Why Biden Doesn’t Want Americans to Visit Russia

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Why Biden Doesn't Want Americans to Visit Russia

Western perceptions of Russia are based on propaganda wrapped in lies, inside mounds of disinformation. So, what's the real Russia like? I went there to find out. The results were shocking.

The Holy Trinity Lavra in Sergiev Posad

My lead above is obviously a play on Winston Churchill’s famous quip in 1939 about Russia being "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma."

In their effort to support the liberal globalist war machine, major western media unabashedly fabricate their coverage of Russia, a country that they hate because of its defense of national sovereignty and traditional values.

This disinformation is so total and omnipresent that even the most educated and astute minds in the West can fall under its influence. The U.S. has few credible independent media and expert sources, and most Americans don’t have the time and skills to do their own research.

Even I had my doubts — just before departing New York last month, I almost cancelled my trip because I was bombarded with messages from people who tried to convince me that “Putin will abduct” me and use me as “a pawn to exchange” for Russians held in U.S. prisons. I began to wonder — “Maybe they’re right.”

With some apprehension, I boarded the plane and within a day I found myself on the Russian border. This was my first visit in five years. Instead of the lies and disinformation mentioned above, my trip revealed a country with a vibrant civil society where people enjoy far more freedom, economic opportunity and social protections than we do in the West.

The Winter Palace on Palace Square, St Petersburg

Developing in the right direction

I spent two weeks traveling to five regions — the Leningrad Region, Saint Petersburg, the Novgorod Region, the Moscow Region, and Moscow. I saw life in both provincial towns and big cities, and talked freely to a wide range of people. I traveled on my own schedule, living in local neighborhoods not in hotels.

Even though I visited in March, when the weather is gray and Russians still struggle with winter doldrums, I found the people to be of tremendous heart, goodwill, respect and kindness. I almost felt like I was back in the USA that we had 30 years ago.

The violence, arrogance, rapacity and anger that marked life in Russia when I lived there in 1992 to 2012 seemed to have dissipated significantly. What had happened in the past 12 years to make such a difference….especially when in this same period the U.S. has been on a downward spiral of violence, strife, hatred and collective insanity?


Visiting the tomb of St. Sergius in the Holy Trinity Lavra

Packed houses of worship

Orthodox churches are packed. Unlike the U.S. and Europe that are building ‘progressive’ societies based on secular totalitarian ideology, I saw Russians exhibit sincere devout religious sentiment, visiting houses of worship even during weekdays, and, in general, adhering to a moral code as they went about their daily lives.

Even in Moscow and St. Petersburg the churches were packed, which was very unexpected. Urban dwellers across the globe often have little room for religious faith in their lives. But that’s not the case in Russia. Moscow lives up to its moniker as the “Third Rome”, Christianity’s central city.

With some friends, I visited the tomb of St Sergius at the Holy Trinity Lavra in the Moscow Region. The line of the faithful stretched long to approach the saint’s tomb and leave a prayer request. In the fight with the West, Russia’s monasteries are the country’s ‘secret weapons’. No contraption designed by NATO’s military industries can overcome the spiritual power of Russia’s monasteries and its faithful.

Unlike Zelensky’s Ukraine where the native Orthodox Church has been banned, priests jailed, and churches and monasteries bombed, freedom of religion flourishes in Russia. Traditional faiths are protected from the scorn, derision and persecution that they often face in the West.

No anti-American feeling

Even though I’m a citizen of a country that now sponsors terrorism and fuels a brutal war against Donbass and Crimea, Russians didn’t harbor ill feelings towards me. I had encountered far more anti-American sentiment while living in Russia in the 1990s, a time when relations were rather friendly.

St. Petersburg — Nevsky Prospekt and Griboyedov Canal

Rising living standards

The Russian economy is booming and people now live far better than before the year 2000 when Vladimir Putin became president. Unemployment hovers just above 2.5%, and inflation is under control. Interest rates, however, are in the range of 17%, which is a drag on further economic growth.

Even if we put aside the technological and industrial advances of the past two decades that have improved life for most people across the globe, there are specific policy decisions by Putin’s government that have improved the quality of life.

These include his vigorous efforts to improve law-enforcement, restore public safety, as well as smash organized crime and the stranglehold that liberal oligarchs once had over Russia’s economy. Throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s, the oligarchs siphoned off hundreds of billions of dollars in national wealth, mostly from the sale of natural resources, and then stashed the cash abroad.

To this day, I can personally name Russian gangsters, fugitives from justice in Moscow, who have found a warm welcome in the U.S. This is why some oligarchs in exile can’t forgive Putin and continue to finance so-called ‘opposition figures’ such as the deceased U.S. asset Alexei Navalny.

By ‘rising living standards’ I don’t merely mean material well-being. There are also non-tangibles to consider, such as living in a country where the government protects and supports national cultures, traditional values and sovereignty. This is certainly a major factor contributing to the optimism that I sensed in the air.

Finally, the food — the food is fantastic. Natural. Delicious. Fresh. I surmise this is the result of strict state regulation over the food supply and the quality of ingredients and means of preparation — Something that’s nearly absent in the U.S.

With students in St. Petersburg

Vibrant and open discussions

Everyone I spoke to, from the average person in the street to those who I met at events, exhibited an exceptional intellectual curiosity and ability. People were open-minded, eager to discuss and debate. They exhibited a high level of knowledge about their country and the world.

For the most part, the vast majority of Russians sincerely support President Putin, as recent elections prove. There are two main reasons for his massive popularity — he stopped Russia’s disintegration in the 1990s, and his policies have made the country a much better place to live.

Also, I attended a few talk shows on state-run TV where we discussed geopolitics. I was surprised that the TV host always presented the U.S. version of events, even showing western media coverage so that the audience would clearly understand both sides of the issue, and not just the Russian point of view.

Then several of us would go on to discuss, debate and analyze the issue at hand. Never once did anyone try to prep me, control me, prod me or push me to say certain things. In fact, a few of the talk shows were live on air — which goes to show just how much freedom the Russian media allows.

 

“Do Not Travel” to Russia?

This could be the finest portrait of Joe Biden (left), capturing the essence of his soul — an evil man who has brought misery and suffering to so many. I suspect that such a portrait is hidden somewhere in a White House attic, something right out of Oscar Wilde’s novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

The White House is afraid of Americans traveling to Russia. Why? Because they don’t want us to know the truth about how Putin has succeeded in making Russia stronger and more prosperous, how he protects the national culture and its traditions — All things that most Americans would love to see their own government do.

That’s why the State Department has labeled Russia as “a level 4 risk — DO NOT TRAVEL.” John Kirby, the White House’s national security communications adviser, has said that “If you’re a U.S. citizen, including a dual national, residing in or traveling in Russia, you ought to leave right now. Depart immediately.”

For my part, I can’t wait to return to Russia. And many Americans agree with me. Russia has become a destination for American dissidents and refugees, with a private effort afoot to build two ‘American villages’ outside of Moscow.

Soviet heroes

Crocus and Russia’s historic mission

My trip to Russia was marred on my last day with news of the heinous terrorist attack in Moscow. Investigators have pretty much proven that Ukraine’s secret services were behind the Crocus City massacre and that the West most likely assisted. Earlier this year, Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland had threatened Russia with “nasty surprises”, while Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Miley threatened “There should be no Russian who goes to sleep without wondering if they’re going to get their throat slit in the middle of the night.”

At the very least, the U.S. and all of NATO bear responsibility for the attacks because over the past two years they’ve incited hatred of Russians through disinformation, as well as by arming the regime in Kiev, and because the CIA actively trains the Ukrainian secret police in committing terrorist attacks and other crimes.

The Crocus City terror attack is a turning point. It’s the nail in the Kiev regime’s coffin, and possibly that of NATO. The attack has only strengthened Russian resolve. Just in the past week, the Russian Air Force has knocked out much of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, and a hunt is underway for agents of its secret services responsible for a multitude of terrorist attacks.

More than ever, Russians understand very well that they’re fighting for their survival, against a formidable coalition of some 50 hostile nations that’s come to their doorstep to continue where Napoleon and Hitler failed. In many ways, we could even classify the liberal globalist onslaught as the ‘spiritual heir’ to the Nazi death cult.

Recent events show clearly that we’ve left the realm of mere geopolitical rivalry between East and West. This is now another epic war against evil. And the past 210 years show conclusively that Russia always emerges triumphant.

ABOUT JOHN VAROLI 
Former foreign correspondent for New York Times, Bloomberg and Reuters TV. Trained as a U.S. foreign policy expert with a focus on Russia and Ukraine.

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Israel’s murderous attack on WCK, an starvation relief organization, reported as “unintentional accident of war”

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"Accidents happen in war," says shameless war criminal Netanyahu, knowing he enjoys full US support. 

FIRST: Covering up Israel's deliberate starvation policy

The whole report takes pains to give Israel and the IDF the benefit of the doubt, stressing time and again the idea this was a "regrettable" and "unintentional" incident.  Said claim is easily contradicted by the facts. In its short duration, the Israelis have killed in this "Gaza war" —by bombs, firing squad, sniper fire, etc.— more healthcare personnel of all types than any other power engaged in any other conflict since the end of WW2. As journalism, this is a disgrace. Thinly disguised p.r. for Israel and its prime sociopath, Netanyahu. But that's par for the course when it comes to Western media, and especially its Anglo component. 

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The following (as well as the video above) are by ABC News. The words and passages we regard as shameless propaganda are marked in red. Contextually, the US media, in most if not all its reports on the Gaza genocide, fail to ask the critical question: If the White House, and the rest of the collective West leaders and officials are so deeply moved and concerned about the suffering of Palestinians, if this or that act by the IDF is "intolerable", "outrageous," "unacceptable", etc, etc., why do they never simply stop the flow of weapons and money to the depraved Zionist regime? 

By ABC News 

Seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen [WCK] were killed during an Israel Defense Forces attack in Gaza, the food-relief organization said, adding that it plans to pause its operations in the region.

a statement. "This is unforgivable."

The dead included Australian, Polish, British and Palestinian aid workers, WCK said. One worker was a dual American-Canadian citizen, the organization said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his first comments about the deadly incident as he was leaving a hospital after undergoing successful hernia surgery.

"Unfortunately, in the last day, there was a tragic case of our forces unintentionally hitting innocent people in the Gaza Strip," Netanyahu said. "It happens in war, we check it to the end. We are in contact with the governments, and we will do everything so that this thing does not happen again."

WCK, a non-governmental organization, has been operating in Gaza for months and has said it's served more than 33 million meals since the start of the conflict. It operates over 60 community kitchens in Gaza with the help of about 400 Palestinians on the ground.

U.S. officials are "heartbroken and deeply troubled" by the strike, Adrienne Watson, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, said in a statement on social media.

"Humanitarian aid workers must be protected as they deliver aid that is desperately needed, and we urge Israel to swiftly investigate what happened," Watson said.
[As we said earlier, these pronouncements are ridiculous, transparently hypocritical. Contrary to appearances, the US controls the script in the Middle East, not Israel.  So why doesn't the US simply stop all aid to Israel? Not to mention compel it to open the gates to food, medical supplies and other essentials, pronto1, in fact yesterday. As well as cease all indiscriminate air strikes?—Ed]

Unitentional IDF casualties in Gaza

Note how ABC News is quick to plant a misleading disclaimer right on the first screen of this report. According to most MSM this attack was an "unintentional" event.

A representative from the organization said WCK was still gathering details about the incident that took place early Tuesday morning. 

"This is a tragedy. Humanitarian aid workers and civilians should NEVER be a target. EVER," the representative said in a statement.

The IDF said in a statement that it was conducting a "thorough review at the highest levels to understand the circumstances of this tragic incident."  [Yea, believe that if you like. It's pure yada yada.—Ed]

"The IDF makes extensive efforts to enable the safe delivery of humanitarian aid, and has been working closely with WCK in their vital efforts to provide food and humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza," the statement said. [Bullshit—Ed]

Also on Tuesday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant referred to the tragic nature of the incident and emphasized the importance of conducting a thorough, professional investigation, which will be followed by the implementation of lessons learned. Gallant highlighted the important work undertaken by international aid organizations, as well as Israel’s commitment to working closely with partner countries and organizations and facilitating the distribution of humanitarian aid. [More bullshit]

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday in Paris that the U.S. has spoken to the Israeli government about the missile strike on the WCK team.

"We've spoken directly to the Israeli government about this particular incident we've urged the swift, thorough and impartial investigation to understand exactly what happened," Blinken said.

Blinken said the seven victims "join a record number of humanitarian workers who have been killed in this particular conflict."  (Yea, guess why and by whom.)

"I can only say that for so many of us, we extend our condolences to the loved ones, to the families, friends, colleagues of those who lost their lives, or who were injured," Blinken said. "They have been doing extraordinary, brave work day-in and day-out, and critical work ... starting with the most basic thing of all: food. These people are heroes. They run into the fire. They show the best of what humanity has to offer. They have to be protected." (More bullshit.)

Officials in the United Kingdom were "urgently working" to verify whether British citizens had been killed, David Cameron, the U.K.'s foreign secretary, said in a statement. [More bullshit, or shall we say, bollocks!]

"We have called on Israel to immediately investigate and provide a full, transparent explanation of what happened," he said. (More bullshit. Toothless yapping to appease the public.)

Jose Andres, the chef and founder of WCK, said he was "heartbroken" and "grieving" for the families and friends of the WCK workers who were killed.

he wrote on X.

He added, "I am heartbroken and grieving for their families and friends and our whole WCK family. These are people…angels…I served alongside in Ukraine, Gaza, Turkey, Morocco, Bahamas, Indonesia. They are not faceless…they are not nameless. The Israeli government needs to stop this indiscriminate killing. It needs to stop restricting humanitarian aid, stop killing civilians and aid workers, and stop using food as a weapon. No more innocent lives lost. Peace starts with our shared humanity. It needs to start now."

a taped message that he had spoken with Andres and "expressed the deepest condolences."  (More bullshit)

"We will be opening a probe to examine this serious incident further. This will help us reduce the risk of such an event from occurring again," he said, adding, "We will get to the bottom of this and we will share our findings transparently."  (Yea. You do that. While you are at it, tell us also why the Israeli soldiers murdered hundreds of people and medical personnel at the Al Shifa hospital.  See below for more on that particular outrage.)

ABC News' Joe Simonetti and Bill Hutchinson contributed to this story.

SECOND: Israel's deliberate destruction of Gaza's healthcare system
That includes the systematic murdering of medical personnel —doctors, nurses, orderlies, medical technicians, etc.-anyone wearing scrubs or connected with health services—and destroying all hospitals and clinics to the ground by bombing and fire, including their expensive diagnostic and therapeutic equipment.

This video packs an excellent and unusually frank interview with a highly respected British surgeon, Dr Nick Maynard, about the criminal Israeli actions toward Palestinian medical personnel and facilities. Note that the interviewer —Nick Ferrari—is not a liberal but a conservative chauvinist British media personality. (See below). Such is the world today. It is indeed a sad moment when humanity must rely on rightwingers and right wing media—flaws and all—to rescue vital truths, while liberals are too busy bolstering the globalist imperialist agenda. Despite such shortcomings, usually caused by reading too much official history uncritically, Ferrari is honest enough to want to present the unvarnished truth to his audience.

IDF spokesperson pulls out of interview with Nick Ferrari | LBC

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World Central Kitchen have confirmed reports that seven of their aid workers have been killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, amongst them a British national. Nick Ferrari was due to question the IDF's Peter Lerner on this and more. He has pulled out of the interview... Ferrari was also joined by Dr Nick Maynard, a consultant surgeon who regularly works in Gaza with Medical Aid for Palestinians as the IDF report that they have withdrawn from Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza after two weeks of violent destruction. Listen to the full show on Global Player: https://app.af.globalplayer.com/Br0x/...

Nicolo (Nick) Ferrari (born 31 January 1959) is a conservative British radio host, television presenter and broadcast journalist. He is best known as the host of the weekday breakfast show on the London-based radio station LBC. He also has a regular column in the Sunday Express and was previously a regular guest on The Alan Titchmarsh Show. He regularly appears on ITV's programme This Morning and has presented the Sky News debate show The Pledge since 2016.

‘The single worst thing I’ve seen’: Top Oxford surgeon recounts horrors of Gaza hospital

A British doctor encountered one tragedy after another as he operated in the 'appalling' conditions of a central Gazan hospital

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Prof Nick Maynard said that the “huge numbers” of wounded children would  “never, ever leave [him]." CREDIT: Prof Nick Maynard/MAP

“It was the single worst thing I’ve seen in my 35-year medical career,” he told the Telegraph on Wednesday shortly after arriving home in Oxford.

Amid the chaos consuming the emergency department on New Year’s Day, the British consultant spotted a six-year-old boy wrapped in a blanket, lying alone and semi-conscious on the ground. 

“He had no family with him and he hadn’t been seen by any nurses or doctors,” he said.

The child had a head injury, his body was covered with “appalling burns,” and his chest was torn open by a shrapnel wound. “You could see air being sucked in and then bubbling out again,” he said.

Prof Maynard scooped the boy up and rushed him into a corner. There were no beds, so he and a colleague laid him on the ground, working on hands and knees to try and resuscitate him. 

“We were putting drips into him to drain the bleeding in his chest, we tried to cover his burns because he was shivering. It was awful. The tragedy is, I don’t know whether he survived”.

Prof Maynard, 61, is a consultant gastrointestinal surgeon at Oxford University Hospital and has been visiting Gaza to teach surgery since 2010. 

But this was the first time he had entered the enclave during wartime. Speaking from Cairo and then Oxford, he said there was nothing that could have prepared him for his latest visit.

As an experienced surgeon, Prof Maynard Maynard mainly dealt with severe blast injuries to the abdomen and chest on his most recent trip to Gaza. CREDIT: Prof Nick Maynard /MAP

“It was much worse than we could possibly have imagined. I couldn’t compare it to anything, it was just like nothing I’ve seen on Earth,” he said.

His trip, organised through UK charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), was unexpectedly cut short on Sunday when he and his colleagues were told to evacuate the hospital by the IDF.

Strikes in the vicinity of the Al-Aqsa Hospital meant the vast majority of its medical staff, along with 600 patients, were forced to leave.

Prof Maynard’s last day working in the hospital was last Friday, when there was a reported missile attack that damaged the hospital’s intensive care unit. He was in surgery when the strike happened. There was  “a big hole in the wall of the ICU,” he said.

He said there were rumours of IDF snipers in the nearby Deir al Balah neighbourhood shooting people and directing fire at the hospital.

“I didn’t see that, but I certainly saw the gunshot wounds on patients,” he said.

He and his team also heard quadcopters – remote-controlled drones – “incessantly” circling the hospital ground and making “the most appalling, very loud buzzing noise”. There have been allegations from others that the drones are armed with sniper rifles.

Prof Maynard is a consultant gastrointestinal surgeon at Oxford University Hospital and has been visiting Gaza to teach surgery since 2010. CREDIT: Prof Nick Maynard/MAP

Prof Maynard is a consultant gastrointestinal surgeon at Oxford University Hospital and has been visiting Gaza to teach surgery since 2010. CREDIT: Prof Nick Maynard/MAP

Nearly all hospitals in Gaza have been forced to close because of the fighting. Al-Shifa, the Strip’s largest hospital, which Israel says sits above a Hamas command and control centre, closed in November. 

Maynard has worked in Al-Shifa many times over the years and says, “unequivocally”, that he saw no evidence of the hospital being used by Hamas.

“I know many doctors who’ve been there for many years, who I would trust implicitly, who are quite clear that there’s never been any evidence of military activity,” he said.

“There can be certainly no doubt in my mind from what I’ve recently witnessed that [Israel] are directly targeting healthcare structures with a view to completely disabling the healthcare system in Gaza.”

Prof Maynard said the extreme crowing of hospitals in Gaza was not evident from the images and videos that were being released.

The Al-Aqsa hospital has capacity for roughly 150 patients but there were nearly 700 in need of treatment when Maynard left, he said. Hundreds more were taking refuge in the hospital grounds. 

“There’s a whole new sort of town built up, with makeshift tents and shelters. It was just huge, completely impoverished people living there in the most appalling situations,” he said. “No running water. No sanitation systems at all. Just appalling.

Prof Nick Maynard with a colleague in Al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza CREDIT: Prof Nick Maynard /MAP

Prof Nick Maynard with a colleague in Al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza CREDIT: Prof Nick Maynard /MAP

He said there were days there was no running water in the operating theatres, so they could only scrub up using alcohol gel.

“The doctors and nurses were wonderful there, but they just simply couldn’t maintain a sterile environment,” he said.

“Sanitation was horrendous. Just appalling infections. There were flies in the operating theatre, flies resting on the open abdomen when we were operating.”

There were several hundred new patients coming into the emergency department every day. The sheer number of admissions was causing “a breakdown of the triage system,” Maynard said.

When there are large aerial bombardments in the area, many of the casualties are brought to the hospital by family members, as it is becoming increasingly difficult for ambulances to locate and reach the strike areas, he explained.

Some casualties are dragged helplessly on donkey carts to the hospital and others are carried for up to 2 kilometres by relatives.

“The reality is that many people haven’t been discovered yet, and when they are discovered, they’re dead,” he said.

His trip to Al-Aqsa, organised through UK charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), was unexpectedly cut short when he and his colleagues were told to evacuate the hospital by the IDF. CREDIT: Prof Nick Maynard/MAP

As an experienced surgeon, Maynard mainly dealt with severe blast injuries to the abdomen and chest, which caused “horrific” wounds, as the “very small and extremely hot” pieces of shrapnel passed through the bodily tissues with ease.

“When you open up the abdomen or the chest and then you just see the havoc these small fragments have caused - they rip through all the different internal organs,” he said.

But it was the “huge numbers” of wounded children that he said would  “never, ever leave me.”

He saw many malnutrition cases amongst the surgical patients in Al-Aqsa and paediatrician colleagues told him they were seeing around two cases of Kwashiorkor a week.

Kwashiorkor typically affects children in famine hit areas, where a lack of protein causes fluid retention and their bellies to swell.

“I remember one child vividly. He was about eight or nine, and kept coming up to us asking for food because his whole family had been killed and he hadn’t eaten for three days. It was deeply distressing,” Prof Maynard said.

Four out of five of the hungriest people anywhere in the world are in Gaza, according to the World Food Programme, which recently warned that the spectre of famine now looms in the territory, where more than half a million people are facing “catastrophic” levels of hunger.

Prof Maynard said that he fell in love with the people of Gaza. CREDIT: Prof Nick Maynard/MAP

When The Telegraph spoke again with Prof Maynard on Wednesday, from his home in Oxford, he said he was having trouble sleeping.

“We were all affected very emotionally by what we saw and really struggled leaving. I didn’t sleep much the last couple of nights, we have these very mixed emotions about having left,” he said.

“Part of that is guilt. Guilt that we had to leave Gaza, our friends and colleagues, and  knowing that we may not see them again.” 

However, Maynard is already planning his next trip to the Al-Aqsa hospital where he hopes to stay as a resident with his team - rather than travelling back and forth to a safehouse. 

“The people are unique in my view, I love them dearly, they are just indescribably wonderful,” he says. “I fell in love with the place…it’s just become such a huge part of me, that I have to go back and help them.”   

THIRD: Summing up. 

 

 
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Things That Have Been Discredited During The Destruction Of Gaza

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Things That Have Been Discredited During The Destruction Of Gaza

RFK Jr lost substantial support on account of his stubborn pro-Israel apologetics.

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

List of things that have been discredited during the destruction of Gaza:

• Israel

• the “rules-based international order”

• liberals

• the label “antisemitism”

• the mainstream media

• Joe Biden

• the “two-state solution” myth

• Bernie Sanders

• Robert F Kennedy Jr

• the label “terrorist”

• the “human shields” lie

• the ADL

• AIPAC

• the US war machine

• right wing “free speech” supporters

• the Democratic Party

• the Republican Party

• Zionism

• all western governments

• all of western civilization

• everything westerners believe about their society

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The US vetoed multiple UN ceasefire resolutions, then put forward a fake “ceasefire” resolution that didn’t actually demand a ceasefire and accused Russia and China of “sabotaging” peace when they vetoed it, then an actual ceasefire resolution was passed which the US abstained from voting on rather than vetoing in order to save face over its Russia/China moralizing, and then the US declared (100% falsely) that the UN ceasefire resolution which passed is “non-binding”.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to support and defend Biden and just endorsed virulent Israel supporter Hakeem Jeffries for House Speaker, even after accusing Israel of genocide in a House floor speech. 

If you say this is a genocide and then you support the people who are backing this genocide, it means either (A) you’re fine with genocide or (B) you only called it a genocide to score progressive political points and don’t actually believe what you said.

Biden supporters keep trying to spin his genocidal actions as some kind of aberration in his otherwise lovely behavior due to highly unusual circumstances, as though he hasn’t been a bloodthirsty warmonger AND an extreme pro-Israel hawk his entire fucking political career.

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Don’t babble at me about how bad and wrong it is for Palestinians to use violence unless you can offer me a coherent plan for what they should do instead.

Civil disobedience won’t work because Zionists have no conscience and don’t care about Palestinian death and suffering.

The doors to a two-state solution with a real Palestinian state are slammed shut by Israel’s political landscape and are being further bolted down by continually expanding settlements deliberately designed to prevent such a solution from ever emerging.

A one-state solution where everyone has equal rights and no ethnicity gets preferential treatment is an even more remote pipe dream which not even Israel’s western allies support.

So what can the Palestinians do? It doesn’t look like anyone who opposes armed resistance has any good answers. Really what they want is for Palestinians to just lie down and submit to whatever abuses Israel wants to inflict upon them and just slowly fade into obscurity and become a forgotten people, but they can’t say that aloud without sounding like psychopaths so they just finger-wag at Hamas without ever offering any legitimate solutions.

Palestinians have been forced against their will into an impossibly horrible situation, and they sometimes use violence out of desperation because all the other doors are closed to them. If you want me to “condemn” them for this you can kiss my ass, especially since you can’t even tell me what they should do instead.

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The overwhelming majority of westerners spend roughly zero percent of their day thinking about Jews and Judaism, but because Israel stands accused of genocide people are being gaslighted into believing our society is overflowing with a widespread seething hatred of Jewish people.

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All popular online posts about Israeli atrocities will have numerous comments underneath claiming that it didn’t happen, or that it was justified, or that it was good actually, or that it should be blamed on Hamas. Every single one, without a single solitary exception. No matter how strong the evidence is. No matter how horrific the atrocity. 

This shows you that Israel apologists don’t care about truth or morality, and it shows you that they never have. All throughout Israel’s history they’ve been lying and manipulating the public narrative about what the Israeli state has been doing this entire time. That’s why they push so hard to get people de-platformed and censored and to get TikTok shut down: all they care about is controlling the public narrative, so they want to silence anyone who makes that harder for them.

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It must be clear to everyone by now that we live on a planet heading toward global catastrophe. What possible factors are driving western political/media classes irresponsibly toward such an outcome?

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There appears to be no limit to the degree to which western leaders will risk the lives of every man, woman and child on the planet for the sake of their ambitions in Ukraine.

At each escalatory step forward the chances of a nuclear conflict with Russia increase, yet this prospect does not appear to influence the thinking of western leaders in any way. Thus we stand on a precipice unparalleled since the height of the Cold War where at least some diplomacy mitigated the risk. In these dark times all efforts regarding diplomacy have been long abandoned by the western powers. This derogation of political duties puts every one of us at risk.

War and ever more war is the answer to all those who call for peace through negotiations. As the puppet of the western powers Zelensky obeys the command to avoid negotiations with Russia at all costs, even to the extent of having a law passed banning them. We have never before been on such a steep slope to catastrophe as we are now. Madness reigns across the entire panoply of the western political superstructure. Group thought has replaced all semblance of rationality within a war mode mentality that drives each western leader to forego any perception of reality, totally blinded as they are by dogma.

The delivery of statements making a bad situation even worse arrive daily through the creation of ever more divisive soundbytes that make dialogue between the sides ever more unlikely. Accusations against those they regard as ‘the enemy’, are constantly made in the hope of maintaining the support of their populations while making the possibility of a resolution to the war they are waging impossible. This mindless drive forward cannot but lead to the day when the cumulative anger and misunderstanding, along with the hatred developed through ever-increased losses brings about the final showdown threatening extinction of the entire human race.

What could have caused the heedless irresponsibility now displayed by virtually every western leader? What possible factors could generate such an abandonment of responsibility? Is there some desperate method to all this madness? Surely the genesis of the insanity being displayed across the West is of such a degree that there can only be a few candidates to explain it. They must be in plain sight, no? How could they remain hidden considering the obviously unlimited degree to which a “solution” is being sought. What might these factors be?

We can see quite clearly from the many statements and indeed policies of western leaders in recent decades that a primary concern for them is the economic rise of nations not bound within their orbit of control. Some of these nations have been, until recently, subject to successful manipulation by the West, others have successfully avoided such manipulation. The trend is clear, toward independence from western influence and control and toward the building of regional power centres that can successfully resist the power the West has previously enjoyed. Quite clearly the desire of the West to maintain its dominance over such states could provide a powerful motivation to interfere with this process.

2. The Continuing After-Effects of 9/11

9/11 and the western reaction to the events of that day relate directly to the concerns in 1. above. 9/11 was a massive blow to the power, prestige and seeming invulnerability of the West in general. It broke the myth of supremacy, of unquestioned power and therefore too, of the wielding of unrivalled influence maintained by the West during living memory. The events of that day showed that the great power the USA and its allies wielded had been successfully challenged by the use of violence, the use of which the USA and its allies had successfully wielded against those it itself sought to overthrow. The response to 9/11 by western leaders, to reassert their dominance and manipulative control once again also provides a powerful and continuing motivation for its actions now.

3. The Need of the West Powers to Establish Permanent Control through Surveillance

Again related to 1. And 2. above, this factor represents a powerful motivating force driving current events. In the days after 9/11 the response determined upon was quite clear. a) To eliminate all entities who could possibly present a future 9/11-type threat. We have seen the regime change operations that were part of this goal from Afghanistan to Iraq to Libya and Syria with quite obvious plans for others such as Iran. We can safely add a number of others and most certainly Russia and China. On accomplishing the goal of eliminating and replacing all of these a universal surveillance system is intended to insure no future breakout from a West-controlled enclosed system designed to sustain western control, dominance and global hegemony for all time to come.

These three factors in combination have the required level of importance to western political elites and their compliant mass media to explain the relentless and apparently limitless push forward we see occurring now. If you can conceive of any factors you feel have greater power to motivate those driving us forward, ever closer to the potentially cataclysmic outcome, please describe them in the comment section below.

Will the madness now being generated constantly by the West finally be recognised for what it is, braindead irresponsibility fed by a degree of hubris, ambition, mindlessness and irresponsibility previously unknown in even the darkest times of the recent past? Or will the leadership of the West plough on ever more mindlessly to the final days of us all, unheeding of the vast dangers they usher us toward? Knowing the stakes and the potential outcome due to all factors involved we must all surely choose which side of the divide to stand on, that of a multipolar world where power is shared and in balance, or toward a prison planet where all power is held by one region of the world alone. And all the while cognisant that the struggle now ongoing could very well mean the end of us all.

Neo-Nazi ideology has become one of the main protagonists of political and social life in Ukraine since the 2014 coup d'état. And that's a fact. 

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Jon Stewart Says Israel & Ham@s Are Equally Bad!

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Jon Stewart is using his return to the Daily Show host’s chair to do everything in his power to get back into the good graces of the establishment. Most recently, he gave Hamas and Israel the “both sides” treatment, implying that the two warring factions are equally at fault for the lack of progress toward peace. Jimmy and Due Dissidence hosts Russell Dobular and Keaton Weiss discuss Stewart’s blithe dismissal of Israel’s policy of collective punishment, imposing starvation, genocide and immiseration on the people of Gaza.

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