Then why did Soros admit to partially funding the Orange Revolution? Did he get orders from Vladimir Vladimirovich to do that? Your argument against presuming based on the evidence that Soros is a tool of at least some parts of the USG (or at least is a transnationalist who would prefer to see a weaker U.S. AND Russia) makes no sense. Foggy Bottom seems to be a more likely suspect, or more like the iron triangle between State, Defense and the NGO ‘revolutions in a box’ complex. Personally, I think if those folks hadn’t been so blatant in the ex-Soviet republics they might have had better success with the Green revolution in Iran.

“but you haven’t been arguing at all –with or without idiots.”

Yeah, refuting your point that the 5th Guards Shock Army or whatever still exists as it did when it stood on the Fulda Gap in the 1980s and that Russia invaded Georgia with hundreds of thousands of soldiers isn’t an argument. Riiiiiiiiight. I guess that’s what your fan club loved. Yeah Buddy, tell that punk kid! Quote him chapter and verse from Red Storm Rising…hoorah!

I for one admire Marie Claude for rebutting the lazy Francophobia that lurks on PJM. The fact that somebody decided to say that 90% of what Anglo-American “conservatives” write about Russia is utter horses$#& seems to annoy you guys. But yes, it is possible to be a conservative and admire some aspects of Russia and its people rather than needing my daily dose of the Russians are coming two minutes hate and/or BS Kremlinology.

The fact that the ultra-Orthodox nationalist Stanislav Mishin is being advanced nowadays as the voice of Russian propaganda at America (did you catch him on Glenn Beck?) and Igor Panarin is getting paid to speak to Tea Partyers in Houston ought to tell you something. Russia is not the voice of international Communism anymore, so give it a rest.

What is the model for how policy for various government agencies are determined from outside of that organization? And my question gets to all parasitic, and in fact reverse parasitic forces. Parasites usually take from the host organism, but for example, if a military officer made the decision to ‘go diversity’ as the über-policy of the military, on whose command decision was that based, or from what outside influence or pressure did that occur?

One would’ve hoped that the military could preserve its merit rise system, but it is apparent that that has been infiltrated by whatever means. How do we start from scratch again, and remove all the barnacles?

uh, try a Leonberg, they are mediators

otherwise, my little Boston-Terrier, “Rock-Star” (a female), can handle any sheepdogs into respect !

uh, Mr X,
Yet the EU wants to lend him $12 BILLION and in the past two years suddenly he’s yet another victim of Russian “energy imperialism” in the Russophobe press

Yeah, I don’t want that my taxes are for subventionning any former soviet counties, that would still not acknoledge that they are living on the european continent, and would spit on the earlier EU countries, becuz they are monotored for the american dream, which actually is the american nightmare since a few decades !

Such spectacular bets as his bringing down the Pound (which lots of UK euroskeptics thinks was designed to force Britain into the EMU precursor to the Euro) are not possible without insider information from governments. It’s the same reason Government Sachs came out smelling like a rose when the rest of the Street tanked. Matt Tabi made this point in Rolling Stone (how RS became the voice of the muckrackers against Big Finance raping and pillaging the rest of the economy is itself an interesting question), had the short selling naked bets gone the other way it would have been the worst short sell losses in human history. Instead magically the bets against Bear Stearns were made to pay off.

All I’m suggesting is that perhaps such insider tips to Soros are payment for services he has rendered in Eastern Europe to Uncle Sam and the City of London. Hell, Ukraine is rapidly becoming one of the highest debt to GDP ratios in the world and is paying their gas bills with IOUs. What that means is that they’ll have to sell off all their steel mills or what’s left of them that required cheap Russian gas to stay profitable just to keep the lights on and the frost out this winter. Ditto for Belarus, how has Lukashenko suddenly become more democratic? Yet the EU wants to lend him $12 BILLION and in the past two years suddenly he’s yet another victim of Russian “energy imperialism” in the Russophobe press. My point is, don’t be so easily manipulated.

hell, why does Boxing have weight divisions?

From http://riskinstitute.ch/146490.htm:

According to Lewis’s article LTCM’s portfolio had its second biggest loss that day, of $500 million. Half of that, says Lewis, was lost on a short position in five-year equity options. Lewis records brokers’ opinion that AIG had intervened in thin markets to drive up the option price to profit from LTCM’s weakness. At that time, as was learned later, AIG was part of a consortium negotiating to buy LTCM’s portfolio. By this time LTCM’s capital base had dwindled to a mere $600 million. That evening, UBS, with its particular exposure on a $800 million credit, with $266 million invested as a hedge, sent a team to Greenwich to study the portfolio.