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The Hard Truth; From Pravda
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 12:18 am
by Jccarlton
When I was growing up Pravda was a joke. Now Pravda is a real newspaper and the joke's on us:
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/109977-0/
When Pravda reports stuff the MSM won't we are in real trouble
Re: The Hard Truth; From Pravda
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 1:14 am
by Diogenes
Very entertaining find. The guy sounds like a Tea Partier! It is amazing that people writing for Pravda in the former soviet union has a better grasp of the reality here than those idiots in Washington.
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 1:28 am
by WizWom
"America has almost no real rail"
Heh. the CIA's world factbook gives a better view of that.
Railways:
total: 226,427 km
country comparison to the world: 1
Area:
total: 9,826,675 sq km
(which includes Alaska, but let's go with it)
That means each kilometer of rail serves 43 sq km of territory.
Russia:
Railways:
total: 87,157 km
country comparison to the world: 2
Area:
total: 17,098,242 sq km
That means each kilometer of rail serves 196 sq km of territory.
So, we're only served 4 times as well by rail as they are.
Not to mention that adding 80 cents to a gallon of gas DOES NOT kill us.
And the whole "blame and purge" cycle they predict is hilarious.
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 5:40 am
by Josh Cryer
Heh, there was a recent article showing how America's rail has saved us economically and helped us fair better than most during this global recession. I can't find it though.