16 June 2013. Some of My Favourite Things… “Bring ‘Em Home!”

THIS is what the Republican anti-life programme stands for… any questions? Bring ‘em home! There’s something that you can bank on… the Republican oligarchs’ kids aren’t bleeding for their profits. It’s evil… and all their mewling about “Pro-Life” can’t change it…

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Sadly, this is still relevant. Like Pete, I’m no pacifist. If some oppressor, either foreign or domestic, were to come, I’d be one of the fighters, you bet! My Zaporozhian dander would be up, and I wouldn’t be alone! I’d do what I could, you could count on that. Bring our boys home… let no more of our lovely working-class kids die for the grasping McMansion pukes and their profits. If we ended the wars and returned taxation on the rich to Pre-Bush levels, we’d have the debt spent down WITHOUT cutting the social safety net. That’s why I stand proud as a Democratic Socialist.

You can have the oligarchs’ wars or you can have prosperity for all. It’s our choice…

BMD

 

Belarus Dismisses American Religious Freedom Report

Catholics in Belarus… the annual Pilgrimage of Our Lady of Budslav… they have freedom of religion… any questions?

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On Wednesday, The Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MID) dismissed the allegations made by the Religious Freedom Report published by the US State Department about Belarus as outdated and failing to take into account the current situation in the country. Maria Vanshina, deputy head of the MID Information Department, said in an English-language statement, “As for the State Department’s report, it’s permeated with trite phrases and the usual abstract rubber stamps, which the authors of the report rewrite every year, without even taking the trouble of doing reality checks. For the Belarusian side, the report is of little interest, being an internal State Department document submitted to Congress”.

In its latest report on religious freedoms worldwide, published on Monday, the US State Department described Belarus as a country where “laws and policies restrict religious freedom”, despite the fact that this is enshrined in the constitution. The report claimed, “The law restricts the ability of religious organisations to provide religious education and to freely import and distribute religious literature”. Vanshina noted, “The Republic of Belarus, regardless of such reports, strictly adheres both to its international obligations on the protection of religious freedoms and to its domestic law. A clear demonstration of that is Belarus’s report on the implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination which reflects the real situation with the protection of religious rights and liberties and contains concrete measures taken by the Government of Belarus in this area”.

The annual Religious Freedom Report purports to detail the status of religious freedom in 195 countries throughout the world. The US State Department presents it to the US Congress under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998.

22 May 2013

RIA-Novosti

http://en.rian.ru/world/20130522/181292365/Belarus-Dismisses-US-Religious-Freedom-Report.html

Editor’s Note:

The US government has no warrant to publish such a document, as its authority and jurisdiction doesn’t extend beyond the US borders, full stop. Now, if another country were to publish a document giving the details of American-owned sweatshops throughout the world (one wonders if SVS and St T‘s own stocks in such enterprises… if so, for shame!), well, that would have the Americans (especially, the smug and smarmy Evangelical, Mormon, and Pentecostalist phonies) in high dudgeon. “How dare they! It’s all for their benefit! They voluntarily signed contracts!” I find it amusing that those who point fingers at others about “freedom” are vicious and greedy slave-drivers of the worst-possible sort, who wax rich in their McMansions on the sweated labour of Third World workers. They haven’t changed since the time of Dr Johnson, who observed, “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?” American Anglo-Saxons were soulless exploiters then… they’re soulless exploiters now. After all, their true motto isn’t “In God we trust”… it’s “pecunia non olet… money doesn’t stink”. I’m NOT the only person to have noticed that…

BMD

Former CIA Analyst: “Elements in USA Want to End Moscow Ties”

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Former senior CIA analyst David MacMichael told Press TV in regard to the recent spy row between Moscow and Washington that some speculations emerged that “elements in USA want to end Moscow ties”. When asked whether USA has a lot to lose by planting spies specifically at a time when the two countries are planning to cooperate and find a political solution on Syria, he said, “unfortunately, some will speculate that elements within the US Intelligence and security services that are opposed to rapprochement with Russia” did this in order to put an end to cooperation between Russia and USA.

20 May 2013

Voice of Russia World Service

http://english.ruvr.ru/news/2013_05_20/Elements-in-US-want-to-end-Moscow-ties-former-CIA-Analyst/

Editor’s Note:

Do make a crucial distinction here. The “pros” in intel aren’t “opposed to rapprochement with Russia”… they’d like an easier life, and having good relations with Russia would mean that there’d be fewer chances of a fatal fuck-up. However, you can’t say the same of their political bosses and of the political hacks appointed to the higher reaches in both Langley and Fort Meade. Interestingly enough, both Republican neoconservatives and Democratic humanitarian interventionists converge as far as warfare in foreign parts is concerned… there’s not a tuppence worth of difference between them.

Who’s worse? The Republicans, at least, are open and unashamed grasping greedsters… the Democrats garb their nastiness in smarmy robes of “democracy” and “human rights” (the neocons use the former as much as the Democrats do, but the latter not as much). They’re both equally evil in terms of foreign policy (I vote Democratic because there IS a difference in their domestic policies, enough to matter). However, do note well that the Orthodox konvertsy and their enablers (especially, Potapov, Paffhausen, and Alexander Webster… also notice the SVS/Acton Institute Dixie Fry) cheerlead for the neocon warmongers… that’s not “consistent life ethics”, kids.

You see, if peace were to break out, the arms merchants would have no more orders for a while… and that can’t be! Poor babies! How will they afford their McMansions, wetback gardeners and nannies, holidays in Orlando, and country club dues? As General Smedley Butler put it so well in the ‘30s, “War is a racket”. Things haven’t changed, kids…

BMD 

Bangladesh Building Collapse Death Toll Rises

THIS was the ultimate cause of the building collapse… spit when you pass the next McMansion or the country club. The Apostle said that the love of money is the root of all evil, and he was right. That’s the basis of the American Republican Party… we shouldn’t ally Christ’s Church with such depravity, should we? Think on it…

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On Thursday, sources in the military and police told international news agencies that they believe that about 900 people died in the factory collapse in Bangladesh. Media reports said that military sources put the figure at 912, whilst police officials say that they recovered 892 bodies from the building. Previous reports put the number of dead at 803. The Rana Plaza building in Savar, an industrial suburb of Dhaka, collapsed on 24 April. Over 3,000 people are thought to have been working in the building at the time.

On Wednesday, the authorities in Bangladesh ordered 18 textile factories to close over health and safety concerns, and, earlier in the week, they set up a commission to check the 4,500 factories in the region. Preliminary information from the government inquiry indicates that vibrations from four powerful generators, installed in the building in breach of regulations, caused the tragedy. The building’s architect told the media that he designed it to house offices, not a garment factory. Investigators confirmed that the building’s intended purpose was “commercial use”. Local officials told the media that first-responders rescued over 2,400 of those working in the factory at the time of its collapse. Survivors told the media that they’d noticed worrying cracks in the building a day before the incident, but that management convinced them to return to work. The building owner is one of those arrested over the tragedy.

9 May 2013

RIA-Novosti

http://en.rian.ru/world/20130509/181047449/Bangladesh-Building-Collapse-Death-Toll-Rises.html

Editor’s Note:

The American Right defends “outsourcing”… well, this is its practical upshot. They want to move business to compliant Third World dictatorships to circumvent labour, safety, and environmental regulations in developed countries to maximise their profits. Their attitude is, “Who cares, they’re just sand niggers, anyway. They don’t deserve any better”. The money from such soulless and godless exploitation ends up in the hands of the American and European Affluent Effluent (and their Third World lickspittles such as the Capriles family in Venezuela).

Reflect on this… the people responsible for such malevolent shit tell us how moral they are and how immoral we are. I’d only say this… by their fruits ye shall know them. Remember WHO said that… ‘nuff said.

BMD

23 September 2012. A Point to Ponder… Marko and Varko DO Know a Thing or Two…

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If you gave me the choice between hanging with a professor, a “therapist”, an “expert”, and a mid-level manager or with a bunch of peasants, I’d chose the peasants, any road, any day. You’ve a better chance of meeting decent and caring folk amongst the “ordinary herd” than you do amongst the Affluent Effluent and the Suburban Commandos. Such has been my experience… and I think that most people would concur. Most of the “better classes” that I’ve met weren’t… if you catch my drift. A McMansion in the right gated suburb is NOT a guarantee of humanity, indeed, it may signify the exact opposite.

Remember what Our Lord Christ said of such… they have their reward. Now, that’s thought-provoking…

BMD

13 September 2012. A Point to Ponder… It’s NOT All “Hugging Trees”

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There’s much more than just humanity at stake on 6 November. The Republican Party favours raping the environment and scrapping environmental regulation… for what? Let’s strip away all the frou-frou… it has NOTHING to do with “energy independence”… it’s so that the Affluent Effluent in their McMansions can steal more money. After all, what’s the state of our environment compared to the need of these people to make ever-larger sums of boodle? It’s called “investment”, dontcha know…

Don’t trash it… it’s her home…

BMD