I think I'll reproduce the Pravda post here in its entirety:
Sobering perspective
SNOPES confirms the article as Legit....
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/pravda.asp
The irony of this article appearing in the English edition of Pravda (Russian State Newspaper) defies description. American capitalism gone with a whimper It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American descent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists. Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.
First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights.
Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish.
Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America .
The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America 's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.
These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison.
Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them? These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.
Then came Barack Obama's command that GM's (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of "pure" free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.
So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a "bold" move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too.
Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK 's Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our "wise" Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.
Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper...but a "freeman" whimper. So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set "fair" maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses?
Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.
The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.. The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.
Stanislav Mishin© 1999-2009.. «PRAVDA.Ru».
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What a fascinating article, containing an awful lot of truth. Truth that people who oppose this "hope and change" do not seem to have the courage to voice.
The conclusion I'm beginning to reach is that this is a pivotal time in our young republic. The main question today is whether there are enough people in the voting population with enough wisdom and understanding about the choices we must make; will we permit our national leaders to complete their fundamental change of our government into a Marxist/Socialist model, or will we stop them before it is too late?
Supporters of the direction Obama is rushing us toward are either committed socialists themselves or want to believe they will get better wages, "free" healthcare, and an easier life because somehow Obama and the Democrats will force the greedy corporations to be more just, and the selfish rich to share more of their wealth.
The only way to stop this Obama-led juggernaut is a transformation of the Congress next year. That transformation cannot happen without public education. Somehow a strong, consistent message must be presented in a new way that doesn't appear partisan, but uses common sense to awaken those with enough critical thinking ability to understand to the destruction that is and will be wreaked on our country if we don't replace every congressman and senator that's part of the problem with citizen representatives committed to what's best for the country and upholding the Consititution.
I'm concerned about the apparent lack of strong leadership to create a narrative that translates conservative alternatives into easily understood, common sense ideas. People need to be informed about what life was like in the old Soviet Union, what life is like today in places like Cuba, Venezuela, and China. And why allowing the Obama Democrats to continue down their current path will result in suffering, oppression and loss of freedom, not a better life.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
We Deserve This
Since I've been outrageously busy, I haven't really had time for posts. Truth be told, I don't have time to do this post either, but I'm taking a few minutes anyway that I'll have to make up.
The big revelation that's hit me in the past couple of weeks is that we deserve everything that's happening. It turns out that most folks who pay the slightest attention to government and politics are blind partisans. They're not interested so much in what the government's actually doing to them, but just that their side is in charge.
That's why those who screamed bloody murder every day when Bush was in office suddenly don't really care that Obama's continuing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and doubling down on domestic surveillance programs.
The healthcare issue represents the most stark illustration of the diametrically opposed points of view between conservatives and liberals. Liberals trust the government as long as their comrades are running it, therefore the Big Brother details of the actuall health "reform" bills give them no pause. What I can't tell for certain is whether they know about the centralized control over everyone's treatment decisions, or if they simply choose to ignore that man behind the curtain simply because the Wizard of Ob tells them.
I caught Howard Dean decrying the ignorance of the opposition to the current healthcare legislation. Why, it's nothing more than offering the ability for people to buy into Medicare if they can't get acceptable coverage elsewhere. Wow, if that's all the bill is about, even I might be tempted to support it.
Problem is, the bill isn't even close to his characterization. Is that because he was putting forth his own idea as what the bill should do? Or is it that he's simply lying? I suppose you'd have to ask him; something his obsequious interviewer didn't have the temerity to do.
If you're a Democrat, you have no problem with a national healthcare panel deciding your fate if you get sick, presumably because you trust the person appointing the members of the panel. If you're not a Democrat, the very idea of some politically appointed panel of hacks deciding whether you deserve a surgery or cancer treatment or even a prescription drug sounds exactly like, well, a "death panel".
If Americans allow Healthcare and Cap & Trade to pass, then fail to remove everyone who voted for them from office, then without question, we deserve everything that happens to us as a consequence. If we lose our freedoms to a tyrannical socialist/communist government, we have noone to blame but our stupid selves.
The big revelation that's hit me in the past couple of weeks is that we deserve everything that's happening. It turns out that most folks who pay the slightest attention to government and politics are blind partisans. They're not interested so much in what the government's actually doing to them, but just that their side is in charge.
That's why those who screamed bloody murder every day when Bush was in office suddenly don't really care that Obama's continuing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and doubling down on domestic surveillance programs.
The healthcare issue represents the most stark illustration of the diametrically opposed points of view between conservatives and liberals. Liberals trust the government as long as their comrades are running it, therefore the Big Brother details of the actuall health "reform" bills give them no pause. What I can't tell for certain is whether they know about the centralized control over everyone's treatment decisions, or if they simply choose to ignore that man behind the curtain simply because the Wizard of Ob tells them.
I caught Howard Dean decrying the ignorance of the opposition to the current healthcare legislation. Why, it's nothing more than offering the ability for people to buy into Medicare if they can't get acceptable coverage elsewhere. Wow, if that's all the bill is about, even I might be tempted to support it.
Problem is, the bill isn't even close to his characterization. Is that because he was putting forth his own idea as what the bill should do? Or is it that he's simply lying? I suppose you'd have to ask him; something his obsequious interviewer didn't have the temerity to do.
If you're a Democrat, you have no problem with a national healthcare panel deciding your fate if you get sick, presumably because you trust the person appointing the members of the panel. If you're not a Democrat, the very idea of some politically appointed panel of hacks deciding whether you deserve a surgery or cancer treatment or even a prescription drug sounds exactly like, well, a "death panel".
If Americans allow Healthcare and Cap & Trade to pass, then fail to remove everyone who voted for them from office, then without question, we deserve everything that happens to us as a consequence. If we lose our freedoms to a tyrannical socialist/communist government, we have noone to blame but our stupid selves.
Monday, August 03, 2009
Birthers
There's an internet-generated controversy over Obama's birthplace that has mostly come from Joseph Farah's WorldNetDaily. Lou Dobbs at CNN did some stories on the controversy and the people behind it, and even though he's been very clear that he believes there's nothing to it, there's an outraged group of CNN'ers and other "journalists" calling for his head for simply airing the story.
There's so much obfuscation surrounding the story itself and Lou's audacious decision to give it airtime that I had to satisfy my curiosity and try to find out what all the fuss is about.
Obama of course hails from Hawaii, with a Kenyan father and hippie mother from Kansas. What the so-called "birthers" suggest is that he may indeed have been born in Kenya instead. There are apparently lots of folks in Kenya and relatives on his father's side who are saying that yes, indeed, Barry was born in Kenya.
So the question put forth by the "birthers" is simply this: If Obama was indeed born in Hawaii as he claims, why not produce the official birth certificate, hospital records, the name of the Obstetrician who delivered him, etc.? Instead, all that he has allowed to make public is an unofficial souvenier birth certificate.
The "birthers" have filed multiple Freedom of Information Act requests for his college transcripts, copies of his writings while in college, and other related documents, which for some reason have been blocked by Obama's administration from public release. The "birthers" think that he may have obtained admission as un undergraduate under a foreign student policy, which they think may support their theory that he may at least hold dual citizenship.
From my perspective, it doesn't matter much whether he was born in Hawaii or Kenya. It might result in some political advantage for Obama's opponents to find a lie over his place of birth, but I'm not sure there's any particular constitutional issue. He's a citizen simply by virtue of being the son of an American citizen, and it would seem unlikely that his election would be overturned based on whether or not he was born in Kenya or Hawaii.
On the other hand, I find it curious that he has so steadfastly refused to release the official birth certificate and other details of his birth. Why not put the whole thing to rest by simply authorizing the Hawaiian officials to release whatever the press wants to see? Fighting so hard to keep such records private does seem to suggest he has something to hide. Others have suggested it's simple arrogance - he just won't let his detractors have even the small victory of forcing him to release records if he doesn't want to.
Fighting the release of his College records makes more sense to me. It doesn't take much imagination to think of the mountains of ammunition such a release would give his opponents. There very easily could be information in those records that would reflect negatively on him, from grades to radical writings.
Why attack Lou Dobbs for simply airing the debate that many Americans are at least curious to hear? If the mission of the "birthers" is indeed a fool's errand, why does the story so enrage the monolithic journalist fraternity?
Might it be that they fear there may be a flame underneath all that smoke, and have made it their mission to snuff it out before the country catches a whiff?
How is this different than Dan Rather's reporting on the fake National Guard story about George W Bush? Even when the letter was proven to be produced on a word processor, Rather stuck with the story and claimed even though the actual letter might be a fake, that he believed the essence of the story was true in spite of absence of supporting evidence. Lou isn't even supporting the "birthers" claims, but merely airing them along with refuting claims from the other side.
Is this freedom of the press?
There's so much obfuscation surrounding the story itself and Lou's audacious decision to give it airtime that I had to satisfy my curiosity and try to find out what all the fuss is about.
Obama of course hails from Hawaii, with a Kenyan father and hippie mother from Kansas. What the so-called "birthers" suggest is that he may indeed have been born in Kenya instead. There are apparently lots of folks in Kenya and relatives on his father's side who are saying that yes, indeed, Barry was born in Kenya.
So the question put forth by the "birthers" is simply this: If Obama was indeed born in Hawaii as he claims, why not produce the official birth certificate, hospital records, the name of the Obstetrician who delivered him, etc.? Instead, all that he has allowed to make public is an unofficial souvenier birth certificate.
The "birthers" have filed multiple Freedom of Information Act requests for his college transcripts, copies of his writings while in college, and other related documents, which for some reason have been blocked by Obama's administration from public release. The "birthers" think that he may have obtained admission as un undergraduate under a foreign student policy, which they think may support their theory that he may at least hold dual citizenship.
From my perspective, it doesn't matter much whether he was born in Hawaii or Kenya. It might result in some political advantage for Obama's opponents to find a lie over his place of birth, but I'm not sure there's any particular constitutional issue. He's a citizen simply by virtue of being the son of an American citizen, and it would seem unlikely that his election would be overturned based on whether or not he was born in Kenya or Hawaii.
On the other hand, I find it curious that he has so steadfastly refused to release the official birth certificate and other details of his birth. Why not put the whole thing to rest by simply authorizing the Hawaiian officials to release whatever the press wants to see? Fighting so hard to keep such records private does seem to suggest he has something to hide. Others have suggested it's simple arrogance - he just won't let his detractors have even the small victory of forcing him to release records if he doesn't want to.
Fighting the release of his College records makes more sense to me. It doesn't take much imagination to think of the mountains of ammunition such a release would give his opponents. There very easily could be information in those records that would reflect negatively on him, from grades to radical writings.
Why attack Lou Dobbs for simply airing the debate that many Americans are at least curious to hear? If the mission of the "birthers" is indeed a fool's errand, why does the story so enrage the monolithic journalist fraternity?
Might it be that they fear there may be a flame underneath all that smoke, and have made it their mission to snuff it out before the country catches a whiff?
How is this different than Dan Rather's reporting on the fake National Guard story about George W Bush? Even when the letter was proven to be produced on a word processor, Rather stuck with the story and claimed even though the actual letter might be a fake, that he believed the essence of the story was true in spite of absence of supporting evidence. Lou isn't even supporting the "birthers" claims, but merely airing them along with refuting claims from the other side.
Is this freedom of the press?
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