Rattlesnakes have a terrible reputation. Here were I live, in Florida, we have the biggest rattlesnakes on the planet, the Eastern Diamondback (Crotalus adamanteus). They are huge and can reach well over 2m (6ft) in length and weigh up to 15kg (30lbs). The Eastern Diamondback’s venom is not the most potent out there, but they can deliver *a lot* of it. So, yes, it is a formidable creature. But it is also a gentle creature and truly very shy one.
Eastern Diamonbacks are also a stunningly beautiful creatures. I confess that I absolutely love them.
For all their reputation for nastiness, Eastern Diamonbacks will never ever attack you if they can avoid it. I have seen a lot of these snakes on my hikes, I have manipulated them (with a hook), and I have seen my German Shepherd come nose to nose with one (literally) and that Eastern Diamondback did not strike. Why? Because these snakes will do everything they can to avoid having to bite you.
First and foremost, they hide. Really well. You can stand right next to a large Eastern Diamondback and never notice it. You can walk right by, and it won’t move, or rattle its tail, and you will never know that it was there. Camouflage is their first line of defense.
Then, if discovered, they will rattle their tails. If needed, very loudly. You can easily hear the rattle from an Eastern Diamondback from 5m (15ft) away. More than enough distance to easily avoid it.
Furthermore, if given the chance, the Eastern Diamondback will retreat and hide.
Finally, when cornered a lot of them try what is called a “dry bite”: they do bite you, but deliver no venom. Why? Because you are not prey, so what would be the point of envenomating you? The Eastern Diamondback does not want you dead, it wants you to let it live!
I was once told by a park ranger in Arizona that the profile of a typical rattlesnake bite victim is: white, male, with tattoos and the famous last words “hold my beer and watch this!“.
Why am I telling you all this?
Because that is exactly what I see happening before my horrified eyes.
Russia is the Eastern Diamondback desperately trying to do all it can to avoid to have to strike. The West is the drunk idiot full of hubris, arrogance and a very mistaken sense of invulnerability saying “hold my beer and watch this!“.
Keep in mind that in a confrontation with a drunken human the Eastern Diamondback is most unlikely to survive. And it knows that, and that is why it does everything it can to avoid such a confrontation in the first place. But if cornered or attacked the Diamondback will strike. Hard. Want to see what such a strike looks like? Like this:
You most definitely do NOT want to be on the receiving end of that strike!
But that’s for normal, sober, people. When you are drunk your attitude is “hold my beer and watch this!” you “know” that you can handle that snake.
They are all at it right now. May, Trump, Macron and Merkel, of course, but also the their sycophantic presstitutes and the herds of zombified followers. They all believe in their invulnerability and superiority.
The terrifying truth is that these folks have NO IDEA whom they are dealing with nor do they understand the consequences of pushing Russia too hard. Oh, in theory they do (yeah, yeah, Napoleon, Hitler, we know!). But in their guts, they feel safe, superior and just can’t conceive that they can die and their entire society simply disappear.
I suggest that they carefully ponder the following.
In a recent interview Putin was asked about the rationale of a retaliatory strike by Russia if she was attacked by the USA. Putin replied the following: “Yes, for mankind this would be a global catastrophe, for the world it would be a global catastrophe, but as a citizen of Russia and as the Head of the Russian state I ask: “what need would we have a for world if there is no Russia?“.
So there you have it, directly from Putin: if the AngloZionist plan is to eliminate Russia (whether physically or otherwise), then the Russian people have no need for such a world. Consider these words as the Russian version of a very loud, almost desperate, rattle.
And look at how they are all trying to see how far they can “safely” push Russia.
I wonder if that Russian “rattle” will be loud enough to stop the West before it is too late.
I am not so sure.
The Saker
I am wondering why is Britain creating a dispute with Russia? Who benefits? In the U.S., the Democrats, neocons, and their press drive the Russophobia. Is there a parallel reality in Britain? Will Trump try to manufacture political cover for an agreement with North Korea?
It’s all because of the Eskimos. They control economies, media.. everything. They have a desire to rule the world from their ancient capital and holy ice city of Jyerywuswalim. They want to create a conflict between two poles of the world eventually leading to a nuclear war in which each parties destroy one other and the Eskimos are left unchallenged in their path towards world dominion. The resulting nuclear holocaust will bring nuclear winter which will plunge world temperatures and snow will be everywhere. These Eskimos will then built their grand Igloo temple of Swalemwon.
Some anti-Semitic jew haters say that Israel is behind it, but we all know that Israel has been an innocent victim of aggression by every people since thousands of years.
What are we going to do about the Eskimos? Even so, I am having a hard time figuring out what the British hoped to accomplish with this stunt, which involved murdering people.
Thanks Saker.
While we’re in a story-telling mode, here is another, a rather bleak one:
“There’s a story I heard as a child, a parable, and I never forgot it. A scorpion was walking along the bank of a river, wondering how to get to the other side. Suddenly, he saw a fox. He asked the fox to take him on his back across the river. The fox said ‘No. If I do that, you’ll sting me and I’ll drown.’ The scorpion assured him, ‘If I did that, we’d both drown.’ So, the fox thought about it, and finally agreed. So, the scorpion climbed up on his back, and the fox began to swim, but halfway across the river, the scorpion stung him. As the poison filled his veins, the fox turned to the scorpion and said, ‘Why did you do that? Now you’ll drown too.’ ‘I couldn’t help it,’ said the scorpion, ‘it’s my nature’.”
– Chakotay to Janeway, as he objects to her plan to ally with the Borg
(Star Trek Voyager, Season 3, Episode 26)
I do not think it is hubris or drunkenness, I fear it is desperation. The Western economy has become entirely dependent on debt, and no one is buying US debt (rated BBB+ by the Chinese) except the Fed. Every time the Fed tries to stop, the stock market plummets by thousands of dollars destroying people’s belief that they are rich and smarter, superior to everyone else. So the fed goes back in, but it too knows that the debt will never be repaid because no one wants to pay the taxes. They want to and will get out, but they can’t unless they rule the world can take other people’s wealth and to pay off the debt. If the nation goes bankrupt, no more social security, no more Medicare, no more anything. And Russia is in the way. I fear with this limitation, the horns of our dilemma are either bankruptcy and the collapse of the country or WWIII. The same for corporations who are similarly indebted – they need to sell the world or die. Let us not be naïve in our thinking.
Who benefits from doing this? What is the intension?
Don’t the European elites benefit, hands down, from everything that’s happened since Sept. 11, 2001? These elites had two rival groups, one based in the USA and another in Israel. In 2018, both regions are collapsing. And the Europeans are such faithful vassals!! Why? Maybe because power is consolidating in Eurasia (i.e. their continent) and the American elite are so full of delusion and insanity that, with some support and encouragement, they will comfortably destroy themselves, and turn most of the Americas to rubble, which is easy to control from afar?
Must must read:
Timeline: Porton Down Laboratory
Porton Down
Porton Down became a key centre for chemical warfare research
The Ministry of Defence’s announcement that it is to award £3m in compensation to 360 veterans of chemical weapons tests has put the spotlight on the Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down, near Salisbury
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3744110.stm (2008)
This is 1.5 miles from the reported attack on MI6 retained double agent.
MoD tests on humans ‘unethical’
Porton Down, Wiltshire (Next to Salisbury)
Tests on human volunteers were carried out until 1989
Some trials of chemical agents on human volunteers at Porton Down laboratories were “unethical”, according to a report published by the Ministry of Defence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/5180266.stm
You could not make this stuff up.
There is much more:
MoD agrees sarin case settlement
Leading Aircraftman Ronald Maddison
Leading Aircraftsman Ronald Maddison died at the base in 1953
The family of a soldier who died in a Ministry of Defence (MoD) nerve gas experiment at Porton Down is pleased an unlawful killing verdict will stand.
Leading Aircraftsman Ronald Maddison, from County Durham, 20, died after sarin was dabbed on his arm at the laboratory on Salisbury Plain, in 1953
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4709526.stm.
Last Updated: Friday, 14 July 2006, 13:08 GMT 14:08 UK
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MoD tests on humans ‘unethical’
Porton Down, Wiltshire
Tests on human volunteers were carried out until 1989
Some trials of chemical agents on human volunteers at Porton Down laboratories were “unethical”, according to a report published by the Ministry of Defence.
The report says a number of tests in the 1940s and 1950s involved “serious departures” from the ethical standards that should have been observed.
But the report’s independent ethical assessor said concerns related to only a few of the hundreds of tests done.
Sir Ian Kennedy said they had never gone beyond what should be tolerated.
Professor Kennedy oversaw the work of MoD officials conducting a historical survey of tests at Porton Down, launched in 2000 in response to the concerns of veterans that they may have suffered lasting damage to their health.
He said there was “no evidence to justify a conclusion that the conduct of the trials at any point went beyond the limits of what should ever be contemplated, far less tolerated, in a civilised society”.
Nerve agents
Among the tests Professor Kennedy highlighted which he felt may not have met ethical standards were:
Trials of liquid nerve agents on bare skin, carried out between 1951 and 1953, including one test which led to the death of 20-year-old Leading Aircraftman Ronald Maddison in 1953
The trials in 1951 of the nerve agent GD, in which the lethal dose was not known with sufficient certainty
The trial in 1958 of the nerve agent VX, which involved the use of what, at the time, was regarded as the lethal dose
The trials in 1942 involving the exposure of volunteers to H vapour in the scrotal region, in which he said it appeared likely volunteers gave no real consent
The trial in 1945 of a substance from captured German shells, which exposed volunteers to danger without first seeking to determine the nature of the substance
Moral standards
He also said there were “question marks” over experiments carried out from the 1950s to the 1970s in which the eye condition miosis was artificially induced, which he said “might be said by some to have constituted too great a step into the unknown”.
But Professor Kennedy said the tests were carried out in “a thorough, painstaking, careful and often ingenious manner” and were “obviously of great importance in assessing military effectiveness”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4745748.stm
E.coli released by MoD in 1960s
Porton Down, Wiltshire
The report concerns Porton Down’s MoD labs
Defence scientists secretly tested E.coli bacteria as a possible biological weapon near two UK towns.
Trials were carried out near Swindon and Southampton between 1965 and 1967 involving the release of “microthreads” covered in the bacteria.
The tests are detailed in the 1966 MoD report on the laboratory at Porton Down, Wiltshire, just released.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6088800.stm
My personal theory is that a generation of politicians have not experienced war,and hence they find it very easy to send their countrymen off to kill people. Had they experienced 5+ years of war and had to kill people personally, they wouldn’t be nearly so keen.
My (ex) brother-in-law is a surgeon in Northern CA. There are alot of rattlesnakes there. His comment: most snake bites are on drunk,young white males. Even with prompt medical attention, the bitten limb will never be the same.
I’ve heard that water moccasins are something altogether different.
You nailed it Saker. Thanks for being our nuevo Paul Revere.
I was very pleased to see someone else speaking about this very thing. I think the actions by the former Sect’y of State spoke volumes and shows who was jabbing the Rattler with a stick all across the eastern border of Europe. I can see clearly why the Russians would have wanted to favor anyone else but her in the White House.
I believe she wanted a war with Russia.
Great Lit.
Tom
Oh God in heaven,how true true true,I’m in africa and i ask myself,do people in the west and europe read this,..infact I’m desperate,is there anyone there in the west reading this?..
COLONIAL Countries Do Not Understand. They still think that the world is still belongs to them and must remain like this. They reject a reality that they are jumping in the abyss with everybody with them. I totally agree with your point. They must leave Russia free to move and be part of this world, Russians want peace at the full meaning of the word.
Thank you
Thank you!
I got it,what is the benefit of a world without America that Russia feels they can squash by a wave of hand