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thegipples

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thegipples is a 28 year old guy from Portland, Oregon, USA

Interests: the human animal, words, music, not movies, Portland, politics, various others. But every nook has its cranny.

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  • this isnt happiness.™ Peter Nidzgorski, tumblr
  • English Russia & The Unknown Russian Comics Books
  • Selections, by Noam Chomsky (Excerpted from Chronicles of...

    Rated May 10 2009 1 review politics, russia, chomsky, vietnam chomsky.info

    From the page: "Like them, we first established a government that invited us in, and until we found one we had to overturn government after government. Finally we got one that invited us in, after we'd been there for years, attacking the countryside and the population. That's aggression. Nobody thought it was wrong, or rather, anyone who thought that was wrong was not admitted to the discussion. If you're a dove, you're in favor of aggression, if you're a hawk you're in favor of aggression. The debate between the hawks and the doves, then, is purely tactical: "Can we get away with it? Is it too bloody or too costly?" All basically irrelevant."
    Selections, by Noam Chomsky (Excerpted from Chronicles of Dissent)
  • http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123703849968430221.html

    Rated Mar 14 2009 1 review military, venezuela, russia, cuba wsj.com

    From the page: "A Russian Air Force chief on Saturday said Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has offered an island as a temporary base for strategic Russian bombers, the Interfax news agency reported.

    The chief of staff of Russia's long-range aviation, Maj. Gen. Anatoly Zhikharev, also said Cuba could be used to base the aircraft, Interfax reported."
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123703849968430221.html
  • U.S. Searches for Alternative to Central Asian Base -...

    Rated Feb 05 2009 1 review politics, russia, afghanistan, kyrgyzstan nytimes.com

    From the page: "Russia has long resented the United States presence in Central Asia.

    If the measure passes the Kyrgyz Parliament on Friday, as expected, Washington would have 180 days to close the base. The senior Defense official said the closure "has all the earmarks of being a done deal."

    Russian officials took pains on Wednesday to reassure President Obama that they hoped to cooperate with him in Afghanistan and elsewhere. But the conciliatory words sounded peculiar beside the blunt fact of the base closure, which seemed to communicate that American plans in the region should be coordinated with Moscow."
    U.S. Searches for Alternative to Central Asian Base - NYTimes.com
  • BBC NEWS | Health | Privatisation raised death rate

    Rated Jan 14 2009 2 reviews health, capitalism, russia bbc.co.uk

    From the page: "Following the break up of the old Soviet regime in the early 1990s at least a quarter of large state-owned enterprises were transferred to the private sector in just two years.

    This programme of mass privatisation was associated with a 12.8% increase in deaths.

    The latest analysis links this surge in deaths to a 56% increase in unemployment over the same period.

    However, it found some countries with good social support networks withstood the turmoil better than others.

    Where 45% or more of the population were members of at least one social organisation, such as a church group or labour union, mass privatisation did not increase mortality."
    BBC NEWS | Health | Privatisation raised death rate
  • BBC NEWS | Europe | Stalins new status in Russia

    Rated Dec 27 2008 6 reviews communism, russia, stalin bbc.co.uk

    From the page: ""The official line now is that Stalin and the Soviet regime were successful in creating a great country," says Irina Flige.

    "And if the terror of Stalin is justified, then the government today can do what it wants to achieve its aims.""
    BBC NEWS | Europe | Stalins new status in Russia
  • Gorbachev calls on Obama to carry out perestroika in the...

    Rated Nov 11 2008 2 reviews politics, russia, obama rian.ru

    From the page: "Gorbachev said that after transforming his country in the late 1980s, he had told the Americans that it was their turn to act, but that Washington, celebrating its Cold War victory, was not interested in "a new model of a society, where politics, economics and morals went hand in hand."

    He said the Republicans have failed to realize that the Soviet Union no longer exists, that Europe has changed, and that new powers like China, Brazil and Mexico have emerged as important players on the world stage.

    He told the paper that the world is waiting for Obama to act, and that the White House needs to restore trust in cooperation with the United States among the Russians."
    Gorbachev calls on Obama to carry out perestroika in the U.S.   | Top Russian news and analysis online | RIA Novosti newswire
  • Georgia Claims on Russia War Called Into Question -...

    Rated Nov 07 2008 2 reviews politics, russia, georgia, south ossetia nytimes.com

    Perhaps The New York Times, in the future, will look to these independent, non-aggressor state information sources before reporting the aggressor state gov't's justifications verbatim. (Doubtful, when the aggressor is a US ally.) The NYT finally reports on what anyone with an internet connection anywhere in the world already knew three months ago.

    From the page: "Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against separatist and Russian aggression."
    Georgia Claims on Russia War Called Into Question - NYTimes.com
  • Z Magazine - Bailout &Election

    Rated Nov 05 2008 2 reviews politics, russia, chomsky, obama, election zcommunications.org

    From the page: "How did the first Bush administration respond to the collapse of the Soviet Union?

    ...What they said is that everything is going to go on exactly as before, with one change. Now it is not the Russian menace that we're defending against. We have to defend ourselves against what they call the technological sophistication of Third World powers. I don't know if they laughed hysterically when they wrote that, but that's what they said. What about the military system, what they call the defense industrial base? That's a euphemism for high-tech industry. It has to be exactly as before.

    What about our intervention forces, primarily aimed toward the Middle East? They have to stay exactly the same. And they add an interesting phrase. They still have to be aimed toward the Middle East where the problems that might have called for military intervention "could not have been laid at the Kremlin's door." Nice phrase. That means, sorry, folks, we've been lying to you for 50 years, but now we can't lie anymore. The clouds have lifted so the problems could not have been laid at the Kremlin's door, but we still have to have those forces there because that's the world's major energy resource and we've got to control it."
         Z Magazine - Bailout &Election