- China has officially strongly criticized any sanctions saying that they would be useless.
- Another six cities of the eastern Ukraine have rebelled.
- Dmitryi Olegovich Rogozin Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia and Deputy Prime Minister of Russia in charge of defense industry has declared that Russia will respond to words with words and to actions with actions. For example, he said, if the US would try to hurt the Russian aerospace industry they could fly their astronauts to the International Space Station themselves.
- Oleg Tsarev, one of the most popular political figures from the eastern Ukraine officially quit the Presidential race explaining that it was impossible for him to participate.
- Mikhail Dobkin, a top Party of Regions figure and close friend of the Major of Kharkov Gennadi Kermes – who has been shot and is in critical condition in an Israeli hospital declared that he is also thinking of quitting the Presidential race.
- Russian pilots have reported that the GPS signal over Ukraine appears to have been degraded by the USA. The USA also did that in Libya and during the 08.08.08 Ossetia. Luckily, the Russian constellation of GLONASS satellites is at its full capacity (24) and it can easily take over.
- US Secretary of State John Kerry:”Today Russia seeks to change the security landscape of Eastern and Central Europe, we have to make it absolutely clear to the Kremlin that NATO territory is inviolable we will defend every single inch of it.”
- In Kiev the Right Sector and the Maidanites have fought each other
Turchinov admits that his operation has failed:”I would like to say frankly that at the moment the security structures are unable to swiftly take the situation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions back under control. Security personnel tasked with the protection of citizens are helpless. More than that, some of these units either aid or co-operate with terrorist groups. Our task is to stop the spread of the terrorist threat first of all in the Kharkiv and Odessa regions.” - It has been announced by the military authorities in Russia that two newcomers will participate in the next May 9th (aka “Victory Day”) parade in Moscow: a Spetsnaz unit in its new bullet-proof combat fatigues and silenced rifles and a Naval Infantry unit from the Black Sea Feet which will be flying the flag of the Russian Crimean Republic. I can just about imagine the rage of the NATO attaches invited to watch the parade (which they always are each year).
- The pro-US liberal activist Boris Nemtsov has committed political suicide by going on Ukie TV and comparing Putin to Stalin. Not that he has much to lose since his “Parnas” party was firmly pegged in the single digits.
- Nemtsov, Khodorkovsky, Kasparov and Navalnyi and a few others are basically political corpses now
- On the same program on Ukie TV which featured Nemtsov, a well-know Ukrainian nationalist, Iurii Lutsenko, seriously declared that the “genetic code of the Ukrainian people give them the ability to live outside lies, whereas the genetic code of childern of Gengis Khan makes them willing to live in lies and spread the patriotic syphillis“. His comments about the genetic makeup was made particularly comical since he was sitting next to a Jew (Nemtsov), on a TV show hosted by a Jew (Savik Shuster) and that he was co-organizing the conference which invited Nemtsov to Kiev with another famous Jew (Khodorkovsky). I wonder why these Jews who usually are hyper-sensitive to “genetic” issues all remained silent and smiling when a neo-Nazi nationalist was seriously discussing how the Asia genes of Russians made them different and less capable of opposing lies than the putative Ukrainian “race”.
- The USA and EU have adopted further symbolic sanctions on Russia which only serve one purpose: to convince the Russians that the West cannot and will not take any meaningful punitive measures against Russia.
- Finally, the US is gleefully reporting that sanctions are hurting Russia which is now suffering from a capital outflow. This is partially true, there are signs of capital outflow, but this is speculative capital anyway which, like in 08.08.08 is moved out by western plutocrats in response to an anti-Russian campaign and which will soon be right back. So far, there are absolutely no signs of disinvestment for the simple reason that the Western plutocrats are not willing to suffer the consequences of such a move.
I might have mentioned his here, but there is a great Russian saying about making empty threats. It goes like this: “to try to scare a hedgehog with a naked butt“. That is exactly what the US and EU are doing now: they are trying to scare Russia with sanctions which will hurt them infinitely more than they would hurt Russia. Not only that, but the very notion that slapping 15 or 30 people with a 6 months travel ban into the Eurozone will break the will of a people which withstood events like the 900 days of the blockade of Leningrad by the German military (with hunger, cold and artillery and Luftwaffe bombing raids every day) is laughable.
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The good news today is the admission by Turchinov that he lost the Lugansk and Donetsk Oblast and that what he as to do now is to prevent these events from spreading to other parts of the Ukraine such as the Odessa and Kharkov regions (see map). My personal feeling is that Kharkov is gone too. But Odessa might be more complicated. The situation in Dnepropetrovsk is even more complex.
What could happen is a two-step disintegration of the Ukraine. In the first step the Lugansk, Donetsk and Kharkov regions would break off and form their own independent republic. Then a relative lull will take place between the upcoming Presidential elections (assuming they happen), the payment of pensions, the price increases and the total termination of Russian gas supplies to the Ukraine. Then over the summer and early Fall the rest of the Ukraine will explode in social protests which will push regions such as Odessa or Zaporozhie to break off while the oligarchs and neo-Nazis battle each other for the control of Kiev. The single most powerful factor affecting the Ukrainian disintegration process will be the economic boom in Crimea. If last year the Ukrainians compared the economic prosperity of Russians and EU-members, this year they will compare the economic situation in the junta controlled Ukraine (which I call “Banderastan”) and Crimea. As for the People’s Republic of Donetsk, it will have to join Russia sooner or later if only for security reasons.
Then, I can only express my amused amazement at Kerry’s latest expression of hot air. What does “we have to make it absolutely clear to the Kremlin that NATO territory is inviolable we will defend every single inch of it” supposed to mean?! Does Kerry seriously believe that anybody – nevermind the Russians – will seriously believe that Russian tanks are about to attack NATO? This also begs the question of how exactly would NATO propose to fight Russia if the latter occupied the Baltic Statges (which Russia neither wants nor needs).
Kerry is turning into a full-time buffoon who makes Hillary look rational.
On last thing: I have heard that something close to 70% of Americans are unhappy with Obama and is his handling of the Ukrainian crisis, while Putin’s popularity is pegged around 80% of support.
Looks to me like the Russian people and the American people very much have a similar point of view. Too bad that a parasitical plutocracy of 1% has put a non-entity like Obama in power.
The Saker
what do you think of this clause in the IMF’s l7 billion loan to ukraine?
IF UKRAINE GOVERNMENT LOSES EFFECTIVE CONTROL OVER EAST OF COUNTRY, $17 BLN IMF BAILOUT WOULD NEED TO BE REDESIGNED
Are they encouraging an increased crackdown by the kiev regime? if so how will russia likely respond to such an operation
@anonymous who fantasizes about invading festung Americana
You said-
“When Genghis Khan and his army rode up to the Great Wall of China, the citizens of Beijing falsely thought they were impervious to these barbarians, just like Americans think they are. China had their wall, and the U.S. has its ocean walls. Magical thinking knows no borders or ages. Well, the Great Khan simply rode north until he found the end of the wall, went around it, and sacked Beijing-killing every living creature, animals included.”
It isn’t just our oceans that make us impervious to foreign invasion and occupation. You forgot the nearly 150 million armed and violently patriotic Americans who will turn every brick and blade of grass into a death trap for your armored and infantry divisions. Or perhaps you plan on shipping twice as many infantry and tanks past the U.S navy, because that’s the bare minimum required? There’s a reason the very thought sends shudders down the spines of our foes, but you’re welcome to try it anytime tough guy, I’m dying of boredom with all these empty threats.
saker -nato now openly declares Russia as enemy-may be nato has got bolder after making sure that russia will always be pussyfotting around and talking of our partners!
Cowardly NATO only ever goes against countries severely weakened by many years of economic sanctions.that is why russia msut declare those sanctions as act of war.
in case of actual war Cowardly NATO only ever goes against countries severely weakened by many years of economic sanctions.
Perhaps Russia should do a massive pre emptive nuclear strike on england the epicentre of anglos evil empire. even suggestion of this will be This may be the only way to stop the nato aggression. Russia cannot stand alone against nato dominance using conventional forces.
Anonymous said…
No, he (President of Republika Srpska) is not acting under the direction of NATO!
You are right. NATO/the West are not on the Serb side.
NATO is stirring the pot. They would be happy to start another war and finish off R. Srpska.
Newsweek is playing games and helping to set a trap. NATO would love to beat the crap out of the Serbs to feel better about their losses against Russia.
@123abc
Wasn’t Zizek the leading intellectual of the ‘left’? Strange transformation.. Nazi heroes? The totalistic traits of the liberal ideology are so repulsive.. nothing can’t hide them, not even flashy ‘communistic’ dress.
And to blame your own misdeeds to someone else /Russia – fascistic?!/, now this is pervert. It has very Gobelescue taste, Orwell would cry if he was able to witness this.
But there is a catch in the whole story, some things do not work as before. Sorry, my not dear at all PR, media propaganda fagots.
Petri Krohn said…
There seems to be some kind of military genius at work in the Donbass People’s Militia – maybe totally unintentionally. The resistance is now building an iron ring from Mariupol to Donetsk, to Slovyansk, to Lugansk, effectively encircling all of Kyiv’s troops and armor in the east
I always thought this was Russia’s end game. Any breakup of Eastern Ukraine will immdeiately put Western Ukraine’s NATO membership on the table – wheather it happen or not. The East gradually build its military muscle – learning better tactics, absorbing trained soldiers and equipment from Ukrainain army – and will become a force that can not only defend their homestead but eventually march to Kiev and kick out the junta…
-123abc- said…
Zizek is a great and entertaining philosopher and I often listen to his talks in the background when I do my work, I also fundamentally agree with his project of building a contemporary kind of communism…
Entertaing yes. Also property of George Soros and a neo-Khazarian con man.
Go back to the Ancient Greeks. It’s all there without the slant.
Philosophy has been entirely co-opted — begining especially after the partition of Poland.
Grunt said…
It isn’t just our oceans that make us impervious to foreign invasion and occupation. You forgot the nearly 150 million armed and violently patriotic Americans who will turn every brick and blade of grass into a death trap for your armored and infantry divisions.
Impervious to foreign invasion except for Mexicans and the gangsters controlling your government.
Tom Garrett,
Thank you. ;~) I’m also a great lover of Ambrose Bierce and although I’ve not yet read it, I’ve a family member who raves about “And Quiet Flows the Don”. Your compliment feels especially good right now since I managed to get another compression fracture the other day and I’ve been cranky and out of sorts bc I can’t get on top of the pain like I used to. (probably TMI, I’ll survive, but grrrrrr!) Your work sounds fascinating — but is it really possible to stave off foreign agribusiness? Bless you for trying!!!
As far as what’s going on right now, you’ve probably already read the RT reports, http://rt.com/news/eastern-ukraine-army-operation-680/ that Pravy Sektor in Dnepropetrovsk has ordered a complete mobilization, whatever that is, while Turchinov has ordered a draft of all male Ukrainians ages 18-25. So I think whatever is going to happen will happen pretty soon though I worry more about mercenaries than any of those guys.
This Igor Strelkov guy, https://storify.com/ystriya/interview-with-gru-officer-igor-strelkov whose real name is Girkin, apparently came from Crimea and seems to be running the (military) show, sounds pretty interesting but I’m WAY out of my element judging any of this! I was musing yesterday that if I were going to create a putsch anyplace there were any people with positive feelings for Russia, I think I’d do it a month or so AFTER Labor Day, but we’ll see what difference nostalgia makes as opposed to just plain-old repression.
Putin’s been in a bind but I kind of expect him to do whatever he does… unexpectedly; he’s certainly got our lovely crew by a good 50 I.Q. points at least. Enjoy your time in the mountains, and I LUV that story about the mice!
@Colinjames
I have a lot of respect for James Corbett, the hardest working journalist in alternative news but he’s a techno-utopian with a striking blind spot for all things Khazar.
He’s also vaguely Russophobic although I’m sure he’d bristle at the suggestion.
Obama with his back against the wall, lacking any form of empathy anymore, will force the fascists to act in such an abhorrent way that Rusland have to invade Ukraine.
An reaction that the politicians & the Main Stream Media will succesfully exploit as the stick to wield World Opinion in their direction, followed by a physical confrontation with tactical nuclear weapons of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
@ Grunt
While I agree that there are less painful way to suicide than invading the US, I am afraid that those 150 millions of violently patriotic Americans should finally consider the possibility that their enemy is already inside the gates.
After all, no matter how hard I try, I’m not able to see any other recipient for the two billions (forbidden) ammunitions bought by the DHS than those armed and violently patriotic people.
They seems to be already training. Every week your police kills a couple of people for futile motive.
Grunt said: “It isn’t just our oceans that make us impervious to foreign invasion and occupation. You forgot the nearly 150 million armed and violently patriotic Americans who will turn every brick and blade of grass into a death trap for your armored and infantry divisions. Or perhaps you plan on shipping twice as many infantry and tanks past the U.S navy, because that’s the bare minimum required? There’s a reason the very thought sends shudders down the spines of our foes, but you’re welcome to try it anytime tough guy, I’m dying of boredom with all these empty threats.”
You joke. Most US patriots I know wouldn’t think twice about joining a Russian invading force to take out the homophile, feminist, gun-controlling, Jew-run enterprise warring on everything American Christians value.
American patriots may not be very educated or well-placed, but most realized that the real enemy is in Washington, not Moscow.
Even Pat Buchanan says that God is on Putin’s side.
@ Joe Hueglin
«It is to be hoped Lt. Col. Gary Hardwick has been apprised that those they will be observing seek the governance of Ukraine to be that which we have in Canada, and approach them as the Federalists they are, rather than as what others would portray them as being.»
Just to set the record straight, Canadian federalism has been designed in a way to negate a true federalism which would encompass two or three historical-human entities : The «Canayiens» (the founders), Loyalists (who left the 13 colonies, refusing the independance of the US) and the Native people. If Ukranian fereralism was ever designed the Canadian way, there would be some 11 provinces representing
Western Ukraine and one to represent the Russophones in the central government. In Canada, federalism has been a way for the anglos to negate the self -determination rights of Quebec people – and BTW, as of today, Quebec never signed the imposed constitution and therefore is not part of it. In other words, Federalism can be fraudulent by virtue of its very structure. Russian federalism appears to me reflecting the national/ethnic diversities of Russia much more than its Canadian counterpart. I would absolutely refrain to cite the Canadian federalism as a model for Ukraine.
@Anonymous 20:02
“Wasn’t Zizek the leading intellectual of the ‘left’? Strange transformation”
Yes, he is considered to be a leading figure of the “left”, but I think he was always like that, no transformation.
My suspicion is that Zizek is simply not all that well informed. He is all over the place, all academic disciplines, all parts of the globe, all times of history. Tbh I don’t expect someone who is so much all over the place to give a precise analysis of a situation, an entertaining account yes, but not a very precise one.
And the other reason that might excuse him is that Putin is certainly not a leftist leader and Russia is simply not a leftist country. My sense is that Russia is conservative and maybe nationalist, but that doesn’t mean right-wing, and my sense is that Russia is in essence anti-capitalist, but that doesn’t mean that it wants to be communist. Obviously in this kind of configuration there is a lot of room for misinterpretation and misunderstanding. I think this may be part of the reason why people find Russia so hard to understand, and why they project so much stuff into Russia — there is something for everyone to pick out and like or dislike.
@Where-Wolf
Interesting comment. Can you give a link or further reason of why you think that Zizek is property of George Soros and why he is a neo-Khazarian con man, and what you mean with partition of Poland and philosophy?
Saker, is this real?
PROOF: Hacked U.S. State Dept. E-mail Shows U.S. Ordering Terrorist Attacks in Ukraine to “frame-up” Russia and provide excuse for War!
http://www.turnerradionetwork.com/news/357-confidential
written long time ago in 2011-
How medvedev and lavrov single handedly resurrected almost defucnt Nato.
” However, Russia cannot be blameless in the imperialistic destruction of Libya. Medvedev is still part of Russia’s power elite but his role in Libya’s destruction means he can do great harm to his own country. He almost everyday he calls for the privatization Russia’s resources! So what is the difference between the privatization of Libya and Medvedev’s daily call for total privatization of Russia’s key resources? Libya will come back to haunt Russia’s foreign policy as long as Medvedev is part of the ruling power inside Russia. He and is inner circles of lavrov helped the West destroy Libya.”
Maedhros, when the USA, the Real Evil Empire of Eternal Exceptionalism, collapses, and the heavily armed populace, indoctrinated and brainwashed for years in the belief that they are a Herrenvolk destined to rule the world, forever, turn on one another, and the heavily militarized police begin suppressing the outbreaks amongst the burgeoning underclass, the result won’t be pretty. Collapse in the USA will turn Hobbesian, quickly, a war of all against all, because Yankee pathopsychology dictates a violent response to all opposition. The many good and peaceful US citizens will be in trouble, but the rest of the world will breath a sigh or relief, unless, of course, a violently fascist group seizes control (the ‘Grunts’)and begins an even more aggressive campaign to subjugate humanity in the name of ‘Manifest Destiny’.
123abc, Slavoj Zizek, in my opinion, is a charlatan. His utterances are self-contradictory and ideologically and philosophically incoherent. He is a con-man, and he recently attacked Chomsky, who tried to ignore him for a while, then eviscerated him. Whether he is on the payroll of the Atlanticist global supremacists, or just a narcissistic blowhard and exhibitionist, is a matter of total indifference to me. But attacking Putin when the Atlanticist Empire is so clearly and recklessly in the wrong, is a very bad sign for his reputation and future marketability.
123abc, Slavoj Zizek, in my opinion, is a charlatan. His utterances are self-contradictory and ideologically and philosophically incoherent. He is a con-man, and he recently attacked Chomsky, who tried to ignore him for a while, then eviscerated him. Whether he is on the payroll of the Atlanticist global supremacists, or just a narcissistic blowhard and exhibitionist, is a matter of total indifference to me. But attacking Putin when the Atlanticist Empire is so clearly and recklessly in the wrong, is a very bad sign for his reputation and future marketability.
@ where-Wolf and Maedhros
I wouldn’t worry about the Mexicans, they cross barren wastelands under threat of death just to partake in the dream that is America. They come just like they have been since America’s inception, they work hard and assimilate. Some of our citizens feel threatened at times for competitive reasons, which is only natural, while others feign fright just to score political points or gain a financial advantage. Like I said, they haven’t been a threat and I doubt that’ll ever change. Besides, with a population of 113million vs 310million Americans, they have more to fear from us than we’ll ever have from them. As far as the gangsters controlling our government, they are no less American than the average gang banger or neighborhood mafioso- that is to say they only differ by degrees, the principle remains the same. We’ve had them too since the beginning and have grown exponentially beyond our humble beginnings despite them.
The DHS ammo stock piling and hardening police state are only an evolutionary adaptation to changing times, a natural outgrowth to guard the nation’s interests against well intentioned but misinformed citizens who might become useful tools of our enemies. I can discern at least 2 purposes besides preserving the state, and I’m no Brzerzinski- it causes the more militant elements in our country to arm up even more, but the arms they acquire are not a credible threat to the state as they’re only useful in guerrilla style defense against external invaders. As a result the American government in one stroke builds a formidable self sustaining and self funded national guard, while simultaneously strengthening the defense sector of our dynamic economy.
Proof test- does America’s enemies/ would be invaders secretly rejoice or despair whenever they learn another million assault rifles have been sold in the USA? Need I say more??
@-123abc- said… The German press is losing it. I’ve been living in Germany for more than 20 years and I’ve never seen this kind of insanity.
You should look harder at who’s owning the German press:
“Josef Joffe (born March 15, 1944) is publisher-editor (German: Herausgeber) of Die Zeit, a weekly German newspaper…In 2005, Joffe founded, together with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Eliot Cohen and Frank Fukuyama, The American Interest, a magazine where both American and international authors think and argue about the United States and its role in the world. Joffe’s essays and reviews have appeared in a wide number of publications including Commentary, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, Prospect, The European Journal of International Affairs, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Weekly Standard. His scholarly work has appeared in many books and in journals, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, International Security, The National Interest and The American Interest”. (No secrets, it’s in Wikipedia)
“Josef Joffe occupies a rare perch among Europe’s public intellectuals. As the publisher and editor of Die Zeit, Germany’s mass-circulation, highbrow weekly newspaper, he is a fixture of the country’s Left-tilting cultural establishment. Yet this Jewish son of Berlin—educated at Swarthmore, Johns Hopkins, and Harvard—is a defender of Israel and the United States, as well as one of the keener dissectors of the European conceits and anti-American pathologies so common to his peers. Those virtues go some way toward redeeming Überpower, an occasionally brilliant if ultimately unpersuasive attempt to sketch America’s “grand strategy” for the 21st century.
The point of that strategy, Joffe understands, is not how the U.S. should manage its “inevitable decline,” a theme frequently sounded in books of this genre. The point is how to stay on top. Joffe approaches this question as a foreign-policy “realist,” a thinker more in the mold of balance-of-power calculators like Henry Kissinger or Brent Scowcroft than of democratic idealists like Woodrow Wilson or George W. Bush. As a result, he devotes much of Überpower to tallying up the “objective” political, economic, military, and cultural strengths of the U.S. vis-à-vis its current and prospective competitors”.(http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/uberpower-by-joseph-joffe/)
The irony is that this so highly perched intellectual is a descendant, or relative, of Adolf Joffe, the first ambassador of Bolshevick Russia to Berlin after the Peace of Brest-Litovsk, where he was in charge with anti-German propaganda, which led to the Revolution which toppled the Kaiser. History repeats itself….
WizOz
@ anonymous
In reply to-
“You joke. Most US patriots I know wouldn’t think twice about joining a Russian invading force to take out the homophile, feminist…”
Yes there’s a joke buddy, but it’s on you and it’s funnier than you think.
First of all quoting Pat Buchanan undermines your argument- do you realize how long he’s been in American politics, decades, which means whatever he says against the US government is tailor made for suckers, he’s paid to vindicate your false sense of potent anger. Which brings me to point #2. Those patriots you speak of have been armed and angry since the ’90s, and they have yet to shut down a single post office. They know (or should know) and the government knows that they’ll be isolated and destroyed with 90% public approval the moment they so much as threaten the state, just like Waco and Ruby Ridge. Besides, if a foreigner ever invaded the US, those folks you think are on your side would be the first to defend America, because their families would remind them who the real enemy is without any assistance from the government. Don’t take my word for it, go and tell your mom or wife you want to kill a marine to save Russia, see how fast she’ll rat you out to the police. To you the government is the Jews/ Brzerzinski/ Kissinger et al, to your wife/mom it’s the postal worker/ marine/ SSDI employee. Feel free to turn that smile upside down when you sober up.
Nora,
Regarding Zizek the best answer is the one of Mulga Mumblebrain … “123abc, Slavoj Zizek, in my opinion, is a charlatan. His utterances are self-contradictory and ideologically and philosophically incoherent”.
Just disregard that sort of Trotzko-Frankfurt School-Lacanian crap that passes for the “ideology” of the putrescent “Left”.
@ Mulga Mumblebrain:Slavoj Zizek, in my opinion, is a charlatan
My opinion too. The guy is just a fad, a fashion. I can’t stand the guy.
Great thread indeed!
I have to wonder, though, at those who take Zizek seriously, he is a clone of Bono the U2, and similar scum.
Saker and Wiz,
Thank you both! I should have known he was a psychiatrist — my main problem with the guy was he just didn’t make any sense.
Thank you, all, for addressing Zizek’s article. I have read several of his books over the years, and even head him speak on a few occasions. He’s entertaining and insightful, but his political analyses often seem more wrapped up in historical interpretation than actually reading the present. In the case of the Ukraine, I would tend to agree with what 123abc says about Zizek missing the forest for the trees.
123abc said…
Interesting comment. Can you give a link or further reason of why you think that Zizek is property of George Soros and why he is a neo-Khazarian con man, and what you mean with partition of Poland and philosophy?
I dropped my head in my hands when I read your comment. Explicating myself is an enormous task. I’ll do my best.
Philosophy, politics and psychology are not seperate. Western thought has been engaged in a prolonged reductio ad absurdum lasting for thousands of years. The reductive mode of consciousness is masculine and seeks to master details, usually at the expense of the bigger picture. It is useful when we want to construct abstract tools, especially to manipulate our social environment.
The greater mode of consciousness is feminine and experiences reality differently. This is emotional intelligence without the conscious aplication of learned value judgements. It is the intelligence we have when we are born, given to us by God, before we begin our social programming.
OK so far?
Moving backwards, there is a straight line connecting today’s Western sponsered regime change operations, the Arab Spring, Occupy, the Colour Revolutions, Paris 1968, 1848, the French Revolution and the forces of Judaic thought released into Europe after the partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772. I’m drawing a line under 1772 but you can continue on this path back through the Enlightenment, early Christianity, the Greeks, Perisa under Cyrus, First Temple Jerusalem, Ancient Egypt, Babylon and Indus (skipping a lot).
All of this concerns the development of human consciousness from the time of our nomadic forbearers who possessed thought patterns we’d consider to be schizophrenic today. As small human groupings settled down and grew larger, they develped technology, making evermore sophisticated tools, first physical then abstract, through war, conquest and trade. I am describing a ten thousand+ year struggle between our own natural spiritual wisdom and those who would conquer and direct it up to the present day.
When I refer to Zizek as a neo-Kharazarian I am (too cynically) describing the forward march of masculine ideals. These thought patterns are embodied in their purest form as what we generally think of as Jewish thought today. The Jewish people are the primary carriers of this legacy in the modern world. The German Ideology (Marx and Engles) is actually the Jewish ideology expressed in a German context. This work and thousands more like it are examples of what happens when a conquering masculine ideal comes into contact with and imposes itself upon a less defined (but much more expansive), underlying feminine reality.
Let’s put this in a modern context. Mother Russia endures the advances of Western civilization and suffers for it terribly. It also benefits as natural wealth is exploited and turned into physical prosperity. Putin, I believe, sees the pattern of excessively masculine (Jewish) consciousness as both beneficial (leading to material progress) but also destructive until it is balanced against the wisdom of more expansive feminine consciousness — as embodied by Orthodox Russian civilization.
Below is a link to a video showing Zizek’s arrival at Occupy and the absurd antics that ensued. Occupy was a highly organized and tightly controled effort to direct the anger of a generation that had been raped by Wall Street gangsters. Huffpost always reeks of the propaganda and tactics used by the puppet masters to control and direct the frustrated masses.
Slavoj Zizek Joins Occupy Wall Street
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/10/slavoj-zizek-occupy-wall-street_n_1003566.html
Grunt said…
The DHS ammo stock piling and hardening police state are only an evolutionary adaptation to changing times, a natural outgrowth to guard the nation’s interests against well intentioned but misinformed citizens who might become useful tools of our enemies.
Can I tell you something Grunt?
I love your country.
But this comment exposes everything that’s wrong with America. Your nation state has been usurped by parasites and thieves who then buy millions of rounds of exploding ammo to protect themselves from the angry citizens who’ve been robbed.
@Grunt
Forgot to ask the question…
How have you come to the conclusion that the people who are opposed to your government are misguided?
@ where-Wolf, the most intelligent and considerate commentator I’ve encountered yet on this site.
In reply to-
“How have you come to the conclusion that the people who are opposed to your government are misguided?”
You really like America, what a way to break the ice? I can honestly reply that I really like your tact and approach to dialogue. I’ll try to return the sentiment and honestly answer your question in the hopes that you’ll come to see that I really am on your side, even if my flag looks diametrically opposed to yours.
I say those opposed to my government are misguided in only the broadest terms, what I actually mean is that it is ok to differ, it is even ok to speak out in protest of our wrong doings and policies you find abhorrent. What I’m against is when you cross the line and actively campaign to subvert or undermine our government by supporting an opposing bloc or government and becoming an appendage for that governments propaganda apparatus. That crosses the line in my view because you’ll be in effect attempting to destroy or undermine my government, which is my people and my country, without guaranteeing anything better in its stead. Your right to differ, stops at the point it begins to degrade my right to survive and thrive. I can sympathize with your noble intent, but I must judge you by the results that will logically follow, because it will directly affect my way of life.
Let me approach this from a different avenue. As bad as you think our government is, you must go the extra mile and examine the context and perspective of the system you’re trying to oppose. Look around you and point out to me any place, at any point in time when any state/town/village or entity of your choice, couldn’t be defined as being run by parasites and gangsters. If you will admit that it’s always been the case, everywhere, and isn’t likely to change for the better at least in our lifetimes- then what good is it that you shake up the existing structure, knowing the chaos that will likely result, and the logical conclusion that will inevitably follow all that tumult. If I sit back and let you or these honestly disgruntled citizens go as far as their collective conscience drives them, I am likely to find myself paying the price for their adventures, and will be lucky to get so much as an apology, when things essentially remain the same, after all that blood and change. For this reason I call such well intentioned but sorely lacking in perspective and foresight type agitators misguided, and as a matter of principle, meaning my own self preservation, oppose them aggressively or compassionately at their origins, where I can really make a difference if I’m successful. I say I’m on your side, because when you disturb the peace enough for my government to feel the need to crush your kind, they are unlikely to send Brzerzinski or Obama, they’ll probably send some young marine like me or some other agent of the state to neutralize the threat, and because I have to survive in this cold and unforgiving world, under rules not of my making, I will have to meet your kind under very unpleasant circumstances, at least less pleasant than our current encounter on this site. I want to get through to you, my fellow man, when it’s still within our power to determine our fates, that what you’re trying to achieve, has a very high probability of devolving into a chaos neither you nor I want. Please think it through to its logical conclusion, before you decide on your course of action. Thanks for trying to understand me, I’m pleased to make your acquaintance
@Grunt
I apologize.
I though you had a problem, but actually you ARE the problem.
Your logic resembles a painting of Escher.
Do not busy yourself looking for the enemy, just find a mirror!
@Grunt
This all has the feeling of a conversation between soldiers and citizens at a barricade.
I come from a long line of soldiers stretching back 7 generations from my grandfather. I know of the tradition and honour of men like you. Some clever person said that the rules of war spelled out in the Geneva Convention apply only to Geneva. I understand the logic of war and also how things change when the shooting starts. In that instant someone like me stops being a political opponent and suddenly becomes an existential threat. I am sticking my head up now because it is the last possible moment to try to stop what I think both of us believe is inevitable.
I may admire the Russian people but I feel no disloyalty because I am not speaking on their behalf. I am raising up my puny voice in the interests of my country, my community, my family and most assuredly myself. I am pointing my finger at the sick people who have brought us to this juncture and because I want them to be stopped. We are already on the front lines of a cyber battlefield so I also know that my comments are useful to analysts and strategists assessing public disposition. If I was truly threating in any way I would have been silenced by now.
Since you are a soldier I know you are trained to kill and will do so without hesitation because in the first instance you are trained this way but more importantly because the slightest hesitation on your part is dangerous to your brothers in arms. You are loyal but this doesn’t let you off the hook. You are smart enough to know what is being asked of you and who you will be doing it for. I want you to know that it is wrong. Coming here to warn us does not mitigate your responsibility. It will not help you sleep at night and assuming you are not paid to be here it is evidence of the weakness of your will. Guilt is a sign of decency but I will not hold my breath waiting for that decency to break through in the moment before you shoot me or someone like me who has never done you nor intended to do you any harm.
You say that I am not guaranteeing you anything and for this reason I am a threat. You are partly right; I am not guaranteeing anything mostly because I am not a liar, unlike the people who would send you or your buddies to die for nothing beyond their own greed and stupidity. If you think about it you will realize I am doing something much more meaningful than making false promises: I am demonstrating I believe in something. At the end of the day it is up to you to decide if you want to die for people who believe in nothing or for people like me.
Now if you’ll excuse me I need to go shit my pants.
@ where-Wolf
In reply to-
“I want you to know that it is wrong. Coming here to warn us does not mitigate your responsibility. It will not help you sleep at night and assuming you are not paid to be here it is evidence of the weakness of your will.”
I was right, you are head and shoulders above the rest. I would not dispute anything you’ve stated, save the part I quoted above, because I understand you’re reasons. I’m trying to do my part in my own way to make survival a bit less painful for humanity, at least the part whose brains govern their baser instincts. The principle I subscribe to is that good and bad are relative- whatever adds to the happiness of man as a collective is good, and whatever detracts from his happiness is bad. With that in mind, I’d like you to reconsider how brave you’re being sticking your head up as you put it. I keep going back to the context and perspective argument because for me it makes it easier to demonstrate bravery in the “right” way. The best marines I knew were those adept at survival, regardless of the circumstances. They honed this instinct to a degree that overrode fear, and it helped them thrive in the chaos that is combat. I think life in its chaotic way mirrors combat. If in the greater scheme of things, nothing will essentially change as a result of your sacrifice, is it still bravery to stick your head up, or are you braver to withstand the pressure to make an empty gesture and instead preserve one more good soul, one more enlightened, higher man in the chaos that is natures kingdom. Like the decision you left up to me at the end of your advice, I’ll have to let you decide the meaning of bravery for yourself. I will have you know that I never murdered anyone on command in all the places my occupation has taken me. I suppose some are required to do so, but in my experience, it’s usually more complicated. The powers that be arrange the meeting, make my life miserable by placing me where the friction is strongest, and under those conditions, leave it up to me to decide what tools are necessary to preserve my life and control the situation. That was my point, when the shooting starts, reason is usually the first victim. When I’ve taken it to the limit, or been on the receiving end of the attackers fury, believe me, violence was necessary for survival. I spend my private hours trying to do what I wasn’t able to when anger eclipsed reason, and that is to communicate with reason. Am I right for trying to better my circumstances and rise above the dirt nature presented me as my heritage? I think I am, because it ensured my survival and happiness when no one else would, not that I blame them, they didn’t make the rules either. Are you wrong for risking your small measure of happiness and shelter from life’s storms in the defense of strangers, who might prey on you themselves given the chance? I don’t know, I suppose it depends on how you assess the risk vs rewards calculus. If it were up to me, I’d say there are precious few enlightened human beings as it is, and their lives should be better spent teaching the rest of the race that we’ll all rise together, only when each one of us individually and by his own merits, betters his condition. I do not believe in vicarious redemption, or vicarious guilt. The burden will become lighter only when we each carry his own weight. I doubt we’ll ever meet under unpleasant circumstances, because there’s too much reason between us to permit misunderstanding. I just wanted to tell you that It’s no crime to preserve your security and happiness. Life’s too full of misery to go looking for trouble, better to preserve your strength until you’re too cornered to run. Hope this finds you well buddy
@Grunt
The principle I subscribe to is that good and bad are relative- whatever adds to the happiness of man as a collective is good, and whatever detracts from his happiness is bad.
Your comment reminds me this is an ancient debate: between realist and idealist; war chief and shaman. Neither one of us does well without the other. We may be adversaries but we are also on the same side.
Best regards.