http://celebritybabies.people.com/2007/03/05/angelina_jolie__1-4/

See the comments for the allegations against RTYB

RTYB’s venom is legendary over at the Streetwise Professor blog. It’s starting to look as if she may just be the front runner as the hate monger behind the infamous La Russophobe hate-blog.

Oh and in all that, I still have to work to earn the real money to keep up my excersions…plus pay for the zal..gymnasium, I love weight lifting and of course Church, never forget Church. It is a good thing, I sleep very little…about 4-5 hours a day on average.

On the racism in Russia bit, see the below link (sent care of a friend) from today’s news about a 37-year old black man, running for regional head in the Volgograd Region – already called the “Volgograd Obama”, and looks like a winner….. another black man had run in 2008 for the regional Duma, but lost.

http://newsru.com/russia/22jul2009/volgoobama.html

This relates in part to this article and some comments made below it at:

http://www.rferl.org/content/For_Russian_Blacks_Obama_Visit_Stirs_Special_Interest/1770531.html

At times, the racism in Russia issue seems to be disproportionately covered. This isn’t said to belittle such an issue. A very multiethnic society with socioeconomic problems is likely to incur a noticeable degree of racism. All things considered, Russia isn’t so bad in this regard; with the situation likely getting better in the future.

As someone privately communicated in response to the above linked RFE/RL article (I plan on checking on at least one of the claims):

You might want to add that in Russia’s government there is plentiful representation of people having a non-Russian background, including such key ministers as:

Minister of Interior (Nurgaliev)
Minister of Economic Development (Naibullina)
Minister of Emergency Management (Shoigu)
Head of Intelligence Services (Fradkov)
Numerous governors, parliamentarians, clergy and cultural leaders.

Non-Russians like Chechens and Georgians reside all over Russia, and although there have been individual episodes of ethnic conflict, overall these non-Russians have not experienced the kind of duress that Native Americans undergo even today (reservations, restrictions in civil rights, treatment as wards of the state.) One million Georgians reside in Russia and remit money to their own country.

Around the the time of the deportation of Crimean Tartars, there were similar population transfers of Germans out of Silesia and Eastern Prussia (in Poland after 1945) and Czechoslovakia (Sudetes) – and the big difference is that the Tartars have returned to Crimea, but Germans from Silesia and the Czech Republic have not been allowed to return to heir ancestral homes. As a group, a good number of Crimean Tartars collaborated with the Nazis and killed non-Tartars (70,000 dead) – against the prohibition by Nazi occupiers, one might add. This story was documented in an article in Foreign Affairs in the mid 1990’s.

I agree – the allegation of mistreatment of non-Russians and others has to be forcefully addressed.

Can I recommend you read an excellent book called Black Mass by John Gray? He is himself a classical liberal but he demonstrates that under Thatcher and other neo-liberals, the classical liberal ideal was artificially imposed to such an extent that it took more government regulation to keep it in place than it took away from the Keynsian systems it replaced.

Other than that, there is a lot of interest in your website. Pleased to hear you see a connection with Scotland. Sadly I think our country is collapsing, but traditionally I think there was a bond.

As to the dispensationalists who have found your blog… really weird. I guess American conservatism is in a bad way when they look to ‘Magog’ to articulate their values

And for the record, for Christ’s sakes, I hope to dear God, that absolutely no one ever fully 100% agrees with me. I do not want to be around a weak willed, slavering person like that.

As I first told my sergeants and my junior officers and then the people I managed in business: I do not know everything, so do not kiss my arse. If you think I am wrong, say so, I will consider it, but the last decision is mine, since it is equally my behind that hangs to the results of that decision.

Do you really think me scattershot? Yes, I have many interests and read a lot and have seen a lot and try not to pigeonhole myself.

Some of the comments I have received are rather interesting, from paleocons, but the ones from fundamentalist missionaries is down right odd. Obviously they did not bother to go past one maybe two articles to believe I support any of the fundamentalists period, even more so in their attempts to creatively destroy my culture and worse the Orthodox Faith.

Will have to add that too… how about-

MYTH: Russia is ruled over by the neo-Tsarist pan-Slav Eurasianist Soviet-nostalgic ultra-nationalist kleptocratic nepotistic Orthodox-theocrat quasi-fascist corporatist Stalinist gangster-capitalist Putin.

REALITY: Perhaps the fact that Putin has so many ideologies ascribed to him actually means that he is extremely a-ideological and pragmatic?

Despite being a Stalinist, Putvedev is a heartless capitalist who makes Ayn Rand look like JK Galbraith. This is evident from his terror tactic of charging the Ukraine market prices for oil. The West would NEVER EVER impoverish a poor country through charging market prices.

Or is that a myth?