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Putin's Approval Rating At 3-Year Highs (As Obama Hits Record Low)
On the heels of President Obama's approval rating plummeting to 41% - a record low - it is perhaps ironic that the supposedly despotic (amid shrouded in Hitler-comparisons and homosexual hatred) Vladimir Putin has seen his approval rating soar to 71.6% - a 3 year high - as Interfax notes "we now have a complex society that supports the president, primarily because of his stance on Ukraine." Interestingly 64% saw Ukraine as a key current event while 32% said that success at the Olympics was most important.
Via Interfax,
The rating of Vladimir Putin registered by the All-Russia Public Opinion Research center (VTsIOM), which exceeds the rating he had after his inauguration in 2012, will most likely stay high and may even increase, Nikolai Mironov, general director of the Institute of Priority Regional Projects, said.
"Putin's rating is even higher than it was in May 2012, when he became president. His rating has now reached the highest point. I believe it may stay at this level and may even increase," Mironov told Interfax on Thursday.
"We now have a complex society that supports the president, primarily because of his stance on Ukraine. It's not only 'Putin's majority' we spoke about earlier and which was composed of people from specific social groups. We now have a much broader consensus. We have managed to achieve the consolidation of society, which is expressed in this rating," he said.
"The stable increase of the president's rating is due to the successes in two Sochi Olympics: the main Olympics and the Paralympics. But the main thing is the president's stance on the political situation in Ukraine and in Crimea. This stance is aimed at defending the interests of the country and helping Russian people. It's very important to voters and respondents. No doubt, that influences the rating," Mironov said.
Putin's approval rating has now reached 71.6%, which is the highest point in several years, a poll conducted by VTsIOM shows.
Russians have been positive about Putin's work for several weeks now, since mid February, and the president's approval rating has gone up 9.7%, the public opinion poll says.
Putin's rating is increasing on the background of the political crisis in Ukraine and the situation in Crimea, which 64% of the respondents called the main events of the past week, and the success of the Russian national team in the Sochi Olympics and the beginning of the Paralympics (32%).
Russians have generally approved of the president's work for the past few years (60%). The previous highest rating of the president was registered in May 2012 (68.8%), immediately after Putin's inauguration as head of state.
So Obama needs to invade another country, have a successful home Olympics, and ban homosexuals?
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Putin looks like a Statesman. Obama looks like Bozo the Clown with floppy shoes and a big red nose.
Putin acts, Obama talks
but who cares, buy the FATH
Leadership vs. weakness. Simple as that. Even dogs know the difference between the alpha and the runt of the pack.
Meanwhile in the white house
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MLry6Cn_D4#t=21
The CBO has not yet had a chance to hedonically adjust Obummer's #'s.
is that Putin or Eminem in that pic?
Are my tax dollars paying for some of these down votes on ZH...sometimes I wonder...
You all remember Alexander Litvinenko, the guy who was assasinated with polonium-210?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko
Here's what he had to say about Putin the pedophile shortly before he was killed.
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=18244
The People always love the strong armed & charismatic leader, whether its Putin or Ceasar. History has shown this time and time again.
This is why the US republic will eventually fall to an empire lead by populist "leaders" and then to a feudal system. I do not what this, but I've sadly started to think it might just be the default state of man.
Beware the strong man.
Obama without a teleprompter is not charismatic or a good speaker. "The uuuuuummmmmmm United States ummmmmmm is working on ummmmmmmmm sanctions uummmmmmmm in response to uuuuum the ummmmm Russian ummmm aggression." I though Obama was supposed to be a great orator. Obama is no better then GW Bush, but at least Bush made me laugh from time to time. Obama is dumb as nails. Time for libtards to admit it.
They'll never admit it, ever. They will continue to say anyone who questions Obama is racist from now until the end of time.
Even if Obama leads us into WWIII and the US becomes a desolate wasteland, they will continue to love their beloved leader.
Perhaps you would like to share what Litvinenko had to say about the then Italian Prime Minister (also a Goldman alum) and his connections to Russian organized crime just before his death?
The list of people who benefited (or at least could sleep better) by Litvinenko's death is very lengthy, but those were actually endangered by continued presence on this planet are largely European persons...
I imagine Litvinenko was right about a lot of things.
If this goes on much longer, being downvoted will be seen as a sign of credibility.
It certainly attracts attention.
I, however, openly declare that I upvote the following comments:
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 11:46 | 4543161 TahoeBilly2012
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 11:49 | 4543179 Fukushima Sam
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 12:32 | 4543439 FlyingDutchman
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 11:24 | 4543035 Fukushima Sam
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 11:40 | 4543129 williambanzai7
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 11:31 | 4543081 DoChenRollingBearing
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 11:27 | 4543050 Fukushima Sam (My favorite comment!)
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 11:40 | 4543133 DoChenRollingBearing
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 11:54 | 4543205 Byte Me
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 11:55 | 4543209 Fukushima Sam
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 12:26 | 4543398 Fukushima Sam
Edit: adding a few more:
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 12:53 | 4543576 Itch
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 12:45 | 4543524 Billy Sol Estes
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 11:50 | 4543182 squid427
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 12:00 | 4543246 Shad_ow
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 11:31 | 4543079 hookah (with a link to an article detailing the operations of the trolls)
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 14:12 | 4544037 MeBizarro
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 11:26 | 4543048 hookah
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 14:18 | 4544072 DoChenRollingBearing
among others.
And some downvotes:
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 11:27 | 4543051 NoDebt
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 11:22 | 4543024 MeMongo
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 12:23 | 4543382 tony wilson
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 13:03 | 4543623 LongOfTooth
I just got a few of those, and I can tell you that I didn't pay for them because I try very hard not to pay taxes.
So the regime change in Ukraine was not the result of action by USrael and ZOGs?
Fascinating how people fall victim to the lie, that the West was not acting. The West is the force behind this all! Putin is only REACTING. He reacts intelligently, but the most peaceful man cannot live in peace if his neighbours don't want that...
Obama goes on "Funny or Die" or interviews with Charled Barkley to clown around and hock his ideology is a perfect example.
The poll they don't want to do in America is "Putin approval rating among Americans"
I'd almost bet that shit would be higher then Bammers!!!! But the MSM would cry racism is the reason I'm sure!!!!!!
What do approval ratings of sheeple mean?
Remember Roosevelts election slogan of keeping the USA out of a European war? Well, the freemason and One World globalist already had talked with Warner Bros. and the big Hollywood and Jewish newspaper owners, how long it would take to turn the public opinion of the sheeple. Answer: 6 months.
And since so many ZHers believe Putin was acting while Obama was passive, while the coup was a result of the Western activity, tells me, that the propaganda is working PERFECTLY. It just needs some time in the next months to sharpen the picture of a passive West and aggressive Russia a bit more...
Russia propaganda good, US propaganda bad?
FH, that is similar to the conclusion in my mind. Putin is a master politician with the ability to move people (an intimidating one). Obammy is nothing more than a spokesperson who looks good for an idiot electorate. Most of the US dislikes him, but it is better than the rest.
Putin = good politician
Obammy = extremely poor politician
We elect our officials on soundbites and a few subjects never considering they have zero ability to rule.
correction "spokesmodel", but a genius no doubt...
Just imagine if Bozo the Clown starts to act, then FUCK the ATH...
Obam is an evil shit but he is loved by Democrats and criminals with dual citizenship plus looting oligarchs.
+1 googolplex and many LOLS ( despite it being sad ) on the dual citizen treachery.
Nice job.
Is that you, Vlad Putin? Is this me?
That's so good it's creepy :-)
William, check out this example of propaganda I found. Doing some agitprop on the media's role in the crisis overrall would be a good subject for you.
All the best, Eric Dubin
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Russian loyalists in Kiev? // Headline Was "Obama gives Ukraine full backing as stand-off hardens"
http://thenewsdoctors.com/?p=124833
Comparing watching and listening to Putin speak, and the likes of Obama or Kerry, or Harper for that matter is remarkable.
On one hand Putin is composed, thoughtful, concise, eloquent. On the other side, you have the average western stooge who mixes nonsese with rhetoric and adds ample hysteria in for effect. It is shameful.
Either way, like Bashar Assad, Putin enjoys popularity the average western politician could only dream of and the west's explanation is always the same - it is support at the barrel of a gun, which is patently preposterous.
Putin is a mobster and a thief. One of his main money-laundering men Dmytro Firtash, was arrested in Vienna this week at the request of U.S. authorities, the Austrian government sources said on Thursday.
Reuters reports that Firtash, 48, is one of Ukraine's richest men, an oligarch whose close links to Russia and involvement in the gas, chemicals, media and banking sectors gave him substantial influence, notably during the administration of recently ousted, Moscow-backed President Viktor Yanukovich.
Putin is not a dictator. He is just like Obama representing interests of Russia criminal oligarchy who hate Russian people. Most of Russia oligarchy keeps their money and their families in EU and the USA. Look at Russia Foreign Minister Lavrov. His family lives in America. These people do not need or want any major confrontation with the West. Putin and his surrounding are fighting to preserve their territory from the invaders. It is all.
The present fight is about a territory oligarchy in the West and Russia control. If Putin will go too far, Russia oligarchy will remove him.
Summary
Both the West and Russia are looking for an “honorable way” to divide Ukraine. The problem is that Ukrainian and Russian people might not cooperate with US and Russia mobsters.
PS
ZeroHedge is equally uninformed about Russia and Gold investing.
Pussy Putin are the biggest fake on Earth.
He is dangerous fore the Free World.
Truth needs no ally.
Are Putin´s poll numbers only from Zero Hedge readers?
Obama, of course, is beneath contempt.
But, remember that George Bush once had very high numbers as well.
But, remember that George Bush once had very high numbers as well.
Yes...but remember...or observe...Vlad ain't dubya...
Note to Putin fans, his (and our) antics have just cost Russia BIG $$$:
http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/208ii0/russia_has_lost_more_m...
Agreed...BUT...the fat lady ain't close to singing yet....I have no idea how this will come out and not even sure where I would place my bet yet...but it is not close to over.
And when barry sings it will be well choreographed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2kMaybe we will never know how it turns out other than to be reduced to hot particles in an instant...
"Russia has lost more money in one day as a result of the Ukraine crisis than it spent preparing for the Sochi Games"
Nice. That's what I want to see.
Note to the non-Banksters- it's not insider trading when either 1) the government is doing it or 2) it involves the commodities business... (which is why Eric Holder will never make Jamie Dimon swear to it)
$50 billion in fiat that the Satanic central bankers print at will is nothing, but if they're feeling bad about for some reason there are relatively simple ways to make it back (at the expense of New York and London bankers).
Paper losses. Someone has to sell.
I have to admit that Time has written a pro-Western panegyric that even Joey Goebbels would admire.
Not a bit of info about who funded the opposition and their motivations.
Time has always been reliably 'reliable' to their team.
Birdcage liner.
C'mon DoChen, your a sharp guy. Don't get suckered by Time articles. Those things are for the other 'low information' types to feel they're on top of the 'nooze'.
Time? I don´t read that. Nor the NY Times, nor WashPo, nor HuffPo. I read a lot, but I don´t have time to read everything.
EDIT:
My link was to reddit. Are they part of Time? (honest question)
And on my desk now is the latest "Mercado de Metales" (Peru), there is an ad for a gold refining company I would like to visit while I am here...
On reddit users submit links and then they can comment and up/downvote on them. So this submission is titled (by the user) "Russia has lost more money in one day as a result of the Ukraine crisis than it spent preparing for the Sochi Games" and the link is to a Time article: http://time.com/11952/putin-ukraine-crimea-russia/.
Paper losses. Someone has to sell.
I have to admit that Time has written a pro-Western panegyric that even Joey Goebbels would admire.
Not a bit of info about who funded the opposition and their motivations.
Time has always been reliably 'reliable' to their team.
Birdcage liner.
C'mon DoChen, your a sharp guy. Don't get suckered by Time articles. Those things are for the other 'low information' types to feel they're on top of the 'nooze'.
"But, remember that George Bush once had very high numbers as well."
Yes, Hitler and Mussolini had high numbers too, at some point in time. Notice that numbers probably tell as much about how people in groups (nations) tend to operate as they tell about how the leaders operate.
Naw, he just needs to quit being a corrupt Chicago thug politician and drop the whole bitch of the banksters bit.
I just began holding my breath for that.
See ya in the next life.
Oh, and I forgot: He would also need to actually follow the Constitution.
Putin would never hump a wookie, although I've heard that he seduces female siberian tigers by bringing them freshly killed fawns in his teeth.
Also, complete negative correlation
Stock market indices and Obama's Approval rating...
so i guess he's gonna make sure he does a even shittier job going forward just to make the 1% even happier.
sorry, off topic here... but i was just reading a short article about how US officials had an Ukrainian business man arrested in Austria. Since when do US laws and jurisdiction extend outside the US borders? How is it even possible for the US to arrest someone on what appears to be European/Russian business matters? Is it now the role of the US to set laws across the world?!?!?!
Yep, welcome to the machine.
On the bright side, handcuffs are better than a JDAM from 20k feet?
We not only set laws across the world, we don't have to obey any of them, because we are the bright shining light on the hill or some shit.
pods
They had a presidential jet forced down in contravention of the Hague Convention,why
would this bother the thugs in DC.
The US has always done such. One of the privileges of being the world's police force.
On the plus side, he should be grateful for being arrested. Back in the good-ole-days, a CIA sweeper team would have just taken him out: A "tragic boating accident" while snorting coke off a hooker.
No, it is not "set laws across the world." It's "ignoring laws across the globe, including its own Constitution.
Not off topic at all, it's all relevant to the crap that the US and EU are involved in.
It's just part of the game being played out by the Cunts In America, aka CIA, who seem to think they can beat Putin.
Probably his own tax money at work. Well, to be precise, the usual funding route is as follows: man holding local currency therefore paying inflation tax to that country's central bank -> central bank holding USD in reserves therefore paying inflation tax to the FED -> FED monetizing US government debt, also returning "profit" to them.
People should be conscious of stuff like that.
It is like Putin represents the beliefs and aspirations of the Russian people. Barack Obama represents the beliefs and aspirations of the global ivy league educated elites. And the American people are paying the price for his arrogance and ignorance. Barack Obama does not believe in Nationalism, he thinks it is silly. He is going to try to please the world in his mind, while only actually pleasing the low information types and the Ivy League globalists.
Obama is certainly not interested in what the American people think. He knows himself to be far smarter than the American people, what he wants to do make them bend to his will, because what Barack Hussein Obama wants is what is most important for the country.
obama does indeed represent the people... the Jewish "people".
Dude, sammy davis jr. is dead. Wasn't he the last of the chocolate hebes?
Communism used to sell it's power plays as 'International Socialism for the proletariat' when it actually only benefited the Party elite.
Obama is exactly the same. Different phraseology but same result.
That is true.
Obama needs to stop invading countries, pick the winner in the basketball brackets, and come out of the closet.
Obama, Bozo the Clown? Nah.... he's nothing but a doormat.
Putin is being demonized in the West and was even called Hitler by Hillary of "We came, We saw, He died." fame - just preparing the nation for war:
In the wake of the right-wing coup in Ukraine organized by the United States and the European powers, the American media is responding with a torrent of inflammatory war propaganda directed against Russia.
In the newspapers and on the airwaves, the demonization of Russia is unrelenting. The coverage of events follows a single simplistic story line. The actions of Russia are portrayed as the epitome of evil. Its president, Vladimir Putin, is the devil incarnate.
The historical background, the economic interests, the political context and the geo-strategic calculations that underlie Russia’s actions are ignored. No facts are allowed to get in the way of the programmed message. No lie is too absurd or ridiculous. The purpose of the propaganda campaign is not to convince public opinion, but to intimidate it.
Monday’s lead editorial (“Russia’s Aggression”) in the New York Times does not contain a trace of analysis. It consists entirely of denunciations, saber-rattling and limitless hypocrisy.
The Times begins by denouncing “Putin’s cynical and outrageous exploitation of the Ukrainian crisis to seize control of Crimea.” Reality is stood on its head. The United States supported right-wing and fascistic forces in Ukraine to bring about regime-change in a country on Russia’s border. These operations were exposed to the world in a telephone conversation leaked last month in which the US ambassador to Ukraine and the US assistant secretary of state discussed the composition of a new Washington-backed government. Of course, the Times makes no reference to this episode.
With breathtaking cynicism, the Times demands that Obama tell Putin that Russia “has stepped far outside the bounds of civilized behavior, and that this carries a steep price in international standing and in economic relations.”
Who is outside the bounds of “civilized behavior?” The United States has intervened in country after country—from Panama, Grenada and Vietnam to Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. Its military operations over the past quarter-century have resulted in the deaths of at least a million people.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/03/04/pers-m04.html
WELL DONE !
the NYT is breathtaking in its propaganda that has become so one sided and obvious it doesn't pay to read it anymore on this subject - a veneer of reporting and analytics an inch deep - this propaganda extends to not only all the MSM but universities as well - i was at a russian studies department discussion at a major University yesterday where it was all propaganda and no facts or serious analysis
whether it is "presstitues" or professors who need a foundation sponsored study with a preconceived conclusion - the entire system is captured and whored out !
True that.
My daughter, a notorious liberal while at major Midwest university not noted for a liberal bias, had to drop her poly-sci course because even she felt that the polemics were so one sided and intolerant of alternate viewpoints that the course was absolutely worthless.
Working in the real world has modified her world view considerably.
Then again, I wasn't too surprised at the change because she always had a finely tuned bullshit detector.
A gift that no university can impart and most seem to want to actively destroy.
Quick fuku sam pull out one of your archived pics! I'm sure it will pull Putin even further down into the low 70s approval rating! Noob!
Your inspired fellatio of Putin's virtual member continues to titillate the crowd.
One of the reasons that the remarkable "akak" pulled out of ZH was the huge amount of man-love for Putin here.
Hadn't realised so many infiltrators wanted to try suckin' Puttin's member, oh wait, I had. Maybe they should just relocate to the RF and see what cock suckin' gets them in a state that luuurves homosexual tendencies.
(Akak wasn't the only casualty to these fuckwads either..)
This site must be influential, as it seems to attract all sort of shills with dubious motivations. A couple of years ago it was .gov bots and now we have the .ru propagandists.
fuck you sam and the horse you rode in on.
No one can deny that Putin stopped the Syrian war that Obama tried to start with lies about sarin, and probably saved at least 100,000 lives, and he is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for that. And he gave asylum to Snowden when no other country in this world would do that. And Snowden's revelations have been invaluable for human freedom and dignity.
If "akak" does not give others the freedom to think and believe as they want, he is a controlling fascist fool. I suppose if he finds the world not to his personal preferences, he will pull out of it too.
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has published an article demonstrating that the US government and President Barack Obama knowingly lied when they claimed that the Syrian government had carried out a sarin gas attack on insurgent-held areas last August.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/10/pers-d10.html
You need to just observe a little more closely. Obama was the puppet of Saudi and Qatari agitators for their precious pipeine project through Syria.
It was largely stopped by the blogosphere and ZH played a major role in facilitating that. Sure, it played into Puttin's hands - how couldn't it when Obana proved he was a total tool?
What is this? pull a figure out of the ass week? WW3 could easily have come about courtesy of the House of Saud (no deathfigure speculated)
Putin is an agent of peace in Syria? WTF?
Putin is playing realpolitik there and nothing more. Just outplayed and outmanevred the US/Israelis/Saudis & Gulf States/Turkey.
If another 25k or 50k or 100k+ Syrians have to die as long as Assad or a hand-pocked proceddesor friendly to Iran/Russian interest stays that's fine.
So get off the site u troll... Everyone here except the Gov trolls like u knows what the USA and EU is up to in the Ukraine. We r not the dumbed down sheeple your corrupt criminal govt controls with their mainstream Propaganda media. I am sick of u F"ING trolls on this site. I come on this site because the people on here r very inteligent and have great insight to what is really going on in the world. I reject what ever the US gov says its all lies!! The US gov only represents the interests of globalist and Banksters backed up by their Military industrial complex.
Obviously fooki sam isn't capable of understanding the second sentence of this quote:
"Whether the mask is labelled Fascism, Democracy, or Dictatorship of the Proletariat, our great adversary remains the Apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier or the battlelines, which is not so much our enemy as our brother's enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this Apparatus, and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others."
— Simone Weil, Politics, Spring 1945
You seem to be the one who doesn't understand. The oligarchs have infested every nation, not just our own.
I agree with this but I like Putin more than say Obama because while they are both full of shit, at least Putin doesnt hide it. He can barely keep a straight face as he explains how his troops are just doing a training exercise. Meanwhile Obama is such a sociopath, such a professional liar he can spew garbage about protecting Democracy without even blinking.
"Not the one facing us across the frontier or the battlelines, which is not so much our enemy as our brother's enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves." Simone Weil
So we have to submit to our psychopathic oligarchs because they protect us from those psychopathic oligarchs over there.
I guess you will always be a dupe. Government isn't needed, that's why it lies 24/7 and has a hook for just about everyone - including you.
If O would just shut the hell up for a minute and act like the president that might help.
Every day he pisses and moans about one thing or the other.
There is no way that his numbers will go up with many, as everything he does reduces our choices, liberty, and freedom while "giving" us some scraps of what has been taken through taxation and inflation and acting like we should fucking be thankful.
Sorry, POS POTUS, you suck. Just like the last one, and just like the next one.
It's over, tattoo the barcode on us all and gimme some Brawndo.
pods
20 Passengers From Missing Malaysia Flight Were DOD Employees Involved In Electronic Warfare & Weapons That Can “Cloak” Or Make Planes Invisible
http://govtslaves.info/20-passengers-missing-malaysia-flight-dod-employe...
I don't think so...let's see this verified....
hmmm. So Test:Success! ???
You can always find a ton of trash on the Internet too.
Wonder when will it reach it 101%. (just to make it better than North Korea)
Bear Spread!
What Laughable bullshit.
Putin can't even compete with most glorious leader of DEMOCRATIC PEOPLES REPUBLIC of NORTH KOREA, which was like 100%, maybe 101%,
in other news the global elite cabal has broke the record for longest evil laugh at 1 hour and 22 minutes, shattering the old record held in 1928 at 1 hour at 15 minutes...
Obama is a moron that's why. But here may be another reason.
Obama and the Globalists are preparing to fight Russia with Gays for interferring with one of its member states.
Now this: COMMISSION: 'No Compelling Medical Reason' To Exclude Trannies From Military...
And I suppose Midgets will soon be added to the Globalist forces.
Now I'm not one to understand much about politics but the above may have something to do with Obama's approval ratings.
I guess the Commission isn't going to consider mental reasons. Not that they ever did.
And in France, Hollande in around 18 % I think. Even Yanukovitch had probably more than Obama, and those jerks talk about democracy...
How many of you part of this???????
Internet Troll Operation Uncovered in St. Petersburg:
http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=100&story_id=38052
Hmm, lemme get a pad of paper and start taking names!
LOL!
That is exactly how we should deal with them. Or maybe I should say not deal with them. We shouldn't just forget or unduly forgive dishonesty. When a person is dishonest we should avoid them if possible.
Wow, that´s a very good post. What you just wrote is paralleling something I am reading to help me make a better guy. I am not going to mention the book as I have had enough of junks for today.
Avoiding dishonesty and all evil is good for the soul, and will make things better not just for the individual, but it will seep out into the world as a whole.
There is power in that kind of thinking. Kudos.
Maybe THAT should be another resolution: avoiding dishonesty (esp. here at ZH).
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As you change within, so you change the world.
Come on, you can't let some people's behavior towards you change your behavior towards other people. I am interested.
Also, about avoiding people, I don't think that if a person shows one flaw we should avoid that person in entirely unrelated forms of interaction. It is just that honesty, of all human traits, is so fundamentally important that almost all forms of human interaction depend on it. Losing that is about the worst thing a person can do to to oneself.
Russians area tough bunch..so they like the tough guy....they like the power....the USA is now a bunch of Metrosexuals....pussies...and they like Obama because he is cute...and could read a speech....he was never a leader..he has done nothing in his life...but he was black and cute.....
Yes, I think we can all agree on that. Great post, astute.
It occurs to me that if businesses in your country have billions of dollars worth of capital investments in another country, you ought to think long and hard about imposing economic sanctions on that other country.
"When you strike a king, you must kill him." (Emerson)
Who was the dick-head who determined which picture of Putin would be used?
Wait, did they poll Russians, or Americans?
And that's how he's polling in the US.... /s
"So Obama needs to invade another country, have a successful home Olympics, and ban homosexuals?"
No what Obama needs to do is stop dividing the fucking country and be honest with American people. I have seen a lot of asshole pursue divisive politics over the year, but this asshole takes it to a whole new level. I'm sure there are a lot of Russians who enjoy seeing Putin stick a sharp stick in the eye of the U.S (deservedly so), but here at home it would be nice if Zero at least acted like he liked the country which is a lie he can't pull off even with the aid of a teleprompter.
Obummer to invade CUBA to raise poll numbers
Rostov, Belgorod, Kursk and Tambov regions of Russia are now having military exercises.
Too bad Putin was not born in the U.S. Otherwise, he could probably run for U.S. presidency, judging by his popularity here. Oh, wait ... he may have a birth certificate in Hawaii.
Putin, a "commie", like China- is more capitalist than the U.S.
I just wonder how Putin's secret service would handle those fixing the votes in Obama's favor.
That I would pay to see. :)
I wonder if Putin has asked Obama to cry him a river
Putin should don blackface and do it on TV. Worldwide live. Just mock the shit out Obama. I'd probably fucking rapture if that happened.
@DoChenRollingBearing
I don't understand all the Putin loving either. Just because he is better at his job than Owebama does not mean he deserves praise. This man would scoop out our eyes with a mellon baller for mid day entertainment. He is an evil tyrant who has made billions by the systematic fucking of his people.
I think most here get that, I certainly do. The comparison is simply being made to Obama. Honesty is lacking from both parties but the U.S. claim of moral high ground has now been debukned and a limp-wristed liar is sitting in the White House. That's what is being touted here.
That's certainly how I feel about it.
When you look at what we are told are our cultural, legal and military traditions vs "theirs", it would seem that the leaders of each side have been switched around so that now "evil" is represented by an articulate, composed, and very thoughtful man while "good" is promoted by a bunch blustering, threatening, incoherent, inconsistent children.
I have especially enjoyed learning that the US will not acknowledge Crimea's attempts to use the exact same legal maneuvers Kosovo used to gain independence from Serbia, which the US supported.
I have been trying to process what this state of affairs means for the world going forward and I just cannot do it. My brain is immediately stumped in a grey choking fog.
I have been trying to process what this state of affairs means for the world going forward and I just cannot do it. My brain is immediately stumped in a grey choking fog. .... ForWhomTheTollBuilds
Excellent description of our present dilemma. So much information and so little clarity of thought, like waiting for something which exists in the twilight zone.
No they don't.
They are all just politicians. They need to stir up trouble and keep it going to make themseves important to anyone else. They are a liability to human survival.
It goes much deeper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIHtUUieyhM
Honestly, did they poll Americans for both of those surveys?
'cause I'm just saying, I myself like Putin better than the Mochea Messizah. I'd think the disparity would be even steeper if they had.
@monad
I agree that they are all liabilities, but there is a difference between a politician and a tyrant. And to all you Putin lovers out there, if this thing was our own tyrant we would not be here talking a bunch of shit about the gov and if we did we would be in prison. What a great fucking guy to root for.
Utopia of Usurers essays about the state of the State on the eve of WW1 by a rational and articulate man, and a study of the corruption of language by those who manage the memory hole
Study Krupp
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what about the homosexualists and the transgenders
what about the baby adoptions and cock and cock church weddings
what about david furnish and elton john oppression.
who will protect the gayness community from the
brutal beast of moscow.
What about Pussy Riot? He picks on poor defenseless girls who are just out to have a little fun. What's wrong with desecrating a Christian Church? It's not like they were terrorizing a synagogue. Now that would be bad. The Western press would be demanding public hangings.
Invasions are favorable for all leaders...Bush II, Putin....but pain for population and troops typically follow and ratings plunge quickly.
Dr Engali "No what Obama needs to do is stop dividing the fucking country and be honest with American people."
That was not the reason he was (s)elected. He's doing exactly as he is told to do by his handlers. Certainly you don't believe he is up there to do the bidding for the serfs, right?
Right, people who love individual freedom love Puitn. Fuck Putin fuck the bamster and fuck the banksters. Freedom for the individual or death to those who stand in our way. Comprende?
Please don't misunderstad, I am not rooting for USSA/EU in this situation, I'm not rooting for Putin either. No good for the people is going to come from this. Not in ukraine, EU, USSA, nowhere.
NSA web analyzing software has just read that Obama needs to invade another country to get his approval rating up. Thanks man
Que all the republitard faithful to praise Putin on Farsebook and wish he were president of Amerikka.
Tards of all types falling for it.
If there is one thing you drooling dummies should have cottoned on to by now its that when a politicians so-called approval rating goes over a certain threshold, bad things happen. ALWAYS. His fake approval rating (please) is his cue to go ape-shit. Like the "All-Russia Public Opinion Research center" isn't a tool of government, he has everyone else in his pocket. Tyler sometimes i doubt you are as ignorant as you pretend to be. Approval ratings? Really?
Putin is a dangerous politician/dictator, a corrupt Machiavellian cunt of the highest order, and all you little fags enthralled to his manufactured manly eminence need a good shake. Seriously? You really swallow that macho bullshit? Are you people fucking serious or what?
Perhaps a better question would be why did you leave /SARC off your post?
You are kidding aren't you?
A tool of the government? Usually that isn't needed when your country is under attack, not that lying isn't a function of most regimes like ours here in the States, but the best propaganda Putin can dish out is simply to tell the truth. If I had to fault him, it would be in not telling enough of the truth, such as against the opposition, us. Expose all of our lies, all the NGO/CIA et al associations, not to mention all the startup capital that feeds firms like Twitter, Facebook etc. Expose the usual false flag ops with our economic hitmen, and jackals.... which Ukraine is full of just now, as well as others in Venezuela etc. They are doing a decent job educating their people about this pattern from the 90s under Yeltsin when our friendly oligarchs took over and destroyed the state, its economy etc. Same thing we did with the Bolsheviks, the Nazis etc. See the pattern? It's the same one everytime. Welcome to the NWO, the Global Police State, something they would prefer to finish before Mother Nature comes in to do her cyclical Spring cleaning... hinted to be next month, and every 28 million years, the geologic records tell us it's a species extinction level event... and you can see that there aren't many species left on the planet other than us, our pets and our food sources. This is why some call it a 26, some call it a 30 million year cycle.... every time this 'dark star' of ours, a brown dwarf or "cool, dark star" as NASA prefers to call it, comes around in its nearest approach... said to be around Pluto's orbital zone... so not a direct hit for us, but it affects or resets the outer planetery orbits and thus ours over the following years, BUT, the real 'cleaner' is what follows.... think 'Day After Tomorrow' but add cometary fireballs, volcanoes and major EQs as the planet's EM field changes. Should be fun. Can't wait, how about all of you?
Putin doesn't need to tell his people that they are under attack, they had our type of 'lux' just a few years back, they recognize evil when we present it to them, too bad so many in Ukraine don't... and I don't think they'll get enough time to learn before the jackals take it to the next level.... false flag attack, if the chatter today is correct: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzjbJbK48jQ [A poster below it says it is in Ukrainian, not Russian just in case that issue is imagined]
ZH doing it's part demonstrating via comments section EXACTLY how strong men come to power.
Congrats morons. Proving that history repeats itself.
Occasionally there are some useful links in the comments sections in anything Putin-related but yeah Putin is nothing but a classic Russian strongman and little more.
Losers (as almost always) will be the little guy in Ukraine who get caught between either the US/EU dragent or invaded by Russia. In an ideal world, Ukraine would be allowed to choose its own path and vote accordingly. In real life with Russia right on their door step, that will never happen.
Not a question of when Russian tanks and massive infantry columns move into eastern Ukraine but a question of when. Putin will repeat exactly what he did in Georgia, carve out/annext large portions of eastern Ukraine and the Crimea, and the international community will do nothing because China supports them and the rest of the world doesn't care enough.
The only way things will really heat up is if Putin marches massive armored columns through Western Ukraine and essentially tries to annex the entire Ukraine outright while threatening neighboring countries including Poland and Romania. At that point, even the EU/NATO would have to respond and respond ina viable way or cease to be a non-entity.
"Approval" ratings....
How asinine...to even take these so-called "polls" remotely seriously.
BOTH MEN; PUT-IT-IN AND FUCKBAMA....ARE SHITE...
THEY JUST SMELL DIFFERENT
Putin is a very shrewd politician. He knows that American foreign policy is in disarray. It is unfair to have a duel of wits with an unarmed opponent (the US). We all want to believe that Russia is being hurt financially by this crisis. But is it? While the USD crumbles, Russia has accumulated 1000 tons of gold which is going up in value. The US and US backed IMF will need to bail out the Ukraine on it's debt. These debts are owed to Russia, so in essence, the US/IMF will be paying Russia billions. And this still won't stop Putin from annexing the Crimea and possibly the Eastern Ukraine. So who is winning?
BTW, freezing the assets of Russian expats will be shooting ourselves (the US) in the foot. The Russians have been buying US real estate for cash. Freezing their assets will derail our weakening housing recovery. Russians are also major depositors in off-shore accounts. How many international banks will be hurt by freezing Russian assets? I'm sure there are bankers who are peeing in their pants right now.
Russia cutting off oil and gas shipments would hurt the EU countries badly. Russia could stop accepting payment for oil/gas in USDs, driving the USD even lower as other currencies or gold rush in to fill the void. Higher energy costs for the EU countries will also damage US trade, since the the US companies sell 35% of their exports to the EU, and the EU will have less money to buy them, or just dump their depreciating USDs for other currencies.
Hell, i bet he scores AT LEAST a 50% approval rating her ein the states as well.
Two things:
How can Obama be at a 3 year low of 41 when he was at 39% about 6 months ago?
Where in the world are there 41% that approve of this ass-clown other than NYC, LA, DC and the Fed? Oh, and Europe.
ZH has gone down the toilet and in a big way especially among the commentators. Oped writers were almost always trash and I imagine were allowed to post here for 2 main reasons: click-bait and the ZH administrators didn't have to pay them for the cr@p they wrote. Win-win for both parties involved.
Occasionally if the article is on a specific economic topic or issue (non-Fed usualy), you get some really good or insightful commentary that is useful and at times enlightening.
Foreign policy/politics articles attract a particularly vile set of posters including the 'Zionist rule the world/anti-jew stuff' to the 'Putin is a good guy' comments.
The picture shows him smiling. My professional instinct tells me he a happy man.
Indeed, he is a happy man.
The ham-fisted ass-hats in the US State Dept. formented a revolution they cant control and gave him carte-blanche to 'secure' the majority Russian population in Crimea and spur the autonomous region into a referendum vote to ally with Russia rather than the West.
Has anyone seen hoardes of pro-west Crimean refugees trying to bust through to escape the bear?
Free beach front property for him and let the Anglo-American /EU axis take the west and it's unsupportable debt.
The pipelines are private property and are absolutely worthless without gas in them so they are pretty well hands off.
Win for Putin and a win for IMF banking cabal.
A bit of suck for the Western Ukraine when they have to dance to Christine's tune for their supper but that's the price they chose.
At least for the present...
Things could change momentarily.
I was just commenting on the pic. He make funny face
True.
Nontheless, I believe your professional instincts are correct.
I agree with you. If you are wondering about the vile posters just check the link that hookah posted about the operations of the paid trolls:
http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=100&story_id=38052
$36.50 a day ain't much.
Obama would have to pay at least double that for me to post something positive about him.
That is, if I could think of something...
Ok, I got it.
"Don't forget. Obama is half white."
Ummm...er....ahh...
Damn, this is too much like work.
Fuck it.