Russia was assigned 27th place in the 2017 Best Countries rating released by US News and World Report on Tuesday.
Source: Russia Ranks 27th Among ‘Best’ Countries, 2nd Most Powerful Nation
This is a good one and with the exception of a few trolls that messed up the comments with lies, you will find a wonderful witty section of comments…
http://russia-insider.com/en/official-list-things-you-can-blame-russia/ri19034
- Europe’s refugee crisis.
- Giant killer squids.
- Fighter jet crashes.
- Names.
- Brexit.
- Poop.
- Midlife crises.
- Flying planes with transponders turned off because NATO won’t turn their transponders on.
- Putin’s popularity.
- Information.
- Judo.
- Miscrosoft Word documents (.doc, .docx).
- Too many people.
- Financial default.
- The Russian language.
- Stupidity.
- Federalism.
- Robotic cockroaches.
- Marine Le Pen.
- Soviet History.
- Photoshop.
- Psychiatry.
- Ebola.
- The election of David Cameron.
- German elections.
- French elections.
- Any elections, anywhere.
- Montenegro’s prime minister almost getting murdered.
- Wikileaks.
- Hillary Clinton being the world’s worst presidential candidate.
Lets add… per comments available…
Swedish parliament are blaming Russia for the wave of crimes perpetuated by migrants. Germans, who said that many “rapefugees” are sleeper FSB agents. Hacking US elections, protection and safe guard of Crimea, Syria, Iran and China. The fires in Fort McMurray, Canada. Russia offered to aid in extinguishing them, the Canadian Gov’t refused, so it’s Russia’s fault because they are a political enemy of the US so we couldn’t accept their help without facing hostility with the US, so it burned for a month, then a few weeks later it flooded with extreme rainfall in the region… Let’s not forget aiding to the death of terrorists, destabilizing world markets by purchasing gold and paying off debt. Installing the US president, supporting peaceful citizens in Ukraine to defend against the tyranny of the Nazi Regime installed and funded by the World Bank, US gov’t, Canadian, and English gov’t, IMF, NATO, CIA and Central Banks. Russia made us do it! Oh and lest we forget the strange weather coming out of the region of Russia spreading all across the globe. t’s Russia’s fault that Capitalism requires constant growth in the market. A market that is overly saturated and needs to take over all global markets to survive for a little longer. It’s Russia’s fault that we are willing to use our military to take over these markets, destroy dispensable nations for our own temporary gain. It’s Russia’s fault we have extreme debt and that any financial stability in the world is a threat because we may be forced to be accountable for our debt if there is someone out there who is financially responsible. It’s Russia’s fault that we have to resort to more and more desperate measures to accomplish our world domination goals because of its unwillingness to be a servant to the all mighty Oz… So you see, you need to play by our rules and we will play nice to you if you do.. because we are the just and moral light in the world, or didn’t you know that. “allowing Americans to have names like “billy-bob”” “breaking of the peace treaty in Ukraine” “breaking of the peace treaty in Syria” “breaking of the peace treaty in Afghanistan” “the murder of their own diplomats” “the drugging of the Philippines President to wake up and see the atrocities’ the US have done. Japan is now blaming Russia, Malaysia is blaming Russia. Global warming caused by Russia too as they are drilling for oil and gas. And they are the cause of men turning transgender. The destruction of flight MH-17 and the death of nearly 300 civilians. Blame the Russians for hilarious and bad ass YouTube videos.
or lets number them…
31. Alcoholism
32. WW2
33. WW1
34. Obesity
35. Mental Depression
36. Monobrows
37. Small Penises
38. Oversized Penises
39. Ear-Hair
40. Nose-Hair
41. Cancer
42. French Toilets
43. Road-Deaths
44. Climate Change
45. Malaria
46. ADHD
47. Divorces
48. Chemical Waste
49. Commercial Television
50. John McCain
51. Addictions
52. Israel
53. American Tourists
54. Peadophilic Priests
55. Ingrowing Toenails
56. Smelly Feet
57. Farts
58. Doping
59. Racism
60. My Combi-Oven not working at 800 Watts but at 790….DAMN YOU PUTIN!!!!!
some more…
“Allowing American FAT men to wear the high waisted trousers to pretend they are thin”
“the rise of autism in the US”
“the collapse of people’s intelligence in the US”
“the disintegration of the US infrastructure”
“the increased number of the global population that awaits the American collapse”
Blame Russia for the Ruble. Can’t believe you guys forgot President Trump… The Russians are Obviously Guilty of Inventing Chocolate flavored condoms. The World shortage of Toilet Rolls. Supplying the Pentagon with a drug based on the Rabies Virus so the Pentagon could bring out, ‘The Zombie Act’ which would allow them to kill all the American People they infect with it. Supplying the Pentagon and CIA with C4 so they could bring down the Twin Towers and pretend it was Bin Laden. (A question no one ever asked was…What was hidden under the Twin Towers. The Pentagon picked the date for the Demolition as a joke. Forget the month and date, what are the numbers? What else is nine one one) The list of calamities attributable to Russia continues : dam bursts in California, secessionist moves on the part of California and Texas , increased legal migrations of gays into San Francisco, climate change in the United States, mind control chemicals in our food and medicine , air pollution in Los Angeles … there’s more..
They left out Bambi’s mother dying.
Disney’s Bambi’s Mother’s Death. and The war in Syria and destruction of Aleppo…
There is more, many more…
http://russia-insider.com/en/official-list-things-you-can-blame-russia/ri19034
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America (Hulk) Smash…
When you sit outside of America and look inward at the happenings around the country. You see a pattern that encompasses the whole country and all that it touches. I call it the pinball machine syndrome…
I realize that many newer generations never had the pleasure of living the ancient era of pinball machines everywhere. You found pinball machines in just about any establishment…. (https://www.theverge.com/2013/1/16/3793274/stern-inside-one-of-the-last-pinball-factories-in-the-world)
As the jukebox, the pinball machine was found everywhere. I had a jukebox in my restaurants and pinball machines in several of these to boot. I had one restaurant that had forty such machines and in its time they were serious money makers…
Something fascinating about that steel ball ricocheting all over the place and it was a true art as you kept the machine bordered on tilting and not tilting. But as with all machines they seemed to whoop your ass at the last moment. For sometimes they kept putting more balls in play and chaos ensued…
I see the US as one huge pinball machine:
The bumpers are smoking from returning the ball and the flippers are flapping as fast as we can work them. I ask myself, “How long before we blink and the ball slips by?”
It is one thing to keep the play within the borders of the US and watch the ball bounce from bumper to bumper. Sometimes you can get the ball to bounce between certain bumpers forever it seems. Using the perfect body language as you pushed the machine to the point of tilting. Then other times the ball went down a hole and popped up where you least expected it. I developed my pinball skills when in high school and I worked at a bowling alley. They had about six machines as I remember and after work we would all, including management try to be the pinball wizard….this was way before Pacman and Mario Brothers… (Pinball was around in the 1930’s…)
The problem is:
There are too many players, too many bottomless surprise holes and too much tilting and or called nudging, going on. I also call this the Napoleon and Hitler syndrome. Too many players are trying to get a piece of the pie and the pie is almost gone…
I’m not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want. – Emile Hirsch
We need to get out of the pinball machine mode:
Or better yet try to get back to the simple mechanical pinball machine.It would help us to understand the world better….just my opinion. Find a machine and then think about the USA and its comparisons…
You wonder who really is running the U.S., because it sure is not our president and it makes me claim once again, “The USA is run by thousands and thousands of wannabe Hitlers and Napoleons!”
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https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/23/us-officials-say-lethal-weapons-headed-to-ukraine.html
The Trump administration approved a plan to provide lethal weapons to Ukraine
The new arms include American-made Javelin anti-tank missiles
Trump had been considering the plan for some time after the State Department and the Pentagon signed off earlier this year.
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It’s difficult to imagine an energy company that’s more hated and more closely monitored than Gazprom…
Perhaps in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon spill, BP attained similar levels of public oversight.
Nevertheless, defying most trends, 2017 will go down in history as one of Gazprom’s successful years: for the first time in history, its share in Europe’s gas consumption reportedly reached 40 percent.
Source: Nord Stream 2 Is A Game Changer For Gazprom | OilPrice.com
I follow and if you read WtR? You follow the Russian gold reserves. I also follow the Chinese and their buying of gold also. I do not follow the USA gold reserves, because? Well there 99% likely is not any reserves to talk about.
Russian Central Bank Adds a record 223 tons of gold to reserves in 2017. Russian Central Bank Adds 300,000 ounces (9.331 tons) of gold to reserves in December. Since June 2015, the Central Bank of Russia has added over 558 tons of gold to reserves. December’s 9.331 ton gold addition brings Russia’s Central Bank holdings …
Read More →Source: The Central Bank of Russia Added a Record 223 Tons of Gold in 2017 – Smaulgld
Until I see positive proof that Fort Knox has real gold and an independent audit from an outside source verifies it, then hogwash is what I say…. So I go with who is at least telling a little bit of what they actually buy, produce and store…
I do not even think that China and Russia report the amount they really have stored and buy each year. I think it is under reported by a whole bunch. It makes sense, what would you do with your antagonist paper/cloth based non backed dollars that are being shoved down your throat. Buy gold? Buy silver? Buy anything that has usage when no one else has it?
When Russia and China talk about gold, they talk about physical gold and not paper gold. paper gold is worth about as much as paper money. Not much…
The chart tells you all you need to know and something I find interesting….comment I found and it says a bunch in a short sentence and question…
Time to wake up people…
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Cold War Mentality Belies Fear of Democratic World Order
EDITORIAL : The anachronistic Cold War mindset must be decommissioned for a new political paradigm of democratic internationalism.
Source: Cold War Mentality Belies Fear of Democratic World Order
Is this the future of cheap urban micro living or just another pipe dream?
Courtesy:
James Law Cybertecturehttps://t.co/XnDFPVqjRk pic.twitter.com/U336OMUAqF— RT (@RT_com) January 20, 2018
I would put mine in the middle of trees in mountainous nowhere land, deep in the heart of Russia…
Just make the glass/door on each end bullet/impact – bear/wolf proof. Just put a gun/bow rack on the wall (gun/bow of course said the horse.) Just install one solar panel to charge a shortwave radio and flashlight and live happily forever after….that is of course after I grabbed my dog and threw Svetochka over my shoulder….to take with me… 😉
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Sometimes I feel like a “Seeing Eye Human”…
No not a seeing eye dog, but a human. I guide Boza around and allow him to have a life, a life as free from danger as possible. Life has become a series of commands. Up, down, right, left, stay, stop, no, hold on and many others. Boza has a harness and I keep constant tension against it and Boza knows where I am at at any given time…
Sometimes though, Boza can see somewhat and those days are precious to me. They make my life a whole bunch easier as I walk him…
The weather is a big factor in his tiny amount of sight that we are blessed with. I attribute it to the changes in air pressure, as his glaucoma is pressure related. Time framed to when he has his medicine is also important to understand, some of his drops make it so that he does not see for a few hours after usage. Keeping eye pressure down is the first priority and sometimes the cure seems to be worse than the illness. This has been a trial and error situation for Boza and I. It has taken a long time to get that balance of medicine, timing and patience. Boza has been a very good patient and knows that doing his eyes is crucial to his comfort…
This last week, Boza has been seeing some. I call any sight on his part as “Fantastic Super Boy Sight!” Boza, when he can see some, prances, dances and become alpha wannabe and charges out front of us. Now that creates another whole set of issues, as he wants to run and run and run, but since he still really sees terrible, trees will come from nowhere, they seem to just step in his way…
This means that you must be very alert, for Boza will charge ahead and if you look away at something, he will crash and burn. Then he looks at you as if you failed in your seeing eye human job… 😉
Every night Svetochka comes home and Boza is waiting for the most favorite walk of the day. I can walk him six, seven, eight and or more times and he still demands that walk with his mommy! It is the most special time. Those two have a very wonderful relationship. I call it the blind leading the blind and they just wander aimlessly all over the place. I have to steel my nerves and just trust in fate and God, for they have too much fun blundering all over the place…
I have a much (much much) more disciplined walk pattern….No wonder Boza loves to walk with Svetochka. They go where Boza’s nose takes him….over hill and dale, across the piles of life and through the sticker burrs of bushes. I am always pulling sticky seeds off of Boza, after a Svetochka walk…
Love those two, may they have many more walks across life’s adventures…
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