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POPS Putin Urges US To Share Missile Defense Data
"We have agreed to continue to discuss the topic of missile defense with Russia in a separate venue," he said. Putin's comments showed that the former Russian president is continuing to shape Russian foreign policy, which under the constitution should be set by his successor, Dmitry Medvedev. He said that the arms control talks were proceeding in a positive way and added that Medvedev and President Barack Obama will eventually decide whether to strike an arms deal. But Putin warned that a missile defense system would give the U.S. an edge and could erode the deterrent value of Russia's nuclear forces. "The problem is that our American partners are developing missile defenses, and we are not," Putin said. "But the issues of missile defense and offensive weapons are closely interconnected. ... There could be a danger that having created an umbrella against offensive strike systems, our partners may come to feel completely safe. After the balance is broken .....
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POPS A Photo with Putin You want to have a picture with Putin? No problem! But be careful this picture to become discrediting evidence
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POPSGipfel-Konferenz "Klima-Faschismus": Um was es wirklich geht 
Da es den Kommunismus nicht mehr wirklich gibt, gibt es nur noch den Faschismus. In meiner Dokumentation habe ich die Hauptakteure beim Namen genannt. Ein Staat ist bisher kaum in Erscheinung getreten: Der Vatikan bzw. der Staat Vatikanstadt. Ohne dem Fürsten dieser Welt (Lukas 4, 5.6) und seinem Stellvertreter, Pontifex Maximus Papst Benedikt XVI., geht nichts mehr. Kein Kriegsverbrechen, kein Klima-Betrug, kein Impf-Betrug. Papst Joseph Alois Ratzinger ist der Gott der USA. Hier ist der Beweis: “Das vielleicht beeindruckendste Beispiel für die äußerst ehrerbietige Haltung Präsident Bushs Papst Benedikt XVI gegenüber ist die Bestätigung, die er am Freitag, den 11. April 2008, gab, als er die letzte ihm von Raymond Arroyo gestellte Frage beantwortete (dieser Mann arbeitet für Eternal Word Television Network, EWTN). Arroyo fragte den Präsidenten: “Sie machten die allgemein bekannt gewordene Aussage, Sie hätten Vladimir Putin in die Augen geschaut u
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POPSObama Orders 1 Million US Troops To “Prepare For Civil War” He is to announce in a nationwide address to his people this coming week that he is going to expand the level of US Military Forces in Afghanistan by tens of thousands of troops, while at the same time using the deployment of these soldiers as a “cover” for returning to the United States over 200,000 additional American soldiers from the over 800 bases in over 39 countries they have stationed around the Globe bringing the level of these forces in America to over 1 million, a number the US Military believes will be able to contain the “explosion of violence” expected to roil these peoples when they learn their economy has been bankrupted.
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POPSDiscordless, industrial romanesc Proaspat lansat, albumul “148 Light Years” propune o alta perspectiva fata de primul album al formatiei (pe atunci “One Man Band”), “Deprived of oxygen”, o abordare muzicala mai putin brutala, agresiva, mecanica, si mai inclinata inspre genul post-industrial, cu sunete mai umane, mai calde, si putin mai armonice. Albumul experimental “148 light years”, pregatit cu mult perfectionism si tehnici neconventionale de mastering, iti descrie un univers putin pamantean, compus din pasaje de ritm cand lent, cand agresiv. Acest album scapa tiparelor, incadrarii, pana intr-acolo incat poate fi numit un stil “ne-stil”, greu de descris si poate, si mai greu de ascultat.
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POPSRussia prove to the world they are "humane" Now all condemned prisoners + those waiting for sentence will be sent to the Stalags and Medvedev told Amnesty International how humane Russia now is, here his comments in perfect Russian translated by multi-lingual genius, Jaggedone! "NYET, ve have sent our condemned criminals to Siberia, they receive one bottle of Vodka, two parsnips, some cabbage, vill have no heating and at minus 50 degrees centigrade vill freeeze their bollocks off and die vithin two weeks, humane DA (yes)?!! "Russia saves elctricity, gets rid of its scum humanely and the vorld is happy, DA (yes)!" "Please European Brothers send your scum to Russia, no problem, NYET!"
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POPSVEE Day in Alameda, California, we practiced duck-and-cover as well as earthquake drills. Nothing quaint or or historic about it then. Here’s Reagan speechwriter Anthony R. Dolan at the Wall Street Journal on the power of “Four Little Words” … you remember them: “Tear down that wall” … and the earth-shaking ideas they represented as well as the action that backed them. The popular myth is that the wall kind of toppled over by itself, with a little push from people power. That of course ignores not only the prior 44 years of Cold War … interspersed with several hot ones that cost us tens of thousands of American lives … it also ignores the massive military buildup of the 1980s, the encouragement of liberation movements behind the Iron Curtain, the tough engagement with old-school Soviet leaders and, not least, the cordial engagement with a Soviet leader who realized it was time to throw in the towel. An atmosphere was finally created in which people felt like they could
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POPSWe Fell To Earth Bagajele muzicale acumulate de cei doi membri WFTE, Richard si Wendy, sunt daca nu contrare, atunci cel putin diferite. Aceasta nu a exclus insa posibilitatea de colaborare si de creare a unui hibrid muzical nou, a unei alternative in fata muzicii actuale.
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POPSRussia Reconsiders "There's no question that Stalin is undergoing a sort of renaissance in Russia. Despite the many millions killed or sent to labor camps during his reign, many now view his rule with a sort of hazy nostalgia. "The cynical position of the Stalinphobes is that only innocent people were kept in the gulag," he said. "Criminals who violated the law were kept in the gulag. And let the Western reader ask himself, should criminals be kept in spas or resort hotels?" Meanwhile, Stalin's image and name, systematically bleached out as the waning Soviet empire began to grapple with its bloody past, are creeping back into Russian life. His name was restored this fall to a Moscow metro station. His unmistakable mustached face beams from the wall of Soviet Meatpies, a kitschy diner downtown."
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POPSRUSSIA TO ADOPT FIRST STRIKE NUCLEAR POLICY It's that damned Putin! Russia is rebuilding its military...I imagine they mean local, contained nuclear strikes. Such as: theater nuclear weapons....but, it could escalate between "major players"....dammit
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POPSZunder im Bioenergiedorf Rai-Breitenbach - Öko-Leitbild oder Reinfall?
www.BioDirekt.de >Mit dem Kraftwerk will Rai-Breitenbach autark von anderen Energieträgern werden. Das Dorf ist damit das erste Bioenergie-Dorf Hessens. Rund 1.300 Tonnen CO2-Emissionen sollen jährlich gespart werden. Außerdem rechnet die Genossenschaft damit, dass ihre Mitglieder bis zu 30 Prozent weniger Heizkosten haben.< Immer wenn der Mund zu voll genommen wird, droht das Hirn dahinter zu verschwinden. Das scheint nun, leider, auch für Rai-Breitenbach zu gelten. Ein schon letzte Woche im Odenwälder Echo erschienener Bericht von Birgit Reuther nimmt dem Projekt seinen Zauber - und dies schon im Untertitel: “Anlage bringt nur 30 Prozent ihrer Leistung - Genossen befürchten Finanzierungsprobleme“ Im Detail heißt es dann: >Die Anlage zur Holzvergasung, ein zentraler Kraftwerk-Bestandteil zur Strom- und Wärmegewinnung, erbringt seit etwa einem Jahr nur rund 30 Prozent ihrer ursprünglich kalkulierten und zur Finanzierung erforderlichen Leistung. So wur
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POPS One Other Thought I know the pundits are all saying this means people will have to take him seriously and go along with the hopey peace thing. OK, only the sap pundits are saying that, but still … Mickey Kaus has a point . Maybe he should turn it down. Before he’s stuck with it, and its stuck all over him. http://slate.com/blogs/blogs/kausfiles/archive/2009/10/09/what-obama-should-do-with-his-nobel-peace-prize.aspx
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POPSObama’s French Lesson newest provocation did not warrant the imposition of tougher sanctions. Do the tally. In return for selling out Poland and the Czech Republic by unilaterally abrogating a missile-defense security arrangement that Russia had demanded be abrogated, we get from Russia . . . what? An oblique hint, of possible support, for unspecified sanctions, grudgingly offered and of dubious authority " and, in any case, leading nowhere because the Chinese have remained resolute against any Security Council sanctions. Confusing ends and means, the Obama administration strives mightily for shows of allied unity, good feeling, and pious concern about Iran’s nuclear program " whereas the real objective is stopping that program. This feel-good posturing is worse than useless, because all the time spent achieving gestures is precious time granted Iran to finish its race to acquire the bomb. Don’t take it from me. Take it from Sarkozy, who could not conceal his astonishment at Obama’s naïveté.
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POPSToo Much Nuance, Projection & Cognitive Dissonance, Not Enough Power All of which is a way of saying that nasty George W. Bush is no longer around with all his self-righteous swagger, and that with (as Obama did not fail to note) the first African-American installed in the White House, America is now on the same page with the rest of the world. Much of the speech seemed to be an exercise in what Sigmund Freud called "projection," assuming that others think the way you do. Obama spoke as if the mullahs of Iran, the Kim Jong Il clan of North Korea, Vladimir Putin and his gang of oligarchs, and the rulers of China had the same gripes against the Bush administration as Obama and the liberal Democrats in Congress. Hey, if we just close Gitmo, they'll realize that we're all in sympathy now.................. Unfortunately, it is clear that even in the year 2009 the interests of nations and peoples are not as unanimously shared as Obama proclaimed Wednesday. Our diplomats and those of five other nations are scheduled to meet with an
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POPSIn Which Obama Has A General Problem, Just Like A Real President* The tug-o-war playground politics of the matter aside, there is still the fact of war in Afghanistan, a persistent global threat, and the rapidly diminishing credibility of the United States as a stalwart, moral force in the world, from the limp handling of Iran to the delivery of tribute to Vladimir Putin, and now the dawdling and dithering over the erstwhile good war. For all their squawking about us, the Euros don’t need us to be another EU member. They need someone to do the dirty work. Ditto the Arabs. China and Russia have got to be enjoying this, though. On second thought, there is a sort of double-reverse presidential precedent to this crisis. It’s Obama as McClellan. Not exactly Lincolnesque, but very Lincoln-proximate. Totally related: Victor Davis Hanson at NRO looks at Two-Front Wars, Theirs and Ours and comes away with something other than the currently fashionable doom-and-gloom mongering. It’s al-Qaeda after eight years of war, on the ropes and desperate.
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POPSThe Long Retreat ~ Part I by Mark Steyn to it, perhaps not publicly (just as the US agreement to remove its nuclear missiles from Turkey was not make public during the Cuban Missile Crisis). The Obama Administration's diplomatic strategy is, I believe, wise and comprehensive"but it needs to show more than public concessions over time. A few diplomatic victories wouldn't hurt. Golly. We know, thanks to Jimmy Carter, Joe Klein, and many others, that we critics of President Obama’s health-care policy are by definition racist. Has criticism of Obama’s foreign policy also been deemed racist? Because one can certainly detect the first faint seeds of doubt germinating in dear old Joe’s soon-to-be-racist breast: The Obama administration “needs to show more than public concessions over time” " because otherwise the entire planet may get the vague impression that that’s all there is . Especially if your preemptive capitulations are as felicitously timed as the missile-defense announcement, stiffing the Poles . .
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POPS The Long Retreat ~ Part II by Mark Steyn Some of them very strange. Kim Jong-Il wouldn’t really let fly at South Korea or Japan, would he? Even if some quasi-Talibanny types wound up sitting on Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, they wouldn’t really do anything with them, would they? Okay, Putin can be a bit heavy-handed when dealing with Eastern Europe, and his definition of “Eastern” seems to stretch ever farther west, but he’s not going to be sending the tanks back into Prague and Budapest, is he? I mean, c’mon . . . Vladimir Putin is no longer president but he is de facto tsar. And he thinks it’s past time to reconstitute the old empire " not formally (yet), but certainly as a sphere of influence from which the Yanks keep their distance. President Obama has just handed the Russians their biggest win since the collapse of the Iron Curtain. Indeed, in some ways it marks the restitching of the Iron Curtain. When the Czechs signed their end of the missile-defense deal in July, they found themselves afflicted by a . . .
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POPSNow Venezuela Wants to Go Nuclear Others are a little more skeptical, and rightly so. The Hudson Institute’s David Satter wrote yesterday (emphasis ours): The intention of Russia to help Venezuela develop a nuclear power plant is no more innocent than the help that Russia gave to Iran. Both Russia and Venezuela will emphasize that Venezuela has no intention of creating a nuclear weapon. But by facilitating contact between Russian and Venezuelan officials in the area of nuclear energy, the stage is set for black-market operations involving technology that can be used in nuclear weapons. Russian help for Venezuela can provide a cover for the development of nuclear weapons. Perhaps more important, it opens up a new channel for the transfer of Russian nuclear know-how"this time by way of Venezuela"to the enemies of the U.S. As the Trumpet has explained , Hugo Chávez has put Venezuela at the vanguard of the growing anti-American movement in Latin America.
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POPSPresident Pantywaist Restores The Satellite States to Their Former Owner Despite propaganda to the contrary, 58 per cent of Poles were in favour of the missile shield. But small nations must assess the political will of larger powers. Thanks to President Pantywaist’s supine policies, the former satellite states can see that they are fast returning to their former status. The American umbrella cannot be relied upon on a rainy day. They have been here before. Poles remember how a leftist US president sold them out to Russia at Tehran and Yalta. The former Czechoslovakia was betrayed twice: in 1938 and 1945. If the word is out that America is in retreat, it will soon find it has no friends. The satellites will pragmatically accept their restored subordination, without openly acknowledging it, and co-operate with their dangerous neighbour, ushering in a new generation of Finlandisation. Bringing unstable states like Georgia into Nato would be a liability, not a defence. The crazy notion of a US-Nato-Russian combined defence policy . . .
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