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Putin Live: Talks US, Nukes, Ukraine, Iran, Hitler, And Cloning In Town Hall Meeting — Full VIdeo
Russian President Vladimir Putin — who TIME readers recently voted as the most influential person in the world — held his annual call-in/ town hall-style Q&A on Thursday, and as one might imagine, there were some memorable moments. Previous sessions included the following classic clips (via RT):
Putin on whether Alaska is “ice crimea” (play on “ice cream”): “What would you need Alaska for? It’s cold there, let’s not get overenthusiastic about it.”
Putin on when he would be willing to retire: “You won’t live to see it.”
Putin on John McCain’s suggestion that the Russian President will go the way of Muammar Gaddafi: “McCain sat in a pit in Vietnam for several years, anyone would go nuts after that.”
Putin on astronomy, the exact time table for the end of the world, and how, if he’s around then, he will most assuredly not be afraid:
Clearly these are tough acts to follow and so, with the bar set, Putin came into Thursday’s event prepared to one-up himself — he did not disappoint. As Bloomberg notes, the Russian President took 'the pot calling the kettle black' to the next level by likening the US to the post-war USSR. Like the Soviet Union, Washington seeks to “impose” its will, Putin said, echoing comments made by his security council last month in a critique of US foreign policy. The US, he continued, wants “vassals” and not “allies.” Putin also employed the tried and true “express willingness to negotiate then make not-so-veiled nuclear threat” strategy before reminding listeners that Stalin was not Hitler. Here’s more:
- U.S. “doesn’t need allies, they need vassals”
- Nothing good came of U.S.S.R.’s attempts to impose will, model on other countries; U.S. also won’t succeed in forcing its position on world, U.S. shouldn’t be only power
- Putin says it wasn’t Russia that ruined relations w/ U.S. its allies
- If U.S., allies was to rebuild ties, they must respect Russia, its interests
- Russia wants cooperation, willing to work w/ those who want to cooperate with Russia
- Anti-Russia sanctions aren’t very effective
- Putin says Russia’s nuclear power is nearly equal to U.S.
- Russia bolstering defense to protect itself, not planning to go to war w/ anyone
- Putin says confrontation isn’t reason for his high public support
- Russia will continue to fight radical nationalism, nationalism is threat to Russia’s unity
- Putin says Stalinism, Nazi regimes shouldn’t be compared as Josef Stalin didn’t try to exterminate entire ethnic groups
Other highlights include the following, via The Guardian:
Iran: Putin insisted lifting a five-year embargo on the delivery of air defence missiles to Iran did not undermine international sanctions since the Russian ban was voluntary. The US and Israel have objected to the move announced this week. Putin said he made the decision since Iran had shown “a desire to reach compromise”.
WW2 commemorations: European nations not coming to Moscow to mark the 70th anniversary of the war’s end had been put under pressure by Washington, Putin claimed.
Ukraine: The Russian president denied Russian military forces were in Ukraine and said Kiev was violating a peace accord by maintaining an economic blockade on eastern regions under the control of pro-Russian rebels.
Economy: Putin was optimistic in his answers, highlighting gains in agriculture and a low unemployment rate. He added that the rouble was getting back on its feet following a sharp devaluation last year, and estimated a full recovery to be “somewhere in the region of two years”.
Here’s the entire spectacle:
Meanwhile, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and the chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces also invoked the cold war in claiming that Washington has adopted a 'to the winner go the spoils' approach to international politics since the collapse of the Soviet Union. This, the officials claim, is evident in the US approach to the conflict in Ukraine. Here's more, via Reuters:
Top Russian officials accused the United States on Thursday of seeking political and military dominance in the world and sought to put blame on the West for international security crises, including the conflict in east Ukraine.
Evoking Cold War-style rhetoric, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said a drive by the United States and its allies to bring Kiev closer to the West was a threat to Moscow and had forced it to react.
"The United States and its allies have crossed all possible lines in their drive to bring Kiev into their orbit. That could not have failed to trigger our reaction," he told an annual security conference in Moscow.
Echoing his comments, General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, told the meeting: "Considering themselves the winners of the Cold War, the United States decided to reshape the world to fit its needs.
"Aiming at complete dominance, Washington stopped taking into account the interests of other countries and respect international law."
And a bit more color from WSJ:
General Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, said missile defense systems slated for installation in Poland and Romania represented a threat and Russia had to prepare to respond.
“Nonnuclear powers where missile-defense installations are being installed have become the objects of priority response,” Gen. Gerasimov said, referring to Poland and Romania.
The comments came at a Moscow defense conference where a series of high-level Russian leaders repeatedly warned of the serious threats that the U.S. and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization posed to modern Russia. Together, the speeches formed a fiery rebuke to the U.S. that comes as the conflict in Ukraine has brought the worst relations between Moscow and Washington since the days of the Cold War...
In the past, Western leaders have said NATO’s long-running project to build a missile defense shield in Europe aimed to deter an attack from Iran rather than from Russia. On Thursday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said such assertions were a lie.
“Today it is clear that the missile threat from Tehran that the U.S. and other countries of the alliance invented was a bluff,” Mr. Shoigu said...
Gen. Gerasimov also warned of Islamist extremism. He said al Qaeda had arisen from the Mujahideen that fought against Soviet forces in Afghanistan with U.S. money and support and suggested history had begun to repeat itself.
“Not so long ago participants in ISIL also were ‘good’ fighters, widely paid off by the West as ‘fighters for democracy in Syria,’” Gen. Gerasimov said. “Now they’ve gotten out of control,” he added, saying they posed a threat to their “former employers.”
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As funny as it is to listen to the Russian President field random questions on subjects as diverse as cloning, astronomy, and annexing Alaska, and while there's certainly a degree to which the Kremlin employs a bit of sophistry in an effort to paint Russia as the tragic protagonist in a story about an evil hegemon bent on spreading Russophobia (so pretty much the exact same thing the US did during the cold war, only in reverse), the tension between Moscow and the West is palpable and with NATO now conducting its own snap drills in Eastern Europe and with the very same militants to which Gen. Gerasimov is referring just a few kilometers away from the palace of the Russian-backed Bashar al-Assad, we wonder if and when the war of words will turn into one of bullets.
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Wouldn't it be nice to have a real leader. Take a look. What a joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcb4rLzXFl0
Actually no. American's shouldn't need leaders, the fact that they feel they do should be a point of great shame to them.
I wonder if he need teleprompters for all that Q&A ...
Regards,
Cooter
Like him or not, he has exposed Obama and Team as the incompetent fools they are. Just go back and look and Tunisia, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and Ukraine. Add in the Iranian deal and Yemen. That is just the Foreign Affairs book and I am sure I forgot a few. Toss in the Domestic issues and the pattern becomes clearer.
Create chaos and instability throughout the world then re-sculpt in the Vision of the Messiah. Only I is doomed to failure leaving behind unfathomable death and destruction.
My thoughts revolve around that being as noteworthy as taking candy from a baby.
I want to be cloned
so I have someone to blame shit on
Parents are far easier to blame than your average lab rat.
i would really think u are way more tougher to have a giant black cock put in ur ass,.... than to be trying to keep up with her....
http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/06/this-is-vladimir-putins-extremely-flex...
I never gave consent to be ruled over or governed by a so called "leader"...
Golden Rule
Common Law
All hail Emperor Putin!
Which one of lack's lackeys downvoted me?
Well, he's prepping his sheeples, no?
And that cloning bit, um, i don't know, guess not faring too well with PTB.
Too bad, real bullets will fly soon.
the Iranian deal?
The one that lets Iran do what Iran is legally entitled to do - all without forcing Israel to open up for inspections or sign the NPT?
Come on.
There's only ONE way to have a nuclear free Middle East...have a nuclear free Middle East by forcing Israel to give up their weapons and their nuclear programs
Better still Nuke Dimona and you will see all the khazari rats run for the exit
And even with that massive get out, Israel whines and whines.
I'd really lke to find out what Putin's IQ is and compare it to Obama's.
-Matt
http://MrDryOut.com
According to the Pentagon, Putin is supposedly the insecure, antisocial, smart kid with Asperger's. By that metric, Obama is the retarded kid who sits in the corner and makes finger-paintings with his own shit.
I see you're giving Barry some Affirmative Action credit in your analysis; you're over-estimating his abilities.
He is no dumb and he knows precisely which side of bread is buttered. As George Carlin puts it he's put there to give you an illusion.
You seem to have a very peculiar idea of what human intelligence means...
Judging from the quickness of his wit and sophistication of his
off-the-cuff responses that his IQ is Enormous... Probably
well over 160.
Hey new Crazy Cooter! I watched this via live feed. He doesn't seem to use teleprompters, always eyeing the audience and not looking in one place. He reads stats from paper or from the computer, when answering questions and speaking to the people, eyeing the people to the side, front, other side. It's pretty amazing. A far cry from an Obama State of the Union:
Obama: Our economy is booing!
Democrats: standing ovation and cheers
Obama: Unemployment has never been better!
DemocratsL Standing ovation and cheers
Obama: We have contained Russia and China
Democrats and Republicans: standing ovation and cheers
Love Putin or hate him, he knows his country, knows the facts and talks to he people, taking hard questions. We just don't see that heee in America. Very sad, it's always a reminder of how far we have fallen
There's a reason why he's never shown on video in the US, and why his speeches and public interviews are never scrutinized or even translated.
"and why his speeches and public interviews are never scrutinized or even translated."
if you're talking about Putin you can find the speeches translated on the net and commented on.
if you're talking about Obama you are correct
I obviously wasn't talking about Obama, whose speeches are glorified and quoted by practically every US news outlet. I was talking about the ZERO substantial coverage of Putin by the west.
"Can be Googled"
Yeah and so can my butt, but there's no danger of that changing the current paradigm.
A leader is what you put a sinker on when you go fishing.
Does that shame come with a double helping of fries ?
Retard fucking pindos wouldn't know what to do or how to feed themselves without a 'leader'.
4 hours of chat and answers, talk about embarrassing the Liberal Democracies of the West.
Soon as they got hungry, they would learn really quick.
Somewhat scripted but no teleprompter.
Yep, but we know it's 'somewhat scripted' ;-) but I don't see anyone else in the west willing to stand in front of the crowd :-)
If you're interested in what Russians think try here http://www.yaplakal.com/forum28/topic1089258.html [translate if you need ]
"American's shouldn't need leaders"
well, it seems they don't have any leaders.
what they have is oligarghs and political pussies paid by netanyahoo and a police-state-police-force and a disfunctioning expensive health system, no school system, racist and fundamentalist philosophies, the irs and nsa and and
nope, you've got everything but a leader to keep you in line
have fun
unfortunately, in this fight against Western banksters, we do need a strong leader. Otherwise, you have just weak persons, who are puppets and incapable of anything. No common politician would do, because they would be too afraid to do anything. If Putin was not a leader, he wouldnt have been able to kick out the oligarchs. This does not mean that we need strong leaders always. But there are times in history, when you do need one.
I agree. Cooperation, decentralization and transparency should be the main priorities of any honest system.
Lighten up my friend. I don't think that was the point being made. The contrast seemed funny.
The McInsane jab was priceless....
Hitler was a piker compared to the brutality of Stalin.
pods
Ain't gonna be nothin if Helliry gets elected.
Stalin was born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili.. When Lenin formed the Bolsheviks, Jughashvili eagerly joined up with him. Jughashvili proved to be a very effective organizer of men as well as a capable intellectual. Among other activities, he distributed propaganda, provoked strikes, staged bank robberies, and ordered assassinations. In 1907 Jughashvili made use of his reputation as a poet to stage the 1907 Tiflis bank robbery. He used a former school friend who was also a fan of his poetry as the inside man for a bank robbery that left 40 dead and stole millions of roubles for Lenin. This demonstrated to Lenin his need for Jughashvili.[15] Jughashvili was arrested and exiled to Siberia numerous times, but often escaped. His skill and charm won him the respect of Lenin, and he rose rapidly through the ranks of the Bolsheviks...
Red arrows on this? So we have Stalin and Lenin supporters here at ZH?
Fuck me...trolololo...
It's easy to single out murderous psychopathic leaders but behind every example are thousands or millions of lower level psychopathic killers that make it all possible.
All they lack is the motivation, which is what the leaders supply.
spend some time with american history.
go all the way back.
then broaden out to the crusades, genghis khan, various turks, pol pot.
why stop with hitler and stalin.
humans are all f*cking crazy.
Especially in a British accent.
I always wonder how many people on ZH are kremlin paid trolls, Us govt paid trolls, and how many are actually retarded. Take all of that away and you have a small ZH community of people actually interested in non mainstream news, but how many?
Actually, I would like my nations sovereignty and liberty back, if it is all the same to you.
Putin is "admired" because has his shit together and he's smart, not because he is a choir boy. No one at that level in any nation is particularly high on the "good guy" scale. I think the overall community bitch is here is that our leaders are fucking morons.
In fact, they are sooooo fucking stupid they are pretty much driving the nation into the dirt like some lazy grand kids that inherited their grand parents business empire and all they have time for is chasing skirt and wrecking sports cars.
Like that.
Regards,
Cooter
They Grubered the folks, again and again.
Funny how divide and conquer works, isn't it?
Useful idiots are useful. Especially when it comes time to pick a "fall guy." Until then, as long as they stick to the script, their actions can be covered by plausible deniability.
AKA "Win-Fucking-Win!"
Many of us, including myself, have been accused of being Putin and Russia trolls. It is so absurd it barely deserves comment.
Now ask me how I feel about the FED, IRS, Wall St, CIA, NSA, Obama, McCain, Clinton, Pelosi, Boehner and all the other shitbirds and fucktards here in the US? Oh, and throw in AIPAC, State Dept, DOJ, Pentagon, FBI and the CFR too.
It sure is ironic when stupid people call other people stupid, as if they know better. Kind of like how so many people like the movie Idiocracy and think they aren't part of the problem by blowing all their money on alcohol and cigarettes, and going up to their eyeballs in debt with shiny things they can't afford because advertising's got them on the run.
If you honestly believe our leaders are stupid, then you aren't paying attention to the big lie. Everything is going according to plan. They may not be the brightest bulbs, but the are definitely not in charge of their own decision making process. I'm surprised people here still don't get that. The fact that you got 52 upvotes for such an ignorant post does not bode well for those of us who don't want to be wiped out when the Simplification comes.
I think the overall community bitch is here is that our leaders are fucking morons.
I agree but the problem is that voters are morons for thinking that big government to rule us all is necessary and put those 'leaders' in power.
The first user to accuse other users of being paid shills is a paid shill.
"Thou that smelt it, dealt it."
The guilty dog barks loudest. And so....
Was that a threat when he said you won't live to see his retirement?
I noticed that too. I didn't regard it as a threat. but more of an observation, especially in view of this - http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/04/15/will-washington-kill-us-paul-craig-roberts/.
I suspect the "message" was that NO-ONE will "live to see their retirement" if things progress in their current direction!
careful of the translations...
I am all three of the above mentioned
we get our money from the Black Sea
Please get yourself out of the football mindset.
The US government is reviled because of the US government
The fact that it must answer to the rest of the world,
no matter how "imperfect" that world is,
was innevitable
I wonder if you always deal in ad hominems because you don't know much about geopolitics or the role of the press in propagandizing the American people - you can at least go back and look at efforts to get the US into ww1 when they didn't want to get involved.
As for paid trolls - who's paying you?
Washington’s War on Russia
*******
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/18/washingtons-war-on-russia/
Is it lonely up on that pedestal?
2% kremlin paid trolls
12.34% Us govt paid trolls
12.34% actually retarded
Well, I for one am interested in non MSMnews.
I am a bit retarded though, so please type slowly and don't use any syllogisms because I don't know what they are..
why not take a poll?
:)
I believe all world rulers are equally evil including Putdog. They didn't get to be top dog by playing nice.
That is the fairest assessment I've seen. To be fair, some rulers are more evil than others. Sorta like some animals...
more than you will ever comprehend..
..... what a stark contrast compared to the teleprompter transparent fudgepacker....
Putin sometimes sounds like a framer of the Constitution.
You USSA ZioCon Israhell Jonathan Pollard firsters can go to hell.
In other news, the US President [puppet/mascott] is having some scripts written by the ZWO gangbangkster cartel for him to read off the teleprompter.
ZWO? Zoo World Order? The term is new to me.
Zio
Zoo works too.
Putin Live: Talks US, Nukes, Ukraine, Iran, Hitler, And Cloning In Town Hall Meeting — Full VIdeo
PUTIN TO CLONE HITLER AND USE IRANIAN NUKES AGAINST UKRAINE, US.
Nyet comrade.
Putin is say clone Stalin to nuke Amerikanski cloned Hitler in Ukraine.
My newsreader algo is more actionable than yours.
No big deal comrade.
Mine is written in COBOLSKI
Strongest nuclear proof programing on planet!
ADA
Nyet comrade
It's Ada.
Who was hot brainiac mistress to Babbage..
LOL
WHERE THE HELL HIS BORIS WHEN YOU NEED HIM!?
When will our affirmatively trained answer questions without a teleprompter?
i am not jewish
but as a jew i understand the russian minds.
i have studied russian and putins for decades.
as a believer and scholar in freud and rabbi dov zakheim works.
as a teacher at the menachem begin ariel sharon yoga massage school at magna bsp dimona.
i would say that putin is the new hitler.
looking at the video from a rabbinical perps pective i would say he is insane
already
Not sure if serious.jpg
Pretty common with tony.
You spew that incomprehensible gibberish and then claim Putin is insane?
What part of it did you not understand?
"
i am not jewish
but as a jew i understand the russian minds."
sounds like you forgot to take your medication, again.
lmao
I am lol
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
What you are is a fucking twat.
tell us about Vietnam and your time with Johnny...
Judaism is an insane death cult.
Unwashed pedophile rabbis (and there are many) should look in their own backyard first. No shortage of insane assholes who think they are chosen by the God they wrote about in their books to pick on.
The sarc is strong with this one.
"menachem begin ariel sharon yoga massage school at magna bsp dimona."
Brilliant! LOL.
All politicians are gangsters, but Obama, Nuland, and co. have set the bar so low even Kim Jong Un could do with some historical revisionism.
Good format and good talk. 2.8 million calls
I can't wait until Hitlary gets selected and puts this guy in his place. How dare he speak about the great maverick John McShitstain like that.
Only in Murika you have mentelly deranged people like McCain and Obongo in politics !
@DR. Engali Billarycan't put Putin in his place may be the other way around . Within 3 month of Billary election you can count on WW3 may be that would be the opportunity to finish off once for alla the Zionist entity in Israhell . One nuke and it's over !
Going by the general trending of comments on the Internet, one gets the very strong impression that the (foregone conclusion??) election of "Margaret Thatcher on Steroids" will result in WW3 being very much "in the rearview mirror, receding fast" after her first 3 months are completed . . . . .
Foregone conclusion?? Read and weep - - - - http://www.highbrowmagazine.com/3863-hillary-clinton-next-barack-obama
Don't ever forget politicians get paid lots of cash to spin massive lies.....while they ALL work for the same master
Newsweek – What Sanctions Russia’s Economy Growing Again
Swedish Armed Forces Now Admit Supposed Russian Sub Only Civilian Boat
Russian Investment Board of Milhail Fridman Filled With Western Elites
Thesis – Antithesis – Synthesis…Kansas Politicians Call For Changing the Constitution
Russian Bank Hires Two Former U.S. Senators
Did he cheat and use a teleprompter or have puff-ball pre-selected questions served up? If these four hours are fake n itsbetction than the manufactured American hogwash and they should take notes because nobody believes Oblah-blah.
Well at least they were former Senators. Must keep up the facade of ethics.
Nice dig on McCain. That's why he has respect, he is the only one telling the truth to power. Like RT he may do a piss-poor job of revealing Russia's corruption but he does a great job at revealing ours, which is actually providing a service. Mostly, it's assholes that want to believe the delusion that America is the great city on the hill that have a problem with it.
'Like RT he may do a piss-poor job of revealing Russia's corruption'
Reveal this to whom ? Russians ? Do you think Russians can't read the News ?. It's no secret, the dirt in Russian is well documented whether it be web or print we can all read and see it.
Any non Russian speaking person capable of using google or Yandex can translate a web page and learn this for themselves if their interested, you also failed to mention alcoholism and drug addition amongst the many problems faced daily in Russia.
I wasn't attempting to give a rundown of Russia's problems. You can't throw a rock in this country without hitting a meth head, and where did meth originate again? What was that congressional hearing about that involved Prescott Bush? Yeah, somebody needs to expose this cancer and obviously MSM isn't going to do it, if Putin wants to that's great, plus he's funny.
"Despite the fact that American people make up only four percent of the global population, they still manage to use two-thirds of illegal drugs worldwide"
High Society: How Substance Abuse Ravages America and What to Do About It.” (2008). CASA Columbia. Accessed July 10, 2014.
Seems one particularly unwelcome "Russian Export" may have already arrived in the USA - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2507501/First-US-Krokodil-drug-case-recorded-doctors-St-Louis.html.
Not a significant problem (yet) but ease of acquisition of the esssential components, and the very short effective half-life, means this could be a problem down the track, especially in the poorer / non-Metropolitan areas.
HuffPo has an opinion (as always) - - - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/17/krokodil-arizona_n_4292133.html
Yet the real "current threats" are the same old names - MDMA, "Prescription" opioids (diverted / stolen / inappropriately prescribed), Heroin, Pot, even alcohol. http://www.healthline.com/health-news/addiction-the-top-us-drug-threats-101913#3
prescription drugs pharma result more deaths
People have the right to do drugs.
agree good post
http://www.takeoverworld.info/Grand_Chessboard.pdf
+
http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles/article0005345.html
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a controlled US MSM
= unending war
Plenty of blame to go around, but how about a vote of 'no confidence' in a completely bought and paid for USA Congress?
*********************
http://natsummit.org/
Putin has to be diplomatic - so I'll say it for him:
The USSA is the Global Pariah Rogue State.
Yep. Chess Master.
Putin is on script. Cue any James Bond soundtrack. Who reads Time? Who gets surveyed, and who but gimmedats cooperate with any surveys, especially the now peristent "customer service" (positioning themselves behind the customer, and quietly unzipping their pants) surveys?
Yes, a memorized script ad-libbed.
quit soiling the flag zitto
take your meds.
at least you're sporting the right flag, pimple Otto
how does it feel to be a flippin moron, Zitte?
Drudge misses you.
Keeryst, what the hell was I thinking? Of course their homicidal kleptocracy must be better than our homicidal kleptocracy because their benevolent KGB dictater is just a wild and crazy guy, not in collusion with or a CFR/CIA fellow traveller like our debauched bankster bait. MSM, east & west spins him as the father figure, der fuhrer, you hopefull closet statists secretly wish would protect you from all those other creeps.
You can all - how do you popular guys say - FUCK OFF!
“What would you have me do?
Seek for the patronage of some great man,
And like a creeping vine on a tall tree
Crawl upward, where I cannot stand alone?
No thank you! Dedicate, as others do,
Poems to pawnbrokers? Be a buffoon
In the vile hope of teasing out a smile
On some cold face? No thank you! Eat a toad
For breakfast every morning? Make my knees
Callous, and cultivate a supple spine,
Wear out my belly grovelling in the dust?
No thank you! Scratch the back of any swine
That roots up gold for me? Tickle the horns
Of Mammon with my left hand, while my right
Too proud to know his partner's business,
Takes in the fee? No thank you! Use the fire
God gave me to burn incense all day long
Under the nose of wood and stone? No thank you!
Shall I go leaping into ladies' laps
And licking fingers? or- to change the form-
Navigating with madrigals for oars,
My sails full of the sighs of dowagers?
No thank you! Publish verses at my own
Expense? No thank you! Be the patron saint
Of a small group of literary souls
Who dine together every Tuesday? No
I thank you! Shall I labor night and day
To build a reputation on one song,
And never write another? Shall I find
True genius only among Geniuses,
Palpitate over little paragraphs,
And struggle to insinuate my name
In the columns of the Mercury?
No thank you! Calculate, scheme, be afraid,
Love more to make a visit than a poem,
Seek introductions, favors, influences?
No thank you! No, I thank you! And again
I thank you!
But...
To sing, to laugh, to dream
To walk in my own way and be alone.
Free, with a voice that means manhood - to cock my hat
Where I choose - at a word, a Yes, a No,
To fight - or to write.To travel any road
Under the sun, under the stars, nor doubt
If fame or fortune lie beyond the bourne -
Never to make a line I have not heard
In my own heart; Yet, with all modesty
To say: "My soul, be satisfied with flowers,
With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them
In the one garden you may call your own."
So, when I win some triumph, by some chance,
Render no share to Caesar - in a word,
I am too proud to be a parasite.
And if my nature wants the germ that grows
Towering to heaven like the mountain pine,
Or like the oak, sheltering multitudes,
I stand, not high it may be-but alone!”
- Edmond Rostand, not a TV script writer
Hey new Crazy Cooter! I watched this via live feed. He doesn't seem to use teleprompters, always eyeing the audience and not looking in one place. He reads stats from paper or from the computer, when answering questions and speaking to the people, eyeing the people to the side, front, other side. It's pretty amazing. A far cry from an Obama State of the Union:
Obama: Our economy is booing!
Democrats: standing ovation and cheers
Obama: Unemployment has never been better!
DemocratsL Standing ovation and cheers
Obama: We have contained Russia and China
Democrats and Republicans: standing ovation and cheers
Love Putin or hate him, he knows his country, knows the facts and talks to he people, taking hard questions. We just don't see that heee in America. Very sad, it's always a reminder of how far we have fallen
Putin at least doesn't put Israeli interests ahead of Russian ones.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to support Israel when U.S. and Israeli interests diverge.
A Bloomberg News poll published this week found that 67 percent of Republican respondents agreed with the statement, “Israel is an important ally, the only democracy in the region, and we should support it even if our interests diverge,” while 30 percent agreed with the statement “Israel is an ally but we should pursue America’s interests when we disagree with them.” Among Democrats, 64 percent of respondents agreed with the latter statement.
Overall, respondents were statistically tied over the question of whether the United States should pursue its own interests over Israel’s, with 47 percent agreeing and 45 percent disagreeing.
- http://www.jta.org/2015/04/16/news-opinion/politics/poll-republicans-lik...?
Had enough yet?
who but an israel firster ziobot downvotes that? lol.
http://blogdigeopoliticainternazionale.blogspot.it/2015/04/lunione-euras...
EurasiaUnion is very alternativ. Article for SCO and Russia, Kazakhistan and Belarus.
The Kremlin and the Neocons
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/15/the-kremlin-and-the-neocons/
"Putin’s Comment
The geopolitical vacuum that enabled the neocons to try out their “regime change” scheme in the Middle East may have been what Russian President Vladimir Putin was referring to in his state-of-the-nation address on April 25, 2005, when he called the collapse of the Soviet Union “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [past] century.” Putin’s comment has been a favorite meme of those who seek to demonize Putin by portraying him as lusting to re-establish a powerful USSR through aggression in Europe."
I really want someone to convince me this isn't theater. Here's why...
If Vichy DC is dismayed with the UK for aligning w/AIIB, why do they have troops in this Jade Helm 15 exercise? We know where this is headed.
Anyone who's listened to Charlotte Iserbyt (father a bonesman) or Anita Hogue, knows this common core education abortion has Soviet/Marxist roots.
Listening to Fr Malachi Martin, audio early 90's he emphatically states common curriculum was hatched in 1985 as a joint venture with Gorby (remember his Pizza Hut commercials) and the Carnegie foundation. On the flip side, he also stated that if this planet is to be saved, it will come from Russia.
Counterpoints?
On the last point, it may have something to do with the United Nations being used as a tool to control the opposition. If Russia walked out, their might be a stampede for the exit?
https://stopputinregime.wordpress.com
putin - most pathetic liar in the world
When putin regime invaded Georgia and occupied it's territories to creat two puppet states based on Georgia teritory which are only recognized by aggressor - putin regime - in interview he was asked will Crimea will be next target. Putin as pathetic liar he is - lied as much as he can - watch video with English subtitles.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoMUkDDILcs[/embed]
And than again he lied about putin regime forces in Crimea that they where not taking any part in Crimea occupation, later on admitted that actually was taking part - that is - he occupied and annexed Crimea using military force:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8AMsRx2jjY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TftvqJyOQg
As you can see putin is simply pathetic liar on world stage that can not be trusted as he is no man of honor of his word. He is pathetic thief, killer and liar.
“Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.”
-The Wolfowitz Doctrine, the original version of the Defense Planning Guidance, authored by Under Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, leaked to the New York Times on March 7, 1992
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/18/washingtons-war-on-russia/
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Crimeans Keep Saying No to Ukraine
March 22, 2015
Exclusive: In a rare moment of honesty, a Western news outlet, Forbes, admits that the people of Crimea expressed their legitimate will in last year’s referendum when they voted to abandon Ukraine and rejoin Russia, an inconvenient truth for the U.S. State Department and press corps, writes Robert Parry.
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/03/22/crimeans-keep-saying-no-to-ukraine/
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Why Neocons Seek to Destabilize Russia | Consortiumnews
Exclusive: Any propaganda war starts by planting stories that your target is getting rich, whether he is or isn’t, the latest move in demonizing Vladimir Putin. But the larger question is what might happen if the neocons succeed in destabilizing nuclear-armed Russia, asks Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/04/27/why-neocons-seek-to-destabilize-ru...
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WHO are the neocons???
“The machiavelian threefold game of the neoconservatives”
by Laurent Guyénot
To realize their fantasies of world domination, the neocons resorted to a triple discourse, as Laurent Guyénot shows in this study, i.e. a cynical political philosophy developed by their mentor Leo Strauss for domestic consumption; a cold analysis of Israeli strategic interests for the benefit of the leaders in Tel Aviv, and a fear-mongering warning against imaginary dangers besetting U.S. public opinion.
- http://www.voltairenet.org/article178638.html
biggest liar in the whole world! if that is true, why is his nose so small?
these are the daily hasbara talking points? geez third stringers now assigned to ZH.
You and your handlers may want to consider that your data, grammar, structure and style simply make the object of your attempted ridicule appear AWESOME!
ROFL.
the village idiot is back
Free occupied Latvia
STFU Bandera troll.
truth hurts
Anti-Russian newsbot needs to fuck off where someone gives a shit about his rambling pack of lies.
short of potatoes today newsdouche?
The liar is usually the one that hides from cameras and crowds, like Hitlery and Bomb-Bomb-O, not Master Putin who takes hours of questions from politics to his dick size and I bet he has the first lady beat in the latter.
Ah, newsoutlet viedorklis, comments just like out of a mental institution. Never read what you write? You pour insanitation, and the object of your schizophrenie is Putin.
non compos mentis
troll of many faces
Obama wouldn't last one minute without the help of a teleprompter.
Wow..Can you imagine our airbrushed fakey moron ivy leaguers conducting such a town hall? Even if it was somewhat scripted, still a very impressive performance. Putin is an actual national leader, who takes seriously his responsibilities to his country. You cannot say that about any of the self-serving piles of corrupt dog shit that occupy the USA national stage. Hillary, Jebby, W, O, Big Dog Clinton, etc etc: like a fucking wax museum of steaming piles of dog shit.
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2015/04/91092time-magazine-invaded-by-kremlin-t...
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2015/04/russia-bashers-eat-crow-as-putin-wins-t...
regarding Alaska, I think Putin and Palin may have accidentally glassed each other while surveying the horizon with their hunting rifles.
Putin probably has this picture blown up in his man cave
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pG4kSEiqCow/VMHg_IP7KKI/AAAAAAAA5YU/wGimOds_zs...
Good taste exceeds political theatre.
"spectacle" ? why that choice of word? anyway, wonder if vlad read editorial page of NYT today? the empire is comin' fer ya vlad.
spectacle: anything presented to the sight or view, especially something of a striking or impressive kind.
I admire this man. Compared to the POS we have.
Shirley I agree. USSA people have for too long looked at limp-wristed liars, sellouts, crooks, empty suits and out and out retardate psychopaths that they can't differentiate between a real leader their people respect versus the garbage that passes for AmeriKan political leaders, all bent over backwards for Israel and Wall St. They can't even talk off the cuff to their audiences, lest they flub the lines written for them. It's no wonder Putin was voted Man of the Year of Time magazine (again) where the majority of voters are AmeriKan. Kongress doesn't have perenially low approval ratings because they do a good job, and not all of us have our Zio blinders on.
POS all.
I guess Time thing means there more of america respect Putin more than deviant Lady Gaga
country kinda sanity split right there