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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
In advance of the Sunday election, Putin invited six newspaper editors from Group of Eight countries to dine with, and interview, him. This is the Canadian newspaper editor's resulting extensive article.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/worl......2357527/ Interesting reading ... If any one can find similar articles from the other five editors, please post a link.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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Destiny Inner circle 1429 Posts |
Balducci - glad you got home safely - I can only find this online but the article I read in the weekend print version of the Australian was much longer: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/wor......87713441
This may also interest you - http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/......y-russia - I hadn't read anything about Khodorkovsky for a couple of years and this popped up on Vanity Fair on the weekend - they have some good articles once you dig past all the celeb BS. |
JoeJoe Inner circle Myrtle Beach 1915 Posts |
Looks like Alexei Navalny was arrested again today:
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"They robbed us," anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny, one of the most influential opposition figures, told the crowd. "We are the power," he said to cheers, before being detained and taken away by the authorities. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/0......20120305 -JoeJoe
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
Destiny ... Thanks for the VF link. Sadly, the Australian story seems to be for subscribers only.
P.s. Saw a great show at the Opera House ... La Soiree featuring members of La Clique, including the 'drag queen' Le Gateau Chocolat. I really liked the acrobats and the rubberman. The freddie mercury tribute singer / juggler was also pretty darned good. Never would have imagined the Opera House offered such fare.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
From what I heard on NPR this afternoon, Putin is a cryaby, and if I ever met him I'd tell him so.
(Note to self: avoid meeting Putin at all cost.) |
critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
Putin once smiled down Davey Crocket.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers |
Steve_Mollett Inner circle Eh, so I've made 3006 Posts |
If he eats too much borscht, is Vladimir 'Putin'? (I know--bad--don't pretend to laugh.)
Author of: GARROTE ESCAPES
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. - Albert Camus |
balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
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On 2012-03-05 15:37, balducci wrote: "Khodorkovsky underwent his second conversion when the game stopped being fun. In August 1998 the Russian government defaulted on its debt obligations, sending the country into financial free fall. Khodorkovsky’s bank died in the crash. Yukos was also in trouble: the price of oil on the world markets was $8 a barrel, but Yukos, with its outmoded equipment, was spending $12 to produce a barrel." So the VF article says. $8? Was it really? I guess it more or less was, but that seems hard to believe, today.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
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On 2012-03-05 19:57, Steve_Mollett wrote: You're Putin us on.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers |
balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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Tom Jorgenson Inner circle LOOSE ANGLES, CALIFORNIA 4451 Posts |
It sounds like a case of 'No news is good news." Unless Putin was the Conservative in the bunch.
We dance an invisible dance to music they cannot hear.
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Tom Jorgenson Inner circle LOOSE ANGLES, CALIFORNIA 4451 Posts |
I'd guess the most logical theory I've read, and the most probable reason would be.....Plastic Surgery.
I'd rather it be a coup, tho. We can hope.
We dance an invisible dance to music they cannot hear.
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
Speaking of cooing, Vladimir Putin once remarked that Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, ****s on the board and then struts around like it won the game.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
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On Mar 15, 2015, Tom Jorgenson wrote: Today they are saying he is resting in bed with the flu. We will see what tomorrow brings. As for the coup thing. I was reading today that even the opposition in Russia is hoping that Putin is okay, because the opposition would never have a chance to take his place. In Putin's absence, the people who would likely take control are said to be worse than Putin ever was.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
What makes them think in Putin's absence we are going to take over?
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
Tommy |
Destiny Inner circle 1429 Posts |
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On Mar 15, 2015, Tom Jorgenson wrote: He and Berlusconi may be celebrating the latter's recent court victory with a little bunga bunga. |
Ray Tupper. Special user NG16. 749 Posts |
Apparently he's been found on the roof of a Hotel.
What do we want?
A cure for tourettes! When do we want it? C*nt! |
arthur stead Inner circle When I played soccer, I hit 1773 Posts |
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Destiny Inner circle 1429 Posts |
He's back in the land of the living, and I read somewhere today that a lady he had enjoyed a romantic liaison with, gave birth to a child in the last week.
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