Hundreds detained in Russia for mourning Navalny as Tucker praises Russia above USA

Hundreds of brave Russian's mourned the mysterious death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Unfortunately, the mourners all across the country were detained, according to a group that monitors political arrests.

Navalny had been Putin's opponent who, like Donald Trump, became the victim of lawfare. In Trump's case, he just keeps getting indicted for political purposes. In Navalny's case, he was thrown into prison.

On Friday, Russia's prison service announced Navalny's death at an Arctic prison colony. The claim was that the young man, who was 47, “felt unwell after a walk, almost immediately losing consciousness.”

“The facility’s medical workers immediately arrived at the scene and an emergency medical team was called in. All necessary resuscitation measures have been carried out, but they did not yield positive results. Emergency medics confirmed the death of the convict,” the statement added.

According to the Russian-based human rights organization known as OVD-Info, there have been 389 detentions across 39 Russian cities, with no less than 30 detainees ordered to stay incarcerated up to 15 days.

Until Mr. Navalny’s death, many observers believed that the Kremlin would limit repression until after presidential elections in mid-March, when President Vladimir V. Putin is all but assured a fifth term. But many now fear that the arrests portend a broader crackdown. [...]

Specifically, "if you go against Putin, there might be a shootin'." However, Putin prefers poison over bullets and this was likely the reason Navalny felt "unwell" and soon thereafter died.

In Surgut, a city in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Region in Western Siberia, one of the Navalny mourners, Bakyt Karypbaev, said he was beaten during a five-hour detention after laying flowers at an impromptu memorial for Mr. Navalny. He told The New York Times in a phone interview that officers hit him on his head with their palms, put a gun to his head and forced him to lie on the floor with his arms outstretched. [...]

But Tucker Carlson interviewed Putin and later toured Moscow [obviously told where to go]. He praised the cleanliness of the subway and compared it to the rat-infested subways in New York City, for example. He even went shopping at a market his guide pointed him to and saw that a week's supply of basic food only came to about $104.00 US. He acted as if that wasn't a lot of money for a Russian to spend because, hey, it's only a little over a hundred bucks--pocket change for an American with a decent job.

But $104 for an American is different than it is for a Russian, or anyone from a poor country. Doesn't Tucker understand economics?

Based on Russia's economy, the average family spends 2/3 of their income on food. As of 2020, the average Russian family income is estimated to be around $936 per month, which is equivalent to approximately $11,230 per year. There are 4 weeks in a month, so divide $936 by 4 and you get $234 per week. Spending $104 for food alone makes life difficult for a normal Russian family. Yet Tucker sees this as a pittance for Russian families. And he was in Moscow where salaries are higher than the little jerk-vodka towns outside of Moscow.

Anyway, it looks like Putin is going to maintain power, [and I do mean power] for many years to come, unless someone "Putins" him. 

Tucker Carlson needs to reassess his thinking and better understand exactly how dictatorships hide the real trash they're hiding.

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Philippine Pres. prepared to establish a "revolutionary government"

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is all kinds of crazy, but now he is telling the island nation that he is prepared to establish a "revolutionary government" to keep himself from being ousted from power. 

That's what's known as a dictatorship guys, and it's not a good thing.

Duterte gained fame for the mass killings of drug dealers and users. He doesn't care which--he will have you tossed from a helicopter or shot on the spot if you're caught with drugs.

The madman issued a warning on state television late Friday as he verbally assaulted the press, European lawmakers and anyone else who dare criticize his 'final solution' for the drug problem that has left thousands dead, killed for something in which they aren't afforded a trial, and it has human rights groups calling his methods a crime against humanity.

He made it clear that he would resort to a revolutionary government, not martial law, which requires congressional approval, if communists and other opponents tried to destabilize his rule.

So Duterte is making it an "Us against them commies" argument when it is really a human rights argument.

"If your destabilization is taking place and there is chaos already, I will not hesitate to declare a revolutionary government until the end of my term and I will arrest all of you and we can go to a full-scale war against the reds," he said, referring to communist rebels who've waged a nearly 50-year insurgency.

The paranoid Philippino autocrat alleged the U.S. CIA was part of a plot to destabilize him, and threatened to jail all who oppose him as well as the communist leaders.

"I will declare a revolutionary government, you are all arrested. I am not scaring people, just remember that," he said.

Duterte says how much he hates drugs, drug dealers and drug users. But his drug is power and he's drunk on it. He was elected last year on a law and order platform, but apparently what he says is the law and he seems to hold all the power.

He has no tolerance for differences of opinion and certainly not for dissent. In fact, one of his harshest critics, Senator Leila de Lima, is currently in prison on drug trafficking charges that she and her rights groups say were fabricated to silence her.

I have no doubt that's true as he has vowed to "destroy" another senator who is critical of him, while his hand servants seek to impeach the Supreme Court chief justice after she criticized parts of the drug war.

The paranoid schizophrenic leader of the Philippines also threatened to send home all European ambassadors because he believed they were criticizing the drug war (aka drug carnage) he was waging.


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Fidel snarks on Obama

While Brussels was under an Islamic terrorist attack, President Obama was in Cuba with Castro at a baseball game. Obama did "the wave," and never did anything presidential after the attack. 

Then he went to Argentina and did the tango.

Okay, we all know about that, but you'd like to think the whole debacle wasn't a total loss. You'd hope that Obama made some inroads with the Communist island. After all, Obama knows communism--his parents and most of his family and friends were Communists .

But just a few days after Obama jetted off to Argentina after his 3-day Cuban visit, the Communist government's newspaper published an op-ed piece by Fidel Castro that attacked Obama.

In the piece, Fidel, 89, wrote of Obama saying, "My modest suggestion is that he reflects and doesn't try to develop theories about Cuban politics."

The visit by Obama was supposed to build momentum in the relationship with the Cuban government and convince them that we no longer have the intention of trying to overthrow the Castro regime. But Fidel's op-ed piece basically mocked Obama's feeble efforts to that end.

Castro broke down Obama's speech, sentence-by-sentence, and engaged in an ex-post facto dialogue with our clueless leader. 

Castro pointed out perceived insults from the speech and said that Obama failed to credit the Castro brothers' prohibition of racial segregation when they came to power in 1959. "Obama delivered a speech in which he used the most honeyed words to say: 'It's high time to forget the past, lets's leave the past behind, look to the future, let's look at it together, a future of hope. And it will not be easy, there will be challenges, and to those we will give time, but my stay here gives me further hope of what we can do together as friends, as family, as neighbors, together,'" the dictator Castro wrote.

It seems clear that Fidel has Obama's number when it comes to bull crap. He must realize that Obama believes that his own words are magical, like he thought that going to an Islamic madrassa as a kid in Indonesia would make things good with the Islamic world. But Obama is clueless.

"Nobody should be under the illusion that the people from this noble and selfless country will renounce to the glory and the rights, and to the spiritual wealth it has earned with the development of education, science and culture," Fidel wrote. 

Fidel ended his piece with a satirical jab at Obama and his minions over his strong desire to increase business ties with the Cubans. He cites how Obama claims that re-establishing economic ties with the U.S. will be an economic boon to Cuba, whose centrally planned economy has struggled to escape from over-dependence on imports and a chronic shortage of hard currency.

On that note, Castro said that "I warn you that we are capable of producing the food and material wealth we need with the effort and intelligence of our people. We do not need the empire to give us nothing. [did he intend the double negative?]. Our efforts will be legal and peaceful, because it is our commitment to peace and brotherhood of all human beings living on this planet."

Except for the Cuban "brothers" he, Raul and Che killed to get to the dictatorship for which they fought so hard.




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