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Old 08-07-2009, 10:39 AM
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I received this on my email this morning, I remember Putin warning OB about socializim. At the time I thought it was funny, not now. He is determined to take this country down, and by the looks of these town hall meetings he is doing a grand job so far. Wait till the gun grabbing starts. Joe

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Take note that the date this was published in Russia was April, 27, 2009.

According to Snopes this did come from Pravda.

I have provided the link: 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.

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Right on.

Maybe the more senior among us remember a another charismatic orator who held his nation spellbound with his fervent advocacy of high-sounding ideas. He led his nation first by the ear, and then at the point of a gun.

I'm not sure Obama even likes this country, the way he downmouths it abroad. But he sure wants to run things his way, with the wisdom and experience that even a kid running a lemonade stand can match easily.

"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer" should never be allowed to happen here. We are a country of very capable individuals who treasure individual freedoms. We are willing to work individually, each in his or her own way, so that together we can get the country back on track. "One size fits all" is NOT our motto. And we are not willing to pull half the country down, the half that works, to provide handouts to the other half.

The elections of 2010 are our opportunity to send a message. The political revolution of 1994 needs to be resoundingly repeated. We've now seen what the liberals can do - spend money. And what they can't do - revitalize the nation. We do not want to be led further into the abyss.
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Stanislav Mishin is excellent practicioner of Stalin's style of propaganda.

Read with care and beware!
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Propaganda is only that when it's false. School me in the falsehoods of this treatise. Joe
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"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer"

The problem is the left doesn't want us to be one people. Instead they want fractional special interest groups that they can pander to. They are dead set against "E Pluribus Unum."
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I think we all know what it's going to take to straighten this mess out. The problem is the people in this country have had it so easy for so long that they're to afraid to put up a fight because they don't want to take a chance on losing their "stuff" so they won't assist in what has to be done until it's to late. Our forefathers, the founders of this country, many of them wealthy men, put it all on the line and never looked back! These girlie liberal men in this country today are a disgrace to everything this country once stood for!

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