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NATO said on Wednesday it had extended its Libyan mission for a further 90 days, after Muammar Qaddafi made it clear he would not step down, dashing hopes of a negotiated end to the uprising against his rule…

Of course we will only be there for a few days at most…

Libya: NATO bombings killed 718 civilians “718 people have been killed and another 4,067 injured since NATO Alliance started bombing Libya on March 19. 433 people are still in hospitals, with their conditions described as critical, said Mussa Ibrahim, an official spokesperson of the Libyan government at a news conference, citing data from local medical services.” For its part, NATO stressed that it had targeted only military objects and equipment. Ibrahim added that Qaddafi’s ousting, which, the international community is pushing for, would be “the worst possible scenario for Libya.” NATO has a proven history of killing civilians and now it is insisting its prerogative to keep on killing civilians in Libya…

Sounds a lot like what I insisted would happen. Lets rejoice and party over our humanitarian help for the Libyan people. For without our help they would have never had this war to their deaths in the name of HELP…

I don’t blame Libya for fighting. The West is trying to control the country…

CAIRO — Al Qaeda’s likely next leader says NATO’s operations in Libya are meant to topple Moammar Qaddafi so the West can install a puppet government and control the country’s oil wealth…

So that short war of humanitarian help, that control of just the airspace over Libya has turned into a slaughter of innocents trying to kill Qaddafi. Most people in Libya do not want him dead, except after NATO kills thousands and thousands over many months. The Libyans then will want Qaddafi gone. The bombings have extended to the seas and all over the Libyan lands. The very thing that Obama and others said we would not do, has happened. We opened mouth and stuck foot into it and then realized that Libya does not really want Qaddafi gone. So we are bombing Libya to get the results that we want the people of Libya to accept. Qaddafi out of power…

I will say that the West has lying down to an art…

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PS: Nato aircraft have flown more than 5,300 bombing runs Sorties since the no-fly zone was put in place in March…

Data summary
Nato operations in Libya by country (May 22nd, 2011)

It is interesting that Canada is all over the news because they have had to order more bombs. America and Britain have resupplied numerous times already and it is looking like hundreds of billions of dollars will be spent on this short war…

We are bombing the Hell out of the Libyan people…

After what I have seen in my lifetime I realize that we never learn and people are so happy to follow as we kill and kill and kill…

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Is there a war on RT?
I had an article a while back that expressed this issue that RT is dealing with today. The Western Media is lambasting RT and trying to discredit RT as a legit news source. The bottom line fact is that RT has growing ratings and that is starting to affect the Western Controlled Trash Media such as CNN, Fox, USA Today, Time and a whole bunch more…

Good video and RT has a right to start firing back at the accusers. Russia Today is great news about Russia and the world. It is the world part that is stepping on some toes… 🙂

You should watch RT you might have an eye opening experience…

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Could this be true or just smoke in the wind? If it is true then at least the G8 sidelines got something important done, because the main G8 meeting was a joke as usual…

As a first major step, we have instructed our officials to concentrate on visa liberalization on a reciprocal basis for the largest segments of our traveling nationals – business travelers and tourists, traveling both as individuals and in groups, and official representatives.  Taking into account the significant progress achieved by our negotiators, we are working on a new agreement to issue, as a general rule without unduly formalized invitations and justifications, multiple-entry visas for eligible business travelers and tourists of 36 month validity at a unified and reciprocal fee, as well as the issuance of 12-month, multiple-entry visas for official representatives of our countries.  We aim to settle these issues and sign the agreement in the very near future, consistent with domestic procedures in both countries.

Now that is interesting and lets see if they mean what they say. Wonder what “very near future” means to the governments? It means like tomorrow or next week at the latest to me… 🙂

Hummm… 36 month visa! Wow – what a dream…

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PS: Update

THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 26, 2011

Joint Statement by the Presidents the United States of America
and of the Russian Federation
Regarding Cooperation on Visa Issues

Last June, when we met in Washington, we expressed our determination to establish stronger bilateral ties on the basis of mutually beneficial cooperation.  We are seeking to expand our economic and trade relations, and also to strengthen contacts between our citizens.  As has been highlighted in many of the meetings of the Working Groups of the Presidential Commission, the current state of visa procedures between our countries does not correspond to the present level of collaboration nor to the development of bilateral relations that we hope is to come.

We continue to seek ways to facilitate travel between our countries, consistent with the laws and regulations of both countries.  Over the past year, our officials have clarified the requirements for travel for purposes of tourism, work, and study, and we intend to streamline this process in order to make travel easier.  As a first major step, we have instructed our officials to concentrate on visa liberalization on a reciprocal basis for the largest segments of our traveling nationals – business travelers and tourists, traveling both as individuals and in groups, and official representatives.  Taking into account the significant progress achieved by our negotiators, we are working on a new agreement to issue, as a general rule without unduly formalized invitations and justifications, multiple-entry visas for eligible business travelers and tourists of 36 month validity at a unified and reciprocal fee, as well as the issuance of 12-month, multiple-entry visas for official representatives of our countries.  We aim to settle these issues and sign the agreement in the very near future, consistent with domestic procedures in both countries.

As relations between our countries grow stronger, and the ties become more intense, we will seek even greater simplification and liberalization of our countries’ visa systems on a reciprocal basis, aimed at providing entry of U.S. citizens into Russia and of Russian citizens into the U.S. unencumbered by unnecessary formalities, in accordance with domestic legislation of each country. We are instructing our government agencies to work in this direction.

Read more: http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/texttrans/2011/05/20110526090353su0.6149822.html#ixzz1NXUSTDUE

By Paul Ames: DEAUVILLE, France, May 26 (Xinhua) — Russian President Dmitri Medvedev was in the thick of the action early at the G8 on Thursday. He’d met separately with both his American and French counterparts even before the summit proper go underway.

But the bonhomie with Barack Obama and the conclusion of an important military sales deal with Nicolas Sarkozy couldn’t hide the fact that Russia remains very much the odd man out in the group of the eight world economic powers.

While the other seven have been lining up to voice their support for protests in the Arab world, Russia is wary. Moscow has expressed outrage over the NATO bombing raids in Libya and threatens to block a UN resolution that condemns the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria for it’s “violent clampdown” on protesters.

“This is not easiest issue. We have convergent views with Russia on lots of issues … but each of us brings their own history to the Libyan issue,” Sarkozy said. The French president’s suggestion that the G8 discuss tightening sanctions on Syria’s leadership was unlikely to gain support from Moscow.

Then there is missile defense. Among the G8, only Russia has concerns about the planned anti-missile shield which the United States wants to build in Europe.

Washington says the system is needed to protect against an eventual threat. Moscow is demanding cast-iron guarantees that it won’t be targeted against its ballistic arsenal.

After his meeting with Obama on Thursday Medvedev warned that it might take years before a new generation of Russian and American leaders can reach an agreement on the “sensitive” subject.

“I have told my counterpart, Barack Obama,that this issue will be finally solved in the future, like, for example, in the year 2020,” Medvedev told reports. “We, at present, might lay the foundation for other politicians’ activities.”

Obama limited himself to saying that the pair of them are committed to finding a solution that “is consistent with the security needs of both countries, that maintains the strategic balance, and deals with potential threats that we both share.”

Russia is also the only country that sits both in the G8 and the BRICS group of emerging powers that brings together Brazil, China, India and South Africa.

While the other European members of the G8 were throwing their weight behind French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde to succeed her disgraced compatriot Dominique Strauss-Kahn as head of the International Monetary Fund, Russia was joining the BRICS in demanding an end to the “obsolete unwritten convention” in which the IMF top job goes to a European while an American holds the presidency of the World Bank.

The United States, Canada and Japan are still hedging their bets on Strauss-Kahn’s successor.

Some from Moscow see Medvedev’s stand-alone stance on some of the key Deauville dossiers as being in Russia’s advantage, as it seeks to diversity its relationships to reach beyond the G8 while keeping a toe hold in the rich Western club.

“Russia is not giving up on the West, but it wants to diversify … it’s not willing to give up on issues that it judges important for its interests, in order to preserve G8 solidarity,” says Dr. Victoria V. Panova, associated professor at Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

“Russia is not in a worse position at all, it’s in more of the informal groupings that are springing up now, than the geriatric powers are,” she said.

Russia’s economic importance was certainly underscored by the deal sealed by Medvedev and Sarkozy which will see four French Mistral-class assault ships sold to the Russian navy, despite concerns from the United States and others among France’s NATO allies about the transfer of sensitive military technology that may be involved in the deal.

“The Cold War has come to an end, that the Berlin Wall has fallen and that we should treat Russia as a friendly state and involve it in our deliberations about creating an extensive space of security and prosperity,” Sarkozy said.

Sarkozy said the price of the four ships will only be revealed when the contract is signed, sometime in the next two weeks. However, the warships are expected to cost at least 400 million euros (568 million U.S. dollars) each. Two will be build in French shipyards and the other two in Russia.

The Mistral-class ships are capable of carrying 16 attack helicopters and dozens of tanks. Editor: Mu Xuequan

Original Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-05/27/c_13895971.htm

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I was drinking that morning cup of coffee and enjoying the aroma wafting in the air. It was a cool 10 degrees Celsius this morning and that as always is good weather for a hot beverage. My thoughts this morning with that cup of coffee centered on Syria and Pakistan…

It is starting to look like Syria is a focal point with Russia. Just as Pakistan is a focal point with China. It also seems very clear that the charades situation that we call Libya. Has really sunk in to Russia and China that the West is a untrustworthy facade of a Empire. Both China and Russia took a real beating on the home front over their lack of votes in the UN and their trusting of the Western Coalition…

So now as the leaders in the West call for a “Charge of the Light Brigade” and protect Pakistan from evils and nuclear disaster. The same calls are being manifested in the Western news media as we watch the protruded deaths, now by some standards approaching several thousand in Syria. (After months of silence) But it seems now that Obama has given a stern warning to Syria and we can’t have our fearless leader look weak now, can we?

It looks to me like the Western turmoil tactics are just part of a bigger issue that means to cover up the fact that the West is the most incredibly in-debt Empire in the history of the Earth and Empires do not die quietly…

If you do not see that Russia by standing behind Syria and China by standing behind Pakistan, is not a perquisite to World War Three. If you can not see that the reset between America and Russia has failed. If you can not see that Russia is pissed about the missile defense issues in Europe. If you can’t see that Medvedev was made to look like a buffoon in his peoples eyes. If you can’t see that China has been ramping up her military very quietly. If you can’t see that Russia is in a military restructure. If you can’t see that the West is invading countries illegally. Then you are living in a hole somewhere and or really do not care that the world is on the true edge of a flash point at this moment…

At some point Russia and China will have had enough and that point is developing as we drink our coffee…

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PS: Lets hope that Russia and China are adults about the world problems and not children like the West is and have been…

PSS: Update – Since Syria and Pakistan are road blocked temporarily. Yemen has now become to the forefront and the threats are now centered on Yemen…

A U.S. national killed his Russian wife and then committed suicide by jumping from a window on the 15th floor of the Izmailovskaya hotel in the northwest of Moscow, a police source said on Thursday.

“The man stabbed his wife with a knife and then jumped from a hotel window,” he said.

The source declined to give more details, saying only that police are currently working at the scene.

MOSCOW, May 26 (RIA Novosti)

Batka Bows for CashBy Tai AdelajaRussia Profile05/25/2011
Pressed up against a rock and the hardest of places, combative Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has finally thrown in the towel, agreeing last week to the sale of stakes in some of his country’s highly sought-after assets. The first salvo in the long-awaited privatization program came with the announcement of a deal to sell a 50 percent stake in the Beltransgaz company to Russia for $2.5 billion. “The Russian side is ready to buy our stake in (pipeline operator) Beltransgaz for $2.5 billion,” Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich told state news agency Belta on Friday. Russia’s gas monopoly Gazprom already owns a 50 percent stake in Beltransgaz, which it acquired through a series of purchases between 2007 and 2010.

Hummm…

What a deal, talk about timing for Russia…

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Meat With Mayonnaise And Fruits on top is a very common dish in Russia. In fact it is very common in Ukraine also. I eat a solid meat portion covered in a thick mixture of mayonnaise and fruits, nuts, veggies or any other ingredients that suit your fancy as a regular meal while in Ukraine doing business. A Russian restaurant like “My My” (Moo Moo) here in Moscow always has several variations of this dish…

I call it the all in one meal deal… 🙂

So lets look at a yummy recipe that will tempt your taste buds with delight…

Ingredients:
600 to 800 g lean beef (Sliced into 100 to 200 gram slices)
1 carrot (peeled shredded)
parsley root (peeled and shredded)
onion (diced)
salt (to taste)
pepper (to taste)
200 g mayonnaise (real mayo)
200 g fruit puree (apple or plum or what ever you like) or preserved fruits of any type
Just a few chopped up finely – nuts (almonds, walnuts, etc.)
ground red pepper (to taste)

Method:
Pour hot water over a cuts of beef,chicken or pork that weighs about 100 to 200 grams each and cook for 30 minutes or until tender…

Then remove meat (set aside) and add to the water that is left in pan the pepper and salt, carrots, parsley root, onion, fruits, nuts, red pepper and what ever else you want. Just do not add the mayonnaise to this mixture. If necessary add more water and cook until ingredients are done and soft…

When the ingredients are done and somewhat mushy, drain the water off completely in a colander and mix with the mayo in a bowl… (You want a thick mixture)

Take meat slices and lay on the bottom of a oven pan. If not nonstick please grease the pan. Pour over each slice the mayonnaise combined with all your goodies. I even like to at this point lay a slice of Gouda cheese on top… 🙂

Bake the slices of smothered beef or what ever you used for meat. In a preheated oven for about 10 to 12 minutes at low to medium temperature. You just want to start browning the top and not really cook it. For it is already cooked…

Serve hot and steaming on a plate with a side of asparagus…

This is such an easy dish to prepare and a bachelor can cook this dish to impress his girl friend. It makes a wonderful meal served with wine and makes you look like a gourmet chef…

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PS: My favorite version of this dish also has an egg on top and you really get the meal deal then…

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