Gee whiz. One happy day more, full happy week's complete. Monday to Sunday. Guess Happy April, to look forward. Happiness abounds when Aprils are happy. Who else? Need more happies. Hippies? Too many fakes, and, of course, those satisfied near enough evil are disappointing. Not only had we overshot Utopia in providing for ourselves. Honoring the worst among us, remains highly profitable. Money substituting for plaques wherever applicable. Under-the-radar gun running for example. Kills for which begging might never substitute. But there's money. So killing continues. Fix our heads, Republicans claim. While protecting commerce in assault rifles, no less. Stop idolizing guns.
Anyway. ABC can't insist investment Ritter face himself? Nor United States of America face how ridiculous The Dumpster has proven he is? All three of 'em, highlightingwhat's worstaboutus! Innocent looking Ritter? Despicable conniving FATTEST NOSE in TV. From his perpetual staring at his own screen face so much. Without listening, bet. Though promised my mother I wouldn't bet nor do drugs. I just don't gamble with money. My life's been a gamble all along, the last year's experiences remind me.
GUILTY Herr Ritter's defaming of the PEACE SIGN, and
flamboyant falsifying of Americans' Gas War interpretations. Their ethicless legal criminality never had the guts to admit by declaring. Pure CREEPDOM. Established and already fortified, over a century-and-a-half. Playing fair competition with electric cars? NEVER.MONOPOLYGas Stations all over America?
Dis-Service Stations!Every locality GUILTY, conspiring with the Gas Combine Monopoly. Destroying the world with chemicals and carving out, too much of, Earth's innards! Every Mayor and City Council,in every town and city,in Americashouldbejailedconspirators. PERIOD!PUREPRLying, last three generations. Electric in EveryFilling Station on the American Continent or just LYING! World?
I thought America is an inspiration? NASCAR, a NO CONSCIENCE Affair. After helping ignite capitalism further, GAS ruined the world that has to be fixed! CREEPS! That self-glamorized ABC-7 NEWS pair, portending to face me? Their designation as Ritter declared to the moon? "I don't have to deal with this." Gas' Declaration of Indepence too! Ridiculous fooled self-idolizers!
Right. History's done with you Herr Bill Ritter. ABC-7 News' San Diego Conquistador representing the Evil, Villainous Dr. Armand Hammer. Face each other where consciences rale.
"Don't bother the anchors," Jeff said. Running away, to not
listen, while I emphasize only one was bothered. Intentionally. Not listening to how she and I understand each other, doesn't mean we're not true. Robert Allen "Bob" Iger?FAT NOSE and Security Jeff, despicable. Nine months later this is polite, DISNEY/ABC!
What's true enough, is Male Hierarchy seems invincible. Especiallytothemselves. But that pinhead a figurehead? I know his chest stands out. He can pummel me to inches short or past my life. What doesn't change is Ritter's Pinhead Figurehead Status For The Male Hierarchy Conspiracy, Forevermore! Bob Iger too? DISNEY/ABC? Who's madder me or ya'll. No. I'm referring to King George the lunatic mad. And it dresses up and says let me and my male friends fry everyone in infamy caring less for the Earth than ourselves. I know no, but Ritter deserves being a Mar-a-Lago inmate too. Hit me, I don't care. I may or many not heal. But you'll always be a heel.
What's not understood is even other men can understand the lack of wisdom applied by intertwined male fool conspiracies in leadership. No one but Netanyahu benefits from HAMAS' attack, other than Muslims Hate Jews fundraising and Jews Hate Muslims fundraising. While Netanyahu, The Militaristic Creep, just reflects irritated face bitterness. THE FRAUD! Jewish? No.
Jewish does not mean hate, you big angry piece of crap. Who never should have been re-voted back into prestigious office, by the militarism still pervading Israel. PEACE? ISRAEL create peace. You get Saudi ArabiaTODONATE the money for Palestinian solar panels selling electricity to Israel. So the Sahara can start up making money selling to Europe and Africa. So somehow the world turns the page and gets Putin's cronies to have it through their skulls -
WAR'S ALL GOD DAMNED WRONG YOU TERRITORIAL NUMBSKULLS!!!
CirculateRussia'smoneyinRussia.It's known to be somewhere.
adherents can be so exposed as mental delinquents, and still just go along, getting along, seeing their superiorness in each others' mens' eyes as validation for their superior minded weaknesses. Protecting women? You've been territorial madness, likely, from the beginning.
Biggest problem is weather. Weather's the barometer of where the environment's at, and while I never took
meteorologist courses? I've watched and can point to imbalances of change in the weather indicating how far screwed up is already known. And really, not facing PR convinced this country to become totally destructive gambling on gas. MALE HIERARCHY BLEW IT and thinks hiding is still successful. There are hundreds of thousands of Bill Ritters across the country with people's attention while they grin knowing they're getting away with hating the future. CREEPS!
If you needed further proof of Bernie Sanders’s argument that most Americans stand with him on the issues, consider the reaction to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal. Despite attacks from the leadership in, or around, both parties, over 80 percent of voters support the litany of proposals advocated by the House resolution: job and income guarantees, universal health care, a cleaner environment, and lower socioeconomic inequality. Americans turn out, yet again, to be far less conservative than elites have maintained over the last half-century.
CMFMs. Ocasio-Cortez is a Wall Street funded Bar Tender advocating what won't float as the plan sits still. Congestion Pricing's been a ping-pong argument, 30 years, because Wall Street and the Gas ComBine Engine Combine wilted the electric opportunities into dust as many past decades passed beyond and over our heads. But the Cowboys won at least a couple Super Bowls during that time - so the culture's fine. Politically culturally entwined.
CHARGE A DAG GUM PENNY and establish anything attempting the smallest dent. While Congestion Pricing is still taxpayers covering the load, expropriated by blatant exploitation. Like any ole Savings and Loan Scandal. Progress is not letting Mass Transportation remain transparent as one of Global Warming's Solutions.
It's not just Global Warming. But polluting at all is wrong. And face it. From atmosphere figures Global Warming is faster than predicted, so obvious conclusion is Earth's balance is warped. Too much resource pulled from the wobbling planet. Can't exactly fix. But not stopped? We did it. Ruined the Earth in the Universe. Given the responsibility and worshipping (idolizing) an Economy Ruled By Gas Did Us In. Who does BILL RITTER smirk for then? ABC-7 News Poster Boy for country's Male FigureheadsPR-ing GAS For Everybody Till Forever Ends.NITWITS.
PUT YOUR MONEY IN THE FUTURE OF TRAINS NOW, Warren Buffett. Ambition more than slice of dough, NOW. Just do something. You put the money where it should go. Brilliant making it. Then be more brilliant than saying you'll give it away like Carnegie did. Man who battled a lifetime with partner Frick over the pile of money. Money not circulating as money was born to do.
The NATION's Transportation Grid is a real hands down humiliating tragedy of misspent aspirations where manipulators contended over the spoils of war as if Modern Humanity weren't happening around them. The Authoritarian Robert Moses vs. Robert A. Caro.
The Homeless have phones that communicate around the whole world meaning this is overshotUTOPIA. No getting away from that.
All people are writing history all ourselves. Some written as I have, without specific degree. Claiming novelist. Known ornery breed.
Elitism and elitists are unworthy idiots not FACING understanding jack _hit. About devastating the whole world's ECONOMIES imaginatively with just MONEY and TOO MANY GOD Damned Conspiracies Among Selfish Friends. Thanks For Nothing!
pictured. Lee Goldberg, left. Famous eye wiggler/weather expert, when co-worker, pictured right, would redundantly jargonize Gasoline's Rule of Economic America. Herr Ritter's earned a NASCAR Franchise. ALSO BERNAYS, another Military Industrial Empire Conscript, NOT PICTURED HERE.
He is the father of mass propaganda. And his techniques are still copied. For example: This is how he increased sales of cigarettes — by inducing women to smoke and thus doubling potential customers. And he did by using three strategies:reframing smoking as a “women’s liberation” thing. Recruiting celebrities. Paying off media to glorify his stunt.
And much more ...
Bernays out of Cornell trained military minds for perpetual "supposed" controlled anger.
Lee Goldberg and I have traded shrugged looks. It's clear Big Picture.
Just because I described so much crap for a five year old, that neither of us, JK nor I, thought I'd need money. And people around me proved it. A computer and enough to get as far as I care till who knows? Gone somewhere short of Alaska's farthest reaches where Will Rogers and Wiley Post went. Not when I'd rather burn than freeze to death that cold. Abandon the world? Come on, PEOPLE HAVE. (March 19, 2024, still kickin' "NO COMMENT.")
See? Broad legacy. Financial supporting Bernays and sycophants fiascos, of all sorts, emanating through history. Comic Book - Roger Stone. Dumped Ritter The Fake Great on me. Hoses off, hoser.
I think The Hammer and Cycle ... will outlive Australia's enemy RupertThe Murdoch.
Lee Goldberg? What dividends? We've little hope for Walt Disney's visionary hopes. So get it, Checkerhead RON DE SANTIS? And all WELL ENOUGH PAID FLORIDA mediocrities that let symbols of racism remain. Robert Moses' and Smoldering Big Oil vanity! But at least well paid. Warned - Eatonville I-4 Overpass.
Lamenting long period Sade and I kept apart. avoid looking at you all three months and you're offended, what? Right. Too busy to read. Watch a film. Rich friends tooled above the noise as well. And Sade looks at you. Right, I can't last much more than a couple, few days. Even Now given up awkwardly but honorably enough. Bacall could just whistle too.
But neither she nor I should be dealing with this around us created by me anymore. But the whoever "... likes Sade" is the nicest thing I ever heard. Face it. Sure I'm crying. Really think I care whether morons read this, Sade?
A couple seconds of my films is better than any Ryan Seacrest and Bachelor franchise put together. Why? Triviality may sell, but still trivial. Thanks Lee, at least I get to lose THE WOMAN.
"Outta here," as Zephyrsaidin WILD STYLE and passing me when he left Elite Couriers back when. Zephyr you're tagged, You could have been a lawyer with that other name.
Look at that, Goldberg, avoided you and produced mad. Am I ticked. All because everywhere the internet is about tagging people, and dragging them along so the specific jokes keep audiences under glass. Even the sophisticated. The bullcrap that Woody Allen goes undefended and who knows what crap still comes of od Conde Nast where the whore Roy Cohn probably had staff underwriting Mike Hammer's whole education. Not even connected but documented, ROY found their man the TRUMP asshole and the whole tribe followed right up the FIFTH AVENUE leading right around that circle I made nightly around disgracing the CORNELL NASMER wherever that exists. DO IT! Don't let my name appear anywhere near Cornell's and you've dotted my little eye you pinheaded freaks of algebraic stupidest that could even think this satire, though relatively true is about Lee GOLDBERG. It's about this world's celebrity fantasies still used to keep destroying minds unable to fix our worlds. And the Kardasians will mumble you through when you're finally observing just throwing up on yourselves. SITTING ON MONEY WASTERS! !!! @__ll
Don't bother Sade. I didn't leave my first love. I probably still haven't uncovered everyone that destroyed that for me. All I know is Guy joked with her and me, and life moved on past Lee Goldbergs long before he was formed to think JK couldn't have possibly known his five year old nephew would one day undermine Jersey's Money Controlled Conspiracy where Lee lives. GOLDMAN SAKS owned subsidiary somewhere down the myopically imprissoned financial stream do stuff with you mortgages extending your FINANCIAL NEEDS. Again, poor Lee how's he mixed up in this?
Mr. Goldberg, the floor? Ah, laughter in the peanut gallery. The show must go on. Dag nab it. See, Immure mad at you for putting me on this than what it meant. I don't care. She'd have to admit. I'm not typical boring. Aw come on?
No blip. You understand, as people, what you meant with those squint eyes is far worse than anything I've said here. In the context of where you were sitting.
In NYC official. Aunt Aurora and JK Fraser's Nephew's nailed. Maybe Party at National Enquirer on Wall Street on Mike Hammer's 1950's Glass A__. Mr. Goldberg, see I'm not specifically angry at you, if that helps. But I have no choice. Hanging's over. Clint Eastwood's Punkness Conservative Farce kicks on. I suggest not getting off on it. Just getting off.
You, you are my scapegoat writing to her about shoving off. If I don't convince myself there's no plan. And now. Historic sanford memorial Stadium. Kiss your rude faceless a__es up the gazelle oil because I have enough memories of the racist son saying things that disgust me. BUDDY LAKE good man you was in JACKIE ROBINSON'S face. Thomas Lake son? Guy Babylon wouldn't come out of his room when that man would not go away and none of us wanted him there.Those eyes you little shit worked for Elizabeth that whore. That mr. Goldberg is something for Manuscripts how "what about Elizabeth" was said before I looked at JK's file and that I won't answer the phone to ensure avoiding her was met with a smile. So what exactly is DISNEY'S small time corporate problem with co-conspiratorial government executives that ruin Florida and TIMES SQUARE and world over habitually because they found how to pay themselves sufficiently to ruin the whole world. GLOBAL WARMING? Everyone's still guilty as you know what.
Great, I get to hate myself. You LEE GOLDBERG (funny, right?) elitist New Yorkers are a riot.
Those squinting suspect eyes last night, and you were right next to her when we exchanged the eyes she hooked me precisely with. But that's her choice to pass on. Not even mine. I was sunk, whatever her reason. John Paul Jones can swim.
I'm so impolite with the implied cursing. Why don't i tone it down with a more modified gibberish for FOX lies to be in front of too. I know ABC sells crablike
everyone else and I'm in the way. So yeah Goldberg. Finding out Bill Evans posts redneck political crap and you don't know enough to sit on FOUNDERS WALL. Hell, push me off. manuscripts at this point, confirms, no kidding I DON'T GIVE A DAMN. Seriously Mione
Hammer took me to Elaine'sand she hadtro squint glare at me too. See? I'm honestwith you, not like
behind my back like uptight Cornell help sometimes arrives. Cornell Alum means something and why I allow. You were given the opportunity to help when I knew you'd found your track. KEN BURNS Diagrams.
Miss it? Everything's just hugely hazy for me. Excuse me. BEEN. Don't want to bother Ithaca, as school begins. But won't stop anywhere costing money, for a while. I don't envision putting anyone there through the - hey you can't sleep there. Sanford, 1982? "Ya mean neighbors called because I'm sleeping on a park bench?" ... Anyway, I know propriety. And guess I blame myself. I'm pretty sure I was right at five. These people are killing themselves with money. Man (JK) just asked what I thought. He said nothing about money, but I do know the three (father) of us mapped me out. See how I get distracted? Anyway I am very angry, but scheduling, even with my flexibility, requires execution. And "no comment" is cute so I don't care. Like with the Caros, I gotta go I know I'm supposed be doing something. But like that Bacall film, just whistle ...
And he was there when we locked eyes. I know someone else, whatever. As I've told others. However innocent, I'm stunned by what's thought unethically justifiably used against me. Malcolm Forbes said, "What if he" Dr. Armand Hammer "already knows about you." I know Lee and enough people don't have time to read and it's fun defending how it wasn't meant for money to destroy everything. But like racism's crimes, done with money and unjustified mater how clean whitewashing history means NOW. See? I won! I will shove it down their throats they want the WHITE GUY beaten taking down the white lies our jargon rests upon. Good griefs there are other essays and oh right I get hurt people too. Thanks for the understanding.
Since Russian prison warehousing is brutal, it was only a matter of time before Reuters would run this headline, Pussy Riot "risk lives" in Soviet-style prisons. The freed member, Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30, was interviewed at a small McDonald’s outsideMoscow because of security concerns. "There is no hot water in Mordovia and there are only special prison clothes given out which are very cold for the weather," said Samutsevich. "THEY CAN DIE. There is no medicine. In Soviet times they thought that if people fell ill, that was their own problem ... if someone gets sick and nobody helps them, they can die - unfortunately there have been such cases and they happen periodically."
- President Vladimir Putin flatly rejected Western criticism of imprisoning the Pussy Riot punk protest band, saying they deserved their fate, "deserved what they got," because appealing to the Virgin Mary, to get rid of the president, amounted to "group sex" and threatened the moral foundations of Russia.
Damn kids. The point of the dinner was business, Reuters explains, but sicken-ly quotes Vladimir, "when BP managers came to me and the government and said we want to cooperate with Rosneft, we could not say no." Reflecting a mood and vernacularof a certain film franchise.
Yes, concern is business and imprisoned citizens' fate just afterthought. So the two Pussy Riot members face harsh, Soviet-style prison camps where their lives may be in danger due to a lack of medicine and no hot water amid sub-zero winter temperatures, according to a recently released band member.
Though for accuracy, putting the band member on the spot for verification seems questionable because Russia's prisons are not for the pampered and for them to suddenly be more habitable is assumptions on paper or computer screens just meant for entertainment. That's what the trial's horror was about. The situation Pussy Riot was being railroadedinto.
Again, though words are Samutsevich's, it hardly seems necessary for her to carry such weight on her shoulders.According to Reuters - Samutsevich predicted that Putin's government would in the end fall victim to mass unrest and said the clampdown on dissent now under way in Russia showed just how scared the Kremlin was. "The system itself is crumbling. It's becoming more repressive ... those in power have very strong fears and their behavior is more and more wild. We could end with a total collapse like the Soviet Union." In their situation how could she think of anything that didn't sound dramatic.
Still Vladimir. These are your people. Czars stood up to their own citizens. Stalin died on top, but I'm telling you his legacy sucks. Carnegie and Rockefeller left memories such that their eventual benevolence almost completely overshadows their prejudices toward common people on their rise to the top. But remembered for a repressive regime is what you're up against. Not whether or not the president sleeps in a nice bed every night.
Samutsevich said Pussy Riot's top priority now was to campaign to free the band's two imprisoned members and it would call on other members for help. "The band doesn't consist just of the three of us," she said. "There's more, way more people, around 20 members in the band." Way more? Ya gotta love these women's positive outlook.
Reuters prints she said, Putin was trying to present the sentences against the band members as "some kind of ordinary court case for an ordinary criminal charge. But this is totally wrong and he is not succeeding". However according to Reuters - Polls have shown that in Russia's predominantly conservative society, where Orthodox Christian believers are a majority, most citizens approve of the jail terms for Pussy Riot and dislike their actions. More than 40 percent in a recent poll said the women's prison terms should have been longer.
Not surprising where questioning government is not safe.
So - Asked about popular hostility to the band, Samutsevich said the Kremlin had used its control of state television channels to present a distorted picture of Pussy Riot. This obscured the band's real purpose and its political protest message. Instead, official media constantly emphasized that the group were anti-religious blasphemers.
I don't recall anti-religious sentiment as part of the show. The blaspheming was human and simple, nothing about it denounced anyone's belief in God.
Viewers, Reuters recounts, Samutsevich said, "didn't see us, they didn't hear us because the federal TV channels have done their best to cut out our speech. They would cut all the episodes from the video (of Pussy Riot performing in the cathedral) where you could hear the lyrics of the songs. And when people hear the lyrics, they immediately understand the purpose of our action."
Opposition figures have pointed to the irony of Putin, a former KGB spy, speaking solemnly of the sanctity of religion in a country where, for decades, the Soviet Communist Party - which the Kremlin chief served for decades in his KGB role - repressed all forms of religious expression. Satire Vladimir, all it was, was satire. You need to start standing tall for everyone, and not just those you can convince to worship the icon of Kremlin power.
Titling their news summary, For Putin, a Flight of Fancy at a Summit Meeting‘s Close, The New York Times described President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, limping and in pain this weekend, but as the annual Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting wrapped on Sunday, in Vladivostok, the Russian leader showed trademark swagger by hitting back at political opponents who mocked his latest stunt, flying a motorized glider to help lead endangered cranes from Siberia migrating south.
Oh yeah? I bet if Michelle Obama flew that glider we couldn’t hear enough about how significant a journey that was for renewing the public’s involvement in what nature means, now that we’re so inundated by machines.
So the President of Russia has a photo-op helping nature. Fabulous, next he’ll grow a garden in the Kremlin, himself, or at least help during The Photo-Op. As with litter on beaches, or crap blowing in the wind through our parking lots, people have to even be coerced into cooperating with what’s good for them. So this means President Putin is signed up for whatever it takes to get and keep the earth’s atmosphere clean?
Hardly? As The Times states – Seizing on a question at his closing news conference, that may or may not have been planted by aides, Mr. Putin signaled that he was not bothered by jokes and ridicule, including assertions that some cranes, like some Russian voters, opted not to follow him. “Only the weak ones,” Mr. Putin said, after urging the audience to applaud the question, which was asked by a reporter from the tabloid, Komsomolskaya Pravda. “The weak ones didn’t follow me.”
Mr. Putin also made clear his little interest in working with the United States to encourage a political transition in Syria, where President Bashar al-Assad’s government continues to cling to power with a violent crackdown on the rebels there.
There it is, isn’t it, Vladimir? No one has bid enough to compensate for Russia’s cooperation. And true, as the Russia’s President has spoken, it’s hard to guess which crew will end up ruling the neighborhood. All President Putin knows for sure is he’s not moving in.
The Times continues, painting President Putin’s picture of the crane episode as a parable about how his tight control and strong leadership keep Russia from descending into chaos.
The New York Times quotes President Putin, thus, “To be frank with you, not all of the cranes flew, and the leader, the pilot, has to be blamed because he was too fast in gaining speed and altitude and they were just lagging behind; they couldn’t catch up. But that is not the whole of the truth: simply during certain circumstances, when there is strong wind and bad weather, the pilot has to lift very speedily or otherwise the flying machine vehicle could overturn and capsize.”
The Times’ DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and STEVEN LEE MYERS maintain – It was a thinly veiled description of his view of himself as Russia’s paramount leader, and it echoed a speech he delivered to lawmakers just days before parliamentary elections in December, in which he urged them to unite behind him “so that the boat really does not turn over.”
Big deal. The Press can tabulate rhetoric. Swaggering President Putin is just playing. How could it matter that The Times can state – Accounts of widespread fraud in those elections led to big protests in Moscow last winter, when tens of thousands took to the streets, often chanting “Russia without Putin!” Because Mr. Putin still went on to easily win election to a third term as president, and, on Sunday, essentially mocked his mockers of his bird adventure, deriding them as out of the mainstream as odd ducks, perhaps, or dodos. “What else can be said? There are certain birds that don’t fly in flocks. They prefer to have their nests separately. But this is a different sort of problem. Even if they are not members of the flock they are members of our population, and they have to be treated very carefully to the extent possible.”
Pawns kept in their place? You’re kidding? Right, President Putin? Maybe? Because public relations is just a toy. Boisterous, public, political theater. A ceremonial backdrop to The Real World point of what Vladivostok was all about.
Even The Times concludes – The jabs at the opposition were bookended by more serious declarations of success about the, held for the first time in Russia, summit meeting. Mr. Putin used the event to underscore his country’s eagerness to sharply increase business and trade ties with the Far East. “We believe we have reached all the goals set for the APEC leaders’ week in Vladivostok,” he declared.
And – In a joint declaration, the leaders of the 21 members of the economic conference, which includes nations from the Asian Pacific and several North and South American countries that border the ocean, applauded efforts to address economic damage in Europe.
In the declaration, the leaders also said they would continue to promote free trade and combat protectionism, particularly in food exports. They announced a new agreement to reduce tariffs on a list of goods identified as beneficial to the environment, and they pledged to combat corruption and protect endangered wildlife.
Platitudes. Yet business moves forward, nonetheless. Numerous important deals were reached, including an accord signed by Japan and Gazprom, Russia’s state-controlled natural gas monopoly. A station that will help increase Russian energy exports to Japan, which is in need of alternatives to its largely shuttered nuclear power industry.
The Times prints – Mr. Putin’s swagger could be seen in relations with the United States, too. Only days before the meeting, injecting himself into the American presidential campaign calling President Obama honest and rebuking Mitt Romney. But when it came to Syria and Iran, he rebuffed the Obama administration and its highest representative here, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Mrs. Clinton met privately with Mr. Putin and sat next to him for 90 minutes at the closing dinner on Saturday night, chatting about wildlife and the Winter Olympics that Russia will host in 2014. But the two failed to bridge the gaps that divided them.
Really? Apart from reporters she grilled him on Olympic wildlife, or more probably spent the dinner exchanging goo-goo eyes with everyone attending they wanted to maintain influence with. For appearances sake, they could have talked about the Vail, Colorado ski season, so the entire room knew who remained the most powerful. As Mrs. Clinton said in Vladivostok before returning to the United States, “We haven’t seen eye to eye with Russia on Syria. That may continue.”
His move, President Putin’s power to decide, is what he’s not giving up.
According to The Times, Russia, along with China, has vetoed three United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Syria. But Mrs. Clinton had hoped Russia would show more flexibility as the violence has worsened. Instead, Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, publicly rebuked her on Syria, as well as on Iran.
“Our American partners have a prevailing tendency to threaten and increase pressure, adopt ever more sanctions against Syria and against Iran,” Mr. Lavrov said. “Russia is fundamentally against this, since for resolving problems you have to engage the countries you are having issues with and not isolate them.” While President Putin, in his news conference, called his discussions with Mrs. Clinton “useful” and said they concerned “primarily economic ties and certain political issues. We touched on hot spots in the Middle East, in Asia. It was a constructive, very businesslike conversation.” But, he added, “no special decisions” were made.
In his summary on Sunday, Mr. Putin expressed condolences to the Chinese, enduring a tragic earthquake, as well as to Ms. Gillard, the Australian prime minister, whose father died unexpectedly.
Mr. Putin also strongly defended the huge expenditures in Vladivostok that were undertaken in preparation for the economic summit meeting. Including money for three new bridges and an entire new campus for Far East Federal University. Two luxury hotels, a theater for opera and ballet and an aquarium are under construction.
Sometimes enterprise is government, right, Vladimir? Certainly economic compromises are made, but, between whom?
The Times prints that Mr. Putin said, “We will certainly continue developing and improving the living conditions in the Far East,” arguing the goal is to “tap the new opportunities that integration and partnership with our Asia-Pacific neighbors opens up.”
And this is what a third elected term is for President Putin? The highest public official in your country micro-manages international business?
The Times said Russia’s president was swaggering. So, without directly saying so, implied how now is the time to let the power trip go. No? What really requires the Russian President’s attention is how far, and well, trickle-down economics permeates your country. Address what is of real consequence, Vladimir. Your legacy is not just how much money Russia made, but what all your fellow Russians are left with today, and tomorrow.
