The tyrants always do.

This obsession with overthrowing the legally and democratically elected, well-beloved and 80% approval rating Putin by the State Dept Neocons is most unhealthy for the US.

But in a way I guess thats right. When you kill or imprison most of your opponents you actually CAN win an election!
With a little work, he can achieve the 100% vote tally of N Korea's "Dear Leader"! Maybe thats why they're buddies:

He now has support in the 80% range.

Can YOUR President make the same claim?

kill or jail his opponents and actually runs in open and free elections. Putin is nothing more than a dictator

Obama hasn't prosecuted the war criminals like W and Cheney, NOR has he prosecuted the Banksters like Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein, who stole and broke the economy in 2006....

and he may get the option of jailing the GOP candidates for 2016, if he prosecutes them for treason...but he won't get to run. Tough luck, that.

IMO, when a politician steals half a million dollars, he really belongs in jail. Russia's court system agreed, even though the crook was running against Putin....what a refreshing Rule of Law, not Men!

Holy hell that's telling.

Climate change is not a conspiracy theory.

or, if not at all, feel free to clear that up.

me if I'm wrong.

is intriguing.

It cites the Russian mission in Kazakhstan as the source of the "Putin's sick" rumor, since he was supposed to be there for meetings with the head of Kazakhstan and Lukashenko and cancelled.

Two "appearances" include footage of him meeting with some woman. But the footage was from before Women's Day--before last Thursday.

And another photo was him meeting with the Karelian governor Khudilaynen. Sadly, that picture is from last Wednesday.

Gazeta Wyborcza concludes with a nice anecdote. In response to Peskov's comment that Putin's well and his handshake is "powerful enough to break a hand", they cite Eltsyn's former spokesman as saying when Eltsyn was on a bender and incapacitated the standard line was he was well and had a "handshake grip" (uscisk dloni ma mocny).

A couple of others are also in silence. Merkachova and Babushkin, who announced about Nemtsov's killers last Tuesday, are also (according to GW) silent.

Gazeta Wyborcza article here:
http://wyborcza.pl/1,75477,17557062,Czemu_prezydent_sie_ukrywa__Kreml_przedstawia_falszywe.html


This means, of course, that Putin should be splashed all over the media tomorrow. Even in GW isn't exactly a deranged newspaper and the article title's a bit over the top.

(And, yes, I'm a danged Slavist, not a Russianist. My required coursework was three Slavic languages, one at near-native fluency--Russian near native, but I wallowed in Serbian and Czech for a few years. Textbooks for some courses were in Polish, I did some research in Lodz, and I also had to read quite a bit in Bulgarian. In addition to reading tests with research in French and German, and a bit of classical Greek, and a couple of years' training in simultaneous interpretation between Spanish and English.)

These geniuses have been forced to resort to their old Cold War rhetoric because they can't think of anything else. They're too unoriginal and neuron-challenged.

- Besides, what else can they do? Orwell didn't cover anything like this in ''1984'' and so they're totally at a loss......

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