‘Ellie Velinska’ Archives
Will Turkey become NATO’s Greece?
By Ellie Velinska The Eurozone countries are still trying to find a way to kick Greece out of the euro without collapsing the currency and the integrity of the EU. So far no good answer had been found and the folks across Europe have to swallow unpopular bailouts and the people of Greece have to suffer painful social benefits cuts. Getting [...]
Popular Russian jokes about President Obama
By Ellie Velinska To win the 2012 election President Obama joined Putin’s United Russia party. --- April Fool’s Day. Obama is joking with the CIA director: I work for the Russians. Petreaus is joking back: I didn’t know that! --- Dear President Obama, my name is Fyodor Ivanovich. Osama Bin Laden is currently living with [...]
The IMF is pushing ObamaCare on Greece
By Ellie Velinska The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is dictating the policies that are being implemented in Greece these days including: layoffs of government employees, garage sale of islands and whatever else is worth a dime, cuts in pensions, the minimum wage, the defense spending and finally… implementing ObamaCare. OK. I admit, [...]
The insured are to be blamed too
By Ellie Velinska Republican ‘think-tankers’ make rounds in the media these days explaining the ‘conservative’ roots of the Individual Mandate in ObamaCare. They insist that folks without insurance are the reason for the skyrocketing costs in health care. What they fail to tell us is that the people with health insurance are equally to [...]
About Separation of State and Science
By Ellie Velinska But here’s the kicker. Remember that group of economists who said our jobs plan would create jobs? Well, one of those same economists took a look at the Republican plan and said that it could actually cost us jobs… - President Obama, Jamestown, NC – October 18, 2011 One would expect that President Obama, being a [...]
Poking the Russian Bear
By Ellie Velinska US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is roaming across Europe these days trying to gather support for international actions against the Assad regime in Syria after Russia and China vetoed her efforts in the UN. The Red Army marched in field boots instead of parade uniforms on the last Victory Day celebration in Moscow [...]
The Blame Game for the Romney Disaster
By Ellie Velinska Charles Krauthammer is opinion maker with whom I often agree. His power is mighty. Jack Abramoff types have to work hard to bundle votes, approaching lots of people to move their cause. Charles Krauthammer can split the sea of the political discourse and line the crowds with 30 second sound bite. Such influence makes me say [...]
The Rick Perry vote and the Ron Paul revolution
By Ellie Velinska As unaffiliated voter and Governor Rick Perry supporter I watched with regret how the Republican Party was able to get rid of my favorite candidate months before anybody had a chance to participate in our North Carolina open primaries. Contrary to the popular talking points, the establishment killed the Perry presidency [...]
The Republican Party Romneyboats itself into irrelevance
By Ellie Velinska Republican establishment is positioning successfully Mitt Romney to win the presidential nomination and is destroying the enthusiasm for the party in the process. The low turnout at the republican Iowa caucuses is not an exception but apparent trend in the last few months. The defeat of Governor Kasich’s attempt to [...]
Obama Change feels like Opposite Day in Gorbachev Perestroika
By Ellie Velinska Twenty years after the end of the Soviet Union the Russian TV is running spectacular documentaries analyzing the turbulent times when we were young. It is fun to watch. Here come the pictures from the old TV program Vzglyad. In English it translates as The View. The American Vzglyad is like Soviet The View turned upside down. [...]
Will the US military let Congress to pull the trigger?
By Ellie Velinska The Eurozone countries are floating in an ocean of debt holding to the last straws and hoping for a miracle that will convince the world their situation is not dire. The US Congress Super Committee may provide that miracle by putting America in the spot light instead. If the ideologues prevail over the common sense folks, the [...]
Just one percent?
By Ellie Velinska The US foreign aid is ‘just’ one percent of the federal budget. This is why, according to establishment pundits, it is not a matter of importance that needs to be discussed in the republican presidential debate. The talking heads couldn’t be more wrong. What is just one (and a half, actually) percent of the budget [...]
Ohio hits Romney
By Ellie Velinska Forcing people to buy health insurance was rejected by the voters of Ohio in the 2011 special elections. The result hurts Mitt Romney, who fathered the idea of individual mandate by implementing it as governor of Massachusetts. President Obama (who forced the penalty on the whole nation) was against this approach when he [...]
Maybe we really can’t wait!
By Ellie Velinska President Obama ‘We can’t wait’ until 2012 slogan is often ridiculed by the republicans. With all seriousness, they should consider giving it some thought. The establishment favorite for republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is so uninspiring that many folks rather pay national sales tax than have him in the [...]
Perry is borrowing from the Obama campaign playbook
By Ellie Velinska Hillary Clinton was standing in the bed of a pickup truck screaming dares at Barack Obama to show up for debate in the 2008 democratic primaries. The no-drama candidate, however, focused on organizing in the caucus states instead of bickering with his experienced opponent on TV. When the time came to count the chicken, Barack [...]
Romney’s Meg Whitman problem
By Ellie Velinska The republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney seems to have a ‘Meg Whitman’ problem. It is not so much a Nicky Diaz kind of problem. Although, there is a high probability we will see illegal immigrant lawn mowing workers shedding tears on a press-conference in the general election if Mr. Romney gets nominated. It is [...]
Revolution by Media
By Ellie Velinska Reading the foreign press these days gives you the impression that America is occupied by struggling hippies from sea to shining sea. At the North Carolina State Fair this weekend a totally different crowd was gathered: folks splurging on fun-rides and fried food. The fairgrounds were truly occupied by happy campers voting [...]
North Carolina signals the Republican base is not as enchanted as in 2010
By Ellie Velinska North Carolina republicans lost heavily in yesterday’s local elections for city councils and are only one run-off election away from losing control of the education board in the state capital that they won in 2010. It appears that the republican base is not enchanted with the party’s candidates and overall [...]
Memos may prevent terror only if the Federal Bureaucracy would care to read them
By Ellie Velinska The 2001 memo of the Phoenix FBI agent Kenneth Williams (who tried to alert unsuccessfully his supervisors in Washington DC that Al Qaeda members might be training in U.S. flight schools) is one of the most tragic miscommunication errors in the history of America. Ten years after 9/11 and after billions of dollars were [...]
Putin is planning Soviet Union 2.0
By Ellie Velinska Eurasian Union that coincidentally includes the former Soviet Socialist Republics – this is the newest idea that Vladimir Putin is pushing ahead of regaining Presidential power in Russia. The spooky image comes a day after the US President Obama topped the whining-o-meter by declaring himself an underdog in the 2012 [...]
Florida Republicans Embrace National Sales Tax
By Ellie Velinska Herman Cain’s victory in the Florida straw poll proves that republican voters would rather pay national sales tax on top of income tax than give a break to children brought to the US by illegal immigrants. The delegates punished Texas Governor Rick Perry for supporting in-state tuition for kids meeting resident requirements, [...]
Republicans surrender the immigration vote
By Ellie Velinska Republicans often take pride in pointing that their vision about America is not a European one. Unfortunately one side of the politics of the current republican presidential campaign is awfully European: hardline anti-immigration, borderline bigoted approach to new settlers in the Land of the Free. While the world is [...]
Top 10 ideas that will help Republicans re-elect Barack Obama
By Ellie Velinska 1. The minimum wage is a job killer, because the businesses hire one person for $9 instead of two for $4.50; 2. The President can’t make you buy health insurance, but your Governor can; 3. Privatize Social Security and Medicare by investing the money in stocks and sending the seniors back in the [...]
Credit Rating Agencies will downgrade America to gain credibility
By Ellie Velinska Credit Rating Agencies are in the business of economic bullying for decades. Every downgrade of a country posted by the big credit bureaus activates an army of white collar zombies posing as investor consultants that triggers character assault on the target. Usually the credit rating agencies whip the country with downgrades [...]
The Mass Amnesia inside News Corporation
By Ellie Velinska We can judge how seriously the folks in the United Kingdom view the media, by the fact that the news business is regulated by the same parliamentary committee that rules over the sports. You’d think the MPs would be busy with the coming London Olympics, but instead they are trying to show the need of stricter regulations [...]
World Economy or Global Money Laundromat?
By Ellie Velinska Tens of billions of dollars are being smuggled out through the unsecured US borders every year. This money is deemed dishonest, because it is earned through drug and human trafficking and other illegal activities. The dirty dollars travel to offshore havens and third world countries where it is deposited in banks that do not [...]
Casey Anthony trial: don’t kill the bad mothers!
By Ellie Velinska Sitting in a movie theater, trying to figure out what the animated owls wearing sombrero are trying to say in their song… and some baby would not stop crying. Feeling the outrage bubbling in me I realize I want the baby to continue crying, because there is no worst punishment for the mother who brought that noise-bundle to [...]
Casey Anthony Trial Lacks Doctor Bones and Agent Booth
By Ellie Velinska Prosecutors across America are complaining that jurors all over the country are biased: they are preconditioned to expect scientific evidence during the trial to match their favorite TV law and order series. Watching some of the testimony in the Casey Antony trial I can see the prosecutors have a point. Bones, I have to [...]
The Pandora’s Box of the European Debt Crisis
By Ellie Velinska Tensions between the industrial North and the agricultural South are being catalyzed by bigotry. I am not describing the American Civil War, but the current inflamed socio-economic situation in the European Union. Is the old continent really ‘United in Diversity’? Germany has no sunny beaches, but mastered the art of [...]
McCain is warmongering again
By Ellie Velinska Arizona Senator John McCain is unhappy with his fellow republicans over their mass unease with the kinetic actions in Libya. That's not the Republican party of the 20th century and now the 21st century… That is not the Republican Party that has been willing to stand up for freedom for people for all over the [...]
