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anyone remember when this came out last year? http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070530/66362712.html

Russian news avoids mentioning the Russian satellite and just refers to the ISS dodging a "cluster of garbage."

In this century, almost all the international news in my country's newspaper is about death and destruction brought about by USA. The Iraq war, the Afghanistan war, the tortures at Guantanamo bay (refusal to adhere to the internationally agreed upon code for treatment of prisoners of war by inventing a new "enemy combatant" terminology). They are actively working to create unrest in Iranian territory. Nothing much is reported about Russia. Compared to USA's hegemonic goals, Russia will pale into insignificance. And it is really strange that Americans talk about "moral authority" about respecting other nations sovereignty, while having invaded and occupied 2 countries! Isn't that a little bit hypocritical? America has ceased to be a role model for developing nations in this century.

But America need not go down this path of destruction, occupation and generally an imperialistic approach. And that can happen only if Americans make a real choice in their elections. If their choice is only between Republican and Democratic parties, then it is not really a choice. I can see that both these parties are the same. They differ in a very minute details. Americans need to look at political parties like Green Party or other alternative parties, who promise to stop the Iraq war and Afghanistan war, who promise to bring single-payer health care, and who would make policies in an environment friendly manner. When Americans are truly ready for change, then, and only then can America be saved. Otherwise, they will go down this path and into war, and by doing so will drag many other countries in their perilous adventure.

Already the arms race has started. They are already discussion about nuclear weapons in space.

the Russian state news agency (RIA Novosti) web site is out since this morning? Their two DNS servers (her.rinet.ru, her.rian.ru) seem to have dropped off the face of the earth. Seems someone is might be engaged in cyberwarfare against them, doesn't it?

According to this article (note the .ru TLD) USA has a bigger bomb. It's funny how every state makes its population fear the other state.

The U.S. has a 14-ton super bomb more destructive than the vacuum bomb just tested by Russia, a U.S. general said Wednesday.

The statement was made by retired Lt. General McInerney, chairman of the Iran Policy Committee, and former Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20070913/78518873.html

How about some further thoughts on conspiration? ;)

http://en.rian.ru/world/20070720/69340886-print.ht ml

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

Finally, a country to counter U.S. Imperialism.

Sincerely,
K. Trout

Well, off the top of my head, it's up to 5 years in prison, and further penalties for telling anyone that you gave up the keys. So if you were running a car chopping ring, for example, where you might get 3 years, giving up the keys would be a better idea, as you might even get found not guilty (unless they force you to plead guilty in return for a lighter sentence - but then you get a lighter sentence anyway...) Hiding the data in a rock in a Moscow park might be the best way, though.

It's a broken translation. The original quote means something like: "There will be less launches next year than this year". The direct translation from Russian looks like: "The next year is going to see less launches than this year".

The original article is here: http://rian.ru/analytics/20061215/56977055.html

Late in June, speaking at the Farnborough aerospace show, the Roskosmos leadership suddenly announced that they were suspending the tender and would instead adopt a multi-stage program of creating a space transport vehicle [the kliper]. Now the main emphasis is on the time-tested orbital workhorse, the Soyuz spacecraft.

From here.

It seems that the Russians are having a few problems with their new space program. *shock*

Like say, the artificial influence voters have over the government?

Stop trying to break my perfectly prettyful metaphor. Voter's don't have "artificial" control over the government - there's that little think called a constituition, in which that "voter" idea was designed around. Lobbyists have artificial influence over the government - they're the unions of the political world. A tiny group of people gets together to bend things to their favor, at the expense of everyone else.

HA! You think there's such a thing as a free market? Tell you what. Start an oil company. Then come back and tell me all about the "free market."

You so totally could start an oil company if you so wished; there's nothing stopping you. In fact, the of petroleum and exploration IPOs. Considering that OPEC's office in Vienna determines the price of crude oil, and federal red tape in America has prevented new refineries from being built for decades, the American side of the petroleum biz is pretty free market. Prices rise in times of high demand (labor day) and uncertainty (hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraq), fall in times of added supply (release of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve), and fall in times of lesser demand (right after "driving holidays", in spring, etc.)

Oil companies are large because there are definite economies of scale - i.e., a bigger refinery lets you refine more oil more efficiently for less money than a small one. There are numerous oil companies that do business in America, all competing against each other as much as possible (given OPEC and regulation.) The "windfall profits" come from that whopping 9 cents a gallon those evil oil companies make selling gasoline.

it's an awfully selfish way to get job security

Awwww dats too bad. You know, a mortgage is an awfully selfish way for a bank to make money too. You don't really believe this shit do you?

Yup; you cut out the relevant part of my quote. Unions get job security by denying it to everyone else; by controlling who's hired - and limiting who's hired - unions make each individual worker more valuable because each individual workers is now, more or less, irreplaceable. (Especially true in "closed shops", which exist in every state without a right to work law.) In other words, unions provide job security to a few by excluding everyone else. If actively denying people jobs for your own personal gain isn't selfish, I don't know what is.

no one is left unable to feed their family

Except the 50% of people with no full-time job, but thanks for playing.

I hope you were exaggerating. Between workmen's comp, unemployment, food stamps, school lunches, and an economy at full employment, you have to work pretty hard to starve in America. Not that nobody does, but if you believe 50% of the unemployed do, your head is in the sand, not mine, sir.

I'm just wondering if Congress is only giving a bullshit reason to prevent Russia from joining the WTO. Maybe they'd just say anything that will hold up in the international arena to prevent Russia from joining. After all, as a major power, Russia would have considerable influence in the highly undemocratic, supranational organization, and the United States always tries to do what it can to keep its influence and to not share its power with anyone else. Hell, Russia has already opened 4,000 cases and fined 2,000 people regarding piracy.

Of course, the excuse concerning intellectual property might have been created by generous donations from the RIAA (I haven't looked, and this is just speculation), but I'm not convinced that Congress' hesitation to allow Russia to join the WTO is actually about the RIAA or intellectual property.

Read some Russian editorials, and you might find entirely different viewpoints from what you're getting in the US.

Major earthquake exercise under way in Russian Far East

According to research conducted by the International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, there is at least a 30% probability of an earthquake with a 7.2-magnitude or higher in the area of Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands before mid-December.
The ministry's regional forces have been on alert since early August.

In looking at the map on the IRIS Seismic Monitor web site, it appears that the Kamchatka peninsula and the volcanic activity in Oregon may have something in common: both regions lie along the same fault line. The Indonesian tsunami, quakes near Taiwan and Japan, and recent earthquakes in Alaska and California all seem to lie along the same fault line.

The article was sourced from Novosti a respected Russian news agency. Archive articles are subscription only but I found a link in the Google cache to the origional article Here

Really, should we consider these to be statements without facts to back them up?

On point 1. Some European countries do allow firearms, and in fact in some cases mandate ownership, these are typically the nations with lower crime rates. Evidence also does not support that restricting firearms reduces crime.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-02/cft a-rfn020805.php/

On Point 2, here is a list of European articles that do not support the huge Global Warming scare industry. All European articles from this month. Should you want more citations I can gladly supply them.
Natural climate change may be larger than commonly thought
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-02/src -ncc020905.php/
Discounting global warming, and more importantly the costs of fighting it even if it is true. http://www.lomborg.com/index.html
And before people say, as they always do, "wasn't he discredited?" No, those that tried to discredit him were in fact told to "put up or shut up" and since they had no facts that proved him wrong they had to shut up.
Prometheus: A Climate of Staged Angst Archives (English reprint of German article)
http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archi ves/climate_change/000343a_climate_of_staged_.html
UK Anti-global warming Blog
http://greenspin.blogspot.com/
Polar bears defy extinction threat
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm? id=143012005
RUSSIA SHOULD DENOUNCE KYOTO PROTOCOL IMMEDIATELY
http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id =5377079&startrow=1&date=2005-02-04&do_alert=0
ILLARIONOV CRITICIZES CENSORSHIP BIAS AT CLIMATIC CONFERENCE
http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id =5371407&startrow=1&date=2005-02-02&do_alert=0

In all the cry of Big Warming is "Everyone knows its true" Which only holds when you discount those that do not hold it is true, those that do not hold its true include the majority of climatologists.

And since when is the European opinion the end all be all in the discussion? How does "The Europeans believe it so it must be true!" statement work. Regardless the majority of Big Warming is here in the States, not in Europe, so your statement makes no sense, because the Majority of GW BS is domestic, not imported.


It should also be noted that the scientists that discovered the flaws, and poor science, in the infamous "Hockey Stick" data are Canadians, McIntyre and McKitrick.

Really, should we consider these to be statements without facts to back them up?

On point 1. Some European countries do allow firearms, and in fact in some cases mandate ownership, these are typically the nations with lower crime rates. Evidence also does not support that restricting firearms reduces crime.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-02/cft a-rfn020805.php/

On Point 2, here is a list of European articles that do not support the huge Global Warming scare industry. All European articles from this month. Should you want more citations I can gladly supply them.
Natural climate change may be larger than commonly thought
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-02/src -ncc020905.php/
Discounting global warming, and more importantly the costs of fighting it even if it is true. http://www.lomborg.com/index.html
And before people say, as they always do, "wasn't he discredited?" No, those that tried to discredit him were in fact told to "put up or shut up" and since they had no facts that proved him wrong they had to shut up.
Prometheus: A Climate of Staged Angst Archives (English reprint of German article)
http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archi ves/climate_change/000343a_climate_of_staged_.html
UK Anti-global warming Blog
http://greenspin.blogspot.com/
Polar bears defy extinction threat
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm? id=143012005
RUSSIA SHOULD DENOUNCE KYOTO PROTOCOL IMMEDIATELY
http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id =5377079&startrow=1&date=2005-02-04&do_alert=0
ILLARIONOV CRITICIZES CENSORSHIP BIAS AT CLIMATIC CONFERENCE
http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id =5371407&startrow=1&date=2005-02-02&do_alert=0

In all the cry of Big Warming is "Everyone knows its true" Which only holds when you discount those that do not hold it is true, those that do not hold its true include the majority of climatologists.

And since when is the European opinion the end all be all in the discussion? How does "The Europeans believe it so it must be true!" statement work. Regardless the majority of Big Warming is here in the States, not in Europe, so your statement makes no sense, because the Majority of GW BS is domestic, not imported.


It should also be noted that the scientists that discovered the flaws, and poor science, in the infamous "Hockey Stick" data are Canadians, McIntyre and McKitrick.

RIAN reports (Russian) that in 2006 Italian passports will have RFIDs too.

Hail to whoever has the bigger guns.

In Russia, priority is assigned to the state federal programme of space research and meeting goals of the national Defense Ministry. As to other projects, Rosaviakosmos can consider them and submit for government approval only if these projects are expedient, economically feasible and rely on financial backing.