Bloomberg: Lukashenko Extends Rule Into Third Decade as EU Warms to Belarus
Alexander Lukashenko extended his rule in Belarus into a third decade, delivering a dominant showing in a presidential election and winning praise from Germany that may signal a thaw in relations with the European Union.
Lukashenko, 61, received 83.5 percent of vote, enough to avoid a runoff, the central election commission’s head, Lidia Ermoshina, said in a televised news conference in the capital, Minsk, citing preliminary results. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier credited the incumbent with freeing political prisoners and refraining from a pre-election “crackdown” as often happened during his 21-year reign.
European foreign ministers will assess “under what conditions, what timetables sanctions against Belarus can be changed or suspended,” Steinmeier told reporters on Monday before an EU meeting in Luxembourg. A decision is due by Oct. 31.
Update #1: No Surprise: Lukashenko Wins Belarus Presidential Race -- AP
Update #2: Belarus' Lukashenko looks to eased sanctions but OSCE queries poll -- AFP
WNU Editor: To say that this election is a scam is an understatement .... Belarus election falls short of democratic standards: OSCE (Reuters). But the Germans have given their approval of it .... which is disheartening but not surprising in view of current east-west tensions and Belarus's support of Ukraine.
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Does Belarus support Ukraine because they are next on the menu?
In the early 1990s I though Belarus staunchly supported Russia and vice versa.
They may be.
Supporting that gang in Kiev just may make them tastier.
And with the gangsters running Europe, I really don't see where they get off assigning credibility to that election or anyone else's.
Incidentally,
Where or where did the IMF money to Ukraine go? And how did it get lent to a country in a state of civil war?
The twilight zone episode with Bronson was called "Two".
He was a miner before he was an actor.
He had a long journey to get to America. I may have been more right than I thought. Bronson could have shared blood with some of the Comanche, Apache etc. One crossed the sea of land to reach the and cross the sea of water. The others crossed the sea of ice.
Would I be out of line to see the possibility of relation?
In a way, Mr Bronson was related to Canadians.
Jesus,
What's in my guts?
Aizino,
This was so unfair....
I thought the heimat of the Amerinds was found in Siberia. Some place east of the Urals but west of the Turks. They made that announcement in the last year.
I forget which northward flowing river system. Siberia has a few to several great ones.
There is still the possibility that some people entered South America from the Pacific Islands.
I am reading "The Illustrated History Aztec & Maya". If you are in Mexico City I recommend heading north to see Teohuacan. It is awe inspiring.
I am trying to compare the Norse World Tree with the Maya world Tree. Their ancestors were not that far apart. The pre-pre-Norse did not build long houses, but had houses more like Teepees, which makes sense given resource restraints. Even 10,000 or more years ago trade networks could be thousands of miles. Ideas would travel too.
The Comanche & Apache language group is from the Northern Rockies in Canada. They displaced a bunch of Navajo or others about 800 years ago.
Just saying.
800 is not a order of magnitude greater than 300 or 500 years.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/22/one-wave-of-migration-from-siberia-populated-the-americas-dna-shows
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/11/131120-science-native-american-people-migration-siberia-genetics/
http://www.geocurrents.info/place/russia-ukraine-and-caucasus/siberia/siberian-genetics-native-americans-and-the-altai-connection
Then I came across this
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0137679
And this from what I read and posted before:
By understanding the evolution of Yersinia pestis, researchers may be better able to predict how other diseases may change, the researchers said. Moreover, plague still infects about seven people annually in the United States, typically in the semirural areas of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and California, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"It still endemic here in the United States," Lathem said. "It's still circulating out here in the wild."
The wheel DOES turn Aizino. Canada could very well be in for it.
And yes, 800 - 500 - 300. A blip in history.
This is the thing,
Most people here top or bottom think this is forever. It's not just about what goes around comes around or who screwed over whom. It's about the constant. Change.
It's just another reason for me to reject the whole end of history motif informing the way we've been doing things. Especially since the end of the Soviet Union. Amusingly, well, scarily, in a sense, maybe too far out, the Soviet Union was already here, before it was there. Part of it lies in the wild on this continent and in the guts of skis and such.
I don't think we're at all in touch enough with who we are to deal with what's happening. Comanches pushed out Navajo. Apaches, Comanches pushed south and yes, if I'd kept them, I'd be much loved. Iroquois slaughtered Algonquin...made a constitution too. White Euros (how white?) came and conquered, enslaved, slaughtered, and dispossessed them all...and wrote constitutions. Brought African slaves with them to work the land and create surplus. If I'm not mistaken, ( I'm not: http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/04/09/5-native-american-communities-who-owned-africans-slaves/) so called natives held slaves too.
Push further ahead in time and find more conflict --- always about the land first---, more mingling, more ideas, more migration out and in, and more "smug" self assuredness the we are some how chosen and exceptional, literally above it all. While all along our potential doom was here with and before us --waiting on us--in the wild and in our guts.
And these "oatmeal heads" (sorry couldn't help it) want to throw open the doors without even a cursory examination of our historical situation. Not to mention that of those doing the migrating.
Im sure I've messed this up along the way stretched a bit too much. Please don't despise me if I say: I think we're f$$$$d.
But I have to say Aisino, there's a reason why I do so love those Russians.
Thanks again .
And I'll look up the book(s).
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