"Russia, Georgia seen escalating conflict to full-scale war" by Anne Barnard and Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times News Service | August 10, 2008
GORI, Georgia - The conflict between Russia and the former Soviet republic of Georgia moved toward full-scale war yesterday, as Russia sent warships to land ground troops in the disputed territory of Abkhazia and broadened its bombing campaign across Georgia.
The fighting, which sharply escalated when Georgian forces tried to retake the capital of South Ossetia.
Why does MY PAPER say "BEGAN?"
NICE CENSORSHIP, western MSM!!!
It has been a PATTERN with this situation from the start!!!
Hollering RUSSIAN INVASION when it was their CLIENT ALLY GEORGIA that STARTED IT!!!!
Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, eclipsing the authority of President Dmitri A. Medvedev, left the Olympics in China and arrived last night in Vladikavkaz, a city in southern Russia just over the border. State-controlled news broadcasts showed Putin meeting generals, suggesting that he was directly in charge of military operations.
Man, the AmeriKan jewsmedia sure loves to demonize Putin.
Here is why:
"Russia was controlled by a Jewish elite with allegiance to [Israel] but Putin managed to wrestle back control of his country for the sake of the Russian people although whether he’ll be able to fight off the next Jewish political assault is far from certain."
That is what is happening now, isn't it?
Putin said that dozens of people had been killed in South Ossetia and hundreds wounded, and tens of thousands were reported to be fleeing. Georgia's health minister said that more than 80 people had been killed, including 40 civilians who died in airstrikes in Gori, a city north of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. Another Georgian official said at least 800 people, almost all of them civilians, had been injured. Each side's figures were impossible to confirm independently.
The fighting, and the Kremlin's confidence in the face of Western outcry, had wide international implications, as both Russian and Georgian officials placed it squarely in the context of renewed Cold War-style tensions and an East-West struggle for regional influence.
And CUI BONO?
I really don't understand why articles in the AmeriKan MSM press must constantly be reworked and rewritten.
This article is totally different from what is in my Boston Sunday Globe, and I'm tired off it!!!!
Putin made clear that Russia now viewed Georgian claims over the breakaway regions to be invalid, and that Russia had no intention of withdrawing. "There is almost no way we can imagine a return to the status quo," he said in remarks on Russian state television.
In China, Bush discussed the fighting with Putin during a social lunch at the Great Hall of the People on Friday and again later that evening at the opening ceremonies of the Olympics. The White House did not disclose the details of what they said.
The fighting, and the Kremlin's confidence in the face of Western outcry, had wide international implications, as both Russian and Georgian officials placed it squarely in the context of renewed Cold War-style tensions and an East-West struggle for influence on Russia's borders. The East and West were stuck in diplomatic impasse, even as reports from both sides of heavy civilian casualties indicated that the humanitarian toll was climbing.
Georgian officials said their only way out of the conflict was for the United States to step in, but with US military intervention unlikely, they were hoping for the West to exert diplomatic pressure to stop the Russian attacks. The UN Security Council was meeting yesterday to discuss the crisis.
Civilians came under fire on both sides. Georgian troops shelled the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, with heavy artillery. Russian warplanes struck at least five Georgian cities. Witnesses said they struck a train station in Tsenakhi, two apartment buildings in Gori, and a port area in the Black Sea city of Poti. Each side said it was acting in self-defense.
President Medvedev said Russia was acting to restore peace in the Caucasus and protect its citizens and peacekeeping troops who had come under Georgian attack in South Ossetia.
Russian officials said that strong ties to the United States had emboldened Saakashvili, who wants to make Georgia part of NATO, into sparking the conflict by trying to seize back South Ossetia. But there were signs that Saakashvili was feeling the limits of how much American help he could expect after signing up as an ally in Iraq.
Pentagon officials said late on Friday that Georgia had requested assistance in airlifting home the approximately 2,000 Georgian troops now in Iraq. The request was under review, and standard procedures would indicate that the US government would honor the request, officials said.
The blogs reported yesterday it was already happening!
Alexander Lomaya, secretary of Georgia's National Security Council, said only Western intervention could prevent all-out war. "We still believe that a unified and consolidated Western pressure and Western opinion can bring some fruit."
Here is some of the silliness the BG and NYT edited out of the web but left in the printed matter:
Lomaya said conflict arose because Russia sought to "thwart its neighbors' movement towards Western society and Western values."
"Russia has clearly decided to redraw the borders of the post-Cold War situation," Lomaya said. "If the world is not able to stop Russia here, then Russian tanks and Russian paratroopers can appear in every European capital."
Excuse me while I get my waders out, readers.
HOW FUCKING RIDICULOUS!!!!
Talk about a chicken litle propagandist!
After you guys claim to have shot down their planes?
Back to the web:
Georgian officials acknowledged they were taken by surprise by the intensity of the Russian response. "What we didn't expect was that Russian troops themselves would enter Georgia, that Russian military equipment would bomb our cities in various parts of the country, that Russian soldiers would be shelling villages and positions of Georgian forces," Lomaya said.
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Ooops! I guess USrael kind fucked you, huh?
Believe me, we know the feeling!
That does it, by the way.
The rest of the article has been rewritten, and I'm moving on.
Fuck the CENSORING AmeriKan MSM!!!
And to keep up the one-sidedness (you'd think the Georgians were Israeli at this point):
GORI, Georgia - In front of a destroyed apartment block, a man sat clutching the body of his dead brother, trying to clean blood from his face.
Nearby, a woman knelt screaming over the body of another man killed in the Russian bombing raid.
Covered in blood, an elderly woman stared into the distance. A man sat by the roadside with his head in his hands.
Those who could scrambled to flee the town with whatever they could pack in their cars yesterday.
"I can't understand their logic. They are bombing everything. Why are they bombing civilians?" said Nick Kipshidze, a local doctor.
The normally sleepy town of Gori, birthplace of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, had never expected to come under attack.
The panic after the bombing was a reflection of the shock in Georgia at the ferocity of Russia's response to its attempt to win back control of breakaway South Ossetia from Russian-backed separatists.
A plume of smoke rose after a bomb hit a block of apartments in Gori, a few miles from South Ossetia. It was unclear what the intended target of the strike had been.
Five bodies could be seen in the wreckage. A Red Cross official told Reuters he had counted 17 bodies at a local morgue. It was not clear how many had died in the apartment bombing.
Georgia and Russia came into direct conflict over South Ossetia this week after Tbilisi launched a military offensive to regain control over the separatist region.
Despite the shock, many were in a defiant mood and spoke up for President Mikheil Saakashvili over the assault launched on Friday to gain control over South Ossetia.
He has "done the right thing," said Tamila Gordeziani as she walked hand-in-hand with her grandson. "It's our land and our people. Russia is in the wrong, and we need to finish this."
Giga Kvenetadze, 30, owns a music studio. He had lived in Russia and had many Russian friends. "To fight Russia is crazy," he said.
"But I do support Saakashvili and his aim of having a fully independent country not controlled by Russia or the United States. And what Russia is doing is wrong. They must stop."Yup, but NOTHING on OUR VICTIMS in SOUTH OSSETIA!!
What, they Palestinian?
No, rather than get any news from South Ossetia, we get LIES, readers!!!
"Russians seek wisdom, powers, peace of the mysterious pyramid" by Megan K. Stack, Los Angeles Times | August 10, 2008
KOZENKI, Russia - Rumors of the pyramid's mysterious powers have spread through the suburbs and into the city. People come looking for peace of mind, strength, health, insight. Life is hard these days in Moscow. The city is a place of blank expressions and cold shoulders. Prices climb high and then higher still.
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What FUCKING LIARS!!!
They are FLUSH with OIL CASH and a MIDDLE CLASS!
"Free and Flush, Russians Eager to Roam Abroad" by CLIFFORD J. LEVY
ANTALYA, Turkey — Yelena Kasyanova booked her trip at a local travel agency in about as much time it takes to drop by the market for a few groceries. She was soon lounging here by the Mediterranean, a working-class anybody from an anyplace deep in Russia, a child of the Soviet era who still remembers the humiliating strictures that once made it difficult to obtain a passport, let alone a plane ticket.
And all around the beach were so many just like her.
One of the most enduring changes in the lives of Russians in recent years has occurred not in Russia itself, but in places like this coastal region of Turkey, where an influx of Russian tourists has given rise to a mini-industry catering to their needs....
Foreign travel reflects not just Russia’s economic revival under Vladimir V. Putin, but also how the country has become, in some essential ways, normal. Many Russians interviewed here credited Mr. Putin, the former president and current prime minister, for their ability to travel, saying that he was responsible for Russia’s new prosperity.
For the first time in Russian history, wide swaths of the citizenry are being exposed to life in far-off lands, helping to ease a kind of insularity and parochialism that built up in the Soviet era. Back then, the public was not only prevented from going abroad; it was also inculcated with propaganda that the Soviet Union was unquestionably the world’s best country, so there was no need to leave anyway.
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That SOUND FAMILIAR, Amurka?
And WHAT is with the MSM LYING, huh?
