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Agreed. Even the intitials (JFK) were supposed to be a joke on us. A sick one, of course. When you are so immature and craven that that sort of snide condescension is what passes for humor, you are likely the kind of person who would take DNC money to post worthless hateful vomit on a site like this one.
I read the 'burg almost every day, and I have not seen these calls for violent revolution, Airandee.
Have I been missing something?
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@no mo uro - if you missed "jerk face killa,"as referenced by Airandee, you missed experiencing a surrogate for the feeling that you really should have bought two-ply..
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I've always had suspected that Jerk Off Killa wasn't really a person but some software application designed to inject DNC talking points into social media.
Scan the conversation for codewords and post pre-established talking points when certain conditions were met.
He (or it) would swoop in, leave his little droppings and then leave. I've been seeing more and more of these type of trolls.
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He (or it) would swoop in, leave his little droppings and then leave.
I have yet to see one who could argue coherently and effectively on a blog like Rantburg. Whenever they try they get shredded. It's fun to watch the Rantburgers do it to them.
If the DNC is paying for them they are certainly not getting their money's worth.
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I've always had suspected that Jerk Off Killa wasn't really a person but some software application designed to inject DNC talking points into social media.
Nah. He had very limited repertoire, but I don't think it was a script. I also don't think our "Troll from Toronto" had any more objective than being obnoxious.
That said, I wouldn't be surprised if there are paid "Mobys" and trolls. I've seen a lot of political-troll-ish comments that are definitely cut-and-paste.
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Your probably right Pappy. Sometimes it's hard to tell a DNC yapping troll from a simple [perl] script.
No doubt there are paid trolls out there - SOROS and his organizations have lots of money to throw around and have been known to astroturf before (Occupy Movement).
OTOH I cannot be surprised at the sheer stupidity of some, allegedly 'smart', people (nor the brilliance of some, allegedly 'stupid', people).
[An Nahar] Former Algerian premier Mouloud Hamrouche Thursday called for a "peaceful" change of the regime, which he said was no longer capable of running the country, joining a growing chorus of dissent.
Hamrouche said April's presidential election, in which ailing leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term, who will probably die in office of old age... is expected to seek a fourth term after his candidacy was announced last week, was "pointless", whether or not his mandate is renewed.
"The factors paralyzing (Algeria) are still there," he told news hounds at a presser in Algiers.
"This regime has crumbled and will fall (which is why) I want to see it fall in a peaceful way, not in a wave of violence," added Hamrouche, a pro-reform prime minister between 1989 and 1991 whose government was credited with the emergence of Algeria's private press.
"The crisis goes beyond this election... which is pointless... My feeling is that this regime is not good for Algeria."
His comments come amid growing concern about Bouteflika serving a fourth term, given the physical state of the president, in power for 15 years and who turns 77 on Sunday.
Bouteflika's health woes had made his chances of contesting the poll appear highly unlikely.
He was hospitalized in Gay Paree for three months after suffering a mini-stroke last year, has chaired just two cabinet meetings since returning home in July, and has not spoken in public for nearly two years.
His effective absence comes despite numerous social and security challenges facing the oil-rich North African country.
Hamrouche, one of the six candidates to withdraw from the 1999 presidential poll that brought Bouteflika to power citing electoral fraud, said the Algerian military should play a role in any change of regime.
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[BUSINESSWEEK] Several thousand anti-government demonstrators marched in Caracas today after President Nicolas Maduro tried to defuse two weeks of protests by granting Venezuelans an unexpected six-day holiday.
In the eastern Caracas municipality Chacao, an opposition stronghold, demonstrators held banners urging Venezuelans to ignore the holidays and continue protesting against crime, inflation and shortages of goods. As they attempted to block the city's main east-west highway, the National Guard broke up the march with tear gas and water cannons. Two U.S. senators proposed a resolution threatening sanctions for "violent repression of peaceful demonstrations in Venezuela."
Maduro this week expanded the annual Carnival festivities by decreeing today and tomorrow national holidays, in addition to the scheduled days off on March 3-4. At least 14 people were killed in the past two weeks in the biggest demonstrations against the government since the former bus driver won presidential elections in April.
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How come nobody (UN/EU/DC/NYT) is "alarmed about the violence" in Venezuela?
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Cause for the Permanent Party Propaganda Machine, Latin America is the dark side of the moon as amply demonstrated by the Rant's continuing coverage of the Drug War in Mexico in the absence of 'professional journalists' who's world view is that from NYC or DC.
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You're right to be concerned. Take a look at this video:
Start at the 4:00 mark for Kerry's statement; before that there's some Dumb Square Senator reading some prepared statement.
I wish they cared about the _people_ in Ukraine or the _people_ in Venezuela the way they care about Israel. And no, I don't know why. But I haven't seen a statement half as strong about Venezuela or Ukraine as they regularly make about Israel.
Maybe Kerry and Obama and Netanyahu are all Secretly Fond Of Each Other, to borrow a phrase from Willie Nelson.
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there's some Dumb Square Senator reading some prepared statement.
You mean Kerry? You should.
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My point being, in response to the idiotic "Why don't they care about Venezuela the way they care about Ukraine" propaganda above, Jim, was that The Idiots don't care about Ukraine, or Venezuela, any more than they really care about Israel.
China will have not one but two national holidays that can easily turn into Hate-on-Japan days: One, on Sept. 3, to be called Victory Day of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, will mark the end of the "World Anti-Fascist War." Then, on Dec. 13, there will be a national memorial day for the victims of the Nanjing Massacre, the 1937 atrocity by Japanese soldiers in the former Chinese capital. China puts the death toll at more than 300,000 over some six weeks. ..gotta' admit, they can come up with some pretty cool holiday names, when they want to..
Unidentified armed men have seized two airports in Crimea overnight, causing Ukraine's new interior minister to talk of "a military invasion and occupation" by Russia.
Ukraine's newly appointed top security official, Andriy Paruby, accused Moscow of commanding the armed groups. "These are separate groups ... commanded by the Kremlin," Paruby said in a televised briefing in Kiev.
In tandem, the Russian parliament began considering a law that would allow Moscow to add new territories to Russia in a simplified manner. There are fears that the Kremlin, unhappy with the events that led to President Viktor Yanukovych fleeing Kiev last weekend, is trying to sow unrest in the largely pro-Russian region.
Adding to the sense of alarm, the interim Ukrainian president, Oleksandr Turchynov, dismissed the head of the armed forces, Admiral Yuriy Ilin, on Friday.
Paruby, the newly appointed secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, said a state of emergency may be declared. "It is one of the options in the development of events," he said.
This contingency would not necessarily involve the deployment of the army, he added. "We are looking for other more effective ways of localising the situation on the Crimean peninsula."
According to Ukrainain legislation, a state of emergency can be introduced by parliament for a period of up to two months.
In Simferopol, groups of armed men arrived overnight at the main airport serving the region. They wore military fatigues with no insignia and refused to talk, though one told news agencies they were part of a self-defence unit who wanted to ensure that no "fascists" arrived in the region from Kiev.
At Sevastopol airport, a military airport that handles few commercial flights, a man who said he was a captain in the tactical aviation brigade but declined to give his name, told the Guardian there were about 300 people of unknown identity inside the airport. "We don't consider it any invasion of our territory," he said without elaborating.
He said the men looked like military, were wearing two different types of uniform and were armed with sniper rifles and AK-47s. "We don't know who they are, nor where they've come from."
He added that there were two large trucks inside. "They [the vehicles] looked like they could contain 50 people at a push, so how they got 300 people inside I don't know," he said
A Major Fidorenko, from the Ukrainian military based at the airport, said the Ukrainians had been in touch with the unknown gunmen, who said they were there "to prevent unwanted landings of helicopters and planes".
In Kiev, the new interior minister, Arsen Avakov, wrote on Facebook: "I can only describe this as a military invasion and occupation."
On Thursday, masked gunmen with rocket-propelled grenades and sniper rifles seized the parliament building and government offices in Simferopol. The Russian flag was raised above the parliament.
Yanukovych, who apart for a brief television interview has not been since in the week since he fled Kiev, is due to give a press conference in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on Friday afternoon. Russian government sources say they have offered "protection" to Yanukovych in Russia, though it remains unclear how he arrived in the country.
In further worrying signs for Kiev, Russia's parliament began considering two new laws on Friday. One of them offers eased citizenship requirements for Russian-speaking Ukrainians, removing the requirement that they should have lived in Russia for an extended period, while the other makes it easier for Russia to add new territories to its existing boundaries. And of course the inept Kerry of the Obama regime said yesterday this would not happen. The US regime is now a mouse in the face of international events. Right where Jahwn and Champ want us to be...
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They are there to insure the press can come and go as they please. Putin has promised to uphold freedom of speech as agreed on with Sec State, I went to Vietnam, Kerry. In return Kerry promised Putin all the ketchup he can carry...
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E Ukraine and Crimea are being carved off for SovietTsarist Russian occupation. Convenient use of "fascists" by truly fascist Russians.
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Note over at Atimes
Pepe Escobar is blaming Victoria Nuland for the whole mess.
If he is even partially right ... it is long past time to purge the idiots like Victoria from the State Dept. Asia Time's Article: Carnival in Crimea
By Pepe Escobar
#6
Well, it looks like standard neo-soviet propaganda if you ask me; if ya wanna believe the guy who shut down the Gulf of Mexico for a year and continues to nickel-and-dime it to death (not to mention all the 'banning coal' and other stuff) to the extent he can would be fighting a war over Syria for a pipeline of stuff he fights to keep us from extracting here.
I have a deal I want to get you in on. I've just been hired to represent a group of chinese investors out of Chongqing, they used to be part of Bo Xilai's clique, but after he got arrested, their cash flow dried up and they're having to liquidate everything. Including a couple bridges they bought to turn into toll roads.
You don't hear about this in the news because a) they don't want to cause an economic panic, b) the original deal was made without public knowledge, c) if word got out that it was a distressed sale they probably wouldn't get very much for it.... but imagine being able to collect tolls on traffic going from Manhattan to Brooklyn. Imagine what a finger in the de Blablah's eye that would be!
[An Nahar] Dozens of pro-Russian gunnies in combat fatigues seized parliament and government buildings on Ukraine's volatile Crimea peninsula Thursday as the country's ousted leader won assurances that Moscow would protect him.
The dawn raid in Crimea came a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... ordered snap combat readiness drills to be held near the Ukrainian border, raising fears the Kremlin might use force to sway the outcome of a three-month crisis that has pitted Moscow against the West in a Cold War-style confrontation.
Ukraine's interim president Oleksandr Turchynov told a boisterous session of parliament that any movement of Russian troops out of their Black Sea bases in Crimea "will be considered as military aggression."
The same message was delivered when the Ukrainian foreign ministry called in Moscow's charge d'affaires for urgent consultations.
Ukraine's bloodiest crisis since independence in 1991 erupted in November when Viktor Yanukovych -- deposed as president last weekend -- made the shock decision to ditch an historic EU trade deal in favour of closer ties with old master Russia.
Yanuvkoych, in his first comments since fleeing Kiev, said in a surprise statement to Russian news agencies issued from some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location that he still considered himself to be president of Ukraine, a strategic nation of 46 million people.
News reports in Moscow said the runaway leader's request for personal security had been "granted on Russian territory" but provided no other details.
Ukraine had appeared to take a decisive swing back towards the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... by ousting Yanukovych's entire pro-Russian team and replacing it with a new brand of younger pro-Western politicians who will steer the nation -- torn between a Russified east and pro-European west -- until snap presidential polls are held on May 25.
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No video with a sheila explaining how she can't afford contraceptives under new management?
In the aftermath of WWII, when the Czechoslovak state was restored, the government expelled the majority of ethnic Germans (about 3 million altogether), in the belief that their behavior had been a major cause of the war and subsequent destruction. In the months directly following the end of the war, "wild" expulsions happened from May till August 1945. Several Czechoslovak statesmen encouraged such expulsions with polemical speeches. Generally local authorities ordered the expulsions, which armed volunteers carried out. In some cases the regular army initiated or assisted such expulsions.[39] Several thousand Germans were murdered during the expulsion, and many more died from hunger and illness as a consequence of becoming refugees. - wiki
If the Beltway gives in (and why shouldn't they), then the 'principle' can come back to bite them for allowing the illegal immigration on the southern border.
[An Nahar] Lawmakers in Crimea's regional parliament, which is currently being controlled by pro-Russian gunnies, voted Thursday to hold a referendum on May 25 on the region's status in Ukraine, the parliament's press service said.
Legislators fixed the vote to determine whether to increase Crimea's autonomy from Kiev and they also voted to dismiss the region's current government, which has backed the new interim authorities in the capital.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov vowed Thursday that Moscow "will respect the territorial integrity of Ukraine" and voiced concerns about the situation in southern Crimea, U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said.
The top U.S. diplomat said the pledge came in an early morning phone call with his Russian counterpart, who also insisted Moscow was not behind the storming of Crimean government buildings by pro-Kremlin gunnies.
"I asked specifically that Russia work with the United States and our friends and allies in order to support Ukraine to rebuild unity, security and a healthy economy," Kerry told news hounds.
Lavrov "reaffirmed President (Vladimir) Putin's statement that Russia will respect the territorial integrity of Ukraine and we believe that everybody now needs to step back and avoid any kind of provocations," Kerry said after talks with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
But he warned that Washington would be keeping a close eye on events in order to ensure that Moscow remained true to its word.
Also on Thursday, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe expressed "serious concern" Thursday over the situation in Crimea and said it was sending an envoy.
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I guess that Russians actually said was "Yeob tvou mat'".
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I guess that Russians actually said was "Yeob tvou mat'".
Yeah,I bet they did.
Note: a charming, multi-purpose Russian expression that means...uh how shall I put this.. your mother and I are close personal friends and have shared an intimate moment.
If you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle. ¨C The Art of War, Chapter 3
[BBC] The US has called for all sides to "step back and avoid any kind of provocations" amid heightened tensions in Ukraine's Crimea region.
Secretary of State John Kerry said he had spoken to his Russian counterpart who promised to respect Ukraine's "territorial integrity".
But he warned Moscow needed to back up its words with actions.
Earlier, pro-Russian armed men stormed Crimea's local parliament, while Russia has been conducting military exercises.
The ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych also reportedly surfaced in Russia, having gone to ground after he was voted out of office by MPs last week.
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Meanwhile, not to be outdone by Kerry or Vlad ...
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > MONGOL DYNASTY [Yuan Dynasty] OF GENGHIS KHAN RULED UKRAINE FOR NEARLY TWO HUNDRED YEARS, THE UKRAINE IS POST-WW2/COLD-WAR RUSSIA'S VERSION OF "TAIWAN".
IMO Artic read, CHINA HAS HISTORICAL, TERRITORIAL RIGHTS TO UKRAINE [+ Other in Eastern Europe, Middle East]???
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As per CNN this AM, UKraine is accusing Russia of "armed invasion + "naked aggression", to which the Bammer = USA there will be "costs" to pay iff Russia militarily intervenes full-scale.
* See also FREEREPUBLIC > [Daily Mail.UK]TREATY [1991] WHICH COULD DRAG THE US + UK INTO WAR WID RUSSIA IFF PUTIN'S TROOPS INTERVENE IN UKRAINE.
US Treaty wid Ukraine = US Treaty wid Japan = US Treaty wid PHIL = ..... ... But thats why God invented Bammerian "red lines" + massive QES + Sequesters, etc. wasn't it???
Pray hard + Keep your fingers crossed.
* SAME > [CNS.com] RUSSIA SEEKS ACCESS IN EIGHT COUNTRIES FOR ITS SHIPS AND PLANES.
Rising Russia = Rising China = Rising Iran [Nuclear Islam/Islamism?] = ..... ....???
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So I understand there are multiple soviet bases still in Crimea. Not that I'm a Putin fan, I'm not, but if there was a civil war going on in a country we have a base at we would take and hold the nearest airports as well. According to some sources there are 26,000 troops there. I think keeping the airports open for logistics and security is not a bad idea....
If he takes them off post, well that will make it a different story.
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More ... ...
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [Dw.de] EU, US UNLIKELY TO INTERVENE IN UKRAINE.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > UKRAINE CRISIS: RUSSIA LAWMAKERS PUSH TO SIMPLIFY ANNEXATION OF TERRITORIES | RIA NOVOSTI.
The CRIMEA = NORTH KOREA, ECS + SCS DISPUTED ISLANDS = "UN-ANNEXED/UNINCORPORATED" SOVEREIGN TERRITORIES.
versus
* JAPAN TIMES > US STRATEGY IN UKRAINE UNDER FIRE.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > HAQ'S MUSINGS: UKRAINE MUSLIMS OPPOSED TO RUSSIAN MILITARY INTERVENTION.
* SAME > CANADIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE AS TENSIONS MOUNT - THE GLOBAL AND MAIL.
* SAME > NEW UKRAINIAN GOVT. BANS TATARIAN + RUSSIAN LANGUAGE IN CRIMEA.
* TOPIX > [Washington Times]GORDON:TYRANTS IN UKRAINE, SYRIA, + IRAN ARE EMBOLDENED BY OBAMA'S WEAKNESS.
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > BRITISH "FINANCIAL TIMES": THAILAND NEXT FOR CIVIL WAR AND POSSIBLE PARTITION AFTER UKRAINE.
* SAME > RUSSIA VICE-PRIME MINSTER DIMITRY ROGOZIN TELLS STATE DUMA: RUSSIA WON'T HESITATE TO USE ITS NUCLEAR WEAPONS IFF IT COMES UNDER "FOREIGN" ATTACK. RUSSIA WILL ALSO DEVELOP ITS OWN EFFECTIVE RESPONSE TO US GLOBAL PROMPT STRIKE.
* SAME > IN POSSIBLE RETALIATION FOR RUSSIA'S ACTIONS AGZ UKRAINE, THE US ENDORSES EX-SOVIET SSR GEORGIA FOR FULL-FLEDGED NATO MEMBERSHIP, vee Membership Action Plan [NATO MAP].
Ukraines parliament has approved Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the countrys new prime minister. The vote was held Thursday amid the sharp rise in tensions in the southern Crime region, where gunmen seized local government buildings and raised a Russian flag.
The 39-year-old Yatsenyuk has previously served as the economy minister and foreign minister, and a speaker of parliament.
He was approved by 371 votes in the 450-member parliament.
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[An Nahar] Jordanian authorities have incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... 10 "gays and lesbians" for holding a get-together at a party hall in east Amman, a security official said on Thursday.
"The administrative governor of the Marka area, Adnan Qatarneh, ordered the arrest of the 10 gays and lesbians after they held a reception at a party hall on Wednesday to get to know each other," he told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"The arrests were made to prevent a disturbance of the peace," he added, without elaborating.
Homosexuality is not illegal in the conservative desert kingdom, although it is widely seen to be unacceptable.
"There are no laws in Jordan to deal with homosexuality cases," another security official said.
"It is up to administrative governors to decide how to handle such issues, including any period of detention."
In its latest human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... report on Jordan, the U.S. State Department said gays face discrimination there.
"Legal and societal discrimination and harassment remained a problem for women, religious minorities, religious converts, and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community," the report said.
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They shoulda booked a weekend in Phoenix...
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[Breitbart] SOLDIER POSTS SELFIE OF HER HIDING TO AVOID FLAG SALUTE She could have just labeled the picture "I'm a dipshit." She's a PFC. I doubt if she'll ever go any higher and the Army will be better off without her.
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She heard to the colors. She knew what to do and how to do it. Refused to do it. Company grade ART15, reduction in rank, extra duty. She doesn't do her duty, and brags about it, take a stripe. Or in her case a rocket, put her back in skeeter wings.
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Nothing will come of it. No one will wish to violate the multi-cult narrative, or tarnish the victim status of black females. She'll be quietly promoted and reassigned to an installation EO office. We just wouldn't understand.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
