The United States and Russia continue sparring over a Central European missile defense system, as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says America is committed to protecting its allies from a possible Iranian missile attack, and her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, claiming Tehran's missiles do not have sufficient range to justify the controversial system. VOA Correspondent Peter Fedynsky has this report from the Russian capital.
KNOCK IT OFF !!! The USA and Russia need to take their difference to the UN Security Council and NOW ! Bunch of jerks in Washington backed by power leverage at The New York Times. I swear they are idiots. Playing with fire to start an international conflict.
The American Capitalists that brought you the 'Housing Bubba-Bubble' are hacking away at Russia for some kind of fiscal foothold. They're idiots and now they are attempting to start an international war with Russia. They are counting on China being to busy with saving itself from the Bush Ravages of Human Induced Global Warming and the 'Good Will Olympic Games' to 'get one over on Moscow.' Bunch of Bush Jerks. China has been 'capitalized' to the point of building along 'fault lines' while erecting substandard buildings for schools and yet Bush blames a country for high carbon dioxide emissions while still unable to have the quality of life for all its citizens that The New York Times likes to ridicule as Communist oppression.
The article below lends sympathy to a former Russian Oligarch 'with a twist.' He went to Russia to spawn capitalism and is losing his shirt. Gee, what a shame. Russia can keep Gazprom, I don't give a damn ! I am sure he and Boris are good friends.
Kremlin Rules
An Investment Gets Trapped in Kremlin’s Vise (click here)
By CLIFFORD J. LEVY
Published: July 24, 2008
MOSCOW — William F. Browder was one of the most prominent foreign investors here, a corporate provocateur who brought the tactics of Wall Street shareholder activists to the free-for-all of post-Soviet capitalism. Until, that is, the Kremlin expelled him in 2005....
Here is the big consumer 'draw' at The New York Times today, need I say more?
Everyone's got a little Texas in them. (click here)
Show us what's Texas about you, and you could win a vacation for 4.
Every entry is also a chance to win a Texas BBQ gift pack,so get your video cameras rolling!
Don't let them give you reservations in the Hurricane Zone.
And get this, they are soliciting Russians to make their case. It is sort of like Bush yelling half way around the world when he solicited Iraqis to rise against their government. These boys are so desperate for money, they'll do anything. It's a live journal to spark some kind of retaliation against Putin's Russia. I think the NY Times whats to call it 'Freedom of Speech.' You know, the "Iron Curtain" and all that Cold War mess. Ah, if Bush could only recapture 'The Good Ole Days.'
ИНВЕСТИЦИИ БЕЗ ИНВЕСТОРА: УДИВИТЕЛЬНЫЕ ЗЛОКЛЮЧЕНИЯ БРИТАНЦА В РОССИИ (click here)
So, Russia sees an opportunity in all this mess as well. They are putting Russian long range bombers back in Cuba.
Moscow must answer U.S. shield with Cuban 'spy' site - analyst
18:20
23/ 07/ 2008
MOSCOW, July 23 (RIA Novosti) - Russia should respond to U.S. missile defense plans for Central Europe by reopening a 'spy' facility in Cuba to gather intelligence on the United States, a Russian analyst said on Wednesday.
The electronic monitoring and surveillance facility near Havana at Torrens, also known as the Lourdes facility, the largest Russian Sigint site abroad, was shut down in October 2001 by then- president Vladimir Putin.
"Cuba is a unique place to gather intelligence on the United States. I believe that the reopening of this station is both possible and necessary amid the threat that the Americans are creating for Russia," Alexander Pikayev, head of the disarmament and conflict resolution department at the Russian Academy of Sciences' World Economics and International Relations Institute, told a news conference at RIA Novosti.
"Russia has every right to respond," he added.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080723/114761709.html
Needless to say, all that Russian Experience that Condi Rice touts as her claim to Secretary of State is completely worthless. The USA's relationship with Russia has never been worse in recent decades. Remember, they were in Afghanistan after September 11th in support of our position before the USA was, right up to the point where the USA exploited their national defense efforts to start an illegal war in Iraq. Remember that? So, what does Russia get in return? Missiles at their borders. Nice. Real, nice.
I doubt this will be the last time this will manifest as an issue before the elections in the USA, but, Russia has been 'recapturing' its sovereignty since the demise of the USSR. This is just more of the same. If the Capitalists of Europe and the USA don't like it, that is too bad.
They took a 'risk.' Everyone, even American homeowners understands 'risk' these days. And they lost their shirts. Not only that, but, the Russian citizens that were caught in the middle of the Russia 'Resource/Land Grab' are in prison now. Gee, I hope The New York Times is proud of their counterparts and the lack of freedom they now enjoy.
Analysis: Anxious investors in RussiaWill Stewart, Evening Standard (click here)
21 July 2008, 12:12pm
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the oligarch jailed under the then Russian President Vladimir Putin, has launched an official plea for parole. In what will be seen as a test of new President Dmitry Medvedev's bid to make Russia more attractive to outside investors, Khodorkovsky's defence formally asked that he be released on parole from his eight-year sentence....
All this belongs in 'competent' hands at a NEW State Department with people that understand the importance of 'good relations' rather than 'just brinkmanship to war.' These 'human beings' need to be included in 'Summits' with Russia rather than used as 'propaganda icons' in a subliminal war against Putin's Russia. Competent American diplomats engaged under a new President can actually bring relief to these issues.
Why?
Because Russia doesn't want the controvery either and so long as Bush continues his brinkmanship with Russia, both countries will be deadlocked to stop this hideous gamesmanship on an international stage.
The New York Times needs to go back to being Americans engaged in 'the news business' rather than a Neocon Tool. That includes Maureen Dowd that has become the latest in Neocon Gossip Columnists. Go ahead, continue to shot yourselves in the foot. Be my guest. I thought female journalists, especially editors with columns were supposed to prove the worthiness of women and their abilities to 'take on'real issues rather than pandering to 'idiot issues' of fashionable gossip. I wonder what the gossip is among the women of Darfur?
