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| Thursday, June 21st, 2012 | |
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| Wednesday, June 20th, 2012 | |
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| Thursday, November 12th, 2009 | |
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| Sunday, November 8th, 2009 | |
| 5:12 pm | http://thewatt.livejournal.com/profile ))))))))))))) Если понимаешь, что всё существующее одинаково никогда не возникало и никогда не будет прекращено, и пребываешь в этом истинном состоянии не прилагая усилий, это и есть медитация. это Вы, мистер Андерсон, виноваты в том, что я больше не часть Системы                  ROFL ABUSER  Current Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD0s3ZOEsYg&feature=player_embedded |
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| Saturday, November 7th, 2009 | |
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| Sunday, October 18th, 2009 | |
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| Friday, October 2nd, 2009 | |
| 8:11 pm | Александр Подрабинек. Письмо советским ветеранам-людоедам Очень жаль, что владельцы «антисоветской» шашлычной уступили давлению начальника управы Штукатурова и префекта Митволя – демонтировали вывеску. Потому жаль, что требование чиновников – вне закона. Потому что все это – покушение на свободу предпринимательства, особенно шантаж пожарниками и СЭС. Потому что жалобы ветеранов – жлобство, низость и глупость. И потому еще, что название «Антисоветская» требует держать удар, не прогибаться. Достойно распространения. |
| Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 | |
| 11:20 pm | |
| Sunday, August 16th, 2009 | |
| 10:38 pm | A beautiful documentary on Horace Andy recording in Jamaica that is just the begining the whole film as a youtube playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztGKLWds |
| Thursday, August 13th, 2009 | |
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| Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 | |
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| Sunday, August 9th, 2009 | |
| 10:53 am | Russia ‘Resets’ U.S. Relations … Back to Cold War Era by Kim Ziegfield So much for the “reset.” It’s business as usual for the freedom-hating Russians, and that means trying to undermine the United States by any means possible — up to and including nuclear weapons. No sooner had Barack Obama returned from his first visit to Moscow, at which he attempted to reset relations with Russia by holding out the hand of friendship (and practically begging for nuclear arms reductions) in a manner eerily similar to the kiss Jimmy Carter bestowed on Leonid Brezhnev, than for the first time since the collapse of the USSR two nuclear-powered attack submarines were found patrolling international waters off the American coastline. It’s unknown whether these subs carried missiles that could strike the U.S., but it’s clear that if they didn’t, the only reason would be that Russia’s creaking, rust-bucket sub strike force can’t currently be mobilized for that purpose. Yet another SLBM recently misfired on launch after a test (now more failures have occurred than successful launches), so the Kremlin sacked its top nuclear missile official and went back to the drawing board. In other words, following a meeting with Obama, Russia immediately returned to its disturbing pattern of harassing the United States with direct strategic provocation, something the U.S. hasn’t done to Russia since the Cold War “ended” years ago. So much for the naïve president’s effort to make friends with the KGB thugs who prowl the Kremlin. Last December, for the first time since World War II, Russia sent a warship through the Panama Canal. A month before that, Russian navy ships participated in war games with the forces of psychotic Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, publicly sworn to the destruction of the U.S. Russia has long been providing huge quantities of military hardware to Chavez and it has been aggressively seeking to reestablish military support for Cuba as well. Five months ago, Russia announced it was exploring the basing of nuclear bombers in either Cuba or Venezuela. In September 2008, Russia had actually landed two nuclear bombers at a Venezuelan airbase. In February 2008, two Russian strategic bombers buzzed the U.S. carrier Nimitz, and the carrier group had to scramble fighter jets to ward them off. One flew directly above the carrier at an altitude of just 2,000 feet, clearly displaying an open intent to terrify and provoke. In August 2007, two Russian bombers harassed the U.S. military base in Guam, again forcing the emergency scrambling of attack aircraft to ward off the threat — the first time such a challenge had been mounted since the end of the Cold War. In September 2007, fighters were scrambled against six Russian bombers that were flying perilously close to Alaska. Since then, buzzing Alaska has become a ritualistic practice. So far this year, Russia has done it thirteen separate times, including three times while Obama was in Moscow, a direct slap at the new American president. The threat posed by such conduct is so obvious it hardly needs to be stated: the slightest mistake could easily be viewed as an act of war and Russia has already started making those mistakes. In February 2008, a Russian nuclear bomber crossed into Japanese airspace and two dozen attack aircraft were scrambled. Warnings were repeatedly given to the Russian warplane, but it ignored them. It was the second act of provocation that week; just days before the Japanese had been put on alert by an overflight of four strategic bombers. There are no examples of Russia scrambling attack aircraft to ward off American nuclear bombers menacing Russian targets since the end of the Cold War. On the contrary, after meeting with Vladimir Putin in Slovenia in 2001, George W. Bush infamously declared that he had “looked the man in the eye” and got a “sense of his soul” and “found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy.” Bush never retaliated tit-for-tat to the Russian provocations, yet for more than two years now Russia has been aggressively seeking to reestablish Cold War tensions. Bush, at least, finally got the message. He vigorously pursued a missile defense shield for Eastern Europe despite howls of protest from the Kremlin, yet Obama has done nothing but back away from this plan since taking office. Obama’s display of weakness during his recent visit to Moscow so panicked Eastern Europe that a large cadre of its most prominent citizens felt the need to write him an open letter imploring him not to sell them out to the Russians. But forget about protecting Europe. Is Obama capable of protecting our own shores? Despite expressing a desire to “reset” relations and dial down tensions, there’s no indication Obama has said a word about all this nuclear brinkmanship from Russia. To the contrary, it’s quite clear that his equivocation is being perceived as weakness by Russia and thus as an opportunity to escalate tensions in the hope that Obama will, in fact, sell out not only Eastern Europe but also the Caucasus region and Central Asia, giving Putin a free hand to reestablish the Soviet empire. The acid test for Obama is Georgia. Europe has just announced plans to go forward with a pipeline called Nabucco which will circumvent Russia and allow Europe to tap directly into Central Asia’s vast stores of natural gas. The pipeline runs straight through the heart of Georgia. No sooner had the announcement been made than Russia was seeking to provoke Georgia by grabbing even more Georgian territory than it obtained last August by annexing Ossetia and Abkhazia and accusing Georgia of responding with military force. President Eduard Kokoity of South Ossetia has been making declarations about restoring additional chunks of his “native land” and asking Russia for an even bigger military presence on his soil. Expert Pavel Felgenhauer, who correctly predicted the last invasion, is blunt: “Russia is preparing the ground for a new war against Georgia with the goal of overturning the regime.” If Obama’s equivocations lead to the neo-Soviet annexation of Georgia and the escalation of Russia’s energy war against Europe, history will not be kind to the Obama presidency. Obama spoke with Russian “president” Dmitri Medvedev on Tuesday and raised U.S. concerns about Georgia, but American policy remains hopelessly vague and, as such, an invitation to Russian aggression. Nobody in the White House will say whether Obama even discussed the military harassment issue. And where is Republican leadership on these issues? History will not judge the party kindly either if it fails to step into the vacuum created by the Obama administration. |
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| Friday, August 7th, 2009 | |
| 8:16 pm | CYXYMU CYXYMU |
| Friday, July 24th, 2009 | |
| 12:32 pm | STORY NEVER ENDS Acknowledging the Deception by J. R. Nyquist Acknowledging the Deception by J. R. Nyquist Weekly Column Published: 07.24.2009 http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatc Meet Victor Kalashnikov: former KGB officer, scholar, analyst, and writer. He is married to historian and journalist Marina Kalashnikova, the subject of last week’s column. Before the Soviet Union collapsed Victor worked for the KGB in Vienna. After Gorbachev’s bizarre abdication in December 1991, Victor found himself drawn into the Presidential administration of Boris Yeltsin on orders of KGB General Yevgeny Primakov. There he became a research director in the Russian Public Policy Center. “So I turned my attention 180 degrees from Europe to Russia,” Victor explained. “I was quite enthusiastic to explore what was going on in Russia. The people in the Kremlin came across a lot of surprises and discoveries as to what Russia really was.” And what is Russia? With help from presidential advisor Sergei Stankevich, Victor managed to retire from the KGB. But the KGB wanted him back, just as they wanted Russia back. Whatever job Victor took, wherever he went, the KGB would appear. “They always arrived on the scene with offers and promises, wanting to exploit my contacts,” Victor explained. You see, the Cold War was still ongoing, and so was the work of Moscow’s spies. In 1997 the SVR (KGB) wanted Victor to bring spies into the German oil company he worked for. When he refused, the SVR promised he would “pay with his blood.” In 1999, after having coffee at the Russian Embassy in Brussels, Victor became very sick. Quite naturally, he suspected poison. In 2000, one of Victor’s colleagues had been summoned by the secret police and told that the Kalashnikovs were on a “black list” due to their politically incorrect writings. People were being warned on all sides, including their dentist. Friends melted away. Co-workers avoided contact. Dental work could not be done. “What struck me, especially with the younger generation,” Victor noted, “is that they appear to be such conformists. No idealism, no values. They were just ready to cooperate with whomever they saw as their superiors. That’s why ultimately, nowadays, we unexpectedly found ourselves in the position of outsiders, dissidents, even enemies. That’s the way it developed.” In 2004 Victor and his wife continued their controversial writing activities and found themselves accosted on the street by FSB (KGB) officers who warned them against entering foreign embassies and disrupted their attempts to meet with diplomats. At about this time the Kalashnikovs were fired from their newspaper jobs. From that point forward, Victor and Marina could not find work in the Russian media, academia or business. Eventually, they sought an outlet for their talents in Ukraine. But here again, the Kremlin gave them no rest, as Ukrainian officials warned that the Russian Interior Minister had included the Kalashnikovs on a list of “extremists” and that, as a consequence, their personal safety in Ukraine could not be guaranteed. “Conformism is absolutely overwhelming here,” Kalashnikov lamented. “You should not distinguish between the Russian authorities and the Russian people. From the unemployed in the provinces, to the top of the hierarchy, conformism is huge. Also within the media, they are all willing to cooperate. It is a reality and it will develop that way, despite today’s economic troubles. It is a typically Russian phenomenon.” If it sounds like Soviet times, you are not mistaken. The totalitarian system has now become more sophisticated and more streamlined. The West should not deceive itself. The Cold War never ended. The KGB remains in place. According to Kalashnikov, “It is not necessary to control the entire former Soviet area. We can project our influence. Even when we allow the Americans and NATO to have a presence there, we have the upper hand. I even suspect that what happened has produced a modernized strategic model.” Gone are the imperial burdens. Russia can use its secret agent networks to blackmail executives, politicians and intellectuals. Journalists can be bought inexpensively, as it turns out. The disinformation campaigns of the 60s, 70s and 80s have laid the groundwork for a great deception. The West thinks they are dealing with a new entity in Russia. Yet they are still dealing with the house that Stalin built. “My feeling is that the old personnel management system has been reinstalled from Soviet times,” said Kalashnikov, explaining how the secret police can deprive uncooperative citizens of a livelihood. “In the Soviet Union your personnel file followed you whenever you changed from one job to another. Your employer sees any black marks set down by previous employers, and my former employer [the KGB] was eager to make life as difficult as possible. They wanted to press us to the degree that we would admit our defeat and failure, reconsidering our behavior.” In the West we were told that the Soviet system was finished. We were told that the Communist Party lost power, the KGB was reformed and democracy won the day. Kalashnikov said: “There was not any moment, I can state with certainty, that the old system of KGB and nomenklatura admitted their failure or lost control. They just changed their form and appearance. It was a sort of generational change. Instead of generals in charge, we have lieutenant colonels. They behaved differently, but they are doing the same thing. There has never been any moment when they admitted historical defeat. There never was any serious step toward de-communization – never, never. The Yakovlev Commission was conceived to imitate de-communization procedures in Central Europe.” So it was a sham? “Yes, it was a fake, an imitation,” Kalashnikov insisted. “From the very beginning the idea was, we’ll get back, we’ll modernize. And that’s how it happened. Of course, many Western observers were happy about the new faces and new styles and openness. But step by step, you yourself may remember that many American institutions here in Russia have been pushed out or brought under Russian control. So, formally, we have several Western bodies here allegedly doing democracy and consulting work, but in fact they have become an instrument of Kremlin policy to imitate and exploit for their own purposes.” Here are the words of a former KGB official, telling the truth from his home in Moscow, barred from employment for his honesty – blacklisted by his former colleagues because he did not want to participate in the greatest deception of our time. “There was no real accountability for the past,” Kalashnikov explained. “It was a big deception. People changed their appearance and behavior, but the real meaning of the system remained the same – in substance. It was quite visible to me. The West was just happy that we let go of the names of Communism and Soviet and so on. We changed our vocabulary. Instead of Politburo and Central Committee we have a president and a presidential administration. Instead of KGB, we have FSB. I insist that the interpretation of late Soviet history should be changed profoundly. The KGB maintained huge networks of domestic spies. Hundreds of thousands of people were deployed at the right time, influencing the democracy movement. That system has been extended by Putin. If you look at Russia from the outside you cannot discern who is manipulating the whole thing. Hundreds of thousands of assets are employed in politics and business. There is a hidden agenda and hidden structures. Even the Germans have not gotten rid of their hidden structures having to do with the Communist era. With all the German efforts and technology they still cannot solve the problem of hidden Communist structures. They are still being manipulated. Now take Russia, which was free to reconstruct its [totalitarian] structures under a different guise.” And what are the strategic implications? “They would be huge,” said Kalashnikov. “You know, one thing people should understand. There is a definite line of continuity in Moscow’s military policies from Stalin’s time. Moscow has consistently followed the same line of policy. What is misleading for many people is that the material military presence is not there anymore. We don’t need so many tanks. The question is what sort of design, what sort of strategy you have in place. All of that Moscow has in terms of potentials. We see that the Russian presence is being reinstalled in some places – Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.” The important thing is manipulation and influence instead of direct control. In terms of modern strategy Russia’s reduced size brings advantages. Now Russia is not responsible for feeding Azerbaijan or providing cheap energy to the Baltic States or Ukraine. The KGB’s weapons of influence and manipulation, including organized crime and drug trafficking, can be used to influence and manipulate without maintaining expensive armies. And so, the Russians have learned how to streamline their dominance. Make the Americans think that Washington has the upper hand. But look around today and see what is happening to the American economy, to the U.S. dollar, and to the U.S. nuclear deterrent. There is a visible weakening in all three areas. Victor Kalashnikov is a brave man. He has refused to falsify reality for the sake of career opportunity or even personal safety. He is telling us the way things are the largest country in the world. You can ignore him if you like, but ignore him at your own peril. |
| Monday, July 20th, 2009 | |
| 4:44 pm | Зненацька пару годин тому хтось переклав і запустив)) Предупреждение Западу от Марины Калашниковой ("Geopolitical", США) Джеффри Р. Найквист (Jeffrey R. Nyquist), 20 июля 2009 Marina Kalashnikova's Warning to the West -------- http://Geopolitical.US ------- http://www.inosmi.ru/translation/250863.h 'Стратегический баланс, - предупреждает Калашникова, - в общем и целом никогда не работал'. Находясь вне логики ядерного сдерживания, кремлевские лидеры модернизировали свои ядерные бункеры. Они готовы пережить [ядерную войну]. 'Существующая российская армия не слабее советской армии, - пишет Калашникова, - а в некоторых областях даже сильнее.' Эти слова написаны человеком, который лично разговаривал с российскими генералами, начальниками разведки и государственными деятелями. Она также говорит, что после 11 сентября террористические союзники России приняли на себя ключевую роль в этом стратегическом уравнении, а затем она пророчески цитирует слова чиновника НАТО, который сказал следующее о роль Аль-Каиды и Осамы Бен Ладена: 'Это [атака 11 сентября] было за пределами их интеллектуальных способностей'. Догадки такого рода обычно приводят в действие 'полониевую реакцию', как было в случае с бывшим подполковником КГБ Александром Литвиненко, который публично объявил, что Владимир Путин был главным террористом, стоящим за спиной Аль-Каиды. ( Read more... ) |
