From Kenneth:
Sen. John McCain is truly disconnected from reality. It's time for him to retire and work on his butterfly collection.
Following is the Op-ed published in Pravda he wrote. It is laughable for its hypocrisy.
Anyone who believes that the America McCain describes still exists is living in a Fantasy Land of delusion.
That America died as the Military / Industrial / Orwellian Complex, working hand-in-hand with the FED (literary owned by the Wall Street banking establishment - it is not a government agency), and the international uber-wealthy .01% that now own over 70% of the world's wealth replaced the American ideal with their isolated, unaccountable authoritarian rule.
If you don't think they are unaccountable, try to get an audit of the FED - which just happens to control your life through its manipulation of the money supply, interest rates, and crony loans to mega-corporations in the One One-Hundredth of One Percent Club.
By the way - you aren't, and never will be, a member.
I'm publishing McCain's fantasy piece for you to read for yourself. After it, I'm including comments made by readers of ZeroHedge.com, one of the most savvy international sites on the web, to give you some reaction to McCain's idiocy.
Kenneth
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From ZeroHedge.com:
Hopefully this latest garbled and meandering Op-Ed, written by warhawk #1 John MaCain and posted in Russian Pravda, will put the entire Putin-Obama media-centered troll-fest to bed. And yes, the comments after the Op-Ed in Pravda are priceless.
Russians deserve better than Putin, first published in Pravda.ru
When Pravda.ru editor, Dmitry Sudakov, offered to publish my commentary, he referred to me as "an active anti-Russian politician for many years." I'm sure that isn't the first time Russians have heard me characterized as their antagonist. Since my purpose here is to dispel falsehoods used by Russia's rulers to perpetuate their power and excuse their corruption, let me begin with that untruth. I am not anti-Russian. I am pro-Russian, more pro-Russian than the regime that misrules you today.
I make that claim because I respect your dignity and your right to self-determination. I believe you should live according to the dictates of your conscience, not your government. I believe you deserve the opportunity to improve your lives in an economy that is built to last and benefits the many, not just the powerful few. You should be governed by a rule of law that is clear, consistently and impartially enforced and just. I make that claim because I believe the Russian people, no less than Americans, are endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
A Russian citizen could not publish a testament like the one I just offered. President Putin and his associates do not believe in these values. They don't respect your dignity or accept your authority over them. They punish dissent and imprison opponents. They rig your elections. They control your media. They harass, threaten, and banish organizations that defend your right to self-governance. To perpetuate their power they foster rampant corruption in your courts and your economy and terrorize and even assassinate journalists who try to expose their corruption.
They write laws to codify bigotry against people whose sexual orientation they condemn. They throw the members of a punk rock band in jail for the crime of being provocative and vulgar and for having the audacity to protest President Putin's rule.
Sergei Magnistky wasn't a human rights activist. He was an accountant at a Moscow law firm. He was an ordinary Russian who did an extraordinary thing. He exposed one of the largest state thefts of private assets in Russian history. He cared about the rule of law and believed no one should be above it. For his beliefs and his courage, he was held in Butyrka prison without trial, where he was beaten, became ill and died. After his death, he was given a show trial reminiscent of the Stalin-era and was, of course, found guilty. That wasn't only a crime against Sergei Magnitsky. It was a crime against the Russian people and your right to an honest government - a government worthy of Sergei Magnistky and of you.
President Putin claims his purpose is to restore Russia to greatness at home and among the nations of the world. But by what measure has he restored your greatness? He has given you an economy that is based almost entirely on a few natural resources that will rise and fall with those commodities. Its riches will not last. And, while they do, they will be mostly in the possession of the corrupt and powerful few. Capital is fleeing Russia, which - lacking rule of law and a broad-based economy - is considered too risky for investment and entrepreneurism. He has given you a political system that is sustained by corruption and repression and isn't strong enough to tolerate dissent.
How has he strengthened Russia's international stature? By allying Russia with some of the world's most offensive and threatening tyrannies. By supporting a Syrian regime that is murdering tens of thousands of its own people to remain in power and by blocking the United Nations from even condemning its atrocities. By refusing to consider the massacre of innocents, the plight of millions of refugees, the growing prospect of a conflagration that engulfs other countries in its flames an appropriate subject for the world's attention. He is not enhancing Russia's global reputation. He is destroying it. He has made her a friend to tyrants and an enemy to the oppressed, and untrusted by nations that seek to build a safer, more peaceful and prosperous world.
President Putin doesn't believe in these values because he doesn't believe in you. He doesn't believe that human nature at liberty can rise above its weaknesses and build just, peaceful, prosperous societies. Or, at least, he doesn't believe Russians can. So he rules by using those weaknesses, by corruption, repression and violence. He rules for himself, not you.
I do believe in you. I believe in your capacity for self-government and your desire for justice and opportunity. I believe in the greatness of the Russian people, who suffered enormously and fought bravely against terrible adversity to save your nation. I believe in your right to make a civilization worthy of your dreams and sacrifices. When I criticize your government, it is not because I am anti-Russian. It is because I believe you deserve a government that believes in you and answers to you. And, I long for the day when you have it.
Sen. John McCain
Comments from ZeroHedge.com readers:
Zer0head
LOL... Why don't you start at home, and leave us the f--- alone?
Filthy, war-loving, statist pig.
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 08:21 | 3973718
bank guy in Brussels
« They don't respect your dignity or accept your authority over them. They punish dissent and imprison opponents. They rig your elections. They control your media. They harass, threaten, and banish organizations that defend your right to self-governance. To perpetuate their power they foster rampant corruption in your courts and your economy and terrorize and even assassinate journalists who try to expose their corruption. »
That is the American regime encapsulated
we might be wounded but old habits die hard ... it will long time before this empire disappears .... well, like everything else .... ends up in dust
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 08:28 | 3973742
hedgeless_horseman
Oceania has always been allied with Animal Farm.
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 08:29 | 3973747
SilverIsKing
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 08:55 | 3973838
I am more equal...
Is he talking about Russia or the U.S. ?
Then, John, you wated your life if this is what you fought for....
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 10:42 | 3974207
old naughty
But that could have been written for Putin, to "speak to" Americans.
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 12:59 | 3974786
James_Cole
McCain could've summed up his silly propaganda thusly: America = freedom, Russia = not freedom, Putin = asshole, Mcain = hero.
McCain comes from a long line of military politicians who sell out American soldiers, sailors and airmen. Meanwhile this evil POS is all for Obama's open borders to help the drug cartels.
There is a special place in hell for McCain and his NEO con RINO buddies and the Democrats who work with them.
Sounds like a letter he should be reading to the good American people!
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 09:01 | 3973857
TheFourthStooge-ing
Sounds like a letter he should be reading to the good American people!McCain only believes the Russian people deserve those freedoms and opportunities. His career in the senate shows that he believes the American people should have none of them.
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 10:46 | 3974230
old naughty
But then, it's fun to see instead of missiles over the opponent's sky, we now see scripts on newsprints fired across.
Putin/NYT vs McCain/Pravda. (Funny they pitch Mccain to Putin, guess Obummer is lameducky.
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 08:51 | 3973824
therevolutionwas
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 09:54 | 3973953
One World Mafia
OK to hold them in a US or Saudi prison without trial by NDAA McCain.
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 10:44 | 3974211
ForWhomTheTollBuilds
Instead we get American Apple Pie bulls--t about the citizen's proper relationship with the state which may have been sort of true for white people in the 1950s but which is comedically and obviously untrue in the America of today.
I believe Mccain actually believes what he wrote. Our leaders are absolutely delusional which is too bad because sanity would be helpful in the dark years to come.
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 11:26 | 3974382
Renewable Life
Which is exactly why this AI s--t is sooooooooo scary,(and beloved by the rich) you think that whack job McCain wouldn't believe he's the best human android hybrid senator their ever was, and want to "rule" for a 1000 years????
I think people might be looking backwards for reference to what "the dark years" will look like!!! Don't be so sure, it wont look and feel like something out of a science fiction movie, and be sooooooo much MORE dark, then the middle ages ever were!!!!!
replace the word russia with USA. its a perfect fit.
and since when did the f--king PEOPLE matter soo much. is the peoples opinion the new "nuke"?
"Damn that Assad. one lousey interview, and my inbox gets flooded. did the networks go off-air? quick, lets whip up some bulls--t for a.i.p.i.a.c., im sure they will be calling soon."
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 08:20 | 3973717
LawsofPhysics
Tick Tock motherf--ker.
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 09:21 | 3973931
Portuguese Revo...
It takes a BRAINLESS PIG to write to the Russians what he SHOULD BE DOING at home.
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 12:55 | 3974767
Chaos_Theory
Rule of law that is fair and just? McStain, please share the hooch you're drinking because it must be awesome! How else can you ignore Corzine, Dimon, pretty much all the Robber Barrons of Finance who fleeced the taxpayers in 2008 to pay for their massive fraudulent CDO and CDS schemes.
Then there is the .gov-wide urination on the 4th and 5th amendments and outright desperation to eviscerate the 2nd. Don't complain about government harrassment of dissent when the U.S. uses the IRS, FEC and LE to do the same, albeit in a more covert "wasn't me" methodology.
In fact, it really seems you're just pissed Putin's methods are overt while we face the coordinated covert methods (by the Governmental-Media-Industrial-Banking Complex).
P.S. ...watch what you eat and drink Johny lest you get Yushchenko'd.
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 08:22 | 3973722
Mike Hunt Hurts
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 08:34 | 3973764
Mike Hunt Hurts
"He exposed one of the largest state thefts of private assets in history"IF he was talking about the FEDs/FED and what they have skimmed off the people of America for the last 100 years with their productivity skimming 2% inflation target.
(I removed Russian cause the NSA won't let me use strikethrough)
pods
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 08:13 | 3973684
aint no fortuna...
"I make that claim because I respect your dignity and your right to self-determination. I believe you should live according to the dictates of your conscience, not your government. I believe you deserve the opportunity to improve your lives in an economy that is built to last and benefits the many, not just the powerful few. You should be governed by a rule of law that is clear, consistently and impartially enforced and just. I make that claim because I believe the Russian people, no less than Americans, are endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Its just awesome that these days they are willing to rag on each other in public. Its just like f--king high school.
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 08:41 | 3973790
TheFourthStooge-ing
When pravda.wsj.com editor, Toady Sycophant, offered to publish my commentary, he referred to me as "an active anti-American politician for many years." I'm sure that isn't the first time Americans have heard me characterized as their antagonist. Since my purpose here is to dispel falsehoods used by America's rulers to perpetuate their power and excuse their corruption, let me begin with that untruth. I am not anti-American. I am pro-American, more pro-American than the regime that misrules you today.
McCain is a festering carbuncle on the dying remains of Vichy DC, endlessly oozing idiocy.
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 11:34 | 3974415
Renewable Life
Still grasping onto that old 1970's propaganda script, written by those relics in the CIA half a century ago!! That s--t might have worked then, but you just look like the f--king hypocrite, you are today, pushing that s--t overseas!!!
THAT'S THE F--KING POINT, the world is finally waking up to the reality, you and your Keynesian Facists buddies, don't actually practice or believe in the bulls--t you pedal to the world anymore!!!!! You have been exposed, there's no going back now a--hole, and it couldn't have happened to a better bunch of scumbags, on your watch!!
Okay, so who is this McCain guy and what does he do again?
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 10:04 | 3974100
thunderchief
Many parts don't.
No Country for Old Men, old man. Go away...
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 08:04 | 3973629
GetZeeGold
I really must object to Pravda for allowing this progressive lunatic to speak for me.
I call on my fellow Americans to round up McCain, Graham, Pelosi, Reid, and Boehner....that will work for starters.
Not sure what we should do with them...maybe stick them in Gitmo until we figure it out.
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 08:07 | 3973661
firstdivision
Thu, 09/19/2013 - 09:01 | 3973691
GetZeeGold
Let them keep the Rothschild/Mobil oil money....we're not heartless heathens here.
P.S. shouldn't Obama be defending us? Oh that's right.....he hates us!
Why did the CIA allow this to be published?
