RT: 'Weak and short-sighted' - Russian PM slams White House for failure to sync ISIS bombing campaign
Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has blamed the Obama administration for its failure to make progress in talks between the US and Russia on coordinating airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria.
Speaking to the Rossiya 1 TV station, Medvedev said he was perplexed at the reasons behind the US not wanting to agree to President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to work with Washington to drive Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) out of Syria.
Update #1: Russian PM brands US 'short-sighted and weak' over failure to hold talk on ISIS airstrikes -- Express
Update #2: Medvedev: Russia’s Military Operation Aimed at Defeating ISIS -- VOA
Update #3: Russia's Operation in Syria Aims to Eliminate Terrorists, Not Protect Assad -- Sputnik
WNU Editor: The White House's refusal to meet with Russian President Medvedev to discuss Syria is causing shock-waves in Moscow. I am hard pressed to remember the last time a senior Russian leader was told in public that his presence was not wanted. Not surprising .... while Russian media has been covering this story for the past two days, no mention in the U.S. main stream media on this growing split.
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You know it's bad when Medvedev speaks of the US like this.
But like I said before; the Russians really have no one to talk to over here.
Maybe Trudeau's kid will show a little elan and engage the Russians if he makes PM ; but I doubt it judging by the cast of characters slithering around him. Not to mention the Canadian political elite's, regardless of party, penchant for hugging up to UkroNAZIs.
This is totally out of character for Russian PM Medvedev. I watched the Rossiya 1 TV station broadcast, and it is very clear that he has given up on the Obama administration.
Canadian elections tomorrow and no one worth voting for ..sad state of affairs ..
J.J. My mom voted for Harper in the advance poll. Reason .... Harper did not raise her taxes, she thinks Justin Trudeau is too young and is promising to raise her taxes, and she hates Tom Mulcair's beard (and who will probably raise her taxes).
Mine voted for the incumbent because "he's doing a good job." I told her not to get mad if I ran over his sign with the lawnmower. It'd be a "mistake" just like bombing Libya.
oh, and he's NDP. like it matters....
A little heads up on what may happen tomorrow RRH. I live in the West island of Montreal, and in the last election I saw NDP signs on many homes and front yards (in my riding .... the NDP won with a huge margin, and this is Paul Martin's former riding, a riding that he always won with 25,000+ majorities). This time around .... there are no signs .... I repeat .... NO SIGNS on any homes or yards. It looks like the NDP are going to lose big (tomorrow) in Quebec.
The hilarious thing is, Harper did raise your Mom's taxes, the ones called service fees, transfer payments and access costs, and slashed services.
So, like any competent politician, he provided less, for more, and got away with it by not calling it for what it is.
Living in Quebec is a little different from the rest of the country Jay .... so the overall impact of the Federal cuts has hit us differently .... the joys of filing two income tax forms each April. But bottom line .... the mood in Quebec is different this time ... and the Orange wave is not going to happen a second time. The Bloc is also not going to do well. I know many separatists, and they have nothing but contempt for the Bloc and its economic policies ... but they hate Trudeau .... so who knows where the French nationalist vote will be going.
"but they hate Trudeau ..."
And we need a real Trudeau more than ever.
WNU Editor,
Harper won Quebec on the Hijab issue, and I agree, the Dippers will lose lot's of seats in Quebec,
Here in BC however, for example, compared to 12 years ago, I now pay $12,500 a year EI, that I no longer qualify for, but that's not a tax hike, it's a fee for services, no longer provided. I pay $3,600 for MSRP because of transfer cuts to the Province, and because of "trickle down", well, last time my accountant looked at it, between myself, my wife and my businesses, the Harper Government jacked my "taxes", by 38% a year.
Plus, I know have to travel another 70km for most Federal Services, the ones that remain, and many, I now have to travel 450km for. Federal Environmental Assesments, that used to take 6 months, now take three years. I have basically had to start telling European Investors in Micropower and Smart Grid to forget about Canada, and have directed them to Washington State and Oregon.
One of the contractors I used to use in Washington State, has gotten so many referrals, has brought one of my Companies on as a partner.
But because Harper didn't raise most of the taxes, called taxes, just everything else, most people believe he didn't raise taxes.
If he get's elected, and brings in income splitting, I'll save $40k a year.
Most of my employees will save $0 a year.
If Harper get's reelected, my wife and I will probably relocate outside of Canada, because it will become impossible to keep our business running. Luckily, I have an "in" in Norway.
My home town has maintained an "official" 8 to 10% unemployment rate since the Conservatives have ruled. Full time good paying work is more and more a thing of he past while growing precariousness through temp agencies have become the norm. Breakfast programs, homeless shelters and food banks are the growth industries. Crime is growing as well.
This is what neoliberal Harperland looks like while people who believe the world was created 6000 years ago and men rode around on dinosaurs hold positions as cabinet ministers. What's worse is the so called opposition spends most of its time trying to out-stupid them.
Our taxes are high and every time we have to use health care or some other service something else has been "de-listed", P3'd to death, or, like Jay said, just plain bloody long in coming.
My wife is constantly at it with Revenue Canada who insists she has an income other than her one and only job with her one and only pay for eighteen years. Every year they come up with some re assessment. A couple of years ago I told them on the phone we were tired of paying for those idiots to run around playing Captain Airstrike while licking Washington's backside.
I don't like the Canadian elite or their paid enforcers and I don't care if any of them are reading this. I apologize WNU Editor, but everything the lazy, useless pet pigs running Canada have said about the USSR is true about themselves.
There is no government for the working people in this country. Nor is there a party. I find Trudeau's bleating about the "middle class" silly, out of touch and a bit offensive. What the hell does his privileged posterior know about it?. I find Mulcair just plain silly. I think Harper spelled backward is Taliban, or maybe it's vice versa. May is out to lunch. Green policy with neoliberal free trade agreements. Oh, okay Liz, okey dokey.
Their foreign policies are the kind of garbage that only an abberant mind full of ossified brains (or oatmeal) could dream up. Their slavishness, buffoonery, ignorance, bigotry and arrogance on the world stage puts the well being of Canada in peril. Their actions are worthy of a long stint in an Arctic labour camp. I recommend an open pit mine with hammers, picks, shovels and wheelbarrows for starters. They'll be too cold and tired to think up stupid things to drag the rest of us into.
They are embarrassing, shameful and outrageous! Simply outrageous!
And I'm not moving anywhere. They and their goddamn monument to the vicims of communism can go to hell. They should be cussed up and down day in and day out until they leave.
And they can take the French nationists with them. Trudeau said it right, they are so bloody preoccupied with a language they cant even speak properly. And what the hell is it with all this mafia in the damn construction industry over there?!
I have to hand it to the kids though, they tore it up over education. They have my vote.
Phew!
The corruption is far more pervasive in Quebec than just being in the construction RRH. It is a cultural mindset that has taken root in the past 20 years because people cannot make ends meet. The stories that I can tell. That is why the sponsorship scandal and God only knows how many other scandals occurred when Quebecers were in power in Ottawa. And as to being audited .... 5 years in a row by Revenue Canada, and then followed 4 years in a row by Revenue Quebec. I was declaring my overseas income from Russia, but they always believed that I was making more ?!?!?!?!
Jay. I know exactly how you feel. When I became a Canadian citizen I had a number of start-ups. Two years ago I liquidated all of them .... it was becoming too much of a burden. I was working to feed the government and the people who worked for me .... but not myself. Living in Quebec and being in the top bracket (plus 50% tax) .... throw in all the other taxes (property taxes, service fees, etc.) ... that 50% becomes waaayyyy much higher. I now do consulting for overseas firms, and I am involved in one web project .... and I like my web project because it can easily relocate to any place in the world. Sighhh .... times like this I miss the simple Russian flat-tax system, and it is probably the only policy that I support Putin on .... and it is because of policies like that we have a booming Russian economy even with severe sanctions (even though the Western press says it is contracting), while in the West a 1 or 2 % economic growth is celebrated. I spit on 1% or 2% growth.
The propaganda coming from Russia is so thick, and they're busily bombing the shit out of the rebels in Syria now, calling them IS. I think our government is completely fed up with the Russians. Why talk? They're just going to lie about what they're doing. So what's the point?
Maybe the US got played on the whole nuke deal as far as what the next step was. I really thought the next step would be a comprehensive negotiation over Syria. But instead, Russia and Iran are doing their best to slaughter all the civilians in Idlib and Aleppo, calling them all ISIS terrorists. What the fuck would we talk about at this point that could be constructive in any way?
The US is so full of shit in so many ways, but not like this. I am not at all surprised that the US doesn't want to talk and that the Russians are BSing about it in the press, saying it's our fault, saying why wouldn't we want to talk about coordinating our IS fights, etc. Fuck the Russians. I hope their citizens figure out how to stop Putin. Because there's no way to deal with him. He's dead set on this path of war and propaganda, on as many NATO borders as he can manage at once.
Micropower. Hmmm ... you got me interested Jay. Any useful links on the web that I can read.
Me too. I know a few places where this could be quite useful and lucrative. And I hold a license, so I could do the work myself.
Micro power is just small scale energy production from solar, wind, small hydro, river drop or cogeneration systems.
River drop, for example, consists of using "surplus" or inexpensive energy, to move freshet water, (spring run off), up hill to small reservoirs, then in the summer drawdown, use the water to create peak demand high value power. It has the added value of increasing River flows for habitat and irrigation in the heat of summer and low water of fall, and stabilizing River temps.
The problem is , in the West, you need a large variety of Federal Studies and Approvals from multiple Ministries, and those have been gutted and politicized so much that all your paperwork will spend between 3 to 5 years sitting in various in trays. If it's non-controversial, after 3-5 years, somebody will take a quick and rubber stamp it, if it's controversial,.......
So, depending on the size and location of the project, unless you can get somebody on the Board with "pull" to use their connections to fast track it, ( and that will cost $200k to $500k a year, plus shares and options), you have to budget enough money to keep the project alive and moving forward the 3-5 years that you wait, which adds between 17% and 26% to the overall coasts of the project. That pushes the ROE out years at best, at worst, just kills the viability of the project.
Thank you Jay. I will have more questions in the future, and if you have the time to answer I would be in your debt. Alternative energy and using available energy sources on a micro level has always been an interest of mine. I know about the Canadian situation. I try to do the same thing with my lake up north in Quebec .... the paperwork and the need to satisfy the different regulatory bodies (and all in French) just made me roll my eyeballs.
WNU Editor,
Ask away, I've been buried in this stuff since I was 18, at Erriccson Andersong building satellites, it's come a long way.
RRH,
Energy Alternatives, and Carhmanah Systems are in your neck of the woods, both have good web presence.
In Western Canada, "cheap power" has held back micropower, it's a wonderful sideline, but it's not a way to get rich quick.
Thanks Jay. I'm thinking of starting with 10kW at home and keeping the power for our own use.
I work in a lot of remote and semi remote locations where folks are always asking me about solar for their camps/cabins.
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