No More Wikipedia for Vladimir’s Neo-Soviet Serfs
And the Republicans in Congress are on board as well. They are pushing forward the so-called Magnitsky law opposed vigorously by both Putin and Obama, ignoring Russia’s threats, and insisting that Russia not be given normal trade relations with the U.S. until it backs down from its neo-Soviet course.
An important statement regarding U.S. foreign policy will be made soon, as Hillary Clinton steps aside as secretary of State. Some Republicans are agitating against the nomination of Susan Rice as Clinton’s successor, because she is supposedly “up to her eyeballs in the Benghazi debacle.” They should reconsider. With both WaPo columnist Dana Milbank and Vladimir Putin strongly opposed to Rice, agitating for the appointment of milquetoast John Kerry, that’s more than good enough reason to strongly consider supporting Rice.
Putin knows that with Kerry as secretary of State and Obama as president, he will have clear sailing for the next four years to complete his neo-Soviet crackdown. And make no mistake: part and parcel of that crackdown is making Orthodox the state religion of Russia. It’s Putin, not Pussy Riot, who is a major threat to the Jews.
On November 3, 2012, Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev, better known as Kirill I, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, in other words the Russian pope, appeared on state-sponsored national broadcast television, specifically on a program called The Pastor’s Word. Kirill, who many believe is a former KGB operative, told the people of Russia that they should ignore the devastating failure of Putinomics because it is immoral — yes, immoral — and a contravention of God’s wishes for them to modernize and prosper. In other words, those who criticize Putin for not doing enough on the economy are not just wrong, not just unpatriotic, but they are blasphemers and agents of Satan. Any more such criticism, he bellowed, and Russia was quite likely to collapse in ruin.
That was just the appetizer, though. For the main course, Kirill served up a healthy dose of racism and imperialism. He said in no uncertain terms that Russia is a Slavic country, and that Poland was a Slavic country too, clearly implying there was no reason for the two countries to be separate. Nor, for that matter, any other Slavic countries. This in a country rapidly becoming Islamic will likely serve as the harbinger of a terrifying racist crackdown. He stopped just short of proclaiming Putin the Holy Slavic Emperor and calling for him to unite the Slavic kingdom in holy war against the non-Slavic demons, east and west.
And for dessert, Martin Scorsese’s 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ was suddenly the topic of a criminal investigation by the Russian prosecutor’s office on charges of “extremism” preferred by Kirill and his minions. Should Scorsese set foot in Russia, he may well find himself behind bars because his two-decade-old movie “insults the feeling of millions of [Christian] believers and has a negative impact on public morals.” The chilling effect on Russian artists, coming on the heels of the Pussy Riot prosecution, also instigated by Kirill, is obvious and lethal.
If a racist crackdown is imminent, it would only be part of a much wider final neo-Soviet political crackdown that is already well underway in the aftermath of Putin’s landslide “reelection” as president-for-life.
Putin has already launched a wave of arrests against the leaders of the bedraggled Russian opposition movement. When one of them fled to Ukraine seeking political asylum, he was kidnapped from the streets of Kiev by a band of KGB thugs and dragged back to Moscow, after being forced to sign a neo-Soviet “confession” upon being threatened that his children would be killed if he did not. In a classic sign of his “toughness,” when the husband of Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova traveled to see his young wife and the mother of his baby at her remote prison colony, he was summarily denied visitation.
Putin has also moved to seize absolute control over the Russian energy sector, pushing non-state interests out of the enormous Rosneft oil concern, which observers called the last bastion of market economics in Russia.
Putin needs to ratchet up his control over Russian civil society because, as I’ve documented, his economic plans are rapidly coming unraveled. His pincer movement of totalitarian crackdown combined with co-opting the Orthodox clergy is devilishly effective, and it is critical that Western leaders stand up to him before a whole new cold-war era unfolds. The reelection of Obama bodes ill for its ability to do so.
Left/libtards are envious.
Without doubt. Obama will soon have an internet “kill switch” which will allow individual sites to be shut down. It will be interesting to see how he uses it, and to watch the Liberal Lemmings cheer, thus exposing, again, their true hatred of diversity and freedom of speech.
Rezko Update: Mystery man’s true identity revealed
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Those who believe that The One is not headed down the same totalitarian path, would do well to recalculate their calculus.
Revolutionaries are the same world over, whether they hew to socialist/Marxist/communist/Islamist dictates. They aim for only one outcome – TOTAL control.
And herein lies their morphing/nexus – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/11/16/with-israel-at-war-israeli-hasbara-informational-campaigns-how-effectivenecessary-are-they-in-general-prof-paul-eidelberg-enlightens-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
And the U.S. will be headed off the same cliff, and not only in the fiscal realm.That is just the radical left’s first pit stop, in order to effectuate the rest.
Coming soon to the USA! We now have our own dictator in place, which is such a profound tragedy considering our history and constitution. How did we let it get so bad?
Delicious republican tears
Putin on his human rights record, including the now infamous prosecution of three members of the Pussy Riot art collective for an event they staged in a Moscow Orthodox cathedral.
Why would you use the word “event” for what these girls did, namely violate the rights of others. Should free-market supporters be allowed to use a union hall without permission for the purpose of mocking the organization? The two-year sentence they got might have been a bit more than I would have given but it doesn’t rise to the level of crime against humanity.
Say Bill, not that I think that’s your real name, you getting a check from Puty Poot? How much has he bought you for?
The Pussy Riot band, conducted a brief political protest in an organ of the neo-Soviet government. The Orthodox church is hand in glove with Putin.
In the event they actually could be convicted by a jury of their peers of the misdemeanor of trespass, they would at most deserve a few days in jail. Their sentence of years is a grotesque miscarriage of justice–and a crime against humanity–that can only be applauded by the vile, the evil. You are that man.
Merely that it is not the least of Putin’s crimes doesn’t excuse it in the least.
Putin and Medvedev should be force fed Po219.
I’m certainly no fan of Putin. But, he was certainly correct about the Pussy Riot incident in the cathedral. Pussy Riot received no permission to stage a protest in the church. What Pussy Riot did was to desecrate a place of religious worship even though its clerical members may have been locked in arms with the Soviet or Russian governments.
By protesting inside the church Pussy Riot showed a profound disrespect to Russian Orthodox people. Pussy Riot could have been just as effective if they did it outside the church.
Bill Lawrence obviously understands the nuances of the event.
That said, Putin did go way overboard with the punishment.
“Putin did go way overboard with the punishment.”
By a factor of a 100 at least, and breaking legs of political opponents, jailing them–and, oh yeah, the Po219 thing.
Pussy Riot cannot have desecrated that church–the “clergy” there had it already done.
Putin’s apologists will share in his reward.
And Tom, on whose payroll are you? You have to be paid by someone to utter such blatant nonsense. Any other explanation would question your intelligence, and I am sure you are not stupid…
Can’t you see that the new soviet union is not where you think it is? Can’t you see there is today more fundamental freedoms in Russia than in the West? and that things are not likely to improve for us?
Of course things are not perfect over there. How could they be after 75 years of marxist experiments and 10 years where Russia was dispossessed of the best part of its economy.
It will not have escaped your notice that the international hyper-class that now rules over the western world supported both the marxist experiment and the dispossession.
Never believe a thing the main stream media (the relay of the hyper-class) says about Putin and the new Russia. They are everything they hate.
It is a mistery to me why this site so uncritically opens its pages to Ms Zigfeld.
“And Tom, on whose payroll are you? You have to be paid by someone to utter such blatant nonsense.”
None at all. Name one thing I’ve said which is false, g’head.
“Can’t you see that the new soviet union is not where you think it is? Can’t you see there is today more fundamental freedoms in Russia than in the West? and that things are not likely to improve for us?”
So you’re a UK Patrick and Russia has more fundamental freedoms than we do? I’m writing nonsense?
“Never believe a thing the main stream media (the relay of the hyper-class) says about Putin and the new Russia. They are everything they hate.”
I know of a certain leadlined coffin, required to be so from the Po219 contaminating the corpse. Facts are a terrible thing when they line up against you, Patrick.
“And Tom, on whose payroll are you? You have to be paid by someone to utter such blatant nonsense.” . . None at all.
So you’re a fool for free?
Name one thing I’ve said which is false, g’head.
Actually, I think you were telling the truth when you said “Say Bill, not that I think”
What this group did was use somebody else’s property to mock a belief held by a lot of people. You’re OK with that. My suspicion is that you would not be OK with that if it was your property or your belief, hence my suspicion is that you are a phony and a hypocrite.
Now if you really are an ends justifies the means kind of guy and are invoking to defend the deed efficacy for the goal of removing Putin, how did that strategy work out for you?
Shorter Bill, “I have no counterarguments until the last two paragraph.”
“What this group did was use somebody else’s property to mock a belief held by a lot of people. You’re OK with that.”
I’m OK with a week in jail for that, since I’ve already said that, and said that here, you must know you lied just now, and you’re the sort that doesn’t care.
“My suspicion is that you would not be OK with that if it was your property or your belief, hence my suspicion is that you are a phony and a hypocrite.”
Since you claim to think this has something to do with offending the sanctity of a church somehow justifying the sentence, I know you’re a phony and hypocrite–or you’re really dumb.
“Now if you really are an ends justifies the means kind of guy and are invoking to defend the deed efficacy for the goal of removing Putin, how did that strategy work out for you?”
So, opposing Obama in the last election and failing means I should quit there, too?
Fount of wisdom, you are.
Since you claim to think this has something to do with offending the sanctity of a church somehow justifying the sentence,
Um, who defended the sentence?
Um, who defended the sentence?
“The two-year sentence they got might have been a bit more than I would have given but it doesn’t rise to the level of crime against humanity.”
Bill Lawrence, defending the sentence as possible maybe a bit too much–therefore generally a reasonable sentence, only maybe too much.
You think it’s a crime against humanity? All I can say is that they were lucky they weren’t caught selling bootleg DVDs in Mississippi.
Putin may be a bastard but he’s a bastard for his country. We have a bastard too, but the difference is that ours doesn’t like this country.
“Putin may be a bastard but he’s a bastard for his country.”
Oh yeah? Looks more like he’s a bastard of, for, and by Putin. What favors has he done Russia? Do they have less corruption? Do they have a diversified economy that can support their growing population? Oh, it’s shrinking in fact? They have a popularly supported government with a healthy opposition party?
*Ok, so maybe we aren’t doing so well on that score right now, but I’ll give it 2016 before I start thinking about an epitaph. Russia has had 100 years now of damn little improvement.
Whose fault is that Tom? the poor Russian prople’s? Putin’s?
As for the favors he has done Russia, travel there (as I do) and ask the Russian people who regularly vote him in with huge majorities. Please don’t mention vote rigging. There is no more of that than in the west.
Russians can be very critical of him but they know what they owe him.
It is Putin’s fault more than any other single Russian person’s, and he–like Obama–seems to think his people should be thanking him.
“There is no more of that than in the west.”
No more than is in some precincts of Philly.
Get back to me when protest leaders and the political opposition aren’t jailed, beaten, and murdered.
I doubt you’ve been talking to many Russians Tom.
But there you are: knowing a bit about life there I know that the official western line is deliberately misleading and I just wanted to point you to the gross mistake you make.
But wait Tom: you haven’t told me on whose payroll you are! One of those NGOs behind the “Orange revolution” in Ukraine? or one supporting our Georgean friend, this parangon of democracy and decency?
“I doubt you’ve been talking to many Russians Tom.”
I’d as soon ask a Democrat here how the economy is doing.
“But wait Tom: you haven’t told me on whose payroll you are!”
I have said, none. I honestly don’t think you can claim the same, here, “Patrick_UK”
One obvious distinction between here and there, here, a Democrat could deviate from the party line and say the debt is unsustainable, that unemployment is terrible, and that Obamacare will kill millions of people early and ends tens of millions of jobs.
And they could do with a megaphone in front of a crown and not be assaulted by the police.
That was suppose to be “crowd” not “crown”, but considering Putin’s authoritarianism, it still works.
I wonder how long before that will be happening here? I know the “fairness doctrine” is waiting in the wings but I have a feeling that it will pale in comparison to what our divider in chief has in store for us “bad people”.
“in the manner of the KKK”
Did the United States invent hanging? Are Americans responsible for ALL of the travails of the human condition? I lived overseas for over 15 years. I noticed much the same human condition without American sponsorship. It would be nice if this form of the Big Lie would go away.
Putin vows to halt Russia’s population plunge with babies, immigrants,
If current trends continue,
Russia’s population will drop from 143 million to 107 million by 2050.
Putin vowed in a newspaper article to reverse that trend when he was elected.
44 million Russians are heavy smokers, 20 million alcoholics.
Most adult women have had or will have abortions.
Putin is gonna ‘fill er up’ with immigrants,
Think Islamic, That will increase the Russian population?
Another one bites the dust..
Putin is not the democrat of course like the majority of the Russians(as all polls show ).Neoconservative`s idea of the democracy promotion have revealed itself in Iraq and in the Arab spring.As we must defend Israel from the spring- initiated islamists so we must first help Russian neighbours like Ukrainians,Moldovanians,Georgians and others from the Russian attempts of domination.So we`ll help the Russian growing democracy better.There must not be more political prisoners in Ukraine and Georgia.
Both Putin and Obama grew without fathers.
What is that Pus*y riot , new name for Arab spring ?
Stalin aside, there is this distinction between Putin and the tired, fedora-hatted old fools who used to run things, like Krushchev and Brezhnev. As brutal and murderous as they were, they had at least some lingering instinct towards civility, even if they never indulged it. When it came to the persecution of ordinary dissidents, there were charges, show trials, legal formalities that were observed however mendaciously. While assassination of spies and foreign enemies was honed to an art form by the KGB as a tool of trade, one thing the old men didn’t do as a matter of policy was the outright murder of ordinary dissidents like critical journalists, cynically dressed up as unsolved crimes. Think about it: Putin has knocked off a host of domestic dissidents like Anna Politkovskaya. We know, and Putin knows we know, that his minions did it, and he wants us to know – it is a tool of policy. Overall Putin may not be as openly barbarous (yet) as most of his predecessors, but he actually operates in a moral vacuum far more profound – in my opinion – than any of his predecessors except Stalin.
Which eloquently indicates the depths to which Putin is capable of sinking, and to which he is likely, ultimately, to sink.
How about this: instead of constantly butting into other people’s business, let’s make our own country a bastion of political freedom first?
Remember that film maker Obama blamed for Benghazi? He’s in jail. Never mind it was for parole violations, he’s a political prison the same that the Pussy Riot people are..
Ditto for Wesley Snipes, who was a tax protester, and Bernard von NotHaus, who came up with coins used for barter, but has been labeled a “terrorist” and will probably die in jail.
And let’s not forget about the essentially state controlled media we have, at least when a Democrat is in office. ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, Bloomberg, Current, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC
A man’s head has to be really far up his own rear to be unable to see other people’s troubles breed trouble for us–one like Ron Paul.