perjantai 15. huhtikuuta 2016

12 Symptoms That Diagnose a Russian Liberal

(Fishki.net) 50 minutes ago 



“Crimea is the shame of Russia” – liberals march through in Moscow center
Originally appeared at Fishki.net. Translated by Julia Rakhmetova and Rhod Mackenzie


There was a time when they called them democrats, then democratic schizos (suggesting they suffer from a psychiatric disorder). Now they are liberals, “desperate fighters against Putin’s bloody regime”.

1. The True Liberal hates the USSR and adores the Yeltsin period


Every self-respecting liberal no matter his age talks about being suppressed in the Soviet Union (even if he was five back then) and breathing freely in the1990s. A true liberal doesn’t remember the poverty, the country’s near-default under Yeltsin, he’s oblivious to the decline in population and other "‘minor details”.

2. The True Liberal always talks about Repression


He either feels it, or expects it to come. A liberal doesn’t wonder how he can afford to criticize the authorities, to have enough good food, to fly business class under this terror. These are details. The most important thing is to say: “We’re living like in Stalin’s day”. Of course, the bloody authorities persecute him for these statements; why he hasn’t been caught remains unclear.

3. The True Liberal is always happy with his country’s failures


Each failure is the fault of the “bloody regime”. “I knew things would be bad and now they are worse”. Children killed in the Sinai plane crash, the plane shot down in Syria, inflation – all that is music to the ears of a true liberal. He giggles, rubbing his hands with pleasure.

4. A True Liberal worries about his country’s achievements


The true liberal gets upset when a new tank doesn’t fall apart, and claims Russia’s contribution to the defeat of fascism was insignificant. All his country’s achievements are thanks to the freedom of the '90s. Before and after is darkness. When Russia wins the Olympics, a true liberal compares them to Hitler’s 1936 Munich games .

5. A True Liberal is always enthusiastic over the West but stays in Russia


The liberal likes everything about the West, where there is only freedom and well-being. A liberal is delighted with western democracy — and now with democracy in the Ukraine as well. When a liberal is asked about cases of human rights violations in the US, or the killing of children in the Donbass, he will say: “But here in Russia…” and so forth. Of course, he can’t be forced to go to the Ukraine and they don’t want him in the West. The strange thing is how Jewish liberals can watch torch-light processions so quietly.

6. A True liberal’s efficiency equals zero


People become liberals not because they want to do something for their country but to find more examples of a ‘bloody regime’ and claim that Russia will soon be over. The liberal writes wicked articles, meets his fans, goes to the West to study democracy and talk about the horrors in Russia. Lately, a must-do is a trip to Kiev to study the reforms and democratic freedoms there. But not for altruistic motives. How many charity campaigns organized by liberals have you heard of - other than free concerts for Ukraine’s Azov Nazi battalion?

7. A True liberal is not always endowed with intelligence


Everyone knows that when Bykov (a liberal author) interviewed Starikov (a conservative thinker) he believed that Australia is a republic. Equal ignorance applies to criticism of his own government. Any educated person can provide a long list of problems in our country in an hour, citing cause-and-effect and suggesting solutions. But the liberal won’t waste his time on this. He’s been using the same few clichés for decades and can discuss “Democracy in America” by Alexis de Tocqueville without having read it.

8. A True liberal promises to give back the Crimea


This is the most popular promise now. And the most important is that a liberal risks nothing by it. Why can’t a candidate for the US presidency promise to give Alaska back to Russia? That would mean the end of his political career. But here in Russia…

9. A True liberal is a political survivor


Despite the fact that a liberal is always persecuted by power, he flashes before our eyes for decades. He is ideologically sustainable: with no new ideas or beliefs, he gets old and fat. Why should he change anything? He gets his money…

10. A True liberal always apologizes for his country


Facts are not important to him. It doesn’t matter that other countries are guilty towards Russia. He puts the blame on his Motherland. Who authorized him to apologize for his country? Some day liberals will start to apologize for Germany ruining Hitler’s army. A liberal likes to remember what Soviet troops did in Berlin, but the systematic destruction of the Soviet people by Nazis does not interest him.

11. A True liberal considers his people to be hopeless trash


A true liberal is surrounded by rich artifacts, dwelling on his words, sighing and rolling his eyes and saying how stupid and hopeless the Russian people are (except for liberals, of course). These people are slaves and deserve all the miseries they experienced in the past and are still facing today. The Russians are so hopeless that an unhappy liberal can’t do anything about it. He can only watch sadly, trying to save a few souls. He’s not sorry for the rest: let them die. It’s not clear how this liberal soul could have been be born among these dull people. I wonder how much time a politician’s career would last in the Mecca of democracy after such remarks.

12. Finally, a true liberal is waiting for Russia to disappear


This is the biggest dream of all. How unfortunate that this great country has survived for centuries. Maybe it was thanks to ignorant people? If so, then what?

tiistai 5. huhtikuuta 2016

Surprise! America's Largest News Service Collaborated With Nazi Germany


The Associated Press joins the "honorable list" of American institutions that collaborated with the Nazis

Rudy Panko Sat, Apr 2, 2016 | 4,636 88








AP doin' what AP does best



According to a new and completely unsurprising academic study, the Associated Press published "material directly from Joseph Goebbels’s infamous propaganda machine" leading up to and during WWII, including anti-Soviet propaganda used to cover up some of worst crimes committed by Nazi Germany.

German historian Harriet Scharnberg discovered that "instead of printing pictures of the days-long Lviv pogroms with its thousands of Jewish victims, the American press was only supplied with photographs showing the victims of the Soviet police and ‘brute’ Red Army war criminals.”

According to Scharnberg:


To that extent it is fair to say that these pictures played their part in disguising the true character of the war led by the Germans… which events were made visible and which remained invisible in AP’s supply of pictures followed German interests and the German narrative of the war.

According to an AP spokesperson who is not very good at his job, the fabled wire service "rejects any notion that it deliberately ‘collaborated’ with the Nazi regime", and insists that the news organization was "subjected to intense pressure from the Nazi regime".

Stop acting like you're such a special snowflake, AP: Lots of other holy American institutions collaborated with the Nazis. Embrace your "colorful history".

A few of our favorite Nazi collaborators include: Coca-Cola, Ford, Kodak, Chase bank, IBM and Standard Oil, and GM.

Some firms even successfully sued the American government after the war for damages incurred during Allied air raids against Germany:

After the war GM and the other American corporations that had done business in Germany were not only not punished, but even compensated for damages suffered by their German subsidiaries as a result of Anglo-American bombing raids. General Motors received 33 million dollars and ITT 27 million dollars from the American government as indemnification. The Ford-Werke had suffered relatively little damage during the war, and had received more than 100,000 dollars in compensation from the Nazi regime itself; Ford’s branch plant in France, meanwhile, had managed to wrest an indemnification of 38 million francs from the Vichy Regime.Ford nevertheless applied in Washington for 7 million dollars worth of damages, and after much wrangling received a total of 785,321 dollars “for its share of allowable losses sustained by Ford-Werke and Ford of Austria during the war,” which the company has acknowledged in its recently published report.

True patriots. (Isn't it special that war bonds shoved down the throats of average Americans might have been used to pay GM for "damages" incurred during its own collaboration with the Nazis?)

And of course, we can't forget that "George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany."

The moral of this story is: The Associated Press has been peddling anti-Russia, pro-fascist garbage since 1933. And they're hardly alone.

America #1!