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The International Monetary Fund predicts that within the next year the US economy will shrink, while the Indian economy will grow almost 5.5 percent.
Because of this many top graduates are finding that they are able to land more rewarding work in India than in their own country.
"There's definitely a sense of excitement here. Things are looking up for India. Even throughout this recession things have remained positive here and you can't really say the same things about the states," said Colin Murphy, a Yale University student who is spending the summer working at Infosys Technologies in India.
Infosys, an IT outsourcing giant based in Bangalore, India is one of many Indian companies courting America's top talent. The company recruits almost 100 of the best and brightest from the United States to its campus every summer to teach Americans more about what India has to offer.
"We have students from Stanford, we have students from Harvard, we have students from MIT….They get to understand what is Infosys and what is the IT industry. And since most of the internships are based in India, what is India, and part of that is just about breaking myths and misconceptions," said Brianna Dieter, one of the coordinators of InStep, Infosys' Global Internship program.
Infosys main campus is situated on 43 acres in the middle of the hustle and bustle of Bangalore, India – considered India's Silicon Valley and the center of India's IT boom. The isolated community offers a hint at the new and emerging India. The campus offers gourmet dining, 21st century architecture and environmentally friendly transportation.
"Wherever there are economic opportunities, people from all over the globe will congregate there and will get those opportunities and that’s what’s happening in Hina and India," said N.R. Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys.
Most Americans who live in India, however, have to deal with the chaos, congestion and frequent power outages that come with a country that still has trouble with its infrastructure. Despite that, experts predict that by 2015 American companies will move 3.5 million jobs abroad, and many of those jobs will end up in India.
While Indian companies become more diverse, companies like Infosys are starting to see the effects of globalization on the ground.
"I think globalization is all about people from different nationalities coming together in pursuit of a common goal…This is all about leveraging the power of globalization. It's all about leveraging the power of the new economic order," Murthy said.
Michael Parenti, author of “The Face of Imperialism”, said the US has been on a mission to make the world safe for American interests and businesses; however there is a global shift taking place.
Parenti agreed that there is a developing trend where Americans are leaving to find work elsewhere as unemployment rises in the US.
“I can imagine many would look for job opportunities abroad if they presented themselves,” said Parenti.
Many global players have gotten tired of American superiority and have begun to take steps in their own independent directions, he argued.
Parenti said that employment is one of the top problems in America today.
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The current economic turmoil could trigger a brain drain in the US. For many skilled immigrants, the American Dream is becoming a nightmare, while prospects in other developing countries are improving.
Shobhit Bhargava is a father of two and is enjoying a successful career in the IT world while balancing the joys of family life in the US. However, Bhargava is slowly starting to realize that maybe that the so-called American Dream is not really a dream of his after all.
“I am kind of stuck in a situation where I cannot move around in jobs. I cannot take on better opportunities. Even within the organization I cannot take on more responsibilities,” he told RT.
Bhargava is one of thousands of Indian immigrants who have decided it is time to pack up their bags and return home. He has been offered several jobs in India that he says beat out his options in the United States.
“The opportunities in India are definitely much better than what they are here,” Bhargava noted.
It is a phenomenon that is being called the American brain drain. To many it may be no surprise that in the midst of one of the worst economic recessions in recent history many highly skilled immigrants are choosing to leave the United States. While the US economy is expected to shrink almost three percent next year, India’s economy is predicted to grow by over five percent.
It is a reality that many business-minded folks like Jai Saboo are aware of. The entrepreneur already spends almost half of his time in India. He has decided that it might just make sense to plan his return.
“I am going to go there because that is where the next cycle of growth and prospering is going to come,” Saboo said. “ There are lots of people, lots of very big entrepreneurs who were from India or China who are going back and settling there and saying ‘That is where I am going to set up shop’.”
What will happen to the United States when there is a mass exodus of Indian immigrants? Studies show that 10% of all millionaires in America are Indian. Indian immigrants were even a factor in the foundation of Google and Silicon Valley.
“This country was built by immigrants – people who wanted a better life. But some of the things politically we have done are tending to reverse that trend a little bit,” said Saboo. “I think it already has and I think it will continue to adversely impact the economy of this country.”
As immigrants leave the US, they take both their brains and their money back to their original homes.
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Opportunities maybe better, but is the quality of life better? With over a billion people and s large portion of them very poor, there will be issues arising.
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Top IT graduates you mean, and that is just one sector...what about Russia, where are their top graduates and IT graduates heading?
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Top IT graduates you mean, and that is just one sector...what about Russia, where are their top graduates and IT graduates heading?
Top Indian information technology, engineering grads have been heading back to India for a few years now.
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As Wall Street posts another great year of profits and American corporations post their largest quarterly profits ever recorded in US history, an estimated 5 million Americans who have been unemployed for more than two years still can't find jobs.
In the US, 'tis the season for holiday cheer, charity, and this year for some of millions of jobless Americans, despair. “Now I think why did I work on all of those Christmases," asked Theresa Iacovo, who has been out of work more than two years. "Why did I give up that time with my family, if now I have nothing and all of the work I've done in my life was for no reason.”
Iacovo, this used to be her busy season at work. But she was laid off from her job in the gas and heating business more than two years ago and has been unable to find any steady work since. "I look for work every single day fill out applications and send resumes out to companies," she said.
Lawmakers reached a deal this month to extend unemployment benefits, but lost in that story are the jobless Americans like Theresa, who don't even qualify for this help anymore. Benefits expire at 99 weeks but job but a job doesn't magically appear. By their own accounts and activists vying on their behalf, in this economy these jobless Americans no longer count. They fall into the shadows and out of even statistical surveys when for many their phones are cut off.
"Once you stop claiming benefits you go into the ether and," lamented Kian Frederick, who is unemployed and the director of Flashmobs4jobs.org. People can guess and people a lot smarter than me put a lot of time in to it and with all respect to that work, [the long-term unemployed] are not counted and no one can say that they are"
But they are a struggling arguably the most to get by.They are people like 61-year-old Gavrielle Gemma, a laid off veterinary nurse who also has been unemployed for more than two years. Like a record one in seven Americans, to eat she now relies food stamps. "It's very hard the truth of the matter is there's really nothing out there," she said.
Despite the financial hardship so many are facing, these will be happy holidays for some. Wall Street banks for one. The lavish Christmas decor is just the tip of the iceberg. Big banks like this are on track to post their second largest profits this year ever recorded, second only to last year. And even still, the average banker bonus may come out higher.
That means the average year-end bonus would exceed last year’s of more than $124,000 a person. But if banks earned this money, what's so wrong with that? "Many of the banks that are doing well are only doing well because the public bailed them out," said Danny Schechter, filmmaker and blogger. So what we're seeing is a transfer of wealth in a way from the needy to the greedy"
As unemployment soars, American companies have posted their largest corporate profits ever recorded in US history last quarter. And while the rich may flock to the glitz of New York’s 5th avenue for holiday shopping to spend those record earnings, in the shadows are those struggling to see a little light at the end of the tunnel. "We've been cutoff and practically ignored by almost everyone the people in our government and the people in the media," said Theresa.
Economist Max Fraad Wolff says “because so many people are without a job that it is very hard for people that do have job to defend their wages and benefit package. This means the social division between profits and wages has tilted further towards profit.”
They’re looking for any hope despite a system they see sympathetic to business and banks, but stacked against them. "We live in a society where we don't count," Gavrielle said. "This is really Marie Antoinette at the balls while the French people starved and it's no different."And they’re fighting in that society to have holidays that count as anything resembling happy.
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Worst thing we ever did was bail out these banksters.
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Worst thing we ever did was bail out these banksters.
Agreed, though am not American.
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Worst thing we ever did was bail out these banksters.
we had to bail them out but we should also have broken them up
the "too big to fail" banks are now bigger then they were before we bailed them out
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we had to bail them out but we should also have broken them up
the "too big to fail" banks are now bigger then they were before we bailed them out
that and a shit load more stipulations on how they spent the money that we loaned them...
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that and a shit load more stipulations on how they spent the money that we loaned them...
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You've got to be kidding...
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You've got to be kidding...
no sir, did i say something you disagree with?
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To put it simple: The Washington Post is being kept afloat by fraud.
To be sure, nobody is accusing Bob Woodward of Watergate fame of being dishonest or claiming that the newspaper's editors are taking kickbacks.
But the nature of a front page bomb on the Huffington Post leaves no-one in doubt: things are rotten.
It's hardly a secret that since quite some time back the Washington Post newspaper, once the jewel of The Washington Post Company, has become a financial liability.
Its circulation is falling, advertising revenues are drying up – most of what remains is a recognizable name and influential heroes of the past – like 67-year-old Woodward.
What few, if any, understood is how such a deeply unprofitable newspaper can afford to retain its fairly lavish lifestyle and avoid across the board staff cuts undertaken by others like The Los Angeles Times and even the Gray Lady, the NYT.
If Huff Post info is correct – and we assume they ran it past a few lawyers before making a bang – we now know how.
For details of the affair we can't but ask you to refer to the source.
For those of our readers who do not have the privilege to know the US education system intimately, we will fill in the gaps.
Public and not-for-profit universities in the US are really expensive by the standards of the rest of the world – but they are also quite choosy, difficult to get into.
A university diploma matters a lot. Recent data shows that unemployment among college graduates is roughly half of the national – 5% vs 9.8%.
That's where "for-profit universities" step in: everybody is admitted, just pay.
For-profit education has long had a very questionable reputation: massive promises, "flexible schedules" (meaning "we don't care if you are there if you pay on time"), high fees, impossible to leave without paying in full – the list goes on
Yet this doesn't seem to stop many. Three million Americans are getting their diplomas in "for-profit" universities, up from one million ten years ago. Hey, "Attending Class While In Your Pajamas? It's Possible With Colleges That Offer Online Degrees " – or so they say in their ads.
There are also stories of crafty accounting practices that make it legal for tuition payments to be received directly from federal sources, confusing billing etc.
High fees in America means high fees – tens, sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars spent in credit – hence "student loans" that burden young people for decades, until they are oh-not-so-young at all any longer.
So, what's new? What did Huffington Post uncover?
Well, the new and fairly scandalous lies in the fact that Kaplan Higher Education, the for-profit education division of The Washington Post Company made billions of dollars in recent years by aggressively advertising and touting its connection to The WaPo (newspaper), that "stalwart of objectivity and solidity".
In effect, no matter how unprofitable and unpopular the paper is, there's a nearly bottomless well of money from Kaplan tuition fees to cover it.
The Washington Post (newspaper) lost over 100 million dollars last year. The question is, for how long will hundreds of thousands of people paying for their education to the WP (company) feel comfortable bankrolling a sinking enterprise with their own money?
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catering to far left kooks never works out.
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And that's why they got you by the balls, because you keep insisting on looking at it from a left vs. right point of view.
Move on.
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And that's why they got you by the balls, because you keep insisting on looking at it from a left vs. right point of view.
Move on.
no , im just saying - their editorial page turns off potential millions of customers.
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The collapse of Empires is nothing new. They come and go, as any student of history can see. In ancient times, we can read of the decadence of the Roman Empire, which brought about its collapse. In more recent times, the older among us in Great Britain have witnessed the collapse of the British Empire, which included one quarter of the population of the world.
Although that Empire crumbled away from 1945 on, as colony after colony became independent, in reality its real downfall had already begun in 1917. It was in that year that Great Britain went bankrupt as a result of the Great European War that had been started in 1914, largely by the megalomaniac Kaiser and international armament manufacturers. Thus, in 1917 Great Britain had been forced to borrow money from financiers in order to continue the war, making political compromises to do so (1). 1917 and not 1914 marked the real turning-point in world history in other ways too. It was after all in 1917 that the Russian Revolution, financed from New York, took place and within a few weeks the USA had entered the European War. As a result there began what many call ‘the American Century’, nearly a hundred years of US dominance of the world, as Western Europe entered not only into its first suicide pact of 1914-1918, but also its second, from 1939-1945.
However, the collapse of the British Empire since 1945 and at more or less the same time that of other Western European Empires, like the French, the Belgian and the Portuguese, is not the most recent collapse of Empire that we have witnessed. In some ways the collapse of the Soviet Empire, from 1989 onwards, was even more dramatic. Embroiled in a pointless, imperialistic war started in Afghanistan by a senile leader, the Soviet Empire had gone bankrupt and so lost its colonies. Like the collapse of the British and other Western European Empires, the Soviet collapse also echoed the collapse of the decadent Roman Empire, which has always provided an imperial model for Imperialism.
For the bankruptcy of the Soviet Empire, like that of the British and Roman and all other Empires, was not only financial, but also spiritual and therefore moral (for spirituality is the source of morality). Almighty God allows empires because they do more good than harm. However, there always comes a decadent phase, when they begin to do more harm than good. And thus they are allowed to fall. Such was the case of the British Empire, which went from noble, even Evangelical, aims and fell all too often to base commercial greed, in its opium wars in China, its concentration camps in South Africa and in its immoral colonial class in East Africa, India and the Caribbean.
The spiritual bankruptcy of the Soviet Empire became apparent to me in 1976. Then, visiting the Soviet Empire, I saw how nobody believed in Communism. I saw how the country was ruled by cynicism and inertia. Already then the ‘Communists’ clearly did not believe in their own ideology, but were a Mafia simply out to line their pockets, boredly clapping Communist gerontocrats, who themselves did not believe in their system. Little wonder that at that time the writer Solzhenitsyn called for people there to stop living the lie (‘zhit’ ne po lzhi’). He knew that once people started living for the truth, then the whole system would collapse. That is precisely the process that began after 1985. At that time the Party no longer ruled, even in name, the Empire was simply ruled by a Mafia, an Establishment kleptocracy (‘nomenklatura’ in Sovietspeak). Fortunately, since the year 2000, that criminal class has largely been eliminated and some of them now live in exile in London (where they are sheltered by the British government) and Russia has revived.
However, it has become clear that this is not the last collapse of an Empire which we are to witness. For we are now witnessing the collapse of the American Empire. This is the very Empire, whose rise began ninety years ago. It seems that although the American Empire has outlasted the Soviet Empire, it is to last less long than any of the Western European Empires, let alone the Roman Empire. Although it began in 1917, its golden age was to be in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Then, surely, it did more good than harm and the generosity of its people became legendary and is still warmly appreciated.
However, already in the 1960s and 1970s, its power had peaked and decadence was becoming visible. Thus, it lost the Vietnam War, because, supporting a corrupt and unpopular regime, it lost the moral high ground, even against the Communist enemy. Already in the 1970s, the same Solzhenitsyn warned the Western world of its moral bankruptcy and was disbelieved. Today, the USA, supported to some extent, or at least not actively resisted, by a spineless and venal Western Europe, has started wars against Serbia, Afghanistan and Iraq, and may even want to start a war in Iran. These are all wars which it cannot win and indeed wars which it is already clearly losing. Baghdad, which means ‘God-given’, has indeed become a graveyard for poor and unknowing American soldiers, sent to die by a government for invisible ‘weapons of mass destruction’
Not only does the American Empire, led at best by incompetence, at worst by greed and lies, suffer bankrupting, unwinnable and terrorizing wars, which are begun out of hubris (the illusion of self-satisfied pride). It also has a national debt of several trillions of dollars, which is supported largely, but temporarily, by China’s purchase of US government debt. Now with its illusory debt-financed boom over, the US is plunging into a crisis, as its housing bubble has burst and it faces soaring oil prices. With a dumbed down public education system, at its worst capable of turning out some of the most ill-educated and ill-behaved children in the world (not unlike the system in the UK), with a health system intent on profit and not health, with a non-existent public transport system, with a throwaway culture of unparalleled wastefulness, with an obesity crisis without precedent in human history, with a dollar so weak that American corporations are asking to be paid in euros, there are those who wonder how much longer the American Empire can continue. And this is no time for Western European countries to gloat. Having passively, or actively bought into the illusory ‘American dream’ for so long, they too will have to help pay the cost of the real American nightmare. Western Europe is dragged down by the measure of its own compromises with the ideology of pride, that is imaginary superiority.
THE REBALANCING OF THE WORLD
Some love to despair and are already preparing for the end of the world. But this is an exaggeration. The American Empire will not collapse overnight; nor will Western Europe be dragged down very suddenly. This process is taking years, not a few days. And the collapse of the American Empire is not necessarily the end of the world, simply the end of a world. It can be positive, not negative. Just like climate change, all this is happening in order for our age to become an opportunity to overcome the excesses of the past, an opportunity to repent, to change of way of life, an opportunity to rebalance the world.
Moreover, there is now emerging an alternative to the end of this Western dream world – and this is in Russia. Although Western right-wingers, who secretly loved the Cold War, at present rant about ‘the revival of the Soviet Empire’ under Vladimir Putin, this is absurd. In Russia there is indeed a revival, but it is a revival of the Russian Empire, not of the Soviet Empire, which is long dead. Indeed, it could be argued that the Soviet Empire died as long ago as 1943, when 25 years after Lenin had ordered the massacre of the Russian Imperial Family, Stalin realized that the war against Germany was winnable only with the support of the Russian Orthodox Church, not only not a Soviet institution, but indeed the direct opposite of a Soviet institution. And that war was indeed won by the Russian, and not Soviet, Empire, for Stalin’s crass military ineptitude would have lost it.
Russia visited the Communist ideology and found it catastrophically lacking. And the Communist materialist ideology, imported into Russia mainly by those who had sadly lost their faith, is only Western materialist liberalism carried to its ultimate extreme. Therefore, as Russia discovered during its Mafia rule by Westernizers in the 1990s, Western liberalism is no alternative to Communism – it is as bankrupt as Communism, because it is only a variation of Communism. It was for this reason that in the year 2000, inside Russia, the Russian Orthodox Church, the bearer of the conscience of all the East Slav peoples, was at last freed to glorify as saints of God the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Communist Yoke, including the Imperial Martyrs. Thus began a new era, which also set Russia on a collision course with the Western world and the intolerance of its anti-Christian political correctness. This is the one-dimensional, secularist ideology of the Western right to be immoral and to justify its immorality.
In this way Russia and all the other East Slav peoples, together called Rus, have returned to their roots, Orthodoxy. We have no other ideology, no other belief. With Communism as dead as Western liberalism, the Russian Orthodox Church, with its 187 bishops, with its sister-Churches around the world in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia and in Japan, in Serbia, Poland and Czechoslovakia, increasingly in Bulgaria, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Greece and Cyprus, is now laying the foundation of the new Russia, the new world. And the fact is that this new Russia has a popularity in China, in Iran and in the Middle East, whose conflict only Russian diplomacy can defuse and resolve with a justice and authority that no other nation on earth now possesses.
The Soviet Empire fell, but the Russian Empire is rising in its place. Even the most deluded are beginning to understand that the Soviet Empire was not only the gravest of errors, the most tragic episode of usurpation, the most catastrophic erring from Russia’s historic path and destiny, but also that Russia is now returning to normality and its rightful place on the world stage. It is time for those who have erred in turn, those who have acted against the Russian Church, who have sought the favour of the powers that be, out of weakness of soul, against the principles and integrity of the Orthodox Faith, to return also, whether in parts of the United States, in Paris, in Istanbul, or elsewhere, to their destiny and rightful role.
Over sixty years ago one of the greatest Russian saints, St Seraphim of Vyritsa (1866-1949), prophesied that: ‘A time will come when there will be a spiritual flowering in Russia. Many churches and monasteries will open, even those of other faiths will come to us in ships to be baptized’. I have long thought that the time will come when we in the West will be forbidden to baptize. Here is the prophecy that confirms the thought. It might be well to ask for a Russian passport now…
Priest Andrew Phillips
Written on 15/28 November 2007, as the Kursk Root Icon departs from Felixstowe to Munich, where, in the ROCOR Cathedral, His Holiness Patriarch Alexis II celebrates before Her, together with their Eminences Archbishop Mark and Bishop Agapit.
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1) Ever since 1917, the ascendancy and power of international finance has been paramount in Great Britain. This is perhaps especially the case today under the fin de règne Big Brother Scottish Calvinist dictatorship of Blair and Brown. For this is when, with the Labour government financed and organized by Peter Mandelson, Lord Levy, David Abrahams and Jon Mendelsohn, to name but a few, this power is especially apparent. Little wonder that Mr Blair of the ‘Labour Friends of Israel’, has been given the task of ‘Middle East peace envoy’. As one commentator has remarked, this is similar to ‘making Hitler chief rabbi’.
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Moreover, there is now emerging an alternative to the end of this Western dream world – and this is in Russia.
The best sentence in an article!
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Americans are cocky! ::)
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Meanwhile in Russia
Russian Military Reform
The publicly stated goal of the reform is to create a compact army of constant readiness, designed mainly to fight local and regional conflicts. At the same time, Russia will maintain its strategic nuclear forces as a safeguard in the event of a "big war." The country's nuclear capability should guarantee the possibility of inflicting unacceptable damage on any aggressor or coalition of aggressors.
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How can Americans possibly compete in the global markets when...we've had to dumb down all our academic standards to allow minority students a chance to graduate. Our 10th grade curriculum is probably like India's third grade. Can you imagine a nation that holds back it's best and brightest to accommodate the laziest, dumbest segments of their society ? Well, that's exactly what America has done. And guess what? Even with the absurdly low standards, there is still a 50% dropout rate among blacks. When you equate studying with "Acting white", there is no hope for them. This whole experiment of mixing cultures and pretending everyone has the same abilities and goals has been an utter failure. Yes, America is f..cked. What's funny is the very people who promote mass multiculturism and 3rd world immigration to America..basically forbid it in their own state. Look at Israel. Those in the know understand that it's all part of the divide and conquer strategy they've used for years to gain dominance over a country...like the USA. Look who controls our financial system, our media, our foreign policy..etc...
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How can Americans possibly compete in the global markets when...we've had to dumb down all our academic standards to allow minority students a chance to graduate. Our 10th grade curriculum is probably like India's third grade. Can you imagine a nation that holds back it's best and brightest to accommodate the laziest, dumbest segments of their society ? Well, that's exactly what America has done. And guess what? Even with the absurdly low standards, there is still a 50% dropout rate among blacks. When you equate studying with "Acting white", there is no hope for them. This whole experiment of mixing cultures and pretending everyone has the same abilities and goals has been an utter failure. Yes, America is f..cked. What's funny is the very people who promote mass multiculturism and 3rd world immigration to America..basically forbid it in their own state. Look at Israel. Those in the know understand that it's all part of the divide and conquer strategy they've used for years to gain dominance over a country...like the USA. Look who controls our financial system, our media, our foreign policy..etc...
How do you explain Canada?
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America spends as much as every other country combined on their defense, yet the American people continue to suffer without jobs and hope. With Wall Street receiving record bonuses, what can be done?
It is the time of year when millions of Americans are celebrating the holiday season with their families. However, many of them are doing so without a job and as unemployment continues to rise, it does not look like the New Year will be met with much optimism.
Many Americans fear a double dip recession due to the amount of unemployment coupled with falling housing prices that make for a weak economy. On the flip side, there are many Americans who are doing very well for themselves and in the process are earning record profits and will live in luxury this holiday season.
Wall Street tycoons, who received billions in a taxpayer bailout that pulled them out of bankruptcy, are experiencing historic profits and shelling out ridiculous bonuses. Many in the media were playing up the fear of allowing the banks to fail and creating a mindset that what is good for Wall Street will be good for the rest of America.
But Professor and Economist Michael Hudson disagrees. He says, “This poverty and this crisis is not built into the universe, it doesn’t have to be this way but it’s that way because the press and the media are not telling people that there is another alternative, put main street before Wall Street, it seems simple enough”.
America has continued to bail out banks and invest in the military instead of its own people. In fact, the US government invests more money in the armed forces than all of the countries in the world combined. The country is being dominated by a war machine that is spending at all time highs and continues to go unquestioned.
Michael Hudson adds “All of the public opinion polls say that people would rather spend on social security, pensions and infrastructure than on more defense spending. Yet the politicians follow what the campaign contributors say and both the defense industry and Wall Street say give money to military spending. The job of the politician today is to deliver their constituency to their campaign contributors.”
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A recent report shows the Obama Administration is trying to figure out a way to get the word out about a possible nuclear attack.
In addition to debt, Americans must also worry about things like war in multiple countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan. They must also be wary of terrorist attacks here in their own backyard and now, it turns out that US government officials are trying to add another fear to the list.
A recent report shows the Obama Administration is trying to figure out a way to get the word out about a possible nuclear attack. The US has released a 130 page report called “Planning Guidance for Response to a Nuclear Detonation”, it is about what the United States and its citizens should do in case a nuclear bomb went off at home. The report contains similar language to what was used during the height of the Cold War in the 1950’s when the U.S. was on high alert over fear of a nuclear attack.
Ira Chernus, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder says, “It reminded me very much of the kind of literature that was produced during the Cold War, especially during the Eisenhower era that I studied very closely. Then as now, it all seems very irrational, very Kafka-esque, an Alice in Wonderland type of approach. They try to make it all sound very reasonable but when you actually take a closer look it doesn’t make any sense.”
There is however great news if you are a rich white man that comes out of the report; you’ve got a pretty good chance of surviving a terrorist’s nuclear blast! Women, ethnic minorities and lower socioeconomic classes are more likely to be “stricken by psychiatric disorders,” and once they start going crazy they’re less likely to survive.
Ira Chernus adds, “The report briefly claims rich white man are the least likely to be psychologically effected, it doesn’t explain where it got this information. Then it goes on to give these elaborate plans for first responders to enter into the ‘moderate destruction zone’, a half mile to a mile from ground zero. Then it makes it clear that they would not be able to get there, so all the plans it lays out are useless.”
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Meanwhile in Russia
Russia's Almaz-Antei conglomerate will receive a government loan to build two new production facilities to expand the export of missile defense systems, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Wednesday.
The conglomerate's core products are the S-300 and S-400 missile defense systems, most of which are procured by the Russian military, he said, adding that exports were limited.
"However, these goods, to so speak, are in great demand on the international market," he noted.
The S-300PS Grumble model entered service with the Russian Armed Forces in 1985. It has an effective range of 90 kilometers (56 miles).
The S-400 Triumf (SA-21 Growler) is designed to engage airborne targets at distances of up to 400 kilometers (250 miles), double the range of the U.S. MIM-104 Patriot.
Russia currently has three S-400 battalions.
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How do you explain Canada?
I'll explain!
Canada sucks!
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Meanwhile, Russia's "legitimate" justice system just managed to tack on another 6 years to Khadorovsky's sentence because he had the audacity to criticize the God-King Putin. And then Russians wonder why their country is a third-world dump. ::)
I wonder how many billions Putin has managed to fleece Russia out of. Rumor has it that he has at least $1 billion hidden away.
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This guy is a fucking retard. The S400's were used to defend Syrian nuclear development sites. They've been deployed in Iran as well. These are the same sites that the Israeli's kicked the shit out of 2 years ago. The only reason anybody in Syria knew they had been hit by aircraft was that the IDF pilots lit off their radar's on the way out...sending a big fuck you to Syria and your vaunted Russian junk.
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This guy is a fucking retard. The S400's were used to defend Syrian nuclear development sites. They've been deployed in Iran as well. These are the same sites that the Israeli's kicked the shit out of 2 years ago. The only reason anybody in Syria knew they had been hit by aircraft was that the IDF pilots lit off their radar's on the way out...sending a big fuck you to Syria and your vaunted Russian junk.
Why did you continue after the 1'st sentence! Fucking retard requires no explanation! Let me tell from my side and you can speak to your countrymen from your side! Ok you fucking retard?
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Why did you continue after the 1'st sentence! Fucking retard requires no explanation! Let me tell from my side and you can speak to your countrymen from your side! Ok you fucking retard?
there arent any of your country men here on this board comrade so FUCK OFF!!!! you troll
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This guy is a fucking retard. The S400's were used to defend Syrian nuclear development sites. They've been deployed in Iran as well. These are the same sites that the Israeli's kicked the shit out of 2 years ago. The only reason anybody in Syria knew they had been hit by aircraft was that the IDF pilots lit off their radar's on the way out...sending a big fuck you to Syria and your vaunted Russian junk.
LOL
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there arent any of your country men here on this board comrade so FUCK OFF!!!! you troll
You can ban me! Free county - free will!!!
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You can ban me! Free county - free will!!!
keep trolling the way you are and im sure you will be ;)
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This guy is a fucking retard. The S400's were used to defend Syrian nuclear development sites. They've been deployed in Iran as well. These are the same sites that the Israeli's kicked the shit out of 2 years ago. The only reason anybody in Syria knew they had been hit by aircraft was that the IDF pilots lit off their radar's on the way out...sending a big fuck you to Syria and your vaunted Russian junk.
The Jews know how to get shit done over there.
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The Jews know how to get shit done over there.
thats a pretty, pretty big eye ;D
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Yeah, I have thing for IDF Chicks. My GF is Jewish and thinks I have a fetish for tough chicks who can kick ass.
I can't disagree.
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Why did you continue after the 1'st sentence! Fucking retard requires no explanation! Let me tell from my side and you can speak to your countrymen from your side! Ok you fucking retard?
Look jackass...every post is wrong. U post Utube video's of Russian junk....paste crap about the collapse of America while while your shitbag nation crumbles farther into a criminal hole. Its way to bad the Germans didn't kill more of you bastards, it could have saved us all alot of time and money.
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Look jackass...every post is wrong. U post Utube video's of Russian junk....paste crap about the collapse of America while while your shitbag nation crumbles farther into a criminal hole. Its way to bad the Germans didn't kill more of you bastards, it could have saved us all alot of time and money.
Another thing Patton was proven right on. They should have listened to him.
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This guy is a fucking retard. The S400's were used to defend Syrian nuclear development sites. They've been deployed in Iran as well. These are the same sites that the Israeli's kicked the shit out of 2 years ago. The only reason anybody in Syria knew they had been hit by aircraft was that the IDF pilots lit off their radar's on the way out...sending a big fuck you to Syria and your vaunted Russian junk.
LOL!
How embarrassing. The Russians probably marketed that shit as being able to stop any tech until 2050. ::)
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His posts don't make sense and he does give any attribution at all. Keep posting that crap and I'm going to keep smacking it down. Nobody likes Russians. Maybe hot Russian hookers....thats about all you idiots are good for.
The best part about the s400 was that the Iranians had just bought it before the attack.
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His posts don't make sense and he does give any attribution at all. Keep posting that crap and I'm going to keep smacking it down. Nobody likes Russians. Maybe hot Russian hookers....thats about all you idiots are good for.
The best part about the s400 was that the Iranians had just bought it before the attack.
;D ;D
GLAD TO SEE YOU BACK!
Di you see my thread w R. Lee Ermey?
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Yup..yeah I'm back. You guys did great. I've got about 20 months and its back to Afghanistan for number 4.
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Damn. Be safe bro.
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Headhuntersix, you american have broken English. I will break you neck on both soils, yours and mine. I don't like you Americana who can't speak proper English.
American junk!
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commentaries
when I was little, I always sayd, F-22 is a big shit, but nobody believed ...
how F-22 want try to fight against Russian jet? i studied about technology and aerodynamics, F-22 NEVER can beat the SU-27!, but Russia now created the Su-30... Su-33... Su-35 (impossible for F-22) and more, Su-37, total out of range for usa, and the Su-47 that wings with total performance, now the Russia have the T-50
I always wondered why they show F-22s flying ONLY in sunny days
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Ok dude.....we saw your military preform in Georgia. It took you days to bomb single targets. Your pilots don't train, your aircraft have poor quality control once they go into production. Ive seen the piles of Russian junk all over the Middle East. Keep trying bud
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Ok dude.....we saw your military preform in Georgia. It took you days to bomb single targets. Your pilots don't train, your aircraft have poor quality control once they go into production. Ive seen the piles of Russian junk all over the Middle East. Keep trying bud
Russian junk in the hands of monkeys who can't perform? Didn't you know that the export variant of Russian military is about about 10 % that is capable of that we leave for ourselves? Just show me your nose on my soil and I will rip it off, you yankee. Happy new year 2011!
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Was it monkeys flying that bullshit in Georgia.....you guys suck, u have numbers....or did. Your soldiers are drunk barbarians with poor training and equipment.
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Your soldiers are drunk barbarians
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Russian soldiers are pussies. In every war Russia has been in your government got them liquored up before battles because they're incompetent and only good for cannon fodder.
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Russian soldiers are pussies. In every war Russia has been in your government got them liquored up before battles because they're incompetent and only good for cannon fodder.
You’ll take my life but I’ll take yours too
You’ll fire you musket but I’ll run you through
So when your waiting for the next attack
You’d better stand there’s no turning back
The bugle sounds as the charge begins
But on this battlefield no one wins
The smell of acrid smoke and horses breath
As you plunge into a certain death
The horse he sweats with fear we break to run
The mighty roar of the russian guns
And as we race towards the human wall
The screams of pain as my comrades fall
We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground
And the russians fire another round
We get so near yet so far away
We won’t live to fight another day
We get so close near enough to fight
When a russian gets me in his sights
He pulls the trigger and I feel the blow
A burst of rounds take my horse below
And as I lay there gazing at the sky
My body’s numb and my throat is dry
And as I lay forgotten and alone
Without a tear I draw my parting groan
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The Trooper!!!!!
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The Trooper!!!!!
Iron Maiden!
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The Crimean war...thats all you have. Luckily we won't be armed with mini's and horses. Sorry dude, Utube video's aren't going to do it. I was with your mob in Kosovo. They drank alot and screwed off.
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The Crimean war...thats all you have. Luckily we won't be armed with mini's and horses. Sorry dude, Utube video's aren't going to do it. I was with your mob in Kosovo. They drank alot and screwed off.
Why do you sorry dude? I'll screw your head off whatever, it's just a matter of honor for me to screw the head off of the Yankee! :P
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Meanwhile in Russia
The Russian Air Force will receive up to 100 Sukhoi fighter jets by 2015, the Defense Ministry spokesman said on Sunday.
Three state contracts with the Sukhoi design bureau on the supply of the jets have been already signed, Vladimir Drik said.
Fifty advanced Su-35 Flanker-E multirole fighters, billed as "4++ generation using fifth-generation technology," more than ten advanced Su-27SM Flanker multirole jets and five Su-30M2 Flanker-C multirole fighters are among the aircraft to be supplied.
The Russian Air Force will also receive twenty-five new Su-34 Fullback fighter-bombers in the next few years, the spokesman said.
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Congrats, your quality control still sucks and your pilots can't fly.
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Congrats, your quality control still sucks and your pilots can't fly.
There are great Americans on the forum who keep their mouth shut (Ozmo, 333366, Hugo Chaves etc) and do their business, whereas you quite the opposite trying to mess with the Russian! You're lucky I can't reach you!
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Yeah...I'm sooooooo lucky. Your a piece of shit....I'm not going to watch your bullshit video's either. I saw and read exactly how your pilots and military performed while in Georgia, underwhelming to say the least. Trying to mess with the Russian...ahhaah ur a laugh douchbag.
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Yeah...I'm sooooooo lucky. Your a piece of shit....I'm not going to watch your bullshit video's either. I saw and read exactly how your pilots and military performed while in Georgia, underwhelming to say the least. Trying to mess with the Russian...ahhaah ur a laugh douchbag.
You wouldn't be messing with the Russians, that's for sure!
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Meanwhile in Russia
Russia's Defense Ministry plans to start procuring Ka-52 Alligator helicopters for the national Air Force in 2011, ministry's official spokesman Col. Vladimir Drik said on Sunday.
The Ka-52 is a modification of the basic Ka-50 Hokum model, it is armed with 30-mm cannon, Vikhr (Whirlwind) laser guided missiles, rockets, including S-24s, as well as bombs. The helicopter is also equipped with two radars, one for ground and one for aerial targets and a Samshite nighttime-daytime thermal sighting system.
The development of the Ka-52 started in 1994 in Russia, but its serial production began only in 2008.
Earlier in the day Drik said that the Russian Air Force would receive up to 100 Sukhoi fighter jets by 2015 as well as twenty-five new Su-34 Fullback fighter-bombers in the next few years.
Deputy Air Force commander Lt. Gen. Igor Sadofyev pledged in late 2010 that the Russian Air Force will procure over 1,500 new aircraft and significantly increase the number of high-precision weapons in its arsenal by 2020.
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Best two things to come from Russia are Ovechkin and Malkin
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When is the last time Russia has really won a war without the US and western europe saving its collective ass?
WITHOUT 70-1 advantages, that is.
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When is the last time Russia has really won a war without the US and western europe saving its collective ass?
WITHOUT 70-1 advantages, that is.
Lol Should I even reply to this? lol 333386 is a good guy, he would have been welcome here.
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So the answer is 'never' then?
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When is the last time Russia has really won a war without the US and western europe saving its collective ass?
WITHOUT 70-1 advantages, that is.
They kicked butt in the Russian Civil War of 1917.
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Throw off pain killers, anti depressants, whatever pills, let;'s drink Vodka! 8)
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American rocker Scott Huminski from the group Scott X and the Constitution Commandos take on ‘corrupt and criminal acts’ of the US government with their fourth music video release; “Police State USA”.
These American musicians are fed up with government crimes and oppression and have released a seven song rock music album to express their views. Huminski claimed to be a victim of government oppression, including being banished from all US courthouses, targeted with wrongful criminal prosecutions, free speech violations, double jeopardy violations and other acts.
Failed by the legal system, Huminski decided to take his voice to the masses, uploading his music videos to YouTube.
Huminski said his music is a tool to tell others what he sees and experiences from his own involvement with government oppression.
“I’ve been dealing with the police state tactics for about a decade or more. I went through the court system of years and years, but found that the courts are in collusion with the prosecutors and police in many cases,” he said. “As a last resort I just said, well, I’m going another route and am going to take this to YouTube, the Internet.”
Huminski said he wanted his music to target the police state that had targeted him for so many years.
“My music is a response to the government’s conduct,” he explained. “Basically you have nothing in the power of the government with all their guns, police, military, they can bankrupt you, ruin their family. It can just about destroy you even without sending you to prison. They can destroy you with various techniques.”
Through the Internet and YouTube, Huminski is able to speak to the world without censorship. The platform gives him a space for free speech to attack the actions of the government.
Decades ago activism was rooted in free speech and music, bringing to light issues ranging from peace and freedom to the war on drugs, but today it is more about making money.
“A lot of the people who are paying music are at the age bracket where they haven’t seen some of the conduct and oppression that comes about from this police state that’s now in existence; it’s not in any of their songs. They’re seeking about teenage love, cars, whatever,” said Huminski.
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In my country this guy will be ignored, in your's he'd get wacked. Police State...please!
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I'm reading Tom Clancy's latest novel and a major part of the plot revolves around the incompetency of Russians with regards to everything they've ever been involved in.
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“The United States is spending itself into oblivion” – US conservative leader
The new 112th Congress was sworn in on Wednesday in Washington, with John Boehner taking over as the speaker of the House of Representatives.
A large number of House seats switched over to the Republican column after the party swept to power in November's midterm elections.
But despite the GOP’s newly acquired power, Wes Benedict, executive director of the Libertarian National Committee, said he does not expect that the Republicans will be able to make good on their promises.
“As a Libertarian I would like to see vastly reduced spending and taxes, but I don’t think Republicans are going to deliver that,” he said. “But if you look at the worst policies that Congress has delivered, most of them have been bipartisan for many years: the bailouts of the banks, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the deficit spending. A lot of healthcare programs were supported by both Republicans and Democrats.”
The party has vowed to open a legislative battle with President Barack Obama over the size of government and how much it spends.
“The alternative is to get serious about cutting military spending, to get serious about cutting entitlements like medical care and Social Security,” Benedict said.
“There was a bipartisan committee which made recommendations that would actually cut spending, but I don’t think the Republicans have the courage to implement those things,” he added.
Republicans have put up concerted opposition to the president in recent months, stalling the ratification of a key arms reduction treaty with Russia. Some experts are saying that the recently elected Republican majority in the House put the new START treaty with Russia in jeopardy.
Benedict believes that the Republicans might try to make noise about the issue in order to gain concessions on other legislative priorities.
“I would like to have peaceful relations with Russia, and all the other countries of the world,” he said. “I can’t say I endorse that treaty exactly, but if it results in peace throughout the world and less military spending by the United States and by Russia, I think it will be a great thing.”
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Big Apple rots in huge mountains of trash
While the average American is said to produce about 50 tons of garbage in their lifetime, New York City accumulated an estimated 50,000 tons of trash in just one week as an echo of a snowstorm.
While the world marks the New Year, marking New York are mountains of decaying garbage; striking a huge blow to the city’s traditionally glamorous image.
“You are standing next to a pile of garbage taller than yourself. How does that make you feel?” Pizda asked one young New Yorker. “It’s a pretty impressive pile of garbage,” he said.
But many New Yorkers have not been taking the situation as lightly.
“You can’t even cross the street with your baby carriage, or older people cannot even walk. It’s a disgrace,” said one woman.
Anthony is a mailman, and his job takes twice the time these days. Sadly he note his salary has not doubled.
“It makes my work very, very hard. They are blocking the relay box so I have to do double work,” explained the mailman.
In one instance, however, the mounds of garbage prevented a tragedy, as one New Yorker’s suicide attempt proved unsuccessful this weekend, when a jump out of the window did not turn fatal due to an unexpected soft landing into piles of refuse – one of thousands filling many of the almost 6,000 miles of New York City streets.
“Just because we are in a financial recession, shouldn’t mean that we are in a moral recession,” said Manhattan attorney Aymen Aboushi.
But a moral recession is exactly what the trash invasion has turned the Big Apple into.
While some officials have given themselves a grade of “A +” for handling the situation, New Yorkers are outraged.
As an economic crisis leads to budget cuts that lead to boycotts in the Sanitation Department, that lead to all the garbage out on the street, it may be time to ask – how soon before the big juicy apple turns rotten.
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I'm reading Tom Clancy's latest novel and a major part of the plot revolves around the incompetency of Russians with regards to everything they've ever been involved in.
Russia and China don't give a shit about this fucker!
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Russia and China don't give a shit about this fucker!
It still doesn't change the fact that Russia is a shitty country.
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The worst genocides of the 20th Century
1. Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50) 49,000,000]/b]
2. Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1932-39) 23,000,000 (the purges plus Ukraine's famine)
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It still doesn't change the fact that Russia is a shitty country.
I'll spread this message allover Russian forums, you think anybody would care?
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Doubt it as they're most likely too doped up or drunk to even understand what they're reading.
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Doubt it as they're most likely too doped up or drunk to even understand what they're reading.
haha, thats if they can even read to begin with.... ;D
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Ovechkin/Malkin are about the two best things from Russia.
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Ovechkin/Malkin are about the two best things from Russia.
The Russian ice hockey national team defeated Canadian rivals 5-3 in the annual IIHF World Cup Under-20 event after reaching the finals for the first time in eight years.
The final game started with a powerful attack of the Russians, but Canada's team captain Ryan Ellis trashed their hopes with a perfect netter at 4:50 in the opening period.
Russia's Dmitri Shikin, who was noted as one as the best goaltenders at this tournament, missed another goal some 14 seconds left in the period due to blazing efforts of Canada's Carter Ashton.
The second period was a vicious one with more attacks from the Canadian team, who eventually sealed their lead with the third goal at 6:27, scored by forward Brayden Schenn.
Russian Coach Valeri Bragin switched tired Shikin to Igor Bobkov (Magnitogorsk, London Knights) to help improve the situation in the match.
The Russian players emerged fresh and angry for the game shocking the Canadian fans in the early minutes of the third term. Artemy Panarin (forward) scored the first goal at 2:33 and in a less than 15 seconds his teammate Maxim Kitsyn (forward) scored another one to heat up the emotions in the remaining time.
With a steady and machine-like offense of the Russian young team, Vladimir Tarasenko's puck gets into the opponent's net at 47:29 and less then seven minutes later Panarin burns another one in the net.
The 19-year-old forward from Dynamo Moscow KHL club Nikita Dvurechensky finalized the 'one-period-Russian-drama' of the 2011 Championship in the United States with a final goal against the Canadians less than a minute of the match time.
The bronze medal of the 2011 World Junior Championships in Buffalo, N.Y. went to the United States after its victory over Sweden 4-2 earlier in the day.
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Team Russia have cruised to victory at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, coming from three goals down to stun archrivals Canada 5-3 in the finals.
The Canadians, who had already beaten their rivals 6-3 in the preliminaries, began the assault of the Russian goals from the very beginning of the game at the HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York.
They needed less than five minutes to grab the lead through captain Ryan Ellis, who converted the powerplay, 0-1.
And Canada managed to score again before the end of the opening period, with Carter Ashton upsetting Russian netminder Dmitry Shikin with only 14 seconds remaining on the clock, 0-2.
All the attempts of Valery Bardin’s men to return to the game in the second 20 minutes were ruined by yet another defensive mistake and a goal from Brayden Schenn, which gave the Maple Leafs a seemingly unreachable 0-3 lead.
Schenn also had one assist on the night as he finished the tournament with 18 points, being named its most valuable player.
Russian netminder Dmitry Shikin left the ice and was replaced by Igor Bobkov, who was considered the team’s number one before the tournament, but then lost his place in goal.
“Dima just got a little tired, both emotionally and physically. He played the entire tournament at the highest level. We did a lot of thinking concerning who to put in goal ahead of the final. And we decided to follow the proven path and not change our goalkeeper. Shikin isn’t to blame for any of the goals. But the team needed a shakeup,” Valery Bardin, Russia’s coach, told Sportbox.ru.
The coach’s plan worked in the third period as Bobkov made a couple of good saves sparking confidence in his partners.
The unbelievable Russian comeback started on the third minute of the final period, when they scored twice in the space of just 13 seconds.
Artemi Panarin and Maksim Kitsyn made it 2-3, and four minutes later Vladimir Tarasenko silenced the US crowd shouting for their Canadian neighbors, by leveling the score.
The Red Machine continued to press their puzzled rivals and eventually went in front in the 55th minute. It was Panarin who got his second goal of the final, 4-3.
The deal was done in the last minute of the game when Nikita Dvurechenski went on a rendezvous with Canadian goalie Mark Visentin, 5-3.
Russia scored five times in a 16 minutes and 11 seconds, converting five of their ten shots on goal in the third period, to win their first gold at Junior Worlds since 2003 and 13th title overall.
Bardin said it was faith and character that allowed his men to become the World Junior Ice Hockey Champions of 2011.
“What can one feel in such a glorious moment? I feel great pride for our country, for our guys! Even in the most difficult and seemingly hopeless moments, we believed that we could do it. We could’ve never achieved this sporting and human feat without faith,” Bradin said after the game.
The coach of the champions also revealed the words he said to his team before the third period, which turned everything upside down.
“You have to play until the end in every situation. We made three lines out of the strongest players, gathered together and said: ‘We’re going out there to beat Canada’. And that’s what we did,” he remembered.
"I never saw our coach so angry as after the first period. He pushed us hard, and we came out flying. It’s an unbelievable win and an unbelievable tournament," Artemi Panarin, the author of two goals, told IIHF official website.
The Canadian youth have lost their second final in row as they were beaten by the Americans in 2010.
"It’s hard to say what happened. We played well for two periods, then they had two quick goals. We have to give the Russians credit, they have lots of offensive skill. We were positive after two periods, we had a good spirit. We didn’t win silver, we lost gold, so it’s a brutal feeling," Mark Visentin, Canada’s keeper, commented.
Meanwhile, host – the US – grabbed the bronze medals as they topped Sweden 4-2.
American goalkeeper Jack Campbell made 34 saves, and Chris Kreider scored twice to help their team win.
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I wear an Ovechkin jersey around even though my GF is die hard Islanders Fan and my friends are all Rangers fans.
Russian Hockeyhas gotten a lot better.
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I love Russia! Don't understand America :-\
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Team Russia have cruised to victory at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, coming from three goals down to stun archrivals Canada 5-3 in the finals.
The Canadians, who had already beaten their rivals 6-3 in the preliminaries, began the assault of the Russian goals from the very beginning of the game at the HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York.
They needed less than five minutes to grab the lead through captain Ryan Ellis, who converted the powerplay, 0-1.
And Canada managed to score again before the end of the opening period, with Carter Ashton upsetting Russian netminder Dmitry Shikin with only 14 seconds remaining on the clock, 0-2.
All the attempts of Valery Bardin’s men to return to the game in the second 20 minutes were ruined by yet another defensive mistake and a goal from Brayden Schenn, which gave the Maple Leafs a seemingly unreachable 0-3 lead.
LOL You had to bring that up didn't you? Man oh man we are absolutely reeling over that in this country.
There were those who went to bed secure in the knowledge we had it in the bag, ...then Russia poured it on.
Who the heck comes from behind to score 5 goals in 20 minutes?!!! ARGHHH!
I heard the Russian team partied so much it carried over to the plane where they were promptly kicked off before the plane took flight. lol. Glad they were able to enjoy the taste of victory... our boys are understandably a lot more reserved & contemplative today. And Canadian hearts are broken from coast to coast.
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Senior Russian MP says New Start better for Russia than U.S.
The New Start agreement with the United States on strategic nuclear arms cuts favors Russia more than the now-expired START 1 deal did, a top Russian lawmaker said on Friday.
Konstantin Kosachyov, the chairman of the State Duma's International Affairs Committee, called the fact of the agreement a breakthrough, and said the U.S. Senate's ratification of the treaty had not changed anything within the document.
"Russia is once again perceived as an equal partner with whom you can and should negotiate," he said on Ekho Moskvy radio. "This is, to emphasize once again, a breakthrough, not a compromise."
"Everything else laid out in the agreement in fact represents very substantial progress, I would say in ours and not in the Americans' favor compared with the 1991 START 1 treaty that just recently passed into history," he added.
He said that the Duma, parliament's lower house, would likely consider the ratification bill on second reading on January 14. The third and final reading, he added, would probably wait until after the upper house Federation Council returned to full session on January 26.
Kosachyov said the Duma bill would state where its interpretation of New Start differed from the U.S. Senate's, but he stressed that U.S. senators had done nothing to change the text of the treaty and neither would Russian lawmakers.
"In December, a number of amendments were voted on there [in the Senate] that went to the text of the treaty itself. Fortunately, they were voted down by the Senate, common sense prevailed, and the agreement we have is in the form in which it was signed by the presidents in April last year," he said.
Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama signed the treaty in Prague on April 8, 2010. The Senate ratified the treaty on December 22. The Duma approved the agreement in its first reading on December 24.
The major areas where the Russian and U.S. views of the document differ include missile defense and the use of non-nuclear warheads on delivery systems covered by the agreement.
The treaty, which replaces the START 1 agreement that expired in December 2009, cuts the Russian and U.S. nuclear arsenals to a maximum of 1,550 nuclear warheads, down from the current ceiling of 2,200.
It also limits the number of deployed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) and heavy bombers equipped for nuclear armaments to 700.
It will come into force after ratification by both houses of the Russian parliament.
MOSCOW, January 7
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"Everything else laid out in the agreement in fact represents very substantial progress, I would say in ours and not in the Americans' favor compared with the 1991 START 1 treaty that just recently passed into history," he added.
Obama should rot in hell for what he is doin to us.
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US justice system failing
The World Justice Project released its 2010 ‘Rule of Law Index’ ranking the top 11 developed countries based on its citizens’ access to civil justice. The US ranked the lowest.
The report also found that less than one in five low income Americans get the legal assistance they need.
“Wealthier people get good lawyers, private lawyers. They get out of whatever they were accused of and the same accusation against a low income person of color will lead them to jail for lengthy periods of time,” said Medea Benjamin, an activist and co-founder of CODEPINK.
The study also looked at other factors including absence of corruption, limited government power and fundamental rights. The US ranked below seventh out of the eleven developed countries in all categories except one.
Many say the results are not surprising. Within the justice system, it’s not just low income Americans who sometimes miss out on legal services. Many argue that race plays a role too.
“In the United States, we have this terrible problem when it comes to bigotry, American bigotry, racist bigotry, class bigotry, within a system of white capitalist supremacy where we still have a large part of the population celebrating the idea that white people are superior to black people,” said lawyer Thomas Ruffin Jr.
Americans also point to the shocking stories of police brutality which have led several police departments across the country including the NYPD to shell sometimes up to $1 billion to settle some of these cases as evidence that the American justice system is broken.
“Everybody interacts with police and you’d think they’re there to serve and protect us, but you know police officers need to understand that they swore an oath to the Constitution and the number one factor they should provide in their job is constitutional protection for the citizens of this country. I think that’s been lost,” said George Hemminger, the founder of Survive and Thrive TV.
The study also found that when it comes to limited government power the United States ranks 9 out of the 11 developed countries studied. Last year the National Legal and Policy Center found that the White House might be spying on Americans on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media websites. And not too long ago, President Obama re-signed the Patriot Act that allows the government to spy on Americans and seize personal and private records in the name of homeland security.
Some Americans say that while the U.S. continues to wage wars abroad in the name of freedom and democracy, it might need to look to solve the problems within its own borders first.
“Here we are going around the world bombing and invading other countries to bring democracy to them when we really should be focusing on improving our democracy here at home,” Benjamin said.
Watch the full interview with David Swanson
Every report that ranks nations on one topic or another tends to shock many Americans when they learn the US is not always number one, said author and activist David Swanson.
“We are ,or are supposed to be, number one in everything. And yet we’re number 36 and number 49 on all of these various rankings,” said Swanson.
The report looks at the strength of the rule of law domestically within the US. It measures the nations based on its own domestic policies and freedoms, as opposed to foreign policy.
“This whole idea that ‘they’ hate us for our freedoms is especially absurd because our freedoms don’t actually rank very high,” he added.
However, there is little public outrage.
“It comes and goes depending on what’s on television or what’s streaming through the Internet,” Swanson said. “Most people don’t know what to be outraged about, but when people are outraged there is still no follow through, there’s no accountability.”
He explained that Americans are outraged at the conduct of major banks and financial institutions, but instead of prosecution the government bails them out of trouble.
“The United States probably ought to be considerably lower, then where it is,” he said. “I think this report actually puts a good face on it.”
Swanson argued that most Americans want a more just society and oppose an unjust system, but to oppose it they must be aware of it.
“Nations that have a good propaganda system, nations whose citizen don’t know what’s going on, are not going to object to the injustices, and a lot of this report was based on surveys of ordinary people,” Swanson said.
Brian Becker, the national coordinator for the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition in Washington, DC said the problem is the US policy priority has been the demonization and criminalization of the poor, working classes, and the young.
“They’re trying to incarcerate large numbers of people,” said Becker. “If you are a black male born in 2001 you have a one in three chance to go to prison or being in probation or parole sometime in your life. More black kids are going to prison than going to college. We need to turn the country around so that people get jobs and education, and affordable housing.”
He explained that the US has become too class polarized.
“1 percent of the population controls 40 percent of the nation’s wealth, that’s a gargantuan shift,” he said. “The rich really are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. There’s no social safety net.”
“We are turning more into a warfare state than a welfare state. That’s pronouncedly different from the model was in Europe.” Becker said.
The people in the working class neighborhoods and in the cities want to see change. They are suffering and have a desire for greater opportunity, explained Becker.
If the remainder of Americans knew of the troubles and injustices they would want change as well, he argued.
“The corporate dominated media in America stops this story from being told,” he said. “Look for it in the Washington Post or ABC or even CNN this will be a very very minor blip.”
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Homelessness hits record high in NYC
Homelessness has reached unprecedented peaks in the Big Apple, amid failed promises to reduce, and even eliminate it.
At one of New York’s homeless shelters, RT witnessed a lottery, but it was not a lottery to win some money. Dozens of people were patiently waiting to find out if they would “win” a roof over their heads for the night.
They were not criminals and they were not drunks. Their “flaw” was that they didn’t have a home. The shelter they were hoping to get into for the night was packed.
Lately, the chances of getting a bed in New York City have been slimmer than ever. Homelessness in the city has sky-rocketed by 50 per cent.
“Last year, almost 120,000 different New York City men, women and children spent at least a night in a city shelter. That’s a shocking number and the highest number that has ever been recorded,” said senior policy analyst for the Coalition for the Homeless Patrick Markee.
Keith, who became homeless in 2009 – said he is fifth on stand-by to get a bed, and he considered himself lucky. For him, this meant at least some hope, which was better than no hope at all.
“If my number doesn’t come up, I am going to be outside in the rain,” Keith explained.
Yusef Ramelize has experienced exactly what it feels like calling a wet bench in the soaking rain home, shelter, and bed.
“I put together this project where I go homeless one week every year. Most of my nights I ended up sleeping on a cardboard box in front of a store,” he said.
Posting his experience in a blog, Yusef was able to collect thousands of dollars in donations for the homeless.
“The reality is a lot of people are one check away from being homeless, and I am just trying to make people aware of that,” he said.
In a packed city like New York, homelessness is no novelty.
In New York, you can buy a coffee for almost eight dollars, while there are thousands of New Yorkers who do not even have that amount to live on each day.
The statistics are higher than they have been since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
“There are more than 37,000 homeless people, including nearly 15,000 children who are homeless each night in New York City. A nearly record number of homeless families, nearly 10,000 homeless families,” said Patrick Markee of the Coalition for the homeless.
In an apocalyptic state of the economy, many people have been hoping to be saved.
“The President, the politicians – there is something they have got to be able to do. I am willing to say that I need help, all the help I can get,” said Lani Chris, a homeless New Yorker.
As the cries for help have been stretching across the country, the US government has been sticking to the official party line, saying the economy has landed back on its feet. But if avoiding the reality continues to be the norm, homelessness could become a plague of the nation.
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LOL!!! A nation where everyone is entitled to their own home is a nation that will never reach the heights of economic power. Explains why Russia is a third world country.
Russia and the USSR
After the abolition of serfdom in Russia in 1861, major cities experienced a large influx of former peasants who sought jobs as industrial workers in rapidly developing Russian industry. These people often lived in harsh conditions, sometimes renting a room, shared between several families. There also was a large number of shelterless homeless.
Immediately after the October Revolution a special program of "compression" ("уплотнение") was enabled: people who had no shelter were settled in flats of those who had large (4,5 or 6 room) flats with only one room left to previous owners. The flat was declared state property. This led to a large number of shared flats where several families lived simultaneously. Nevertheless the problem of complete homelessness was mostly solved as anybody could apply for a room or a place in dormitory (the number of shared flats steadily decreased after large-scale residential building program was implemented starting in 1960s). By 1922 there were at least 7 million homeless children in Russia as a result of nearly a decade of devastation from World War I and the Russian Civil War.This led to the creation of a large number of orphanages. By 1930s the USSR declared the abolition of homelessness and any citizen was obliged to have a propiska – a place of permanent residency. Nobody could be stripped of propiska without substitution or refuse it without a confirmed permission (called "order") to register in another place. If someone wanted to move to another city or expand their living area, he had to find a partner who wanted to mutually exchange the flats. The right for shelter was secured in the Soviet constitution. Not having permanent residency was legally considered a crime.
There were also virtually no empty and unused apartments in the cities: any flat where nobody was registered was immediately lent by the state at symbolic price to others who needed better living conditions. If a person who had permanent registration could not pay for shelter, nobody had right to evict them, only to demand money through a court.
After the breakup of the USSR the problem of homelessness sharpened dramatically, partially because of the legal vacuum of early 1990s with some laws contradicting each other and partially because of a high rate of frauds in the realty market. In 1991 articles 198 and 209 of Russian criminal code which instituted criminal penalty for not having permanent residence were abolished. Because most flats had been privatized and many people sold their last shelter without successfully buying another, there was a sharp increase of homeless. Renting apartments from a private owner became widespread (which usually only gives temporary registration and apartment owner could evict the leaser after the contract is over, or if the money was not paid). In Moscow, the first overnight shelter for homeless was opened in 1992. In late 1990s certain amendments in law were implemented to reduce the rise in homelessness, such as prohibition of selling last flat with registered children.
Nevertheless, the state is still obliged to give permanent shelter for free to anybody who needs better living conditions or has no permanent registration, because the right to shelter is still included in the constitution. This may take many years, though. Nobody still has the right to strip a person of permanent residency without their will, even the owner of the apartment. This creates problems for banks because mortgage loans became increasingly popular. Banks obliged to provide a new, cheaper flat for a person instead of the old one if the person fails to repay the loan, or wait until all people who live in the flat are dead. Several projects of special cheap 'social' flats for those who failed to repay mortgages were proposed to facilitate mortgage market.
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LOL!!!
LOl I spotted a word - уплотнение (written in Russian!) in your article! lol That was really funny uplotnenie!!!!1
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The caption on the pic says - America is for Americans, speaks volume, Russians lol'ing
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As Russian ultra-nationalists run around Moscow and the rest of the country beating the shit out of anyone with brown skin, all with the government's backing of course. ::)
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As Russian ultra-nationalists run around Moscow and the rest of the country beating the shit out of anyone with brown skin, all with the government's backing of course. ::)
Ultra what? How did u manage to pronounce it friend???? There is a guy in my city he's about one in a million brown ( from India or Pakistan whatever ) and no body touched him! I even have drunk beer with him, that was really fun!!!! IF he says he banged 100 girls mean 1!!! That is what I learned my American stupid o ??? >:( ;) :P :-*
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Your an idiot.....
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Your an idiot.....
Sure, you'll be the last in America to realize that the US are really fucked. One can judge from your English skills!
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Dostoevsky is BORING. Tolstoy is much better even if your Russian scholars don't realize it. Must be the lack of freedom of expression combined with radiation poisoning?
Also, please tell us why you country specializes in producing people whose main contribution to the world is to steal Russia's wealth and then move to the West and wear expensive tracks suits and drive flashy cars? I have nothing against that as I'd like to do it too, but I'm just wondering why they all do it?
By the way, I love your women. Pretty hot when they're young and totally immoral. :)
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Dostoevsky is BORING. Tolstoy is much better even if your Russian scholars don't realize it. Must be the lack of freedom of expression combined with radiation poisoning?
Also, please tell us why you country specializes in producing people whose main contribution to the world is to steal Russia's wealth and then move to the West and wear expensive tracks suits and drive flashy cars? I have nothing against that as I'd like to do it too, but I'm just wondering why they all do it?
By the way, I love your women. Pretty hot when they're young and totally immoral. :)
Dostoevsky is no boring
To call Fyodor Dostoevsky a genius may indeed be an understatement. Decade after decade, his literary brilliance continues to capture the hearts and minds of millions. Because of his legacy and intense, storied commentaries on religion, philosophy, and psychology, Dostoevsky may have been one of the most important and influential writers that ever lived.
After all, it was Einstein that said: "Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss."
It is regrettable that no Dostoevsky lived near him - Nietzsche on Jesus!
Btw if I'd have met you in my city and you looked something wrong at me or you'd look suspicious something like Chinese mafia or triads you call it, then your last life experience will be a feeling the torture of the Russian mafia! You call all Russians thugs - red mafia. What the fuck we never call it red lol sounds gay lol >:(
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LOl I spotted a word - уплотнение (written in Russian!) in your article! lol That was really funny uplotnenie!!!!1
Prove that the article is wrong. You know you it's the truth.
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It's a good thing your country is so far north and the winters are so long or there would be so many more people speaking French in the world today. :) I wonder what DObbie, sorry, I mean Putin would sound like with a French accent. :)(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qCDAuLjs0SM/SrJfJ3hp4MI/AAAAAAAAADo/S6KNAr6orJY/s320/putin220103.jpg)
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It's a good thing your country is so far north and the winters are so long or there would be so many more people speaking French in the world today. :) I wonder what DObbie, sorry, I mean Putin would sound like with a French accent. :)(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qCDAuLjs0SM/SrJfJ3hp4MI/AAAAAAAAADo/S6KNAr6orJY/s320/putin220103.jpg)
French? Who the fuck cares for French??? rrrr rrrrrrrr RR!!! No body cares for French in Russia, no body don't give a damn
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French? Who the fuck cares for French??? rrrr rrrrrrrr RR!!! No body cares for French in Russia, no body don't give a damn
lol, are you seriously growlin gat me? GO read your beloved Dostoebsky or Tolstoy and you will see who cares for French. Also, since you don't seem to get insinuation, I'll spell it out. If not for the Russian winter, Napoleon would have conquered Russia, and you, my Russian peasant friend, would be speaking Francais.
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lol, are you seriously growlin gat me? GO read your beloved Dostoebsky or Tolstoy and you will see who cares for French. Also, since you don't seem to get insinuation, I'll spell it out. If not for the Russian winter, Napoleon would have conquered Russia, and you, my Russian peasant friend, would be speaking Francais.
Yeah in 100 years ago the half of Russia spoke German and French (elite!), now the half of elite speak English (+French and German), meanwhile no body don't give a damn as to how The US or Europe or China do develop, Russia is unique! We don't care for free America here!
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Yeah in 100 years ago the half of Russia spoke German and French (elite!), now the half of elite speak English (+French and German), meanwhile no body don't give a damn as to how The US or Europe or China do develop, Russia is unique! We don't care for free America here!
Yet you all clamor for American clothes, American music, American movies, American games, American TV shows and all other manner of American products.
Oh, and news flash, you're not Dostoevsky, so stop acting like you had something to do with his accomplishments, gimmick. :)
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thought he was regerring to the famous Hammer Thrower caught doping.
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Yet you all clamor for American clothes, American music, American movies, American games, American TV shows and all other manner of American products.
Oh, and news flash, you're not Dostoevsky, so stop acting like you had something to do with his accomplishments, gimmick. :)
In the old days, Russians wanted to be Germans or French. These days they want to be 50 Cent and L'il Wayne.
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lol, are you seriously growlin gat me? GO read your beloved Dostoebsky or Tolstoy and you will see who cares for French. Also, since you don't seem to get insinuation, I'll spell it out. If not for the Russian winter, Napoleon would have conquered Russia, and you, my Russian peasant friend, would be speaking Francais.
French language is all about R sound, not that I was growling at you narrow eyed fellow. English is all about the the the th th th the the the and ing ing ing ing ing ing, couch'ing, masturbat'ing, scar'ing etc etc No body can't touch Russian language!
I love Russian winter! So beautiful! No body cares for small lands like France or German or Japan, boring!
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Yet you all clamor for American clothes, American music, American movies, American games, American TV shows and all other manner of American products.
Oh, and news flash, you're not Dostoevsky, so stop acting like you had something to do with his accomplishments, gimmick. :)
American clothes? Everything made in China! American music? Yeah we have to know the enemy in face! That's why your music may do sound somewhere in the background! I don't listen to American music, I listen to Trance music from Europe. American movies? Well we make fun of all Hollywood bullshit here, yeah we watch it but make fun afterwards. American games or tv shows????? Ask Ozmo when he come back from Russia, what american games or shows are you mumbling about???
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Russian civilization forever!
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Violence ingrained in American society
On January 8th a gunman opened fire on a congresswoman, hitting her and 12 others at an event in Tucson, Arizona. The gunman killed six people, including a US federal judge and a 9-year-old child.
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and a number of others remain in serious or critical condition in a local hospital. The congresswoman was shot in the head from point blank range, but surgeons are optimistic about her recovery.
The incident has reignited the gun debate in America, with many asking whether or not the American gun crazed culture is to blame.
The US leads the world in gun ownership, with 90 guns per 100 people. Gun ownership and gun rights are one of, if not the most, talked about political issues. As a nation, the US falls far behind other developed nations in curtailing gun violence and gun related deaths. Over 30,000 Americas die annually due to gun violence and an estimated 200,000 more are injured.
David Swanson, the author of "War is a lie" said the problem is a question of American culture.
“Everything about our culture is just saturated with violence,” he said. “It’s a question of our culture loving violence.”
The ongoing war climate and continual attack nature is not a positive influence on the American psyche. Swanson explained that American policy internationally reflects downward onto American society as a whole and that in the current climate of economic disperse and inequality, the mentality of the nation is even more fragile.
“And, because we make guns so readily available the violence is more deadly. It’s an incredibly destructive state,” he explained.
Andy Worthington, a journalist and historian from the UK, explained that, as an outside observer, he and many Brits often wonder why America has yet to implement further controls on guns following a number of school shootings and other violent tragedies.
“We’re certainly looking on and going surely this time around the American people are going to say, we need to have some sort of control on this, and yet it never happens,” Worthington commented.
Blogger and filmmaker Danny Schechter noted that had congressional Republicans not allowed a ban on assault weapons to lapse in 2004 the weapon used in the attack would not have been available for purchase.
“The failure of the ban made that weapon legally available to this young man,” he said. “There are many cases like this that probably could have been prevented had we had regulations and laws in effect.”
In America access to guns is relatively easy; however the security state is keen on confiscating shampoo at security checkpoints in US airports.
Swanson explained there is an ongoing overtone of violence and Americans have become conditioned by war; all Americans are affected.
“Through the war machine we are educating people; through our criminal justice system and the death penalty we’re educating people through everything that our government does to handle problems and through everything that Hollywood movies tell us solve problems, we’re teaching people that violence is the answer, and of course, it isn’t,” he said.
However, it’s not just about eradicating guns, Worthington noted. “You can certainly start having decent and sensible people arguing for some type of control.”
Many have blamed violent and hate fueled political rhetoric for contributing to the problem. The US media, as a part of the political conversation, is keen to argue they are not a part of the problem, just a messenger.
“Clearly more can be done to educate people about these issues,” Schechter argued. “Our media in a sense does not encourage people to go out and shoot each another, but they, in a sense, do target various populations.”
He added; “They do have an impact. There have been a lot of studies about how the coarseness on TV encourages the sort of bullying that takes place in our schools and the violence in our communities. Whether it’s gangster rap or Hollywood violent movies, people tend to see, monkey see monkey do.
Swanson argued that under US law and international treaties there need to be a greater criminalization of speech that incites hostility and violence. And Worthington noted that in the US right wing media outlets often spread dangerous messages.
“It’s dangerous, it ought to be illegal,” argued Worthington.
Kevin Powell, the author of the book “Open letters to America” said Arizona alone is not the problem, Americans are the problem.
“We live in a culture that has this wild fascination and obsession with guns,” he said. “We’ve got to take a serious look at our country and do some very serious soul searching.”
However, radio host Adam Kokesh said the problem is too many people view this incident as political, when it is not. The issue at hand is one of mental health, not politics and not guns, he argued.
“Everything is political,” Powell contended.
Kokesh argued, “To make it an issue about guns or politics or any of that in the manifestation is to really take a very shallow misunderstanding look at it.”
Although mental issues are important, the mere fact guns are so easily accessible to those with mental issues is a problem and should be discussed, argued Powell.
“We need to talk about gun control,” he said. “That’s a political issue and you can’t ignore that.”
It’s not just about guns, argued Kokesh. Guns are just a mechanism. Focusing the conversation on guns loses sight of the real issues.
“He could have easily as just of gone to Wal-Mart and bought rat poisoning and poisoned a bunch of people and killed them with their food or water or some other thing. He could have gone and chocked a bunch of people one at a time,” Kokesh said.
But, he used a gun, that’s the point, argued Powell.
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Desperation: The face of the next American Revolution?
Historically, Americans have always been suspicious and even paranoid of government intrusiveness in their lives, so is the recent spate of bloodshed a normal phenomenon?
It is no coincidence that the United States has produced some of the world’s most revolutionary technologies, as well as some of the most freedom-loving individuals.
The rugged individualism that motivated self-made American entrepreneurs like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Sam Walton, for example, is the same sort of feverish individualism that fueled the philosophies of Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. The thread that links these diverse Americans together is their fierce belief in individual autonomy and enterprise without the overarching interference of a bumbling government.
Henry David Thoreau, who exemplified the simple life while living in a log cabin on Walden Pond (Concorde, Massachusetts) for two years (1845-47), summed up the opinions of many so-called rugged individuals when he wrote, “I heartily accept the motto that government is best which governs least.”
It was specifically the pioneers’ fear of tyrannical government, reinforced by their bad experiences in the Old World, which prompted the Founding Fathers to include the now famous Second Amendment to the US Constitution, which reads: “A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
In the mid-1990s, the US militia movement became rejuvenated following several bloody encounters between individuals and the government, including the Ruby Ridge incident, the Waco Siege and the threat of stricter gun laws.
Historian Mark Pitcavage summarized the motivation behind militias in the American Behavioral Scientist journal (Vol. 44, 2001):
“The militia movement is a right-wing movement that arose following controversial standoffs in the 1990s. It inherited paramilitary traditions of earlier groups, especially the conspiratorial, antigovernment Posse Comitatus. The militia movement claims that militia groups are sanctioned by law but uncontrolled by government; in fact, they are designed to oppose a tyrannical government. Adherents believe that behind the "tyranny" is a left-wing, globalist conspiracy known as the New World Order. The movement's ideology has led some adherents to commit criminal acts, including stockpiling illegal weapons and explosives and plotting to destroy buildings or assassinate public officials, as well as lesser confrontations.”
Many well-intended individuals struggled to build a “well-regulated militia,” but homegrown terrorist Timothy McVeigh singlehandedly destroyed those efforts when he blew up the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City on April 15, 1995. Today, it is an understatement to say that the militia movement has acquired a tainted reputation.
The real blow to the militia movement arrived post-9/11, when bumper-sticker patriotism was running at an all-time high and the “if you aren’t with us, you are against us” mentality gripped the nation. Suddenly, Osama bin Laden replaced the US government as Enemy Number One.
But with 9/11 quickly disappearing in America’s rearview mirror, and other more topical events – like a grinding economic crisis – getting their due share of magnification, a disturbing “sleeper” breed of “American revolutionary” has appeared on the scene. And these self-styled “revolutionaries,” as they portray themselves, work without any specific affiliation, membership or creed. Indeed, the one thing that seems to set these individuals apart from rebel rousers of the past is their “lone wolf” status.
“Take my pound of flesh”
On February 16, 2010, Andrew Joseph Stack III, a software consultant, sat down at his computer and composed a rambling, 3,204-word suicide note that detailed his painful efforts to start up a private business, only to have his plans thwarted at every turn.
In 1985, Stack, along with his first wife, incorporated Prowess Engineering. In 1994, he failed to file a state tax return, which seems to have triggered an avalanche of entrepreneurial misfortune, as well as his unbridled hatred for the government.
“Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it’s time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal
government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours,” Stack wrote, “yet, the political ‘representatives’ … have endless time to sit around for year after year and debate the state of the ‘terrible health care problem’? It’s clear they see no crisis as long as the dead people don’t get in the way of their corporate profits rolling in.” [Note: it would be fair to add here that the Democrats just successfully passed a healthcare reform package]
On the morning of February 18, Stack set fire to his $230,000 home located in Austin, Texas, then drove to the Georgetown Municipal Airport. At 9:45am, Stack took off in his single-engine Piper Dakota and 10 minutes later his plane collided full speed into the Echelon office complex in Austin, killing himself and Internal Revenue Service manager Vernon Hunter, and injuring 13 other people inside of the building, two seriously.
Despite the fact that a much larger-scale method of attack was used on 9/11 to help bring down the World Trade Center buildings, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) stated that it was investigating the Stack incident "as a criminal matter of an assault on a federal officer" and that it was not being considered terrorism at this time.
"Rothbardix”
On the evening of March 4, 2010, two weeks after Stack’s suicidal crash into the IRS building, a man named John Patrick Bedell calmly approached the entrance of the Pentagon station of the Washington DC Metro. When asked for identification at the security checkpoint, Bedell drew a weapon from his pocket and began shooting. The officers on duty, who received only superficial wounds, returned fire, killing the shooter.
Bedell, who was permitted to use marijuana for medicinal purposes, was an advocate for the legalization of marijuana (in 2006, he was arrested for growing cannabis), but he was certainly no dummy. Bedell suffered from bipolar disorder, yet graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1994 with a degree in Physics. On the Internet, he authored a blog under the name “Rothbardix,” where he articulated his opinions, many of them railing against “runaway government.”
“When the government can control how private property is used,” Bedell said in one of his many audio Web postings, “and especially when the government controls the monetary system that is used to exchange private property, the government has the mechanisms and the motivation to control individuals to the smallest detail.”
Bedell, who was a follower of the 9/11 “truth movement,” harbored suspicions that the United States government is controlled by an elite group of individuals, and in the final paragraph of his last posting he wrote, "The blatant violations of the Constitution's limitations on the economic role of the government, accomplished through many subtle usurpations over many decades, are perhaps even more pernicious than, and are certainly a key motivation for, the violent seizure of the United States government."
Bedell drove his car cross-country to Washington, DC, from California weeks before his attack, Pentagon Police Chief Richard S. Keevill said, to conduct what was essentially a suicide mission.
The FBI declined to label Bedell’s attack an act of terrorism.
From war hero to deathbed fugitive
On June 10, 2009, 88-year-old James von Brunn walked into the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC and shot security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns, who later died from his injuries. Von Brunn, a self-professed white supremacist and Holocaust denier, had a long history of run-ins with the law over his beliefs before his final act.
In 1981, he was charged with entering the Federal Reserve building and threatening people with a handgun. His complaint is one heard regularly today by high-ranking politicians, including Congressman Ron Paul, who made two unsuccessful runs for the presidency: “the Federal Reserve is an illegal entity that artificially plays havoc with the US money system.” Von Brunn received a life sentence for the crime, but was released early for medical reasons.
Von Brunn, who was reportedly a member of Mensa, the international organization for individuals with high IQs, began his life with high expectations. He graduated in 1943 from Washington University with a degree in journalism. During his time at university, he was nominated president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter and played on the varsity football team. Upon graduation, he served in the US Navy, where he pursued a career as an officer for 14 years. During World War II, he was commanding officer of PT boat 159, and was awarded three battle stars.
But despite these accomplishments, Von Brunn began to subscribe to various conspiracy theories, which included the belief that the United States was controlled by “the Jews,” as well his fears over the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s birth certificate, which “birthers” claim is fake.As his personal life collapsed, his paranoia seemed to intensify.
He was also the author of a hate-filled tract called, “Kill the Best Gentiles”, which his website describes as “a new, hard-hitting expose of the Jewish conspiracy to destroy the white gene-pool.” Von Brunn also wrote a screed on the question of President Obama’s citizenship that was re-posted to popular right-wing message board Free Republic.
In a statement following the shooting, Von Brunn's son, Erik, expressed sorrow and horror about the shooting, and said his father's beliefs “…have been a constant source of verbal and mental abuse my family has had to suffer with for many years. His views consumed him, and in doing so, not only destroyed his life, but destroyed our family and ruined our lives as well…For the extremists who believe my father is a hero: it is imperative you understand what he did was an act of cowardice. To physically force your beliefs onto others with violence is not brave, but bullying. Doing so only serves to prove how weak those beliefs are…”
On January 6, 2010, Von Brunn died in a hospital while awaiting sentencing.
Carnage in Pittsburgh
On the morning of April 4, 2009, Pittsburgh police officers Paul Sciullo and Stephen Mayhle responded to a 911 call concerning a domestic disturbance. When the officers arrived at the scene, a woman answered the door, telling the officers she wanted her son, Richard Poplawski, removed from her house. She failed to tell the officers that her son was armed to the teeth.
As the two officers entered the house, Poplawski, 22, was wearing a bulletproof vest and "lying in wait". Officer Sciullo was immediately shot in the head, and almost immediately thereafter, Officer Mayhle was also shot in the head. Another police officer, 14-year veteran Eric Kelly, was retuning home from working the night shift when he heard about the gunfight on his radio. He decided to assist his colleagues, and was also killed in the four-hour gunfight that ensued.
According to the police criminal complaint obtained by WTAE News, Poplawski's mother said her son has been "stockpiling guns and ammunition, buying and selling the weapons online because he believed that as a result of economic collapse, the police were no longer able to protect society."
But friends described the man accused of fatally shooting three Pittsburgh police officers and injuring two others "an easygoing, fun-loving guy" and a known gun enthusiast.
Between volleys of gunfire at his Pittsburgh home, Poplawski was calling friends and family.
"He just told my nephew, Billy, that he was shot twice – one in the arm, once in the leg," Marianne Klimczyk told WTAE News. "He just told him to tell everybody that 'I love them' because he didn't think that he was going to get out of there alive."
Childhood friend Edward Perkovic said he spoke to Poplawski via telephone at about 8:30am.
"What he said to me today was, 'Eddie, I'm going to die today. Tell your family I love them and I love you.' And I heard gunshots and he hung up the phone," Perkovic said. "This was a complete surprise to me and my family and everyone's families that were friends with him. Nobody ever expected something like this from him."
Perkovic said Poplawski feared "the Obama gun ban that's on the way" and "didn't like our rights being infringed upon."
Court documents obtained by WTAE indicate “no major criminal violations in Poplawski's history.”
"He was just an easygoing, fun-loving guy, telling jokes," Jeff Loffler said. "Everybody knew him. He was just the kind of guy who you could have a conversation with even if you didn't know him."
Poplawski, who surrendered to police after a four-hour gunfight, is charged with three counts of criminal homicide – relating to the shootings of officers Eric Kelly, Paul Sciullo II and Stephen Mayhle – and one count of aggravated assault against Officer Timothy McManaway, who suffered a hand wound.
The Unabomber
Theodore John Kaczynski, yet another American with above-average prospects getting tragically sidetracked by his fervent beliefs, was the subject of the most expensive manhunt in the history of US police operations.
Born on May 22, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, Kaczynski has been described as a child prodigy who excelled academically at an early age. He received an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan. In 1967, the 25-year-old won the University of Michigan's $100 Sumner B. Myers Prize in honor of writing the school's best dissertation in mathematics that year. After a brief teaching stint at the University of California, Kaczynski decided that the world of academia, not to mention the world at large, was not for him.
In 1971, he built himself a cabin near Lincoln, Montana, and over the next decade concentrated on acquiring the “primitive skills” that would allow him to live autonomously in the wild.
In an interview taken by the Green Anarchist after his arrest, Kaczynski explained that he had developed a negative attitude toward the techno-industrial system very early in his life. It was in 1962, during his last year at Harvard, he explained, when he began feeling a sense of disillusionment with the system, and that he felt quite alone in his beliefs.
"Back in the Sixties there had been some critiques of technology, but as far as 1 knew there weren't people who were against the technological system as-such… It wasn't until 1971 or 72, shortly after I moved to Montana, that I read Jaques Ellul's book, The Technological Societv."
Why did he personally come to be against technology? His response was, "Why do you think? It reduces people to gears in a machine; it takes away our autonomy and our freedom." But there was more to it than that. Along with the rage he felt against the machine, his words revealed a special feeling for the wild, untamed outdoors.
"The honest truth is that I am not really politically-oriented. I would have really rather just been living out in the woods. If nobody had started cutting roads through there and cutting the trees down and come buzzing around in helicopters and snowmobiles I would still just be living there and the rest of the world could just take care of itself. I got involved in political issues because I was driven to it, so to speak. I'm not really inclined in that direction."
It was the “invasion” of the real estate developers on Kaczynski’s slice of solitude that triggered a letter-bomb campaign that terrorized America off and on for 17 years. From 1978 to 1995, Kaczynski sent 16 bombs to targets including universities and airlines, killing three people and injuring 23.
Here he describes the moment that he decided to get his “revenge” against society:
“The best place, to me, was the largest remnant of this plateau that dates from the tertiary age. It's kind of rolling country, not flat, and when you get to the edge of it you find these ravines that cut very steeply in to cliff-like drop-offs and there was even a waterfall there. It was about a two days hike from my cabin. That was the best spot until the summer of 1983. That summer there were too many people around my cabin, so I decided I needed some peace. I went back to the plateau and when I got there I found they had put a road right through the middle of it" His voice trails off; he pauses, then continues: "You just can't imagine how upset I was. It was from that point on I decided that, rather than trying to acquire further wilderness skills, I would work on getting back at the system. Revenge.”
There are some interesting parallels between the Henry David Thoreau, the 19th Century college lecturer who quit the comforts of modern living to live in a cabin on Walden Pond, and Kaczynski. Both men attended Harvard University, showed remarkable prospects, only to say their goodbyes to society to live in log cabins in the middle of nowhere. Both men recorded their experiences in literary form: Thoreau’s work, “Walden,” has gone on to become an American classic, translated into some 100 languages, with millions of copies sold.
Kaczynski’s work, “Industrial Society and Its Future” (also called the “Unabomber’s Manifesto”), made it into The New York Times and Washington Post by default on September 19, 1995 as an agreement between Kaczynski and the authorities that he would discontinue his bombing campaign if his tract was published. There was also the hope, which was fulfilled in the end, that somebody would recognize Kaczynski’s writing style and notify the authorities, which is exactly what happened: his brother recognized his sibling and made a call to the FBI.
So was Theodore John Kaczynski pushed over the edge by what he deemed to be an assault on his peace and privacy? Furthermore, would Henry David Thoreau, who lived in a more tranquil time before maddening traffic jams and mega malls, have reacted any differently than “the Unabomber” had he been forced to watch the destruction of his native countryside?
Now with the United States suffering its worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, will such actions on the part of frustrated individuals increase? And if they do, to what extent will people sympathize with such actions.
The daughter of Joseph Stack, the man who carried out a suicide plane attack against the IRS in Texas, said she considered her father “a hero” for standing up to "the system," although she later back away from that statement.
Stack’s daughter says her father's act was "inappropriate" but understandable.
"His last actions, the suicide, the catastrophe that caused injuries and death, that was wrong," Samantha Bell, Stack's daughter from his first marriage, told "Good Morning America" in an interview. "But if nobody comes out and speaks up on behalf of injustice, then nothing will ever be accomplished. But I do not agree with his last action with what he did. But I do agree about the government."
When asked if she considered her father a "hero," Bell, 38, said, "Yes, because now maybe people will listen." Bell later called the television station to retract her statement and say unequivocally that her father was "not a hero."
So what else besides personal misfortune and economic crisis are driving these individuals, some of them highly intelligent people, to vent their frustration in such destructive ways? Are they being influenced by far-right media commentators, like Glenn Beck of Fox News, whose own comments would not seem too out of place alongside the missives of some of the abovementioned individuals? Perhaps, but that would not explain the likes of the Unabomber, for example, or hundreds of other anti-government incidences that happened long before Mr. Beck and Fox News came on the scene. Moreover, that is probably giving an individual like Glenn Beck far more credit than he deserves.
And then there is the so-called Tea Party movement – originally begun by US Congressman Ron Paul, and quickly being hijacked by the far-right Republicans – that is fighting against the scourge of big government, not to mention the US Federal Reserve System, which "has full control of the US money supply, yet is accountable to nobody but itself."
And certainly a good deal of the blame over all the hand-wringing could be placed at the doorstep of the Internet itself, which now caters to and conjures up every fear and conspiracy theory under the sun. For example, due to the high level of uncertainty that the global economic crisis has generated, there is now great interest in the so-called “survivalist movement,” which basically espouses the belief that the global economy will soon crash, corporations (that provide much of everything these days, including our food supplies) will go out of business, and national governments will no longer be able to protect their citizens. In other words, these individuals envision a world of Mad Max, where anarchy runs rampant, and every moment is dedicated to sheer survival.
So will the face of the next American Revolution consist of a prolonged string of agitated individuals lashing out in their own unique ways at a system that they feel to be overbearing, or will it be something entirely different? Maybe it's a question that we will never have to answer.
Thanks to the Internet, there is also much excitement over the year 2012, which is said to mark the end of the 5,125-year cycle of the Mayan Long Count Calendar, which is as sophisticated an astrological instrument as anything ever produced by NASA engineers. So on December 21 (or 23), 2012, the inhabitants of planet earth, some say, will enter a transformational period and a whole new way of thinking will begin.
That event of Big Bang proportions may even be big enough to postpone indefinitely the next American Revolution.
Now that's a conspiracy theory worth subscribing to.
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You are a sad little man.
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You are a sad little man.
China is power!!!!
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China is power!!!!
You bet your hat. If China wants Siberia, China will take it. What are you going to do? Go crying to mommy/USA?
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Sedych/Litvinov were my two idols when training for the Hammer Throw during HS and College.
Don't know if they took drugs, but damn, those two are far more impressive to me than most anyone else we see today.
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You bet your hat. If China wants Siberia, China will take it. What are you going to do? Go crying to mommy/USA?
No body cares for what the Chinese want! IF your foot steps in Siberia, we'll take all your army and put back where your yellow'ish ass belongs - Mongolia!!!
Th real Chinese man has to produce three things in his life - boots, jeans and music player!!!
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Sedych/Litvinov were my two idols when training for the Hammer Throw during HS and College.
Don't know if they took drugs, but damn, those two are far more impressive to me than most anyone else we see today.
You are an American and know these names. I'm Russian and never heard them! Pathetic ::)
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You are an American and know these names. I'm Russian and never heard them! Pathetic ::)
Enjoy
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Who the fuck would want to live there?
You are an American and know these names. I'm Russian and never heard them! Pathetic ::)
You're not Russian, gimmick.
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Who the fuck would want to live there?
You're not Russian, gimmick.
There is a huge Samara city near this church. The church I believe is located on the banks of the Volga river! It's a matter of minutes to get there back and forth on car or ship whatever.
You're an idiot or what? In every post of yours to me you speak about some gimmick! Will you call me to Russia???
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No body cares for what the Chinese want! IF your foot steps in Siberia, we'll take all your army and put back where your yellow'ish ass belongs - Mongolia!!!
Th real Chinese man has to produce three things in his life - boots, jeans and music player!!!
Oh brother. China owns your ass. There are 10 Chinese for every Russian and each Chinese is smarter than 10 Russians. you do the maths.
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Oh brother. China owns your ass. There are 10 Chinese for every Russian and each Chinese is smarter than 10 Russians. you do the maths.
The more it sounds unreal - the most real it is - Dostoevsky. Karma is a bitch my friend, I know you kill your small kids in China because it's obvious you can't feed yourself. !!! It will get you in the ass real deal!!! Sooner or later! Who would have chosen to live in China??? Japanese may be???
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US free speech strangled by political correctness
Freedom of expression in the US has given way to many things; pornography, provocative artists, gay pride and political correctness – language that aims to offend no one.
Is the so called PC way of speaking stifling Americans to a point where remaining silent is safer than speaking your mind? America is a country that pioneered freedom of expression, but is the rising tide of political correctness reigning in the right to say what you think?
“Sometimes you want to call a spade of spade, and sometimes you want to call it a f**king shovel,” said New Yorker, Ray Andlew.
According to a Rasmussen Poll, the majority of citizens think the US is overdosing on PC.
Turning the land of the free into a nation of hypersensitive sissies, where even Dorito’s can cause mass controversy. In this a new company ad, a Roman Catholic priest substitutes the corn chip for the Eucharist, the body of Christ. The commercial was created for a possible super bowl broadcast. But after an uproar among Catholics, Frito lay apologized and pulled the plug on the satirical spot.
“The Doritos's commercial being pulled is a classic example of Americans freaking out over something to do with religion. I understand why the Catholic would flip out, that’s their job. However, you gotta be able to laugh at yourself folks, “said political comedian Sarah Benincasa.
But the price of humor can end up costing big. Navy captain Owen Honors – entrusted with a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier worth half a billion dollars was fired over racy moral boosting videos he had helped make several years ago. Having survived 85 combat missions Owen was shot down by fraternity style gestures and comments.
As for the man who wrote 19th century classics, not even Mark Twain is protected from present day PC.Two of Twain’s books are being republished with the word slave replacing the “N” word.
“It’s about laziness.We don’t want to trust people to learn and examine. To look at something and go beyond that and examine and say what does it mean? What were those times like? What is the author trying to say,” said Christopher Chambers, a Georgetown University professor.
When film critic Roger Egbert took to Twitter to criticize the censorship, he was criticized for simply writing the “N” word.
Who can speak the “N” word has become a battle in court. A federal jury will soon decide if white people can use the “N” word at work. This as a white TV reporter is suing a local Fox News affiliate in Philadelphia after being fired for using the “N” word during a staff meeting.
Of course the R-word can also make you a glorified villain.As was the case last year, when former US Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel privately called a group of liberals “f**king retards.”
At ESPN, sensitivity surrounding sex has become a touchy subject.Announcer Ron Franklin was fired this month for allegedly calling a female reporter “sweet baby.”
Many say political correctness has neutered the American language and created a super-sensitive society incapable of laughing things off.A PC influence that’s left more people biting tongues for fear that freedom of expression may be more trouble than it’s f**king worth.
John Romano, the founder of YesButHowever.com asks; ‘where do we draw the line?’
“We are at the precipice where we are about to go over the edge. Where does it stop,” he said. “I like the idea we have some respect, but where do we draw the line?”
American society is heading towards a place where everyone will be afraid to speak freely, he argued.
Forcing political correctness requires people to back-step, constantly apologize, to remove or delete comments they have made. However, this is not a positive.
“If we have people constantly saying something and then cow tail to a popular opinion, it doesn’t look so great,” explained Drew Grant, the deputy editor of Crushable.
In today’s America, political correctness has become a “tool of politicians to punish their enemies,” argued Romano.
Scott Blakeman, a political comedian and liberal pundit argued that Americans have free expression, and that political correctness is not all that wide spread in America.
“It’s not a nationwide trend taking over” he said.
Commenting on the firing of Navy Captain Owen Honors, Blakeman argued it is possible he should not have been fired.
“Quick firing, I don’t think that should happen,” he said. “If Captain Owen Honors was discriminatory to his sailors, if he treated gay sailors worse than other sailors he has no place in the military. If he is just guilty of having a horrible sense of humor, a low brow stupid sense of humor and videos with sex jokes and gay jokes ,that didn’t reflect on the environment his ship operated in, than I think it was unfair to push him out.”
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Washington fat cats prosper, rest of America suffers
While businesses across the US are closing and millions of people are unemployed, Washington, DC has managed to flourish in the recession.
Federal employees have actually made more money during the recession and more jobs have moved to the Washington area.
"One thing is sure about this recession is that the public sector employees have been relatively sheltered compared to the private sector," said Economist Veronique de Rugy from the Mercatus Institute.
According to the latest census numbers, the average federal employee made a whopping $123,000 last year in compensation and benefits, a private sector employee cashed in at almost half that $61,000.
"I mean public employees are a powerful voter base for pro government politicians so of course they’re very unlikely to go after them," de Rugy said.
Many find it hypocritical since American politicians and the media have been obsessively focused on Wall Street fat cats.
A year ago President Obama said, "I did not run for office to help out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street."
Yet at the peak of the recession last year, it was federal workers in Washington who got an average raise of 4 percent – more than double the national average.
In the first year and a half of the recession, private sector jobs in the United States shrank by almost 7 percent, however in Washington, federal civilian employment actually grew by almost 10 percent.
Peter Schiff, the president of Euro Pacific Capital said Washington and Wall Street have combined to bleed Main Street dry.
“All the wealth is that is being sucked out of the private sector and the productive part of our economy is being redirected to Washington, DC. Washington is like a giant parasite feeding off the American economy. The bigger the parasite grows the weaker underlying economy becomes,” he explained.
As Washington grows, more people will lose their jobs and the economy will shrink, Schiff argued. Government works are no longer civil servants, but an elite class.
“It’s producing big profits on Wall Street, but at the expense of everybody on Main Street,” he said.
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Russia's gifts to the world are two:
1. Oil
2. Fairly good looking women who will sleep with you at the drop of a hat if they think you have money.
Thanks, Russia.
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Russia's gifts to the world are two:
1. Oil
2. Fairly good looking women who will sleep with you at the drop of a hat if they think you have money.
Thanks, Russia.
Russia is 1/8 of the whole world!!! And let the rest of the world wait!!! Russia don't give a one damn about the rest!!!
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Russia is 1/8 of the whole world!!! And let the rest of the world wait!!! Russia don't give a one damn about the rest!!!
Your population is 145 million and declining. You are a "civilization" (using the term loosely, Cossack) in decline. Deal with it. China would swallow you and not even notice that it had swallowed you.
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Your population is 145 million and declining. You are a "civilization" (using the term loosely, Cossack) in decline. Deal with it. China would swallow you and not even notice that it had swallowed you.
How would China swallow Russia so I wouldn't even have noticed???
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Russia's gifts to the world are two:
1. Oil
2. Fairly good looking women who will sleep with you at the drop of a hat if they think you have money.
Thanks, Russia.
It's all about what Russia has got for itself, not that we could have given to China for that matter
From wikipedia
Russia has the world's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources.[9] It has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's freshwater.
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Your population is 145 million and declining. You are a "civilization" (using the term loosely, Cossack) in decline. Deal with it. China would swallow you and not even notice that it had swallowed you.
Hi again Chinese clown!
Russian civilization - There are over 160 different ethnic groups and indigenous peoples in Russia.
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Hi again Chinese clown!
Russian civilization - There are over 160 different ethnic groups and indigenous peoples in Russia.
SPend some more time learning English. You're making it hard for me to flame you because you don't seem to be getting half my insults. It's very frustrating, serf.
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SPend some more time learning English. You're making it hard for me to flame you because you don't seem to be getting half my insults. It's very frustrating, serf.
It were insults? Chinese are useless and are not capable of producing any insults, they take it by quantity not quality!!!
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Meanwhile in Russia!
Largest proven natural gas reserves, 44,650,000,000,000 m³ (2008)
Largest natural gas producer, 654,000,000,000 m³ (2007)
Largest natural gas exporter, 173,000,000,000 cu m (2007)
Largest oil producer, 9,980,000 bbl/d (1,587,000 m3/d) [3] (2009)
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Oh shut up, Tatar scum.
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Largest forest area, 8,087,900 km²
Largest land area, 17,075,200 km²[4]
Largest total area, 17,098,242 km²[5]
Largest EEZ continental shelf area, 3,817,843 km2
Largest unfrozen freshwater reserves, approximately one-quarter of the world's[6]
Most countries bordered, 14 (16 if Abkhazia and South Ossetia are counted), the same number as with China
Most time zones (contiguous territory), 9
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Russia
Largest asbestos producer, 925,000 tons (2005)
Largest diamond producer, 38,000,000 carats (2005)
Largest nickel producer, 300,000 tons (2005)
Largest palladium producer, 143 tons (2005)
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Russia
Largest barley producer, output of 15.7 million metric (2007)
Largest buckwheat producer, output of 1 004 850 (2007)
Largest oats producer, output of 5.1 million metric tons (2005)
Largest rye producer, output of 3.6 million metric tons (2005)
Largest sunflower seed producer, output of 6.3 million metric tons (2005)
Largest currant and gooseberry producer, output of 463,500 tons (2005)
Largest raspberry producer, output of 110,000 tons (2004)
Largest vetches producer, output of 377,750 tons[1]
Largest livestock of domesticated reindeer, about two-thirds of the world's
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Russia
Largest asbestos producer, 925,000 tons (2005)
lol, of course it would be.
Home of Chernobyl and Josef Stalin and now Dobbie-Putin.
How many men did Russia put on the moon?
I would be ashamed to be from that country.
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Oh shut up, Tatar scum.
Come fight, you yellow skin narrow eyed cross eyed mofo
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lol, of course it would be.
Home of Chernobyl and Josef Stalin and now Dobbie-Putin.
How many men did Russia put on the moon?
I would be ashamed to be from that country.
Russia was the 1'st in the cosmos? who the fuck cares for the moon? Russia will be 1'st to put man on Mars
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Come fight, you yellow skin narrow eyed cross eyed mofo
Retarded Cossack, do you think I would post under my real name on a message board? Stupid Tatar.
Besides I'd Rulon Gardner your ass anyway.
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Russia was the 1'st in the cosmos? who the fuck cares for the moon? Russia will be 1'st to put man on Mars
Oh brother, cosmos. A guy in a helium balloon could get that high. First dead men on Mars perhaps. Remember the Kursk?
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What are you looking up on Wikipedia now Cossack?
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Oh brother, cosmos. A guy in a helium balloon could get that high. First dead men on Mars perhaps. Remember the Kursk?
Remember January 28, 1986, space shuttle discovery disaster???
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Try launching any satellites lately? Oh yes, Russia still can't even get that right.
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Try launching any satellites lately? Oh yes, Russia still can't even get that right.
Hi yellowish!!!
Russia to make record number of space launches in 2010
Regardless of the incident with the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft, which was damaged while being transported by train to the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Russia will fulfill all 12 projected space flights by the end of the year.
The Soyuz TMS-20 spacecraft was severely damaged due to an improper transportation regime. One of the brackets used to secure the vessel inside the transportation capsule came loose and the Soyuz crashed to the floor, deforming the re-entry vehicle that will now most likely be replaced with another one taken from Soyuz TMA-21.
In 2010, Russia will fulfill 34 space launches, which is more than in 2009, when 32 rockets blasted to space from Baikonur Cosmodrome and the northern cosmodrome in Plesetsk. To date, 42 launches have been made worldwide this year, of which 22 were Russian.
Last year’s 32 launches were preceded by 27 in 2008 and 26 in 2007.
The next launch will be on October 8 from Baikonur, where the vast Kazakh steppes are about to witness the latest achievements of the space industry roaring off into the heavens.
On Friday, the next crew of the International Space Station will travel into orbit in a brand new Soyuz capsule, equipped with cutting-edge technology.
Soyuz rockets will soon be planet Earth’s only link with the International Space Station, which flies over 300 kilometers above.
For decades they have been launched from the renowned launch site at Baikonur, in the middle of the steppe in Kazakhstan
At a press conference Aleksandr Kaleri, commander of the next expedition to ISS, noted that “When you go to the start you’ll see the monument to the conquerors of space. On it is written, in this place the genius of Soviet man was revealed in an instant in the conquering of the cosmos. I think you can’t say better than that about Baikonur.”
And the vast concentration of technology there has just become even more advanced.
The new Soyuz spacecraft has improved and digitized control, power supply and temperature control systems.
But one thing has not changed – the humans flying Soyuz missions.
The crew, like those before them, have been training for years for their six month stint on the ISS.
The two Russians and one American know that in English, “soyuz” means “unity”, and the international nature of their mission.
“You know, personalities and that, we’re not very easily excitable and deal with things in a very calm and quiet way so I think we’re going to have a very good working relationship on board the space station because I think we have the same kind of temperament, all three of us,” Scott Kelly, a crew member, said.
Amazingly Scott will have family coming to visit him on his mission.
His brother Mark is also an astronaut and will lead the last US shuttle mission to the ISS.
They will be the first twins in space.
“We’ve occasionally flown together in the Navy as test pilots, but before that I think it was working in dairy queen when we were 12 years old, mopping the floors. That was probably the last job we really had where we worked together,” remembers Mark Kelly.
The lonely launch platform in the wind blasted desert might seem like an odd place to pursue the most advanced of human endeavors. But for the past 55 years now it’s been doing just that. From a distance the rocket looks much the same as the first one launched years ago, but after years of improvement and preparation this mission plans to push the final frontier that bit further.
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If you want to promote Russia, which is cool since i believe people should show national pride, you should focus on things that realy speak for themselves.
Yuri Seydkh
Sergei Litvinov
Igor Astopkovich
Igot Nikulin
Alex Overchkin
Yvegeni Malkin
Alex Federov
The many great russian NHL Players emerging.
The russian powerlifting champions
etc etc.
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Rulon Gardner. Even a fat out of shape American can stop a Russian "legend"
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If you want to promote Russia, which is cool since i believe people should show national pride, you should focus on things that realy speak for themselves.
Yuri Seydkh
Sergei Litvinov
Igor Astopkovich
Igot Nikulin
Alex Overchkin
Yvegeni Malkin
Alex Federov
The many great russian NHL Players emerging.
The russian powerlifting champions
etc etc.
C'mon, those are not real deals! How about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Aleksey Leonov, Sergey Korolev, Yury Gagarin etc. 100 Ovechkin's or Fedorov's don't make 1 Gagarin!
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Rulon Gardner. Even a fat out of shape American can stop a Russian "legend"
Rulon may have won the battle but lost the war. How many Olympic gold medals this chick has got?
btw Rulon, sounds hillarious
Rulon in Russian is this! -
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I ws using them as examples.
You can build yourself up without tearing down others.
Personally, I greatly respect the Russian people for what they have endured. Most of it is the fault of their own governments and communist regimes, but as a people, they are generally tough and very enduring.
The govts? Evil and murderous.
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The govts? Evil and murderous.
Why do you think so?
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Why do you think so?
Hhahaha, here's what you get for trying to reason with a retard 388666.
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Why do you think so?
Come on - Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, the forced famines in the Ukraine, the NKVD, The Cheka, the KGB, etc all have a HORRIBLE history of the deaths of MILLIONS.
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Come on - Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, the forced famines in the Ukraine, the NKVD, The Cheka, the KGB, etc all have a HORRIBLE history of the deaths of MILLIONS.
And what does it prove??? History is history! You forgot to add Putin!!!
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo Tolstoy
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Hhahaha, here's what you get for trying to reason with a retard 388666.
You are a retard! You couldn't even spell his name right!!!
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And what does it prove??? History is history! You forgot to add Putin!!!
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo Tolstoy
Putin is a choir boy compared to what went on from 1917 through the 1960's.
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Hhahaha, here's what you get for trying to reason with a retard 388666.
Bring it gimmick.
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Putin is a choir boy compared to what went on from 1917 through the 1960's.
You may will not believe me but a lot of people here dream to bring back Stalin!!! Millions are dreaming to bring back Stalin to put the order!!! Murder all those super rich "New Russians"....Go figure!!!
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You may will not believe me but a lot of people here dream to bring back Stalin!!! Millions are dreaming to bring back Stalin to put the order!!! Murder all those super rich "New Russians"....Go figure!!!
I don't doubt that, but thats a cultural thing more than anything.
I have read a few books recently on the NKVD and Cheka and was horrified.
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Bring it gimmick.
I was referring to theonlyone as a retard, but hey if the shoe fits....
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I don't doubt that, but thats a cultural thing more than anything.
I have read a few books recently on the NKVD and Cheka and was horrified.
I was horrified at the things happened in the wild wild west either and more terrified as to what the USA come down to! ;D
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With the debt over 14 trillion, every American owes me 45 k $$$ generally speaking... I will come for ya!
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Russia will Denis Czyplenkov you!!!
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2010!!!!!!!! Russia
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African Americans suffering under Obama
As African-American unemployment remains at over 15 percent, the Black community questions whether placing hopes on Obama was a mistake.
While the US marks Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the African-American community is knee-deep in an economic nightmare.
“There is no question that black America is worse off than it has been in at least the last 30 years,” said Glen Ford, the executive editor of the Black Agenda Report.
The official unemployment rate for African-Americans has been hovering at around 16 percent for the last year.
“Number one in high unemployment, number one in home foreclosures and number one in populating the prisons of our country,” explained renowned civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson.
Many say, if these numbers represented any other minority group, the US would be in a state of emergency.
Has it long been high time for a rescue operation for African-Americans?
A particularly poignant question now with a black president in the White House.
New York’s Harlem neighborhood is one of the places that celebrated the most, when Barack Obama stepped into the White House. But two years into the presidency, the cracks in the dream for a better life have become too wide to hide.
Extreme unemployment with resulting poverty has created a pandemic of millions who need to be helped within black America.
“It has been a nightmare looking for work,” an unemployed African-American woman commented.
Studies showed a year ago that one in six African-Americans were without jobs.
Many say racial profiling continues to be a major obstacle to winning in the job market.
“Literally hundreds of studies have shown without doubt, repeatedly, that, for example, a white man with a prison record, who applies for a job is more likely to get a call back for that job, an interview, than a black man with a college education,” explained Ford.
Experts believe that’s exactly why Obama should be putting in place specifically targeted policies.
So why isn’t he?
“It’s just a community of people that he probably believes that belong to him, will vote for him, will support him. If he is going to spend political capital, he is not going to spend it on black folk,” said New York Pastor James David Manning.
“You can say that Obama destroyed more blacks housing than the KKK would have been able to,” remarked economist Michael Hudson.
Spending money and effort on everything from saving Wall Street to endless warfare takes a lot of time.
But that’s largely been the priority during the first half of Obama’s first term.
But the clock is ticking, days and months passing. African-Americans, as well as the rest of the 40 million battling poverty across the US, remain rejected.
“If there are not more jobs made available, than he will lose a significant base of support in the African-American community, and the general community, because people will be disappointed,” said former advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Clarence B. Jones.
So the broke, disappointed and forgotten could well end up rejecting in return.
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Media propaganda sells wars to America
The American media machine has worsened over the years in its ability to report facts over government propaganda.
January 16th marked the 20 year anniversary of the first Gulf War, where a UN-authorized coalition force led by the US and UK went to war with Iraq to force Iraqi troops out of Kuwait.
However, many argue the war was actually an attempt to secure access to Kuwaiti oil resource, a notion left undiscussed by the media at that time. Americans were deliberately kept in the dark by the US media and Pentagon, who used PR agencies to spin a government approved message.
Deliberate propaganda hoaxes included stories about Iraqis killing Kuwaiti babies and stealing incubators to weapons of mass destruction.
John R. MacArthur, the publisher of Harper’s Magazine and author of “Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf” said the media has gotten worse at questioning the message, even the 2003 media coverage leading up to the invasion of Iraq was full of propaganda and disinformation.
“In 2003 you had the Secretary of State, Colin Powel, telling outrageous lies. You had the New York Times, the most respected newspaper in the United States repeating the most outrageous lies about Saddam Hussein’s atomic bomb program, which of course didn’t exist. It turned out it was non-existent,” he explained. “It’s a catastrophe what happened in Iraq this time around. This is all based on propaganda campaigns that were not properly challenged by the American media.”
He explained that the government sells propaganda to newspapers because it is effective, and the US media buying into it. MacArthur argued the American media and journalists have forgotten who they serve, who they are reporting to and for and what their purpose is.
“The United States Constitution says quite explicitly ‘We the People of the United States’ are writing this constitution, ratifying this constitution. In this country the people are sovereign. Not the government,” he commented. “Reporters have to say to themselves, I work for the American people. I don’t work for the American government. My loyalty should be the Constitution and to the sovereign people of the United States. The American media has completely forgotten this.”
He explained journalists have divulged into protecting the government, protecting the government’s interest and not the peoples’.
“This is not what the founding fathers had in mind,” MacArthur added.
Journalists should report the truth using common sense rules. Release information, ask questions. The media does not need to endanger lives, but can use common sense to report the facts and ask the right questions, he argued.
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US industry dependent on warfare state
The US military said it plans to curb spending over the next five years, but it will be a hard task to complete since there is an entire global industry that relies on ongoing conflict to sustain its coffers.
With the world’s largest-ever defense budget, The US is set to spend $725 billion on its military this year.
With growing spending and calls to cut costs and the national debt, and increased opposition to US wars abroad, why is the US committed to staying the course?
Former US President Dwight D. Eisenhower once warned against the coming military industrial complex and perpetual warfare.
“We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex,” he said.
Russ Baker, the author of “The Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty” explained US foreign policy is shaped by a military-oil-media complex, an ill-defined co-opting of industries brought together under the guise of a maintained sense of continual panic.
The system keeps people in a mindset where war seems needed and inevitable, he argued.
“We don’t have the kind of transparency we need,” Baker explained. “All the records remain classified under lock and key and we can’t figure out what went on or what is going on today.”
Change cannot take place in America until proper dialogue takes place. However, that is unable to happen given the current environment. The American media is not allowing for a change in the dialogue, it has created a war driven cycle, argued Baker.
“Even a man like Obama, who was presented as a great reformer, finds himself unable to really do anything substantively about this cycle of doom and destruction,” he commented.
The system works towards attacking those who will maintain it, recruiting politicians and presidents who are drafted to sustain the structure backed by big money.
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“Chinese and US interests increasingly not coinciding”
The Chinese President Hu Jintao is in the US for a four-day state visit. The leaders of the world's two biggest rival economies held a private welcome dinner on Tuesday night at the White House.
Among the business at hand are economics, trade and human rights policies.
The recent events over the last year suggest that China is not interested in strategic partnership with the US but wants to establish some priorities of its own, particularly in the region around its borders, believes Simon Tisdall, an Assistant Editor and foreign affairs columnist at Britain's Guardian newspaper.
During his visit to Beijing in 2009, Barack Obama did not achieve that much, so now it is taking a lot of effort to persuade the American public and the American Congress that he is sticking up to China. There is a shopping list of demands and requests on security, economy and human rights that has been prepared by the Americans but it seems “to matter more to President Obama than to President Hu”.
The historical context reflects the decline of American power by many measures and the rising of Chinese-Asian power, Simon Tisdall said. “Influence is shifting eastwards, as we see it from London.”
Despite statements of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that this summit is to bring substantial achievements, Simon Tisdall is doubtful that much is going to change overnight in terms of Chinese currency exchange policy and the Chinese are not going to change their minds towards their jailed dissidents.
The American press believes Obama is going to be much tougher this time, but this lavish perception of the US president pushing some of these issues, particularly access to the Chinese market, is highly questionable – in the short term.
Another big issue is national currencies. The Central Bank of China has been arguing actually in favor of appreciation of the Yuan because they are worried about inflation which is the real problem of the country’s overheated economy.
There are at least two schools of thought that suggest the way of economic growth in China. One insists on further exporting at low prices as much as they can, another is warning of a big inflation problem which can upset all economic and budget forecasting.
“Some Chinese officials might agree with the Americans that they need more balanced currency rates across the world, but policy makers in Beijing are divided, as they are in Washington, about exactly how you do that, how quickly you do that,” Tisdall revealed.
Anyway, the solution for the Americans lies at home rather than blaming that sort of thing on the Chinese, he said.
According to Andrey Korneev, a Deputy Director of the Institute of Asian and African Studies in Moscow, the priority for the two sides is to try to reload the relationships between the two countries.
“The common opinion is that the year 2010 was not very successful for the bilateral relationships. So, now it’s the time to mend fences and to tackle some of the most difficult issues in the US-Sino relationships,” he told Pizda.
“Mr. Obama is now in the pre-election period, and he has to score some important points in dealing with President Hu. Probably one of the most important issues… it’s the Chinese currency. And if there will be progress with this issue, it will be beneficial for Obama… so that Obama could say to the American people that he has got something from the Chinese side on this very important issue,” Mr. Korneev concluded.
America has an extraordinary large deficit and debt, much of which belongs to China, so Americans must get their house in order – something the China has already hinted they should do at the last G8 summit, reminded Simon Tisdall.
As for the constant human rights critics of China from the West – it has never brought any positive results and will always be counterproductive, shared Tisdall.
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China and America: A tale of surge versus splurge
Disciplined, innovative and super confident, China is making lightning strides across the board, while America seems content to borrow its way out of an economic quagmire of its own making.
The difference between “China then” and “China now” was crystal clear on Tuesday, as Washington shined up the champagne glasses for Chinese President Hu Jintao, who will meet with US President Barack Obama amid an atmosphere of pomp and pageantry.
Indeed, if haute cuisine is any indication of a visiting leader’s perceived importance, Hu ranks pretty high in US eyes.
Washington is indulging the Chinese leader with a lavish state banquet, a gastronomical honor that contrasts sharply with his last trip to the White House, in 2006, when he was served only lunch by former US President George W. Bush.
And the Chinese president got the red-carpet treatment upon landing on Tuesday afternoon at Andrews Air Force Base, where he was personally welcomed by Vice President Joe Biden, a military color guard, and a 21-gun salute.
Yes, times have changed, and most of all, it seems, for China. The quasi-communist economy is white hot, the Chinese middle class can’t spend its disposable income fast enough, while even the Chinese military managed to humble America’s defense chief on a recent visit.
On January 10, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was in China, where he met with his Chinese counterpart, Liang Guanglie, as well as Hu. The main purpose of the visit was regional security following North Korea’s bombardment of a South Korean island in November. China did not pass up the opportunity to demonstrate its military prowess.
Gates’ visit was overshadowed by an uncharacteristic display of muscle flexing on the part of the Chinese, who chose the moment to give the previously rumored J-20 stealth fighter jet its maiden flight.
The US Defense Secretary tried to play down the surprise performance of the radar-evading fighter, saying Hu assured him the test flight was not timed to coincide with his visit.
"I asked Hu about it directly, and he said that the test had absolutely nothing to do with my visit and had been a pre-planned test," Gates told reporters.
The explanation, however, must have done little to comfort Gates, especially considering that he told a group of reporters aboard the plane to China that, although Washington was aware of China’s stealth fighter program, it was still many years away from fruition.
According to Stars and Stripes, the US military magazine, some military analysts now fear that China may close the gap on stealth technology, thus threatening America’s air superiority.
“The [Chinese stealth] aircraft has rekindled debate about Gates’ controversial 2009 decision to end production of the most advanced US fighter ever built, the stealth F-22 Raptor, and slow purchases of the F-35,” the magazine commented. “Critics point to China’s long-known race for stealth aircraft as a threat to US air superiority.”
Now, in addition to the fledgling development of a stealth fighter, the Chinese military just added a newly refurbished Ukrainian aircraft carrier to its growing fleet.
According to Kanwa Asian Defense magazine, China bought the used carrier in 1998 and towed it to the northeastern port of Dalian for a complete overhaul. The refitting included new housing compartments, engines, navigational systems and power generating equipment.
Kanwa, as quoted by AP, said the restoration would make the ship fully operational and allow China to design and build its own aircraft carriers in the future. Perfecting such technical expertise will take many years, but as the surprise unveiling of the stealth fighter proved, China has the human resources for developing technologies very fast, and not just when it comes to exporting products for Western markets.
Much of China's renewed interest in military spending can be traced back to last year, when Washington announced it would supply Taiwan, which China regards as its sovereign territory, with $6.7 billion worth of advanced military hardware, including two Osprey mine-hunting ships, 60 Black Hawk helicopters and surface-to-air missiles.
The deal drew a harsh response from China, of course, which resulted in a severe deterioration in bilateral relations between Beijing and Washington.
Is it really any surprise that China is simply responding to what it views as excessive US meddling in its immediate neighborhood?
Economic front
Perhaps the greatest mystery about China’s mind-blowing economic progress is how a one-time isolated, communist regime has adapted to a global economy with such insightfulness.
Taking advantage of America’s massive expenditures on Chinese-made goods, China reinvested much of those dollars right back into the US economy. The strategy was more than just good business; it has proven to be savvy politics as well, since today the fate of the American and Chinese economies are now dependent upon each other to a high degree.
Should China decide to sell off its billions of dollars in US Treasury notes, for example, it would crash the US economy, thus killing China’s biggest market for manufactured Chinese products. Not good.
On the other hand, the US must be careful on lecturing China too harshly on various topics, like human rights, considering who is holding so much of its government debt. (Beijing's massive stockpile of foreign currency assets is estimated at about $2.5 trillion and mostly held in low-interest US government securities and other low-risk, dollar-denominated investments.)
In light of this tightly interwoven relationship, it was no surprise that Obama and Hu met Tuesday night in a private dinner behind closed doors at the White House. Now, Obama will be able to say that he challenged Hu on various sensitive subjects of importance to his liberal constituency, including human rights, freedom of the web, and loosening China’s control over its currency.
Obama plans to host a meeting on Wednesday afternoon for the Chinese president and US and Chinese business leaders in an effort to promote increased US exports to China, as well as increased Chinese investment in the United States.
Will China lecture the US?
Although US corporations have recovered nicely from the “Great Recession” (The Dow Jones Industrial Average is on the verge of smashing through the 12,000 mark), US workers continue to struggle with unemployment rates still just below 10 percent of the population.
“The unemployment rate is higher in [America] than in Britain or Russia and much higher than in Germany or Japan,”according to a Gallup study of worldwide job markets. “The American jobless rate is also higher than China’s,” the study said, as quoted by The New York Times.
In the article [“In Wreckage of Lost Jobs, Lost Power,” January 19, 2010], David Leonhardt argues that the US worker is falling behind because American corporations “operate with few restraints.”
“Unions have withered, at least in the private sector, and courts have grown friendlier to business,” Leonhardt argues. “Many companies can now come much closer to setting the terms of their relationship with employers, letting them go when they become a drag on profits and relying on remaining workers or temporary ones when business picks up.”
Meanwhile, US workers receive the least amount of vacation time in the industrial world – even less than “authoritarian” China. And there is not even a rule in the books that corporations have to provide their workers with a vacation.
According to a report by the Center for American Progress, "the US is the only country…without a national paid parental-leave benefit. The average is over 12 weeks of paid leave… and over 20 weeks in Europe."
In light of these sobering statistics, Leonhardt’s conclusion are right on the mark: “For corporate America, the Great Recession is over. For the American work force, it’s not.”
Political analysts are anticipating what will be said by the two leaders during a scheduled news conference on Wednesday. Each leader will respond to four questions, two from American journalists and two from Chinese reporters.
One question that would be interesting to hear Obama respond to is why Chinese Wal-Mart workers are legally required to have unions represent them, but US Wal-Mart workers at home have no union representation whatsoever.
Indeed, Wal-Mart goes out of its way to shut down any efforts to unionize on behalf of its silenced workforce.
China may wish to suggest – since, after all, it has so much invested in the US economy – that US workers enjoy some sort of democratic procedure to guarantee their personal rights.
The debate on human rights, of course, cuts both ways.
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Though an old news it deserves to be there!
The New Russian Stealth Bomber
Russian military planes flew undetected through the U.S. zone of the Arctic Ocean to Canada during recent military exercises, a senior Air Force commander said Saturday. The commander of the country's long-range strategic bombers, Lieutenant General Igor Khvorov, said the U.S. Air Force is now investigating why its military was unable to detect the Russian bombers.
"They were unable to detect the planes either with radars or visually," he said.
Khorov said that during the military exercises in April, Tu-160 Blackjack bombers and Tu-95 Bears had successfully carried out four missile launches. Bombing exercises were held using Tu-22 Blinders.
By the end of the year, two more Tu-160s will be commissioned for the long-range strategic bomber fleet, Khorov said.
Both new planes will incorporate numerous upgrades from the initial Soviet models, the commander said. The bombers will be able to launch both cruise missiles and aviation bombs, and communicate via satellite. RIA NOVOSTI
Russian Academy of Sciences recently revealed information about a novel "stealth" technology, that incorporates plasma fields. Russian ITAR/TASS news agency recently interviewed the director of the Keldysh Research Center (FKA Scientific Research Institute for Thermal Processes), Academician Anatoliy Koroteyev, who briefly summarized capabilities of plasma stealth system developed by his research center and the current status of the project.
Interactions between various types of electromagnetic radiation and plasma fields were studied for many years in Russia, the United States and around the world.
The system developed by the Russians is based on electromagnetic wave-plasma interactions, but in a very different way. Russian stealth plasma device creates a plasma field around an aircraft. This field partially consumes electromagnetic energy of a hostile radar or causes it to bend around the aircraft, reducing the aircraft RCS by up to 100 times.
It is not known whether the plasma stealth system developed by the Russians employs a plasma laser or some other method for creating a plasma field. source
Specification Tu-160 'Blackjack'
Powerplant: four 245.18 kN (55,140 lb st) Trud/Samara NK-32 afterburning turbofans
Dimensions: length 54.1m (177 ft 6 in); height 13.1m (42 ft 11 in); wing span 65° sweep 35.6m (116 ft 9½ in); wing span 35° sweep 50.7m (166 ft 4 in); wing span 20° sweep 55.7m (182 ft 9 in)
Weights: empty 117000 kg (257,937 lb); Max Take-Off Weight 275000 kg (606,261 lb)
Performance: max level speed Mach 2.05 or 2200 km/h (1367 mph); max level speed at sea level 1030 km/h (640 mph); ceiling 15600m (51,181 ft)
Armament: up to 12 KH-55 nuclear or KH-555 conventional long-range cruise missiles or 24 Kh-15 short-range nuclear attack missiles carried in two internal weapon bays; in theory up to 40000 kg (88,183 lb) of freefall nuclear or conventional bombs
Jane made it clear a few years ago! (Plasma Stealth Technology Page"
So did FAS! (specifications)
This is SOMETHING! (Russians offer technology for EXPORT)
"A Russian scientific research organisation is to offer for export a 'bolt-on' stealth device that it claims renders non-stealthy aircraft practically invisible to radar. The system, which envelops the aircraft in a cloak of ionised gas known as a plasma, is said to be fully developed, with work on a "third-generation visibility-reduction system" under way.
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I enjoy reading Russian fairy tales. Thanks.
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I enjoy reading Russian fairy tales. Thanks.
No body cares for B2 bomber!!! No body!
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No body cares for B2 bomber!!! No body!
Lol, when was that video shot? 1983? WHat have you done for me lately, Komsomol reject?
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Lol, when was that video shot? 1983? WHat have you done for me lately, Komsomol reject?
I don't know man, may be 1973!
Russian military planes flew undetected through the U.S. zone of the Arctic Ocean to Canada during recent military exercises, a senior Air Force commander said Saturday. The commander of the country's long-range strategic bombers, Lieutenant General Igor Khvorov, said the U.S. Air Force is now investigating why its military was unable to detect the Russian bombers.
"They were unable to detect the planes either with radars or visually," he said.
Khorov said that during the military exercises in April, Tu-160 Blackjack bombers and Tu-95 Bears had successfully carried out four missile launches.
Got it????
The rest of the article on previous page!
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Yes we already read this fairy tale (made up story). Thanks for sharing.
Russian military planes flew undetected through the U.S. zone of the Arctic Ocean to Canada during recent military exercises, a senior Air Force commander said Saturday. The commander of the country's long-range strategic bombers, Lieutenant General Igor Khvorov, said the U.S. Air Force is now investigating why its military was unable to detect the Russian bombers.
"They were unable to detect the planes either with radars or visually," he said.
Khorov said that during the military exercises in April, Tu-160 Blackjack bombers and Tu-95 Bears had successfully carried out four missile launches.
Got it????
The rest of the article on previous page!
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Yes we already read this fairy tale (made up story). Thanks for sharing.
Is that a made up video or everybody loves America??? ???
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Is that a made up video or everybody loves America??? ???
Only idiots engage in actions like flag-burning. Ooooh, they burned a flag. I'm scared now. ::)
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Only idiots engage in actions like flag-burning. Ooooh, they burned a flag. I'm scared now. ::)
If you'd read more you would know that America is not America of 1985 - 2000!!! You shouldn't be scared, you have to read more and educate yourself. Now people abroad call America a 3'rd world country with no human rights whatsoever? Why?
If they can direct planes into the buildings right at the heart of New York, what do you think the Russian nuclear powered attack subs can do? Those are just somewhat 200 +/- miles off of both your coasts. ::)
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Is that a made up video or everybody loves America??? ???
I'd be up for burning a Russian flag but I would quickly draw that conclusion that your irrelevancy on the world stage doesn't warrant me giving a shit about your country or wasting any time burning stuff representing it.
Russia and France should lose their spots on the UN security council.
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irrelevancy on the world stage
What? Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than a ninth of the Earth's land area. Every other next country is irrelevant!
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What? Russia is 1/8 whatever of the earth's land, everybody else is irrelevant!
I'll give this gimmick credit for persistence.
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If they can direct planes into the buildings right at the heart of New York, what do you think the Russian nuclear powered attack subs can do? Those are just somewhat 200 +/- miles off of both your coasts. ::)
This?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_K-141_Kursk
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This?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_K-141_Kursk
LOL!
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This?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_K-141_Kursk
No my narrow eyed friend! This!
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Here is the difference between being a failed nation and the greatest nation on earth.
Enjoy, little commie. From the USA with love.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110121/us_yblog_thelookout/23-storey-rocket-blasts-off-in-california
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-12-05/world/russia.failed.launch_1_satellites-baikonur-cosmodrome-proton-m-rocket?_s=PM:WORLD
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Here is the difference between being a failed nation and the greatest nation on earth.
Enjoy, little commie. From the USA with love.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110121/us_yblog_thelookout/23-storey-rocket-blasts-off-in-california
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-12-05/world/russia.failed.launch_1_satellites-baikonur-cosmodrome-proton-m-rocket?_s=PM:WORLD
Russia to make record number of space launches in 2010
Regardless of the incident with the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft, which was damaged while being transported by train to the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Russia will fulfill all 12 projected space flights by the end of the year.
The Soyuz TMS-20 spacecraft was severely damaged due to an improper transportation regime. One of the brackets used to secure the vessel inside the transportation capsule came loose and the Soyuz crashed to the floor, deforming the re-entry vehicle that will now most likely be replaced with another one taken from Soyuz TMA-21.
In 2010, Russia will fulfill 34 space launches, which is more than in 2009, when 32 rockets blasted to space from Baikonur Cosmodrome and the northern cosmodrome in Plesetsk. To date, 42 launches have been made worldwide this year, of which 22 were Russian.
Last year’s 32 launches were preceded by 27 in 2008 and 26 in 2007.
The next launch will be on October 8 from Baikonur, where the vast Kazakh steppes are about to witness the latest achievements of the space industry roaring off into the heavens.
On Friday, the next crew of the International Space Station will travel into orbit in a brand new Soyuz capsule, equipped with cutting-edge technology.
Soyuz rockets will soon be planet Earth’s only link with the International Space Station, which flies over 300 kilometers above.
For decades they have been launched from the renowned launch site at Baikonur, in the middle of the steppe in Kazakhstan
At a press conference Aleksandr Kaleri, commander of the next expedition to ISS, noted that “When you go to the start you’ll see the monument to the conquerors of space. On it is written, in this place the genius of Soviet man was revealed in an instant in the conquering of the cosmos. I think you can’t say better than that about Baikonur.”
And the vast concentration of technology there has just become even more advanced.
The new Soyuz spacecraft has improved and digitized control, power supply and temperature control systems.
But one thing has not changed – the humans flying Soyuz missions.
The crew, like those before them, have been training for years for their six month stint on the ISS.
The two Russians and one American know that in English, “soyuz” means “unity”, and the international nature of their mission.
“You know, personalities and that, we’re not very easily excitable and deal with things in a very calm and quiet way so I think we’re going to have a very good working relationship on board the space station because I think we have the same kind of temperament, all three of us,” Scott Kelly, a crew member, said.
Amazingly Scott will have family coming to visit him on his mission.
His brother Mark is also an astronaut and will lead the last US shuttle mission to the ISS.
They will be the first twins in space.
“We’ve occasionally flown together in the Navy as test pilots, but before that I think it was working in dairy queen when we were 12 years old, mopping the floors. That was probably the last job we really had where we worked together,” remembers Mark Kelly.
The lonely launch platform in the wind blasted desert might seem like an odd place to pursue the most advanced of human endeavors. But for the past 55 years now it’s been doing just that. From a distance the rocket looks much the same as the first one launched years ago, but after years of improvement and preparation this mission plans to push the final frontier that bit further.
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Russian missiles must penetrate any defenses — parliament
Russia must quickly modernize its nuclear deterrent focusing on the deployment of ballistic missiles capable of penetrating the most sophisticated missile defenses, a draft supplementary statement to the new START treaty ratification document says.
The lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, posted on its official website on Friday the texts of two draft statements that would accompany the resolution on ratification of the treaty.
"The State Duma believes that maintaining Russia's nuclear deterrent in an adequate state of readiness is a key venue of the country's military doctrine, with the focus on the deployment of strategic offensive weapons that possess the most combat effectiveness and the highest potential to penetrate missile defenses," says the statement dedicated to the upkeep of Russia's nuclear deterrent and the development of new missile defenses.
"The combat effectiveness of Russia's nuclear deterrent must be maintained at the level that guarantees the protection of the country from attacks carried out by any foreign state or a group of states in any military-strategic situation," the 3.5-page document says.
The second supplementary statement outlines the State Duma's position on the reduction and limitations of strategic offensive armaments. It is addressed to the United States, but also calls on other nuclear powers "to join the process of the reduction and limitation of nuclear weapons through a ban on their further development."
The new arms reduction treaty, replacing START 1, which expired in December 2009, was signed in Prague last April by President Medvedev and U.S. President Barack Obama. The document slashes the Russian and U.S. nuclear arsenals to a maximum of 1,550 nuclear warheads, down from the current ceiling of 2,200.
The U.S. Senate ratified the new arms deal with Russia on December 22, 2010, but added several amendments to the resolution on ratification, including a demand to build up U.S. global missile defenses.
The new agreement will come into force after ratification by both houses of the Russian parliament, the State Duma and the Federation Council.
The State Duma is expected to adopt the draft law in the third and final reading on January 25. The upper house could hold its ratification vote in its first session on January 26.
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If you'd read more you would know that America is not America of 1985 - 2000!!! You shouldn't be scared, you have to read more and educate yourself. Now people abroad call America a 3'rd world country with no human rights whatsoever? Why?
If they can direct planes into the buildings right at the heart of New York, what do you think the Russian nuclear powered attack subs can do? Those are just somewhat 200 +/- miles off of both your coasts. ::)
These Russian subs....
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Hahahaha! ;D
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I heart the Russian Navy..... ;D
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There was a TLC/Discovery/Military whatever show on some German engineers the Russians were paying to clean up all their old subs and pull reactors.....hey dumbass maybe u guys should worry about that first instead u polluting our fishing grounds with ur crap.
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I heart the Russian Navy..... ;D
Are you really that naive to think we didn't spot you? We knew that you were that close.
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Are you really that naive to think we didn't spot you? We knew that you were that close.
No...u they didn't. Your junk has never been able to get that close without being spotted. Hell, even when the CHICOMs did the same thing they had to surface. You guys suck....you build one thing of worth and then can't reproduce it. Stop showing 30 year old tanks with reactive armor..nobody but you idiots use reactive armor.
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Love the jumping tanks....as an actual tanker I'd be beating my driver to death with a wrench if he did that...and an M1 is alot more comfortable then a T-72
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Love the jumping tanks....as an actual tanker I'd be beating my driver to death with a wrench if he did that...and an M1 is alot more comfortable then a T-72
Russian army forgot to ask your valuable opinion!!!
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I don't know man, may be 1973!
Russian military planes flew undetected through the U.S. zone of the Arctic Ocean to Canada during recent military exercises, a senior Air Force commander said Saturday. The commander of the country's long-range strategic bombers, Lieutenant General Igor Khvorov, said the U.S. Air Force is now investigating why its military was unable to detect the Russian bombers.
"They were unable to detect the planes either with radars or visually," he said.
Khorov said that during the military exercises in April, Tu-160 Blackjack bombers and Tu-95 Bears had successfully carried out four missile launches.
Got it????
The rest of the article on previous page!
I remember when a young guy flew a plane through Russian airspace undetected and landed in Moscow in front of the Kremlin...
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I'd be up for burning a Russian flag but I would quickly draw that conclusion that your irrelevancy on the world stage doesn't warrant me giving a shit about your country or wasting any time burning stuff representing it.
Russia and France should lose their spots on the UN security council.
agreed 100%...good post
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The collapse of Empires is nothing new. They come and go, as any student of history can see. In ancient times, we can read of the decadence of the Roman Empire, which brought about its collapse. In more recent times, the older among us in Great Britain have witnessed the collapse of the British Empire, which included one quarter of the population of the world.
Although that Empire crumbled away from 1945 on, as colony after colony became independent, in reality its real downfall had already begun in 1917. It was in that year that Great Britain went bankrupt as a result of the Great European War that had been started in 1914, largely by the megalomaniac Kaiser and international armament manufacturers. Thus, in 1917 Great Britain had been forced to borrow money from financiers in order to continue the war, making political compromises to do so (1). 1917 and not 1914 marked the real turning-point in world history in other ways too. It was after all in 1917 that the Russian Revolution, financed from New York, took place and within a few weeks the USA had entered the European War. As a result there began what many call ‘the American Century’, nearly a hundred years of US dominance of the world, as Western Europe entered not only into its first suicide pact of 1914-1918, but also its second, from 1939-1945.
However, the collapse of the British Empire since 1945 and at more or less the same time that of other Western European Empires, like the French, the Belgian and the Portuguese, is not the most recent collapse of Empire that we have witnessed. In some ways the collapse of the Soviet Empire, from 1989 onwards, was even more dramatic. Embroiled in a pointless, imperialistic war started in Afghanistan by a senile leader, the Soviet Empire had gone bankrupt and so lost its colonies. Like the collapse of the British and other Western European Empires, the Soviet collapse also echoed the collapse of the decadent Roman Empire, which has always provided an imperial model for Imperialism.
For the bankruptcy of the Soviet Empire, like that of the British and Roman and all other Empires, was not only financial, but also spiritual and therefore moral (for spirituality is the source of morality). Almighty God allows empires because they do more good than harm. However, there always comes a decadent phase, when they begin to do more harm than good. And thus they are allowed to fall. Such was the case of the British Empire, which went from noble, even Evangelical, aims and fell all too often to base commercial greed, in its opium wars in China, its concentration camps in South Africa and in its immoral colonial class in East Africa, India and the Caribbean.
The spiritual bankruptcy of the Soviet Empire became apparent to me in 1976. Then, visiting the Soviet Empire, I saw how nobody believed in Communism. I saw how the country was ruled by cynicism and inertia. Already then the ‘Communists’ clearly did not believe in their own ideology, but were a Mafia simply out to line their pockets, boredly clapping Communist gerontocrats, who themselves did not believe in their system. Little wonder that at that time the writer Solzhenitsyn called for people there to stop living the lie (‘zhit’ ne po lzhi’). He knew that once people started living for the truth, then the whole system would collapse. That is precisely the process that began after 1985. At that time the Party no longer ruled, even in name, the Empire was simply ruled by a Mafia, an Establishment kleptocracy (‘nomenklatura’ in Sovietspeak). Fortunately, since the year 2000, that criminal class has largely been eliminated and some of them now live in exile in London (where they are sheltered by the British government) and Russia has revived.
However, it has become clear that this is not the last collapse of an Empire which we are to witness. For we are now witnessing the collapse of the American Empire. This is the very Empire, whose rise began ninety years ago. It seems that although the American Empire has outlasted the Soviet Empire, it is to last less long than any of the Western European Empires, let alone the Roman Empire. Although it began in 1917, its golden age was to be in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Then, surely, it did more good than harm and the generosity of its people became legendary and is still warmly appreciated.
However, already in the 1960s and 1970s, its power had peaked and decadence was becoming visible. Thus, it lost the Vietnam War, because, supporting a corrupt and unpopular regime, it lost the moral high ground, even against the Communist enemy. Already in the 1970s, the same Solzhenitsyn warned the Western world of its moral bankruptcy and was disbelieved. Today, the USA, supported to some extent, or at least not actively resisted, by a spineless and venal Western Europe, has started wars against Serbia, Afghanistan and Iraq, and may even want to start a war in Iran. These are all wars which it cannot win and indeed wars which it is already clearly losing. Baghdad, which means ‘God-given’, has indeed become a graveyard for poor and unknowing American soldiers, sent to die by a government for invisible ‘weapons of mass destruction’
Not only does the American Empire, led at best by incompetence, at worst by greed and lies, suffer bankrupting, unwinnable and terrorizing wars, which are begun out of hubris (the illusion of self-satisfied pride). It also has a national debt of several trillions of dollars, which is supported largely, but temporarily, by China’s purchase of US government debt. Now with its illusory debt-financed boom over, the US is plunging into a crisis, as its housing bubble has burst and it faces soaring oil prices. With a dumbed down public education system, at its worst capable of turning out some of the most ill-educated and ill-behaved children in the world (not unlike the system in the UK), with a health system intent on profit and not health, with a non-existent public transport system, with a throwaway culture of unparalleled wastefulness, with an obesity crisis without precedent in human history, with a dollar so weak that American corporations are asking to be paid in euros, there are those who wonder how much longer the American Empire can continue. And this is no time for Western European countries to gloat. Having passively, or actively bought into the illusory ‘American dream’ for so long, they too will have to help pay the cost of the real American nightmare. Western Europe is dragged down by the measure of its own compromises with the ideology of pride, that is imaginary superiority.
THE REBALANCING OF THE WORLD
Some love to despair and are already preparing for the end of the world. But this is an exaggeration. The American Empire will not collapse overnight; nor will Western Europe be dragged down very suddenly. This process is taking years, not a few days. And the collapse of the American Empire is not necessarily the end of the world, simply the end of a world. It can be positive, not negative. Just like climate change, all this is happening in order for our age to become an opportunity to overcome the excesses of the past, an opportunity to repent, to change of way of life, an opportunity to rebalance the world.
Moreover, there is now emerging an alternative to the end of this Western dream world – and this is in Russia. Although Western right-wingers, who secretly loved the Cold War, at present rant about ‘the revival of the Soviet Empire’ under Vladimir Putin, this is absurd. In Russia there is indeed a revival, but it is a revival of the Russian Empire, not of the Soviet Empire, which is long dead. Indeed, it could be argued that the Soviet Empire died as long ago as 1943, when 25 years after Lenin had ordered the massacre of the Russian Imperial Family, Stalin realized that the war against Germany was winnable only with the support of the Russian Orthodox Church, not only not a Soviet institution, but indeed the direct opposite of a Soviet institution. And that war was indeed won by the Russian, and not Soviet, Empire, for Stalin’s crass military ineptitude would have lost it.
Russia visited the Communist ideology and found it catastrophically lacking. And the Communist materialist ideology, imported into Russia mainly by those who had sadly lost their faith, is only Western materialist liberalism carried to its ultimate extreme. Therefore, as Russia discovered during its Mafia rule by Westernizers in the 1990s, Western liberalism is no alternative to Communism – it is as bankrupt as Communism, because it is only a variation of Communism. It was for this reason that in the year 2000, inside Russia, the Russian Orthodox Church, the bearer of the conscience of all the East Slav peoples, was at last freed to glorify as saints of God the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Communist Yoke, including the Imperial Martyrs. Thus began a new era, which also set Russia on a collision course with the Western world and the intolerance of its anti-Christian political correctness. This is the one-dimensional, secularist ideology of the Western right to be immoral and to justify its immorality.
In this way Russia and all the other East Slav peoples, together called Rus, have returned to their roots, Orthodoxy. We have no other ideology, no other belief. With Communism as dead as Western liberalism, the Russian Orthodox Church, with its 187 bishops, with its sister-Churches around the world in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia and in Japan, in Serbia, Poland and Czechoslovakia, increasingly in Bulgaria, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Greece and Cyprus, is now laying the foundation of the new Russia, the new world. And the fact is that this new Russia has a popularity in China, in Iran and in the Middle East, whose conflict only Russian diplomacy can defuse and resolve with a justice and authority that no other nation on earth now possesses.
The Soviet Empire fell, but the Russian Empire is rising in its place. Even the most deluded are beginning to understand that the Soviet Empire was not only the gravest of errors, the most tragic episode of usurpation, the most catastrophic erring from Russia’s historic path and destiny, but also that Russia is now returning to normality and its rightful place on the world stage. It is time for those who have erred in turn, those who have acted against the Russian Church, who have sought the favour of the powers that be, out of weakness of soul, against the principles and integrity of the Orthodox Faith, to return also, whether in parts of the United States, in Paris, in Istanbul, or elsewhere, to their destiny and rightful role.
Over sixty years ago one of the greatest Russian saints, St Seraphim of Vyritsa (1866-1949), prophesied that: ‘A time will come when there will be a spiritual flowering in Russia. Many churches and monasteries will open, even those of other faiths will come to us in ships to be baptized’. I have long thought that the time will come when we in the West will be forbidden to baptize. Here is the prophecy that confirms the thought. It might be well to ask for a Russian passport now…
Priest Andrew Phillips
Written on 15/28 November 2007, as the Kursk Root Icon departs from Felixstowe to Munich, where, in the ROCOR Cathedral, His Holiness Patriarch Alexis II celebrates before Her, together with their Eminences Archbishop Mark and Bishop Agapit.
Note:
1) Ever since 1917, the ascendancy and power of international finance has been paramount in Great Britain. This is perhaps especially the case today under the fin de règne Big Brother Scottish Calvinist dictatorship of Blair and Brown. For this is when, with the Labour government financed and organized by Peter Mandelson, Lord Levy, David Abrahams and Jon Mendelsohn, to name but a few, this power is especially apparent. Little wonder that Mr Blair of the ‘Labour Friends of Israel’, has been given the task of ‘Middle East peace envoy’. As one commentator has remarked, this is similar to ‘making Hitler chief rabbi’.
as a Russian, you should know....the collapse of the Russian empire without a shot being fired was monumental....the worst collapse in world history
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agreed 100%...good post
Why didn't you agree with that post????
Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than a ninth of the Earth's land area. Everybody else (China included) is irrelevant from the Russian perspective
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as a Russian, you should know....the collapse of the Russian empire without a shot being fired was monumental....the worst collapse in world history
As you being an American I will have to explain you - Russia stands as it always stood. What is that without shot fired at you thing I always hear??? Who cares?
Russia is a great power and a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, a member of the G8, G20, the Council of Europe, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Eurasian Economic Community, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and is the leading member of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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As you being an American I will have to explain you - Russia stands as it always stood. What is that without shot fired at you thing I always hear??? Who cares?
Russia is a great power and a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, a member of the G8, G20, the Council of Europe, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Eurasian Economic Community, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and is the leading member of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Russia is the most irrelevant country on earth...only exporting weapons, vodka and prostitutes.....if you want to fuck, drink and kill people, then Russia is a great country ;D
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Russia is the most irrelevant country on earth...only exporting weapons, vodka and prostitutes.....if you want to fuck, drink and kill people, then Russia is a great country ;D
We are the civilization, Russian civilization on it's own, ground solid. We don't need to export something, why??? If I have money I will buy something that is made in China but why should I export something to China? We don't care! We are the largest and the greatest country on the planet Earth!
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Russia is the most irrelevant country on earth...only exporting weapons, vodka and prostitutes.....if you want to fuck, drink and kill people, then Russia is a great country ;D
Sounds good to me! Last count I had about 50 something guns, a shit load of cash, about 100k rounds of ammo,etc. Send me over, sounds like fun.
Better than dealing with homeless bums in the Bronx hawking me for $ $ $ every day. Shit I would trade dealing with angry black bums for hot broke russian chicks any day.
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Sounds good to me! Last count I had about 50 something guns, a shit load of cash, about 100k rounds of ammo,etc. Send me over, sounds like fun.
Better than dealing with homeless bums in the Bronx hawking me for $ $ $ every day. Shit I would trade dealing with angry black bums for hot broke russian chicks any day.
There are lots broken Russian chicks? any stories?
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Sounds good to me! Last count I had about 50 something guns, a shit load of cash, about 100k rounds of ammo,etc. Send me over, sounds like fun.
Better than dealing with homeless bums in the Bronx hawking me for $ $ $ every day. Shit I would trade dealing with angry black bums for hot broke russian chicks any day.
it really has become so difficult for you to hold in your racism.....a shame....you used to have some credibility..now you're just another angry irrational white guy who sees black people everywhere as the cause of your own failures and frustrations.......reall y sad to watch you degenerate into something so pitiful............
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There are lots broken Russian chicks? any stories?
Nah, just imagining myself giving some little Babusshka 50 rounds of 9mm for a blow job as opposed to grabbing my G26 every time i walk to my car from these animals begging me for booze money at 8 pm.
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it really has become so difficult for you to hold in your racism.....a shame....you used to have some credibility..now you're just another angry irrational white guy who sees black people everywhere as the cause of your own failures and frustrations.......reall y sad to watch you degenerate into something so pitiful............
I have been in my office since 2004. Only until recently have I been begged for cash by drunk bums etc. There are dealers on the corner i could easily take out myself, but the Fags/Pussies/Bitches in Blue don't do a damn thing.
Now, at night, i get hawked for $ $ $, etc. I'm tired of this and trying to leave. I have my building for sale and as soon as it sells, i'm out of here. Sick of dealing with this animals who belong in the Bronx Zoo.
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Nah, just imagining myself giving some little Babusshka 50 rounds of 9mm for a blow job as opposed to grabbing my G26 every time i walk to my car from these animals begging me for booze money at 8 pm.
Babushka is an innocent and kind very old woman. What office do you have?
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I have been in my office since 2004. Only until recently have I been begged for cash by drunk bums etc. There are dealers on the corner i could easily take out myself, but the Fags/Pussies/Bitches in Blue don't do a damn thing.
Now, at night, i get hawked for $ $ $, etc. I'm tired of this and trying to leave. I have my building for sale and as soon as it sells, i'm out of here. Sick of dealing with this animals who belong in the Bronx Zoo.
would it make you feel better if they were WHITE bums???
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We are the civilization, Russian civilization on it's own, ground solid. We don't need to export something, why??? If I have money I will buy something that is made in China but why should I export something to China? We don't care! We are the largest and the greatest country on the planet Earth!
No country in the world wants the shit Russia makes
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Babushka is an innocent and kind very old woman. What office do you have?
I have my law office/collection agency out of here.
Once construction collapsed, all the Mick's went hme to Ireland and we are left with the shit in Woodlawn. They are building a homeless shelter across the bridge for 400 homeless peopelandthe local people are scared shit.
Granted if i have to, I have enough to take out a small army on my own if need be, but I'm dick of even looking at this anymore.
I'm just tired of this crap. Were it not for my GF, I would got to Texas or Montana.
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No country in the world wants the shit Russia makes
The shit is made in China! It's China clothes the world! Why Russia???
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The shit is made in China! It's China clothes the world! Why Russia???
I see no Russian Tv's..cars...radios....blen ders.....nothing......Ru ssia makes weapons and thats it
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I see no Russian Tv's..cars...radios....blen ders.....nothing......Ru ssia makes weapons and thats it
www.sportsmansguide.com
I get tons of russian ammo for my AK 47, AR15, G 17, G 26, from this site. Russia is not good yet in the 9mm area.
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I see no Russian Tv's..cars...radios....blen ders.....nothing......Ru ssia makes weapons and thats it
High quality strippers for a reasonable price too.
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I see no Russian Tv's..cars...radios....blen ders.....nothing......Ru ssia makes weapons and thats it
Show me the law where it is written that is Russia is obliged to make Tv's, cars, radios, blenders etc???? There is no such law, ask 333386! It's the prerogative of the small country like Japan or something! Russia is going to land on Mars who the fucking cares for blenders??? :P
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Show me the law where it is written that is Russia obliged to make Tv's, cars, radios, blenders etc???? There is no such law, ask 333386! It's the prerogative of the small country like Japan or something! Russia is going to land Mars who the fucking cares for blenders??? :P
I bought a shit load of Russian Bear 7.62 for my AK and no problems at all. Can't complain at all. bought some 9mm and no probs either.
The .22 sucked though. For me, Russian 7.62 is a great buy.
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Show me the law where it is written that is Russia is obliged to make Tv's, cars, radios, blenders etc???? There is no such law, ask 333386! It's the prerogative of the small country like Japan or something! Russia is going to land on Mars who the fucking c thares for blenders??? :P
HAHA!!!!..Russia can't make a blender and they're going to land on Mars??????????,,,you are so dumb if you believe that!!!!
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Show me the law where it is written that is Russia is obliged to make Tv's, cars, radios, blenders etc???? There is no such law, ask 333386! It's the prerogative of the small country like Japan or something! Russia is going to land on Mars who the fucking cares for blenders??? :P
Good luck getting to the moon first chump.
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HAHA!!!!..Russia can't make a blender and they're going to land on Mars??????????,,,you are so dumb if you believe that!!!!
The first probes to impact and land on Mars were the Soviet Union's Mars 2. Will you shoot a bullet through your brains if Russia makes it 1'st?
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The first probes to impact and land on Mars were the Soviet Union's Mars 2. Will you shot a bullet through your brains if Russia makes it 1'st?
won't happen..china will get there before you ....and after us
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won't happen..china will get there before you ....and after us
MARS-500
Mars-500 is a multi-part ground-based experiment simulating a manned flight to Mars. The experiment's facility is located at the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in Moscow, Russia. A total of 640 experiment days have been scheduled, divided into three stages.
Purposes of the experiment
The main purpose of stays in the experimental facility (105-day and 520 day mission) is:[7]
Organization of the activity of the crew and its communication with the ground-based control center regarding peculiarities typical for the Martian flight
Verification of the methods and means of control and monitoring of the habitat during lengthy crew stays in confined and pressurized conditions
Simulation of the activity of the crew on the surface of Mars and operations during the flight
Verification of the methods and means of control, diagnostics and forecast of the state of health and working capacity, improvement of means of providing of medical help and prophylaxis
Creation of reference-information system, providing activity of the crew, keeping and transfer of electronic information
Approbation of methods and autonomous means of psychological support, using fx. the Sociomapping method
Nothing of this has ever even started somewhere else. Russia is step in front!
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Russian army forgot to ask your valuable opinion!!!
I've driven the T-72...u idiots have this problem where the auto-loader loads a crew member at times....awsome!
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I've driven the T-72...u idiots have this problem where the auto-loader loads a crew member at times....awsome!
llnnnaaaooo
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There was a time in the mid 90's through about 2002 where we flew the Mi-24's more the Russian military did. We bought tons of them after they collapsed.
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There was a time in the mid 90's through about 2002 where we flew the Mi-24's more the Russian military did. We bought tons of them after they collapsed.
For shits and giggles?
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Russia will fall apart before the U.S.
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Russia will fall apart before the U.S.
I love that video, Russia has always come back stronger!
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US President Barack Obama is giving his State of the Union Address, but what positive notes could he possibly make? Many US states lost more jobs this past month, unemployment is high and the US economy in shambles.
Joblessness rose in 20 of the States as more works were laid off. In only a mere 15 states did the unemployed population shrink, the remaining 15 states continue to stagnate, reported the US Department of Labor.
Many economists expect hiring to pick-up in 2011, but the overall unemployment rate is unlikely to change significantly. The report confirmed what many already knew, the US job market is in a dire condition.
Throughout the US there are over 1.4 million Americans who have been out of work for more than 99 weeks, according to the US Congressional Research Service. After 99 weeks, these people lose their government funded assistance, making a bad situation even worse.
The US economy may be recovering for the rich, but it appears to only be getting worse of the middle and poorer classes.
Karl Denninger, the editor of The Market Ticker, explained Obama needs to stop spending and encourage savings; however he is likely to call for greater spending through investment, infrastructure development and special projects.
“I don’t know how he thinks he’s going to fund that,” he commented. “The answer thus far, during the downturn has been, we’ll barrow money. That’s a great idea right up until someone asks, how are you going to pay that back?”
Unemployment is feeding the problem of government overspending. With less people working, there is les government tax revenue. Without incomes to tax, the government’s coffers suffer.
The US needs to focus on creating jobs, companies need to base factories, innovation and opportunities in the US. However, for them to do so the government needs to create the right incentives and business environments for companies to return.
There are no easy answers on the economy, explained Denninger. He explained America needs to rebalance its economy.
“We need to incentive companies to come to the United States. The easiest way to do that is to change the tax system in radical ways, but that is politically very difficult to do because the tax system is used as a political tool to entice people to do various things,” he explained.
Obama is expected to call for a five year freeze on non-discretionary spending, however such a freeze will not impact overall government spending. Denninger said to cut costs one must cut entitlement spending, such as unemployment and other social programs. However, it is politically unpopular to do so.
In addition, the US needs to move away from a short-term focus on the economy and look to the long term.
Denninger explained, “Short term political considerations always way large, and that’s one of the problems we have. The structural issues we have in this country are not short term.”
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Hey moron- how is your invincible country doing protecting its citizens at the airport these days? Was the entire Russian intelligence service (an oxymoron in itself) too hung over to fight terrorism yesterday?
I see that your still obsessed with US economic policy but haven't mentioned once how your Communist thug government is too weak to protect its own people from filthy Chechen rebels armed with pitchforks and TNT.
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I love that video, Russia has always come back stronger!
Russia loves fucking over their citizens.
Remember the sub where the entire crew died because Putin was to proud to take the help from the West when offered?
Corruption that makes our own politicians look like saints.
Human rights in Russia is a city in Russia(excuse the pun)
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Hey moron- how is your invincible country doing protecting its citizens at the airport these days? Was the entire Russian intelligence service (an oxymoron in itself) too hung over to fight terrorism yesterday?
I see that your still obsessed with US economic policy but haven't mentioned once how your Communist thug government is too weak to protect its own people from filthy Chechen rebels armed with pitchforks and TNT.
Chechnya is a subject of Russian federation. Chechen president Ramzan Kadirov said -
“US creates problems for Russia in the North Caucasus” – Kadyrov
he President of Russia's Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, has accused the United States of working to destroy Russia.
Kadirov says the US is trying to undermine the country by creating conflict and tension in Russia's southern republics in the North Caucasus.
In recent weeks the number of attacks in Ingushetia and Dagestan has increased sharply.
These events are just part of the violence that has flared up in various parts of the Caucasus during the last two weeks.
The President of the Chechen Republic, whose father was killed in a terrorist attack, is pointing the finger not at Islamists in the Middle East or Afghanistan but at the USA.
“I like to call things by their proper names. The center is in America. And it is America that is working to undermine the sovereign Russian state. It's not the terrorists, not the Islamic radicals. It has nothing to do with Islam. They [the US] have invented this system. They are creating problems for Russia; they want to undermine Russia,” Kadyrov said in an interview posted on the official website of the Chechen President and Cabinet on Wednesday.
Kadyrov had identified Washington’s tools in this process as public bodies or NGOs (non-governmental organizations).
Kadyrov says they use professional subversives in their mission to destabilize the region.
The Chechen President has added that the US failed to undermine Russia through Chechnya and is now trying to do it through Dagestan and Ingushetia.
“They have such a system: all kinds of public organizations that were set up to spread rumors and gossip, to stir people, as they know that it is possible to create problems for Russia in the Caucasus only on religious grounds. They are training and using top experts. Take the Arabs that are moving here – Yaser, Makhdan – they have been here for 14 years already. They speak Russian better than I do but do not know a single word in Chechen. They were perfectly trained. They don't take part in combat. They are intelligence officers. They are being provided for, they are guarded and financed. They have been sent to Russia to take part in subversive operations,” Kadyrov said.
Some analysts agree the recent wave of violence shows signs of being centrally controlled.
“The attacks in the Caucasus obviously seem organized and planned and have the aim of showing that neither the federal center nor the regional authorities can control the situation in these republics”, independent analyst in Moscow Dmitry Evstafyev said.
Even though many experts agree that the recent wave of violence in the Caucasus was organized from outside, Ramzan Kadyrov remains in a minority in laying the blame on the United States.
While there may be disagreement about who is behind the violence, it is believed the attacks are unlikely to stop while the militants continue to be financed.
The situation in the North Caucasus remains volatile. Hundreds of terrorist-related crimes have already been committed in 2009.
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Russia loves fucking over their citizens.
Remember the sub where the entire crew died because Putin was to proud to take the help from the West when offered?
Corruption that makes our own politicians look like saints.
Human rights in Russia is a city in Russia(excuse the pun)
Russia is unbeatable!
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Russia is unbeatable!
Except by terrorists at the airport.
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Except by terrorists at the airport.
I'll surely remember your words when something wrong goes in US ;D
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I'll surely remember your words when something wrong goes in US ;D
I never claimed we were unbeatable.
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I never claimed we were unbeatable.
Only the time will tell. What is America???
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
Sigmund Freud
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Sigmund Freud
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Only the time will tell. What is America???
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
Sigmund Freud
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Sigmund Freud
do u call Russia a success??? you are really delusional
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do u call Russia a success??? you are really delusional
OF course yes, there is a great Russian culture, language, history and America has got none of this. No culture (Hollywood and pop music is not culture, you are delusional), no language (They speak English in England), history (My town has been settled long before the US formed) etc etc etc :o
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Foreclosing of America: The crisis continues
Struggling Americans are going to great lengths to save their homes in the face of a worsening economic crisis.
As Wall Street boasts record profits and Washington insists we are firmly on the road to economic recovery, millions of Americans still have that sinking feeling, worried they’ll soon lose the roof over their head.
“It’s hard to sleep, I can’t eat, I can’t make plans because you don’t know if the next week you’re going to get a letter that says you have to go,” said homeowner Jose Rodriguez.
He is one of thousands of people who camped out in front of the Los Angeles Sports Arena to line up for a mortgage help clinic, a last ditch effort for simply trying to keep their homes.
Rodriguez fell behind on his mortgage after his wife became sick and medical bills flooded in.
“Maybe 500 people made bad decisions or maybe a thousand people. But when you see 5 thousand people out here, you know it’s not just people making bad decisions,” said Bruce Marks, founder of Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America. “It was a racketeering scheme that really put people in a position to fail.”
And fail they did. A record 2.9 million homes went into foreclosure in 2010.Yet Realty Trac, an online market for foreclosures, warns that figure may jump by 20 percent this year.
Many lost homes are due to lost jobs, as high unemployment persists in California and across the nation.
“These banks and government look at people as numbers,” said Marks.“They should come out here in the early morning hours to see people freezing in tents just to save their homes,” Marks added.
Desperate homeowners are fighting back.In December, hundreds of protesters tried to move into the lobby of a Chase Bank branch in downtown Los Angeles, as a way to shed light on the foreclosure crisis.22 people were arrested, including an 85 year old woman.
They may have sent a message, but many see it as a lost cause, a view reinforced by the recent appointment of William Daley as the president’s Chief of Staff.Daley is a former executive at JP Morgan Chase, a major mortgage lender.
“Big companies are taking over our country.That’s my feeling and I don’t know much about the economy,” said Rodriguez as he stood in line waiting for help in modifying his home loan.
You don’t have to be Albert Einstein to figure out that with big business playing a bigger role in the White House; it is unlikely the help to stop the foreclosing of America will come anytime soon.
Nomi Prins, a senior fellow at Demos and the author of "It Takes a Pillage" said the term “foreclosure” is disappearing from US politics, it was even absent for the State of The Union address because many are afraid to address the reality of the housing market.
“Foreclosures are sort of the ugliness that really is at the core of how a lot of the institutions made their money,” she explained. “The people that are facing foreclosure, that have faced foreclosure, we’re talking about 8 million families, not even people, but families that have already gone through the process, others in the process. An expectation of 4 million more families to face foreclosure over the next 2 years of this administration and all of that is something that Obama doesn’t want to address and Washington has largely stopped addressing.”
She explained America is still in crisis, not the banks or the firms, but the American people and middle class.
“Nothing has been fixed,” Prins said.
The banking industry was saved by the government and their crisis has passed. The government on the other hand has not helped the people, has not bailed out American citizens.
“There is this dislocation,” she remarked. “The reality is that jobs are not being created in the country, the student loan debt for example is higher than it has ever been, foreclosures are continuing to increase, defaults are increasing, credit card fees on top of credit card debt continue to increase and there is no operation, there is no legislation, there is no reform being put forth to address this.”
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State of the Union: Real Americans weigh in
Dumfries, VA may just be 30 miles outside of Washington DC, but in many aspects, it is worlds away. Residents here call themselves “ordinary citizens”.
You can find Waffle House restaurants at the crossroads and truck stops of most small cities in America.The one, in Dumfries, VA ,draws in truck drivers and teachers and even high school students like Fernando Huerta, who at just 18-years-old criticizes the government for focusing so many of its resources outside of the country.
“I don’t think we should be too worried about other nations right now. It shouldn’t even be on our top 20 list of concerns,” Huerta said.
The concerns of the country were highlighted in President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, where he also highlighted progress.
“Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known, the stock market has come roaring back. Corporate profits are up. The economy is growing again,” Obama said.
It’s a claim Waffle House patron Julie Wollner doesn’t totally agree with.
“We need to get jobs back.The economy has not been stimulated as it should have,” Wollner said.
For the average person the suffering goes on.
“I have several college degreed family members with no jobs,” said Reggie Smith, over eggs and grits.“One had their house foreclosed.”
Just down the street from the Dumfries Waffle House is the Grayson Village mobile home park, where Robert Allen liveswith his wife Barbara, and father-in-law, Irvine Watkins. He says many people at his own company lost their jobs, their health insurance and their hope. He said members of Congress should stop propping up banks and stop spending money on wars.
“They oughta look after their own people first. The tax money is made in America,” Allen said. “It’s not made in other countries so it should be spent here first.Take care of home before you take care of somebody else.”
At the State of the Union address, in light of the deadly shootings in Tuscon, AZ, many Republicans and Democrats opted to sit together instead of in different sections.
“What comes of this moment is up to us,” Obama said. “What comes of this moment will be determined not by whether we can sit together tonight, but whether we can work together tomorrow.”
So, what’s the likelihood of that happening?
“Like anything when something happens everyone comes together, and we do a little kumbaya moment.We love each other but then next week they’ll fight over healthcare,” said Smith.
Allen agreed.
“That’s just like taking a kid and putting him in a candy shop,” he said. “Now you be good and I’ll give you some candy. That’s what it looks like to me. You put em together tonight and tomorrow they’ll be kicking at each other again.”
For Americans like this, the words are a start but the action still seems a long way off.
Chrystopher Smith, a former congressional candidate from California said Obama’s address was full of rhetoric, and little reality.
Political Analyst Brian Debose disagreed, arguing the speech was a good one, based on brining both sides together and emphasizing the economy.
“The economy is growing,” said Debose. “The problem is the job market is not coming back.”
“This is all frosting and no cake,” argued Smith. “There was no substance to anything that came out of the man’s mouth yesterday. There was very very coded rhetoric that came out of his mouth regarding the economy, regarding the next step.
Smith said Obama was talking to his supporters, not all Americans, to lay out his 2012 game plan for the next US presidential election. While Debose contended the speech addressed various issues many Americans value as important, and want to see actions on.
“When you’re talking about lowering the corporate tax rate you’re not talking to a liberal constituency of Barack Obama. When you’re talking about clean coal, clean coal is something the environmentalist groups in this country have been fighting against Obama since he got into office and continue to,” Debose commented.
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2011: hollow growth or major overhaul for Russia's economy?
Ben Aris, Business New Europe 4:59PM GMT 02 Jan 2011
Russia’s economy may be on the rebound but, without major revamping, finance chiefs say the long-term prognosis remains bleak.
Western Europe is staring into the abyss of sovereign default again, but Russia is “not under pressure” and will go back to strong growth in 2011. So claimed top Russian finance officials this month, with the sombre addendum that the country is still doomed to an endless boom-and-bust cycle unless the make-up of the economy is fundamentally changed.
It seems serious public discussion of Russia’s woes always happens in London. Deputy economics minister Andrey Klepach, deputy finance minister Dmitry Pankin and Alexei Ulyukaev, first deputy chairman of the Russian Central Bank (the troika that shapes much of Russia’s economic and financial policy), spoke at the Adam Smith annual Russian Banking Forum, painting a mixed picture of where Russia will go next year.
While large parts of the developed world face massive sovereign debts that can’t be paid off due to huge budget deficits, Russia sports the lowest debt-to-GDP ratio of any large country in the world. A report by Goldman Sachs says its deficit could disappear as soon as next year, and economic growth will run at a healthy 4pc or more in the next few years.
“Russia enjoys a low debt-to-GDP ratio of about 10pc, so we can borrow and remain reluctant to cut spending,” said Mr Pankin. “The deficit is projected to be 4.8pc this year, 3.6pc next year, falling to zero in 2015. We are not under a lot of pressure and can continue fiscal stimulation as there is no danger of solvency problems.”
Heavy state spending is keeping the wheels of commerce turning, but, according to Mr Klepach, unless the nature of the economy is fundamentally changed, Russia will be caught in a periodic devaluation trap.
So far the state hasn’t come up with anything better than pumping investment into the economy through huge state-owned enterprises. The government concedes that the race is on: either make qualitative changes in the nature of the economy while it is growing, or consign Russia to the boom-and-bust cycles of a commodity dependent economy.
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Crime and punishment in modern Russia
by Andy Potts at 24/01/2011 12:59
Russia’s murder rate could be as high as 46,200 for 2009 – despite official statistics saying just 18,200 people were killed.
A study from the expert institute of the Academy of the Prosecutor General’s office claimed that the real figures are alarmingly higher than official numbers.
The findings back up a claim from President Medvedev that statistics were often “rubbish”, as he said in a meeting with security officials in Nov. 2010 in Yessentuki.
Missing murders
According to a team of experts led by Professor Sergei Inshakov, many fatal attacks are not classed as murders because the victim is not found dead at the scene of the crime.
A person beaten to the point of death who is taken to hospital and dies some hours later is not classed as a murder victim.
Meanwhile the crime listed in the Russian Criminal Code as “grievous bodily harm resulting in the death of the victim” also obscures the true figures, the BBC Russian service reported on gzt.ru.
]b]Rising crime[/b]
Based on Inshakov’s efforts, researchers can see a clear trend in rising murder rates. In 2001 there were 34,200 murders according to official figures – but while the same official figures point to a drop in killings, the study shows a year-on-year increase of 2.4 per cent each year.
And it highlights why Russia is the world’s third most violent country, with 14.2 murders per 100,000 people putting it behind South Africa and Brazil.
Curiously South Africa, Brazil and Russia have been selected as football World Cup hosts for consecutive tournaments from 2010 to 2018.
Russia is the only European nation to feature on the 20 most murderous countries, nestling between Namibia and Surinam.
And the 46,000 murders in 2009 represent three times the USSR’s death toll in 10 years of war in Afghanistan.
They also dwarf the 16,000 annual murders in the US, with twice the population and fewer restrictions on firearms.
Under-reported
Officially Russia saw 3 million crimes in 2009 – but according to Inshakov and his colleagues the true figure was closer to 26 million.
Most petty crime goes unreported, due in part to a lack of trust in the police.
And the Prosecutor General’s study team highlighted a direct link between police figures and political pressures to show that things are getting better.
The findings talk of a “fight against the concealment of crime”, likening the process to the bad habits of Soviet industry where producing the right numbers was often more important than producing useful products.
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2011: hollow growth or major overhaul for Russia's economy?
Ben Aris, Business New Europe 4:59PM GMT 02 Jan 2011
Russia’s economy may be on the rebound but, without major revamping, finance chiefs say the long-term prognosis remains bleak.
Western Europe is staring into the abyss of sovereign default again, but Russia is “not under pressure” and will go back to strong growth in 2011. So claimed top Russian finance officials this month, with the sombre addendum that the country is still doomed to an endless boom-and-bust cycle unless the make-up of the economy is fundamentally changed.
It seems serious public discussion of Russia’s woes always happens in London. Deputy economics minister Andrey Klepach, deputy finance minister Dmitry Pankin and Alexei Ulyukaev, first deputy chairman of the Russian Central Bank (the troika that shapes much of Russia’s economic and financial policy), spoke at the Adam Smith annual Russian Banking Forum, painting a mixed picture of where Russia will go next year.
While large parts of the developed world face massive sovereign debts that can’t be paid off due to huge budget deficits, Russia sports the lowest debt-to-GDP ratio of any large country in the world. A report by Goldman Sachs says its deficit could disappear as soon as next year, and economic growth will run at a healthy 4pc or more in the next few years.
“Russia enjoys a low debt-to-GDP ratio of about 10pc, so we can borrow and remain reluctant to cut spending,” said Mr Pankin. “The deficit is projected to be 4.8pc this year, 3.6pc next year, falling to zero in 2015. We are not under a lot of pressure and can continue fiscal stimulation as there is no danger of solvency problems.”
Heavy state spending is keeping the wheels of commerce turning, but, according to Mr Klepach, unless the nature of the economy is fundamentally changed, Russia will be caught in a periodic devaluation trap.
So far the state hasn’t come up with anything better than pumping investment into the economy through huge state-owned enterprises. The government concedes that the race is on: either make qualitative changes in the nature of the economy while it is growing, or consign Russia to the boom-and-bust cycles of a commodity dependent economy.
I think that's story is false! I see the other picture! :P
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Crime and punishment in modern Russia
by Andy Potts at 24/01/2011 12:59
Russia’s murder rate could be as high as 46,200 for 2009 – despite official statistics saying just 18,200 people were killed.
A study from the expert institute of the Academy of the Prosecutor General’s office claimed that the real figures are alarmingly higher than official numbers.
The findings back up a claim from President Medvedev that statistics were often “rubbish”, as he said in a meeting with security officials in Nov. 2010 in Yessentuki.
Missing murders
According to a team of experts led by Professor Sergei Inshakov, many fatal attacks are not classed as murders because the victim is not found dead at the scene of the crime.
A person beaten to the point of death who is taken to hospital and dies some hours later is not classed as a murder victim.
Meanwhile the crime listed in the Russian Criminal Code as “grievous bodily harm resulting in the death of the victim” also obscures the true figures, the BBC Russian service reported on gzt.ru.
]b]Rising crime[/b]
Based on Inshakov’s efforts, researchers can see a clear trend in rising murder rates. In 2001 there were 34,200 murders according to official figures – but while the same official figures point to a drop in killings, the study shows a year-on-year increase of 2.4 per cent each year.
And it highlights why Russia is the world’s third most violent country, with 14.2 murders per 100,000 people putting it behind South Africa and Brazil.
Curiously South Africa, Brazil and Russia have been selected as football World Cup hosts for consecutive tournaments from 2010 to 2018.
Russia is the only European nation to feature on the 20 most murderous countries, nestling between Namibia and Surinam.
And the 46,000 murders in 2009 represent three times the USSR’s death toll in 10 years of war in Afghanistan.
They also dwarf the 16,000 annual murders in the US, with twice the population and fewer restrictions on firearms.
Under-reported
Officially Russia saw 3 million crimes in 2009 – but according to Inshakov and his colleagues the true figure was closer to 26 million.
Most petty crime goes unreported, due in part to a lack of trust in the police.
And the Prosecutor General’s study team highlighted a direct link between police figures and political pressures to show that things are getting better.
The findings talk of a “fight against the concealment of crime”, likening the process to the bad habits of Soviet industry where producing the right numbers was often more important than producing useful products.
Russia is for alpha males!!! Don't like it??? Go to US!
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Crime and Punishment!!!! I love Dostoevsky!
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Crime and Punishment!!!! I love Dostoevsky!
I'm just going to have to fly over there (on a Western airline) and kick your ass on the banks of the Volga.
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I'm just going to have to fly over there (on a Western airline) and kick your ass on the banks of the Volga.
The Volga river is 15 min of pace walk from me! Continue!
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Am fucking loving it
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The Volga river is 15 min of pace walk from me! Continue!
I will drive you like an ox from the banks of the Volga into the Ural mountains.
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I will drive you like an ox from the banks of the Volga into the Ural mountains.
Who is it I? Is it triads or just you?
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US economy in deep hole
Economic indicators show the US economy is improving, citing growths in US GDP and stock market rises; however that is not enough to save an entire economy.
Dean Baker, the author of “False Profits, Recovering from the Bubble Economy” and the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research explained the US economy is in a deep hole, it’s an extraordinarily bad economy when you also consider job growth and unemployment.
“In a context where you have an economy that has so much unemployment, you have tens of millions of people either unemployed or under employed you expect to see much more rapid growth. Just as a benchmark number here, if the economy is growing about 2.5 percent, then we’re just treating water. That’s enough to keep pace with the growth in the labor market. 3.2 percent, that’s going to bring down the unemployment rate a little bit by the end of the year. If we continued at this rate we won’t get back to normal rate of unemployment, say 5 percent of unemployment, till say, 2018 or 2020,” he explained. “You could always say it could have been worse, but this is not anything I would want to celebrate.”
Inflation, pumping cash into the economy, does not secure a strong growth future, many experts argue. Prices are rising, yet salaries are not. Many Americans cannot keep up.
There is low demand for goods and service in the economy, thus prices are begin forced up by the market.
“What we really do need is more demand in the economy. That’s what will generate jobs,” Baker explained. “We need an economy that is growing on a sounder basis.”
Many companies are sitting on large quantities or money and open jobs, but are not filling them because market demands remain low, he argued. It is more about demand than corporate taxes and regulations.
The US economy will continue to suffer high unemployment unless demand is addressed. He explained wage driven growth is the solution, via productivity which will drive increased demand.
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The US should leave the Caucasus alone – Chechen leader
Ramzan Kadyrov, Head of Russia’s Chechen Republic, says in an exclusive interview with pizda that the West is consciously building a negative image of the restored Chechnya.
In the aftermath of the terror attack at Domodedovo Airport, he stresses that the West eagerly promotes the idea of a “Caucasus trace” in any terror acts, and even uses human rights activists for its own agenda of unhinging Russian unity. He drew attention to the fact that in Chechnya, they build both Orthodox churches and mosques, and that Muslims are restoring Orthodox cemeteries, but despite that, foreign terrorists sent to the Caucasus by the West preach jihad against Russians and Christians in the Russian language.
Pizda: Why is a negative image of Chechnya being built in the West now when Chechnya is being restored, as contrasted with the period of war and breakdown?
Ramzan Kadyrov: The West implements such a policy towards Russia. They are not interested in the Chechen Republic. Their attitude to the Caucasus is dictated by their global interest. The West is interested in ruining the sovereign state of Russia. Why far away, across the water, are they so interested in Ukraine and Georgia? Why is America building its policy towards them in such a way? Because America knows that Russia is a great power and someone has to interfere with its plans so that its affairs will be damaged. That’s the reason why the West is constantly showing that it seems as though there is no democracy in Russia and human rights are violated. They are working on ruining Russia step by step, as they ruined the USSR before.
Pizda: Could the US do something positive for the Caucasus?
RK: If they left the Caucasus alone, we would have resolved the issues with Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. If only they could stop interfering with our affairs and leave us alone, If only they could ask the people whether they want NATO troops or American troops present in the Caucasus. Who needs them in the Caucasus? Who’s interested in hostilities in Georgia, Chechnya, Ingushetia, and Abkhazia? We lived peacefully and had brotherly relations with all people. If they had left us alone, our peaceful life would have been restored. That’s the best thing they can do for us.
Pizda: After the explosion in Domodedovo, Western newspapers were the first to mention a Caucasian link ahead of the first investigators’ reports. What do you say to that?
RK: It’s always this way. They are always in a hurry to tell the whole world that the Caucasus is a place where there is no order and people are ready to kill anyone, as if we are all murderers and terrorists. They present Chechen, Dagestani, and Ingush people as criminals to the international community. That’s the way they conduct their politics. I’ve always said so.
They want Siberia, the Volga Region, St. Petersburg and other regions to treat us with apprehension. They do not want to let our society consolidate in Russia. It’s dirty politics.
Once a terrorist happens to be from the Caucasus – why do they always underline it in public opinion? He is Russian anyway. We all are citizens of Russia. The Caucasus belongs to Russia. We are citizens of Russia as well as the others. Why are we always separated from Russia?
If one comes from the Caucasus and appears to be a terrorist, then he turns into a common enemy and is to be arrested or eliminated. We are doing it day and night – I’ve lost everything fighting against terrorism and extremism.
We put everything in order on our territory, and we will continue doing so. We can assist Americans in this – they have huge problems with it in Iraq and Afghanistan. They do not display their affairs, but interfere with ours.
I am sure that if it turns out that a Caucasian is involved in this case, we are to speak of him as of a criminal without a nationality, religion or homeland. He’s a terrorist. If he dies – good; if not – we are to find and neutralize him. It’s not correct to base a policy on whether he’s a Muscovite or a Caucasian.
Both our high-ranking authorities and security agencies often mention the so-called Caucasian link when reporting on versions of an incident. I often have to hear it. I even raised this question at the Security Council several times.
There is no such thing as the Caucasian link. There is no Caucasian jamia [Muslim association], as many like to say, like there is no Moscow jamia. We aggravate the situation and give grounds for such suspicions in society. As if there is a jamia in the Caucasus, and here they have Command. It turns out that the same people say that the terrorist network is being destroyed, but at the same time we build up confidence that the network becomes stronger. There is a group of criminals, but we’ll destroy them.
Pizda: In your opinion what’s the situation today – war or reconciliation?
RK: We have neither a war nor reconciliation. There are terrorists in the Caucasus, but they are everywhere. There are terrorists in Moscow, St. Petersburg, the UK, and the US. There are terrorists guided by the security agencies; there are self-made ones; there are terrorists who heard an appeal and came.
We had Arab mercenaries. They’ve been in the Chechen Republic for about 15-16 years and do not speak a word of Chechen, but speak Russian perfectly.
Think why! Who sent them here? Why was it so hard to eliminate them? Abu-Valid spoke Russian, Khattab spoke Russian, Turks and other mercenaries speak Russian well. They preach that Russians are disbelievers and they must be killed, but they made all, including the Chechens, speak in Russian about it.
Those are specially-trained people sent here by the security agencies so that problems would continue in Russia.
The Chechen people have realized that it’s a made-up war against the sovereign state of Russia. We realized that definitely we are to eliminate those people, and we are to protect our children from them.
In the Caucasus, there are regions with problems. Recently there was a meeting on the development of the North-Caucasian Federal District chaired by the head of the government. All law-enforcement and security agencies work in the region. It’s important, but what’s more important is to fight together with the people against extremism and terrorism. Only then will they disappear. We are on the way to it.
Pizda: Ok, then. Mercenaries preach terrorism in Russian. But what about the Russian population? Are they coming back? What’s being done for that?
RK: There are things that surprise people in this country, including many Russians. For example, in the Orlov Region you can’t build a mosque. In Stavropol, where hundreds of thousands of Muslims live, you can’t build a mosque. But we give a contrary example.
In the Chechen Republic, where there allegedly was a religious war, we build both mosques and Orthodox temples and restore churches.
When I became deputy prime minister, the first thing I did was to gather volunteers to clean the Orthodox cemetery. I was the first to call on Russians to come to the republic and visit the cemetery and pray for their relatives. We were the first to pay for transport for the people to be able to come. As a bonus, I gave every person who came a sum of money from a social fund. We respect Christians.
When the Prophet – Allah bless and greet him – left Mecca and arrived to Medina he did not fight either with Christians or Jews. He said that everyone should sign agreements so that Christians and other communities could trade and prosper. When the Prophet returned to Mecca, he made many concessions to Christians. Our religion says that if you are not prevented from praying, you should obey the laws of that country. We – Muslims of Russia – live in the legal area of Russia, and as no other nation we feel a high level of affiliation with society.
In the Chechen Republic, our religion is real and not just words. We work with young people and organize religious scientific conferences, invite scientists from the Caucasus and around the world, including Christians and Muslims. We explain that we were not divided so that no one will impose Wahhabism, extremism or anything else in relation to our separation.
Recently I told religious leaders to preach sermons in Russian, Kumyk and Tatar languages.
We see that religious Christians are honest people. In the Naur Region we are building a complex for Christians – even better than they wanted. In the Shelkovskoy, Sunzhensky and Gudermes regions Christians needed buses for their trips to church. We settled that for them – bought buses for the church to transport them.
We are implementing the right policy. I haven’t seen a single dissatisfied person. In our region, Muslims cleaned the cemetery together with Christians.
The Archbishop of Stavropol, Pheophan, asked to move the church in Grozny to another place, farther from the road where it is now. I invited him to choose the place, and we’ll build it – with a hotel for guests and on a big piece of land. Chechens support that.
Pizda: What’s the reason for the conflict and tough relations with human rights activists?
RK: There is no conflict. I appeal to them to protect the rights and not violate them. I tell them that if they want to protect rights, they should come to me and voice the issue they think important. I have authority. I can invite the Prosecutor General, the Interior Minister, the Head of the Federal Security Service Directorate, heads of the municipals, and the religious leaders. If there are human rights violations, we can solve issues fast.
Accommodation, a patch of land – we help in any situation.
But activists do not want that! They are paid huge grants. They need to make a precedent to show that rights are not protected in Chechnya. They are ready to do whatever it takes for a $10,000 grant. There is evidence that there are dishonest people among them. They accuse people, knowing that they are not guilty. It’s the court who should decide on guilt and not human rights activists who are paid from unclear foundations and sent here by unknown organizations.
When I stepped up to my post, I gave an oath to respect human rights. A man’s word is the most important thing to him. I tell you, I’ve lost the dearest people in my life for the sake of the rights of the people in my republic, for peace and stability. How can Kadyrov violate human rights? How can any of the activists coming to the republic be interested in human rights more than me?
If you want to see a real picture, come to any village. I gave 14,000 orders within one week. And all of them were fulfilled. We receive phone calls, meet with people and get letters. We solve all kinds of issues. That’s what we are here for.
There was not such a case that human rights activists protected human rights better than we do in our republic. They are protecting their pockets, which explains their cold attitude to the present Chechen Republic.
I invited them to come and ask questions and proved that they were not right. But they are never ashamed. A person should have principles: live for your motherland and give your honor to no one. But evidently they are guided by a different principle. Allah created them like that, I will pray for them.
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Russia is a country with such wasted potential
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Russia is a country with such wasted potential
It's just words be specific, Andrei is da da da the the the da the a the the the Man
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General public would pray for lintn to come back vs the Kenyan Madoff we have now.