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Tag Archives: Vladimir Putin
down the slippery slope of the golan
Well, he was supposed to be the savior of Canada. They, the liberal party dragged him out of Harvard and basically said it would be cake-walk to 24 Sussex Drive, a formality, get inside to Ignatieff’s ego and off they … Continue reading
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Tagged Adad Hannah, Bashar Al Assad, Celeste Holm, ezra levant, gericault raft of the medusa, Golan Heights border violation, Haim Waxman, John Wayne Cast a Giant Shadow, Kate Middleton, Kate Middleton field hockey, Kirk Douglas Cast a Giant Shadow, Michael Ignatieff, Stephen Sondheim, Syrian Civil War, Theodore Gericault, Thorstein Veblen, Vladimir Putin
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buy and sell: homecomings and goings
Jesse Livermore was a well known Wall Street stock broker in his time who made fortunes and lost them on a recurrent, even casual basis. His exploits were best documented in Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, from Edwin Lefevre, which … Continue reading
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Tagged Ariel Sharon, Aviv Kochavi, bashir al-assad, bashir assad regime, Beaufort Battles Israel, Bshir Assad, Charles Mackay, Durban Conference, Edwin Lefevre, Harriet Metz Noble, Hasan Turkmani, Jesse Livermore, Menachem Begin, Oslo accords, Pope John Paul II Syria, Putin visits Western Wall, Qassem Suleimani, Syria Bashir Assad, Vladimir Putin
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putin: land of toska and dousha
Russians have always had a thread of excess, showing itself strong and clear against the somber texture of their existence. Extreme activity. Extreme laziness. Extreme appetite. The extremely excessive. The extravagant Slav temperament seems to be traced to all classes … Continue reading
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Tagged Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ilya Repin, john stackhouse, john stackhouse globe and mail, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Vladimir Putin, vladimir putin election 2012, zinaida serebryakova
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release from moderation
Nothing exceeds like excess. It colors a somber Russian landscape and its offshoot eccentricities perhaps aided and abetted by the extreme and often inhospitable climate. For Russia whether Czarist, Communist and new Czarist appears to have no middle ground, only … Continue reading
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Tagged Catherine the Great, Emil Jannings, General Potemkin, Grigori Potemkin, johann-baptist lampi the elder, Josef von Sternberg, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, potemkin village, putin election 2012, tsarskoe selo, Vladimir Putin
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the too real to be true deal
We seem to be on the verge of a new era of populism, a search for someone to rise up on behalf of the little guy and gal like- Obama was rhetorically pining to do before getting knock-kneed- and defying … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Potter, bob hepburn, Gov. Rick Perry, harry truman turnip day, herman cain, joe klein, john huntsman, john mcain straight talk express, joseph heath, Joseph Schumpeter, Lionel Trilling, Marcel Duchamp, Oprah Winfrey, sarah palin moose hunting, Stephen Harper, Vladimir Putin
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they don’t like mondays
Are wars simply a matter of sex and psychology: irrational alpha males grabbing the bananas and lovemaking at the top of the tree with his submissive sweet fruit? Or in conflict conducted in a purposeful manner by thinking and reflective … Continue reading
from russia with blood: soul on ice
A Russian soul on ice somewhere freezing somewhere in a clearly unromantic wasteland of the north?Valery Popov: “he killed six people, but his soul was pure.” Russian history, its tragedies, sufferings and near fatalistic natures can lead one to conclude … Continue reading
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Tagged alexei varmalov, Dostoyevsky, Grigori Rasputin, harrison salisbury, isaac babel, jeff stein, K.R. Bolton, mikhail bulgakov, nikolai ignatiev, pushkin, russia china conflict, Sergei Eisenstein, Solzhenitysn, valery popov, Vladimir Putin
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