Our beloved Russia is Falling, Yikes

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THGRRI

Wednesday, January 7, 2015 10:52 PM

Putin Blames the West for Russia’s Woes—and Russians Believe Him

"The country is profoundly corrupt; it ranks 136th of 174 nations in Transparency International’s 2014 survey -- below Nigeria, Mozambique and Pakistan. The country is in shambles".

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2015/01/07/Putin-Blames-West-Rus
sia-s-Woes-and-Russians-Believe-Him

THGRRI

Wednesday, January 7, 2015 11:37 PM

Dead on G. I thought it was time to start posting the truth about Russia instead of just reading about how screwed up the rest of the world is as presented by a couple of Bolsheviks.

Much more to come.

SECOND

Thursday, January 8, 2015 1:13 AM

From http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/5889/full
Political confabulation in Russia was first described by the great theologian Vladimir Solovyov more than 100 years ago:

Let us imagine a person healthy in body and strong, talented and not unkind — for such is quite justly the general view of the Russian people. We know that this person (or people) is now in a very sorry state. If we want to help him, we have first to understand what is wrong with him. Thus we learn that he is not really mad; his mind is merely afflicted to a considerable extent by false ideas approaching folie de grandeur and a hostility towards everyone and everything. Indifferent to his real advantage, indifferent to damage likely to be caused, he imagines dangers that do not exist, and builds upon them the most absurd propositions. It seems to him that all his neighbours offend him, that they insufficiently bow to his greatness and in every way want to harm him. He accuses everyone in his family of damaging and deserting him, of crossing over to the enemy camp. He imagines that his neighbours want to undermine his house and even to launch an armed attack. Therefore he will spend enormous sums on the purchase of arms, revolvers and iron locks. If he has any time left, he will turn against his family. We shall not, of course, give him money, even though we are eager to help him, but will try to persuade him that his ideas are wrong and unjustified. If he will still not be convinced and if he perseveres in his mania, neither money nor drugs will help.

Even Solovyov could not offer an explanation, but his amazingly accurate description, written in 1893, seems to be just as valid today. And this will doubtless be investigated for a long time to come.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

KPO

Thursday, January 8, 2015 1:52 AM

The Russian economy through history (this was from the beginning of this year, before the current ruble crisis):

It's not personal. It's just war.

THGRRI

Thursday, January 8, 2015 1:55 AM

Nice post TWO and a good read at the end of the link as well.

THGRRI

Thursday, January 8, 2015 5:19 AM

Russia wants to manipulate through intimidation. This is a shot over the bow.

Updated Jan. 7, 2015

BERLIN—A website affiliated with pro-Russia hackers took responsibility for an online attack on Wednesday that brought down key German government websites, including that of Chancellor Angela Merkel , for several hours.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/pro-russia-group-says-it-hacked-merkel-web
site-1420632466?mod=wsj_hpp_sections_world

1KIKI

Thursday, January 8, 2015 10:13 AM

whatever

FWI, the corruption perception index listed by Transparency International hasn't moved since 1995. 1995 - 1999 that was Yeltsin. Was he a friend of the US? He was, wasn't he? It's so hard to tell. Then there was Medvedev 2008 - 2012. Was he a friend? In either case - that corruption you seem to lay at Putin's feet is an old tradition carried out by friends and foes, or sometimes people who are both, for decades.

Meanwhile life expectancy under Putin has taken a dramatic upturn.
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That evil man. Obviously he's no good for the people.

SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

THGRRI

Thursday, January 8, 2015 8:55 PM

Corruption is perhaps the main reason for regime change in the Ukraine and a split from Russia.

FBI Helping Probe Ukraine 'Kleptocracy'

"U.S. officials including FBI agents are in Kiev helping a Ukrainian-led investigation into corruption under ousted president Viktor Yanukovych, the U.S. ambassador to Kiev said on Monday.

"We are doing what we can to unpack the enormous kleptocracy which surrounded the Yanukovych government," Geoffrey Pyatt said at a press conference in Kiev.

"We have already on the ground here in Ukraine experts from the FBI, the Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury," the ambassador told reporters.

Pyatt also said there were "a variety of other international governments" assisting in the Ukrainian investigation "to uncover the financial crimes that were committed by the previous regime and to see what can be done to recuperate some of those assets."

The European Union last week froze the assets of Yanukovych, ex-premier Mykola Azarov and 16 former ministers, businessmen and security chiefs -- all on grounds of fraud".

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/122009

MAL4PREZ

Friday, January 9, 2015 6:19 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by G:
It seems like it's the first and only choice for how to get things done, like there are no other options

I did research in an ex-Soviet country a few years back, and we regularly budgeted bribe money to get our equipment in. The one year we didn't pay the bribes it took 9 days of complete circus-like nuttiness to get our equipment. At one point they told us - no kidding - that we had to pay a fee but it was illegal for them to tell us how much the fee was.

"As for proof for this hypothesis, there is none, but Martynov claims that since the Americans are really behind the whole Islamic State thing, of course the Paris attack was really the work of the CIA … "

Sounds like a theory of siggy's. Wouldn't be surprised if she jumps right on it.

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THGRRI

Saturday, January 10, 2015 5:11 AM

The Russian population understand about propaganda and corruption. The problem is that they see it as normal behavior worldwide. They won’t acknowledge that in Russia corruption is on steroids. They also believe propaganda is a legitimate form of dealing with those who would be aggressors against Russia. Look at the unreasonable stances 1kiki and SIGNYM always take. To them anything negative said about Russia is war. This is why they have been waging a war against the United States at least as long as I have been posting here. That’s why G when Alexey Martynov says outrageous things about the tragedy in Paris he does not lose all credibility with the Russian people. They see it as a defensive maneuver in a so called propaganda war being waged against them by America and Europe. It appears by the degree of stupidity in the reporting in Russia that there is no limit to the lies they will embrace at the expense of the truth.

Right now they think America and Europe is out to get them. Before the Berlin Wall came down they would have done anything to live with the same freedoms and rules of law as we do here in America and the rest of Europe. How soon they forget. Their worst enemy comes from within. Yes America is not perfect but Russia we are not. My hope is Putin doesn't start WW111 in an attempt to save face. If he stays on his current path the rest of the world will be afraid to invest there for a very long time to come. All the ex satellite countries looking to the west is a result of Russia's unhealthy ways. Not European and American propaganda.

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