Russian Vessels may be Detained in American Ports

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The press service of the Sakhalin and Kuriles regional department of the RF Agency for Fisheries warned in a statement citing the Transportation Ministry that the American authorities might try to detain Russian vessels in seaports in the USA. Its statement read, ”A US Federal Court in Washington DC complied with the demand of the American Hassidic organisation, Agudas Chasidei Chabad, in introducing financial sanctions against Russia for its refusal to return the collection of manuscripts of Lubavicher rabbies known as the Schneerson Collection”. Therefore, the press service warned that Russian state property that isn’t protected by diplomatic immunity, including vessels that enter American seaports, might be detained in order to make Russia comply with the American court decision.

 25 March 2013

Voice of Russia World Service

http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_03_25/Russian-vessels-may-be-arrested-in-US-ports-agency/

Editor’s Note:

No US court, federal or state, has ANY jurisdiction over affairs or property in Russia. NONE. The Hasids are going too far… they always do, that’s why those who encounter them generally detest them. This is too much. The Schneerson Collection is Russian state property, full stop, end of story. If the Hasids want to use it, they must go to Moscow. After all, remember WHY they want the collection… they want to restrict access to it to only those they approve of. That is, they’d restrict access to the collection only to Jews that kowtow to them. The Schneerson Collection is part of the general religious legacy of Russia… that’s where it belongs. If the Hasids don’t like that, it’s too bloody bad. I find it detestable that these nasty and bloody-minded individuals embody every stereotype of the Jew bruited by anti-Semites. It’s not fair… all too often, innocent Jews suffer because Hasid blowhards engage in disgusting unpleasantness like the court case to steal the Schneerson Collection (they never owned it, therefore, they have no right to it whatsoever). It’s not fair nor is it just (the guilty parties don’t suffer… they wall themselves off from the world)… that’s a thought on this Passover Eve, isn’t it?

BMD  

Please Don’t Lecture Russia

THIS was the REAL USSR… any questions?

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When I first visited Russia more than 30 years ago, it was still part of the USSR. The idea of any independent or critical press, of open debates in a parliament, or of popular demonstrations against government policies that would bring scores of thousands of people into the streets of Moscow, was inconceivable then. Today, Russia has many critics in the West, who accuse it of sliding back into dictatorship. What is their proposed solution? Usually, it is to criticise Russia and its leaders and try to strong-arm them into adopting policies of greater democracy and alleged greater respect for human rights.

These attitudes stem from a pervasive faith shared by liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans in the USA that’s so pervasive, that its greatest believers are totally unaware of how much they’re in thrall to it. They believe that democracy is the only acceptable political system around the world, and that, consequently, the USA should wage a ceaseless ideological crusade, not resting until, at least, all the major nations of the world share the same limitless blessings of a perfect democratic system.

Now, I’m all in favour of democracy myself… I prefer living within a fully-democratic system rather than under a communist, fascist, or repressive theocracy. However, I’m against waging wars to imposing the American, or any other, democratic system, on other nations. I’m equally opposed to a purely-ideological foreign policy that would treat the governments of the world purely according to how Freedom House and similar bodies grade them according to how it assesses their freedoms. This is hardly an anti-American position. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Quincy Adams, and modern Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush, and Bill Clinton believed and acted exactly the same way.

Ironically, the history of the West and the USA over the past three-quarters of a century exposes the dangerous folly of such self-righteous fantasies. Britain and the USA only won World War II against Nazi Germany because they were allies with the USSR under Iosif Stalin. I believe that not one in 100,000 Americans alive today knows or remembers that it was the Red Army, not the American or British forces, which liberated the Nazi extermination complexes of Auschwitz and Majdanek in Poland.

Nor did Western pragmatism… or hypocrisy… end with the destruction of the truly-evil Third Reich. Many still hail President Nixon as an American statesman and peacemaker for his détente policy with the USSR and his outreach to China. Not all the repercussions of the Watergate scandal that forced him to resign can take that away. Yet, Nixon, like Reagan after him, supported the two most corrupt régimes on the planet for decades, which ground hundreds of millions of their unfortunate peoples into degradation and despair. These were the kleptocratic dictatorships of Indonesia under President Suharto and Zaïre (today called the Democratic Republic of the Congo) under President Mobuto Sese Seko.

Russia has come an amazingly long way since I first visited it in the spring thaw season of 1982. That doesn’t mean its political system is the same as those of the USA or the major nations of Western Europe. However, it’s no Indonesia under Suharto or Zaïre under Mobutu either. What’s more, the USA never had any trouble getting along with them. All the moral lecturing of Russia by Western critics misses two crucial points.

First, even if Russia were to relapse back into some form of strict authoritarian government… and so far it hasn’t… that wouldn’t make war or conflict with the USA or the West inevitable. The USA, the British Empire, and the communist USSR were reliable and exceptional successful allies to each other throughout World War II. Then, the USA and the USSR successfully steered clear of any direct conflict in the 44 years of the Cold War from 1945 to 1989. It wasn’t easy; at times, they came dangerously close to war. Second, ensuring Russia remains a democracy won’t be a guarantee of peace with Russia, even if such a starry-eyed, ill-defined, reckless, and irresponsible policy such as intervening in Russia’s internal affairs could ever succeed. For throughout modern history, democracies have often waged war on other countries, including on other democracies. The idea that the best guarantee of world peace is a world filled with, and dominated by, democracies is just another myth.

What the USA and Russia really need is a serious dialogue between their top leaderships aimed at defusing tensions and managing real and unavoidable conflicts of interest. Both nations need to work hard on identifying their areas of mutual interest, and expanding them. The last thing American and other Western leaders need to do is to cave into the mounting hysteria from the think-tanks and the armchair strategists churning out their endless morally-outraged columns for the op-ed pages, and embrace a policy of ideological criticism and name-calling against Russia. The two thermonuclear superpowers need to respect each other and improve their cooperation… the peace of the world demands it.

9 March 2013

Martin Sieff

Voice of Russia World Service

http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_03_09/Please-don-t-lecture-Russia/

Editor’s Note:

Orthodox people should note that Victor Potapov, Alexander Webster, James Paffhausen, and Rod Dreher have sold out to the American Consumerist Dream and to the American Democratic Fantasy. They’re Sergianists (those who suck up to the powers-that-be for the scraps that fall from the high table) of the foulest and worst sort. They’re part of the “mounting hysteria from the think-tanks and the armchair strategists churning out their endless morally-outraged columns for the op-ed pages, and embrace a policy of ideological criticism and name-calling against Russia”. Potapov was/is an open US government propagandist. Webster and Dreher are “stink-tankers”; Paffhausen is tied to the American Enterprise Institute (one of the most Far Right stink-tanks in the District). In short, these people are traitors to the Orthosphere, and we must treat them accordingly.

You can follow HH and his support of Social Justice… or you can follow the above sell-out jabronies who’re supporters of “Greed is Good” and “The Race Goes to the Swiftest” (that’s what support of the contemporary Republican Party means). I’ve chosen… it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know where I stand… by the way, I’m far from alone…

BMD

US Congressman Denied Russian Visa, Cites Magnitsky Row: It was the Republican Slimer Invited to Mollard’s Installation!

THIS is what Chris Smith and his ilk support… any questions? Do you really want to associate the Church with such godless greed and grasping injustice? Think on it…

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On Wednesday, Foreign Policy reported on its website that the Russian government denied a senior US lawmaker a Russian visa, in what he said was likely a retaliatory move for the Magnitsky Act, an American law sanctioning Russian officials accused of human rights abuses. Foreign Policy quoted US Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) as saying, “I was shocked. During the worst days of the Soviet Union, I went there repeatedly. The Magnitsky bill is the reason I didn’t get the visa. This is the first time”. The report noted that Smith said that he was planning a trip to discuss the Magnitsky legislation, which he voted in favour of last year, as well as other issues with Russian officials. Smith’s office didn’t return calls for comment on Wednesday.

The law is named for Sergei Magnitsky, a whistle-blowing tax attorney who died in a Russian pre-trial detention facility in 2009. It allows the USA to deny visas to Russian officials deemed by the White House to be complicit in human rights abuses, as well as to freeze their US assets. US President Barack Obama signed the bill into law in December, angering officials in Moscow, who shortly thereafter banned US citizens from adopting Russian children.

Foreign Policy quoted Smith as saying, “I was going over to talk about adoption and human trafficking. They have legitimate concerns that we have to meet. I’m disappointed, but I’m determined to have it reversed. So, I’m going to reapply”. The Russian Embassy in Washington DC said that it didn’t comment on issues regarding visas. Foreign Policy noted that Smith said that he met with the Russian Ambassador to the USA, Sergei Kislyak, and that the diplomat informed him that Moscow had made the decision. Smith is a member of the US House of Representatives’ Committee on Foreign Affairs, where he is the chairman of the subcommittee on human rights. He has travelled to Russia repeatedly since being elected to the US Congress in 1980 and has been a vocal critic of the Kremlin during his time in office.

27 February 2013

RIA-Novosti

http://en.rian.ru/world/20130228/179725770/US-Official-Denied-Russian-Visa-Cites-Magnitsky-Row-Report——.html

Editor’s Note:

The OCA invited this POS slimmer to Mollard’s installation! No lie… it did. He’s a fanatical RC who supports papist proselytising in Russia. He’s also a foe of the Rodina and wants to export American consumerism and rightwing neoliberal madness to Russia. Of course, the Russian government denied such a nasty piece of work a visa. Thank God, for VVP… he’s got his head screwed on right! Oh… Smith is a “Pro-Lifer”… that shows us that we shouldn’t get mixed up with that vile movement. The rightwing politicians in it are enemies of our faith and of our homelands. That’s how Satan works… he baits his traps with objectively-good things. We should do good things such as support unwed mothers and support politicians who uphold the social safety net (not those who want to rip it up to benefit the rich), not do stupid things like parade in marches with placards and block the streets so that we can have “feel good” feelings about ourselves. God called us to do good, not to do things that make us feel good.

Reflect on this… Potapov, Paffhausen, Freddie M-G, and all the rest of the konvertsy support filth like Smith… it’s their politics, y’ know. They aren’t one with us, and it’s about time somebody said so. I’d like to know who invited Smith to the OCA shindig. Who wants to bet that it was Mollard himself? If so, that would tell you volumes about his (lack) of character. Whomever was responsible has the duty to apologise publicly for inviting such an enemy of Christ’s Church. It does take all kinds, but sometimes it’s too much of a muchness. This is one such case. We shouldn’t be inviting our sworn enemies to our affairs… that’s simply good sense, isn’t it? What a buncha maroons.

The Americans do howl when the shoe pinches their foot. Now, they know how others feel when the Americans make groundless and inane denunciations (except this case is well-founded and well-grounded). Smith doesn’t deserve a visa… he’s a troublemaker, a foe of Russian civilisation, and an enemy of Orthodoxy (I attend to his actions, not his statements). It’s about time such pigs paid for their activities… VVP’s not perfect, but he’s no Yeltsin. I hope that this is only the first in a long line of refusals to the Rodina’s enemies. As I said, it’s high time…

BMD 

American Ambassador McFaul Explained Why He won’t Attend RF Gosduma Hearings on Adoptions

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American Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul said that he’s open to discussing adoption matters, including with RF Gosduma International Affairs committee head Aleksei Pushkov, but he won’t attend hearings on this issue at the RF Gosduma. On Thursday, McFaul said on Twitter in reply to Pushkov’s Twit criticising his decision not to go to the Duma, “Always happy to meet you and your colleagues to discuss all issues in American-Russian relations, including adoptions. As a norm, American ambassadors don’t participate in hearings of foreign parliaments. Do Russian ambassadors?”

Earlier on Thursday, Pushkov wrote on Twitter, “By refusing to come to the RF Gosduma to discuss the deaths of our children, the US ambassador showed that they’re not prepared for a serious dialogue on this problem”. He described McFaul’s refusal as a lame excuse. Pushkov insisted that Russian ambassadors have taken part in such discussions in foreign parliaments. He also pointed up that previous American ambassadors, particularly Alexander Vershbow, used to take part in official Duma events, saying, “There have been such precedents, and I think this is an ill attempt to refuse to be present at the committee’s session”.

21 February 2013

Russia Beyond the Headlines

http://rbth.ru/news/2013/02/21/us_ambassador_mcfaul_explains_why_he_will_not_attend_duma_hearings_on_ad_23131.html

Editor’s Note:

McFaul doesn’t have enough brains to come in out of the rain. He’s snubbed not only the Duma, but VVP as well. Furthermore, he hasn’t stopped supporting Russian oppositionists (including “Orthodox” schismatics and Uniates). In short, the USA is looking for trouble; it’d make good-sense to, at least, keep Russia quiescent. Instead, it’ll further cement the gelling Russian-Chinese alliance… the USA can deal with either Russia or the PRC, both not both at the same time (something that Richard Nixon understood the best of all American presidents). It was much like Hitler could defeat either the Western powers or the USSR, but not both at the same time. Hitler forced the West and the USSR into a “marriage of convenience” that lasted long enough to defeat him. It looks like history is going to repeat itself… Russia and China have many differences, but they face a common foe who threatens both of them. The USA doesn’t have the strength to fight a major land war on the Eurasian “World Island”. Yet, that’s what its insane drive for global hegemony will lead to. It’s not “set in stone”… but will the USA turn aside in time? It WILL have to defeat its own oligarchs and put aside its overweening greed… but shall it? Time will tell us…

Orthodox people should take note that Potapov and Paffhausen (and the entire scurvy claque around them) support the American snub of the Duma, NOT the reasonable request of Deputy Pushkov. Don’t forget… they’re Hard Right fanatics, who support the enemies of the Rodina and the Orthosphere. Do act accordingly.

BMD