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Russian Warships Approach Canadian Frigate Carrying Prime Minister After Meeting In Poland

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Just a day after Canadian Prime Minister Harper confirmed his nation's desire for stronger economic ties to Poland, two Russian warships came within 7 miles of the Frigate carrying the Prime Minister across The Baltic Sea. The Frigate's captain said the Russian ships "posed no threat," but the coincidence is unmistakable just hours after Harper slammed Putin (and Russia), demanding further sanctions.

As Bloomberg reports,

Two Russian warships came within seven nautical miles of HMCS Fredericton as it carried Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the Baltic Sea Wednesday, according to the frigate’s captain.

 

Jeff Murray, speaking to reporters after the ship docked in northern Poland, said encounters with Russian ships and warplanes in the Baltic are common and the ships didn’t pose a threat to the Prime Minister. The Fredericton is taking part in NATO exercises, which started in the region last year in response to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

 

Harper, traveling in Europe as part of meetings with Group of Seven colleagues, has repeatedly condemned Russia’s aggression in the region.

Harper was in Poland following the G-7 meeting...

  • *HARPER SAYS CANADA TO STRENGTHEN ECONOMIC TIES WITH POLAND

As Bloomberg notes:

  • *TWO RUSSIAN WARSHIPS COME WITHIN 7 MILES OF CANADA FRIGATE
  • *CANADA FRIGATE CARRYING PRIME MINISTER HARPER IN BALTIC
  • *FRIGATE'S CAPTAIN JEFF MURRAY SPEAKS TO REPORTERS IN POLAND
  • *MURRAY: RUSSIAN SHIPS POSED NO THREAT TO HARPER

Coming just a day after:

  • *HARPER: G-7 COMMITTED TO ESCALATING RUSSIA SANCTIONS IF NEEDED
  • *HARPER SAYS PUTIN, RUSSIA DON'T SHARE G-7 INTERESTS, PROBLEMS
 

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Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:07 | 6182238 Bunghole
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Putin,

You need to worship the Zioqueers more like Harper and all will be forgiven.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:08 | 6182246 svayambhu108
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Golf of talkin' or talkin' of golf.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:10 | 6182258 usednabused
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Putin should have given old harpy a sanction then and there.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:15 | 6182278 Fun Facts
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Russia must have been using the new laser pedophile tracking device.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:28 | 6182325 jaap
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We have too many cry babies in the west. Especially in the higher echalons.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:37 | 6182362 General Decline
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Keep alert for IDF fighters buzzing by.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:47 | 6182414 jaap
Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:04 | 6182465 TahoeBilly2012
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Fuck Canada. Those pussies are worse than us and that's saying something. God Save The Queen!

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:47 | 6182656 knukles
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Did they get sacared on the HMCS Boo!

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 23:31 | 6185225 HolyfieldsOtherEar
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Harper's like the kid who used to get beaten up for his lunch money and now finds he can throw his weight around cause the big kids are looking out for him.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:35 | 6182873 Spitzer
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have an up vote, from a "Canadian".  I identify with my European heritage anyway. Not this American puppet state

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:56 | 6182957 TungstenBars
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As for countries go, is there a bigger "bitch" out there than Canada?

Canadas grovelling to US and Israeli interest seems unmatched by any other international relations on this planet. 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 13:28 | 6183072 Separatist birth
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Almaz-Antey unveils new evidence regarding MH17’s downing (ENGLISH FULL VERSION)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsohFzbJ-vs

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:33 | 6182590 Kirk2NCC1701
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Canada has a large Polish community, and Harper is playing to them.

He likes his Polish Kielbasa, it seems. In a bun, with Special Sauce.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:18 | 6182766 Max Steel
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Canada has large ukrainian community also.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:27 | 6182837 Son of Loki
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Canada has a large Muslim community also...and Chinese... and Indian.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:37 | 6182884 Spitzer
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Just like ww1. The trouble usually starts in the places where multicultiralism seems to work for awhile

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:19 | 6182506 giovanni_f
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Well done, Vlad.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 13:32 | 6183087 frankly scarlet
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yes, Canadians would have been so ever thankful

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:09 | 6182248 will ling
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ain't takin' the shit no more.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:36 | 6182360 HamRove
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Oh C'mon, Putin was just trying to be friendly. How many leaders would give the Harper an escort......Don't be so paranoid. 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:11 | 6182252 HowdyDoody
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Why is Harper on a Canadian warship? Surely he would travel by air to and from Canada? Is this a PR setup?

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:18 | 6182284 Ghordius
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perhaps he wanted to watch some sub hunting exercises

prime ministers have to inspect their military forces, from time to time, just to watch how tax-payer money circles down the drain

so what

the Baltic Sea isn't terribly big to start with, and those nice Russian warships were just "showing the flag"

all those acts, taken together, are more of a "rattling the sabers". all in all, I'd say I see two MICs collaborating into one choir: "more military spending"

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:46 | 6182407 Bay of Pigs
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Maybe Harper thought they were going to club baby seals?

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:25 | 6182547 DaemonMe
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Ghordius, no offense but you really are a drag. I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt and kept reading your comments to try and find something - ANYTHING in them. But I am now officially giving up. Your comments are a true representation of the Brussels Administration whose colours you are boasting in your avatar: shallow, empty, pointless and meaningless but take a huge toll on anyone stumbling upon them. As a fellow (unwilling) EU member myself I can only plead with you to take after me and stop commenting. And no, I will not be replying to any more of your future comments. Sorry everyone for the off topic.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:47 | 6182612 Ghordius
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DaemonMe, no offense taken, but what is exactly your point? I have my opinions. in this case, it was, in bold:  so what

unrelated to the article but to your comment, I adopted this avatar because I found that too much bullshit was written here about that

do you prefer to be fed a daily dose of bullshit or do you prefer to hear different opinions? (and sometimes even... (gasp!)... facts?)

further I ranted on the egregious military spending of two MICs, and a few points related to it

"a huge toll on anyone stumbling upon them" from what? from one joke to the other? look at my comment: +5 / -5 if "voting" is any guide. controversial, eh?

oh, pardon me, you already wrote you won't reply

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:40 | 6182893 Spitzer
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You are one of the better commenters here.

Don't let the closet Seppo dollar lovers get to you.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:14 | 6182783 Max Steel
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+100000000000000 . Respect .

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:02 | 6182736 The Delicate Genius
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Some scientists are now saying that the Baltic Sea is an awful lot closer to Russia than it is to Canada.

 

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:31 | 6182856 Gazooks
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it was

 

 

 

Putin

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:21 | 6182303 HughBriss
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All the world's a stage.  Theater, theater everywhere!

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:37 | 6182363 DaveyJones
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they prefer tragedy over comedy

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:37 | 6182608 grgy
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He's up for re-election this fall. Putin, portrayed as the bad guy, plays well in Canada. Harper needs to look like a tough guy to sway the insouciant Canadian voter.  

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 13:39 | 6183118 frankly scarlet
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I wonder if Harper had a closet to hide in on board the frigate, like he did when the mentally unbalanced street person attacked the CDN Parliament,...without help from the CDN Spooks of course!..

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:26 | 6182552 Meat Hammer
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Lusitania?

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:31 | 6182583 onthesquare
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history has told us that Germany invaded Poland because a German soldier was shot by a Pole.

If somebody shot heir harper this may start ww3.

just saying.  Canada would be devistated.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:38 | 6182370 Bunghole
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Look at all the butthurt Zioqueers.

Hasbara is out in force today.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:20 | 6182810 Jumbotron
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** ALERT **

Watch out ZeroHedge commenters.  The DOJ could be coming for you.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-government-wants-names-of-online-co...

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:06 | 6182239 headhunt
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Putin is a cry baby.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:31 | 6182342 jaap
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who is crying here about some ships that are legally there and can hardly be seen by the naked eye?

Canadia isn't even bordering on the east sea

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:08 | 6182242 HowdyDoody
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Pathetic.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:39 | 6182243 taoJones
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Great, another wannabe dictator goes water skiing...

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:08 | 6182245 anachronism
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They should have come within 2 kilometers of the Canadian Frigate, just so that they could have beed clearly visible to the naked eye. That would have given harper a firsthand experience.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:09 | 6182250 JustObserving
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Harper has jumped the shark - probably on orders from Obama or the Neocons:

Canada’s Harper Government Provides Military Training to Neo-Nazi Ukraine National Guard By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, June 08, 2015

http://www.globalresearch.ca/canadas-harper-government-provides-military...

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:10 | 6182259 HowdyDoody
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Lots of Ukrainian Nazis hang out in Canada.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:23 | 6182312 Chupacabra-322
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Got news for ya. A lot of Nazis hang out in the D.C. District of Criminal via Operation Paperclip for the Criminal Fraud UNIED STATES, CORP. INC.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:39 | 6182373 HowdyDoody
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That ain't news for me.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:42 | 6182630 Kirk2NCC1701
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I've met quite a few Canadian Uke's, who mostly seem to be into some sort of farming or trade.

After talking to them for a while, you find out that they have very hard Nazi leanings, and that many of the old guys were fathered by a German Wehrmacht soldier, while in Ukraine. None of them said that their mother was raped, but rather that she "fell in love" (yeah, right!), which is code for "I'll do anything to survive and get ahead." Having a kid with an invading soldier if THE best way, for women like that (sluts).

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:04 | 6182745 hyperbole2000
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Your confusing you gaydar cruising website favorite saves of overweight east euopean drag queens dreessed up as Nazis with facebook contacts of pretend friends.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 16:53 | 6183952 JohninMK
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Think you got that a bit simplistic.

Many Ukrainians indeed welcomed the Germans in WW2, fought with them and married them. Much in the same way as US soldiers were welcomed into the UK, fought with them and married them and also had children by them but few who did that were called sluts.

We are all much the same, we just face different enemies, the Ukrainians had the Russians and the Brits had the Germans.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:39 | 6182378 DaveyJones
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he is an annoying little lapdog

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:34 | 6182577 Renfield
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Harper, you ignorant slut. How deep does Barky's hand have to go up your ass to make your lips move like that?

I've never seen a Prime Minister so despised by the Canadian people since Mulroney. I've never seen such a transparent ignorant laughingstock represent this country on the world stage, the only world 'leader' stupider than Barky. You won't be able to live anywhere in this country after office, you limp satanist jackrag, no matter how much the 'media' fellates you. Move to the US, just like Mulroney did, if they'll have you. Everyone here knows who is responsible for making Canada into the USian lapdog it is today, and who is responsible for the hollowed out bank-run 'economy' that has 'closed' and 'for lease' signs on every fifth shop window, with the Chinese owning the best of our resources.

You're ugly, you're stupid, you're a low cog in the zionist wheel, and you're a national traitor. You make me dread seeing the name "Canada" in the news. You're the best reason to show why provinces need to start seceding. You're a one-man case for the Bloc Quebecois. May you die in a pool of vomit, you whitehouse wannabe pos.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:37 | 6182609 11b40
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Nice rant.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 13:01 | 6182970 Renfield
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Harper's mother burns in hell for missing her chance to abort that walking talking sperm waste.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:55 | 6182700 onthesquare
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Conservative pm have all been bags of sht.  Deifenbaker trashed the Arrow, Clark could not form a sentence, Kim who? Lying brian blu Raygun, then comes heir harper the facist pig.  

The whole world is a stage and i am leaving on the next one.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 13:46 | 6183142 frankly scarlet
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Renfield...right on and a million up ticks!

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:10 | 6182257 ebworthen
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LOL!  Russians forcing the little blusterer to recognize whose turf he was on.

Western leaders have absolutely no idea what they are doing.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:13 | 6182269 blackhand
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I thought Poland was Poland's turf...

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:17 | 6182282 Zwelgje
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Poland is cleaning toilets in the UK.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:21 | 6182304 Ghordius
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on behalf of Poles, <insert insult here>. Poland is fixing Britain's plumbing, and not being terribly thanked for it

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:31 | 6182343 rejected
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Not fixing it,,, choking on it.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 14:00 | 6183197 Anunnaki
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While the cream of Ukrainian youth find their way into Europe's brothels.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:21 | 6182288 ebworthen
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Map > Baltic Sea ------ Canada------- Baltic Sea ------ Russia. 

The same exercise may be instructive for Ukraine vs. U.S., Canada, France, etc.

Who said anything about Poland?

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:22 | 6182309 joeyman9
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So if the Russians actually took Harper into custody  (that's the threat that's really going on here isn't it?), would the Canadians support this action or would they oppose it?

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:28 | 6182334 rejected
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Please don't desecrate the word "Leader" when describing the Head Scums in Charge. (HSIC) ....... pun intended.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:11 | 6182261 steelrules
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I wonder if he was cowering in a closet while the Russians were near.

http://montrealsimon.blogspot.ca/2014/10/the-day-stephen-harper-was-forc...

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:12 | 6182267 Boondocker
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Thought we might get the spark to start the next shooting war......but Russia must not have wanted to waste the munitions.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:14 | 6182272 MFL8240
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No end to the games since this fool took over 1600.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:14 | 6182274 cherry picker
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Harper is a US Neocon wanna be.

He forgets how many immigrants there are in Canada from Russia, that the people have no argument with any of those countries.

Canada doesn't need to be in NATO, doesn't need to be mingling in the affairs of other nations and doesn't need to be the USA's lapdog.  He doesn't need to be giving unqualified support to Israel, not all of us Canadians are buying into his BS.

When a country finally becomes Independant it should stay that way.

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 13:27 | 6183068 Max Steel
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The only reason why canada is in nato because usa mic thinks they can shoot down russian nukes via their Air defense systems over canadian airspace preventing them to enter american airspace but sadly they are mistaken .

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:15 | 6182277 EhKnowKneeMass
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Well, I am surprised that nobody on ZH posted this interview of Putin.

http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/3906j0/vladimir_putin_i_invi...

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:18 | 6182283 SpanishGoop
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Well i am suprised that they didn't use the opportunity to blow Harper out of the water.

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:16 | 6182280 youngman
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Good day eh...yo fookin Ruskies...eh...

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:19 | 6182290 Dan The Man
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Harper is embarassing and I wish he'd just shut the fuck up

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:20 | 6182298 farflungstar
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Harper is another guy who can't talk much because he always has Bibi's dick in his mouth. And when he does talk, it's always about how wonderful it tastes. Fuck that Zio-fag.

But 7 miles away and this is news?

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:20 | 6182299 Hope Copy
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And if he had flown, I suspect that Harper would have seen Russian Fighters.  The Russians don't care what Harper says, it is what he will do and they are just showing him that they are very capable of doing.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:22 | 6182308 Counterpunch
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Non story. 

 

Funny how Russia is sanctioned for assenting to Crimeas vote to rejoin Russia...

 

But not only no sanctions for Israels decades old illegal occupation ,demolition of Palestinian homes, and construction of apartheid ethnic colonies, as well as a litany of war crimes in support thereof.... but to even suggest at least a boycott on GOODS MADE IN THE.ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTS ....makes you an 'anti-Semite.'

 

Cute.

 

 

 

 

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:59 | 6182446 Mike Masr
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Peskov said it was "Crimea’s reunification with Russia, voluntary and within the framework of law". "The decision was made at a referendum and by the legitimate legislative authority of Crimea, that had been set up legitimately and was operating legitimately, including with the framework of Ukrainian at that time legislation," Putin’s spokesman added.

"That is why the term ‘annexation’ can in no way be used here, from our point of view. We consider this wrong," he added.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:39 | 6182620 Bankster Kibble
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We never bring up Kosovo, either.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:45 | 6182914 Anunnaki
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Obunghole's sock puppet Ban Ki Moon gives Israel the green light to kill more children

 

http://firedoglake.com/2015/06/09/uns-ban-ki-moon-caves-in-takes-israel-off-list-of-serious-child-abusers/

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:23 | 6182310 rejected
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Russian war ships in the Baltic,,, Wow,,, what a surprise there! 

Since they use Nauticle Miles it's closer to 8 land miles.

Of course it is rare to see u.s war ships in u.s waters because they're mostly 'over there'  protecting our freedumbs over here. Right?

Poor Canuks... it's tough being pussies while trying to act cocky. They must have strayed to far from the protection of their masters war ships.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:27 | 6182316 Infinite QE
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And if the Ruskies sank that boat, who'd miss him? Probably not even his wife. All western countries are on zio-autopilot control anyway. Sinking one mascot or another is irrelevant.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:25 | 6182323 Shed Boy
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7 miles? Gee...they were practically on top of each other. So I guess they were using radar to track each other because thats out of visual range. Non-news.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:26 | 6182329 Kina
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Harper will be anybody's cock pupet to stay in power.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:44 | 6182399 Winston of Oceania
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Or is it that Russia and Putin specifically has been making claims on Canadian territory in the Arctic? Says Canada...

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/10/canada-north-pole-claim

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:29 | 6182843 Anunnaki
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The Guardian? Nice try.

Presstitute rag

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 13:39 | 6183115 Max Steel
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Major artic territory is with Russia only why would they make such claims ? Guardian anglosaxon rag outlet .

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:55 | 6182435 Berspankme
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Harper surely wet his pants

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:41 | 6182384 Omega_Man
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Harper gets on ship near Kaliningrad then says Russia comes to close to him. I have seen it all. Everything I have been taught is a lie.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:44 | 6182401 NoWayJose
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What in the h*ll is a Canadian Frigate doing in the Baltic, and why is the PM not flying? Maybe Putin should hop on a Russian Frigate and tour Hudson Bay looking for polar bears?

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:51 | 6182424 Infinite QE
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Probably couldn't get all those young boys onto a plane.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:47 | 6182413 Brazen Heist
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Harper, Obama, Cameron, Abbot: Dear Putin, come and join the slimeball sellout team and then we will forgive you.

Putin: Go fuck yourselves!

Harper, Obama, Cameron, Abbot: Moar sanctions then.

Putin: I do not give 2 shits about what you bunch of dickless mofos say.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:57 | 6182432 Mike Masr
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OMG, this is fucking comical.

Russia has Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea.

 

Geography 101, How far away is the UK from the Baltic Sea? How far away from the US is the Baltic Sea?

This would be akin to alarm bells ringing in Bejing because someone saw a US warship 6 miles away in the Gulf of Mexico.   

WTF, Russia'a mere existance is an act of agression!!!

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:02 | 6182455 gcjohns1971
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Russia's presence in the Baltic Sea is not the issue.

In world Navies, approaching within about 12 miles of a military ship (typical Ship-to-Ship direct attack range) while in open water is not normally done.  Entering port is different.

It is the equivalent of pointing a gun at someone.   As soon as a ship breaches that 10-12 mile circle around a Naval Fleet, the fleet will start hailing the other ships, asking them to state their intentions, and change course to avoid close approach.

They might say, 'Oh, Sorry! I wasn't paying attention to where I was pointing that!'...but that is still not really a good excuse.  

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:24 | 6182824 The Delicate Genius
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Is that the case in the narrow channels of the Baltic, though?

 

I was curious about whether this was a case of the Polish frigate actually coming close to the Russians and the story being Orwellized, but

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/russian-vessels-track-canadian-warship-carrying-harper-in-baltic-sea/article24892607/

 

Of course, "seizing and annexing" Crimea is loaded language that deliberately ignores the fact, Putin aside, that the guy the Crimeans voted for was tossed out in a coup the US helped out with at least to some extent, and they voted to leave Ukraine then become part of Russia.

 

Is the idea that the Crimeans had no right to do so?  Why not? 

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:27 | 6182834 Anunnaki
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so how much shit from these whiners in the WEst is Putin supposed to eat? They talk and bloviate. Putin acts.

And to your comment gc, are you as willing to say tsk tsk for all the provocations of NATO conducting military exercises in the Black Sea.

Is that not in and of itself a dangerous game of "chicken" that Emperor Peace Prize and Breedwar and the other Paleocons are doing. Training Neo Nazis in Ukraine. SEnding them arms through cut outs in Bulgaria.

Putin wanted to be an equal partner to the West. Then he made the fatal error of offering Snowden asylum.

No good deed shall go unpnished.

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 13:05 | 6182987 gcjohns1971
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"so how much shit from these whiners in the WEst is Putin supposed to eat? They talk and bloviate. Putin acts"

 

Depends on how much of the same treatment he would like.

The difference between acting, and acting out is understanding of consequences. 

What will happen when Putin (or Medvedev, or any of the rest of the siloviki) have stealth fighters show up outside their windows in a friendly non-threatening way while he is on a diplomatic tour?

This works both ways.

If you like it when Putin does it, you must like it when others do it to Putin.

If you believe that Putin can do it and no one will ever do as Putin does, then you are insane.

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 13:56 | 6183181 Anunnaki
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I don't like it or dislike it when Putin "does it". I understand his response. What arrogance of NATO to think they could take Ukraine out of Russia's orbit.

Since you want to engage is "whataboutery". Would America stand by and let Russia peel off Canada and/or Mexico into a Russian hegemony? Of course not.

Say what you want about ol' Lemonhead. He has shown remarkable restraint.

Which is why the forthcoming invasion of Transnistra by Chocula and the Romanian/Moldovans will finally take this thing hot. Then we will find out just how far NATO and Peace Prize want to take this

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 21:21 | 6184814 bid the soldier...
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Do you think that gcjohns1971 believes that America never operates under  a double standard or whether it , by dint of its 20 aircraft carriers, conducts itself by the tradition of 'la droit du seigneur'?

 Tyler himself has spoken about the neo feudalism that is afoot globally.  

 

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 15:50 | 6183642 bid the soldier...
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HOW CLOSE DID THE USS COWPENS COME TO THE CHINESE AIRCRAFT CARRIER LIAONING ON DECEMBER 5, 2013?

it attempted to brake into the Liaoning carrier group, didn't it?

What did the US Navy say after when another Chinese warship "maneuvered near the Cowpens in the incident.... and the Cowpens was forced to take evasive action to avoid a collision?"

 Washington insists the United States and other countries have the right to conduct routine operations in what it says are international waters.

 

The U.S. Navy said the Cowpens was conducting regular freedom-of-navigation operations when the incident occurred.

 

"The U.S. is determined to stand by its rights in international waters and is clearly expecting China to act accordingly."


Finally, " A Chinese source “familiar with this confrontation” stated that the USS Cowpens had entered within a forty-five kilometer inner defense layer of the Liaoning carrier group. The Chinese source further charged that, “the USS Cowpens was tailing after and harassing the Liaoning formation. It took offensive actions at first towards the Liaoning formation on the day of the confrontation.”

Can you imagine what would be the result of you and Mrs Johns rowed your flaccid dinghy into the middle of one of America's 20 or so carrier groups?

Why you'd be on bar soap retrieval duty in the shower room of the brig until your Billy Budd  was pink and whistling the sea shanty "Blow the man down."

http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/songs/childrens/blowmandownmp3.htm

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:20 | 6182517 Winston of Oceania
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Russia is OCCUPYING Konigsberg! There fixed it for you Ivan...

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:52 | 6182689 acommenter
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Well said Winston. Russian occupation of Konigsberg is the proof that Germany is a protectorate of USA and Deutschland is still not a democracy. The last know and legit Deutch Republic was the , very smeared for many reasons Weimar Republic, whose constitution stated that in order to be a genuine self governed state, the states territory must be intact which is not the case.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 14:23 | 6183272 Max Steel
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.......................... .It is russian only desperate douche .

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:54 | 6182433 gcjohns1971
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Sanctions are counter productive.

At the same time, military threats in response to WORDS are unacceptable.

 

Russia is a great country.  But it's military is acting like a gangster right now, engaging in blatant intimidation tactics, threatening politicians who say things they don't like.  Threatening entire countries with nuclear annihilation for not being obedient enough.

This is unacceptable, and will not lead to a future anyone would care to live in.   And that is the point.   When the constant threats and demands create a world more undesireable than suffering the violent consequences...then threats won't work anymore.   But worse the ensuing violence will destroy the modern world.

When the US does it, it is wrong. When Russia does it, it is wrong. When anyone does this, it is wrong.

We all need to get our governments under control.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:19 | 6182514 farflungstar
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I think you got your wires crossed somewhere. It is AmeriKa who has gone on a whirlwind tour of non-stop killing and domination since 2003. Violence, threats, intimidation, spec ops, regime change...and Bloomberg, CNN FOX and all the other lying propaganda twats want me to believe Russia is the problem, when her response to the typical NATO MO is to not roll over and beg for mercy?

Sorry but USSA media - er, I mean thinly disguised war propaganda -  has lost all credibility with me. I'm done with it and I don't give a fuck which "party" is in charge, the war propaganda will never change.

I'm going to take the Russian side from now on. AmeriKa manufactures the shit it steps in and won't get any support from me.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 13:14 | 6182977 gcjohns1971
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I think you have a wire crossed somewhere if you think that fighting has only one side.

A Country is not a person.  It is a collection of interests who say one thing and do another.  When you take the side of a Country, as opposed to the side of a principle, you surrender your life and will to the interests who direct the country.

Because it worked out so well for 60 million Soviets who 'took the Soviet side' ...only to discover that the Soviet side considered them no more than meat to sacrifice at convenience.

Because it worked out so well for 40 million Chinese who took 'Chairman Mao's side' ...only to discover that he was on his own side and would kill them to reshape China in the image he liked best.

Because it works out so well for millions who 'Took the side of the Third Reich' only to discover that the third reich didn't care about them at all, and thought of them as a means to an end at best.

I take my side.

You take the side of an imaginary entity used by politicians to turn people into cattle.

Good Luck with that.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 14:05 | 6183224 Max Steel
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Why don't you say it straight that you are a filthy fifth columnist

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 14:44 | 6183347 bid the soldier...
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So that must be

I take my side.

the side for the complete and 12 year ongoing destruction of Iraq.  With untold hundreds of thousands dead and more still dying in June 2015.


What a distinguished commentor and unhypocritcal person you are,  gcjohns1971          

 

/SARCASTIC

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 18:45 | 6184295 farflungstar
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WTF are you even talking about? Did I make anything up? What does Mao and the USSR have to do with 2015? Sounds like a bunch of condescending bullshit to me, with little to no relevance - just a bit of woolgathering about the good ol' Cold War days, eh?

And who said fighting has only one side? Oh right. Only you did. There is the side who lies to start unneccessary wars, and the other side who lies - or not - to defend itself. I take the side, ON PRINCIPLE, of the country who is defending itself. Clearly, after Af-Pak, Libya, Syria, Iraq, this time it is Russia. Should Russia end up like those places? Should ANYONE?

Johnny Jingo and their clan have been at war for 14 years and look at what Hell they've wrought for the small countries that couldn't defend themselves. This is the ideals of AmeriKa? Eternal war? Fuck that, you can keep them.

You wanna keep believeing the USSA lies and war propaganda, like an abused wife who keeps going back to her husband after he PROMISES he won't beat her again, then does, be my guest. I'll give some other sources a chance, and if and when I discover they are lying, they too will be discarded. Until then, I will give foreign and alt media much more credence than Uncle Sam's propaganda organs, who have shown they are proven liars, from the NY Times on down, all full of shit. 

 

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 10:58 | 6182443 basho
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harper is a pimple on the ass of a gnat.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:06 | 6182469 nah
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Russia vs. Canada and Japan

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Russia wins cold war

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:06 | 6182471 taketheredpill
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Laureen Harper's (Stephen's wife) girlfriend supposedly has a massive Harley...just Google "Stephen Harper wife lesbian"

 

 

 

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:07 | 6182475 HerrDoktor
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It is never a good idea to show a Russian disrespect.  I know, I married one.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:08 | 6182477 taketheredpill
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Laureen stopped wearing lipstick around the same time he started.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:16 | 6182499 fredquimby
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Bloomberg saying

"NATO exercises, which started in the region last year in response to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine."

Is the most shocking thing about this article imo.

 

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:19 | 6182515 The Delicate Genius
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Seems closer to Russia/Kalingrad than to Canada, aye?

 

Were the ships already in the area - 7/8 miles away?

 

What do I know, of course, but Bloomberg is not without a Fox-news like, warmongery and sensationalist agenda.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:35 | 6182600 Bankster Kibble
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Exactly.  If this was 7 miles away in the Pacific, that would have been a coincidence.  In the tight Baltic, it is a non-event.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:27 | 6182561 kchrisc
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More psy-op "Kool-Aide" for the sheeple.

Want to horrified and thoroughly amused? Talk with a sheeple about what they "believe."

Surreal, as they parrot back the noiZ-mdeia line verbatim.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:35 | 6182598 orangegeek
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Russia is a threat to oil reserves in the Canadian Arctic.  That communist pig in the white house would likely do fuck all if putin made a move.

 

So Harper harpoons putin and tells him to get the fuck out of Ukraine - directive?  get the fuck out of the Canadian Arctic.

 

Good alarm move on Harper's part - bad blood between Harper and putin is clear.  If putin moves into the Arctic, the shitstream media can't ignore it.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:47 | 6182652 Bankster Kibble
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Putin is already IN the Arctic, just not along Canada's frontage.  He has enough oil and gas fields of his own, he doesn't need the Canadian ones.

Another take on this: I read yesterday that all the trash talking about Russia is an effort by Canada to get Europe to buy Canadian oil, which will be piped to the Atlantic seaboard of USA and then shipped to Europe.  Or that is the plan.  It is more expensive than piped gas from Russia, but Europe has just about nixed any supplies from there after 2017.  If so, could all this boo-hooing about "Russian aggression" be just a cover for more pipeline negotiations?

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:42 | 6182897 general ambivalent
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Yes, the plans are already set for the pipeline eastward. And everyone's excited to have a good WW3 job.

 

Economic Action Plan - Economic War Plan

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:21 | 6182814 steelrules
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Yes Russia has designs on the Arctic as does the US, would it not have been better to sit across the table from Putin and find out what their intent is? rather he's name calling and posturing with nothing to back it up. 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 14:14 | 6183244 Max Steel
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what designs ? Russia has deployed its military assets in artic wherras usa hasnt done anything like that except using under water drones for surveillance and some random routine flights over artic .

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:37 | 6182611 Omega_Man
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How dare Russians or Russian ships be in Kaliningrad Russia. 25 km away from the port in Poland Harper was visiting. 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:50 | 6182675 Exit through th...
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Bullshit detected, What is this 1935?!?!?! What the fuck is the prime minister doing traveling via boat?? Come the fuck on.

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 11:55 | 6182699 fel.temp.reparatio
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How close did the Russian sub(s) get..? 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:00 | 6182730 Omega_Man
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OMG there are Russians in Kaliningrad Russia!! And they are following us.

 

This Harper and Kenny's Brian Williams moment. 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:03 | 6182739 Omega_Man
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This town in Poland that Harper was visiting is 20km from Kaliningrad. If Poles are supporting their government in this lunacy they have a world of hurt coming to them. 

If they think they will liberate Königsberg and Crimea... they are insane.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:03 | 6182742 Kirk2NCC1701
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Poland: "The Plumbers of Europe". No joke, look it up.

Since joining the EU, Polish plumbers have spread throughout the Western EU, and undercut local plumbers on price (in half).

Hey somebody has to do the dirty work. Especially at voluntary menial prices. Enter Polish plumbers.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:15 | 6182790 DutchBoy2015
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Here is the complete list of CFR members with email addresses etc.

Notice how many Zionist Jews are on that list.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/89lxlz8e78occxj/CFR%20address%20list.pdf?dl=0

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 14:35 | 6182803 Kirk2NCC1701
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Between the Aristocrats and the Catholic Church that reigned over Poland for many centuries, Poland has been an agrarian peasant society -- molded and bred into total subservience to these two Ruling Elite.

Given that Hitler's Nazis devastated Poland, and German 'Christian' soldiers (Protestant and Catholic) killed MILLIONS of Poles (Catholics), you'd think that Poles would feel closer to their Russian fellow-Slavs. But, nooooo, not so. They prefer licking German boots and cleaning their toilets. I guess all those "with character" were wiped out fighting the Nazis, which ensured that the rests of Poles reverted to being good little sheeple for the Church and secular Elite.

If Poles showed "character" and rebelled against Russians (in the 80s), it was to revert to being the knaves of the (Germanic) Aristocrats and the Church.

With VERY FEW exceptions (of exceptional strength of character), Poles have NO character. They are sluts, and their reputation as such is well deserved. The guys will do anything for money, and their women will use sex to get ahead. Having met MANY of them and having known some of them very well, I can honestly say Polish women are "easy", and that a 'decent Pole' is a 2-5% minority.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:20 | 6182809 WTFUD
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When your country is drowning in a Sea of Piss we can forgive Harper's eagerness to get as far away as possible.
Probably has a choir of young boys tucked away below deck.

Canadians are a disgrace in voting this fat cunt into office and will get what they deserve from licking USSofA PUSSY.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:30 | 6182849 general ambivalent
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I think Molson is American now.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 13:42 | 6183128 SweetDoug
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'

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And your alternative pick would be…

 

Mulcair?

 

Trudeau?

 

Yikes. They're screwed if they pick one of those bozos. But pick one they will, I’m sure.

 

The kid can finish what the old man started, destroying a once great country.

•?•
V-V

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 13:56 | 6183180 SweetDoug
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'

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And your alternative pick would be…

 

Mulcair?

 

Trudeau?

 

Yikes. They're screwed if they pick one of those bozos. But pick one they will, I’m sure.

 

The kid can finish what the old man started, destroying a once great country.

•?•
V-V

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:24 | 6182823 where_is the_nuke
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Harper is a shameless Zio puppet.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:24 | 6182827 general ambivalent
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This is standard operating thought in the democratic psyop states. If you are attacked or threatened then you are the aggressor.

This works quite well against the properly domesticated, but is the worst insulting tactic possible against people/nations apt to defend themselves.

Harper is part of a kamikaze mission of gay billionaires.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:29 | 6182844 general ambivalent
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And none of this should come as a surprise. They proudly advertise in their public relations that the Economic Action Plan is just a propaganda front to turn us all into spies.

http://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2015/06/04/additional-support-csis-and-cra-coun...

"You must contact Number One and tell him I did my duty."

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:48 | 6182925 Mike Masr
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Remember when the Russian Akula Sub sat submerged in the Gulf of Mexico for one month undetected.

The US found out AFTER the sub had gone home!

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/silent-running/

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 13:26 | 6183060 Separatist birth
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Almaz-Antey unveils new evidence regarding MH17’s downing (ENGLISH FULL VERSION)

youtube.com

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 13:31 | 6183084 pot_and_kettle
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someone queue up the youtube of Fred Thompson in HFRO

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 13:54 | 6183172 Caleb Abell
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No one cares about Obama's toady, Harper, or the US's northern colony that thinks it's a sovereign country.  It's mostly uninhabited wasteland.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 16:09 | 6183743 I-am-not-one-of-them
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Lester B. Pearson is rolling in his grave at what Stephen Harper represents.


Before becoming a lackey for Neocon and Zionist interests, he was a lackey for Insurance interests with the National Citizens Coalition.


They recruit sociopaths don't they.


Once a sellout scumbag, always a sellout scumbag.

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 17:32 | 6184080 messystateofaffairs
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I think Puty just wanted to pet a well fed and groomed Zionist poodle.

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 00:54 | 6185382 onmail
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Canada is simply an accomplice to the world looter satan America

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