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Here, take a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkzi6-zz55M And EU with US are trying to mess up with what is happening over there! In most of EU countries if rioters start beating and showering police officers with Molotov cocktails like in Ukraine, the police will deal with the riot briefly and...

Dear Sergey, it's the same with Ukrainians forcibly drafted into the army now being sent to Lugansk. Their wives are crying too. Either you're provocateur or you have Down syndrome. If you are Russian yourself, you have nothing to do in the thread at all. Sane people understand the difference betwe...

I think Putin has been badly advised in this episode , surely it would have made more sense to say that it was a mistake, rogue elements in the army, and the offending soldiers have been shipped off to the Gulags. Going straight on the defensive was not the best move and he has managed to unite the...

Barnsley wrote:

touchring wrote:From Libya to Egypt to Iraq to Syria, there's no good outcome after a Western supported coup.
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Not sure there are many positive outcomes for coups supported by anyone not just the west.

You're right, I was just thinking about the total anarchy situation in Syria.

Mother called 2 days ago: told me to write down brother's house address because she is making her will giving all property to me. What can I do? The city is completely blocked by terrorists. Nobody is let out, unless they volunteer to go to Russian "refugee camp" (same as prison) Called once again ...

We can see you're going through hard times, but it won't be easy, most people in Singapore don't even know that Ukraine is not part of Russia, just like many people in the West (although by a lesser degree) also don't know that Singapore is not part of China. I assume you're using "most" with a dos...

We can see you're going through hard times, but it won't be easy, most people in Singapore don't even know that Ukraine is not part of Russia, just like many people in the West (although by a lesser degree) also don't know that Singapore is not part of China. I assume you're using "most" with a dos...

We can see you're going through hard times, but it won't be easy, most people in Singapore don't even know that Ukraine is not part of Russia, just like many people in the West (although by a lesser degree) also don't know that Singapore is not part of China. In other words, many here sees the confl...

Of course Barnsley is right. Singaporeans may very well shoot themselves in the foot in 2016. But voting out the majority party does not a revolution make. This won't happen, at least for the 2016 election. If you look at the presidential election, many thought that the opposition candidate would g...

History has proved that the combination of extreme capitalism + authoritarianism don't work for long. It breeds corruption (cronyism and abuse of power is also considered corruption in many countries), stifles creativity, creates social instability and lowers social morals, promotes elitism and fin...

Now, the key problem with both productivity and the near-mythical 'innovation' here is the mindset of the workforce. I've been temporarily staying in quite a few countries and what strikes me the most about today's Singapore is that almost nobody seems to believe in what they do. I don't know if we...

In the medium term, as the economies in the West improve, interest rates will rise, the US$, Euro and Pound will appreciate significantly against Asian currencies, people will start leaving for better pay back home regardless of how "pro-foreigner" the government policies are in Singapore. This is ...

Off topic. I was born in Feb 1980. Looks like I am Gen X according to wiki. Missed Gen Y, damn :( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_y Then I'm many years older than you. ;) I bear no illusions that authoritarian governments can be changed by an outsid...

Last time we recruited for a position here we had similar problems. One candidate refused to come for an interview unless we agreed to his minimum salary requirements before we even spoke to him. He even emailed back to revise the figure upwards. Needless to say we declined to ask him in. He's prob...

May be thats the reason why Dubai ranks so high. Petrol is cheap and cars are cheap. Who cares about congestion, when you can have a land rover for yourself :cool: I dont mind spending another hour on the road if I can drive that car, because I can then drop my wife to office or drop my kids to sch...