[This analysis was written for the Unz Review]
Assuming mankind finds a way not to destroy itself in the near future and assuming that there will still be historians in the 22nd or 23rd centuries, I bet you that they will look at the AngloZionist Empire and see the four following characteristics as some of its core features: lies, willful ignorance, hypocrisy, and hysterics. To illustrate my point I will use the recent “Skripal nerve-gas assassination” story as it really encompasses all of these characteristics.
I won’t even bother debunking the official nonsense here as others have done a very good job of pointing out the idiocy of the official narrative. If you are truly capable of believing that “Putin” (that is the current collective designator for the Evil Empire of Mordor currently threatening all of western civilization) would order the murder of a man whom a Russian military court sentenced to only 13 years in jail (as opposed to life or death) and who was subsequently released as part of a swap with the USA, you can stop reading right now and go back to watching TV. I personally have neither the energy nor the inclination to even discuss such a self-evidently absurd theory. No, what I do want to do is use this story as a perfect illustration of the kind of society we now all live in looked at from a moral point of view. I realize that we live in a largely value-free society where moral norms have been replaced by ideological orthodoxy, but that is just one more reason for me to write about what is taking place precisely focusing on the moral dimensions of current events.
Lies and the unapologetic denial of reality:
In a 2015 article entitled “A society of sexually frustrated Pinocchios” I wrote the following:
I see a direct cause and effect relationship between the denial of moral reality and the denial of physical reality. I can’t prove that, of course, but here is my thesis: Almost from day one, the early western civilization began by, shall we say, taking liberties with the truth, which it could bend, adapt, massage and repackage to serve the ideological agenda of the day. It was not quite the full-blown and unapologetic relativism of the 19th century yet, but it was an important first step. With “principles” such as the end justifies the means and the wholesale violation of the Ten Commandants all “for the greater glory of God” the western civilization got cozy with the idea that there was no real, objective truth, only the subjective perception or even representation each person might have thereof. Fast forward another 10 centuries or so and we end up with the modern “Gayropa” (as Europe is now often referred to in Russia): not only has God been declared ‘dead’ and all notions of right and wrong dismissed as “cultural”, but even objective reality has now been rendered contingent upon political expediency and ideological imperatives.
I went on to quote George Orwell by reminding how he defined “doublethink” in his book 1984:
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it (…) To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just as long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality“
and I concluded by saying that “The necessary corollary from this state of mind is that only appearances matter, not reality”.
This is exactly what we are observing; not only in the silly Skripal nerve-gas assassination story but also in all the rest of the Russophobic nonsense produced by the AngloZionist propaganda machine including the “Litvinenko polonium murder” and the “Yushchenko dioxin poisoning“. The fact that neither nerve-gas, nor polonium nor dioxin are in any way effective murder weapons does not matter in the least: a simple drive-by shooting, street-stabbing or, better, any “accident” is both easier to arrange and impossible to trace. Fancy assassination methods are used when access to the target is very hard or impossible (as was the case with Ibn al-Khattab, whose assassination the Russians were more than happy to take credit for; this might also have been the case with the death of Yasser Arafat). But the best way of murdering somebody is to simply make the body disappear, making any subsequent investigation almost impossible. Finally, you can always subcontract the assassination to somebody else like, for example, when the CIA tried and failed, to murder Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Hussain Fadlallah by subcontracting his bombing to its local “Christian” allies, killing over 80 innocent people in the process. There is plenty of common crime in the UK and to get somebody to rob and stab Skripal would have probably been the easiest version. That’s assuming that the Russians had any reason to want him dead, which they self-evidently didn’t.
But here is the important thing: every single criminal or intelligence specialist in the West understands all of the above. But that does not stop the Ziomedia from publishing articles like this one “A Brief History of Attempted Russian Assassinations by Poison” which also lists people poisoned by Russians:
- Skripal by nerve gas
- Litvinenko by polonium
- Kara-Murza poisoned not once, but TWICE, by an unknown poison, he survived!
- Markov poisoned by ricin and the Bulgarians with “speculated KGB assistance”
- Khattab by sarin or a sarin-derivative
- Yushchenko by dioxin
- Perepilichny by “a rare, toxic flower, gelsemium” (I kid you not, check the article!)
- Moskalenko by mercury
- Politkovskaya who was shot, but who once felt “ill after drinking some tea that she believed contained poison”
The only possible conclusion from this list is this: there is some kind of secret lab in Russia where completely incompetent chemists try every poison known to man, not on rats or on mice, but on high profile AngloZionist-supported political activists, preferably before an important political event.
Right.
By the way, the gas allegedly used in the attack, “Novichok”, was manufactured in Uzbekistan and the cleanup of the factory producing it was made by, you guessed it, a US company. Just saying…
In any halfway honest and halfway educated society, those kind of articles should result in the idiot writing it being summarily fired for gross incompetence and the paper/journal posting it being discredited forever. But in our world, the clown who wrote that nonsense (Elias Groll, a Harvard graduate and – listen to this – a specialist of “cyberspace and its conflicts and controversies” (sic)) is a staff writer of the award-winning Foreign Policy magazine.
So what does it tell us, and future historians, when this kind of crap is written by a staff writer of an “award winning” media outlet? Does it not show that our society has now reached a stage in its decay (I can’t call that “development”) where lies become the norm? Not only are even grotesque and prima facie absurd lies accepted, they are expected (if only because they reinforce the current ideological Zeitgeist. The result? Our society is now packed with first, zombified ideological drones who actually believe any type of officially proclaimed of nonsense and, second, by cowards who lack the basic courage to denounce even that which they themselves know to be false.
Lies, however ridiculous and self-evidently stupid, have become the main ingredient of the modern political discourse. Everybody knows this and nobody cares. When challenged on this, the typical defense used is always the same: “you are the only person saying this – I sure ever heard this before!”.
Willful ignorance as a universal cop-out
We all know the type. You tell somebody that his/her theory makes absolutely no sense or is not supported by facts and the reply you get is some vaguely worded refusal to engage in an disputation. Initially, you might be tempted to believe that, indeed, your interlocutor is not too bright and not too well read, but eventually you realize that there is something very different happening: the modern man actually makes a very determined effort not to be capable of logical thought and not to be informed of the basic facts of the case. And what is true for specific individuals is even more true of our society as a whole. Let’s take one simple example: Operation Gladio:
“Gladio” is really an open secret by now. Excellent books and videos have been written about this and even the BBC has made a two and a half hour long video about it. There is even an entire website dedicated to the story of this huge, continent-wide, terrorist organization specializing in false flag operations. That’s right: a NATO-run terrorist network in western Europe involved in false flag massacres like the infamous Bologna train station bombing. No, not the Soviet KGB backing the Baader-Meinhof Red Army Faction or the Red Brigades in Italy. No, the USA and West European governments organizing, funding and operating a terrorist network directed at the people of Western, not Eastern, Europe. Yes, at their own people! In theory, everybody should know about this, the information is available everywhere, even on the hyper-politically correct Wikipedia. But, again, nobody cares.
The end of the Cold War was marked by a seemingly endless series of events which all provided a pretext for AngloZionist interventions (from the Markale massacres in Bosnia, to the Srebrenica “genocide”, to the Racak massacre Kosovo, to the “best” and biggest one of them all, 9/11 of course). Yet almost nobody wondered if the same people or, at least, the same kind of people who committed all the Gladio crimes might be involved. Quite the opposite: each one of these events was accompanied by a huge propaganda campaign mindlessly endorsing and even promoting the official narrative, even when it self-evidently made no sense whatsoever (like 2 aircraft burning down 3 steel towers). As for Gladio, it was conveniently “forgotten”.
There is a simple principle in psychology, including, and especially in criminal psychology which I would like to prominently restate here:
The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior
Every criminalist knows that and this is why criminal investigators place so much importance on the “modus operandi”, i.e. the particular way or method a suspect or a criminal chooses in the course of the execution of his/her crimes. That is also something which everybody knows. So let’s summarize this in a simple thesis:
Western regimes have a long and well-established track record of regularly executing bloody false-flag operations in pursuit of political objectives, especially those providing them with a pretext to justify an illegal military aggression.
Frankly, I submit that the thesis above is really established not only by a preponderance of evidence but beyond a reasonable doubt. Right?
Maybe. But that is also completely irrelevant because nobody gives a damn! Not the reporters who lie for a living nor, even less so, the brainwashed zombies who read their nonsense and take it seriously. The CIA tried to kill Fidel Castro over 600 times – who cares?! All we know is that the good folks at Langley would never, ever, kill a Russian in the UK, out of respect for international law, probably…
That willful ignorance easily defeats history, facts or logic.
Here is a simple question a journalist could ask: “would the type of people who had no problems blowing up an large train station, or bringing down three buildings in downtown New York, have any hesitation in using a goofy method to try kill a useless Russian ex-spy if that could justify further hostile actions against a country which they desperately need to demonize to justify and preserve the current AngloZionist world order?”. The answer I think is self-evident. The question shall therefore not be asked. Instead, soy-boys from Foreign Policy mag will tell us about how the Russians use exotic flowers to kill high visibility opponents whose death would serve no conceivable political goal.
Hypocrisy as a core attribute of the modern man
Willful ignorance is important, of course, but it is not enough. For one thing, being ignorant, while useful to dismiss a fact-based and/or logical argument, is not something useful to establish your moral superiority or the legality of your actions. Empire requires much more than just obedience from its subject: what is also absolutely indispensable is a very strong sense of superiority which can be relied upon when committing a hostile action against the other guy. And nothing is as solid a foundation for a sense of superiority than the unapologetic reliance on brazen hypocrisy. Let’s take a fresh example: the latest US threats to attack Syria (again).
Irrespective of the fact that the USA themselves have certified Syria free of chemical weapons and irrespective of the fact that US officials are still saying that they have no evidence that the Syrian government was involved in any chemical attack on Khan Shaykhun, the USA is now preparing to strike Syria again in “response” to future chemical attacks! Yes, you read that right. The AngloZionists are now announcing their false flags in advance! In fact, by the time this analysis is published the attack will probably already have occurred. The “best” part of this all is that Nikki Haley has now announced to the UN Security Council that the US will act without any UN Security Council approval. What the USA is declaring is this: “we reserve the right to violate international law at any time and for any reason we deem sufficient”. In the very same statement, Nikki Haley also called the Syrian government an “outlaw regime”. This is not a joke, check it out for yourself. The reaction in “democratic” Europe: declaring that *Russia* (not the US) is a rogue state. QED.
This entire circus is only made possible by the fact that the western elites have all turned into “great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies” (to use the wonderful words of Boris Johnson) and that absolutely nobody has the courage, or decency, to call all this what it really is: an obscene display of total hypocrisy and wholesale violation of all norms of international law. The French philosopher Alain Soral is quite right when he says that modern “journalists are either unemployed or prostitutes” (he spoke about the French media – un journaliste français c’est soit une pute soit un chômeur – but this fully applies to all the western media). Except that I would extend it to the entire Western Establishment.
I would further argue that foreign aggression and hypocrisy have become the two essential pillars for the survival of the AngloZionist empire: the first one being an economic and political imperative, the 2nd one being the prerequisite for the public justification of the first one. But sometimes even that is not enough, especially when the lies are self-evidently absurd. Then the final, quasi-miraculous element is always brought in: hysterics.
Hysteria as the highest form of (pseudo-)liberalism
I don’t particularly care for the distinction usually made between liberals and conservatives, at least not unless the context and these terms is carefully and accurately defined. I certainly don’t place myself on that continuum nor do find it analytically helpful.
The theoretical meaning of these concepts is, however, quite different from what is mostly understood under these labels, especially when people use them to identify themselves. That is to say that while I am not at all sure that those who think of themselves as, say, liberals are in any way truly liberal, I do think that people who would identify themselves as “liberals” often (mostly?) share a number of characteristics, the foremost of which is a very strong propensity to function at, and engage in, an hysterical mode of discourse and action.
The Google definition of hysteria is “exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement, especially among a group of people (…) whose symptoms include conversion of psychological stress into physical symptoms (somatization), selective amnesia, shallow volatile emotions, and overdramatic or attention-seeking behavior”. Is that not a perfect description of US politicians, especially the (putatively) “liberal” ones? Just think of the way US Democrats have capitalized on such (non-)issues as “Russian interference” (externally) or “gun control” (internally) and you will see that the so-called “liberals” never get off a high-emotional pitch. The best example of all, really, is their reaction to the election of Donald Trump instead of their cult-leader Hillary: it has been over a year since Trump has been elected and yet the liberal ziomedia and its consumers are still in full-blown hysteria mode (with “pussyhats”, “sky-screams” and all). In a conversation you can literally drown such a liberal with facts, statistics, expert testimonies, etc. and achieve absolutely no result whatsoever because the liberal lives in an ideological comfort zone which he/she is categorically unwilling and, in fact, unable, to abandon, even temporarily. This is what makes liberals such a *perfect* audience for false-flag operations: they simply won’t process the narrative presented to them in a logical manner but will immediately react to it in a strongly emotional manner, usually with the urge to immediately “do something”.
That “do something” is usually expressed in the application of violence (externally) and the imposition of bans/restrictions/regulations (internally). You can try to explain to that liberal that the very last thing the Russians would ever want to do is to use a stupid method to try to kill a person who is of absolutely no interest to them, or to explain to that liberal that the very last thing the Syrian government would ever do in the course of its successful liberation of its national territory from “good terrorists” would be to use chemical weapons of any kind – but you would never achieve anything: Trump must be impeached, the Russians sanctioned and the Syrians bombed, end of argument.
I am quite aware that there are a lot of self-described “conservatives” who have fully joined this chorus of hysterical liberals in all their demands, but these “conservatives” are not only acting out of character, they are simply caving in to the social pressure of the day, being the “great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies” mentioned above. Again, I am not discussing real liberals or real conservatives here (regardless of what these terms really mean), I am talking about those who, for whatever reason, chose to place that label upon themselves even if they personally have only a very vague idea of what this label is supposed to mean.
So there we have it: an Empire built (and maintained) on lies, accepted on the basis ignorance, justified by hypocrisy and energized by hysterics. This is what the “Western world” stands for nowadays. And while there is definitely a vocal minority of “resisters” (from the Left and the Right – also two categories I don’t find analytically helpful – and from many other schools of political thought), the sad reality is that the vast majority of people around us accept this and see no reason to denounce it, nevermind doing something about it. That is why “they” got away with 9/11 and why “they” will continue to get away with future false-flags because the people lied to, realize, at least on some level, that they are being lied to and yet they simply don’t care. Truly, the Orwellian slogans of 1984 “war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength” perfectly fit our world. However, when dealing with the proverbial Russian bear, there is one lesson of history which western leaders really should never forget and which they should also turn into a slogan: when dealing with a bear, hubris is suicidal.
The Saker
Welcome to Air-Strip One.
The description of the proper Western Goodthinker leaves out one crucial pathopsychological feature-their psychotic projection, where they accuse others of their own habitual crimes. That, and, in particular, the hysteria, are such commonplaces of public life in the West these days that to deny it takes real hypocrisy, and, threateningly, a total lack of self-knowledge and awareness. Idiots think themselves geniuses, and barbarians boast of ‘Our Western Moral Values’ as they peddle jihadist propaganda.
I remember a time, say up to about thirty years ago, where public life here in Austfailure, one of Thanatopia’s most groveling slave states, was not utterly malevolent and diseased, as it is today. Politicians who lied got into trouble, with their own side if nowhere else. It was considered bad form, even immoral. Today, of course, all we get are lies of various types. In the past the fakestream media, then, as now, all parasite owned and Rightwing, at least presented a variety of Establishment views, and even the occasional dissent. Efforts were plainly made to have some semblance of balance, and some integrity and intellectual consistency in argument.
Today, in stark contrast, the media are sewers of lies, hypocrisy, groveling toadyism to power and increasing hysteria and histrionics in disseminating the Imperial Groupthink, which is near total. The dominant Murdoch cancer, in particular, is malignant beyond belief, with its opinions, editorials and most of the Letters from a coterie of well-brainwashed dolts, all quite rabid in their extremity. It’s what Rupert has spent fifty years creating-a gigantic machine for preaching hate, fear, greed and absolute obeisance to capital, Thanatopolis DC and Israel, the Beloved.
The same atmosphere pervades the rest of the local fakestream media, even the Government-owned ABC and SBS, that the deranged Murdochites still hiss and spit is ‘Leftwing’, in a display of group dementia that is quite funny, really. No ideological deviation is permitted, and the presstitutes compete to perform in the most deranged fashion as possible, probably to ensure their future employability in mad-houses like Murdochistan. Today’s ludicrous performance by the despicable May, without evidence, without reason, but with copious innuendo and false assertions of instant guilt, was met by hysterical demands that ‘We’ must do something too, say declare war, perhaps? The presstitutes readily begin shouting their hatred and lies, too, as if performing for some unseen audience, or possessed by some diabolical spirit. Bizarre doesn’t do it justice. A few decades of purging all but totally reliable, Groupthinking, boot-lickers to the rich and to our Imperial Masters in Thanatopolis DC have made our elites mad, bad and dangerous to share a planet with.
You have now Sir Malcolm of the Round Table, knight of the May Queen.
I picked up this quote on Zerohedge from a poster there. Copy and paste it yourselves; this one is a keeper.
Are we allowed to mention Voldemort or his agents by name on this site?
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US Military is in lockstep with their master’s decree:
Rothschild Formula:
1. War is the ultimate discipline to any government. If it can successfully meet the challenge of war, it will survive. If it cannot, it will perish. All else is secondary. The sanctity of its laws, the prosperity of its citizens, and the solvency of its treasury will be quickly sacrificed by any government in its primal act of self-survival.
2. All that is necessary, therefore, to insure a government will maintain or expand its debt is to involve it in war or the threat of war. The greater the threat and the more destructive the war, the greater the need for debt.
3. To involve a country in war or the threat of war, it will be necessary for it to have enemies with credible military might. If such enemies already exist, all the better. If they exist but lack military strength, it will be necessary to provide them the money to build their war machine. If an enemy does not exist at all, then it will be necessary to create one by financing the rise of a hostile regime.
4. The ultimate obstacle is a government which declines to finance its wars through debt. Although this seldom happens, when it does, it will be necessary to encourage internal political opposition, insurrection, or revolution to replace that government with one that is more compliant to our will. The assassination of heads of state could play an important role in this process.
5. No nation can be allowed to remain militarily stronger than its adversaries, for that could lead to peace and a reduction of debt. To accomplish this balance of power, it may be necessary to finance both sides of the conflict. Unless one of the combatants is hostile to our interests and, therefore, must be destroyed, neither side should be allowed a decisive victory or defeat. While we must always proclaim the virtues of peace, the unspoken objective is perpetual war.
What is the source of this “Rothschild formula”?
IOW, what is the ZeroHedge poster quoting from?
Katherine
Kathy, sorry but shouldn’t you be asking Durden (ZeroHedge)? Otherwise, I believe that he has good sources.
sounds like the Protocols to me
And strangely enough so does this:
“JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Sephardic leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in his weekly Saturday night sermon said that non-Jews exist to serve Jews.
“Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world; only to serve the People of Israel,” he said during a public discussion of what kind of work non-Jews are allowed to perform on Shabbat.
“Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat,” he said to some laughter.
Yosef, the spiritual leader of the Shas Party and the former chief Sephardi rabbi of Israel, also said that the lives of non-Jews are protected in order to prevent financial loss to Jews.
“With gentiles, it will be like any person: They need to die, but God will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one’s donkey would die, they’d lose their money. This is his servant. That’s why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew,” said the rabbi, who recently turned 90.”
https://www.jta.org/2010/10/18/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/sephardi-leader-yosef-non-jews-exist-to-serve-jews
I found one place by using Google search option: Books.
“Sibling Rivalry on a Grand Scale: The Devil’s in the Details
By Robert Akers”
‘psychotic projection’
Brilliant and true!
Being a Greek Australian Mulga
i especially liked your Austfailure
and your Thanotopia
Top Job
Green Grocers are among my favourite people, but less desirable as cicadas. Give me a Black Prince or Floury Baker any day.
Maybe you should add to these core features one more: insanity. “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
Actually, “mental illness of such a severe nature that a person cannot distinguish fantasy from reality, cannot conduct her/his affairs due to psychosis, or is subject to uncontrollable impulsive behavior”.
Hysteria is a typically female disorder (hyster-uterus). Its ‘normalization’ is natural in a society increasingly dominated by females and castrated males.
The U.S. Is a Failed State
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-u-s-is-a-failed-state/5630070
“Thou shalt not Lie”! By coincidence (or is it the climate of the times) before reading your article this morning I was wondering whether a Lying morality will Lead its adherents not only into conflict with their fellow humans (as in the Leadup of Western people to gang rape Serbia, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Syria etc) but also into disastrous conflict with objective Reality? In contrast, the emerging crop of Leaders (Putin, Assad and Nasrallah) who successfully resist the “irresistible armed might” of NATZO are characterized by a measured objectivity of tone, a respect for Reality which is as remarkable as their respect for Public Morality and International Law (qualities that are not only non-existent but despised by our A-Z-C Leaders).
There was a saying in my home : ” those who lie, will cheat, those who cheat, will steal, those who steal will commit murder.”
ioan,
lying by itself, can be the greatest sin of all. It can get innocent people jailed, and it can mislead good people, themselves to do Satan’s work.
The devil would be most pleased, would he not, to see ‘good’ people, being his best and most loyal soldiers? I have in mind, the citizenry.
Ioan,
If I did not know previously of your origin, with this saying, I would have been able to trace your ancestry
Minden jót/ numai bine.
Glad to have you here ( köszi pajtás !)
@The devil would be most pleased,
Don’t we know that for long?
“You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies” (Ioan 8:44).
Another Anonymus
Glad to have you too, I read the same Bible in the same language (S-auzim numai de bine)
The Low and the High both have their inner logic. Truth is tied to assertion, assertion is tied to truth, truth is tied to morals. morals are tied to rules, rules are tied to truth.
Whereas the cult of Self by necessity is tied to manipulation, manipulation is tied to the lie, the lie is tied to loss of reality. It always recourses down to the very simple formula might is right, unfortunatly for this morons, this law conflicts with reality, with that which was before, exists unshaken by the will of the Mighty and will exist after them, and strangly this reality is highly structure in ways our tiny brains are not even able to figure out, it is obviously the truth in essence – the affirmation that it’s true for ANYBODY that there IS, and only, and only because of this can rules exist which are truths, and morals which are truths.
On the other hand in the cult of Self, there is a permanent war with the real, because the Self is nothing fixed, while the real is fixed otherwise it couldn’t exist (the real is also changing of course, BUT the un-moved precedes the moving by necessity, because the second cannot be without the first, but the first very, very well without the second !!). Back to the cult of Self, in order to bring the Self to it’s full potential all restrictions are to be removed and therefore the real must be replaced by the unreal which suits the Self. In order to affect that change and in the somewhat difficult position of having always only limited powers, the lie must be invented, the lie is the vehicle which leads from the real to the unreal. But since the unreal remains un-true and in steady confrontation with the real and truth, the further the Self escapes into the unreal, the more certain his destruction will become, simply because it is not almighty and still is dependent on the real and must bow to it. So in closing it’s the old story of small ants exclaiming “We are Gods ! Let’s make us a Name and an image !”
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The real, that which IS, is the first element, god, in the very beginning when there was not anymore nothing and now and in fact for all eternity. Affirmation of the real and truth means affirmation of god else it is not real. The Being precedes the Nothing, Right precedes Wrong, The fix unmoved precedes the moved. But of these chains in the first pairing, the Nothing precedes the Being in probability, the fact that is, is something very, very unlikely, not to say absolutly fantastic ! Without that first miracle all the other chains of course were of no relevance at all and just absolute nothingness, as was the case before there was.
God enforces his rule no matter what ! His ways are far beyond ours. We think – so does God with absolute certainty but in ways far, beyond us. Nothing can overcome him, he IS the fix and he IS the change. There is no truth outside his !!! One crumb of forest soil is worth infinitely more than all industries and machines on this planet ! And this is still a ludicrous simplification, because the forest, the planet, the universe are one whole and in fact cannot be taken apart without destroying the first, of course the universe precedes the planet which precedes the forest but they are very closely linked, and their properties are fantastic from the sub-atomic to the universal levels ! We will WIN, we always do ! The evil will always fail, it’s the destiny of wrong – to become nothingness. You are either with us or against us !
Today, for the first time in my short life of 28 years, I’m afraid we’re really about to go to war. Ever since I learned about 9/11, I rather selfishly just hoped things would go on as they were, life’s pretty good after all – but now I’m scared.
I agree ….. being scared is shared by those who do not watch or read the moronic media …..
eg Headlines today …. Police looking into the spitting on …. !!!!! Pathetic. such gripping media !!!!!
I live in the middle of the next war zone which will be “flattened” territory if the goons mismanaging that dynasour NATO provoke the superior forces of Russia.
US too will be in the firing line …. and thats conventional weapons …. nukes will follow within the hour or less
…… The war mongers have been warned … but are they paying attention… some suits are and other suits are not …. Do their advisors – the power behind the suits – realise what they are promoting ? WWIII
The first so called global war was european based. The second was the wider Europe and the wider pacific based …..
but the third will be a full global war and will take out even faraway NZ and Oz …. The five eyes participants…
The speed of the Missiles from the east is such we european and sleep walking surfs will not even gain knowledge that it is happening as information flows are way to slow for us surfs to grasp events. From launch to impact will be a ” couple of minutes” if that…. Not even enough time to put the kettle on. and we wont even know that events have reached that point ….. yes scary all right……. Utter complete stupidity prevails from the elected western idiots…..
so ….
@Ross,
there is no need for global war. Find the head of ZOG (the same names always come up in the web; we can start there), and deal with them
And it’s really that simple……either do it or die….!!!!
Some people smarter than I have argued (successfully IMO) that we are now in WWIII.. the hot war that you write of will actually be WWIIII.
Roman for four is: IV
We are, in fact, still in WW2, the unending war that is being driven, in large part, by Ukronazi and other fascist emigres who were given sanctuary in the West after their defeat by the Soviet Union. The USA took over the task of global fascist capo di tutti capi from the German Nazis from about 1943, as Germany’s defeat became apparent.
sad but true. im in prep mode 24/7 these days,gathering/resupplying my stocks i live quite near the only US/nato troops stationed in Norway and expect that it will be a likely target when shtf.
And their idiot electorate…
@ Nicholas
Resist.
Fear is paralyzing.
One must fight back.
Otherwise the life is not worth living… if poisoned with fear.
If they really wanted to start nuclear war, they would started it against weaker opponent (North Korea)…not Russia.
Ok. Since we all knows that the anglo Zionists won’t stop and since the they didn’t sober up and went even more ape-shit hysterical after VVP’s game changing announcement on March 1, what happens after Russia indeed gets attacked in Damascus and takes out the missiles and sinks their launch vehicles or a USS donald duck in response?
The dimwits in the West will attack Russia and the Earth will light like a Christmas tree.
@Nexus321,
nah, the ‘responsible’ west will not stoop to Russia’s level (that’s how it would be sold) but they will have to now pull together, and place a total embargo on Russia, including energy. Europeans will pay twice as much now for gas from US, but in time, it will be built up. In the interim, they will freeze, but life will go on.
Oh silly me, the gas fields off Cyprus; that’ll help, if they can claim it.
The aim is to strangle Russia slowly, economically. And any silk road, will go round Russia or not at all, lest it be embargoed too.
Of course, the west too will collapse economically, But hey, that was coming anyway, but now the bankers have their alibi; it was this, or WW3, so be grateful serfs, that you still have your lives.
Its all about China. The west thinks that if they make Russia enough of a pariah China will dump it. But I believe China will dump the west before it dumps Russia. They forget that China is led by the Chinese Communist Party whose backbone was forged in the Long March. China knows what the game is.
Excellent thought piece.
Most importantly, it nicely states the improbability of justice, which requires truth. And we know that Truth has been a captive held deep in the dungeons of ideology.
As for what is to be gained by demonization of Russia, it can only be to condition the masses of asses in the world who know little or nothing for a war—a full spectrum war at the first opportunity.
As for clashes portending in Syria or Ukraine, I believe that the scum and dumb militaries of the West, vassals, coalitions, alliances of the Hegemon, understand that Russia will truly harm them and pull away the veil of Exceptionalism and Invincibility.
Russia doesn’t warn and then walk back. General Gerasimov publicly spoke two days ago and one day ago had phone conversation with his counterpart General Dunsford, Chief of Staff.
Now, Trump may insist on another larger than ever cruise missile strike, but do the US mil boys really think they will come away unscathed?
What we will see is how deep is the US belief in its own lies. The UK has clearly embraced its own lies and continues unchecked a litany of murders it hopes will forever stay pinned on Putin and Russia.
We have been in a Hundred Year War against Russia. This is but the latest “battle”.
British shit thrown at Moscow and Putin right before the Sunday election.
Imagine the excrement 10 Downing and DC are concocting for the World Cup.
One thinks wistfully that those German V2s had been more effective.
It is a Thousand Years War against Russia. However, it is a Sisyphean war. Russians have not any ‘difficult time comprehending their Western enemy’. They know him better than he knows himself.
In the UK, the Zionazi owned Blairite scum in UK Labour are using this hysteria to attack Corbyn, as expected. Corbyn’s ‘crime’? To observe that the evidence of culpability is not yet established, and his refusal to join the jingo hysteria of the War Party. Moreover, Corbyn’s spokesman, Milne, had the audacity to recall the ‘Saddam’s WMD’ lies, and that, to the servants of Israel and the USA in the Blairite camp, is tantamount to treason. This is a win-win-win for Evil and suicidal and genocidal fanaticism.
@ Mulga,
it just shows you, that in an age of deceit, a word of truth is akin to treason. It is almost impossible to know how much intelligent life there is in the West; because it is dangerous to deviate from group-think.
On that note, the Brexit vote was simply stunning; I had no idea how much resentment and spirit was bubbling away out of sight.
Occasional, amazingly Corbyn is showing some spine, and insisting that EVIDENCE be produced before the hysteria runs away. He is also actually quoting recent history, and the Saddam’s WMD and Libyan lies that led to genocide and destruction. For this the Tory psychotics and the Blairite Zionazis are redoubling their attacks on him, but it is interesting to compare his simple commonsense with, say, the deranged belligerence of the cretin Williamson, horrifically the Tory regime’s ‘Defence’ Minister, who was recently here, hissing and spitting venom at China.
I just heard Williamson on the radio. The voice of an utter IMBECILE. The Defence Minister, plainly a sub-median intelligence. God help us all.
Saw this tweet quoted in an article on RT about williamson: (scathing comments):
Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff
Sometimes I’m so busy worrying about Boris being foreign sec in a crisis, I forget to worry about Gavin Williamson running MoD, but then I remember
5:57 AM – Mar 15, 2018
this time though it wont be V2s flying to the the RottenChilds I guess London will be one of the first Citys to go down in a big war
and Warsaw where I live even faster…..
Im serioesly considering buying a house in the countryside in Switzerland ( there are surprisingly low prices in some parts of Switzerland )
@Larchmonter: “Justice requires Truth”. Thanks; that explains something which was puzzling me recently: why Plato who is the philosopher most concerned with Truth is also the one most concerrned with Justice.
Felicitous remark Dr. Maroudas. Study of Plato should be mandatory if only for understanding what the words we carelessly use originally meant. Plato is the philosopher par excellence. As Alfred North Whitehead put it: “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato”.
For Plato (as for all true philosophoi-lovers of Wisdom) knowledge of Truth leads to ‘Eleutheria’ (“eleutheróō – properly, set free, release from bondage; (figuratively) to remove the restrictions of sin (darkness) because delivered by God into true spiritual liberty (growth)”. “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples. Then you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free.”…
Another Anonymus
Greetings Saker. Watch how this one plays out: it is certainly a case in point.
Many residents of Godzone support doing this deal with Russia, and are very resentful of the manner in which it was abandoned (under” pressure”) by a former PM of N.Z.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/102278908/british-high-commissioner-tells-nz-to-prioritise-trade-deals-in-wake-of-nerve-agent-attack
The comments are interesting.
Interesting indeed.
Britain can go stuff itself.
Perfidious Albion is not what she used to be!
Not enough dry powder to back up the tantrum.
May is a ghost house retread of Thatcher. With worse hair. What a witch.
Britain doesn’t seem to be much better at producing leadership-quality politicians than the USA these days.
I hope Britons appreciate having at least one decent national-level politician, Jeremy Corbyn.
Katherine
A further interesting aspect of this implied threat by the U.K. is the fact that the formal ratification of the proposed trade deal forms part of the coalition agreement that was signed by the three parties making up the current N.Z government.
So, in my view, there is no way out. Either N.Z. proceeds with ratification, or the coalition agreement is torn up and we go to another election.
Another election right now would be a total disaster for Godzone.
especially for the parties that refuse to ratify it and are doing so on the basis of obvious lies. Looks like Jacinta Adern is stuck on the horns of a dilemma right there.
How long will Putin and Russia tolerate this behaviour? They are smart people; they know what the game is.
I assume he is playing for time; first until the new weapon systems are delivered, and/or second because the West is destroying itself anyway. Marx said that capitalism was sowing the seeds of its own downfall, and more recently Putin reiterated saying the US political system was eating itself. The New World Order is in the East not the West, if one takes a slightly longer view.
There may come a point, soon, when a statement has to be made. If I were Putin, I would demonstrate the new systems, as a gesture to those who doubt, by, for example, obliterating Guam, and taking out a carrier group (preferably close to the US mainland for emphasis).
Then tell the US that any retaliation, and its gloves off.
One problem is that the US regime is dominated by Dominionists like Pence, de Vos, Pompeo et al, who are so deranged in their genocidal so-called ‘religion’, that they are not just looking forward to the End Times and Armageddon, but actively working to bring it about. And there are tens of millions of like ‘mind’ in the USA, and even in places like Brazil and South Korea, thanks to ‘missionary’ work that spread this disease of the soul around the world.
Will Russia Wake Up?
Russians are having a difficult time comprehending their Western enemy or even understanding that Russia has an enemy that seeks the destruction of Russia.
Has it occured to Russia that it is very strange that the UK, a country of no military significance, a country that could be completely destroyed forever in a few minutes by Russia, would concoct false charges against the Russian government, announce these charges publicly without providing any evidence whatsoever, bring the unsupported charges to the UN, issue an ultimatum to Russia, dispell Russian diplomats and seize Russian assets on the basis of mere allegations, all the while refusing any evidence and any cooperation with Russia, as required by law, in the investigation of the charges?
Russians, both government, media and youth brainwashed by American propaganda and the Washington-funded NGOS that the Russian government permits to operate against itself in Russia, seem to think that the many accusations and threats issued against Russia are some kind of mistake that can be rectified by recourse to evidence and law. Apparently, after all these years the Russians still do not understand that Washington and its vassals have no interest whatsoever in facts or law.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/03/14/will-russia-wake/
PCR mistakes patience for weakness.
Russia not playing for anglo acceptance, that game is over. They are playing for every other chip on the board. They have been winning friends and allies consistently. E. Guinea and Sweden were very mild on the UNC today. Russia has friends growing in Europe. NZ (my own country) is a anglophone follower, but the current govt prefers multilateralism and multipolar, but is not yet rady to go against the anglo narrative. But we will, be cause we are Pacific, and the anglophones are running into planned obsolescence. By Russia, Iran andChina.
It will probably get messy tho.
While I do agree that Russia’s government and media should tell the West ”Do shut up, or we’ll treat you the way you richly deserve”, the conclusion/notion that Russia sees the West’s psychotic blather as something which merits serious, polite discussion is just plain wrong. Putin’s recent speech made that very plain indeed. This being so, I don’t mind Russia speaking smoothly about her ’Western partners’. It’s quite funny in a sense.
‘Speak softly, and carry a big stick’. It was Theodore Roosevelt, who was a statesman.
The bafoons who now masquerade as statesmen/womons speak loudly. You may (pun not intended) deduce that the stick is not so big.
“it has been over a year since Trump has been elected and yet the liberal ziomedia and its consumers are still in full-blown hysteria mode (with “pussyhats”, “sky-screams” and all).”
Yeah poor abused trump:
US Agrees Russia Responsible for Nerve Agent Attack in UK – White House
https://sputniknews.com/us/201803151062542894-white-house-response-uk-nerve-agent-attack/
“The White House released a statement Wednesday asserting that it shares the UK’s assessment “that Russia is responsible for the reckless nerve agent attack on a British citizen and his daughter.”
“This latest action by Russia fits into a pattern of behavior in which Russia disregards the international rules-based order, undermines the sovereignty and security of countries worldwide and attempts to subvert and discredit Western democratic institutions and processes,” the statement reads. “The United States is working together with our allies and partners to ensure that this kind of abhorrent attack does not happen again.”
Does any thinking person need any more evidence that trump is a part of the zionazi problem as much as netanyahoo is.
The gallows awaits the fat arse traitor/war criminal scum.
Has that White House statement EVER been exceeded for raw hypocrisy and nauseating pathopsychological projection? The salient point to consider, always, is that the USA and its stooge vassals are run by florid psychopaths, monsters who worship death and destruction, and who will, happily, destroy the world if they can no longer rule over it, TOTALLY.
Are we witnessing a “circling the wagons” event … a defensive posture … the first move in a “controlled demolition” movement similar to what the UK has been doing for the past century.
Just a feeling.
1) The global psychosocial temperature is rising … enabled by recent advances in communication technology and products.
2) Steadily increasing compression is the consequence.
3) My feeling … controlled demolition … is a logical outcome.
”When dealing with a bear, hubris is suicidal”
Quite right, especially in view of the bear’s stiffening resolve.
Liberalism is, given the ”moral stature” of the West, just Zionism heavily perfumed with faggotry and identity politics. Conservatism — at least as far as the Western Elites are concerned — has been replaced by neoconservatism, which is just unapologetic, unrestrained imperialist lawlessness and class hatred of the 1%. Most notably, Left and Right as political concepts are absolutely useless to understand the post-modern West of today.
The resurgence of Russia plays a much more politically clarifying role. If Putin and Russia are perceived as enemies, then it’s just people peddling reactionary Western mainstream garbage. If, on the other hand, Russia’s successes are being welcomed, there is usually a progressive thrust to be found.
This article is medicine for the brain, thank you Saker.
Asuming 22nd and 23rd century historians will exist, will they have access to a copy of todays www and this article and be inspired to write eye opening pieces that prevent history to repeat again and again untill the irriversible destructive result has finally been achieved? Maybe issueing a clay tablet version is a good option..
Umberto Eco wrote that history repeats twice: First as tragedy and second as a farce.
Neoliberal psychopolitics (a technology of domination) creates and maintains this farce.
Logic (critical reasoning) has been replaced by emotional thinking/acting (through psychological programming and steering) and the expected result is conformism, acceptance of ‘there is no alternative’.
If you have not part of this farce, you are not ‘networked’.
An example of this created ‘lunacy’ , from a far corner of this world (Argentina, my country) is a conservative/oligarch candidate (Macri):
[1] Promising ‘zero powerty’. (A pure fantasy).
[2] Stating that the main economic issue is to reduce ‘salaries/wages’.
‘Networked poor and workers’, in a kind of suicidal act, voted him to government.
After two years of Macri, unemployment grows, salaries fall, we have additional 4 million poor, inflation is rampant and external debt is at record.
All this bad news are ‘sanitized’ by an obsessive and coercive ‘media’ with random and irrelevant news.
Neoliberal psychopolitics works in Argentina and in the captive West.
@ history repeats twice
It was Marx in “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon”.
Absolutely correct. Approaching 68 years myself and memory is rusty.
U.Eco repeated it in “De la estupidez a la locura” [2016] without mentioning the good Marx.
Have an Armagnac to improve your memory!
À la vôtre!
Salud!
Macri, an hereditary fascist whose criminal family prospered under the military junta, was elected thanks to massive election spending by the Zionazi hyper-parasite, Paul Singer. After Macri won, he reversed Government policy to pay Singer the value of Argentinian bonds that Singer had bought for pennies on the dollar, gifting the vampire billions at the expense of the mere Argentinian people, who got austerity and brutal class war, as is de rigeur in the Zionazi Empire of unbridled greed and hatred of others. Singer was also, allegedly, involved in the Steele Dossier business.
“How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print”. Karl Kraus ((April 28, 1874 – June 12, 1936), Austrian writer and journalist,
I think many can not see the forest for all the trees. This current hissy fit from a country that ranks marginally above 404 in the ‘good sense and reason’ category has just produced, on orders, another concocted ‘world crisis’.
In two years Russia under VVP has destroyed us’nato’s Plan A for destruction of the entire southern rim of the Med, this destruction the groundwork to send ME oil to europe via pipeline across Syria and as an added bonus get the quite rich Syrian oil fields for exploitation. All else is window dressing. With ME oil going via pipeline, Russia’s quite lucrative and decades long POL/NG supplies to europe would be replaced and the result would be yet another perceived blow to the Russian economy.
Plan B, virtually officially announced at the end of February, from us/nato regimes was to blatantly destroy President Assad and Syria with outright attacks on Syrian armed forces and government infrastructure, what little has not been destroyed in the last 5 years. Plan B was stymied on 01 March with President Putin’s various announcements of cutting edge weapons developed and most already in service in the Russian Military Southern District, which includes Sevastopol and Krimea.
Plan C, started the day after President Putin’s clear warning to us/nato regimes, is this current fabricated mess involving a three quarters dead cat sitting on an island no one wants and no one pays any attention to for quite some time. For added dramatic affect the Haley thing immediately jumped in with pronouncements that with or without UN approval us/nato would act against the Sovereign Country of Syria and attack everything but the last outhouse toilet in the eastern desert areas of Syria, in other words the same blatant attack on Syria stymied by Russia on 01 March.
The reply from Russia was do the attack on Syria, where Russian advisers are spread all over Damascus and Syria, both in government and the military, and the response from Russia would be destruction of the missiles and the delivery systems. What Russia said was she will shoot down the missiles and destroy the aircraft AND SHIPS launching said attacks. In the meantime the Syrian Express has been working overtime the last three weeks, delivering quite an array of anti aircraft and anti missile systems to Russian bases and enclaves in Syria and SAA.
Russia does not threaten and this fact seems to be lost on Foggy Bottom and Five Points. In my opinion, we are a blink away from outright war which will start in and over Syria and has about a 99% chance of spreading rapidly to at minimum the Black Sea Basin and eastern europe borders with Russia. The question is will us/nato call what they perceive to be a Russian bluff or will us/nato back down? Damned if I know, but I can guaranty you that if this war that started in 1918 gets violent again concerning europe, we will be visited by a swarm of cruise missiles in this little berg. After all, this is occupied territory and therefore legal targets in the nato/europe regime’s addled brains. We’ll find out just how good S500, 400, 300 and Pantsir are, won’t we? On the other hand, I’m not blind and not deaf. Mother is prepared.
Auslander
Author
Never The Last One https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZGCY8KK A Deep Look In To Russia, Her Culture And Her Armed Forces
An Incident On Simonka https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ERKH3IU NATO Is Invited To Leave Sevastopol, One Way Or The Other.
Allow we to say this, as an Argentinian residing in the south of France and approaching 68:
My full support and solidarity with Russia and especially with the courageous people of Crimea.
Un gran abrazo.
Mario Medjeral / Gers / France.
Auslander
Yes, Mother is prepared. That speech by VVP was no doubt a huge shock to the Western elites. They decided to be “clever” and instigate a false flag attack, using nerve gas in a major city and blaming it on the Russians, as if Russia would be so stupid to use nerve gas for all to see, right before the presidential elections. What is incredible is not that a false flag operation was instigated, but the fact that those who pulled off this stunt actually expect people to believe this propaganda nonsense.
Well said Auslander. Only possible scenario of steering this madness away from total war would be nothing short of miracle. Over the years, as NATO went ahead with their dark agenda, they burned all the bridges, leaving only one path, and that is war. Well, let them have it.
Great reading. I do believe there can be a tipping point in propaganda though and this is one (poison attack falseflag) might be a good exemple of it.
Up until the Beslan tragedy, i was myself very gullible and believing all their BS. I felt unconfortable at times as with Nato attacks on Belgrade or the Kursk.
But Beslan… seing french pressitutes rejoicing over the deaths of hundreds of kids and sidding with djihadis…
For me it was a Ken block style 180°
I believe sooner or later, especially if they keep on doubling down, we see such a provocation which will be an eye opener to many.
Orwell? Hysteria? Hypocrisy? I don’t think so…All this is very well plan and orchestrated in order achieve very clear and specific objectives: boycott of North Stream II, boycott of Soccer World Cup. contain and intimidate Russia in Syria and prepare for the exclusion of Russia (a “rogue state”) from UNSC and of course prepare the public for a hot war with Russia. Think at the way the “nerve agent” incident was frame: a chemical attack on the territory of a NATO member state…NATO will analyze this incident soon…because…you see…NATO at this moment feels like they still have some military superiority and if they wait, in the lite of March 1st new weapons revelations, they for sure lose this advantage. The WW III is coming and will be very ugly… I remember stories from my grand parents and my parents about columns of Russian solders marching towards Germany and asking obsessively, like a mantra “Gde Berlin?” ( where is Berlin?)…It was so much intensity and so much hate in that question that no one would like to be in that damn city. I am afraid that soon the new Russian weapons will ask their guiding systems “Gde London?…Gde Washington?…Gde Paris? Gde Berlin? and so on and the answers will be a cold digitalized one: long:0101010110; lat:01010101001 and than the nuclear night will come. Cheers (just to cote a living classic, ha, ha, ha)
@Sarmis,
There will only be WW3 if there is a miscalculation.
I believe that ZOG wishes to provoke Russia to attack it, though it will be spun as an unprovoked attack, and conclusive proof of Russian villainy.
Remember, ZOG uses proxies to thrust its own blade (ISIS, Ukies etc). NATO has not itself attacked.
There is an oft-touted collapse coming in the west. An alibi is needed. The global chaos of a new age of peril, the demise of the dollar as reserve currency, being ever close to WW3, but never permitted due to western ‘sobriety’ and cool head in light of Russian provocation.
Follow the logic through; if Russia does not itself sink an aircraft carrier, or bomb Warsaw, why NATO will then have to do it themselves. They will find the ‘made in Russia’ rocket debris in the rubble later, proving Russian guilt. ‘Made in Russia’ will be written in English, but it doesn’t matter, the stupidity and docility of the western press and citizenry is now proven beyond doubt.
That’s the scary part about this latest poisoning scandal; it is indeed the same old same old modus operandi. If the Russians do not get provoked as is required, then a false flag will do it. Pearl Harbour 2?
And on the topic of false flags, is not the latest poisoning false flag, a world-wide warning in letters 10 miles tall, NEVER to trust the west?
This message is for all defectors, fleeing oligarchs, former soviet states such as Georgia and Ukraine, and so on. Poor plucky little Georgia, what bastard showered it with anthrax? We all know though, don’t we kiddies? That’s why we have to hate Russia, and build up our armaments. Yes you may be hungry and cold, but never forget the poor Georgians, who died for us.
All kidding aside, I am not really kidding. And to all Russians who have had dealings with MI6 or CIA, if you don’t get out of the west asap, you will remain in an ever shrinking pool of fall-guys for the next false flag.
It does also remind me of a saying I once heard, that in WW2, that Churchill would have fought Hitler to the last Pole. I can’t believe how naive these ‘defectors’ are.
The original expression was that “the Brits will fight to the last Aussi”, which actually happened several times.
”They will find the ‘Made in Russia’ rocket debris in the rubble later, proving Russian guilt. ‘Made in Russia’ will be written in English, but it doesn’t matter, the stupidity and docility of the western press and citizenry is now proven beyond doubt.”
And, not to forget, VVP’s passport as well, despite the fact he wasn’t ”travelling” along. But, hey, that only testifies to his incredibly evil, rotten faith, right?
On a more serious note, however, my take on the current shitstorm is that — ultimately — it’s not about staging WW3. The Zionazis were not able to sanction Russia’s technical and military prowess into the gutter, so they’re simply continuing with their pathetic ”soft power” stunts. This time around, the plan looks very much as it’s about trashing Russia’s hosting of the FIFA World Cup, including a veto on Russia’s own participation, and the relocation of the tournament to, yes, Britain as ”just retribution”.
I’ve been confidently expecting a Zionazi plot to derail the FIFA World Cup. It cannot be allowed to go ahead and paint Russia in a good light. I suspect this false flag provocation, so very blatant as it is, will not be the last effort made. Not by a long shot.
Dear Mr. Saker,
My lacrimal glands were temporarily swollen while reading this pearl and realizing that i am truly living in “1984”.
However, we must never forget that puppet masters of this drama are not included in the hysteria and everything else. We have to, and have every reason to suppose that, assume that they are level headed and keep their cool. There may be a habitual whiff of hubris about them but not nearly enough to muddy their thought processes.
Best regards from the Province of Denmark
Quran 8:56 – 8:58
The ones with whom you made a treaty but then they break their pledge every time, and they do not fear Allah.
So if you, [O Muhammad], gain dominance over them in war, disperse by [means of] them those behind them that perhaps they will be reminded.
If you [have reason to] fear from a people betrayal, throw [their treaty] back to them, [putting you] on equal terms. Indeed, Allah does not like traitors.
Sultaniyya 22
Hadith 22, The burden of proof is upon the plaintiff, and the oath is upon the one who is accused.
http://ahadith.co.uk/sixtysultaniyya.php?tid=17
Quite comical that the UK is now so backwards in its international dealings, even Sharia law is too enlightened for them!
“Hypocrisy as a core attribute of the modern man”
If by ‘modern man’ you mean Jewish Mafia personnel, yes.
“Hysteria as the highest form of (pseudo-)liberalism”
If by ‘pseudo-liberalism’ you mean the Jewish Mafia’s modus operandi, yes.
The mark of the Zionazi hasbara operative was always its hysteria. You see it still in the operation of the ‘antisemitism’ industry, where merely disagreeing with a Zionazi hisser and spitter, or even simply telling the truth, as in Ken Livingstoone’s case, brings unhinged denunciations of ‘antisemitism’-a crime, like this ‘chemical attack’, where the mere accusation is taken as proof unarguable of guilt, and the accuser becomes judge, jury and executioner. A pernicious modus operandi that has progressively infected the Sabbat Goyim stooges.
fascism is alive and well in the occidental world. Next year is the 100 year anniversary! but all things must have an end…and that end is in Catalonia and russia…as both have no problem calling out the fascist system.
“when dealing with a bear, hubris is suicidal”
I am afraid it is exactly that what it is going to take to let go of this craziness. A war with lots of body bags so the protoplasmic invertebrate jellies cannon fodder wakes up to reality. Our overlords don’t care one way or the other but the actual cannon fodder might if they still got 2 brain cells left!
Me, I have never prayed as much as the last several years….
so the protoplasmic invertebrate jellies cannon fodder wakes up to reality.”
The survivors will envy the dead.
Agree with the analysis. Harold Pinter had the same basic analysis, appearences are all that matters in the greatest show on the road: the US. Here is the best sociological explanation of what the Western powers have installed, once more: http://www.heathwoodpress.com/nazi-behemoth-book-review-franz-neumanns-behemoth-structure-function-national-socialism-1933-1944-c-wright-mills/
My page on the US Security Complex, which had 854.000 vetted agents in 2010, according to Prof McCoy: http://homosociologicus.com/corporate-media-taboos
My page on the CIA’s Phoenix Program: http://homosociologicus.com/western-nations-back-terrorists
I also have pages on Syria, Russia etc.
Maybe we should talk some day. We are connected on FB.
Best Lars, sociologist, Denmark
As always, a great reading in full resonance to my own, but the scary thing is the insanity has reached kafkaesque dimensions. The world in great part is literally stupid to the letter. People, are cannon fodders, their imbecility is beyond recourse, no one is listening to common sense. The Merriam Webster defines stupidity as lack of common sense, yet Haley or May have no issue with showing to the world their lack of common sense, subsequently why any Tom, Dick or Harry should give a damn?
What Russia can do? What Joseph K did? I hope that somewhere down the line there will be a true response, a roaring at least so loud that these cretins would stop for a moment from their demented dance and surface to reality a bit.
What if Russia would decide to close the UK Embassy altogether, as a countermeasure? I can only imagine how the UK government would fall in the next day when millions of soccer fans would conceptualize (?) that they cannot get the visas to the Soccer coming event. That would be awesome.
What if Russia would say: you know since you just mentioned that cyber attacks should be carried against our country, we reserve the right that if we find a virus with a UK ip address, even a trojan crack of AutoCAD, we will take it as an attack on Russia. We will not bother to ask for proofs, believes would suffice, and since you are a nuclear state we’ll just flatten you in the next minute or so.
What is Russia threatens UK with an imminent nuclear flattening so everyone flees London, the stock exchange would collapse, and then few days later just to tell them, we’ve change our mind. There will be trillions of losses and the Perfidious Albion will never recover
What if..
Who else noticed there has been no bombing of ‘hezbollah arms depot in Damascus’ so far?
There have been no bombings of Hezbollah arms depots, missile factories, etc etc since the IAF intruder was downed.
There have been no bombings of SAA forces who get ‘too close’ to US forces in Al Tanf since … Mar 1.
There have been no bombings of SAA forces who cross the Euphrates at Deir Ezzor since … Mar 1.
If the undifferentiated ego mass known as US/UK/Israel were to be a person, this person might be hospitalized with a diagnosis of sociopathic personality disorder with acute ambulatory schizophrenia.
Faced with its pending demise (due to economics, not warfare), the Beast is losing its ability to function.
@ James Speaks,
go by the principle, that the greatest threat to any ruling order, is its own people.
Frustrations in the jostling for power on the world stage, can always be used to further reprogram, tax, repress and control the citizenry back home.
In that parlance, you have just described to me the limitless extent of Russian/Syrian/Shia villainy, and the intense threat they comprise, forcing emergency war powers back home, in the lands of the free. And of course, a heavy dose of censorship, all in the name of national survival, and an alibi for the eventual collapse of the dollar, which would have happened anyway.
Hubris is not the way the Theresa May government has chosen to react to Skripal attack. Their reaction is comparable to a kid being slapped in the face in the schoolyard who then goes weeping “You bad boy I won’t play with you again!”.
That’s a mistake. Their objectives should be 1) to win back Moscow’s respect 2) to maintain and expand dialogue. Their reactions have exactly the opposite consequences: Russian government’s contempt for the UK will be reinforced, dialogue will be even worsened.
Unless of course some high profile Russian VIP from Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, has an “accident” within the next few months and British fingerprints are all over his body. In which case the “win back respect” part would be performed. But even then, it remains that the British government is closing communication channels with Russia, while they should open them more widely.
On a very general level, it’s when communication channels are closed enough for different groups to live in different “realities” with different sets of facts they believe to be “evidently” true that potential conflicts between these groups run a high risk to generate actual violence, because violence is the only communication channel that remains when all others are blocked. That’s the situation between several Western European countries and Russia right now, and even more so between the USA and Russia.
The best option to improve that situation would be IMO first to communicate in the only communication channel that remains, the “tit-for-tat” of violence, so as to regain or maintain respect, then or more precisely at the same time to communicate intensively with the other group aiming at reducing the difference between one set of “facts” and the other, giving a basis then for negotiation on the actual issues.
“By the way, the gas allegedly used in the attack, “Novichok”, was manufactured in Uzbekistan and the cleanup of the factory producing it was made by, you guessed it, a US company.”
Saker, it is much worse than you suggest – the truth of the matter is that there exists no such nerve agent as the ‘novichok’ class of agents.
Craig Murray, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan where the chemical lab that is claimed to have produced these ‘Novichoks’, says the following in his article
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/03/the-novichok-story-is-indeed-another-iraqi-wmd-scam/
From the article:
1) Porton Down has acknowledged in publications it has never seen any Russian “novichoks”. The UK government has absolutely no “fingerprint” information such as impurities that can safely attribute this substance to Russia.
2) Until now, neither Porton Down nor the world’s experts at the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) were convinced “Novichoks” even exist.
3) The UK is refusing to provide a sample to the OPCW.
4) “Novichoks” were specifically designed to be able to be manufactured from common ingredients on any scientific bench. The Americans dismantled and studied the facility that allegedly developed them. It is completely untrue only the Russians could make them, if anybody can.
5) The “Novichok” programme was in Uzbekistan not in Russia. Its legacy was inherited by the Americans during their alliance with Karimov, not by the Russians.
One top level scientist associated with the Porton Down facility outside of Salisbury wrote a paper describing the history of chemical weaponry that was accepted by a prestigious scientific journal in 2016. In this paper he doubts even the existence of such a class of nerve agents – no one has produced evidence of their existence – even the OPCW refused to place them on its list of controlled chemical because there were doubts about its existence. Here is the quote from his paper on these chemicals (remember – this was a Proton Down scientist and this was as recent as 2016 !!):
“In recent years, there has been much speculation that a fourth generation of nerve agents, ‘Novichoks’ (newcomer), was developed in Russia, beginning in the 1970s as part of the ‘Foliant’ programme, with the aim of finding agents that would compromise defensive countermeasures. Information on these compounds has been sparse in the public domain, mostly originating from a dissident Russian military chemist, Vil Mirzayanov. No independent confirmation of the structures or the properties of such compounds has been published.”
This nerve agent does not exist and was only mentioned because of its ties to the former Soviet Union (and thus, the Russians). When the Americans helped dismantle the Uzbekian lab, they found no such agent. It was all based on a claim made by a former dissident, a lab scientist by the name of Vil S. Mirzayanov who wrote a book making all kinds of outrageous claims about his work at the lab – claims thatvirtually no credible scientist believed – certainly not the OPCW.
Excellent Post. People need to spread this around and share as much as possible.
One minute it is they were poisened at home….then a liquid left on car door handle…so was that before he entered his home…or as leaving his home before the excursion… car found 8 days later in Sainsbury’s carpark -!!!!-….”this” stuff being vulnerable to be affected by water..maybe humidity…does it evapourate..can it stay present on clothes mobile phones wallets etc…or is adsorbed….. actually does not all this come across as a very amateurish operation that is seen through so easily……..? White helmets claiming yet another chlorine gas attack today…also very clear yesterday at unsc that usa hates Russia having power of veto and supporting Syrian denials of using gas attacks..and will do anything for its own ends..note BJ saying today ” overwhelming evidence” compared with other days of “highly likely”….also TM reference to a “type of novichok nerve agent” is now definitely this stuff….does this mean that really they suspect or know it is something similar…a kind of clone…or near copy….a replicant ..an imitation..a modification using modern chemicals…an attempt at an equivalent…..just using the methodology of the original formulae to create something “similar” considering that what has happened seems to be at variance with actually what is said to be how the original works…..?This is what Russian representative to UNSC may have been referring to when saying he has more than 200 references being used- developed outside USSR……
One wonders also exactly when how could did detective seargant become infected timeline …did they call him to the house when they suspected something then went out for lunch with car ….or he alone????called at their home after they were discovered…but their car with the stuff on was in a car park to be discovered later..when did he start to feel ill ..cos it seems when it starts working the recipients seem to lose all sensibility.they could walk to the bench..is it possible just to have a little bit and takes longer to act( which would seem to indicate a “similar substance” rather than the speedy original..did D-S colleagues send him off cos he was back at the office or ambulance called being treated as chemical attack????Or he just went himself ????..just posting on your post as you have a “neat” summary…..
A superb analysis: the only thing to regret, regret for our future, is that every word is true.
Regarding the “Skripal case”, it is sad to see that in the same homeland of Sherlock Holmes very few remember that: “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact” (Arthur Conan Doyle).
Jeremy Corbyn Sparks Outrage With Response Calling to “Continue Seekinhg a Robuste Dialogue With Russia”
A look at how might the U.K. punish Russia for spy poisoning
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/how-might-the-u-k-punish-russia-for-poisoning-1.5905578
George Galloway delivers bombastic blast on Sergei Skripal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUJHZxgHm64
As a Briton, I’m ashamed of my country. As a socialist, I fear for the ordinary good people. As a religious man, I look to remote monasteries with ever increasing longing. I’ll fight on, for the poor and oppressed, because it is right, but strategically I carry a great weight of pessimism. Thank you again Saker, for saying what needs to be said…may heaven protect us.
All the same issues came up in both the Bosnian war, and the Kosovan one. They were a time when western leadership betrayed a bloodthirsty and pathological intent, told any lie to abet it, and with all the associated hysteria discussed in the article above. All abetted by the same fawning and totally corrupt MSM.
These Balkan wars were a very important transition for the MO of the psychopaths in charge, coming out into the open. They found that they could tell any lie, and that it was ok. Even if the public was unsure (if!), then they didn’t care anyway. This realisation has taught ZOG that they can now act with total impunity, tell any lie, and it’s OK, because there is no push-back. We quickly then get to the twin towers and all the other false flags; the people are so naive, they must therefore be inviting it upon themselves.
This is a gift for the realists in Putin’s administration. Western leadership is no such thing; they are merely yes-men. They kneel, in their entirety, to ZOG, and await their commands. As for the citizenry, there are too few of them who think critically, or care.
This is the way it is going to be. Things could be different if ZOG falls, but let’s not place much hope on that.
Russia can let go of the middle east and Iran, and of any trade or export to the EU, and hope to limp along without getting attacked herself later, or it can see the threat, and clearly advise West where the global demarcation lines are (this would be a proclamation, not a negotiation), and then be ready to fight.
One clue; keeping a dagger pressed permanently at the neck of Israel, should ensure peace for the next hundred years or so.
‘B’ @ MOA has two articles on this:
Yesterday’s:
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/03/theresa-mays-novichok-claims-fall-apart.html#more
March 12’s initial article:
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/03/theresa-mays-45-minutes-claim.html#more
False flag distraction.
Full stop.
What’s next?
The moment the date for presidential elections was announced in Russia, that moment I started preparing for false flags and other means of internal subversion in Russia. I was not disappointed. What happened in London is PATHETIC. The West sacrificed a former Russian double agent for political propaganda, timed to coincide with presidential elections in Russia. The aim was to vilify Putin and destroy his chances of being reelected. This piece of nonsense will only raise his popularity even higher. The elites in the West still think that Russians are biologically and culturally “inferior” to people in the West, and that they will fall for this propaganda nonsense.
What is interesting is that the Anglo Zionists have decided to kill two flies with one stone. They used fraudulent charges of gas “attacks” by President Assad in Syria to accuse Russia of a nerve gas “attack” in London, and thus accuse both Russia and Syria of using gas, forgetting it was the West which gave gas to ISIS terrorists in Syria. We now have a wonderful excuse for the West to vilify Russia even more, as well as for the US to launch military action against the Government in Damascus, now that the Western created ISIS mercenary army has been almost destroyed.
I view this entire cynical performance as an act of desperation by Western elites. They were hoping that Russia would implode and ended up getting Putin, who reversed the entire situation, raising Russia to new heights. Even worse for the elites, we now have a Russian/Chinese economic partnership, which is bringing Euro-Asia to world dominance economically and politically. And the Western elites ? They have been
reduced to a troop of parrots singing the same old song and throwing the same old accusations. How “impressive”.
Well, on a bright side, double spies/traitors are getting nice treatment from their western sponsors.
“I realize that we live in a largely value-free society where moral norms have been replaced by ideological orthodoxy…”
I think there is a typo there. Didn’t The Saker mean to write,
“I realize that we live in a largely value-free society where moral norms have been replaced by money…”?
Although I suppose the worship of mammon is a kind of ideology. Then again,
“As the sociologist Georg Simmel wrote over a century ago, if you make money the center of your value system, then finally you have no value system, because money is not a value”.
– Morris Berman, “The Moral Order”, Counterpunch 8-10 February 2013. http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/02/08/the-moral-order/
Worship of money, and of oneself and one’s fellows as ‘Gods Upon the Earth’, does characterise one ‘religion’.
Opposite.
Only money, gold, silver, land, cow, physical product are “values”.
Fluffy non measurable personal “values” is invented in Wall Street Think Tanks as an Orweilian double meaning to give you a substitution feeling for your money, your real values.
When you walk around in the illusion you have big personal values like “Female values”, “Leadership values”, “Emotional Qualification values”, “Green values”, “academic values”, “being an asset”, you fill yourself with the same feeling of being rich that you get every month you get your salary payment.
Thus you can be exploited and pumped for your real money, because you already have the substituted feeling of owing something of “value” inside you.
Carefully semantic manipulation planned in Wall Street Think Tanks for more profit optimising.
I don’t know and can’t say this photo is from Salisbury but it’s circulating Facebook. Firemen with no protection quietly watching other men in hazmat suits as if beond the ribbon there is no danger.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10211589575831750&set=a.10200481100166801.1073741826.1136134836&type=3&theater
The police originally attending the scene of the poisoning stated that it was nothing more than a double overdose of narcotics. That has disappeared of course, and no doubt those cops received a stern warning and were told to shut up.
larchmonter445 – this is a poetic diamond:
“it nicely states the improbability of justice, which requires truth. And we know that Truth has been a captive held deep in the dungeons of ideology.”
Thank you.
I rant against ideology of every sort. It is the anti-thesis of philosophy, science, spirituality and Nature.
Present ideologies are nihilist, deviant and devolutionary. We head back to Feudalism at warp speed because of Liberal-Globalist-Hegemonic ideology.
Ideology always follows psychology, individual and group.
Most are aware Rex Tillerson called Donald Trump “a f**king moron,” but few know the back story. Looking closely we can now see the disposition of forces for the struggle of the future of the Anglo-Zionist Empire.
While visiting China, officially to discuss the situation in North Korea, Donald Trump made the following tweet:
Save your energy, Rex. We’ll do what has to be done.
Why oh why would Donald Trump humiliate his own Secretary of State, and in so public a manner, yet Tillerson did not immediately resign?
The answer is Tillerson and the Pentagon controlled Whitehouse, under charge of McMaster, Kelley and Mattis, are on opposte sides in a great struggle for power, with Tillerson believing he had sufficient backing to hold his chair. As we can see, he was wrong.
Tillerson has an agenda and it is the same as those who produced the Steele dossier. They want to destroy the United States and help launch an era of unrivaled Corporate power. This is the same group now furiously waving it’s arms, likely as a distraction and to mobilize brainwashed zombie supporters, accusing the Russians of poisoning an unimportant individual and his daughter.
Since Tillerson became Secretary of State he proceeded to annialate the US State Department’s diplomatic corps, for example firing many irreplacable individuals. He was doing permanent damage and this was intentional.
How Rex Tillerson Wrecked the State Department
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-rex-tillerson-wrecked-the-state-department
Contrast this to how Hillary Clinton accumulated power during her tenure as Secretary of State, as she engineered a massive expansion of her department during the Obama administration, even pushing for the development of her own hard power capabilities. Yet desspite of pursuing different goals under changing circumstances, Clinton and Tillerson are on the same team, working for the international criminal elite based out of the City of London. Both of them work for the Octopus, which seeks to overthrow Trump and destroy the United States and permanently weaken the Nation State as an institution, especially those capable of opposing the Transnational, Zionist, Oligarchal and Criminal Elite. I’ll return to the subject of the Octopus further down.
When Tillerson was head of Exxon-Mobil he actually ran a foreign policy of his own, which was his main intial qualification for becoming Secretary of State, pulling the strings of any number of dictatorial regimes which Exxon controlled including the government of Qatar, as reported several times by Thierry Meyssan.
Who is propelling the Emir of Qatar into action?
http://www.voltairenet.org/article196701.html
It appears as though the recent struggle between Qatar and Saudi Arabia was actually a struggle between the Pentagon and Exxon, representing two opposing factions within Empire, locked in a struggle to determine how the future multipolar order will unfold.
For those who can stand it and need additional confirmation concerning the role played by Rex, watch this hour long speech and followup interview with Condoleeza Rice regarding Syria. I managed to endure the entire speech (the horror) so I can confirm not one true statement can be found in the entire presentation. In every imaginable respect Tillerson is perfectly alligned to the agenda of his predecessor Rice, and therefore Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, et al.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=BLeBSNKPNm8
Anyone who previously bought the line that Tillerson was one of the adults in the room, and might be concerned by what his firing represents, perhaps recalling his meeting with Putin during an earlier outburst of anti Russian sanctions hysteria, I assure you he was nothing of the sort. Tillerson is a fascist skunk.
I repeat, Tillerson is an agent of the Octopus and a traitor, working to destroy the power and influence of the United States. The Pentagon junta, and that’s what it is, are working against him. They gambled on Trump, were joined by numerous individuals in all branches of government, including the CIA, and surprised everyone by winning.
As for who the Octopus is and what it represents, this is a more complicated but suffice to say it is run out of London, is an ancient (criminal) organization developing based on the Intelligence networks of Venice, and wishes to do to the United States what it already did to Russia, Germany and the Ottoman Empire during the 20th century, and with the ultimate goal of accumulating unrivalled and unassailable power.
Cocerning the Octopus, I strongly encourage everyone to begin their investigation via write up below.
The Spy Chiefs of Renaissance Venice: Intelligence Leadership in the Early Modern World
http://www.academia.edu/34954495/The_Spy_Chiefs_of_Renaissance_Venice_Intelligence_Leadership_in_the_Early_Modern_World
A second and more explicit description of the Octopus, former commercial and intelligence network of the Republic of Venice, and also featured in the most recent Bond film Spectre, is provided by the Lyndon Larouche sponsered Schiller Institute, at the next link below. Don’t let the Larouchie label throw you, the crowd gathererd by Lyndon Larouche in the United States and his wife in Germany are deep state insiders, dispossessed by the historic macjhination of the Octopus. When they tell you something it is usually truthful because they are looking for revenge.
Venice’s War Against Western Civilization
https://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_91-96/952_venice.html
I haven’t even mentioned the situation in Syria where the Octopus is working to spark a superpower confrontation, for instance by attacking Khenemin air base with drones and more recently possibly downing a Russian Antonov transport aircraft, carrying numerous officers and pilots, perhaps with the use of an energy weapon.
I am certain that the recent visit of the heads of the GRU, SVR and FSB to Washington, to meet with their US counterparts, including new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, then director of the CIA, bodes well for the cause of avoiding an explosion of violence in imitation of the events of what occurred in 1914.
The US and Russia are ‘partners,’ I believe, and they are working together to vanquish the Octopus.
“Our society is now packed with first, zombified ideological drones who actually believe any type of officially proclaimed of nonsense and, second, by cowards who lack the basic courage to denounce even that which they themselves know to be false”.
Very true, alas. I recently came across an explanation of this which opened my eyes to a most unpleasant reality. People are not really deceived; rather, they are indifferent to truth or falsehood. (See Professor Harry G. Frankfurt’s brilliant little book “On Bullshit”, which explains that bullshitters don’t care whether what they say is true, just as long as it gets them what they want).
In many cases, pretending to accept the standard official lies is a kind of initiation ceremony or price of membership. If you wish to belong to the community, and get the benefits that brings, you demonstrate your loyalty by accepting and even repeating the official lies. That shows that you have been “tamed” and can be relied upon. It’s rather like the custom of juvenile gangs, that new initiates must commit a crime to prove that they have “the right stuff” (and also to prove that they are not police informants).
“”….In many cases, pretending to accept the standard official lies is a kind of initiation ceremony or price of membership. If you wish to belong to the community, and get the benefits that brings, you demonstrate your loyalty by accepting and even repeating the official lies…”
Isn’t religion like that also? People pretend to believe in virgin birth, also that wine is god’s blood etc
I think what is happening is just extrapolated religion: more and more fraud is being enforced, and everyone must pretend emperor is not naked – otherwise they will look stupid. And they do feel stupid and inadequate – because Americans have been brainwashed that god is everything and you are nothing. You can never be as good as a saint – or celebrity – so don’t even bother and shut up. Listen to what TV says.
I think people care about what is happening -the problem is they have no confidence, have been fear-mongered all their life (starting by religious brainwashing and then marketing tricks to make them feel even less adequate so to shop more – that is the essence of marketing – as well as creating what is called Panoramic Fear. Fear of many things – so you just go home watch TV and shop.
Plus Anglosheeple lack meaningful social context necessary to develop confidence.
For that you need to interact with people meaningfully, make mistakes, fail, fight, defend yourself…all the things Americans rarely if ever have.
“Isn’t religion like that also? People pretend to believe in virgin birth, also that wine is god’s blood etc”
A very good point! That hadn’t occurred to me. Thanks!
the biggest elephant in the room of all and the original totalitarianism / enforcer of fraud
“Memory believes before knowing remembers”… William Faulkner.
Five words say it all. Sanskrit for memory ‘samra’ is often associated with desires (purose, goals, etc…), in our lightbox… desired outcomes.
Lucrative past endeavours of wars have been very profitable to merchants of death who don’t wish to remember those who have suffered the physical realities of misery, slavery, tortures and war crimes. Is there any room for perceived morality either in further philantropic values… or debates?
Natural commodities of knowing (the truth) require a different set of intuitive virtues and values. Are these commodities available on a free market… responding to offer and demand principles?
We could speculate indefinitely on how fearful and supersticious people react or simply act on their refreshed memory systems under propaganda and lies… rather than deeper understanding.
It is not in the knowledge itself but in a proper value-based education (‘educare’, core values, heart)… from the true self. Healing requires light and all shutters kept open, then light conquers darkness… neither fight nor resistance are necessary in full integration (with open arms… not really weaponized, embraced pun intended).
When there is a victim, there is an aggressor and vice-versa; if both reside in the same head… there is a war led by some psychopath.
Ed Griffin and Bezmenov (ex KGB) describe it clearly: people in the West are “demorilised” (brainwashed) by permanent media propaganda. No fact or argument can change this, they wont wake up until “military boots hit their dumb faces”…. you can say this in another way: no critical thinking and natural trust in hierarchy (sheeple thinking which is independent of IQ) https://needtoknow.news/2018/01/short-course-communist-takeover-united-states/
“In a conversation you can literally drown such a liberal with facts, statistics, expert testimonies, etc. and achieve absolutely no result whatsoever…”
This was noticed quite a long time ago:
“Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired”.
– Jonathan Swift (“A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately Enter’d Into Holy Orders by a Person of Quality”). http://quoteinvestigator.com/
“That “do something” is usually expressed in the application of violence (externally) and the imposition of bans/restrictions/regulations (internally)”.
Ironically, back in the 19th century when the terms “conservative” and “liberal” meant something, such reactions were a mark of the conservative.
Whereas, according to the COED:
liberal
n adjective
1 respectful and accepting of behaviour or opinions different from one’s own. Ø(of a society, law, etc.) favourable to individual rights and freedoms. ØTheology regarding many traditional beliefs as dispensable, invalidated by modern thought, or liable to change.
2 (in a political context) favouring individual liberty, free trade, and moderate political and social reform. Ø(Liberal) relating to Liberals or a Liberal Party, especially (in the UK) relating to the Liberal Democrat party.
3 (of education) concerned with broadening general knowledge and experience.
4 (especially of an interpretation of a law) not strictly literal.
5 given, used, or giving in generous amounts.
n noun
1 a person of liberal views.
2 (Liberal) a supporter or member of a Liberal Party, especially (in the UK) a Liberal Democrat.
DERIVATIVES
liberalism noun
liberalist noun
liberalistic adjective
liberality noun
liberally adverb
liberalness noun
ORIGIN
Middle English (originally in sense ‘suitable for a free man’ hence ‘suitable for a gentleman’): via Old French from Latin liberalis, from liber ‘free (man)’.
“some of its core features: lies, willful ignorance, hypocrisy, and hysterics”
I add up “malevolence” with all its synonyms: enmity, evil, hate, hatred, indignity, malice.
The pay-to-play Euro trash are in full swing – hubris doesn’t even begin to describe their psychotic detachment :
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-france-germany-us-statement-russia-responsible-spy-poisoning-putin-nerve-agent-salisbury-a8257311.html?amp
With all due respects and thanks to the Saker for this wonderful article, one main causative element is missing in his analysis.
It is very true that the West today is characterized by “lies, willful ignorance, hypocrisy, and hysterics”. But the environment that nurtures these four, at least so far as international conduct is concerned, is a complete absence of forceful voices from other powerful countries calling a lie a lie. I could not stop shaking my head in disbelief at the way Lavrov and company have handled the barrage of lies, insults, deceit and hypocrisy started by Britain and promptly joined-in by all the other Western countries. The Russian response has been “show us the evidence”, which assumes that the other party is acting in good faith and that this “little mistake” can be sorted out by “working together with our partners”. This whole affair is an ugly, pre-planned scheme hatched out in advance to tarnish Russia’s image even further: that much should be evident to any thinking person. Regardless of how it ends, some of this mud flung at Russia will stick in the court of public opinion – alas.
A stronger response, denouncing this as an outright lie, and deflecting the accusation back to those who proclaim the right to assassinate heads of states and institute regime change, would have done a better job of clearing up the air in the court of public opinion. “It happened in your country, he was your spy, working on your illegal activities, you are the murderers and you have to prove your innocence” would have been the appropriate response.
Trying to appease psychopaths, petulant children, and robbers pointing their gun at you are guaranteed to encourage more of the same. Paul Craig Roberts has written a wonderful lament about the Russians never learning. Sadly, I fear he could be right.
Not to mention, his daughter is a Russian citizen. Russia should demand it’s doctors visit her, find out what is going on and treat her in a Russian hospital. I am sure Britain and all the Western states would do so.
You make same mistake as most if not all Westerns do, thinking Russian culture are similar to our way of thinking.
Thats why West fails and will fail again.
Putin said “jew” in the Kelly interview. The rest followed. Perhaps Putin should open up the soviet archives to show the holocaust is a lie and then call for the peaceful end to israel. The jews have a 100% success rate achieving their aims. They will kill Russia again. WW III is propaganda not nukes. The black hats put on white hats and are getting away with it.
Putin said ‘Ukrainians, Tatars and Jews’, to point out the stupidity of blaming ‘Russians’ alone. It gives the screeching hysterics of the ‘antisemitism’ industry another opportunity to hiss and spit, of course, their habitual modus operandi.
calm down guys ,all this Russophobia dramatics are, for public consumption of nato,us and allies citizenry only and further votes..The western empire has no clothes, they lost crimea and they are losing badly in syria too and maybe in the whole of mean region too.Worldly power is slipping away rapidly from the evil empire.Sour grapes shout putin is evil ,so what, apparently he has the biggest dick of any and he has bared it all ,even ready to use it ,if necessery.Welcome to multipolar world.Watch as west disintegrates shamefully, alas the sleeping citizens .
I believe you to be wrong. This might not be a prelude to a world war, but it is a ramp up to something dangerous.
ZOG wants its European vassals back in line, an embargo on Russia, and Russia out of the middle east.
Achieving this involves risk. Miscalculations by any party, could be costly for us all. More telling, whether ZOG gets what it wants or not, expect economic, political and security turmoil, emergency measures, guns vs butter etc.
Not least, if Russia is pushed out of Syria, then Hezbollah is the next target, then Iran. A disinterested Brit or Yank might think ‘doesn’t affect me,’ but I think it will affect us all, one way or another.
I’ve read this at UNZ. And lef there a comment:
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Thank you Saker.
Was interesting as always. Just one thing which worry me.
I’m not liberal, I’m not US guy, but I also think that you clever Western guy have to “do something” immediately. What is wrong with me?
And if not to “do something” we should just relax and try to get some pleasure from all this stuff?
And to read-write these clever articles admiring ourselves – how clever we are?
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Repeating here just in case you not reading comments at UNZ
The bombastic liars of the UK should recall this evaluation:
“British Army admits Russia could completely destroy the only remaining fighting unit in just an afternoon”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4144772/British-Army-says-Russia-completely-destroy-unit.html
The following is an excerpt from Tafsir al Mizan, which was a comprehensive commentary on the Quran. It was written by Allamah Muhammad Hussain Tabatabi who was one of the great scholars of Shi’i Islam in the 20th century. The reason i posted this is because this mindset that the sakers article is hinting at, and which basically pervades all throughout the modern day west, can be found in another ancient people who’s story is mentioned in detail in both the Bible and the Quran. Another thing I want to mention really quickly, all the Prophets(as) of God(swt) were constantly in a struggle against the ruling elite or power of they’re time(be it political, religious, or sometimes both), and i feel its something that the “powers that be” want the common people to forget. True spirituality should constantly strive against injustice and oppression, and it just so happens the biggest perpetrators of injustice and oppression happen to be those in a position of power. I hope you guys enjoy the excerpt.
AN ACADEMIC AND ETHICAL DISCOURSE ON UNQUESTIONING ADOPTION OF CONCEPTS
AND RULINGS
The nation, most frequently described in the Qur’ãn, is that of the Israelites; and the prophet most numerously referred to therein is their prophet, Mũsã (Moses) (a. s.) , son of ‘Imrãn. His name has been mentioned in one hundred and thirty six places, twice as many as the second most numerously mentioned name, that is, of Ibrãhīm(Abraham) (a.s.), who has been named sixty-nine times only — as some people have calculated.
It is not difficult to understand the reason for these frequent references. Islam, the true religion, is based on the belief of monotheism; its present foundation was laid by Ibrãhīm (a.s.); and Allãh completed and perfected it for His Prophet, Muhammad (s.a.w.a.), as He says: . . . the faith of your father Ibrãhīm; He named you Muslims before and in this . . . (22:78). And the Israelites were the most disputatious and most quarrelsome of all the nations; they were the most obstinate and most abstruse of all when there was a question of submitting to the truth. And the heathens of Arabia, whom the Prophet of Islam had to contend with, were of the same mold, so much so that Allãh said to His Prophet: Surely those who disbelieve alike is to them whether you warn them or do not warn them, they will not believe (2:6).
Every vice, every depravity found in the Israelites could be found in them(pagan Arabs); they, in their hard-heartedness and impertinence were the mirror-image of the Israelites.
Ponder over the stories of the Israelites, as narrated in the Qur’ãn; look at the picture of their characters and morals as it emerges from those narratives. You will find a nation deeply submerged in sensualism and materialism. They did not believe in what was beyond the reach of their external senses; for them spiritual happiness was a word without meaning; their only ambition was the pursuit of sensual pleasure; their eyes could not focus on intellectual progress or spiritual perfection, so their only aim in life was the material development. And to this day, they have not changed a whit. It was this tendency which made their mind and will totally subservient to the matter and the material phenomena. They did not understand except that which they could see, hear, touch, taste or smell; they did not strive but for some tangible and material goals. Their servitude to the sensual phenomena prevented them from accepting any thing outside the domain of the five senses — even if it was truth; their thralldom to matter encouraged them to accept every thing told by their materially advanced big bosses — even if it was false. It created a clear contrariety and inconsistency in their words and deeds. They condemned every adoption of others’ concepts, ridiculing it as blind following, if that concept was unperceivable by the external senses — no matter how correct it was. And at the same time, they appreciated every adoption of others’ concepts, label-ling it as the pleasure of life, if it conformed with their material base desires — no matter how wrong that concept was. This trait became deeply rooted in their psyche during their long sojourn in Egypt, where the Egyptians humiliated them, enslaved them and castigated them; they subjected them to severe torment, killed their sons sparing their daughters, and in this was a great trial for them from their Lord.
However, it was this deep-rooted trait which made them heedless to what their prophets and divine scholars told them about what was good for them in this life as well as in the hereafter. (Remember their disputations with Mũsã and others!) And these very people were ever ready to accept and follow what their big bosses called them to, for gratification of their worldly desires.
Today the truth and reality has been afflicted by this very tragedy. The modern civilization, presented to the humanity by the western world, is likewise based on sensual perception and material outlook. It is not prepared to accept any proof for something which is not perceivable by the external senses; and does not ask for any proof of validity, if a thing gives material and sensual pleasure. This has resulted in weakening of the hold of human instincts, and in disappearance of deep knowledge and high morals from our society. This trait has exposed the edifice of humanity to ruin, and is confronting the society with chaos and disorder. And you will surely see its real face in a not too distant future.
Actually, not every proof is asked for, nor every unquestioning adoption of others’ ideas and concepts is objectionable. Man proceeds on the road of perfection through his intentional activities. His actions emanate from his will, and the will springs from thought and notion. Thinking, therefore, is the foundation of his perfection. Man depends on practical or intellectual cognition to which his perfection is directly or indirectly related. This cognition creates in his mind the need for individual or collective actions; this knowledge leads to intention and will which produces the desired activity.
Man, by his instinct, tries to find out the cause of every event, happening inside or outside his self. He does not do any action without knowing its reason; he does not accept any theory without ascertaining its proof. It is his unfailing trait; he always looks for the cause of the events and actions; it is his nature and the nature never deviates from its set course.
But this trait puts an unbearable burden on him. No individual can accomplish all the academic and practical processes required for his material and spiritual well-being. It is this burden which led the man to establish a society and cooperate with other human beings. Various people were given responsibilities to per-form various tasks, in order that the society, taken as a whole, might collectively accomplish all tasks, and fulfil all the needs of all its members put together.
Human needs are expanding by leaps and bounds; various branches of knowledge — sciences, technologies, arts etc. — are growing larger and larger, to such an extent that every subject has grown into hundreds of subjects — each requiring its own specialists. Look for example, at medical science. In old days it was a branch of physics; now it has branched out into hundreds of independent subjects, and no single physician or surgeon may gain expertise in more than one or two of them.
This vast multitude of special fields has instinctively led man to limit his inquiry for cause, and his search for proof, to only those branches of knowledge in which he has gained some expertise; and accept and follow the verdicts of other specialists in other fields. A sane person invariably always relies on the experts in the fields of their expertise. The confidence in their expertise creates a certainty that what has been said or done is correct; and this serves as the proof demanded by human nature.
The nature dictates that man should try his best to find out the detailed proof of the rightness of his idea and action in the fields of his specialty; and as a corollary it directs that he should unquestioningly accept the concepts and verdicts of others in other fields. In short, an ignorant man should follow the decree of a learned one. It is impossible for one man to be an expert in all the branches of knowledge, or independent in all the activities necessary for his life and well-being. Therefore, it is impossible for any man to be free from blindly following a lot of experts in numerous avenues of life. Anyone claiming contrary to this, is a fool.
Of course, it is a shame if a man remains content with unquestioning following, even where he can form an independent opinion based on detailed knowledge; as it is a shame if he forms independent opinion without acquiring necessary knowledge. Both trends are undesirable, both are ruinous to a healthy civilization, both are dangerous to the society.
It is the prerogative of Allãh that His decrees and orders be followed without any questioning, without any if or but; because He is the First and Final cause, an no other cause or reason is needed when He has spoken.
[I apologize for my bad english]
@Mr.Saker “I see a direct cause and effect relationship between the denial of moral reality and the denial of physical reality.”
Very well said. The analysis of relativism of our cultures (and its origin) is IMHO one of the most important topic, because it is a consequence of the titanic efforts of the elites to completely change our point of view on reality, sweeping away roots and references of people. After, only after, the tangible reality can easily became a new “liquid” virtual reality.
One example of many: the Relativity of Einstein. A mathematical theory that puts forward conclusions using “mathematical” arguments. Consequences? The experimental physics (the theories adapt theirselves to justify the experiments) has become mathematical physics (the experiments must adapt theirself to proof the theories). With bizarre conclusions: if I run very very fast Relativity states that “my” Time lengthen itself, but at same time “my” Space shorten itself, and maybe I cannot syncronize my clock with others. The abstract concept that everyone has a personal space-time (based on all one’s own peculiar coordinates system, valid as any other system) and the inversion of scientific methodology have capital consequences in philosophy, epistemology, and also in social life (ex. fundraising to fuel complex experiments).
If you are interested to start investigations a book not too complex is:
* SPOLTER Pari – “Gravitational Force of the Sun”
[Warning: math and physics background required]
“AngloZionists” glides better on the tongue than, say, “IsraZionists” or similar. Furthermore, most of us know that to call certain things and people by their proper name “creates problems”, to be euphemistic. For it suggests a taint of racism, however unwarranted.
But Judea has an amply documented, atavistic hatred of Russia, which is a subset of a pseudo-religious, equally atavistic hatred of the goy at large.
Perhaps there is no other way to handle the issue, and/or to avoid censure or misinterpretations. But let’s face it. “Neo-conservatives” means Jews and those chicken-hawks and hangers-on, who would sell their mother, their soul and their ass to grovel at the table and trough of their master(s).
The former Soviet scientist, Vil Mirzanyanov, who ‘blew the whistle’ and wrote about the ‘Novichoks’, now lives in a $1 million home in the United States. The AFP news agency just interviewed him about the recent incident:
Mirzayanov, speaking at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, said he is convinced Russia carried it out as a way of intimidating opponents of President Vladimir Putin.
The only other possibility, he said, would be that someone used the formulas in his book to make such a weapon.
“Russia did it”, says Mirzanyanov, “OR SOMEONE WHO READ MY BOOK”.
The book was published in 2008 and is available at Amazon as hardcover, paperback or for $8.16 as an electronic file. It includes a number of formulas which, Mirzanyanov says, could be used to produce those chemical agents.
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/03/theresa-mays-novichok-claims-fall-apart.html
…..But neither Porton Down nor the OPCW seem convinced that this is possible. They may believe that Mirzanyanov is just full of it.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has not recognized Novichoks as chemical weapons because it found scant evidence that they exist at all. The U.S. and the UK are both part of the organization and both agreed with this evaluation:
As recently as 2016 Dr Robin Black, Head of the Detection Laboratory at the UK’s only chemical weapons facility at Porton Down, a former colleague of Dr David Kelly, published in an extremely prestigious scientific journal that the evidence for the existence of Novichoks was scant and their composition unknown.
“Lies, however ridiculous and self-evidently stupid, have become the main ingredient of the modern political discourse. ”
there is a good quote about this in Democracy Incorporated by S. Wolin:
It is only mildly hyperbolic to characterize lying as a crime against reality. Lying goes to the heart of the never-ending questions, what is the world really like? What is in fact happening?
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In a preliminary way lying can be defined as the deliberate misrepresentation of actuality and the substitution of a constructed “reality.”
The problem today is that lying is not an isolated phenomenon but characteristic of a culture where exaggeration and inflated claims are commonplace occurrences.
For more than a century the public has been shaped by a relentless culture of advertising and its exaggerations, false claims, and fantasies—all aimed at influencing and directing behavior in the premeditated ways chosen by the advertiser.
The techniques developed for the marketplace have been adapted by political consultants and their media experts. The result has been the pollution of the ecology of politics by the inauthentic politics of misrepresentative government, claiming to be what it is not, compassionate and conservative, god-fearing and moral.
From the Saker’s article; ‘The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior’
I think this is spot on, and relevant on two very important counts.
1: expect more false flags, treachery and the like. And there’s the rub; we are at the beginning of it, not the end. But we have to understand ‘past behaviour,’ in order to be able to extrapolate it. We need to understand the objective. To diagnose it as mischief making, or sour grapes, is to miss the point. I have already mentioned the wrecking of ties between Russia and Europe as an objective, but I think there is one more motivation I write now for the first time…. sorry if others have raised it previously.
2: It is about the probing the extent of Russian sobriety and restraint; it is a contrived form of intelligence assessment, in the form of ‘whatyagonnado?’. The operative phrase, is ‘weakness provokes aggression.’
In the Soviet era, the Cuban missile crisis taught all, that it was an imperative to avoid direct conflict. The proxy war was born, because any direct conflict could go nuclear in short order, with two powers who believed their survival depended on being perceived as bad-ass psychotic. But we could forgive ZOG now for believing that caution, maturity, and sobriety has taken deep root of Russian leadership, and that they will not go nuclear unless the motherland is attacked.
This could turn out to be a bit of a problem. If we now have direct military clashes between NATO and Russia in Syria, I don’t think Putin would go nuclear over it, it would remain a clash fought locally, albeit directly. Putin’s recent state of the nation speech was an attempt to warn ZOG from trying it on, but what does ZOG have to lose? NATO is logistically better placed to fight there. If it loses that too, it can walk away, and continue to isolate Russia economically and politically. Remember, Nutty yahoo is in the background, desperate to get the US involved; and once involved, Russia would have to threaten nukes beyond the ME theatre, which it will likely not do.
So, I think having exhausted all other Syria options to date, ZOG will distract Russia via a Ukraine offensive during the world cup, then open the second front in Syria. Behind the scenes, it will offer to rein in the Ukies, if Russia agrees to leave Syria. Remember how this post started; expect dirty tricks and a media war; reports of countless war crimes, atrocities, chemical attacks blah blah in Ukraine. How many Ukies will have to die by NATO treachery, to provide the footage with which to frame Russia? And aside from that media war, the point of distinction, is that I believe that direct confrontation with Russia, in a Middle East war, is no longer the prelude to nuclear war that it once was. The cold war paradigm is being updated.
The main problem here, is that Russia is not drawing a line, and awaits various punches to which it must then respond. It is not seizing the narrative; it is just reacting.
I stress again my earlier point elsewhere in this thread; if the US threatens Russia in Ukraine or wherever, then Russia should let Israel know in no uncertain terms, that she is target No.1. Then I suspect it’ll all calm down, as if by magic.
I needed to type some comments about this whole sordid UK scam, since the UK is touting around for support from ‘allies’ on this.
The willingness of the UK media to immediate toe the UK government’s line, full of bellicose rhetoric, without a hint of even of a reasoned debate, is absolutely staggering. I could be very cynical in saying that there is a deep malaise reminiscent of the old Soviet ‘Pravda’ journalistic ethics at work here. To find anything that actually is different from the script, you have to read a Irish article.
The collective finger-pointing, based on what seems to have come directly from a warped version of a Le Carré novel, except it isn’t fiction. There is so far no substantial evidence to prove the allegations, and when I hear people say ‘ beyond probable doubt’, then I like to remind them that UK criminal law requires a greater burden of proof & evidence to uphold a conviction, with the time-honoured phrase, “beyond a reasonable doubt” & it is for the prosecution to provide this.
In fact the UK has made a mockery of the legal system, by turning the concept of burden of proof on its head. The UK issued an ultimatum to the alleged perpetrator and demanded Russia that provide an explanation, within 12 hours and not 10 days to reply as stipulated in international protocols. A court of law would not ask someone in the dock to do that, so why did the UK government do that? (Where the hell is the government legal advisor and did they outline the implications of making such a statement?). https://off-guardian.org/2018/03/14/russias-statement-to-the-opcw-in-response-to-allegation-of-complicity-in-alleged-skripal-poisoning/
The ex-MI6 employee, Sergey Skripal case is an odd one to my mind, as there are too many unanswered questions. Here we have an ex-military GRU officer who had already spent 6 years unharmed in a Russian prison & then pardoned by the then President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, prior to being swapped over in an exchange in 2010. Skripal had then lived in the UK for 8 years & no he wasn’t in hiding either. He had served 4 years of just a 13- year prison sentence, and to note that his sentence was reduced from 20 years because he cooperated with the authorities. Basically, what we have here is a 2nd rate, retired convicted & pardoned intelligence officer, who committed his crimes during the Yeltsin era, with no apparent usefulness to today’s Western intelligence services.
There are people in the US who serving extraordinary long sentences for espionage decades ago during the Cold War and also for whistleblowing. Just compare the 13 year sentence, with those of Aldrich Ames, or John Walker Jr. who died in a prison hospital, while still serving a lengthy sentence. Most US convictions are between 25 years & life in prison with no parole.
The UK government implies that it is Russia solely that is responsible, and as a result has thrown out the international legal rulebook on handling criminal cases. There is still an ongoing police investigation. I am not aware of any arrest warrant being issued for likely perpetrators, or any requests to Interpol. Yet Russia is in the crosshairs, and I’m hearing a chorus, ‘the Kremlin is responsible” from politicians & media alike. To add injury to insult, anyone daring to challenge this hastily scripted ‘official version’ is labeled as a ‘Kremlin stooge’.
No reasoned debate.
Russia officially stopped all its CW programmes back in 1992, with the UK & the US heavily involved in the subsequent verification process. In the mid 1990s, a number of CW scientists moved to the West, ‘defectors’, who apparently had intimate knowledge of these Russian CW projects, which included the Novichok’ family of binary CW, manufactured from common ingredients found in the agro-chemical sector. One such individual now living in the US, is the Russian ex military chemist, Vil Mirzayanov, who published a book called ‘State Secrets’ with information on ‘Novichok”in 2008.
Another intriguing element is what do the West CW experts actually know about ‘Novichok’ since it was initially developed in the 1970’s. That’s a long timescale for relevant data & information to filter out and for experts to scrutinise. It strikes me as being odd that a top UK Porton Down CW scientist, Dr Robin Black, would claim to have little “open-source” knowledge even as late as last 2016, (and that despite the 90’s data transfer of knowledge & know-how from Russia to the West).
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/03/the-novichok-story-is-indeed-another-iraqi-wmd-scam/
Back in the 1990’s, the US helped the Uzbek authorities in dismantling and to decontaminate
one of the Soviet Union’s CW research facility, which was a research & test centre for the apparently elusive ‘Novichok’.
Another oddity is that given the claimed deadliness of ‘Novichok’, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), would have taken a very serious interest in this decades time as it is the UN body that covers “all potential candidate chemicals that might be utilised as chemical weapons”. The current situation with respect to ‘Novichok’ is far from this expectation, as it has not been added to the lost of banned chemicals, which is baffling when you consider that tear gas is also covered under the OPCW’s remit. OPCW inspectors also visited the once closed Soviet military complex in Nukus, Uzbekistan, where Mirzayanov said that batches of ‘Novichok’ was produced.
The West knows about a whole range of Soviet made CW, they probably have the ‘Novichok’ formula to hand, maybe even received supplies of it decades ago. They are more than capable of synthesising in the West the ‘Novichok’ compounds. So for the UK government to say only Russia is capable of producing it is a outright lie, and the media goes along with that narrative, happily adding oil onto the fire. Never mind that the Litvinenko public inquiry into his murder, showed that a polonium sample was not traceable to a point of origin of any nor was it just produced in Russia.
No reasoned debate on the continued UK deceit to spice up unproven ‘narratives’.
Prime minister, Theresa May spoke about a Russian anti-terrorism law in her Parliament speech, which she said: “the extra-judicial killing of terrorists and dissidents outside Russia were given legal sanction by the Russian Parliament in 2006”
Except she’s has distorted this claim it for her own ends,
https://off-guardian.org/2018/03/14/mercouris-on-alleged-law-permitting-murder-ofrussian-agents-abroad/
The manner in which the UK does this moral posturing, is seriously flawed & contrived, given that the UK has a policy of permitting drones strikes against UK & other citizens in the Middle East. With this, the UK doesn’t have the moral high ground to lecture to Russia about assassination programmes. No contradictions there?
The UK’s reaction to the event in Salisbury and its ludicrous stance is a snub to decades of old-school diplomacy internationally. The UK’s rush to jump to conclusions seems to be foolish, and dare I say it, smells of a huge geopolitical deception, wrapped in the tiniest grain of ‘facts’. It undermines the international cohesion carefully developed & forged over the years in a number of international agreements, including the established OPCW protocols, since the UK has refused to provide a sample to the OPCW. Sampling would require comparison with a reference sample held at Accredited Laboratories. There is no information is suggest that this is even possible, given the ‘elusiveness’ of ‘Novichok’, yet May said it was “weapons-grade nerve agent”.
Yet, Porton Down was able to prove it was ‘Novichok’, despite apparently lacking the necessary pharmacological studies, that would have established the required standard reference so as to analyse, with certainty the field samples obtained in Salisbury.
Theresa speaks about Russia having an “undeclared chemical warfare programme”, in the same tone as Iraq & now Syria had “undeclared chemical warfare programme”. Does she not remember the salient points arising from the Chilcot Enquiry regarding the Iraqi WMD dossier, written to mislead the public & policymakers alike, to justify an invasion of Iraq?
No reasoned debate in the media as why this is the case.
The measures taken by the British government, against Russia and Russian citizens, in the absence of actual proof of culpability, is deeply disturbing. Add in the fact that the British government is asking for support at EU, NATO and the UN. Moreover, the UK is escalating tensions above and beyond what is a vile domestic criminal act.
Why are some many people totally incapacitated in actually providing a reasoned debate? I’m seeing the whole incident as a way of manufacturing an excuse to increase hostilities with Russia & possibly start a US-led intervention in Syria? We know well enough to see the horrible legacy left by the US & NATO’s last intervention in Libya.
It will translate into:
Another round of sanctions against Russia, (maybe shutting down the Nord Stream 2 project);
More NATO forward presence in Eastern Europe;
2. More money for the military industrial complex and defence budgets;
3. Shutting down alternative media and views on the grounds of national security;
4. Pushing the Brexit debate to one side, in favour of a continued relationship with the EU;
TM deliberately chosen to ignore legal advice in order to do this….or like WMD only seek advice from “approved supporting lawyers”….or simply there is no sensible unbiased legal advice available within the government- maybe all the good guys and girls have already left the building …
It was borderline when I was there… so maybe those who were complete of providing factual unbiased legal left, or wrote a brief, which is now securely locked in a special cabinet.
@ leDahu,
you are late to the ‘demise of the MSM’ phenomena.. It is old news.
The Balkan wars in the 90’s, and then 9/11, demonstrated beyond doubt, for whom the entirety of the MSM works. There is no media plurality; there is just one media organisation, from USA to Europe to New Zealand.
There is no true reporting; only a central script.
“They” are seying that Russia wins hot wars, not cold ones.
As we can see Russia has better weapons and stufd.
But Russia is lossing in diplomacy, sanctions, covert atacks etc.
It should do something about it.
Within the U.S. military there’s been a battle between the ‘real deal’ patriots and the Dominists going on for some time. The most visible battlefield is via the Military Religious Freedom Foundation’s court battles against the group. The first target of the Dominists was SAC and most of the legal battles center around Denver. With Mike Pense as VP, and given the current suicidal strategy being implemented the Dominists have definitely won the battle. Now, they’re trying to implement their goal : Armageddon. They think it’s the only way the Earth can be ‘purified’. Their poster girl, Ex Congresswitch, Michelle Bachman has said this many times. IMO, the real deal U.S. military are almost the only ones that can affect this. An example, was when it was ‘leaked’ to the media when that B52 flew over U.S. with armed nuclear cruise missiles. This clearly explains ‘the insanity’ – they don’t care to ‘win’. They want to kill everyone on the planet and think God will save only them. I almost want to be there at the Pearly Gates with them to see them get their just desserts. Of course if they have their way, I will be.
You have it Ralph. The USA is run by Evil Zionazi Jews, and evil and deranged Christian Dominionist psychopaths, with Trump as the carnival huckster front-man. The Zionazi supremacists are spear-heading the assault on Russia because Putin has thwarted the Oded Yinon Plan in Syria, and by inference in Lebanon and Iran. This is against ‘God’s plan’ for the world, so he must go. And the Dominionists are keen on Armageddon, when the Jews, who they pretend to love so much, will be given the choice of converting or dying in the Apocalypse. Perhaps Russia could work on setting those two deranged groups against each other.
With the passing away of the great scientist Stephen William Hawking (14 March 2018), England appears to have lost the last man/woman with great intelligence, mental acuity and high morality.
Yes, the Saker, the predominant behaviour in the west is hysteria – please note that Jeremy Corbyn is being loudly and hysterically attacked in the UK because he is simply asking for some evidence before condemning Putin for the alleged chemical warfare attack on the exiled Russians in the UK.
The hysteria of him being a Czech spy in some form seems to have quietened down too.for the moment????…although I am thinking the knives will be out to arrest him on some pretence or other….state secrets eg..talks to Russian peoples..just like Marine Le Pen?
” England appears to have lost the last man/woman with great intelligence, mental acuity and high morality”
sorry but I have to add, ‘with a complete blindness to the inner universe, called psyche.
Warning: There is a unacceptably high probability that Alexei Navalny will be assassinated by the CIA within the next 48 hours.
Be prepared, not surprised.
Maybe also the Dr Utin who oversaw destruction of russian chemicals and says there are none…..
I mentioned this in movable Caffè
Anonymous on March 13, 2018 · at 6:22 pm UTC
Just when you would think that theatre bizarre reached its peak.
COUNTER terror police have launched an investigation after exiled anti-Putin Russian mogul Nikolai Glushkov was found dead with ‘strangulation marks’ at his London home.
Met Police this afternoon confirmed the death of Glushkov, who was a close friend of Putin critic Boris Berezovsky, was being treated as “unexplained” after he was found dead at the age of 68 last night.
It comes after ex Russian spy Sergei Skripal and daughter Yulia were poisoned using a nerve agent manufactured in Russia.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5798295/russia-nikolai-glushkov-litvinenko-killer-jail-dead/
“In any halfway honest and halfway educated society, those kind of articles should result in the idiot writing it being summarily fired for gross incompetence and the paper/journal posting it being discredited forever.”
I’d agree with the above for the simple reason that no evidence is provided. At the very least, in an ‘honest and educated’ society, every honest report would include a plain an obvious mention that the UK government has provided zero evidence.
In this era of “fake-news”, that’s an important standard that I try to watch for. Is evidence provided for the claims? If no, I treat it as the ranting of someone who wants to influence (meddle with) my mind. I hold this standard across the board, including with some of the guest writers at The Saker. Is evidence provided to back up the claims?
I’ve noticed that change in the ‘left’. It used to be, I’d read long boring articles at places like the Nation that proved that someone or some company was racist or whatever the charge of the day is. One doesn’t see that any more. Now its just stand up and shout the claim as loudly as possible, and no evidence need be given. That’s become the standard political discourse on both the left and the right. I notice it on the left because I used to pay attention to the left and thus can see the difference over time. But its now true on both.
So, I quickly dismiss any assertion that is made without providing supporting evidence. And that’s true whether its some doubtful writer on the internet or the Government of the United Kingdom or the President of the United States.
I’ve long said “Show me the money.” on almost anything, as money makes this world go round.
Now, I say simply “Show me the evidence” on anything and everything.
Show me the evidence!
Yes, it is bad. And I am afraid we might repeat 1914. With immeasurably more destructive weapons. Sad.
Well, at least it will be over quickly. Unlike WW1 and WW2.
My parents had two world wars and, so far, I haven’t had any. That seems unfair (to them).
And yet, could the real target be China with Russophobia being a red herring? With attention drawn to Russia are we losing sight of what the US is doing/intends doing to China? Is Russia a way- station to China?
Be that as it may, the analysis holds for the Western Weltanschauung as Saker points out with his four points. I would add that the insanity mentioned by someone else might better be described as psychopathy: no ordinary human emotions and no empathy.
Dissident.
Good catch.
As John Pilger has suggested, with excellent reasoning.
Attacking Russia IS attacking China, because they need each other to resist the empire.
I think China knows.
That Xi, while I think the chairman for life thing was a little over-the-top, he’s shown very favourable outcomes for doing the job he is charged with.
I think he will outshine the other emperors-for-life by eventually renouncing it, when it is no longer required.
Thanks for the chuckles.
Bringing Russia to heel is just preparatory to the Great Clash of Civilizations war to destroy China and smash it into pieces. Unless this happens China will soon be so far ahead of the USA and the West that it will be ‘daylight second’, as they say at the races. The Western ubermenschen, particularly the Talmudic Judaic ones, cannot ever allow a non-Western, non-JudeoChristian, power to come to global dominance, and will do ANYTHING to prevent that. The Holy Work will be that much easier if Russia is returned to the status of a stooge state under a New Yeltsin.
I know this site tilts to the right, so it likes to rag on ‘liberals’. But, the ‘mainline’ Republicans who self-identify as conservatives are exactly the same in following what their media tells them to think, believe and do.
On both ends of the fake 2-D political spectrum, there is an ‘opposition’ that doubts the orthodoxy. But the mainline party members on both fake-left and fake-right simply pay attention only to their choice of popular news, let them tell them what to think, let them tell them what to believe, and let them tell them how to act.
The Republican side is still a bit fractured over Trump. So perhaps this isn’t quite as obvious now. Although the only real difference is that Brietbart tells the Trumpers what to think, believe and do, while FoxNews has the more Never-Trump set of instructions. But, if you think back to the Dubya/Cheney days when FoxNews spoke and the entire right moved in lockstep based on that, then surely its obvious that the same thing happens on the fake-right as on the fake-left. ( I like that the Saker referred to “so-called liberals”, but I still object to calling people with Ronald Reagan’s general philosophy as ‘liberals’. My memories of growing up listening to Bobby Kennedy and George McGovern mean I can’t do anything else.)
Until you get outside of the fake-center to the leftists who read Mike Whitney or Paul Street, or the rightists who read Ron Paul, you’ll find the mainline Republicans and the mainline Democrats are very very similar except they belong to different clubs and presumably have different secret handshakes. And we have the two obvious current examples that both believe the BS about Skripal and Syria.
Thank you for the article
I am just waiting for response from Canada.
I am sure it will be hysterical and out of touch with reality.
Hopefully response of common Canadians will be as of those of New Zealand
I am afraid that not many canadians even follow this. They care mostly about hockey and Tv. As far as response from our government you can be sure that it will be in line with the ” five eyes” club members. Keep in mind that our F.M is hard line russia hater.
I wish V.V. Putin announced on March 1st that Russia has come up with a biological agent (weaponized and ready to go) that only goes after Khazar DNA. Also that the first Sarmat to roll off the assembly line will be targeted at Israel, even though one Sarmat would be overkill for such a little shithole.,
That would ensure world peace for sure. Its the only language the self-worshipping warmongers understand.
Peculiar message found in a bottle on the banks of the Potomac:
“President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin
Kind sir,
Won’t you please decide that enough is enough already and send one of your shiny new nuclear powered 130mph autonomous torpedoes -you know, the ones with the 100 megaton warheads that you mentioned the other day- right here, up the Chesapeake bay and then the Potomac river to between the Pentagon and the Jefferson memorial? Realistically you’ll be forced to do it by the AngloZionists eventually, so why not avoid the end of the world rush? You could light that bad boy up right here and leave everything from Richmond to Baltimore either vaporized or burning, and as a surface burst, spread lethal radioactive fallout as far as Boston, Chicago, or Tallahassee (depending on the wind direction, of course ;-) ) You would surely go down in posterity, for at least the two or three weeks likely remaining of it, as a leader who had the best relatively long term interests of his people, and indeed of all people, in mind. Then again there might be a way to a longer future than that in store for (some of) us. One can’t imagine that you would have made the provocative weapons announcements that you did without having something even far craftier up your sleeve, say, something like real time knowledge of the locations of all Western SSBN’s perhaps? Puncturing their hulls at the same time you puncture the eastern seaboard would go a long way toward avoiding lots of messy cleanup work throughout EurAsia. Oh well, I’m drifting away from the point of my letter, and I’m sure your people, being such natural born chess players, have already worked out all the possible counter moves.
Please rest assured that you are considered a man of peace by all thinking free men, for assuredly if you were a Westerner with such fantastic new toys, you would have already launched a first strike without warning, and I would already be dead.
Hoping to hear your timely response and wishing you and yours good hunting,
(signed)
An oppressed citizen of the world
Peculiar, no?
When you said ‘nobody cares’ you said it all. The masses in the US probably
don’t even know about the alleged poisoning. Why? Because they simply do
not care.
Granted, there are a few who either understand or care … but their numbers
and willingness to be heard are either zero or virtually zero.
Still, keep informing us. I doubt it will make an iota of difference, but still … it does help some of us who just might care.
como siempre Saker…tu analisis / descripcion de esta realidad es valido,agudo y necesario,porque combinas lo politico – cultural ,filosofico ,historico…pero te falta insistir en que “un arco se derrumba,cuando su piedra angular,se cae,se retira,se elimina “…el arco se cae solo…por su propio peso…¿y cual es la piedra angular del arco de esclavizacion de la raza humana ???…si,adivinaste, es el sionismo ..que es la perversion planificada y cruel como herramienta en contra de la Vida y la Libertad…con 40º de fiebre : el Sionismo,el anglo sajon de la
“perfida Albion “,el del cinturon de la Biblia,que aprieta la mente y la consciencia en USA…
Es esa la Clave,que si se retira, se enfrenta y se derrota..se destruye el arco de esclavitud y dolor en la Tierra,
eso es lo que debe entender Putin…antes de que sea demasiado tarde…debe entenderlo AHORA …!
Skripal false-flag, but we are not really talking about that: in the meantime there is a lot of very good material up, about the calse flag, about Steele, MI6/CIA etc. We’re talking about truth, indeed about justice, so we are talking about psychotherapy. And let’s not forget, as background but also for psychotherapeutical use, that “the Russians”, i.e., General Gerasimov, stopped a long-announced false flag in Syria by bringing the Putin-speech of March 1st down to the immediate battlefield so that the sorts of people who might be inclined to sit back in their theoretical armchairs, musing about whether Putin was bluffing, waiting for some time in the who-knows-when-future, were confronted with the “decide now! or stop the bs” moment. Indeed, that is what we call “the moment of truth.” “Tell the truth” pales in comparison. General Votel, specifically, had to decide (but if some want to say “the USA” had to decide, I won’t quarrel with that for now). Now we have as a comparson the antics of British PM May. To characterize what she *tried* to do, she tried to confront Russia with a “moment of truth”, which is to say, she wanted to say and tried to say, Truth is not what in you say, it is what you do. Her problem is and was, in order for a human being to impose a “moment of truth”, in cases other than when life itself providentially puts one into the “moment of truth”, you need *power*, real power. Consider May’s threats: Duran/Alexander Mercouris has written well about them. Weak. Proclamations of support and solidarity: pathetic, weak. Weak and even self-destructive.
And in the midst of May’s pathetic farce — careful!” this is not PC — the farce Steven Hawking dies. Bye, bye ferfide Albion.
Let’ssay a liberal rolls by and raises his fist: “You are saying that Might makes Right.” I smile gently and reply: No, I merely observe that Right makes Might.
Really nothing hard to understand, all going to plan: S(atanic)NWO. This is what you would expect to happen, those under satan’s control do his evil works. That is why logic and reason have next to no effect, evil cares nothing for it and it is meaningless to it. If you don’t factor this into your thinking, you will not understand. With it, everything falls into place, including ‘And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.’ Jesus in Matthew 24:6.
As you mentioned, if Russia wanted to assassinate Skripal they would have made it look like a mugging an accident or even suicide. This has worked very well for the Clintons who have to date eliminated 48 of their ex-staff who knew too much about their dealings. Their deaths haven’t even caused the slightest ripple in the MSM.
You are very correct, Saker, in saying that none of the old political labels mean much any more even when applied without guile. No one seems to be speaking with a coherent political analysis except maybe the Libertarians who themselves seem stuck in some Austrian school of economics time warp. At least they are bitter opponents of the neocons, strangely enough, and principled ones, too.
I’ve thrown my old schema out to the winds of change. It is oddly unsettling to be looking to literature for some timeless answers about what this is all about.
I just noticed that there was a push on campus for a local rent control campaign until this whole gun control canard/diversion popped up. It is as if people lack the ability to focus very long.
My preschool teacher friend reports this in every age group as if the very brain structure is being programmed a certain way by the electronic and social environment of early childhood. It is as if the neural circuits for integrative thought and feelings are being disrupted–total eclipse of the heart. Or, too much is being required of people. The multitasking required for physical survival is disjointed and not integrative.
One of the best articles written for a long time. Very poignant.
As if?
“as if [they are] performing for some unseen audience, or possessed by some diabolical spirit.”
As if?
In our struggle to grasp what compels these people, we invariably anthropomorphize the demonic. Madmen, psychopaths. No descriptors scratch the itch. Language expires at the Gates of Hell.
Just as transhumanity is an anodyne that conceals its real aim, post-humanity, nihilism is not for human consumption, but instead drives towards a time beyond human existence. These people are possessed which is to say they are unhinged. Unhinged from what? From indigenous human metrics and native human reactions and responses. Possessed by what? By something outside of themselves, something that they will learn, at the last moment, is as antithetical to them as it is to us. A clinical illness would submit to prescriptive remedy. This is a spiritual disease. Even if there was a pill the entity that inhabits them would reject on their behalf.
We keep rubbing our eyes trying to glean the rationale that guides them, but it isn’t there. The ‘rationale’ exists on a plane beyond our comprehension, wherever and however God and Satan communicate their business. So we can’t really appeal to them. Their role is to try and run the earth off a cliff. It sounds fatalistic. To the extent eschatology is unavertable there are limited degrees of freedom.
We’ve moved beyond the purview of mere geopolitical analysis, although of course there are still bits of that. Today, when you venture into these debates unassisted by a spiritual compass, the answers just don’t arrive.