FAKESTREAM PRESSTITUTION • RUSSIAGATE GROUPTHINK • COMEY'S NEOCON RECIPE FOR DEMOCRATS REVIVAL • MASS IDIOCY CONTINUES TO DEFINE DEMOCRATS BEHAVIOUR
(Originally on The Saker, 7.17.18).
My favourite Groupthink lunacy, among many peddled by the fakestream presstitutes, is the one where Putin is responsible for fomenting social, economic, racial and sectarian discord in the USA. Without Putin’s Evil interference, Americans would be united in amity and fellow feeling, working together harmoniously to create a just and benevolent society. But then again the utter absurdity that the USA, the country responsible for more interference, from subversion, sabotage and monetary funding of traitorous elements up to sanctions and illegal aggression and genocide, than all other countries combined in history, by orders of magnitude, is complaining of, fake, ‘interference’ in its thoroughly corrupted system, is accepted without a single scintilla of dissent throughout the Western media sewer, is probably even more deranged. Take your pick.
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M Mumblebrain
Yes, first impression is the incredulous disbelief of the witch hunt on the media which reminds one of Arthur Miller’s Crucible and the provincial-minded mob unthinking. However, we shouldn’t get too worked up for the media and their chosen speakers do not represent the general thinking public. I’d like to know where Trump stands, for after his EU visit and the Helsinki Summit, I’m beginning to see another 2016, but this time going the reverse way, perhaps. Peace was repeated often, a welcome word indeed, by Trump and Putin, though there were also contradictions from Trump who talked of peace, then went on to describe the necessity for NATO and increasing weaponry. But I do feel so sorry for Trump returning to the US to bow down to so much vicious accusations and venom against Russia, he contradicted himself yet again. All these shocking contradictions might just be revealing to us that POTUS not only has his hands tied behind back; he might be in constant danger who knows? We might need to understand him better; he’s definitely more human from what I’ve seen of his facial expression and body language recently? Isn’t it shocking when the vicious media and its chosen opposition speakers impaled and threatened treason on their democratically elected leader taking/sharing responsibility and speaking for peace … now I see why Xi brought out Shakespeare in his mother of all parliaments speech in the UK. What a treacherous time we live in or has it always been like this?
M Mumblebrain
Yes, first impression is the incredulous disbelief of the witch hunt on the media which reminds one of Arthur Miller’s Crucible and the provincial-minded mob unthinking. However, we shouldn’t get too worked up for the media and their chosen speakers do not represent the general thinking public. I’d like to know where Trump stands, for after his EU visit and the Helsinki Summit, I’m beginning to see another 2016, but this time going the reverse way, perhaps. Peace was repeated often, a welcome word indeed, by Trump and Putin, though there were also contradictions from Trump who talked of peace, then went on to describe the necessity for NATO and increasing weaponry. But I do feel so sorry for Trump returning to the US to bow down to so much vicious accusations and venom against Russia, he contradicted himself yet again. All these shocking contradictions might just be revealing to us that POTUS not only has his hands tied behind back; he might be in constant danger who knows? We might need to understand him better; he’s definitely more human from what I’ve seen of his facial expression and body language recently? Isn’t it shocking when the vicious media and its chosen opposition speakers impaled and threatened treason on their democratically elected leader taking/sharing responsibility and speaking for peace … now I see why Xi brought out Shakespeare in his mother of all parliaments speech in the UK. What a treacherous time we live in or has it always been like this?
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Anne, the ruling Western elites are psychopaths. Capitalism was created by and for psychopaths, and that type has evolved over the centuries into more and more malignant types, just as capitalism has moved beyond its days of Protean productivity (save in China) into the parasitic Olympus of rentier, financialised, debt-fueled blood-sucking, manipulation and speculation.
The fruits of the last forty years of neo-liberal economic policy are there for all to see. Unprecedented debt, record inequality, poverty and elite wealth, a collapse in Western living standards, particularly in the Anglosphere, a great fall in productivity, and an ecological Holocaust of ubiquitous pollution of every kind imaginable. The elites knew that this situation was untenable, but continued on their way because they know no other modus operandi. If a capitalist grows a conscience, or goes off to hide out in New Zealand, there’s always another enthusiastic psychopath, or one hundred, eager to take his place. They must have always known that immiserating the mass of humanity would cause an explosion, but they thought they could put it off forever (or until they were dead) with unrelenting brainwashing, Divide and Rule tactics like ‘Identity Politics’, and the cultivation of foreign monsters, like ‘al-Qaeda’ (a creation of the USA and its stooges) Russia, China, Iran etc. If there are enough Transformers movies, Fortnite video- games, opioid epidemics of self-culling, ‘Colour Revolutions’ and Me Too movements, the fateful reckoning can be put off indefinitely. Unfortunately, the constellation of crises is moving, decisively, beyond their efforts to control, and ‘the Deluge’ awaits-socially and climatologically.
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AND—LUCIANA'S CORNER
Time magazine covers: compare.
Yeltsin bombed his own parliament, plundered Russian assets creating an oligarchical class and plunging Russia into a vortex of debt and poverty. Russia defaulted in 1999. The US called this democracy and progress.
Putin abolished the debt to Western lenders by instituting a national energy entity, the profits of which he used to pry Russia free of the clutch of Western vulture lenders. For this, he's called "authoritarian" and "dictator."
Luciana Bohne shared a video.
Simply surreal: this guy says "you have to believe in facts." He gave us, for instance a fact: clean coal. You have to believe this fact. This guy told us that Qaddafi was carrying out a genocide. You have to believe this fact. He said he would work for a nuclear-free world. But he didn't believe his own fact, 'cause he allocated billions for modernizing the nuclear arsenal. You have to believe in this fact: this guy is a shameless liar, and a very poor comedian to boot. As, president, he continued the tradition of mass-murderers in the White House. And this certainly IS a fact.
Barack Obama talks about the “utter loss of shame among political leaders”, who when they’re caught lying, “just double down and lie some more.”
Closing comment: Observe how just this tidbit of fake news by a mainstream figure, distributed by a mainstream medium (UK's Channel 4) quickly captures more than 2 million views...and counting. Doesn't that make you feel Lilliputian? You know how many people will be seeing this? A tiny fraction of that. We're like the ant who had high hopes of moving that tree plant. That's why it is IMPERATIVE that you get off your butt and make it a habit of always REDISTRIBUTING as much as possible whatever materials you like, which we hope in our case will be most of our articles. It's the only way we stand a chance of pushing back against this massive established power of the empire to constantly spread toxic lies and idiocy!— The Editor
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Yes…what a terrifying prospect an end to the rekindled cold war would be…no wonder the US is in utter turmoil over the Helsinki summit…any sort of progress is a terrible blow to the MIC who desperately need enemies in all shapes and sizes.
Sadly
Colin
Pepe does a superb job in a few paragraphs.
What the US-Russia impasse is all about:
“Putin clearly sees Southwest Asia and Central and Eastern Europe as totally integrated. The Black Sea basin is where Russia intersects with Ukraine, Turkey, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. Or, historically, where the former Russian, Ottoman and Habsburg empires converged.
A Greater Black Sea implies the geopolitical convergence of what’s happening in both Syria and Ukraine. That’s why for the Kremlin only an overall package matters. It’s not by accident that Washington identified these two nodes – destabilizing Damascus and turning the tables in Kiev – to cause problems for Moscow.
Putin sees a stable Syria and a stable Ukraine as essential to ease his burden in dealing with the Balkans and the Baltics. We’re back once again to that classic geopolitical staple, the Intermarium (“between the seas”). That’s the ultra-contested rimland from Estonia in the north to Bulgaria in the south – and to the Caucasus in the east. Once, that used to frame the clash between Germany and Russia. Now, that frames the clash between the US and Russia.”
Everything depends on stabilization. US depends on chaos and disruption. So, the US must change tactics.
Putin has the military (especially Southern Military District) on full ready alert. Massive tactical nuclear firepower, huge numbers of S-400 units, well over 100,000 men, major battle-tested Aerospace forces on the tarmacs ready to defend Crimea, the Black Sea and primed to confront the manpower NATO and US has placed at the borders.
Thus, the US can pull a trigger or talk. Putin and Trump began some talks.
Note how they both assured that each President’s military talks in Syria with the other’s military, all the time and generally very well.
Only the crazies want war.
USA for the last 70 yrs or so, indeed depends on chaos and disruption. But a chaos and disruption on American terms. Russia might want stability, but stability on Russian terms. Neither is good for the world.
What is wrong with ‘..stability on Russian terms’?
Stability on someone’s terms is not a real stability.
No, you are wrong. This is a stability, just on the other side’s terms, which in turn means: The other side has the upper hand. Live with it or die, this is how it works in real world. This is no Hollywood.
It doesn’t matter whose side’s terms. It is not a real stability. Where is the multilateral world?
We’ve seen that stability on one’s sides terms is at best a very fragile stability. Fragile because it depends on wise and rational leadership of that side that prizes that stability. When the leadership of that one side is either unwise or has other goals and decides that the stability has little value, then the stability quickly vanishes in a puff of stage smoke since there are no other forces guaranteeing that stability. Thus, a multipolar stability is far more dependable since it requires a balance of power and the leaders of a single pole can not just throw the stability away like yesterday’s McDonald’s wrappings.
Putin’s terms are National- and International Law. You think that’s no good and want it differently? Put your ideas on paper and send them to your local gov’t rep.
I see your point AI, but I rather see ‘..stability on Russia’s terms’ as markedly different from stability on US terms. Stability on Russia’s terms, I believe, is the same as stability on China’s terms, and that of most sane states, societies and peoples. That is respect for the sovereignty of other states, non-interference in the affairs of other states, and a proper concern and respect for human diversity, of populations, political systems, social arrangements and hopes for the future. Stability on US terms, if not simply the stability of the mass grave and rubble-field, equates to perpetual servitude to the USA and US-ordained social and economic arrangements that guarantee inequality, mass poverty, social sadism and division and xenophobia and distrust of others. I know which I prefer, and which gives humanity some hope of long-term survival, and which does not.
Al
The Russian response to the absolute chaos caused by Washington in both Syria and Ukraine looks like a pretty good step towards stability from where I am standing… down here in little old NZ!
Cheers
Colin