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On “Punishing” Russia
There is a campaign building in the "western" media and by the "western" elite to "punish" Russia for not doing what those elites want it to do.
The theme the campaign is now using is a law the Russia parliament recently voted on that prohibits "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors". The existence of that law is used in a campaign to boycott the Olympics in Sochi in the name of LGBT "rights".
How much that Russian law really touches on "rights" is not yet obvious to me. The Russian LBGT groups for one have spoken out AGAINST such a boycott. But they will soon find that no one in the "west" really cares about them. The campaign against Russia it is not about LGBT rights but all about "punishing" Russia.
Yesterday president Obama joined the Russia LGPT rights bashing club:
"[I have] no patience for countries that try to treat gays or lesbians or transgender persons in ways that intimidate them or are harmful to them" … "One of the things I think is very important for me to speak out on is making sure that people are treated fairly and justly because that’s what we stand for, and I believe that that’s a precept that’s not unique to America,” Obama said. “That’s just something that should apply everywhere.
So how about the gays Saudi Arabia hangs? What was the last time Obama showed "no patience" with the Saudi royal family? And all those people that get killed by Obama's drones are "treated fairly and justly"?
The Russian law may be stupid. But Russia does not kill anyone for his or her sexual preferences. To use such an issue to call for a boycott of the Olympics, against the declared will of the Russians effected by the law, is rather embarrassing.
To think that such calls or even an Olympics boycott would change Russia's behavior is childish. Russia is again an independent country. It can no longer be "punished".
Actually, I’m enjoying the evident Russia and Putin bashing by zusa. For multiple reasons.
For one, that lbgt law simply writes down what the majority of people feel – globally, not only in Russia. Funnily the western media whores confirm that fact by very often “misunderstanding” the facts and writing as if homosexuality per se were forbidden and gays would be hunted down. Those whores, of course, know that writing the truth would have even the western people people ask, what’s wrong about that reasonable law.
Then, of course, because zusas gay president, the serial liar, pointing fingers at Putin, the man respected even by many western people simply for being straight and upright, is a great thing to happen. In fact it’s double-good *g – first, it shows to anyone with a brain and the will to occasionally use it that obama is a weakling and a liar and secondly, by repeatedly (trying to) punishing Putin he, obama himself, introduces punishment as an acceptable means in international policy. So many people will find it just right when Putin one day knocks out obama.
But there is more to it, more complex and more important. It is to do with souvereignty.
Souvereignty can’t be simply decided on. Since the dawn of mankind souvereignty was something that referred to and depended on an external reference, typically God. Modern societies replaced the external reference by “we the people” – which is a major logical problem. Logically speaking they replaced a reference with a system of probes and, possibly more importantly a floating system and a system that can be easily manipulated which quite evidently is pretty much the opposite of a reference.
While this need for a reference has, of course, been abused by churches and religious functionaries it actually isn’t so much about this or that God or religion but about a principle based on the observation that there are cosmic laws or, more precisely, the assumption that there are “cosmic” i.e. basic and undisputable laws for men, too or, more simply, that there is right and wrong and that they can be usually discerned.
Which leads us quite directly back to Putin and the issue at hand. He, Putin, is widely perceived as a guy whom one might like or not but who is clearly oriented and trying to be guided by those principles. This has become strikingly clear when he underlined the importance of religion and gave the Russian church both more power and more responsibility. Doing that, he provided a stronger reference system to the Russia.
zusa on the hand is like a ship inmidst of the ocean whithout orientation and reference. Which, of course, is exactly what the zionists love.
Where zusa (and generally western) politicians wheel and deal and weazle, Putin acts quite straight, logical, well thought and almost naturally with a broad support in his constituency; of course, after all, his guiding values and principles are those of the vast majority.
And he is straight. Which is another important point. The simple truth concerning lbgt (and many other issues) is – as so often happens to be – that zionists invert things; when they steal they talk about sharing.
The real issue of lgbt is that the zionist forces do *not* want to tolerate (and risk) a free decision and evolution; they want to “educate” (read: brainwash) children toward homosexuality and to paint lbgt as totally normal or possibly even desirable. And *that* is what the new law is about: It interdicts zionist forces the brainwashing of people, in particular children, and protects their right to act upon their own compass.
As to consequences of zusa being angry with Russia and Putin, frankly, it shit on it. Let’em bring it on. They’ve lost a war against medieval mountain villages and against a brutally worn out and weakened Iraq. Going against Russia plain and simple would be suicidal for zusa.
They want to punish Russia economically? Ridiculous! What exactly would it be that a country with tens of trillions of debt, a rotten economy and collapsing bridges could bring up against Russia and BRIC?
Even if they would boycott Sochi that would turn against zusa way worse than against Russia. But then, to be honest, I was against Sochi since early on. It’s simply too early in my minds eye. And, no surprise there, the georgians (which is *very* close to Sochi, close as in “some ten miles”) rear their ugly heads again and make noise.
So, I think, Sochi is one of the very few points where Putin really didn’t act very smartly.
@ Dr. Wellington Yueh (12)
have you seen this?
Samsung’s 3D Vertical NAND Set to Improve NAND Densities. Will we have the capacity to store everything? Yes…soon we will.
Nope, that’s hype. It is, of course, attractive to have larger flash memory on chips but this is no danger at all. All it will do is to have reasonable sized SSDs in reasonable sized space and quite probably somewhat cheaper than the current insane SSD prices.
Posted by: Mr. Pragma | Aug 10 2013 3:10 utc | 15
somebody@44 Well, let’s assume that homosexuality is genetic (that is the state of research)
Why should we assume it? Plain common sense should prevent us from assuming that, or other supposedly genetic caused behavior, even if they make headlines every other day: Scientists search (or find) the gene for drug addiction, or the gene for shoplifting, the gene for car-speeding, such garbage is popular with newspaper editors. And for a number of reasons, none of which as to do with science, in this brave new world of privatized science such self-named research gets funding.
This August 8th Counterpunch article by Jonathan Latham Political Paralysis and the Genetics Agenda explains some of the background to this absurdity:
Most directly of all, there is clear evidence that the search for genetic predispositions is the centerpiece of a longterm corporate agenda whose purpose is to sway public opinion. It began in the 1960s with the tobacco industry at a time when smoking was first implicated in lung cancer. The strategic purpose was to deflect the public fear of smoking, minimize the likely policy responses, and eliminate potential legal expenses, by funding, encouraging, and then exploiting, human genetic research. This could be done, so the industry thought, by building from scratch a science of genetic risk factors.
The tobacco industry also pioneered ‘behavioral genetics’. The idea that even addiction to cigarettes was a genetic phenomenon (and not a characteristic of cigarettes or tobacco) originated with the tobacco industry. The consistent aim behind promoting genetics, according to a memo written by Fred R. Panzer, Vice President of Public Relations for the Tobacco Institute, was to change the focus of attention “from one product to a type of person”.
So, if we don’t assume the genetics, and assume instead that sexual orientation is mainly a result of the sociocultural environment, that present day pop culture glorifies “non-traditional sexual relationships” and that pop culture emanates from the anglo-saxon world the question that must be asked is, must Russian society (or any society, for that matter) submit to and adopt anglo-saxon pop culture?
Let’s look at it from the perspective of the Belfast Orange marches. The loyalist consider they have the right to march trough the catholic neighborhoods. Irish catholics consider that an aggression. Should the march be allowed? Aparently, for the sake of some measure of peace, a wall blocks the parade, and for a change the cops pay the price.
Now, replace Belfast with Moscow, Orange march with gay pride parade, and catholics with the russian, now orthodox, majority. Should we agree that they must submit to a minuscule group that claims the right to march their ensigns through the center of Moscow as stormtroopers of western pop culture, knowing full well that will be offensive to the majority? I don’t think so. I think that the ban on gay pride parades in both Leningrad, sorry, St Petersburg, and Moscow is perfectly reasonable, and I think the amendment to the childhood protection law is defensible as well.
Elle n´a pas encor de plumes
La flèch´ qui doit percer son flanc
Et dans son cœur rien ne s´allume
Quand elle cède à ses galants
Elle se rit bien des gondoles
Des fleurs bleues, des galants discours
Des Vénus de la vieille école
Cell´s qui font l´amour par amour
N´allez pas croire davantage
Que le démon brûle son corps
Il s´arrête au premier étage
Son septième ciel, et encor
Elle n´est jamais langoureuse
Passée par le pont des soupirs
Et voit comm´ des bêtes curieuses
Cell´s qui font l´amour par plaisir
Croyez pas qu´elle soit à vendre
Quand on l´a mise sur le dos
On n´est pas tenu de se fendre
D´un somptueux petit cadeau
Avant d´aller en bacchanale
Ell´ présente pas un devis
Ell´ n´a rien de ces bell´s vénales
Cell´s qui font l´amour par profit
Mais alors, pourquoi cède-t-elle
Sans cœur, sans lucre, sans plaisir
Si l´amour vaut pas la chandelle
Pourquoi le joue-t-elle à loisir
Si quiconque peut, sans ambages
L´aider à dégrafer sa rob´
C´est parc´ qu´ell´ veut être à la page
Que c´est la mode et qu´elle est snob
Mais changent coutumes et filles
Un jour, peut-être, en son sein nu
Va se planter pour tout´ la vie
Une petite flèch´ perdue
On n´verra plus qu´elle en gondole
Elle ira jouer, à son tour
Les Vénus de la vieille école
Cell´s qui font l´amour par amour
Georges Brassens
“Le Mouton de Panurge”
Posted by: estouxim | Aug 13 2013 3:05 utc | 67
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