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YOUR CORRESPONDENT UNDERSTANDS THAT THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION (FTC) IS NOT AMUSED about the website FreeCreditReport.com, a byproduct of credit-reporting agency Expirian infamous for its rather reechy-sounding tunes promoting what turns out being a come-on to a subscription-based credit-file monitoring scheme needlessly duplicating services that one can do free or @ nominal cost.
Especially galling is the fact that said website's URL (as in its address) is a deliberate trick to mislead especially vulnerable and easily-influenced persons from The One, True and Only Free Credit Report Site on the Information Stuporbahn Authorised by Act of Congress, which is www.annualcreditreport.com for the record. And the FTC's gone so far as to back up the claim with Public Service Announcements as essentially parody FreeCreditReport.com's adverts, tacky jingles, corny looks and all.
Which could mean that the FTC may petition ICANN, the international agency responsible for website domains and address registry, to look into FreeCreditReport.com being assigned to the Holy and Morally Superior Free-Enterprise System with intent to confuse or mislead the public, in particular such with inborn or latent naivete.
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TO SEE THE FOLLOWING AND NOT BE CONVINCED OF THE CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER POSED BY THE ELMER GANTRY ELEMENT to Our Antient and Peculiar Sovereignty and Sovereign Identity (by way of Ted Danson's appearing on HLN's Joy Behar Show last evening) speaks volumes of just how we "morally superior" Americans seem to have become too dependent upon Fox Prolefeed, as if suggesting where we have become what H. L. Mencken called Boobius Americanus in the extreme:
WITH THE ANNUAL HAJJ (AS IN THE PILGRIMAGE TO HOLY MAKKAH AND MINA EXPECTED OF THE MUSLIM FAITHFUL ONCE IN THEIR ADULT LIFETIMES) COMING UP,the Saudi Ministry for the Hajj has issued its annual warning to intending pilgrims not to use the Fifth Pillar of Islam for real or perceived political purposes--a veiled reference to the so-called "Islamic Republic of Iran" seeing the hajj as a propaganda weapon among such making the pilgrimage.
(The Saudis, for their part, consider use of the hajj for propaganda ends to be a safety risk, not to mention distracting pilgrims from the sachristy and significance thereof in relation to the Muslim faith. Witness the traditional uniform issued to those on hajj of a seamless white cotton pyjama, expected to signify the unity of all Muslims across the world so participant.)
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CHICAGO BACK IN THE GLORY DAYS OF AL CAPONE AND HIS ILK WAS NEVER LIKE THIS: A court in Chongqing, China has sentenced to 18 years' penal servitude what state media described as the "godmother" of the local criminal underworld.
By name, Xie Caiping (46).
Who, according to state prosecutors, ran illegal casinos in such venues as hotels, tea rooms and nightclubs ... illegal detention of people ... harbouring drug addicts and "social degenerates" generally ... bribing the local police and running protection rackets on the side ... and reputedly keeping a stable of 16 young men to serve her sexual desires, all along pocketing some RMB2 million during her Reign of Terror (of which she will have to pay RMB1.02 million in fines along with the jail time).
As if that weren't enough, Madame Xie's brother-in-law, Wen Qiang (himself a former local judge), faces referral to the Communist Party authorities in Beijing for Serious Disciplinary Action vis-a-vis his connexions to Madame Xie's syndicate alongside sentencing forthcoming on charges of rape, bribery, money laundering and illegal moneylending.
Not to mention Further Serious Enquiries into the Depth and Extent of Corruption in the Chongqing district which the Xie trial uncovered; on top of that, six other people were earlier given death sentences (as in a single pistol shot fired @ the temple) for murder and blackmail.
Let it be hoped such may be the tip of the iceberg into just how far corrupt the so-called "People's Republic of China" really has become, all the while claiming to be acting in the name and welfare of the Workers and Peasants towards "developing socialism with Chinese characteristics."
As well as provide some worthwhile lessons into just how low certain right-wing extremists want to take our "morally superior" United States in the name of "saving America from herself." "It's a small world, after all," as Disneyland and Walt Disney World forever remind us.
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COULD IT BE THAT FOX PROLEFEED MAY UNWITTINGLY BE EMBRACING COMMUNIST TACTICS AND METHODS IN THE OLD "WINNING OF HEARTS AND MINDS" THEMSELVES while parroting the trope about President Obama being some class of an unwittingly conscious "Communist dupe***undermining Our Holy and Beloved Nation" all the while?
(As in the use of confusingly misleading and deceptive phraseology with clear and present danger of harming the Great Unwashed to the point of causing confusion.)
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MEANWHILE, THOSE PLAYING ALONG TO FOX PROLEFEED'S DANGEROUSLY MISLEADING TUNE AND STORY about "where are the jobs?" vis-a-vis President Obama's Socioeconomic Stimulus (as in expecting the private sector to so create out of the goodness of their collective hearts and minds) may want to recall where many of the Great Depression's various make-work initiatives (among them the Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC], the National Youth Administration [NYA], the Public Works Administration [PWA], the Tennessee Valley Authority [TVA] and the Works Progress Administration [WPA], to cite the more prominent such) also had a relief component (as in providing money, by way of allotments, to the families of those so employed).
Case in point: Out of the $30/week in pay CCC workers received to engage in reforestation, soil and water conservation and construction of amenities in state and national parks and waysides, $25 went to their families as relief benefits.
Take that, ye Zealots and True Believers still expecting the private sector to create work without recourse to State blackmail or extortion, and whining about the "chronically and habitually unemployed" "not making good enough effort" to find work, let alone "knowing where to look" (as in private employment agencies operating in Bad Neighbourhoods as charge advance fees to would-be job seekers, not to mention employing "singers" to engage in "whispering campaigns" working the bars and welfare offices).
(And come to think of it, how many families of those now serving in the ur-RAHOWA Against International Terrorism are receiving allotments out of the pay of their children in service?)
IF EVER THERE WERE A CLEAR AND COMPELLING REASON FOR COMPLETE, FINAL AND BINDING HEALTH-CARE REFORM IN OUR "MORALLY SUPERIOR" UNITED STATES, it would have to be this item from the CBS News show 60 Minutes last evening.
Which, for want of giving the plot away, ought be seen by everyone.
And shared with Your Congressman, especially now that the debate over health-care reform has reached critical mass all the more. In other words, inaction now will shut the door indefinitely on serious reform while millions more (especially the Lower Classes and National Minorities lacking insurance) suffer the price of not having health cover.
(Thanks to Engrish.com for tipping me off via Twitter.)
FOLKSIES, WOULDN'T YOU AGREE THAT THE IMAGE LEADING TODAY'S POST IS RATHER APROPOS THE TIME OF YEAR, particularly among such of you in the Northern Hemisphere as are still seeing autumnal effects?
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PERHAPS IT WAS OVERSIGHT MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, but perhaps it was time to add to the FAQ's I asked back on Saturday this particular one:
Why are your blog posts shown in UTC time, not prevailing local time? The reason for this is logical more than anything else: It's the World Wide Web, not the America Wide Web, that I happen to be on. And UTC time (Coordinated Universal Time, to translate from the French abbreviate; a/k/a Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT) is the international standard by agreement for establishing correct time the world over. As for the inspiration therefor, such came about by way of the German worldcaster Deutsche Welle's TV service, DW-TV, using UTC time for programme scheduling purposes (@ least when it was on cable TV here in Winona). Now you know.
FOX PROLEFEED CRONYISM @ ITS MOST PATHETIC: How many of you can be considered regular, hard-wired viewers of Fox News Sunday week after week among you readers of this blog, or reasonable facsimilies thereof?
If so, you may have noticed yesterday's show being little more than a rather pathetic exercise in idolarty towards The Oxycontin Boar, who, inter alii, insisted that the GOP's Last and Only Hope for Remaining a Viable Political Option in Our Morally-Superior United States is for them to hold dear a complacent, "stay the course" toadyism vis-a-vis the hagiographic deification of Ronald Reagan and such articles of faith holding free-market capitalism with American characteristics to be the Great White Father of especially the Lower Classes "otherwise enslaved in hopeless and helpless dependency upon State welfare and Social Security," or so the patsy would go.
Remember, holding fast a "stay the course" complacency only risks its destruction from within, as in corruption, mismanagement, waste, fraud, inefficiency and scandal; one need look no further than the Leonid Brezhnev regime in the then-Soviet Union (1964-1982) as a prime example and warning of this. (Not to mention the star-crossed attempts by his successors, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, to so perpetuate, only to be thwarted by their deaths in office within measurable distance of their assuming power.)
Instead, what El Rushbo deserves is your reminding him of the facts as above; consider referring him to this item by e-mail (politely, of course).
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COME TO THINK OF IT, YOU CAN JUST IMAGINE NOT JUST RUSH LIMBAUGH, BUT ALSO HIS COMRADE-IN-ARMS (SO TO SPEAK), FOX PROLEFEED'S GLENN BECK, perhaps being unwitting psychopaths whose messages, notwithstanding their playing the patsy of being "entertainers" to avoid Attracting Unwelcome Attention (or so they think), may pose Clear and Present Danger to the Community as much as to its Peace, Safety and Good Order.
With Glenn Beck probably being the More Dangerous of the two.
And made all the worse, in either case, by the fact of the core audience for both their respective programmes being the Great Unwashed, deluded into an arrogance rivalled only by the ranks of Afrikanerdom in apartheid South Africa expected to see themselves "as of natural right" being the natural Lord and Master of South Africa "by right of conquest," so to speak, as reinforced by officially-sanctioned organisations of highly-secretive and Freemasonic nature such as Die Broterbund.
What exactly would prevent someone from taking "pre-emptive" action against Beck and/or Limbaugh by way of the prevailing mental-hygiene laws both would love to see deployed against "Godless Liberals and Secular-Progressives" and other "Enemies of the Nation," real or suspected (unaware that the orders in question may be issued in a state of insanity, technically rendering such null and void under common law)?
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HOW DO WE KNOW THAT "ASTROTURF" MOVEMENTS AREN'T ACTUALLY IN UNHOLY AND CORRUPT LEAGUE WITH THE SO-CALLED "CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY" in the development and perfection of propaganda, mind-control and groupthink techniques to mislead such among the Joe Sixpack types expected to parrot the line of "the Four Hundred" through trick or deceit in furtherance thereof (as witness the use of deceptive-sounding stylees for their movements like "Americans For Prosperity," to take one especially noisome example)?
And how sure are we that the Scientologists' infamous "Fair Game Policy," bordering as it does on McCarthyism, isn't a cornerstone of such groupthink vis-a-vis "astroturf" in the "winning of hearts and minds" racket?
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A REMINDER THAT WE IGNORE THE LESSONS AND WARNINGS OF HISTORY @ OUR PERIL: The rather scholarly journal Latin American Antiquity hath it in its new number that the ancient Nazca peoples of Peru, perhaps best known for the massive displays of earth sculpture best appreciated from the air, may have planted the seeds of their own destruction in pre-Colombian times thanks to wholesale and reckless deforestation just to open up new agricultural lands.
As for, perhaps, the closest parallel to the Nazca in our supposedly "advanced" and "enlightened" times, consider the North Koreans as have themselves been forced into wholesale deforestation in recent years just to maintain its cherished neo-Stalinist agenda of juche ("self-reliance") in terms of food supply after several years of poor harvests translating into famine ... aggravated by increasingly heavy rainfalls which, in their turn, have translated into gross soil erosion on the denuded hillsides as have themselves washed out fields and crops by mudslides.
And throughout, "Great Leader" Kim Jong Il is expected to be looked upon by its starving and helplessly tired populace as a superdivine leader with mystical powers ... and his father, "Eternal Leader" Kim Il Sung, being worshipped as a deity (its Sanctii Sanctorum being the Monument to Eternal Leader Kim Il Sung in Beautiful Downtown Pyongyang, backed by a ceramic-tile picture of Holy and Sacred Mt. Paekdu, itself figuring prominently in the official pantheon of North Korean Mythology as well-documented).
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HOW MUCH LONGER BEFORE OFFICIALLY-SANCTIONED BLACKMAIL BECOMES THE ORDER OF THE DAY IN GETTING BANKERS TO MAKE MORE LOANS AND LINES OF CREDIT AVAILABLE TO SMALL BUSINESS, especially so in the wake of The CIT Group, heretofore the preeminent small-business loan and finance company, having gone into Carey Street?
(The whole being seen as a "pre-emptive" action against the likelihood of weird and unwholesome elements, many of them based offshore "for tax reasons," according to the official patsy, start exploiting the vacuum now opened by CIT's insolvency. Even more so where Notorious Criminal Syndicates, both from within and without, have significant involvement--especially for discreetly [or so hoped] laundering the Proceeds of Crime and/or Terrorism.)
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MONTY PYTHON FANS ARE PROBABLY FAMILIAR WITH THE "MINISTRY OF SILLY WALKS" SKETCH, about a supposed agency of Her Majesty's Government specialist in studying and promoting bizarre or otherwise unusual walking patterns.
Which had Your Correspondent imagining as perhaps the perfect example of Silly Walking Music none other than "Dirty Work" by Steely Dan of late 1970's vintage; I think the melody line makes it ideal to Silly Walk to its beat.
CONWEBBLOG IS NOTING WHERE JOSEPH "WORLDNETDAILY" FARAH IS STARTING TO GET PARANOID, even if it means resorting to devious, illicit and questionable pseudo-journalistic tactics to make sure the Fourth Estate (or what remains of it) kowtows to him and him alone, reinforced by the one command he knows--OBEY:
Joseph Farah's Oct. 31 WorldNetDaily column
is another whine-fest about how the rest of the media is being mean to
WND over the birther issue, and this time he's issuing threats:
I believe I have been far too kind to my colleagues in the rest of the media.
I have been playing Mr. Nice Guy.
Well, Mr. Nice Guy has been around this business for 30 years and knows where a lot of bodies are buried.
And if I have to redirect some of my attention toward reporting on the media, I will do it.
Consider that a warning.
Consider this a shot across the bow.
Uh, when has Farah ever been nice?
Well, to people who hold his same far-right views, sure--see WND's Orly Taitz protection racket. But this is a man who condones the murder of adulterers and advocates censorship through the return of the Hollywood blacklist. As we've detailed,
Farah in 2004 described John Kerry as "a privileged rich boy,"
"traitorous," "rotten to the core," and, of course, "truly dangerous
... truly contemptuous ... truly egomaniacal ... truly without
character ... truly transparent as a political huckster and charlatan."
Oh, and he called an Obama White House adviser "toga head."
This is "Mr. Nice Guy"?
What set Farah off this time was Bill O'Reilly talking about birthers:
There was pompous old Bill O'Reilly again this week attacking one of his favorite targets–"birthers."
He
had two guests on with him – neither one cognizant of the facts
surrounding the Barack Obama eligibility questions. Both of them
happily nodded in agreement to most of the tripe emanating from
O'Reilly's big, ill-informed mouth.
Night after night, show after show, network after network this goes on.
This is journalism?
Whatever happened to "fair and balanced"?
Whatever happened to getting other points of view?
Whatever happened to the idea of interviewing those with whom you disagree?
Whatever happened to the notion of representing honestly the opinions of others?
I'm getting flat-out sick of it.
Really?
If so, Farah might want to keep his reporters and columnists (and
himself) from engaging in those very same behaviors. As we've detailed,
WND's articles are not "fair and balanced," and its reporters
frequently do not gather other points of view. Nor does it honestly
represent the opinions of others, as, John Holdren and Chai Feldblum, among others, know all too well.
Needless
to say, a few paragraphs after he whines about "representing honestly
the opinions of others," Farah misrepresents facts, complaining that
"Not one of these cable networks, let alone the Associated Press, New
York Times, Los Angeles Times or the major networks, has reported the
significance of the fact that Michelle Obama admitted her mother-in-law
gave birth out of wedlock." But that's not what she did--An Oct. 27
WND article
by Aaron Klein dug up a quote of Michelle Obama saying "during a July
2008 round table at the University of Missouri" that Obama's mother,
Stanley Ann Dunham, "was very young and very single when she had him."
That's not the admission Obama was born "out of wedlock" Farah portrays
it as or even "contradicted previous claims President Obama made about
the circumstances of his birth,": as Klein writes, since it could also
describe that Dunham was estranged from her husband at the time. Farah
and Klein have simply chosen to interpret it that way.
Farah seems to be oblivious to the fact that petulant screeds like this and sloppy, biased reporting--on top of Farah's inability to handle criticism--are precisely the reason why WND isn't treated with respect, nor
does he seem to realize that there are other reasons as well, such as
repeatedly reportingliesasfact.
Then
again, maybe Farah does know this, and refuses to acknowledge it
publicly for fear of becoming even more discredited. Either way, it's
not a way to earn the respect he so desperately craves.
And it's no wonder that WorldNetDaily is not held in such high esteem by such among the Greater Blogosphere who values sanity and the freedom of the (virtual) press, when you get right down to it. It's become as if Mr. Farah, oblivious to the loss of credibility when it comes to his (supposed) Pride and Joy in the Information Stuporbahn, has started to become his own worst joke, forcing him to play the schoolyard bully in what may be a last desperate move to save what he sees as his Good Name and Repute.
And wants to stop @ nothing, Joe McCarthy-stylee, to make sure he gets his way, no matter how filthy, obscene, vile, disgusting, putrid, loathsome or scandalous it may be. (Come to think of it, about the only advertising WorldNetDaily can attract is from rather disreputable channels, the sort no mainstream online news site is willing to accept lest their good name and repute be compromised.)
In any case, WorldNetDaily needs to be told for once these same words as were the ruin of this supposed hero of Joseph Farah's: "Have you no sense of Decency, Sir, @ long last? Have you left no sense of Decency?"
The which WND would likely respond to by quoting Nietzsche's "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." (As if--!)
And how much longer before Farah turns to Al Cohol, Mary Jane Weaver, Auntie Em and/or Doctor White for inspiration and story ideas, if this isn't exactly the case already?
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J. EDGAR HOOVER MUST PROBABLY BE SPINNING IN HIS GRAVE @ THE CONGRESSIONAL CEMETERY IN WASHINGTON, DC (AND LAUGHING ALL THE WHILE) when he hears the news that certain weird and unwholesome circles are claiming that the FBI is "recommending" that people start watching Glenn Beck and listening to conservative talkback radio "if you want to know The Truth."
(The which Your Correspondent learned about on News Hounds, in case you ask.)
Sadly, though, the FBI disagrees: Your Correspondent actually called the Minneapolis office thereof (as has jurisdiction over these parts where he's based) to check on the rumor just yesterday, and the Duty Agent hath it that:
the FBI was unaware of the claim until I had brought it up to him; and
further, the FBI has a very strict policy against the endorsement, approval or recommendation of any company, product, service or person.
(If you don't believe me, just call your local FBI office, which should be in the Blue Pages [Government Offices] listings of your local telephone directory or, failing that, can be located on the FBI website.)
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IF YOU RECEIVE AN E-MAIL WITHIN MEASURABLE DISTANCE AS READS "PLEASE CHECK YOUR BANK DEPOSIT INSURANCE COVERAGE" OR SOME SUCH, the FDIC urges you to simply delete it and take no other action.
It's emerged that such an e-mail is making the rounds nationwide to cash in on fears of bank failures in the wake of that which His Fraudulency's Misadministration hath wrought socioeconomically upon Our Morally-Superior Society and Nation, and for which the Obama Administration is doing its best to repair the damage, Fox Prolefeed-stylee paranoia about "Creeping Communism!" (replete with the inevitable Reechy Horror-Movie Music From The Mighty Wurlitzer in the background) notwithstanding; worse yet, it's emerged that said e-mail is actually a "phishing" device that can be used to access sensitive financial and banking information through trick and deceit.
(That's "phishing," as in the rock band ... more than likely enriching Corrupt and Notorious Criminal Syndicates with whom "phishing" rings have what turn out being Weird and Unwholesome Associations; perhaps the best known I am aware of is the Russian-based "Rockphish" such, with rumoured connexions to the United Russia party and its xenophobically nationalist agenda under the Medvedev/Putin regime; same being a cheap and cheerful way by which Post-Communist Russia can "reclaim Past Honour and Glory" through procurement of hard-currency reserves "by whatever means necessary," no matter how venal or perverto it may be. And with the tacit endorsement of the Russian Orthodox Church.)
As reminder, the FDIC is continuing to ensure bank deposits in our "morally superior" United States to a maximum of $250,000/depositor for the interim (with the National Credit Union Administration [NCUA] offering similar protection for credit union depositor/members), even with some 115 banking-houses having failed this year up to last Friday, concentrated for the most part in California, Georgia and Illinois; ergo, you should have nothing to fear in the face of such a scaremongering e-mail serving, in the end, corrupt and evil ends.
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IS IT JUST ME, OR IS THE PANDA IN THE WANCHAI FERRY ADVERT ON THE VIDIOT'S LAMP OF DIOGENES somehow sounding rather bored, disinterested or otherwise indifferent?
(Especially when you stop and consider that "Panda" figures quite heavily in Chinese-restaurant names these days. It used to be that many of the Chinese restaurants out there either used the owners' names [the storied Wong's Cafe in Rochester comes to mind] or those of exotic Chinese locales [and Your Correspondent can't help but recall the likes of the Nanking Cafe in Minneapolis and the Port Arthur in St. Paul, the latter especially popular during their Winter Carnival] to attract custom. Not to mention plenty of Chinese restaurant names tending to double-entendre bordering on the scatologically suggestive.)
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BILL "NO-SPIN ZONE" O'REILLY'S BIGGEST THREAT TO THE MORALS AND DECENCY OF OUR HOLY AND BELOVED NATION (OR SO HE WANTS "REAL AMERICANS" THINKING), otherwise known as France, has begun a major national campaign urging her people to rethink their national identity in the face of an emerging Muslim populace thanks to immigration (and how such can be reconciled with the Gaulic Holy Trinity of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternite).
Next thing you know, expect Fox Prolefeed and its droogs in the 9/12 Project to push for a campaign of Promoting American National Identity as One with National Unity and Cohesion--one, unfortunately, rooted in their preferred ideal of America being a White Low Church Christian Nation Now, Tomorrow, Forever ... and one which holds xenophobic hypernationalism, hate, self-sufficiency and bigotry dear as articles of faith.
In its turn, expected to be call enough for a counter-campaign as ought be rooted in our motto of E Pluribus Unum, "One From Many."
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AS IF GLENN BECK'S "REHABILITATION" OF CLEON SKOUSEN AND JOSEPH McCARTHY WASN'T AWFUL ENOUGH A THREAT TO AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY as much as her "antient and peculiar sovereign identity," Russian President Dmitri Medvedev is using a video blog posting on the Kremlin website to take issue with such seeking to "rehabilitate" Soviet-era majordomo Josef Stalin in the interest of Saving Our Holy and Beloved Mother Russia From Herself, especially considering where many millions of Russians died during the sadisto excesses of Stalinist rule between 1929 and his death in 1953.
As the BBC explains:
Millions of Soviet citizens died under Stalin's rule and Mr Medvedev
said it was not possible to justify those who exterminated their own
people.
He also warned against efforts to falsify history and defend repression.
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Mr Medvedev said it was impossible to imagine the scale of
repression under Stalin when whole groups of people were eliminated and
even stripped of their right to be buried.
The president said
there were now attempts to justify the repression of the past, and he
warned against the falsification of history.
All this flies in
the face of the current trend to promote Stalin as an effective manager
and a leader who transformed the Soviet Union.
Under Mr Putin, the order was given for school history books to be re-written, highlighting Stalin's achievements.
In
Moscow there is now even a Stalin-themed cafe and a metro station with
one of Stalin's famous slogans on its walls. In northern Russia a
historian investigating crimes committed by the former Soviet dictator
was recently arrested.
It would appear there is a split within the Russian leadership on this highly sensitive issue.
(In fact, the timing couldn't have been more interesting, coinciding as it does with a National Day of Mourning and Remembrance for the victims of Communist-era repression.)
Let this be an example and lesson for our "morally superior" United States seeking to push an idealised vision "to reclaim America from herself" based on embracing white middle-class Levittown-stylee values of the 1950's towards such an end. Especially such which sought to arbitrarily label anyone opposed to a conservative quid pro quo as being "Communist".
Which expected all Americans to be of one thought, of one mind; any deviance thereof to be seen as one with Serious Mental Disorders and, ergo, committed to the State Asylum for the Insane posthaste (or, @ a mininum, to be seen as a Psychopathic Communist).
Which expected all Americans to simply ignore the poor and National Minorities in its midst and pretend they don't exist, that such are unworthy of acceptance or help because of "serious moral failings" on their part (and that any attempt to justify helping the less-fortunate and destitute beyond an idealised mutual self-help model was to be looked upon as "Communistic" and any supporters thereof prime candidates for the State Asylum).
Which expected capitalism with American characteristics to be looked upon as Great White Father and Saviour of the American People, offering a wider selection of goods and services @ lower prices than the "morally suspect" Communists.
Which saw Our Holy and Beloved Nation as The One True Centre of the World, the Universe and the 28 Known Galaxies, not to mention The One True Portal and Gateway to Heaven as of Divine Ordinance and Will, and that the defence thereof was essential to defending Our Antient and Peculiar Sovereignty and Sovereign Identity--preferably in a nativist and xenophobic brand of groupthink.
Which required essentially playing along with "staying the course" to a conservative status quo, and doing so without question or reservation; any deviance therefrom to be looked upon as one with a Serious Mental Disorder or Disease Bordering on Communist Tendencies and, hence, Requiring Drastic Measures to Prevent Further Harm and Danage.
Which is what Fox Prolefeed and their droogs are pushing as the Last and Only Hope to Save America From The Clutches of the Evil Empire Whose True Name No True and Loyal American Should Dare Speak Under Pain of Most Drastic Consequences Too Horrible to Relate, and Preferably Through a "Pre-Emptive" Brand of McCarthyism, Showing No Mercy and Taking No Prisoners--and, in the process, Showing Reckless and Utter Disregard for the Holy and Sacred Constitution They Claim to be Defending.
And which should be challenged @ any and every opportunity, the which is and ought be the mission of All Real Americans (and no, not the imitation promoted by Fox Prolefeed and Drookies).
Otherwise, America will be the ruin and desolation these self-proclaimed "Saviours" and "True Believers" are really (and secretly) wanting all along (and yet don't want you or I knowing this is their real intent and desire).
