“Yet let’s be content, and the times lament, you see the world turn’d upside down.”

Truly the world is competely twisted. We read that the President of Russia, Dmetri Ledvedev, has ordered Government bureaucrats to privatize profitable companies.

Medvedev’s order for a greater sale of key assets comes after he conferred with officials last week about ways to encourage investment — and as the government is facing a budget deficit for a second straight year.

Medvedev also instructed the Cabinet to come up with a proposal to punish more severely those bureaucrats that hamper investment

Meanwhile, the Obama regime, which has already taken over two car companies and several banks, will hire 153,000 extra bureaucrats in 2010 alone to hamper investment. This will take the number of directly employed civilian federal jobs to a staggering 1.43 million people. The American government pushes forward on its “jobs bill” which, like the last one, will borrow billions in order to keep Government bureaucrats at work, pushes forward on massive new regulations of finance and insurance, pushes forward on industry-destroying climate change regulations, and declares that companies that make profits are enemies of the regime. Sounds exactly like what is happening to the once vibrant economy bequeathed to Blair and Brown all those misery-filled years ago.

And to complete the insanity, the President of France…FRANCE… has been tougher on Iran than the American president.

At least one part of the global  madness is staying true to form…here in the UK we are going to be giving immigants lessons in the etiquette of how to queue.

Truly the apocalypse is upon us.

Hat-tips to Daniel and Moonbattery