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Stijn van der Kasteel (mahnmut) пишет в talk_politics

Here’s the situation in a nutshell.

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Striking similarities

Source: http://www.henrymakow.com/theargumentfukushimasabotage.html

Former NSA analyst, Jim Stone, argues that there was no mag 9.0 earthquake. The tsunami was caused by nuclear bombs in the sea and the Fukushima explosion and meltdown was caused by mini-nukes hidden in cameras installed by an Israeli security firm. The motive: punish Japan for offering to enrich Iranian uranium and straying from Illuminati diktat. This website reserves judgment but offers this introduction by James Farganne in the spirit of free discussion.

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Scan of the first page of the document in the cited book

via vena45, serfilatov

Thomas H. Etzold and John Lewis Gaddis, eds.,
Containment: Documents on American Policy and Strategy,
1945-1950

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U.S. OBJECTIVES WITH RESPECT TO RUSSIA Прочитать остальную часть записи »

They disclose, that US only cares about their own safety. They should to, but in this case, why we should worry much about the US? Why we should worry much about US good relations towards Russia? Let US care about it. In fact, that is the US who started talks about “reset”. Besides, the absence of the “good relationship” which Russia had to “restore”, disturbed Minister of Finance Kydrin very little, when he came to US to account for bonds of USA, bought by Russia. So, these republicians should take good care of their own politicians, who is in cahoots with Mr. Putin. Mr. Putin, who robs their own citizens. If they think, that citizens of Russia like so much Mr. Putin, that shows that they just do not want to know, what is happening anywhere outside Russia. And I would say it is not quite wise for the country that lives for 100% at expence of countries outside. I meant that total debt of US now is equal to their GDP.

Instead, Republicans would do well to take a broader and more nuanced perspective on how a constructive policy toward Russia can enhance our national security and extricate the US from the global overextension that is a major contributor to the economic and financial crisis wracking the nation.

Russia’s “rapidly shrinking population” is something that is mentioned in virtually every bit of Western reporting about the place. Indeed Russia’s swift population decline has become an observation that is so unremarkable and so self evident that it doesn’t even require any support. It’s saying the sky is blue, that Democrats are cowards, or that Tony Romo is a choke artist. There is, however, one small problem with saying that Russia’s population is shrinking fast: it’s not true.

Here is Russia’s population in millions from 2007-2011 (2007-10 figures fromhere while 2011 is an estimate compiled from figures here *). You decide for yourselves whether this is a population that is “shrinking fast”

2007 – 142,220,000

2008 – 142,008,838

2009 – 141,903,979

2010 – 141,914,509

2011 – 141,860,000

As you can see, in 2011 Russia’s population is about 99.7% of what it was in 2007. Now I don’t think that demographic trajectory is particularly flattering or awe-inspiring, but I also don’t think that a .3% decline spread out over 4 years is particularly “fast.” Indeed it’s pretty obvious that Russia’s population has been basically stagnant for the past several years, a huge improvement over its experiences in the very recent past.

I think it is not profeccional not to see, how the compensation of deaths is made by 100% by migrants. It is not the same, as high birth rate. The whole situation becomes only worse. Happy journalist states that Russia is improving much in the demography:

As you can understand that if natural death rates – do you feeel the same shivering, when saying – natural death rate? If natural death rate is compensated by migrants fully this do not mean that people of Russia began to live any better. If to compare to birth rate after WWII – with Stalin as leader of the country – you will see a clear increase. While after  12 year of Medvedev and Putin in higher echelons of power – we can see only figures, saying that people want whether to escape from Russia or suicide.

Besides, if to see other sources of information, like CIA, they are differ from Russian officials: difference in 3 Million people.

“Everything here is tacked together, both in politics and in the economy,” Putin said in a startling admission of the fragility of the stability that he prides himself on bringing to Russia since coming to power in 1999.

This is unbeleivable. At the press conference on US economy this year’s Nobel Prize winners in economics cannot answer what they think the situation in the US economy is. One of them (after a long thinking it over) says that it is too complicated a question needing much data analysing, etc. 

The other sais, “If you asked about Europe…”. Then when a journalist sais: “OK, what about Europe?”, he can’t answer either.

Nobel must be turning over in his grave.

Must watch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mFdnA5UNmVw

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The title of this post is taken from the text of  Irina Deduhova’s new article “News from behind-the-mirror world”, where the Khodorkovsky case and related questions are discussed.

Here are some exerpts.

In connection with the death of one one of the participants of the “YUKOS affair» there is a lot of attempts to raise the banner with the name of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. It is clear that the very flimsy reasons for the criminal case against him initiated “by my wish”, gross procedural irregularities, blatant display of brutal force do not cause anything but contempt for people grossly violating the law.

But it is impossible not to notice another thing – that all these measures were aimed at the favorable perception of “Khodorkovsky case” by society, at a fraction of a much-needed electoral PR, which has once in the past already raised the nondescript Mr Putin like by a beer foam after his phrase “finish them up in the john” which later became so popular.

“A thief should be in prison!” – proudly declares prime minister meaning Khodorkovsky, sincerely wondering why they do not applaud him as before.

In general, why is it so important to observe the principles of the CPC in “high-profile cases,” when, apparently, the whole society wants to restore the order … at any cost? Here a really significant social problem arises – it turns out that it is the entire society who starts to pay “any price”, not only Khodorkovsky. Прочитать остальную часть записи »

Yesterday a popular Russian TV channel NTV showed a documentary under the title “Gastarbeiters –  The History of All-Russian Deception”. I had been waiting for the film eagerly; knowing that Irina Deduhova should appear there. The NTV men had come to Izhevsk in September and recorded long inyerviews with her at the University, at home, at the construction sites, etc.

Unfortunately, what’s left of Deduhova’s interviews in the film had lasted less than a minute. I was disappointed. On top of all, the discussion in a TV studio was organised in the style of low-grade talk shows. Everybody was speaking at the same time; they were yelling at each other… you know.

Anyway, one may call this documentary a very important event. It is very rare that really vital Russian problems are discussed with such a degree of frankness.

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