Lord Stirling's News Blog EUROPE

13 Dead in fierce fighting in the Ukraine ~ link ~ Russian troops are slowly massing at the Ukraine border.  If it appears that the major cities in the east will be overran by the Junta’s forces, Putin will likely invade and will do so with considerable force.  He may go all the way and take Kiev and all of the Ukraine.  If this scenario plays out, then the next question becomes what happens next in the Ukraine … will NATO get involved?  Also, will this free up Israel and America to begin Netanyahu’s General Middle East War???   Stirling   

Dozens die, including 2 children, as Junta troops shell Gorlovka in eastern Ukraine ~ link ~ If additional heavy weapons are not sufficient to aid the local defense forces, Putin may be forced to send in his air force and perhaps his army as well.  This could get real serious in the coming week or so!!!   Stirling    

At least 13 civilians and likely dozens more have been killed by continuing artillery barrages, as government troops close in on militia positions around the city of Gorlovka in eastern Ukraine.

A 1-year old – killed next to her parents – and a 5-year old are among the dead, according to information published by the Donetsk regional administration. Several local journalists on the ground have reported that as many as 30 have been killed, as fighting continues. 

Government troops reached the outskirts of the city of 250,000 people late on Thursday, and have pushed militants back into positions inside residential areas.

Ukraine War LIVE UPDATES from RT ~ link

 
 
Dutch Prime Minister rules out military mission to secure MH17 crash site ~ link ~ Not all European governments are so crazy as to want to provoke the Russian Bear into armed combat!  Stirling   

All 298 people on board – most of them Dutch – died.

Fighting increases near Ukrainian MH17 crash site ~ link ~ Also see ~ link ~
Ukrainian armed forces mounted a major onslaught against pro-Russian separatist fighters on Sunday in an attempt to gain control over the area where a Malaysia Airlines plane was downed earlier this month.

The U.S. State Department, meanwhile, released satellite images that it says back up its claims that rockets have been fired from Russia into eastern Ukraine and heavy artillery for separatists has also crossed the border. 

 
Fighting worsens near MH17 site ~ link ~ 

A representative of the separatist military command in Donetsk confirmed that there had been fighting in Horlivka, but said that rebel fighters were holding their positions.

Elsewhere, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported Sunday that a column of Ukrainian armored personnel carriers, trucks and tanks had entered the town of Shakhtarsk, 10 miles west of the site of the Boeing 777 crash.

Clashes hinder Ukraine MH17 crash site recovery ~ link ~ 
Plans to retrieve the remaining bodies from the MH17 crash were scuppered as Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists clashed in the area where the plane went down.

Dutch and Australian police officers who were due to visit the crash site in eastern Ukraine had to postpone their trip due to an escalation in violence.
 
Two large California wildfires threaten homes ~ link ~ Also see ~ link ~ California and parts of the US west are in a terrible drought.  The reason behind this is that American authorities are using HAARP to keep the normal Pacific storms off of the West Coast to keep the public from panicking at the high levels of radiation in the storms from the Fukushima disaster site.  The long term effects of turning the US west into a desert will be profound and will have a most serious effect on food production.  Stirling      

Months of drought have caused more fires in California this year – some 1,400, twice the usual number.

 
SNP: Scottish wealth per head higher than United Kingdom ~ link ~ It increasingly looks like Scotland is headed towards a pro-Independence vote in September!  Stirling   

The party said new analysis of figures from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) showed Scotland’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per head, including a geographic share of UK oil, is around £23,300 – around £2,300 higher than that of the UK’s.

It also said an independent Scotland would be the 14th richest country in the economic bloc, outstripping major economies such as France, Japan and Italy.