Okay, I admit it, when I first saw this one I thought that this might be an April’s Fool. Not because I disagree with the results, oh no, but because I am amazed that so many people in the UK (of all places!!!) would feel likewise. But this is for real. See for yourself:
The Independent posted a piece about Nigel Farage saying that Putin’s was the world leader he most admired. Nice, but coming from Farage, not really surprising. But then the Independent asked its readers who their favorite world leader was. And here are the results as of April 5th, 16:33 (EST): (and check the original article here):
Now, I understand that this is not a “scientific poll”, and that maybe some other “Putin groupie” besides me is out there clicking “Putin, Putin, Putin, Putin”, but somehow I doubt it. But even if there is such a Putin fanboy, this begs the question why there is no Cameron or Obama fanboy out there doing the same for his favorite leader. Either Putin does inspire a lot of people, or he inspires a few people a lot – something which the other leaders clearly don’t.
The other thing which really has to be noted over and over again is that this is a poll taken by a British newspaper smack in the middle of the Anglosphere – this is not Zimbabwe or Guyana. And for me this poll, just as the other one I posted, shows that when we say that “the Anglosphere” does this or that we have to stress over and over again that we are talking about the power structure, the 1% running the Empire, and not the Anglo people who both in the USA and in the UK seem to have a very different view of these matters than their rulers.
Finally, this also corroborates something which I have been saying here before: Putin is, objectively, the world leader of the Axis of Resistance to Empire. Of course, he is not alone, at the very least other leaders such as (in no particular order) Xi Jinping, Ali Khamenei, Hassan Nasrallah, Evo Morales, Nicolas Maduro, Daniel Ortega, Bashar Assad, Rafael Correa, Alexander Lukashenko, Serzh Sargsyan, Raul Castro and Nursultan Nazarbayev deserve to be mentioned alongside Putin. Each one of them is trying, as be he knows, to resist, but only Russia can oppose full-spectrum resistance to the Empire’s full-spectrum aggression and nobody can dispute the fact that Russia can do that today only because of what should be called the “Putin miracle” (remember that just 2 decades ago Russia was in the same situation as the Ukraine today:run by US-controlled oligarchs and crooks).
I am becoming convinced that most of the world population, exhausted and disgusted from being serfs of the AngoZionist Empire, also understand that and that if it was possible to organize an objective and fair poll worldwide, Putin would come out as the most popular leaders world wide, by a wide margin.
I think that Putin deserves that and I hope that this awareness will give him strength to continue to resist not only for Russia and its sovereignty, but for all of us who, as Arundhati Roy put it, are “subjects of the Empire”.
The Saker
Kremlin chief of staff supports namesake who was denied sneakers in US shop http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_04_05/Kremlin-chief-of-staff-supports-namesake-who-was-denied-sneakers-in-US-shop-6113/
“Kremlin presidential chief of staff Sergei Ivanov wrote a letter to his namesake who had been denied the right to buy sneakers in an American online shop because of the US sanctions against Russian officials. “Dear namesake and fellow citizen! I was surprised to find out that the sanctions imposed by the US administration, including against me, have created certain inconveniencies for you. Your parcel was delayed and the US Post showed that it could place ignorance and corporate zeal above elementary logic.
We may face such farce again as there are tens of thousands of Sergei Ivanovs in the country. But I am sure that we will overcome these inconveniencies together. Besides, your case gave us a good example of how even the worst American sanctions can be bypassed,” the Kremlin official wrote in his letter, the Rossiya 1 television channel said on Saturday, April 5.
A Metro newspaper employee in St. Petersburg by the name of Sergei Ivanov had ordered a pair of sneakers in an American online shop, but his order was cancelled. The shop provided him with a notice saying that his last name, name and surname had been included in the list of persons who could not be sent any mail in the United States. He was erroneously taken for his namesake Sergei Ivanov from the Kremlin administration. To solve the problem, the order was made again in a new name and eventually delivered to Russia.”
Americans are so gay. :D
Thanks for putting that up and yes I agree the people of the world are tired of Amerika and for good reason.
http://www.thenation.com/article/177964/americas-secret-war-134-countries
Your point that few if any Obamabots have bothered to skew this poll is well taken. But the Cameron result is really significant. Time for a vote of No Confidence.
A lot of people in Britain are tired of their indistinguishable parties, which are all slaves to the EU. Putin is admired because he is an old fashioned leader who stands up for his people, without threatening the rest of the world. Britain hasn’t had one of those since Mrs. Thatcher.
Greetings from Singapore:
Here is a German poll for March:
http://www.infratest-dimap.de/umfragen-analysen/bundesweit/ard-deutschlandtrend/2014/maerz/
65% state that the Crimea crisis should be solved peacefully.
Obama has the lowest ratings (Even Bank Ki Moon has higher counts).
Putin is a once in a generation kind of leader. There just aren’t very many people of that caliber. Countries are lucky to have just one in their history. How many De Gauls did France have?
As such, Putin is truly irreplaceable. I hope his security people are really, REALLY good and extremely loyal. I heard that at the last G 8 in England, Putin brought his own food and didn’t eat anything there. If so, it was a smart move.
on a similar note, have you read Pat Buchanan’s article on Putin? Buchanan is Catholic and conservative and seems to be a bit of a Putin Groupie himself.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/04/patrick-j-buchanan/christian-russia-vs-pagan-america%E2%80%A8/
“In his Kremlin defense of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Vladimir Putin, even before he began listing the battles where Russian blood had been shed on Crimean soil, spoke of an older deeper bond.
Crimea, said Putin, “is the location of ancient Khersones, where Prince Vladimir was baptized. His spiritual feat of adopting Orthodoxy predetermined the overall basis of the culture, civilization and human values that unite the peoples of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.”
Russia is a Christian country, Putin was saying.
This speech recalls last December’s address where the former KGB chief spoke of Russia as standing against a decadent West:
“Many Euro-Atlantic countries have moved away from their roots, including Christian values. Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation.”
Heard any Western leader, say, Barack Obama, talk like that lately?”
He ends his essay with
“In 2013, the Kremlin imposed a ban on homosexual propaganda, a ban on abortion advertising, a ban on abortions after 12 weeks and a ban on sacrilegious insults to religious believers.
“While the other super-powers march to a pagan world-view,” writes WCF’s Allan Carlson, “Russia is defending Judeo-Christian values. During the Soviet era, Western communists flocked to Moscow. This year, World Congress of Families VII will be held in Moscow, Sept. 10-12.”
Will Vladimir Putin give the keynote?
In the new ideological Cold War, whose side is God on now?”
thoughts on afghan elections?
http://ericmargolis.com/2014/04/afghan-elections-for-another-fake-regime/
The polls show that at least some of the people are not fooled. There are a couple of articles in the weekend section of Counterpunch that you might be interested in. The resistance to the Empire is growing, but will it be enough? I drank the Obama Kool-Aid in 2008 but that was all. It was a choice between him and McCain. In other words, we are not being allowed a real choice between the two parties here in the heart of the Empire. By the way, I was just able to vote myself, and cast yet another vote for Putin. The one thing I disagree with is the reports that Putin did something wrong in annexing Crimea. They voted that way, so the Empire can just go smoke one! Basically, if the eastern portions of the Ukraine decide to secede, then I hope Russia annexes them, too. I also keep wondering when the Poles and the rest of those bordering Russia are going to realize that it is the West who is the aggressor, as usual. This has been almost a 1,000 year war, and still Russia has survived! This alone gives me hope for the future. Thanks for your efforts and great posts. I still think you should look into using a speech software like Dragon, which costs less than $100.00 and will save you so much time. As a full time student after retiring, I can sympathize with your time constraints. As they say in the hockey world, stay gritty!
Shelia
Well, the Empire is trying a new approach to counter this. McClatchy (which *was* fairly decent once upon a time) is now telling us that busloads of Russian tourists stuffed the ballot boxes in Crimea…
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/03/30/222894/reports-of-multiple-voting-falsified.html
Also, let me re-post this, because it truly is horrifying. Captagon, or fenetyline hydrochloride manufactured by NATO in a lab in Bulgaria apparently numbs its users to both their own suffering as well as anything they inflict on others. Well ver a ton of it was found by the Syrian Arab Army and its use may explain the excesses of both the jihadis there and, oh, I don’t know, Sasha Bilyi. Etc. http://www.voltairenet.org/article183125.html
If providing this stuff isn’t Evil, I don’t know what is.
@ Odin’s Raven “Britain hasn’t had one of those since Mrs. Thatcher.”
Thatcher is the one who started the dismantling of the British Welfare State that brought Neoliberalistic polices to fore and began the destruction of the British middleclass. She provided the conditions for the rise of Blair and the further degradation of the UK.
Putin’s the ‘real deal’ and long may he live.
We’re all agreed on that here I think.
About the Independent, << it is owned by Alexander Yevgenievich Lebedev ( born 16 December 1959) who is a Russian businessman, referred to as one of the Russian oligarchs.
In March 2012, he was listed by Forbes magazine as one of the richest Russians with an estimated fortune of $1.1 billion, however his fortune has since declined, and he is no longer considered to be a billionaire.[1] He is part owner of the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta[2] and owner of four UK newspapers with son Evgeny Lebedev: the London Evening Standard, The Independent, the Independent on Sunday and the i newspaper.>>
Only Russians have oligarchs!Our billionaires are simply billionaires!
Uma música, ouça:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fM8cmynfxM
:-)
I think that there is a growing awareness of the global predicament, particularly in the above median group in the distribution of intelligence. The overwhelming catastrophes just beginning to overpower the late capitalist dispensation, ie the multiform ecological crises, the resource depletion crisis and the economic crisis of deliberately engineered inequality and immiseration, are becoming too obvious to ignore. The capitalist elite’s mantra of ‘Consume, be silent, then die’, no longer stupefies the more intelligent. And the ‘leaders’ of the West, particularly those utterly controlled by Zionists (I see France has a new PM, who opposes Islamic head-wear, but, for whom, the sacred Judaic yamulka, that insouciant symbol of their Holy Exceptionalism, is perfectly OK)are so blatantly corrupt, immoral, idiotic, murderously aggressive and untrustworthy, that someone like Putin, if only because he is designated ‘the enemy’ by these Western poltroons, must rise in the public’s estimation. Moreover, once you see exactly what Putin says, and notice that he does not appear to lie, where Western leaders lie incessantly, even obsessively, then the MSM propaganda fails. Indeed, after decades of utter mendacity and hypocrisy dished up by these MSM liars and humbugs (journalists now rank near paedophiles in public estimation)MSM agit-prop doesn’t any longer convince any but the dumbest of the dumb.
I don’t know how much the polls mean, remember millions and millions that protested the war in Iraq, and over a decade after “mission acomplished” we are still there, and elsewhere…and everywhere…
The Israeli-American quislings in Tokyo are getting testy.
Tokyo orders military to shoot down missile launches by N. Korea
http://rt.com/news/japan-down-korea-missiles-561/
http://rt.com/news/line/2014-04-05/#58541
“18:43 Japanese fighter jets scramble to intercept Russian warplanes
Japan’s Self-Defense Forces scrambled Saturday to intercept Russian military planes which approached the country’s airspace from the side of the Sea of Japan, said the Japanese Ministry of Defense. Two Russian anti-submarine warfare IL- 38 aircrafts were detected flying between the islands of Takeshima and Oki, authorities said. At first, the planes were heading to the eastern part of the Korean Peninsula, and then north alongside the western shore of the Japanese archipelago. A crossing of the air border was not established by Japan. According to the ministry, Russian aircrafts have already carried out seven flights along the same route since March 26, when North Korea launched two medium-range Rodong ballistic missiles into the sea. The missiles, which had the capability to hit Japan, were the first firing of mid-range ordnance in four years.”
Japan is another country where the Israeli-American owned leadership is mostly acting opposite what the people of the country desire.
(I posted the 1st comment, also)
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The massive coordinated global propaganda system attack on Putin and Russia would seem to have failed.
This failure is so preciously sweet. Since WW2 until now, lies and depravity and madness have seemed so powerful, have had so many victories, destroyed so many millions of lives, terribly degraded the human prospect, even managed to bring humanity repeatedly to the very edge of global nuclear catastrophe.
In the latter respect, we have been lucky so far, but luck runs out.
The widespread admiration for Putin, despite all efforts to demonize him, imo signifies for our time a fundamental change in the human prospect, and introduces a tangible basis for a renewal of hope. Humanity is gaining more and more clear understanding, and useful knowledge, and becoming more adept at seeing through the lies. We are attracted to honesty, and reason, given half a chance.
Elite repudiation of honesty and reason and ethics and common sense is failing: Which is to say that the death grip by institutionalized sordid hyper criminality upon humanity is loosening. The global domination system’s lifeblood is dishonesty and fear and secrecy and violence.
We are of course by no means anywhere near safety yet. But finally in the gloom there are glimmers of light: A strong leader of a powerful country, unmistakably not a puppet, capable of independent thought, capable of spontaneous coherent communication; with a sense of humour, and with a backbone. He is what we desperately need, what the system has been brilliantly able to prevent.
When such a rare person did until now somehow gain power, say a JFK, there was little institutional support for such a person. An oddball JFK was, refusing against a chorus of powerful demands to attack Cuba, insisting on a partial nuclear test ban treaty against the outrage of those who thought they knew better; battling the CIA; befriending Khrushchev. So those who controlled the institutional system, and who scurried like rats in the shadows, disposed of JFK by the methods that their putrid selves knew best: murder, betrayal, lies.
What are John Kerry and Hillary Clinton for example but vile, pathetic and repulsive monsters? What kind of culture is it that elevates into critical positions, armed with nuclear weapons, such human trash. What are the European leaders who say helped destroy Libya and encourage the destruction of Syria but craven cowards and disgusting ignoramuses and mass murdering liars. Humanity is turning away from such, towards something better.
The contrast between the ‘leadership’ of the west and Putin is obvious.
Hopefully Putin has lucked into a Russian cultural and institutional circumstance that will value him, support him: For all our sakes.
Nora,
Penny has written quite a bit about Captagon and its extensive use in Syria by the mercenaries
see here for instance
Btw, it’s easy to be taken in by Marx if you don’t know how western banking works and who controls it. It has only been in the last few years that there has been any sort of generally available real knowledge of banking and bankers. Even then, much of it is slightly wide of the mark one way or another.
This analysis is correct.
The western public is waking up to the way their world really works and to who is actually in control.
We should now expect the next major false flag event in the west to be imminent.
It will no doubt be some pretext for a large scale war led by the US with the secret government pulling the strings.
Of course all the western lackey countries will be drawn into it as some sort of fight against a manufactured tyranny when in fact it will be from within the psychopathic western elites.
It’s always been like this for the past 300 years.
The people of the west are free to do exactly as they are told by their secret masters.
At the end of 2011 Amnesty International organized a poll to chose the Human Rights Hero.
Preliminary results showed that Muammar Gaddafi is the clear winner! Amnesty closed the poll one day early, removed almost every mention of it from their web site and never published the results.
Dear Saker,
You mention Anglo-Zionists but what about Saudi Wahhabists? Is not the KSA just as culpable as the leaders of the US/UK/Israel?
What is the relationship there? Who holds the upper-hand, the West or Saudi Arabia?
California
These two articles show the difference in how Russia is dealing with GMO foods and how the USA is dealing with them.
Russia will not import GMO products – PM Medvedev
http://rt.com/news/russia-import-gmo-products-621/
GMO and ‘Natural’ Food Fight
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/01/03/gmo-and-natural-food-fight/
The difference is quite profound.
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Hi from Portugal
Thank you for your blog.
You said on the beginning of this Ukrainian “episode” that you had been surprised with the adherence to this space and interest on Russia.
I was not.The “unipolar world” show to the people disrespect and continuous war and people are realizing that must be a counter- balance.
As long Russia walks “arm-in-arm” with the Law at the eyes of the people, will have support in West.
People are tired of “unipolar authoritarianism”.
best regards
JC.
Many thanks to Nora and james for the information regarding Captagon [revealing or at least intriguing name, no?].
Watching online videos of Libyan “rebels”, I couldn’t help but think that the men were under the effects of a powerful stimulant, and, here, I think you’ve provided the answer.
Addictive as Captagon is, it would be interesting to know whether the high level of production of the drug, since 2011, in Syria, has played a role in the attraction of tens of thousands of foreign ‘Muslim’ fighters to Syria. Libyans, among other …
What a powerful tool such a drug could constitute in enticing addicted ‘Muslim fighters’ to go from one targeted zone / country to another, by creating artificial scarcity, and abundance, for example.
In sum, potentially a ridiculously inexpensive and reliable tactical approach …
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Rake handle, which west steps on, this time equipped with a weighty sledgehammer. Eastern European NATO allies naively believe that NATO will be able to protect them in case of war. Questioning Russia’s determination, foolish and short-sighted. The decision to expand NATO imposed by Western puppeteers, was inherently flawed. It is stupid to chase the bear into a corner.
in fact Sergei Ivanov is one of the most capable man in Russia and he should be made foreign or primeminster after kicking out lavrov or medvedev-two weaklings.
Those of us who miss the insights of Mr. Pragma at MoA are coming here where fortunately вот так still holds forth. Thanks.
there is no doubt that british enghlish lying media and its satellites have been responsible for mass genocide in iraq, afgansitan ,libya and syria.
we cannot elt those journalists go scot free.
and western nations arenot goign tod eliver them to hague court jsut like they donto deliver war criminal anglosaoxns tony blair and bush.
so the only way to deal with them is to capture them and have them hanged in the main square were ever they are captured.
all so allced anglosaxon journalists msut be captured and killed from now on.no safe passage for thse war crimnals
unelelcted Pm a sikh traitor harami manmohan singh forced Indians 2accept monasanto and caused famine and mass farmers’ suicide.
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/05/monsanto-and-bio-rape-of-india.html
the way of anglo empire is to export one’s biz
interests into a poorer country, distract its ruling elite with
foreing currency(printed ofcourse so worthless really) so they will forget their real problem, i.e., taking care
of their own people.does something like that sound familiar with the case of unellcted and unelelctable isntalled prime minister mmsingh a traitor and completely inefficinet except in treacherty agasint India?
Learn that:any anglo saxon country (who share stolen secrets onlyamosnt themselves as per snowden) is not a democracy,this primates dont know democracy
India should not succumb to prejudices against Bt crops: Manmohan Singh
http://www.financialexpress.com/news/in … gh/1222791
Quote:
Batting for Bt crops, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said India should not succumb to unscientific prejudices against genetically modified crops.!!
I’m no Putin groupie. I think the man has stolen over 40 billion $ from Russians.
He does have some good points. I admire him for avoiding war and senseless killing, which doesn’t seem to bother Obama, Hollande (especially bloodthirsty IMHO for a European socialist), Cameron. Merkel seems to have a little less blood lust than the others.
This kind of reluctance to fight a designated enemy has been overcome by the Anglo-Zionist empire in the 1930s.
Before WWII the American public was overwhelmingly anti-war. On August 31, 1935, the Neutrality Act was signed into law. Several renewals and extensions followed: no arms and loans were to be forwarded to belligerent nations.
All of this did not prevent Roosevelt and his man at 10 Downing Street to
1) embargo Japan and Germany throughout the 1930s
2) jointly plan with the Soviets a four front war against Germany from April 1939 onwards
3) sign this into an agreement with Stalin on Feb 10, 1940
http://www.allthingsnow.com/day/paranormal/shared/39793095/Churchill-Stalin-Pact-Metapedia
4) and last but not least to incite Poland against Germany, to set up Pearl Harbor for the Japanese, and to “lend” hardware to Britain.
Bottom line:
no peace without regime change in the US.
Christoph
there are some interesting polls about the public opinion in germany as well.
the following data is from official polling done for the german state television, but the resulsts show that the public opinion is not at all in line with their propaganda, even if the questions were not formulated in a neutral way.
45% see germany as solid member of the “western” alliance, 49% want germany to take a mediary position between “the west” and russia- that number is even higher in former east germany (60%). there is also a trend with younger people prefering this mediary position.
only 40% are in favout of a stronger engagement of NATO in eastern europe. 53% are against increasing NATO-activities in eatern europe. (the question was even highly suggestive, it was asked if NATO should do that in order “to protect them against against russian agression”) again, younger people tend to oppose a stronger involvement of NATO more than older people.
on the question if the german bundeswehr should send some aircraft to secure the airspace in eastern europe (again, to “protect them agains russia”), only 35% were in favour, 61% against that idea.
source (german): http://www.geolitico.de/2014/04/05/deutsche-auf-distanz-zum-westen/
the usual shills seem to be once more alarmed and out in force, arguing that germany can’t be a giant swizerland and has to make a descision. i think that this will backfire once more- because the political system of switzerland is highly popular, especially among younger people, its seen as a model for direct democracy and an anti-thesis to clandestine lobby-driven politics in brussels.
A very interesting quote from the Polish Ambassador to Ukraine in a piece discussing the boomerang effect within the EU and elsewhere of anti-Russian sanctions:
«There are entire sectors of the Polish economy which have very strong ties with Russia, and without these ties Poland will have serious difficulties. And this is a great threat for the economy of European countries as well».
Apparently, Bulgaria, Latvia and Cyprus have even “demanded” monetary compensation from Brussels for boycotting Moscow.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/04/06/the-west-and-boomerang-of-anti-russian-sanctions.html
Maybe, just maybe, we have finally jumped the shark.
Greetings from Germany:
Even in Germany the accumulated propaganda of our MSM did not have the desired impact. On March 6, a poll by the “Tagesspiegel” was suddenly taken down because 78% voted for the option “Russia defends legitimate interests”!
http://www.mmnews.de/index.php/politik/17339-tagesspiegel-zens
http://homment.com/tagesspiegel-umfrag
About two weeks ago the FAZ had to acknowledge that at least 80% of their commentators were “Putin-Versteher” (a new word in our language) (http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/russische-propaganda-opfer-des-kreml-12858276.html) – ans the FAZ is a truly conservative newspaper.
And yesterday I had a hilarious moment when during the Tagesschau (normally strict on course with the Atlantic Bridge) Steinmeier declared that Putin should acknowledge that the Ukraine fares best as a non-aligned state or something like that!! Today, however, according to our media pro-russian protests broke out in Eastern Ukraine, so I am sure this evening the bashing will start again.
Angelika
When all else fails, blame….China!
The Ukraine crisis was triggered off by ….Beijing!
The anti-China wantchinatimes from Taiwan claims that Yanukovych’s downfall was engineered by Washington unhappy because of the close military cooperation between his government and China, especially Yanukoych’s decision to provide aircraft carrier technology to Beijing.
Under Yanukovych, Chinese military personnel were allegedly allowed to visit the NITKA (Ground Aviation Training and Research Complex) in Crimea on a regular basis.
In 2005, Ukraine also sold two prototypes of the Su-33 carrier based fighter.
The story cites “a report on the Russian Military-Industrial Complex’s website”?? without actually naming the source.
So we learn that the Ukraine/Crimea crisis is not about encircling or destabilizing Russia. It’s about China getting a march ahead with European technology and must be stopped!
The agitprop to throw a wedge between Russia and China has begun. The old lizard Brzezenski claims that two million Chinese now live illegally across the border (the longest in the world); on Daily Telegravda, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard evokes the Yellow Peril bogey with the chestnut about Russia’s shrinking demographics.
Let us not forget that Russia will remain a nuclear & military power, even with a diminishing population.
Let the Western propaganda warfare begin!
Captagon, Perfetine, Coca or Amphetamine, alcohol and loads of coffee are being used by any army. As long as there is discipline, and the men can get their sleep; no problem. One needs to stay awake and alert!
Only when the situation gets dire, or discipline lacks, problems develop: delusions, erratic behavior and paranoia.
Just the thing for nazis and jihadis….
Putin’s share is now 84%. About 6000 people have voted.
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Up here in the Canadian snows the rigorous climate and natural surroundings would make you think that we would have a lot in common with Russia and Russians; but when talking to my neighbour, a young naturalist, he remarked that he knew virtually nothing about Russia and that China was much more familiar for him and his generation.
While it is all very well to sense in Mr Putin a glimmer of hope of escaping the poisonous and valueless Walmart Mccivilisation we are all caught in , as an antidote to the current propaganda barrage maybe it would be a good idea to make available at least some of the finest achievements of Russian culture.
A good place to start in my opinion would be with the film maker Andrei Tarkovski:
Of art he says; ” Maybe we are here to enhance ourselves spiritually.”
His fidelity to this credo made for great art and for a very difficult life.
Here’s the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BsV57JJ_bM
And here’s a great full length film of his which a country that has never been invaded (by other white men) might profitably watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-cOMy9k-6s&
. Иваново детство / Ivan’s Childhood
I hold a natural and deep aversion to politicians but when Putin speaks and acts I find myself paying close attention and feeling uplifted. There is something inspirational about the man and Russia is fortunate to have him. Perhaps he keeps God in a secret place in his heart, time will tell.
You forgot one name on that list Saker — yours.
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Unfortunately, neither the Muslim criminals Saudia Arabia released to be jihadis, the Neo-Nazi punks in Ukraine, nor the wretched American equivalent previously rejected by our military but drafted en masse by Bush are what one could call disciplined when stone-cold sober. Nor would it appear, in any of these cases, there has been much desire for them to be disciplined. Then there is the dual problem, when you’re speaking of drugs like this, of withdrawal (paranoia, much?) and addiction: when the craving hits and there’s no ready supply… When the Anglo-Zionist Empire supplied specially-grown opium to China, the goals were profit and an inert population: these drugs have quite the opposite effect.
Dear The Saker,
Do you know anything about this? I don’t know how to do translate.
http://stbcaptain.livejournal.com/95303.html
This is very worrying – if true. I would be surprised the Russians would allow this to not be locked down and secure.
Rgds,
Veritas
More evidence about last year’s chemical weapons incident in Syria
http://www.lrb.co.uk/2014/04/06/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
If true the Turkish regime is as much a menace as the Saudis.
Turkey was behind the poison gas attack in Syria.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/2014/04/06/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
Robert said…06 April, 2014 15:54
Anonymous said…06 April, 2014 15:57
People are busy flogging that disinfo. I noticed that moa is also promoting it. It’ll probably become the latest fad among the “alternatives” to quote wisdom from it. The purpose of that article is to hide Israeli-American CW false flag shenanigans in Syria behind a now “past his sell by date” Erdogan fall guy. Hersh is well known for such misdirection.
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Nothing mysterious about Captogen, it is just another amphetamine derivative. There are many of these floating around and they have been used by the military (among others) since the latter stages of WW2. Crystal meth is a distant cousin, but there are others which are easier to cook.
Captogen is widely available in the Middle East, and the US may well be behind the ready supply of this stuff (the CIA has a long history of involvement in the drug business) – but if Captogen were not available, there are many other drugs that grunts and jihadis alike can use to dull the pain.
Nora, one US veteran of the recent aggressions against Iraq and Afghanistan commits suicide every twenty minutes. The attitude of the ruling US elites to these killers for Empire was summed up years ago by Kissinger, ‘Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy’. And by ‘foreign policy’ he means subjecting the entire planet to the Zionazi Empire of Holy and Perpetual Exceptionalism. Some of the massacres in Iraq, including the butchery on the Kuwait-Basra Highway and the end of the firast Gulf War in 1991 (the infamous ‘turkey-shoot’), the burying alive of thousands of Iraqi conscripts in their trenches, the Falluja bloodbath, the Haditha massacre of children in their night-clothes, and the torture-fest at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, is, in my opinion, testament to a new type of US ‘soldier’, one brought up on violent video games, horrific violent and sadism in movies and the copious ingestion of mind-bending drugs, before and during military service. US wars have always extracted a heavy toll of civilians from the Indian Wars, through the genocidal horror of the Philippines, the deliberately contrived incendiary bombing and A-bomb Holocaust inflicted on Japan, the ‘bombing back to the Stone Age’ of Korea and Indochina, and the leveling of Iraq (they bombed water treatment plants deliberately to cause epidemics and even dairy-farms!)and Libya (by their stooges, but the Boss was watching and smiling behind the scenes).Murder of innocents is as American as apple-pie.
Nora, one US veteran of the recent aggressions against Iraq and Afghanistan commits suicide every twenty minutes. The attitude of the ruling US elites to these killers for Empire was summed up years ago by Kissinger, ‘Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy’. And by ‘foreign policy’ he means subjecting the entire planet to the Zionazi Empire of Holy and Perpetual Exceptionalism. Some of the massacres in Iraq, including the butchery on the Kuwait-Basra Highway and the end of the firast Gulf War in 1991 (the infamous ‘turkey-shoot’), the burying alive of thousands of Iraqi conscripts in their trenches, the Falluja bloodbath, the Haditha massacre of children in their night-clothes, and the torture-fest at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, is, in my opinion, testament to a new type of US ‘soldier’, one brought up on violent video games, horrific violent and sadism in movies and the copious ingestion of mind-bending drugs, before and during military service. US wars have always extracted a heavy toll of civilians from the Indian Wars, through the genocidal horror of the Philippines, the deliberately contrived incendiary bombing and A-bomb Holocaust inflicted on Japan, the ‘bombing back to the Stone Age’ of Korea and Indochina, and the leveling of Iraq (they bombed water treatment plants deliberately to cause epidemics and even dairy-farms!)and Libya (by their stooges, but the Boss was watching and smiling behind the scenes).Murder of innocents is as American as apple-pie.
Petri Krohn, that sounds like Amnesty, a group now thoroughly infiltrated and controlled by Western security and intelligence forces. Gaddafi, of course, brought tremendous progress to his country, putting it atop the UN Development Index for Africa, a position that the scum (my apologies to blue-green algae)of the Western MSM simply lied out of existence, painting Libya as impoverished. Well, it certainly is now.
You see, the central pathopsychology of the Zionazi Imperial elite is hatred of others. That flows from a certain character formation prevalent in psychopaths who lack empathy and compassion. It is, however, very useful as a personality type in a system like capitalism where you benefit in precise relation to the detriment done to others who you exploit. And this psychopathology was turned into a ‘religion’, an operating system for mutual advantage at the expense of the ‘outsiders’, by a group in the Near East 3500 years ago who called themselves ‘Israelites’. I’m sure there were other tribes that acted in similar fashion, but they have all died out, been assimilated by other groups, or their ‘religion’ has evolved in less exclusivist directions over time. Not our friends the Israelites, however. Through thick and thin, through great material and cultural success, through great disasters, mostly caused by the antipathy of other groups to their arrogant isolation and exploitation of the goyim, and through their own aggressiveness, the Israelites persisted, and slowly and inexorably built up their power until, today, they control the USA and the West, and their colony in Occupied Palestine can abrogate every International Law and law of human decency in their barbaric mistreatment of millions of imprisoned Palestinians, and they not only get away with it, but demand and receive complete submission from the goyim. I mean, was there ever in history a sight more repellent that the fascist nincompoop, Netan-yahoo, in my opinion the worst type of Jew and of humanity, gazing in barely concealed contempt as the members of the Congress of the supposed greatest power on Earth, the USA, greeted his speech with hysterical adulation, standing ovations, kneeling ovations and fully prostrate, groveling ovations. I often wonder what the Hebrew equivalent of ‘hubris’ is.
Am emphatic YES! to everything Mulga just said.
Mulga Mumblebrain said…06 April, 2014 19:50
The ones who kill themselves are probably the very few who had a conscience. I dealt with a few of the subhuman sods who thought it was just a job, their patriotic duty, a way get off and get some dough. These arsefucks don’t kill themselves. They continue the criminality upon discharge. Frankly, I think the majority are just as guilty as the war criminals who inspire them and the country would be better off with that lot converted to fertilizer. I have no sympathy for American veterans any more than any other terrorists. They know what they were doing and those too fucked up the arse stupid to know, were acting on their prejudices. They are subhuman war criminal scum. The world is better off with them dead. It’s unfortunate most did die at birth and save humanity the grief of their psychotic crimes.
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Yes. It increasingly looks like many of the troops suffering from PTSD are in fact reaping some of the horrors they themselves have sown, so in that sense it’s evidence of their conscience or humanity. The real problem is the rest of them, a lot of whom end up either as mercenaries or police. Used to be, in conventional rather than asymmetrical or counter-terrorism type warfare, discipline really did matter; now it seems this other stuff is more highly prized. Because if it’s not deliberate, than it’s got to be a combination of stupidity and incompetence on the part of our military leaders, and of course that could never happen… Otoh, which is worse? Darned if I know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_brigades
The web brigades (Russian: Веб-бригады ) are alleged astroturfing groups linked to the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. They are purported to be teams of commentators that participate in political blogs and Internet forums to promote disinformation and prevent free discussions of undesirable subjects. Allegations of the existence of web brigades were made in the article “The Virtual Eye of the Big Brother” by French journalist Anna Politkovskaya in April, 2003, in US online media Vestnik Online.
Mr Saker,
you put up some good analysis – but this is not one of them – we in the west admire mr Putin for two things
1. he’s a Nationalist – whilst our countries have been subsumed (i live in the EU) by a supranational kleptocracy
2. He’s a Christian and unashamed to defend his Nation’s debt to christianity’s legacy
the zionists and co don’t enter the equation – we are ruled by idiots and wouldn’t mind a president who appreciated history and culture for a change… there really is no need to speculate beyond this – we are in such a bad state that half a decent man to us looks like a hero..
Interesting poll results from German newspaper, quickly taken down, of course.
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2014/03/the-germans-refuse-to-play-ball/
78 percent of respondents agreed with the statement “Western censure is hypocritical, since Russia defends legitimate interests” while only 4 percent agreed that NATO should not exclude the possibility of military intervention in Ukraine.
I see this as a very positive sign that people are waking up and thinking for themselves. It is a personal vindication for me as I have always believed in the people, and have always rejected the elitist arrogance of many leftists who denounce millions of people they have never met as “sheeple” or other such rot. It is only a matter of time before a critical mass of people awaken and then it will just take a spark to set them off.
There is nothing more counter-revolutionary than the nihilistic and defeatest attitude that the people don’t have it in them to wake up and rise up. If it has been done before by humans, it can be done again by anyone, including Americans.
Merkel said Putin is “not in this world”. It is because of his lunatic
religion. They fast fanatically half the year and they hallucinate
from Philocalia hyperventilation. This is why Huntington Clash put
them with the muslims. They even use sleep depravation like the
Moonies. If we nuclear bomb Putin’s homosexual monasteries, maybe he
will return the favor and bomb our homosexual artist cities. They all
propagate their faith with probiotic epigenetics.
@George Kender Comney: oh George, did the doc not tell you to keep taking your meds? Just take your pills again and things will look brighter again :-)
Take care,
The Saker
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