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Russian Warship Flotilla Enters English Channel For Military Exercises

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The French delivery of two Mistral ships to Russia may be postponed indefinitely (a move which ultimately would cost Hollande over $4 billion in contract breach penalty fees he simply can't afford to pay), but that doesn't mean the Russian navy has been hobbled or is hiding in the corner. To the contrary: according to the following tweet from the UK Ministry of Defense, Russia's navy is getting quite bolder.

What happened?

As Bloomberg reports, at least 4 vessels which departed the Russian Northern Fleet main base on November 20, led by anti-submarine ship Severomorsk, entered English channel for exercises that include anti-sabotage training, damage control in case of fire and water intake, state-run news service RIA Novosti says, citing statement from Navy.

Reuters confirms that a squadron of Russian warships entered the English Channel on Friday to hold exercises, RIA news agency reported, the latest apparent show of military might since ties with the West plunged to Cold War lows over Ukraine.

RIA quoted the Northern Fleet as saying its vessels, led by anti-submarine ship Severomorsk, had passed through the Strait of Dover and were now in international waters in the Seine Bay to wait for a storm to pass.

 

"While it is anchored the crew are undertaking a series of exercises on how to tackle ... infiltrating submarine forces and are training on survival techniques in the case of flooding or fire," RIA quoted the Northern Fleet as saying in a statement.

 

The Russian navy could not reached for comment and the Defence Ministry declined to comment on the report.

The Russian navy frigate Smolny is seen at the STX Les Chantiers
de l'Atlantique shipyard site in Saint-Nazaire, western France, November 25, 2014

Naturally, NATO - afraid of looking even weaker than it is - was quick to downplay the incident since a lack of retaliation would make the defensive alliance appear quite prone to "penetrations" by Russian forces:

France's navy confirmed the location of the ships and said it was not unusual to have Russian warships in the Channel.

 

"They are not holding exercises. They’re just waiting in a zone where they can be several times a year," said the French Navy's information service.

 

Lieutenant-Colonel Jay Janzen, NATO's military spokesman, also said the alliance was aware of the Russian ships' location.

 

"Our information indicates that the ships are transiting and have been delayed by weather conditions. They are not exercising in the Channel, as some Russian headlines would have us believe," he said.

And if they were in fact "exercising" it would simply mean that NATO exercises in the Black Sea miles away from the Russian coast, are finally being met in kind by a Russia which with every passing day is making it clear its "concern" of western reprisals and retaliation to Russian actions, which in turn are a consequence of NATO expansion eastward, is increasingly more negligible.

 

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Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:14 | 5496036 JustObserving
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The Nobel Prize Winner spreading peace and prosperity in this world.  Putin is pushing back:

Tomorrow, Saturday, marks the first anniversary of the Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius, where then Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych refused to sign an Association Agreement with the European Union. One year later Ukraine is embroiled in a civil war that has claimed more than 4,000 lives. NATO is on the verge of an armed conflict with Russia that threatens humanity with nuclear annihilation.

How did this come about? Western propaganda answers this question with five letters: PUTIN.

The Russian president thinks in “spheres of influence,” breaks international law, endangers “the framework of peace in Europe” and seeks to annex not only Ukraine, but also Georgia, Moldova and the Baltic states, according to the accusations of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

A flood of propaganda spread by the media 24 hours a day tries to convince the public that only the villain in the Kremlin is preventing Ukraine from developing into a prosperous oasis of democracy, and Europe into a paradise of peace.

Among the few western voices to contradict the official propaganda is the professor of political science at the University of Chicago, John J. Mearsheimer. In the September/October issue of the journal Foreign Affairs, he states that Putin is not the aggressor. “The United States and its European allies share most of the responsibility for the crisis. The taproot of the trouble is NATO enlargement, the central element of a larger strategy to move Ukraine out of Russia’s orbit and integrate it into the West.”

Mearsheimer continues: “Putin’s pushback should have come as no surprise…. His response to events (in Ukraine) has been defensive, not offensive.” He points out that the United States would “not tolerate distant great powers deploying military forces anywhere in the Western Hemisphere, much less on its borders. Imagine the outrage in Washington if China built an impressive military alliance and tried to include Canada and Mexico in it.”

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/11/28/pers-n28.html

Russia has signed a contract to sell S-400 surface-to-air missiles worth US$3 billion to China, Russian media reported.

http://www.defenseworld.net/news/11609/Russia_sells_S_400_SAM_System_to_...

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:16 | 5496052 smacker
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Mutti should keep her cheasy mouth shut.

When the EU eventually implodes and its fiat curency is used as lavatory paper, Germany will be looking East to become a member of BRICS or some such thing. Russia will have a powerful say in that.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:28 | 5496072 svayambhu108
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Putin seems to be a rational guy.
But this is the kind of pressurised shit that got Stalin mad.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:49 | 5496119 knukles
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"Zey are just waiting for ze moules and escargots to be delivered under contract zat was negotiated in ze recent Arms reduction treaty.  Zay are not holding exercises. Efff zay hold exercises zen we will not deliver ze escargots.  Moules, we will do because they will otherwise spoil and smell like our women making many jokes.  They’re just waiting in a zone where they can be waiting several times a year"

What a funny bunch those froggies

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 10:32 | 5496240 Looney
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This is hilarious!

One of the Mistrals, “Vladivostok”, has been burglarized – somebody stole a bunch of hard drives from the high-tech equipment installed by the Thales Co.

“We don’t suspects any of the Russians”, a representative of the French Defense Ministry said, “We are looking for thieves amongst the French service crew.”

The theft was discovered on November 25.

http://www.lepoint.fr/

Looney

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 11:32 | 5496414 tonyw
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Apart from some local french, Magrabian thieving scumbag who else could have an interest in this?

what could be learned? ways to overcome on board defences?...

maybe to plant a virus, /cough stuxnet cough/ ??

 

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 13:35 | 5496838 mjcOH1
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"Four Russian ships escorted through Dover Strait from North Sea by @RoyalNavy HMS Tyne this morning. "

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Tyne_(P281)

HMS Tyne...main armament...1 20mm cannon, 2 general purpose machine guns.

Wow. Just....wow....

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 13:54 | 5496916 Sandmann
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Not "escorted"  shadowed. Since when do ships get escorted in international waters ?

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 14:16 | 5497038 mjcOH1
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".....Ships have left UK waters."

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 14:36 | 5497097 Sirius Wonderblast
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HMS Tyne is just a patrol vessel. The Russians had previously been shadowed/intercepted/whatever by HMS Duncan which is  a far more impressive vessel.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 14:57 | 5497166 WillyGroper
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prolly from Mali.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 11:43 | 5496444 pine_marten
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Jobsite theft is part of the union benefit package.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 12:45 | 5496659 Anusocracy
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"We are looking for thieves from a small ME country."

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 12:52 | 5496688 effendi
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Qatar? That pissy little ME cuntry has been poking its noss into the internal affairs of Egypt and Syria. Both of those countries have recently signed military contracts with Russia. Qatar HATES Russia and would want to mess with their French purchases.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 14:52 | 5497150 Anusocracy
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Socialist Theocracy of Palestinian Land

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 14:31 | 5497086 Sirius Wonderblast
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The word is "burgled".

Sat, 11/29/2014 - 05:14 | 5498645 Yttrium Gold Ni...
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Putin calls Hollande, and asks him: -Mr. President, aren't you concerned that our battle ship is anchored near your coastline?

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 12:38 | 5496642 Amerikan Patriot
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You mean Stalin, the most prolific mass murderer of all time?

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 14:49 | 5497141 Volkodav
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Stalin was not a Russian.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 14:50 | 5497137 Volkodav
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Stalin was not a Russian.

Sun, 11/30/2014 - 09:50 | 5501164 Winston of Oceania
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That excuse is wearing thin and everything done by Uncle Joe was carried out by Russian hands or would you have us believe that Georgia actually ran the soviet union.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 10:24 | 5496209 aleph0
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Hey guys  ... this is REAL !

Wash-DC / NATO controlled German MSM.

Two Videos ( from many )  of a Children's Propaganda Series aired by German State TV : SWR 

.... talk about Goebbels reincarnated !

Der Putin-Erklärer ( The Putin Explainer )

http://swrmediathek.de/player.htm?show=0bfd3b10-74e7-11e4-a78e-0026b975f2e6
 

Ursula räumt auf ( Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen gets ready to protect Germany  )

http://swrmediathek.de/player.htm?show=f7eb4570-658e-11e4-89ea-0026b975f2e6

 

 

 http://www.mmnews.de/index.php/politik/28489-ard-russland-hetze-jetzt-im-kinderfernsehen

 

English Translation here :
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie...

 

 

 

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 12:17 | 5496567 Winston of Oceania
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Germany has always had to worry about Russia on the east and France on the west to the point that von Schliefens General Staff rides were addressing that directly. And now look who is selling Putin warships made explicitly for invasion, none other than the socialist French. Germany should sink them when they go by Denmark...

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 16:16 | 5497386 WVO Biker
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Anti Russian propaganda - on top of german children state TV daily showing transvestites to my little ones. All financed by a special TV tax.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 19:53 | 5497911 Nassim
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This is unbelievable. It is just like the Stasi controlling the news in the former East Germany.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 10:02 | 5496165 FightingtheFed
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I wish Russia would conduct exercises in the GOM as to drive these dumbass ignorant uninformed Americans insane that continually sit in front of the Jewtube and absorb all of their devious anti Russian propaganda..

Why didn't we hate Russia back when they were torturing and butchering 10s of millions of their own citizens???? FDR referred to Stalin as Uncle Joe??

 

But today Putin who has the best interest of the Russian people in mind does not go along with the Jew World Order and he's demonized by the vile Jewish Press 24/7...

 

These diabolical demonic Jews running America today have got to be removed. They are a cancer on the earth just as they were when they ruled in Russia & Germany.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 13:32 | 5496822 Herd Redirectio...
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The other day I read that NATO is worried Russia's control of the Crimea 'hands them the entire Black Sea'.

Well no shit.

But wait just a second.  What is the NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION giving a shit about the Black Sea for???  Is it connected to the North Atlantic?  Geography....  Its a bitch.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 13:54 | 5496928 Sandmann
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Britain and France have invaded Russia twice since 1854; the USA has invaded Russia once in 1917-1919; Germany has invaded Russia twice since 1914

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 10:59 | 5496314 lakecity55
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The original agreement between Shrub Sr SoS Baker and Gorbo Chef was that NATO would not expand East.
Now, who broke their word?

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 12:56 | 5496699 drendebe10
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Hahahaha - in ur face corrupt incompetent arrogant narcissistic illegal indonesian kenyan alien muslim sociopathic pathological liar in chief fudgepacker.....  will u squeal like the pig u r when Putin jams it up ur hind quarters...

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:09 | 5496038 Latina Lover
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Fuck Britannia

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:16 | 5496053 XuscitizenSweden
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ok Latina L.....fuck britania you sayin? I don't think so. The Uk couldn't get a BJ from any Worldwiiidde hooker. Their willy's to little haa haa....got no balls either.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:20 | 5496056 Latina Lover
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Yeah good point. The Brits are OK but the government reminds me of a skanky crack whore tricking out to the US for love and affection. Wonder how that special relationship with America is working out ....

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:35 | 5496088 XuscitizenSweden
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Agreed about Britts...no worries for me either. As for their leaders they're Eton faggots & pedophiles.

Cameron OVomit and the Wookie need a 3-some real quick....good for their nerves. Managé Trois because the frenchies fucked everything up with the boats & TOTAL's demise.

I can hear the 3 now... "Depeche toi...Depeche toi". :)

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 10:04 | 5496170 TheGreatRecovery
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I wonder whether the USA just does the dirty work for the City of London bankers.  Hard to tell who works for who, since they don't include me in their "morning gold price setting" meetings.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 10:58 | 5496301 Muh Raf
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As a Brit I can confirm that most of them are in fact tw*ts these days. The generations coming through now are homogenised consumers with little if no independent thought. We were a nation of rebels in the 1970s and 1980s, ready to fight anyone, especially government pillocks and pillocking, at the drop of a hat. Under the economic regime everyone here is sh*t scared of losing what little they have, hence the 9-11 and 7-7 lies are allowed to perpetuate unchallenged. The only glimmer of hope is the refusal of the brain dead numties to allow the establishment a free pass on the establishment pedo scandal. This is one pen*s story too far for the masses, but Daryl over at the French Connection has been knocking this story out for almost a decade and I've been fighting this cause even longer. Let's hope that this remains a revulsion movement that continues to re-surface the topic each time they try to bury it. After all they buried Operation Ore in 2002 and we haven't seen an outcry yet over why this massive investigation was sidelined. As for the UK government, they've been 80-90% owned by Jews since the Balfour Declaration was negotiated and put into effect during WW1, what a bunch of tossers. The only solution here like most places is a clean slate revolution.   

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 13:01 | 5496728 drendebe10
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...clean slate.... bring it the fuk on... lock n load... fuk all damn gummints...

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 11:46 | 5496458 Stoploss
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The Brits are OK

 

No. They're not.  This is the second visit.

The UK has lost it's credibility, playing along with the NWO bad asses, it would seem no one would notice the weakness.

Almost no one.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 12:56 | 5496701 YHC-FTSE
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"Brits are OK". Thanks but quite frankly I don't recognize my country any more. I seem to have crossed into a parallel universe where Britain has become the 51st state in the USSA. It's all owned by the squids or their clients with freshly printed ZIRP money.

My sentiments on Black Friday

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 13:55 | 5496937 Sandmann
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Britain is can EPCOT theme park inhabited by extras

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:22 | 5496067 StychoKiller
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Russia should conduct such "exercises" on a weekly basis until the UK navy starts running out of fuel.  Russia of course, has no such problem.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:09 | 5496039 skbull44
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The clash of empires will soon be upon us...bullish for armament stocks!

http://olduvai.ca

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:10 | 5496041 rsnoble
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Bullish till the final phase of the war which will be initiated by the one losing.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:25 | 5496069 XuscitizenSweden
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Nope. "City of London" gonna be on the tactical nuke 1st strike list. Future dividends will be paid in Rubles Yuan only & yours truly Gold. Then we can all start taking about a Tiger-Eagle Economy. No bull-bear limp shit.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:37 | 5496093 HowdyDoody
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Four key targets - Washington, New York, London, Tel Aviv - are there any others?

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:46 | 5496107 photonsoflight
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I would replace telaviv with the saudi oil feilds.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 10:36 | 5496256 Razor_Edge
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Ivan has more than enough for them all. Hate to see our chosenite friends discriminated against................MMMMMeeeeeeeeeeHHHHHHHH!

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:46 | 5496110 photonsoflight
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.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:47 | 5496112 photonsoflight
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What is it with the double posting lately. It is getting worse.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:49 | 5496118 BadDog
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Vatican, makes five

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 11:00 | 5496318 Thorny Xi
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The world's high end ski resorts on Christmas. Just as effective with less civilian casualty.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 17:44 | 5497567 Parrotile
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Major grid switching stations, major rail pinch-points, LPG / Nat Gas / Petroleum storage.

Without the "Civilian" infrastructure the "War Machine" soon  stops running.

If the Russians choose to be really nasty - plenty of nuclear power installations to target - most of which are multi-reactor facilities, many of which are reasonable close to population centres / major highways.

Just three strategically - placed EMP detonations at altitude would be sufficient to permanently disable all electrical supply services in the Continental USA - Bill Fortschen's book "One Second After" details the consequences of this in reasonable detail.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:10 | 5496044 rsnoble
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Let's see........can't get places like Iraq under control.  Then start shit with a major nuclear power.  Someone is fucking nuts.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:25 | 5496071 Latina Lover
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No, the USSA needs a war in Europe, since they ALWAYS profit.  America gets to sell weapons and eliminate competition by destroying EU economies.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 11:35 | 5496421 tonyw
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isn't the plan to have chaos in the ME?

who would benefit from that?

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:11 | 5496045 XuscitizenSweden
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Just love watchin' Putin & freinds rubbin' nato's face in it.

Pussies....chickens employed by the neocon-NWO.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:21 | 5496065 Latina Lover
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 NATO is willing to fight to the last Ukie maidan dummy.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 12:48 | 5496676 flapdoodle
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Just as the neo-cons are willing to fight down to the last Goyim American.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 15:17 | 5497231 COSMOS
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Let the Ukie men kill themselves then fuck their women.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:19 | 5496057 youngman
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Ping..Ping...Ping..just making maps.....

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:31 | 5496078 DaddyO
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My thoughts exactly!

All in the name of detente...such a noble act and so magnanimous of the Limey .gov...

DaddyO

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:19 | 5496058 WTFUD
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Another party's over and i'm left tired and sober!
HANG SOROS UNTIL DEAD

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:20 | 5496060 Bill of Rights
Fri, 11/28/2014 - 11:38 | 5496424 tonyw
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easier to do it with silver, the whole world's supply is only priced at ~ $16bn

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:29 | 5496077 Latina Lover
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You missed the Obama speech where his teleprompter told the world that Russia, Ebola and I think ISIS are the worlds 3 greatest threats. 

 


Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:33 | 5496087 HowdyDoody
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And the part where Russia considers that effectively a declaration of war.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:37 | 5496092 WTFUD
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Oh yes i'll never forget where i was when he made that statement LL. s/c

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:21 | 5496064 Sudden Debt
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WATCH OUT!!! THE ENGLISH DRIVE ON THE LEFT SIDE!!!

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:24 | 5496068 Peter Pan
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With everyone having their finger on the trigger, what could possibly go wrong?

Moreover, Europe needs to take care. Putin is a magician. The ships etc that the west sees is what Putin wants them to see. I am sure there is more involved below and above tye surface.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 13:04 | 5496739 drendebe10
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WTF does the incompetent corrupt arrogant narcissistic illegal alien muslim sociopathic pathological liar in chief fudgepacker care... as long as it gets to live its.opulent overprivileged celebrity grand imperial golf lifestyle on the backs os U.S. citizen tax paying serfs & peasants.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:33 | 5496080 Son of Captain Nemo
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In the "dis-order of things"...

Expected!

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:41 | 5496096 HowdyDoody
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The Ministry of Defence tweet is a little confusing. Is HMS Tyne a part of the UK Navy or is it THE UK Navy?

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 14:59 | 5497176 Sirius Wonderblast
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Just a patrol vessel, that's all.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:55 | 5496135 buzzsaw99
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led by anti-submarine ship Severomorsk...

Hey Smails, my dingy's bigger than your whole boat! [/Al "NATO" Czervik]

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 09:55 | 5496137 WTFUD
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Just watching the semi finals of the ladies Curling European Championships from Champery, Switzerland and sponsored by www.gruyere cheese, fromage. Tense, nail biting on the edge of a coma, stuff, Russia v Denmark.

Some lookers but also some huge asses on show as they skate down the rink in squat position brushing nine bells out of the ice in a strategic battle to maintain territory in the scoring circle end.

Who says Russia and Europe need to be at war and secondly wouldn't the ladies time be better spent potato picking in Ukraine?

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 10:01 | 5496159 Divine Wind
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ROFL. Too funny.

 

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 13:07 | 5496753 drendebe10
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.. I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a fatazz today...

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 10:01 | 5496154 Wild E Coyote
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Putin seems to be doing his best to actualy avoid war. 

He is sending the message that Russia is well prepared. And is willing to react strongly. 

I am sure any normal person will understand the dangers and will seek a negotation and peaceful settlement.

But the western leaders including Harper in Canada, Tony in Australia, Hussein of USA, Merkel of Germany and that joker in UK, all seem to have the same mental problem. They seem crazy, unwilling to liste to reason. Ignorant of facts, fear of negotiation, and seemed to have an agenda for war.  

They could be on drugs or they have done some naughty shit that NSA have records of. 

Either way, we are f.......

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 10:17 | 5496200 yogibear
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They could be on drugs.

It's called political power.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 10:23 | 5496216 Son of Captain Nemo
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But the western leaders including Harper in Canada, Tony in Australia, Hussein of USA, Merkel of Germany and that joker in UK, all seem to have the same mental problem. They seem crazy, unwilling to liste to reason. Ignorant of facts, fear of negotiation, and seemed to have an agenda for war.  

Fine observation(s) W E

They have a clinical definition for this kind of deranged behavior or mental problem...

In short.  Where the f...... are the people in all these Countrie(s) you mention that are paying dearly (I might add) for "said behavior"?...

Oh forgot!  Here they are?... 

it's nice to know that between riots 90+ million Americans can take their welfare checks to Best Buy, Target and Walmart and look forward to a wonderful Christmas celebration as the neighborhood around them smolders!

we are f.......


Fri, 11/28/2014 - 10:24 | 5496218 TheReplacement
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In the vein of your thought, it would seem that Putin has move past trying to influence the leadership (Bear flybys) to influencing the followers (naval excercises).  Nobody sees the bombers.  People on the coast could have seen the flotilla.

 

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 15:01 | 5497186 Sirius Wonderblast
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Both coasts - Britain and France.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 14:24 | 5497058 tired1
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Putin to Hollande:

Doesn't it make you nervous to have two of our warship tied up to your docks?

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 21:48 | 5498152 bid the soldier...
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Make no mistake.

It's the Pentagon and the neocons who are trying lead Putin and Russia into war.

Merkel and Hollande, Harper and Abbott and Cameron are just bit players in this farce.

It seems to me they are trying to get Putin to attack Poroshenko before the final report on MH17 is released. In that way even if the Ukraine is responsible for bringing down the plane, Putin's attack of the Ukrainian  army in Donbas will become the major act of aggression.   The interest in MH17 and those responsible for will gradually fade away and the Russian support of Ukrainian revolution becomes the whole story. 

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 10:15 | 5496194 yogibear
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Russia is giving the US and Europeans a taste of their own medicine.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 10:38 | 5496263 q99x2
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If they could only take the City of London the entire world would start to mend.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 10:55 | 5496297 Son of Captain Nemo
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If they could only take the City of London the entire world would start to mend.

Wouldn't we all like to see the Royals and Boris Johnson vaporized once and for all!

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 11:02 | 5496326 'argar the 'orrible
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HowdyDoody, the correct term is, The Royal Navy, since the days of Empire (long gone) there was no need to specify the country name as it was the largest and most agressive of all Navies. 

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 11:23 | 5496386 post turtle saver
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here RTyler... just post this permanently on the front page of RTHedge and face towards Moscow while you listen to it...

http://youtu.be/x72w_69yS1A

 

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 11:29 | 5496403 Jonathan Equine...
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Awwww...

Someone ate a whole bunch of turkey and got some sand in his vagina....

Get thee back to Drudge.... they'll give you all the sweet neocon lies that you crave.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 14:39 | 5497107 Volkodav
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Great Anthem

no matter opinion

 

 

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 21:17 | 5498108 bid the soldier...
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I can just look at one of the dozen photos of Putin in my house.  

I'm not sure in which direction Moscow is when I'm very stoned.

 

thanks. it's always been a favorite.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 11:25 | 5496395 RaceToTheBottom
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How did the Russian navy operate previously without entering the English channel?

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 16:04 | 5497362 Volkodav
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normal

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 11:25 | 5496396 'argar the 'orrible
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In fact, in continuance of my post above, in 1947 the Jewel In the Crown of Brittain, India, was the precurser to the downfall of Britain. The Royal Navy had a lot of killing and maiming to maintain the Empire which is paradoxically where the US finds itself right now. So history repeats ad infinitem.

My advice to the Washington neo-cons is, 'give up, you can't win, your time is past, never to be repeated'.

Of course 'they' will not, more people will die and be maimed and for what, some neo-con  whose ego is larger than his or her brain.

It seems to me that Mr. Putin desires trade and peace, not war, so lets be brave and strive for that.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 11:33 | 5496417 Jonathan Equine...
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Note that neither the US or EU even gave token diplomatic effort to resolving the real concerns of Ukraine's "separatists" - some kind of autonomy, within a federation, perhaps like Bosnia.

This total ZATO take all attitude after a ZATO-backed coup ought to give the Drudge crowd some pause, no?

The trolls are desperate. Strip away the ad hominems and brazen lies and they dont have any arguments.

Death to tyrants.
Long live the Republic.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 11:56 | 5496490 Tursas
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Here is a nice addition to "Who is Who" in the Ukraine crisis...

http://t.co/kZ06uVSIFQ

 

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 19:36 | 5497354 Volkodav
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It is Ukrainian General telling why Ukraine  is not sovereign nation

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 12:15 | 5496558 bid the soldier...
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The US and the EU have done NOTHING in Ukraine, except create the conflict in the first place, hoodwink the world about what they have done, there, and continue to inflame the struggle there which already has killed over 4000 Ukrainians. 

And this hateful situation was set up in the name of the US taxpayer and with his funds.

 

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 12:24 | 5496593 Ghordius
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wait a moment. non-NATO Ukraine fights non-NATO separatists about a piece of land and if it should belong to Ukraine or Russia. can we at least agree on this fact?

to spell it differently, if neither Ukraine nor Russia would care about that... would anybody have died? you bring accusations of fanning the flames, and you are probably right about that. but the embers were already there

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 13:27 | 5496811 Jonathan Equine...
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Kiev's putch regime is a puppet of the IMF and NATO {to include the Israelis, in practice} and you know it, Ghordius. 

The neocons are leading the charge, of course, and it is not because they care about the prosperity and health of Ukrainians.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 14:58 | 5497169 red1chief
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The regime in Une is a puppet but it serves those in Western Ukraine fighting the Russians, so they don't care.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 13:35 | 5496834 bid the soldier...
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Yes, a few of the embers were already there.  But most of them were kindled in Langley and Washington, even before the USSR broke up.

The CIA's annual budget is $50 billion and slightly less than that in the 80's. How many spies, provocateurs and foreign politicians will that buy around the globe @$10k, $20k, or $30k per annum?

The CIA prolly has incriminating photos or recordings of over 50% of most of the important political figures in the international community.

Just because Frau Merkel discovered one instance of her phone being tapped, doesn't mean that the CIA doesn't have other embarrassing material they could release about her that they would use to force Germany into hard line position against Russia.

If the CIA spent it's entire budget $50 billion on foreign agents and provocateurs  @ $25,000 per, they would have an army of two million troublemakers to start revolutions in Syria, Libya, Egypt, Venezuela, and Ukraine to mention just a few.

 


Fri, 11/28/2014 - 13:19 | 5496794 Jonathan Equine...
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to ad hominem and lies I should have added a strange predilection for homoerotic/homophobic rhetoric - like Kagan and Nudelman enlisted some boys from the local junior high.

 

Cute.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 21:10 | 5498092 bid the soldier...
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Aw

Isn't a little homoerotic/homophobic commentary acceptable?  

It's not like anybody's asking for photos first and making dates.

About boys from the local junior high, I believe Netanyahu recruited Israeli high schoolers to comment and be annoying on US political web sites. 

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 11:44 | 5496443 bid the soldier...
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Ahem

Department of Wishful Thinking

Not to worry.  

It is this Russian flotilla which will escort the Russian Navy's most recent addition, the first Mistral helicopter carrier, Vladivostok, to the to the Eastern port after which it was named, when the French hand it over to Russia next month.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 14:29 | 5497076 red1chief
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These big ships are sitting ducks in a real war, mostlt good for projecting power on other times.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 19:06 | 5497781 bid the soldier...
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In a real war each of the Russian missile cruisers might get two dozen missiles off at the outset, from the North Atlantic or Gulf of Mexico, etc,. with a large percentage hitting their targets.

If the report about the USS Cook in the Black Sea isn't apocryphal, Russia has the ability to kill communication on other ships, and by extension, who-knows-what-other-weapons.  

Most of the excitement of the next war will take place in the first 40 minutes, so make sure you're not late.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 11:52 | 5496477 WTFUD
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Instead of the usual royal fanfare with a bottle of bubbly attached to some cord smashed against the hull i'd love to see that cord wrapped around that cunt Nuland's neck when the Russians escort the Mistral out of said french port.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 12:06 | 5496526 TurdOnTheRun
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Four ships is a flotilla?

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 12:24 | 5496600 Ghordius
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interestingly, yes. actually I understand even two ships can be a flottilla, if they have one CO in charge. like "task force"

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 12:12 | 5496544 Hamm Jamm
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Leaky russian ships need to stay close to any port for repairs...  ... even that is risky because they occasionally explode for no reason like the Kursk

 

however, due to the crews eating alot of cabbage and vodka, the farting and belching does give the ships some bouyancy ......  although a notorious bad odour !

 

so don't worry too much ...  the Fart Fleet of Rusting rusky ships are no threat !!   just stinky

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 12:36 | 5496633 bid the soldier...
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I don't remember reading that the Pilgrims drank gallons of cheap red wine at the first Thanksgiving.

Could you send me a link or a video of you face down in the sweet potato and marshmallow casserole?

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 13:26 | 5496806 Hamm Jamm
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yes, i will do that after i finish my load on your mothers face !   she likes to taste marshmellows

don't be mad, she will bring some marshmellow leftovers home for you in the basement .. ..  

 

just don't mix russian Cabbage and vodka with it...  too much Farting !

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 14:21 | 5497050 bid the soldier...
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Hey dude,

Im not upset.  I know that your convienence store that takes food stamps for Thunderbird is closed for the weekend.

I hope you can make it till Monday.

And you can call me and my mother whatever names you want if it helps your DTs.

your pal etc etc

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 19:17 | 5497817 Hamm Jamm
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Maybe i am too rough on you...   sorry

you can tell your mom that aswell

but, she really does like marshmellows ...   she can be a bad girl sometimes heh heh heh  ( oh i see... too much information again ...)

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 20:45 | 5498041 bid the soldier...
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Dude

I like to play rough too. But unlike you, I don't like being handcuffed to the headboard.

But then I didn't have to spend as much time in a strait jacket as you did  when you were in the bins. 

I'm still anxious to have a latte with you sometime real soon.  :o)

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 23:38 | 5498322 optimator
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Bit, don't knock the Pilgrims, in the Mayflower they had the largest ship ever built.

 

It had to be the largest when one counts all the people whose forebarers came over on it.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 13:02 | 5496727 Anusocracy
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I worked on a Russian ship.

You are clueless.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 13:21 | 5496800 Hamm Jamm
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yes, and I worked on a spaceship that would fly to other dimensions.. !

 

honestly, you are just another russian/georgian shill

 

perhaps you can now say something to blame the world problems on the jews ...   it is what russian shills do !!

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 14:47 | 5497118 Anusocracy
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Sure as hell did.

From your posts it's obvious that you don't know what you're talking about.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 19:21 | 5497828 Hamm Jamm
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is Putin your Papa ?      are you half bear ?...    it is hard to tell anymore with russian cross breeding programs...   too much animal sexy time

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 15:29 | 5497275 COSMOS
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I guess your stinky pinky can talk about it after your repeated self immolation

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 19:28 | 5497850 Hamm Jamm
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I can't believe girl like you talks with such bad language..  .. this shows this world is going to a bad place when good looking girls says bad stuff

 

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 12:29 | 5496622 Bumbu Sauce
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Russian Navy=Totally gHey

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 12:50 | 5496683 Bumbu Sauce
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couple of down arrows?  Who could have guessed that ZH was so full of Russian Seamen?

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 14:47 | 5497133 Anusocracy
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Who would have guessed that you are so full of US .gov semen?

Probably everyone.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 14:51 | 5497144 Bumbu Sauce
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What you lack in cleverness, you make up for with stupid pressuposition.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 15:08 | 5497206 Anusocracy
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What you lack in knowledge, you make up for with an even greater lack of knowledge.

I have a great dislike for people with a strong ingroup morality. They are no better than a monkey.

Whoop for the Troop! Go Macaques!

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 15:10 | 5497210 Sirius Wonderblast
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To Bum Sauce:

You, Sir, are the one with a picture of a raving poofter for an avatar.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 15:11 | 5497219 Bumbu Sauce
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Jeremy Brett was a poofter. Your insight into the obvious is overwhelming!

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 15:30 | 5497281 COSMOS
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Bumbu aka bum sauce is a perfect description of what you are all about.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 15:34 | 5497294 Bumbu Sauce
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The micrososmos of your knowledge fits inside the smallest nesting doll.

yay, a stupid throwaway joke about a gay navy became a chance for the ZH monkey class to go full ad hom.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 12:40 | 5496646 Amerikan Patriot
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When are you Zero Hedgers emigrating to Russia? 

Are y'all settling down east or west of the Urals?

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 12:45 | 5496658 Ghordius
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east, of course. west of the Urals is for sissies. still Europe, says it all

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 14:16 | 5497029 Volkodav
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haha 

these have no clue how tough

learn that Minister of Defense Shoygu is half Tuvan half Siberian

Siberians are good people

Siberian Ladies are best wives

 

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 14:17 | 5497036 silverer
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I hear all the "stans" are good.  You're a rock star when you get off the plane.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 15:10 | 5497215 where_is the_nuke
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I'm in your home, banging your wife.

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 12:42 | 5496652 Amerikan Patriot
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Will Vlad go broke in 2015 or 2016?

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 13:38 | 5496850 Hamm Jamm
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the russian people will go broke...   but not Vlad !    unless you talking about his ranch ..   ..Brokeback Bear Mountain where he and some Red russian Bears, take turns sodomizing russian citizens that are political enemies !  it is how he stays in such good shape... 

its symbolic...  to tell russian not to defy their master or they will get broke by the Red Bear

 

He alway gets his way...  he is Red Putin !

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 17:31 | 5497539 bid the soldier...
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he and some Red russian Bears, take turns sodomizing russian citizens.......it is how he stays in such good shape... 

How would you know that sodomizing keeps one in good health?

Personal experience or wishful thinking?

 

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 19:12 | 5497798 Hamm Jamm
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the person doing the sodomizing, does alot of PUMPING and pumping ... which is exercise !

 

Now for instance you on the otherhand are on the recieving end !  and the only gain that you recieve is some stronger jaw muscles from biting the pillow...   and quite abit of enlargement of your sphincter !    this is well known fact among russians...  take some vodka and you'll eventually dull the pain ....  which is good because there is often alot of rough parts such as getting repeated punched in the face ...  for those recieving the gift ...

maybe someday russian will rise up and be free...  but till then Putin will be a pain in their Ass

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 20:21 | 5497982 bid the soldier...
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Are you the straight man or the banana man?  

comedy duo, is a comic pairing in which humor is derived from the uneven relationship between two partners usually of the same gender, age, ethnic origin and profession but drastically different in terms of personality or behavior.

Often one of the members of the duo—the straight man or feed —is portrayed as reasonable and serious, while the other one—the funny man, banana man or comic—is portrayed as funny, less educated or less intelligent, silly, or unorthodox..... The term "feed" comes from the way a straight man is wont to set up jokes and "feed" them to his partner.

If I were you, I'd quit worrying about whether the Russians will ever be free.  The big question is how long it is before the West becomes more enslaved than the Russians.

You seem to know quite a lot about being both pumper and pumpee.

That must be because you're a switch hitter and good at both ends just as you are at talking dirty?  Either that or you live in San Fransciso and drink to forget what you do when the bars close. 

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 21:29 | 5498127 Hamm Jamm
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Dude, relax a little !  

 

People do have finally realize that all governments are Fake ...  and strong men like Putin and weak men like Obama are just ordinary men

if my Fake comedy gets you upset....  you should be much more upset at the fake world that we are taught to conform to

 

till then...  I"ll hit the shills in the nuts, and maybe they'll see the real joke or not ! 

have some fun

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 22:12 | 5498186 bid the soldier...
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Hey, pal

if my Fake comedy gets you upset...

Upset?  

To be honest, it's kind of exciting.  (Maybe that's fake; maybe it's not.)

Seriously, I have upvoted you a lot, but when you get nasty about Putin, I'll reply.  In the very short term, the US might be better off if Putin had been on MH17 and now the CIA was trying to influence who his successor will be.

But in the medium run the world would be a lot worse off without Putin thwarting the US and the West at every turn right now.

As far as Hamm Spamm is concerned, I like him and most of what he says.  And if he thinks I'm gay and want to jump his bones, it's a twofer.


Fri, 11/28/2014 - 23:30 | 5498308 Hamm Jamm
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Ha ha   No problem

truthfully, its not putin that bothers me but how some people become blind with nationalism !    its gets to be fun to poke them abit

some of the things i say about obama are probably just as nasty

 

aslong as people don't take me too seriously...   

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 13:56 | 5496943 Sandmann
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Will Bill Clinton be Vice President in 2016 ?

Fri, 11/28/2014 - 14:57 | 5497167 Anusocracy
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First Lady

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