by Ghassan Kadi
Love or hate the Hippie era, it was definitely different, and it heralded the beginning of a new type of awakening in the West, and this time the awakening was not against the Western Church(es), but against the establishment.
It is not by accident that this movement climaxed when the Vietnam War reached its zenith, and the more Johnson and later on Nixon intensified the US-led attack on Vietnam, the louder and the more vehement Western youth grew in pronouncing their outrage about the actions of their governments.
The rebels who were seen by the upper crust as bearded, greasy, dope-smoking, LSD-using, promiscuous bunch of young boys and girls of California were not alone. They were joined by a world-wide movement. When Mohamed Ali refused to fight in Vietnam, he became an instant hero and an inspiration for other celebrities of influence. Bolstered by the horror of war and domestic American tragedies such as the assassination of Dr. King, the rise of the Black Rights Movement, and of course pop culture where former Beatle John Lennon played a big role and his song “Imagine” was transformed into a de-facto peace manifesto and the song “Give Peace A Chance” became like an anthem the youth sang in groups of tens of thousands marching the streets of major Western cities demanding peace.
Unable to mobilize its own people, unable to stop the very intense Viet Kong resistance, eventually the US military drive had to capitulate, and the flower power managed to help ground the B-52’s, and Kissinger was forced to go and talk peace terms as a loser.
Such was the might of peace activism. And it was fought at different fronts; including Hollywood. People of my age group cannot forget movies such as “Soldier Blue”; a turning point Western in which the Native Americans were the good guys for a change. And of course, who can forget the movie “Billy Jack”, the Woodstock happening and movie and many, many similar anti-establishment movies and events?
The course of history was changing as it were, and the awakening was enabling Westerners to see the hypocrisy of their governments and their inhumane treatment to native cultures and other cultures globally. The military slumped to its lowest level of respect in the eyes of the people of the West.
If we fast forward to 2003, we can also clearly remember the hundreds of thousands of Westerners who filled the streets of major cities protesting against the “Coalition of The Willing” and its drive to invade Iraq. But Western politicians did not worry much about those protests, because they were not organized like the previous protests of the 1960’s and 70’s. This is because in between the seventies and the first decade of the current century, many changes have taken place that have seen the peace movement vanish.
When the Falklands/Maldivas war broke out, to the dismay of the then UK PM Maggie Thatcher, the BBC was too embarrassed to support the war and reported it with impartiality. It beggars belief that the same BBC has later on engaged in fabricating evidence against the Syrian Government and engaged in beating the drums of the establishment on Ukraine.
A serious change has happened in between; a change in outlook, and a change in perspective.
If my personal recollection is of value and relevance, I recall my outrage seeing the movie “An Officer and a Gentleman” back in 1982. For the first time in more than a decade, a Hollywood movie glorified the military. What is going on? I wondered. Then “First Blood”- turned-Rambo came in, followed by a series of gung ho movies including “Black Hawk Down”, “Broken Arrow”, and the list goes on and on. Any such movies made in the 60’s or 70’s would have been shot down and ridiculed by critics and viewers, but the critics and viewers of the 80’s onwards were not the same as the critics and viewers of a couple of decades ago. Only Oliver Stone kept carrying the torch.
This article is not about offering a critique of Hollywood or Pop Music. It is about the mass Western mentality that seems to be so much under the control of Hollywood, music, and the infamous mainstream media (MSM).
This situation is auspiciously reminiscent of a Hippie era song title by Peter Paul and Mary; “Where have all the flowers gone?”
For seven and a half decades we did not hear a single American President speak of putting an end to the foreign intervention policy until Donald Trump did just a few days ago.
For decades, peace activists and their supporters worked hard, rallied, fought riot police, went to jail, got tortured and killed, and all of this just to end one specific war or to avoid another from erupting. Never before have we heard of a possibility of all American foreign intervention wars, present and future to end.
Whether or not Trump will keep this promise is something to be seen, but what is mind boggling, and I dare say sinister, is that not a single peace activist seems to have made any positive comment.
Where have all the flowers gone?
Not even the Dalai Lama made a whisper of hope in the wake of Trump’s proclamation. Even Greenpeace seems none-the-wiser, probably because Trump is not “green” leaning and mocks global warming.
Does the world prefer an American President who on one hand acknowledges global warming but does nothing about it, and then turns around and fills the planet with the smoke and pollutants of war?
Do the so-called peace activists of today prefer to see mutilated human body parts than to hear a politician saying that he does not believe in climate change?
And what about the Holy Pontiff? Isn’t the Pope of present times meant to be the most ardent advocate for humanity? How does he explain his silence? Does anyone ask why is he silent?
The silence of all of those who allegedly promote peace is dubious to say the least. If there was a shred of truth to their love for peace, they would have an obligation to promote and praise, or at the very least acknowledge whoever pledges to end wars. Their silence speaks volumes and reveals hidden true colours.
Obama received a whole Nobel Peace Prize possibly for just speaking in Cairo and for promising to close down Guantanamo Bay prison. At the end, he reneged on the latter and his trip to Egypt and the talk he gave only invoked the so-called Arab Spring and thereby empowering the Muslim Brotherhood. Will Trump win a Nobel for promising to end all American interventions? If he keeps his word and actually does stop all future American interventions, will he get a Nobel Peace Prize then?
And the European NATO allies who are reminding Trump of his military obligations, have they not had enough wars? Are there more countries left for them to pillage? How many more millions need to die before their thirst is quenched? How many more refugees does the EU want to help create? Are they truly stupid enough not to see that they are reaping the fruits of their own actions?
And now that America seems to have had enough after seventy five years of continuous wars that followed the infamous Pearl Harbor day, who in his right mind wants to keep the torch of war lit?
The flower power that brought down America’s invasion of Vietnam is no more. The flower has lost its petals. Its stem has shriveled, its aroma has long gone, and its spirit is dead.
Today’s so-called peace activists are mostly and unwittingly pawns in the hands of Soros and other magnates. They move them and keep them under control, because in controlling them, they control the masses.
This is where all the flowers have gone.
“, and it heralded the beginning of a new type of awakening in the West”
-It heralded the rise of culturalmarxism and the end of civilization. The same dope-head hippies that ran around and refused to shower back then are now running media, academia and western government and entire countries into the ground.
Fully agree! :)
Best regards,
Mohamed
Ya, kinda threadjacking BUT this is an important and heartening item. The 60’s peace movement may no longer be apparent, but a new generation is still speaking truth to power. This lady bears watching for a hopeful future.
Eva Bartlett speaks plainly at the US Syria Mission press conference, schools an arrogant and smarmy NATO-MSM “journalist”.
The full confab, very informative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebE3GJfGhfA
And school’s in session:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ509Z8uk_A
OOPS! Should be UN Syria Mission press conference, not US…
I keep on hearing this term ‘cultural-marxism’ – but I confess I am in the dark about what it actually means. What we do have is liberal-imperialism, cultural capitalism and political correctness. I suppose the people who use this term mean the theories of people like Marcuse, Adorno and Horkheimer who in fact wrote largely unintelligible and unreadable texts on culture and society. I wonder how many people who use this ‘cultural-marxism’ tag have ever tried reading or have even heard of these authors and the works.
Sorry for the intrusion, but I think this might interest you:
” Who financed Lenin and Trotsky? ”
http://www.wildboar.net/multilingual/easterneuropean/russian/literature/articles/whofinanced/whofinancedleninandtrotsky.html
Thank you.
Political correctness is a synonym for cultural marxism. I suggest you read about Frankfurt school and critical theory. Thought likely you already know exactly what this is and what cultural marxism is, likely you are a marxist yourself and take offensive that of the usage of the term marxism to describe anything bad, and that is your gripe.
To sum it up quickly for those that are interested.
Cultural Marxism is basically what was produced by a pack of disgruntled marxist after ww1, their doctrines stated that during the circumstance such as under ww1 the workers of the western world would unite as one and rise up and overthrow their countries. Yet instead the exact opposite happens, instead of a western uprising, the workers of each industrialized country march into war and fought and died for their countries.
Baffled and crying, the marxist united under the Frank Furt school, and start to study why this occurred. Why did not the workers rise up. The result of their study was that the culture was in the way, the cultural including family values, religion, nationalism, racial loyalties/ethnic. Was the reason for the workers did not rising up. They prioritized family, religion over establishing a proletarian dictatorship.
So, after understanding that, they understood that for marxism to be truly successful, they would need to reshape the culture in the western world first. And thus cultural marxism was born, an ideology which the sole goal of removing family values, religion, nationalism, ethnic/racial loyalties from western culture and creating a culture where marxism could prosper.
And that is the reason for the west today, which during the last decades has a create such a insane self-hating culture that no one has seen the like on earth before.
Where the family is hated and the most deviant query-sexuals are held as examples, where women are told to act as the worst men and men are told to act as women,where religion and traditionalism has been all but removed and where the most alien and hostile cultures, such as Islam is not only cherished, but individual from these cultures are imported by the tens of millions to create the largest demographic shift in human history. Where ethnic loyalty, is an arrestable offense, and even talking about, for example, the mass-rape of German women by Muslims in cologne is something you get arrested for, because you are committing a “hate crime”.
Cultural marxism is also the reason the western elites hate Russia so, because Russia is the last large white christian conservative country. That offers up an alternative way of life for whites. And as life gets worse and worse in the western world, Russia will be looked upon more and more as a bastion of freedom and European civilization. As, it already is by most conservatives and nationalist in the west, who some also are founded by Russia.
excellent discourse – it was wrong of anyone to ask why workers marched off to death in war for no reason. Those damned marxists should have marched meekly off to their own deaths with everyone else and then we would have been spared any inquiries into the nature of human society and culture and why it leads to war, mass poverty and other insanities that decent people should accept without question.
Yeah, then hundreds of german women would not get mass-rapes by thousands of muslims in public streets in Germany today, but sadly those marxist did not march into defence of their homeland like heroes, instead they sat like rats in a basements and sharpen their subversive tools to more effectively destroy human civilization.
This is what Adolf Hitler foresaw when he started operation Barbarossa RELUCTANTLY!
Is those days people were very, very afraid of Bolshevism (as they should be) and the Germans prevented ALL of Europe becoming communist countries by launching a PREEMPTIVE STRIKE against the Soviet Union. Two weeks later and Stalin would have launched Operation “Groza” (Thunderstorm) and Europe would have been overrun by 13.000 airplanes, 60.000 assault guns, 175 divisions and about 20.000 tanks.
The Germans gave their life and their country to prevent this. And what did the world, blinded by the Zionist MSM?
It despite them. And i think it is a bloody shame!
http://thegreateststorynevertold.tv
http://communismbythebackdoor.tv
Yes ..
or as Gen Patton observed..
‘we defeated the wrong one,s The Germans were right about these eastern hordes of ‘deplorables’ markist commie savages..
:P
cheers bro i gladly put my name Mick Mclennan to everything you say
and often sday more .. so not fussed about arrest one thing i am i guess concede is honourable enough in Australia .maintian. :)..
kind regards Mick
Anonymous poster. You of vast intellect. You generalize so. Have you visited Moscow? Have you directly witnessed the behaviors of Russia’s well off class? They seem to me to be spawn of the same liberal consumer class that inhabit much of the empire. Your depiction of Russia as a christian conservative country is a partial truth only. Generalizations are made by those whose critical thinking skills are lacking. Speak the entire truth, my friend.
Hi Lee Francis,
cultural-marxism, liberal-imperialism, cultural capitalism and political correctness these are all different terms and they mean the same thing. Imagine Ozzy Osbourne having dinner with Dubya:
Generals gathered in their masses,
Just like witches at black masses.
Evil minds that plot destruction,
Sorcerer of death’s construction.
In the fields the bodies burning,
As the war machine keeps turning.
Death and hatred to mankind,
Poisoning their brainwashed minds.
Oh lord yeah!
Politicians hide themselves away,
They only started the war.
Why should they go out to fight,
They leave that role to the poor.*
Oh thank you. The term “cultural-marxism” irritated me too. I put people who created it into the same category as those who call anybody whom they don’t like Hitler. It’s a cliche. They didn’t read Marx or study Marxism. All they know is – Marxism=bad, Hitler=bad.
Not really, it is a cultural created by marxists(Frankfurt School) with the specific aim of removing in it the obstacles for marxist revolution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8pPbrbJJQs
“The Frankfurt School (German: Frankfurter Schule) is a school of social theory and philosophy associated in part with the Institute for Social Research at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Founded during the interwar period, the School consisted of dissidents who felt at home neither in the existent capitalist, fascist, nor communist systems that had formed at the time. Many of these theorists believed that traditional theory could not adequately explain the turbulent and unexpected development of capitalist societies in the twentieth century. Critical of both capitalism and Soviet socialism, their writings pointed to the possibility of an alternative path to social development.[1]
Although sometimes only loosely affiliated, Frankfurt School theorists spoke with a common paradigm in mind; they shared the Marxist Hegelian premises and were preoccupied with similar questions.[2] To fill in the perceived omissions of classical Marxism, they sought to draw answers from other schools of thought, hence using the insights of antipositivist sociology, psychoanalysis, existential philosophy, and other disciplines.[3] The school’s main figures sought to learn from and synthesize the works of such varied thinkers as Kant, Hegel, Marx, Freud, Weber, and Lukács.[4]
Following Marx, they were concerned with the conditions that allow for social change and the establishment of rational institutions.[5] Their emphasis on the “critical” component of theory was derived significantly from their attempt to overcome the limits of positivism, materialism, and determinism by returning to Kant’s critical philosophy and its successors in German idealism, principally Hegel’s philosophy, with its emphasis on dialectic and contradiction as inherent properties of human reality.
Since the 1960s, Frankfurt School critical theory has increasingly been guided by Jürgen Habermas’s work on communicative reason, linguistic intersubjectivity and what Habermas calls “the philosophical discourse of modernity”.[6] Critical theorists such as Raymond Geuss and Nikolas Kompridis have voiced opposition to Habermas, claiming that he has undermined the aspirations for social change that originally gave purpose to critical theory’s various projects—for example the problem of what reason should mean, the analysis and enlargement of “conditions of possibility” for social emancipation, and the critique of modern capitalism.[7]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School
Thanks Anon, a cogent and well-written argument,
I disagree still that this social engineering has anything to do with the core tenants of Marxism. Much as the Communists did, Marxism has been appropriated (or misappropriated) to deflect new players. The breakdown of social bonds helps the Capitalists a lot more than it does the workers. Only collective solutions can defeat the hyper-individuals behind liberal capitalism. Calling it Cultural Marxism both obfuscates the true beneficiaries of the program, and further taints socialism. As always, cui bono? A true Marxist would not be setting up a State instrument like the Frankfurt School, that reeks more of what became Thinktankland later in the century. As always, follow the money.
You are right that the broad church of Socialism was baffled as to why the masses trundled off to the slaughter. A few years ago my mother researched a fantastic study on the death of three of our cousins in one battle during WWI (Mouquet Farm, 3-4 Sept 1916). It is a heart-breaking read, especially the closing stages when their fourth brother comes back months later to dig around for their bodies. To give the book some kind of theme, some kind of resolution I asked her to research why they went in the first place. The War to End All Wars did not deliver as advertised, but is did drive the first nail into the public’s unquestioning acceptance of being sent to war. Tradition, patriotism, jingoism, paternalism all played their part, and all of these were challenged and subdued during the cultural revolution of the late 60’s. Compare 1914 to 1968 and tell me that this effort was in vain. Look again at the massive crowds all over the world on March 18 2003, they were not standing on the platform this time waving the boys off on a grand adventure. All this has nothing to do with transgender bathrooms.
I have said on other posts that there is a clear difference between Marxism and Identity politics. Marxism is a political struggle for class liberation, Identity (Neo-Liberalism) is a social/legal struggle for personal liberation. Marxists do have sympathy for the minorities rejected by the status quo, which is how they both got lumped together. It serves the ruling class for you all to be saying ‘left’ when speaking against neo-liberalism, obscuring the many convergences between the patriotic Right and Marxism. If you oppose Wall Street, the Washington Elite, unnecessary overseas wars and job offshoring, maybe you are a Marxist and you didn’t know it.
Their intellectual promiscuity begat the monster called ‘identity politics’ – including the subjectivism that manufactured ‘identities’ like ‘homosexual’ ( actually not an objective category as the ever proliferating and internally seething contradictions of ‘LGBTQ….’ demonstrate).
Hardly a ‘school’.
More a herd of ‘useful idiots’/screwballs’.
The real rot began with post-modernism which claimed the ‘signified’ was synonymous with the ‘signifier’: this dispensed with material facts altogether and paved the way for intellectually ‘respectabilizing’ common-or-garden psychosis/neurosis/dissociative disorders like the current ‘transgender’ cult.
Like pedophile rings, group-think enables and reinforces the mental aberration.
Then the plutocrats step in and pick out the most ‘useful’ of the ‘idiots’ for their perpetual Malthusian/Eugenicist obsessions.
Sociopaths financed by psychopaths is the all-too-predictable result…
Yes, Bianca, I think you’re right–although I did enjoy the mental picture of Ozzy Osbourne and Dubya dining together.
Hi Helen,
They did have dinner together. Just Google it.
Best regards,
Mohamed
“I keep on hearing this term ‘cultural-marxism’ – but I confess I am in the dark about what it actually means.”
It’s one of those terms that signify the prejudice and willful ignorance of the user of it. Because of that it makes a good road marker telling the reader the road is a dead end, drive on by. :D
@ Vot Tak
True, “cultural Marxism” has been clicheed and used incorrectly in disparagement. My take on it as that term arose from the gradual change observed in intellectual discourse where the main thrust of Marx’s thought – the eradication of capitalism – has been substituted by attacks on the other sources of inequality (gender, race, sexuality, age, physical impairment and other forms of “soft” discrimination) commonly described as “political correct” rhetoric.
It’s main development took place in the USA from the Trotskyite followers of a distorted version of Marxism influenced by the Frankfurt School ideas taken by Herbert Marcuse and other Jewish proponents of an alternative Marxism to the USA. By stressing their critique on cultural sources of inequality, they leave untouched the real source of inequality- capitalism. Hence its wider adoption among the American “leftists”.
lol – smoking dope and not bathing = evil!
Look at how the Occupy Movement was attacked and discredited by the establishment and the MSM and you have your answer.
Occupy made the mistake of not directly identifying the actual originators of the military, covert and economic wars being waged. To name a few of the most well-known 0.001% perps, George Soros, Warren Buffet, Rockefeller’s and Rothschild’s grubby back-room fingerprints are all over virtually all of the crimes against humanity. But they ensure the direct actions can only be traced to their 0.1% proxies.
Until the masses rise up against the current and future 0.001%, we will know no peace. And rest assured the 0.1% political/military/police/technocrat class will not do it for us. The Bilderbergs should be as afraid to meet as Aleppo citizens are to walk their city streets. The Davos crowd should be wondering if any of the US manpads so liberally distributed to “rebels” in the Middle East as part of some “regime change” covert ops don’t find their way to flight paths in Switzerland.
Yes, regime change is needed, but in the boardrooms and Bretton Woods instigated IMF/World Bank/BIS/SWIFT/US-petro$ system. What was done to Saddam and Gadaffi at the behest of the 0.001% should be the model of civilization visited on the 0.001%.
Seriously? The Occupy “movement” was a complete fraud created by the media (the NYT, principally) to establish a Left wing counterpoint to a real movement of the center-right, the TEA party, in the run up to the 2012 election.
The Occupy movement fizzled after the 2012 election because it had served its purpose but it re-emerged in time for the 2016 election cycle re-branded as Black Lives Matter.
Unfortunately for the Democrats this time the fake Left wing movement was no match for the authentic center-right popular movement when Donald Trump shrewdly embraced it, rather than trying to squelch it as Romney did in 2012.
The Potemkin village that is Obama’s America has fallen down. Real America is back.
There is not anything “authentic” about nearly any group in US/NATO politics, just various herds of brainwashed sheeple reacting emotionally to zero-truth-content propaganda.
“counterpoint to the Tea Party”??? The Koch-concocted Tea Party was well on the way to tanking even before whackadoodle Palin jumped on their sorry bandwagon.
While Soros money may have partially funded some “NGO’s/foundations” that in turn funded Occupy groups, it would appear the actual protesters were not following the script Georgie may have intended. The Repuglicans and Dumbocrats both hated Occupy (it was their script handed down from the 0.001%ers) just like they both hate Trump, even though they will attack him differently. The parties’ power-players’ and 0.001%’s problem with Trump is he’s unpredictable in a way that makes him difficult to manipulate by fear or money. Trump makes the term “loose cannon” seem mild.
And this demonstrates my point clearly… two opposing oligarchs manipulating the citizenry against itself. The common enemy of working-class Tea Party supporters and Occupy protesters are the 0.001%ers like the Koch’s and Soros. If rank-and-file politicians could get their heads out of their asses, they’d also realize the 0.001% were using their bought/paid party leaders and lobbyists to play them for fools.
I’m sure Saker readers also realize that once the US serves it’s purpose in creating economic/social chaos world wide, the 0.001% will take advantage of the US/NATO/Bretton Woods devolution to at best a fragile economy/society clinging to “greatness”, as the Russia/China consortium increasingly has the 0.001%’s favour. Ya, the Rothschilds have significant holdings in Russia and China, particularly banking, and if Rex Tillerson (CEO of EXXON Mobile, which Putin handed major Arctic exploration/extraction contracts) gets the Sec of State job?
Putin holds a very strong hand in the game which the 0.001% play, and Syria and Ukraine show he is a better player, especially with Xi also holding a few wildcards. None of the 0.001% are giving Putin orders, he’ll pragmatically work with them, but he’s not giving away the farm like Yeltsin did. Watch some of the Putin videos over at Fort Russ… he’s plainly laughing at the US politicos and generals, he’s at least 2 steps ahead in every transaction.
The smartest thing Trump could do is to abandon the PNAC/Grand Chessboard, boot out the psychopaths that push it and negotiate with Russia and China to cooperatively wind down the $200+trillion debt bomb blackmail tool the 0.001% intentionally created. Putin is arresting the US/0.001%-backed Russian oligarchs/bureaucrats behind the post-USSR-collapse outright theft of Russia’s wealth and the attempt to destroy Russia’s sovereignty. But Russia is not Argentina, Venezuela or Brazil.
It’s called Disaster Capitalism, taking advantage of chaos, whether deliberately manipulated/incited by the 0.001% profiteers or simply stuff happens. Setting various groups within a population against each other is standard operating procedure for the 0.001%. Goering’s “no one wants war” quote exposes the exact same tactics underlying US/NATO “foreign policy”.
I feel like printing out your comment, framing it and hanging it on the wall, just for those times when I get tired and distracted, lose focus and get sucked into the machinations of the power games constantly being played upon us.
Bald, pithy and free of ideology, thanks.
@ Helen: Thanks, I’m blushing… :-) I but stand on the shoulders of giants, the real journalists, whistle-blowers and historians who risk all to dig out the real info. And especially people like Saker, who are the tall spikes who refuse to be hammered down by the repeated blows of the 0.001% and their 0.01% sycophants. We can understand and speak truth here.
Someone much wiser than I said “all wars are bankers wars”, and that is as true today as ever. Smedley Butler and Goering said it plain as day, and Zimbardo and Milgram showed the psychological mechanisms used by authority figures and the disciples of Bernays (political, religious, economic) to turn us against ourselves and to ignore the empathy that underlies the true successes and survival of the human race.
Don’t let the bastards grind you down…
All wars are – – – -.
For those who haven’t read it yet.
Here. http://fotovision.no/GLP2/allwarsarebankerswars.pdf
Regards
Kent
And even more interesting, the complete testimony of Butler and others before the Congressional Committee on the attempted “Banker’s Putch” of 1933…
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/spivak-NewMasses.pdf
The full set of sources on the plot at :
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/generalsources.html
I have not looked at the other links, and reading it all could take days from what I saw in the New Masses articles.
Short story, the 0.001% banksters should have been hung for treason and crimes against humanity then just as they should be now.
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“The dickstein committee”. Not very subtle, is it. :D
Very apt name for a cover up front for bankster treason and attempted coup, though. Interesting material, thanks for linking it.
@ nice try
Very good summary of what’s taking place in the post-USSR world. The simple question “cui bono?” from whatever chaos or political engineering takes place reveals the sinister hand of Zionism. They were the main players in the rape of Russia and I hope one day the Russian people will settle the score.
Occupy didn’t fail in the end. I only lifted a half-interested eye myself at the time, way too jaded for hope. There were some good days, but in the end the usual disappointment. But they did something that 70 years of post-war struggle couldn’t, they achieved a level of class consciousness. We are the 99%, and the ruling class finally tagged the 1%. This equation finally broke through the fake left/right dichotomy, and I think was a factor in Clinton’s defeat.
True, we the 99% now know who we are, but only the 0.001% need to be curbed to make great changes occur… the rest of the 1% would prefer self preservation over being zealots for the 0.001%.
Good point nice try,
What happened last time in the 30’s was the ruling class were able to wedge the middle class against the lower class. Communism was used to scare the middle class that the masses wanted to appropriate their houses and cars and drive them back into the proletariat. Thing is this time, they can no longer afford to prop up a middle class, so we are all crashing into the proles anyway. Once we are truly 99% (or even 70 or 80%), there will be nothing they can do. The 0.999% you are talking about will one day be the stars of the latest instalment of the Purge franchise. The 0.001% won’t be that lucky.
wow ..really well put Ghassan.. there is certainly nothing i could add.. you rounded up quite astutely.
and more relevent , from a personal and objective view that is almost seamless.
Thanks will send on to a few who can then share with a few clueless moronic ‘peaceniks’ i have long fallin out with becasue of their willful ignorance and redundancy of conviction.
thanks again; kind regards Mick
@ G Kadi: Thank you. I have wondered along similar lines as you have and ponder it still. There seems to be a polarizing force separating people out these days and hopefully the lines between them will not be frozen permanently into hostile narrative formations.
I see that the struggles in the future will be on many local fronts over local –community or state– issues. Also people are dropping out of Facebook and quietly not buying Kellog cereals ( very bad food product and overpriced).
The Pope came out amazingly in support of the latest attack on free speech and the quest for truth by endorsing the canard of “fake news”. And this from the man who spoke out against the excesses of capitalism a few years ago!
Least I be cynical about the Dalai Lama, let me point out that his responsibility is to the continuance of his culture and his people in exile. One of his main donation base is the Western neoliberal establishment and the Hollywood form faker elite. There are very powerful thought forms that abound and it takes time, inquiry and a strong mind to resist them and expose them. At least he stays neutral although one would think that a nuclear war with Russia-China might have a very deleterious effect on Tibet.
Patience, the American people have begun to shrug their shoulders under the yoke of double speak and promotion of “identity based” false values: there is a line between the acceptance of homosexuality and the promotion of it especially with state funds and there is a difference between organized immigration and flooding of the borders with unknowns.
The leadership of the Afro American community is “on” to the disruptive thrust of the organization claiming the slogan of “Black Lives Matter as its masthead. They will not be manipulated by the likes of Soros et. al. or radicals posing a saviors of “the people”. And that community is the first to suffer from illegals undercutting the pay standards in available jobs . And by the way, Where is the union movement on this issue?
There is a reason why 30 million people ( many of us gritting our teeth) tune in to Alex Jones each week at least once. The truth tellers are few and precious. At least his axes to grind are very obvious ones–no hidden agenda with that one!
Yea, if you can get past Alex’s and Paul’s melodrama and over-the-top hyperbole (some people, such as my wife actually find it entertaining), Infowars has more truth in a day than all of the MSM (Main Stream Media) does in a year, even if still incomplete.
As one of those flower children from back in the day, I also remember a quote from the late, unmissed Alexander Haig to the point that he did not care how much we protested, so long as we paid our taxes!
One huge difference between then and now is that people now turn inwards much more and their thoughts are generally directed towards self indulgent pursuits rather than caring about others.
Rebellion is no longer speaking out against injustices, it is about the right to express oneself as a gender confused individual… or whatever other form of deviant angst the individual luxuriates in.
Good point! Indeed, this is a relevant argument in Trilateral 1975’s report “Crisis of Democracy” (PDF here: http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf). The 60’s in the U.S. were characterized by too much democracy, too much power to the people, which in their opinion led to “ungovernable” countries. This had to be stopped (and the report describes how)… Evidently they succeeded.
“THE MORALE, DISCIPLINE and battleworthiness of the U.S. Armed Forces are, with a few salient exceptions, lower and worse than at anytime in this century and possibly in the history of the United States.
By every conceivable indicator, our army that now remains in Vietnam is in a state approaching collapse, with individual units avoiding or having refused combat, murdering their officers and non commissioned officers, drug-ridden, and dispirited where not near mutinous.
Elsewhere than Vietnam, the situation is nearly as serious.
THE COLLAPSE OF THE ARMED FORCES
By Col. Robert D. Heinl, Jr.
North American Newspaper Alliance
Armed Forces Journal, 7 June, 1971”
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/Vietnam/heinl.html
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And now the lesson because after all learning curve is what really matters. Americans had maximum 540 000 soldiers in S.Vietnam but what might surprise those people with no idea of “American War Factory” , just 70 000 of them were combatants and even more striking: just about 40 000 could be sent to front line combat duties. There is that techno warfare dilemma: the more techno the less you can have real ground force capacity. As James Gibson in his brilliant study underlined Americans were never even near to win anything in S.Vietnam. NFL/NVA controlled it brilliantly. All what LBJ, Nixon and Kissinger could do was terror bombing.
Thank Dog for NATO then. They will save the day!
NATzO, a rest home for failed Anglo & Scandiwegian warmongers. True, NATzO (population 700 Million) can boast a few triumphs: rape of Serbia (pop.7M) and rape of Libya (pop.6M). But failed in Georgia, failed in Crimea, failed in Syria and looks like failing in Donbass. Increasingly ignominiously failing. And, like all mad gamblers, betting the house on one huge, final fail: first strike nuclear war against the free world.
Once again, the emperor is naked and someone dares to say is loud. This analysis nails it down perfectly. To be able to understand why this movement ended in such misery, I suggest not to forget the milliards of dollars spent on Tavistock Group and similar ones. Indeed a big investment.
Thank you!
The hippie movement was an illusion. It looked like movement of Peace and Love Child, but in reality it was about saving one’s skin, about draft.
With it the Rock and Roll bands made excellent money too.
Don’t get me wrong, as I was in Miami, Florida in 1972 and all the hippies were camped out there for months, against the Republican Convention of 1972.
Had good time and was inducted to Rock and Roll Music, the best Music and Era ever.
One of the Lucky Flower Child who not only witnessed the Era but lived it too.
Best regards,
Mohamed
If saving one’s skin comes with the side effect of saving others skins as well it’s much the better. One of the most important lessons that history can teach us is that all wars had been fought because of money and power. It’s never the culprits, who’re pushing others into combat, who’re dying, it’s the grunts – mainly ordinary citizens – in the trenches at the front line.
(The accounts of Smedley Butler and S. Brian Wilson are a must read.)
There never was a ‘peace’ movement. A lot of hyper-naive, woolly-headed thinkers (including too many who are otherwise ‘awake’- believe in the Santa and Tooth-fairy equivalent of ‘honest’ NGO centrally organised ‘protest’ movements).
The Deep State in the West (now fully under the control of the demons) has always manipualted the sheeple with ‘protest’ movements- the method became necessary with the emergence of ‘true’ democracy across the West through the 20th Century.
Let me tell you a *true* story. In the UK, the socialist movement has always been co-opted by the ruling classes. Most of the early elected labour leaders were members of the aristocracy- and the ordinary working class sheeple loved to be represented by such posh speaking MPs. But after WW2 this Deep State trick was wearing thin, and the returning soldiers no longer wanted to be represented by ‘toffs’ from the elite. Real grass-roots leaders were emerging, and the deep state knew it needed to do something about this.
So a certain vicious scumbag aristocrat from one of Britain’s ‘leading’ families, Viscount-to-be Anthony Wedgewood Benn, proposed to his Deep State mates a new tactic. In front of them he slapped on a ‘flat cap’ (traditional working class attire), affected a ‘common’ accent- and his mates rolled around the floor in hysterics telling him it would never work.
But this evil individual followed the plan- made a public announce ment that he was now to be called ‘Tony’ (a carefully planted trigger name in the mainstream media of the time), that he was giving up his ‘Royal’ perogative, and dedicating his life to the Labour party and anti-nuclear protest movements. He founded the infamous MI5 operation, CND (campaign for nuclear disarmament).
Benn would rise high in the Labour party across the next decade, and became a ‘Noam Chomsky’ like figure to easily fooled sheeple for the rest of his life. Here’s the thing though. As ‘Energy Secretary’ in the early 1960s, it was Benn who provided the Israeli government with British plutonium for their zionist nuclear weapon program- and this is recorded history. Benn’s excuse, when the truth came out in the 1990s, was that his civil servants did this behind his back.
And Benn’s son, the hideously evil war-mongery Hillary Benn, was given a leading role in the Labour party by Blair’s people- and proudly promoted everything his father *apparently* stood against. We are supposed to believe that ‘saint’ Tony Benn had massive influence on ordinary people, but his son that followed him into politics grew up to believe in the exact opposite things to his dad. No- Hillary Benn did grow up emulating his dad- the *true* version of Wedgewood Benn, not the fake persona used to pied-piper the left-leaning sheeple.
So sorry- all those Amnesty International, Greenpeace, CND, etc movements beta sheeple love to follow have always been Deep State created and Deep State run for the benefit of your ‘masters’.
Look at how in American , during the days of slavery, US jews participated in slaving ‘black’ Humans far out of proportion to their percentage of the US population. Jewish anti-slavers were as rare as ‘hen’s teeth’. But when slavery was abolished, US jews were directly responsible for the emergence of ‘Jim Crow’ laws (that reintroduced slave like conditions by the back door) *and* for taking over the emerging ‘civil rights’ movements- to ensure jews would remain the no.1 minority power group in this USA- despite the vastly greater number of ‘blacks’.
Few people know that for the first year after slavery was abolished, many ex-slaves gained positions of high power. A co-ordinated attack against black rights ended this within two years, and blacks were disenfranchised until the late 1960s. The ‘bad’ reputation blacks have in the USA was a carefully crafted post-slavery propaganda and social engineering campaign- and so today the tiny number of American jews hold total dominance as the leading ‘minority’. No black person can make it to congress without the support of leading jews- and when said person arrives in Congress, the first speech they give has to praise Israel and swear undying support to that zionist state. Don’t believe me- go Google.
PS Tony Benn was eventually replaced by an identical operation using George Galloway- who formed Stop-The-War to defuse the massive anger the British people had about Blair’s intention to genocide Iraq (in the Second Gulf War). Galloway successfully steered the greatest spontaneous outburst of British anger into the ground. Beta sheeple still think Galloway a ‘great’ man, never guessing he’s a member of Blair’s inner circle. Yet Galloway’s presence and operation in the Labour party was identical to Benn’s.
When you crave to look up to a ‘leader’, you are already lost.
Twilight, an interesting take on a movement. I`d never heard these sort of accusations against Tony Ben. Still, I think its a failure in analysis to be so totalizing. Often very sincere movements for justice and peace are derailed by devious means. That does not discredit people of good will, or deny the existence of the movement.
Another cat motya word merchant who writes long smears without even a hint of any factual material supporting any of it.
Let’s not forget the influence of the wickedly brilliant Bertrand Russell, whose October 1, 1946 article on nuclear war in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists made him the sainted guru of the antiwar movement, Woodstock hippies included (at least those of them who could read). Before the USSR developed The Bomb, he had been an eloquent (as always) proponent of using it first, to ensure the Atlanticist hegemony la perfide Albion had always aspired to, now enlisting their duped American “cousins” to a cause they had defeated two centuries earlier. The introduction to Lord Russell’s The Atomic Bomb and the Prevention of War, in fact, commends it very specifically to the attention of an American audience. Let’s not be too sure that the American “peace” movement was something more innocent or spontaneous than an intelligence or social engineering operation (in tandem with MK-Ultra, etc.) to further weaken a US already blindsided by the Kennedy assassination, introduce the debilitating rock/sex/drugs counterculture which degraded the cognitive capacity and critical skills of generations of Americans, and transform the US military from a morally sane defense organization into a mindless killing machine. I don’t think I’ve read this anywhere, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the antiwar movement didn’t so much appear in response to the Vietnam war, as the war itself was intended for precisely such an outcome (plus a steady flow of Golden Triangle heroin arriving stateside in the bodies of dead GIs). After all, what other lasting effect did that war have for the country that lost it, other than 58,000 “flowers gone” and huge profits for the war machine? To protect against naïve, romantic nostalgia for that warm and fuzzy era (which boils down, for most people, to simple sexual fantasy, the most accessible means of manipulating youth), we must remain ever alert to just how deep the “deep state” runs, usually involving, over the long term, some variation of British cultural warfare or other instruments of oligarchical control. The historical continuity of this process comes to light once we appreciate that its enduring goal continues to be the destruction of Russia as an obstacle to world hegemony for a transnational (or I might say “non-national,” because the nation state is of no use to them) cabal forever purveying misery, destruction and depopulation. Indeed, this global oligarchy—call it what you will—sees the increase in human numbers as a nuisance, and would pare down the world population to the few subjects necessary to keep their lawns, groom their horses and provide entertainment. Here’s a quote from Russell’s The Impact of Science on Society: “If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full… The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of it? Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people’s.”
There you have it.
Those codes for italics don’t work.
“Woodstock hippies included (at least those of them who could read).”
That right there shows your prejudice and gullibility to nonsense. The cnp stuff after was not sourced, though reading like a sorcha fal or larouche piece, I’m not surprised that you didn’t source it. :D
The Russell quotes, which speak for themselves, are duly attributed. The rest is this writer’s personal opinion, which still, in these times of “fake news,” is my prerrogative, and one of the reasons intelligent people come here. Perhaps vot tak, who chooses to smear and vilify opinions unlike his own, would have more traction on a Hillbot site, where slander and stupidity rule. I’m surprised the moderators haven’t flagged him as a troll.
vot tak have passed here the last three years, at least from what I am aware, and is widely known so as to not think him a troll, unlike some of you who have appeared just recently and who any time someone dares to criticize anything relative to LaRouche organization come in mass to slander the commenter.
Since intelligent people, as you say, I suppose we can criticize whatever we find worth to do it. The same if anyone likes whatever finds worth to do it, like could be Russell´s work, and comment it here.
Or “cnp,” or “sorcha fal,” whatever the heck those are. Argumentum ad hominem, at any rate, no actual reasoning. Ad numerum, too—group think… the only slanders “en masse” I see are yours.
Let’s hear from Tony Benn himself (on arms sales to Iraq) before we decide if he really was perfidious:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GPL-IaFpcZA
“Where have all the flowers (and the Peace Movement) gone?”
Ghassan, “Peace” is to be found within meditation (our self-reflection of who we are, that’s where the “Peace Movement” : IS : though it’s more of a “moment” than a “movement”).
Nothing has left or is gone. All is within. Peace is Personal, not historical. Trust Me: Jesus was very Peaceful.
So what is to be done for Ghassan?
I’d suggest : walking meditation : in the style though not the pace of a tortoise: ‘consistent leisure’, with as much attention attuned to sensory-hearing, and as little as possible to sensory-seeing; and if more therapy is needed, mild and comfortable three-day treks through your local Wilderness Area until happiness returns. If the depression continues and is severe and hard to beat, try the Pacific Crest or Appalachian: Trails, or place one-hundred percent of your attention on the flow of mist over your nostril hairs while sitting by a waterfall – listen to the falls talking to you about you – the rivers of life carry wisdom too.
I’ve been mountain biking for years under trance or meditation, and i’m very peaceful when i’m not being abused, it’s remaining peaceful under abuse that’s difficult, and that’s Life.
I was tempted to weigh in with a similar suggestion, but you’ve done a far better job than I would have. The author makes some very salient points. The real point, I think, is as you stated. Better to plant a flower than curse the garden.
This will silence the neoliberals:
Trump Picks Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson As Secretary Of State
Several good questions here. And there are pretty clear answers for them. 1.The USSR existed strongly during the 1960’s and 1970’s. There was an alternative “model” open. So the US and West didn’t have a near monopoly on information in the World. 2. The “reasons” for the US peace movement aren’t clearly understood today. We see today,except for a few protests,very little of a peace movement directed at the countless wars the US conducts. The important difference to remember is that during the Vietnam War the US had a military draft system. Which meant that ” almost all US male youth” was subject to call-up to fight that war. The “peace movement” really “took off” when the US curtailed the college exceptions. Which meant young men could no longer enroll in college and be excepted from military service. When that was done,the war was “brought home” to the middle classes and upper middle classes in the US.Almost every family “could” be affected by the war.And we saw the colleges “erupt” with demonstrations against the war. And the middle classes take a strong turn against the war. Am I saying,it was a “self-serving” peace movement? Yes,I very much am saying that. 3. After that war the US curtailed the draft (while keeping it as a “if needed” option).Making the US military a “volunteer” military (AKA mercenary military). They figured,rightly,that there were enough poor,or immigrant youth. To combine with the gung-ho patriotic youth.And those brainwashed by the “Rambo” style propaganda films (which answers the question of way those films started to be made in the first place).To fight those wars. While keeping the US body count low enough to not greatly disturb the majority of US families. 4.The fall of the USSR saw the takeover by the elites of almost the entire World Press (the MSM).Meaning they could control what was reported. And the rise of Islamophobia,and now Russophobia. And to a smaller,but rising Sinophobia,to make people support,or at least stay neutral in the US war making. As long as the “cost” to the West,and especially the US,of those wars. Doesn’t affect the population directly,the peace movement will stay “buried”.
Entirely agree with your summary, UB1.
And the topic of class rears its taboo head.
Huge numbers of volunteers sign up for the regular paycheck that is no longer available in the de-industrialised wastelands. Its OK for them to be horribly injured or die in some far off place.
The middle classes, who are largely still beneficiaries of the system kept afloat by these wars, don’t need to trouble themselves to find out the nasty truth- so accept the wildly dissonant narratives fed to them- in the interests of careerism.
There has, of course, been a huge amount of work put into making sure of this outcome since the turbulence of the 60’s/70’s.
Huge numbers of volunteers sign up for the regular paycheck that is no longer available in the de-industrialised wastelands. Its OK for them to be horribly injured or die in some far off place.
I fully agree with the first part of your statement. For most people the army seems to be a way for a regular paycheck and/or to get the requirements for going to college – G.I. Bill. Basically it’s a poverty draft.
With regard to the second part I’m of the opinion that nobody or at least very few are OK with being killed or maimed. Before writing this comment I did a quick search for the percentage of soldiers who are shooting to kill. I remembered to have heard about 30 to 40 percent. The search showed that I was far off the actual numbers (15 to 20%). Even more mind-blowing was another find: 98% percent of those soldiers who had shot to kill were later found to have been traumatized by their actions (The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson, page 30 – can be found on Google Books). I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that a majority of the soldiers who’re suffering from PTSD had been part of the 15 to 20%. Each day about 20 of those affected by PTSD commit suicide …
Perhaps I should have included a sarcasm alert on : ‘Its OK for them to be horribly injured or die in some far off place’—- but I didn’t expect it to be necessary.
I don’t see your point in conflating “nobody or at least very few are OK with being killed or maimed” with %numbers of soldiers willing to kill.
Perhaps you should update your figures regards the % of soldiers willing to kill which was estimated as low as 10% in WW1, 30% in WW2. Since those figures were compiled there has been enormous investment in the psychology and training to improve that rate which is now estimated to be above 90%
David Grossman has written several books based on SLA Marshall’s studies on this from WW2:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Killing
If you’re interested in PTSD, you might try researching ‘Moral Injury’, the preferred term of many vets who dispute, with good reason, that so-called PTSD is an aberrant reaction to the act of killing and that it encompasses the entire coercive and brutalising process of turning young people into potential killers (whether they actually kill or not) simply to further the business interests of their masters:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Have-We-Done-Longest/dp/0316264156/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481446759&sr=8-1&keywords=what+have+we+done
I don’t see your point in conflating “nobody or at least very few are OK with being killed or maimed” with %numbers of soldiers willing to kill.
You’re correct. I didn’t write out my considerations in full and should’ve been more thoroughly before posting my comment.
Whilst writing I had two afterthoughts:
The first was: What if some of those who’re joining the military are doing so in order to commit “suicide by enemy combatants”? That’s why I expanded on your initial – sarcastic – statement.
The second was: Even if those who are forced – because of economical reasons – to join the military get home alive, their wartime experiences might get them killed afterwards.
With regard to the percentage of soldiers who’re willing to kill I’m skeptical towards the latest published estimate. Mankind gained a lot of knowledge and made a lot of progress in the past decades, but getting the percentage of soldiers willing to kill up to 90% or higher seems implausible. Those 90% remind me of propaganda – to scare off potential adversaries. In my opinion psychology to the largest part is a bull$hit science. For example: a large sum of money (81 million Dollars) had been thrown at the two guys coming up with nothing else than “enhanced interrogation techniques”. A quick look into the Malleus Maleficarum would’ve been way cheaper.
You may get a person into doing something that she/he doesn’t want by:
– drugging her/him
– making her/him addicted to drugs and withholding
– extortion
– putting her/him into a stressful situation in which she/he will not be able to think rationally
– instilling fear
– rewarding her/him with something she/he always had desired
(- hypnosis?!?)
The Saker, you, me and all the other people on this web site are the living proof that “brainwashing” by the MSM doesn’t work.
Anon said: ‘With regard to the percentage of soldiers who’re willing to kill I’m skeptical towards the latest published estimate.’
My response is that you have clearly never experienced basic training/boot camp, which in addition to the training element is intended to weed out the non-compliant types, or those who are unlikely to be coerced into compliance. The point is to get the soldier to obey orders on command without question or thought. Obedience is not optional, non-compliance is severely punished.
Here is a 14 year vet of the British Army on his experience. I can assure you it is standard practice (apart from the child recruits, my father joined the Royal Navy as a boy sailor at 14, never too young to be a thug for Empire) across all modern militaries:
https://vfpuk.org/2016/british-army-characteristics-of-a-cult/
I suggest you read Lt Col Grossman’s well referenced scholarly works, the figure of 90% is generally accepted across all branches of military science. It costs money to train soldiers, they intend to get the bang for their buck.
Anon.
If you’re not into books try watching ‘Full Metal Jacket’, the first half of which is set in a boot camp. The drill instructor actually was a drill instructor and wrote most of his own dialogue, which gives a flavour of reality to the film. Its as authentic as Hollywood ever gets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Lft6EQh-Y
The whole film is a great anti-war epic that charts the brutalising process from start to finish, well worth a watch.
Another fact that furthers your point is the rise during the last years of very violent video games. My understanding is that the military has seen those as a tool to desensitize young men to the act of killing.It is seen as a game.And the more violent and bloody the games played. The less averse many become to killing another man in combat.The aftermath of the actual killings may be a cause of the mental health issues we see from returning military men. But until that happens,the games do seem to work for the military to get the young men ready to kill when ordered to.
Yes, Grossman covers that in his books and it is clear that the military were very quick to latch onto the potential of the games as training and recruitment aids. His first book, ‘On Killing’, dates from the mid 90’s I believe and he was already then foreseeing problems with that approach.
Violent shooter games have exploded since then so things haven’t improved at all over time.
Helen,
you guessed right. I have never experienced basic training myself. I opted out of the mandatory military service in favor of alternative civilian service (Germany). In the early 90’s the German military – Bundeswehr – was still seen as an army for the sole purpose of defending the country. My knowledge of boot camp is only second hand knowledge that I obtained from conversations with friends and acquaintances with first hand experiences. Back then I didn’t reflect too intensively on the significance of the training, nevertheless my gut feeling told me that some elements of boot camp were intended to “break” the conscripts and to “reassemble” them. The stories friends and acquaintances told often revolved around boozing parties during leisure time. Maybe the booze had been intended to promote team spirit amongst the troop, but the stories portrayed another picture – they drank to kill time until they got home leave.
Several years ago, when conscription should be abandoned in favor of an volunteer army, I had a conversation with an acquaintance who had served as a regular. His reasoning for conscription made perfectly sense. He pointed out that there’s more resistance of the civilian population in case of mission and that organizing a military coup is less likely.
The link that you have provided – Veterans for Peace – is quite insightful. The same is happening in Germany, too. Officers, specifically trained to recruit teenagers, are sent to schools in order to promote the military.
Also films are produced to advertise military service. Those ads closely resemble those that I’ve seen promoting the US military:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL03C2o-xmE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcSg3TcqGXE (according to the youtube channel the ad had been withdrawn. I can neither confirm nor dispute the authenticity of the video clip)
A short while ago some new embarrassing ad for the Navy had been released. The video shows a Mom with her saddened little daughter in front of an empty rack, which should be stacked with bananas. (I didn’t include the link, because it will lead directly to the channel of the Bundeswehr. The video is labelled: “Marine Trailer Bananen”)
The latest idea for recruitment is a youtube channel called “Die Rekruten” – the recruits. (Production and additional costs totaled 8 million Euros.)
Actually I’m more into books than I’m into films. (When it comes to films I prefer documentaries.) I’ve got a pretty long list of books on my “to read” list. To read them all I’ll probably need to get as old as Methusalem.
Helen / Uncle Bob 1
I assume that you don’t have first hand knowledge of those violent computer games (ego shooters). A long time ago I used to meet with friends for online gaming. I never had been into playing online games at home, nevertheless I liked multiplayer video games. Once in a while I had met with friends for playing those games in an internet café. Some of the internet café’s had been located in (or near) so called no-go areas. The guests were a mixed bunch of different backgrounds, jobs, etc. Several of them also played ego shooters. None of those gamers seemed to be violent. I dare to say that most – if not all – were aware that they were playing a game that “closely” resembled reality, but that nevertheless was just a game. Some played those games just for the fun of playing, others used them to relieve stress. There’s a huge difference between some simulation and reality. It’s the same with violent movies. Many people are able to distinguish between a simulation/play and real life.
The only critical aspect of such games is that they can be used to train the reaction time of would-be soldiers.
@Anon,
Most soldiers, even with those with ‘PTSD’ or Moral Injury, aren’t particularly violent. What they have (or rather, have been trained to access on demand) is a potential for very disciplined, extreme violence.
The problems arise when through confusions of thinking due to the indoctrination, they are unable to keep to the discipline of emotional control.
Virtually every vet who suffers this mentions a feeling of betrayal and abandonment by their commanders, hence the term Moral Injury.
Its a big subject, perhaps not best dealt with on a blog.
Desensitization through progressively violent and perverted porn is a big factor – hence Abu Ghraib.
The same ‘technique’ is used to train takfiris, as well as loading them up with Captagon.
Perhaps when the effects of porn and drugs wear off, and the full realization sinks in of the heinous nature of their ‘interrogation of the enemy’ they can no longer bear to live with the guilt?
I base this opinion on an article in Global Research where a vet describes the routine torture and atrocities visited on Iraqi prisoners by US army recruits.
He blamed much of subsequent Sunni radicalization on this, though claimed he did not participate in what these – often still teenagers – were doing.
No doubt there are other factors, but there is a culture-wide desensitization to horror, gore and sexual violence in the popular culture of the US.
This does not seen accidental to me.
From my excursions to question-and-answer sessions on the US DoD site, I’ve learned that rank-and-file rarely ask political questions.
Nearly all of the questions to Carter are ‘pay-and-conditions’.
That’s a big part of the problem – it maintains a servitor/mercenary class who, if they were more politically aware, would be questioning the economic paradigm that drives the MIC in the first place…
Its generally when some political awareness breaks through the very heavy indoctrination that the problems begin for the individual soldier as he has to somehow accommodate that new knowledge into a cultic type of worldview–not at all easy at the best of times let alone when you are surrounded by fellow indoctrinated types and also under hostile fire if in a combat situation.
Society is becoming increasingly militarised too, all that ‘soldiers as heroes’ and ‘thank you for your service’ claptrap (that most vets find ridiculous, volunteers are not pacifists and generally enjoy soldiering)
Its when the ‘patriotic duty to Queen and country’ stuff begins to ring hollow and they realise, however dimly, how utterly they have been conned into killing and being killed for purely mercenary purposes, that their worldview and lives fall apart and somehow have to be put back together.
Few are equipped for the painful and necessary work of self-reflection (being by definition and training action types, not thinking types) and then tend to self-medicate with alcohol and drugs and act out with random criminal behaviour instead.
I’m not a pacifist either, we need disciplined and professionally trained soldiers for self-defence. I like squaddies and can see that they have unwittingly been sold, at great trouble and expense, an appalling and totally destructive lie.
Ah, squaddies.
They can surprise and hearten at times with their unpredictable ‘truculence.’:-)
The latest example came from Brexit.
A group of squaddies were interviewed about their vote – Brexit, unanimous – because they felt the EU was being used as a US vehicle for its wars.
Wars they had no inclination to fight on behalf of US.
Oh, and they all brought biros to the voting booths, because the provided pencils could be erased….
No flies on those boys :-)
Another excellent comment, Uncle Bob1. I was going to write something very similar, but you’ve already covered every single one of the points I was going to raise. You are obviously someone old enough to have “seen this movie before”, probably several times, and took the lessons to heart. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with the community.
And then the Internet came into being. It was a huge mistake by ARPA because the power that be have lost their monopoly on “Truth”. Which is why we see the huge surge against “Russian Propaganda” as expressed in the “Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act”. I hope we can find a way to keep actual news, by, of, and for the people alive.
In case you haven’t heard about the secret part of the NDAA
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-10/senate-quietly-passes-countering-disinformation-and-propaganda-act
Saker, be on the lookout because here come the jackboots.
Hell, I shouldn’t even be posting here since, apparently, it gives the FBI the right to hack my computer.
Profound analysis, it reminds me of Stevne Kings’ “Bag of bones”. Kill regularly some of your children to keep the town safe.
R
Dear Mr. Kadhi,
Its not all that bad. As one of those hippies from California, I have to tell you the movement hasn´t died. There are many wonderful peace advocates running informative and educational organisations. We may not get much press, but we are there.
I remember during the demonstrations to stop the invasion of Iraq, my children and I were part of a crowd of 300,000. We displayed some of the most creative signs and costumes, talked and chanted and sang. The next day the SF paper, the Chronicle, showed a picture of one edge of the crowd and reported maybe 60,000. So, we don´t get press. And its worse now. But when we danced down the street in Santa Cruz to a marching samba band, the sign affixed to my stroller said, `Half of the people in Baghdad are children´, I got the high five or fist in the air from almost every mom and grandma along main street.
The only reason candidate Trump could say we don´t need any regime change or invasions, is because that is what most people think. Its an obvious waste of money, when social needs are so unmet at home. People right, left and centre agree, as well as the non political and religious. Still, lets not assume that president elect Trump will follow through on his promises anymore than Obama did. We have an incredibly corrupt system, completely disconnected from the will of the people. We have a completely unverifiable voting system.
There is very little made in the US anymore, save toxic RR GMO wheat and military equipment. It will be a huge job to rebuild an economy that serves life. That is what the people want. True, we also live inside of one of the most sophisticated propaganda machines in history, so people are deluded to some degree, and fearful of changes which may send them down to join the dispossessed.
Although I cannot bear the culture dominant right now in California, there are many sane and reverent people working hard to turn things around.
And the hippies were right. Peace be to you.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
As the weapons industry is a major part of the economy in the USA, it will be incredibly hard for any US president to stay clear of foreign interventions as long as he/she does not abolish at least 80% of said US weapons and defense industry first.
Will we witness the layoff of millions of weapons and defense industry workers during a Trump presidency? Rather the contrary: Donald Trump intends to increase the US spending on armament and defense.
Among other reasons such as the experience that promises are systematically broken or turned into their opposites, this is the reason why I am not going to praise Donald Trump before he has taken office and proven his willingness to enact major election campaign promises. However, if he does I will gladly support the struggle against the war machine.
Obama’s nomination and award of the Nobel peace prize showed complete disrespect of the prize’s intention. The Nobel peace prize shall honor major achievements in making and/or keeping peace. It is to be awarded in hindsight after the fact.
The war machine will not disappear as long as workers enslave themselves for producing killing tools whilst earning a killing. The real peace movement shall start at the workers bench, dropping his/her tools and walking out the factory door. Only a society encouraging and supporting people to take ethical/moral decisions has a chance of becoming truly peaceful. Currently, none of our western societies qualify.
Here’s an irony, Nobel made the fortune that still funds the Peace Prize by manufacturing gunpowder and other munitions.
I’m not exactly a pacifist but I’d still call the whole shebang ‘fruit of a tainted tree’.
In order to control any form of opposition, one has to create it and direct it right from the start. This is a notion that was well known among the elites since the times of ancient Rome. Woodstock was a CIA project. Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane, Carlos Castaneda and 99% of other authors who were dedicated to the psychedelics were all financed (often without their direct knowledge) by the CIA. the movement had some genuine and sincere people but they were all existing within an allowed and well controlled framework.
“In order to control any form of opposition, one has to create it and direct it right from the start.”
You can say that again.
Here is one of the (many) entry points to this.
http://mileswmathis.com/lennon.pdf
Take Care
Kent
Unfortunately, I could not access the pdf file from your link. I’m well aware of the Tavistock Institute projects and, one of the projects I was part of, received some help from the The Esalen Institute (CIA think tank). All of that to say, is that I know few (a) things about it.
Strange. What Country are you in??
Anyway I just uploaded it here for you: http://telemarksporten.no/Tegneserier/lennon.pdf
Take Care
Kent
I’m in Canada.
The last link did the trick. Will read it tonight. Thank you very much!
I also would like to suggest two books on this subject: “The Memoirs of Billy Shears” and “Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream”.
I don’t remember where I read it, but somebody from the Tavistock Institute said that The Beatles meant to be a weapon hidden like a trap in “flowers” and “love”.
“I’m in Canada.”
Wow, what a surprise. Lots of neocon type zionazis there.
They spent $3 trillions and won WW2, now they can spend $30 trillions to smash like a bug anybody whom fail to play his role in the World Circus.
I was there in the 60’s in the antiwar marches in San Francisco. But after the war in Vietnam my generation was seduced by the establishment and became the opposite of what it was. It became the establishment.
This process of psychological reversal in individuals was mirrored the national reversals that occurred after the end of the Cold War: the US emerged as the new USSR while Russia became more like the America before it was subverted by Cold War warmongers.
In my case I had another anchor to steady me when my American identity started to collapse after the Cold War: my Armenian identity that was somewhat dormant in me from the 70’s to 90’s. Most Americans have no other self-identity to compensate for the collapse of the American centrist supremacist narratives. Think of it as an addiction. It is easy to backslide. The establishment knows this and uses false flags and constant propaganda to keep the people from seeing through their fog of lies.
The anti-war Left shut down as soon as Barack Obama assumed office. As you do so accurately point out, the “anti-war” movement was not an organic popular movement but rather a publicity stunt of Soros and his cohorts in the Democrat party and the mainstream US media.
Under Bush there was a macabre counter of the dead killed in “Bush’s Wars”. Every time a round number came up (100, 500, 1000) there was a grotesque celebration and lamentation of the “human cost” of the war.
All that stopped as soon as Bush’s war became Obama’s. Apparently not one single American has died in war since 2009, because all the news coverage and body counting stopped.
Don’t worry – now that a Republican is in the White House, Soros and Co. will gin the peace movement up again.
The peace movement was also quite large in the 80’s; no nuke, no dams, no whaling, etc. Culminating in the pro-democracy movements in Eastern Europe (we didn’t know about Soros back then). The end of the Cold War took the wind out of their sails, and I remember as a newly-minted adult I was looking forward to the peace dividend.
Through the mid-90’s I looked on befuddled at the breakup of Yugoslavia, something didn’t smell right. Most of us got back in the game after 9/11, and for me the Iraq invasion was the seminal political moment in my life. We filled the city in early 2003, I never imagined so many people would come out for peace. It was a toe-curling kick in the guts when they just ignored us, but it got me activated.
For me the lowest point was the 2004 re-election of Howard and Bush. Here in Oz, I was so disappointed with my fellow citizens for voting with their wallets instead of their souls. Slowly after that, I just began to feel people had given up. The West was not what we hoped it was. I think we stopped fighting as we found our civilisation was no longer worth fighting for. We won’t support their wars, they know that. Without our strength, the Empire will crumble. It is a peace movement by omission.
“I was so disappointed with my fellow citizens for voting with their wallets instead of their souls.”
Sadly,that is quite common for we humans. And especially for the people in the West. Even though we’d “like” to think,it was Clinton’s pushing for war that cost her the election.No one I know personally in the US even knew about that. Trump won because of economic and social issues.With Clinton being seen as an establishment crook. Issues of “war and peace” only affected those few of us that heard about them.
Many got back into action after 9-11 BUT the left/progressive media ignored the evidence which now is overwhelming that explosives destroyed 3 building in NYC on that fateful day and all the left/progressive media can do is be SILENT!!
Mate, the mainstream media is neither left or progressive. The only left media is online and handed out at rallies. The MSM is the propaganda arm of the ruling class, every frame is a lie. Lefties saw 9/11 for what is was straight away; we didn’t need engineer’s reports, we had history. The Left have been opposing Wall Street, imperialism and the ruling class from the beginning.
I think when you say progressive you mean neo-liberal, as in ‘Free’ markets, identity politics and the misappropriation of environmentalism. The MSM will always toe the propaganda line when it comes to the Empire, and as it is owned by billionaires, will always social engineer to protect their class interests. I don’t know if you intentionally tried to mislead with your slur against the left/progressive, because the coverup of 9/11 has nothing to do with either perspective, and everything to do with the ruling class.
Great article and some excellent comments have compelled me to write.
Unfortunately the left movement these days is used by the establishment to thrust less destructive issues such as gender equality, gay rights, climate change etc… much like the women’s independence movement (which was funded by the establishment to entice women to work and pay taxes just like men and to break the family nucleus).
Couple with the fact that celebrity news now substitutes for real news, that we now have porn freely available online to keep us entertained, that we also have lots of gadgets like the latest iPhone to keep us distracted from real issues such as off-shoring manufacturing and illegal immigrants being used as a tool to cut back our wages and affect our relatively comfortable living standards… there are many reasons why we are not rallying in the streets demanding the resignation of our government let alone protesting about needless wars.
Our politicians are continually leaving the masses out in the cold so there is little hope for real change – the two headed snake does not follow left or right ideologies. Therefore the masses are controlled simply because they have lackluster politicians representing them, failing them dismally. Furthermore, the US embassy has proven to have overarching jurisdiction over many a foreign leader.
I also do believe that the establishment also have agents who work to control opposition movements i.e. well known public speakers like Naom Chomsky, Alex Jones, and Julian Assange are not what they seem but act to quell any sudden movements against the establishment by releasing carefully crafted material. Chomsky and Assange still don’t believe that 911 was an inside job whereas Jones was active in misguiding the Occupy movement and leading other protests and discussions down a rabbit hole. If you have any doubts about my thoughts, just ask yourself why these self-confessed “anti-establishment figures are still alive.
And then there is the corrupt MSM where people absurdly call themselves journalists when they are simply well paid propagandists who are happy to keep spreading lies to the 50% who are just misguided sheeple. The 10% of us who are well informed are (essentially dubbed conspiracy theorists) just not influential enough to sway the remaining 90% and the establishment could handle that number through their psyops programs.
Hey Truther,
When they start trying to appropriate the Truth for propaganda purposes, they subconsciously propagate it. So ‘Fake News’ only highlights how fake the MSM is, ‘Russian’ hacking exposes their own domestic manipulation, and ‘Assad must go’ haunts every one of those stooges who are now gone from the international scene (Assad is still here). Even if Chomsky and Assange are shills, the Truth they speak still gets through regardless of the messenger. Misappropriation of the Truth is the last stage before victory.
‘First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win.’
They are attacking us (The Vineyard plus other oases of Truth), we must be close.
Yep, the US anti-war movement of the Bush era sadly fizzled out around the time that the Democrats took back control of Congress in the 2006 elections. By the time that Obama won in 2008, the ‘movement’ was pretty much dead. Granted, some organizers still exist (like various socialist/communist political parties), but the liberal masses stay home when the Democrats are in power. And thus, no massive movement in the US opposed Obama’s criminal war against Libya or his illegal proxy wars against Syria, Yemen, and the Donbass.
Born in Canada in 1950 … I desperately wanted to be a hippy in the 60’s … I wanted a pony tail … my mom wouldn’t allow it. I had to wait until I was in my 60’s to get my pony tail. :-)
Today I have the feeling … eventually conscience will trump money. Recorded my thoughts on this topic in 2013.
http://pilgrimtom.weebly.com/blog
It’s a long scroll down … near the bottom
Born in Canada in 1950 … I desperately wanted to be a hippy in the 60’s … I wanted a pony tail … my mom wouldn’t allow it. I had to wait until I was in my 60’s to get my pony tail. :-)
Today I have the feeling … eventually conscience will trump money. I recorded my initial thoughts on this topic in 2013.
http://pilgrimtom.weebly.com/blog
It’s a long scroll down … near the bottom
Ghassan Kadi
Well said, thank you.
“I just began to feel people had given up. The West was not what we hoped it was.” (Earthrise)
They did give up. The psychological mechanisms involved are called “Extinction” and “Learned Helplessness.” When nothing is ever fixed no matter how obviously wrong it is, people eventually grow accustomed to it, expect it, and accept it as “just the way things are.” It’s one reason why 80 uniformed guards can control 2,000+ prison inmates who could easily overwealm them, but don’t. I came to understand (while working in one) that the real prison is internal.
“I just began to feel people had given up. The West was not what we hoped it was.” (Earthrise)
They did give up. The psychological mechanisms involved are called “Extinction” and “Learned Helplessness.” When nothing is ever fixed no matter how obviously wrong it is, people eventually grow accustomed to it, expect it, and accept it as “just the way things are.” Some even come up with rationalizations of it. That’s one reason why 80 uniformed guards can control 2,000+ prison inmates who could easily overwealm them, but don’t.
You come to understand (while working in one) that the real prison is internal.
Agreed T-T-C,
We have been subject to generations of social engineering; made greedy with capitalism, selfish by liberalism, and lazy through representation. The paradigm shift required for our civilisation to progress seems insurmountable. Luckily the many inherent contradictions in our socio-economic order will do most of the heavy lifting.
The Dalai Lama is a CIA asset and pro-war.
That’s fairly well documented. He and his brother still receive yearly stipends of about $200,000 from the CIA after the failed rising in the 50’s against the Chinese occupiers. The DL and his aristocrats fled, taking the enormous wealth of the country with them. The Tibetan people left behind don’t appear to miss their erstwhile rulers who seem to be making a mint now from gullible westerners and rich Taiwanese Buddhists.
Some of the barbaric details of his medieval rule prior to the (CIA sponsored) uprising against the Chinese would make your hair fall out in horror. Not surprising he’s not missed.
Hi there Helen.
Proudly showing my lack of knowledge on this subject.
Would you please provide some links and more information on this. Whenever you have time that is.
Thank you.
Kent
@ Kent,
I like books of which there are many but here are some online sources that don’t give the official US version, which I’m sure you are familiar with. I don’t think any of this invalidates Buddhism as a practice, BTW :
http://www.globalresearch.ca/tibet-the-great-game-and-the-cia/8442
A Chinese history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEJIN6iYf2U
Penn and Teller (strong language): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7t2Ztb92mE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeF1AYZ7kyY
Michael Parenti on life in a theocracy under the lamas: http://www.michaelparenti.org/Tibet.html
I think that there are likely many things that have contributed to the disappearance of the US peace movement. However, I think that to a large degree it was drowned in the cesspool that is the Democratic party. I was a part of the local campus anti-war group. As soon a Obama was elected, it basically evaporated. Obama went out of his way to signal policy continuity with Bush II by keeping Gates on as SecDef. There will never be a real US left until it is commitmented to act outside of the Democratic party.
The peace movement went the same way as class politics in the 1970s.
Society was encouraged not to see themselves as part of a wider group.
Identity politics took over in the 1970s
Women’s rights, black power, lesbian and gay rights
They all started to divide off and fight for their own separate causes.
Once groups were divided each group are easy to control
And you can see they are all used to promote some agenda human rights etc
The governments also learned how to control the message on the media. All wars are fought for “democracy and human rights”
The media plays a big part in keeping people quiet. Before the internet. People didn’t know what was going on only what you are told about other countries
Co-opted in many ways…but some of us did and do try and were not funded by Foundations as are so many of the dupes are.
9/11 Truth was and is a litmus test. For the most part those against Bush/Cheney’s wars were supporting Bush/Cheney because they believed in the official story or a variation there of, unwilling to deal with the fact that the attacks could not have taken place without treason, before, during and after the attacks.
Hats off to Cindy Sheehan, who was not Foundation Funded and who protested warmonger Obama his first year in office, though the press would not really cover her message. Of course most of the majority of the left would not protest Obama, who as Webster Tarpley correctly identified was brought in to destroy dissent while moving forward with his role in forwarding Brzezinski’s mad plan, in progress, to destroy Russia and bring the U.S. to civil war.
Part of the whole problem of the peace movement was that it was not grounded in a deeper
organizational strategy to deal with the warmongers in power. Organization requires understanding of what was really happening, and how the population was being played by the financial oligarchy. Most socialist and communist organizations became anti-labor and were run by the financial oligachy as is the case today with Soros and his various cut-out agents, the continuation of the McGeorge Bundy and the Ford Foundation CIA operations that destroyed legitimate opposition to the war machine in the 60’s and 70’s…
Obama comes from the Ford Foundation circles through his mother. These are the folks who helped bring us the Weather Underground terrorists, who now have Obama the thermonuclear terrorist in power, finger on the button.
The mentality gap between Finland and Estonia is striking. The key to explain that gap is to understand how brilliantly Stalin and Marshal Mannerheim understood geopolitical facts. Much before Winter War Mannerheim was suggesting something which later was called as “The Agreement of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance”, also known as the YYA Treaty (1948).
However even huge majority of Finns don’t understand that the roots of this Finland& Sweden neutrality was based of Congress of Vienna 1815 when Russian Empire, British Empire, France (and Sweden) declared the neutrality of Sweden and Finland. The reason why Sweden and Finland will never (or should never) become basements of anti-Russian coalition is not post WW2 phenomena.
Estonia had they chance to make similar conclusions in early 1990’s but they missed it. They wanted to play the role of victims. Now they are nuisance for not only EU but for NATO too. I just wonder how “secure” Estonia will be when in reality NATO will not really defend it. They haven’t learnt much of the past 320 years as Finns and Swedes have done.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Soviet_Treaty_of_1948
It’s relatively easy to capture what ever movement: peace or human rights. Just little bit work, infiltration and MONEY. Look what have happened to Amnesty International. Look what happened to “independent” Al Jazeera.
Good article! I myself thought about the same from time to time. One explanation could be about the almost total worldwide control of the media is MSM i totally controlled by the ones who think to benefit from permanent ongoing wars. Another explanation could be that the antiwar movement during ie Vietnam war was “allowed” to grow by the deep power since they bcame aware that the Vietnam war was unwinable and saw it as a way out. So to blame their defeat to that movement. There is indeed still oposition to war but (so far) drowned by the deep state controlled MSM until next big defeat?
Thank you. It needed to be said. I have so many well meaning politically, socially, environmentally aware friends. Only at the speed of snails are they waking up to the reality that some behind the scenes Western oligarchy drives the wars, supports the terror, and controls the politicians and mainstream media.
But it is too awful a truth to face. Like finding out a parent or respected teacher is a mass murderer. Or realising you are living in The Matrix, or the Truman Show.
Where have all the flowers gone? Ask this lot:
‘Arab voters make no difference:’ Israeli coalition chairman triggers uproar with provocative remark
https://www.rt.com/news/369910-israel-arab-preferable-not-vote/
“In a normal country, such racist comments would lead to the immediate dismissal of the coalition chairman,” Joint List MK Youssef Jabareen said, calling for removal of Bitan from office.”
“In a normal country”. The zio-occupied west no longer concists of normal countries, but manipulated colonies instead, whose populations are kept divided and subservient through sophisticated psychological warfare.
It was the Jewish owned and run media in the west that killed the flowers in the west. The worked tirelessly to promote a pro war attitude to overcome the “Vietnam syndrome” the oligarchs hated and feared so much. Those pro war/pro fascism films blitzing american theaters from the mid 70s on were part of the psywar campaign. Remember golan-globus? These made many of these propaganda films and boasted about their intent to steer american society towards the fascist isreali model. They were not alone, all the zio-media worked towards this goal.
Yes,I saw that. Can you “imagine” the squeaks of “outrage” and anger that would erupt over the US if a Republican Party official had said that “it doesn’t matter if Blacks vote or not”,or “it doesn’t matter if Hispanics vote or not”. Or “perish the thought”,he said “it doesn’t matter if Jews vote or not”. The “moral outrage” bursting loose all over the US would have had that person fired and disgraced without 2 days at most.The racism of the Israelis has no bounds. And the zionist press “accepts” that as OK for Israel. But the World’s worst crime if said by any other people.The hypocrisy of that makes me gag.
When the Jews in Charge decided that the time to pull down the European monarchies and replace them with – Applause, ladies and gentlemen! – democracy, they only did so, because they were confident that their full spectrum control of
– finances
– education
– secret services
– armies
and of course, media, would allow them to steer all cultural, societal, scientific, spiritual developments in all places, at all times in the desired direction – i.e. further enslavement.
If we were to reexamine all resistance movements, uprisings, oppositions, etc over the last 500 years in the Western world, we would invariably find that all of them were, if not outright created by the Jews in Charge, the certainly infiltrated an appropriated at an early stage and thus rendered at best useless, more often though: counter-productive. Fact.
All matters relating to Jews are governed by Revelation 2:9 and 3: 9.
You are so, so right!
But I have always had a thought: and I am sure it is the answer to your problem:
“Demonstrating”, “protesting” are deviations – diversions; and they are more to be pitied than laughed at. Any person capable of rational thought knows by now that just a minuscule centre of power controls the human condition on this planet.
Eliminate it…….then keep the garden weeded.
39 minutes ago
Syria: the situation around Palmyra after government forces in the city collapsed, abandoning the city and its heritage sites to the militants.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzZ0Xx7XAAAbdL3.jpg
4 hours ago
ISIS now claims it took full control of the city of Palmyra.
Palmyra Castle under ISIS control. Total chaos inside city as remaining pro-Government forces are surrounded, some surrendered.
ISIS flag on top of the building in Palmyra. The city is now fully captured by the terror group
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzZ3EUcWgAAB_Rw.jpg
goddamned incompetents…
any civilian casualty in this offensive is due to the incompetence of SAA and their allies…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzZhstrXgAIY3MM.jpg
Well we certainly know where the next major Syrian Army campaign will be after the full liberation of Aleppo.
But we don’t know the next move of ISIS with unlimited capitals, weaponry, manpower, and immune from Russian Aerospace Forces including Tu-22M3 strategic bombers…
I was there. What happened?
1) Woodstock nation / counterculture decimated by the war on drugs. Lennon and Garcia murdered, MTV neutered.
2) Security state coup using 911 false flag “fairy tale” that mainstream media still sponsors.
3) Clinton globalists took over Dem party and Liberal media including one time peace oriented media sites including NPR and Hollywood movie production.
4) Corporate Media writes news the way they are told to write it by CIA / security state officials including Obama / Clintons.
5) Most activists had to get jobs which required “fitting in / selling out.” Now they are most worried about their retirement accounts and eat the news the media gives them.
Dear comrade Khadi, I always appreciate your analysis and thoughts, but on his one you are far too gracious with the “West”, assuming for the sake of argument that such a creature does exist in singular number. In fact there are two dirty little secrets that explains why once upon a time there were fine movements that are no more: the first, the Soviet Union was standing tall and provided a counterweight and the second, except for the UK, the Western armies were manned by… conscripts. So all these lads out there had actually a direct interest in stopping wars, and consequently so did their kith and kin. Of course they will say conscription was terminated in 1970 in the US, but it takes time, measurable in a decade or so to reorganize a citizen soldier-army into a professional-mercenary force. Let’s bring conscription back and let’s see what happens.
The neo-con elites in the US (of both parties) are still pushing for war with Russia,whether cold or hot is uncertain as of now.The latest is the “attempted” coup against Trump. Which hasn’t played itself out yet.The false reports about Russia “influencing” the US election for Trump. If that grows traction may be a real problem. One of my friends (a Trump supporter) thinks they are trying to overturn the election completely and force a re-vote.Something like that is unheard of in US elections.But also an election like this one,is also unheard of in the US. So I can’t count that idea totally out as of yet.
They certainly are pushing hard to de-legitimize Trump’s victory. The CIA publicly accuses Russia of subverting the election to support Trump. The neo-con Republicans join Democrats to call for investigating Russian influencing the election in Trump’s favor. And today the Russophobic ex-US Ambassador to Russia (McFaul) calls for RT and Sputnik to be registered as “foreign agents”. And claims they campaigned for Trump.Which ,if they watched RT they would know was ridiculous.
RT did, during the election what an independent media is “supposed” to do. They fairly reported on both sides.The only regular program they have that could “in any way” be called pro-Trump,was CrossTalk.And they were more anti-Clinton,than pro-Trump.The other programs are run by mostly Liberals. And they despise Trump.The stories RT ran,were not at all pro-Trump.They fairly reported the “foibles” of both candidates. There are so many on Clinton’s side,that it might have sometimes looked like they were against her. But they equally reported on any “scandal” that was thrown out against Trump.And even gave airtime to Johnson and Stein (unheard of with US media).
Unlike the US media ,which was almost without exception,an arm of the Clinton campaign. And so anti-Trump,they might as well of been Democratic operatives (assuming of course that they weren’t actually agents of the Clinton campaign).The Russian media behaved as they should have.And were equally disgusted with both candidates. A feeling pretty much shared by millions of Americans.The US elite have lost all reason,I’m afraid.
Dear Ghassan,
you have spoken from the bottom of my heart and I have written myself a few articles dedicated to the lost ideas of the flower power and hippie movement, to which I belonged as a young man, in the murky waters of recent human history. We need more such historical retrospections in order to understand what happened with humanity thereafter and why it ended up where it is now. Here is one article I wrote on the same topic in 2012 which very well coalesces with your historical survey for the sake of keeping the historical tradition alive:
When Did the Seduction of Humanity Begin?
http://www.stankovuniversallaw.com/2012/07/when-did-the-seduction-of-humanity-begin/
By the way the Saker’s man of the year – the American people who voted for Trump – did not come from nowhere and there is little from recent history that explains this sudden revolution. They are the product of our light work as light warriors of the first and last hour that transmit the light of the Source onto Gaia and humanity and cleanse the dark energies of humanity for many years so that they can open their limited agnostic minds and eventually progress on the spiritual ladder in the current End Time.
I have discussed this issue many times with the Saker in the past , e.g. here
http://www.stankovuniversallaw.com/2015/12/who-is-really-in-charge-of-this-planet/
and would like to recommend the readers of his website to begin to open their minds to the transcendental dimension of all human existence which was so inherent to the flower power and the hippie movement and got completely lost in the years after that. Without this higher vantage point of view, one would not truly understand any political event on the ground (as discussed on this website) and would succumb to such naive explanations as this one recently published in the Russian website Katehon:
http://katehon.com/article/quantum-philosophy-and-demise-empires
The key mental deficit of humans is their complete lack of gnostic knowledge and understanding that has nothing to do with any of the current organized religions but the more so with Neoplatonism which was the original source of Renaissance (beginning with the Neoplatonic academy in Florence) and the driving force of any true progress of western civilisation in the last 2000 years since Plotin wrote his Enneads. For further literature see here:
http://www.stankovuniversallaw.com/neoplatonismus-und-christentum/
http://www.stankovuniversallaw.com/gnostische-tradition-der-abendlandischen-philosophie/
Dr. Georgi Stankov
http://www.stankovuniversallaw.com/
Like many movements, they start genuine. Few remember when Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary renounced his Jewish faith, based on the actions of Israel in the 60’s to an audience in NY, I consider genuine.
The sixties did not have the MSM machine that exists today. I remember every night watching Vietnam, it was horrific. If all media today was broadcasting live Ukraine / Syria / Iraq reports non-stop every night you might see a US Movement. But alas the Media Machine, and I mean news / entertainment / live and consolidated to such a degree today there is little escape for the general masses. It is as Schiller describes in his 1972 book, Mind Managers, control of media will break down systems of law and government. This fate was sealed in America with passing of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. Today the machine moves the masses, except those with the intellect, courage, and curiosity for truth…in a world of lies.
To quote James Angleton (CIA) dying words… “Founding fathers of US Intelligence were liars…the better you lied, the more you betrayed, more you were promoted. If you were in a room with them, you were in room of people you had to believe were deservedly going to hell. I guess I will see them soon.”
“The Devils Chessboard” – Talbot
For the pacifists in here.
You might want to consider acquiring the latest versions of the non-lethal weapons offered by the US to Ukraine in 2014 and 2015.
http://treungenbanen.no/GLP/NonLethalWeaponsOfficial.jpg (the cheapest)
http://fotovision.no/GLP1/PeeTank_T72_Non_Lethal.jpg (mid range)
http://treungenbanen.no/GLP/Non_Lethal_Weapons_Missile.jpg (by far the most expensive).
Take Care
Kent
Peace sells but who is buying?…Certainly not the propaganda infested occultist MSM consumer culture. But that is old news. So is the complete exposure of the CIA led fake peace movements, colour revolutions and endless folksong twatfests.
The only thing that works is to call out the anti-semite slander retort spewing racist baby killing murder inc zionists. And of course their willing vassal stooges.
One loud fuck you is what works.
Hezbollah has been doing this for years – only now have Iran, Syria and Russia come to the party. Better late than never.
The real shocker is the ascent of the true ‘ugly’ American – the unashamed – brash – huckster from Queens. Leading an army of revolutionaries – not fake kale and vegan eating reactionary stooges. But a real populist revolution – a revolution that needs no fashion or celebrities – just pure hate – a lust for revenge and the ultimate realization that we have been fucked. Welcome Hezbollah “Party of God” America. America – America the poor – America the forgotten – America not of the MSM illusion – BUT America of the deporables has joined the resistance.
Judy Canova sang it much better than I could ever say it – hooray for all the little guys of this world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VufH2hJjHlY&list=FLukKAIXPPmWpA3Iie3f6n-Q&index=17
The supposed Peace Pope, Francis, was hardly a peacenik back in the seventies, when he appears to have fully backed the brutal military rule in Argentina. As for the Dalai Llama, he never seems to oppose war very strongly when it is waged by his allies, such as the US. Meanwhile the left seems to be completely content with identity politics.
The hippie movement started formally in Jan. 1967 in NYC with a hippie celebration in NYC.. It was going on before in San Francisco for a few years but this article in NY times made it well know to everyone. People started going to San Francisco soon after article. Summer of Love was in 1967 in San Francisco. This hippie movement seem to be just another part of protest culture of the 1960s. In the end, it lead to me-ism and body-ism we have today. Social protest of the 1960s and early 1970s ended in the mid 1970s with this focus on me-ism. The 1970s came to be known as the ME decade for that reason. The early 1970s there was still a focus on a social movement for the good of all in the US and the world but this Me-ism destroyed it as the decade progressed. This ME-ism has gone rouge with the US empire community using it to validate its world wide horror on the entire world because it good for Me – the US empire community.
What a wonderful article Ghassan. You are one of the best ever. You ask where are the flowers? Well they either died or are dying and being silenced. The naive masses are watering the rotten flowers blindly while forgetting about taking care of the good flowers. Today the so called peace activists care more about publicity by being on MSM or social media while having an agenda of there own or for somebody who is moving them around like the fake cowards that they are. They jump from one cause to another without letting the oppressed benefit and only care to benefit for themselves. If there were true peace activists around I would believe that they would have helped end more wars and would have prevent new ones from happening. They all play like little children on social media and they get nothing really done except for more talk than true productive actions. Let’s not forget how John Kerry was one of those fake antiwar activists during the Vietnam war which helped him later to reveal his true colors today. I praise the old generation of peace activists and the true ones who are still hanging in there at an older age. All the past great peace activists who have passed away are rolling in there graves seeing what’s happening today in the world of activism.
I assure you, in the U.S.A. it is near impossible to start any kind of a movement unless one has money. One saw it a few years back. As soon as the Democrats won back the White House from the Bush gang, they turn off the tap, and whatever peace movement there was vanished.
It was the 80,s man (the big pivot) , THE DECADE OF GREED and Austantasious
as we proudly declared !
and abandonment of ‘collective mission’ and rise of ‘single issue protest’ .
likely the ..IMMINANT total nuke cotasrophy so steasdliy and repatedly immpressed on everyone with likes of Madmax and ..The Day After etc.. beaming into loungerooms on the new beaut vsr,s etc..helped fuel the enthusisam and rampant slef indulgance and lunacy . that sobered up slightly when CNN began beaming ww3 ..24/7 into everyones home day after day for months..
till a few years we woke up from the 80,s like it was a party from hell and said … shit …. man… what a trip.. (lets not speak of this again .dont wanna know yuo have good life.. :o )
and basicly rope a doped thru much ghalf the 90,s as we were king hit so many times we forgot which way was up and thought the bell was ..the ringing in our ears.. ha ha
and …then.
it doest ..end…
ha ha .. MIck.
i tell you what happened the change was also on par about when that previous gen had reached maturity/middle age etc and to be fair first and from personal australian persepctive and 80,s youth, , the mission against war stopped being about the distant casulties , and more about the impact back home of returned soldiers ,refugees ,budget costs .. etc.. and the true of heart in much smaller numbers turned their attention to the atomic testing in the pacific and eslewhere as the propect of total nuke anilation overshadowed ‘ordinary’ war.. its damage.. and crimes.. and merged with rising enviro focus and nuke industry etc.. (80,s was all about nukes).. then with set in middle age and colapse of ussr .. they rested on their laurals and fethered their legacies and embeleished their improtance with their brown rice eating tree hugging children who were increasing their hostility and obsession with more local issues like shooters ,evening spotlighting habits.. ringbarking . industrial damage etc.. and too busy congratulating themselves that they had succeded in convinving bogans to reuse toilet paper etc.. :P.. and basicly forsook substance and spirit for ego and concern about legacy..(which hasnt much change judging by my observation attending Ipan meetings etc)
If you’ve read The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission, then you will have no cause to wonder.
There is a peace movement out there still. It is not a mass movement like the one you describe from the 60s and 70s, but it is tenacious and persistent and it might go somewhere. David Swanson is one of those rare voices out there who is being heard, but not enough:
http://davidswanson.org
The current lead article BTW is not directly about peace but is an interesting pushback against the current Russophobic craziness.
World Beyond War http://worldbeyondwar.org/ is another site is another site in which he is involved
My Dear Mr.Kadi; I do agree with almost all you say and only comment to add one more reason for the demise of the peace movement. For my extra reason to make any sense we have to realize we here in the US were losing a lot of young men and the longer the war went on the more young men, almost just boys really,we were going to lose. We had the draft going on and that scared the shit out of people, the feeling was to get this war over before my number came up and I end up with jungle fever and or blown all to pieces. Survival fueled the flower power peace movement as much as any moral stance against war.
No more draft, no more peace movement. See how that works??
PTM
Part of the reason is the full extent of Orwellian mind control being used all over the world.
For example, televisions and computor monitors not only have cameras that transmit their video imagery up to satellites, then back down to earth for permanent archival storage; but powerful computers have the ability to understand human speech and facial expressions, to look for peace activists, people who have found out too much, agitators, and anyone else that might pose a threat to central governments.
But television and computor monitors also emit “ELF” radiation matching human brain waves, for the purpose of controlling people’s thoughts, attitudes, beliefs.
And if that weren’t bad enough, a significant percentage of the human population have already taken the Mark-of-the-Beast. Immediately after a person takes the Mark-of-the-Beast, the part of the brain that pertains to conscience is burnt out. After that they live without a conscience.
People who have taken the Mark-of-the-Beast are secretly referred-to as “operatives” by their handlers and paymasters.
But their handlers and paymasters are not really humans, but devils in human form. After a human takes the Mark-of-the-Beast, they work under devils who first burn out part of their brains, then give them their assignments; evaluate their work performance; and pay them their money. Money and steady employment are the reasons why humans take the Mark of the Beast.
There are many other aspects to Orwellian mind control. For example, the injection of drugs in the municipal water supply, on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis, as needed, depending on the situation.
And the destructive interference of natural harmonic energy waves between the earth’s surface and the ionosphere. These energy waves are called “Schumann-Neumann resonance frequencies.” Without them good mental health is impossible to achieve, which is why they are doing it. Plant and animal life will be negatively affected as well.
And so much more beyond this.