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Might this be the EU’s Waterloo? From CNN: The fate of the Cypriot economy, which accounts for only 0.2% of European Union GDP, is unlikely to reignite the financial troubles of the single currency area. But Hart, a Scottish expat who has lived in the southwest coastal city of Paphos for 13 years with [...] Oh Bubble Boy….. What was supposed to be a thrilling ride down a ski slope inside a giant inflatable ball ended in tragedy for the two Russian men inside. The transparent plastic ball — called a zorb — veered off course and sailed over a precipice in the rugged Caucasus Mountains of southern Russia. [...] This is the price you sometimes pay for REAL protest… The US, EU and human rights groups have condemned jail sentences imposed on three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot over an anti-Vladimir Putin protest in a Moscow cathedral. The women were sentenced to two years in prison for hooliganism. Read the rest [...] A Russian scientist claims there may be life on Venus. http://yhoo.it/w7Wtf1 Apparently no vodka was consumed during this mission. Share on Facebook What follows is an ad for Vladimir Putin stolen from Wired’s DANGER ROOM… According to the cunning linguists at Danger Room the ad is… Titled with the double entendre (in English, at least), “Let’s Do It Together,” (it) follows a teenaged everyman as he chases after an attractive girl in a polling station. She [...] My sister and brother in law lived in Moscow for 2 years and returned a couple of years ago as my BIL was stationed at the U.S. Embassy there (he’s military not foreign services). She pointed me to this interesting story from The Washington Times about Russian intelligence services increased campaign of dirty tricks against [...] Russia Plans to Sink the International Space Station in 2020, http://fxn.ws/qUCP4n – Sent via the FOX News Android App. This is probably overblown… or yet another bloviation from a drunk Russian bureaucrat… but he did say it. Share on Facebook The Holocaust spawned the phrase “Never Forget” so people would never forget what happened to Jews and others in the 1930s and 40s in Europe generally and Germany specifically. What’s worse than forgetting? Knowing the truth and trying to rationalize or justify it. Apparently Stalinist apologetics has become fashionable in Russia. From World Affairs [...] Russo-Japanese War, May 1904 print by Kyokatsu. On this date in 1904 Japan capped off its modernization project by officially opening up a can of whoop ass on Tsarist Russia. Share on Facebook “It’s essential to remember that given the will and the relevant orders, [WikiLeaks] can be made inaccessible forever….” That is a quote from an anonymous source from Russia’s secret police service given to a Russian media outlet in response to this Wikileaks announcement: In an interview published on Tuesday, Oct. 26, in Russia’s leading daily [...] From The Moscow Times: The reliance on oil and gas — which account for some 60 percent of budget revenues — meant that Russia felt the global crisis much more deeply than most of its emerging market peers, witnessing the deepest economic slump in 15 years in 2009. Medvedev, halfway through his presidency, has made [...] Now maybe you woke up this morning and said to yourself “Self. Israel and Turkey might go to war spreading out to a wider Middle Eastern war and maybe involving Europeans. North and South Korea are this close to coming to blows over the DPRK’s sinking of a South Korean ship not to mention Iran’s [...] Suffice to say that some in the Ukrainian Parliament do not support re-upping Russia’s lease of the port of Sevastopol for its Black Sea Fleet. Smoke bombs and eggs… we need some of that in Congress. Share on Facebook Is it just me, or does Kyrgyzstan in 2010 seem an awful lot like Austria in 1938? You’ve got an uprising against a sitting government, which in turn requires a big, powerful neighbor to rush in with troops in order to restore order and – while they’re at it – install a new government. [...] More to come on this story to be sure, but dozens are dead after 2 female suicide bombers attacked the Moscow subway and the offices of the former KGB. Putin has given an initial response: Share on Facebook About 80 per cent of Jewish-Americans voted for Barack Obama in 2008. It’s safe to say that a fair percentage of them come from the Max Blumenthal, self-loathing school of Jewish-Americans whose sense of guilt would somehow be alleviated if Israel weren’t around. But, it’s equally safe to say that many of them believed [...] I like Joe Biden. Any stand up comedian worth his salt… wouldn’t even have to hire writers with this guy around… Here’s Joe on Russia — you know the country Obama visited a couple fo weeks ago so we could have a “reset” of our relationship after that Cowboy Neanderthal (aka Homo Selectus by [...] Some little known facts about Anna Kournikova: - For a time, she was a professional tennis player. Share on [...] |
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