Posted on 04/18/2015 11:47:15 AM PDT by Steelfish
No worries. Common error. I’ve done so before.
Netanyahu loves his country. 0 hates and is destroying his. Gee, it is a hard call whom to like better... NOT.
Netenyahu is the defacto leader of the free world. We should treat him as such.
Compared to Putin, Obama is Ronald Reagan. Here's a snapshot of Putin's Russia:
Without oil and bottomless mineral resources, Russia is Ukraine, except it's nuclear-armed and endlessly expansionist.Pomerantsev visits a TV studio owned by Kremlin-connected moguls. It’s in a shabby warehouse on the wrong side of town. There’s no sign or address on the metal door. Inside is a dirty little room with a drunk guard.
Pomerantsev goes down a dark corridor and up two flights of dingy stairs to another unmarked metal door. Behind that is a modern, well-lit, busy Western-style production facility. But there’s an inconspicuous door here as well, with a secret code pad. And behind that is a more modern, better-lit, even busier production facility with an even less conspicuous door with an even more secret code leading to the real offices of the moguls, where the real business accounts are kept.
All this is to foil the tax police. Who come anyway. One of the moguls tells Pomerantsev that “the tax police were much happier taking bribes than going to the trouble of stealing money that had been paid in the orthodox fashion.”
Pomerantsev tells the story of Yana Yakovleva, a businesswoman who imported chemicals to make cleaning supplies. She spent seven months in prison because chemicals to make cleaning supplies were suddenly declared “an illegal narcotic substance.”
Usually this kind of abrupt, arbitrary arrest has to do with competitors bribing legislators in order to abscond with someone’s business. Usually the solution is to bribe judges.
But Yana had gotten tangled in the Kremlin machinations of political figures so crooked that they can’t get a bribe straight.
Viktor Cherkesov, head of the FDCS, the Federal Drug Control Service, was attempting to take over Russia’s chemical industry as part of his power struggle with Nikolai Patrushev, head of the FSB, the Federal Security Service, successor agency to the KGB. Vladimir Putin encouraged Cherkesov. Vladimir Putin encouraged Patrushev.
The FDCS uncovered FSB corruption in Chinese customs duty rake-offs. The FSB uncovered FDCS corruption in chemical company seizures. The FDCS arrested FSB generals on the Chinese border. The FSB arrested FDCS generals at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport.
And Yana doesn’t get out of jail until Cherkesov and Patrushev have destroyed each other and Putin is rid of both potential rivals.
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Russia is a demographic disaster. Nicholas Eberstadt, who holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, has been studying Russia for decades. His research indicates that that the birth rate per Russian woman is twenty percent below replacement level.
In the first ten years after the collapse of the USSR, Russian population fell by about six and a half million. It is rebounding slightly now but only because of high birth rates in Muslim ethnic regions like Chechnya and Dagestan and immigration from former Soviet republics in Central Asia. These are not places Russia wants its Russians to come from.
Russia’s mortality rate is horrific. According to 2012 World Health Organization statistics, a fifteen-year-old Russian male has a life expectancy that’s three years less than a fifteen-year-old Haitian boy’s.
The life expectancy of a fifteen-year-old Russian female is sixty-one, three years less than in Cambodia.
I prefer Netanyahu over Obama. Heck, I prefer almost anyone over Obama.
Uh, it is the complete opposite.
A lot of things are news to you, read more of the threads here.
We are Americans, dammit! We are NOT loyal to any political servant we elect, that’s dictatorship like nazi Germany or islamonazi Iran or Saudi Arabia. Instead, our office holders are supposed to be loyal to us - the sovereign citizens of USA — and our Constitution. Get it, Slate? Shame you didn’t learn such basic facts in your junior high school political science class. Ps: if we were ever going to reverse things and be loyal to one of our public servants, it sure as hell wouldn’t be any islamonazi anti - American illegal alien saboteur who’s trying to destroy USA , our jobs and Christian faith. GTH Slate - and take your little enemy agent and his TelePrompTer with you.
Putin is a ruthless fascist dictator first, a pro Russian nationalist second, and an anti-Islamist on the domestic front.
Yea, I’d take Putin over the scum sucking, pro Islamist, anti American Obama too.
100% accurate. i’m definitely NOT loyal to 0bama or any progressive meat head
Why don’t you guys write some Putin fan letters to our paratroopers in Ukraine, and our NATO forces in Europe?
You’re reading many of these people wrong. I heard from a couple of people that reading comprehension was a challenge for you.
Why don’t you take a break and come back next week after you’ve finished your homework? And don’t forget to drink your milk.
LOL, you just made it obvious that you knew very well what I was saying, and that you know it is true.
Putin certainly has his allies here, even as we have paratroopers working in a friendly nation that Putin is invading.
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William Saletan and those like him are a cancer on America.
Marxist interests are not America’s interests.
Muslim terrorist interests are not America’s interests.
Obama’s interests are not America’s interests.
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Why don’t you write a fan letter to your boy’s friends in Iran?
Seriously, as our troops are there to protect us against Putin, write them and tell them of your support for the man.
Israel is an ally but we should pursue America’s interests when we disagree with them.
I think Netanyahu would look out for America’s interests better than that Foreign minded man-child that idiots elected.
Seriously, let our troops at risk in Afganistan know that you think Obama is less of a threat to the US than Putin.
And should be dealt with. Like you deal with a cancer.
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