"Russia’s 2-month heat wave breaks" by Associated Press | August 20, 2010
MOSCOW — A cold front hit western Russia yesterday, ending the exhausting two-month spell of heat and clearing skies over Moscow from suffocating smog.
Latest related: Moscow's Poisonous Smog Still Present
Colder temperatures and rains are expected to help firefighters put out the wildfires that have bedeviled Russia through the summer....
The heat wave unseen in 130 years on record has triggered thousands of wildfires in Russia.
It bothers me that they attribute it to heat and just leave it there, as if just hot will makes things spontaneously combust.
Drought has cost Russia a third of its wheat crop, prompting the government to ban wheat exports through the year’s end.
More than 50 people have died in the wildfires across Russia, and more than 2,000 homes have been destroyed.
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"Putin ousts forestry chief over wildfires" by Associated Press | August 21, 2010
MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday dismissed Russia’s forestry agency chief, who had come under steady criticism over the failure to prevent the summer’s devastating wildfires.
We promote them here in AmeriKa.
Putin dismissed Rosleskhoz head Alexei Savinov and replaced him with his deputy, Viktor Maslyakov. The prime minister has previously criticized the agency for failing to efficiently use the government funds allocated for fire prevention.
A heat wave unprecedented in 130 years of record-keeping has triggered thousands of deadly wildfires in Russia.
Heavy rain drenched the Russian capital yesterday, helping firefighters battle the remaining wildfires around the city.
You never saw such a beautiful sight!!
A cold front that hit western Russia has ended the two-month heat wave and cleared skies over Moscow from smog. Temperatures in the city fell from nearly 90 degrees Fahrenheit to 48 degrees Fahrenheit in two days....
Wow! That outdoes New England's fickle mercury!
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Time to start the agenda-planting again!
"Celebrated Russian seed bank struggles for its land, survival" by Irina Titova, Associated Press | August 22, 2010
PAVLOVSK, Russia — The world’s first seed bank survived World War II thanks to 12 Russian scientists who chose to starve to death rather than eat the grain they were saving for future generations.
Just preparing you for the future, readers, like all the apocalypse movies? Better go out and shop-and-spend right away!
It's amazing how once the fires reached the radioactive landscape my yo-yo MSM dropped the coverage -- and then, thank the heavens, the rains came.
Now the Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry’s seed bank is in danger again, this time because of court-approved plans to rip up its vast fields of genetically diverse plants and build fancy homes on the prime real estate they occupy near St. Petersburg.
I can't say as I am for that.
International organizations dedicated to agricultural diversity have appealed to President Dmitry Medvedev to save the Pavlovsk Agricultural Station, which they say could be crucial for sustaining fruit crops worldwide as climate change and other threats weaken existing varieties.
You see, right there you lose me.
We have geese flying overhead right now, the last two winters have been record-breaking brutal, last year we didn't even have a summer, and the southern hemisphere -- not that the Globe would tell you -- is suffering a record-breaking winter.
Pile some globalist agenda-pushers into a lying, agenda-pushing MSM newspaper and it could be God's own truth and I wouldn't believe.
The LYING AmeriKan MSM has POISONED the SEED of the RELATIONSHIP, if you will.
Notice how they never focus on the LIFE-DESTROYING GMOs that are killing bees, bats, and doing God knows what else to wildlife out there.
Medvedev has ordered an investigation, but with the first plot of station land to go on the auction block on Sept. 23, scientists worry that a decision may come too late. “If we lose those lands . . . many kinds of plants will become extinct forever,’’ said Fyodor Mikhovich, head of Pavlovsk Agricultural Station.
I'm not trying to be cold or cruel here; however....
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Plus he would be out of a job, right?
The agricultural station is facing the loss of 225 acres on which it grows one of the world’s largest field collections of fruits and berries, including almost 1,000 types of strawberries from 40 countries, 300 varieties of cherries, and almost 900 kinds of black currants. It also has a rich variety of grasses and grains, though the institute’s larger grain fields are located elsewhere.
As many as 90 percent of the plants are no longer found anywhere else in the world. Most of them are old varieties no longer in use, but the Vavilov Institute maintains them in case they will be useful in the future for developing new varieties....
That kind of talk scares me; however, notice there is NO CONCERN over dropping WMD on people or littering countrysides with Depleted Uranium as we wage the "War on Terror."
The federal fund that oversees residential housing construction won court approval this summer to take over the land, which it insists contains nothing of value.
Did they declare eminent domain like they do here in AmeriKa?
Fund spokesman Andrei Tikhonov said specialists visited the site several times and found nothing but weeds on one land plot and mowed grass on the other....
At this point my entusiasm for the story is waning, and I now trust this problem to be resolved by the Russians.
I think we all can see why it is in my paper.
He said the agricultural station had petitioned three years ago to use the same land plots for housing development, but was denied. Tikhonov accused the station’s management of being motivated by its own commercial interests....
The engines of society.
Commerce even trumps terrorists; otherwise we would have a locked-down border inspection system that searched every truck, car, and anal cavity.
That is how you can tell that government knows terror is really a tool to yank the Pavlovian AmeriKan public around while advancing the agenda of control and silently ripping them off and diverting them.
On the one hand we are told costs are no object when we must wage war in far away lands and kill people who never did anything to us, while on the other hand we can not completely secure ourselves from terrorists without hurting commerce.
Well, which is going to be?
The BUCK or the SWORN PROTECTION of the American people?
I thought there was NO COST or BURDEN TOO GREAT for our government there.
After all, they have lied us into two mas-murdering occupations over it.
Don't read me wrong, readers; I DO NOT WANT the TOTAL STATE of TYRANNY!
I am being SARCASTIC and showing you HOW RIDICULOUS is the DAILY PABLUM pushed forth by our newspapers -- especially when you consider the fact that THEY KNOW "terrorism" is a GOVERNMENT CREATED, DIRECTED, and FUNDED ENTERPRISE!
Anyway, back to the wheat fields of the Soviet Uni...., 'er, Russia.
An international appeal to save the Pavlovsk fields was organized by the Rome-based Global Crop Diversity Trust, which launched a “Tweet Medvedev’’ campaign and put together a petition, which it said was signed by thousands of people all over the world....
I'm sorry, but I neither like or trust the name or actions.
Since when is it okay for outsiders to meddle in local affairs?
Paper gets pretty made when they interfere in state politics here!
“Russia is currently being ravaged by the hottest summer on record. That is just a taste of changes to come, and crop diversity will be a vital weapon in the fight to produce enough food in future.’’
I'm tired of the terrorism of the globalists and their mouthpiece MSM as well as the war lingo, I really am!
Cary Fowler, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, said it was “a bitter irony that the single most deliberately destructive act against crop diversity could be about to happen in Russia of all places — the country that invented the modern seed bank.’’
That's the taste I'm getting every morning when I read a Boston Globe.
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Yup, time to back to the beginning and reseed.
"Russia marks 50 years since dogs’ space trip" by Associated Press | August 20, 2010
MOSCOW — Russia remembered two unlikely national heroes yesterday — a pair of skinny street mutts who moved the Soviet Union into the lead of the space race when they became the first living creatures to circle the Earth and come back alive.
Animals are sacrificed for humans all the time, every day.
The Aug. 19, 1960, mission by Belka and Strelka was key in preparations for the flight of Yuri Gagarin, who became the first man in space about a year later.
It showcased the Soviet lead in space exploration and turned the two dogs into global celebrities. Celebrations of the mission’s 50th anniversary topped national newscasts yesterday.
Gotta get their mind off the radioactive fires.
By 1960, Soviet space engineers had designed a returnable spacecraft capable of carrying a human into orbit, but they needed to run an extensive program of animal tests first, and many of the dogs died during testing.
We test all sorts of beauty products on animals as well as slaughter them for food.
What is a few dogs terrorized to death in the name of science, 'eh?
Only strays were picked up for such flights — doctors believed they were able to adapt quicker to harsh conditions — and they were very small so they could fit into the tiny capsules.
I'm not trying to be flippant; however, imagine you had been abducted and sent up in a rocket ship. Would you like that?
Laika became the first dog to orbit Earth in a nonreturnable capsule but died of overheating after her 1957 launch. Two other dogs died in a July 1960 launch when their rocket exploded seconds after blastoff.
But we CAN'T let the PLANTS DIE!!!
We can POISON THEM with PESTICIDES and screw with their genetics, by by gawd don't kill 'em!
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Let's come back down to earth, shall we?
Let's reseed some SPIES!!
"Son of Russian spies could return to US for school" by Alex Katz and David Filipov, Globe Correspondent | Globe Staff | August 21, 2010
MOSCOW — The elder son of the two Cambridge residents who were living a double life as Russian spies may be trying to return to study in the United States, but his younger brother plans to stay in Moscow, according to an official from the Cambridge school he attended before his parents were deported....
Oh, they HAVE TO DENY that VISA!
It was unclear whether the US government would allow the son of Russian spies, who originally used false identities to enter the country, to return to the United States.
See: Slow Saturday Special: Stupid Spy Stories
Sad, isn't it?
A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman suggested yesterday that Tim and Alex Foley were free to travel from Russia. “It is their choice,’’ he said, declining to comment further....
Before his parents’ arrest, Tim Foley had written on a George Washington University blog that he was born in Toronto and grew up in Paris and Boston and that he speaks French and German and was learning Chinese. He said he was majoring in international affairs with a concentration in Asian studies and described plans to spend a semester in Beijing.
And here he was RIGHT in the HEART of the nation's capital!
The International School of Boston, which Alex attended, is a private high school where some classes are taught in French and the emphasis is on “shaping global citizens.’’
I wonder what national security secrets the kid was able to learn!
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The spies have largely disappeared from public view since their removal from the United States.
And yet this is my above-the-fold Metro lead!
Shortly after their arrival in Russia, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that he had met with them and that they had sung patriotic songs together....
What?
I'm ready to GO TO WAR WITH THEM, aren't you?
Btw, what about the FOUR SPIES we got BACK?
