Job Opening: Putin Worship

[pgardn]

Limit
M>s

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-inside-russian-troll-house

Have you guys been working without pay?

[Infinite_limit]

Russia stole this out of the Israeli playbook

[m>s]

How much does it pay? I'm already doing it for free

[pgardn]

790 bucks a month.

But... You get to live in Russia. I'm sure they could use the help to get into Western heads.
And... you get to live in Russia. Read the article, the work conditions sound very Russian as well.
Dont forget... you get to live in Russia.

Fuck San Diego, Limit, you would have white folk all around. I say go for it. You get to live in Russia. Plan on taking up smoking and probably reducing your lifespan 20 years. It's worth it, you get to live in Russia.

*cue majestic foreboding symphony suggesting sacrifice and misery*

[Infinite_limit]

790 bucks a month.

But... You get to live in Russia. I'm sure they could use the help to get into Western heads.
And... you get to live in Russia. Read the article, the work conditions sound very Russian as well.
Dont forget... you get to live in Russia.

Fuck San Diego, Limit, you would have white folk all around. I say go for it. You get to live in Russia. Plan on taking up smoking and probably reducing your lifespan 20 years. It's worth it, you get to live in Russia.

*cue majestic foreboding symphony suggesting sacrifice and misery*
Russian is probably too difficult to learn. Yes it shares words with Polish but if I ever learn a 4th language (Polish, English, German) I don't think it will be Russian.

[boutons_deux]

Norway Reverts to Cold War Mode as Russian Air Patrols Spike

From his command post burrowed deep into a mountain of quartz and slate north of the Arctic Circle, the 54-year-old commander of the Norwegian military’s operations headquarters watches time flowing backward, pushed into reverse by surging Russian military activity redolent of East-West sparring during the Cold War.

“I am what you could call a seasoned Cold Warrior,” the commander, Lt. Gen. Morten Haga Lunde (http://mil.no/organisation/about/Factsandfigures/Documents/CV%20Morten%20Haga%20Lunde%20english.pdf), said, speaking in an underground complex built to withstand a nuclear blast. As a result, he added, he is not too alarmed by increased Russian military activity alongNATO (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/north_atlantic_treaty_organization/index.html?inline=nyt-org)’s northern flank.

“It is more or less the same as when I started,” said General Lunde, who began his career tracking Soviet warplanes as a Norwegian Air Force navigator in the early 1980s.

(http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/world/europe/a-newly-assertive-russia-jolts-norways-air-defenses-into-action.html#story-continues-2)After a long hiatus following the December 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, when Moscow grounded its strategic bombers for lack of fuel, spare parts and will to project power, President Vladimir V. Putin (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/vladimir_v_putin/index.html?inline=nyt-per)’s newly assertive Russia (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/world/europe/new-russian-boldness-revives-a-cold-war-tradition-testing-the-other-side-.html) “is back to normal behavior,” General Lunde said.

Last year, Norway (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/norway/index.html?inline=nyt-geo) intercepted 74 Russian warplanes off its coast, 27 percent more than in 2013, scrambling F-16 fighters from a military air base in Bodo to monitor and photograph them. This is far fewer than the hundreds of Soviet planes Norway tracked off its coast at the height of the Cold War. However, last year’s total was a drastic increase from the 11 Russian warplanes Norway spotted 10 years earlier.

In Norway, a country that takes pride in championing peace — witnessed in its brokering of pacts between Israelis and Palestinians and its awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize — what General Lunde called the “new old normal” has come as a jolt. It has set off debate over military spending and highlighted how quickly Mr. Putin has shredded the certainties of the post-Cold War era.

“Russia (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/russiaandtheformersovietunion/index.html?inline=nyt-geo) has created uncertainty about its intentions, so there is, of course, unpredictability,” Norway’s defense minister, Ine Eriksen Soreide, said in an interview in Oslo, adding that the military was being restructured to deal better with new risks, particularly in the Arctic.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/world/europe/a-newly-assertive-russia-jolts-norways-air-defenses-into-action.html

[m>s]

I hope putin takes everything east of Paris, fuck the marxist international clique

[pgardn]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/russia-recedes-into-nationalism-and-political-immorality-a-1026259.html

Here Ya go Nazis.
This is the Russia you want.

[m>s]

It boils down pretty simple: the cultural marxists of the west want to see the destruction of the European ethnicities, sacrificed on the altar of capitalism and materialism. The patriotic proud european people are fighting this and the only help may come from a conservative, nationalist russia. Nothing else matters and I hope russia nukes Washington, nuked London, and takes everything all the way to Portugal. Europa will be liberated.

[RandomGuy]

Trolling for Putin: Russia's information war explained

S"aint Petersburg (AFP) - Lyudmila Savchuk says it was money that wooed her into the ranks of the Kremlin's online army, where she bombarded website comment pages with eulogies of President Vladimir Putin, while mocking his adversaries.

"Putin is great," "Ukrainians are Fascists," "Europe is decadent": Savchuk, 34, listed the main messages she was told to put out on Internet forums after responding to a job advertisement online.

"Our job was to write in a pro-government way, to interpret all events in a way that glorifies the government's politics and Putin personally," she said.

Performing her duties as an Internet "troll", Savchuk kept up several blogs on the popular Russian platform LiveJournal, juggling the virtual identities of a housewife, a student and an athlete.

While the blogs themselves would be filled with apolitical content about life in Russia, she was paid to use the account identities to comment on other news sites and online discussions, leaving 100 comments on an average day.

Every morning, she says, she would get assignments for the day, a list of subjects on which to comment and ideas to propagate.

"Ukraine has approved a reform plan to secure IMF aid" was the title of one recent assignment that Lyudmila had kept on her cellphone.

The instructions were for her to respond to the potentially positive Ukrainian news story with negative comments, such as "For the Ukrainian government, military needs are more important than those of the people."

View galleryRussia's President Vladimir Putin gives a speech …
Russia's President Vladimir Putin gives a speech during a rally and a concert by the Kremlin Wal …
Savchuk spent two months as a cyber-warrior, or what fans of news comment sections call "trolls", because they join to provoke or to spread propaganda, ruining what would usually be exchanges of opinion in good faith.

She said she worked in a nondescript grey building on Savushkin Street in a busy neighbourhood in the north of the city of Saint Petersburg before quitting in March.

Her short job interview was conducted by a man who only gave his first name, Oleg. His first question was: "What do you think of our policy in Ukraine?"

"Like many others, I was seduced by their salary," said Savchuk, who is raising two children. Her monthly pay was 40,000 to 50,000 rubles ($700-870), considered good money in Russia's second largest city.

- 'Work is hard' -

The online onslaught of identical, often abusive Internet comments discrediting Russia's opponents, and especially the United States, while hailing the Russian government, began even before Russia's standoff with Ukraine.

A journalist with Novaya Gazeta opposition newspaper visited the Saint Petersburg agency in 2013 undercover and reported there were about 400 employees based out of a small building on the outskirts of the city."

http://news.yahoo.com/trolling-putin-russias-information-war-explained-063716887.html

Interesting bit.

[RandomGuy]

790 bucks a month.

But... You get to live in Russia. I'm sure they could use the help to get into Western heads.
And... you get to live in Russia. Read the article, the work conditions sound very Russian as well.
Dont forget... you get to live in Russia.

Fuck San Diego, Limit, you would have white folk all around. I say go for it. You get to live in Russia. Plan on taking up smoking and probably reducing your lifespan 20 years. It's worth it, you get to live in Russia.

*cue majestic foreboding symphony suggesting sacrifice and misery*

You don't live in Russia... Russia lives in you... heh

[m>s]

I had a dream a other night that I met putin personally and got the impression that he is a great man. Fighting for traditional values and common decency against the great globalist menace

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Fox News Russia at work.


TUCKED away behind the Carpathian mountains, Ukraine’s Transcarpathian region has its share of problems. Ethnic separatism is not among the major ones. Nonetheless, this remote region's Ruthenian and ethnic-Hungarian communities have become a target for Russian propaganda aimed at dividing Ukrainian society. In mid-March Ukrainian news outlets reprinted a report that organisations of Transcarpathia's Ruthenes (a small Slavic ethnic group scattered across Ukraine, Slovakia and Poland) had held a congress “demanding recognition of their national identity and autonomy of their land”. It turned out that the congress had been made up out of whole cloth by TASS, the Russian news agency.

It was a postmodern tactic that might have been appreciated by the art world's most famous ethnic Ruthene, Andy Warhol. In Transcarpathia itself, the fake news caused a stir at the Ruthenian House in Mukacheve, a town just south of the Carpathians. Local Ruthenes say that Petro Getsko, a “Ruthenian leader” quoted by TASS who calls himself the “prime minister of Subcarpathian Rus”, has not been seen in Transcarpathia for several years. Mr Getsko, who is a wanted man in Ukraine, is believed to be in Russia.

“Russia is trying to play the Ruthenian card in Transcarpathia,” says Ievgen Zhupan, head doctor at the regional children’s hospital in Mukacheve and chairman of the People’s Council of the Ruthenes of Transcarpathia, an umbrella organisation of civic groups. Mr Zhupan no longer gives interviews to Russian media, who he says have manipulated his statements in the past. In fact Ukraine’s Ruthenian organisations are keeping their demands modest. In January several of them issued a statement expressing their support for Ukraine’s path to democratisation and European integration. Their most far-reaching request was to reinstate Ruthenian as an official ethnic category in Ukraine (it was scrapped under the Soviet regime).

There is more tension over the status of Ukraine's 156,000 ethnic Hungarians, but it mainly emanates from outside of Ukraine. Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister and one of Vladimir Putin's better friends in Europe, has repeatedly called for autonomy for Hungarian-Ukrainians. Mr Orban has found something of an ally in Laszlo Brenzovics, head of the Hungarian Cultural Association of Transcarpathia (KMKSZ) and a member of Ukraine's parliament, where he represents the party of president Petro Poroshenko. But Mr Brenzovics has never gone as far as Jobbik, Hungary’s far-right party, which calls Ukraine's crisis an opportunity to “finally resolve the situation of Transcarpathian Hungarians”.

http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21647828-russian-press-cooks-up-ethnic-separatism-transcarpathia-long-live-ruthenia

[The Reckoning]

lol


http://www.johnpratt.com/items/email/2013/macho_vs_sissy.html


young putin looks like Macaulay Culkin

[boutons_deux]

Putin screwing around, fake macho bravado, rousing his rabble

Intent Of Russian Military Aircraft Near U.S. Shores Remains Unclearhttp://www.nationalmemo.com/intent-of-russian-military-aircraft-near-u-s-shores-remains-unclear/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=MM_frequency_six&utm_campaign=Morning%20Memo%20-%202015-04-08

[xeromass]

BBC followed a story of 10 yr old girl who was apparently killed by Ukrainian shelling. End result is seen in the title.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW-4a0P8sjs


Also, my recent pet peeve - correspondents from crisis zones should be fluent in local language, level of reporting is simply something else. Imagine Anderson Cooper doing this piece, it would never happen.

[boutons_deux]

U.S. Protests Intercept Of Reconnaissance Plane By Russiahttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/12/us-russia-intercepts-us-p_n_7051878.html?ncid=newsltushpmg00000003

We're gonna send up F-35s in response. Oops, those $1T turkeys can't fly :lol

[pgardn]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/world/europe/putin-lifts-ban-on-russian-missile-sales-to-iran.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0


So if you choose to read this remember the reason for the US wanting to put missiles in Poland was Iran. If Russia does actually play this little game, Putin is participating in a REAL NATO buildup. Apparently average Russian citizens were living to lavishly, welcome back to substituting aftershave for Vodka. Mmmmm... let the good times roll.

[m>s]

A war against Iran/Russia will spell the end of the U.S. Empire

[pgardn]

A war against Iran/Russia will spell the end of the U.S. Empire

Sure.
If nukes get used.
There will be no empires, just radioactive trash.

Im not worried, ain't happening. Russia's economy goes belly up way before.

[m>s]

Even if it were a conventional war.During total war scenarios where the whole economy is geared towards war, all that matters is the availability of resources and manpower and we have plenty of both.We can sink your carriers if they get anywhere near our coastlines. Our doctrines have always been created to counter yours. You use superior naval projection, we counter with subs and long-range hard-to-counter ballistic missiles. And even if did manage to surround our coastlines, we have a very large land border with many countries who would trade with us. You think you could occupy all those nations with land forces and completely lock us in? We won't sit idly by while you try. And logistics is much more of an issue when you are fighting an actual capable foe half-way across the globe than it is to the country fighting on its border.Any non-nuclear war between Russia and the US would lead to a deadlock. You wouldn't be able to do shit to us and we wouldn't to you.

[pgardn]

Even if it were a conventional war.During total war scenarios where the whole economy is geared towards war, all that matters is the availability of resources and manpower and we have plenty of both.We can sink your carriers if they get anywhere near our coastlines. Our doctrines have always been created to counter yours. You use superior naval projection, we counter with subs and long-range hard-to-counter ballistic missiles. And even if did manage to surround our coastlines, we have a very large land border with many countries who would trade with us. You think you could occupy all those nations with land forces and completely lock us in? We won't sit idly by while you try. And logistics is much more of an issue when you are fighting an actual capable foe half-way across the globe than it is to the country fighting on its border.Any non-nuclear war between Russia and the US would lead to a deadlock. You wouldn't be able to do shit to us and we wouldn't to you.

Get off the video games.

And get into the kayak.

[m>s]

America would be swept from the continent in the end and chased home tail between legs