France Shuts Down, UK Set To Burn: The Western Catastrophe

What we are witnessing with the mass disorders in France is what we tasted in Greece all spring and summer and what will rock the West in greater and greater ferocity.

For those who have not been paying attention, the shut downs, the walk outs and the break downs of Greece have spread now to France. The trigger? A broke, over extended government, already straddled with suffocating high taxation decided to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62.

Instantly, millions hit the streets, shutting down business and movement. Walkouts at the airports have shut down flights, while work stoppages at oil refineries and fuel depots threat to paralyze not only the economy but also emergency services. Panic buying and hording has already begun. Basically, French society is in paralysis just like Greece was for most of this year.

One poll showed that 70% believe that this will build into the same massive protests of 1995 and over half the population support this. What none are thinking about is the cost of that protest or the fact that their demands of long and easy retirement are unrealistic, always were and unsustainable.

Al Jazeera's reporter, Jacky Rowland, was quoted as stating ""French workers have campaigned long and hard for their rights and benefits, and they won't give them up without a fight," she said" She is right, they will fight and enjoy themselves right up to the third world economic collapse, all else be damned.

In Spain workers shut down production, freezing the country's economy and costing billions of Euros that that broken and bankrupt government also can not afford. Transportation and such were equally shut down.

Just like Greece before them, and Romania sporadically, and England about to follow.

The real show will, of course come in England. The new pseudo conservative government in England has announced that it will cut 40% of the budget, in order to reign in the 13% deficits. Of course this will translate in mass unemployment of the public sector and no alternatives in the private sector, as there are no plans to equally remove high taxes, high regulations and non-existent outsourcing barriers to China, that would actually encourage private business and industry to open plants and absorb the cast offs of the biggest employer in the UK: government.

The workers of course understand that, but instead of fighting and pushing the so called conservatives to actually free the economy, not just cut spending, they are indeed fighting for the continuation of the ruin that they all face. The UK is a broke 2nd world economy, rapidly economically, morally and culturally sliding into a failed state.

The government unions, first why does any government allow gov employee unions is insane to behold, have flatly stated, they will shut the country down and set it on fire. Well t-time is coming and coming rapidly: the Spring of British Discontent. Of course, the fact that without such actions, even these imperfect actions, by summer time next year, the UK economy will be in absolute free fall and these same bureaucrats and workers will not be getting paid anyways, is beyond their comprehension or cognizant abilities.

Similar strikes are further breaking out in Slovakia, again in Greece, and the capital of that frankenstinian state of the EU was equally rocked.

The communists are ecstatic, knowing that soft socialism always leads to this. Cradle to grave care is always expensive and steady growth in taxes, along with the strangling demands of the watermelons (green activist on the outside, red Marxist on the inside) have made sure that tax revenues shrink, not grow, as business flees. This of course leads to a crushing of the cushy expectations of the masses and the mass protests and revolutions.

The Marxists, as usual, are more than happy to aid these revolutions and sacrifices the lives of tens if not hundreds of thousands of their countrymen, to establish their Marxist utopias. That every single one of these Utopias has always failed and cost the lives of millions in the process, as well as whole lost decades in economic growth, is irrelevant to the true believers, who know that this one, this time, this even will be done correctly. Simply put, there is no reasoning with such true believers.

John Monks, general secretary of the European Trades Union Confederation, which organized the events, was quoted as stating: “This is the start of the fight, not the end,”

What all of these socialists fail to answer and the cushy and spoiled workers do not dare to ask is: how do we pay for this? This of course, plays right into the hands of the Marxists.

Equally, the elites in America are setting the situation up just as well and the people are playing into it. True, there are the Tea Party movements, who have no clear agenda except to cut spending and taxes, more so taxes. If these were actual fiscal conservatives, where were they during the "good ole" days when their government under the Fascist Republicans spent in the hundreds of billions on cheap credit? Only when the Communist Democrats aintied it up a notch did they "awake". But what do they want? Cut spending? But on what? See, no one in that movement puts forth a real agenda, because if they did then problems would appear instantly.

For example: many want no more social spending, but have no problems with wars after wars, spending trillions on the invasion of sovereign nations, especially if their kids never have to serve. Others want cuts in taxes, as long as they continue to enjoy their own retirements and get cost of living upgrades, never mind that their pension system: social security, is already $40 billion in the whole.

Just like their confused European cousins, they claim: I have paid into the system, I deserve it. Well yes, but how?

Equally, most of these so called conservatives are free trade enthusiasts, because most are not in manufacturing and make cash by importing and enjoy cheap Chinese junk, never bothering to think past the price to the actual cost.

More so, even then the Europeans, who at least practice some protectionism of their industry. The Americans face a conundrum: if they cut spending now, forty million workers and their families will be out on the street, with hundreds of thousands joining them weekly, plus massive layoffs of state employees, which is already underway. This is a formula for revolution. If they continue spending, which means printing debt, they equally face an economic collapse, another formula for revolution.

Of course, with their import debt growing to record levels every month, sooner or later, regardless of what they do, they will be cut off at worst or face exploding costs at best, and the further impoverishment of the people: equally a formula for revolution.

Either way, no matter what happens, the West, already sagging under the weight of its own "prosperity" and easy, Christless, moralless living, is facing catastrophe. Anarchy, autocracy, tyranny are what is on the horizon. The only hope: a return to Christian Monarchy and stable sensible economic policy, and the crushing and ousting of the Marxists and socialists, once and for all, seems a long shot at best.

Tent City America

A series of videos that puts the American Super Depression into stark reality, a reality that is hidden from world view as the American government continues to sell lies about its economic Summer of Recovery, in an ever more desperate attempt to sell unsellable debt.

Homeless in the woods - a life of shame or the only escape?

For Sale: Welcome to United States of Tent Cities

Homeless Reality in America.. Where they gonna live? FEMA CAMPS? (140 camps in only 2 counties)

Homeless in Central Oregon CityEdJan09 (camps for homeless Veterans, upto 60 camps)

Homeless Tent City in Navada

Southern California Shanty Town / Tent City

USA becomes a HOMELESS camp

These are just some of the many many videos available demonstrating the every accelerating collapse of the hyper-economy.

Russian Breakthrough in Children’s Leukemia Treatment

This once global death sentence to affected children has come in to the light of a Russian cure. Previously, even the most advanced Western and Japanese medical sciences were powerless to save the vast bulk of children affected by children's Leukemia. Now there is hope.

The hope springs from the Ekaterinburg Regional children’s hospital, where a miraculous breakthrough has lifted the death sentence with a now unprecedented 70% survival rate for those afflicted.

One of the doctors described the break through as:

“We realized we couldn’t influence her disease anymore with aggressive chemotherapy,” said Karina’s [a patient] doctor Larisa Fechina. “We decided to use transregional acid. Leukemia thrives in immature blood cells and transregional acid, which is better known as “Vesanoid”, forces those cells to develop, stopping the leukemia from spreading.”

“We found that the results were so good that we could introduce it to the world,” Fechina claimed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYGvjuqdsyI

Do not expect to hear about this in the Anglo-American press, where anti Russian propaganda is more important than the lives of their own children. Even when or if they do acknowledge this, it is doubtless that they will blatantly try to steal this as their own invention to their own credit, as is done with everything.

Lukashenko, No Morally but Power, Always For Sale: a Whore

Maybe its that he's been the butt of Russian jokes and television comedies one to many times, maybe its that he fears the emerging Russian-Belorussian Union will leave him jobless or maybe he's stupid enough to think that he can get by with fear mongering to Belorussian about the "evil" Russians, but the Belorussian botushka ... Lukashenko has set a straight course of conflict with Moscow and is now portraying Russia as his enemy number one.

Never mind that Russia, to its own detriment has paid for 20 years of Belorussian oil, gas and electricity, allowing the proto-Soviet state to avoid the shock economics everyone else has gone through. Never mind that Moscow protected the idiot savant from an American colour revolution or three, saving Belorussian from an economic slavery and collapse, such as in Ukraine or Georgia or even in Russia under the Yeltsin puppet.

Regardless of all this, regardless of the money that Russia has poured into Belorussia, Lukoshenko needs an enemy. Prior to Russia was the West, US and Britian in particular. Of course those two really were out to over throw the government and set ideological Third Way Socialist puppets in power, as they had done in so many other countries. Then came pour attempts to play Russia and the EU off on each other. Those too have failed.

Now we have a so called ally, who sits with a Western war criminal Saakashvilli and laments how Russia is the main threat to both. Then he starts coozing up to the Chinese, allowing the Sinos into the western Russian sphere. All of these are hardly the actions of an ally, especially one totally dependent on Russian energy and markets for his economic survival.

Recently he described his opposition as "enemy of the people" and even though this is old soviet rhetoric, it surely does apply to some, those soulless corrupt banshees who are puppets for the West. But the majority are far from that. Then, in front of a congress of trade unions, he declared a time to revive the Belorussian economy even while declaring Russia a hindrance to that renewal. Excuse me? Hmmm, allow us to close our markets and charge you real world prices for gas and oil and electricity and we shall see what a real hindrance is.

Whether batushko really feels the way he has been acting or is just trying to maneuver for the 19th December elections, is anyone's guess. However, the Kremlin is tired of him and tired of economically supporting an ingrate who is at best a schadenfreude

President Medvedev lashed out at Lukashenko, setting the stage for what could evolve into the down fall of the little tin pot king.

“President Lukashenko’s utterings not only go beyond all diplomatic sense, they are downright indecent. He is obviously concerned about a lot of things: bringing order to our economy; Russian journalists talking to Belarusian opposition; even what happens to some of our retired and sacked higher officials. The president of Belarus, it seems, should be looking into the interior affairs of his own country such as for instance the multiple disappearances of Belarusian citizens. Russia, like other countries, is concerned over these people’s fates,” Medvedev said.

Meanwhile, NTV leveled charges at Lukashenko of running death squads, intent on liquidation of all political opponents in Belaruss. A witness on the report claimed to have been a member of the death squad and of their involvement in the murders Viktor Gonchar and Yuri Zakharenko in 1999. There have been dozens of such unsolved murders in the 16 years Lukashenko has sat in power.

President Medvedev has further signaled that not only should Lukashenko not expect Russian backing in his elections but that there are enough alternative candidates with pro-Russian policies that the Kremlin may be looking for a personality change, long over due, in Belaruss. In all essence, Lukashenko is the new Yushenko and should be shown the door. The key of course, is that no Western puppet comes gate crashing, in the mean while.

Control of Food, the American Holodomor

Unlike popular belief, the Soviet Union did not set out to orchestrate the extermination of a large portion of the Ukrainian, southern Russian and Armenian populations, but set out or not, that is exactly what happened and nothing else could have come of it.

How so?

Simple: with the determination of controlling the agricultural economy and thus the peasant farmer, the Soviet Union laid the means and the ends of the humanitarian disaster that crippled it. It could not have happened otherwise.

On the one had, the Marxist state MUST control the peasants, there is simply no other solution. The farm families, far from the centralized and controlled world of the cities, tend to have traditional and independent points of view. They tend to be more religious and self reliant, all things that are poison to the modern Marxist, be he Leninist Fascist, Stalinist Communist or Anglo Third Way Socialist.

Thus to control the farmer is to place the final nail into any coffin of independence and self rule, for it is in the country side that rebellion breeds and spreads to the cities, it has always been so.

However, to put the farmer under strict controls is to destroy him, his will and his abilities and thus his production: food. The cities, when starving, become much more dangerous and thus the farmer, hampered from doing his work, must be squeezed further to support the cities and revolutions.

In America, the House has already passed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act S.510 bill and only the Senate is left to pass their version and commingle them into a unified monstrosity. The bill is designed to destroy the small farmer in America, the very caste of people who is the most likely opposition to the control of the moneyed elites. Though the American small farmer is a dieing breed, with hundreds of thousands of families throwing in the towel over the past decade, he is not dieing out fast enough.

Furthermore, with various resurgences of concern over the second rate food and tasteless sustenance that major food farms and processors are throwing into the American gullet, the small local farmer has gotten a second, albate short lease on life. This bill will make sure that lease is done for. Organic food and the drive to not die of obesity or insulin shock at the age of 24, has proved a major market force and thus also a social force, that must be reckoned with and controlled, and in America, the land of the so called free, nothing is and everything is controlled by one over paid bureaucrat or another.

Under the guise of food safety, these farmers will be destroyed once and for all and an American version of the Soviet centralized food manufacturing and processing system will be created, with continuous shortages, occasional population control through starvation, whether intentional or not and so on. One small farmer recently commented to the Wall Street Journal as:

"I know people who have been small farmers for 25 to 30 years who are looking to get out of the business because food safety is becoming so alarmist."

The paperwork restrictions on farmers, the amount of effort to put in perfectly filled out copies or to face $500,000 fines on the first infraction, will guarantee that only the large agro giants are left standing in rather short order. On top of this the FDA will have full authority to dictate each and every detail of how food should be grown and under what conditions to the American farmer.

But this bill goes much further than that. It will, through bureaucratic oversight that even Stalin would be jealous of, preclude any growth, harvesting, sharing or selling of any food stuffs, from a small garden plot to a field or a green house, without the victim bending his knee to government oversight, control and of course payments, all in the name of food safety and freedom.

In quasi Stalinist form, which is the hall mark of the American Marxist regime of President Obama, and his enablers of the One Party Two Branch system of government, any food grown or sold or given or consumed outside of the bureaucratic oversight, will be considered illegal contraband, on the scale of drugs or people smuggled. However, until the open borders of the American south, these Federal laws will be enforced.

Indeed, the American frog is already in boiling water and this is his final chance to jump. My bet, from previous effects of the elite's control and the misdirection and destruction of the conservative will and anger, that the frog will not jump. Instead it will dream lazily about its so called freedoms, while sitting in its steel pot and boiling alive in the juices of its own self relevance.

The Anglo-American Extermination of the Germans

The US/UK, the Anglo world, so loves to throw around the legends of the Red Army massacring the poor German people, as we conquered our enemies, while the US/UK brought the suffering masses, free of Hitler, the glory of their humanity and love.

One German journalist was recently quoted as saying that if one counted up all the supposed victims of the Red Army, in Germany, ever German would have had to be killed three times and then raped twice. It is, as always, open season on those who suffered the most under the Nazis and mum on those who suffered under the Anglo-Americans, such as the hundreds of thousands of rape victims in Sicily and Italy, the results of the English colonial forces.

Interesting how the Anglo-Americans have always refused to utter even a word about the 6 million, out eight million, civilians killed by bombings or of the over one million German POWs who died from 1945 to 1946, in the hands of the US/UK, or the forced starvation of the civilians in western Germany.

The few times they have, such as the Dresden bombings, they have worked to down play it or throw the blame on others. Dresden, by the way, was only the last of several dozen German cities that were fire bombed to absolute destruction, to murder, through fire storm, some five million German civilians. All done only by the Anglo-Americans. Soviet bombers aimed only at the German factories, not the German apartments. In 2009, a director of the American NGO Heritage, Ted Bromynd, blatantly stated that even the Dresden fire murder of 20,000 civilians was only done because of Soviet requests. How he explains the dozens of other cities and towns? Simply, he just does not acknowledge them.

"On this field were placed, maybe 200,000 or more. No barracks, no tents were here. Where, we were told, would they find so many tents? We lived on the naked earth. Those who had strength, dug themselves trenches, with their hands. We started to die off in September, rains came, people got sick in the thousands. There was almost no food to eat -- we caught mice to eat." bore witness Detrich Zaitst, as he showed historians around the field where he spent 1945. Detrich, now 80, was only a school boy who was pulled in to service on the last desperate days of the war, and after three days of war, surrendered to American forces. His camp on the Rein river was like dozens of others.

When asked about SS or Gestapo, Detrich responded: "There were none. Mostly there were young soldiers and teenagers like myself. Almost all combat capable units were thrown into the Eastern Front. Ten thousand people? (the official US quantity of those who died in these camps). Yes, in our camp alone, but probably died more. We had no toilets, soup from old roots, disentary. Look, I do not want to speak about this anymore. Some will accuse me of excusing Nazism."

In 1989, Canadian historian James Bacque published his book "Other Losses" which documented the million or more POWs who were murdered or "allowed" to die, by the Anglo-American forces. His book was attacked out right, and character assassination was the order of the day, however, none of his critics ever produced evidence to the contrary. Commander of Allied Forces, Dwight Eisenhower, placed the German POWs into a new category, one not covered by the Geneva Conventions: Disarmed Enemy Forces, which in turn allowed him to do as he pleased. So telling, in Bacque's book, that evidence has surfaced that interment records, with the names and identifications of these POWs were already being destroyed by the end of 1945.

The accuracy of Bacque's numbers, when the issue was Germans who died in NKVD camps, was confirmed, when the KGB archieves were opened and those crimes revealed. However, while the Anglo-Americans have no problem using that part of the work, they absolutely deny their cost of this crime. The uber voice of the American elites: the New York Times, was quoted on a review of the book as stating: "Facts about Russians are absolutely the truth. They hated the Germans. But Americans were incapable of acting in this way with the Germans."

Thus, out of the 5,5 million POWs, over one million, or 20% died, and all after the end of the war, absolutely a war crime. The USA acknowledges that only .15%, less than 1% died, a mind boggling difference. This is on the level of Nazi Holocust deniers who say only a few thousand died in the concentration camps, when some 12 million died.

Another book: After the Reich: The Brutal History of Allied Occupation, written by Giles MacDonogh - Basic Books, 2007, goes even further in its review of history in Western Germany. His work covers not just the POWs but the very civilians. In his Preface, MacDonogh says his purpose is to "expose the victorious Allies in their treatment of the enemy at peace, for in most cases it was not the criminals who were raped, starved, tortured or bludgeoned to death but women, children and old men."

MacDonogh tells us about the "30,000-40,000 prisoners sitting in the courtyard [at the Pioneers' Barracks in Worms] with no protection against the rain they froze." Is this not a war crime?

Additionally historian James Bacque tells us that "the comparison of the censuses has shown us that some 5.7 million people disappeared inside Germany between October 1946 - a year and a half after the war ended, and September 1950." These were census in the US/UK/French sectors.

Bacque tells: "General Eisenhower sent out an 'urgent courier' throughout the huge area that he commanded, making it a crime punishable by death for German civilians to feed prisoners. It was even a death-penalty crime to gather food together in one place to take it to prisoners." He says "the order was sent in German to the provincial governments, ordering them to distribute it immediately to local governments. Copies of the orders were discovered recently in several villages near the Rhine."

In Silesia, "streams of civilians were forced from their homes at gunpoint." A priest estimated that a quarter of the German population of one Lower Silesian town killed itself, as entire families committed suicide together. Now, before one says, well that was eastern Germany, so that must be Russians, no, this was the work of "Nationalist" Poles, really basically Fascist Marxists, who were in power at that short time in history, before being driven out by Communist Marxists. But than again, these were the same Poles who created a fascist dictatorship in 1926 and ran gulags for Orthodox Christians, while allying themselves with Hitler from 1936-1938, to get a chunk of Czeck.

In 1947, due to the mass starvations in western Germany, the Germans came to refer to that year as Hungerjahr, the "year of hunger,", though these conditions persisted well into the middle of 1948. People ate dogs, cats, rats, frogs, snails, nettles, acorns, dandelion roots and wild mushrooms in a feverish effort to survive. In 1946, the calories provided in the U.S. Zone of Germany dropped to 1,313 by March 18 from the mere 1,550 provided earlier. Victor Gollancz, a British and Jewish author and publisher, objected that "we are starving the Germans." Senator Homer Capehart of Indiana in a speech to the U. S. Senate on February 5, 1946, similarly voiced his outrage: "For nine months now this administration has been carrying on a deliberate policy of mass starvation."

When the Red Cross, Quakers, Mennonites and others wanted to bring in food, their donations were denied entry and redirected to other parts of Europe. In the American zone of Berlin, "it was American policy that nothing should be given away and everything should be thrown away.

Bacque says "foreign relief agencies were prevented from sending food from abroad; Red Cross food trains were sent back to Switzerland; all foreign governments were denied permission to send food to German civilians; fertilizer production was sharply reduced The fishing fleet was kept in port while people starved."[Bacque, Crimes and Mercies, p. 91.]

The Anglo-elites got their booty too, of course, in more ways than one: from material goods to a removal of future competition:

The British royal family received Goering's yacht, and the British zone of Germany was stripped of "plants that might later offer competition with British industries." MacDonogh

Thankfully, the true Anglo-American plan for the German people was stopped well short, in 1947-8. Keeling, in Gruesome Harvest, says that by seeking "the permanent destruction of Germany's industrial heartland" it would have had as an "ineluctable consequence the death through starvation and disease of millions and tens of millions of Germans.[Keeling, Gruesome Harvest, p. VI.]

It is true, the Red Army raped hundreds of thousands of women, it is a black mark upon our people and soldiers, though, however it is also understandable, considering that most of those Red Army soldiers had seen first hand the corpses of the twenty million Soviet women and children murdered by the Nazis. That part is always left out. However, to the positive, they did not murder in kind and how ever horrid rape may be, it is a far cry from out and out genocide.

But luckily for the Americans and English, they did not need to rape though to a much lesser degree there was still many incidents. As described by Christian Century for December 5, 1945: "The American provost marshal said that rape represents no problem for the military police because 'a bit of food, a bar of chocolate, or a bar of soap seems to make rape unnecessary.'" [Keeling, Gruesome Harvest, p. 64.]

Arthur Jacobs, a US citizen, of German parents, who immigrated to the USA in 1928, and who himself had spent 22 years serving in the US Airforce, retiring in 1973, had this to say about his own German war time experience and that of his brother: The family was taken and held for some time at Ellis Island near the end of the war, and was then interned for seven months at the Crystal City Internment Camp in Texas, where they were well treated.
They were "voluntarily repatriated" to Germany, after being threatened with deportation in October 1945, several months after Germany's surrender.
When they arrived in Germany, Jacobs' mother was sent to one camp, the father and two sons to another. Yes, US citizens, deported to starve with the rest of those of their "blood" in war camps that operated strictly post war. This is very similar to what happened to Japanese Americans, though legally, they were never citizens of the US at that time, no matter how many generations. It was only in the 1950s that Japanese and Chinese were finally allowed to become American citizens.

The camp where Jacobs, his father and brother were at was at Ludwigsburg was in effect a holding centre pending release. "At breakfast we received one glass of 'grey' milk and one slice of black bread. There was no lunch meal." At supper, "each person received one bowl of soup..., mostly water flavoured by bouillon. There were no second helpings I always had hunger pangs."

These US citizens were released from camps in late 1946 but were not allowed to return to the US, having to move to relatives in the British zone of occupation. Jacobs and his brother were brought to an Arizona ranch in October 1947, adopted by another American family, leaving their American citizen parents in Germany. It was 11 years before they saw their parents again.

Thus is it any wonder, that while the Yanks and Limes, in their revisionist arrogance, throw rocks, boulders and missiles around in their glass palaces, the Russian and German people are busy forgiving and building bridges to each other.

Fall Out of the Fires: End of a Political Dynasty

Now that things have settled down and the fires are being extinguished, the fog is lifting, it is time to assign the blame to the local politicians, that they have so well earned. These officials either failed to prepare properly or failed to act intelligently for the public good.

As the federal officials rush to rebuild villages, in record time, replacing old wooden construction with new modern European houses, it came to air that some of the local authorities are at it again: stealing funds. Prime Minister Putin was caught on video by journalists, loosing his legendary cool, as he berated several officials who claimed their people, in their districts, had no complaints or wants.

Still, of all the officials on the oblast (province) level, non are so famous as the Moscow Mayor, Uri Luzkov. Luzkov and his family are a political and economic force to be reckoned with and in many ways feared. However, his performance, or rather the lack of, during this crisis, may have finally broken the political portion of his power.

Luzkov, in the middle of the worst heat wave in 200 years, with people collapsing left and right, took off to the provinces, to save his bees, on his estate. When it was discovered, by local journalists, that the mayor of Moscow was missing and on vacation, an embarrassed Luzkhov returned.

Now, a month after the disasters, various points are coming to light, displaying the corruption that has brewed in recent years under his rule. For example, NTV channel brought up the fact that Luzkov's administration spent 105 million rubles on invalids, helping with air conditioning centers and 256 million to save the honey bees.

This revelation, in turn, has unleashed a pent up wave of allegations of corruption and cronyism against him. Channel One aired a story about the insane costs of road construction, in Moscow, where the vast majority of the funds go directly into the pockets of Luzkov's friends and families. In one 500m project, the average price was 10 million rubles per meter. Like wise, Channel Rassia discussed the thousand buildings in Moscow that were demolished, many with historic significance, to make way for pet construction projects and special deals for insiders.

Luzkov has to be given credit for his work to rebuild Moscow, he has done a lot to push Moscow into the list of global metropolises. However, his recent years have been of stagnation and corruption. Its time to leave, bow out with grace and be remembered for something else.