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Archive for the ‘Russia’ Category
Does the University of Hawaii Practice Free Speech”
Is Regulated Free Speech Free? At the UW, faculty have complained that the AAUP has restricted the use of its listserv to speak out on the issue of boycotting Israel as an occupying country. While I oppose the boycott, I am even more disturbed by the lack of a free discussion. Two examples from t[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Armed Russian Tourists Invade Ukraine
“Russian Spring,” the website. (from the Daily Beast) Adventure seekers who dream about reviving the U.S.S.R. can go online to familiarize themselves with the slogan, “Leave for the front! Glory to Russia!” along with rules of behavior for a Russian tourist who wishes to get to “the ter[...]
April 15, How Not to Pay Tax … Join Snowden and give up your passport!
Expatriates giving up their nationality at U.S. embassies climbed to 1,131 in the three months through June of last year from 189 in the year-earlier period, according to Federal Register figures published today. That brought the first-half total to 1,810 compared with 235 for the whole of 2008. Why[...]
Putin threatens to darken Europe.
Putin: Ukraine debt threatens Europe gas supplies MOSCOW (AP) – Vladimir Putin warned Europe on Thursday that it may face a shutdown of Russian natural gas supplies if it fails to help Ukraine settle its enormous Russian gas bill – a debt that far exceeds a bailout package offered by the[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Russia Sees Itself As Allied With Independent Scotland
Independent Scotland may lose UK as energy buyer After carrying through its threat to use its energy weapon to support the choice of Crimea to become part of the Mother labs, the Russian state media suggest that Britain[...]
BREAKING NEWS: IMPERIALIST RUSSIAN LOYALISTS DECLARE SECESSION FROM UKRAINE
In a repeat of America’s colonization of northern Mexico and formation of the República de Texas on March 2, Japan’s efforts to settle Japanese in Korea, and China’s colonization of Tibet, 1836, Russia’s settlers have declared impendence for Eastern Ukraine. IMPERIALI[...]
UKRAINE: The Crack In The Slavic Egg
John Lloyd: “Russia, with faltering growth, a demographic crisis and no modernization in sight, is a year or two away from the economic fever ward.” John Lloyd at Reuters writes about the threats of a Slav crash involving not only Ukraine but Russia, with more than 140 million peop[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Revelation in Russia
The Chapel of Russia’s Resurrection in Russia worships Vladimir Putin as the reincarnation of Paul the Apostle. The Chapel is located in Bolshaya Yelnia, near the Volga Riverpreaches that Putin was sent to Russia to to fight the antichrists and prepare for the Second Coming of Chris[...]
William Shattner to Play His Own Great, Great Grandfather in Star Trek pre-pre-pre-re-
William Shattner has been chosen to play former Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych in the new movie: STAR TREK ORIGINS: The Ultimate Prequel. In the movie, Mr. Shatner,as an elderly Admiral Kirk travels, back in time to advise his ancestor to resign so that Yankovych’s own son can go on to [...]