I am not a sheep, I have my own mind
I have had enough of being told what and how to think
Whilst we are still allowed the remnants of free speech,
I will speak out.
I also reserve the right to discuss less controversial matters should I feel the urge.
"After my election I have more flexibility"
'Putin believes the West is finished: overstretched, decadent and discredited.'
'Russian President Vladimir Putin says in a friendly meeting with President Barack Obama they talked about Syria, but "we stuck to our guns."'Hmm Mr Putin...
'MOSCOW—Despite Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s flat-out admission to the Russian leader that he was responsible for an August 21 chemical weapons attack on a suburban Damascus neighborhood, Russian president Vladimir Putin confirmed Wednesday that al-Assad has yet to provide a convincing case that he carried out the assault. “Given the information I’ve seen at this point, President Assad failed to show me clear, substantiated evidence that he used chemical weapons against the Syrian people, regardless of how many times he says ‘I, Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria, am the one who did this’ while showing me videos of people dying of Sarin poisoning,” said Putin, adding that he remains extremely skeptical despite phone conversations in which a reportedly frustrated Assad repeats, over and over again, the step-by-step account of how he authorized the use of nerve gas to kill over 1,400 people. “We need to know all the facts before we act. I don’t care how many autopsy reports, laboratory tests, or pictures of Assad pressing a button labeled ‘chemical weapons launcher’ he sends me—before we have conclusive proof that he and not the opposition forces did this, we cannot say that Syria is in violation of international law.” Putin went on to confirm that until Assad proves beyond a doubt that he carried out the alleged attack, Russia will continue delivering components of a surface-to-air missile defense system to the Syrian government.'The best satire is close to the truth!
'Russian police seized 100,000 copies of a book critical of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that activists planned to hand out at the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum.'Ah free speech, overrated? The line that caught my eye was: 'The reasons for the seizure "are not very clear"' Oh I think the reasons are crystal clear.
"THE threat of winter gas cuts loomed over Europe yesterday as Russia and Ukraine failed to resolve a dispute that led Moscow to cut off gas supplies to its neighbour last week.
Despite assurances from the two countries that supplies to Europe would not be affected, three European Union states reported an immediate drop in pipeline pressure.
Poland, Hungary and Romania, which rely heavily on Russian gas delivered through pipelines that cross Ukraine, said that less gas than expected was being delivered.
Romania’s pipeline operator said supplies had fallen by 30-40%. And a spokesman for Hungary’s main energy company said: “Pressure started to decline on Friday. It’s declining continuously.”
The news prompted the EU, which gets a fifth of its gas from Russia via Ukraine, to summon a crisis meeting in Brussels tomorrow and demand that transit and supply contracts be honoured."
"To be fair though, if anyone can claim the Arctic, it is Russia.
Russia DOES pretty much encircle the Arctic..."
