While we are sleeping:
....the critical problems of survival facing modern Russia. We’ve documented epidemic racism, widespread economic crisis and a brutal authoritarian crackdown (including the recent annexation of the nation’s most important newspaper). We’ve documented rampant militarism: Russia has been provided weapons to Venezuela, nuclear technology to Iran, financial support to Hamas and Hezbollah and U.S. military secrets to the regime of Sadaam Hussein. There’s even been talk of an attempted coup by Russia in Georgia, together with various energy blackmail attacks on Ukraine. That’s to say nothing of Russia’s critical population loss, the depopulation of Siberia and its potential annexation by China.Sound like Pat Buchannan ranting over foreigners crossing borders? Well it ain't. Putin is not only absolute dictator of Russia, he is paying off the world press with lavish parties and dinners. Remember the name Walter Duranty, the NYT reporter who covered up all the slaughters of Stalin? Well we've got a hundred Durantys lying to us and you better get hip. Go HERE for the report and bookmark the site. And be sure you follow the links, an excerpt from one of them follows.
The unfolding of Soviet activity in today’s Russia has been swift and unrelenting. If we look back over the past few months, we see a breathtakingly brazen litany of arrests and prosecutions by the Kremlin of its political foes, in a manner eerily reminiscent of the Soviet days, which have gone unchallenged and indeed virtually unnoticed in the West.Nighty night...... Wake up courtesy of Reynolds
Vladimir Rakhmanov, writer, arrested for writing a satirical article referring to Putin as “the nation’s Phallic symbol.”
Valentin Danilov, scientist, arrested for daring to have contact with the West.
Alexei Barinov, Governor of Nenets region, arrested for being the last publicly elected governor in Russia. Putin now appoints them all Russia’s governors (and hence all the members of the Russian version of the Senate, the Federation Council, which is comprised of governors), but that doesn’t make those people safe either, not if they fail to toe the proper pro-Kremlin line. Just ask Senators Alexander Sabadash, Boris Gutin, Igor Ivanov and Levon Chakhmakhchyan, who have all recently been arrested for displeasing the Kremlin.
Yevgeny Ishchenko, mayor of Volgograd, arrested for failing to give the Kremlin sufficient guarantees of loyalty. Not satisfied with controlling all statewide offices, Putin is now going after the localities.
Having sent the message that any executive or legislative official is subject to arrest, the Kremlin is now moving on the judicial branch. Vladimir Bukreyev, the Rostov judge who convicted a Russian colonel of murder in Chechya, was recently arrested in retaliation for the ruling.
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Putin is setting himself up as the new holy czar of Russia. Check this:
http://mosnews.com/news/2006/08/02/magicsword.shtml
Who wouldn't want a magical sword? Despite the fact that he is an autocrat who jails and murders his opponents, the Russians love him. They want Russia to be strong again and feared by the world like they used to be when the USSR existed. Even the lowliest Russian could take pride in the fact that the Red Army had stomped the Germans (Huns vs. Goths) and looted, pillaged and destroyed all the way to Berlin. The fact that the Poles, Yugoslavians, Czechs and others got in the way was just too bad. Nobody messed with the Soviet Union. If you did, you were dead. The Russians want that feeling back. I can't really blame them. I just wish the world was afraid of the US, like they should be. We are nice guys, but that will get us nowhere. You'll see.
Today's Russia can't be all bad. Russian wimmin make such hot p0rn. Some threat.
_David Davenport
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