20 April 2013. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words… THIS is Why We Need a New USSR… AND SOON

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This image shows beggars outside of an Orthodox church in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia. Such wasn’t common in Sov times… to be sure, no one lived in the lap of luxury, but what was there, was shared more equally (of course, there were people with blat… that obtains in every society known to mankind). Indeed, before the time of Slobberin’ Ronnie and Haggie Maggie, things were more equitable in the Anglosphere, too. In both Russia and the West, the oligarchs steal the people’s patrimony… and call themselves respectable! If that isn’t EVIL, then, I’ll check myself into Bedlam with Mr Scrooge…

VVP is bringing back the good things of the USSR and of Tsarist Russia… and moving away from the oligarchs. May God preserve him…

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18 April 2013. Far Rightwing Pigs to Offer Seminar at SVS… Boy, How the Worm Has Turned!

We demand the scrapping of all social welfare programmes now! We don’t care what His Holiness teaches on social justice. We stand with the Acton Institute, not with our Patriarch… we like them better!

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Read this. The Acton Institute is a pro-papist pro-crapitalist stink tank founded by the rather questionable rightwing crank Robert Sirico. SVS and the OCA piss on the Orthosphere, yet again. Until the papists bring their Uniate attack dogs to heel, we shouldn’t have anything to do with Catholic organisations, and especially not with questionable political forums such as the Acton Institute. Now, this is an interesting turnabout for SVS… in the ’80s, one could count on them being the most “left” bunch in Orthodoxy. Of course, now, they kiss the collective bums of the konvertsy… and they’re all rightwing kooks. I never thought that I’d see it… but live long enough, and you’ll see the most damnedest things. SVS has gone right-wing! One wonders why… however, they’re still nutty-squirrel modernists in theology, that hasn’t changed. What a combination… Pavel Ivanovich von Meyendorff’s rants on “liturgical fundamentalism” and Chad Hatfield’s rightwing bloviations… all on the same campus… oddly enough, they appear to be of one mind on theology… they haven’t abandoned ADS‘ heretical opinions in the least. I see that Deborah Belonick is still around… one would think that she’d be more consistent (and not support such rightwing lunacy)… but “Paris is worth a mass”, no?

If this doesn’t prove, yet again, that shitbirds of a feather flock together…

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Maggie Thatcher Dies at 87

She Vanquished the Miners

Martin Rowson

2009

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On Monday, Lord Bell, Mrs Thatcher’s spokesman, announced that former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died at the age of 87 following a stroke, saying, “It’s with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother, Baroness Thatcher, died peacefully following a stroke this morning”. British Prime Minister David Cameron called her a “great Briton”, whilst the Queen expressed her sadness. US President Barack Obama issued a statement, “The world has lost one of the great champions of freedom and liberty, and America has lost a true friend”.

Thatcher was Britain’s first female prime minister, a post she held from 1979 until 1990, when a Conservative Party coup forced her out, following rioting in Trafalgar Square over her unpopular poll tax. Perhaps the most controversial figure in modern British politics, a grocer’s daughter, Thatcher was a committed believer in the free market and an opponent of the culture of a welfare state… or the “nanny state”, as she called it. In 1987, she said, “There’s no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families”.

She took Britain to war in 1982, after Argentina took back the Malvinas Islands, located just off the coast of Argentina. “Rejoice! Rejoice!” she cried after British Marines took a key island, the triumph carrying her to an easy victory in the 1983 national election. Thatcher also famously took on Britain’s once-powerful trades unions, labelling striking miners the “enemy within” during their 1984-85 walkout. Her eventual defeat of the miners’ union changed Britain’s political landscape and made her a hated figure on the left.

A firm ally of US President Ronald Reagan during the Cold War, nevertheless, Thatcher hailed future Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachyov during a 1984 meeting in Britain. Three months later, Gorbachyov became the leader of the USSR. On Monday, Gorbachyov said in a statement, “Margaret Thatcher was a great politician and a striking person”.

Thatcher was nicknamed the “Iron Lady” for her perceived toughness, a moniker that was then picked up by her supporters and critics at home. She also survived an IRA attack on the Brighton hotel she was staying at ahead of a Conservative Party conference. Thatcher’s time in power transformed Britain both politically and culturally, seeing the rise of what critics labelled the “me” culture. Former Cabinet Secretary Lord Butler of Brockwell, who served as Thatcher’s principal private secretary from 1982 to 1985, told RIA-Novosti that Margaret Thatcher was “above all a conviction politician. She had her own principles, whatever trial she faced, be it in the Falklands {i.e., the Malvinas: editor}, the miners’ strike, or the Cold War. She believed in freedom and justice under the law … these were such clear principles that she always knew what direction to take”. Her funeral, with full military honours, will be at London‘s St Paul’s Cathedral.

8 April 2013

RIA-Novosti

http://en.ria.ru/world/20130408/180513538/UK-Ex-PM-Thatcher-Dies-at-87.html

Editor’s Note:

Margaret Thatcher, along with Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachyov were amongst the most evil people of the Twentieth Century. They enabled the massively-corrupt and greedy “New World Order” that plundered the world in the nineties and aughts. Their legacy is thousands of shattered lives… but that didn’t matter to them… they were just little people… they weren’t “productive”… they weren’t “successful”… they weren’t “focused on goals and objectives”. The Unholy Trinity brought us the Economic Meltdown of ’07 by dismantling government regulation or by destroying a non-capitalist society. Truly, there’s little to choose between Reagan, Thatcher, and Gorbachyov. All three were anti-Christian destroyers. Again, take note of Mrs Thatcher’s quote:

“There’s no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families”.

That’s utterly repulsive and disgusting. It says that we needn’t take a care for our society or environment, for it isn’t our concern. We need only enrich our families, or ourselves, and to hell with the consequences to society, for “there’s no such thing as society”. That remark reveals the inner character of Mrs Thatcher. Scary, isn’t it? Remember, evil doesn’t wear red tights, carry a pitchfork, or have horns and hooves. It doesn’t raise its voice, it dresses neatly, it’s polite, it “goes along to get along”, and, above all, “Greed is GOOD”.

I hope that Maggie repented of her godless actions, but I fear that she didn’t. Crank world, isn’t it?

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25 December 2012. You Can’t Make Shit Like This Up… Mitt Romney’s Son Says He Never Actually Wanted to Be President

Romney never criticised the racism in the GOP… any questions?

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Editor’s Foreword:

Read the following. It’s mind-blowing in its self-centred pity and angst…

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Mitt Romney‘s palpable discomfort during the 2012 election season has mostly been attributed to the fact that he’s (very likely) a robot. However, in a lengthy Boston Globe piece about what went wrong with the campaign, Romney’s eldest son Tagg offers a different explanation for his father’s poor performance… “He wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life. He had no desire to … run. If he could’ve found someone else to take his place… he would’ve been ecstatic to step aside”. The statement certainly seems to serve as a great “I told you so” moment for all those Republicans who endorsed genuinely fired-up people like Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum during the primaries, though the story also suggests the Romney campaign‘s issues extended well beyond his supposed lack of enthusiasm for the task.

The Globe‘s Michael Kranish (co-author of The Real Romney) confirms that those closest to Romney, such as Tagg and wife Ann, clashed with his staff over strategy, especially when it came to humanising the candidate. The story blames campaign manager Stuart Stevens for the unremitting focus on the dreary economy and the reluctance to share some of the more appealing elements of Romney’s biography with the public. When Tagg finally convinced RNC organisers to feature the grateful parents of a terminally-ill 14-year-old Mormon boy Romney once comforted, they were put onstage before any of the big networks even tuned in {Big deal. If the kid wasn’t a Mormon, that’d be news. It just proves that many Mormons are good to their own, but view us “Gentiles” as two-legged cockroaches: editor}.

There are also criticisms of the campaign’s infrastructure… the organisation employed a mere 500 paid workers nationwide (less than the Obama team dedicated to Florida alone) and failed to make good use of social media and other technology. As Romney’s digital director Zac Moffatt explained, they simply didn’t have as much time as Obama did to prepare. Moffatt recalled worrying about early on, “Can we do 80 percent of what the Obama campaign is doing, in 20 percent of the time, at 10 percent of the cost?” Tagg also told the Globe that his father hopes to use what he learned during the campaign to help Republican leaders make changes to the way the party is run, saying, “Having been through it, you know so much more than when you haven’t”. Perhaps, the first thing Romney should suggest for the next go-around is picking a nominee who actually wants to be there.

23 December 2012

Andre Tartar

New York

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/12/mitts-son-says-he-never-wanted-to-be-president.html

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Editor’s Afterword:

”I really didn’t want to be president!” If that were so, why did Wet Willy run? Why did he spend millions of his own money and millions of the Republican Party’s money? Why did he order fireworks in Boston, as he was convinced that he was going to win? In short, GIGO all around. Wet Willy’s nothing but a spoilt brat who never grew up. His corporate daddy bought him a phony “clergy” deferment in the Vietnam War and gave him the seed-stake to enter business… that is, Wet Willy had the ways greased for him and he never had to do anything for himself. This story tells you volumes about the Romneys. Aren’t you glad that the Prez did win the election? After all, Willard didn’t want it… his son said so…

What a bunch of sore losers and incompetent tossers…

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Mitt Romney: No Wisdom Like Silence

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Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate in the upcoming American election, found himself in the spotlight of a scandal, which may well deny him victory. An American magazine released video footage of Romney meeting his rich sponsors. During this meeting, Romney said that Obama’s supporters were government dependents who saw themselves as victims. The Democrats are using this scandal to their maximum advantage. Until now, Romney hadn’t faced a scandal like this in the course of his presidential race. He faced accusations of closing factories and engineering bankruptcies for his personal profit, and there was a prize for the person who could prove that Romney was socking funds offshore to avoid taxes. Now, Romney bit himself. The video, taken by a hidden camera, appeared on the website of an American magazine that supports Obama. The footage came from a dinner where Romney met potential donors. Judging from what Romney said, the audience was affluent and was critical of the poor.

This was only a fragment of an ardent speech. Romney called Obama’s supporters dependents. When he spoke about Obama, probably, Romney decided to flatter his audience and said that he’d fight for the 5 to 7 percent who were independent voters who understood what was going on in the country and who were disappointed in Obama. The film was a bombshell. Obama’s camp called Romney’s words shocking and added that it was difficult to imagine a man who spoke about half of the nation in such a humiliating manner as President. Vilen Ivanov, Deputy Head of the Institute of Social Political Studies said, “The scandal will cost Romney votes. When one rival criticises the other, that’s normal, it’s within the boundaries of political discourse. However, when a presidential candidate criticises the voters who support his rival, this may stir a negative attitude towards him, even on the part of his own supporters”.

Romney’s camp said that their candidate would fight for prosperity for all voters. At a press conference held to explain this occasion, Romney regretted that his statements weren’t the most polished, but he didn’t apologise to the 47 percent of the population he’d insulted. Aleksandr Gusev, head of the Institute of Strategic Planning at the Higher School of Economics said, “The incident proves that Romney chose the wrong strategy. There are always two ways… either you present your own programme, or you condemn the programme of your rival. Romney chose the latter, which is bound to fail. He did his best to criticise Obama, and by doing so, he only raised Obama’s rating”. Many Republicans also condemned Romney’s words, showing discontent over their candidate’s callous opinion and indifferent attitude towards the retired, Latinos, and Afro-Americans. Romney’s mistakes only strengthen Obama’s position. Recent polls show that many Americans would vote for Obama not because they like his policies, but simply because they don’t like Romney.

18 September 2012

Roman Mamonov

Voice of Russia World Service

http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_09_18/Mitt-Romney-no-wisdom-like-silence/

12 September 2012. A Point to Ponder… Socialism is…

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There’s much unmitigated bullshit abroad on the word “socialism“… the rightwing uses it as a boogeyman… and, like the boogeyman, the rightwing version of socialism not only doesn’t exist, it NEVER existed. Socialism is communitarianism… it’s the sharing of resources. You see, the leaders of the right are greedy grasping filth, and as they’re such, they imagine that everyone is like that. That’s not so. Every time that you hear some Republican bloviate about “socialism”, they’re really scared that, in a more just society, they wouldn’t have as much boodle and swag in their hands. They fear the people… they fear the people wanting a fairer cut of the pie… they fear giving up their ill-gotten gains and “privileges”.

“Socialism is a search for a fully democratic society“… not just in politics… but in economics and society, too. That’s what Rush Limboob, Wafflin’ Willy, and Lyin’ Ryan fear… the empowerment of the people. That’s telling, isn’t it?

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