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Hello,

I was drinking my morning cup of coffee & thinking about a farmer in Siberia that says that a rocket fell in his yard and killed 4 of his horses. (It also scared him and his family almost to death.)

I have followed this story from the beginning & think that how neat to have a rocket fall in your yard. How cool can it be to have real rocket parts to play with!

Russia would be suing me because I would try to keep the rocket! 🙂

But instead of trying to have fun with the “Rocket” this man lost the lawsuit and does not even have a rocket to play with.

Altai farmer’s claim that rocket fuel killed his horses dismissed

18/03/2008 12:40 NOVOSIBIRSK, March 18 (RIA Novosti) – Scientists in Siberia rejected on Tuesday a farmer’s claim that four of his horses were killed by toxic pollution from part of a carrier rocket that fell nearby.

In early March, Sergei Kazantsev told district authorities in southwest Siberia’s Altai Republic that in the year since a fragment of a rocket launched from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan fell near his herd of horses, four of the horses had died.

However, the deputy head of the regional Institute for Water and Ecological Problems, Alexander Puzanov, said: “The deaths of the animals cannot be associated with the falling of rocket fragments. We have to look elsewhere for the cause.”

He said that according to research carried out by the institute, which regularly measures levels of toxic heptyl rocket fuel in the region’s soil and water, neither heptyl nor its derivatives had been found in the area.

Puzanov also said that researchers from his institute had not yet encountered animal deaths that could be attributed to rocket fuel pollution.

The Altai Republic has been used as a “cemetery” for the fallen fragments of carrier rockets launched from the Baikonur space center for more than 40 years. Experts estimate that about 2.5 metric tons of “space waste” have fallen in unpopulated areas of the republic during this period.

On February 5, shortly after the launch of a Proton-M carrier rocket from the Baikonur space center, a three-and-a-half-meter (11 foot) long rocket fragment landed outside the designated area for rocket debris, a few meters from the house of an Altai shepherd.

The man, who was uninjured in the incident, said he and his children had been extremely frightened and demanded compensation of 500,000 rubles ($21,000).

A few years ago another resident of the region sought damage from Federal Space Agency Roscosmos in similar circumstances. A court awarded him a mere $400 in compensation.

Wonder what killed the Horses?

Kyle & Svet

comments always welcome.

PS:
Six rocket fragments removed from Siberian villages

18/03/2008 16:34 MOSCOW, March 18 (RIA Novosti) – A total of six rocket fragments that fell near villages in southwest Siberia after lift off from Kazakhstan on Saturday have been removed, local officials said on Tuesday.

“The wreckage has been collected and evacuated on a helicopter,” a spokesman for the local administration said.

The incident occurred after the launch of a Proton-M carrier rocket from the Baikonur space center leased by Russia from nearby Kazakhstan on March 15.

The wreckage landed in three villages of the Ust-Kansky Region some 60 kilometers (37 miles) outside the designated area for rocket debris.

The smallest fragment with a weight of 60 grams landed in the yard of a village in the Altai Republic destroying the shed roof. Other wreckage landed close to houses, but no casualties have been reported. The largest fragment measured five meters (16 foot) long.

“Although no one was hurt by the fragments, people are unhappy that space waste is falling next to their houses,” the spokesman said.

The Altai Republic has been used as a “cemetery” for fallen fragments of carrier rockets launched from the Baikonur space center for more than 40 years. Experts estimate that about 2.5 metric tons of “space waste” has fallen in unpopulated areas of the republic during this period.

On February 5, shortly after the launch of a Proton-M carrier rocket from the Baikonur space center, a three-and-a-half-meter (11 foot) long rocket fragment landed outside the designated area for rocket debris, a few meters from the house of an Altai shepherd.

The man, who was uninjured in the incident, said he and his children had been extremely frightened and demanded compensation of 500,000 rubles ($21,000).

Another Siberian farmer claimed that in the year since a fragment of a rocket fell near his herd of horses, four of the horses had died. However, scientists rejected his claims saying he should “look elsewhere for the cause.”

A few years ago another resident of the region sought damage from Federal Space Agency Roscosmos in similar circumstances. A court awarded him a mere $400 in compensation.

In Russia the renown math reclusive and genius Grigory Perelman, has officially rejected a $1 million prize for solving a problem that has puzzled scientists for over a century, the Clay Mathematics Institute said on its website on Thursday. This has been international interest for many many months now…

Everyone including Russian’s are like, “What is his problem?”

So while we are all foaming at the mouth and wishing we had that money. Perelman, who lives in a small apartment in St. Petersburg with his elderly mother, is unemployed and their neighbors say they live in poverty. He has rejected several job offers at top U.S.A. universities.

Well he doesn’t want the damn money, so now everyone needs to leave him alone… 🙂

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Another think tank from America, talking about Russia! Seems that the USA Government has nothing better to do than sit around spending billions on deciding that Russia is Bad!

No wonder Russia really does not care what Americans think or if Americans travel here or not, the press from America is all bad about Russia!

That is why I have this blog to put a different light on Russia!

Russia Is Cool!

08/02/2008 22:47 MOSCOW. (Andrei Fedyashin for RIA Novosti) – Gas, oil, pipelines and investments in Europe or Asia have become Russia’s main sins that without absolution or strict control may do damage to U.S. national security, both taken singly or as a package.

Michael McConnell, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, has listed all of them in his Annual Threat Assessment to Congress. He mentions the military component of the potential Russian threat but not without some embarrassment because of the permanent U.S. military build-up as compared to the weakened Russian potential. McConnell notes that the Russian army is overcoming “a long, deep deterioration in its capabilities that started before the collapse of the Soviet Union”. The intelligence tsar, as the U.S. Director of National Intelligence is called, suggests that Moscow’s mounting economic might should be viewed as a source of concern.

The report does not even mention Russia as a threat to the United States. Its detailed analysis is neither scary nor sensational. Nor does it contain anything new as regards Moscow. The previous report a year ago criticized Russia a lot more.

The Kremlin’s response to the report was absolutely right. When Russian journalists asked officials to comment on it, they were told that the report should not be overdramatized, although it raised some questions. After all, Americans have long been accusing Russia of “positioning to control an energy supply and transportation network spanning from Europe to East Asia,” and talking about Russian energy policy: “Aggressive Russian efforts to control, restrict or block the transit of hydrocarbons from the Caspian to the West-and to ensure that East-West energy corridors remain subject to Russian control-underscore the potential power and influence of Russia’s energy policy.”

Moscow can hardly perceive as a challenge McConnell’s “concerns about the financial capabilities of Russia, China and OPEC countries and the potential use of their market access to exert financial leverage to political ends.” The same applies to his concern about the growth of Russian investment abroad. He means mostly investment in energy sectors in Europe and China. But this is nothing new, and the United States has been doing the same for years.

Not a single country has so many divisions as the United States – from the State Department and the Pentagon to the Department of Agriculture – that are responsible for promoting abroad American goods and services, credits, financial instruments, culture, way of life, Coke, cars and washing machines. In any country, be it tiny or very powerful, American Ambassadors and other diplomats will not be embarrassed if they have to flex their muscles or throw America’s rivals off the bridge. This is almost an axiom in the diplomatic service. But the very fact that Russia is mentioned in the report together with Iran, Iraq, Pyongyang, Beijing, and even the notorious Al Qaeda does not at all mean that they can be equated. Exaggerations are typical of such documents. It was produced by intelligence and as one wise Englishman said, secrecy is a prelude to deception. But every trade has its own temptations.

This assessment is special only because it was made in the year of two presidential elections – in the United States and Russia. Vice Admiral McConnel (Ret.) had to do an uphill job. His department was set up in the wake of the shocking 9/11 attacks, and is responsible for coordinating intelligence operations of about 15 departments – from the CIA, FBI, National Security Agency, Air Force, Navy and Army to the Coast Guard and the Department of Energy, to name but a few. He had to exert a titanic effort in order to reduce to a common denominator the opinions of mismatched departments that hate one another.

His predecessor John Negroponte, the first Director of National Intelligence since its formation in 2005 was not very successful. He occupied this position for less than two years, and was sent back to the State Department by President Bush.

It is clear that the report mostly deals with political issues, and has nothing to do with secrets. It would be naive to expect any secrets to be revealed during the hearings. American propaganda has never been too elegant but this report is more exquisite than others.

In general, such reports are just another foreign policy instrument couched in a veil of an almost solved mystery. In real fact, all ideas, concerns, and alarms are not the revelations of intelligence but a direct reminder of what the United States accepts and what it does not want to tolerate. As a guide, they are quite useful.

OK!

Kyle

Russia is slowly waking up to the fact that the USA played a game on them! The time is flowing and the realization that game of “spy versus spy” was played in an old context. It was a dramatized Hollywood movie escapade that will do nothing but rewind the reset that was happening…

Was this the expected result when the FBI brought forth a perfectly timed execution of details about a spy ring that was being followed for over a decade? (Yes a decade and we just had to pick now to exploit the information…)

Without a doubt it it is a resounding – yes!

I have just posted a very few items on this so far. The damage is done and as the issue fades into the sunset and we find out in whispers that all is not as bad as we were initially told. In a few weeks we most likely will never hear anything else about it…

Still the damage is done…

This all has nothing to do with, are they spy’s are not, because there are spy’s all over the world. America has spy’s in every country just as Russia does. China, Germany, France, Spain, Mexico and so on and so on, have spy’s everywhere. So the point is who gives a “rats behind”?

America is so wrapped up in this bull that they have printed article after article:

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you know that the FBI arrested 11 Russian spies. According to FBI officials, the Russians were spying on the United States and operating “deep cover” agents who were attempting to penetrate “policy making circles”.

It seems so 1974, doesn’t it?

It’s also interesting and perhaps even coincidental that these arrests happened shortly after Russian President Medvedev met with President Obama. President Medvedev even had the opportunity to experience the life-changing world of 140-character-at-a-time tweets.

Why America has even made out that one of the spy’s is a hot Russian bombshell of a woman (Picture above). She is right out of the James Bond novels according to many sources: Article (The Cold War just got hotter. Deep undercover with a sexy Russian spy. or Spy ring’s ‘femme fatale’)…

Russia has several options. Lets hope that retaliation is not on that list.

At the very least the Reset will have to be rewound. It will have to be instigated again and in the future Obama and Medvedev will be better off never sharing those Burgers and Fries…

The powers to be get upset, when countries get along to well…

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Originally posted 2008-09-17 12:54:00.

On this side of the world, we get a lot of news about Pakistan, Russian TV gives the gory details that seem to be left out to Americans about the Afghanistan War. One of the details that seems to be ignored by Americans is the fact that the Bush administration is killing civilians in Pakistan all in the name of capturing or killing al Qaeda’s leadership!

You have to wonder whether the Bush administration understands what it is getting into. In case anyone has forgotten, Pakistan has a hundred plus nuclear weapons. It’s a country on the edge of civil war. Its political leadership is bitterly divided. In other words, it’s the perfect recipe for a catastrophe. Seems that the Bush administration likes to stir up trouble all over this area of the world. Seems that Bush has secretly signed a bill not long ago that gives the Military the OK to do what it wants in Pakistan!

Pakistan Military has now been given orders to fire upon the USA Military if they cross borders again.

Bush seems to want to go out with a Bang….

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Looks like some powers to be have problems with the new found love between Obama and Medvedev. Sharing fries was way too much for them to handle…

FBI Says – 11 Spy’s – 10 Arrested – 1 on the run – From Russia…

One of my articles yesterday made clear about the games America plays…

A Single Moment In History Can Make or Break You…

Isn’t it amazing that the timing was just perfect and now is when this information surfaces?

You wanna dance with the big boys, get ready to fight…

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District Court complaint 1 [PDF]
District Court complaint 2 [PDF]
Suburban lives of agent suspects
The FBI’s ‘spy novel’ allegations
Ambivalent relationship

The video stands for itself and it will give you a lot to think about. The Western Press ignored the truth and even lied as they reported the information. Ethics were not part of journalism when it came to this war…

This is what makes the Western Press hard to believe anymore but yet the gullible public takes it like a bluegill going after a worm on a hook…

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Hot Off The DOJ Press Release:

Multi-year FBI Investigation Uncovers Network in the United States Tasked with Recruiting Sources and Collecting Information for Russia

WASHINGTON – Eight individuals were arrested Sunday for allegedly carrying out long-term, “deep-cover” assignments in the United States on behalf of the Russian Federation, the Justice Department announced today. Two additional defendants were also arrested Sunday for allegedly participating in the same Russian intelligence program within the United States.

In total, 11 defendants, including the 10 arrested, are charged in two separate criminal complaints with conspiring to act as unlawful agents of the Russian Federation within the United States. Federal law prohibits individuals from acting as agents of foreign governments within the United States without prior notification to the U.S. Attorney General. Nine of the defendants are also charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering.

The defendants known as “Richard Murphy” and “Cynthia Murphy” were arrested yesterday by FBI agents at their residence in Montclair, N.J., and are expected to appear in federal court in Manhattan today. Vicky Pelaez and the defendant known as “Juan Lazaro” were arrested yesterday at their residence in Yonkers, N.Y., and are expected to appear in federal court in Manhattan today. Anna Chapman was arrested in Manhattan yesterday and is expected to appear in federal court in Manhattan today.

The defendants known as “Michael Zottoli” and “Patricia Mills” were arrested yesterday at their residence in Arlington, Va., and are appearing in federal court in Alexandria, Va., today. Defendant Mikhail Semenko was arrested yesterday at his residence in Arlington and is appearing in federal court in Alexandria today. In addition, the defendants known as “Donald Howard Heathfield” and “Tracey Lee Ann Foley” were arrested at their residence in Boston yesterday and are appearing in federal court in Boston today. The defendant known as “Christopher R. Metsos” remains at large.

The charges are filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The charge of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. Attorney General carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. All the defendants are charged with this violation. The charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. All the defendants except Chapman and Semenko are charged with this violation.

This case is the result of a multi-year investigation conducted by the FBI; the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York; and the Counterespionage Section and the Office of Intelligence within the Justice Department’s National Security Division.

The prosecution is being handled by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Michael Farbiarz, Glen Kopp and Jason Smith of the Terrorism and International Narcotics Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, and Trial Attorneys Kathleen Kedian and Richard Scott of the Counterespionage Section of the Justice Department’s National Security Division.

The charges and allegations contained in the criminal complaints are merely allegations, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

This is the Federal Court Documents…

Complaint in Chapman and Semenko Case

Wow way cool…

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Smugglers can be the smartest dumb people on earth, they seem to know no bounds or limitations of how to make money. A Russian / Estonia crime ring of 11 people have been arrested and charged with pumping vodka from Russia into the Estonia – through an underwater pipeline.

Prosecutors in Russia and Estonia say they’ve uncovered an extraordinary crime. The accused include both Estonian and Russian citizens who were apparently on to a nice money making proposition. Smuggling Vodka into Estonia, Once Estonia joined the EU, the price of vodka has risen by almost 30 per cent and created conditions for bootlegging.

It’s claimed the gang pumped at least 6.2 thousand liters (1638 gallons) of vodka from Russia to Estonia through a 2km (1.25 miles) long homemade pipe.

The smuggling ring was uncovered after a truck with a thousand liters of illegal vodka was found in Tallinn, according to police, the smugglers tried to sell the booze in the Estonian capital. But the low quality of the drink made it difficult to find a buyer.

I think that it would be easier just to make the vodka in Estonia…..

Kyle & Svet

comments always welcome.

I just thought I would make a thought known:

It looks to me as if Medvedev is at that crossroad of making the right decisions. He has to balance the games going on that are being played right now, by America. If he gets to caught up in the excitement (so to say) and things turn sour it will not set well with the Russian people. I hear comparisons being made to a past leaders. (Gorbachev and Yeltsin) Many feel that Gorbachev and Yeltsin had sold out to the Western World and that is still fresh in Russia’s mind. But if Medvedev can play chess better than Obama can play checkers, then Medvedev can take the reins of Russia and guide her into a new future…

My Grandma use to say, “One stupid decision, over rides 10 wonderful decisions because people never remember the good as well as they remember the bad…”

I have sensed that Putin has let his prodigy walk on his own two feet alone for the last 6 months and I have been watching how things have been unfolding here in Russia. Medvedev is tackling multiples of issues that have destroyed past leaders. Issues such as Alcoholism, drugs, cigarettes, corruption and bribery…

I guess we will find out how smart and resourceful Medvedev is!

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