A Comparison of Manliness which doesn’t even reference Владимир Владимирович!
Yes, I took the time and effort to create The Blogmocracy’s own version of the famous comparison.
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Posts Tagged ‘Vladimir Putin’
Hot Air makes common cause with Tranzi Progressive NGO Human Rights Watch
by Phantom Ace ( 102 Comments › )Filed under Progressives, Russia, Tranzis at February 1st, 2013 - 7:00 am
I am no fan of Hot Air. I like many of the commentators over there, like our own Dorian Grey or AZFederalist and others but the people who run the blog are just tranzi progressive propagandists. When the Arab Spring began Hot Air was supporting it knowing full well it was a Muslim Brotherhood led movement. When Qaddafi began to crack down on Al-Qaeda, Hot Air advocated war to remove him. Then when Obama went to war for the Islamists, they complained he did not do enough. When the blowback from Libya destabilized Mali, Hot Air hypocritically attacked Obama for getting rid of Qaddafi.
Now Hot Air launches an attack on Russia’s “human rights” record.
The title says a “Rights” group. Here is the the article which they link to and notice the name of the organization.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Authoritarianism increased last year in Russia to levels unseen since the Soviet era with a raft of harsh laws curbing political freedoms and harassment of opposition activists and critics, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.
Hot Air which is allegedly a Conservative blog is supporting the viewpoint of a Tranzi Progressive NGO! If people do not know who Human Rights Watch are, well here is what the The Volokh Conspiracy has to say on Human Right Watch’s connections.
Human Rights Watch, bleeding donors because of the various scandals surrounding its reporting on the Middle East [I have a lengthy series of blog posts on HRW and Israel, most of which can be found here, with some more recent ones here], and apparently finding Saudi elites either unavailable or no longer palatable, has found a sugar daddy: George Soros, who is donating $100 million to the organization.
This certainly takes care of HRW’s intermediate funding needs, but also makes HRW’s position as a leading organization of the anti-Israel international left even clearer. Even J Street and Soros parted ways long ago, before J Street even officially launched, because Soros is so toxic to
anyonemost people sympathetic to Israel, and J Street seeks to represent the left/liberal wing of the pro-Israel community. Gerald Steinberg of NGO Monitor has more.
This is a George Soros supported anti-Capitalist organization. They are also very anti-Israel and have criticized nations such as Colombia, India, the Philippines and various American Corporations. Now as to who Putin is cracking down on, they are Russian Leftist Occupy Wall Street types who want a Marxist state. The Russia of today is not the Soviet Union. They are a Rightwing Nationalist Capitalist nation with a better tax code than the US and a private Social Security system . Who Putin cracks down on is an internal matter for Russia and as an American it’s none of my concern.
I hope Conservatives realize how Hot Air is pulling a fast one on them. The fact they are linking to Human Right Watch proves they are not a Conservative blog. They are a Tranzi Progressive blog with a Globalist agenda. There is nothing Conservative about a blog that supports a George Soros linked group.
Conservatives need to realize the con job Hot Air is pulling on them.
Putin wrong on Orphans but Right on Gerard Depardieu
by Phantom Ace ( 7 Comments › )Filed under France, Headlines, Russia at December 20th, 2012 - 9:23 pm
Vladimir Putin is a mixed bag. I like his Pro Free Market economic polices, but don’t agree with some of his foreign policy. To be fair, Putin looks out for Russia’s interest. America and Russia do not always see eye to eye. It’s just the way it is.
One item I disagree with is the Russian Duma prohibiting Americans from adopting Russian orphans. I feel this is wrong and only harms the kids.
But Putin stunned many by appearing to back the draft bill. “I understand, [the bill is] an emotional response from the State Duma, but I believe it is adequate,” he said.
“What really surprised me is that journalists asked Putin questions about the anti-adoption bill several times, in a sharp form,” says Andrei Piontkovsky, a veteran Kremlin critic. “In response he read them lectures about human rights violations in the USA. From what I saw he is mostly concerned with penalizing the USA instead of the fates of real, living Russian children.”
Russia’s foreign adoption laws require that a child be rejected by prospective Russian parents — usually for health reasons — before being made available for foreign adoption.
Putin is right for standing up for Gerard Depardieu’s protest of France’s tax laws.
Speaking of movie star Gerard Depardieu’s hunt for a welcoming tax haven after renouncing his French citizenship over high tax rates, Putin displayed a surprisingly warm and understanding attitude.
“If Gerard really wants to have a residence permit or a Russian passport, you can consider it done, the issue solved positively,” Putin said. “I am sure French officials didn’t want to insult Gerard, but just as any officials, they pursue their policies…. There is a saying: ‘Anyone can hurt an artist.’ I sympathize with Mr. Depardieu’s feelings.”
Putin is wrong on prohibiting American adoptions, but right on Depardieu.
Putin’s new Russian Nationalism is a revival of the Czarist ideology
by Phantom Ace ( 7 Comments › )Filed under Christianity, Headlines, Orthodox Christianity, Russia at October 27th, 2012 - 6:26 pm
Some Conservatives claims Putin is a Communist. I disagree totally with this line of thinking. I have always viewed Putin as a Rightwing Nationalist. A new article vindicates my observation.
Two recent stories offer a revealing — and, to some, unsettling — view of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s emerging state ideology. The new Putinism, you might call it, seems to be a fusion of two older Russian ideas: nationalism, sometimes with an anti-Western tinge, and conservative interpretations of Orthodox Christianity. Both stories portray the coalescing, Kremlin-pushed ideology as a response to rising dissent and, more broadly, an effort to fill an ideological vacuum that has to some extent remained since the collapse of the Soviet Union two decades ago.
The Financial Times’ Charles Clover chronicles the new ideology’s emergence in the typically vibrant city of St. Petersburg, “long regarded as Russia’s liberal window to the west” but now “the testing ground for a new wave of conservative, Orthodox church-going, pro-Kremlin patriotism that has gripped much of Russian officialdom.” Clover cites recent censorship of classic Russian works by Vladimir Nabokov and Sergei Rachmaninoff, as well as new law that forbids “yelping” and “stomping” at night, possibly aimed at curbing protests.
Putinism is nothing more than Czarist Russian nationalism. The Russian Orthodox Church has been restored to its role as one of the pillars of Russian society. I would call this ideology Russian Falangism. American Conservatives need to stop viewing Russia through the elsn of the Cold War. Russia need to be viewed as it was under the Czars. Vladimir Putin is more like Peter the Great than he is Brezhnev. There will be times Russia works with us and other times they don’t. One area we should cooperate is against the Muslim Brotherhood.
