Taking a tip from the American colonists of 1776, Mike Bloomberg doesn’t want to pay taxes in Russia, claiming his company does not have a regular representative office in the country. For the first time, a U.S. company working in Russia has been accused of tax evasion by taking advantage of an intergovernmental agreement on [...]

english.pravda.ru (1) Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry criticized the annual report from the US State Department about the support of democracy in the world. Official spokesmen for the ministry said that some politicians from the US administration use double standards in forming their opinions about the development of democracy in Russia. “As for the criticism of [...]

From Spanishnews.es The tension between the Spanish and the British security forces stretched over another few degrees, when Spain openly refused to allow the Royal Air Force to use the airspace near Gibraltar for military exercise purposes. A British forces spokesman said that last Wednesday was the second day of training exercises and 6 British [...]

This report just in from a U.S. Army colonel. Subject: Russian Navy captures Somalian pirates. http://true-turtle.livejournal.com/85315.html This is part of the videotape showing the Russian Navy commandos on the Somalian pirate ship. You may remember that the pirates captured a Russian oil tanker. The EuroUnion navy that patrols these waters could not interfere because there [...]

Russia’s Medvedev Says He May Seek Second Term As U.S. shrugs, Bosnia lurches toward disaster again | SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Nearly a year after Vice President Joe Biden flew here to reassure Bosnians that the U.S. was back and would try to help overhaul their dysfunctional made-in-U.S.A. political system, ethnic tensions are rising again, morale [...]

The Moscow Times……………………….Solidarity ‘Godmother’ Walentynowicz Dies in Katyn Plane Crash Anna Walentynowicz, a Solidarity activist whose firing started the Gdansk shipyard strike in 1980 and helped spread trade-union activism against the communist regime in Poland, died in the Katyn plane crash in Russia. Walentynowicz accompanied Polish President Lech Kaczynski and other senior officials on the [...]

To read any of the articles adumbrated here, just CLICK HERE. Reform of financial services supervision ‘being watered down’ Barroso says the EU’s international partners are not doing enough to introduce regulation. Agreement on targets for jobs and growth Leaders back Europe 2020 aims, but no targets for education and tackling poverty. Markets react well [...]

If anything is worse that the pure existence of police, then it is a cop trying to defend an elderly woman’s right to a subway seat. Moscow Times…………..A Moscow police colonel was detained after he fired two shots from an air gun, injuring two people, amid an argument with a male passenger who refused to [...]

The British Parliament has come out strongly against homeopathy. Now, it is true that homeopathy is nothing but a load of garbage with wings but the fact that Brit politicians have condemned it adds nothing to what we know. Here is an article I have ripped off from British Standard without asking permission to reprint [...]

Geert Wilders is a well-kown Dutch politician and leader of the Party for Freedom, a political party in The Netherlands. His controversial 2008 film about Islam in the Netherlands, Fitna, resulted in his prosecution by the Amsterdam Court of Appeal for what it said was “the incitement to hatred and discrimination”. Wilders has been under [...]

Let’s call this, “Keeping it all in the family.” From Moscow Times – Billionaire Sells Movie Chain to Daughter. LOS ANGELES — Sumner Redstone’s holding company, National Amusements, is selling its Russian theater chain Kinostar to Redstone’s daughter and other investors in a further move to pay down its debts. The 86-year-old billionaire media mogul [...]

From Amnesty International Lithuania admits existence of secret prison 22 December 2009 For the first time a European government has admitted that a secret “black site” existed on its territory, after a Lithuanian parliamentary committee concluded that a CIA secret prison operated in Lithuania during the US-led “war on terror”. Lithuania admits existence of secret [...]

The USA system of recycling – we supply the material, the labor and the capitalists make the profits. The Recycling Myth bringing our refuse and the time it costs us – is a filthy, slimy capitalist trick to exploit us – and we fall for it. Meanwhile, the receivers of our goods cash in and [...]

If you think the USA has allies fighting alongside it, think again. If you live in a large urban city in Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain, or Poland and you are worrying about crime, influenza, auto accidents or other forms of dying, join your country’s army, insist on being shipped to Afghanistan and [...]

In the USA, people are proud of being brainwashed into the recycling myth. We supply the materials (free), we supply the labor (free) and we waste our time, too. Meanwhile, the capitalists cash in on this boondoggle. Did you really think it was nonprofit? Things are much worse in Sweden, which has abandoned its capitalist/socialism [...]

According to Witness Confident, an organzation devoted to tracking such matters, 850,000 people in the U.K. were attacked last year by strangers, and 80% of the cases went unreported. The report focuses on the fact that most of these crimes were observed by people who walked away and did not want to “get involved.” In [...]

Ever wonder why Hungary does not dominate the Nobel Peace Prizes or any other prizes, for that matter? Wonder, no more. Hungary still works in a 19th century conception of democracy – you count up who is on side X and who who is on side Y, and declare majority rules. In this way, if [...]

Expatica (Spain) Spain’s recession drags on as the gross domestic product shrank 1.0 percent in its fourth consecutive contraction. Madrid – Spain’s recession-hit economy shrank further in the second quarter, down by 1.0 percent from the first three months of the year, official data showed Friday………..Spain remains mired in its first recession for 15 years, [...]

In Spain, faced with plunging orders, merchants across this recession-wracked country are starting to do something that many of them have never done: cut retail prices. It prices stay as they are, things will stay terrible. If prices rise, more people will not be able to afford the ordinary goods that sustain life. If prices [...]

Who would have guessed it is not illegal for government officials to offer bribes to foreign officials? Do you really need a new law to make that illegal in the U.K.? And perhaps they will soon make it illegal to kick babies in their heads or to poison them. Chances are that no specific statute [...]

Moscow Times..……………………For some people, Gunter Sachs is more famous for his playboy lifestyle in the 1960s and for being the former husband of Brigitte Bardot than for his contribution to the world of art, but that is the focus of the new exhibition “Gunter Sachs. Photographer and Collector” at the State Museum-Reserve Tsaritsyno, part of [...]

Thousands march in Spain against liberal abortion laws. Tens of thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators took to the streets of the Spanish capital on Sunday to protest government plans to liberalise the abortion laws. Expatica.com (Spain) ……….MADRID – The protestors massed outside the Equality ministry, which is behind the draft law, and marched through central Madrid [...]

Elena Baturina lost $3.3 billion last year of her own personal fortune and is now requesting a loan from the Russian government to put her back where she belongs. Elena’s request is “linked with the realisation of our tasks in developing a private-state partnership,” she told the Russian business daily Vedomosti in a rare interview. [...]

Women’s groups across Germany are preparing protests on Friday to highlight the yawning pay gap between the sexes, one of the worst in Europe. The date, March 20, has not been chosen by chance. According to the protest organizers, this is the date up to which German women on average had to work this year [...]