Tag: crimea
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TWO AND A HALF CENTURIES OF TAX OPPRESSION IN AMERICA
RANKING OF 50 STATES BY AGGREGATE TAX RATES Tax Freedom Day or Tax Slavery Parole Day, Will Be Friday Apr 24 This Year “THE MORE THE WORLD CHANGES, THE MORE IT STAYS THE SAME” (J-B Alphonse Karr 1808-1890) I have been watching on Netflix the TV series “TURN.” It is about the American Revolution and the…
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POPULISM, THY FACE IS PUTIN
PLUTOCRACY, THY FACE IS OBAMA When was the last time you’ve heard of an American president holding a four-hour live “town hall meeting” with the whole nation? Never, of course, is the correct answer. Now contrast that with what the Russian president Putin has just done (Apr 16). He held a four-hour live televised “town…
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ON EVOLUTION… FROM COMPLACENCY TO PERDITION
America’s Road to Perdition (updated Nov 26, 2014) America is on a road from Liberty to Perdition. Right now (2014), we are somewhere between Complacency and Apathy on Tytler cycles of history clock (above), and on our way to Bondage (i.e., Perdition). Soldiers know that complacency kills (see the 2007 warning signs to American Marines…
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PUTIN: U.S. WILL NEVER SUBDUE RUSSIA
SEEDS OF WAR: LIKE POLAND, LIKE UKRAINE… “Bumbling amateurs” run WESTERN COUNTRIES today 1991 Like 1919: Breakup of Soviet Union Laid Seeds for New Global War, Just like the Breakup of Germany and Austria Did in 1919 Right after returning home from the meetings with the G20 leaders in Brisbane, Australia, Russian president Vladimir Putin fired off a warning…
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FALL OF BERLIN WALL FOR NAUGHT AS ANOTHER RISES FARTHER EAST
A Quarter Century After Euphoric Fall of Berlin Wall, NATO Moved Goal Posts 2,000 km Eastward, Ukraine Building Another Wall Against Russia Twenty five years ago today, the world celebrated the fall of Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the Wall served as a visual reminder of a dividing line between between freedom and oppression, between democracy in the West and autocracy…
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IS PUTIN NAIVE OR FALSE?
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last (Winston Churchill) Russian president’s 41-minute speech on Oct 24 at a conference in Moscow has been reverberating around the world through the internet media. Here are some quotes from it… “Global media control allows US to sell black for white” “The US…
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UKRAINIAN GUARDSMEN FIRE ON CROWD OF VOTERS, KILLING SOME
One victim Ukrainian national guardsmen opened fire Sunday on a crowd outside a town hall in Krasnoarmeisk, in Eastern Ukraine, killing and wounding several people, according to eyewitness reports and videos (see bel0w). But that did not stop the pro-Russian Ukrainians from voting overwhelmingly in favor of secession, according to latest news reports. Meanwhile, the U.S.…
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