This article was written for the Unz Review: http://www.unz.com/tsaker/false-flags-fluttering-in-the-empires-hot-air/
When I think of the recent developments in the USA (Dallas shooting, Orlando shooting) and Europe (Nice, murdered priest, Germany shooting) I get this unpleasant feeling that something is not quite right. For one thing, the perpetrators are absolutely ridiculous: pseudo-Muslims who turn out to be drinking homosexuals, ex-patients of mental institutions – the kind of people I call “overnight Muslims”: they all make darn sure to say Allahu Akbar a number of times, but other than that, they have no sign of Islam at all. In fact, far from being trained Daesh fighters, they are all losers with weak personalities. Exactly the kind of people the special services (and religious sects) like to prey on because they are weak and easy to manipulate. Oh yes, I know, the good folk a Daesh do end up claiming that the perpetrator is one of them, but that really proves nothing (except maybe that Daesh is desperate to increase its notoriety).
I have no proof of that, of course, but I am getting the very strong feeling that somebody is putting great deal of effort to scare the bejesus out of the TV-watching crowd. But why? Why would anybody go to the effort to create a completely fictional threat?
And should we really dismiss all the innumerable witnesses who speak of “more than one shooter”? What about the absolutely ridiculous police “overkill” when hundred of policemen are sent in to deal with one single shooter. Does that not strike you as odd? Am I the only one with the feeling that what is shown to us is a carefully choreographed show?
Then there is the canard about the Islamic threat. Okay, it is true that all these islamo-terrorists told the cops, and anybody else willing to listen, that they are killing infidels for the greater glory of God. That reminds me of the passports helpfully found in NY on 9/11 (and at the Charlie-Hebdo attacks) or how the alleged Islamic-terrorists of 9/11 left copies of the Quran in the bars were they were getting “lap dances”. The problem with all that nonsense is that there is exactly zero real evidence that any of these terrorists had any real Islamic education or beliefs. Besides, even if every single one of them turned out to be a deeply religious and pious Muslim, that would hardly prove anything. The IRA was “Roman Catholic” and yet nobody spoke of a “Catholic threat”. True, there is a very real threat to the entire Middle-East from the Daesh crazies (yes, the very same ones whom the US wants the Russians to stop bombing), but there is no evidence whatsoever of any real subordination/coordination between the Takfiris in the Middle-East and the perpetrators of the recent mass murders in the USA and Europe.
The cui bono, of course, immediately points to those interests who desperately want the prop-up the shaky “Islamic threat” myth: the Zionists, of course, but also the Neocons elites in the USA and the EU.
Think of it: their great hope was that Russia would “invade” the Donbass (or, even better, the entire Ukraine) and liberate it from the Nazi crazies the Neocons put in power in Kiev. Such a Russian move would have been used as a “proof” that the evil revanchist Russkies are about to rebuilt to Soviet Union, invade Eastern Europe and maybe even drive their tanks to the English channel. And if enough people would buy the “Russian threat” theory, they would also have to accept larger military budgets (to further fatten the US MIC) and more US forces deployed in Eastern Europe (where they would provide a much needed, and sometimes only, source of income). Then all the internal problems of Europe could be blamed on, or at least eclipsed by, the Russian threat (in the “Putin wants a Brexit” style). But that irritating Putin did not take the bait and now Europe is stuck without a credible threat to terrorize people with. NATO, of course, and its prostitute-colonies in the Baltics and Poland, likes to pretend that a Russian invasion is imminent, but nobody really believes this. According to some polls, even the people in the Baltics are dubious about the reality of a Russian threat (forget Poland: a country with a national hero like Pilsudski is a hopeless case).
But then, almost at the same moment when the Neocons came to realize that the Russians were not taking the bait, the steady flow of refugees coming from the Middle-East and Africa suddenly sharply increased, courtesy of the mayhem and chaos created by the Neocon policies in the Middle-East. How long do you think it took the rulers of the Empire to realize the fantastic opportunity this influx of refugees had just created for them?
First, this wave of refugees creates a series of major social problems which all could be used to provide distractions from the massive credibility crisis and economic woes of the EU. No matter how bad the economic indicators are, you can always “hide them” behind a headline like “Refugee rapes 79yo woman at German cemetery” (true case, just click on the link to see for yourself).
Second, just at the time when the ruling comprador elites of the EU are threatened by popular discontent, the refugee crisis creates the perfect pretext to adopt emergency legislation and, possibly, introduce martial law.
Third, the worse the crisis in Europe becomes, the better it is for the US Dollar which becomes the safe(r) currency to run to.
Fourth the more military units, as opposed to regular police forces, are deployed in Europe, the more the Europeans will get used to the notion that “only the military can protect us”.
Fifth, if, at the end of the day, the EU really tanks and riots, uprisings and chaos spread – guess who will show up to “save Europe yet again”? That’s right – Uncle Sam and NATO. Pretty good mission for an otherwise illegitimate leftover from the Cold War, no?
Ideally, the European population should become polarized between, on one hand, those who pretend like the refugees are no problem at all, and those who blame everything on them. The more polarized the society becomes, the more there will be a “need” to keep law and order.
Does that all look familiar to you?
Yes, of course, this is also exactly what is happening in the USA with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.
While there are plenty of immigrants in the USA, they are mostly Hispanics and Asians who adapt rather well to the US society. The good news for the US “deep state” is that Blacks in the USA can very much accomplish the same function as the refugees do in Europe: they are a vocal, mostly deeply alienated minority, with a great deal of pent-up anger against the rest of society which can very easily be set-off to create riots and commit crimes. It is also rather easy to find a few crazies amongst these Blacks to start murdering policemen (the ideal symbol of the oppressive White establishment) and create a sense of crisis acute enough justify the use of police, National Guard and, potentially, military forces to restore and uphold “law and order”.
Is it really a coincidence that the US Presidential elections features extremely polarizing figures like Hillary and Trump and that low-levels of violence have already been triggered by the hysterically anti-Trump propaganda of the US corporate media? Just imagine for one second what could happen in the USA if a “lone gunman” was to kill either Hillary or Trump? The society would literally explode and law and order would have to be “restored”.
The modalities might be different, but in both the EU and the USA we now see heavily armed and generally militarized forces in the streets to “protect” us from some exotic and scary threat.
Might that have something to do with the fact that the ruling elites are absolutely hated by the vast majority of Europeans and Americans? Of course it does!
I am convinced that was is taking place is the gradually suppression of the civil society under the pretext of protecting it – us – from some very scary threat. I am also convinced that part of this plan is to polarize our society as much as possible to create civil strife and to hide the real systemic and structural problems of our completely dysfunctional society and discredited and illegitimate political order.
The panem et circenses (bread and games) method only works in a society capable of providing enough wealth to its people to enjoy them. But when an Empire is agonizing, when its military cannot win wars anymore, when its leader is being ridiculed, when its currency is being gradually weakened and even replaced and when its power is not feared anymore, then the Empire becomes unable to provide the minimal conditions needed to keep its subjects quiet and obedient. At this point the choice becomes simple: either find an external enemy or, at least, identify an internal one. This time around, the AngloZionist found what they think is the perfect combo: a diffuse/vague external threat (Islam) and an easily identifiable internal “carrier” threat (refugees in Europe, Blacks in the USA). The fact that the US government has been planning for various kind of emergency rule or martial law situations for years is not much of a secret (see: National Security Presidential Directive 51 and National Continuity Policy Implementation Plan or Rex84 ) but now there is also evidence that the Germans are also planning for it. In fact, we can be confident that they are all doing it right now as we speak.
The last time around, when the Empire felt the need to regain control over Europe and prevent the election of anti-US political parties to power they engaged in the notorious GLADIO false flag campaign to neutralize the “Communist threat” (see full documentary here). It appears that the same people are doing the same thing again, but this time against the putative “Islamic threat”. And just to make sure that the common people really freak out, it appears that the AngloZionists have settled on a rather counter-intuitive plan:
1) officially (politicians) condemn any anti-Islamic rhetoric.
2) unofficially (media, public figures) constantly warn of the threat of Islamic extremism.
3) take some highly visible but totally useless measures (TSA, anti-terror training) to defend against an Islamic attack.
4) covertly but actively support Daesh-like Takfirism in the Middle-East and oppose and subvert those who, like the Russians, the Iranians and the Syrians, really fight it on a daily basis.
What does such an apparently illogical and self-defeating plan achieve? Simple! It maximizes fear and polarizes society.
That kind of artificial polarization is nothing new. For example, this is why those who hate Obama call him a socialist (or even a communist) while those who hate Trump call him a fascist (even though in reality both Obama and Trump are just the figureheads of different capitalist factions of the same 1%er elite).
What our imperial overlords really want is for us to either fight each other or, at least, fight windmills. Look at the American public – it is totally obsessed with non-issues like homosexual marriage, gun control vs “active shooters”, Black Lives Matter vs cops, and the time tested pro-life vs anti-abortion protests. To some minority of Americans these issues do matter, I suppose, but for the vast majority of Americans these are total non-issue, meaningless crap which does not affect them in any way other than through the corporate media. This really reminds me of the Titanic’s orchestra playing while the ship was sinking: the Empire is cracking at all its seams, there is a very real chance of a nuclear war with Russia and we are seriously discussing whether trannies should pee in male or female toilets when in the Target store. This is crazy, of course, but this is hardly coincidental. This is how our leaders want us: terrified, confused and, above all, distracted.
Frankly, I am pessimistic for the near to mid-term future. When I see how easily the “Islamic threat” canard has been bought not only by official propagandists but even by otherwise mostly rational and educated people, I see that 9/11 has taught us very little. Just like a bull in a bullfight we are still willing to go after any red rag put before our noses regardless of who is actually holding that rag or actually making us bleed.
The good news is that regardless of our gullible passivity the Empire is coming down, maybe not as fast as some of us would wish, but fast enough to really worry our rulers. Look at the Israelis – they have already read the writing on the wall and are now in the process of changing patrons, hence their newfound big friendship with Russia – a marriage of convenience for both sides, entered into with both sides holding their noses. Ditto for Erdogan who has apparently decided that neither the EU nor the US could be considered reliable protectors. Even the Saudis have tried, however clumsily and crudely, to get the Russians on their side.
For the time being the “Islamic threat” show will continue, as will the “active shooters”, Black Lives Matter and all the rest of the program brought to us by the Empire. False flags will continue to flutter in great numbers in the Empire’s hot air.
The Saker
“First, this wave of refugees creates a series of major social problems which all could be used to provide distractions from the massive credibility crisis and economic woes of the EU. ”
A problem with that hypothesis is that all the racist violence by immigrants on white natives “common people” and all the terror attacks by “refugees” is not really helping the multiculti elites in W.Europe and USA in any sense, and certainly not to maintain control, infact if the problems were just a economic downturn that would have been much much better for the current ruling class then thousands of arab muslims gangraping white women in public in the heart of EU.
Everytime an attack happens it gives nationalist in Europe a louder voice and the nationalist voice opposes the multiculti elite on every spectrum from economics to immigration,we are talking about an entirely new ideology and political class, relative to the PC-fascist that rule the west now, and they will totally displace the old elite if given a chance, andf these continuous attacks are massively fueling the nationalists in Europe, western nationalist parties that were marginal before are today the biggest parties in their countries, and all western nationalist are very pro-Russian anti-NATO, anti-EU.
And just for clarity.
Nationalist in W.Europe = Pro-Russian, anti-NATO/EU(FN in France,UKIP in UK, Afd in Germany, NPD in Germany, SD in Sweden and so forth)
Nationalist in E.Europe = Anti-Russian, pro-NATO/EU.(Well, all nationalist in Poland, baltics, Ukraine)
Before all these attacks started, I would say give it an election cycle or two before the entire political PC-fascist elite of the west, including USA will be displaced by pro-Russian nationalists.. But now, due to recent events, I say give it a year, traditionalists are exploding in popularity all over W.Europe, Marine Le Pen in France, Farage in UK, Afd in Germany, PVV in Netherlands and so it goes on in pretty much very single western, southern, and even a few east European countries, such as Hungary.
If the elites in EU are not planning to use all the attack and disorder created by multiculturalism to quickly declare a totalitarian dictatorship and ban all opposing parties, they have no chance. Within an election cycle pro-Russian anti-NATO, anti-EU parties will have taken over.. Trump might even take over in November recognize RUssia right to Crimea and abolish NATO right then and there.
Due to these attacks the entire neocon dream could end this year, and it certainly will within a few years.
Everytime an attack happens it gives nationalist in Europe a louder voice
Indeed. And that is exactly what the ruling elites want. To create the impression that nationalists are about to seize power and turn their countries into some kind of fascist states. Remember how Mitterrand used Jean Marie LePen to create a “republican front” against the National Front?
The powers that be want BOTH refugees sexually assaulting women and slitting the throats of priests AND the nationalist reaction to these assaults. Just like in the USA they capitalize on every Black man shot by cops only to then send hordes of militarized cops to deal with Black “active shooters”.
Ditto for militant Islam. They want to make it as threatening as possible AND then ban hijabs.
For an explosion you need BOTH the fuel and the oxidizer.
Kind regards,
The Saker
My dear saker, Couldn’t agree more about the false flags. Has anyone noticed that since the coup/non coup in Turkey and Erdo has kicked out or arrested all CIA and affiliates, even with all resulting chaos, there has been no terror attacks? Hmmmmm………..
Saker,
They are trying to control the narrative and therefore who can come to power. They don’t want to break their golden goose, just produce enough cognitive dissonance and internal strife to prevent a coherent public reaction.
The neocon establishment have until the elections to win the battle for public perception, to get us to vote for Hillary over a media created caricature of Trump.
Otherwise England would have not left the EU … they would have stuck around if there was a grand plan. But instead they left the Neocon-AngloZionist parade and are creating their own bloc – and becoming a yuan off shore trading haven!
The only thing we have to worry about is if Hillary wins then they will continue their useless attempt at global hegemony while everyone else has gone their own way (except for the feeble Europe)…
Trump needs to break NATO before it’s allowed to break the world.
You’re probably right, though I’m hoping the globalists lose control of the nationalist genie they’ve uncorked, much as they lost control of the mujaheddin in Afghanistan.
‘Divide and Rule’ the oldest tactic of elites. Just like the Zionazis’ ‘Divide and Destroy’ tactics outlined in the Oded Yinon Plan and inflicted on Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya etc.
This is absolute nonsense.The nationalist are being fought tooth and nail and given zero voice in the media.The police is more busy cracking down on hate speech than on fighting dschihadis.And btw the nationalists are seizing power and are winning elections so it makes no sense at.The main stream parties in Europe are loosing elections and they are propping up Islam everywhere.They let them enter the public services, they put crosses down, and now read carefully THEY allow muslim women to wear hijabs even in court as judges and barristers.There was only recently a case concerning this and a muslim women won.THEY ARE NOT BANNING Hijabs.NOT !!!! They give land for free to build mosques.They even allowed sharia police moving around.I know that because the “zionist nazis” in Ukraine are killing Russians who have to countersignal right wingers in general.Its is different.I dont know why you cant understand that.There is an actual war ongoing against Europe which includes Russia.Why is that so hard to understand.How about this invasion is real and the (((elites))) want Europe to be a califate ? Have you ever thought about that ? This danger is so real that even the russophop Poles will finally break with the Eurogarchs and ally with Trumps because they dont want to be invaded.So to sum it up: The western (((Elites))) are at war with the white western population and want to replace them.They are at war with white males and they say that openly ! Its not hidden.I can only warn the Russians.Dont think this is a false flag, this is a real invasion,its the real thing and Europe is fighting a war for its life and again the dschihadi invaders wont stop at the russian border.
Fact one: globalism is a failure, as it is against human nature. Humans grow in tribes and feel best when living with their tribe. Our civilization needs to accept this and allow for differences and for borders again. To lump everyone and anyone together in a great melting-pot and stir well and get it all to boil – as it happens, at least to my opinion, to Humankind at the moment – , on the contrary, wont end up in a peaceful Global Society, but rather in a soup that no one can digest.
Fact two: formerly, tribes were also designed to conquer new territory, not only to peacefully inhabit one territory and care for it and if necessary defend it.
This is the BIG problem about nationalism. It is primarily the US Nationalism that threatens the world at the moment. Their “exceptionalism”, thinking themselves to be some mundane descendant of the biblical Elected People… hah hah.
There is nothing more to conquer in this world. It has been conquered and tamed from one Pole to the other, up to the peaks of the Himalayas, conquest is obsolete now,
…and in this respect Globalism reflects a truth.
On the other hand, what we call globalism now is an idiotic game or even a blasphemy. A functioning “Globalism” must obey the facts, including those of our own biology and the fact that we live on a planet with limited resources – but what we have now is trying to defy and counteract both facts and natural laws at all edges, instead, and thus is breaking at all edges and driving us all mad. Why should Mankind not live in form of a multitude of tribes and nations again, different and colorful, instead of that false industry-normed unity of so-called multiculti which does not allow for any clear structures except those given at the queue waiting for a McDumb Hamburger? Why not thrive on local produce again, instead of insanely carrying megatons of ordinary daily-life items all over the globe only to be allowed to eat McDumb Burgers at the South Pole as well as at the North Pole? Nationalist or not, many of us are secretly or openly glad that this game will soon be over and that we will fry our own local Burgers again without McDumb telling us how they have to be and look and taste… and have our own currencies again… gold-based… etc.
what should be global and remain global until the end of Mankind´s time, however, are elementary spiritual values, for example the Golden Rule, the Lord´s Prayer, the Human Rights, the rules of Mathematics, Scientific Logic and Common Sense, those priceless fruit of our European culture and our Aufklärung, and the ur-old traditional knowledge common to all religions that we have a Creator and live for a purpose. Only to win or conquer human minds for this eternal core of culture does Globalism in its current form exist, and I think we dont need it anymore to prevent a relapse into Barbarianism nor to win more souls for civilization out of barbarianism. It has become obsolete in this respect. the nations all have finished schooltime and have become literate themselves. So they all must do this work, creating and keeping up culture and order, for themselves – or else the very relapse which globalism should prevent in its origin, will be caused by its perversion, McDumbism, which makes more and more people puke.
IS is nothing more or less than toxic fecal matter excreted by a materialist, shortsighted and roguish Mc Dumb Globalism
that either has to convert back to its spiritual purposes and repent – or to go under.
“Nationalist in E.Europe = Anti-Russian, pro-NATO/EU.(Well, all nationalist in Poland, baltics, Ukraine)”. Agree but don you think that the fact that these countries (Polen and Baltics) refuse openly to take any refugees “helps” them keep their Anti-Russian feelings? Look at what is happening in the Scandinavian contries, traditionally Anti-Russian (see my post here below)
Yes, I believe nationalist in Poland and the baltics and Ukraine live in a historical-bubble of ethno-nationalism, they live in a tiny world were other Europeans are their enemies like it has been for almost all of their history, with a few exclusion such as the mongol/ottoman/Moor invasion.
The reason Poland/Ukraine/Baltics live in their little historical-bubble is partly due to ideological encouragement from USA propaganda, which encourages anything that is anti-Russian be it ethnic nationalism in eastern Europe or wahhabism in Chechnya or PC-fascism in W.Europe, but it is also due to history and the cultural/religious/ethnic homogeneity of these countries all of these countries are very ethnically homogeneous often only with only a small ethnic Russian minority, while massive, enormous non-European immigration has destroyed the ethnic homogeneity of western countries.
The effect of all these non-Europeans inside European countries is that European nationalists are less ethnically nationalist and more pan-European nationalist..If we are to use as crude terms as possible – Poland, Baltics and Ukraine are ethnic nationalist, identifying only with their local own ethnic group and fighting their neighbors, while the rest of Europe is pan-European nationalist, identifying with all Europeans no matter if they are Russian, Italian, Swedish and so forth.
I have noticed that European countries with a large number of non-Europeans living in them tend to develop pan-European nationalism as oppose to ethnic nationalism. Such countries are Russia, which has since hundreds of years had a large asian population, USA which also for hundreds of years had an african/indian population as well as Australia/south africa, and now also western Europe.
This new pan-European mentality that I believe is the norm in the west today as opposed to ethnic nationalism, is a result of having such a huge number of non-European immigrants in their countries, which have really given individual European ethnic groups a new perspective, it is pretty hard for a Swedish nationalist to feel that blond Russians or Germans or French which are indistinguishable from Swedes are the enemies while african muslims rape and murder blond Swedes and blond Russians. Germans, French alike.
The same effect would likely be trigger in Poland, Ukraine and Baltics if they were to be flooded by millions of african, asians, arab muslims and so forth..It would be pretty hard for anyone then to try to rally hate towards Russians from which they can even distinguish themselves as a physically separate people.
Today in W.Europe, the media tries as hard as they can to incite anti-Russian sentiment, but even with full-on anti-Russian propaganda 24/7, very little actually sticks, this is partly due to the pan-European effect multiculturalism/mass immigration has had, were Russians are viewed as fellow European brothers indistinguishable from any other Europeans, combined with the fact that the European population absolutely despise their elites that has brought such suffering on them and if the elites tells them to hate Russia, the population figures the opposite must be right. Multiculturalism has already totally hollowed out the support for the western elites, and any anti-Russian talks just appears as more crazy nonsense.
To summerize I believe that a large presence of aggressive non-European people has broaded the world view of W.European nationalist to be the same as in USA, Russia, Australia. Before there were thousands of arab muslims raping women in public in Germany, ethnic nationalism was dominated in W.Europe.
Before, a German could stand up and say “I am totally different from a Pole, a Pole is an alien creature” and Germans could move into Poland and view them as beasts and kill millions, but now, as thousands of non-European people are attacking European people all over Europe, specifically because they are of European descent, the notion that other other European people are enemies has faded and now there is a sort of “European brotherhood” a sense that all people of European heritage everywhere are brothers and sisters and must unite or be destroyed by all internal and external enemies.
It can be seen in all forms of European nationalism, from civic nationalism like UKIP, afd, FN to racial nationalism like BNP, NPD or Golden dawn, to even nazism such as Dailystormer.
Infact here is Nick Griffin Calling Russia the last bastion of the white race.
Nick Griffin
https://www.youtube.com=3m27s
The clip is titled Politc: BNP Nick Griffin tells the truth about Syria. There is enough information here and below reference for individuals to visit these sites. If they wish. Mod
And here is an article from “Dailystormer” the most nazi, nazi site on earth. Very pro-Russian and pro-Putin.
“America an International Joke After Getting Straight Bitched by Russia”
So when ethnonationalist from eastern Europe, start talking about making war on Russia, their European brothers, saying things like Russians are mongrelized asiatic subhumans, W.European nationalists just look at them, shocked, wondering in absolute amazement if these people are either morons or flat out insane.. Russia to W.European nationalists is a country to be allied with, to be admired and to emulated.
Your point about Poland and the Baltics being anti-Russian and very pure or homogeneous in population suggests to me that they are being permitted to refuse massive immigration by TPTB. They are permitted to retain their culture and nationalism precisely because they hate Russia, which also seems to accord with what the Saker is saying. Of course they also cooperate with the western elites, especially militarily. Conversely, the western EU countries are being punished with immigration and false flag terrorist attacts to keep them under the NATO anglozionist thumb. Otherwise, they may follow their own healthy instincts and start cozying up to Russia.
All the points made by the Saker are persuasive. However, to me these comments seem very euro/anglo-centric, as if the whole question can be resolved without taking a hard look at the refugees themselves. Saker makes the point that the actual perpetrators–the priest killers,etc–are just down and out losers and not “real Islamists”. However, I have tried to make the point many times that the jihadists leaders do tend to remain in the background and use flunkies to do their dirty work, like the Nice truckdriver or the Normandy priest killers, or the loser on the TGV between Amsterdam and Paris. The leaders are part mafia don and part religious fanatic. I have, unfortunately for me, direct experience with both types. To say that the perpetrators are not convinced Muslims is true. I’m sure that they, like lots of losers who want to feel important, are both flattered and praised by the big honchos. They probably think that when the dust settles, it will be they who move into the millionaire’s mansions.
I feel that Saker perfectly presents what is going on with the controlling elites who are indeed the cui bono of this social chaos. However, it also seems clear, and has often been stated with perfect clarity by scores of takfiri imams, such as A Choudary, that their goal is to impose Sharia on Europe. For these actors, it is currently a marriage of convenience with the western elites who are “behind” what is going on.
Christopher Caldwell, in his book “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe” makes the point, which seems to be the theme of his book, that when the west is perceived to be weak by the Muslim world, that is when they flex their muscles and invade. When the west is perceived to be strong, they remain quiescent. Could it be that despite its bluster, the West is weak, which explains both the animosity toward Russia, and the fact that Islam once again, historically speaking, is revitalized and on the move?
I used to scoff at the idea of Sharia law as being anything other than a bogey-man scare tactic. That was before I read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millet_%28Ottoman_Empire%29. I can now see why those in power, given their penchant for chaos and fragmentation, not to mention ultimate unaccountability are interested in the idea.
I read recently an article on how the jizya is collected in French prisons from infidel prisoners. Evidently, a high proportion of prisoners identify with the Salifist movement, according to the article, and pretty much set the informal rules for all the inmates. You have to wonder as well how many French who are not prisoners are already being forced to pay the jizya. They would have to keep quiet about it, just like mafia extortionists force their victims to observe omerta.
If Sharia arrives, it will do so surreptiously “on little cat feet” until a scandal sees the light of day and the guardians of public order can no longer look the other way. Woe to those with children or family connections in these days!
The French author Houellbeq evidently thinks that the French government will quietly capitulate to wholesale Sharia. I plan to make that the next book I buy.
It isn’t without a certain dose of refined amusement one watches the “nationalism” of Psheks, Balts, and Ukros. As pointed out by Anonymous, these unfortunates live in a little historical bubble of ethno-nationalism that doesn’t impress the outside world the slightest. It must feel quite schizophrenic to suck up to the Anglo-Zionazis who are precisely the ones transforming European demographics into something totally anathema in the eyes of the honorary Euro-trash of Eastern Europe. In particular, the Baltic crackpots seem to harbour a very special kind of nationalism: Feeling proud about their tiny fiefdoms which, under Western angelic auspices, have been heavily de-industrialized and de-populated. Really, try to tell a Baltic nationalist most politely about the stark contrast to the track of development back in Soviet times — it’s great fun, believe me!
As for Sweden, your conclusion is absolutely correct. Swedish historical Russophobia can be said to have been working until 30 years ago. The last anti-Russian media blitz that was generally believed as Holy Gospel Truth was the Russian submarine hoaxes during nearly 5 years in the wake of the Russian submarine that ran aground right outside Sweden’s southern shores in the fall of 1981. Today, changing demographics, neoliberal rot, and of course the Internet have all taken their toll on the authority/credibility attributed to the Corporate Media and the old prejudices it tries to peddle.
These “little historical bubbles of ethno-nationalism” have been inflated by the farts emitted by the “neo-pagans”. Rodnovery, RUNVira, Romuva, Dievturiba, Rodzimy Kościół Polski, are all fabricated in the occult recesses of the British Secret Service/CIA. Their principal task is to push the idiots against the Orthodox Church. They pretend to be ‘anti-semitic’ but in fact, their anti-semitism is directed at Christianity (which they consider) “a Jewish ideology, and a foreign religion that aids the establishment of a Zionist yoke in Russia” (or wherever else).
I share this view. The neocons and EU maybe want this chaos but risk to overplay their hand. Thr bomb may explode in their face.
If the elites in EU are not planning to use all the attack and disorder created by multiculturalism to quickly declare a totalitarian dictatorship and ban all opposing parties, they have no chance.
but what if that’s the idea?
totalitarian control, seems well on the way to me.
“The IRA was “Roman Catholic” and yet nobody spoke of a “Catholic threat”.”
That is likely because catholicism is the majority religion in Ireland, and for the fact that the main goal of IRA was not to slay “unbelievers” but to achieve national independence.
But if instead of tens of millions of muslims, it was tens of millions of catolics that massimmigrated into protestant European areas and start to rape, blow up and butcher people for religions reasons, then people would not doubt start talking about a “Catholic threat,”
That is likely because catholicism is the majority religion in Ireland
In the Republic – yes. But not in Ulster or, even less so, in the UK were the IRA did also strike.
it was tens of millions of catolics that massimmigrated into protestant European areas and start to rape, blow up and butcher people for religions reasons, then people would not doubt start talking about a “Catholic threat,”
That is exactly what the Papists did in Latin America and what western Christians did in North America. Besides, what I was trying to show is that until atheism became the modern religion, most atrocities in history were committed by adherents to some kind of religion, yet the religion itself was usually not blamed as being the cause of that kind of behavior.
Now, I do consider that Wahabi Takfirism is the main cause of the atrocities committed by Daesh, al-Qaeda & Co. northern Africa and the Middle-East, but I see no such link in the behavior of the immigrants in Europe even if they come from nominally “Muslim” countries or even if they bellow “Allahu Akbar” before raping a woman.
Alain Soral calls them “Islamo-racaille” or “Islamo-thugs” and he is correct. These are thugs giving themselves a self-justification with a thin veneer of Islamism. But we don’t have to buy into this. As Soral says, it’s not like they leave the mosque on go on gang raping.
Cheers,
The Saker
I believe you missed the point entirely regarding the IRA and Catholicism. 1st. The British employed divide and rule threw sectarianism centeries before americans utilized it as a means of population control in the mid east or the sub continent.2nd the militant Irish were Marxist socialist in there formative beginnings which comprised both Catholic and protestant members. Which was seen and delt with as a threat by London with the use of the orange order . A religiously zealot. Anti Catholic organization that gained control of the limited political power the northern six of thirty two counties of the island of Ireland is made of.most recent census ‘re the regilous make up of the northern province of (Crimea) Ulster. Protestant 48% Roman Catholic 46% post 2011 both these stats account for nothing because only politics matter now in Ulster thanks to London.
Cheers
Oddly enough, the other night one of our ABC’s propaganda droogs described the Croat terrorists who were active in Australia in the 70s, as ‘Catholic Croatians’, and the Catholics as the ‘Moslems of the 1970s’. Now I almost choked on my Slivovitz, because I have NEVER heard the description of the Croat fascists, dedicated to the Ustasha butchers of WW2 and to the memory of Pavelic et al, as ‘Catholics’. And then I espy an article in the Guardian sewer where one of the resident turds asserts that there was no Croat terrorism in Australia, just Serbian Yugoslav regime provocations, that led poor, innocent (Catholic) Croats to be unfairly accused, and some convicted of crimes. So the historical revision project and the exculpation of WW2 Eastern European fascists proceeds apace, and if that is not psychological preparation for another war on Russia, then I’m the Pope.
Spot on Mulga! Always a pleasure to be regaled with your robust, no-nonsense language. Cheers
Where did Avro Manhattan’s ‘Vatican’s Holocaust’ disappeared?
first class analysis once again.
many thanks
This analogy needs further promulgation – ignorant people love to conflate muslim people with violent Salafy extremists.
“The IRA was “Roman Catholic” and yet nobody spoke of a “Catholic threat”.
The current debate in France is now turned on the israeli security model.
The old “guerre des droites” (war of the rights) is not over in France. Gaullists vs. US puppets.
Former PM F.Fillon recently said France needs to join th battle with the real force fighting Daesh, with Syria/Russia.
MSM media are overwhelmingly selling us the israeli security model though.
They’re having a real bad time in the media though (Turkey, Olympics, Clinton, Aleppo). ENjoy it! :)
Clinton and her Zionazi Israel First controllers have already made it plain that they intend attacking Syria if she is elected. The UN Security Council and International Law can go to that Talmudic Hell reserved for ‘Christian morality’. This, of course, is because the destruction of Syria is principally Zionazi policy, partly the fruition of part of the Oded Yinon Plan to destroy all Israel’s neighbours, and partly a religious act, each dead civilian being a mitzvot, or sacramental good deed, a blood offering to the fundamentalist and extremist Jews’ psychotic God. That really risks nuclear war, hence the deranged hate-fest, led by Zionazi Jews and Sabbat Goyim in the Western MSM, to link Trump to Putin, the New Hitler and ‘Haman of Our Age’. The Guardian cess-pool has gone full Talmudic fury today, and the contribution by the war criminal agitator for genocide and aggression against Iraq, the Blairite ultra, Nick Cohen, is an almost self-parodic display of a frenzy of hatred and blood-lust. One really struggles to imagine what madness of hate and the worship of death drives these lunatics. Trump is NOT my cup of tea, let alone the mad Republican platform, but beside the morally insane and evil Sabbat Goy geriatric shiksa, Clinton, he looks like Francis of Asissi.
Ouch. After the Saker, I really enjoy reading your comments.
Exactly, the Worlds biggest problem has been and will continue to be Talmudism, of the international sort. These nefarious beings are anti-human in every form, and do Satan’s bidding on Earth. By DNA, they are identifiable as half human, half demon, offspring of Cain and a female demon. It might sound ridiculous but it is provable now, with modern DNA coding.
Time to re-think the final solution.
Mulga,
As usual, I enjoy your posts. Spot on all the time. Blunt and to the point.
You made me laugh with the image you conjured in my mind of “Trump as Francis of Assisi”.
Mulga, like this?
https://img1.etsystatic.com/071/1/9168559/il_570xN.811723285_84nj.
Regards,
Carmel by the Sea
As a kind of positive outcome (maybe unexpected) with the massive influx of refugees is that the anti-Putin rethoric as somehow lost in weight in the Scandinavian countries, specially in Sweden. The politicians still keep trying but more and more poeple do not believe that in spite of the totally controlled MSM in these countries. Is like people start to think: Well, street violence is on the rise, insecurity, rapings, etc but this has nothing to do with Russians or Putins policy. But believe me the MSM specially in Sweden is so cynical and lying that they do their utmost to put the blame of whatever on Putin and Russia but the effect on the people is less and less.
Hillary Clinton gaining the presidency would be very problematic. She is a very big question mark, if not a very big exclamation point. I seem to remember her saying something like wanting to attack Iran months ago. I have always felt that the ongoing “terrorist crisis” might oneday be used as pretext to start more wars in the ME.
And yes, I agree with you about the sorry state of things nowadays. This is why I have lost faith in democracy nowadays. In a democracy, it is the people’s will that governs. Unf, the people have not been showing qualities of leadership at all. They’ve instead become sheeps.
I knew democracy has its failings, I just didn’t think it would devolve into this. I should have listened to the wisdom of my father many, many years ago.
Well in preparation for Killary – they have yet another lone wolf “shooting” in Texas:
https://www.rt.com/usa/354053-shooting-austin-texas-casualties/
Smoke and mirrors………
And so, a democratic Russia? Oh dear, I hope not!
I have often wondered how much leaks to the outside world of what is happening now in Europe. If your news is filtered through the looking glass of the press agencies, I suspect very little. I am sad to say so, but political correctness means that some right-wing blogs and web sites provide more and better information about the refugee crisis than the average European newspaper, with very few exceptions.
At first sight, it seems Austria, Germany and Sweden seem hardest hit. If reading German is an option for you, you could try the “EInzelfall-Map” on Google Maps. https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=z12D0zt-V4iI.kXGfjpzjOS1Q It’s a clickable map where every point represents an refugee-related incident.
Great analysis as usual.
What they are doing, though, ultimately may be staging a dress rehearsal and controlled live experiment in preparation for the coming climate change disaster to unfold over the next 40-90 years time.
These social disruptions lay the groundwork for the geopolitical games of tomorrow and ensuring Western societies will be much leaner, meaner, and compliant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_migrant#Definition_and_concept
In 2009-l0 Canadian journalist Gwynne Gyer wrote then lectured about ‘lifeboat Britain’ and what his schmoozing with the elites of the time revealed about their plans to deal with climate change.
http://gwynnedyer.com/radio/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK5l_0bm6ko
Since that time the decision seems to have been made to forgo efforts to blunt climate change in favour of a deadly game of musical chairs to see who will have a place 90 years from now on a devastated planet.
Climate change will devastate nations more effectively than any number of the anticipated wars to be fought under its driving shadow. Syria is just the first to be noted as such, but the Syrian was was long in planning.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/a-major-contributor-to-the-syrian-conflict-climate-change/
wow! – PBS – Climate Change – and ‘they’ are skilled at planning 90 years ahead.
Some analysts like William Engdahl have suggested that Climate Change/global warming is yet another psyops.
Indeed, Climate Change as a propaganda psyops makes the War on Terrorism and its false flag attacks like 9-11 seem like children’s play in comparison.
If Engdahl indeed says that, then he is greatly mistaken. When a scientific theory rests on 200 years of hypotheses and the work of tens of thousands of scientists over those years, the unanimous support of ALL Academies of Science and learned scientific societies of the planet, and 99% of the actively peer-reviewed climate scientists of the planet, then it’s wild call to call it a hoax. And when you add the observations of reality, the three record warm years in a row, the well over 300 months since there was a month of below 20th century average temperatures, the rapid loss of montane glaciers and Arctic summer sea ice, the melting of permafrost, the destabilisation of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and changes in animal and plant distribution and behaviour, then the assertion of hoax looks really mad. And all that rests in the balance is the fate of humanity.
Not so fast, MM. For all I know, you may be right, we may be toast. But maybe not. Continuing investigation and debate of this subject is not a certain symptom of insanity!
Here are 1000 noteworthy public dissenters: http://www.globalresearch.ca/more-than-1000-international-scientists-dissent-over-man-made-global-warming-claims/5403284
Anarctic ice growing in total recent years: http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/antarctic-sea-ice-reaches-new-record-maximum
Is the vast geo-engineering that has taken place over the last generation over much of the northern hemisphere increasing global average temperatures (as in mist overnight retains heat on earth)? http://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/releases/2004/04-140.html
Are these Russian scientists insane? http://www.globalresearch.ca/global-cooling-is-here/10783
Or this to at least consider: http://www.naturalnews.com/045695_global_warming_fabricated_data_scientific_fraud.html
Global Research is wrong-denialism is an obsession of Chossudovsky’s for some reason, but it cannot refute the scientific consensus. Antarctic SEA-ice is growing, but because of climate destabilisation. The land ice, on the Antarctic Peninsular and on the great continental ice-sheets is melting at increasing rate. The resultant run-off of fresh water floats on top of the salty sea-water of the ocean, and freezes more readily, hence the spread of sea-ice-for now. The ‘dissenters’ are 99% NOT experts in climate science, many are known recipients of fossil fuel money, or hard Right ideologues or even graduates of the tobacco harm denial industry. The Russian scientists are simply wrong, and there has been NO examples of ‘fraud’ in mainstream climate science, although many false assertions like the Climategate fiasco. I exhort you to do some more research, particularly on the evidence from the field. This is the MOST important development in human history, and WILL kill billions if left unchecked.
But what if irreversible climate change/degradation was already caused by the years of atmospheric nuclear testing. Just sayin’. Also Buckminster Fuller back in the day, noted how smog created by industry and utilities got blamed on the lowly citizen as part of PR campaigns. I can quite readily believe that the planet is despoiled, but you lose me with your faith in the scientific organs of the empire and their proscriptions.
The increase in smog in the USA after WW2 was covered up by the fossil fuel industry in an early example of corporate denialism. We know that the fossil fuel corporations themselves accept climate science, but have still financed a denialist industry. Smog is doubly significant, because the particulate haze from China and south Asia in particular, has increased the planet’s albedo, reducing climate destabilisation. Once that haze goes, after decarbonisation (if that occurs) there is another one degree Celsius of temperature increase ‘baked in’. I have faith in the science because its roots are centuries old, climate scientists are apparently pretty honest (unlike other scientists in the pay of corporations) and because I can see the changes where I live and read of those occurring across the planet. That montane glaciers are rapidly disappearing around the world is not an illusion.
You may well be right, but possibly for the wrong reasons. Because is it truly the little man in the street with his oh so ‘polluting’ vehicle, the industry, the Indonesian forest fires, or is it in reality the world wide Geo Engineering perpetrated by the same bunch of bastards selling us the ‘man made’ global warming?
Another possibility is natural sun energy cycles, orbit phenomena, or the entering of our solar system into a more energy rich part of our local universe, something man can do nothing about with whatever costly and more often silly or unjust measures. Of course we need to reduce waste and we need to do that yesterday, but look around you, nothing is being done. NOTHING whatsoever!
We make life hard on the poor sod commuting for a living, taxing him or her into poverty, while the same governments send thousands of terrorists, brand new Toyotas, shiploads full of armament, fuel and explosives to whatever part of the world they want to get their filthy hands on, and then send in their military to bombard the same area even more into oblivion to speed up the process and make a fast extra buck. Now THAT kind of waste and polluting should be outlawed.
Then there’s geo engineering. Google for the maps and see that almost no country in the world is spared. Whether they say it’s done for agricultural reasons, avoid severe weather, to fight global warming or in reality for military reasons, it doesn’t matter. The particles sprayed into the stratosphere raise the greenhouse effect whilst reducing solar energy reaching the earth’s surface. It’s quite probable that geo engineering is the real culprit of our (indeed!) man made global warming.
Better not to ask the opinion of so-called experts and peer-reviewed academics. Those are the people bringing you ‘totally safe’ GMO’s, pharmaceutics and vaccins that are 99% criminally ineffective and, worse than snake oil, often sheer poison. Those are also the people of which a large majority declared the findings of the 9-11 investigation correct, explaining us that it was quite normal that 3 high rise building disappeared into a cloud of dust and a pile of rubble all the while avoiding to mention building 6 that also suffered from a large explosion.
Man made, yes, but not exactly as we’re being told…
Cheers, have a good one!
Engdahl’s article is still available; its dated 2009, the year before Gwynne Dyer wrote Climate Wars (2010).
http://www.globalresearch.ca/global-warming-or-global-freezing-is-the-ice-really-melting/15356
Some of Engdahl’s sources have since been challenged, especially data that did not include modern warming trends. Even as Engdahl was writing, denier-based things like the Medieval Global Warming event were being debunked as not representative of a global condition.
https://www.skepticalscience.com/10000-years-warmer.htm
https://www.skepticalscience.com/medieval-warm-period-intermediate.htm
Its true that climate change is being used to justify arbitrary elite rule, however, challenging threats to democracy, fair law, and just order is just about all the deniers are good for. Their incapacity to understand the strategic possibilities weighs on the value of their alliance with social justice insofar as winning the Pentagon’s Long War for The People as opposed to the Elitists.
Climate change is a big deal and very likely the real deal; Gwynne Dyer was one of the few geopolitical journalists and analysts to include it as a default part of big picture thinking.
Engdahl is more conventional, making the default and likely mistaken conclusion most of us make insofar as the global chessboard. That is, that it will remain more or less as it is now save for the shifting of the pieces on the surface, not in terms of the the chessboard being remodeled during play.
That blind spot is the psyop.
Engdahl still has it. His latest article on CO2 talks about how its a good thing – it greens the plants we have.
http://journal-neo.org/2016/05/13/the-very-good-effect-of-more-co2/
Of course, that does prove there’s more carbon in the air and where its being sequestered; we just don’t know all the good effects accompanying the bad. However, greener plants are only useful where plants are still growing, particularly those sensitive and finicky food plants.
Recall that the oil price crash has been widely interpreted as a hybrid war attack upon Russia; it was, but the CIA/Pentagon/Goldman Sachs banksters don’t have that kind of raw power to do it from scratch.
What Western banksters could do is harness and game the natural business cycle of boom and bust, goosing production and demand with cheap capital for investment during the boom, ensuring a far harder bust when cheap capital was withdrawn – QE2 (quantitative easing 2). Almost no-one saw it coming, natural human short-sightedness chasing profits would have denied the danger, and the events were presented as separate and unrelated events playing out over a long period of time, ensuring most wouldn’t see an immediate connection even in hindsight.
http://www.naturalnews.com/048240_oil_prices_reporter_mysterious_disappearance.html
http://wolfstreet.com/2014/12/21/did-the-fed-trigger-the-oil-price-plunge-amazing-chart/
Harnessing new definitions of ‘natural terrain’ is an important part of strategic military thinking in hybrid warfare.
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Human Induces global warming makes perfect sense if it was to be used as ‘the shore story’ to make use of nuclear weapons thinkable. Those who objected would be told – “The nuclear induced global winter will save the world, stopping global warming” “You do want to save the world don’t you?”
Definition Shore story: https://mikemcclaughry.wordpress.com/2012/06/30/definition-of-shore-story-us-navy-slang-intelligence-term/
when the ”models” incorporate ANY data about the sun’s influence
on the climate THEN I might take notice !
even if their ‘scam’ was true, the proposed ”solutions” do not
do anything but enrich wall street. carbon tax? taxing the air
we breathe out !
Flag: any basic knowledge of Arabic script and sense of aesthetics points to the view they are not Muslim. It’s clearly a professional mickey-mouse PR job with an eye to the copyright trademark end of the scale. It’s clearly a childlike cartoon version aimed at the ignorant Western demographics (TV land) who are the target of the psyops. It certainly is not a Picasso with an inner resonance of the high levels of truth it (the words) convey through the lines and curves.
Daesh: the deadbeats in Daesh are simply either (a) the usual collection of cult followers found across any millennial ‘religious’ movements; or (b) paid mercenaries with the ski mask costumes to hide their identities.
Allahu Akbar: yes, another sound bite signature for the mesmerised mass audience. The Wahhabi curtin has a lot of even darker shadows lurking behind it — apart from general intolerance ignorance of goat herders (think the equivalent of the KKK) the Saudi money is the honey for every type of cancerous and delinquent agenda out there.
I concur with how you have joined the dots here and the flag-bull analogy is very apt. The system is failing everywhere and there is little anyone can do who might have the capacity to see this except build their own canoe.
The slitting of a priest’s throat in a church because “You Christians kill us” has nothing to do with Islam? Nothing at all? Really?
Really!
the Pope just said that in Poland
“we are at war, but not of religions: it is a war wanted by those who plan to steal resources”
wow, clearsighted!
So is the new cold war against Russia. The West craves for resources there… roguish greed again.
Yes. He also said it is a hidden war. A war for money. I think the Pope is right and see’s straight through the agenda in this case.
There is no worse blindness than voluntary blindness.
This might clear up something up…one way or the other.
“Islam was never a religion of peace, Islam is the religion of fighting.
No one should believe that the war we are waging of of Islamic State,
It is the war of all Muslims, but lslamic State is spearheading it.
It is the war against infidels”
Abu Bakr Al-baghdadi 14 May 2015.
Sean S, Eliot Shimon would say that, wouldn’t he. Historically, followers of which religion have caused the most death and destruction? Was it Moslems fighting in Barbarossa. and rounding up Jews, Roma, Sinti and Soviet citizens for slaughter? Was it Moslems operating Auschwitz etc? Was it Moslems who exterminated tens of millions of indigenous in the Western Hemisphere? Was it Moslems who presided over the Great Famines under English rule in India, the last in the 1940s? Was it Moslems who dropped the A-bomb on Japanese civilians. Islamic terror today pales into insignificance beside the numbers killed by Western aggression. It is all committed by psychopaths driven by the Evil Wahhabist ideology (rejected by virtually ALL Moslems)of the Saud family, US allies for seventy years. Al-Qaeda et al were created by the West, led by the USA, and used as cats-paws for forty years. There is one force that wants a religious war between the West and Islam, that they see as being to their advantage, and that is Zionazism. And over 90% of the victims of Islamist terror are Moslems.
No, Muslims did not do all of those in the past. But it seems that it will be the Muslims do it in the future, no matter who planned it.
R
@ Anon:
“The slitting of a priest’s throat in a church because “You Christians kill us” has nothing to do with Islam? Nothing at all? Really?”
We all have a secret weapon they don’t know anything about, nor they have any way to counter…
Fear not! As they’re beheading, hacking away, stabbing, shooting, mowing people down with trucks, or blowing themselves up in public places through out Europe for no reason… all you need to remember is this: “this has nothing to with Islam (TM)” … and then all will magically fall down into its rightful mystical place.
No, no! Don’t look at me like that! And, please, don’t be THAT guy!
Just try it. Like the ‘serenity now’ mantra, or the even more ancient human ritual of sticking your fingers firmly in your ears and going: La, la, la, la.
Try it…
It makes all your racist demons go away.
Once you’ve done that enough times to brainwash yourself, you can go and visit the two Chinese tourists still on intensive care, put there by one of these axe wielding, oh, so not ‘nothing to do with islam,’ kind of people.
Hong Kong family injured in axe attack on German train committed by Afghan refugee
http://shanghaiist.com/2016/07/21/german_train_attack_hong_kong.php
I’m sure it’ll comfort them to know – in their semi conscious-state – that they’re not laying there half-dead because of some random crazy, Islamic fundamentalist, but they may be there maybe because of some Catholic, IRA, head-case terrorist instead :/
I’m sure that’ll help their healing process.
-TL2Q
Mainly agree with your analysis.
Only, in this statement :
4) covertly but actively support Daesh-like Takfirism in the Middle-East and oppose and subvert those who, like the Russians, the Iranians and the Syrians, really fight it on a daily basis.
I do not know if unintentionally, ( or maybe because this analysis is for the Unz Review? ), but you forgot an important amount of people who really fight Daesh on a daily basis in the front line of the most decisive fronts, like Alepo and already also Deir Ez Zor, ….Hezbollah….
I did not include Hezbollah, my bad. I was thinking of countries. But, of course, Hezbollah is at the forefront of the war against Daesh
Thanks, for the clarification. So, in this case, they, Hezbollah, are Lebanese people, and we must not forget also the Palestinians of the “Jerusalem Brigade”, refugees in Syria for 50 years, who are fighting shoulder to shoulder with the SAA and who are taking the lead in the fighting to regain Handarat refugee camp, located west of the city of Aleppo.
Leave for all, a link to the really good news in Syria:
The colapse of the Syrian “contra” by El Territorio del Lince
http://elterritoriodellince.blogspot.com.es/2016/07/el-colapso-de-la-contra-vuelvo-con.html
“The Syrian army is winning the war. It does not alone, but with the invaluable air support from Russia and fighters from Hezbollah, the Iranians and Palestinian refugees in Syria. Even with the tacit alliance, although not explicit, with the Kurds, at least in the canton of Efrin. Perhaps in a coordinated alliance, maybe not, but with the same results, the Syrian army and the Kurds in Aleppo have managed to cut off all supply lines of weapons and fighters to the “contra” moderately extremist or extremistely moderate….(…)
(….) The collapse of the “contra” is evident. After the step taken by the Syrian government and its allies in Aleppo, once consolidated, the offensive will focus on Deir ez-Zor, to where they are already moving Hezbollah forces. The war in Syria is increasingly clear and clearly peeps who wins and who loses.”
Thanks for the documentary on Gladio. I will see it this night, if I have the time.
The MSM in Australia are distraught that their takfiri idols in small parts of Aleppo have been cut off and, hopefully, are about to be liquidated. The screeching against the ‘Assad regime’ has reached new heights, takfiri ‘activists’ denounce the daily atrocities of Evil Russia, bombing ‘hospitals’ (so many hospitals!!) every day, and ‘barrel bombs’ the true ‘Ultimate Weapon’, are raining down like confetti. The almost complete reliance on al-Jazeera, the Qatari takfiri regime’s lying propaganda sewer continues, but the ID logos of the takfiri terrorists’ video propaganda operations are now being fuzzed out, suddenly, and the habitual gibbering of Allahu Akhbar by the takfiris has begun to be edited out. I fully expect if Clinton wins or steals the election that she will double down, to prove her ‘avocados’ are bigger than the mere males, and attack Syria. Bibi would approve, of course.
In my opinion quite often the police response to perceived threats borders on hysteria. Paramilitary, armoured vehicles, swat teams, masses of police cars etc. Plus shelter in place for what ” might be” not what “is” a potential active shooter –is to put it mildly crazy. Frankly I think our American society has been utterly weakened by these overreactive displays underlining to me the subcurrent of emasculation that has taken over our society.
I dread the day when we were are ordered to “shelter in the nearest FEMA camp.” Why else would they constantly order us to “shelter in place,” as if there is an alternative?
Maybe it doesn’t matter how planned this polarization is. I don’t see a way this is going to stop or turn around until TVs stop blaring, consumerism dies and people have to begin living with their neighbors and their world within walking distance again.
“…living with their neighbours and their world within walking distance again”
While I don’t have a YouTube video to support this, it seems that this sensible, humanitarian wish has been hijacked by those with much darker motives. Under the guise of helping the village, once again, these dark warriors are aspiring to destroy the global village, by breaking it into easily manageable chunks, cut off from each other, and even the real world, the reality of planet Earth. Under surveillance, with no means of escape, each pod of human activity will have even less power (in every way) with which to confront it’s matrix-creating dominator. Although bicycles may be free?
A teenage university student who spent his entire student loan attempting to join Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in Syria has been sent to a young offender institution for three-and-a-half years.
Cubeyda Jama, 19, was arrested at London Stansted Airport in February on a plane bound for Bucharest, Romania – from where he intended to make his way to Syria.
The Finnish national of Somali descent spent his loan on equipment for the trip, including a map of Turkey, protective clothing, torches, a solar-powered charger and a laptop.
A search of his USB stick revealed instructions on how to travel to IS-held territory and 13 copies of the group’s Dabiq magazine.
Detectives found Jama had “beheading videos” saved on his phone and that he had searched on Google for “how to reach the Syrian border” and “paths to ISIS.”
Police also discovered a pledge of allegiance, written in Arabic, to IS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi in his London home.
Jama has lived with his father in the UK since 2010 and was studying computer science at Middlesex University, the court heard.
At the Old Bailey, he admitted a charge of preparing acts of terrorism by making travel arrangements and gathering equipment to travel to Syria or Iraq.
An assessment by a psychologist found Jama to be “immature for his age and of low to average intelligence.”
His lawyer, Hossein Zahir, said Jama had been “subject to grooming” by extremists on internet forums.
Zahir added that Jama was poorly prepared to make the trip to Syria from Romania because he had little money and no local contacts.
The Metropolitan Police said Jama’s USB stick contained a “step by step” terrorist guide, a document titled ‘39 ways to participate in jihad’ and a file titled ‘self-sacrifice,’ which set out arguments in favor of suicide bombings.
RT UK @RTUKnews
‘ISIS has terror cells in England’ – US intelligence chief http://on.rt.com/7b6v
During sentencing, Judge Gerald Gordon said: “You are described by the psychologist as naive, and I think that is right.”
He added: “It is clear from what you have yourself subsequently said, that you realized fully that once you had, or if you did, achieve your aim of joining Daesh [Arabic pejorative term for IS], you would have had no option but to do whatever was required of you.
“It is clear to me that you were dangerous at the time. There are some indications that you may be learning the error of your ways, but it is too early to say that you are at present no longer dangerous.”
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typical ???
I remember the french priest murderer had wanted to travel to Syria, been arrested and spent a year in jail before being released on a tag……………….that memory stick found bySDF with all isis recruitment hopefully is shared with all intelligence services, plus coupla months ago in March the hundred thousands documents found:
“Zaman Al Wasl’s report claimed the personal details of 1,736 fighters from 40 countries had been revealed, showing that a quarter were Saudis and the rest predominantly Tunisian, Moroccan and Egyptian.
Most of the European extremists listed were from France, followed by Germany and the UK. Four were said to be from the US and six from Canada.
Timothy Holman, who translated part of the cache into English, said the documents were collected at border crossings into Isis territory between November and December 2013.
Sky News said it obtained its files on a memory stick stolen from the head of Isis’ internal security police by a former Free Syrian Army fighter who defected to the “caliphate” but became disillusioned.”
Security sources have told The Independent the documents appear to be genuine, although they have not been publicly verified.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-files-documents-leak-will-throw-group-into-crisis-mode-as-thousands-of-fighters-british-names-a6922441.html
Yes. False flags is one side of the issue. The correlation between religion and violence being cause or effect is another.
To me it seems obvious that angry young men in Europe or ME might hate that US / Nato / western countries. It seems equally obvious that extreme versions of Islam would thrive amongst them to justify / excuse what they plan to do. And amongst groups like ISIS, a strong religious brand helps the the leadership to maintain control.
Anger & violence create the choice of sect, not the other way around – and the alternate view, which effectively removes all responsibility from the West/US/Israel, is US propaganda.
“Think of it: their great hope was that Russia would “invade” the Donbass (or, even better, the entire Ukraine) and liberate it from the Nazi crazies the Neocons put in power in Kiev.”
Exactly – as i put it, what possible reason would you shell fellow Ukrainians 30km from the Russian border – if not to provoke Russia into crossing it.
Declining empires breed nihilists like a mangy dog breeds fleas. The biting insects assume whatever color is popular at the time. The old dog blames his preferred adversaries. In this way dog and fleas form a cohesive unit.
What’s happening is called the Strategy of Tension.
It’s a replay of the NATO/American “Operation Gladio” of the Cold War, as you suggested.
Today, the War on Terrorism (and other dire “threats” to society) is really Gladio B or Gladio 2.0.
ISIS have released a video based on captured footage of the failed false flag FSA attack against the Syrian town of al Bukamal close to the Jordanian border. Someone has edited it prior to release to remove the ISIS propaganda and a beheading. It shows FSA being trained at the KASOTC(?) near Amman, Jordan, including a hilarious session on presentation skills. It then shows a short sequence of the attack by the FSA against ISIS in al Bukamal. The FSA turn and run almost a soon as ISIS returns fire. The amount of hardware ISIS claims to have acquired after the failed attack is amazing. It bears no relation to the apparent size of the attacking force. It certainly confirms the suspicion that the attack was intended to fail and was actually a cover for a supply drop to ISIS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HwEp5IWaC8
“/…/ forget Poland: a country with a national hero like Pilsudski is a hopeless case”
Psheks don’t qualify for statehood. That utter nonsense known as “Poland” should be terminally partitioned between Russia and Germany, period. Seriously, the Psheks could well try to befriend their kith and kin down in Galicia rather than leeching off a bankrupt EU.
“Might that have something to do with the fact that the ruling elites are absolutely hated by the vast majority of Europeans and Americans? Of course it does!”
Indeed, it is an age-old truth that class consciousness tends to be far stronger at the top; hence the prevalence — especially in times of decline and decay — of Elite conspiracies. However, for the time being, I really can’t say that a vast majority of Westerners hate the ruling Zionazi Western plutocracy. Ideologically, the system still works with its mass infantilization, pathetic political stunts, and all-out reactionary Ziomedia garbage. Rather, the ever increasing levels inside the West itself of surveillance, spying, and lawlessness strongly suggest that the Elites are planning in earnest for a showdown with the Western masses, whose role as consumers is becoming an ever more wasteful (even literally so) burden to the system’s continued existence. Neoliberalism is hard-core Elitist — this is where it differs most significantly from fascism. In a sense, it is poetic justice playing out with Western imperialism ditching its devout “freedom-loving” consumerist believers, and with the latter happily going along with it.
“What our imperial overlords really want is for us to either fight each other or, at least, fight windmills.”
Correct. And, conversely, what the Western masses really want is continued consumerism at the expense of planetary survival. The more intelligent people within the populist Right understand that the Western Elites are going to let them down immensely, distracting their less far-sighted Western compatriots with Cultural Marxism, Russophobia, Terror hoaxes, etc. It will be immensely interesting to see whether these folks can overcome their cretinism and let their knowledge guide them to reach the ultimate conclusion: Support Russia and smash Western imperialism.
As for the zio-gay Left and its Cultural Marxism, it is in perfect lock-step with the Western Elites all along the line.
hat utter nonsense known as “Poland” should be terminally partitioned between Russia and Germany, period
Can Russia pretty please refuse and give the Polaks to the Germans for supervision and TLC?
The Saker, Nussiminen,
If both of you exchanged light-hearted views about what should happen to Poland, I don’t have anything to say.
However, if you are serious, then I will put my opinion – whether it is ethno-nationalism or linguistic nationalism or ethno-religious identity, Poles (rather, the feudal aristocrats turned into zionazi stooges who hated almost everything around them including their own society, otherwise a warlord like Pilsudski won’t get such a stature of ‘statesman’) have every right to decide themselves what they wish to do – whether they wish their society to get drained into the EU sewer, or get hooked with USA Zionist masters to enrich themselves with the Dollars, or start a repeat of 1930’s romance with German (neo)nazi elites, or sing melancholy songs aimed at centuries old darling Lithuanian feudal landlords (who sucked the Belorussian peasants dry), or take a practical step of aligning with Russia in order to seriously develop their society and economy … None of the ‘outsiders’ should really take the freedom to decide what the Poles want to do !
I fully support your comment. None of the outsiders should tell a nation, any nation what to do in their country or how to live. The goal of many people here including myself is to take down the empire, not to replace it.
As a German whose ancestors were forced to flee from their homes in what was then Prussia, it was a strange feeling to walk the streets of Danzig and Gdingen when i visited not long ago. To know that my great grandfather probably walked the same streets and visited the same churches back in the days when that was still part of Germany. But I also felt that it is no longer German. I guess it is now Polish. I would not fight to get it back and would also have to respectfully decline any kind of supervision. Let the Poles figure it out for themselves.
By chaos, division, and conflict they rule. Europe should send some planes to drop leaflets on the countries the immigrants are coming from telling them the hotel is full.
An israeli was photographed conveniently at both Nice and Germany attacks taking photos. The Nice attacker sent a large sum of money back to family just before. Both he and the Germany attacker were mentally ill, and there’s a pattern there.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/07/29/summarizing-missing-28-pages-who-was-behind-9-11.html
I think we should impeach obummer. Much damage can be done in 6 months and they’re on the warpath in too many countries to list. Impeachment would bring light to the corruption in high places and would help in insuring the sHill doesn’t get in. It would also help speed up the 9/11 trial that must happen. If the people find out what they did, the opposition wouldn’t have to work so hard. Plus, Trump might be a better actor if he realizes impeachment can happen. Serves as deterrence.
Here’s something from Der Spiegel the German magazine on leaked e-mails regarding breedhate & USUkraine, or maybe he should be called breedS*** because he likes to stir it up, and with yet another pile of satanic S*** in karber, note how they never go and do the fighting. I would LOVE to see them on the frontline facing Givi, Motorola etc:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/breedlove-network-sought-weapons-deliveries-for-ukraine-a-1104837.html
A very good day in Aleppo, Syria. Thanks to Vlad and Iran and the Syrian Army.
Trying to work out where the British elite stand in this is difficult. They are fully behind the demonisation of Russia, yet are moving closer to China. Also their media is fully behind the US world wide false flag terror operation.
Will the British move further away from the US as the US$ hegemony weakens?
Saker,
Your article nails it again.
Thank you for connecting all of the dots hidden within this mist of seemingly contradictory events and narratives.
You showed us ( and some other contributors to this trail) , that all of this surrealism is, in its very core, just a pure and simple class war.
Awesome post and some of the replies.
This is a very good analysis. The only I wish to add it that The Powers That Be aren’t that good at things. They are often inept, confused, can’t plan or execute effectively. They are frightening but hardly all powerful. They are very poor when it comes to unexpected events, like say a million angry people on the streets that overthrows a government. There will be resistance in degrees and forms they can’t imagine and plan for.
As regards Ireland, before being artificially partitioned in 1922 by the British empire, despite having 3/4 of the population voting to remain United as one country, the island of Ireland was viewed as one country by Protestant, Catholic and dissenter.
Many Sinn Fein/IRA members and Irish Republicans also were non Catholic, or Papist as you put it.
Kind Regards and keep up the good work.
Je suis Donbass
My Fellow Americans: We Are Fools
Margot Kidder
July 29, 2016
There is something I am going to try and explain here after watching the Democratic National Convention this evening that will invite the scorn of many of my friends. But the words are gagging my throat and my stomach is twisted and sick and I have to vomit this out. The anti-americanism in me is about to explode and land god knows where as my rage is well beyond reason. And I, by heritage, half American in a way that makes me “more” American than almost anyone else in this country except for the true Americans, the American Indians, am in utter denial tonight that I am, as you are, American as well.
I am half Canadian, I was brought up there, with very different values than you Americans hold, and tonight — after the endless spit ups and boasts and rants about the greatness of American militarism, and praise for American military strength, and boasts about wiping out ISIS, and America being the strongest country on earth, and an utterly inane story from a woman whose son died in Obama’s war, about how she got to cry in gratitude on Obama’s shoulder — tonight I feel deeply Canadian. Every subtle lesson I was ever subliminally given about the bullies across the border and their rudeness and their lack of education and their self-given right to bomb whoever they wanted in the world for no reason other than that they wanted something the people in the other country had, and their greed, came oozing to the surface of my psyche.
I just got back from a rather fierce walk beside the Yellowstone River here in Montana, trying to let the mountains in the distance reconnect me to some place of goodness in my soul, but I couldn’t find it. The scenery was as exquisite as ever, but it just couldn’t touch the rage in my heart. The visions of all the dead children in Syria that Hillary Clinton helped to kill; the children bombed to bits in Afghanistan and Pakistan from Obama’s drones, the grisly chaos of of Libya, the utter wasteland of Iraq, the death and destruction everywhere caused by American military intervention. The Ukraine, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Chile, you name it — your country has bombed it or destroyed its civilian life in some basic way.
When I heard all the Americans cheering for the military and the pronouncements of might coming from the speakers in the Wells Fargo Centre, I loathed you. I loathed every single one of you. I knew in my gut that what I was taught as a child was true, which is that YOU are the enemy. YOU are the country to be feared. YOU are the country to be disgusted by. YOU are ignorant. And your greed and self-satisfaction and unearned pride knows no bounds.
I am not an American tonight. I reject my Puritan ancestors who landed in this country in 1648. I reject the words I voiced at my citizenship ceremony. I reject every moment of thrilling discovery I ever had in this country.
You people have no idea what it is like for people from other countries to hear you boast and cheer for your guns and your bombs and your soldiers and your murderous military leaders and your war criminals and your murdering and conscienceless Commander in Chief. All those soaring words are received by the rest of us, by us non-Americans, by all the cells in our body, as absolutely repugnant and obscene.
And there you all are tonight, glued to your TVs and your computers, your hearts swelled with pride because you belong to the strongest country on Earth, cheering on your Murderer President. Ignorant of the entire world’s repulsion. You kill and you kill and you kill, and still you remain proud.
We are fools
Dear Frank,
You speak for many. I applaud your rage, your indignant fury. It’s right that you should vent it – it’s a righteous rage. I share your every emotion, the hatred, loathing, fury and intense desire to see this vile stinking slime ridden demon destroyed in my lifetime.
All we can do, any of us, is as much as we can do.
Speaking the truth with power as you have is a great contribution.
Just dont let them win by allowing yourself to be eaten up with hatred. They aren’t worth that success.
Well, I think he is not expressing hatred but utterly repulsion and disgust which is not the same and is what most of us out of US feel as well.
It was about time that someone said once and for all the truth about US and Americans.
After all the rhetoric blaming the Europeans for not to put a solution to something that is only in the hands of the people of the US to fix it. And when I say people of US I mean all who vote and contribute there, regardless of their origins or if they consider themselves aliens there or not. All contribute to the rotten system that keeps turning and doing evil all over the globe.
Hey ‘Margot Kidder’,
I hope you feel all self-righteous and pure after your rant. Just a couple of comments. First of all, Canada is not some innocent bystander in all of this – get over yourself.
Second, this ‘you people’, ‘you all’ nonsense is just that – nonsense. Yes, there are a lot of know-nothings in the US (and Canada!)(and every other country, come to think of it), but there are a lot of folks who are doing the best they can to counter the idiocy, to educate themselves and others, etc. The U.S. is a fairly large country, with a fairly large and crazily diverse population, and when people say ‘Americans this’ and ‘Americans that’ it makes me crazy.
I am just as outraged as anyone by some of the stuff that gets done in my name as an American. Please don’t refer to all Americans as a singular thing as if it means anything. It’s just stupid and insulting, and discouraging to people trying to really understand and come to grips with the state of our nation.
Thank you.
Oh wait, for once Americans are called to attention here you come to put yourself so estupendo.
You are clearly very unaccustomed, man. Europeans are treated so, here in this blog, continuously and, moreover, are blamed for not stopping what your government and military are doing out there. It´s you who must stop them by denying the founding, for example, or go out in the streets till the things do not change or by refusing to vote for the Donald or the Hillary, that in the end will be the same, and you, ALL, know it . But no, we, Europeans or non Americans, have to endure the blatant pro-Trump campaign carried out here for at least half a year and say nothing because if not, you, the indispensable people of the indispensable nation, go and get dissapointed.
Well, enough, man! Learn to go feelling and swallowing the contempt of the people which is widespread worldwide, of the caliber of your misdeeds throughout the world and history.
For your information, Europe is also a huge space formed by different countries with different cultures and so in it there are all kinds of people, included certain ones who have always fought on the right side of the antifascist front, from the cradle, and have nothing to be ashamed of, and yet day in and day out are attacked, banned and ridiculed by you, Americans (natives or legal residents) who mostly read, comment and publish in this blog.
An excellent observation concerning US Imperial Evil. Yet today I suffered through reading the usual ‘editorials’ in our local MSM, re. the US electoral farce, and the constant theme, recurring over and over like a mantra, was groveling praise for ‘America as a force for good in the world’. When your ENTIRE political and MSM elites repeat this ludicrous inversion of the Truth, over and over again, with NO dissent allowed, you know that reality has been stretched to breaking point, and far beyond. Indeed when any talking head on local TV dares utter a thought even marginally deviating from Imperial Groupthink these days, the reaction is not just furious incredulity or dumbfounded incomprehension at the ‘Unthinkable’, but, more and more a fleeting or brief look of fright. As if the thought that the mental and spiritual strait-jacket of America Worship being questioned might lead-who knows where?
It occurs to me when we speak of the people’s antipathy towards the elite we are speaking of their mistrust of the professional political class. It is this class that proxies for the empire and it’s predatory policies. However, what happens when (not if) the EU collapses? The professional politicians will no longer be able to look forward to moving upward to secure and richly paid sinecures in the EU. This is the carrot that urges them to constantly play ball with the aims of the empire. When that’s gone all those rich slots in the system will be gone as well and there is no other place for these people to go. They are not wanted in commerce or in the governments of other states. There are only so many fine jobs to be had in the academies and the think tanks and such. They will have to.. root hog or die. In other words, they will be forced to accommodate themselves to the wishes of the people of their home state.. or actually get a real job! Horrors!
Hello Saker,
As a devout Orthodox Christian, I am somewhat surprised that you consider the issue of abortion unimportant. Could you explain this a little bit?
I never said that. Read
what I actually wrote
and don’t give me strawman arguments. Also Nestorians are not Orthodox Christians. They are, well, Nestorians :-)
The Saker never said that abortion from a moral standpoint unimportant. What he is perhaps getting at is that there is a level of government (governance, ecology) above the ostensible categories such as executive, legislative and judicial. Hence, you can have a president from a political party that is “against abortion” (George W. Bush) and a legislative majority from the same party (Republican) and yet have no change in policy. Pro-life politicians need abortion so that they can ritually denounce it every election cycle, securing the vote of the pious– their moral culpability is at the very least is the sin of simony (trading in sacred things). The picture of the Bushes playing golf with Bill Clinton tells all.
There is a constant problem with parts of The Saker’s views when it comes to the way he sees many events in a conspiratorial light which are usually much better explained in alternative ways. For example the idea that the various media circuses like the bathroom issues in America, are a planned distraction; or the Black America issues; or refugee issues in Europe – all as being used in a conspiracy to create more of a martial law environment. All of those various issues can each be explained in a more logical and sensible way due to the inherent nature of “crisis” in modern culture, whereby each crisis issue leads to a media reaction which stokes and inflames, thereby making each issue a vicious cycle which ends up with public demands of more involvement by government, police, and so on. Let me explain.
The idea that all of the recent Muslims terror attacks were by nominal Muslims with mental problems, and therefore that means they were the products of a conspiracy to invoke a more hardcore police state environment in Europe and America, is quite a leap of faith in the official explanations and conjecture. We do not really know what is real or not about those specific Muslims – the reason is because there is a concerted effort by Muslims in positions of influence in the west (super wealthy oil wealth and politically connected) to divorce Islam from any blame to terror attacks. Therefore there is a lot of pressure they bring to bear on state and media to make the terrorists out to be “not really real Muslims.”
Also, there is the influence of “Manufactured Consent,” which is the concept of how the media and also State, or even business, all work based upon shared current conceptions or ideologies of “political-correctness,” or what is seen as within the boundaries of acceptable views and words – along with seeking to please various constituencies – all together creates a self-imposed model of newspeak or manufactured consent. Those influences can seem conspiratorial, when they are really self-imposed boundaries which leads to what looks like a common controlling influence of people, rather then the influence of the culture they all work within.
Not that all conspiracy based views are necessarily wrong, it is just that manufactured consent *appears* so conspiratorial in nature that it is easy to see conspiracy, when all that is going on is self perpetuating limiting behavior based on shared values. For example: you say that all the current calls to a more militarized police state in Europe seems to have moved all the past focus on the economic problems of the EU off the media table. Is that planned? You suggest it is because of the supposed lack of piety of the Muslim terrorists or refugees.
Even if we are not lied to about the lack of piety of those people, they can be explained another way: the refugees coming to Europe are desperate people, and many of them will of course have mental problems or cultural conditioning which makes their easy assimilation into European society be unlikely. Their desperation makes their inherent problems in transitioning into European society worsened. For example in Muslim countries men are used to treating women in a certain way and getting away with it, so of course their all of a sudden desperate situation in Europe making them unstable, combined with their inherent machismo and attitudes, can easily set them on the course to violence towards women, and towards people in general. That often manifests internally within their self-justification as “doing violence for Islam,” since they have been taught by so many Muslim sources that it is justified to attack “the infidels” for any number of reaons, therefore they have an outlet for their violence that they can self-justify and be written off as “it is for Allah.” When really they are just violence prone, and or mentally ill to various degrees.
The refugee problem *inherently* should lead to the current problems in the EU, which very predictably it has done so. And because it has, that has led many people in the EU to realize they have a big problem with potential violence – and the media very predictably reacts in order to gain views for their TV shows, or websites or news organizations and so on. The media values sensationalism for viewership, and they push fear for reasons of selling their shows or website or papers, and that in turn creates a feedback loop which manifests in the people becoming more fearful and suspicious, and treating refugees worse – making the refugees more violent, thereby creating a vicious cycle. This leads to demands made on the governments to increase the police state. All very predictable and not needing any conspiracy.
@events in a conspiratorial light which are usually much better explained in alternative ways.
One should apply the ‘Hanlon’s razor’: “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity (or ignorance, or incompetence), but don’t rule out malice.”
or
The Ingham’s ‘”cock-up before conspiracy” theory:
“Many journalists have fallen for the conspiracy theory of government. I do assure you that they would produce more accurate work if they adhered to the cock-up theory.”
Now, on the other hand, it is hard to deny that Islam is the ‘culture medium’ in which the ‘crazy Salafists’ grow. That’s not to deny that the Western governments did not encourage, nurture, guide and promote the “Islamic Renaissance” from a very early date, in the mistaken belief that “the Muslims will be impressed with the moral and spiritual strength of America”, and with the declared intention to use them in the ‘anti-Communist’ jihad.
The President Eisenhower spoke about this in a memo summarizing discussions with the CIA covert ops chief, Frank Wisner who figures in Obama’s Arab Spring scenario in 2011, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The memo notes: ”The President said . . . we should do everything possible to stress the ‘holy war’ aspect. Mr. Dulles commented that if Arabs have a ‘holy war’ they would want it to be against Israel. The President recalled, however, that [King Ibn] Saud . . . had called on all Arabs to oppose Communism.”
No need to evoke Brzezinski.
Saker,
After getting away ‘clean’ with 911, everything is possible.
This way the key FF that enabled PNAC and everything flows from that.
Nothing surprises me anymore.
Gladio fits the bill…. 100%
Thankyou Saker – I have been seeing and saying this for the last few years, increasingly as time goes by. I haven’t said it as well as you have though.
That all of these events carries a clear, obvious lead back to the Empire is so evident to me that I have for a long time been bewildered by the acceptance of the stupid, illogical stories by so many others.
Agree that the Evil Empire, the Hegemon, is cracking and sinking and that this is good news. Unhappily an animal driven into a corner and sinking into the mud thrashes out in all directions. This one is no different. Therein lies a huge danger to us all, for this animal, now insane in it’s death throes, carries a terrible, dangerous weapon.
There is no greater measure of the insanity it, and it’s Vassal whore countries have sunk to than the recent fiasco over Russia and the Olympic Games, most specifically banning the best pole vaulter ever known. Yelena Isinbayeva, has been twice rejected on appeal, banned from competing, having a 100% clean drug record over the years, while two Americans who have served suspensions for drug taking will compete and this based on the allegation made on TV by a wanted criminal in Russia who was sacked – from the AntiDoping commission he was supposed to be working for.
It’s blatant in it’s spite, wrongdoing, lawlessness, viciounesss and insanity. Yet the Empire is now so insane and so hubristically confident that it holds all the media and information cards that it does it anyway – and smirks.
All any of us can do now is pray that a means is found to euthanise the dying beast at the earliest possibility.
Zionists, Neocons, Neolibs, Wahhaibi’s, Ultra-Orthodox, Nazis, Racists etc are all the same of course….The hope being that the natural law of diminishing returns….that only so much sacrifice(killing) to achieve the result they need….kicks in….So that much more of the same achieves much less or nothing at all and collapse comes to also smother those who can’t see beyond their noses(or books of dead orthodoxy)….unless….a fresh innocent new friend can be found to refresh the killing….of our only home….P.Earth.
Look at your day to day life. Don’t you ever feel like you’re living in a big joke? I can’t believe the things I see and hear each day. Shortly before the convention, the Democratic Primary process was revealed to be a rigged fraud. The Nuland conversation about the coup in the Ukraine. 9/11 itself?
Are you familiar with any of these events?
Sure, I also read about Orlando being staged, Nice being fake, Bataclan being fake. I read that nobody is really who they claim to be- like this article- are the posters on this site really who they claim to be or are we all being played. Where does this end ? You can’t separate fact from fiction anymore. The conspiracy theories just get bigger and wilder. Maybe just maybe many of the events are what they are and nothing more.
Elections being rigged is not a story, that’s just an historical fact.
The people who say things like no one was killed in Sandy Hook, Orlando, or Nice or that the no planes were involved in the WTC attack are just disinformation agents. They are just trying to muddy the waters so no one will take anything other than official narratives as being true.
“Maybe just maybe many of the events are what they are and nothing more.”
This may be a reasonable initial response to any one of these events. But don’t stop at maybe. Over and over again, events of the sort the Saker refers to in this post turn out to be extremely fishy upon closer examination. Upon closer examination, they often *seem* to be guided by the hand of the security services. Sure, “maybe” anything, but why stop at maybe (aside from the very legitimate reason: that we don’t even have the time and energy to look into each and every event, given how much else also demands attention)?
Anyone who has looked somewhat closely at Orlando, for instance, should have no question it was at least partly staged, whatever the whole event consisted in.
When I first heard about the Woolwich attack, I thought, well, this sounds like the sort of random act of violence that is entirely possible. I would expect revenge attacks of this sort to happen. Then I saw the ridiculous footage associated with the Woolwich attack: the old woman practically walking into the bloody, cleaver-waving, ranting, alleged attacker, while a corpse supposedly lay in the street just yards away. And there was also the other attackers spotless, blood-free light colored jacket. And on and on.
I still tend to think some of these refugee/immigrant attacks are real enough and happening without the direct involvement of intellignece agencies, but after Woolwich, I find it difficult to pass any sort of final judgment without checking them out,
Just for one entree point to the alleged Orlando shooting: “survivor” Norman Cassiano reports, in an interview reports that cops immediately took him out of the club (on a stretcher, I believe it was) to ambulances. Yet someone who looks exactly like Norman Cassiano can be seen parading past cameras, toward the club. Maybe police or emergency responders thought it was a good idea to have someone who had been shot four times put on a display for the TV cameras? In related footage, a man with red shoes leans on two others to walk down the street. At the end of the footage, he is unceremoniously let down to support his own weight.
Sorry don’t have links handy. (Someone must have put together a video just on this by now, if it hasn’t been yanked on the usual copyright pretexts.)
I guess I was born a sceptic and am sometimes criticized for it. But I had a social studies teacher in the 1940s who urged us to always keep in touch with public and foreign affairs. She had come out of retirement at WW2 and she personally subscribed to copies of a periodical called “World Affairs” for each of us. I am now 87-plus and have always followed her advice. I read all the opinions available, research the sources and filter them down to what I think is a rational decision – until more info arrives. This is why I follow The Saker and this is why I have concluded that his picture in this case is pretty well my own…..and it’s essence has been for many years.
The first thing I thought of when the BLM shooting in Texas occurred was the Maidan in Ukraine. Street protesters, then boom, a sniper in the midst.
Yeah, yeah, it’s all conspiracy. Ok fine.
The intent is to raise tensions amoung the population and create a divide, and that is exactly the plan. Propaganda and psych ops that were once reserved for foreign populations are now being regularly implemented in the home countries.(for the US, think Jade Helm)
Most if not all the “perps” of these events are mentally feeble and are manipulated by the so-called authorities themselves. Come on, the authorities already knew about the Orlando guy. What’s so hard to believe that events can’t be staged or the powers that be aren’t backstage. US State department officials were right there in the open in Kiev. No conspiracy about it.
The truth of the matter in my opinion; the American people cannot withstand this type of info/psychological warfare being waged against them. I feel very bad about that. I share your pessimism Mr. Saker.
Well said, the false flags will continue, at least till January, when Trump comes in. Then we can make friends with the Russians, and to hell with the Zionists and their war plans.
Dream on. Bigmouthed Bullfrog Trump won´t change anything if elected, except his bank account, which will rise.Behind the scenes it will always be the same anonymous money-aristocrats and military leaders who pull the strings. If they want war against Russia they will get it, so or so! All I can do about those absurd discussions Clinton vs Trump, or Pestilence vs Cholera, is have a good laugh and sing that old song: “Yea Yea go to Jackson, ya bigtalkin´ man” … and kiss my shorts!
First , the attackers were NOT radicalized over night as we find out.They carefully planned their evil attacks at least a year in advance.Some were even members of al-Quedia before the syrian war.Second these attacks are not used to stoke fear, quite the contrary,everything is swept under rug be it Germany or France.These attacks are declared “extended suicides” or ” mentaly deranged persons running amok”.Every connection to Islam is denied until there is rock solid proof.They even try to turn the munich attacker into a right winger and rename him David (sic) instead of Ali.The torture in the second floor of the Bataclan wasnt on the first page of major main stream.It was hidden.They try to cover up the attacks.Second in Islam there is always option J like Jihad.One can be a homosexual(Omar Mateen wasnt) or an alcoholic, Allah forgives and sent you to janna (heaven) if you go and kill kufffars.Killing kuffars in jihad is the only way in Islam to go to heaven for sure , so everything happend before is null and void.So it makes a lot of sense for petty criminals who reached dead end of one way or the other to go on Jihad.Third: The nature of these attacks proof that they are indeed not fabricated.You dont need a false flag to take a knife and start killing people,that is totally different to 9/11.Fourth…these attacks yield bad results for the mainstream globalist parties, they loose while populist right wingers win.So why in the world should they stage something that damages them ? Why should somebody stage Dallas which supported Trump and worked against Hillary, why should somebody stage Würzburg and Ansbach that damages (((Merkel))) ? That makes no sense.Fifth, there is so division by the mainstream in two camps, there is only one camp and that is of the crazy open borders multiculturalism team, the other side is suppressed with all powers.Especially the media is downplaying islamic extremism to the absurd.They only admit what they have to and even obfuscate what is known.Sixth especially the EU contrary to what the author writes is loosing credibility not winning it.All in all this seems to be case of overanalyzing.Yes sometimes there are real events or do you claim that the Syrian government false flags the war in the country.No there are real headchoppers and invaders who want to conquer.Yes the borders are being opened artifically but for other reasons.Europe is about to be conquered and wiped out by foreign invaders because the people in power hate white europeans.The author somehow forgets that there are real threats and not everything is fake.It will be a rude awakening for Russia because Russia is the main adress of this attack.Islam is used as a tool to destroy it.Russia is threatened form the south and now from the West by Islam.Islamist hate Russia because of its support for Hezbollah,Syria and Iran the most.Wake up before its too late !
@ Valhalla Rising:
Best post of the lot, in here (IMHO).
I agree with all your points from 1rst to last. But particularly with your 5th and the issue you brought-up about Russia (or should I say Russophiles?) having this self-inflicted stubborn blind-spot about how much Muslims hate Russia, and/or Russians, and/or Russophiles.
Sure, the Russians can lie to themselves by thinking they can pick and choose; Iran = good, Hezbollah = Good, Chechen Putinistas = good, Turkey, well… it all depends; not as much on how fanatical they are about their islamist fundamentalist ideas, but on how much they’re willing to pivot “east” instead of west/EU/NATO *eye-roll*
But at the end of the day, these people tend to be rather unpredictable in where their true “loyalties” lay.
It’s not as easy as: chose your ‘Muslim flavor’ and if you get it right you’ll be fine/spared. Well… no, it aint, if history is anything to go by, that is :/
But! You go and try to tell them that, it feels like you’re in a Matrix film trying to ‘wake’ people up. They generally look at you like you’re the insane one while they’re the ones still plugged to the Matrix virtual reality.
-TL2Q
Last few paragraphs of the following article seem somewhat ominous
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160730/1043777884/russia-us-syria-aleppo.html
A substantial collection of military weapons have been stolen from a US base in Germany.
https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/ru-en.en/https/russian.rt.com/article/314592-proschai-oruzhie-s-elitnoi-amerikanskoi-bazy-v
FBI warns defeating ISIS will bring terror to Europe (FBI also gave notice of future terror attacks in Turkey)
http://novorossia.today/fbi-warns-defeating-isis-will-bring-terror-states-europe-signal/
In preparation for the looming UkroNazi onslaught against Donbas, the US has delivered a substantial collection of hand guns, machine guns and sniper rifles, along with ammuntion, to Ukraine. They were delivered to the Orwellian ‘International Center for Peacemaking and Safety’ under the ‘Partners for Peace’ program.
https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://rusvesna.su/news/1469793861&usg=ALkJrhg1SEz0M5omjg9eM2gzPnd5nYQeLw
Shoigu has stated that Russia will not allow to destroy Donbass
https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/ru-en.en/antifashist.com/item/smi-shojgu-dal-ponyat-kievu-chto-rossiya-ne-pozvolit-zavoevat-donbass.html
What people need to look at is: who is the ringmaster?
People are only reacting to events that have been orchestrated by…the folks you are talking about.
If they actually thought beyond their reactive cogitations, they might see who is “behind the curtain” and who is manipulating them?
We are being led by the nose, with nary a thought as to: “by whom?”
People tell me: “That;s the way it is…” t which my reply is:
“Is that the way it is, or is it actually the way someone has conspired for it to be?”
I think if Folks got hip to the groove on the latter, some serious aggravation might be the result.
I hope so?
Gary O
Saker, another aspect of paralysis: fear of nuclear war, which you’ve discussed.
Please consider:
http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/the-trillion-dollar-nuclear-weapons-fraud/
http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/nuke-hoax-continued-lies-about-trident-hiroshima-nagasaki-and-now-bikini-too/
“Conclusion: And here was our conclusion at the time, which still stands. “The entirety of the Cold War, including the ‘arms race’ and the ‘space race’ all have elements of directed history. In other words, they are not what they seem. They are what authorities wish us to believe. While here at DB we have never written that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not bombed with nukes, we do have grave reservations about the narrative.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sULjMjK5lCI
This would explain why the A.Z. empire is willing to attack Russia; their true weaponry is superior and there is no risk, pardon the pun, of fallout. One needs a true engineer to discover the truth, not government liars. Russians may ask; Americans face the death penalty for doing so in the land of the free.
“For many years, talking about nuclear weapons in any detail in the US and Japan was punishable by death. The laws still exist though not enforced anymore.”
Don’t count on it.
Saker, add these losers to the list:
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/british-columbia/crown-seeks-peace-bond-for-john-nuttall-and-amanda-korody-under-fear-of-terrorism-criminal-code-section-1.3701536
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB9u9dSQVkc
Published on Jul 27, 2016
While many are blaming Russia for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) email leak, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says there is no evidence to suggest that the DNC was hacked by the Russian government. Furthermore, Assange claims the next leak will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton. RT correspondent Laura Smith has the report from London.
This was on RT July 27 or b4, so I don’t give it much cred based on the scale of its slanted misguided reporting of events.
As a serious overview….the Saker has stated in clear….concise and in simple factual terms what the reality is for the basic peasants of the world…..an excellent description…. watch with the above in mind as marital law is imposed and the.american election suspended…..i amazed humanity has lasted as long as it has…..see you later…..we hardly got to know you….but what we did know,,,,,was enough!!!!!
Saker
Late in commenting, excellent connecting the dots here.
Brilliant, But the use of propaganda as US foreign policy is so hair-brained as to boggle the mind. This policy, becoming more and more ingrained as normal behaviour, was also used by Hitler. The US has become worse than Hitler in that is uses US/Israeli medical research brilliance to create GMO diseases and bugs that remove the brain pans of newborns of women (presently in anti-USA South America) who, while pregnant, were bitten by the new Sika mosquito. There are US research labs in African jungles, where AIDs was developed. Just search the internet for photos of the altered tiny children.
Look up the tests done by the Japanese after Fukushima that proved that bombing removed a settled sand mountain under the land there, not a natural earthquake that caused it.
Or the proofs of human intervention in the Haiti “eathquake” Hilary managed so the the US Pentagon could empty Haiti and fill it with experts to militarily monitor all anti-US South American countries. More drones anyone, armed with deadly mosquitoes?
Saker, thanks for what you do. Am on a Netherlands pension the US wants to make sure just becomes less and less so I will decide to return to to an unrecognisable America. Where grocerystore monopolised chains kill.
Tragically the US is sure it owns Netherlands. Our spontaneous referendum on Ukraine some time ago enraged Washington so much there were those there who would have bombed us for such
an insurrection. Brexit might never have happened had tiny us not opened the dissent door. The only way we stopped Catholic Spain was we opened our dikes after generations of gore.
“… pseudo-Muslims who turn out to be drinking homosexuals, ex-patients of mental institutions…
Not sure if you seriously mean this, this is the mainstream media narrative. In the Nice massacre, it turns out, the driver was not alone, had support. And this information has nothing to do with ISIL taking credit or praising it. Evidence was also suppressed in all the terrorist events throughout Europe. But then none of us have any proof. For all we know they are psyops, so they can watch us watch them, watch our reactions.
Dear Saker, I have read with the passion of a zealot your every publication. I just lost friends in Baton Rouge, LA to the Black Lives Matter movement. My son and many of his friends are members of the Swat team for the local Sheriffs office. Sir in all due respect you know not what you speak of concerning the tension and racial issues that exist in the US and the incredibly complex challenge for law enforcement to manage the growing and treacherous issue of crime in our country.
The Saker: actually, I lived a total of 19 years in the USA, including 5 years in Washington DC under Marion Barry and I think that I do know what is going on. I even have friends in the Daytona PD and local County Special Forces.
For the record, there are over 20,000 independently elected local and state agencies that oversee sovereign community law enforcement agencies, of which the Federal Government has no control over. Only by a major act of Marshal Law can you have a fully coordinated national campaign to suppress the masses. The future indeed is alarming for all of mankind. May the voice of people like you bring intelligence and insight to the many innocent citizens of the world that just want a peaceful world in which to live and raise their families.
The Saker: So? How does that contradict in any way what I said? All I said is that there are forces in the USA who are deliberately stirring up BLM in order to create a pretext for various forms of state of emergency, martial laws, seizure of weapons, suspensions of civil rights, etc. To clarify: I don’t believe that BLM is a spontaneous movement at all. I believe that BLM is a carefully orchestrated provocation to create a crisis. Ask your son and his SWAT friends if they feel like BLM is all about civil right or if this is a hate group and see what they will tell you.
I never said that there was a plan to use police forces to suppress the masses. I did say that BLM is used to kill cops in order to then suppress the masses under the pretext of restoring law and order. That is very different
My sincere apology for misunderstanding the message in your editorial. I am complete agreement with every point that you have made. I might also add that following 9 11, I have owned a software company specifically working with federal, state and local law enforcement to empower them with the power of real time information. I have worked with wonderful servants of our nation that are dedicated servants that are now facing a new risk in providing security and safety to our communities. When it comes home with the death of dear friends and innocent servants of Baton Rouge and to know them and their families, it becomes an existential experience that pierces your heart and emotions. Forgive my failure to clearly understand your sharp and accurate assessment. Regards, Barry Bellue
Greetings Saker
Thanks for this useful piece which connects the dots on the reality of the ever increasing frequency of false flag incidents. The one aspect that I was unclear about was the following statement in your penultimate paragraph:
“Look at the Israelis – they have already read the writing on the wall and are now in the process of changing patrons, hence their newfound big friendship with Russia – a marriage of convenience for both sides, entered into with both sides holding their noses.”
We know that Israel controls the USA and it appears that they are working on the demise of the latter. This being the case, the implication is that Israel is working on a transition to a new stage in their quest for global domination. Therefore, why should it be seen as a sense of awakening on the part of Israel, given their ostensible gravitation away from the USA and more towards Russia, as implied by your quoted statement? If this is the case, it would seem odd on the part of Israel given that the USA was, all along, been utilised as an agent for their (Israel’s) nefarious goals and now that it (USA) has exhausted its usefulness, the next stage is to facilitate its demise.
I would also think that the Russian political elite spearheaded by Putin is perspicacious enough to understand that it is ultimately Israel that is pulling the strings behind Nato’s bellicose and confrontational demeanour towards Russia and it is ultimately Israel that is craving for nuclear war between the West and Russia. Consequently, I would expect Putin to be treading rather cautiously in managing the relationship with Israel? I very much doubt he would consider Israel as some sort of useful and reliable ally especially given the latter’s desire to have Russia incapacitated.
I simply CANNOT see a Russia-Israel axis emerging. Clinton and the Zionazi neo-conservatives in the USA have made plain that attacking Syria is a great priority for as soon as possible, as the USA’s takfiri allies are being routed. That means ignoring the UNSC, where Russia will veto any phony Resolution like that which, treacherously, was used to destroy Libya and hand it over to the jihadists. And confronting, perhaps attacking, Russia in Syria. And these neo-cons work hand-in-glove with Netanyahu et al. I imagine that any rapprochement by Israel is a trick. The USA is the Zionazis’ great milch-cow and cats-paw in destroying its enemies, and they have already looted Russia of much of its wealth. I just cannot see Israel throwing over the USA for anyone.
Racial identity is returning to prominence, after decades of suppression, and being lied to. People are realising, ‘I am very different from you’. This is going to get worse, because segregation is as natural for humans, as the drive to have sex, and decades of brainwashing has been unable to remove those emotions.
You write that a number of the Muslim killers are what you call “overnight Muslims”. May I suggest you delve a little deeper into Islam and how Islamic religious belief play out in behaviour in Western societies.
The actions of the Nice killer (and others) are totally understandable as jihad – not in spite of his history of apparently un-Muslim behaviour (alcohol, drugs, wife-beating, not attending a mosque, petty crime, active bi-sexuality), but because of his history.
It’s possible he was undertaking violent jihad – “fighting in Allah’s cause” – to earn redemption for his unbearable burden of earthly sins, which could otherwise condemn him to hell for eternity.
Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel (note his first name) reportedly cried “Allahu Akbar” as he carried out his jihad attack. It’s said he recently took up mosque attendance. It could well be that he was depressed with guilt for his messed up earthly life, and fearful for the likely form of his after-life. So his Muslim culture drew him to the mosque to confirm that undertaking martyrdom through jihad would free him from eternal damnation. He may have been seeking assurance at the mosque that he had all the details of the routine right.
How does this work? The conventional Muslim belief is that the souls of the dead enter hell, with the saved passing through (or over) quickly and unimpeded, whereas those who have sinned undergo hellish torment for a time – for eternity for the worst sinners.
Martyrdom through violent jihad offers a direct route to paradise, bypassing Islam’s hell. The martyrs apparently believe that they will enter paradise instantly, having earned Allah’s redemption, when the first drop of their martyr’s blood is spilled and even while their earthly heart is still beating.
So, not only are non-devout Muslims plausible jihadists. For some, it’s their lifetime of dissolute non-observance that drives them to violent jihad.
The U.S. corporate state has rotted beyond recognition. Yet it could still do damage, not the least to those trapped within the carcass.
The LGBT garbage is not a “non-issue.” It’s completely corrupting the youth and rotting the nation’s soul out (what little it has left).
If LGBT is such a “non-issue” then why don’t Russians just embrace it and let gays get married? Why are they being so stubborn over a “non-issue” that “only affects a tiny percentage of the population”?
Dugin, Starikov and many other great minds have weighed in extensively on the LGBT garbage and they don’t feel that it’s a “non-issue,” and of course they are absolutely correct that it’s in fact a vital part of the West’s playbook: not as a “distraction” but for its family-destroying effects.
The LGBT garbage is not a “non-issue.” On the contrary it goes hand in hand with the terror issue, and both agendas are designed to destroy the populations of the West.
Useful discussion of the orlando shooters background..
http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/new-documents-shocking-accounts-orlando-shooter-omar-mateen-alleging-racial
Disturbing New Documents Reveal Orlando Shooter Omar Mateen’s Allegations of Racial Harrassment by Police Co-Workers
Islamophobic workplace intimidation figures into the background of another mass shooter conveniently painted as a jihadist.
By Max Blumenthal / AlterNet August 1, 2016
The ongoing intrigue surrounding Omar Mateen and his massacre of 47 patrons of the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida was drowned out by the political circus of two party conventions this month. The personal details about Mateen, from his vicious abuse of his first wife to credible accounts of a secret gay life to the reports of his mental instability and the autopsy results confirming him as a heavy abuser of steroids, have been forgotten or apparently suppressed by the FBI. Taken together, these elements of Mateen’s person profile directly contradicted the popular portrayal of the mass killer as an Islamic extremist acting in the name of ISIS. Unsurprisingly, they have fallen down the Orwellian memory hole.
Yes, Empire is coming down fast enough for to see. Many millions of Europeans can’t see any changes as their media is terrified as well as bought out in a financially enfeebled Europe. They get good pay for pure propaganda, or get shot if it’s real news.But change is moving in.One can still expect to get fired or have assassination attempts for brilliantly written actual news but more and more of those long silent, speak up. The propaganda people are too rigidly liars by profession to ever garner any real respect. Or belief they can change.Or plans can be made on their fake news. The Silk Road looks it would be so cool to travel. The new knowledge that a Chinese war plane just shot down an American CIA plane loaded with poisoned spores to drop in Chinese pig farms to kill millions of pigs, done about 6 years ago too. The carcasses were floated in the powerful Yangtse river, thousands floating downstream. Maybe not so safe to go, but maybe the Chinese will soon be able to protect themselves, and us, well. That possibility is a big deal.Mr. Trump would approve, Mrs. Clinton would not.
I think the danger of false flags and reasons for pessimism are justified.
There seems to be a peculiarly determined effort to encourage
irresponsible behavior in the West.
I recently tried to post this at Washington’s Blog, an explanation as to why demanding arrests is not a viable option for civil activism. Yet it kept disappearing.
Its not obscene; it just refutes the pet idea of one of the main bloggers that seemed more like self-aggrandizing encouragement of foolish and pointless behavior that would get patriots in trouble.
“With due and deserved respect to your years of activism, ‘Herman Arrest’em all 1.0′ (1.1 with the recent ‘lawful’ add-on) is facing a Hilary Neocon 4.0 environment.
Recall one of your articles which I read in 2013 :
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/09/us-military-no-lawful-orders-exist-for-unlawful-wars-arrest-those-who-issue-them.html
That included a link to an article on ‘Obeying an Unlawful Military Order’;
http://usmilitary.about.com/cs/militarylaw1/a/obeyingorders.htm
If you read this article in its entirety, your zeal for arrests blinded you to this quote, thirteen paragraphs in:
“… However, here’s the rub: A military member disobeys such orders at his/her own peril. Ultimately, it’s not whether or not the military member thinks the order is illegal or unlawful, it’s whether military superiors (and courts) think the order was illegal or unlawful.”
No military superior is as superior as the President, the Commander-in-Chief, who makes the decision to go to war. The only avenue is to disobey and take whatever official and unofficial punishments that ensue, using the courts to fight back.
NOT arrests. Feel free to go to court and try and establish such a precedent.
Rarely, when the survival of significant military assets, if not the nation, are at stake the military will en-masse reject irrational orders. As happened in the 2013 near-war with Syria.
http://www.businessinsider.com/troops-protest-syria-military-strike-2013-9
Syria-American War 2013 was thwarted less because of The People and Congress, and more because Russia and Syria were sufficiently defended by cruise missile jammers and anti-ship missiles to be able to destroy NATO/America’s Mediterranean fleet.
Such a blooding would delight the neocons, so believing it would irrevocably commit the U.S. to WWIV. It did not delight the soldiers and sailors who would die for nothing or the admirals or generals who would lose critical assets for nothing and find themselves in position of losing conventionally for nothing but more war.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-01-031013.html
Hilary Clinton’s top runner for Pentagon Chief Michelle Flournoy want to repeat the 2013 scenario. First-shot blame will be ‘cleverly’ assigned to Syria and Russia for bombing pro-Western terrorists. Hopefully NATO ship defenses have been upgraded since 2013 and all that happens is an exchange of intercepted missiles.
https://theintercept.com/2016/06/22/hillary-clintons-likely-pentagon-chief-already-advocating-for-more-bombing-and-intervention/
https://theintercept.com/2016/06/24/hillary-clintons-likely-defense-chief-says-she-did-not-advocate-for-u-s-ground-troops-in-syria/
Nowhere has it been said by qualified commentators that just anyone can make arrests of issuers of illegal orders. You’re are not a JAG or any other kind of lawyer. Where you are getting this bad legal advice is unclear. The only remedy to servicemen is to disobey, not to make arrests.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/02/27/a-duty-to-disobey-all-unlawful-orders/
Nowhere in the Uniform Code of Military Justice are there provisions for arresting people for issuing illegal orders, in their definition and remedy.
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ucmj.htm
Further digging pop resources indicated that the POTUS has to be tried for impeachment and if so removed from office (and therefore the protection of the Secret Service) he can be arrested, charged, tried again, and sentenced. No President is going to outright say he or she is committing acts of treason, bribery, high crimes, or misdemeanors.
“…From this we can see that the only way to remove a president is by impeachment AND conviction of treason, bribery, high crimes or misdemeanors. This also hints to the fact that the president cannot be arrested until he has been convicted by the Senate.”
http://conservativepapers.com/news/2013/05/09/can-a-sitting-president-be-arrested/
The roots of the American Revolution, exempting the ongoing violence done to aboriginal peoples throughout, are non-violent roots. The Revolutionary war was imposed on The People by King George, who chose to interpret active and effective peaceful dissidence as a provocation. The colonists did not provoke the British by arresting British soldiers.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/29/the-nonviolent-history-of-american-independence/
Calling for lawful, intelligent and effective civil disobedience is not the same as calling for arrests. Calling for arrests is not the same as calling for accountability. Summing up the process as arrests dumbs down the accountability and reinforces a mob mentality.
People’s idea of arrests is probably closer to the old ‘Cops’ realty TV show, or something similar. They see the action, but guilt is not so much assessed as assumed. The drug war has demonstrated that state violence is more an emotional catharsis than lasting solution.
For clarity, when I say illegal wars, its not a legal statement but backed by moral common sense, which is separate from being backed with legal authority. Stopping an illegal war is not the same as stopping someone from attacking my kid, where the moral and legal means are time-tested as self-evident and immediate… and probably not a citizen’s arrest.
http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/blog/perform-citizens-arrest/
In the meantime, we have obvious collusion with illegal wars by large segments of the American population. As witnessed by the DNC 2016’s crowning of Hilary and her foreign policy.
Arrests are a double edged sword. Your more recent articles have tacked the word ‘lawful’ to ‘arrests’. That doesn’t make it any better; it just cheapens the word ‘lawful’.
After November 8, Crooked Hilary and her neocons will be wielding the arrest sword, determining the criteria for arrests and be the ‘appropriate authorities’ calling any illegal absurdity legal will be them.
With enforcement abuses like civil forfeiture going unchecked, its clear that people need greater understanding of legal due process for defense in depth of their values.
Prepare for tomorrow’s battles, today. They are more or less here anyway. Calling for arrests is inviting the wrong kind of arrests no matter how you qualify them because the only word that sticks, is ‘arrests’.
Even Trump’s calculated inflammatory rhetoric is not careless with serious words like ‘arrest’ as you are.”
That post kept disappearing almost a dozen times. So, it appears we are not free to encourage reasonable behavior and intelligent dissidence past a certain point.
Its like the American Deep State wants to encourage trouble and erode civility any clever way it can domestically, and especially, draw out and expose people in positions of authority to betray themselves foolishly if they don’t agree with the War Agenda, such as trying to arrest officials on their own, without due process behind them.
BREAKING… it’s the CULL stupids…. it’s the CULL…
If current trends continue, thousands of pregnant women will get infected with Zika,” said Frieden. “And there could be between dozens and hundreds of children with microcephaly born [there] in the next year.”
The CDC estimates 25 percent of the island’s population could be infected with Zika in its first year of spread there. Puerto Rican women give birth to about 32,000 babies a year.
Transferring the current rate of spread for the virus to the citizenry of greatest impact, based on proximity and travel, the CDC is projecting the strongest U.S. outbreaks in: 1.Miami Florida 2.Orlando Florida 3.Tampa Florida 4.Brownsville Texas 5.New York, New York 6.Jacksonville Florida 7.Houston Texas 8.Atlanta Georgia 9.New Orleans, Louisiana 10.Charleston, South Carolina
The crux of the CIA s explanation was hard for many to believe: the world s most advanced military had bombed a fellow UN Security Council member and one of the most vocal opponents of the Nato air campaign because of a mapping error. China was having none of it. The story, it said, was not convincing .