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A joke of the day, to brighten up the misery:
- What Russian football team do you favour?
- I think Donetsk Shahter has the best outlook.
- And what about Kiev Dynamo?
- I am not into Polish football.
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Are you trying to say that nuclear contamination from a nuclear bomb or, say 10x of those is not comparable in health consequences to the radiation emitted from a nucler power plant disaster? I find it hard to believe.
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Even if it gets published in the Western MSM, the image of "Putin's missile" is already too deeply entranced in the mind of an average Joe watching the zombobox (TV). The damage is already done, the truth can now be printed in small print on page 68...
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Don't forget radioactive fall-out. Even after a relatively small Chernobyl disaster, there are areas in Russia and France that I know of that had radiological epidemics of cancer, with families losing several of their members to the disease.
Nukes = suicide.
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Not much different from FBI hunting down drugs or child pornography sites.
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Wi-Fi registration: Let's think of a parallel. Until not so long ago, you could buy a SIM card without identifying yourself, now EU laws make you identify before connecting to the mobile network access points. Why are internet access points any different?
I am not saying it's good, but that's where the world is going to, some countries, are just ahead on some of the fronts.
As for the laws that get passed in Russia. Media there makes fun of the lawmakers quite regularly, with many laws entering circulation half-baked and impossible to enforce. Just give it time, it'll be revised within a year or two to make it more realistic.
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Russia was referring to NATO and the West as "partners" until recently, even when NATO was behaving anything by as a partner, rebuffing repeated requests from Russia to participate in the European shield program (as one example). Russia had open sky for NATO/US warplanes flying from Afghanistan. Can you imagine USA allowing Russian military transport planes to fly over its territory?
Putin and Lavrov are acting based on the signals from the outside forces - you cannot repeatedly try to be friends with someone who insists on slapping you across the face.
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#2 is good. There's been too much 5th column blogging. Is it wrong to be required to present factually correct information to your readers that is free from derogatory and hateful statements and uses clean language?
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Yatsenjuk presented figures, showing that Ukraine will lose 7 billion dollars by implementing sanctions against Russia: http://www.bfm.ru/news/268327The words "shooting", "spite" and "foot" come to mind... |
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The USA is the only country which has used nukes against a civilian population (in 1945). And I have a strong feeling that if anyone is going to use the nukes again, that is going to be the US. (Obama is too much of a pacifist to use nukes, my best bet is Hillary in 2016-20).
President Zero may not be into nukes but he sure is bending over backwards to stoke the Russians flames by belittling their country like he did recently. Raise the stakes so high that all candidates for the upcoming presidency will be trying to out-do each other's rhetoric in how they're going to deal w/ big bad Russia. Hopefully, the people won't be buying it and the media frenzy won't suck them in.  Hope dies last. Here's to it not dying in nuclear firestorm. Btw, if Russia ever did a retaliatory nuclear or conventional strike, I think it'll be aimed at Yellowstone... Let the nature do the rest. |
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Kiev states conditions, on which it will stop military operations (shooting) at the crash site: http://lenta.ru/news/2014/08/08/fire/Shooting will stop as soon as an appropriate request from the international investigation group is made. What? Wait! They are talking about such request only NOW? |
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The situation starts to remind of a school bully, who punches a new kid, only to discover that this kid know Karate, and so the bully runs to the teacher, screaming "unfair!".
What if the bully pulls out a sword ( i've especially not used gun to let you come back  )) What if the big pharma groups stop the exports of drugs? What where the numbers last year? Besides. "Alcohol imports from both the EU and the US will not be restricted." Stopping to wonder why life expectancy for russian males is so low. Your comparison of Romania to Russia is slightly... disproportionate, don't you think?  As for pharma, Russia has a lot of own potential there. Only a few days ago Russian researchers announced start of clinical tests of their own vaccine against Ebola, for example. Alcohol imports statement (and alcohol production in general) is worrying, I concede that. |
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Mainly because the damned WTO membership and various international agreements were ensuring destruction of domestic production.
The country is at war now, and economic one, but still a war. Russians are notoriously resilient when threat comes from outside (once again).
Because they never really leave a state of war. When was the last time people in Russia didn't feel as if they're struggling? Sure the rich middle class made out well in the last 20 years, but not many others. It's hard to know sadness when you have never had the chance to experience happiness. Sadly, you are right. Each time Russia enters a stretch of relative calm and prosperity, there comes a war (economic, military, diplomatic) or aggressive behaviour from the Big Game ringleaders. It was so before 1850s, 1914, 1980s, and now. In another thread, hologram said, why Russia bothers with the outside world if they want to be isolationist. It was a response to my statement that Russia would like to be left alone for a change. But it's not the same. Russia wants to be left alone in its internal policies and treated as an equal partner, but not isolated. |
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Well, yes he did it! Riding a bear barechested!  He never rode a bear. Its a photo shop. It was a horse in the original photo. I think US and the West need to have an enemy to direct public attention there instead of their own economic problems. The funny (or sad) thing is that the economic war they started against Russia is going to hit them back just like a boomerang. Russian media did make fun of the male Western leaders' unhealthy attention to Putin's bare chest.  |
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The situation starts to remind of a school bully, who punches a new kid, only to discover that this kid know Karate, and so the bully runs to the teacher, screaming "unfair!". Norway called the Russian countermeasures unfair, as Norway is poised to loose millions on exports Finland called the countermeasures unfair as Finnish diary producer has to close its production in Russia, loosing millions. And only USA threatens new sanctions against Russia for allegedly supporting freedom fighter in Novorossia (still not providing any evidence). http://www.gazeta.ru/business/news/2014/08/07/n_6377173.shtmlMaybe it's time other countries start sanctioning EU/US for their documented support of Nazi regime in Ukraine and genocide against 5 million Russian people (1.3 million on the run within Ukraine, over 700000 fled to Russia). But no, UN security council blocked Russia's proposal to maintain seize-fire around Boeing crash site (absurdity again): http://www.regnum.ru/news/polit/1834160.html |
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