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    In China, Russia's Putin calls US a parasite

    BEIJING (AP) — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is likening the U.S. to a parasite following his meetings with Chinese leaders to push ahead energy deals and draw the once wary neighbors closer.

    In an interview with Chinese state media released Tuesday, Putin said that the U.S. itself is not a parasite for the world economy but that its dollar monopoly is. Putin said his criticism was meant to help find a solution to problems in the world economy.

    Putin's reproach came after a half-day of talks in Beijing in which he and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao reportedly agreed on pricing of oil shipped to China and vowed to push ahead on gas prices.

     
     
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    • Tamarindwalk  •  7 mths ago
      Indeed, the title of this article is misleading!
      • yeah right! 7 mths ago
        i must agree the title of the article is misleading but a currency is what establishes a sovereign state and putin is throwing down on the US dollar because the world markets trade in US dollars. so actually Putin IS calling the USA a parasite! before the internet headlines such as these are what sold newspapers.
      • geniusandinsanitywalkdown ... 7 mths ago
        Indeed, it seems that journalists are more about misinforming than informing
      • TELL ME ANOTHER LIE 7 mths ago
        Yellow journalism and that is what yahoo is all about!!!
    • Jim  •  7 mths ago
      Well Vladimar Putin have you forgotten how the US gave Russia in 1998 $200 Billion to save their economy. Funny how short term your memory is Mr. Putin. I'm not amazed at the the lack of gratitude and this really shows your true self. JR you nailed it, China ignores our patents and yet Bill Clinton allowed China to become part of the World Trade Organization in 1998. Great point Thomas as well.
      • Victoria 2 mths ago
        Why should China honour our patents. To honor something one must find it honourable. As I recall the 200 billion was part of a trade agreement, that benefited both Russia and the U.S.
        as well as a non nuke agreement.
    • Thomas  •  7 mths ago
      and if the dollar had not been there in ww 2 then what boys
    • ana2rosa2003  •  7 mths ago
      I guess Bush didn't really get a good look into Putin's soul.
      • . 7 mths ago
        His wife flashed both bushes cheeks with a red rose before leaving that the stupid did not understand
      • Nick Sendy 7 mths ago
        Bush did look into Putin's soul and saw himself.
      • eurotrasher 7 mths ago
        no bush has no soul so of course he didn,t look for one in puttin
    • BLEXUM  •  7 mths ago
      And if there is one person in the world who knows what a parasite is it's Putasite.
    • Mike B  •  7 mths ago
      I blame it on the vodka
    • Fork  •  7 mths ago
      Putin wants to reestablish the Soviet Union.
      • River 7 mths ago
        and start a new cold war...
    • S K  •  7 mths ago
      Modern Journalism:
      Headline - Putin calls U.S. a parasite.
      Reality - Putin calls monopoly of the dollar a parasite.
      *facepalm*
      • . 7 mths ago
        The 3rd house has always been a parasite like lawyers.
        The crust is a bit of knowledge is good for nothing- read no!
        90% on this forum are oozing pent up emotions by reading the heading only as they normally do I suppose so.
    • jcw  •  7 mths ago
      It is not the monetary American dollar which is parasitic, it is the parasitic nature of corruption of elected officials and mismanagement of the Federal Reserve which will prove to sink this country if left un-tethered and un-checked.
    • STEPHEN  •  7 mths ago
      Call us what you want Pukin', but what will you call us when the Chinese people are told to start walking to the north to secure the natural resources they need to build their country, because Russia has everything they need within walking distance.
    • Michael  •  7 mths ago
      Careful Russia as the world depletes its resources China just may one day roll into your country and take everything.
    • Dr. Bob  •  7 mths ago
      The parasites are outnumbering the hosts in this country.... everyone wants to be entitled to other peoples rewards of labor.....palms up are those that disagree....
    • gary c  •  7 mths ago
      We are in big trouble!

      We are not here by accident. Back in 1978, Jimmy Carter gave us his malaise
      speech to the effect that we were living beyond our means.Most Americans laughed

      at him.What fools! We wanted the reassurance of Reagans instant gratification
      and greedwhich got us 30 years of artificial bubbles. Well, here we are facing
      economic hell for ten-twenty plus more years and possibly WWIII with China over
      who will

      lead the world in the 21st century. The folks responsible for this disaster
      (neo-cons as well as Greenspan, Hank Paulson, Robert Rubin, Senator Graham of
      Texas and Larry Summers) They should be sentenced to prison for TREASON.I
      remember Senator Bernie Sanders who I have

      great respect for grilling Fed.Chairman Greenspan with intensive questioning
      back in the day, when everyone thought Greenspan could walk on water.
      Greenspan finally had to admit, under pressure!, that "his theoretical model was

      incorrect":capitalism cannot regulate itself! Sanders was the only one who knew

      this.We are paying a heavy price[much human suffering] while the guility walk
      free.History will judge Jimmy Carter a saint regardless of the propaganda spewed
      by corporate/zionists controlled media.
    • boldfinger02  •  7 mths ago
      He's said that before. Old news....
    • Yut Phut E-Gair Bah  •  7 mths ago
      Dang, I can still remember when Levi-Strauss was still making high quality jeans in America and they went for huge money in the USSR.Lets get back to cold war days,jobs back to America!! Repeal NAFTA,CAFTA,GATT and the WTO and get back to the Glass-Steagall act.
    • Alan  •  7 mths ago
      Misleading article title. Again.
    • TA  •  7 mths ago
      Well Putin..it takes one to know one??
    • ron  •  7 mths ago
      These Two Countrys Hate America They Will Set Back And Watch Innocent People Be Murdered And Do Nothing About It,And Stop Us In The Joke Of United Nations!!!!!!! PATTON WAS RIGHT WE STOPPED IN GERMANY AND WE SHOULD HAVE KEPT GOING, These 2 Countrys Deserve 1 Thing!!!!!!! Total Destruction!!!!!!!!!
    • A Yahoo! User  •  7 mths ago
      Putin is a product of the old Soviet Union. His party is ultra-nationalist; i.e. against anything not Russian. The next crisis after this economic crisis will be a cold war, again, between the Russian Federation and the West.
    • Joe  •  7 mths ago
      He's right.
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