Re: nut-job zhirinovsky on britain:

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On Sep 29, 6:32 pm, "Henry Alminas" <halmi...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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On Sep 28, 10:23 pm, Vladimir Makarenko <makar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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oh yeah... it was mugabe! is he on the mtrp list of heroes?

Yes, together with Halonen of Finland. She went to the Finno-Russian
border a couple of days ago, saw the 30-mile-long truck queue
waiting to
get across and proclaimed that the situation looks much better now
(implying: after she had talked to Putin about the problem).

Yesterday the Finnish customs authorities said that the congestion
was
worse than ever and threatened to close the border altogether.

So much for our president's grasp of reality.

30 miles? holy... i thought it was bad at the canadian-US border.

There's an article and a picture here:
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Customs+consider+closing+border+to+c...

Hah, so to put it mildly Mr. Anderson was not exactly sticking to
the
facts when he was blaming Russians for border truck queue, as the
veryFinnish newspaper writes: "The Russian customs service has been

increasing its manpower at the crossings, but it is not possible to
increase the capacity of the crossings very much any more."

So the situation is in reality the following: out of pure greed
Finland
allows transit to Russia cargo flow through its seaports unrestricted
(which brings in very nice dough) which overwhelmingly exceeds transit
capacity of only few narrow highway crosspoints into Russia. After
collecting fat money Finland turns ugly though and starts to scream :
now get the *** out of here! And blame Russians for long queues of
trucks.

If Finland doesn't want that jam - it should have long ago
imposed
restrictions on amount of cargo transit to Russia be unloaded in its
ports. But then it would lose big money. SO? - let's make money and
blame Russians!

VM.-

Well in this case we do must blame Russia. That traffic is money for
Russia, too - and first hand for Russia, finns collect just small
traffic fee. And put a place of size of a football field under asphalt
plus five trailer homes for customs staff - it would be done in a week
- and kept till new bigger border crossing will be completed.

Tsk, tsk - I guess I will just have to take
the bull by his horns and provide a solution
for the Finns.

Everyone knows why the truck lines exist at
russkie borders - not just in Finland.

It is the time that the truckers take to negotiate
the amount of the bribe that they will pay to
the russkie border gua - aah - bandits. Thus the
russkies have every incentive to make the
wait ever longer so the truckers will pay
just *anything* to get the hell out of there.

My solution is simple and will provide several
benefits. Have the russkie border bandits get
together and agree on a standard bribe. This
bribe level would be operative regardless of
which bandit had his hand out at any given
moment and might even be used by russkie
bandit nests along the borders of other
countries. The bribe would, presumably,
vary with the nature of the material transported
by any given truck. Thus one could have an
"agricultural" category, an optical category,
an "electronic" category etc. etc.

Think of the time saving. The truck pulls up
in the russkie nest and the trucker says "agricultural"
and presents the outstretched russkie hand with
the appropriate amount of euros. Then he
changes into low gear and rumbles on.

The advantage to the hard-working russkies would
be that he would need only make to movements.
Stick out the hand for the money - then use the
other hand to wave the truck through.

The advantage to the western trucking company is
that they could build the bribe charges right into
the trucking bill.

Win - win - for everybody.

On the other hand the shippers could send the stuff
through St. Pete and have 30% of each shipment
disappear right then and there.

It is a russkie choice.

Best - - Henry-


You may be very close to truth, Henry - it is my own experience in
Soviet-time Lithuanian - Polish border. Perestroika had just made
visiting other countries possible and lines on borders were enormous -
my worst was 4 days (I'm not a truck driver, I talk about passanger
cars). But if you give 50 bucks, escort car guide you directly to the
checkpoint. (To understand the price correctly - medium salary in SU
was about 20 bucks back then)



I think this sick fantacies exchange is OK as long as two of you do not give it a try in real life. Then you will start exchange real knowledge on Russian prison conditions.

VM.
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