Younger readers probably won't get the irony...

I grew up with "duck and cover." That meant all us little kids in elementary school were told to dive underneath our desks (in order to protect ourselves from a nuclear bomb that, presumably, would have been set off by Russia).

Now, the evil newsrag (PRAVDA) that we all despised (when we got old enough to know what a corrupt media was--think: 21st century for a current example) is laying it on the line like no self-deluded liberal ever could:

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

American capitalism gone with a whimper

Sad? You fucking should be.

Russia and Islam are not Separate: Why Russia backs Al-Qaeda

By Konstantin Preobrazhensky

Americans generally believe that Russia is afraid of Islamic terrorism as much as the U.S.A. They are reminded of the war in Chechnya, the hostage crisis at the Beslan School in 2004 and at the Moscow Theater in 2002, and of the apartment house blasts in Moscow in 1999, where over 200 people were killed. It is clear that Russians are also targets of terrorism today.

But in all these events, the participation of the FSB, Federal Security Service, inheritor to the KGB, is also clear. Their involvement in the Moscow blasts has been proven by lawyer Mikhail Trepashkin, a former FSB Colonel. For this he was illegally imprisoned, and is now suffering torture and deprivation of medical assistance, from which he is not likely to survive.

A key distinction between Russian and American attitudes towards Islamic terrorism is that while for America terrorism is largely seen as an exterior menace, Russia uses terrorism as an object as a tool of the state for manipulation in and outside the home country. Islamic terrorism is only part of the world of terrorism. Long before Islamic terrorism became a global threat, the KGB had used terrorism to facilitate the victory of world Communism.

This leads to the logical connection between Russian and Islamic terrorism. The late Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned in London in November, 2006, told me that his former FSB colleagues had trained famous Al-Qaeda terrorists Ayman Al-Zawahiri and Juma Namangoniy during the 1980s and 1990s. Ayman Al-Zawahiri, one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, has been responsible for the murder of U.S. nationals outside the United States. Before his death, Juma Namangoniy (Jumabai Hojiyev), a native of Soviet Uzbekistan, was a right-hand man of Osama bin Laden in charge of the Taliban’s northern front in Afghanistan.

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HAT TIP: Sultan Knish

Naïveté Obama style

I knew this would happen...was just waiting for the first toll and here it is:

The Moscow Delusion

Whew!

Wow! After all those years living throught the COLD WAR (and learning how to 'duck and cover') I am just so relieved. I'm going to Macy's tomorrow (and that's the truth)!

Stim-u-late...stim-u-late...stim-u-late...

The response from Washington has been muted. Russia is simply not a high priority for the new president.

No need to read...no 'hi pri' (per Barry).

PRAVDA GOES WILD!

Those of us old enough to remember will have a gut reaction to "Pravda" -- the old Soviet Communist newspaper! Well, have they gotten mainstream or what? You WILL NOT BELIEVE their final conclusion about Obama at the end...but don't cheat, read all 3 pages!

World cooperates to stop Iran!

BERLIN (AP) - The U.N. Security Council's permanent members [China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, the United States] and Germany agreed Tuesday on a new draft resolution on sanctions against Iran, strengthening existing measures over the country's refusal to suspend its nuclear program, officials said.

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