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Почему Запад Противостоит России.

Запад не против Россиян, но честные государства не могут ладить с государствами которые воруют у своих и чужих людей. Заметьте Россияне, что один тип государств имеют проблемы с США, и это в основном корупционерoвные и автoкритичные государева которым просто не возможно доверят. Государства которые не соблюдают права своих соседей, в которые инвестировать незачем потому что это деньги за которыми не следят и которые просто уходят в карманы воров. Вот почему Запад противостоит России. Потому что после всех миллиардов которые запад инвестировал в вашу страну, страна осталась такой же и только верхушка поднялась. Не злитесь на нас, западэнцев что мы с врунами и ворами в вашем государстве не ладим.

Разве вы не видите почему заработки на западе выше? Потому что свобода там выше.. но вам это не видеть и не понят, потому что думаете что у нас как и у вас, что все во всей государствах воруют и что это нормально потому что ваши вруны вам это говорят а вы им верите. Украинцы поняли что этот тип жизни не нормален и свергли Русского чиновника, Януковича...

Если вы хотите жить как люди а не выживать... то тоже можете.. но только если захотите а захотите тогда когда надоест воровать так как украли Крым. Тогда, когда ваша страна перестанет быть странной воров, тогда мир, честный мир а не Сирия и Иран и Северная Корея, свободный мир с вами будет ладить. Потому что только когда вы скинете ваших воров потому что не хотите больше воровать и жить под притиском воров, только тогда вы станете людьми с которыми другие люди смогут ладить.

-Демократичный и цивилизованный запад.

Извините за орфографию, просто Русский редко мы используем потому что так изолировала себя Россия что редко кто использует этот язык. Но это может и надеюсь будет время когда это поменяется

Thoughts on Russian Take Over of Crimea

Reading the text of Putin's speech on Annexation of Crimea and seeing him shake hands with a criminal murderer and mafioso Aksyonov that is now Prime Minister of Crimea I had two main thoughts:

A) His claims were simplistic and out of context Mr. Putin but then again I don't expect intelligence out of KGB man.
B) "So does America" excuse doesn't work with parents for kindergarten children and hearing it from Russia is tiring, but not surprising considering it is coming from a cleptrocracy. 

This made me think of RT (Russian Television) and I realized that they are as credible as their government, which is not at all. Both are complete joke, a dangerous and sad joke but nevertheless a joke.. All of Russia's brightest and strongest either die of alcohol poisoning or move to Europe or United States because that is where honest people can make a living, because unlike in Russia, lies are not promoted but uncovered..

 Because that is the main difference between the two,  everyone makes mistakes, in America people make  mistakes just as much as they do in Russia... but in America we try to fix them while in Russia they just keep ignoring. This is why America has had the same government since 1776 and Russia keeps collapsing again and again and again. 

Putin's speech and the so called support of Russian people, for the first time, has made me ashamed to be of Russian descent. 

If Russia avoids war, it will be great- and it will be a failure for centuries if it doesn't.

Pavel Pozhigaylo tells how Russia, Russian politicians and Russian people are ready for war. Essentially, they are a warrior culture that forgot how to make great art, great music, great technology and they are just bored and too lazy to rebuild a successful country. So what are they going to do? They are going to go war. What will this accomplish? Many dead Russian soldiers, because no one needs young angry people who would otherwise rob and beat and drink in Russia. Those young Russians will kill a bunch of Ukrainians about whom Russia doesn't care and has always seen as less than people, they even have a name for them: Hohol. They don't care for the Russians in Ukraine either, those will be killed just like Ukrainians, for them they have a cute name too: Malorussy, which means little Russians, not quiet Russians.

So Russia will go to war, it will get part of Ukraine, that part of Ukraine in turn will get a government that doesn't care for them nor is able to take care of them. They will be robbed and they will realise what they got but it will be too late because leaving Russia will not be as easy as leaving Ukraine.

But the worst part is that with this war, Russia will put the final nail in the coffin of Russia itself. With huge TB and HIV epidemics, with alcoholism that is out of control, with corruption and lack of any kind of industry besides natural resources like some kind of banana republic.. they will forever be marked as aggressors and out of control warlords. Like Germany, they will forever be marked with a history of shame. Wherever they go, they will no longer be looked on with curiosity, but with disdain. Their businessmen will no longer be respected or trusted, their politicians will be laughed at and that respect that they have been looking for, will be lost for many many centuries...

All for a little war... But this can be changed.. if they only apply that will to fight to fight for their country, to rebuild their country to weed out corruption and lawlessness to make a country worthy of Solzhenitzin, Pushkin, Lermontov and Tolstoy.. To make a country worthy of all those victims of WWII. Russia can be great, but only if it avoids war.

Criminals in Power

What is a citizen to do

When his country is taken over

When the government

Is criminals and thugs

Who pillage coffers

Imprison the just

Steal from the power

Criminalize the lawful

And promote the liars, thieves

And murderers?

What is an honest thinker

To think

When journalists are jailed

For writing truth

While sycophants on the TV

Speak lies with honest faces?

What is a patriot to do

When everyone he knows

IS but a slave to callous hordes

What is a man to do?

To work for them?

To make them rich? Off his blood and sweat?

Or throw them from the shoulders

Letting atlas shrug.

Putin Isn't Russia, Russians Are Ashamed

Putin does not represent Russia, Putin has been destroying Russia and this fiasco is his another destructive act in a selfish desire to hold on to power.

Translation from: http://echo.msk.ru/blog/revzin/1275052-echo/?fb_action_ids=634304096617188&fb_action_types=og.recommends

Ukraine - no. government was not legitimate, God knows who we know them do not know and do not see the focus. Is the only legitimate president Yanukovych, but it also is not. Why, President, and such state either. It was the state, but there was a revolution, the old state canceled and new we do not see. As they say - lost state. This was done, got lost somewhere. And such people - Ukrainians - no. Ukrainians - is Russian, only small, Little Russians. They are like children playing something, want to eat, love Putin. They need to care about. Teach them necessary. If there are some Ukrainians who want something - it Bandera. Bandera - it fascists .. They jumped out of the Great Patriotic War and captured the small, gentle and lovely, but the foolish Russian children. Since we are fighting the Nazis. This is for the masses. People really experienced in world politics, understand, of course, is not real fascists. These fascists, Stalin won in 1945. This Nedobitko. Which, of course, would not have been if they had not lure cookies. So in essence it is the Americans. Americans, who staged Maidan and we otvevali Ukraine, which now is not. Something is there, but it is not Ukraine. It generally, if so think about it, a country occupied by Bandera, ie fascists, ie Americans. We liberate her. Parts. Here Crimea already released. From the Americans. Well, that is from the Nazis. From Banderivtsy. again - Ukrainians, but there Bandera that fascists are actually Americans. With them we are fighting. Very good and fighting. We have them occupied Crimea, slyly, as if not we dressed and occupied. They answer that? Nothing. Sanctions figantsii - gut them thin, and again this is the same side they come out here. Eat, where to disappear. Yes it is, by the way, do not even war. What war, which killed? There is no war. So peaceful occupation to show Americans fig during the victory over fascism. They do how? Iraq, again here in Kosovo. Remember Kosovo? Do not you remember? Very good, you do not remember, we'll tell you now, there, then, was this exactly the same as ours, and as we were Americans. And now we do as Americans. They can, but we can not? They have occupied our Ukraine, Little Russia, a country where they live little Russians, our, in essence, the country, and we have to answer that same sitting in the corner? Yes they have the same after this respect will not. horror that all this heh * nya gradually fills your head. Not only enthusiasts occupation, and those who do it in the throat. Here I am, for example. I have that day, like an idiot, I think not, sanctions, they eventually something oh so painful hit. West, he harnesses the long, fast rides yes, and here is how close the boundaries of time, freeze deposits, so little did not find it. Yes civilized world can not so easy to pick up and put up with this mess. civilized world, he thinks, will have his uncivilized. Listen, it's all phantoms. Quite another matter. fact that we, Russia, fight with Ukraine. Not with the civilized world, not with America, not with the Nazis and with Ukraine. It is she, and not America, we othapali piece of territory. We are fighting with her for what she rebelled against rogue and thief, and took off his to hell. We are fighting for her that Putin offered her $ 15 billion, and she spat in his face. We are at war with her for what she wanted in Europe. One may pretend that all thinking Ukrainians - it Bandera, fascists, anti-Semites and russophobes, but it's nonsense, and we know that this is nonsense. Million people, which came out in Kiev against Putin Yanukovych laws - is that Bandera? Well you who want to cheat? Yourself? Himself. You hope that this heinous crime - the war of Russia against Ukraine - as it passes you. Somehow it appears that the history of this matter will not because Putin in 2014 occupied part of Ukraine for its attempt to become a European country, and that he had corrected the historical injustice and return to us Crimea, Sevastopol, Odessa, Donetsk and better still , Kharkiv, then everywhere. But it does not work. Historically, this is not possible, because the Ukrainians will now consolidate opposition solely on external aggressor, and that the aggressor - Russia. We occupied Hungary and Czechoslovakia, Poland, we were forced to carve itself - and what they did then? They rushed us to hell, and we do not have now more persistent opponents in Europe than these our fraternal peoples once. But to hell with it, from a historical perspective. Much worse is right now, when Ukrainians will resist. Or do you think they never will? We'll shove and shove, and they sing songs in response? Talking about? You will represent each dead Bandera that is fascist, that is American? Long enough? main horror is not in Russia sanctions accounts and visas, not in international isolation, not militaristic hysteria, not that we somehow there answer to Syria or God knows where else. It's all garbage, this is not about anything. Chief Russian horror that UKRAINE - IS. And Russia invaded its territory.

Putin isn't "lying" or "crazy", he is smart.

  Watching Russian Television it is clear that Putin has convinced Russia and Russian speaking Ukraine through careful propaganda and framing that Ukraine is a loose cannon, that they had a violent take-over and that Ukraine needs to be invaded. He does not need to convince the west of his actions. What he says is inline with what he needs to say to Russians. He is being consistent not for truth's sake but for keeping Russia behind him. He has to upkeep the "lie" because when his troops start shooting, the Russians will be shown "Ukrainian" forces shooting who will have no insignia. Russian TV does not show the license plates or Russian names because that is what Putin says not to show. They show the barricades and scared Russian speakers and they will keep showing the "angry mobs" of Kiev and keep omitting the footage of Berkut killing protesters. They do not show the grandmothers or students on Maidan. They create alternate realities where snipers were bought by opposition to shoot both Berkut and Opposition and the West plays in to their hands by calling Putin Hitler which only cements in Russian eyes the desire of the west to destroy Russia. This is why their Foreign Minister cannot meet anyone from Ukraine, because so long as they do not acknowledge anything the west says, they can keep the spin going and as long as they keep repeating the line, the hope to keep Russians and Russian speaking people fooled for long enough to get Ukraine back, or at least parts of it.

Maybe if the West made a plea to the Russian people.. maybe if the West got together to put strong sanctions on Russia.. who know how this will work out..

To me it seems as if Putin lost Ukraine, this is Ukraine's the war of 1812 where Russia like Britain tries to take back its colony. Putin's demands in UN are to install HIS government and give him HIS Ukraine back, if not, he will take it back by force. West can't allow that. This is the war where Ukraine unites and wins or looses... it all depends on how well they can convince Crimea that they are with them.

In the end... perhaps it was a little bit naive of Ukrainians and the West to think that Putin would give up Ukraine just like that.

Islam's Greatest Fear

  I was sitting beside my girlfriend inside a beautifully made and aptly named Joan Kroc Theater for Peace and Justice on the campus of University of San Diego. We had just finished watching the movie Honor Diaries about the effect of the word "honor" on women in South Asia and how it has been used to perpetuate violence and control over them. The movie was essentially a discussion between Hindu, Muslim and Christian women activists from Middle East living in the West about their experience fighting for women's rights. Religion was brought up but it was made clear that this was a cultural phenomenon. I was sitting in front of a panel made up of a Jewish writer and producer of the movie, a female Associate Professor of religious studies at USD, an Imam from Algeria, a Pakistani Graduate student and a Professor of USD from Turkey.

   After the writer gave his introduction,  the other panelists one by one dove off topic and began to criticize movies' imaginary criticism of Islam deflecting the issue of women's rights. There was no more talk of women's rights, no talk of what to do about the plight of underage marriages, acid attacks, female circumcision or the fact that this happens in United States and the west in shocking numbers and that Westerners are afraid of stopping it because they are often deemed as attackers of religion and culture. At no point did the moderator try to take the conversation back to the issue of women's rights and abuse of women in United States. Instead, one after another talked about how the film attacks Islam, how those cases are minority, how they are done by the uneducated and as the Associate Professor herself said, "Last time you tried to help women in middle east you bombed them, let them deal with it on their own." equating a war with women's rights and saying that information will do nothing, that women who have no voice or information to even know that what is happening to them is wrong, should not have access to that information, to opportunity to live the lives they live. Instead of addressing the issue of the movie and the plight of women in South Asia, the panelists redirected to the plight of women under occupations, sex trade and other issues which are valid but were not brought up there. 

It was sad... it was pathetic and it shows that the greatest challenge to women is not from outside but from within. It was a full show of how much "honor" of their religion to the panelists mattered more than the rights, lives and well being of their own women. How will it be possible to address human rights if those closest to the issue refuse to look at it, refuse to fix it and become offended when others try to bring it to their attention? I say human rights because men are trapped here too. What man wants to be confined to a woman he does not love, what man wants to be confined by a society that puts enormous pressure on him with their judgement of him based on how his wife, daughter, wife, mother looks or acts? What man wants the pressure of providing for a family and controlling everything about the family and what man wants to harm his daughter or mother or wife? This violence is perpetrated on men as much as it is on women.

  So what is Islam's greatest fear? Truth of course, as it is for Ultra-Orthodox Jews and Far-right Christians. The truth that their way of life is not correct. They fear loss of control over information and over people who they keep confined with their version of the world. Thus they have to isolate themselves and those around them from the world and when anyone disobeys by showing any sign of openness to the world, be it short sleeves, driving or even watching a movie... the response is quick and violent. Because only violence and threat of violence can have the effect of subjugation through fear. It is the only way to take choice away from a human being; give them a choice between freedom and death and let those who witness the atrocities choose fear and submission.. 

   But humans cannot live in lies, it is unnatural so while these acts of violence go on and while denials and defensive posturing and anger mask the fear that these ideologies carry, while all this still exists, the question is: for how long? At some point, all lies unravel before truth.

For more, go to  http://www.honordiaries.com/

Why using an army without insignia is scary and evil

Image from rediff.com Photocredit Baz Ratner/Reuters

Russia has shown in Georgia and Ukraine that it likes to follow American example of Vietnam of fighting wars by creating a pretext. It began two wars this way and it is able to do so because it chooses what to show to its people and since they have no alternative, the uneducated and massively drunk masses, believe it. As example one can simply look up the troves of propaganda on YouTube that Russia created about its war with Georgia, about its hero soldiers and how it saved Ossetia.

In Ukraine, by bringing in forces that it does not acknowledge and by telling its people are not theirs, they can begin a massive attack on civilian population with their own unmarked forces that they can then send to their news channels to show that Russians are dying in Ukraine at the hands of Fascist Maidan Ukrainians. Since the attacking forces are without insignia, no one in Russia think anything is wrong with that picture and demand that Russia uses its own forces just as it did when KGB blew up several apartment buildings in Moskow, blamed it on Chechnya and then followed up with brutal war and ethnic cleansing and genocide in the Caucases. 

The only thing that can stop Russia, is its own people, its own Army and massive economic sanctions to cripple its ability to go to war. Its people, probably won't do it. The anti-war protests that happened the past week in Russia were not televised and protesters were not only arrested, but nearly beaten up by angry crowds convinced of Nazis in Ukraine.

What's even more sad is that ethnic Russians in Ukraine, watch Russian TV so they have also been convinced by Russia that eminent threat from Kiev is coming for them. The ethnic Russians in Crimea have it even worse since they have virtually no way to get information other than from Russia as the troops have taken over all TV channels and have ended all non-Russian broadcasts putting an information isolation on the peninsula which has very sparse internet availability. 

It all comes down to the madness of Putin.. How much does he want Ukraine and at what cost will he hold on to power and what kind of carrot would make him go away from a path of war?

What Scares Putin

   Putin is not scared of Ukrainian outdated forces, he isn't scared of American sanctions or expulsion from G-8. He wants that, he adores American hate and chiding. He wants the Hitler monikers at hate from the west. Putin isn't scared of the rich oligarchs or climate change. He isn't scared of poor economics or stock market crashes. He is scared of old ladies. Babushki, who built Russia while their husbands drank themselves to death. That's the secret to Russia's strength. Babushki i baby, built the country. They worked factories, they with stood rape by Germans and Stalinists and Soviets. They withstood, survived and worked to give their kids and grandkids a better life and they do not stand for Putin and his lies. They are not like his cronies who can't say the truth, who hid behind microphones and behind their villas. They don't care for gays, they don't attack Jews, they don't blame anyone but those who deserve blame. They are the ones who will take him down and he knows it. He knows that he has to beat up Pussy Riot because he knows that they are too, Babushkas in training but babushkas of Russia don't break, they absorb the hate and violence and they trudge on. They have seen one empire after another collapse in the sea of it's own filth and lies. No regime that disrespected their grand-kids ever lived for long, eventually they fell and became the anti-Russians, the traitors. That is the future of the oligarchs and the Putins. This is why America does not scare him, why he feels he can go into Ukraine, Georgia and who knows where else. He knows his time is limited because there is no lying to a Russian Babushka.