Russia has decided not to import our food.

In article >,
"Pico Rico" > wrote:

> Russia has decided not to import our food.

china will

In article >, says...
>
> Russia has decided not to import our food.

Or any from the EU.

According to BBC news, large cities in Russia rely on imports for 60%
of their food supplies.

Janet UK

On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 10:55:53 -0600, squirts > wrote:

> Putin and the mafia are all cut from the same cloth. He quid pro quo's
> them as needed.

Most likely.

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Never trust a dog to watch your food.

On 8/7/2014 11:36 AM, sf wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 10:55:53 -0600, squirts > wrote:
>
>> Putin and the mafia are all cut from the same cloth. He quid pro quo's
>> them as needed.
>
> Most likely.
>
Only sharks swim with sharks.

On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 15:48:07 +0100, Janet > wrote:

>> Russia has decided not to import our food.
>
> Or any from the EU.
>
> According to BBC news, large cities in Russia rely on imports for 60%
>of their food supplies.
In a country as vast as Russia that is seriously FUD.

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Bob
www.kanyak.com

On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 09:49:45 -0700, sf > wrote:

>> >> As if they don't have enough sanctions against them already, they impose one
>> >> on themselves?
>> > These are Russians after all...
>>
>> Most of us here lived through the Cold War with the constant fear of the
>> tyrannical Soviet Union. Having known a number of Russians and seeing
>> what Russia was like before and after the Soviet regime, I came to the
>> conclusion that communism was not the major concern.... it's Russians.
>> There is something seriously wrong with them.
>
>Common Russians are un or under employed, it's cold, dark and dank -
>no fun to speak of over there, so they drink.
Cue "To his especial Friend Master Edward Dancie". It's by George
Turberville, an English poet who lived in the second half of the
1500s. He traveled to Moscow in 1568 and here is a part of his report.
(I've modernized the spelling.)

<Turberville>
My Dancie dear, when I recount within my breast
My London friends and wonted mates and thee above the rest:

I feel a thousand fits of deep and deadly woe
To think that I from land to see, from bliss to bale did go.

I left my native soil, full like a reckless man
And unacquainted of the coast among the Russians ran:

A people so passing rude, to vices vile inclined,
Folk fit to be of Bacchus' train, so quaffing is their kind.

Drink is their whole desire, the pot is all their pride
The soberest head doth once a day stand needful of a guide.

If he to banquet bid his friends, he will not shrink
On them at dinner to bestow a dozen kinds of drink.
</Turberville>

It goes on:

ftp://gutenberg.readingroo.ms/gutenb...05/7hk0410.txt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Turberville

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Bob
www.kanyak.com

On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:39:18 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> On 2014-08-07 12:49 PM, sf wrote:

> > Scary, scary dudes. Putin
> > should take his KGB training and put them out of business, but I have
> > a feeling they are what really runs the country.
>
> It has filtered into their former satellite states. One of my nieces was
> living in Estonia and a few years ago moved to Latvia and is now in one
> hell of a legal mess that she is fighting under the delusion that
> western morality and legal standards will prevail. She was backing her
> car and some old lady was quite a way back from the rear of the car,
> fell and broker her hip. She claimed to have been knocked down by the
> car. It was winter and the car was dirty but no marks in the back of the
> car from anything contacting it. The eye witness is a taxi driver who
> was sitting in a car about 200 yards down the road and facing the other
> way.
>
> When the incident initially happened the cops investigated it and told
> her that if she paid a certain amount, which worked out to about
> $10,000, the criminal investigation would be called off. She refused.
> She didn't do anything wrong. She didn't hit the old girl. So she was
> prosecuted and convicted, and is now appealing the conviction. It is a
> criminal charge, not a traffic code violation.

Sorry to hear that, sounds like she's screwed.

In Egypt, when there's an accident the two parties haggle, money
changes hands and both parties go their separate ways. I witnessed
the process.

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Never trust a dog to watch your food.