Dear President Putin and Russian citizens,
I am an American and I write this as July 4th approaches. Many people here already have their flags up, many more will be putting them up in preparation of the big celebratory day to come. They will wave them, place them on their vehicles, display them on their homes and wear them on their bodies. And what will it mean to them? An allegiance, a loyalty, a love for a nation in which they live? A tolerance, a living breathing collection of souls going about their lives with little or no regard for the direction in which our leaders are taking this country? How can this be? How can so many not care, but even endorse such madness that comes from Washington?
We have a President that spews venom, lies, and propaganda, against the Russian nation and you. A congress that does the same, passes laws, endorses sanctions and creates measures to cause misery and suffering for the Russian people. A disgusting group of corporations that is called the mainstream media that publish and broadcast the venom from Washington, never to question the true intentions of their masters but only promote their agenda.
Most of my fellow Americans have become so intellectually lazy that they accept this trash, this poison willingly, preferring to have their so called facts delivered through their God screens. That is what I refer to the TV. To Americans, it is like the word of God. Most will never refuse to believe it. The absolute refusal to see the other side of what is happening has blinded them. I believe a nation lost.
In that regard, I have for years considered putting up a flag on the 4th of July. But for over 30 years I have not been able to find a reason when I consider the actions and direction of my country. However, this year I have decided to put a flag up. Yes, finally I have a reason do so.
This year I will put the white, blue and red flag of the Russian nation on my house.
I will do it to show my support for my Russian brothers and sisters and you President Putin that are under attack by my evil leaders. I can not change their direction, they are to corrupt, but I can show that I do not accept it, I can say that I do not agree with them. It is but a little action in support of Russia that I can do, and I will defend it against neighbor, community, local, state and federal attack.
In addition, I would also like to apologize for a specific piece of poison delivered from the mouth of our pathetic president. His grouping of Russia as a threat to the US, equivalent to Isis and Ebola. This disgusting statement came from the charred and burnt soul of a little man that is frustrated and defeated. He will never acknowledge this mistake, and it saddens me greatly that he delivered it to the great nation of Russia. So please accept my sincere apology for this and all the other insane lies coming from Washington toward you President Putin and your people.
I would like to say persevere my brothers and sisters in Russia, but there is no need. You are Russian, and you do. You know hardship and adversity, you always overcome.
One day I would like to put up an American flag, right beside my Russian flag. That would mean so much to me and the world. It would mean my country has seen the light. But for now the light is eastward. I see it from here. A glow over the Motherland, a true Christian nation. God is pleased with Russia. This I know.
Listen and see America, you too Obama, Hillary, McCain and all you that demonize Russia. That is the sound and sight of an $18 trillion eagle being swatted out of the air by the Great Russian Bear.
Sincerely and with admiration and respect,
Carpenter
PS: the photo chosen by Carpenter to represent him is his late friend “Chainsaw looking due East with intend to go“
Carpenter, this video is just what you need to make your Fourth of July!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EJgCwbfFn0
Happy 4th of July, Russophiles!!
I think, I know where you are going with that video, but here is my take:
Leningrad’s history in WWII is one of long suffering. Shostakovitch created wonderful dedication to this heroic City.
The message I get from this video is:
“You come to our house trying to kill us, we will dance on your grave in your house”
Poetic justice.
No, put up an American flag. I am. And put on it a black ribbon to mourn the death of the first republic, the constitution and the hundreds killed by the police state and the hundreds of thousands by the “security” apparatus. There is so much to mourn.
I agree you should fly the stars and stripes. Not because you agree with what the government does or support it. But the country is nothing without its citizens and as a citizen whether you like it or not your part of the country. Its like the redneck who says don’t like it then get it out , well I would say don’t like it, well lets change it. Unless you are so down and see the future as hopeless Saker your not a Russian citizen so why fly their flag? Here is what I think it is the best first step, we have to get money out of politics. http://www.wolf-pac.com They are working toward this goal and have already made progress. From my view they are the best chance, get money out of politics. Then we can pull our military back no need for bases all over the world. We can disengage just like we did prior to WW1. The Dept. of Defense can become just that. We can begin to down size the rest of the government. Anyway just fly the American flag that what your apart of and if you want you can help change it.
Nothing will change in the US until the government can’t borrow money to function. The system must crash. Then a new structure can be rebuilt. They have to lose it all. What does that mean? The four big banks must lose it all in a derivatives crash, or some event. The Fed must lose it all. Then we can close the Fed and start interest free, government issued money. The debt is easy to deal with.
Mike Maloney, The Secret of Money has great you tubes on this.
There’s no republic under the current circumstances….they passed TPP. Already, they are cracking down on homeopathics in the health industry. Already they can limit the internet.
I fly the American Flag every day, except the one I choose to proudly display is the flag of 76 commonly known as the Betsy Ross flag—why???? because it is a constant reminder of what this country once was and could be again if we the people took the abundance of good advice the founders–especially Jefferson –left for future generations to heed and act on.
For all Greeks: OXI
Vote no, heroically and with great pride. Never submit.
Russia and China will help you.
Vote Oxi.
You realize Tsipras and Varoufakis have said they will stay in the eu no matter what, right?
You do realize Varoufakis yesterday said they had reached an agreement with the troika and that it would be signed after the referendum…
Yesterday on an Australian radio show Varoufakis said Greece could never get back to the drachma because the government had destroyed all their printing presses after the switch to the euro… yep! that’s how dumb they realize the masses are.
Why do people on here continue to trust any words that come out of the mouth of western politicians?
I am pretty sure, that everyone knows that they have repeatedly said this. But, OXI means OXI.
They will have no choice but to return to Drachma (Drachmi is how it’s correctly called in Greek).
Lets hope that University of Thessaloniki is correct in it’s prediction:
http://www.inred.gr/dimoskopisi-tou-apth-dimopsifisma/
The article is in Greek, but numbers do not need translating, and are significantly different than the usual mainstream brainwashing BS.
Was internet survey, not the common “weighted” survey — but those are usually on a few thousand people this was on more than 170,000.
HOME NEWS
Poll AUTH: NO: 69.7% – Yes: 29.3%
22:17 July 2, 2015
SURVEY APThOi polls are an analysis tool and secondarily prediction, but the policy of the companies / pollsters often been shown to first ensure the interests “of the client.” With that entails …
We chose to present a survey initiated by the research team of students of the postgraduate program of the Policy Analysis Division of Political Sciences of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The survey results do not come from a weighted sample. The research carried out exclusively to users of the Internet. As mentioned on their page on facebook until midnight Thursday had replied to the questionnaire more than 178,000 citizens. The NO predominates overwhelmingly in percentage reaches 70%, compared YES beneath 30%.
The point is, nothing will change even if the NO wins.
Charette, I disagree with the last sentence of your post. I think between the words ” of western politicians?” the word “stupid” should be inserted,
Hey Carpenter ! Good to see you again ! How are you doing buddy ? That’s a great piece of writing…I especially liked it near the end…about the two flags and the following sentences.
I don’t see a photo, but sometimes my computer doesn’t let me see all the images here at Saker’s.
I hope you don’t mind me asking…did you get a job ? Maybe..you seem happier….I hope things work out for you and I think also your brother…
Some of us in Canada feel the same way. Our loathsome, petty, vindictive, divisive and altogether boorish Harper was the very first among world leaders (that last word is perhaps too strong a term to describe Harper) to fall over himself in prostration and support for the neo-Fascist putsch.
This means that it had, at the very least, Netayahu’s blessing as Harper does abslutely nothing in foreign affairs without Israeli blessing.
Sadly, all the Ukrainians I have met here are of Kiev provenenance and have fallen for the MSM propaganda hook, line and sinker. Sacks of hammers have greater intelligence.
Yes it was Harper to dispatch one of his minions to scoot off in solidarity with the Kiev gang but the 3 party leaders also showed this strange stance together. One might be able to forgive the new kid on the block but the NDP have lost my confidence and hope . I never imagined I could get so cynical about the political system ,but at the end of the day it’s where rationality and logic has brought me .
Maybe this foolishness will end when Putin is forced to give the west a good judo chop in the face and shut them up and cause them to take care of their business at home . This woman sets down and tells all .Illuminati Wife Tells All – Part 1 of 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8ly0c0_Rnk
I have yet to see the video -too long for today. Canada suffers from the first-past-the-post electoral system and Harper had expert advice from Karl Rove et al in using divisive tactics. The Liberal party had been in power a long time and had become jaded, complacent and a bit arrogant. Harper managed to use the RCMP to open a case to investigate fraud involving the Liberal Party which swayed public opinion. Police tend to be right-wing -except for their own union of course. The fraud case was quietly dropped once Harper was in power.
That said, as far as attitude towards Russia is concerned, Liberals and Conservatives are two sides of the same coin, the NDP is not far behind and even the Green Party condemmed the Crimea referendum.
It is something of a dilemma; paramount is ridding Canada of Harper and his amateur cartel of creationist, evangelical ‘enders’. The Liberal party enabled Bill C-51 so they are out, The Green Party will never get in until global warming destroys Earth (it’s already too late) so the NDP with all their faults may be the best of a bad bunch. They managed to get in in Alberta after decades of Conservative rule so anything is possible.
As the expression goes: “It doesn’t matter who you vote for, a politician will always get in”
If Canadian elections are not a sham like they are elsewhere, It’s ironic that Harper is pursuing the Ukrainian ethnic vote at the expense of the Quebec vote. Many Quebecers cannot fail to see the government’s stance is detrimental to their own considerations of their rights. Indeed, would Harper have used military force on Quebec had they voted to separate?
The elections in the uSA, Cana, UK, Europe, Australia, NZ are a shame. The banksters decide. People like the Bronfmans, Reichmans and Soros decided Canadian elections cause they own both sides.
Sham and shame. Travesty and tragedy. Fraud, plain and simple.
Jim
If you were to take the less then 52 min. time of part #5 of this lecture http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-2003-cbc-massey-lectures-the-truth-about-stories-a-native-narrative-1.2946870 you may find you have to re-phrase your question in order to get to the truth of the matter of Stevey boy or any other political minion that would take a seat at the head of the table of The Canadian Crown Corporation . “What is it you don’t like about us” is a very fitting title to this last episode .
Maybe they are the childrens from the former fascist who escaped after the WWII to Canada and they like what is going on in Ukraine. They don’t need to be brainwashed they just get this from their parents, who knows?
This is not a “who knows?” this is what really happened.
The younger refugees, and the older child ones, ended up in Canadian universities as academics researching and teaching Russian and Ukrainian history. Obviously from their point of view. People with the opposite point of view remained in Ukraine, spoke, wrote and taught in Russian. There was a Cold War going on so the two points of view were never tested against each other, especially not in the English speaking world.
So the Canadian, American and to some extent British view of Russian and Ukrainian history was written entirely by nationalist Ukrainian emigres to Canada. One prominent chief professor in this was the father of deputy head of the OSCE monitors in Ukraine.
The children/grandchildren who came back to Ukraine after 1991, to “help” with their Western education, were all of this population. They imported the new history written in Canada, and started spreading it through NGOs and by inserting it into text books. Not with any particular evil intent, just to fix things to what they “knew” to be the truth.
For the Canadian ones it was not brainwashing. It was the “reality” they grew up with. It is brainwashing for the ones in Ukraine, who are being deliberately turned from the reality they grew up with, to believe the opposite.
Today’s Ukrainians now have had two opposites they’ve believed. That tells them were is no single reality. That means, once the boot is lifted off their necks, they will look and think before accepting anything as “the truth”, Painful lesson, but it might keep them alive in future.
“Most of my fellow Americans have become so intellectually lazy that they accept this trash, this poison willingly, preferring to have their so called facts delivered through their God screens. That is what I refer to the TV. To Americans, it is like the word of God. Most will never refuse to believe it. The absolute refusal to see the other side of what is happening has blinded them. I believe a nation lost.”
The above constitutes a most accurate outline of the Pindos’ template of personality. Let me just add what I believe is crucial here:
The Pindos always were like this — die-hard National Socialists thriving on enslavement, theft, racism, and murder and duly recognizing their government in general and its armed wing in particular for services rendered. It’s no accident that Pindos proudly pontificate about their “Founding Fathers” and, whenever applicable, their own experience of the “glorious” Pindostani Imperial Army. Their psychotic misculture and miseducation further corroborate the overall picture. Pindos: Exceptional. yes — indispensable, nah.
As an aside: Regardless of how and by whom the attacks on September 11th 2001 were staged and regardless of what heaps of lies, filth, and sleaze that accompany the event, the instant prevalent mood around the world was a blunt “Serves you right”. Too bad in my view that the White House and its Offal Office came out unscathed. Would be interesting to know what’s most upsetting to the average Pindo: Is it the prospect of being set ablaze by one’s beloved, patriotic government or is it to have been outsmarted by a bunch of non-exceptionals?
Happy 4th of July (not).
The whole entire world knows 9/11 was an inside job except the sheeple inside the U.S!!! (they’re in denial; no it’s not happening lol). Let them lie to themselves, they think it’s patriotic to cover-up for their own government!
Given the Pindos’ overall moral stature, the Bush administration’s staging of 911 would be ironically appropriate — poetic justice at its very finest. I have a sneaky feeling that the neocons hate their vile, flag-waving, imbecilic underlings with a passion. Needless to say, I tend to agree.
A well written article. It is not too long and I enjoyed reading it. At first, I didn’t like the opening phrase (I am an American and I write this as July 4th approaches). I thought OK most of us immigrants are naturalized but at heart we still belong somewhere else-wherever that place might be!
I never celebrate most holidays here … Too many of them, they become meaningless especially after you see all the lies and deception; it feels that people are just looking for excuses to celebrate and party. Most of them don’t even know their history!
I think we can all agree that Putin’s popularity has increased around the world. America is doomed especially after legalizing gay marriage (they are minority yet the media propaganda has made them so powerful. They provoke us and are a bad example to children. What’s next legalizing pedophilia?!!!! Since they’re following man-made laws and they relinquished Godly laws, who says what’s right or wrong?
After a black president, I’m sure the next thing is gonna be a woman president (A nation led by a woman, is cursed)! They will not succeed because they’re going against God almighty.
Indeed, and I think his popularity is earned with honesty.
If that is of concern regarding a looming disaster in the USA, I guess I know why people do not deal with the true mess in due time.
Gay people are gay because they are born so. It is not about education and it is not about “bad examples”. Or did you turn gay because you saw gay couples in public? No? Exactly.
Current trends are pointing to the opposite – criminalizing pedophiles to the point that looking at drawings is worth years of prison. If it were for the safety of children, one would restrict criminal prosecution to the awful acts that do harm them.
Pedophiles are pedophiles because they are born so. A viable and human solution would allow them to live their sexual orientation as long as it does not involve real children. This should be particularly easy given today’s video rendering capabilities and virtual reality gadgets.
Your innate sense of justice as long as it is not blinded by misbeliefs. May I suggest some enlightenment about the ten commandments? George Carlin was spot on a long time ago.
I disagree. A nation led by corrupt power-frenzy people goes down the drain, independent of sex or sexual orientation of these people. If you want to go after them, look first at your corporations. Most likely you work for them arduously because you need to make a living.
Hm, if I were god almighty, I would have eradicated the human race from planet earth 100 years ago and wrote it down as my biggest failure in the creation. Fortunately, I am not god nor do I believe in any such almighty entity. Unfortunately, humans became powerful enough to doom the entire biosphere into oblivion, not just their own species, but not wise enough to avoid disaster.
Bravo!! Outstanding rebuttal!!
I’d go a bit farther and say industrial pollution has increased the chances for the masculization/feminization of the fetus as extensively documented by Our Stolen Future. Homophobes are anti-nature at their base and anti-science–necultchurny to the max.
Thanks. I just felt worth sharing my views.
Regarding the industrial pollution, my understanding is that a lot of chemicals or residues, including effluents from contraception pills, have an estrogeninc effect. This leads to a lower fertility of male all back up the food chain. The most exposed species (some fish, frogs) show an unprecedented rate of twitters. Meanwhile, even female fertility reduces. Nevertheless, I think that we could still master the chemical pollution such that these effects would diminish over time.
However, I feel that entering the nuclear age 80 years ago was opening Pandora’s box. Our inability and unwillingness to safely lock away nuclear waste for the next 20’000 to 30’000 generations will nail our coffin soon. Based on the endless series of nuclear spills since the very beginning, I guess it will be over before the end of this century.
It’s close than that. Not just any pollution.
All the various aspects of gender development are modulated by (mostly maternal) hormones at the relevant specific stages of fetal development. You can look at those mothers, now into the 4th generation, growing up on
* hormone-enhanced chicken and other meats (certainly at least in the US )
* vast amounts of soya (worldwide)
…* openly as milk (“healthy”)
…* secretly as filler (and cheap protein substitute) in just about every manufactured food
Soya being very high in phyto proteins, which are close enough to human ones to be very effective as menopause treatment
Add in hormone or hormone-enhancing treatments to “rescue” threatened miscarriages (which usually happen for a reason).
Add in increasing percentage of babies born to women not in the optimal age for motherhood (too young and too old).
Add in fetuses created with sperm made in a man subject to the same hormone-influencing factors.
I bet there is no increase in homosexual people in the few remaining “backwoods” places where everyone eats natural food.
Well, if Russia can maintain its best agricultural products pure, we shall have a test bed society in which to test your theory.
Where else is a large base of humans resisting the pollution of their food? There need be a base of a million or so for the test to prove conclusive.
Is there some nation that has resisted the technologies that have changed the food supply?
Hello Kat Kan–They’re termed hormone mimickers, the chemicals whose molecular structure is essentially the same as estrogen and testosterone. The book I cited spells out the entire process very plainly for lay-people. They are in addition to the extraordinary amounts of estrogen and testosterone within the environment due to improper disposal of pills containing them. Our Stolen Future is one of those Must Read books too few have read; very sad when one can get a used copy for under $1, not including shipping.
Just ordered. $4 with shipping. Thanks
Homophobia is similar to any herd or flock instinct. Albinos, crippled, damaged within the species are “naturally” marginalized if not driven off or killed. It is therefore not anti-natural to be fearful.
To be hateful and vicious toward “the different” is entirely a different matter. However, much of this is societal or cultural as well as normal physiological reaction as indicated by my first statement. The herd or flock is threatened by abnormal specimens. The more bizarre the abnormality, the harsher the fear reaction.
Some indigenous peoples created mechanisms within the tribe to sanctify the “different”. Native Americans held sacred the White Buffalo, and thus transferred a special (but separate status) for homosexual or transvestite. They were by no means equal to the warriors, nor harassed. They were accommodated.
Modern cultures differ in this accommodation. The spectrum of accommodation is very wide in some societies, very narrow or non-existent in others.
My daughter, when she was very young, five or six, was terrified of people with limbs in casts or missing. Today, she has had a long medical career in physical therapy with people who have all sorts of disability and limitations. So, humans have to learn, and they do that at different rates of learning.
Homosexuals in public keep stressing their difference while insisting on their sameness. If they think this has aided their cause, it may not have done so. But criticizing a perfectly normal instinct in nature as anti-nature is erroneous. Fear of the different is natural.
I want to love my country too (the UK) but I am slowly hating it because of our government and David Cameron, George Osborne, Philip Hammond etc etc etc. Not forgetting the evil Tony Blair and the stupid Gordon Brown.
I have the st George ribbon tied on my car aerial in support of Russia and those in the East of Ukraine.
There was a recent gathering in London of ex pat Ukrainians who support Kiev and they were flying the red and black right sector flag alongside the blue and yellow Ukrainian flag. In London, where I live and the place my grandfather fought for against Nazis in WW2. How dare they do this in my country. If they love right sector so much perhaps they should go back as cannon fodder for the US and its porky puppet piggyshenko.
As a Ukrainian in Lviv — right sector is run by the Jews and PoroZHYDshenko is a Jew and Zionist himself. Ukraine is under occupation by Jewish zionists and billionaires plus Israel and America !! The red and black flag real meaning is from UPA and OUN. Right sector is Jewish made.
This is in fact the great irony. The Jews get those who would hate them to do the fighting and dying for them so they don’t have to get dirty.
Blair, Cameron and the rest work for the banksters. As far as Right Sector, Azov, etc – they are cowards. They will push to send poor Ukrainian conscripts to the front.
The Nazis know that they will be destroyed by honorable Christian men in the Eastern Ukraine/NovoRussia who do not want war but will fight back and win. The DPR/LPR NovoRussians will be merciful towards conscripts who surrender. They will not be as merciful towards the Azov, Right Sector and other nazis.
Sorry to see that Carpenter did not have place for the miseries of people living under the flags of Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Libya, or Venezuela.
Venezuela’s certainly not immisserated having increasingly elevated millions out of the poverty they were mired in prior to Chavez’s rise. Palestinians are crushed like the Helots by the wannabe Spartan Zionists. Iraqis were crushed by the Outlaw Empire, as were the Libyans and Syrians. Millions of citizens are immisserated by the Outlaw Empire’s domestic policies, with @500 people murdered by its Police State. The racist’s war against blacks continues in South Carolina with ten black churches burned to the ground since the terrorist assault in Charlestown.
Democracy and Independence are the sworn enemies of the Outlaw Empire, which is why the 4th of July is ironic hypocrisy raised to the highest level.
Thank you for the letter, Carpenter.
Thank you! For your feelings towards my Motherland and Russian people. Thank you!
Carpenter, you are very brave.
You did not explain to Obama why he should not be nasty about Russia, why it is unfair. But he knows, so it is good you told him at least one person can see through what he’s doing.
You are brave to put a Russian flag, if your neighbours are all brain washed into hating Russia. Your main hope is, they have been told so little actual facts about Russia that they won’t recognise the flag. If anybody asks, try to be gentle when explaining it to them; it is not their fault they are brain washed.
Thank you so much, Carpenter , for this beautiful letter . I make every word of it mine , joining you from my vassal Europe .
Best wishes .
I salute you “carpenter” for your bravery knowing how “brainwashed” are our Anglo Saxon brothers and sisters.We live in the “Western World” where all our media outlets are own by New World Order “criminals” who advocate lies,murder and plunder and make those traits “legal” in our so called “DEMONcrazy” system.I can understand how frustrated a decent person feel when he read and listen to such a vomit.Keep your “sanity” Mr. “carpenter”
What the pindo regime/ziomedia belches out daily is the sort of war criminal freakshow that would cause even Goebbels to blush with embarrassment. Thanks Carpenter.
US Media Concerned Over Growing Pro-Russian Sentiment in Georgia
The article, written by columnist Michael Birnbaum, points out that while many observers may find it difficult to believe that “the Kremlin could ever regain a toehold” in the Caucasian nation following the war of 2008, “with the West backing away from Georgia’s path to EU and NATO membership after a year of conflict in Ukraine, pro-Russian sentiments are on the rise.”
What Birnbaum’s narrative doesn’t mention is that the expansion of Russia’s communications and economic ties with the Caucasian country is not really anything exceptional, factually serving merely as a normalization of ties which go back literally hundreds of years. In the 18th century, the leading Georgian kingdom sought Russian help against the encroachment of the Ottoman and Persian empires, with the Orthodox Christian nation becoming a Russian protectorate in 1783. Since then, Georgia’s leaders, intellectuals, and scientists, along with the Caucasian nation’s culture, customs, music and food have been given a place of prominence in Russia’s political, economic, and socio-cultural milieu, from the Czarist period, to the Soviet period and into the present.
Birnbaum’s article doesn’t mention it, but Saakashvili, who is fiercely anti-Russian, pro-EU and pro-US, was forced to flee his home country in 2013, after the Georgian Prosecutor’s Office launched a criminal case against him, with charges including embezzlement to the tune of 5 million euros and large-scale misappropriation of funds. A close personal friend of President Petro Poroshenko, Saakashvili has since gone on to become the governor of Ukraine’s Odessa, with Kiev refusing repeated requests by Georgia to extradite him. It seems hard to dispute that the disgrace felt by many ordinary Georgians over their former president’s alleged criminal activity may have also contributed to society’s reevaluation of their country’s push for partnership with powers and institutions which supported and continue to support him.
After all the effort Israel and the USA put into making Georgia Russophobic, wouldn’t it be a shame if the Georgians decided on joining the Eurasian Union, rather the EU parasites? ;D
I empathize with Carpenter, and likewise feel torn inwardly.
* Genius is not required for a child to notice USA’s National Anthem contains the words, “…and the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there!” Frankly my dears, skip that image 100% and immediately. I’ve never flown a flag, placed a bumper sticker on a vehicle, or worn clothing with visible corporate logos. If I feel NYC’s Madison Avenue-style propaganda is loathsome, then why imitate it on July 4 or other day?
* July 4 is identical to USA’s other work holidays that scream 12 months a year, “Go shopping!” August is the only month without a holiday but so what, the 8th month is reserved for Back To School shopping sprees by the minority millions who can still afford them.
* When I was a child, TV reception was freely available to anyone who’d erect an aerial beside or atop the home in order to receive it. Family received 3 channels. When I departed home, TV reception ended for me. In adulthood I first couldn’t afford, then some years later flatly refused to pay international Con Artists for trash, including movies. The only times I see TV are, visits with family or friends… or nowadays enter a restaurant, and 3-10 Big Screens surround you… companions stare at them, conversation is interrupted or altogether ceases.
* Yes, Mr. O is no different from the others: every word that dribbles across his lips is a boldface lie so ridiculous & hateful, I tremble in revulsion each time his face appears in an online publication or short video. Yet, I watch a few videos only to verify that he’d said the things reported… and Gag Again. I feel every US President from Harry Truman forward (at least), should’ve been arrested & imprisoned for bold war crimes.
And Yes, nothing to date stands out so much in my mind as O’s speech that combined Russia with ISIS and ebola! Who writes this trash?!? How does he get the nerve to perform such clownish scripts? Too much time with O. will drive me crazy…
* My little “wake up” began with the 1990 Gulf War Invasion of Iraq. Not online at the time, I couldn’t see enough happening on other side of the world, but was required to prepare paperwork for some of the Army Reserve who’d be deployed; and learned lots just traveling my state in order to do that. When they returned with Gulf War Syndrome = myriad unidentified symptoms that ruined their health, then I filed a few bankruptcies for them… and the National story rolls further downhill unto 9-11-01.
* 9-11 was an extremely complex, multifaceted event with a 30-year buildup. I feel people could see this easily as I did, if ONLY they’d stop focusing on the obvious 3 NYC skyscrapers and get into the real $$-dirt ungirding the event. I mean to say, everything BUT the physical drama tells the story… and then, return to the NYC Events and it gets even better! This requires time, interest and a willingness US people do not possess. Heck, an entire generation has already been born who don’t even know it happened!
Suffice to say, I hate USA and could rattle onward with reasons all day long. I don’t hate many individuals, and certainly not the geography; and if I’m able to type online this moment, then things are okay at my place. But deeply hate the Kleptocracy that’s obsessed with global domination at any and all costs.
The US National Suicide has been in progress for no less than 40 years… maybe 70 or 100 years. It’s difficult to draw firm lines in the sands of time. But when the Supreme Court elected a President in its 5-4 Vote of Year 2000, and one can explore the massive election fraud ongoing… well, I wash my hands of the US disaster, except to self-educate and die with the millions who’ll be slaughtered by their Absent Without Leave, non-existent “government.”
The only real answer for most people is, Stop Buying Stuff. Go off-grid if you can. Otherwise read & listen to everything Mr. Putin & Staff tell us. I also admire and wish the very best for Russia.
I applaud you good Elder Woman and your brief but expansive post . Seeing most understand the worthless trash we see and hear on different media platforms ,there are still jewels of discovery to be found . My most recent find is In his 2003 Massey lecture, award-winning author and scholar Thomas King looks at the breadth and depth of Native experience and imagination.
Beginning with Native oral stories, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, in an effort to make sense of North America’s relationship with its Aboriginal peoples.
Thomas King holds a PhD in English/American Studies from the University of Utah and has taught Native Studies at Utah, California, Minnesota, and Alberta for the past twenty-five years. He is currently Professor of English (teaching Native Literature and Creative Writing) at the University of Guelph. His widely-acclaimed novels include Medicine River, Green Grass,Running Water, and Truth and Bright Water, and he has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award as well as the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize. He is the editor of All My Relations: An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Native Fiction, and co-editor of The Native in Literature: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives. His popular CBC series, The Dead Dog Café, is being adapted as an animated television series. His father was Cherokee, his mother is Greek, and King is the first Massey lecturer of Native descent.
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-2003-cbc-massey-lectures-the-truth-about-stories-a-native-narrative-1.2946870
Terry, thank you. I will listen and/or read. Very naturally, I empathize with Natives’ plight… whether US, Canada, Central & South Americas, Africa’s long term colonizations, or further afield. The past 5-6 hundred years are deplorable, any which way we’d slice the scene. In my view, spirituality & honest living predates so much about my tiny blip-on-a-screen lifetime. Even if I’d had an opportunity to experience some great personal difficulty in order to successfully assimilate and dwell beyond all I’d known… any nature lover could prefer that effort, to the fakery in our faces today. I’m a nature lover, foremost. Tread lightly as possible; place stewardship ahead of other considerations; and as time lapses, when I learn better, then do better.
Very well said. Nothing in your rage to disagree with. Any sentient, literate American should feel the same anger and sorrow that a great nation’s government has severed ties, broken the social contract and set off as a Hegemon and Tyrant, murderous and satanic.
The USA (government) is not the country, the nation, the people.
But only a few of the people understand what has happened.
Dear US Elder Woman, you are an acolyte for the Truth.
I thank you.
I become more convinced it is the people, the county and the nation — not just the government, and they get the government they deserve and support.
It’s everyone, of course, but Americans are ignorant, immature, incurious, illogical, selfish and self-centered, biased, stupid, anti-intellectual, authoritarian, and deliberately so. Of course they are brainwashed, but they eat it up like candy and refuse to think or hear anything they don’t like — it’s a major cultural value. If you try to engage in serious discussion with most people they either yell slogans, ignore you, or give you a line of BS propaganda filled with nonsense. Not all, but most — easily more than half. The TV is not simply the result of corporate barinwashing, but what people choose to watch and pay a lot of money for.
Not that many in other countries are not similar, but the US is the belly of the beast, augmenting all the flaws of humans and turning them to personal profit and lust for power. We see families in towns which are dysfunctional and say ‘stay away from those people’ — and it’s similar with countries and cultures.
I try to stay away from corporations, governments, religions, gangsters, and more so Americans (which is difficult, being stuck living here). I’m not even all that find of humans at this point — cats are crazy and dumb about a lot of things, but they are more honest, have more integrity, and more social awareness than people. There’s something about chimp-derived brains which is insane.
Forth of July…
If someone wants to shoot a person of blow something up this is the ideal time to do it: there are so many people setting off explosions (and for days before and after) that it could be hours before anyone noticed something was amiss and the bang was not just another idiot blowing up a trash can or throwing off fire crackers every which way. I hate the things. Didn’t used to, but now it just sounds like war — which is probably why Americans do it. ‘Bombs bursting in air’, and all. Not proper displays like we saw in Moscow on Victory Day, but the chaos of war, and sounds of snipers and artillery, like in the videos of attacks on Donbas.It’s not about pretty, but kid-like violent, destructive power, with spent skyrockets falling into my yard.
Yes — all very American.
TV and Hollywood is used to manipulate and brainwash the public. They use many themes of multiculturalism, homosexuality, young girls should be tramps, boys should be g*y, wars are good, murder and using guns for murder is good, whites are dumb and evil.
The list goes on. If you watch TV and Hollywood then you support it.
Complaining about homosexuality and multiculturalism as if they were like war, murder, and prostitution makes no sense to me.
The flag means nothing without the freedom.
Not defectors, just more locals coming home. Two senior roads and traffic police come home to Donetsk. They were transferred out for “two weeks” at the beginning, and never allowed home. So they decided it is overdue to go home by themselves. As they were Donetsk people to start with, luckily their families are already there.
http://tass.ru/en/world/805837
These are high value guys. Look where they’ve been stationed. Mariupol. And I bet there are people there whose phone numbers they know.
He should put an American flag beside the Russian one to represent friendship between the two nations. Learn from the Zionists. They always put the American flag alongside the Israeli one to pretend that they support both (in reality they couldn’t care less about America or any country other than Israel). This is a mistake the pro-Russian side made in Ukraine as well. Appearances are very important. The pro-Russian side waved Russian flags and said they wanted closer ties to Russia. They didn’t wave Ukrainian flags. During the pro-EU “Euromaidan” protests they were very careful to endlessly wave both EU and Ukrainian flags together. That way they can portray themselves as patriotic Ukrainians who want closer ties to the EU rather than traitors working for foreign governments against their own country.
The narrative the Zionists want is that Ukraine is fighting against Russia. Letting the pro-EU side hijack the Ukrainian flag while the pro-Russian side uses the Russian flag supports their narrative. Even if they don’t care about Ukraine or its flag, they should wave it anyway alongside the Russian one and claim that they support “the Ukrainian people”, just not the current regime. They should stop referring to the the illegal pro-EU militias as the “Ukrainian Army”. These people are not the Ukrainian Army, they are illegal armed gangs who are being used by the criminal coup-installed regime to kill their own citizens. They should never refer to their enemy as “Ukraine” or “the Ukrainian Government” as this only legitimises them. They should instead refer to them as the “regime”, “dictatorship”, “Yatsenyuk regime” etc.
I say Yatsenyuk rather than Poroshenko for two reasons. The main one is that after the coup they changed Ukraine’s constitution so that the prime minister is now the most important position, not the president. Yatsenyuk is the leader of the current regime, not Poroshenko. He was installed as leader directly after the coup, and has been in place ever since. Poroshenko was only installed as “president” a month after the coup. Secondly, we have the recording of Victoria Nuland (Nudelman) picking “Yats” as the prime minister a month before the coup happened. Emphasizing his role as leader of the regime would make it more obvious that it is a US puppet being controlled through the US State Department and that it does not represent the Ukrainian people.
Think of the methods that the Zionists use to discredit governments which they don’t like, including the one lead by Victor Yanukovych. We have to learn from their tactics and use them against them. It goes against our nature because we are fundamentally honest and do not want to deceive people or be dishonest about our intentions. But this is a war for our survival. We can’t continue to handicap ourselves by being naive while the enemy continues to use every trick in the book to discredit us. Virtually every argument the zionists make can actually be turned back against them if we only use their own tactics against them.
I saw recently that the destructive Jewish supremacist Sigmund Freud likened himself to Hannibal, the “semitic general taking on the power of Rome” ( which he viewed as the Catholic Church, but in reality he hated all Christians and mainly worked against Protestants in Prussia). But despite winning a string of impressive victories and becoming seemingly invincible, Hannibal was eventually defeated by the Romans. The Roman leader Scipio defeated Hannibal by copying his tactics and using them against him. Maybe us modern “Romans” as the Jewish Supremacists see us should repeat Scipio’s success. We have to stop the enemy from framing the narrative and use their own tactics against them. They are very vulnerable to this because they do not have truth on their side, the only thing they rely on is PR trickery. Without that advantage, they will win very little support.
Totally agree.I’ve said similar before.You can turn their own tactics against them.Its just foolish to use the Empire’s own spin.The junta side should always be referred in writing in the press as “pro-US junta,pro-American troops,etc,etc.Propaganda is a large part of the Empire’s success.We must always “fight fire with fire” to win,a sad but true fact.
Pro-Pentagon Forces (PPF) might make for a generic name which I am sure would be a double edge sword . I am sure someone else have thought it . No matter it might just be one of those things that can convey a similar speak ..PPFAraq .PPFSyria . PPFUkraine . or any other theater the PPF’s chose to engage .
I would feel offended and disgusted if the pro-peace people would behave like the pro-war gangs. Sure, I can only speak for myself, but copying this PR bullshit would make me stop any support immediately. If you sacrifice honesty on the altar of anything goes, you will quickly lose people looking for real change to the better.
OT here but this is where everyone is and this is big news
OSCE BLAMES KIEV
http://rt.com/news/271606-kiev-osce-violation-weapons/
“The OSCE has warned that a growing presence of heavy weaponry on the government controlled side of Donbass territory has put Ukrainian security forces in violation of the terms of the demarcation line, according to OSCE Deputy Chief Monitor Alexander Hug.”
They also admit it was NOT DPR shelling Shirokino, and have gone in there and found no DPR in there at all (so they did demilitarise it unilaterally, as announced).
Slowly slowly the wheel turns………. the mills of God?
Shirokino … a meta-cauldron?
By leaving it to be taken by UAF, demonstrate for the whole world, for the universe (excepting Anglo news media) that M2 is dead, dead, dead?
Which leaves no reason for NAF to hold back any longer?
I thought it might be a trap. Apparently Ukies thought so too, and are still scared to go in. It’s not UAF there of course but some Right Sector mob, Azov I think, they have Mariupol too). OSCE said they saw “substantial” amounts of various ammunition lying around, strange they’d leave that valuable stuff, unless it IS booby-trapped).
A week or so ago LPR shot down a small drone belonging to Dnepr-1 (Right Sector again). They decoded the SD card and found 2 videos (2 weeks apart) of a DPR base being built, well designed and professional. It’s about half way between Donestk and Mariupol but a fair bit inland (to east) near a 3-way road junction. Worth a look (2nd down) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b7a_1435706240
LPR say they found *selfies of two foreign officers* manning a Ukrainian drone they shot down–here
http://lug-info.com/news/one/bespilotnikami-kievskikh-silovikov-upravlyayut-inostrannye-spetsialisty-spetssluzhby-lnr-foto-4355
They think one of them was seen earlier in South Osetia.
Unless LPR’s are selfie-mad too, I gather the videos are from a drone they did *not* shot down – Western media said already this is a ‘smoking-gun evidence of Russian army involvement in the conflict’ http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/30/apparent-russian-base-found-in-ukraine.html (.. despite no need for Russia for anything seen on that video…)
It is professionally and solidly built, so must be Russian. Oh, oops, isn’t Donbass the seat of industry, like builders, construction, engineers, planning etc? and don’t they have ex-Soviet officers (real Donbass people) and even some ex-Ukraine officers (recently paraded as “changed sides”). No, it must be Russians, the only people in the world who can set up a small base camp.
Of course all that detail about what type of soldiers would use this type of camp… I am “sure” the Dnepr-1 Right Sector Nazi goon types would be big experts on that. It wouldn’t be their US advisers doing that analysis for them, would it? or their Israeli drone handlers? Pot meet kettle.
I bet if we looked we’d find free material on the internet with printer-friendly designs for good military camps. Most of the war game type online games would have them too.
Very moving and courageous letter Carpenter.
Many of us feel exactly the same way, even though we are ‘citizens’ of other ‘nation-states.’
We are also ‘served’ by worthless, self -serving apparatchiks. Con-men, fools and thieves plundering the wealth and resources of nations on behalf of the global banksters.
The EU is every bit as corrupt, and the leadership of the individual states every bit as fascist as that of the US. Our populations are perhaps not quite as ‘dumbed-down’ by the education system/media, but the ‘aware’ are still very much a minority. Yet, despite the propaganda, all the Greek solidarity rallies in Europe have said one thing: OXI. (NO.)
So there IS an Awakening. Small true, but very real. It is sufficient to give Zig and his ilk alarm. The propaganda tactics they have deployed so successfully in the US have had nothing like the same effect in Europe. I really think they did not expect this. And they don’t have any other weapons.
Putin is selling as an icon in Latvia! This, despite historical antagonism to the SU and the war-mongering efforts of the Red Dalia.
This is just the beginning.
Good luck on the Fourth.
ps What a lovely dog. :)
I have US flags in front of my house today.
I love the US. But can’t figure out why Washington is so suicidal. Not that I am afraid of the Russian army, but that Washington so casually dismisses a quarter century+ of peaceful diplomacy and progress, to push for a conflict that can’t be won by any party.
In my twitter feed, I have input from the International Space Station, and from various Russian translators presenting the conflict in the Donbass. A schizophrenic combination, eh. Occasionally the US astronauts will mention Kazakhstan. They must realize that in anything resembling a real war, they will be grounded. But never talk about it. And the I see the ongoing shelling, the nazis marching, tires burning again in Kiev. Not the slightest peep from the “MSM” news, unless something happens that they wanted to happen.
And then there’s China … don’t they realize that most everything in our stores here is from there? I mean WalMart is essentially just a Chinese free trade zone. Any disruption in that relationship, and stores will be empty within days.
So the goal is apparently economic collapse. To feed the egos of a few elites? Ugh.
The goal of the bankster families is to loot America, the EU, Australia, New Zealand and the rest of the world. They hate Putin because he will not let them loot Russia. NASA and the Space Station are a joke. Unplug the TV and Hollywood.
Those looters — where dey gon’ live?
We are watching the end result of that game play out in the Ukraine now. Kolomoisky and Akhmetov they were rich guys. They didn’t work all that hard, just grabbed stuff as the USSR collapsed.
I am not sure if they are exactly ‘poor’ yet, but I am sure that their estates and fortunes are being systematically dismantled.
A Saxon king from the 6th century was discovered to have rudely fashioned pinch pots among the valuables in his grave goods. In the exact same area of England, in the 4th century, Roman commoners were eating off of nicely decorated, mass-produced stoneware. … All that Roman wealth, including the advanced technology of potter’s wheels, had been lost. There’s a lesson in there somewhere, perhaps.
Beat me to it!
A number of factors at play I think.
1. Growing – and very vocal – criticism of the OSCE. Not just in the Donbass . Their credibility is at stake.
2. A vocal protest from the Russians at being excluded from what is supposed to be an *international* monitoring mission. (And from one of the signatories of the Minsk agreement! How could they explain that away? They are not supposed to show any political bias. Major shot-in-the-foot from these idiots.)
3. Discontent in the ranks (‘we didn’t sign up for this..Wikileaks anyone’?)
4. The current head is (not sure, but almost) is Serbian. A US placeman to be sure, but they have a problem with growing nationalism / anti-NATO sentiment in Serbia. He needs to watch his back.
5. Possible alarm from the Germans about S’viley/US moves in Odessa: they surely don’t need a NATO stealth takeover here.
6. The junta is not lookin good, despite execution of all CIA directives. (I think myself Porks fears S’viley ambitions. When he’s not freaking about Yarosh (K’lo) + Right Sector.)
He does not really control the UAF.
7. The Germans (again) + Nordstream. Minsk has to succeed if they don’t want problems – big ones – there.
8. The NAF removal from S. Even the OSCE won’t be able to ‘spin’ the attacks and implicate them. A very smart ‘FU you OSCE’ from the NAF.
9. The Ukrainians are sick of the junta and the war. And they know it.
God Bless this American! (as opposed to God Bless America).
I am so happy to read that there are Americans still alive like this.
The USA is a totally corrupt joke. I hope the Russian people and Putin continue to try to be the opposite of America. Hopefully, President Putin will continue to reach out to other countries to work to be partners to help the people of those respective countries.
I pray the Russian people remember those who murdered Russian Christians in the past because these are the same people in control of America, Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries. The Soros and other dual citizen oligarch, McCain and Nuland types. I pray for the Russian people and President Putin. America is lost and hopeless now.
I share the majority of Carpenter’s sentiments.
My preferred flag is the Bennington Flag that evokes the Spirit of ’76 and the Declaration, since that same Declaration could be used almost verbatim today to describe the Tyranny of the Outlaw Empire, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennington_flag And I would fly it upside down as a signal of alarm and outrage!
As a historian, I tell all and sundry to read that Declaration and to innumerate all the similar deeds of the current Imperial government. I then ask what form of government did the nascent United States have at that time and what became of it. Very few know that a coup occurred in 1787 that provided for the establishment of an out-of-control Executive–Do read Article 2 of that document to determine what sort of restraints were put on the Executive if you don’t think my characterization correct. It’s ironic that what Russia seeks for Ukraine is a governmental arrangement very similar to the Articles of Confederation. The world today would be vastly different if the Articles hadn’t been overthrown. Indeed, this entire website wouldn’t have any reason to exist.
The Outlaw Empire needs more than Regime Change–it requires a new constitution severely neutering the Executive and abolishing the National Security State along with an elective Regulatory Branch responsible for enforcing the law removed from the Executive. But in order to achieve that goal a new Populist Movement must arise to take control of both the national Legislative and Executive and a majority of state governments. Not to be forgotten, the mandate governing the conduct of corporations must be changed from providing for shareholders to providing for society while doing it no harm, placing the interests of society above that of shareholders once and for all time.
A final note. The Bill of Rights was required because it was recognized in 1787 that something was needed to protect the Rights of the citizenry against the unrestrained Executive, which is why it was written. And Washington was deemed the right man to be the first president because he could be trusted to not become a dictator, which is what the so-called Imperial Presidency has become that began with FDR and grown increasingly worse/fiendish since.
ESTA MUY BUENA LA CARTA, COMPARTO CON LAS IDEAS DEL SEÑOR NORTEAMERICANO.
Poland has further fuelled conflict between the two nations as a city took down the brotherhood-in-arms of Polish and Red Army soldiers memorial.
World Bulletin / News Desk
Russia said on Saturday it was outraged by Poland’s destruction of a Soviet war monument, warning Warsaw of the “most negative consequences” after what it said was a flagrant violation of an agreement between the two countries on protecting memorial sites.
Poland has been one of the most vocal critics of Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula in 2014.Russia and Poland share a history of conflicts and the disagreement over war memorials is likely to add to tensions.
“Warsaw must finally understand that the ‘war of monuments’ unleashed in Poland may have the most negative consequences, for which the responsibility lies squarely with its initiators,” the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.
http://www.worldbulletin.net/news/161726/poland-destroys-soviet-war-memorial
A Katyn a day should keep Gownopolska at bay
The German Nazis put their most renowned concentration camps in Gownopolska for a reason. Auschwitz seems to me like a Nazi/Pshek “joint venture”. Today, Gownopolska is once again happily hosting torture dungeons on its soil for the promotion of “Latin Civilization”. Soviet power brought the Psheks what little civilization they have. Needs to be reintroduced really badly.
Hey Carpenter!
Thank you so much for this wonderful letter.
We were on a train today travelling from London to Oxford (UK), and guess what – there was a Russian flag flying proudly on a lonely house by the railway crossing. I could not believe it!
There must be people like you who are not afraid.
Thank you again.
Наше дело правое. Победа будет за нами.
The widely heralded ‘Magna Carta’ only came about, because most of the paupers and peasants had succumbed to the Bubonic plague.
How’s that for the ‘King’ [no, not you, Elvis] givin’ a rat’s ass about ‘democracy’ and the populace sweating [and dying a lot] underneath it?
If MSM is to blame for all the white noise [aka lies and total BS], who runs MSM and why aren’t they dragged to the nearest court and held accountable for their lies?
MSM is the antidote for your rulers’ poison [‘We gotta amputate the foot to save the leg…!’ – cutting funding for social programs]
Oh, the SC said ‘news doesn’t have to be true?’
Well, f*** me. The rot runs all the way to the top and one day, that invincible roof over our heads, will cave in…
As an American who’s also tired of the ignorance and arrogance, all I can say is hell yeah brother.
Покажите российские символы высоко и с гордостью. Во всех странах, помнить. США – предатели мира во всем мире. Это написано их конституция!!!
Personally I find it disgusting what the USA is doing in the world. I fly Russia’s flag with pride here in England. Solidarity with President Putin and the Russian people !!!
It looks to me that Putin is sacrificing Syria and Novorossia in order to mollify US and avoid war with NATO. He is probably playing for time, so BRICS, SCO and EEU can get stronger.
http://atimes.com/2015/06/russia-moves-to-middle-ground-on-syria/
If I were as elaquint I would have pened this letter myself, but I the least I can do, I indorse his letter !!!