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	<description>Anatoly Karlin on Eurasia, geopolitics, and peak oil</description>
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		<title>Comment on Far More People Protested FOR Putin Than Against, But You Wouldn&#8217;t Know It From The Western Media by yalensis</title>
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		<dc:creator>yalensis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>At Bolotnaya demo in December, oppositionists demanded to “Free all political prisoners”.  Russian government responded with “There are no political prisoners in Russia.  If you think otherwise, then show us a list.”
Opposition responded with  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rosbalt.ru/main/2012/02/09/943885.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;  this list of 39 persons &lt;/a&gt;  whom they regard as political prisoners.
The list is in alphabetical order, so you have to look all the way down to #35 to see Khodorkovsky’s name!  Aside from him and Lebedev, I have not heard of any of these people.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At Bolotnaya demo in December, oppositionists demanded to “Free all political prisoners”.  Russian government responded with “There are no political prisoners in Russia.  If you think otherwise, then show us a list.”<br />
Opposition responded with  <a href="http://www.rosbalt.ru/main/2012/02/09/943885.html" rel="nofollow">  this list of 39 persons </a>  whom they regard as political prisoners.<br />
The list is in alphabetical order, so you have to look all the way down to #35 to see Khodorkovsky’s name!  Aside from him and Lebedev, I have not heard of any of these people.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Whiskey Trickles Into Russia&#8217;s Drinking Culture by [alt] Da Russophile / Sublime Oblivion blog &#8230; refreshing perspective on Russia. [alt] &#124; usmichael.org</title>
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		<dc:creator>[alt] Da Russophile / Sublime Oblivion blog &#8230; refreshing perspective on Russia. [alt] &#124; usmichael.org</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] with your Macanudo, move on over and check it out.  You&#8217;ll learn all about Whiskey&#8217;s infiltration of Russian culture, how Putin has a lot of fans over there and why China is better than India. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] with your Macanudo, move on over and check it out.  You&#8217;ll learn all about Whiskey&#8217;s infiltration of Russian culture, how Putin has a lot of fans over there and why China is better than India. [...]</p>
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		<title>Comment on Top 10 Most Powerful Countries In 2011 by lqm</title>
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		<dc:creator>lqm</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>who are you talking to?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>who are you talking to?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Future Superpowers &#8211; The World To 2100 by Pat</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The days of superpowers are numbered in that nations who share a small planet cannot afford the turbulence that back yard bullies create without being crushed under the weight of its aggression. Superpowers thinking helps to fuel that tendency, and feeds the aggression.

America, like other nations - pre-World War I and II, (and all others), must find a path to peace, or the world will die trying, literally. No nation can afford the luxury of its past complacency that allows backyard bullies, even if that backyard is their own land, and their own nation with respect to how it relates to other nations and lands. There is simply not enough land mass in any nation to justify creating havoc for other nations. Where no man is an island, no nation can afford the pretense of being an island either, for to do so, and allow its companies, foundation, businesses, and multinationals to do so is running with breakneck speed into the old dilemmas of the past during the age of Golden Empire, Rome and Greece, both of whom are mankind&#039;s best example of poor premise for being, humanity run amok.

Mankind must do better or follow the same crippled pathway to the historic experience as it has been reported, the long slide down, not the leap forward.  Finding the origins of its conflicts is fully within the realm of potential of each nation, or with allies, but have we the humility to bring about this internal strife, the conflicts within ourselves, which prevents the world from melding, and relies upon wars and destruction for survival in any given age? 

If there is to be a new golden age, it will not occur by accident, nor by the mytique of religion, but by slogging through the mud of mankind&#039;s own frailty to grow up and deal realistically and rationally with identiified problems in a rationa manner. Is any nation capable of it, or are we mere neanderthal uprights in disguise hoping to pass as civil and educated people? If anyone has answers, it&#039;s a good time be heard. We know the problem; we just have deferred the solutions.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The days of superpowers are numbered in that nations who share a small planet cannot afford the turbulence that back yard bullies create without being crushed under the weight of its aggression. Superpowers thinking helps to fuel that tendency, and feeds the aggression.</p>
<p>America, like other nations &#8211; pre-World War I and II, (and all others), must find a path to peace, or the world will die trying, literally. No nation can afford the luxury of its past complacency that allows backyard bullies, even if that backyard is their own land, and their own nation with respect to how it relates to other nations and lands. There is simply not enough land mass in any nation to justify creating havoc for other nations. Where no man is an island, no nation can afford the pretense of being an island either, for to do so, and allow its companies, foundation, businesses, and multinationals to do so is running with breakneck speed into the old dilemmas of the past during the age of Golden Empire, Rome and Greece, both of whom are mankind&#8217;s best example of poor premise for being, humanity run amok.</p>
<p>Mankind must do better or follow the same crippled pathway to the historic experience as it has been reported, the long slide down, not the leap forward.  Finding the origins of its conflicts is fully within the realm of potential of each nation, or with allies, but have we the humility to bring about this internal strife, the conflicts within ourselves, which prevents the world from melding, and relies upon wars and destruction for survival in any given age? </p>
<p>If there is to be a new golden age, it will not occur by accident, nor by the mytique of religion, but by slogging through the mud of mankind&#8217;s own frailty to grow up and deal realistically and rationally with identiified problems in a rationa manner. Is any nation capable of it, or are we mere neanderthal uprights in disguise hoping to pass as civil and educated people? If anyone has answers, it&#8217;s a good time be heard. We know the problem; we just have deferred the solutions.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Far More People Protested FOR Putin Than Against, But You Wouldn&#8217;t Know It From The Western Media by Jen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Robert,

For every suggestion and insinuation that Wikileaks is agitating or working against the Israeli state and Zionism, the Internet manages to throw up something else that suggests Wikileaks is an Israeli disinformation project or that Julian Assange approves of Binyamin Netanyahu. Just look at these examples:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2034040,00.html
http://www.sikharchives.com/?p=6604

I have seen Internet rumours that in the past Wikileaks accepted funding from an agency or agencies connected indirectly to the Israeli government. When Wikileaks first started leaking US diplomat cables on Middle Eastern topics, there was a strange dearth of leaked cables about Israel or topics relating to Israel and Israeli interests in that part of the world.

I&#039;m sure if I looked up enough stuff on Israel Shamir, he&#039;ll turn out to be a relative of Peter Rachkovsky who wrote the original protocols. No doubt someone is working on the genealogy already.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Robert,</p>
<p>For every suggestion and insinuation that Wikileaks is agitating or working against the Israeli state and Zionism, the Internet manages to throw up something else that suggests Wikileaks is an Israeli disinformation project or that Julian Assange approves of Binyamin Netanyahu. Just look at these examples:<br />
<a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2034040,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2034040,00.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.sikharchives.com/?p=6604" rel="nofollow">http://www.sikharchives.com/?p=6604</a></p>
<p>I have seen Internet rumours that in the past Wikileaks accepted funding from an agency or agencies connected indirectly to the Israeli government. When Wikileaks first started leaking US diplomat cables on Middle Eastern topics, there was a strange dearth of leaked cables about Israel or topics relating to Israel and Israeli interests in that part of the world.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure if I looked up enough stuff on Israel Shamir, he&#8217;ll turn out to be a relative of Peter Rachkovsky who wrote the original protocols. No doubt someone is working on the genealogy already.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Far More People Protested FOR Putin Than Against, But You Wouldn&#8217;t Know It From The Western Media by Patrick Armstrong</title>
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		<dc:creator>Patrick Armstrong</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What a ridiculous piece.
She can&#039;t handle the fact that Putin has more people who&#039;ll vote for him then she does.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a ridiculous piece.<br />
She can&#8217;t handle the fact that Putin has more people who&#8217;ll vote for him then she does.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Far More People Protested FOR Putin Than Against, But You Wouldn&#8217;t Know It From The Western Media by Alexander Mercouris</title>
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		<dc:creator>Alexander Mercouris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Moscow Exile,

This is a very interesting article by Latynina and it tends to confirm the view that following the events of Saturday the liberal opposition is becoming demoralised.  Read it carefully and it shows that she has now despaired of her &quot;revolution&quot; and no longer expects its success.

As for the cliches claiming that Putin is a fascist and comparing him with the likes of Mussolini, Marcos and Duvalier, we can ignore them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Moscow Exile,</p>
<p>This is a very interesting article by Latynina and it tends to confirm the view that following the events of Saturday the liberal opposition is becoming demoralised.  Read it carefully and it shows that she has now despaired of her &#8220;revolution&#8221; and no longer expects its success.</p>
<p>As for the cliches claiming that Putin is a fascist and comparing him with the likes of Mussolini, Marcos and Duvalier, we can ignore them.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Far More People Protested FOR Putin Than Against, But You Wouldn&#8217;t Know It From The Western Media by Robert Kafka</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robert Kafka</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s getting a few years ago &quot;Israel Shamir&quot;, alias Izrail Schmerler, alias Jöran Jerma, alias Adam Ermash with credibility coulstatements that Palestine is less an ordinary state than a headquarters of the Jewish plan for world domination, and declarations of support for Holocaust deniers David Irving.

It now turns out that Ermash / Shamir also wrote the foreword to an English edition of the Protocols of Zion displayed. Edition, published in 2008, is published by the Institute for Historical Review, which since 1978 has been a leading exponent of holocaust revisionism and denial. There is reason to believe that this will make it even harder for Ermash / Shamir to keep what little he may have left of credibility as a writer.

Ermas / Shamir has recently been active in the Wikileaks, where he is responsible for conveying leaking material to the Russian media while his son has the corresponding responsibility for Scandinavia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_E._Marsden


Edition seems to be a reprint of an English edition from 1923, translated by Victor Marsden.
 Marsden (1866-1920) was a British journalist who spent the years before World War in Russia, where he acquired much of the ideas that featured ultra-conservative circles in the Russian Orthodox Church and the secret police, that these same communities that sprang protocols from. Its March issue is considered one of the most influential versions of the protocols, and was as late as 2005 in sales in the UK</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s getting a few years ago &#8220;Israel Shamir&#8221;, alias Izrail Schmerler, alias Jöran Jerma, alias Adam Ermash with credibility coulstatements that Palestine is less an ordinary state than a headquarters of the Jewish plan for world domination, and declarations of support for Holocaust deniers David Irving.</p>
<p>It now turns out that Ermash / Shamir also wrote the foreword to an English edition of the Protocols of Zion displayed. Edition, published in 2008, is published by the Institute for Historical Review, which since 1978 has been a leading exponent of holocaust revisionism and denial. There is reason to believe that this will make it even harder for Ermash / Shamir to keep what little he may have left of credibility as a writer.</p>
<p>Ermas / Shamir has recently been active in the Wikileaks, where he is responsible for conveying leaking material to the Russian media while his son has the corresponding responsibility for Scandinavia.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_E._Marsden" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_E._Marsden</a></p>
<p>Edition seems to be a reprint of an English edition from 1923, translated by Victor Marsden.<br />
 Marsden (1866-1920) was a British journalist who spent the years before World War in Russia, where he acquired much of the ideas that featured ultra-conservative circles in the Russian Orthodox Church and the secret police, that these same communities that sprang protocols from. Its March issue is considered one of the most influential versions of the protocols, and was as late as 2005 in sales in the UK</p>
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		<title>Comment on Whiskey Trickles Into Russia&#8217;s Drinking Culture by AK</title>
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		<dc:creator>AK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve never seen a Baltika in a plastic bottle.

Perhaps try out the one&#039;s in bottles. They are numbered 1-9 and each one correlates to a different flavor and gradient.

I don&#039;t think Baltika should win any prizes, but it&#039;s certainly far from the worst out there; certainly better than the Buds, Millers, etc.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve never seen a Baltika in a plastic bottle.</p>
<p>Perhaps try out the one&#8217;s in bottles. They are numbered 1-9 and each one correlates to a different flavor and gradient.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think Baltika should win any prizes, but it&#8217;s certainly far from the worst out there; certainly better than the Buds, Millers, etc.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Far More People Protested FOR Putin Than Against, But You Wouldn&#8217;t Know It From The Western Media by yalensis</title>
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		<dc:creator>yalensis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Right-wingers sometimes accuse American dissident Noam Chomsky of being a holocaust-denier.  He is not that.  They just try to punish him for being pro-Palestinian.  It is a common smear, especially against Jewish thinkers.  There are only a handful of true holo-deniers in the world, they are by and large neo-Nazis, not left-wingers.  On Mark&#039;s blog I posted a quote I found in wikipedia where Shamir explains his position on holocaust.  He does not deny that it happened as a historical fact.  He is just sick of having it crammed down his throat as justification of current Israeli foreign policy.  He also denies that Hitler&#039;s massacre of Jews is a unique event in history.  That is a fact too:  many genocides have happened throughout history (native Americans, Jews, Armenians, Cambodians, Rwandans, etc etc), and continue to happen now.  A genocide is happening, in Libya, right now, even as we speak = the genocide against ethnic sub-Saharan Africans; this genocide is being committed by the NTC/Al Qaeda transitional government installed by NATO, with much assistance on the part of Israel.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Right-wingers sometimes accuse American dissident Noam Chomsky of being a holocaust-denier.  He is not that.  They just try to punish him for being pro-Palestinian.  It is a common smear, especially against Jewish thinkers.  There are only a handful of true holo-deniers in the world, they are by and large neo-Nazis, not left-wingers.  On Mark&#8217;s blog I posted a quote I found in wikipedia where Shamir explains his position on holocaust.  He does not deny that it happened as a historical fact.  He is just sick of having it crammed down his throat as justification of current Israeli foreign policy.  He also denies that Hitler&#8217;s massacre of Jews is a unique event in history.  That is a fact too:  many genocides have happened throughout history (native Americans, Jews, Armenians, Cambodians, Rwandans, etc etc), and continue to happen now.  A genocide is happening, in Libya, right now, even as we speak = the genocide against ethnic sub-Saharan Africans; this genocide is being committed by the NTC/Al Qaeda transitional government installed by NATO, with much assistance on the part of Israel.</p>
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