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2010-04-09 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by tipper 2010-04-09 12:30|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 "Louis Capet is Kaput"

Posted by mojo 2010-04-09 16:47|| 2010-04-09 16:47|| Front Page Top

#2 "We are living like Africans now ... we are not blacks ... When this was the USSR there were factories, good factories ... there were sports centers ... good schools."

Posted by john frum 2010-04-09 17:05|| 2010-04-09 17:05|| Front Page Top

#3 I saw that.
They don't like anybody, do they?
So when do they start bitching that nobody's coming in to clean up the damage for them?

Posted by tu3031 2010-04-09 19:03|| 2010-04-09 19:03|| Front Page Top

#4 A placard hangs in a prominent spot on the building. Black-painted words, in Russian so that foreigners like me can read them. "Dirty Jews and all those like Maxim Bakiyev have no place in Kyrgyzstan."

One wonders if there has ever been so much as a single Jew in all of Kyrgyzstan ever. Lovely people.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-04-09 20:43|| 2010-04-09 20:43|| Front Page Top

#5 TW: There has been a jewish community in central Asia until recently. See the Wikipedia entry on Bukharan Jews for more information.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-04-09 21:25|| 2010-04-09 21:25|| Front Page Top

#6 ION NOT-NECESSARILY-UNRELATED, NEWS KERALA > [India]CHIDAMBARAM: MAOISTS PROCURING ARMS FROM ACROSS BORDERS.

CHINA + MYANMAR + BANGLADESH + LOCAL UNDERWORLD-MAFIA + WAR BOOTY + OTHER = OVERT OPEN BAZAARS for the purchase of illegal arms.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-04-09 22:25|| 2010-04-09 22:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Lest we fergit, NET [old] > AFGHAN, PAK WARS IS AMERICA'S "GAZA"? [Palestine = Palestnians] + ISLAMISTS/MILITANTS ENGAGE IN ARMS TRADE ACROSS SOUTHEAST ASIA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-04-09 22:30|| 2010-04-09 22:30|| Front Page Top

#8 TW: There has been a jewish community in central Asia until recently. See the Wikipedia entry on Bukharan Jews for more information.

The things Rantburgers know and share! From the Snowy Thing's link:

Most Bukharan Jews lived in the Emirate of Bukhara (currently Uzbekistan and Tajikistan), while a small number lived in Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and some other parts of the former Soviet Union. In the Emirate of Bukhara, the largest concentrations were in Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, and Khokand. In Tajikistan, they similarly were mainly concentrated in the capital, Dushanbe.

Prior to the Partition of India, some Bukharan Jews could be found among the Afghan population of Peshawar, a city in what is now Pakistan. After partition and the creation of Israel, nearly all of these Jews left for Israel and other countries. One synagogue still exists in Peshawar, and there are two main synagogues and several Jewish cemeteries that were annexed by local Muslims and still function in the Pakistani port city Karachi.

I no longer need wonder. The last two words of my previous post still hold, though.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-04-09 23:10|| 2010-04-09 23:10|| Front Page Top

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