Your plainly TRAITORS and GANGSTERS have no even match with ours! The situation around new protective taxes on foreign cars quickly comes to major civil unrest in the Far East of our country. In contrast people are protesting against protective tax rising because many of them can loose their jobs in car trading small business. Government denies revert pulled throughout parliament new tax regulation and send Moscow riot police forces to suppress any resistance while our kremlin controlled media trying to silence, corrupt and pervert any information spreading from there.  So you cannot see any links to this event in official media, so sad to us :(

Separatist intentions have grown at most higher level in past 90 years.
Moscow has never been so close to lost control of Russian Far East. 
Every single spark can blow this big gunpowder barrel away.

Look at the pictures in this link. Sorry no English comment available as this is live journal of one Russian witness.  There are main square of Vladivostok city and scenes of violence committed by Moscow riot police forces.  This peaceful meeting and dance around Christmas tree became bloody show of power.

http://matroskin-cat.livejournal.com/83052.html#cutid1

It’s a disgrace and shame :(

As you can see from the figures I posted GM (and all the Big Three) need to sell higher profit margin vehicles in the US to make money. There just isn’t enough money to be made selling Cobalts vs Corollas. Their cost per car is so much higher because of those legacy costs, mainly healthcare for 400,000 retirees in GM’s case. Toyota doesn’t have that problem because in Japan they face no foreign competition and the government pays for not just their retirees’ healthcare but their employees too.

The UAW finally convinced all three US car makers to turn over healthcare to the union, and are scheduled to do it by 2010. The union with a bigger pool from all three manufacturers will be able insure them at a lower cost but it’s a stopgap measure at best.

We need to nationalize our healthcare system so the Big Three and all US manufacturers can compete using US workers. GM and Ford build plenty of good small cars in Europe and make money on them there. But their US workers are too expensive for them to break even on small cars here, not because of wildly inflated UAW wages but because they’re stuck paying healthcare for their workers and retirees here. Unlike any other manufacturing nation on earth.
That’s not the immediate problem. No car manufactures are making money this year. Prius sales are off 48% from 11/07 to 11/08. Toyota says they’ll lose money this year too. Nissan announced last week they’re cutting production another 78,000 from the 225,000 they slashed already this year.

The foreign manufacturers and Ford have a bigger financial cushion to ride out the credit crisis. GM and Chrysler have been peddling as fast they can to transform themselves but the double whammy of whipsawing gas prices and the credit crunch have hit them very hard.

There was an old woman who had one snow shoe,
but needed some groceries, oh what to do?

She pulls on her slippers, [they have rubber soles]
climbs in daughters car and away slowly goes.

The roads are there somewhere, beneath all the snow,
but not clearly seen, so the travel is slow.

At last in the distance the store does appear.
We slide into parking, “happy day, we are here!”

When along comes a Hummer and slows for a bit,
blocking cars and good people, then goes in a skid.

On people, on shoppers, on managers all!
To the lot, to the Hummer,
to the push, watch the wall!

And the monster does move, just a bit, then a tad,
and there’s cars skidding by,
and we know this is bad.

Then finally it moves and we let out a cheer!
We can all go in shopping, the roadway is clear!

But the fun’s still not over, the driver climbs down,
steps on some ice and goes spinning around.

Down comes the driver, down comes her pride,
and we stifle a chuckle, watching her ride!

Finally she stops, and after a while,
“Can someone please help me?” She asks with a smile.

And help her we do, to the store, where it’s dry.
But she stops and bends over, she’s starting to cry!

Stopping in wonder we ask, “Can we help?”
But she doesn’t answer, just lets out a yelp.

Slowly she turns, and the yelp turns to wail,
“Oh my gosh this is awful, I’ve broken a nail!”

Well we leave her to suffer and go to our carts,
finish our shopping and pay with glad hearts!

And I’m told by a checker, the day finally cleared.
And the shoppers and workers went home for good cheer.

And a nice wealthy lady was helped on a bus,
while others stood asking, “What’s all the fuss?”

Now always remember, when life gets you down,
we still have tomorrow! Still hope does abound!

We’ll figure a way to make things work out.
Of that we are certain, of that there’s no doubt!

We built this great nation, we can do it again!
And the sorrow will pass and we’ll once again win!

And while were about it, remember one thing,
even the wealthy have something to bring.

A future that’s honest in finding new ways.
In fairness we’ll teach them, oh happy days!

And those who wont try will just fall by the way,
until they can learn only effort means pay!

So if life leaves you bummed,
makes you feel things aren’t fair,
Just remember my friends, the Hummer’s still there!

Anybody got a shovel?

Why would I want to keep supporting a job sector that is a big contributor to the current crisis? Money flows, everything is great, money dries up, and idiots think that saving a disease will keep the world turning.

If the US would convincingly renounce any intention whatsoever to go to war against Iran, ever, or to undertake or support any more aggressions in the Middle East for Israel’s benefit, that would do more than anything else possibly could to keep gas prices down.

Our “special relationship” with Israel is the single greatest cause of our acute oil and gas crisis, because Israel demands that we threaten to destroy the very countries whose good will our own self-interest would otherwise compel us to cultivate.

I’m all for developing alternatives to fossil fuels in the long run, but let’s not kid ourselves. Last summer’s gigantic spike in oil prices had one cause only, and that was the sudden spike in threats of war against Iran - and that is something that Israel and nobody else wants or needs - except for American politicians in both parties who fear Israel’s powerful supporters.

I think we are not even close to ending our Colossal stupidity.  We’re going to do any and everything we can to hang onto our stupid way of consuming and living like there’s no piper to be paid.  When the piper comes there will be hell to pay.  I probably won’t live to see it, but that brings cold comfort for the future generations who’ll no doubt ask how we could have been so completely stupid.