SOCHI, Russia — A gutsy Ukrainian skier chose her people over Olympic glory  Thursday and pulled out of the Sochi games in protest.

Bodgana Matsotska said she could not compete while her countrymen were being  killed and is heading to Kiev to join the rebels fighting to overthrow President Victor  Yanukovych.

“I don’t want to participate when in my country people die,” Matsotska told  The Associated Press.

Between 70 and 100 protesters in Kiev were reportedly killed in the worst  violence since Ukraine split from the old Soviet Union and hundreds more were  injured in clashes with security forces loyal to President Viktor  Yanukovych.

Yanukovych insisted his men weren’t firing live rounds at the people.

But footage shown on Ukrainian television of Orthodox priests blessing the  bodies of fallen rebels painted their president a liar — and angered the  world.  (link)

The 24-year-old skier was supposed to compete in the slalom on Friday, her  third and best event at the Sochi games. (more…)

What’s that they say about history repeating?

Here Come The Tanks !

QUE EL MUNDO VEA COMO NO PUDIERON CON TANQUETAS DE ORDEN PUBLICO AHORA SACAN TANQUES D GUERRA #20F LARA" pic.twitter.com/KjJggSZLuU"

— Traffic CENTRAL (@laverdad_enbits) February 20, 2014

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Update – CANADA WINS GOLD

Canada Wins in dramatic overtime victory. Team USA held a two goal lead with less than 4 minutes in final period.   They began playing “not to lose”; it was noticeable.

Canada scored two goals in the final 3 minutes to send the game to overtime.  Team USA looked dejected going into the overtime period and after 2 minutes of aggressive OT play they again stumbled back into the self-defeating “playing not to lose”.  Canada won with a power-play goal.   Score 3-2.   Team US wins silver.

Canada – Gold,  USA – Silver,  Switzerland – Bronze      (more…)

This video is from 2012, but is just now making the rounds in social media.  If you haven’t yet seen it, the story is true, and it IS “inspirational”….

This is the short, 4 minute videologue of injured Desert Storm veteran Arthur Boorman’s journey to change himself and redefine how he lived his life.  What happens, and where it ends ….. if you aren’t inspired ….

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Via Weasel Zippers – Reports of fires across Caracas, unknown as to their cause or origin. What is known is international media are being told to leave the country. Ones who won’t leave are threatened with violence and death if they do not.

“@ChicagoPhotoSho: This is not #Ukraine its #Venezuela. Media is not allowed. CNN removed by gunpoint. pic.twitter.com/5i9t8gqk4k”

— Jean 🦋 (@setislady) February 20, 2014

Things have gone from bad to worse….  Some amazing earlier pictures and recap of the events HERE

UKRAINE – A short-lived truce crumbled Thursday as gunfire erupted at Independence Square, the center of anti-government protests and an increasingly violent crisis that threatens catastrophe for this divided nation.

The head of the protesters’ medical service said 100 people died and 500 were injured in clashes on Thursday, just hours after the government declared a truce in fighting that had shocked world leaders with the deaths of 28 people two days before.

The Ukrainian government has not released its own casualty figures, but Interior Minister Vitali Zakharchenko said 25 police officers had been wounded and an unspecified number of them had died. Some others had been taken hostage, he said. (more…)

The mainstream media, and even law enforcement, have consistently tried to claim the race-based “Knock Out” assaults are mythical in nature.

Various manipulations of labeling have taken place with some calling the attacks “a game”, or more specifically, “the Knock Out Game“.

It is also known on the street as “polar bear hunting“, or “Cracka’ Smacks“.

This past weekend another victim died.   Until we honestly confront the reality of what is taking place we cannot expect to see this trend stop.   Every single one of these attacks is a black youth, a specifically intended white victim, a random punch to the face/head:

2014

Baton Rouge, Louisiana  (victim killed)

Cambridge, Massachusetts

St. Cloud, Minnesota (victim killed)

Flint, Michigan

New York, New York (six victims from same thug)

Charlottesville, Virginia

Denver, Colorado

Rochester, New York

2013 (more…)

ROFLMAO – …”audible gasps”!!!

North Carolina – An undocumented student at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill who became a national cause célèbre in recent weeks as a candidate for student body president lost his election bid Tuesday in a landslide defeat.

UNC junior Emilio Vicente, a public policy major who was thrust into the spotlight after publicly acknowledging that he is not a U.S. citizen, lost his bid to represent the students of the public research university by a vote of 4,760 to 2,681, or 62.9 percent to 35.47 percent.

Prior to Tuesday’s election, Vicente – who describes himself as a “feminist” – had become the darling of left-leaning celebrities, earning praise and endorsements from the likes of Al Jazeera and actress Eva Longoria, for example. (more…)

Concerned about the potential to be highlighted on a “Kiss Cam”…. He Came Prepared: