Hi, this video is directed to an American public and the rest of civilized Western world. I am a Russian citizen, I live in United States for a long time, for over 10 years. I happened to be in Russia now and I caught all this "action" that's taking place in South Ossetia, a region in Georgia. I never posted on youtube, but I couldn't hold myself from doing it now. I had to do this. My message to American public is meant as a wake up call. American and other Western media especially CNN is feeding you complete horse shit! Russia did not invade and did not attack Georgia. It was a response to a horrible war crime committed by Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili, this irresponsible man who just can't stand Russia, hates us, and will kiss America's and Europe's ass just to get a chance to join NATO and European Union. America has always supported Georgian "democracy" and I suspect actually that it was America who instigated Georgia to commit this crime.... on the first day of Olympics! How ironic is that? But please don't take this allegation too close heartedly, my point is not about whether or not U.S. government had any role in this, my point is to give you truth about what really happened Thursday night
So again, Russia did not invade or attack Georgia, as your media outlets are saying.
A brief geography and history lesson. South Ossetia is a very small region about 40 miles by 40 miles in the northern Georgia. It's population is around 70000 people. It borders with Russia. Today, many of the residents of South Ossetia are Russian citizens holding Russian passports, it's our people. South Ossetia had claimed independence from Georgia in 1992. Obviously it was never recognized by any international organizations. In 2006, they held an election where 99% of the voters supported independence from Georgia, and the turn out rate was 95%, it was monitored by a team of 34 international observers from the West. It still was not recognized by the world. As an analogy I would like to bring Kosovo situation, Serbian region in the south that was illegally snatched from Serbia and made into an independent country. Please look it up on Wikipedia and see how similar this situation is. How ironic is that America never supported Southern Ossetia same way it supported Kosovo. Obviously, it was made to show Russia how unfriendly the rest of the world is towards us.
Thursday night, Georgian military started an attack against South Ossetia. It was yesterday. They shelled the main city of Tshinkvali. They killed over a 1000 people. The excuse was to "restore the constitutional order in the region". BULLSHIT! This attack was an attempt to commit "ethnic cleansing", it was an act of genocide. They shelled civilian houses, schools, hospitals, without any warning. They also captured several villages near Tshinkvali. Reports say that they attempt to kill anyone of the Ossetian nationality. It was a pure act of Genocide. Wake up!
Russia couldn't watch this atrocity happening to its own citizens. We had no choice but to bring in our military into the region and protect our people. Whatever happens next the world needs to know, that the cause of this conflict is Georgia and its president. Before you accept what your media tells you, before you get fired up by McCains irresponsible allegations and comments, try remember all the lies that American media had always fed you, try to read news from other media outlets, not russian, but other parts of the world, other than U.S. or U.K.'s media.
America needs to wake up and stop doing what it's doing. Stop seeing an enemy in Russia. Stop using countries like Georgia, Ukraine, Poland, Latvia, Estonia who are basically acting like prostitutes of U.S. government in their public acts of hatred towards Russia.
And finally need to say, Mr. SSHAshvili that's how we like to call him. S.SH.A stands for U.S.A in Russian. Mr. SSHAshvili will pay for what happened yesterday.
(Cross-posted from my personal LJ at busychild424's request.)
I know it's silly, but one of the biggest annoyances I faced when my wife Amy and I first started talking about moving to the Kansas side of the line was the sad realization that, once again, my vote in the Presidential election would mean nothing. My grievances about the Electoral College probably don't need to be revisited here, but let's just say that there's a reason no Presidential candidates ever bother to visit Kansas - those six electoral college votes are basically tattooed red from head to foot, and nothing either side can do will change that. Nor will any vote I might cast, no matter how much I might wish otherwise. I still plan to vote next November, of course - there's some hope for my Congressional district, and I think Sebelius is leaving office soon (that might be 2009, though) - but who winds up in 1600 Pennsylvania next January really will have nothing to do with me.
Or will it?
After Tuesday's insanely unlikely victory for Clinton in New Hampshire, suddenly no one knows who's going to be the Democratic nominee. Until last week, Clinton seemed a lock - after last week, Obama looked the sure thing. (For an amusing graphical representation of this, take a look at the Iowa Electronic Markets for the Dem nomination. Heehee!) Now, no one's got a clue, though it seems likely that my guy, Edwards, is out of it. But who knows?
Regardless, I didn't think this mattered to me. Kansas is a caucus state, and last I knew, the caucuses were held in July or something. By then, this will be sorted out - because in three weeks, the event called variously Super Duper Tuesday or Tsunami Tuesday thanks to the ludicrously large numbers of states holding primaries or caucuses that day will almost certainly result in a victory for one of the candidates. So I thought I was out of the loop.
But! It turns out that the Kansas Democratic Party is caucusing - on Super Duper Tuesday! And what's more, I can register as a Democrat when I walk in the door!
So guess who's gonna go have his say in the 2008 Presidential election after all!
(Psst: The Kansas GOP is doing theirs on Feb. 9, if that's of any interest to you. And for my friends on the other side of the state line, Missouri's primary is also on Super Duper Tuesday - but the voter registration deadline was yesterday, so if you're not already registered, you're out of luck. I encourage you to go if you are, though - it might well matter this year!)
WSU panel to take on recent court ruling on school integration
In June, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled in two joint cases that the use of race in student-assignment policies by the school districts in question violated the rights of the white petitioners whose children were denied admission to schools of their choice. The 5-4 decision left Americans wondering where we go from here. A panel discussion hosted by WSU and its Office of Multicultural Affairs will look at what comes next from 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, in Miller Concert Hall, Duerksen Fine Arts Center, WSU campus. It is free and open to the general public.
The Voter Coalition will meet on Tuesday, 8/28, at 7:00 PM at St Paul's Lutheran (925 N Waco).
Agenda: Consideration what action or series of actions the coalition might take in response to the County Commission's decision to set aside $100,000 in contingency funding for election enhancements for the 2008 election season.
Unfortunately, it looks as if the Election Commissioner is not interested in using this money to help educate voters and make the polls more accessible.
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