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 The burnt out Euromaidan in Kiev, Feb. 20, 2014. |
2014 saw the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. In 2014, the amount of property taken by civil asset forfeiture exceeded that taken by burglary.
Peer-reviewed Research into Oligarchy
In the fall of 2014, the academic journal Perspectives on Politics published Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens, the first academic study of whether the US was a de facto democracy - i.e. whether the will of the people influenced whether legislation got enacted.[1] It began by asking "Who governs? Who really rules? To what extent is the broad body of U.S. citizens sovereign, semi-sovereign, or largely powerless?" and concluded that "Despite the seemingly strong empirical support in previous studies for theories of majoritarian democracy, our analyses suggest that majorities of the American public actually have little influence over the policies our government adopts."[2] This was not followed up on by commercially-controlled media and as of December 2017, it was still the only paper on this topic.[3]
In 2014, the amount of theft by government exceeded that from burglars
Events
| Event | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda | ||
| Al-Salam weapons deal | A large arms deal signed during the government of Tony Blair. | |
| Iraq Inquiry | "The point of the delay is to give the impression Chilcot has been absolutely painstaking and therefore the bucket of whitewash he will throw cannot be hiding anything. Do not be fooled." (Craig Murray) | |
| Hedges v. Obama | The plaintiffs challenged the 2012 NDAA contending that indefinite detention on "suspicion of providing substantial support" to groups such as al-Qaeda and the Taliban was so vague as to allow unconstitutional, indefinite detention of civilians based on vague allegations. The Court of Appeals struck down an initial agreement, and the US Supreme Court concurred, arguing that the plaintiffs could not prove they would be affected by the law, so had no standing to contest it. | |
| Al-Sweady Inquiry | ||
| Saleh v. Bush | A legal claim that the Iraq war was an illegal act of aggression, dismissed in 2017 by the Westfall Act since it was carried out by US government employees within the scope of their employment. | |
| Obama warns Yanukovitch | Obama Warns President Yanukovitch against military action on the Maidan protesters. | |
| Maidan sniper shootings | 53 people including 20 police officers killed by snipers during the Maidan protests. | |
| EU-RF-Ukraine agreement | Representatives of the Russia Federation, the EU and Ukraine (President and opposition) meet in Kiev and reach agreement on the way forward | |
| Yanukovitch deposed | Verkhovna Rada (The Ukraine Parliament) votes to depose duly elected President Viktor Yanukovitch | |
| Joe Biden/Pledges support for Yatsenyuk | US VP Joe Biden phones Arseniy Yatsenyuk to offer support and commend the Junta on its RESTRAINT - no kidding | |
| Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 | A commercial airliner which went missing. | |
| Crimea referendum | Referendum in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol on the future status of the peninsula | |
| Crimea annexation announced | Vladimir Putin announces the incorporation of Crimea into the Russian Federation following the referendum 2 days earlier | |
| Ukraine troops leave Crimea | Ukrainian troops leave Crimea. The pullout follows an order by Ukraine's acting President Olexander Turchynov | |
| UN GA vote on Crimea | UN General Assembly adopts resolution calling upon states not to recognize changes in status of Crimea region | |
| NATO suspends co-operation with Russia | NATO foreign ministers suspend all practical civilian and military co-operation with Russia at a meeting in Brussels. | |
| Flint water crisis | A mass poisoning in Flint Michigan | |
| Donbas govt bldgs occupied | Protesters occupy government buildings in the eastern cities of Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv, calling for a referendum on independence. | |
| Kiev Junta announces ATO | Acting President, Olexander Turchynov, announces start of "anti-terrorist operation" against Donbas protestors. | |
| Sinking of MV Sewol | A ferry sinking which killed hundreds of schoolchildren. Officially, an accident. | |
| 2014 Ukraine coup/Geneva agreement | Ukraine, Russia, EU and US diplomats meet in Geneva to discuss the crisis in Ukraine. Agreed statement issued. | |
| 2014 Ukraine coup/Forged antisemitic leaflets | Threatening anti-Semitic leaflets distributed in Donetsk. They are quickly revealed as forgeries designed to discredit the rebels | |
| Massacre in Odessa | Events in Odessa culminated in the deaths of 48 (official narrative) and up to 120 (evidence-based alternative narrative) anti-Kiev Junta demonstrators by fire, gun-shots and beatings in and around the Odessa Trade Union building. | |
| Putin visits Crimea | President Vladimir Putin makes his first visit to Crimea since its incorporation back into Russia in March | |
| Donbas status referenda | Referendums on the future status of the Donesk and Luhansk Oblasts in Eastern Ukraine take place | |
| Yanukovych statement | Ousted President Yanukovych issues a statement on the referendums conducted in Eastern Ukraine the previous day | |
| Ukraine/2014 presidential election | Elections for a new president of Ukraine in spite of the fact that the existing President Yanukovitch had not resigned nor been legally removed by due constitutional process | |
| Bilderberg/2014 | ||
| Poroshenko inauguration | Pyotr Poroshenko sworn in as fifth President of Ukraine following his victory at the elections of 25 May 2014 which were boycotted by much of the South-East of the country | |
| Russian embassy attack | The Russian embassy in Kiev is subjected to sustained attack by protestors while the Ukrainian police look on | |
| Report of Junta using civilian planes as cover | Militia Soldier - Elena, from Sloviansk tells of Ukrainian fighter planes using civilian airliners as cover prior to attacking the city | |
| Le Cercle/2014 (London) | Dates include June 20 but are uncertain | |
| Gaza War 2014 | ||
| 2014 Australia turboprop drug bust | 35 kg of heroin were accidentally found by local police aboard a CIA plane | |
| Antonov 26 19 blue downed | Antonov 26 transport plane of the Ukrainian Air Force crashed near Izvaryne | |
| Mil SitRep for MH17 area | Military Situation report for the MH17 area | |
| UKr BUK on TV | Ukraine army Buk system footage day before shooting down Flight MH17 - English Subtitles | |
| 1st Ukr SU-25 downed | Shot down near Gorlovki/Gorlovka/Horlivka | |
| 2014 Ukraine coup/ATO map 16 JUL 2014 | Military situation in Donbass at 16 JUL 2014 | |
| Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 | A Boeing 777-200 plane, which crashed in the Ukraine, east of Donetsk on 17 July 2014, killing all 298 on board. | |
| Ukr SBU comms intercepts | Alleged SSU, radio interception of conversations between "terrorists", "Boeing-777" plane crash (YouTube upload time approx) | |
| Malaysia Airlines Flight 17/Leaves departure gate | Aircraft leaves the departure gate at Amsterdam's Schipol airport | |
| Malaysia Airlines Flight 17/Takeoff | The aircraft became airborne from Schipol runway 36C | |
| Cruising altitude reached | Aircraft reaches cruising altitude of FL310 (31,000 ft) | |
| Malaysia Airlines Flight 17/First altitude change | Just prior to entering Ukrainian airspace, the flight climbed to FL330 (33,000 ft) | |
| Weather conditions | Map compiled from ICAO weather station data at 13:00 UTC | |
| Malaysia Airlines Flight 17/Last ADS-B contact | Last contact by the ADS-B (Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast) of flight tracking web sites. | |
| Strelkov shoot-down post | Post on VK.com, purporting to be by Igor Strelkov, claiming to have shot down a Ukrainian AN26 transport plane | |
| Malaysia Airlines Flight 17/ATC lost contact confirmed | MAS confirms it received notification from Ukrainian ATC that it had lost contact with MH17 | |
| ... further results | ||
New Groups
| Group | Image | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Macro Advisory Partners |  | Commercial | |
| South Front | .jpg){kind=logo} | Analytical project | |
| Centre for the Response to Radicalisation and Terrorism |  | ||
| Mayday Rescue Foundation | | ||
| Warsaw Institute | | ||
| Airwars | | NGO | |
| Jews for justice for Germans |  | Pressure group | A deliberately tongue-in-cheek attention-grabbing name for a group that understands the gross injustices that Germany and Germans have been subjected to at the hands of Jewish-dominated interests for the greater part of the 20th century and especially over their alleged responsibility for both world wars and the horrors accompanying them. |
| Brazzaville Foundation |  | Commercial Military ranks | |
| Moonscape Ventures |  | ||
| Counter Extremism Project |  |
New Websites
==Groups that were Wound Up== ==Quotations==
Deaths
- ↑ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48487.htm
- ↑ https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B/S1537592714001595a.pdf/testing_theories_of_american_politics_elites_interest_groups_and_average_citizens.pdf
- ↑ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48487.htm
