WOOING FIREFLIES.

Putin has developed a critical mass system for brainwashing Russians. Every
single day, Putin invites all kinds of fireflies, important influential people
from all professions and all industries. Squandering the Russian taxpayers'
hard-earned money, the Russian government pays all travelling and entertainment
expenses of Putin's fireflies. Putin, instead of doing his presidential duties,
wastes his time and uses government facilities for personal propaganda. Putin's
fireflies influence hoi polloi of Russia to the tipping point of electoral
victories of Putin.

Putin presented today state decorations to outstanding Russian fireflies,
including pilots and cosmonauts, military servicemen, scientists, cultural
figures, and skilled labour representatives. By tradition, the ceremony took
place in the Grand Kremlin Palace's St Catherine Hall.

Fireflies, influential people, are pivotal in the dynamics behind groups in
recruiting and spreading calls for action that contribute to riots, revolutions,
protests, and elections. The most influential group to these events consists of
a small group of fireflies close to the center of a network. This group, the
spreaders, plays a critical role in triggering chains of messages reaching huge
numbers of people. 

Putin points out the achievements and successes of fireflies have all
contributed to developing all of Russia. They have tremendous social importance,
provide fine examples of constructive work, open up new horizons for development
and for improving various aspects of Russian activities, pave the way for real
breakthroughs into the future, and in many respects define the face of Russia
today and its place in the world.

Early fireflies have no characteristic position within the network, they are the
leaders of the movement and first movers in their local networks. They spark the
initial online activity that recruits the spreaders, but they are scattered all
over the network. When calls to action come from many different sources within a
short time window, their effects are amplified, resulting in recruitment bursts.
The vast majority of users are recruited this way responding to the collective
behavior of others.

Putin declares that all his fireflies love Russia, and that this feeling is not
just some grand ritual phrase, but is fireflies' cause and their entire life's
meaning. Throughout the ages true patriotism was always about precisely this
deep awareness of being personally part of Russia's destiny, this sense of civic
responsibility and desire to devote one's talents to Russia and its people, and
this readiness to always be with the Motherland, whether in the act of creation,
or during times of trial and adversity.

Most people are influenced by what those around them do. If they are exposed to
many messages calling for action within a short time frame, they are more likely
to respond to this apparent urgency and join in. This creates recruitment bursts
that can translate into a cascade with truly dramatic effects, massive
demonstrations, wave of occupations, tax revolts, and political turnabouts.

Putin says the high decorations of his fireflies recognize peace-promoting,
humanitarian, and philanthropic services. Saint Putin presented the Order of St
Catherine the Martyr to Mother Superior Nikolaya of the Svyato-Nikolsky
Chernoostrovsky Convent in Maloyaroslavets.

The Theory of Critical Mass proves that you only need a few fireflies,
influential people, to reach a critical mass, tipping point, for a chain
reaction of people. It might take a long time to reach the tipping point, but
after that point things happen in a very short time, like an atomic bomb. 
Therefore Putin's plan is to find fireflies of propaganda for a critical mass of
people to propagate his ideas to the rest of Russia.

Czar Putin promotes theocracy to perpetuate his power. Across Putinland, fear
of Putin turns to religious worship! In Putin's hometown of St. Petersburg, a
proliferation of posters show Putin as an angel, with one hand extended,
blessing the city's inhabitants. Putin's face is mounted on a photo of the
cherubim crowning the city's Peter and Paul Cathedral. 

There are churches of Saint Putin in Putinland! Mother Fotina declares
Putin is the reincarnation of Saint Paul and he has the spirit of a czar in him!
Golden butterflies and cherubs adorn her altar. Fotina swings a smoking
censer before an icon of Saint Putin! Mother Fotina believes God has sent Putin
to Putinland to prepare the world for the second coming of Jesus Christ!

Putin has always taken pride in those fireflies capable of performing true great
deeds, those worthy of the very highest distinction. This goes for service in
peace, and in war too. Russia has always taken pride in those moved by
conscience, honour, courage, and personal bravery.

Welcome to Putinland, where the president and premier swap jobs at will,
where the constitution is an empty shell and all power rests with Vladimir
Putin. The deal between Putin and Medvedev is a farce that will eventually
transform Putinland to Putanaland! The proud Russian nation is now a czardom.
Russian democracy is gone with the wind. 

Putin's decorated fireflies include teachers, doctors, production workers,
people who come from all professions and trades. All of Putin have won the
appreciation and recognition of their colleagues and hometown fellows, and of
everyone for whom they work and who benefit from the fruits of their labour,
perseverance, and talent. People like Putin have always been Russia's backbone.

The most serious reason prompting Putin to hold on to power is the atmosphere of
wealth and luxury to which he has become accustomed. Putin, the kickback
billionaire, has at his disposal sixty planes and helicopters and twenty
palaces. As well as fifteen helicopters, the forty-five other aircraft
available to Putin include an Airbus, two Dassault Falcon executive jets and an
Ilyushin Il-96 airliner that features a twenty-million-euro cabin fitted out by
jewelers and a toilet seat which costs 100,000 euros! One sixty-meter yacht
with a designer interior, a spa pool, waterfall and wine cellar is relegated to
second best. The real diamond of the Kremlin flotilla is a five-decked yacht
with a Jacuzzi, barbecue, a maple wood colonnade and a huge bathroom faced in
marble.

Putin declares Russia needs and values the work and the contribution of
fireflies to his cause. Fireflies together can protect and advance Putin's
interests, develop Putinland, and achieve Putin's goals in political life.

A thousand-hectare residence on Lake Valdai in northwestern Russia has a cinema,
a bowling alley and a presidential church. A three-floor palace near Saratov, on
the Volga river southeast of Moscow, has German chandeliers and Italian
furniture, and features a billiard room, a winter garden, a pool, and sauna.

Putin points out it is only natural that when fireflies receive state
decorations they remember their colleagues and say that this recognition is not
theirs alone but also that of the teams and the people with whom they work. This
is indeed the case, after all, we do not live and work in a vacuum. These words
are justified, but at the same time, these decorations are also recognition of
the personal services of fireflies. These are fireflies' awards and they have
earned them through their devotion to Putin!

A thousand automobiles at the disposal of the presidential administration,
including an armored Mercedes limousine Putin can use to commute to the Kremlin
from his country estate. In addition to that suburban Moscow residence,
Novo-Ogaryovo, and Bocharov Ruchei, his summer base in the Black Sea resort of
Sochi, Putin also has the run of two palaces by the Baltic, villas on the Volga
and a ski lodge in a nature reserve in the Caucasus mountains.

A Greek level of corruption has fettered the business activity and daily life of
Putinland, and Russia's dependence on natural resources has only deepened during
the years of Putin's rule. In April 2010, Putin signed a decree that suspended
the publication of information about the assets, revenue, and expenditure of
Russia's two oil funds. This allowed him to manipulate government's finances,
while launching a pre-election spending spree, siphon off money for friends and
allies, and camouflage bribes, kickbacks, and hush money. He boosted military
and police spending by 33 percent, and promised future pay and pension increases
for the armed forces, teachers and doctors. Putinlandians have been fleeced,
pure and simple.