Pravda Columnist Denigrates Obama As A "Communist"

A Comment On The Pravda Op-Ed From One Of My Friends (0.00 / 0)

Just curious how, despite having an example of how the biggest socialist experiment in history failed, the US appears to want to ignore it. Russia is now acknowledging the stupidity of socialism and embracing capitalism while we bankrupt ourselves. Obama was voted back in by two factions: short-sighted idealists and under-achieving entitlists who believe the promise that they will get things they haven't worked for. Socialism is scary and will bankrupt us. Russia has learned this. China has learned this. Europe is learning this. America will learn this, but at what cost?

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by: The Angelic One @ Sat Dec 29, 2012 at 20:45:15 PM UTC

Oliver Stone: Obama "A Wolf" In "Sheep's Clothing" (0.00 / 0)

Filmmaker Oliver Stone shares his disillusionment about The One to an interviewer from Russia Today :

Russia Today: (Y)ou give a harsh critique of the Obama administration. What in your eyes has been the most troubling aspect of his presidency, Oliver?

Oliver Stone: I think under the disguise of sheep's clothing he has been a wolf. That because of the nightmare of the Bush presidency that preceded him, people forgave him a lot. He was a great hope for change. The color of his skin, the upbringing, the internationalism, the globalism, seemed all evident. And he is an intelligent man. He has taken all the Bush changes he basically put them into the establishment, he has codified them. That is what is sad. So we are going into the second administration that is living outside the law and does not respect the law and foundations of our system and he is a constitutional lawyer, you know. Without the law, it is the law of the jungle.  Nuremburg existed for a reason and there was a reason to have trials, there is a reason for due process - 'habeas corpus' as they call it in the United States.

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by: The Angelic One @ Sat Dec 29, 2012 at 21:45:37 PM UTC

Inspired By Its Public Sector Overlords (0.00 / 0)

Facebook is now censoring pro-freedom & pro-liberty quotes. Sure, as a private company it can do that. The fact that it choses to do so is a sad reflection of its cynicism, its sense of political-correctness, & its sense of financial expediency.

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by: The Angelic One @ Sat Dec 29, 2012 at 23:25:05 PM UTC

Agree to rules, break rules (0.00 / 0)

cry about oppression!

Seems to usually be the case.  

My guess, without even looking into this, is Facebook doesn't allow hyperlinks in images posted because it's defacto free direct advertising, something they expect you to pay for as a "commercial" page, org or website.

They're actually pretty lenient about the posting of images, many of which are probably copyright violations as is, that are intended on getting you to follow the image back to a page, read about it, and possibly follow the "site link" there.  So they're already looking the other way.

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by: Ryan @ Mon Dec 31, 2012 at 04:20:37 AM UTC

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It's Noticeable (0.00 / 0)

Other websites have drawn attention to Facebook's herky-jerky censorship practices. Brett Wilkins had this to say:

Most, if not all, of the suspended accounts have been reactivated. Facebook has not issued any statements explaining its actions.

In the past, Facebook has explicitly warned journalists not to post political opinions on the social media site. Infowars reporter Darrin McBreen was told to "be careful about making political statements on Facebook."

"Facebook is about building relationships not a platform for your political viewpoint," a message to McBreen from the "Facebook Team" reportedly warned. "Be careful and cognizant (sic) of what you are preaching."

The assertion that Facebook is "not a platform for political viewpoints" is baffling, considering the site is used as a campaign tool by practically every politician running for office in the United States. Just about every political cause imaginable is also promoted on Facebook.

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by: The Angelic One @ Mon Dec 31, 2012 at 17:10:18 PM UTC

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And the drop in the Russian birth rate, and male fertility go a long ways towards explaining the adoption ban! (0.00 / 0)

Its not "tit for tat" and its not political - it is real worry about a graying population, poisoned by lack of environmental controls (at least in my opinion)

Deborah Sirotkin Butler
Make Open Meeting Laws apply to the Massachusetts House, Senate, and Executive - Sunlight and air are the best disinfectant

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by: AmberPaw @ Tue Jan 01, 2013 at 22:41:50 PM UTC

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I Agree, AmberPaw (0.00 / 0)

Many ordinary Russians are embarrassed by the high rate of adoptions of orphan Russian children & feel their "high quality" progeny are being "stolen" by America in order to weaken (if not humiliate) Russia itself:

In the past two decades, Americans have adopted about sixty thousand Russian children, many of them with grave medical problems. This statistic may be humiliating for Russia, and indeed it generates lot of patriotic demagoguery, but the number of unwanted orphans is hardly a matter of pride either. It may explain the defensive reaction that in Russia is not infrequently associated with "patriotism": if Russians look less kind and generous toward orphans than their counterparts in America do, let's find fault with Americans and punish them. Proponents of the ban on adoption ascribe ulterior motives to American parents: they adopt Russian kids not because they are humane, but because the American government lavishly compensates them; they want to steal our high-quality "genetic pool"; Americans mistreat or kill their adopted children. The few instances (nineteen over the past two decades) when Russian orphans died as a result of abuse by their American adoptive families invariably generate an outburst of noble fury.

Lawmaker Yekaterina Lakhova, one of the initiators of the adoption ban, was asked by a reporter if she thought Russian orphans would be worse off in America than in Russia. Her answer: "This is not the point. You're asking a wrong question.... Normally economically developed countries don't give up their children, not a single of them. I am a Russian patriot."

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by: The Angelic One @ Wed Jan 02, 2013 at 01:30:29 AM UTC

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