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Listening to Kerry today I went through a series of rather contradictory emotions. First, I felt disgusted, then my disgust turned to anger, then to outright amazement and, by the end, I actually felt rather happy. Let me explain why.
First, of course, my stomach turns every time I hear this prototypical representative of the 1%er plutocracy speaking to the world as if he was some kind of Emperor-schoolteacher scolding a class of rather dumb and unruly kids for their bad behavior and promising them a spanking. We all know that folks like Obama or Baby Bush are just puppets, a mostly empty shell shown to the zombified public as “The President and Commander in Chief” while in reality these guys are basically spokesmen. Not so Kerry. He is in the Dick Cheney or James Baker class, not quite at the top of the power pyramid, but much higher up. These are the folks who step in when the mindless puppet makes a mess and some brains are needed on the frontlines. I find these people profoundly repulsive (though I could not help admiring James Baker’s fantastic diplomatic skills).
My initial disgust turned into rage when I heard Kerry speak such lies that out to make even a politician feel ashamed of himself. Most of what Kerry said could quite literally be turned around by 180 degrees and become true. Even though I am now 50 years old and I have seen all sorts of lies, deceptions, betrayals and falsehoods over the years, I still have a naive voice in me screaming “how can he say that?”, “does he not feel horribly ashamed?”, “how can he live with himself?”. I know. I am naive and idealistic. I just cannot get used to it. Even after 50 years.
Eventually, my rage turned into outright amazement. At this point, I was beyond good and evil, I was marveling at the nerve it takes to go on world-wide TV and basically state that he earth is not round, but triangular, that 2+2=317 and that black is pink with green dots. He even added that it was impossible to turn black into grey, that black was just that, black. At this point I was awed.
And then, suddenly, it hit me. Kerry and the interests he represents are really terrified and frustrated. His statement is a desperate attempt to do what the lawyers call the “last resort rule“. It goes like this: “If you have the law, hammer the law. If you have the facts, hammer the facts. If you have neither the law nor the facts, hammer the table”. Kerry was hammering the table really very, very strongly and that, I realized, was an implicit admission that neither the (international) law nor the facts were on his side. Had the facts or the law been on his side, there would have been no need for table hammering, of course.
His panic and frustration also showed in his rather clumsy attack on the Russia Today TV channel. Here is what he said:
In fact, the propaganda bullhorn that is the state-sponsored Russia Today program, has been deployed to promote – actually, Russia Today network – has deployed to promote President Putin’s fantasy about what is playing out on the ground. They almost spend full time devoted to this effort to propagandize and to distort what is happening or not happening in Ukraine. Instead, in plain sight, Russia continues to fund, coordinate, and fuel a heavily armed separatist movement in Donetsk.
But think about it: Russia Today does not broadcast in Ukrainian or Russian. It broadcasts in English, Spanish and Arabic. The only thing RT does broadcast in Russian are its documentaries on its dedicated website: http://doc.rt.com/on-air/. This is a tiny fraction of what the channel really does and its audience in Russia or the Ukraine is minute compared to the one of the big Russian TV channels. So why did Kerry single our Russia Today? The answer is obvious, of course, it is because Russia Today is a very popular TV channel outside Russia or the Ukraine. According to Wikipedia,
The network’s signal is carried by 22 satellites and over 230 operators, which allows some 644 million people to watch the channel in more than 100 countries. RT America is available to 85 million people in the United States. In 2011 it was the second most-watched foreign news channel in the U.S. after BBC World News, and the number one foreign station in five major U.S. urban areas in 2012. It is also very popular among younger American people, U.S. college students, and in U.S. inner city neighborhoods. In 2013 RT has become the first TV news channel in history to reach 1 billion views on YouTube. According to the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board between 2.2–2.3 million Britons tuned their televisions to RT during the second half of 2012, making it the fourth-most watched rolling news channel in Britain, behind BBC News, Sky News and Al Jazeera English.
Remember the candid admission of Walter Isaacson, chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, who openly declared that,
“We can’t allow ourselves to be out-communicated by our enemies, you’ve got Russia Today, Iran’s Press TV, Venezuela’s TeleSUR, and of course, China is launching an international broadcasting 24-hour news channel with correspondents around the world [and has] reportedly set aside $6 -10 billion dollars – we have to go to Capitol Hill with that number – to expand their overseas media operations.”
So there you have it. The problem is not that Russia Today is stirring up the people of eastern Ukraine, the problem is that thanks to Russia Today the people in the West are beginning to see through the official propaganda! That is the real reason for Kerry frustrated outburst.
So, to sum things up:
1) The law is not on Kerry’s side.
2) The facts are not on Kerry’s side.
3) The people in the West are beginning to see through the lies of the propaganda machine.
4) There is nothing the Empire can do about any of that.
If any confirmation of that was needed, it came today with the amazing performance of Mark Levine on today’s CrossTalk show. It’s not on YouTube yet, but you can watch it here: http://rt.com/shows/crosstalk/154788-ukraine-info-war-russia/. Levine turned CrossTalk into CrossShout, another clear case of “table hammering”. Why – for the same reasons as Kerry. Nothing else works for him anymore.
Ever since Putin came back to power, Russia is not playing by the same set of rules as the ones drafted by the Empire. Both in Syria and the Ukraine, Russia has been very carefully but steadily pushing back the international AngloZionist plutocracy and loosening its grip on the planet and this is directly reflected in the impotent rage of Kerry and his fellow 1%ers.
This, I think, is very good news indeed.
Cheers,
The Saker
Nice analysis saker.
congratulations for your excellent blog.
Saker, with the forthcomign election fo narendra Modi as Indian Pm and removal of unellected american agent traitor sikh m m singh from the post a new era is coming for Indo-Russian relationship . Most of the INDIANS ARE GRATEFUL TO RUSSIA FOR HER HELP IN 50S TO 80S. HOPE THIS BULIDS UP AGAINST THE ANGLOAMERICAN AGENTS IN THE ELITES THERE.
Meanwhile, as reported by Bodhita earlier while the US is talking with India & China to isolate Russia, Russia & India are planning to go over to transactions in roubles and rupees over the next fifteen years that could very well remove the dollar.
Russia and India may go over to transactions in roubles and rupees over the next fifteen years, the President of the Indian Business Alliance (IBA) in Moscow, Sammy Manoj Kotwani said Monday after a session of the International Council for Trade and Investment, which reports to the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE).
“Quite naturally, it would be too unrealistic to give up the US at once but a possibility of this kind does exist,” he said. “If there’s a wish to do effectuate this transition, the dollar can be removed.”
Sammy Kotwani said the decision of Visa and MasterCard executives to work with the agents blacklisted by the US Administration was an error on their part.
“It was their error and they’ve already realized it,” he said.
IBA Moscow represents the interests of 150 Indian companies working in Russia.
Moreover, the Yuan may already have become a de facto reserve currency with atleast 40 central banks investing in the yuan and several others preparing to do so, putting the mainland currency on the path to reserve status even before full convertibility.
What remains to be answered however is what are the threats that comes with such shifts in Global Power ? And is India prepared to counter such threats much less perceive it ?
Crazy Ivan says…
The latest Cross Talk show
http://rt.com/shows/crosstalk/154788-ukraine-info-war-russia/
is ready to download. And what a show! Wow!
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves aka
NATO/EU pact of 800 million people and economy of 30 trillion dollars
wants to isolate, destabilize and wipe Russia off the map.
I think you’re right. Kerry’s appearance last night marked the closing act of the U.S.-engineered farce. With the second “ATO” already a bust, the only other path now for the Obama administration is to ratchet up sanctions. But that will prompt the big European powers — Britain, France, Germany — to exit the stage because they have too much at stake.
Excellent blog. Thank you for writing it.
Privět, Saker.
I am Czech, 40, having spent 10 years in the U.S., now back in Pilsen, CZ, dissatisfied that the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968 etc., but with lots of positive sentiments about the Russian identity as well as the current Russian policies and I agree with you on these Ukraine-Kerry issues entirely.
You may check my blog, The Reference Frame, where I sometimes cover such events, too, and I discussed Kerry and Russia Today in the morning…
Saker, my thinking was kind of like yours. It’s on the last thread but I’ll re-post it below. But first, I think it’s pretty universal that we each tend to think everyone is wired like we are — so a narcissist just assumes everyone only cares for themselves, and a sociopath thinks only fools tell the truth. So don’t be so hard on yourself: what you’re calling idealism is something far more than that, i.e., a profound sense of morality. It simply isn’t shared by any of the leaders of “The Free World”, to the (hopefully not everlasting) regret of the entire planet. Now, for what I said last thread:
The jaw, she drops. Not a very convincing performance — I had to just about hogtie Mr. Nora to get him to sit through it. ;~) But what exactly was the purpose? Europe by and large is getting cold feet and everyone here who can be propagandized already is. OK, they’re scared of RT telling the truth, but was he really warning Russia of more sanctions?? Or just paving the way for a bigger defense budget because, you know, Cold War II.
To me, and I hope it’s not just wishful thinking, but this whole thing just reeks of defeat. Messy, murderous defeat, and maybe it’s even beginning to dawn on at least some of the dim-bulbs in charge that our days of acting with impunity are pretty much over. Am I the only one who thinks Kerry’s bluster didn’t really cover too well a dawning realization that this time, no, it will *not* be a simple slam-dunk? Even his wooden features and dead eyes seemed to really be saying, “Oh shit, well, hopefully this will work.” And yeah, if there really are any OSCE folks missing, you know darned well who’s responsible. But again, let’s say they want unending chaos extending past Russia’s border and couldn’t care less how many Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, Americans or anyone else suffer and die as a result. What about the various (and very large) corporate interests funding both parties’ campaign coffers? They will not exactly be happy campers if they can’t realize the quarterly profits they’re counting on from Ukraine. There is a lot of justice involved in the fact that we’ve not only tied the noose around our own necks, we keep pulling it tighter and tighter.
Thanks for the analysis Saker, but from the US “Joe Public” perspective I think you are overlooking a couple of things:
1) John Kerry is universally despised by the US public, therefore his attacks on Putin and Russia may perversely enhance their stature with Americans. On the other hand…
2) No one in the USA actually listens to anything John Kerry says.
The bigger challenge to disseminating the truth is to overcome US “pop” journalism (e.g. the morning wakeup shows and faux news interview shows) which many Americans do actually watch and which are still spouting the official USGov line.
Mr Kerry turns my stomach upside down, so I NEVER bother reading or listening to anything he is saying, whtever it may be.
Same applies to Mr Obama, Ms Clinton … and the rest or the US puppets -presumed rulers- appearing on the screens/papers on behalf of the US oligarchs.
Regards
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Pepe has his take on this issue:
‘Mr. Kerry, let’s talk about Fox News, BBC and Al-Jazeera bullhorns’
Pepe Escobar
http://rt.com/op-edge/154836-kerry-usa-rt-attack-bullhorns/
The Irma Krat file :
http://acloserlookonsyria.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Irma_Krat%27s_flash_drive
What do you think?
Take care Saker
Mark Levin is a perfect example of a MSM “Talking Head (shouting in this case).” He succeeded in his goal, at least as far as I am concerned, since it was not possible to listen to the entire program. I wonder why Cross Talk invited this loathsome creature on air. I suspect the vast majority of viewers of RT do not need another example of western “impartiality.” I would rather listen to another type of Talking Heads, like the following:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzORu1dqEE0
Here are the lyrics:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/talkingheads/lifeduringwartime.html
Talking Heads good band with fantastic songs & lyrics http://lyricsmusic.name/talking-heads-lyrics/ . “Once in a Lifetime” awesome!
Interesting information on recent polling across the Ukraine at http://johnhelmer.net/ .
Goes back to my view that the south and east Ukraine should form a Federation of Ukrainian States (FUS). Russia would be satisfied with this (in my view) so of course the US would and is frothing at the mouth at such an outcome.
How to engineer such an outcome is the rub. Perhaps, leading the Ukraine, eastern Europe and the EU to the edge of the abyss so that they can have a good, long, hard look will be necessary for them to abandon this delusional project of the Anglo/American children.
Just the slow agonizing gasps of a desperate Western economic empire. Can the worst of this collapse be contained? Damn if I know.
Ukraine sold its best weapons for cash, says the Washington Times in a review obviously designed to get the American public behind our “help” for Kiev. But its claims of what they have, and don’t have, are interesting anyhow, even if it is the Washington Times: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/23/sold-out-ukraines-leadership-swapped-best-military/
So funny Saker, not more than a half hour before I saw this post, I was having the same Shock-and-Amazement brain melt about Kerry (and all the other black-is-white propagandists).
My questioning runs a little more along the lines of “What could possibly make them this way,” and I had to settle with the Manchurian Candidate explanation. I certainly imagine horrendous threats are employed to keep the more unwilling of the puppets dancing, but what about the ones who seem genuinely to adhere to the evilness of it all? Of course, all politicians are incomparably wealthier than I am, but still, most of them as well as the “journalists” [HAD to put that in quotes!] are incomparably LESS wealthy than the puppeteers whose wealth alone is what has allowed them such extreme power – can these politiciansjournos really be dumb enough to think they won’t just be tossed aside when it’s convenient for the .01% to do so?
Anyway, yes, I too feel a bit of hope to know that the lying in this case indicates desperation.
And also, the fact that Time Magazine has recently told the truth twice [faint] – first about the NY Times bogus photos, and now choosing Maduro as one of 100 most influential (even if “negatively” so) people – dare we hope this is a sign of the .01% losing some of its iron grip on MSM? I think that’s really the linchpin that needs to be removed in order for the whole train to crash and burn.
I think..
the next card kerry will play is this
http://www.cast.ru/eng/comments/?id=539
the jihadists card..
kind regards.
I too love your analysis Saker!!!
At the same time all of a sudden here in the US net neutrality is in the process of being dismantled. So the desire to operate covertly, dumb down the population to the nth degree at any cost, even the loss of “freedom” suggests the same fear and angst. Also to increase profit.
Whether it works or not is another question, but in my experience, it’s not possible to revert to an earlier time. Everything changes Ovid wrote.
I recently read, about Kerry, that he had accompanied Bush Sr to Paris for the notorious negotiations with Iran to keep the hostages till after Carter had lost the election.
Oh, I just now read that he is John FORBES Kerry, and married to Teresa HEINZ Kerry. So I guess my comment about him not being a member of the ultra-wealthy clique doesn’t hold.
i like Joaquin’s take…”a media holographic war” starring John Kerry as the “inflammatory troll”
I sincerely hope that Saker is right about what Kerry’s performance means but I cannot be confident about it.
I agree that Kerry probably does trump Obama in the Deep-state seniority stakes and that is PRECISELY my worry. For someone with his seniority to put in a performance like that after 2+ months of heartfelt appeals by Putin – Lavrov – Churkin etc, that any intelligent observer can see are the essence of reasonableness; appeals to sit down and agree a genuinely constitutional way forward – in fact the ONLY possible constitutional way forward per the 21 Feb agreement – is solid evidence that the US really HAS decided to make this the definitive confrontation with Russia.
I cannot offer a truly informed analysis of how this might develop but I do know that the Anglo-US establishment must be truly desperate to be forcing confrontation into such dangerous territory.
And I wonder at the folly of Germany in particular. Have its current leaders learned so little from the last two conflagrations that they are allowing themselves to be maneuvered into a third and precisely analogous one?
http://www.cast.ru/eng/comments/?id=539
that is what kerry
play next.
kind regards.
Even though I am now 50 years old and I have seen all sorts of lies, deceptions, betrayals and falsehoods over the years, I still have a naive voice in me screaming “how can he say that?”, “does he not feel horribly ashamed?”, “how can he live with himself?”. I know. I am naive and idealistic. I just cannot get used to it. Even after 50 years.
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Well, nothing strange here.
That’s a natural reaction from the sons of God in front of the sin against the truth, i.e. the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit (the only one that will not be forgiven).
In fact, it’s a very natural reaction in persons who have preserved the image of God in them, they simply cannot understand how someone can renounce his Father and substitute Him with the other, the murderer since the beginning and the father of lies, whom all western demonocracies today make worship.
In fact, that between the sons of God and the progeny of the devil is the only proper difference in essence between the humans. No Russian or American, Italian or French, nor Black and White, nor Jew or Gentile; only sons of God and progeny of the devil.
This red line cuts through every nations, every place, every family. It’s high time that every person makes a choice on whose side he’s on, and MAKES IT PUBLICLY. There’s no such a thing as a private testimony; it’s a contradiction in terms!
May God keeps on inspiring and preserving you, Saker!
my comment is this….we are dealing with psychopathic personalities…deformed….stunted….unable to connect this to that…lacking empathy…they are everywhere…empty…void…sterile….it’s becoming a norm….it’s astounding but without them we would’nt be where we are today…nor would we be following this blog…hanging on every word….trying to wring out….extract…touch base with…understand and come to grips with….that which should be the obvious!!!!it is utterly amazing but no doubt….”the universe is unfolding as it should”…and that which is now black will soon transform itself into white….we will see!!!
the next card to be played..
http://www.cast.ru/eng/comments/?id=539
kind regards.
Here’s your proof that U.S. “leadership” is being run by a bunch of oligarchs:
“Princeton study concludes U.S. government is an oligarchy – ‘The preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy”.
https://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens homepage materials/Gilens and Page/Gilens and Page 2014-Testing Theories 3-7-14.pdf
The American government is grossly out of touch with the desire of the people they govern. Kerry is no exception.
I ignore virtually everything spoken by an American politician since it never aligns with the truth.
Hi Saker, have you seen this peace, and if you have, what do you think of the analysis? I would like to see your take on the article. It’s in Russian.
http://pravdatoday.info/content/prognozy-i-scenarii-dlya-ukrainy
Yes, there are plans within plans.
The multi-polar faction of global politics are coordinating within themselves and seeking a partner in the West.
Eventually one will come, and we will move from meddlesome hegemons out of NY-DC-London, to a broad based and equitable peace that will allow us to make the most of dwindling resources, rather than waste them on war.
There are those of us who think that Obama et al. are replaying Syria, where they pretended to be pro-war only to “fumble” the execution.
If Obama openly challenged the New World Order he would be dead within hours by a mysterious “terrorist” attack.
He has to walk a fine line.
Our role in this is to respond as the tension is ratched up with more activism to “Force” Obama et al. to back down.
Lavrov took Kerry to task for his BS and has a similar observation about why Kerry attacked RT.
Lavrov: Kerry’s ‘prosecutorial’ RT assault unacceptable
http://rt.com/news/154800-lavrov-kerry-rt-comment/
“”The US is trying to pervert everything that is going on in Ukraine. They accuse us of turning on – what was called by John Kerry in a prosecutorial tone – accuse us of switching on what they called the ‘Putin propaganda machine’ called RT,” said Lavrov during the press conference.
“Well, It’s not civilized to call the media like that,” he said, adding that he can “understand John Kerry because RT now presents serious competition for CNN and BBC and other media outlets, which some time ago were confident that they had an absolute monopoly and no competition could threaten them.”
However, RT news channel has gathered a large audience among US and European viewers, let alone in Latin America and the Arab World, Lavrov said.
According to Lavrov, Russia will actively support these independent views of RT, which are an alternative to what Western propaganda tells the world.”
One has to realise how angry it must be making the ziofascists that their main tool for controlling people is the media, and that lately that media has been failing due to alternate choices. If the Israeli-American plutocracy is unable to control people’s access to info, they lose their ability to control their minds. This is the real basis of their power. The late 60’s and early 70’s scared the crap out of these oligarchs because they came very near to losing control of the people because their mind control had failed over wide swaths of the population.
Dear The Saker,
I also think that RT was targetted because Lavrov went on it and was interviewed where he discussed not only Ukraine but Iran and Syria.
I hope lots of people have tuned into RT to see what the fuss is all about – lots of nice PR from Kerry :).
Rgds,
Veritas
How did Mark Levine get to be his age without having his nose broken multiple times? My guess is he went to some sissy east coast prep school. He wouldn’t have lasted an hour in a working class mid-west school.
Russia will nuke U.S. if tensions run too high
— Lubos Motl
March 14, 2014
I have been amazed by the degree of anti-Russian warmongering by the U.S. and other Western politicians who are willing to ignite an economic conflict because of events in Little Russia, a territory that they don’t understand at all […]
http://motls.blogspot.ca/2014/03/russia-will-nuke-us-if-tensions-run-too.html
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Russia will use nukes in case of a strike
–Dmitry Rogozin
December 13, 2013
Vice Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has warned that Russia will use nuclear weapons if it comes under an attack, adding that this possibility serves as the main deterrent to potential provocateurs and aggressors […]
http://rt.com/politics/nuclear-strike-attack-rogozin-053/
What are the chances of a FALSE FLAG terror event in Rome on Sunday during the JP2 canonization ceremony resulting in a massacre to be blamed on Russia?
@Anon 25 April, 2014 15:21 USSR helped tremendously India during the 1971 war. When India tried to break off with the US criminal government a tsunami “happened” (see HAARP). Soon after the US set up initially refused naval base in India. Let’s see what happens now.
@Afterthought 25 April, 2014 17:08 Exactly. He gives out hints, like when warned about the nuclear attack on NYC (read Veterans Today and other sources about missing US nukes, radiation around the Israeli consulate in NYC and Jim Stone about Israeli “nuclear blackmail”) and when revealed hwo’s responsible for the drone attacks in his “speech on terror” about a year ago completely buried and trivialized by the lame-scream media. –ProPeace
Saker,
Long time reader, but first post. Thanks a bunch for having this blog. It is my go to source for information about this Ukrainian situation. I read it and all the comments.
As to RT, it too is fast becoming a principal source of new information. Their interviews especially are insightful and totally beyond anything we see here on the mainstream press sites. I can’t remember when is the last time I saw a 20-30 minute program on any of the US sites.
As to the Kerry shenanigans. I too think he has nothing left to do but bluster and try to dominate the conversation. The English interview of Lavrov yesterday as well as the Putin speech on March 18th to the Russian Parliament, show the Russian, not the American, viewpoint to be the one best articulated and laced with facts.
Anyway, thanks for all your efforts.
Yet another excellent article Saker.
Perhaps I’m a bit of a pessimist but I’ll feel really optimistic when the Ukrainian armed forces start thinking deeply about what their likely fate is if they continue killing Easterners/Southerners, or don’t stop the killing by others.
What I’d really like to see is the generals march into Kyiv, arrest the coup leaders, disarm the Pravy nutters – forcibly if necessary, declare elections for later in the year based upon all parties being welcome to stand candidates, refuting the EU deal, declaring the Ukraine to be a neutral state and tell the Dark Lord Professor Drone-Kill and Mr Democrat Kerry to fuck off and do their own dirty work, if they have the balls. Are they sufficiently patriotic? I can hope.
Anonymous 16:37:
“I recently read, about Kerry, that he had accompanied Bush Sr to Paris for the notorious negotiations with Iran to keep the hostages till after Carter had lost the election. “
WHAT? Where did you read that? He’s a Yalie, so Skull and Bones/CIA? Damn. And yes, he actually didn’t have *that* much money, but managed to marry two extremely wealthy women. And here I thought somebody was just blackmailing him; he’s just usually so mealy-mouthed.
Wikispooks:
Bob in Portland over at MoA said something I sent around yesterday as The Quote Of The Day: “This is obviously such a lose-lose situation for the EU that it almost seems like it was a trap set by Germany to further bifurcate Europe from the US.”
Anonymous 17:41:
Actually, an Italian man was killed yesterday when a 600 kg crucifix honoring JPII fell on him and crushed him: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/24/giant-john-paul-ii-crucifix-falls-and-instantly-crushes-young-man-to-death-in-italy/
“Afterthought said… on 25 April, 2014 17:08
Our role in this is to respond as the tension is retched up with more activism to “Force” Obama et al. to back down.”
Excellently put! Totally agree!
Best regards,
A Shia Muslim
Going through this is going to be a good experience for Russia, as it will vaccinate the Russian people against any delusions they may still have had about the value of being integrated with the west. What these kinds of integrations mean is illustrated by their own decade of the 90s and, if they had any doubts, by what is going on now in the Ukraine.
Russia has been lucky that after suffering through the extraordinarily incompetent direction of a drunk like Yeltsin, there appeared an extremely capable leader like Putin to straighten things up. Two Yelstins in a row would have finished off Russia.
This crisis has confirmed to Russians that if they wish to preserve their sovereignty as a nation and their dignity as a people, they need to: 1) keep a tight watch on the foreign NGO entities in all their insidious manifestations; 2) keep their own oligarcs out of politics; 3) keep themselves armed to the teeth. The last point is essential. The forces they are up against will never understand any other language. Their word, their agreements, their treaties, their promises, are worth nothing.
The current crisis is also good for Russia in the sense it is making a lot of people see the total nakedness of the western emperors. And by contrast, Russia is made to look good, if only because it offers the only open defiance against pure evil.
The current crisis has made great strides in furthering the understanding that Washington is the world center of pure evil.
“Even though I am now 50 years old and I have seen all sorts of lies, deceptions, betrayals and falsehoods over the years, I still have a naive voice in me screaming “how can he say that?”, “does he not feel horribly ashamed?”, “how can he live with himself?”.”
Funny, I have the same reaction every time I read your daily dose of pro-Russian propaganda. Do the FSB/GRU pay you by the word, or is it a flat daily rate?
Why don’t you just move the fuck back to Russia, where you can circle-jerk with your like-minded friends all day long. As I said before, the only good Russian is a dead Russian.
Hi Nora,
“Nora said… on 25 April, 2014 12:28 from the thread “in the Ukraine SITREP-update dated April 24, 1506 UTC/Zulu (UPDATED”
I would be very interested in the sermons, and more history resources likewise. I thought I knew at least a little bit about the break but obviously not enough! And, coming up to the present time, I’m wondering how we managed to turn the Muslim Brotherhood from an enemy into an asset.”
Here is one of the sermon of Imam Ali (as) from the 7th century:
http://www.nahjulbalagha.org/SermonDetail.php?Sermon=185
It is a very, very heavy sermon, and been translated from Arabic to English. Almost, impossible thing to do. This is what separates the Shia from Sunni. Basically, Imam Ali (as) in this sermon is paraphrasing the Holy Quran and talks about GOD.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. This is basically, Islamic Philosophy (Kalam).
After the above I will give the link from Imam Ali (as) first sermon, which is very small. Basically, God being First and God being Last is a contradiction by itself. BABY STEPS! :)
Muslim Brother from an enemy into an assets due to “divide and rule”, as both Saudi Arabia and Egypt have term them as terrorists. You catch my drift.
Best regards,
A Shia Muslim.
Dear Saker
Could you block this people like this one?
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Funny, I have the same reaction every time I read your daily dose of pro-Russian propaganda. Do the FSB/GRU pay you by the word, or is it a flat daily rate?
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That guy is a son of a bitch.
@Anonymous: FSB/GRU pay you by the word, or is it a flat daily rate?
Ha! When I approached these jerks they offered to pay me in Rubles, and that in a Russki bank! What the hell am I supposed to do with them Rubles?! No, I refused and I told them to get lost. Instead, I now work for Mossad which, thanks to the US taxpayer, pays me very well in good old dollars. That is also why I live in the USA: that is pretty much the only country on the planet which does not mind having Mossad agents living and exercising their trade everywhere: from small companies to the White House (The friggin Russians would never allow that!). I have to say that I am happy with my choice, as it allows me to screw Americans to my heart’s content and get their heartfelt gratitude for doing so. When my boss was in town, he even got more standing ovations in Congress than the US President. That would never happen with Putin…
So, in parting, I would like to point you to the little donations button on the right. Now that I have ridiculed you and made fun of you, please do the normal American thing and express your gratitude by paying me a good chunk of your personal income, ok?
Thanks a lot, without folks like you, I would have to go back to these accursed Russkies!
Cheers and kol tuv,
The Saker
@ “What are the chances of a FALSE FLAG terror event in Rome on Sunday during the JP2 canonization ceremony resulting in a massacre to be blamed on Russia?”
LOL. Quite high actually. Considering the Fox News correspondent had indeed spotted a suspiciously looking man wearing a beard in the crowd.
US can lose Russian market if bans rocket, space component supplies to Russia – Moscow
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_04_25/US-can-lose-Russian-market-if-bans-rocket-space-component-supplies-to-Russia-Moscow-5453/
“The United States introducing sanctions against Russia in rocket and space equipment supplies will affect the volume of the US production of space components, United Rocket and Space Corporation General Director Igor Komarov said.
“If now 70% of the component base for the space industry is produced in the US, believe me, if these sanctions are introduced, and last at least a year, I can bet that in five years the share of components produced in the US will be much smaller – 40-50%. The situation will inevitably change considerably,” Komarov said on Rossiya 24 (Russia 24) TV channel on Friday.
“With the demand for such components another producer, who will be able to supply them to the market, will appear,” he said.
“We are certain that if such a situation emerges, someone else will produce the components being produced in the US,” Komarov said.”
Another example of that Israeli mentality running the USA. Meanwhile, the USA needs to buy rocket engines from Russia and the Russian have no intention of hamstringing their industry by cutting out those exports.
I think we’ve heard from grunt again… What an unhappy, hate-filled old codger. Saker I admire your forbearance, and LUV your response!
Tense standoff: unarmed Slavyansk vs Ukrainian tanks. LIVE UPDATES
http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_04_25/Tense-standoff-unarmed-Slavyansk-vs-Ukrainian-tanks-LIVE-UPDATES-1154/
“Protesters in Ukraine’s eastern city of Slavyansk stopped a bus carrying OSCE monitors because there were Ukrainian military personnel among other passengers, local militia leader said Friday, RIA reports.”
The old OSCE Trojan Horse trick. How “clever” of the zionazis/nazis.
@ “BOT TAK”, 25-4-14, 19.29:
What’s more, the OSCE people are actually members of the German Army, the Bundeswehr, as reported in German online papers.
What are German soldiers doing in the Ukraine, working with Ukrainian military?
The insensitivity is staggering.
I would be really grateful if religious preselytisers, whether shi’a musim, hindu, sikh, or jewish, would refrain from using this as a sermon board.
“Most of what Kerry said could quite literally be turned around by 180 degrees and become true.”
This is deliberate. It’s meant to induce psychosis in the vulnerable consciousness, followed by torpor, then despair. It’s Gangster Logic: condemn in others your own most grievous fault.
@Nora: Saker I admire your forbearance, and LUV your response!
I am happy to hear that. I was afraid that somebody might actually really believe that I like to screw Americans or ridicule them. In a face-to-face situation it would have been clear that I was joking and speaking with my “Mossad agent” hat on. But with the written word sometimes something intended as a joke does not come across as like that at all.
So, just for the record:
I love the USA and the American people. It’s is the 1%er regime, what I call the AngloZionist Empire, which I hate. But the 99% of people not only do I not hate, I learned to love them. I have lived in DC for five years (got 2 college degrees then) and the in Florida for another 12 years, and I have traveled across the USA many times and I get along with the regular people very well. But the Kerry/Obama/Nuland types turn my stomach. I see them not as Americans at all, but as oppressors of the American people. So, in fact, I see the Russian and American people on the same side: against the arrogant and absolutely evil 1% plutocracy which is trying enslaved our entire planet.
@anonymous:Dear Saker – Could you block this people like this one? That guy is a son of a bitch.
Nah, I don’t want commentators to insult others (whether individual or groups), but I think that insulting me is sort of their privilege. Besides, most of the time, that kind of stupid insults only gets me more support from sane people.
Also, banning somebody for insulting me is kind of petty. I hate those self-enamored moderators who as soon as you dare say something against them ban you. I rather tell my detractors – you want to insult me – knock yourself out!
But, ok, a few insults here and there I will let pass. But if this becomes a mail bombing campaign and distracts us from the the intelligent discussions we want to have here, I will trash them, don’t worry.
Kind regards to both,
The Saker
from philips in Bharat rakshak–
quote “There are several asymmetrical moves that Putin can make apart from direct involvement of Russian forces.Look at the just announced rapprochement between Hamas and Fatah.Bibi has said that either the Palestinians can have peace with Hamas or peace with Israel but not both.But like it or not,Hamas has massive support amongst the Pal. People. Putin can stir the Middle East pot very easily.He has already planted the flag of Russian interests in Syria,which has KO’d for the moment the combined forces of the West and oily ME monarchies.
For starters,he can up the ante by providing Syria and Iran with S-300/400s,apart from other advanced weaponry,supported by Russian “advisers/technicians”,as was done in Egypt before the Yom Kippur War which took a huge toll of Israeli aircraft. Iran could also be supplied with Yakhonts “
Again, because I forgot the robot drag, I write now again that naiveté is a gift at any age. A virtue? The revulsion westerners feel at Mr.Ex-Heinz Imperacity innovations, may go down well the screens and minds of Asians, those who do the work and where everybody plays life obediently. Naiveté and Revulsion may well combine in westerners mind and create a new element on the emotion keyboard Big Media play virtuosily.
Rowan Berkeley: I would be really grateful if religious preselytisers, whether shi’a musim, hindu, sikh, or jewish, would refrain from using this as a sermon board.
And I would be grateful if you let me manage this blog the way I see fit. What you call “religious proselytizers” are already persecuted enough and sneered at in this confused and dysfunctional society without you coming here telling them to go away. I tell them to please come here, Muslim, Hindu, Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Shinto or any other and speak freely without having to worry about some religion-hating bigot condescendingly telling them to shut up. I welcome and encourage an open and free discussion of religious issues and I welcome and encourage the discussion of non-religious issues from a religious point of view. Heck, I even welcome agnostics and atheists as long as they express their point of view without trying to silence the rest of us.
So, Rowan, I let your comment be posted here to clarify this to you and any other wannabe religion censor so as to make my position unambiguously clear. I will not have an argument over this. You either accept that freedom of thought and expression is a core value of this blog, or you go and find a “for atheists only” blog. There are plenty of those to choose from.
Very sincerely,
The Saker
McEater said: “Funny, I have the same reaction every time I read your daily dose of pro-Russian propaganda. Do the FSB/GRU pay you by the word, or is it a flat daily rate?
Why don’t you just move the fuck back to Russia, where you can circle-jerk with your like-minded friends all day long. As I said before, the only good Russian is a dead Russian.”
Check this McDonald location:
“Setting up the Russian flag in Block 21, Belgrade, Serbia”
http://gioranoangelo.blogspot.ca/2014/04/21-2014.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DZfRblWqb4
I agree with your analysis about the discomfort and fear of foreign networks over viewers in the western world. Samantha Power has been complaining about what she calls “Russian propaganda” for weeks now, and I assume she is also obsessed with RT.
I disagree with your assessment that Kerry is much higher up the pyramid than Obama. Kerry is a pawn too. He’s an entirely different person than he used to be. Nobody in the US can figure out what happened to him.
Also, the kind of fear we’re seeing, I think makes things even more dangerous.
@ Saker But the Kerry/Obama/Nuland types turn my stomach.
But still your stomach is much stronger than mine, Saker :)
As of recently it can’t bear more than a couple of sentences from the Kerry & Co.
Disgusting creatures.
They still think that all of the people are zombies and can’t think.
http://lifenews.ru/news/132062
ОБСЕ/NATO/Military Verification Team captured in Slavyansk
https://twitter.com/spainbuca
Summary:
Private military (Academi, formerly Blackwater etc.) organizing things in Kiev, giving priority to controlling information and media, hiring locals that are willing to go to the east. Plan is to lay some kind of siege to the rebel towns, blocking the entrance of all merchandise to try to make them surrender. OSCE observers are revealed to be phony observers working for Kiev.
Can’t access RT at the moment… Hmmm
Another good analysis from you, Saker – for which, much thanks.
I note that the negative comments which you attract are mostly (90%?) of the insulting type, with no logic or sound reasoning behind them – so enough said, I think
I can’t stand the official media anymore. I am afraid I have contracted an allergy to the anglo-zionist propaganda and developed that puking reflex everyone is complaining about.
I used to like listening to talk radio while driving, but I can’t stand it anymore. What I am now doing is I stream radio stations I trust via my smartphone connected to the car speakers. Pretty cool when your plan has unlimited data ))
Dear Saker,
I watch the first half and did see his body language and voice.
They are finished.
This is the turning point. Like Gekachepist telco after ussr putsch. We did see empire death in our own eyes.
This speech was pure desperation, he is full of fear. They are losing. They are desperate, they are full of fear, what the next day will bring.
And saker, it took just ONE TV STATION! imagine!
Sharks just smelled the blood!
Actually Kerry is right, no propaganda and lies withstand today communications. The truth is out there, in the networks.
Good job John!
Anonymous said…
As I said before, the only good Russian is a dead Russian.
I’m really trying hard not to say anything on that. …. inner calm…
DUDE! can you write it on your forehead the next time? I don’t think many people could see it well if you write that here.
Ok, sorry fellows and saker. :(
sorry saker,
but what u say is not getting it. it is about $$$. and the guys holding guns are just following it not knowing it themseves!
we are in a stage of decline of capitalism – and you do not get its implications. what we see is the chaos of that nothing works anymore.
http://exit-online.org/text1.php?tabelle=transnationales&index=2
gives you an idea what happens.
15 months ago I had never heard of RT. It is now my main source of information about international affairs. The traditional mainstream no longer provides facts or ‘news’ – only what the rulers want us to know. The world is waking up to these people, even the western world that has been duped for so long. Most of us did not even know about Bilderberg or that John Kerry is a member of the secret ‘skull and bones’ order of rituals freaks and refuses to answer questions about it. Qudos to RT – it is not afraid of the western ruling elite, the hidden puppet masters or the secret government that is slowly being exposed day by day. This blog also does a fantastic job of informing and enlightening the readers.
Wikispooks said,
And I wonder at the folly of Germany in particular. Have its current leaders learned so little from the last two conflagrations that they are allowing themselves to be maneuvered into a third and precisely analogous one?
Good point, why are the current German leadership and the MSM backing US led aggression in the Ukraine, neither the German business sector nor the German business sector appear to favour escalating tensions following the US directed coup and it does not appear in the German national interest, so why is a traitorous elite following this course?
Also can anyone recommend any German language based interner sites giving a realistic point of view in the Ukraine?
A Shia Muslim and Mindfriedo,
Thank you both for your recommendations, and time spent guiding me! I know enough about your faith to not approach it casually or superficially. Ergo, it may take me a while to absorb, reflect and get back to you — especially the work of Al-Husain ibn Ali (A.S.). I’m looking forward to the process tremendously though, and truly appreciate your guidance and interest.
My deepest respect, regards and gratitude,
Nora
Saker wrote:
I still have a naive voice in me screaming “how can he say that?”, “does he not feel horribly ashamed?”, “how can he live with himself?”. I know. I am naive and idealistic. I just cannot get used to it. Even after 50 years.
This is because you are a human being with the capacity for empathy, unlike the psychopathic gangsters who have seized control of our civilization and are steering us towards a war to purposely kill off billions of people while enslaving everyone else.
I recall Prince Philip once saying if he could die and come back he would choose to come back as a virus that could kill off roughly 2 billion people to restore the planet to ‘balance.’
It is time for all the good, tolerant, generous and peaceful people of the world to stop judging the ruling oligarchy by their our own standards. These people are not like you and me. Good people always assume that other people are motivated by the same basic desire to get along and do no harm. This is true for roughly 96% of the population but the remaining 4 percent are either psychopathic ( biologically incapable of empathy) or sociopathic (biologically capable of empathy but imitating psychopathic behaviour).
Counterpunch – Weekend Edition April 25-27, 2014
If Not Now, When?
Unite Against Imperialism!
by ANDRE VLTCHEK
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/25/unite-against-imperialism/print
@clint:
the best coverage of events in ukraine in german so far is on
http://www.heise.de/tp/default.html
also a lot of usefull additional information in the comments section, that usually correct some errors in the reports.
one interesting article is about the war between german online-media and its commenters.
(http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/41/41586/1.html)
As for Kerry: Some things stick in your memory. I met Kerry long years ago at a hearing where I had testified. Most senators and reps, even old boys who barely totter along, have right hand grips a blacksmith would envy. Kerry extended a hand as limp as an aristocratic ladies and and said “pleased” in a sepulchral tone.
I thought earlier that his puffery was designed to try to repel Republican attacks for being “weak” and Jewish attacks for “betraying” Israel. Dems still in office are doubtless saying “Don’t make ’em mad. It costs us money every time you do.”
Now ??. Is he shilling to be Hillary’s VP? Or what? But one must give him credit for having done something right to have raised so many hackles. We don’t know what his relationship with Obama really is or what he and Putin worked up with the doors closed. Here is a man with dead eyes wading, almost sleep walking from his appearance, in a very polluted current.
Saker also wrote:
The problem is not that Russia Today is stirring up the people of eastern Ukraine, the problem is that thanks to Russia Today the people in the West are beginning to see through the official propaganda!
I strongly disagree with this statement because it leads people to believe that they can receive the truth from any one source. This is simply not true.
The only solution for people seeking truthful answers is to learn to think for themselves and NEVER accept anything they hear from anyone before judging the motivations of the people who bring you the message.
Your blog has done an admirable job in this regard thanks to your dedicated moderation and excellent commentary.
Please understand, I am not telling you that RT has not played a critical role in waking up the English speaking masses. I am saying that like any other source of information, RT is open to manipulation.
Recall when RT first crashed into Western public consciousness. It was far more aggressive and useful to anyone who wanted to work through the lies of the Anglo-American ruling class.
Then suddenly it changed and its usefulness was drastically downgraded. For example, the comments section somehow became a wasteland of stupidity and useless information. You may also recall that Putin recently replaced Svetlana Mironyuk and installed Dmitry Kiselyov to head a revamped agency, called Rossiya Segodnya (Russia Today).
Svetlana Mironyuk saw herself as part of the ruling globalist oligarchy and the changes made at RT before her departure reflected her strong bias in favour of her good friends at Davos. Putin made a good decision by firing her but you’ll also recall the fallout that followed when Liz Wahl quit and Abbey Martin denounced Putin’s actions in Crimea.
Why have Anglo-Zionist elites permitted RT to continue to be broadcast in the West?
Several reasons. First, shutting down RT would be an overt sign that America is not a free country with a free press. Second, fans of RT are coralling and marking themselves as potential enemies of the state. Third, just as with the false choice between Democrats and Republicans, Red or Blue, Coke or Pepsi, false dichotomies give people the illusion of free choice when in fact they are only allowed to choose one of two pre selected options. I am not saying RT or Putin are necessarily helping the ruling oligarchy intentionally. I am saying it is useful for the gangster ruling class to limit your thinking and your choices lest you should start thinking for yourself about everything.
If you do not have politics of your own and spend your time repeating what you’ve heard on TV, then you are a slave who has the illusion of freedom. That is a perfect description of the consciouness of most people alive today.
Great point about the desperation of “ketchup boy”. Slamming RT was a real “tell” and I didn’t pick up on it till you pointed it out. He’s wetting himself lavishly at this point.