It’s OK If It’s Russia
The left was shrill in their condemnation of America’s “invasion” of Iraq. Inflated figures on civilian casualties were bandied about as fact, even though troops were sacrificed and a quick victory made impossible by the US tiptoeing around attempting to strategically extract or kill the enemy. But Russia can go barreling into Georgia, justified or not, and knock off journalists and civilians alike and I hear no great wail of indignation and condemnation.
Below a journalist is nicked by a sniper bullet.
(H/T: Cassy Fiano)
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According to reports, four journalists have been killed in Georgia, since the country’s armed conflict with Russia began on Friday.
Dutch television cameraman Stan Storimans, 39, who was working for news channel RTL, was killed during the Russian bombing of Gori, the Associated Press has said. Storiman’s colleague Jeroen Akkermans was also injured by blasts, which killed five.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has also reported the deaths of two journalists in the South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali. Grigol Chikhladze, head of Alania TV, and Alexander Klimchuk, head of the Caucasus Press Images agency and a correspondent for Itar-Tas, were shot at a roadblock erected by Ossetian freedom-fighters, RSF said. (Source)
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) officials have claimed that they have evidence of Russia using cluster bombs against civilian targets and infrastructure in Georgia.
Citing eyewitness accounts, as well as video and photographic evidence, the HRW officials said that Russian aircraft dropped RBK-250 cluster bombs, each containing 30 PTAB 2.5M submunitions, on the town of Ruisi in the Kareli district of Georgia on Tuesday.
The Washington Times further quoted it as saying that the attack killed three civilians and wounded five. The group says that a cluster strike took place the same day in the center of the city of Gori, killing at least eight civilians and injuring dozens.
Human Rights Watch spokesman Mark Hiznay denied a request by the paper to see the video and photos, citing the need to protect journalists and researchers in the field.
In May, 107 countries agreed to a ban on cluster munitions. Neither Russia nor the United States participated in the talks.
Human Rights Watch researchers said they interviewed victims, doctors and military personnel in Georgia, analyzed photos of craters and had seen video footage of Tuesday’s attack on Gori. Researchers also say they saw a photo of the sub-munition carrier assembly and nose cone of an RBK-250 bomb in Gori.
The Gori video showed more than two-dozen simultaneous explosions during the attack, which is characteristic of cluster bombs, the organization said. (Source)
I haven’t read all that is out there, but there seem to be quite a few writing of this who are quite obviously salivating at what is perceived as Russia’s re-awakening and a comeuppance for America…. “The Empire has struck back and shaken the order of the world.“, opines one pundit.
Of course, when it’s America’s presence in Iraq , it’s blood for oil, it’s invasion, it’s occupation. But Russia is going to admired, defended.
This gushing reporter barely restrains herself.
“This is without a doubt a founding moment,” says Anne Applebaum, a historian and author of the international best-seller “Gulag: A History.” “This week the Russians set an example. Just like when they killed journalist Anna Politkovskaya. There is no need to kill all the country’s journalists. One is enough, and all the rest get the message. That’s what [Russia] did this week: There is no need to invade all the countries in the region, but they will all get the message.
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Historian Simon Sebag-Montefiore, author of two biographies of Josef Stalin, believes this is “the start of the twilight of America’s sole world hegemony.
(Source)
Unreal. But then, the West has largely become a culture that admires evil, applauds dictators and forever cheers for the anti-heroes. I shouldn’t be surprised that the return of the “Evil Empire” receives a standing ovation.
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You’re an idiot.
Just like these American FOX “reporters” who make excuses for the Georgian soldiers who have just tried to murder them:
http://brianakira.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/us-reporters-make-excuses-for-georgians-trying-to-kill-them/
You should apply for a propaganda grant from George Soros.
Akira, you are showing your true colors, a mixed up ‘intellect’ that can’t sort out one thing from another in a rational manner. Typical lefty, driven by your emotions which is why you resort to name calling, no wonder the world is in a mess. Do you know how ludicrous it is to tell Zee of all people to get a grant from George Soros? You are though a brave man to do that.
Why not? You’re already propagandizing for Soros. You might as well get paid for it.
Re: “you are showing your true colors, a mixed up ‘intellect’ that can’t sort out one thing from another in a rational manner”
I’ll type slowly, for your benefit:
1. You post here a video of a woman apparently shot with a BB gun by unknown assailants. A video from the same source as the phony Paliwood-style pictures of the poor dead “son” and “comrade” staged by the Soros-funded Georgian government.
http://brianakira.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/georgia-learned-well-from-al-qaeda-in-bosnian-kosovo-from-hezzbollah-and-from-the-paleostinians-on-how-to-handle-useful-western-idiots-part-2/
2. You report a bogs story about Alani Russian journalists accompanying the Russian army, who are then mysteriously killed by Alani soldiers fighting with the Russian army. I.e. A triple “own goal”.
3. If you want to see journalist shot at by soldiers, you can see a video show live on FOX News of American reporters running away from Georgian troops intent on murdering them, The difference being that the Georgian-attacked Americans make excuses for the murderous Georgians, “They’re frustrated and humiliated, it’s cool…”
Therefore, for these very reasons, it is a fact that you are a moron, spreading anti-Russian nonsensical and unproven propaganda that is part of a multi-year long propaganda campaign funded by George Soros on behalf of the Soros-funded Georgia “government” and the US military and CIA supported Georgian military.
That means that you are entitled to receive funds from the people who are presently whoring yourselves for without pay, which makes you more useful and more idiotic than the biggest Useful Idiot there ever was.
Brian,do please get a grip, this is getting tiresome. It isn’t as if you are unfamiliar with this site and particularly my antipathy towards Soros.
Nowhere have you read a post praising Saakashvili or supporting Georgia, nor have I indicated anything but contempt for America’s handling of Kosovo, the Balkans, and, of Islam in general. Please note that the two posts I have done focus on the media angle, they note my frustration with the usual suspects who, on cue, are again so ready to love the villain.
And yes Putin, as you also aver, is a culprit. Georgia’s asininity in this conflagration does not nullify Putin’s complicity. Bush is an asshole, as was Clinton and Bush 1. All of the players in this game have blood on their hands as they busily move chess pieces in execution of a strategy that neither I, nor you with your laudable font of knowledge, can totally comprehend.
There are so many critical factors swirling in this vortex – it is far more complicated than assigning blame.They are all culpable. Neither Russia nor Georgia have a right to the status of “aggrieved nation”. As far as I can tell, they have been playing each other for a long time. This just is what it is; the powers that be are slicing and dicing the globe as they try to gain primacy while we peasants try to get a clue from the pieces of the game we can see and the moves that we can identify.
I haven’t even had time to research the Soros connection, I’ve been sidetracked with this rather fascinating Russian Orthodox angle and your contention that Russia is a final bastion against Islam is a damn interesting assertion and rather frightening given that, were the Russian Orthodox church to operate as closely with the state as in eras past, it seems we would have yet another a type of theocracy, this time with a type of Christianity standing alongside the throne. I do not relish the idea of a Christian theocracy any more than I do an Islamic one. But it gives me pause to read of Putin’s vigorous embrace of the Russian Orthodox church, their rapprochement with their estranged counterparts in America and that the church has an end-time vision that paints Russia in severely apocalyptic terms, just as Ahmadinejad paints Iran’s “end time” role. Scary stuff for us peasants.
So excuse me if I ignore your counterproductive jibs and jabs because I find researching this to be far more edifying.
For your research.
Can you spot any Russians here:
Stalin, Feliks Edmundowicz Dzierżyński, Grigoriy Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze, Gaioz Devdariani, Eduard Shevardnadze, Panteleimon and Igor Giorgadze, Lev Davidovich Bronstein [Leon Trotsky], Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky [Gregory Yevseevich Zinoviev], Karol Sobelsohn [Karl Berngardovich Radek], Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchov, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Nikolai Ivanovich Ryzhkov, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tikhonov, Vladimir Antonovich Ivashko, Anastas Hovhannesi Mikoyan, Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov, Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko, Matvei Konstantinovich Muranov, Dmitry Manuilsky, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Emma Goldmann, Berthold Brecht, Alexander Berkman, Johannes Vares, Angelica Balabanoff , Hovhannes Khachatury Bagramyan, Ferenc Gyurcsány, Mir Cəfər Abbas oğlu Bağırov, Jaan Anvelt [Eessaare Aadu, Jaan Holm, Jaan Hulmu, Kaarel Maatamees, Onkel Kaak], Boriss Karlovich Pugo, Absamat Masaliyevich Masaliyev, Apas Jumagulov, Absamat Masaliyev, Askar Akayevt, Maksim Ammosov, Aleksey Vagov, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Iskhak Razzakov, Turdakun Usubaliyev, Jumgalbek Amanbayev, Askar Akayevich Akayev, Petro Mykolayovich Symonenko, Vladimir Nicolae Voronin, Zinaida Greceanîi, Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev, Pinches Borutsch [Pavel Borisovich Axelrod], Sultan Ibraimov, Dinmukhamed (Dimash) Akhmeduly Konayev, Vincas Kudirka, Mumin Khojaev, Ali Shervoni, Shirinsho Shotemur, Mirzo Dovud Guseinov, Grigory Broydo, Suren Shadunz, Dmitry Protopopov, Bobojon Ghafurov, Tursun Uljabaev, Jabor Rasulov, Leszek Kołakowski, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Rahmon Nabiyev, Qahhor Mahkamov. Christian Rakovsky, Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov, Ruben Tovmasyan, Mirza Davud, Grigory Kaminsky, Sergey Kirov, Levon Mirzoyan, Nikolay Gikalo, Vladimir Polonsky, Emil Bodnăraş, Ruben Rubenov (Mkrtchyan), Elena Ceauşescu, Mir Jafar Baghirov , Mir Teimur Yakubov, Imam Mustafayev, Veli Akhundov, Heidar Aliyev, Kyamran Bagirov, Abdulrahman Vezirov, György Pálffy, Gábor Péter, Ayaz Mütallibov, Abülfaz Elçibay, Dimitar Blagoev, Vulko Chervenkov, Georgi Dimitrov, Adrian Păunescu, Iosif Roitman [Iosif Chişinevschi], Alexandru Sahia, Urunboi Ushturov, Tsola Dragoicheva, Traicho Kostov, Imre Nagy, Aleksandur Lilov, Andrey Lukanov, Petar Mladenov, Alexander Paunov, Stanko Todorov, Anton Yugov, Todor Zhivkov, Rudolf Barák, Edvard Beneš, Oldřich Černík, Bohuslav Chňoupek, Vladimír Clementis, Alexander Dubček, Zdeněk Fierlinger, Jan Frankel, Michał Rola-Żymierski, Yoldosh Akhunbabayev, Chinor Emomov, Julius Fučík, Klement Gottwald, Jiří Hájek, Vladimír Holan, Gustáv Husák, Antonín Janoušek, Arnošt Kolman, Karel Kosík, Antonín Novotný, Ivan Olbracht, Radovan Richta, Viliam Široký, Rudolf Slánský, Bohumír Šmeral, Lubomír Štrougal, Jan Šverma, Ludvík Svoboda, Antonín Zápotocký, József Attila, Mihály Biró, Tibor Déry, István Dobi, István Eörsi, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Mihály Farkas, Rudolf Földvári, Ernő Gerő, Károly Grósz, Zygmunt Bauman, András Hegedűs, Ágnes Heller, Béla Illés, János Kádár, László Kardos, Mihály Károlyi, Lajos Kassák, Anna Kéthly, Béla Kun, Pál Losonczi, Géza Losonczy, Vasile Luca [László Luka], Georg Lukács, Jindřich Zelený, Tamás Major, Pál Maléter, György Marosán, Péter Medgyessy, Ernő Mihályfi, Aladár Mód, Tamás Nagy, Vasil Kolarov, László Piros, Karl Polanyi, Georges Politzer, László Rajk, Mátyás Rákosi, József Révai, Endre Ságvári, Erwin Szabó, Árpád Szakasits, András Szalai, Tibor Szamuely, Béla Szász, Sándor Szerényi, József Szilágyi, István Szirmai, Tibor Szőnyi, Imre Vajda, Eugen Varga, Zoltán Vas, Sándor Zöld, Mordechaj Anielewicz, Bolesław Bierut, Stanisław Brzozowski, Józef Cyrankiewicz, Ignacy Daszyński, Isaac Deutscher, Marek Edelman, Israel Epstein, Edward Gierek, Władysław Gomułka, Ludwik Hass, Piotr Ikonowicz, Piotr Jaroszewicz, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Leo Jogiches, Michał Kalecki, Stanisław Kania, Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, Oskar Lange, Abraham Léon, Julian Marchlewski, Kazimierz Mijal, Leszek Miller, Edward Ochab, Stefan Piekarczyk, Daniel Podrzycki, Stanisław Radkiewicz, Adam Rapacki, Konstanty Rokossowski, Irena Sendler, Daniel Singer, Marian Spychalski, Maria Szyszkowska, Józef Unszlicht, Adolf Warski, Ludwik Waryński, Wanda Wasilewska, Aleksander Zawadzki, Gheorghe Apostol, Ecaterina Arbore, Silviu Brucan, Gheorghe Cristescu, Alexandru Dobrogeanu-Gherea, Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea, Alexandru Drăghici, Teohari Georgescu, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Max Goldstein, Vitali Holostenco, Panait Istrati, Elek Köblös, Gheorghe Gaston Marin, Petru Groza, Ion Iliescu, David Korner, Vasile Luca, Corneliu Mănescu, Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Vasile Milea, Adrian Năstase, Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Hannah Rabinsohn [Ana Pauker], Marcel Pauker, Isaac Deutscher, Tristan Tzara, Ilie Verdeţ
Was URITSKI Russian?
He was Ukrainian.
“Jewish” atheist. But Ukrainian.
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Thank you Akira. I had no idea what he was talking about.
I’m not sure what his point was.
My point was that there wasn’t a single Russian in that list of Soviet and European communists, including Trotsky, Stalin, Brezhnev, Andropov. So it’s ridiculous to try to portray Russians as successors to the USSR, but the Poles, Georgians, Ukrainians etc as somehow victims.
N.B. For good or bad, Russians are very conscious of where people come from, and what their ethnic group is. Jews were considered a nation in the USSR. If you mention how many non-Russians were in control of the USSR and Eastern Europe, some people note the high percentage of Jews, which is a fact. However, I don’t mention people like Trotsky because he’s Jewish, but because he was from Ukraine.
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