machine learning prowess, industry leaders say in an interview.

“Israel is a treasure trove of innovation and talent across the entire continuum of the life and computer sciences,” said Iris Grossman, the chief Chief Scientific Officer of Cambridge, MA-based Camp4 Therapeutics, who was formerly in charge of setting up the personalized medicine unit of Israeli drugmaker Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

“There is a unique and tremendous opportunity to marry these two domains and spiral innovation in drug discovery and development that would disrupt R&D traditional approaches,” she said in an email interview with The Times of Israel.

The country that is known for its information technologies and cyber security prowess, is also home to more than 1,400 Israeli companies in the life sciences sphere.

These include 300 pharmaceutical companies, nearly 600 medical device companies, and 450 digital health companies that are working on developments in the field of neuroscience, oncology, immunology, and stem cell research, according to data provided by the Israel Innovation Authority, in charge of setting out the nation’s policies for its high-tech sector.

Not only that. The nation is home to a trove of detailed electronic medical data records, which put the country in a unique position to push forward with the digital transformation of healthcare. This push is being encouraged by the government, which in March set up a National Digital Health plan to create a digital database of the medical files of some 9 million residents, and make them available to researchers and enterprises.

Global healthcare expenditure is forecast to reach $9.5 trillion in 2018, according to World Health Organization data, and tech giants such as Apple Inc., Intel Corp, Facebook and IBM have all started investing in the field, according to New York based data firm CB Insights.

In September, Mazor Robotics Ltd., an Israeli biotech firm that develops robotic surgical systems, said it was being acquired by Irish-American medical device company Medtronic for a sum of $1.64 billion, the biggest-ever “exit” for an Israeli biotech company. While in August last year, US biopharmaceutical firm Gilead Sciences, Inc. said it had agreed to buy the Israeli-founded Kite Pharma for about $12 billion in an all-cash deal. The technology at the heart of Kite Pharma’s cell therapies was created by Prof. Zelig Eshhar from Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science.

“Deep scientific understanding is the key to the development of personalized medicine,” said by email Gil Granot-Mayer, the CEO of Yeda Research and Development Co. Ltd, the technology transfer unit of the Weizmann Institute of Science, which commercializes technologies.

“Our ability to understand the personal drivers of diseases on a molecular level and to develop tools for diagnostic prevention and treatment are all based on that deep understanding and top-level capabilities.”

Israel has “wonderful innovation” in health technologies, Granot-Mayer said, but much of it is not developed. “If the ecosystem is not well developed, we will still face low chances of successful commercialization and value creation,” he said.

And here enters the non-profit organization, 8400 The Health Network, which aims to create just that ecosystem to help Israel attain its full potential in a field that could by far be one of its biggest growth engines going forward.

“Our vision is to use the country’s intellectual and digital assets and human capital to accelerate cures for critical global health challenges, while at the same time building a powerful growth engine for Israel,” said Dapha Murvitz, the CEO and a co-founder of the non-profit organization.

The 8400 network, founded in June 2017 by billionaire Marius Nacht, the co-founder of $17 billion cybersecurity firm Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. aims to gather the brightest brains at the intersection of health and technology to boost Israel’s position as a life sciences powerhouse. Murvitz co-founded the 8400 network together with Nacht and Yair Schindel.

The idea is to set up leadership programs to create a network of 400 people over eight years, hence the NGO’s name, 8400 (it also recalls the legendary elite 8200 army intelligence unit, which has spawned many of Israel’s tech entrepreneurs).

The 8400 network has already recruited its second cohort of 66 members for its leadership program, said Murvitz.

The cohort is made up of healthtech professionals, entrepreneurs and government officials, members of the academia and local hospitals and universities tech transfer divisions, who will join forces and brainstorm on projects to help promote the industry, and help address gaps in the ecosystem in areas such as regulation, funding and collaboration in big data.

“The only way to capitalize on the potential of our healthtech industry is through the coalescing of all of the different stakeholders across sectors and silos, so they can learn and create solutions together to overcome the hurdles,” said Murvitz.

The idea is to get these brains together and learn the best practices of life-sciences ecosystems around the world, and map out the bottlenecks, break down silos and remove hurdles that curb the growth of the ecosystem, she said.

The new cohort members who are joining the 8400 leadership program get to work together for 18 days over eight months – 12 of them in Israel and the remaining days at Harvard Business School, to take part in a senior executive leadership program, designed together also with the Mendham Investment Group in New Jersey.

They then join the 8400 network as active members to work toward a common goal.

“There is something about the Israeli mentality that allows innovative culture: the systems, organizations, are quiet open and flexible to changes,” said Dr Nathalie Bloch, who heads the newly set up ARC-Sheba Innovation Center at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv.

The Medical Center seeks to upgrade the hospital’s healthcare system by teaming up with, investing in and developing new technologies, with a focus mainly on digital health, and specifically on areas like precision medicine; big data and predictive analytics; telemedicine; and mobile health, she said in emailed comments to The Times of Israel.

Israel has many advantages over other countries, she said. “We have an ID number to every person and this ID is being used everywhere so one can really follow a continuation of care throughout the whole cycle.”

In addition, she said, “We have only four HMOs and there is a national healthcare law where it is mandatory to have healthcare coverage. This means we can know all the medical history of every person in Israel. This is a huge advantage when one wants to develop a comprehensive data warehouse and predictive models.”

Granot-Mayer, Bloch and Grossman are today all members of the 8400 network.

There are however many challenges ahead that stand in the way of Israel reaching its potential: startups at early stages of development still have a “huge problem” to get funding, said Granot-Mayer. The nation also needs to make sure it builds up a talent pool that has the ability to both create and lead the Israeli companies that stem out of these technologies.

Regulation can also be a huge stumbling block, said Sheba’s Bloch.

“The fact we need always to protect our patients makes things slow and convoluted,” she said. “Startup companies can’t wait too long — every day costs them money and they can ‘die’ by the time we get all the necessary approvals.”

Hospitals must also be provided with programs to help them change their business models to support them build the right infrastructure for data and analytic tools, while regulation, “which is quite behind” must be updated to allow hospitals to pilot new technologies and make use of cloud infrastructure, Bloch said.

“Strategic partnerships with large pharma and IT organizations; investment in infrastructure, education and disruptive regulatory innovation — are all important factors toward realizing” the dream of Israel leading the way in healthcare going forward, said Camp4’s Grossman. “Execution, though, requires dedication, passion and true collaboration across the board.”

IDIOT NEWS FROM TWITTER AND MOSCOW: The real(FAKE, BUT STILL MUCH MORE REAL THAT THE ONE WHO "FOLLOWED" ONE) fake account on Twitter created by Vladimir Putin was suspended by Twitter on behalf of Vladimir Putin

New sensation about fake and real flooded TODAY the internet by the main streammedia news.

News is related to REALITY - Related to the king of the disinformation and fakest man in the history of the human kind = the one and only Putan Putanowich|(they all follow this site - make no mistake about that).

From variety of FAKE collected from internet:

From engadget.com:

Twitter bans fake Putin account that the real Putin followed

Twitter has banned a fake Vladimir Putin account for impersonating the Russian leader. But in a bizarre turn of events, the real Putin had been following his imitator for the past several years, reports the Business Insider.

The now-removed @putinRF_eng was believed to be Putin's english-language presence on Twitter, complete with a profile pic of the statesman and a cover photo of the Kremlin, and was one of just three accounts followed by the real @PutinRF -- the others include the Russian government and PM Dmitry Medvedev. It had over a million followers and was active for six years before the takedown.

The fake account mainly posted official links to Putin's public appearances and had even been featured in reports by news organizations like the BBC. In a tweet, Twitter said it "suspended @putinRF_eng for impersonation based on a valid report we received from Russian officials." The same tweet also contained a link to its impersonation policy, which states: "Twitter accounts portraying another person in a confusing or deceptive manner may be permanently suspended." But it's still unclear who was behind the fake account.

Earlier this year, Twitter revealed it had suspended 70 million accounts in May and June as part of its fight against misinformation. Many of those were believed to be bots and retweet-spamming accounts. Before that, in 2017, it had removed more than 200 Russian-backed bot accounts. Of those, 22 were matched to the Russian Facebook pages that had bought ads to sow divisiveness among the American public during the 2016 presidential election.

HOW IS YOUR NEW PRESIDENT AMERICA: Suicides in US hit highest level in 50 years, prompting fall in life expectancy

From independent.co.uk:

The suicide rate in the US is at its highest point in at least 50 years, leading to a decline in life expectancy, new research has found. 

There were more than 47,000 suicides last year, up from a little under 45,000 the year before, according to US government records.

Drug overdose deaths also continued to climb, surpassing 70,000 last year, in the midst of the deadliest drug overdose epidemic in US history.

Overall, there were more than 2.8 million US deaths in 2017, or nearly 70,000 more than the previous year, which was the most deaths in a single year since the government began counting more than a century ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.

The increase partly reflects the nation’s growing and aging population but it’s deaths in younger age groups – particularly middle-aged people – that have had the largest impact on calculations of life expectancy, experts said.

For decades, US life expectancy has been increasing, rising a few months nearly every year. 

Now it’s trending the other way: it fell in 2015, stayed level in 2016, and declined again last year, the CDC said.

“These sobering statistics are a wake-up call that we are losing too many Americans, too early and too often, to conditions that are preventable,” Dr Robert Redfield, the CDC’s director, said in a statement.

The nation is in the longest period of a generally declining life expectancy since the late 1910s, when World War I and the worst flu pandemic in modern history combined to kill nearly one million Americans. 

Dr William Dietz, a disease prevention expert at George Washington University, sees a sense of hopelessness.

Financial struggles, a widening income gap and divisive politics are all casting a pall over many Americans, he suggested. 

“I really do believe that people are increasingly hopeless, and that that leads to drug use, it leads potentially to suicide,” he said.

The death rate from drug overdoses rose 10 per cent from the previous year, smaller than the 21 percent jump seen between 2016 and 2017.

Dr John Rowe, a professor of health policy and aging at Columbia University said: “Maybe it’s starting to slow down, but it has not turned around yet. I think it will take several years.”

Accidental drug overdoses account for more than a third of the unintentional injury deaths, and intentional drug overdoses account for about a 10th of the suicides. 

Frau Mosbacher(long long time personal friend and likely more of Donald Trump appointed by Donald Trump as US ambassador to Poland) not happy about Polish officials over claims journalists staged neo-Nazi event

I have the feeling that so called "journalist" might have  been much much more than just an journalist...we shall see soon enough. Polish authorities don't go after people for no reason. Nazism here is a no no and Poland a model state for all other European states who have forgotten about dark WWII past.

Related to whoisthisguyinreality

NAZISM IS NOT NATIONALISM BUT INSTEAD BORDERLESS BEAST USED VIA SWASTIKA AND SO CALLED "WHITE" NISSUE TO EXTERMINATE THOSE(a real nationalists) WHO ADHERE TO THEIR NATIONAL FOLKLORE. MAIN STREAM MEDIA IS USING WORD "NATIONALIST" WHEN REFERRING TO NAZIS WITH IDEA TO CONFUSE PEOPLE ON WHO IS WHAT IS - DON'T ASK ME WHY...ASK DONALD TRUMP FOR EXPLANATION.

From theguardian.com:

A diplomatic row has broken out between Poland and the US after the American ambassador in Warsaw accused senior Polish officials of attempting to intimidate journalists from a US-owned broadcaster.

The dispute concerns the ongoing controversy surrounding an explosive documentary that was broadcast in January on TVN24, the news station of private broadcaster TVN, in which reporters infiltrated a Polish neo-Nazi organisation and broadcast footage of its members holding a birthday party for Adolf Hitler in a Polish forest – complete with a birthday cake decorated with the colours of the Third Reich.

The footage fed concerns over the rise in visibility of Polish far-right movements in recent years, with critics accusing Poland’s ruling rightwing Law and Justice party (PiS) of turning a blind eye to radical nationalist sentiment.

I am somehow not impressed by Melania Trump's mentally sick taste for the style: Melania Trump defends controversial White House holiday decorations: 'I think they look fantastic'

It bothers when you know person from your own country whose father was(is) paid KGB(UDBA - YU) assassin have settled(illegally) inside of the White House(country where you gained citizenship through legal process) with idea to cause others(own people preferably) a harm. For that matter we have to thank off course to ineptitude of Donald Trump.

Know wherever you are that your wearing protective clothing(masks etc.) to hide your identities during protests is a useless thing as they use special spray(paint invisible to bare eyes, but visible to city agents who latter identify when on your way to your work and destroy you with variety of instruments) which marks your clothing...

More than just tear gas !!????? I think so and why to hide yourself when exercising the right to express open dissatisfaction with government which is most oppressive methods for the sake of the nasism/fascism !!?????

Just somehow not impressed...

If it looks crazy most likely is crazy. At least Michael was not plagiator is all I can say.

From yahoo.com:

Melania Trump defends controversial White House holiday decorations: 'I think they look fantastic'

On Wednesday, the first lady engaged in a panel discussion at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., ranked No. 1 on a Most Conservative Colleges in America list in 2017. She was dressed in a charcoal-colored pantsuit, a black top and metallic heels. 

Melania Trump complimented the “fantastic” White House Christmas decorations after the patriotic color scheme triggered protests on social media.

“We are in 21st century, and everybody has a different taste,” Melania said. “I think they look fantastic. I hope everybody will come over and visit it. In real life, they look even more beautiful, and you are all very welcome to visit the White House, the People’s House.”

Melania was responding to the social media pandemonium on Monday after she tweeted a 57-second video of this year’s extravagant holiday decorations, including more than 40 topiary trees — many of which were dyed bright red — 72 handmade paper ornaments and the official White House Christmas tree, an 18-foot fir wrapped in 500 feet of blue velvet ribbon. 


The opulent decorations were hammered as ridiculous and a waste of money, and many said the red trees were reminiscent of bloodshed, particularly in the wake of Border Patrol agents using tear gas to disperse a group of 500 adults and children at the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico, on Sunday. The White House said the attack was a response to caravan members throwing “projectiles” that hit U.S. Border Patrol officials. 

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