Boos for Putin; Blues for Russia---by Christopher A. Ferrara - Crusaders of the Immaculate Heart2024-03-29T13:51:33Zhttps://op54rosary.ning.com/forum/topics/boos-for-putin-blues-for-russia-by-christopher-a-ferrara?commentId=5691517%3AComment%3A53330&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noPutin was high-ranking in the…tag:op54rosary.ning.com,2011-12-22:5691517:Comment:533302011-12-22T00:40:08.842ZCathleenhttps://op54rosary.ning.com/profile/CathleenWelte
<p>Putin was high-ranking in the KGB for years. The leopard doesn't change its spots. Ask anyone who lived under communism. </p>
<p>Putin was high-ranking in the KGB for years. The leopard doesn't change its spots. Ask anyone who lived under communism. </p> Soviet Journalists Continue t…tag:op54rosary.ning.com,2011-12-22:5691517:Comment:535222011-12-22T00:23:18.656ZDawn Mariehttps://op54rosary.ning.com/profile/DawnMarie
<h2>Soviet Journalists Continue to Succumb <br></br> to Lead Poisoning</h2>
<h5>by Christopher A. Ferrara <br></br> December 19, 2011</h5>
<p>There is so much breaking news these days on the conversion of Russia. That is, Russia's conversion from “the former Soviet Union” to the present-day dictatorship under Vladimir Putin.</p>
<p>Like any competent dictator, Putin makes sure that his most vocal critics are eliminated. Where anti-Kremlin journalists are concerned, the method of choice is the hit man.…</p>
<h2>Soviet Journalists Continue to Succumb <br/> to Lead Poisoning</h2>
<h5>by Christopher A. Ferrara <br/> December 19, 2011</h5>
<p>There is so much breaking news these days on the conversion of Russia. That is, Russia's conversion from “the former Soviet Union” to the present-day dictatorship under Vladimir Putin.</p>
<p>Like any competent dictator, Putin makes sure that his most vocal critics are eliminated. Where anti-Kremlin journalists are concerned, the method of choice is the hit man. As <a href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/newspaper-founder-killed-russias-dagestan-152632387.html" target="_blank"><u>Reuters</u></a> notes, at least 32 journalists have been murdered in Russia since 1992, and most of these murders have gone unsolved.</p>
<p>Add another victim to the list. As Reuters reported on December 16, 2011, Gadzhimurat Kamalov, “the founder of a newspaper that investigated government corruption has been shot dead in Russia's North Caucasus region, in what an international watchdog called ‘a lethal blow to press freedom.'”</p>
<p>Kamalov was gunned down as he was leaving the offices of his newspaper <em>Chernovik</em> late at night. The hit man shot him eight times. According to Reuters, quoting the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, “journalists at Chernovik, known for reporting on corruption in the provincial administration, had been ‘routinely persecuted for their work.'” His killing, the Committee laments, was “a massive loss for independent journalism in the North Caucasus, Russia's most dangerous place for reporters...”</p>
<p>Thanks to this epidemic of lead poisoning among journalists critical of the Kremlin, Russia is now ranked “the ninth-worst country in the world for the treatment of journalists,” according to an “impunity index” that ranks countries on the basis of the number of journalists who are killed in unsolved crimes.</p>
<p>While his journalistic opponents eat lead, Putin is scoffing at the recent massive demonstration in Moscow to protest blatant election fraud during the just-concluded parliamentary elections in which Putin's United Russia Party barely polled a majority, even with vote fraud. A <em>Washington Post</em> story reports that Putin is attempting “to soften his authoritarian image, hinting at democratic concessions...” Putin did so during an absurd 41 ½ hour telecast — all Putin, all the time — during which he answered softball questions about his plans for Russia.</p>
<p>During the Putin Telethon the dictator of “converted” Russia said he “might be willing to allow small political parties to register for elections and would be open to the surrender of some of the Kremlin's control over regional politics...” It's all up to him, you see. That's what a dictatorship is all about.</p>
<p>Why mince words? Putin is a thug in a custom-tailored suit. But this thug's rise to power is what some Catholics — those we call the false friends of Fatima — dare to characterize as a “miraculous” regime change brought about by the intervention of the Mother of God. With friends like these, Our Lady of Fatima needs no enemies.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.fatimaperspectives.com/cr/perspective615.asp" target="_blank">http://www.fatimaperspectives.com/cr/perspective615.asp</a></p> Putin will get in, of course.…tag:op54rosary.ning.com,2011-12-16:5691517:Comment:526842011-12-16T13:00:23.530ZCathleenhttps://op54rosary.ning.com/profile/CathleenWelte
<p>Putin will get in, of course. There may be a revolution of some sort, and then the Russian Bear will show its teeth and put down the uprising with tanks and troops. Maybe then the Western world will realize that the Russian Bear is not our friend after all. Maybe events will convince the Holy Father to *Finally* consecrate that poor country to Our Lady? (that, and all the prayers and sacrifices offered too).</p>
<p>Our Lady of Fatima, pray for Russia and for all of us</p>
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<p>Putin will get in, of course. There may be a revolution of some sort, and then the Russian Bear will show its teeth and put down the uprising with tanks and troops. Maybe then the Western world will realize that the Russian Bear is not our friend after all. Maybe events will convince the Holy Father to *Finally* consecrate that poor country to Our Lady? (that, and all the prayers and sacrifices offered too).</p>
<p>Our Lady of Fatima, pray for Russia and for all of us</p>
<p></p> The Party of Swindlers and Th…tag:op54rosary.ning.com,2011-12-14:5691517:Comment:526302011-12-14T15:34:57.483ZDawn Mariehttps://op54rosary.ning.com/profile/DawnMarie
<h2>The Party of Swindlers and Thieves</h2>
<h5>by Christopher A. Ferrara <br></br> December 13, 2011</h5>
<p>As I write this column, Aleksei Navalny, a Russian lawyer and blogger who has galvanized public opposition to the neo-Stalinist Putin regime, sits in a Moscow jail cell on a charge of “resisting the police” for which he was sentenced to fifteen days. That’s just long enough to insure that he will not be appearing at the anti-government demonstration scheduled for today (December 10,…</p>
<h2>The Party of Swindlers and Thieves</h2>
<h5>by Christopher A. Ferrara <br/> December 13, 2011</h5>
<p>As I write this column, Aleksei Navalny, a Russian lawyer and blogger who has galvanized public opposition to the neo-Stalinist Putin regime, sits in a Moscow jail cell on a charge of “resisting the police” for which he was sentenced to fifteen days. That’s just long enough to insure that he will not be appearing at the anti-government demonstration scheduled for today (December 10, 2011).</p>
<p>Navalny has fixed upon the Putin regime a single phrase — “Party of Swindlers and Thieves” — that summarizes rising public sentiment concerning the state of Russia under Putin and his billionaire cronies in Moscow, which has more billionaires than any city in the world, including New York.</p>
<p>As the <em>New York Times</em> reported on December 9, the just-concluded parliamentary elections, in which Putin’s United Russia party barely polled a majority despite ballot box stuffing and other chicanery, has signaled to the Kremlin that it is now “unable to regain control of the public discourse” which “has been determined inside the Kremlin, where strategists selected and promulgated themes for public discussion...”</p>
<p>Navalny, however, is no liberal. The <em>Times</em> notes that he is a Russian nationalist who attracts support not because of his politics, but because of “the confident challenge he mounts to the system.” The <em>Times</em> describes Navalny as projecting “a serene confidence that events are converging, slowly but surely, against the Kremlin.” Navalny himself has predicted that “Revolution is unavoidable... because the majority of people understand that the system is wrong. When you are in the company of bureaucrats you hear them talking about who has stolen everything, why nothing works and how horrible everything is.”</p>
<p>Navalny was jailed for “resisting the police” even though, as the <em>Times</em> notes, “amateur video show[ed] that he had not resisted arrest, and... the officers who testified against him were not the ones who had arrested him...” An appeals judge refused to look at the evidence, and Navalny remained in a Moscow prison, where he was photographed from the street gripping the bars of the window of his jail cell.</p>
<p>More than twenty-seven years after the Consecration that Wasn’t, the Party of Swindlers and Thieves lords it over the long-suffering Russian people. And now there is talk of revolution in Russia. Putin, of course, will steal the coming presidential election and install himself as “paramount leader” — as the press now calls him in an ironic comparison to the head communist oligarch in still-Red China.</p>
<p>While the common people of Russia endure their miserable lot, the abortion holocaust rages on in Russia and every nation of the once-Christian West, and all of Europe exhibits what John Paul II called “silent apostasy,” the Fatima revisionists continue to inhabit a fantasy world in which Russia was consecrated to Mary and has converted. Any day now, they tell us, we will be witnessing the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart. But some 10,000 days have passed since John Paul II conducted the ceremony in which any mention of Russia was deliberately avoided. And in the real world we have seen the results, which are anything but a triumph for the Mother of God.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.fatimaperspectives.com/cr/perspective614.asp" target="_blank">http://www.fatimaperspectives.com/cr/perspective614.asp</a></p> Our Lady of Fatima, pray for…tag:op54rosary.ning.com,2011-11-25:5691517:Comment:487152011-11-25T02:24:19.044ZCathleenhttps://op54rosary.ning.com/profile/CathleenWelte
<p>Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.</p>
<p>Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.</p>