Yves here. Hopefully readers who understand Canada's libel and defamation laws can pipe up. Presumably most of
you already know about Consortium News' libel suit.
From its site
:
Consortium News has sent libel notices to the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada's
version of the U.S. National Security Agency, and to a major Canadian television network, Global News, for a
report that said Consortium News was "part of a cyber-influence campaign directed by Russia."
Consortium News promoted a story that was widely picked up and deservedly embarrassing to Chyrstia Freeland,
then Canada's foreign minister, more recently its deputy prime minister. Freeland is of Ukrainian descent and
is rabidly anti-Russian. She has falsely and knowingly depicted her family as victims of the Nazis who fled
persecution, when her grandfather was a prominent Nazi propagandist operating out of Krakow.
Mind you, this is all factually accurate. But Consortium News may not be on solid ground in challenging the
Canadian accounts of its story.
A Helmer describes, Consortium News may have badly undermined its position via its attribution.
Helmer himself originated the story
, as the Consortium News story linked to above acknowledges .but
Consortium News didn't in its piece on
l'affaire Freeland
a month later.
Instead, its story came from "journalist Arina Tsukanova exclusively for CN". The problem is that no such
person appears to exist; it looks to be a handle created by the Strategic Culture Foundation in Moscow. Helmer
points out that there is speculation that the Strategic Culture Foundation gets funding from the Russian
Orthodox Church; the Canadian government believes the Russian government supports it. Regardless, it appears to
have an explicit mission of promoting Russian nationalism.
So Consortium News has undermined its case, perhaps fatally, by not making clear when it ran its Freeland
piece that it was re-reporting Helmer's work. Helmer is in hot water with the Russian government and was even
barred from entering Russia at the time the Freeland story ran. Helmer also knew Freeland from his days at the
Financial Times, when she was his editor for a bit. To put it politely, he found her to be ideological and
sloppy. So it would be well nigh impossible to depict Consortium News as a Russian stooge for relying on
Helmer. But apparently fabricated personas created by a shadowy Russian foundation?
I don't mean to sound unsympathetic, particularly since we were falsely smeared for being Russian stooges,
apparently for sins like questioning rising inequality and other failings of our purported leaders. But if you
are going to attack government officials even in a small country like Canada for misrepresentations about their
backgrounds, as opposed to garden variety incompetence and mendacity, you need to have your ducks in a row.
Going to court similarly requires you to be able to defend your bona fides. Consortium News looks to have set
itself up to be vulnerable. I sincerely hope they prevail, but I would not bet on it.
By
John Helmer
,
the longest continuously serving foreign correspondent in Russia, and the only western journalist to direct his
own bureau independent of single national or commercial ties. Helmer has also been a professor of political
science, and an advisor to government heads in Greece, the United States, and Asia. He is the first and only
member of a US presidential administration (Jimmy Carter) to establish himself in Russia. Originally published
at
Dances with Bears
The truth is that
Consortium News
trusted a Russian entity named the Strategic Culture Foundation
and a Ukrainian reporter called Arina Tsukanova for a story published on February 27, 2017, about Chrystia
Freeland's grandfather Mikhail Chomiak, a propagandist and spy for the German Army who advocated and assisted
in the murder of the Jews, Poles and Russians during World War II, and took his reward by stealing Jewish
property – publishing company, office, apartment, antique furniture, and limousine.
The story about Freeland and the ethnic cleansing of Ukraine on which Freeland agrees, still, with Chomiak,
was the truth. It's also a truth she tries to escape by blaming the Russian state or Kremlin propaganda for
repeating. Repeating doesn't turn the truth into a lie, though as Joseph Goebbels advised, repeating the lie
helps.
The point isn't that Freeland is culpable in her grandfather's sins. Her sin is hiding them, and her reason
for doing so. She agrees with Chomiak on turning Ukraine into the Greater Galicia it was Adolf Hitler's
objective to achieve between 1939 to 1945: that's to say, cleanse the territory of Jews, Poles and Russians by
killing them all. Chomiak succeeded with the first two; he was then employed by the US Army on the third.
Freeland is keeping the plan in the family; they now have the Canadian government behind them. Demonizing
Russians is part of the same plan as it was in Chomiak's day.
The irony is that the Freeland-Chomiak story was plagiarized from an American reporter who first published
the details on January 19, 2017. At the time, and still, he was banned from entering Russia by the Kremlin
because, according to a senior official in Moscow, "he writes bad things about our country"; no western
journalist has been banned for as long – since September 27, 2010. The reporter was me.
There's another truth wrapped in an irony. Arina Tsukanova, the byline writer of the Strategic Culture
Foundation story and the
Consortium News
story, cannot be found; isn't known at the media of Kiev and
Crimea where her published pieces claim she works; and doesn't reply to emails and Facebook communications. She
is a ghost -- a byline invented by the Strategic Culture Foundation in Moscow.
The Galician state plan, the genocide which went with it, and the current campaign of lies against Russia
didn't start with Chomiak or end with Freeland. In Canada they have been continued by many officials; among
them Lieutenant-General Paul Wynnyk, commander of the Canadian Army, then Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff,
2016-2019, and now a minister in the Alberta provincial government; and Roman Waschuk, Canada's ambassador to
Kiev, 2014-2019; for their details,
click
.
Auschwitz-Birkenau, the site of the German death camp whose liberation by the Red Army on January 27, 1945,
is celebrated last week and
this
, was part
of the Galician territory under German occupation. It was seventy kilometres west of Chomiak's office in
Cracow, within his killing range. Opponents and critics of the Galician plan, and researchers of the war
crimes committed by Chomiak and others include many Canadians of Ukrainian origin, including John-Paul Himka, a
professor of history now retired from the University of Alberta in Edmonton; he and they have been the target
of ostracism and worse from the Ukrainian-Canadian community;
read more
.
According to Himka (right) there is "a blank spot in the collective memory of the Ukrainian diaspora", and a
"double standard in discussing war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated by Ukrainians as opposed to
those perpetrated against Ukrainians. Memoirs and eyewitness accounts, for example, are considered
untrustworthy evidence for the former, but trustworthy for the latter; that is, Jewish or Polish first-hand
accounts of Ukrainian war crimes are dismissed as biased, while an important Ukrainian victimization narrative,
the famine of 1932-33, has relied primarily on just such eyewitness accounts."
The lying by the promoters of the Galician plan for Ukraine has been promoted by the Canadian mass media,
almost without exception. They don't respond to correction for the truth;
click to follow their record
.
With the collaboration of her former employer, the
Financial Times
, Freeland continues to lie by
omission and commission, In the past weekend's "
Lunch
with the FT
", Freeland was questioned by a reporter called Edward Luce. "I struggle to rustle up some
professional scepticism," he admitted towards the end of listening to Freeland. "I cannot help nodding in
agreement."
Luce also couldn't help omitting the extent of the story of Freeland and Galicia. Instead, he repeated
Freeland's lie that her mother had been "born to Ukrainian refugees in a US displaced person's camp in postwar
Germany." In fact, they weren't refugees from Ukraine. They were Nazi war criminals on the run. The "camp" was
a luxury Bavarian spa town, Bad Worishofen, which the US Army had taken over, in part to develop Ukrainian
espionage and infiltration agents to run against the Soviet Union. Chomiak was an early recruit, switching his
loyalty from the German Army to the US Army for money, and for the same murderous ideology.
The US Army, OSS and CIA files on Chomiak, dating from 1945 to at least 1948, are stored at the National
Archives in Washington. No researcher has opened them yet. Recovering the full story of Chomiak started with
Ukrainian and Canadian researchers working through Chomiak's papers in Alberta, and with Polish police
investigations in Warsaw; they were opened and reported
here
.
The Russian contribution to this research and reporting has been negligible. Ditto
Consortium News
(CN).
In an announcement last week, Joe Lauria, the editor of CN since founder Robert Parry died in 2018, said he
had instructed Toronto lawyers to send libel notices to the Canadian signals intelligence agency,
Communications Security Establishment (CSE), and to a local broadcaster called Global News. The notices asked
for retractions and apologies.
Lauria said CN had been defamed for a publication in February 27, 2017, when Chomiak's wartime record was
reported for the first time. Except it wasn't for the first time and the original CN article wasn't quite what
it purported to be.
The CSE had produced a secret analysis, Global News reported, on Russian info-war against Freeland. "Cyber
influence activity to cause reputational damage" was the technical Canadian spy agency term quoted. "The
Grandfather Nazi narrative" was another of the terms. The secret Canadian intelligence was: "In early spring
2017 and spring 2018, sources linked to Russia popularized MFA Freeland's family history, very likely intended
to cause personal reputational damage in order to discredit the Government of Canada's ongoing diplomatic and
military support of Ukraine, to delegitimize Canada's decision to enact the Justice for Victims of Corrupt
Foreign Offices Act, and the expulsion of several Russian diplomats." The Global News report can be read
here
.
Sources linked to Russia were reportedly tracked down by CSE. "The first attack," claimed Global News,
citing the CSE report, "was a February 2017 report in the 'online Consortium News' followed 'in quick
succession' by pro-Russian English language and Russian-language online media, the CSE report says."
Lauria charged last week that this was libellous. Aside, he didn't dispute Parry's claims at the time that
he had been first or that Freeland's counter-attack with her Russia lie was aimed at Parry and CN.
Here
is Parry's original publication, bylined Arina Tsukanova, and tagged "exclusive".
According to CN's original publication, Tsukanova "is a Russian Ukrainian journalist from Kiev currently
living in Crimea. Before the Euromaidan she used to work for several Ukrainian newspapers, now closed."
In the English language, Tsukanova's stories started to appear in mid-2016 and then stopped in
April 2017
.
When her story on the Freeland-Chomiak case appeared in CN, she had reported nothing on the idea, the topic,
or the subject details before; there was no sequel or related report by her afterwards.
In the Russian language Tsukanova's
reporting
record began on January 18, 2016, and is still
current
. Her two outlets are the Strategic Culture Foundation (FSK in Russian) and
KM.ru,
both in
Moscow. The reports specialize on Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova. She has reported only once on Freeland and
Chomiak. The story which appeared in Russian on
March 2, 2017
, is not the same story as had appeared under her byline in CN three days earlier. The
Russian version of the story has 23 paragraphs. The first 11 paragraphs of the CN story, a third of the
publication, weren't written by Tsukanova and do not appear in the Russian version. They were written by Parry;
"I personally edited and fact-checked [it]", Parry wrote later. It was
Parry's English version
which was reprinted by Strategic Culture Foundation on March 2, 2017, and then
Parry's lone bylined story which ran in the same place on
March 12, 2017
.
"Knowing Bob as I did," Lauria said last week, "I'm certain he would not have published the article if he
knew any of it had been plagiarized. He must have not been aware of your earlier story as I wasn't as I was
preparing my story this week." Lauria then compared what Tsukanova and Parry had written with two reports I had
published five weeks earlier.
Lauria now says: "I carefully went through your two stories and compared it to Consortium News of Feb. 27,
2017. There is no doubt that it is based on your earlier story. That should have been mentioned in the
Consortium article. I did not find whole sentences or paragraphs that were taken directly from your article.
The fact remains that the story of Freeland's grandfather is true and that cannot be disputed. I have updated
the article I wrote on Tuesday to include this line in the body of the text: The story was first reported by
John Helmer a month earlier In her version, Tuskanova reported; and I put a note at the end of the story
saying: This article has been updated to show that the story of Freeland's grandfather was first reported by
John Helmer."
The revised version of the CN report looks like
this
. Lauria is making amends.
Parry, who can't, made a habit of lifting material without giving credit and then promoting himself as the
originator. In March 2015, for example, he produced a piece on Igor Kolomoisky, the Ukrainian oligarch; the
Burisma scandal involving the Biden family, and Natalie Jaresko, the State Department official who became the
Ukrainian minister of finance.
Here's
Parry's story.
This material started with two stories of mine which had appeared a month earlier. Parry helped himself to
the topic and the material, but omitted to mention their origin. He also forgot that he had written to me to
say: "John, thanks. Good piece."
Here
is where Parry started and also
here
.
As for Parry's reporting on Jaresko, which appeared on
February 19, 2015
-- -- that started with a story I had published on Jaresko on
December 3, 2014
. After reworking the material and sources, Parry gave a mention of the origin in my work.
He placed that at the 43
rd
paragraph of his 52-paragraph piece.
Lauria was asked to verify Parry's source, Tsukanova. He says he wrote Tsukanova by email, but she hasn't
replied. Independently, checks of the Crimea and Kiev media last week reveal that she is not known to the
press in either place where she claims to have worked for years. I attempted to contact her at her Facebook
page; she did not reply. In the Facebook gallery of her photographs, there are none of Tsukanova on location
acting as a journalist.
Left: the header for Arina Tsukanova's story archive published by the Strategic Culture Foundation;
source --
https://www.fondsk.ru/authors/
Right: the only photograph of Tsukanova found on the Russian internet. This
identifies Tsukanova, not only as journalist, but also as a "publicist". Source:
https://www.infox.ru/blog/168
On the evidence gathered to date, Tsukanova is a ghost – a byline invented by her Russian publishers for
their purposes, but made to look credible for other purposes. Lauria refused to provide evidence of the
original correspondence with Parry, the terms of exclusivity he reported with Tsukanova, or a record of payment
for her article in 2017. He concludes: "I'm not anticipating any evidence [of her communication]."
Lauria also says that "not being able to reach her only proves that she's not reachable I do not think
there is any evidence to say she is a ghost for someone else. It seems pure speculation at this point In the
end of the day, the story is true so does it really matter? A source or a sources' [sic] motives become
irrelevant if the information they provide is true."
The problem for Lauria and CN is that if Tsukanova was an invention of the Strategic Culture Foundation in
2017 when Parry picked up the Freeland-Chomiak story, and if the Moscow entity was receiving money from Russian
state media agencies, then the link between Parry and the Russian side was one which is an embarrassment now
for CN in its claims against CSE and Global News.
Tsukanova may be a ghost; the Strategic Culture Foundation is not. It may be suspected in Ottawa of taking
money from state organs; in Moscow it is suspected of taking money from the Russian Orthodox Church. But there
is no evidence of either. What there is is a record of the foundation's registration on February 21, 2005, at a
room in the Polyanka district of Moscow. The president was listed as Yury Prokofiev; the general director,
Vladimir Maksimenko. The "main activity" on the
registration forms
is
"research and development in the field of social sciences and humanities". Tax inspection is also confirmed,
but no details of income or expenditures.
Left, Yury Prokofiev, founding president of the Strategic Culture Foundation in Moscow; right,
Vladimir Maksimenko, the general director.
About Prokofiev, now about 81 years of age, there is a detailed history of his evolution from Communist
Party apparatchik in 1990-91 to Orthodox Christian monarchist a decade later. The profile, with extensive
quotes and references, was published by Valery Lebedev in March 2007; read the Russian
here
. Lebedev titles his story
after the Russian story of the puppeteer Karabas Barabas, the villain in a Russian fairy tale. According to
Lebedev's account, the Strategic Culture Foundation was designed as a platform for the promotion of Russian
nationalism. He doesn't know where Prokofiev got his money to publish.
About Maksimenko, the Russian record indicates that he studied history to doctoral level at MGIMO and was
(may still be) an employee of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His earlier
academic publications were on the Maghreb (Arab North Africa); his later ones on Orthodox monarchism appear
here
. About both Prokofiev and
Maksimenko, Lebedev says they have been shopping from one cause to another for years; he implies they have
never managed to draw much money or audience.
Maksimenko does not reply to emails at the contact address given for the
Strategic Culture Foundation
.
The foundation has published only one article by Maksimenko under his byline in English; it is about French
politics
. There is no article in English by Prokofiev in the archive.
With them Freeland shares the same combination of ethnic nationalism and God – in Freeland's case, she
told
the FT, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
"I'm very patriotic," Freeland told the FT. "'Be good Ukrainians, and by being good Ukrainians, you will be
even better Canadians'," Freeland recounts. 'I happen to be Ukrainian-Canadian. When I moved to Toronto I had
an instant community of Canadian-Ukrainians. There's a culture there that my kids can immediately experience in
Edmonton or Saskatoon She then embarks on a passionate disquisition about the robustness of Ukraine's
democracy. An aide halts her to say they are late for another meeting a few blocks away.'"
Pricking Freeland's vanity is a bigger job than the FT can handle; or Parry's vanity for Lauria. The vanity
of the Canadian espionage establishment will be safe in a Toronto court. But pricked the CSE file most
certainly it is. That's because the record of Canadian spying for influence over Russian journalism long
precedes this affair.
It started, in fact, with a woman called Janice Cowan, a Canadian of English origin who was the wife of the
Canadian military attaché in the Moscow embassy in the early 1990s. Cowan was trained to penetrate Russian
media circles and report back to Ottawa. "It was a good time to be a spy", Cowan wrote in a
memoir
she published called A Spy's Wife; it was issued in 2006 by a Toronto publisher called James
Lorimer with a grant from the Canadian Government. "Quality Canadian books you'll want to read" is Lorimer's
motto – except that without cash from Ottawa, Lorimer might have judged that no one would have wanted to read
about Cowan's espionage. In Moscow she took diplomatic immunity from her husband; her spy cover was as an
editor at the English language paper,
The Moscow Tribune.
(The competing English-language paper,
The Moscow Times
, had Cowan's counterparts from the CIA.) Cowan's targets for espionage included the
son-in-law of Marshal Georgy Zhukov and me.
In its
review
of Cowan's book, the Toronto
Globe & Mail
said: "Her account of her pre-assignment
operational training, and of her various intelligence-gathering tours to Soviet hot spots is convincing. But
what threatens to drop this otherwise charming little book into the trivia basket is Cowan's incurable and
self-confessed romanticism about intelligence."
The files of the Communications Security Establishment must include Cowan's reports; they remain classified
even after she broke cover with her book. They can't be mentioned now because that would reveal the topmost
secret of all – that when it comes to info-war between Russia and Canada, penetration of the media, and what
the CSE calls "cyber influence activity to cause reputational damage", it was the Canadians who started against
the Russians first.
It's been catch-up, tit-for-tat, not to mention plagiarism, ever since.
No, we're (UK) the 51st state. We got here first. And these things matter. Canada is the 52nd. Well,
possibly. I think Japan is actually the 52nd. Canada can be 53rd, if you like. Although Australians will
need to correct me if that one's already been nabbed by them.
LOL. We welcome you all to our ever expanding republic.
As for the above
It may be suspected in Ottawa of taking money from state organs; in Moscow it is suspected of
taking money from the Russian Orthodox Church. But there is no evidence of either.
And many past US journalists have been suspected–no wait proven–to have taken money and favors from
the CIA. While Parry may have done wrong by not crediting Helmer and CN may not get the apology and
retraction it seeks, surely the main point is that the story is true. If we were scoring this propaganda
war over "fake news" according to truth then it's likely that stories about the west coming out of
Russia–fake byline or not–probably score better on the truth meter than stories about Russia found in our
MSM. As they used to say in Soviet times, everything they told us about Russia was a lie and everything
they told us about America was the truth.
More to the point, this is an interesting and unfortunate turn for this case. Dances with Bears is a site
I forget to read regularly. It's a shame that CN might be setting themselves up for embarassment vs the
Canadian establishment.
I read all three among many others like TruthDig, Craig Murray, Jacobin Mag, Counterpunch, Antiwar, Der
Spiegel, Intercept, MoA, Grayzone Project, Asia Times etc. etc. on a regular basis, and I do not care how
Strategic Culture gets its funding as long as it does not turn it into an obvious or subtle propaganda outlet.
From what I see and read this is an aggregator – with editorials sometimes – and publishes or republishes a
wide spectrum from left to right, like Zuesse, Cloughly, Lazare, Crook, Cunningham, Madsen, Bridge, Madsen,
Luongo and also LaRouchians like Ehret. A fairly wide Range and therefore obviously quite balanced.
I cannot see any evidence in this range of different contributors to what Helmer describes:
"the Strategic Culture Foundation was designed as a platform for the promotion of Russian nationalism"
Maybe that statement reflects more his troubles with Russian officials, also I do not know how Helmer claims
on one hand he
" At the time, and still, he was banned from entering Russia by the Kremlin The reporter was me."
is not allowed to enter the RF but states on the top of his articles: by John Helmer, Moscow – what is it
now? Who is economical with the truth?
As to Consortium News – yes, they should have been more careful with checking their sources, but for me it is
important as an expat Canadian that someone like Freeland is permitted to actually represent Canada, which just
shows how pernicious the influence of right wing to Fascist Ukrainians is, especially in a province like
Alberta stretching into Ottawa.
With all due respect, you are completely missing the point or choosing to misconstrue it.
The attacks in Canada on the Consortium News report are based on its reliance on Russian sources that are
alleged to be connected to the Russian government. Strategic Culture Foundation promotes Russian nationalism
and is so hidden about its funding sources that that charge will likely stick. That means that the
Consortium News will have difficulty in court disproving that it was amplifying a Russian campaign,
particularly if Helmer's other contention is correct, that the supposed author isn't bona fide.
I must also point out, without naming names (because I don't want to waste time and energy documenting
the point) that some of the authors from Strategic Culture Foundation that you mention approvingly are ones
we would never link to, and are even loath to allow links to their works in comments because they have
serious and regular problems with accuracy (either actual facts or greatly overstating the implications of
their findings). And accordingly, we have not linked to Strategic Culture Foundation because it features too
many dodgy writers and we do not want to lead readers to view it as a reliable source.
In addition, you promote the fiction that anyone in Russia must be an official stooge. Help me. Helmer is
regularly writing pieces that embarrass the Russian government and its allies; he's been barred entry as
retribution. Had Consortium News written a piece that acknowledged Helmer as the source of the account, it
would have been extremely difficult to depict them as manipulated by Russian government allies.
I agree that if they had simply cited Helmer in the first place they would have a lot better libel
case. I also find it surprising that CN didn't even seem aware of Helmer's reporting on the subject.
You'd think that the thorough fact checking of the piece prior to publication would have turned that up.
Even without the citation though, it seems a quite a stretch to say that the entire CN organization is
"part of a cyber-influence campaign directed by Russia." That "part of" is what will cause problems for
CN I suspect. Could be another argument trying to determine what the meaning of "is" is. Perhaps CN
doesn't even care of they win the case as long as the publicity lets it be more widely known that the
facts of their story are accurate.
I also picked up the same thing Peter did though. I'd always assumed Helmer was resident in Russia
based on his byline and was a little surprised to find out that he was barred from the country.
The maddening thing is the corporate media can misreport stories, and deliberately so, and continue to
get away with it and they will tar and feather an alternative media outlet for a relatively minor mistake
that doesn't affect the true facts of the story at all. It would be nice if Helmer and CN could let
bygones be bygones and cooperate here to get the facts out before people like Freeland who do play fast
and loose with the truth are allowed to squash it and rise through the ranks even higher.
Ive only been reading it for a couple years, but I always felt Strategic Culture Foundation has good
articles from time to time. They're anti-imperial for sure, and have an occasional weird take on history (the
French Revolution was hijacked by the British Oligarchy, and that's when it got bloody), but overall it doesn't
have that pure propaganda feel.
I check it every day. Many of the writers whose articles are picked up do indeed have secure reputations
and articles that are widely republished throughout the leftysphere. And isn't that how the web works? The
opposite version would be the NYT where all those Judy Millers reign but are supposed to have credibility
because of their newspaper's (onetime) exalted reputation. The journalistic world has changed.
"The point isn't that Freeland is culpable in her grandfather's sins. Her sin is hiding them, and her reason
for doing so.
She agrees with Chomiak on turning Ukraine into the Greater Galicia it was Adolf Hitler's
objective to achieve between 1939 to 1945: that's to say, cleanse the territory of Jews, Poles and Russians by
killing them all
. Chomiak succeeded with the first two; he was then employed by the US Army on the third.
Freeland is keeping the plan in the family; they now have the Canadian government behind them"
Ever think that the Consortium News trusted a Russian entity named the Strategic Culture Foundation and a
Ukrainian reporter called Arina Tsukanova on purpose– KNOWING that they could be discredited? NOw the narrative
can be changed and Allows them to cover up the truth -- the big story is now not about Freeland knowing lying
about her grandfather and his Nazi connections -- but about a fake news outlet trying to defame her? This sounds
more like what is really going on here -- FYI when ever I see someone has been a Rhodes Scholar and they are in
politics or media -- it can only means one thing -- they are LIARS.
when did parry ever do something like that? never as far as i know, and at any rate freeland's past is
too well known to make this plausible, whether cn wins the libel suit or not.
Consortium News may come a cropper for not practicing due diligence with their sources but they might have
fun embarrassing Canadian outlets in court with quoting Canadian sources. The thing that bothers me is these
'patriots' like Chyrstia Freeland who are patriotic for another country but not where they live. You see the
same in America with all those Cubans in Florida who have helped warp American foreign policy to Cuba for
decade after decade.
With the Ukraine, it seems to be more intense. If you do not believe me, reflect on those Ukrainian-born
people like the Vindman brothers who are at the heart of the impeachment campaign against Trump. And they are
no the only ones. Think Marie Yovanovitch as another example. The Ukraine Diaspora in Canad is even more
extensive and some 1,359,655 Canadians have Ukrainian ancestry. And that is how you get a Chyrstia Freeland who
would literally accept a neo-nazi Ukraine with all that that implies-
It may help explain the bewildering popularity of the loathsome Freeland to point out that Canada has two
quite distinct groups of "Ukrainian" emigrants. One of the largest is Galician, not really Ukrainian. In the
midwest especially (for instance, Winnipeg) there is a Galician Ukrainian church. Other Ukrainians tend to be a
distinct community. I've found quite a disparity in what each group thinks of Freeland.
My issue with all this is the copying and reprinting without attribution to original source. It seems many
of our so-called "leftist" organs and web publishers are too ego-involved to stop promoting their own
"originality", the alternative being to cooperate and share sources and information while researching with
their pooled abilities and assets. The infighting over bona-fides has always been detrimental to the
achievement of goals which are (supposedly) shared and of common good for "the people". So, why this??
I'm sure a well-researched and sourced piece or two, coupled with a strong demand and pressure on the
National Archives to produce its information could well put both Canada and the US on a defensive to either
deny access (a poor PR choice) or produce embarrassing content. This requires far less ego, it seems to me.
John Helmer knows more about what is going on in Russia than any other
correspondent who writes in english. Originally from Australia, he went to grad school at Harvard and worked
for the Carter White House under Brzezinski. He has lived in Moscow for over 30 years and reads/speaks Russian.
He comprehends who the oligarchs and politicians are, and how their businesses and interests intersect and
collide. He has lived in the mideast. He is a teller of truth, and that definitely includes MH17, the Skripals,
the coup in Crimea, and the alleged gas poisonings in Syria.
A word about Strategic Culture.
I read it every day in the hope that I will see an article by Alastair Crooke.
Crooke is a former UK diplo and MI6 spy. His expertise is the mideast, and he is probably the best informed
english speaking person on this planet. E.g., knows more about Hezbollah
than any other writer. And he "tells it like it is". He is not a gossiper of FUKUS imperialism.
I think Crooke publishes at Strategic Culture because he not welcome as contributor in "western" media. If you
attempt to google his name for his latest article, you will not find it.
I have no real idea who supports the S C site, and I do not really care.
Leaving aside the bits about Helmer and attribution, this does raise an interesting point. Suppose I receive
an explosive story about a high elected official from Fresno Dan, who claims to have received it directly from
bare-chested Vladimir Putin via messages from the secret Kremlin antennae in his bunny slippers. But it turns
out to be well-supported with evidence that is independently and easily verifiable (i.e., true).
Do I (a) publish the story; (b) credit Fresno Dan as the source; (c ) mention bare-chested Vladimir and the
bunny slippers; or (d) any or all of the above?
It would seem rather silly not to publish if I think it's important and the story checks out. But will the
bit about Putin and the bunny slippers reduce my credibility if I mention it? And if I don't, what if somebody
else finds out and publishes that?
Technically the fact that the story is true does not preclude it from being part of an influence campaign on
the part of Russia. There are a great many true stories out there and media have broad discretion over which
ones they choose to give air time to. What if somebody alleges that Putin ordered the story shared because he
wanted attention drawn to it in Western media?
As Yves notes, the fact that CN had a more credible source available for the story (Helmer) and chose not to
cite him, which would have avoided most of these issues, would seem to be the own goal here.
Kevin Smith: "Higgins is currently frantically trying to prop up the Douma narrative against a mountain of evidence disproving
his conclusions. For those who’ve followed his story, it’s clear that Higgins is an intelligence asset, set up to take the fall
when the currently collapsing narratives take hold in the mainstream.
"You didn't think that one through, did you, @eliothiggins sweetie? You're not in the
ladies' lingerie trade now. This discussion is about truth, which endures, is not held together
by elastic, and is not for sale." ~Peter Hitchens responding to Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat over the OPCW scandal on
Twitter – 2 January 2020.
"... I believe more people nowadays recognise that the devastating wars in Iraq and Libya and events in Syria were pushed by our governments and media. They can even accept, when you explain, that we've been assisting terrorists to unseat governments for years. But they seem hesitant of taking the next step and we need to encourage them on this path. ..."
"... This path leads to recognising the sheer evil in our midst and getting out of this mindset that criminal behavior and lying in governments and in our media is normal or should in any way be tolerated. Perhaps some people appreciate this already but don't want to address it out of concern to what they might find. Maybe some people dread the thought of a global conflict so ignore it. But we need to hammer home the consequences of simply doing nothing. ..."
"... I've been trying to think of an analogy to try to get this point across. I sometimes say to people, we wouldn't have released a serial killer like Harold Shipman from prison and appointed him Foreign Secretary. Therefore, why do we tolerate a long line of Foreign Secretaries complicit in laying waste to the world? Sadly, with this analogy most people usually look back at me blankly so I have been searching for one more complete and rooted in history which people can relate better to events today. ..."
"You didn't think that one through, did you, @eliothiggins sweetie? You're not in the
ladies' lingerie trade now. This discussion is about truth, which endures, is not held
together by elastic, and is not for sale."
Peter Hitchens responding to Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat over the OPCW scandal on
Twitter – 2 January 2020.
Like many, I've been following the Douma scandal for some time and particularly since the
OPCW whistleblowers and leaked emails blew the lid off the official narrative that Assad used
chemical weapons there.
For the past few weeks he's been debating the topic with Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat, Scott Lucas and various Middle East based journalists
who created and then pushed the false narrative.
In fact, it's not really a debate. Peter Hitchens is quite literally slaughtering these
narrative managers – his logic and clear thinking – and wit exposing the numerous
gaps in their story and their desperate deflections.
Hitchens position is not exactly the same as many of us here hold – that Douma was a
clear false flag. What he is saying is the evidence points to there being no chemical attack by
the Syrian government, the pretext used for the attack on Syria. He doesn't wish to speculate
on matters which aren't conclusively proven, for example precisely on what did actually
happen.
I respect that position in many ways and his refusal to comment on the dead civilians in the
Douma images makes sense from a journalist in the mainstream. I think by having a position
which is clear and unassailable enables him to easily brush off his online detractors and not
allow them to deflect to other issues.
While I don't agree with everything he says, Hitchens has a calm and rational argument for
all the issues he covers. This puts clear ground between him and his online opponents who often
resort to childish abuse.
My 80-year old mum admires him too. She describes him as 'frightfully posh'. Perhaps someone
who might have belonged in a previous age – but I'm glad we have him in this one.
Anyway, I think we can be sure that Hitchens will continue his important work within the
remit he's chosen and others will investigate the unanswered questions which arise from the
Douma incident.
Ultimately the question about the dead civilians in the images is simply too dreadful to
ignore.
This is because if a chemical attack did not take place and Assad was not responsible it
seems highly likely that the civilians including children were murdered to facilitate a
fabrication.
And were our own intelligence agencies involved in a staged event, considering the refusal
to even establish the basic facts in the days following?
And then, of course, the resulting air strikes nearly caused us to go to war with Russia,
with all that would entail.
While these investigations continue, I think it's timely to see where these events fit into
the way the general public think and perceive wrongdoing and to try to radically to change
this.
I believe more people nowadays recognise that the devastating wars in Iraq and Libya and
events in Syria were pushed by our governments and media. They can even accept, when you
explain, that we've been assisting terrorists to unseat governments for years. But they seem
hesitant of taking the next step and we need to encourage them on this path.
This path leads to recognising the sheer evil in our midst and getting out of this mindset
that criminal behavior and lying in governments and in our media is normal or should in any way
be tolerated. Perhaps some people appreciate this already but don't want to address it out of
concern to what they might find. Maybe some people dread the thought of a global conflict so
ignore it. But we need to hammer home the consequences of simply doing nothing.
I've been trying to think of an analogy to try to get this point across. I sometimes say to
people, we wouldn't have released a serial killer like Harold Shipman from prison and appointed
him Foreign Secretary. Therefore, why do we tolerate a long line of Foreign Secretaries
complicit in laying waste to the world? Sadly, with this analogy most people usually look back
at me blankly so I have been searching for one more complete and rooted in history which people
can relate better to events today.
So, here follows an analogy of a character who lived in the 17th century. His traits, his
crimes, the political climate and peoples misguided perceptions in response can be compared to
recent events and one particular individual causing havoc in the world today.
Of course I refer to Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat.
Eliot ( 'suck my balls' ) Higgins and
Titus Oates1. Eliot Higgins and Bellingcat
Higgins probably doesn't need much of an introduction here. It seems he has no specific
qualifications relevant to his role and a bit of a drop-out in terms of education.
Before the Arab spring I knew no more about weapons than the average Xbox owner. I had no
knowledge beyond what I'd learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rambo."
But this didn't prevent him blogging about world events and then setting himself up and his
site as investigator for several incidents most notably the shooting down of the MH17 passenger
plane over Ukraine and allegations of chemical weapons use in Syria. It's now known that
Bellingcat is funded by pro-war groups including the Atlantic Council
Higgins has been accused by chemical weapons experts, academics and independent journalists
on the ground of fabricating evidence to reach a predetermined outcome decided on by his
funders.
His rise to prominence was fast and apparently some media editors now refer their
journalists to Bellingcat fabrications rather than allowing them to do any journalism
themselves.
For those who've followed his story, it's clear that Higgins is an intelligence asset, set
up to take the fall when the currently collapsing narratives take hold in the
mainstream.
2. Titus Oates and the Popish Plot
Oates was a foul-mouthed
charlatan , serial liar and master of deception who lived in the 17th century. His earlier
life included being expelled from school and he was labelled a 'dunce' by people who knew him.
He became a clergyman and later joined the Navy. His career was plagued by various sex scandals
and charges of perjury.
In the 1670s during the time of Charles II, religious tensions threatened to spill over into
civil war but the pragmatic King, by and large, kept a lid on it.
However, along with Dr Israel Tonge an anti-Catholic rector, Oates started writing
conspiracy theories and inventing plots and later began writing a manuscript alleging of a plan
to assassinate King Charles II and replace him with his openly Catholic brother.
When the fabrication started to gather momentum, the King had an audience with Oates and was
unconvinced and was said to have found discrepancies in his story.
However, the tense political and religious climate at that time was ideal for conspiracy
theories and scaremongering. The King's ministers took Oates at his word and over a dozen
Catholics were executed for treason. This story created panic and paranoia lasting several
years taking the nation to the brink of civil war.
Over time Oates lies were exposed and when the Catholic King James II came to the throne, he
tried Oates with perjury and he was whipped and placed in the pillory.
After James II fled England during the so-called 'Glorious Revolution' King William and
Queen Mary pardoned Oates and gave him a pension.
For me, this whole episode has many obvious parallels with Higgins, the long-running Russia
and the anti-Semitism witch-hunts in the media and the false narratives over Iraq, Libya and
Syria. Like those in power today, Oates had a knack for getting away with it. And I guess we
can all relate this to Julian Assange – the victims or whistleblowers being punished and
the perpetrators getting off.
I had wondered why James II, often ruthless and unforgiving had not executed Oates. But
apparently the crime of perjury even then didn't carry the death sentence. The judge who
convicted Oates was said to have tried his best to finish him off through the whipping, though
he survived.
But perhaps even the King and judiciary in failing in this or not using other means at their
disposal, couldn't comprehend the enormity of his crimes. Oates was after all a rather absurd
character, open to ridicule.
Perhaps this is a bit similar to people today when discovering that Eliot Higgins is also a
foul-mouthed fraud – but they can't reconcile this comical ex-lingerie employee as a
menace to humanity.
3. Modern day
In the past few weeks I've read various older articles on Iraq and Syria. US troops
shooting people for fun from a helicopter . The perpetrators are still free – the
whistle-blowers who exposed that, and other events in prison or exile.
Last year we learned about a shocking massacre of Syrian children,
unreported in the mainstream media . Mainstream journalists through their one-sided
distortions of the conflict and silence, perpetuating the myth that the terrorists who carried
out this mass murder are freedom fighters.
And as I've mentioned, we've seen firmer evidence of what many of us knew along – that
Douma was a staged fabrication as a pretext for air-strikes and dangerously escalating the
Syrian war. The likes of Eliot Higgins and others in the media, colluding in the cover-up of
mass murder which likely facilitated this event. And for those honest journalists and experts
who bring the truth of these staged events to us,
smears will no doubt continue .
Higgins and others in the media who lie, misinform or remain silent are no better than those
shooting civilians from helicopters or starting these wars in the first place. In fact, they
have killed more and keep killing.
This modern-day Titus Oates, and others share a big responsibility for death and destruction
in the Middle East and a dangerous new Cold War.
As I say, I think people are waking up to the distorted narratives and misdirections which
have inflicted war on others. Now they need to take the next step and grasp the sheer enormity
of the crimes and the risks of global conflict if we don't act.
So, how do we achieve this and get in a position of holding the criminals and war
propagandists to account?
By confronting them directly and mercilessly. As Jeremy Corbyn should have done over the
anti-Semitism hoax. Perhaps we should adopt some of the tactics they use against the
truth-tellers and whistle-blowers. I don't mean by lies or smears. Maybe even ridiculing these
people and their nonsense might have the effect of trivialising the crimes they have
committed.
No, I think it is time for plainer, no-holds-barred language describing these people for the
true evil they are – until the truth and label sticks.
We need to recognise more the seriousness of the crimes. This commentary from the usually
measured Piers Robinson about the staged event in Douma reflects the true gravity of the
situation in
terms of the OPCW complicity .
4. The hijacking of OPCW
The cover-up of evidence that the Douma incident was staged is not merely misconduct. As
the staging of the Douma incident entailed mass murder of civilians, those in OPCW who have
suppressed the evidence of staging are, unwittingly or otherwise, colluding with mass
murder."
We need to now apply this strong language to all crimes committed, be it from the soldiers
on the ground, the governments starting these wars or supplying terrorists or the media which
promote mass murder through their lies, distortions and silence when presented with the true
facts.
We need to go on the offensive and call out the criminals and spell out in no uncertain
terms what we are dealing with. With the evidence and fact-based analogies or arguments we
publish we should be using more commentary such as 'mass murderer', 'traitor' or 'terrorist
propagandist'.
This is particularly important in light of events in recent days. The assassination of
General Qasem Soleimani has been normalised in both mainstream and on social media. The people
legitimising state-sponsored murder in offices thousands of miles away from Iran, woefully
ignorant of the potential of this causing a chain of events which could visit our door
soon.
Above all, we should specifically name and shame the individuals promoting war. This needs
to be relentless. The official war narratives which have crumbled so far are ample evidence of
wrongdoing on a vast scale. So, we can be confident in doing this with the truth firmly on our
side.
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wardropper ,
No, I think it is time for plainer, no-holds-barred language describing these people for the
true evil they are – until the truth and label sticks.
Yes indeed.
I was, however, reminded today of the huge mountain we yet have to climb before it can be
normal again NOT to be corrupt and wicked. The scenario was a session of acrimony in a US
Senate chamber, and according to the NYTimes, "Tensions grew so raw after midnight that Chief
Justice Roberts cut in just before 1 a.m. to admonish the managers and the president's
lawyers to "remember where they are" and return to "civil discourse." "
"Remembering where you are", when dealing with Titus Oates and other vulgar frauds is perhaps
not entirely appropriate ?
wardropper ,
Apologies, I forgot to set the first sentence in quotes
Thom ,
Hitchens may be on the level on this particular issue but it is part of a wider deception
where Hitchens poses as a friend to critical thinkers and then tells them they are helpless
and/or can do nothing about it. If he really had journalistic integrity he wouldn't be taking
a salary from the Mail on Sunday, a newspaper that relentlessly lied for the Tories at the
last election, with the help of the itelligence agencies.
Koba ,
As good as Hitchens has done here he's still at heart a Trotskyist he lives a good split and
a toothless display just like the Trotskyists he used to side with. His brother went from
Trotskyist to soft neocon and peter went from Trotskyist to an ardent Christian Conservative
in a veeeeeery short space of time. Plus there dad was deeeeep in with the establishment and
his mum Jewish. So .
Bellingcrap is just another scam like Dupes (Snopes) and Politi"facts". All of them are
funded by the Atlantic Council and the CIA front National Endowment for "Democracy". Their
cover as an "independent objective fact checking service" is about as transparent as Saran
Wrap.
tonyopmoc ,
I really liked this when I read it this morning, before the grandkids came round, but I
thought some of the comments a bit severe..
I mean this photo is of some 40 year old kid, who lives in Leicester, and his
Mum/wife/sister or whatever works in the local Post Office .
I personally had never heard of Brown Noses, and I have never personnally succeeded in
getting anything I wrote, posted above our below the line, since The Manchester Guardian
moved from Manchester to London, and whilst I do love reading some of the posters' comments
well look face it.
Even though Rhys probabaly doesn't like what this kid writes – Elliot is it? he is
hardly going to come round with a chainsaw, to cut his head off is he? He probably never even
thought of it.
He did say he is small fry, and he probably is still a virgin (been brainwashed – so
he actually belives the model doll is better. What has he got to compare it to?)
So I can't blame any of them.
There are alternatives as well as Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, and all those Dating
Websites, when almost everything you write gets deleted.
Just go down the local pub when there is a good band on. Even I can pull there, but I am
better looking than both Rhys and Elliot
I Like Girls.
I am a man. It's Normal
Just keep fit dancing and smiling, and you will be O.K.
Tony
paul ,
The prime importance of these endless hoaxes, smears, lies, fabrications and official
approved conspiracy theories, lies not so much in the events themselves as what it says about
the nature of the people who rule over us and their courtiers and handmaidens in the MSM.
It would take a whole forest of trees merely to catalogue all their lies over the years,
whether it's the Iraq Incubator Babies, the black Viagra fuelled rape gangs in Libya, the
Syrian Gas Hoaxes, 9/11, Iraq's WMD, Iran's non existent nuclear weapons, Skripal,
Russiagate, Ukrainegate, or the communist spy/ terrorist/ anti semitic smear campaign against
Corbyn. And that is only the tip of a very large iceberg. You could go back further to
Gladio, Operation Northwoods, Tonkin Gulf, the "Holocaust", Zinoviev Letter, Bayonetted
Belgian Babies, Raped Belgian Nuns, Human Bodies Made Into Soap. The list is endless.
We have been lied to consistently for years, decades, and generations. And these lies have
been peddled endlessly in the MSM, no matter how ludicrous and transparently false they are.
In the absence of direct personal knowledge or very convincing evidence to the contrary, you
just have to assume that everything we have ever been told, are being told, and will be told,
and most of the accepted historical record, are simply false. Nothing, nothing at all, can
ever be taken at face value.
And those who rule over us and who are responsible for these lies are psychopathic
subhuman filth devoid of any moral values or any redeeming features whatsoever. They are a
thousand times worse than the worst mass murderers or child killers who have ever been
through our courts. The Moors Murderers, the Ted Bundys, the Jeffrey Dahmers, were seriously
damaged individuals who killed a handful of victims. And they did their own dirty work. The
Blairs, the Campbells, the Straws, the Bushes, the Cheneys, the Rumsfelds, the Allbrights,
the Macrons, the Camerons, the Netanyahus, the Trumps, have the blood of millions on their
hands. They and their wire pullers are responsible for the death, starvation and misery of
tens and hundreds of millions.
So when Blair, or Johnson, or Trump or whoever is interviewed on television, you have to
remember that individual is a thousand times worse than the Moors Murderers, and we would
actually be that much better off if Brady or Hindley were ruling over us. They deserve no
respect or deference or legitimacy. They plot the murders of millions and the starvation of
tens of millions – and laugh and giggle as they do so. They should be simply recognised
for what they awe – psychopathic subhuman filth.
I do agree with you Paul and of course all you say is true. One of the main problems is that
these people have the power to build artificial constructs sufficient for the masses to
believe and perpetuated through their bought and paid for MSM whose journalists are mere foot
soldiers and wish only to get their pay checks. They have no reason to question the lies and
distortions pedaled to them by TPTB – they merely repeat the false narrative:
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not
understanding it!" – Upton Sinclair
And we, the great 99%, have little power to change things except within our local network.
We can shout all we like on social media but it changes nothing until the great crisis
reoccurs and perhaps the masses will rise and demand a just and equitable system. Until that
day perhaps this little video will provide an understanding:
The business of the MSM throughout the ages has been to traumatise or at least just generally
worry the public with headlines focused on fear, envy, anger, revenge, and hate. Include all
five in your story and you're well on the way to a Pulitzer Prize, bestowed on the profession
by one of the great muckrakers of all time. It's not incidental that there have been a
disturbing number of winners that have turned out to be dissembling frauds. Add to this the
fact that 'journalism' training apparently does not teach entrants to distinguish the
difference between opinion and news, and the die is cast: propaganda as news.
Dungroanin ,
Here is what BellEndScat supporting Rusbridger is moaning about.
"For some years now – largely unreported – two chancery court judges have been
dealing with literally hundreds of cases of phone hacking against MGN Ltd and News Group, the
owners, respectively, of the Daily Mirror and the Sun (as well as the defunct News of the
World).
The two publishers are, between them, forking out eye-watering sums to avoid any cases going
to trial in open court. Because the newspaper industry lobbied so forcefully to scrap the
second part of the Leveson inquiry, which had been due to shine a light on such matters, we
can only surmise what is going on.
But there are clues. Mirror Group (now Reach) had by July 2018 set aside more than
£70m to settle phone-hacking claims without risking any of them getting to court. The
BBC reported last year that the Murdoch titles had paid out an astonishing £400m in
damages and calculated that the total bill for the two companies could eventually reach
£1bn."
"Because the newspaper industry lobbied so forcefully to scrap the second part of the
Leveson inquiry, which had been due to shine a light on such matters, we can only surmise
what is going on."
-- --
Completely ignoring that the Integrity Iniative infested Guardian ITSELF objected to the
recommendation of Levesons thoroughly public Inquiry and opposition to a independent press
regulator!
It would have been a building block and certainly stopped most of the continued press
misbehaviour over the last 5 years.
Neither Fish nor Fowl Mr Rusbridger. More sinner that saint, more like.
Hugh O'Neill ,
Going to the heart of what Bellingcat, MI6 and CIA is Pompeo's: "We lie, we cheat, we steal."
These evil filth are devoid of any moral code and have no respect whatsoever for the laws of
God or Man. At which point, consider Moses' (how apt) Ten Commandments. There among them is:
"Thou shalt not bear false witness". Think what you will of these Ten, but as a moral code,
they were quite useful.
Richard Le Sarc ,
Would that all these scum could share the fate of their progenitor, Streicher-without the '
necktie party'. Life at hard labour would do the lot of them much good.
Brianeg ,
I looked at the Veterans Today link and it all sounds very plausible'
However in today's world nothing makes sense especially when the questions arise.
Is it possible to change the signal of an aircrafts transponder remotely. Can the target
acquisition radar on the missile be spoofed remotely. Just why did the flight control officer
sanction the take off of this plane in the middle of a war unless they were party to the
whole thing.. Just what were the six Israeli F-35 jets doing flying close to the Iranian
border?
Okay there is a lot of smoke but just where is the fire.
Just as interesting is that none of the twelve Iranian missiles was intercepted and there
are rumours that the Iranians were able to take out of action American air defences.
I am sure that like with Douma when the majority of NATO missiles were intercepted by
missiles that were decades old, you wonder what might happen when most of the middle east is
covered by the S-300 and later versions.
This is a story that has got a long way to run and we might never hear the ending.
Dungroanin ,
Facts are inconvenient.
Many planes took off.
This one was delayed by the pilot 'to remove overloading'.
Reports of Cruise missiles heading in.
The thing about 'chips' is they could easily be identified by putting them in a black box
and watching what they do using a chip which only does that!
The whole bs about it's THEM not US crap falls away. Just need some open source simple
'custodian' chip manufacturer to make that available. If it can be made a 'gate keeper' than
we are all safe.
Mucho ,
"It sounds a bit MAGA. "
After this, I will never, ever read any of your comments ever again. Get lost!
Mucho ,
You talk so much crap. Please, keep it to yourself
Dungroanin ,
I ain't saying that is your opinion am I?
The bit I watched was him being gung-ho about getting back 'control of microprocessors'
!!!
There is a big difference between designing chips and 'manufacturing' facilities'.
Have you never wondered why most actual building of small electrical component equipment
takes place in Asia?
I don't care wherher you read my comments- i am free to post what I want on whatevet
article and whoevers comment. And stick to facts.
Mucho ,
"The bit I watched ".
Honestly, I am so tired of people who comment on things they know nothing about. Everything
you say is wrong, because you are speaking from a position of total ignorance, because you
haven't watched the films.
Watch 1 to 3. Watch 22 and 23 ALL THE WAY THROUGH, not skimming. Then comment. Every
inaccurate comment you make is covered in detail. Honestly it's no wonder we're so fucked.
From 2005 after one google search, time spent on this, 10 seconds:
"While Yona was developed in partnership with one of Intel's California centers, the 65nm
microprocessor product is the first to be developed in its entirety, both the architecture
and strategy, by Intel engineers at its Israel plants in Haifa and Yakum. " https://www.israel21c.org/intels-new-chip-design-developed-in-israel/
You know zilch, you understand nothing, you make assumptions, you don't watch or read the
material, and then in your total ignorance, you spew your feeble thoughts on this forum.
Moron
Mucho ,
You define the phrase "ignorant Brit"
Dungroanin ,
Mucho since you FAILED instantly in your promise to ignore me – i will respond to your
toy throwing out of the parambulator.
First just telling people to WATCH something without explaining what the salient point to
be learnt – is not the way to influence or educate.
I prefer reading an argument- I definitely do not spend hours watching TV or listening to
propaganda by msm / indy or 'shock jocks' – that last was the personality I saw and
didn't feel the need to hear anymore as I don't when Nigel Farage and his ilk do on the radio
here.
If you want to inform or prove something to me or anyone else kindly post a link to a
written piece.
Second, chips are designed eveywhere there is such competence. Chip manufacturing mainly
improved theough research in top universities.
The UK was a lead chip designer too.
None of that means the Israelis haven't monopolosed tech and own many patents. The fact is
the Israelis ARE part of the 5+1 eyed world Empire – they are the plus one. Snowdens
whistleblowing makes absolutely clear that the +1 gets a higher clearance than the +4.
That's as nice as I am prepared to be, so finally, that last paragraph is what is known as
PROJECTION. Look it up and learn that it comes from your fav bogeymen brainfuckers.
That is some serious self-hate you have going on – work on it.
Take it easy ok?
Mucho ,
Number 23 is totally relevant too, going deep into chips, backdooring and kill switch usage
Koba ,
So the mocking of maga is what set you off? Fuck maga and it's idiot supporters great nations
don't slaughter civilians for capital
chris morris is very funny has a fine body of twisted comedick works
for all his charm his role is too destroy society degrade
he is khazar after all
sacha baron co hen the names speaks for itself an empty cruel tool
never trust a coen cohen khan or cowen or co they cookoo
eliot mcfuck higgins is not oirish
he is not certainly related to snooker loopy or is it darts i cannot remember hero alex
higgins.
eliot"s dad is rita katz from site intel group amaq news
his mom barbera lerner spector
or is it vice versa
versa vice
whatever
shirley you
get my the friends of the oirish israel drift
so to speaks
or sum such
Mucho ,
Brilliant, insightful, logical hypothesis of the recent plane downing over Iran by Jeremy
Rothe Kushel. Ignore the video, this is about the written article.
For further info about Israeli tech domination, what it is, where it comes from and the
implications of this, go to Brendon O Connell's YT channel. Number 22 in his list is very
important.
Mucho ,
Jeremy Rothe-Kushel is a very important member of the truth community, in no small part due
to the fact that he is an Ashkenazi Jew. My personal belief is that in the end, the Jewish
community will play a pivotal role in weeding out the evil that rules over us. I wish we
didn't have these labels, that we could have true freedom to play our chosen role in our God
created realm, but at this stage in the game, we're stuck with our divide and rule labels and
systems of control.
Jeremy's style is to the point, he has great depth of knowledge, an encyclopedic knowledge of
his field and is a highly astute commentator. He presents a lot of complex information in
fairly easy to digest chunks with his co-host, Greg McCarron, on their show "The Antedote" on
YT, as well as doing a lot of guerilla style activism in US politics. Highly recommended.
norman wisdom ,
i met elliot many years ago
the chap on the 8 year old lap top above
we called him fat face down the synagogue ohh how we laughed
he laughed as well everytime someone said it
such fun
are rabbi one day organised a trip and lecture tour of chatham house the belly of the
beast.
we learnt all about how tough regime change was and how difficult it is to do on a bbc size
budget.
what we learnt was that having are people everywhere really helped
scripted up to speed influencer roles in media in public on track on page working cog
like.
a kind of khazar collective non semites only for security reasons of course.
we could work from a very low pound dollar and shekels base and still be very effective.
never under estimate the benjamins or elliots it is folks like this that are the real hero
of the oded yinon
yes sir
already my life
fat face eliot boy done good
and like all khazar he hates the sephardim jewisher and the unclean arab which is shirley
a bonus is it not
George Mc ,
First off, if folks haven't a clue who Harold Shipman is, you're not going to get far with
Titus Oats. At the most they might think it's a character from Gormenghast.
Second, I initially misread the article and thought that the figure from the 17th century
actually WAS Higgins of Bellingcat. And if that seems an absurd assumption to make, even
temporarily, it doesn't seem much more absurd than some of the stuff he says e.g.
I had no knowledge beyond what I'd learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rambo.
The point has been raised that there are psyops perpetrated with a malicious sense of
humour as if to say, "These suckers will swallow anything". Higgins with his "education" from
Arnold and Rambo may be an example of one of those jokes.
Third, and to end on an optimistic note, I like the 17th century sentencing and recommend
we bring it back:
and he was whipped and placed in the pillory.
Dungroanin ,
Admin – a suggestion on keeping recent articles available from the top of the page.
Problem: As you add new aricles at top left the ones on the very right drop away! Almost
as if being binned into a memory hole.
Solution: allow a scroll at the right hand edge so that these older links are easily
available to readers. Only a minor coding change without any change to your front page.
Tallis Marsh ,
I concur! I'm sure many of us will appreciate a scroll on the right hand edge so we can
access the older articles. Thanks in advance, OffG!
Oliver ,
HM Armed Forces operations in Syria follow the doctrine of Major General Sir Frank Kitson who
learnt his stuff in Kenya in the 1950s. Murder, torture, rape the staples of the British
military's modern terrorist ability. NATO doctrine too.
This is an important article: one of the few that dares to express that Douma et al are not
mere false flags they a darkly psychotic form of 'snuff propaganda porn' (including the
recycling and rearanging of 'props' that were until recently animate human souls with a
lifetime of possibility abnegated for ideology). The Working Group on Syria is part of a
small counter-narrative subset – along with Sister Agnes Mariam, Vanessa Beeley, RT (on
occasion), UK Column, The Indicter, Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli – who are willing to
state plainly that this is child murder. Now I wholeheartedly commend Kevin that we should
name and shame the culprits and their supporters.
"No, I think it is time for plainer, no-holds-barred language describing these people
for the true evil they are – until the truth and label sticks."
I had a similar epiphany in early 2016. The barbaric of murder of starved and thirsty
children at Rashidin – Syrian innocence lured by much needed sweets and drinks only to
be blown apart in front of their mothers. Anyone who supports the White Helmets terrorist
construct and their NATO-proxy child-murderers needs to be exposed. But what if that trail of
exposure leads back to the leader of the Labour party: who had just personally endorsed the
charity funding of the White Helmets? And continued to support the Jo Cox Foundation of
Syrian humanitarian bombers and R2P interventionists? Which itself is a front for the dark
money web of 'philanthrocapitalism' that is the shadow support network for regime change
crimes against humanity. This is when righteous indignation meets the dark wall of silence
around the social construction of reality. Especially if you put Jeremy Corbyn in the
frame.
What this means is the ability to frame dark actors for the true evil they are has to be a
two-way flow. Meaning is created across networks, not just by naming but by naming and
agreeing across narrative communities. Again, this is not abstruse: it is social reality.
Social reality is not reality: it is a consensual constructivism. Significant numbers of
others have to be in a position of consensual agreement in order to challenge the dominant
narrative(s). So I echo the sentiment that many can see that the dominant narrative –
especially concerning Syria – is deeply flawed. But they are as yet unwilling to admit
that the depth of the flaw is in fact a tear in social reality that cannot be easily
healed.
This is the aspect of social reality called 'universe maintenance'. Doxa is the reality
constructing belief set – the episteme of interacting beliefs. The narrative has two
main aspects: ortho-doxa and hetero-doxa – the orthodox maintaining and heterodox
subverting discourses. In order to truly subvert the hegemonic orthodoxy – there has to
be a social moment of criticality when the heterodox is no longer deniable. To reach that
point: the intrajecting true has to be believable to the hegemonic orthodoxy. Now we have a
third mode: para-doxa when the true 'state of affairs' is not believable – it is easily
rejected as paradoxical to the reigning consensus covenant of the true. This is universe
maintaining: whereby the the totality of the dominant discourse actually subsumes or repels
any paradox as a half-truth or ameliorated, disarmed less-than-true ('conspiracy theory').
This is known as 'recuperation'. Anything that meets the dominant discourse has to be
explained in the terms of the dominant discourse accommodative and recommending itself to the
dominant discourse. Which then becomes a part of the dominant universe of discourse.
A moment of the true is like a barb to a bubble. It has to be contained and wrapped in
narrative that describes and explains it into a consumable form. The full realisation of the
propagandic child murder in Syria – tacitly supported by the Labour Party and Jeremy
Corbyn in particular – would destroy the symbolic universe of social reality. Of which
it is my personal experience no one really wants to do. The correlations, direct and indirect
links, and universally maintained orthodoxy of narrative discourse point to an accomodation.
An explanation or multivariate set of explanations that problem shift and ascribe blame to
imaginary actors. To deflect or defend the personal self. Because the personal self is
independently situated outside the social sphere. Or is it?
Seeing the real event as it happens requires the perspicacity of social inclusion. We all
create social reality together: with our without layers of dualising exclusion that protects
us from the way the world really is. Who would vote to legitimise the supporters of NATO and
the child-murderers of Syria? 31 million legitimising independent social actors just did. Do
you suppose they did so in full knowledge that it is child-murder they were supporting? Or
did they create universe maintaining accommodations to the truth? That is how powerful the
screening discourses and legitimising orthodoxic narrative mythology is. It is not that it
cannot be subverted: its just that calling out the true evil has to be heard in unison by
large or social small assemblages willing to totally change everything – including
themselves. In order to transition to a different social reality one that accommodates the
truth. One which will look nothing like the social reality we choose to maintain as is.
Francis Lee ,
My first attempt didn't get through. Herewith second.
It seems to me that the internal affairs of the Russian Federation, although they may have
some impact on external geopolitical issues, are a matter for them. At the present time the
relevant question regarding the RF is as follows: Question 1. Is Russia a revionist state
intent on an expansionist foreign policy? Answer NO. But it is not going to tolerate NATO
expansion into its own strategic zones, namely, Ukraine, Georgia and the North Caucusas.
Question 2. Is the Anglo-Zionist empire in open of pursuit of a world empire intent on
destroying any sovereign state – including first and foremost Russia – which
stands in its way? Answer YES. This really is so blatant that anyone who is ethnically
challenged should seek psychiatric help. In Polls conducted around the world the US is always
cited as the most dangerous enemy of world peace, including in the US itself. Thus a small
influential (unfortunately deranged) cabal based in the west has insinuated its way into the
institutions of power and poses a real and present danger to world peace.
This being the case it is imperative to push all and any 'normal' western governments and
shape public opinion and discourse (except the nut-jobs like Poland and the Baltics) into
diplomacy. Wind down NATO just as the Warsaw Pact was wound down. that will do for starters.
Of course the PTB in all the western institutions – the media (whores) the deep state,
the Atlantic Council, the Council on Foreign Relations, Chatham House the Arms merchants, the
security services GCHQ, the CIA, Mossad and the rest will oppose this with all the power at
their command. This is the present primary site of struggle, mainly propagandistic, cultural
and economic, but with overtones of kinetic warfare.
Similar diplomatic initiatives must be directed at China. Yes, I know all about China's
social credit policy, I don't particularly like the idea of 24 hour system of surveillance,
and I wouldn't want to live there, but is already a virtual fait accompli in the west. Again
it bears repeating that sovereign states should be left to their own devices. After all
'States have neither permanent friends of allies, only permanent interests. (Lord Palmerston,
19 century British Statesman). No more 'humanitarian interventions' thank you very much. How
about Mind our own Business non-interventions.
I make no apologies for being a foreign policy realist – if that hasn't become
apparent by this stage!
BigB ,
Francis:
The Russian Federation is involved is strategic partnership with China in consolidating
the Eurasian 'supercontinent' into the world island. One which is slowly being drawn together
into a massive market covering 70% of the world's population, 75% of energy resources, and
70% of GDP. I'd call that expansionist, wouldn't you?
Market mechanisms and methodology are exponentially expansionist, extractivist, and
extrapolative. Market propaganda is free and equal exchange coupled with mutual development
through comparative advantage. Everyone benefits, right?
No: markets operate as vast surplus value extractors that only operate unequally to
deliver maximum competitive advantage to the suprasovereign core. Surplus value valorises
surplus capital which cannot be contained in a single domestic market: so it seeks to exploit
underdeveloped foreign markets setting up dependencies and peripheries in the satellite
states. Which keeps them maldeveloped. In short: Russia and China's wealth is not just their
own.
Russia and China are globalisation now. Globalist exponential expansionism, extractivism,
and extrapolation is the repression of humanism and destruction of the biosphere. It can't
stop growing in the cancer stage of hyper-capitalism. We are currently consuming every
resource at a material throughput increase of 3% per annum year on year. That's a 23 year
exponential doubling of material resources. And a 46 year doubling of the doubling. How long
before globalisation uses everything? How far into the race to the bottom will the market
collapse?
It would be really nice to return to a Westphalian System of non-expansionist,
non-extractivist sovereign nation states. It is just not even plausible under market
mechanisms of extraction. There can be no material decoupling and development remains
contingent on an impossible infinity: because development remains parallel and assymetrically
maintained. And all major resources are depleting exponentially too. Including the nominative
renewable and sustainable ones.
Degrowth; self-sufficiency; localised 'anti-fragility', steady-state; asymmetric
development of the marginalised and the peripheralised; regenerative agroecological
agriculture; human development not abstract market development; are just some of the
pre-requisites of a return to sovereign states. Russia 'sovereigntist' globalisation is the
expansionist opposite to that. The RF is part of the biggest market in the world that hoovers
up as much surplus value as it can before sending a large tranche of it to London. As much as
$25bn a year in capital flight into the offshore nexus of secrecy jurisdictions. It's a
globalist expansionist market mechanism that hoovers all vitality out of the life-ground.
That: I call expansionist and imperialist of which Russia and China are now the major
part.
Francis Lee ,
"The Russian Federation is involved is strategic partnership with China in consolidating the
Eurasian 'supercontinent' into the world island. One which is slowly being drawn together
into a massive market covering 70% of the world's population, 75% of energy resources, and
70% of GDP. I'd call that expansionist, wouldn't you?"
No, I wouldn't actually. Building roads, rail connections and other trade routes doesn't
strike me as imperial expansion. No-one is being forced to join the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization (SCO) or into reconfiguring their internal political and economic structures, as
the US does in Latin America or as the British did in India and Southern Africa. (East India
Company and the British British South Africa Chartered Company). The SCO is a voluntary
arrangement. Uzbekistan for example has decided not to join the central Asian Eurasian
Economic Union – well that's its prerogative. No-one is going to send any gun-boats to
force them. (I am aware that Uzbekistan is a landlocked country, but I was talking
figuratively.)
The EEU's genesis has along with the SCO and BRI has been forced upon the China/Russia
axis as part of an emerging counter-hegemonic alliance against the US's imperial
aggrandisement with its kowtowing vassals in tow. Russia has no claims on any of its
neighbours since it is already endowed with ample land and mineral deposits. China is a key
part of this essentially geopolitical bloc quite simply because the US imperial hegemon is
determined to stop China's development by all means necessary including the dragooning of
contiguous military bases in US proxy states around China's maritime borders.
A distinction should be made between rampant imperialism of the Anglo-zi0nist empire, and
the response of an increasingly bloc of states who find both their sovereignty and even their
existence threatened by the imperial juggernaut. What exactly did you expect them to do given
the hostility and destructive intent of the Empire? Defence against imperialism is not
imperialism. The defence of autonomy and sovereignty of international society and the
creation of an anti-hegemonic have the potential to finally create a transformative new world
order (and goodness knows we need one) announced at the end of the Cold War in 1991. This
ambition finds support not only in Russia and China but in other countries ready to align
with them, but also in many western countries. I obviously need to put the question again.
Who is and who is not the greatest threat to world peace? Surely to pose the question is to
answer it.
Dungroanin ,
Agree Francis.
There is a move to suggest that the Old Empire retains a 'maritime' world and the SCO
confines itself to the Eurasian land mass.
Dream on.
The Empire is DEAD. Long live the new Empire!
BigB ,
Who is the greatest threat to world peace and to the world itself? We are. The global carbon
consumption/pollution bourgeoisie. It is the global expansionist mindset that is increasing
its demands for growth – as the only solution to social problems, maldevelopment, and
maldistribution caused by excessive growth. Supply has to be met by exponentially expanding
markets. Whether this is voluntaristic or coerced makes very little difference to the market
cancer subsuming the globe. Benign or aggressive forms of cancer are still cancer. And the
net effect is the same.
Russia and China – the 'East' – uphold exactly the same corporate model of
global governance that the 'West' does. Which has been made clear in every joint communique
– especially BRICS communiques. I have made the case – following Professor
Patrick Bond – that BRICS in particular (a literal Goldman Sachs globalist marketing
ploy) – are sub-imperial, not anti-imperial. All their major institutions are dollar
denominated for loans; BRI finance is in dollars; BRICS re-capitalised the IMF; Contingency
Reserve Arrangements come with an IMF neoliberalising structural adjustment policy; etc. It
is the same model East and West. One is merely the pseudo-benign extension of the other. The
alternative to neoliberal globalisation is neoliberal globalisation. This became radiantly
clear at SPIEF 2019: TINA there is no alternative.
The perceived alternative is the reproduction of neoliberalism – which has long been
think-tanked and obvious – and its transformation from 'globalisation 3.0' to
'globalisation 4.0' trade in goods and services, with the emphasis on a transition to
high-speed interconnectivity and decoupled service economies. Something like the
Trans-Eurasian Information Super Highway (TASIM)? With a sovereigntist and social inclusivity
compact. So the neoliberal leopard can change its spots?
No. Whilst your argument is sound and well constructed: it is reliant on the early 20th
century Leninist definition of 'imperialism' as a purely militarist phenomena. Imperialism
mutated since then – from military to financial (which are not necessarily exclusive
sets) – and is set to metastasise again into 'green imperialism' of man over man (and
it is an andrarchic principle) and man (culture) over nature. Here your argument falls down
to an ecological and bio-materialist critique. Cancer is extractivist and expansionist
wherever it grows.
Russia is the fourth largest primary energy consumer on the planet. Disregarding hydro
– which is not truly ecological – it has a 1% renewable penetration. It is a
hydrocarbon behemoth set to grow the only way it knows how – consuming more
hydrocarbons. They cannot go 'green': no one can. And a with a global ecological footprint of
3.3 planets per capita, per annum, this is not sustainable. Now or ever.
So a distinction needs to be made between the old rampant neoliberal globalisation model
(3.0) – the Anglo-Zionist imperialist model – and the emergent neoliberal
globalisation model (4.0) of Russia/China's rampant ecological imperialism? And a further
distinction needs to be made about what humanity has to do to survive this distinction
between aggressive and quasi-benign cancer forms. Because we will be just as dead, just as
quick if we cannot even identify the underlying cancer we are all suffering from.
Koba ,
Big B sit down ultra! China and Russia rent empires and have no desire to be! If you're a
left winger you're another poor example of one and more than likely a Trotskyist
Richard Le Sarc ,
Love the nickname, Josef.
Louis Proyect ,
This is because if a chemical attack did not take place and Assad was not responsible it
seems highly likely that the civilians including children were murdered to facilitate a
fabrication.
And were our own intelligence agencies involved in a staged event, considering the refusal
to even establish the basic facts in the days following?
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This is the sort of conclusion you must come to if you are into Islamophobic conspiracy
theories. The notion that this kind of slaughter took place to "facilitate" a false flag is
analogous to the 9/11 conspiracism that was on display here a while back and that manifested
itself through the inclusion of NYU 9/11 Truther Mark Crispin Miller on Tim Hayward's
Assadist propaganda team.
Sad, really.
Harry Stotle ,
Go on Louis, remind us about the 'terrorist passport' miraculously found at the foot of the
collapsed tower with a page coveniently left open displaying a 'Tora Bora' stamp – I
kove that bit.
I mean who, apart from half the worlds scientific community is not totally convinced by
such compelling evidence, especially when allied to the re-writing of the laws of physics in
order to rationlise the ludicrous 2 planes 3 towers conspiracy theory?
Next you'll be telling us it was necessary for the US to invade Afghanistan and Iraq for
reasons few American'srecall beyond the neocon fantasy contructed on 11th Septemember,
2001.
Dave Hansell ,
It's clear to a blind man on a galloping horse from this comment of yours Mr Proyect that
concepts such as objective evidence, logical and rational deduction, the scientific method
etc are beyond your ken.
Faced with the facts of a collapsing narrative of obvious bullshit and lies you have
bought into, which you are incapable of facing up to, it is unsurprising that you are reduced
to such puerile school playground level deflections.
So come on, try getting out of the gutter and upping your game. Because this fare is
nothing short of sad and pathetic.
We know from the evidence of those who actually know their arse from their elbow on these
matters that the claims of an attack using chemical weapons on this site are
unsustainable.
Which leaves the issue of the bodies at the site. Given they did not lose their lives as a
result of the unscientific bullshit explanation you desperately and clearly want to be the
case the question is how did those civilians lose their lives? How did their corpses find
their way to that location?
Did Assad and his "regime" murder them and move the bodies to that site (over which they
had no control) in order to create a false flag event to get themselves falsely accused of an
NBC attack Louis? Because that's the only reasonable and rational deduction one can imply
from your argument and approach.
It is certainly more reasoned, rational and in keeping with the scientific method (you
might want to try it sometime) to surmise that the bodies on site, having not been the result
of the claimed and unsustainable narrative you have naively committed to, either died on site
from some other cause or were brought to the site for the purpose of creating your fantasy
narrative.
In the latter case it is further a matter of rational and reasoned deduction that such an
occurrence could only be carried it in circumstances in which whoever carried it out had
actual, effective and physical control of a geographical location and area situated within a
wider conflict zone.
Again, it remains a piece of factual reality that this location was not under the control
of the Assad 'regime.' Not least because otherwise there would be no logical or rational
military reason for the de facto Syrian Government and it's armed forces to waste resources
attacking it.
Unless of course he buys I to the conspiracy theory and hat they somehow organised a false
flag implicating themselves?
I'm sure everyone else here in the reality based community is waiting with bated breath
for you to 'explain' how they did this Louis.
I know I am. I could do with a good laugh.
George Mc ,
This is the sort of conclusion you must come to if you are into Islamophobic conspiracy
theories.
Umm – the assumption that Muslims DIDN'T do it is "Islamophobic"? Even on your own
terms you're not making much sense these days, Louis.
Hi I'm Louis an unrepentant Marxist and I willfully refuse to use block-quotes.
Richard Le Sarc ,
More proyectile vomitus in defence of child-murdering salafist vermin. How low can this
creature descend?
Louis Proyect ,
Richard, such abusive language only indicates your inability to discuss the matter at hand.
In general, a detached sarcasm works much better in polemics. You need to read Lenin to see
how it is done. I should add that I am referring to V.I. Lenin, not John Lenin who wrote
"Crippled Inside".
Richard Le Sarc ,
You defended the salafist butchers with lies, proyectile-do you not even comprehend your own
sewage? Or did someone else write it and you just appended your paw-print?
Dave Hansell ,
Apologies here. There is an open goal and the ball needs to be put in the back of the net:
Seems that Louis here is well ahead of the curve in terms of Fukuyama's well known
observation about the end of history.
For Louise history, in terms of the progress and development of human knowledge, stopped
around a century ago with whatever Lenin wrote.
But that's what happens to those who only read one book.
Sad really.
Dungroanin ,
You come across more as Yaxley – Lenin mr Tommy Proyect – but he is a MI5 stooge
unlike you cough cough.
Koba ,
Lenin hates Trotsky! Trotsky was a power mad maniac who wanted a permanent war state to
somehow spread his specific brand of "ahem" socialism, which won't win you friends! "Hi yeah
sorry we killed your family in a war we started to save you but yippee Trotsky is now in
charge so stop complaining"! You're just a bunch of liars the trots
Maggie ,
learn to use the internet which has the information you need to learn the truth:
Maggie don't take jimmy bore as some truth teller he's a bland progressive with revolutionary
slogans like proyect! He also has a habit of equating Stalin with Hitler in that god awful
nasal accent of his
Richard Le Sarc ,
Thems White Helmets is always so neat and tidy. Their mammies must have insisted that they
always look their best.
paul ,
The British taxpayer funded head choppers and throat slitters in Syria routinely committed
massacres and filmed their victims. The resulting footage was passed off by tame media hacks
as "evidence" of regime atrocities.
Koba ,
Death to the Trotskyists
Fuck proyect your name calling says it all!
Islamophobes indeed?! What an idiot
Harry Stotle ,
The alternative media, and a smattering of truth tellers are locked in an asymmetrical
information-war with the establishment – with an all too obvious 'David & Goliath'
sort of dynamic underlying it.
The question asked at the heart of this article is how to break the vice like grip
information managers hold over various geopolitical narratives, referencing events in Douma
in particular.
Alnost reflexively 9/11 comes to mind – a fairly unambiguous example of mass murder
for which the official account does not withstand even the most cursory form of scrutiny.
Professionals even went so far as to purger themselves while the investigating committee
admitted they were 'set up to fail' (to quote its chairman).
Yet the public, instead of shredding Bush, limb from limb (for the lies that were told)
rolled onto their back while the neoncons tickled their collective belly as you might do with
a particulalrly adorable puppy,
So if we can't even get to the bottom of events in the middle of New York what realistic
chance of doing so in a hostile war zone like Douma?
On balance racism, together with other forms of collective loathing is the most likely
reason why this unsatisfactory state of affairs is unlikely to change.
A collective 'them and us' mindset makes it far easier for information managers to
manipulate a visceral hatred and fear of 'the other'.
Today it is Qasem Soleimani westerners are taugyt to despise, yesterday it was Bashar
al-Assad, before that Vladimir Putin, Saddam Hussein, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Nicolás
Maduro . the list just goes on and on.
Information managers simply wind the public up so that collective anger can be directed
toward governments or individuals they are trying to bring down – recent history tells
us that the public are largely oblivious to this process, so thus never learn from their
mistakes.
Perhaps one thing western leaders, and the US in particular can always rely on, is the
ease with which the public can be persuaded to believe that certain bogeymen pose a grave
threat to 'our way of life' while failing to notice that it is in fact our own leaders who
are carrying out the worst atrocities.
harry law ,
Harry Stotle, .."Perhaps one thing western leaders, and the US in particular can always rely
on, is the ease with which the public can be persuaded to believe that certain bogeymen pose
a grave threat to 'our way of life'. That's true Hermann Goring had it about right with this
quote
"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk
his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one
piece? Naturally the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for
that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of a country who
determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is
a democracy or fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no
voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you
have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peace makers for lack of
patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
@JimDandy Hpw did the instruction to "Fly direct" prove fatal to MH 17
MUMBAI: The ministry of civil aviation's claim that there was no Air India flight near the
ill-fated Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 when it was shot down over Ukraine on Thursday appears
misleading.
An Air India Dreamliner flight going from Delhi to Birmingham was in fact less than 25km away
from the Malaysian aircraft,
Minutes before the crash caused by a missile strike, the AI pilots had also heard the
controller give the Malaysian aircraft MH17 what is called "a direct routing". This permits
an aircraft to fly straight, instead of tracking the regular route which is generally a
zig-zag track that goes from one ground-based navigation aid or way point to another. "Direct
routing saves fuel and time and is preferred by pilots. In this case, it proved fatal," said
an airline source.
1 Was India pressurized to deny the close proximity and 2 was it under pressure to deny
that it heard the controller giving the instruction to MH 17????
1. The interests of these countries may be aligned.
2. Even if the immigrant may be mistaken, if his belief is sincere he may still
provide valuable contact, intelligence, etc.
This is a very naive idea of how perceived "national interests" form. In real life,
highly-motivated groups of immigrants will have an outsized influence on how their host
country thinks of its interests in their regions of birth. This is basically a geopolitical
example of Nassim Taleb's minority rule .
United States is especially vulnerable to such subversion since much of its conception
of itself and its place in the world centers on elastic and easily abused ideas like
freedom and human rights .
"... The infrastructure they inherited from the USSR mostly is now fully amortized. For example railway park in in complete ruin. Central heating pipeline communications in cities like Kiev are in ruins too. In the USSR they tried to reuse the heat from electric stations and have elaborate hot water delivery networks from each, which provided heat to a large city blocks. Now pipes are completely rusted (which in 30 years is no surprise) and are in the state of constant repair. ..."
"... But when the standard of living dropped to such extent as it dropped after 2014 sentiments toward even slightly different ethnic groups turn hostile too. This is the case in Ukraine. In this sense you are wrong. There is no more unity now then existed before 2014. I would say there is less unity now. ..."
"... Sentiments turned against both Donbass dwellers and Ukrainians from Western Ukraine. In Kiev the derogatory term for both categories is "ponaekhali" ("come to overcrowd the place and displace us", or something along those lines; it's difficult to translate, but the term carries strong derogatory meaning) ..."
"... The nationalistic hysteria of 2014-2017 now mostly changed into deep depression: how a tiny group of far right nationalist and football hooligan gangs managed to get to power against the will of the majority of the country and destroy its economy. That's why Zelensky was elected and most far right parliamentarians lost their seats. Most of Western Ukraine voted for him, which is telling you something. ..."
"... The problem for Ukraine is that with the cut of economic ties with Russia the natural path for economics is probably down. De-industrialization, Baltic style, is raining supreme. Many enterprises survived the period from 1991 to 2014 only due to orders from Russia. Especially remnants of military industrial complex and manufacturing industry. Now what? Selling land (like Zelensky is trying to do) ? ..."
I feel like robber barons in Kyiv have harmed you more through their looting of the country than impoverished Eastern Ukrainians,
who were the biggest losers in the post-Soviet deindustrilization, have harmed you by existing and dying of diseases of poverty
and despair.
It reminds me of how coastal shit-libs in America talk about "fly-over" country and want all the poor whites in Appalachia
to die. I'm living in a country whose soul is totally poisoned. A country that is dying. While all this is happening, whites have
split themselves into little factions focused on political point scoring.
I doubt people like Zelensky, Kolomoisky, Poroshenko and all the rest are going to turn Ukraine into an earthly paradise. They're
more likely to be Neros playing harps, while Ukraine burns.
Looks like your understanding of Ukraine is mostly based of a short trip to Lvov and reading neoliberal MSM and forums. That's
not enough, unless you want to be the next Max Boot.
Ukraine is a deeply sick patient, which surprisingly still stands despite all hardships (Ukrainians demonstrated amazing, superhuman
resilience in the crisis that hit them, which greatly surprised all experts).
The infrastructure they inherited from the USSR mostly is now fully amortized. For example railway park in in complete ruin. Central
heating pipeline communications in cities like Kiev are in ruins too. In the USSR they tried to reuse the heat from electric stations
and have elaborate hot water delivery networks from each, which provided heat to a large city blocks. Now pipes are completely rusted
(which in 30 years is no surprise) and are in the state of constant repair.
And, what is really tragic Ukraine now it is a debt state. Usually the latter is the capital sentence for the county. Few managed
to escape even in more favorable conditions (South Korea is one.) So chances of economic recovery are slim: with such level of parasitic
rent to the West the natural path is down and down. Don't cry for me Argentina.
And there is no money to replace already destroyed due to bad maintenance infrastructure, but surprisingly large parts of Soviets
era infrastructure still somehow hold. For example, electrical networks, subway cars. But other part are already crumbling.
For example, in Kiev that means in some buildings you have winter without central heating, you have elevators in 16-storey buildings
that work one or two weeks in month, you have no hot water, sometimes you have no water at all for a week or more, etc). Pensioners
have problem with paying heating bills, so some of them are forced to live in non-heated apartments.
And that's in Kiev/Kyiv (Western Ukrainians love to change established names, much like communists) . In provincial cities it
is a real horror show when even electricity supply became a problem. The countryside dwellers at least has its own food, but the
situation for them is also very very difficult.
Other big problem -- few jobs and almost no well paid job, unless you are young, know English and have a university education
(and are lucky). Before 2014 approximately 70% of Ukrainian labor migrants (in total a couple of million) came from the western part
of the country, in which migration had become a widespread method of coping with poverty, the absence of jobs and low salaries.
Now this practice spread to the whole county. That destroyed many families.
The USA plays its usual games selling vassals crap at inflated prices (arms, uranium rods, coal, locomotives, cars, etc) , which
Ukrainians can't refuse. Trump is simply a typical gangster in this respect, running a protection racket.
The rate of emigration and shrinking population is another fundamental problem. Mass emigration (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Ukraine
) is continuing even after Zelensky election. Looting by the West also continues unabated. This is disaster capitalism in action.
Add to those problems inflated military expenses to fight the civil war in Donbass which deprives other sectors of necessary funds
(with the main affect of completely alienating Russia) and "Huston, we have a problem."
May be this is a natural path for xUSSR countries after the dissolution of the USSR, I don't know.
But the destiny of ordinary Ukrainians is deeply tragic: they wanted better life and got a really harsh one. Especially pensioners
(typical pension is something like $60-$70) a month in Kiev, much less outside of Kiev. How they physically survive I do not fully
understand.
There are still pro-Russian areas but being free of Crimea and Donbass means Ukraine can no longer be characterized as "split."
I agree that there is a substantial growth of anti-Russian sentiments. It is really noticeable. As well as growth of the usage
of the Ukrainian language (previously Kiev, unlike Lvov was completely Russian-language city).
And in Western Ukraine Russiphobia was actually always a part of "national identity". The negative definition of national identity,
if you wish. See popular slogan "Hto ne skache toi moskal" ("those who do not jump are Moskal" -- where Moskal is the derogatory
name for a Russian). Here is this slogan in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6rfqr9afMc
;-)
But when the standard of living dropped to such extent as it dropped after 2014 sentiments toward even slightly different
ethnic groups turn hostile too. This is the case in Ukraine. In this sense you are wrong. There is no more unity now then existed
before 2014. I would say there is less unity now.
Sentiments turned against both Donbass dwellers and Ukrainians from Western Ukraine. In Kiev the derogatory term for both
categories is "ponaekhali" ("come to overcrowd the place and displace us", or something along those lines; it's difficult to translate,
but the term carries strong derogatory meaning) .
"Donetskie" (former Donbass dwellers, often displaced by the war) are generally strongly resented and luxury cars, villas, etc
and other excesses of neoliberal elite are attributed mostly to them (Donbass neoliberal elite did moved to Kiev, not Moscow)
, while "zapadentsi" are also, albeit less strongly, resented because they often use clan politics within institutions, and often
do not put enough effort (or are outright incompetent), as they rely on its own clan ties for survival.
This sentiment is stronger to the south of Kiev where the resentment is directed mainly against Western Ukrainians, not against
"Donetskie" like in Kiev. And I am talking not only about Odessa. Western Ukrainians are now strongly associated with corrupt ways
of getting lucrative positions (via family, clan or political connections), being incompetent and doing nothing useful.
What surprise me is that this resentment against "zapadentsi" and "Poloshenko clan" is shared by many people from Western Ukraine.
The target is often slightly more narrow, for example Hutsuls in Lviv (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutsuls )
The nationalistic hysteria of 2014-2017 now mostly changed into deep depression: how a tiny group of far right nationalist
and football hooligan gangs managed to get to power against the will of the majority of the country and destroy its economy. That's
why Zelensky was elected and most far right parliamentarians lost their seats. Most of Western Ukraine voted for him, which is telling
you something.
The problem for Ukraine is that with the cut of economic ties with Russia the natural path for economics is probably down.
De-industrialization, Baltic style, is raining supreme. Many enterprises survived the period from 1991 to 2014 only due to orders
from Russia. Especially remnants of military industrial complex and manufacturing industry. Now what? Selling land (like Zelensky
is trying to do) ?
Ukraine will probably eventually lose a large part of its chemical industry because without subsidies for gas it just can't complete
even taking into account low labor costs. And manufacturing because without Russian market it is difficult to find a place for their
production in already established markets, competing only in price and suffering in quality (I remember something about Iraq returning
Ukrainians all ordered armored carriers due to defect is the the armor
https://sputniknews.com/military/201705221053859853-armored-vehicles-defects-extent
/). Although at least for the Ukrainian arm industry there is place on the market in countries which are used to old Soviet armaments,
because those are rehashed Soviet products.
Add to this corrupt and greedy diaspora (all those Jaresko, Chalupas, Freelands, Vindmans, etc ) from the USA and Canada (and
not only diaspora -- look at Biden, Kerry, etc) who want their piece of the pie after 2014 "Revolution of dignity" (what a sad joke)
and you will see the problems more clearly. Not that much changed from the period 1991-2014 where Ukraine was also royally fleeced
by own oligarchs allied with Western banksers, simply now this leads to quicker deterioration of the standard of living.
None of Eastern European countries benefited from a color revolution staged by the USA. This is about opening the country not
only to multinationals (while they loot the county they at least behave within a certain legal bounds, demonstrating at least decency
of gangsters like in Godfather), but to petty foreign criminals from diaspora and outside of it who allies with the local oligarchs
and smallernouveau riche and are siphoning all the county wealth to western banks as soon as possible. Greed of the disapora is simply unbounded.
https://neweasterneurope.eu/2016/08/26/the-ukrainian-diaspora-as-a-recipient-of-oligarchic-cash/
Of course, Ukrainian diaspora is not uniform. Still, outside well-know types from the tiny Mid-Eastern country, the most dangerous
people for Ukraine are probably Ukrainians from diaspora with dual citizenship
Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland has become a bit of a living parody of
everything wrong with the detached technocratic neo-liberal order which has driven the world
through 50 years of post-industrial decay. Now, two years into the Trump presidency, and five
years into the growth of a new system shaped by the Russia-China alliance, the world has become
a very different place from the one which Freeland and her controllers wish it to be.
Having been set up as a counterpart to the steely Hillary Clinton who was supposed to
win the 2016 election, Freeland and her ilk have demonstrated their outdated thinking in
everything they have set out to achieve since the 2014 coup in Ukraine. Certainly before that,
everything seemed to be going smoothly enough for End of History disciples
promoting a script that was supposed to culminate in a long-sought for "New World
Order".
The Script up until Now
Things were going especially well since the collapse of the Soviet system in the early
1990s. The collapse ushered in a unipolar world order with the European Union and NAFTA,
followed soon thereafter by the World Trade Organization and the 1999 destruction of
Glass-Steagall (1). The trans-Atlantic at last was converted into a cage of "post-sovereign
nations" that no longer had actual control of their own powers of credit generation. Under
NATO, even national militaries were subject to technocratic control. This cage was perfect for
the governing elite "scientifically managing" from above while the little people bickered over
their diminishing employment and standards of living from below.
Even though the former Soviet bloc nations were in tatters by 1992, their sovereign powers
could only be undone by applying the liberalization process which took 30 years in the west in
a short space of only a decade. This was done under the direction of such monetarist
"reformers" such as Anatoly Chubais and Yegor Gaidar under Yeltsin. Similar privatization and
liberalization reforms were applied viciously to Ukraine and other Warsaw pact countries during
the same period. Those pirates that became the "nouveau riche" of the west were joined by such
contemporary modern oligarchs such as Oleg Deripaska, Boris Berezovksy, Mikhail Fridman, Roman
Abramovich in Russia, alongside Petro Poroshenko, Rinat Akhmetov, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and
Viktor Pinchuk of Ukraine (to name a few). Not to forget their spiritual roots, many of these
oligarchs soon purchased houses in the swank upmarket sections of London which has come to be
known as "Moscow on Thames." (2)
By the end of the 1990s a new phase of this de-nationalization was unleashed with the
unveiling of the Blair doctrine explicitly calling for a "post-Westphalia" world
order which unleashed a wave of hellish regime change wars in the Arab World beginning with
9-11, and with a long term intention to target Libya, Syria, Iran, and Lebanon while expanding
NATO's hegemony against the potential re-emergence of Russia and China.
The Economic
Meltdown Was Always the Intention
Let's be clear: the whole point of the post-1971 world was directed with the intention of
destroying the moral-political and economic foundations for western society. The belief in
scientific progress and industrial growth was the cause of all true progress from the 15
th century Golden Renaissance to the assassinations of the 1960s. The intended
consequences of this post-1971 (zero growth) policy were:
1) The destruction of the productive forces of labor vis a vis outsourcing to "cheap labour
markets" driven by shareholder profit.
2) The consolidation of wealth into an ever smaller array of private multi-billionaire
owners under a logic of Darwinian survival of the fittest.
3) The creation of a vast speculative bubble supported by ever greater rates of unpayable
debt and totally detached from the physically productive forces of reality.
Just like 1929, after years of speculation known as the roaring twenties, the "plug could be
pulled" on the bubble in order to impose a bit of shock therapy onto a sleeping population who
would beg for fascism as a solution if only it would put bread on their tables. Though
this plan failed 80 years ago due to the American rejection of fascism under President
Roosevelt, the belief that the formula could succeed in the 21 st century was
adhered to most closely as long as America was brought firmly under control of the City of
London and their Wall Street lackies (3).
The destruction of the industrial mode of existence with the 1971 floating of the US dollar
unleashed a new system of scarcity within a fixed closed system upon the west. Above: Alexander
King and the Limits to Growth Model justifying depopulation once the system hits an inevitable
crisis
Although the fascist "solution" to their manufactured crisis was put down during WWII, this
new attempt was premised upon the policy that a new system of Global Government managed by
draconian regulation would be imposed under a "Green
New Deal" framework whereby the instruments of banking regulation, state directed capital
and centralized government (not evils unto themselves), would be directed only to green, low
energy flux density forms of energy which inherently lower the population of the earth. This is
very different from the protectionism, bank regulation, state credit and central authority
exerted by America during the 1930s New Deal (or Eurasian New Silk Road policy today). The
difference is that one system empowers sovereign nations, and increases the productive powers
of labor and energy flux density of humanity while increasing quality of life, the other
"Green" agenda has the opposite effect whereby monetary incentives are tied to decreasing the
"carbon footprint" of the earth. The image of a drug addict getting paid heroine as an
incentive to bleed himself to death is useful here.
With the slow collapse of first world economies after the assassination of nationalist
leaders in the 1960s, the plan for depopulation and global government seemed to be unfolding
without serious opposition.
The Role of Chrystia Freeland
Freeland's bizarre role in this whole affair was to do what every good Rhodes Scholar is
conditioned to do upon their completion of their indoctrination at Oxford: facilitate the tough
transition of the "pre-collapse" world economy into a new operating system that was meant to be
the "green post-collapse" world economy. It wasn't going to be easy to tell a new "pirate
class" of billionaires that they would have to accept losing much of their wealth (less
population equals less money), and operate under a strict new global operating system of
regulation necessary to contract the society. The Rhodes Scholarship program begun in 1902 to
advance a re-organized British Empire and had worked alongside the Fabian Society for over a
century producing more than 7000 scholars who have permeated across all fields of society
(media, education, government, military and corporate).
Cecil Rhodes
In his 1877 will, Cecil Rhodes said this group
should be "a society which should have its members in every part of the British Empire
working with one object and one idea we should have its members placed at our universities and
our schools and should watch the English youth passing through their hands just one perhaps in
every thousand would have the mind and feelings for such an object, he should be tried in every
way, he should be tested whether he is endurant, possessed of eloquence, disregardful of the
petty details of life, and if found to be such, then elected and bound by oath to serve for the
rest of his life in his Country. He should then be supported if without means by the Society
and sent to that part of the Empire where it was felt he was needed."
After leaving Oxford in 1993, Chrystia Freeland learned the ropes of "perception management"
by working for the London Economist, Washington Post, Financial times and Globe and Mail and
Reuters. After serving a stint as editor-at-large of Reuters, the time had come for her to play
the role of Valery Jarrett to the "Barack Obama" of Canada then being prepped for Prime
Ministership of Justin Trudeau.
She was perfect.
As an asset of the global propaganda system, Freeland had made high level contacts with
those Ukrainian, Russian, and Western oligarchs mentioned above including Viktor Pinchuk and
Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Larry Summers, George Soros and Al Gore, were just a few players in the
west whom she considered her "close friends" and whom she was happy to bring into Canada during
the period of re-organization of the Liberal Party (2011-2014) as it prepared to take power
under the banner of the
Canada 2020 think tank . What made Freeland even more special was that she was bred from a
zealous family of Ukrainian nationalists under the patriarchy of her Nazi
grandfather Michael Chomiak . This network was brought to Canada after WWII by
Anglo-American intelligence and cultivated as a force with ties to pro-Nazi Ukrainian
counterparts ever since.
Freeland's admission into politics was managed by another Rhodes Scholar named Bob Rae who
served as interim controller of the Liberal Party during several of the Harper years and was a
major player in Canada 2020. Rae, who had been the NDP Premier of Ontario from 1990-1995 was
happy to abdicate his seat to Freeland ensuring her entry into Trudeau's inner circle and thus
becoming his official handler (4).
Freeland Promotes the New Global Elite
Freeland has made it clear that she understands well that there is a fundamental difference
in cultural identities of the "new rich" relative to the older oligarchic families which she
serves. In the 2011 Rise of the New Global Elite , she describes it as follows:
To grasp the difference between today's plutocrats and the hereditary elite, who "grow
rich in their sleep" one need merely glance at the events that now fill high-end social
calendars."
Freeland then breaks down the categories of "new plutocrats" into two subcategories: the
good, technocratic friendly plutocrats who are ideologically compatible with the New World
Order of depopulation, such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, George Soros, et al and the "bad"
plutocrats who tend not to conform to the British Empire's program of global governance and
depopulation under the green agenda. In Freeland's world "good oligarchs" are those who adhere
to this agenda, while "bad oligarchs" are those who do not. Trump is a terrible Plutocrat, and
– Viktor Yanukovych was a good plutocrat until he decided to not sacrifice Ukraine on the
altar of the collapsing European Union and chose to throw
Ukraine's destiny into the Eurasian Economic Union in October 2013.
In the same paper, Freeland wrote:
if the plutocrats' opposition to increases in their taxes and tighter regulation of
their economic activities is understandable, it is also a mistake. The real threat facing the
super-elite, at home and abroad, isn't modestly higher taxes, but rather the possibility that
inchoate public rage could cohere into a more concrete populist agenda– that, for
instance, middle-class Americans could conclude that the world economy isn't working for them
and decide that protectionism is preferable to incremental measures." Quoting billionaire
Mohamed El-Erian, the CEO of Pimco she wrote: "one of the big surprises of 2010 is that
the protectionist dog didn't bark."
Freeland ended her article with this message:
The lesson of history is that, in the long run, super-elites have two ways to survive:
by suppressing dissent or by sharing their wealth Let us hope the plutocrats aren't already
too isolated to recognize this".
But what does Freeland really think of the technocratic management under a plutocratic
governance of society? In Plutocrats
vs. Populists (Nov. 2013), Freeland lets her pro-plutocratic worldview out of the bag
when she gushes:
At its best, this form of plutocratic political power offers the tantalizing
possibility of policy practiced at the highest professional level with none of the messiness
and deal making and venality of traditional politics a technocratic, data-based, objective
search for solutions to our problems"
Since a technocratic managerial class committed to a common ideology must be solidified for
this system to work, Freeland goes on to make the case to recruit young people to the imperial
civil service:
Smart, publicly minded technocrats go to work for plutocrats whose values they share.
The technocrats get to focus full time on the policy issues they love, without the tedium of
building, rallying– and serving– a permanent mass membership. They can be pretty
well paid to boot."
The End of a Delusion?
Now that Russia and China's new operating system shaped by the Belt and Road Initiative has
created a force of opposition to this British-run Deep State design, nothing which those
would-be gods of Olympus have attempted to achieve has succeeded. Syria stands strong and the
Arab nations are increasingly joining China's Belt and
Road Initiative . Venezuela has failed to fall the way so many regimes have done before
2014 and NAFTA has been seriously challenged by a nationalistic president in the USA who has
also totally rejected the Malthusian agenda with the killing of COP21 and the Green New Deal.
Trudeau's usefulness has withered away quicker than you can say
"SNC Lavalin " and now the decision appears to be seriously humored whether Freeland will
take the reins of Canada after Trudeau is eliminated in order to "preserve the dying British
Empire" and the dream of Cecil Rhodes. While the universe may be organized by a principle of
reason, no one can say the same applies to the mind of an oligarchic. May 11, 2019
(1) The separation of speculative from commercial banking was the bedrock of financial
regulation since its implementation in 1933. Its destruction as Clinton's last act in office
resulted in the creation of the largest bubble in history amounting to a $700 trillion
derivatives time bomb now ready to explode.
(2) When Putin began exiling many of these unrepentant oligarchs, they quickly made their
way to London where many became disposable playthings of the British Empire.
(3) The self-professed "Fabian Society of Canada" was set up in the height of the Depression
by five Rhodes Scholars in order to create a Canadian fascist regime in 1932. This organization
known as the League of Social Reconstruction, set up a political party called the Cooperative
Commonwealth Federation (CCF) which later changed its name to the New Democratic Party (NDP) in
1961. While good people have found themselves members of the NDP and Liberals over the years,
it is useful to keep in mind that this rotten core tied to the highest echelons of the British
oligarchy are real.
(4) It is a useful point to make here that as Premier of Ontario Bob Rae brought in
Maurice Strong as
President of Ontario Hydro from 1992-1994 during which time Canada's nuclear sector was
nearly shut down and a prototype for a "green New Deal" was applied. Strong had famously
described a "fiction book he wished to write someday saying: "What if a small group of world
leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the
rich countries? And if the world is to survive, those rich countries would have to sign an
agreement reducing their impact on the environment. Will they do it? The group's conclusion is
'no'. The rich countries won't do it. They won't change. So, in order to save the planet, the
group decides: Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations
collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?"
In Chrystia Freeland's 2012 book Plutocrats, Canada's leading Rhodes Scholar laid out a
surprisingly clear analysis of the two camps of elites who she explained would, by their very
nature, battle for control of the newly emerging system as the old paradigm collapsed.
In her book and article series, she described the "practical populist politician" which has
tended to be adherent to business interests and personal gain during past decades vs the new
breed of "technocrat" which has an enlightened non-practical (ie: Malthusian) worldview,
willing to make monetary sacrifices for the "greater good".
She further defined the "good Plutocrats" vs "bad Plutocrats". Good Plutocrats included the
likes of George Soros, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos who made their billions under
the free-for-all epoch of globalization, but who were willing to adapt to the new rules of the
post-globalization game. This was a game which she defined in an absurd
2013 TED Talk as a "green New Deal" of global regulation under a de-carbonized (and
depopulated) green economy. For those "bad plutocrats" unwilling to play by the new rules (ie:
the Trumps, Putins or any industrialist who refused to commit seppuku on the altar of Gaia),
they would simply go extinct. This threat was re-packaged by Canada's "other" globalist puppet
Mark Carney,
who recently said "If some companies and industries fail to adjust to this new world, they
will fail to exist."
Of course, when Freeland formulated these threats in 2011, China's Belt and Road had not yet
existed, nor had the Russia-China alliance which together are now challenging the regime-change
driven world order in remarkably successful strides. The thought that nationalism could
possibly make a comeback in the west was as unthinkable as the failure of free trade deals like
NAFTA or the TPP.
As of November 18, 2019, Freeland has found herself cut down a notch by the "plutocrats"
that she has worked so assiduously to destroy since becoming Canada's Foreign Minister in 2017
when she ousted a Foreign Minister (Stephane Dion) who had called for a renewed cooperation
with Russia on space, counter-terrorism and arctic development with Sergei Lavrov. Freeland's
unrepentant support for Ukrainian Nazis and NATO encirclement of Russia resulted in a total
alienation of Russia. Her alienation of China was so successful that the Chinese government
removed their ambassador in the summer of 2019. Freeland's work in
organizing the failed coup in Venezuela and supporting the MI6-Soros
White Helmets in Syria became so well known that she became known as the Canadian queen of
regime change.
Other pro-Chinese "bad plutocratic" companies which have been targeted for destruction under
Freeland's watch have included the beleaguered construction giant Aecon Inc. who's board voted
in favor of being sold to China in March 2018 in order to play a role in Belt and Road Projects
(
a decision vetoed by the Federal Government in May 2018 ), as well as Quebec-based SNC
Lavalin which has had major deals with both Russia and China on nuclear power and major
infrastructure projects and which
now faces being shut down in Canada for having bribed politicians in Libya when it built
Qadaffi's Great Manmade River (destroyed by NATO in 2011).
Former Liberal Minister of Infrastructure from Shawinigan Quebec, Francois-Philippe
Champagne has taken over Freeland's portfolio and with him it appears a new pro-Eurasian policy
may be emerging in Canada much more conducive to the long term survival (and strategic
relevance) of Canada. This shift has already been noted by China which has responded by sending
a new Ambassador to Ottawa, while a new Canadian Ambassador with a long history of working
towards positive Chinese relations in the private sector (Dominic Barton) has just begun
working in Beijing. Barton was the first Ambassador to China since "old guard" politician John
McCallum
was fired in January 2019 for defending Huawei's Meng Wanzhou to a group of Chinese
journalists.
In opposition to the cacophonic voice of Freeland, Champagne had spoken positively of China
in 2017 saying "In a world of uncertainty, of unpredictability, of questioning about the
rules that have been established to govern our trading relationship, Canada, and I would say
China, stand out as [a] beacon of stability, predictability, a rule-based system, a very
inclusive society."
Champagne is a long-standing protégé of former Prime Minister Jean Chretien
and world travelled businessman who has worked in the European nuclear sector and has promoted
industrial development with China for years. Jean Chretien, who campaigned for Champagne's
recent re-election, represents everything Freeland hates: A "practical" old school politician
who recognizes that World War III and alienating Eurasian nations who are shaping the future is
bad for business. In 2014, Chretien was given the
"Friend of Russia" award and has played a major role in the private sector working with
Quebec-based Power Corporation which runs the Canada-China Business Council (CCBC) and has
brokered major contracts throughout China since ending his term as PM in 2003. Chretien is also
the father in-law of current CCBC chair Paul Desmarais Jr. who is the heir to the PowerCorp
dynasty. While these are not groups that in any way exemplify morality, they are practical
industrialists who know depopulation and world war are bad for business and would prefer to
adapt to a China-led BRI system over a "green technocratic dictatorship".
Since December 2018, Chretien has attacked Freeland's decision to support Meng Wanzhou's
extradiction to the USA, and has volunteered to lead a delegation to China in order to smooth
tensions.
So while the "bad plutocrats" appear to have taken an important step forward though the
debris of the recent near failure of the Liberal Party which narrowly kept a minority
government after the October 21 Federal Elections, the ideologically driven technocrats led by
Queen Freeland shouldn't be discounted, as her new position as Deputy Prime Minister puts her
in a position to possibly take control of Canada as 2 nd in command of a highly
fragmented nation which is now hearing renewed calls for separation in Alberta, and Quebec.
Chrystia Freeland (lead image), appointed last week to be the new Canadian Foreign Minister,
claims that her maternal family were the Ukrainian victims of Russian persecution, who fled
their home in 1939, after Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin agreed on a non-aggression pact and the
division of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union. She claims her mother was born in a
camp for refugees before finding safe haven in Alberta, Canada. Freeland is lying.
The records now being opened by the Polish government in Warsaw reveal that Freeland's
maternal grandfather Michael (Mikhailo) Chomiak was a Nazi collaborator from the beginning to
the end of the war. He was given a powerful post, money, home and car by the German Army in
Cracow, then the capital of the German administration of the Galician region. His principal job
was editor in chief and publisher of a newspaper the Nazis created. His printing plant and
other assets had been stolen from a Jewish newspaper publisher, who was then sent to die in the
Belzec concentration camp. During the German Army's winning phase of the war, Chomiak
celebrated in print the Wehrmacht's "success" at killing thousands of US Army troops. As the
German Army was forced into retreat by the Soviet counter-offensive, Chomiak was taken by the
Germans to Vienna, where he continued to publish his Nazi propaganda, at the same time
informing for the Germans on other Ukrainians. They included fellow Galician Stepan Bandera,
whose racism against Russians Freeland has celebrated in print, and whom the current regime in
Kiev has turned into a national hero.
Just before Vienna fell to the Soviet forces in March 1945, Chomiak evacuated with the
German Army into Germany, ending up near Munich at Bad Worishofen. On September 2, 1946, when
Freeland says her mother was born in a refugee camp, she was actually in a well-known spa
resort for wealthy Bavarians. The US Army then controlled that part of Germany; they operated
an Army hospital at Bad Worishofen and accommodated Chomiak at a spa hotel. US Army records
have yet to reveal what the Americans learned about Chomiak's war record, and how he was
employed by US Army Intelligence, after he had switched from the Wehrmacht. It took Chomiak
another two years before the government in Ottawa allowed the family to enter Canada.
The reason the Polish Government is now investigating Freeland is that Chomiak's wartime
record not only victimized Galician Jews, but also the Polish citizens of Cracow. In a salute
to Freeland as a "great friend of Poland" by the Polish Embassy in Ottawa last week, Warsaw
officials now believe a mistake was made.
Last July, Freeland, then trade minister, was in a large delegation of Canadians
accompanying Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on a visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration
camp in southern Poland. Freeland is not included in the press photographs; Trudeau wept. A
statement
issued by one of the Canadian Jewish organizations in the delegation said: "Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau's visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau signifies the importance of remembering the six
million Jews and countless others who died at hands of the Nazi regime. The Holocaust will
forever stand as the ultimate expression of human hatred. That is why every Canadian should use
this as an opportunity to reflect upon their personal role in combating the forces of
antisemitism, racism and bigotry wherever they are found."
Trudeau (above) and his staff, as well as Foreign Minister at the time Stephane Dion, and
the Jewish representatives appear not to have known this was familiar territory for Freeland
and her family. Michael Chomiak and his wife Alexandra, parents to Freeland's mother Halyna,
spent the war from 1939 to 1945 working and living just 68 kilometres away in Cracow.
According to the autobiographical details Freeland has provided herself to the Canadian
media, Freeland's family were victims of war. "My maternal grandparents," she wrote in May 2015,
"fled western Ukraine after Hitler and Stalin signed their non-aggression pact in 1939 they saw
themselves as political exiles with a responsibility to keep alive the idea of an independent
Ukraine." In November 2015 Freeland
told the Toronto Star: "Michael Chomiak was a lawyer and journalist before the Second World
War, but they knew the Soviets would invade western Ukraine (and) fled and, like a lot of
Ukrainians, ended up after the war in a displaced persons camp in Germany where my mother was
born."
According to Freeland, "they were also committed to the idea, like most in the (Ukrainian)
diaspora, that Ukraine would one day be independent and that the community had a responsibility
to the country they had been forced to flee to keep that flame alive."
The Edmonton, Alberta, newspaper obituary for Halyna Chomiak Freeland
says she had been "born on September 2, 1946 in Bad Worishofen, Germany in a displaced
person's camp." The Alberta provincial government library reports it holds Michael Chomiak's
papers. He is described as having
"graduated from Lviv University with master's degree in law and political science. In 1928, as
a journalist, he started work in the Ukrainian daily Dilo, and from 1934 to 1939 he served on
the editorial staff. During the Nazi occupation, he was the editor of Krakivski Visti,
published first in Cracow and then in Vienna."
There is much more to the story which Freeland has not revealed. The details can be found in
Polish and Ukrainian sources; from the archived files of Krakivski Visti ("Cracow News");
and from
the evidence of Jewish Holocaust museums around the world. Chomiak was editor in chief of the
newspaper after a Jewish editor was removed. The newspaper itself was set up in January 1940,
publishing three times weekly in Cracow, until October 8, 1944. It was then published in Vienna
from October 16, 1944, until March 29, 1945. The precision of the dates is important. They
coincide with the movement of the German Army into Cracow, and then out of the city and into
Vienna. The newspaper itself was established by the German Army; and supervised by German
intelligence. Chomiak was employed by an officer named Emil Gassner (above). His title in
German indicates he was the German administrator in charge of press in the region. When Gassner
moved from Cracow to Vienna, he took Chomiak with him.
Chomiak's publication was an official one of the German administration in Galicia, known at
the time as the General Gouvernement. The printing press, offices and other assets which
provided Chomiak with his work, salary, and benefits had been confiscated by the Germans from a
Jewish publisher, Moshe Kafner . Kafner was a native of
the region; he and his family were well educated and well known until the Germans arrived, and
replaced Kanfer with Chomiak. Kanfer was forced to flee Cracow for Lviv. From there he was
taken by the Germans to the Belzec concentration, where he was murdered some time in 1942. From Chomiak's office to
Belzec the distance was 300 kilometres.
Left: SS guards at Belzec; right: Ukrainian guards about to kill a Belzec
inmate
Krakivsti Visti was "the most important newspaper to appear in the Ukrainian language under
the German occupation during World War II," according
to this history from the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, published in 1998. Chomiak --
reports the Harvard history by John-Paul Hinka from a contemporary source -- "had the ability
to sense what could be written and how in the severe German reality, and he gained some trust
among the German officials, without which the work would have been impossible."
In print, according to this archive
of Krakivsti Visti, when Chomiak was in charge, there were reports of the "success" of the
German Navy in killing 13,000 US Army soldiers, when their transports were torpedoed and sunk
in the Atlantic enroute to England. Chomiak editorialized: "this last German attack [was] a
smashing blow to the solar plexus of the alliance."
Chomiak also reported the US "colonization" of Australia and Canada . "Americans who are now
living in Australia believe that the economic possibilities of Australia are even much better
than those of the USA, and many US soldiers are thinking about staying in Australia after the
war as they feel much better there than in their own Fatherland There are such close relations
between the USA and Canada and Australia that there will be a special trade and tax [agreement]
between these countries after the war. In other words, the United States does not hide the
intention of the US to begin full economic penetration of Canada and Australia."
By the standard of Trudeau at Auschwitz, Freeland's grandfather also produced race hatred to Nazi
order, including antisemitism and racism against several other nationalities, including
Americans, Poles and Russians.
Chomiak not only justified the death camps surrounding Cracow. He attempted to foster
Ukrainian sentiment against the Poles in the region. The German objective was to support the
Ukrainian takeover of Galicia and cleanse it of its Jewish and Polish populations. For this
reason Chomiak and his newspaper were given special favour by the German administration;
Chomiak himself was reportedly held in high esteem by the Nazis. In the Harvard history it is
reported "there can be no doubt that Krakivs'ki visti enjoyed more autonomy than any other
legal Ukrainian-language publication under the German occupation."
Himka, a Ukrainian-Canadian academic, composed his history of Krakivtsi Visti from Chomiak's
personal papers in Alberta. He mentions the newspaper's backing for ethnic cleansing of Poles.
He omits to mention Jews. Chomiak's antisemitic record can be found in the files of the Los
Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. For details, read this .
Chomiak didn't flee from the Ukraine in 1939, as Freeland claims. Five years were to elapse
before he left Cracow; that was when the German Army pulled out in defeat, as the Soviet Army
advanced from the east to liberate the city. Gassner was moving the media operation to his home
town, Vienna.
Chomiak closed down Krakivsti Visti in Vienna in March of 1945 for the same reason. The
Soviet Army was days away, and a new Austrian government replaced the Third Reich in April of
that year. With the retreating Wehrmacht Chomiak then moved westwards into Germany. But a full
year is missing from the official records available publicly. That's between March of 1945 and
April of 1946, when the displaced persons camp was opened in the Bavarian town of Bad
Worishofen, where Freeland says her mother was born.
As the name indicates, Bad Worishofen was (still is) a thermal waters resort for wealthy
Bavarians and day-trippers from Munich. Freeland claims her mother was born as a victim in a
refugee camp. In fact, she was born in a hospital administered by the US Army, while her
parents were living in a spa hotel managed by a US Army intelligence unit.
During the war there had been a Luftwaffe training aerodrome at Bad Worishofen. But it was
so insignificant operationally, it wasn't bombed by the allies . More or less
intact, along with the spa hotels, the town welcomed new paying guests from the US Army when
they arrived in April of 1945.
According to US records, a US Army Intelligence "training unit" was established, as well as
a US Army hospital. The trainees weren't Americans; they were East Europeans, including
Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Poles and others who had been fighting on the German side.
On June 28, 1945, the 2 nd Hospitalization Unit of the 30th Field Hospital left a
forward position at Ebsenee, Austria, where it had been caring for the survivors of the
Ebensee-Matthausen concentration camp.
The war in Europe now over, the hospitalization unit regrouped in the rear at Bad
Wörishofen, where its role was to support the 80th Infantry Division. The unit history
says : "As usual, living quarters proved excellent (buildings), with many conveniences
added to make living conditions very comfortable." Among the people the American Army doctors
now cared for were Mr and Mrs Chomiak.
The camp for displaced persons or refugees at Bad Worishofen was not formally established
for another year, until April 1946. Ukrainians who were there at the time say the camp housed mostly Lithuanians,
and also 490 Ukrainians. The term camp is a misnomer. The records show that many of the
Ukrainians were living in spa hotels when they were subject to the administration of the camp.
Although the subsequent records of the Ukrainians are voluble on what happened there between
1946 and 1948, including testimony from Ukrainians who moved on to the US and Australia, there
is no reference to the Chomiak family at all.
"All the camps in Bad Worishofen were liquidated in May 1948 due to consolidation of the
various camps by IRO (International Relief Organization)," remembers this Ukrainian.
It is not (yet) known when Chomiak presented himself to US Army Intelligence, offering the
same services he had been performing for Gassner and the Wehrmacht. Journalism, however, wasn't
what the US occupation authorities wanted from him. In return, Chomiak received accommodation;
living expenses; and the hospitalization which produced Freeland's mother in September of
1946.
Two years were to elapse before Chomiak left Bad Worishofen for Canada, arriving there in
October 1948. He already had a sister in Canada, but no job of a professional kind to which his
university education and experience qualified him. In Alberta Chomiak worked as a manual
labourer. Why the Americans didn't offer him intelligence and propaganda employment in the US
may be revealed in the Chomiak files in Washington. The Canadian government file on his
admission in 1948 is likely to include some of the details Chomiak revealed about his work with
the Americans. Unless he kept that secret.
Last week the Polish Embassy in Ottawa issued this tweet in celebration of Freeland's
promotion:
This week Polish political analyst and journalist Stanislas Balcerac has opened the dossier
on Freeland and Chomiak. The Polish Foreign Minister, Witold Waszczykowski, has been asked to
investigate, and to decide if, according to Balcerac, "the circumstances and family loyalties
of Mrs Freeland may affect the support that Canada provides the pro-Bandera Government of
Ukraine, so they can have a direct impact on Polish interests."
Regarding Bandera (right), the record of Chomiak's involvement with him when they were under
German, then US
supervision, Freeland did not reveal in the Financial Times when she reported Bandera as one
of the Ukraine's all-time heroes. "Yaroslav the Wise, the 11th-century prince of Kievan Rus,
was named the winner in a last-minute surge, edging out western Ukrainian partisan leader
Stepan Bandera, who led a guerrilla war against the Nazis and the Soviets and was poisoned on
orders from Moscow in 1959 .The Soviet portrayal of Bandera as a traitor still lingers. That
would be a mistake."
Freeland was asked directly to clarify her own claims about Grandfather Chomiak's war
record. Her press spokesman, Chantal Gagnon, asked for more time, but then the two of them
refused to answer.
"The sins of the grandfather can hardly be attributed to the granddaughter," says Polish
investigator Balcerac, " -- except for two, race hatred and lying. Chomiak made a lucrative war
selling hatred of Jews, Poles and Russians. Freeland is doing the same preaching race hatred of
Russians. To mask what she's doing, she has lied about the Nazi record of her family. The
Chomiaks weren't victims; they were aggressors."
A Washington source adds: "Chomiak was recruited by US intelligence to wage war in the
Ukraine against the Russians. Let's see what the US Army and intelligence files reveal about
his role, and let's compare that to the one Freeland is now playing in Canada."
The minister's dismissive attitude about her grandfather's past will inevitably be
taken as evidence that she, too, would have worked with the Nazis
Last week, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland opened a can of worms by dismissing
references to her family's World War II history as Russian disinformation. That wasn't entirely
true, and in the current climate, history is politics.
Freeland was banned from entering Russia for her fiercely pro-Ukraine stand. When she became
foreign minister in January, Moscow refused to lift the ban. Soon, the
story of her maternal grandfather, Michael (Mykhailo) Chomiak, was circulating on
pro-Russian websites.
Broadly, the story is true. The known facts were laid out by
the independent U.S. investigative site Consortium News at the end of February. During World
War II, Chomiak, a Ukrainian nationalist, edited a newspaper called Krakivski Visti -- first in
the Nazi-held Polish city of Krakow, then in Vienna -- that ran articles praising Hitler and
his appointees in occupied Eastern Europe and denouncing Jews. According to family lore,
Chomiak helped anti-Nazi resistance forces by helping their fighters get German papers. When
the war ended, Chomiak was in Germany; it took him some time to move his family to Canada.
Asked about Chomiak last week, Freeland batted away the question, saying "I don't think it's
a secret. American officials have publicly said, and even Angela Merkel has publicly said, that
there were efforts on the Russian side to destabilize Western democracies, and I think it
shouldn't come as a surprise if these same efforts were used against Canada."
The awkward dodge elicited a spectrum of responses from the Canadian media. "So much for
Russian disinformation," David Pugliese
wrote for the Ottawa Citizen after reviewing the evidence. "No coherent allotment of blame
and absolution is possible," Paul Wells
argued in the Toronto Star, adding that the survival history of Freeland's family did not
detract from her "important work" to prevent history from repeating itself.
The underlying issue, however, is more fundamental than the nature of Russian propaganda
(which can only be effective if it's grounded, to some extent, in truth) or the moral murk of
the terrain Timothy Snyder, a historian sympathetic to the Ukrainian cause, called the
Bloodlands. For the Kremlin -- and for many Russians -- the current conflict with Ukraine is,
in a way, an extension of that war. It's more than a propaganda argument: Russia's claim of a
moral right to interfere depends on this interpretation.
Any sign of historic betrayal is fair game. Long before Freeland's grandfather got their
attention, pro-Russian sites alleged that the father of Oleksandr Turchynov, Ukraine's acting
president after the 2014 "Revolution of Dignity," served as a private in a German army unit.
Stories of the annual torchlit marches in Kiev to commemorate Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian
nationalist who collaborated with the Nazis for a period, play big in the Russian
press.
So do stories featuring the Azov Regiment of the Ukrainian National Guard, staffed with
ultranationalists and using a Nazi symbol on its emblem. Like Poland, Russia has noted a
Ukrainian
law bestowing hero status on the 1940s nationalist organizations that worked closely with
the Nazis and are known to have unleashed genocide on Poles and Jews.
The parasitic nature of neo-conservatives and their globalist kin has prompted them to
regroup to fight against both Russia and the incoming Russia-friendly and anti-globalist
administration of Donald Trump. With the departure of arch-neocons Victoria Nuland from her
perch in the State Department, Samantha Power from the U.S. mission to the United Nations, and
Susan Rice from the National Security Council, the neocon and globalist establishments, which
have in common their Atlanticist views, have settled on Canada as the ideal place from which to
wage their wars of subterfuge and propaganda.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fired his foreign minister Stephane Dion to make way
for a virtual replacement for Nuland, Power, and Rice on the world stage: Chrystia Freeland,
his trade minister. Dion's policy of seeking to engage with Russia is what ultimately cost him
his job as Ottawa prepares to host every anti-Trump instability operation it can manage to draw
to the Canadian capital.
Freeland became a darling of the globalists after she hammered out a free trade agreement
with the European Union last year. Freeland leaned heavily on the one holdout to the deal, the
regional government of Wallonia in Belgium. After the threats from the French-speaking Walloons
were neutered, Freeland reveled in the signing of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive
Economic and Trade Agreement. Freeland also oversaw the signing of the Canada-Ukraine Free
Trade Agreement with the neo-fascist govenrment in Kiev.
With the appointment of Freeland as foreign minister and Somali-born Ahmed Hussen as
Immigration Minister, Trudeau has drawn a red line against both President Trump and Russian
President Vladimir Putin on issues of globalization and open immigration. Ottawa will soon
become a nest for anti-Trump operations that will almost certainly involve the billionaire
global troublemaker George Soros.
Like Power, Freeland is a former journalist who traded in her journalistic credentials to
become a shill for globalization's new world order. A Rhodes scholar, graduate of Harvard, and
alum of the Brookings Institution, she represented the Financial Times in Washington,
New York, and Moscow.
Freeland is also of Ukrainian descent and her anti-Russian stance, including her support for
sanctions against Russia over Ukraine and Crimea, earned her a visa ban by Russia. Having
reported from Moscow for the FT from the mid-1990s to late 2000, Freeland became a major
critic of Putin and later accused him of creating a dictatorship in Russia. Freeland's bias
against Russia was present in her reporting, especially on Chechnya, long before the Ukrainian
civil war and the retrocession of Crimea to Russia. In one of her first statements as foreign
minister, Freeland vowed that Canadian sanctions will not be lifted against Russia. Freeland
also indicated in a speech last week in Ottawa that Canada will serve as a front against rising
global "trade protectionism and xenophobia." In December 2016, Canada hosted a meeting of the
United Nations High Commission on Refugees and Soros's Open Society Foundations that seeks to
expand the movement of refugees from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia to the
industrialized nations of the West. There is little doubt that Russophobes Freeland and Soros
are cooperating on several fronts against Russia, Trump, and anti-Soros leaders like Hungarian
Prime Minister Viktor Orban and French National Front presidential candidate Marine Le Pen.
Anti-globalists and anti-neocons have a new "Nuland" to contend with: Freeland.
From Ottawa, Freeland will lead the neocon and globalist charge against any attempt by Trump
to tear up the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). She will almost certainly try to
salvage the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which includes Canada and which Trump has vowed to
scrap. Freeland will also likely open up Canada's Arctic to a military presence by anti-Russian
NATO countries like Norway, Denmark, and Germany, as well as pro-NATO Sweden and Finland. An
increased NATO presence, without U.S. forces, in the Canadian Arctic will not only militarize
the region but send a warning to Russia about Canadian control over emerging Arctic sea lanes
that are increasingly navigable due to
Trudeau has signaled the world that opposition to the Trump administration on everything
from Russia and NATO to free trade and open borders will be fought from Ottawa, which is just
61 miles from the U.S. border crossing at Ogdensburg, New York. It will be incumbent upon the
Trump administration to pay special attention to anti-U.S. political activities staged from
Ottawa and Trump should think seriously about severing all signals intelligence and human
intelligence links with Canadian intelligence agencies. These agencies, including the
Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) and the Canadian Security and Intelligence
Service (CSIS) will soon pose a threat to U.S. national security. CSEC and CSIS will likely be
tasked with spying on the Trump administration and be required to pass the intelligence to
their German, French, Dutch, Belgian, and Japanese counterparts.
Freeland is already banned from visiting Russia, a travel ban that the Russian embassy in
Ottawa says will continue. Perhaps that ban on Freeland should be expanded by the Trump
administration to include the United States, with a sole exemption for traveling to and from
United Nations headquarters in New York. Freeland is currently indistinguishable from the
throngs of Hillary Clinton's desperate supporters who are planning to engage in every form of
disruption and resistance with the financial support of Soros.
"... "positions her as one of the top candidates to take over the liberal party after Trudeau" ..."
"... Government Operations Committee ..."
"... "All liberal democracies in the world today are facing huge challenges, and for me the conclusion that pushed me to is; there are only 37 million Canadians. Hugely challenging world threats posed to the rules-based international order, greater threats since the 2nd World War. We have to be united in how we confront those challenges." ..."
"... Ever since her appointment to the role of Cabinet Minister in 2015, Freeland played the role assigned to her as a high level Rhodes Scholar and priestess of neo-liberalism. Springing from a Nazi-connected Ukrainian family based out of Alberta, Freeland made her mark working as lead editor in British Intelligence-controlled news agencies the London Economist, Thompson-Reuters, Financial Times and later Canada's Globe and Mail. Through these positions as "perception manager" of the super elite, she became friends with some of the most vicious Russian, Ukrainian and other eastern European oligarchs who rose to power under Perestroika and the liberalization of the east-bloc. ..."
"... The author is the founder of the Canadian Patriot Review and Director of the Rising Tide Foundation of Canada. He has authored 3 volumes of the series "The Untold History of Canada" and can be reached at [email protected] ..."
editor
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November 27, 2019
An interesting victory has been won for forces in Canada who have wished to clean up the mess made by the two
disastrous years Chrystia Freeland has spent occupying the position of Foreign Minister of Canada. This victory
has taken the form of a Freeland's removal from the position which she has used to destroy diplomatic relations
with China, Russia and other nations targeted for regime change by her London-based controllers. Taking over the
helm as Minister of Global Affairs is Francois-Philippe Champagne, former Minister of Infrastructure and ally of
"old guard" Liberal elder Jean Chretien- both of whom have advocated positive diplomatic and business relations
with China in opposition to Freeland for years.
As positive of a development as this is, the danger which
Freeland represents to world peace and Canada's role in the New Emerging system led by the Eurasian Alliance
should not be ignored, since she has now been given the role of Deputy Prime Minister, putting her into a position
to easily take over the Party and the nation as 2
nd
in command.
Already the Canadian press machine on all sides of the aisle are raising the prospect of Freeland's takeover of
the Liberal Party as it
"positions her as one of the top candidates to take over the liberal party after
Trudeau"
as one Globe and Mail reporter stated.
The Strange Case of Deputy Prime Ministers
The very role of Deputy Prime Minister is a strange one which has had many pundits scratching their heads,
since the Privy Council position is highly under-defined, and was only created by Justin's father Pierre in 1977
as part of his
"cybernetics revolution"
which empowered the Privy Council Office and Prime Minister's Office under "scientific management" of a
technocratic elite. Although it is technically the position of 2nd in Command, it is not like the position of
Vice-President whose function has much greater constitutional clarity.
In some cases, the position has been ceremonial, and in others, like the case of Brian Mulroney's Dep. PM Don
Mazankowski (1986-1993) who chaired the
Government Operations Committee
and led in imposing the
nation-stripping NAFTA, the position was very powerful indeed. Some Prime Ministers have chosen not even to have a
Deputy PM, and the last one (Anne McLellan) ended with the downfall of Paul Martin in 2006. McLellan and another
former Deputy Prime Minister John Manley were both leading figures behind the creation of the think tank
Canada2020 in 2003
that soon brought Justin and Obamaton behaviorists into a re-structuring of the Liberal Party of Canada during the
Harper years, shedding it of its pro-China, pro-Russia, anti-NATO influences that had been represented by less
technocratically-minded statesmen like Jean Chretien years earlier.
Personally, as a Canadian-based journalist who has done a fair bit of homework on Canadian history, and the
structures of Canada's government, I honestly don't think the question of Freeland's becoming Prime Minister
matters nearly as much as many believe for the simple reason that Justin is a well-known cardboard cut-out who
simply doesn't know how to do anything terribly important without a teleprompter and experienced handlers. This is
not a secret to other world leaders, and anyone familiar with the mountains of video footage taken from G7 events
featuring the pathetic scene of little Justin chronically ignored by his peers goes far enough to demonstrate the
point.
Freeland's role in Canada has never had much to do with Canada, as much as it has with Canada's role as a
geopolitical chess piece in a turbulent and changing world and her current role as Deputy Prime Minister as well
as Minister for Intergovernmental Affairs can only be understood in those global terms.
Unity for the Sake of Greater Division
For Canada to play a useful role in obstructing the Eurasian-led New Silk Road paradigm sweeping across the
globe in recent years, it requires the fragmenting American monarchy be kept in line.
The problem for the British Empire in this regard, is that the recent elections have demonstrated how divided
Canada is with the Liberal Party suffering total losses across the Provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Quebec
due to the technocratic adherence to the Green New Deal agenda and resistance to actual industrial development
initiatives. The collapse of living standards, and the lack of any policies for rebuilding the industrial base
that 30 years of NAFTA have destroyed, has resulted not only in the rejection of the Liberal Party but has also
awoken a renewed demand for separation in all three provinces.
Referring implicitly to the crisis of such "authoritarian regimes" as China, Russia, Iran and Trump's USA, as
well as the need to decarbonize the world, Freeland put the problem she is assigned to fix
in the following terms
:
"All liberal democracies in the world today are facing huge challenges, and for me
the conclusion that pushed me to is; there are only 37 million Canadians. Hugely challenging world threats posed
to the rules-based international order, greater threats since the 2nd World War. We have to be united in how we
confront those challenges."
To put it simply, if centralized control were to break down at a time when the Belt and Road Initiative (
and
its Polar Silk Road extension
) is redefining the world system OUTSIDE of the control of the western oligarchy,
then it is clearly understood that the Green Agenda will fail, but the dynamics of the BRI will become hegemonic
as Canada realizes (like the Greeks and Italians currently) that the only viable policies for growing the real
economy is coming from China.
Some final words on Freeland, Neo-liberal High Priestess
Ever since her appointment to the role of Cabinet Minister in 2015, Freeland played the role assigned to
her as a high level Rhodes Scholar and priestess of neo-liberalism. Springing from a Nazi-connected Ukrainian
family based out of Alberta, Freeland made her mark working as lead editor in British Intelligence-controlled news
agencies the London Economist, Thompson-Reuters, Financial Times and later Canada's Globe and Mail. Through these
positions as "perception manager" of the super elite, she became friends with some of the most vicious Russian,
Ukrainian and other eastern European oligarchs who rose to power under Perestroika and the liberalization of the
east-bloc.
She also became close friends with such golems as George Soros, Larry Summers and Al Gore
embedding their institutions ever more deeply into Canada
since she was brought
into Canada2020
(her move to politics was facilitated by fellow Rhodes Scholar/Canada2020 leader Bob Rae
abdicating his position as MP for Ontario in 2013).
When Foreign Minister Stephane Dion committed the crime of attempting to heal relations with China and called
for a Russia-Canada Summit to deal mutually with
Arctic development, counter-terrorism and space cooperation
, he had to go. After an abrupt firing, Freeland
was given his portfolio and immediately went to work in turning China and Russia into public enemies #1 and #2,
passing the Magnintsky Act in 2017 allowing for the sanctioning of nations for human rights (easily falsified when
Soros' White Helmets and other CIA/MI6-affiliated NGOs are seen as "on-the-ground" authorities documenting said
abuse).
Her role as champion of NAFTA which Trump rightly threatened to scrap in order to re-introduce protective
tariffs elevated her to a technocratic David fighting some orange Goliath, and her advocacy of the Green New Deal
has been behind some of the most extreme energy/arctic anti-development legislation passed in Canada's history.
Whether it is though individual provinces claiming their rights to form independent treaties with Eurasian
powers around cooperation on the BRI, or whether Canada can be returned to a pro-nation state orientation under
the "Chretien faction" in the federal government, the current future of Canada is as under-defined as the role of
"deputy minister". Either way the nation chooses navigate through the storm, it is certain that any commitment to
staying on board the deck of the Titanic known as the "western neoliberal order" has only one cold and tragic
outcome which Freeland and her ilk will drown before admitting to.
Chrystia Freeland, the Ukrainian-Canadian who is Foreign Minister of Canada, was at a loss for words at the outcome of the
Ukrainian presidential election on Sunday. Instead, she re-tweeted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's statement.
"Canada and Ukraine are united by a strong relationship, rooted in close people-to-people ties," Trudeau declared, referring to
the western Ukrainians – now numbering three million, ten percent of Canada's population. They had sided with Adolph Hitler and the
German Army in World War II; after their defeat they were accepted by Canada as refugees. Freeland's maternal grandfather, Michael
Chomiak from a village near Lviv, had served in the German Army as a spy and as press editor and propagandist for the administration
of Galicia, which then included both Ukrainian and Polish territory, headed by Governor-General Hans Frank (lead image, left).
"We are unwavering in our support of Ukraine's sovereignty and our enduring commitment to the rules-based international order,"
Trudeau announced, and Freeland re-tweeted in a formula broad enough to accept terms with Russia to end the five-year war in the
east of Ukraine. "I look forward to working with President-elect Zelenskiy to deepen our relationship and build a more secure, more
prosperous future for people in both our countries."
The only region of Ukraine in which the majority did not vote for Vladimir Zelensky was Lviv region and adjoining areas of old
Galicia. There, if Freeland, who has tried but failed to challenge Trudeau for the Canadian prime ministry, were to run for
election, she would be the favourite to be President of Galicia.
Countrywide, Zelensky defeated the incumbent president Petro Poroshenko by 73% to 24%, with a turnout averaging 62%. The only
exception was the city of Lviv and the Lviv region, where Poroshenko scored 63% to Zelensky's 34%, with turnout of more than 67%.
In the east of the country, Zelensky won with more than 80% of the votes – 87% in Donestk, 89% in Lugansk, and 87% in Odessa. The
New York Times reported this geographic distribution as Zelensky's "triumph in every region, except for the area around the city of
Lviv, a center of Ukrainian culture and nationalism in the west of the country."
Dangerous Neocon & Soros Puppet Chrystia Freeland Replaced as Canada's Foreign
Minister Posted on December 2,
2019 by State of the
NationA Sea Change for Canada Foreign Policy as Freeland Is Replaced by a Pro-Chinese
Politico
Matthew Ehret
Strategic Culture Foundation
In Chrystia Freeland's 2012 book Plutocrats, Canada's leading Rhodes Scholar laid out a
surprisingly clear analysis of the two camps of elites who she explained would, by their very
nature, battle for control of the newly emerging system as the old paradigm collapsed.
In her book and article series, she described the "practical populist politician" which has
tended to be adherent to business interests and personal gain during past decades vs the new
breed of "technocrat" which has an enlightened non-practical (ie: Malthusian) worldview,
willing to make monetary sacrifices for the "greater good".
She further defined the "good Plutocrats" vs "bad Plutocrats". Good Plutocrats included the
likes of George Soros, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos who made their billions under
the free-for-all epoch of globalization, but who were willing to adapt to the new rules of the
post-globalization game. This was a game which she defined in an absurd
2013 TED Talk as a "green New Deal" of global regulation under a de-carbonized (and
depopulated) green economy. For those "bad plutocrats" unwilling to play by the new rules (ie:
the Trumps, Putins or any industrialist who refused to commit seppuku on the altar of Gaia),
they would simply go extinct. This threat was re-packaged by Canada's "other" globalist puppet
Mark Carney,
who recently said "If some companies and industries fail to adjust to this new world, they
will fail to exist."
Of course, when Freeland formulated these threats in 2011, China's Belt and Road had not yet
existed, nor had the Russia-China alliance which together are now challenging the regime-change
driven world order in remarkably successful strides. The thought that nationalism could
possibly make a comeback in the west was as unthinkable as the failure of free trade deals like
NAFTA or the TPP.
As of November 18, 2019, Freeland has found herself cut down a notch by the "plutocrats"
that she has worked so assiduously to destroy since becoming Canada's Foreign Minister in 2017
when she ousted a Foreign Minister (Stephane Dion) who had called for a renewed cooperation
with Russia on space, counter-terrorism and arctic development with Sergei Lavrov. Freeland's
unrepentant support for Ukrainian Nazis and NATO encirclement of Russia resulted in a total
alienation of Russia. Her alienation of China was so successful that the Chinese government
removed their ambassador in the summer of 2019. Freeland's work in
organizing the failed coup in Venezuela and supporting the MI6-Soros
White Helmets in Syria became so well known that she became known as the Canadian queen of
regime change.
Other pro-Chinese "bad plutocratic" companies which have been targeted for destruction under
Freeland's watch have included the beleaguered construction giant Aecon Inc. who's board voted
in favor of being sold to China in March 2018 in order to play a role in Belt and Road Projects
(
a decision vetoed by the Federal Government in May 2018 ), as well as Quebec-based SNC
Lavalin which has had major deals with both Russia and China on nuclear power and major
infrastructure projects and which
now faces being shut down in Canada for having bribed politicians in Libya when it built
Qadaffi's Great Manmade River (destroyed by NATO in 2011).
Former Liberal Minister of Infrastructure from Shawinigan Quebec, Francois-Philippe
Champagne has taken over Freeland's portfolio and with him it appears a new pro-Eurasian policy
may be emerging in Canada much more conducive to the long term survival (and strategic
relevance) of Canada. This shift has already been noted by China which has responded by sending
a new Ambassador to Ottawa, while a new Canadian Ambassador with a long history of working
towards positive Chinese relations in the private sector (Dominic Barton) has just begun
working in Beijing. Barton was the first Ambassador to China since "old guard" politician John
McCallum
was fired in January 2019 for defending Huawei's Meng Wanzhou to a group of Chinese
journalists.
In opposition to the cacophonic voice of Freeland, Champagne had spoken positively of China
in 2017 saying "In a world of uncertainty, of unpredictability, of questioning about the
rules that have been established to govern our trading relationship, Canada, and I would say
China, stand out as [a] beacon of stability, predictability, a rule-based system, a very
inclusive society."
Champagne is a long-standing protégé of former Prime Minister Jean Chretien
and world travelled businessman who has worked in the European nuclear sector and has promoted
industrial development with China for years. Jean Chretien, who campaigned for Champagne's
recent re-election, represents everything Freeland hates: A "practical" old school politician
who recognizes that World War III and alienating Eurasian nations who are shaping the future is
bad for business. In 2014, Chretien was given the
"Friend of Russia" award and has played a major role in the private sector working with
Quebec-based Power Corporation which runs the Canada-China Business Council (CCBC) and has
brokered major contracts throughout China since ending his term as PM in 2003. Chretien is also
the father in-law of current CCBC chair Paul Desmarais Jr. who is the heir to the PowerCorp
dynasty. While these are not groups that in any way exemplify morality, they are practical
industrialists who know depopulation and world war are bad for business and would prefer to
adapt to a China-led BRI system over a "green technocratic dictatorship".
Since December 2018, Chretien has attacked Freeland's decision to support Meng Wanzhou's
extradiction to the USA, and has volunteered to lead a delegation to China in order to smooth
tensions.
So while the "bad plutocrats" appear to have taken an important step forward though the
debris of the recent near failure of the Liberal Party which narrowly kept a minority
government after the October 21 Federal Elections, the ideologically driven technocrats led by
Queen Freeland shouldn't be discounted, as her new position as Deputy Prime Minister puts her
in a position to possibly take control of Canada as 2 nd in command of a highly
fragmented nation which is now hearing renewed calls for separation in Alberta, and Quebec.
I immigrated to Canada in 1967, not quite fifty-one years ago. At the time I was young,
naïve and did not know much. Well, I knew a little since I was caught up in 1960s America,
then roiled with opposition to segregation and Jim Crow and to the US war of aggression in
Southeast Asia. Americans did not call it that of course; for them it was the "Vietnam War". I
walked on the last day of the march from Selma to Montgomery , Alabama
in 1965. We travelled in a train from Washington, DC to Montgomery and back, with the shades
drawn, so crackers would not have good targets to shoot at. It was the year after Ku Klux
Klansmen murdered Chaney, Goodman, and
Schwerner in Mississippi. It was dangerous to be black in America, and it still is. It was
dangerous too for naïve young whites to stick their nose into business that did not
concern them. But of course when you are young, you don't see the danger, or think that it
could come looking for you. Death was still a rather abstract thing. Then we "graduated", so to
speak, to opposition to "the Vietnam War". That was more personal because you had to decide
whether -- and I put this politely -- you were going to fight in a war in which you did not
believe.
I headed to Canada. At the time it was a pretty quiet place compared to the United States.
Sure, there was Expo '67, and there were demonstrations and campus sit-ins for this and against
that. Many Canadians opposed the US war of aggression in Southeast Asia, and I remember there
was an underground railway to help deserters and "resisters", or "draft dodgers" (if you did
not like them), get into Canada.
Anyway, I went to graduate school, adapted to being in Canada, assimilated, eventually swore
allegiance to the Queen. The way I spoke English changed. I started to pronounce "out and
about" and other words like an English Canadian from the Empire Loyalist parts of eastern
Canada. "Eh" crept into the sing-song of my spoken English. I emphasise English because I also
speak French, though a few of my students at the Université de Montréal object to
my "Parisian" accent. I don't mind..
A year after I got to Canada, Pierre Elliot Trudeau
became Liberal prime minister. He was an interesting man and politician. Eccentric,
intellectual, a man of his times, different in some ways from your average Canadian politician.
People liked, or loved him, or didn't. One thing he had which most North American politicians
do not have, was a backbone. You could like it or not, but he had it. He stood up to
Québec separatists in 1970, who hated him for it. "Well, just watch me", he famously
replied to journalists, when asked what he would do to deal with " the October crisis " in
Québec.
Toward the United States, he had to take a softer line. What could a Canadian prime minister
do in face of the Yankee Hegemon? Sleeping next to an elephant used to be the nice way to put
it. Maybe we should have paid more attention to how Finland managed to remain independent next
to its giant neighbour. Trudeau tried unsuccessfully to establish an independent Canadian
energy policy but succeeded in keeping some distance from the United States on Vietnam. In
fact, it was his government which effectively opened the doors to American deserters and
resisters. Believe it or not, they were a good source of new immigrants, or so the Canadian
government used to say.
During the 1960s, English Canadian intellectuals worried about Canada's loss of independence
vis-à-vis the United States. In 1965 Canadian philosopher George Grant wrote Lament for
a Nation where he criticised the Liberals for caving in to Washington on defence policy.
Previous Liberal governments developed a bad reputation for failing to control US investment
and the takeover of Canadian industries and natural resources. If you don't pay attention to
these essentials, and diversify trade and investment, you will lose your political
independence. This is what happened to Canada. You learn these things in university, if you
have good professors, but it is hard to go up against entrenched, powerful economic interests,
who don't care a pin about Canadian independence.
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
Pretty soon, the Conservatives became as negligent as the Liberals (I make an exception for
Trudeau) in protecting Canadian independence. Under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Canada opted
for free trade with the United States. If you didn't care so much about independence, free
trade would open markets, create jobs, so the argument went: it was the only way.
"Canada Let's not Trade it Away," became the political slogan of the Council of Canadians,
an organisation of English Canadian intellectuals, founded by the late Mel Hurtig . Québec
"nationalists" were asleep at the wheel on this issue. Their idea was to embrace the United
States to get clear of English Canada. That was a really bad idea; it was jumping from the
frying pan into the fire. By that time, I had become more catholic than the pope, or more
Canadian, say, than Sir John
A. , and I supported the campaign against free trade. We lost that fight.
Is there anything left now of Canadian independence? The Liberal Prime Minister, Jean
Chrétien, kept Canada out of the US-British war of aggression against Iraq in 2003.
About that war, I call a spade, a spade. Chrétien maintained tolerable relations with
the Russian Federation, though that was before the present wave of anti-Russian hysteria.
Russian diplomats look back to the Chrétien period as the good ol' days. They are long
gone.
No thanks to the far right Conservatives led by Stephen Harper, a crude right-wing
politician, and wannabe American, who dreamed of leading a Canadian-style "Reagan Revolution"
in Canada. He was an American Trojan horse, uncritically following US foreign policy and
damaging Canadian relations with the Russian Federation. For any Canadian with a sense of
pride, myself included, it was painful to watch the conduct of the Harper government. His
minister for external affairs, John Baird, reminded me of a clown, backing US policies, inter
alia, in favour of Apartheid Israel and the fascist coup d'état in Kiev, and against
Iran and the Russian Federation. The Russian ambassador in Ottawa could not get a meeting with
top Canadian diplomats, let alone with the minister. "Check with Washington," was Harper's
foreign policy.
Stéphane Dion, Canadian Minister for External Affairs was sacked in 2017
Then came a brief glimmer
of hope at least for me. Justin Trudeau, the son of Pierre Elliot, became prime minister in
late 2015, defeating the by then widely hated Mr. Harper. The Liberals campaigned amongst other
items on better relations with the Russian Federation. Stéphane Dion, a sensible
intellectual, former leader of the Liberal party and former professor of political science at
the Université de Montréal, became minister for external affairs. He indicated
his intention to improve relations with Russia, but nothing came of it, and he was
sacked in January 2017.
Chrystia Freeland, a Ukrainian-Canadian and former journalist with a long list of
anti-Russian articles under her by-line, succeeded Dion. Freeland's grandfather was a mid-level
Nazi collaborator in German occupied Poland, whose life Freeland celebrates. Sins of the
fathers, or grandfathers, should not of course be visited upon their descendants, unless they
want to boast of them. Ms. Freeland's Ukrainian "nationalism" leads her to turn a blind-eye to
her grandfather's Nazi collaboration, and to the fascist torchlight parades in putschist Kiev.
I sarcastically referred to her as the
Ukraine's minister of foreign affairs in Ottawa .
Freeland's Russophobia makes her persona non grata in the Russian Federation. Trudeau
appointed her to External Affairs, surely knowing of her background and her hatred of Russia
and its president Vladimir Putin. One can only conclude that Trudeau decided to abandon his
campaign promise to improve relations with Russia, and to revert to Harper's foreign
policy.
In October 2017 the Canadian Parliament, mimicking the United States, passed a so-called
Magnitsky bill which allows the Canadian government to sanction Russian or other citizens for
so-called "human rights violations". Everyone knows or should know that the United States uses
"human rights" or R2P (responsibility to protect) as a pretext for military intervention
anywhere it chooses, against governments it does not like. What section of international law
gives Washington that right? The Magnitsky narrative, used as a pretext for the original US
law, is built upon bogus allegations disseminated by one William Browder, an apparently
slippery businessman. He claimed that his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was the victim of Russian
abuse in the cover-up of
embezzlement and massive tax fraud of which Browder in fact, and Magnitsky, his accountant,
appear to have been the perpetrators. Monsieur Dion opposed a Magnitsky-type bill because it
would pointlessly provoke the Russian government. It demonstrates how anti-Russian hysteria has
spread from the United States to Canada.
Trudeau fils is certainly not a chip off the old block
I voted for the Liberal candidate in my riding at the last election, but I am not going to
vote in the next federal election. What's the point? Vote for tweedle dee and get tweedle dum,
or vice versa. Foolishly, I actually hoped Trudeau fils might be a chip off the old block. He
is nothing of the
sort . He likes to appear in gay parades and to tout identity politics to show how
"progressive" he is, but it's just showboating. Canada has voted against
anti-Nazism resolutions in the UN , along with the United States and the Ukraine. What a
trio. Trudeau fils backs US policy in the Ukraine and has Canadian military "advisors" there
training "nationalist" militias for war against the Donbass resistance.
On January 16 Freeland and Rex Tillerson held a one-day conference of most of the
participants of the last war against North Korea
Even more dangerous, the Trudeau government apes US policy on North Korea (DPRK), flirting
with the idea of a maritime blockade, which would be an act of war, in a US-led war of
aggression against a sovereign state with every right to defend itself. Canadians may have
forgotten the Korean War, but people in the DPRK have not forgotten US atrocities accounting
for the deaths of
an estimated 20% of the civilian population . On 16 January
in Vancouver Freeland and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held a one-day conference of
most of the participants of the last war against North Korea. The Russian Federation and China,
which have borders on the DPRK, were not invited. Obviously, the United States, with Canadian
complicity, is alluding to a new alliance of the old alliance partners to launch a new Korean
war even as North and South Koreans were talking about reducing tensions. It is a tacit threat
of war against the DPRK. The
Canadian chief of staff says the Canadian navy is ready, if asked, for blockade duty. If
who asks? The UN has not authorised the use of force against the DPRK. Nor will it, China and
the Russian Federation would veto such a resolution in the UN Security Council. Is the Canadian
navy prepared to commit acts of war against China or Russia by stopping their ships on the high
seas? China has
warned the United States not to launch a "pre-emptive" war against the DPRK. Did anyone in
Ottawa read the Chinese statement? Washington affects not to notice the Chinese position, but
Canada should notice before it is too late.
The Trudeau government will claim to have won US concessions to make it possible to
"save" NAFTA, because Canada has no choice but to capitulate
Admittedly, young Mr. Trudeau is in a tight spot. The United States has forced Canada and
Mexico into a renegotiation of the North American free trade agreement (NAFTA). 75% of Canadian
trade goes to the United States, but not the other way around, so that Washington has the
Canadian government by the throat. Freeland is the chief negotiator. She says
upcoming negotiations "are going to be fun and I hope really useful and productive." If you
were Canadian, would you have confidence in Freeland? Already there are stories in the
Mainstream Media about the possible negative effects of the US abrogation of NAFTA on the
Canadian loonie (the dollar) and the perennially anaemic Toronto Stock Exchange. You can see
where this is leading. The Trudeau government will claim to have won US concessions to make it
possible to "save" NAFTA, because Canada has no choice but to capitulate. Trudeau went to
Davos, Switzerland last week to meet various American notables to explain why it is in US
interests to stay in NAFTA. Isn't the American elite, the celebrated 1%, capable of
understanding and defending its own interests? Next week Trudeau is going
to tour the United States without seeing US President Donald Trump "in an effort to
'further strengthen the deep bonds that unite Canada and the United States'." That is a sure
sign of weakness. Is it really in Canadian national interests to have "deeper bonds" with
Hegemon?
I used to be fiercely proud of being Canadian. I have travelled to all the provinces from
Victoria, British Columbia to St. John's, Newfoundland. I have hiked in the Fraser River
Country and watched from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains as a thunder storm moved across
the prairies below me. I have marvelled at the clear waters of Lake Superior and smelled the
salt air of the sea on the Canadian east coast. Now, however, I am not so proud, watching one
Canadian government after another go to its knees before Hegemon. It does not matter what
political party holds power, even the so-called "left"
New Democratic Party pursues the same servile policies toward the United States. What
options do critically minded Canadians now have?
The US Secretary of War, General "Mad Dog" Mattis, gave a recent
speech where he said basically it's our way or the highway. "To those who would threaten
America's experiment in democracy: if you challenge us, it will be your longest and worst day."
You have to wonder what dystopian, upside down world General Mattis lives in, and what
"democracy" he is talking about when US electoral choices are between tweedle dee and tweedle
dum who fund their campaigns with tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. Abroad. the United
States has supported and continues to support dictators in Latin America and absolutist kings
and princes in the Middle East, fascists in the Ukraine, and Islamist terrorists of every
stripe and description in the Middle East and Central Asia, not to mention Apartheid Israel. It
has overthrown democratically elected governments in Syria, Iran, Guatemala, Brazil, Ecuador,
Indonesia, Greece and Chile, to mention only a few examples, but the list is endless.
The CIA was involved in the hunting down and murder of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba. It tried
to overthrow the Cuban government and assassinate its late leader Fidel Castro, more than six
hundred times by some estimates, and it is attempting to topple the popular Venezuelan leader,
Nicolás Maduro. Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen are amongst other
victims. Is the US government capable of dealing with other countries without brandishing a gun
in their faces? Work with our diplomats or deal with our military, "Mad Dog" said in
effect.
The US Secretary of War, General "Mad Dog" Mattis, gave a recent
speech where he said basically it's our way or the highway
So what does a Canadian do faced with the uninspiring conduct of the Harpers and the young
Mr. Trudeau? I don't know. There seems to be no satisfactory answer. One can only imagine with
pleasure how Trudeau père, if he were still with us, might berate his son for craven,
fatuous behaviour. Pierre Elliot is long gone, however, and we are on our own. The views of
individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Tags: Canada Chrystia
Freeland
"... What no one is mentioning is: the US airstrikes on Iraqi military bases, and Soleimani's murder contributed greatly to the hair trigger response of Iran's air defense forces. If Washington did not turn the heat up on both Iraq and Iran there would have been no need for Iran's retaliation, and thus the level of Iran's domestic defense forces would not have been so nervous as to pull the trigger downing the airliner. ..."
"... Former CIA high-ranking official accidentally reveals the type of the false flag operation that the US imperialists will orchestrate to start a war with Iran https://failedevolution.blogspot.com/2020/01/former-cia-high-ranking-official.html ..."
"... It reminds me too much of MH-17, which was not hit with a BUK but with bullets. Iran should have closed its airspace because such tricks are to be expected, irrespective of the cause of the current accident. ..."
When the Pentagon confirmed the assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, U.S.
President Donald Trump took to social media to post a single image of the American flag to the
adulation of his followers. Unfortunately, most Americans are ignorant of the other flag
synonymous with U.S. foreign policy, that of the 'false flag' utilized to deceive the public
and stir up support for endless war abroad. While the chicken hawk defenders of Trump's
reckless decision to murder one of the biggest contributors in the defeat of ISIS salivated
over possible war with Iran, their appetite was spoiled by Tehran's retaliatory precision
strikes of two U.S. bases in Iraq that deliberately avoided casualties while in accordance with
the Islamic Republic's right to self defense under Article 51 of the United Nations charter.
The reprisal successfully deescalated the crisis but sent a clear message Iran was willing to
stand up to the U.S. with the backing of Russia and China, while Washington underestimated
Tehran which forewarned the Iraqi government of its impending counterattack so U.S. personnel
could evacuate.
In the hours following the ballistic missile strikes, reports came in that a Boeing 737
international passenger flight scheduled from Tehran to Kiev, Ukraine had crashed shortly after
takeoff from Imam Khomeini International Airport, killing all 176 passengers and flight crew on
board. Initial video of the crash of Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752 (PS752) showed
that the aircraft was already in flames while descending to the ground, leading to speculation
it was shot down amid the heightened political crisis between Iran and Washington. In the days
following, a second obscure video surfaced which only increased this suspicion. Meanwhile,
Western governments quickly concluded that an anti-aircraft surface-to-air missile brought
PS752 down and were eager to point the finger at Iran before any formal investigation. Many
people, including this author, were admittedly skeptical as to how a plane taking off from
Tehran could have been mistaken five hours after the strikes in Iraq.
Nevertheless, those with reservations turned out to be wrong when days later the Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) came clean that its aerospace forces made a "human error" and
accidentally shot the passenger plane down after mistaking it for a incoming cruise missile
when it flew close to a military base during a heightened state of alert in anticipation of
U.S. attack. Many have noted that Iran's honorable decision to take responsibility for the
catastrophe is in sharp contrast with Washington's response in 1988 when the U.S. Navy shot
down Iran Air Flight 655 scheduled from Tehran to Dubai over the Strait of Hormuz in the
Persian Gulf, killing all 290 occupants, after failing to cover it up. Just a month later, Vice
President George H.W. Bush would notoriously state he would " never apologize for the United
States of America. Ever. I don't care what the facts are ." Although he was not directly
referring to the incident, one can only imagine what the reaction would be if Iranian President
Hassan Rouhani were to say the same weeks after shooting down the Ukrainian plane, let alone an
American one. Predictably, Tehran's transparency has gone mostly unappreciated while the Trump
administration is already trying to use the disaster to further demonize Iran.
Oddly enough, Ukrainian International Airlines is partly owned by the infamous
Ukrainian-Israeli oligarch, politician and energy tycoon Igor Kolomoisky, who was notably one
of the biggest financiers of the anti-Russian, pro-EU coup d'etat which overthrew the
democratically elected government of Viktor Yanukovych in 2014. Kolomoisky is also a principal
backer of current Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky whose dubious phone call with Trump
resulted in the 45th U.S. president's impeachment last month. In another astounding
coincidence, Kolomoisky's Privat Group is believed to control Burisma Holdings, the
Cypress-based company whose executive board 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden's son Hunter
was appointed to following the Maidan junta. The former Vice President admitted that he bribed
Ukraine into firing its top prosecutor who was looking into his son's corruption by threatening
to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees.
Kolomoisky, AKA "the Chameleon", is one of the wealthiest people in the ex-Soviet country
and was formerly appointed as governor of an administrative region bordering Donbass in eastern
Ukraine following the 2014 putsch. He has also funded a battalion of volunteer neo-Nazi
mercenaries fighting alongside the Ukrainian army in the War in Donbass against
Russian-speaking separatists which the military aid temporarily withheld by the Trump
administration that was disputably contingent upon an investigation of Biden and his son goes
to. In 2014, another infamous plane shootdown made international headlines when Malaysian
Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) scheduled from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down over the
breakaway Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers and
crew.
From the get-go, the Obama administration was adamant that the missile which shot down the
Boeing 777 came from separatist rebel territory. However, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin
Mohamad denounced the charges brought against the Russian and Ukrainian nationals indicted in
the NATO-led investigation, dismissing the entire probe as a politically motivated effort
predetermined to scapegoat Moscow and exclude Malaysian participation in the inquiry from the
very beginning. Mohamad is featured in the excellent documentaryMH17: Call for Justice
made by a team of independent journalists which contests the NATO-scripted narrative and
reveals that the Buk missile was more likely launched from Ukrainian Army-controlled territory
than the DPR. One of Kolomoisky's hired guns could also have been responsible.
Shamefully, Iran's admission of guilt in the PS752 downing is already being used by
establishment propagandists to discredit skeptics and conflated with similar contested past
events like MH17 in order to intimidate dissenting voices from speaking up in the future. The
Bellingcat 'investigative journalism' collective which made its name incriminating Moscow for
the MH17 tragedy are the principle offenders. Bellingcat bills itself as an 'independent'
citizen journalism group even though its founder Eliot Higgins is employed by the Atlantic
Council think tank which receives funding from NATO, the U.S. State Department, the National
Endowment for Democracy (NED), George Soros' Open Society Foundation NGO, and numerous other
regime change factories. Despite its enormous conflict of interest, Bellingcat remains highly
cited by corporate media as a supposedly reputable source. At the outset, nearly everything
about the PS752 tragedy gave one déjà vu of the MH17 disaster, including the rush
to judgement by Western governments, so it was only natural for many to distrust the official
narrative until more facts came out.
None of this changes that the use of commercial passenger jets as false flag targets for
U.S. national security subterfuge is a verifiable historical fact, not a 'conspiracy theory.'
In 1997, the U.S. National Archives declassified a 1962 memo proposed by the Joint
Chiefs of Staff and Department of Defense for then-Secretary of State Robert McNamara entitled
" Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba ." The document outlined a series
of 'false flag' terrorist attacks, codenamed Operation Northwoods, to be carried out on a range
of targets and blamed on the Cuban government to give grounds for an invasion of Havana in
order to depose Fidel Castro. These scenarios included targets within the U.S., in particular
Miami, Florida, which had become a haven of right-wing émigrés and defectors
following the Cuban Revolution. In addition to the sinking of a Cuban refugee boat, one
Northwoods plan included the staging of attacks on a civilian jet airliner and a U.S. Air Force
plane to be pinned on Castro's government:
"8. It is possible to create and incident which will demonstrate convincingly that a Cuban
aircraft has attacked and shot down a chartered civil airliner enroute from the United States
to Jamaica, Guatemala, Panama or Venezuela. The destination would be chosen only to cause the
flight plan route to cross Cuba. The passengers could be a group of college students off on a
holiday or any grouping of persons with a common interest to support chartering a
non-scheduled flight.
9. It is possible to create an incident which will make it appear that Communist Cuban
MIGs have destroyed a USAF aircraft over international waters in an unprovoked attack."
Although Operation Northwoods was rejected by then-U.S. President John F. Kennedy which many
believe was a factor in his subsequent assassination, Cuban exiles with the support of U.S.
intelligence would later be implicated in such an attack the following decade with the bombing
of Cubana Airlines Flight 455 in 1976 which killed all 73 passengers and crew on board. In
2005, documents released by the
National Security Archive showed that the CIA under then-director George H.W. Bush had advanced
knowledge of the plans of a Dominican Republic-based Cuban exile terrorist organization, the
Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU), at the direction of former CIA
operative Luis Posada Carriles to blow up the airliner. The U.S. later refused to extradite
Carriles to Cuba to face charges and although he never admitted to masterminding the bombing of
the jet, he publicly confessed to other attacks on tourist hotels in Cuba during the 1990s and
was later arrested in 2000 for attempting to blow up an auditorium in Panama trying to
assassinate Castro.
In 1962, the planners of Operation Northwoods concluded that such deceptive operations would
shift U.S. public opinion unanimously against Cuba.
"World opinion and the United Nations forum should be favorably affected by developing the
international image of Cuban government as rash and irresponsible, and as an alarming and
unpredictable threat to the peace of the Western Hemisphere."
The same talking points are used by the U.S. government to demonize Iran today. Initially,
some Western intelligence sources also
concluded that it was a malfunction or overheated engine that brought PS752 down in
corroboration with the Iranian government's original explanation until the narrative abruptly
shifted the following day. That they were so quick to hold Iran accountable without any
investigation gave the apparent likelihood that PS752 could have fallen prey to a
Northwoods-style false flag operation designed to further isolate Iran and defame its leaders
after they took precautions to avoid U.S. casualties in their retaliatory strikes for the
killing of Soleimani. Maintaining the image of Iran as a nefarious regime is crucial in
justifying hawkish U.S. policies toward the country and Iran's noted restraint in its
retaliation put a dent in that impression, so many were suspicious and rightly so.
It was also entirely plausible that U.S. special operations planners could have consulted
the Northwoods playbook replacing Cuba with Iran and the right-wing gusanos who were to assist
the staged attacks in Miami with the Iranian opposition group known as Mujahedin e-Khalq
(MEK/People's Mujahedin of Iran) to do the same in Tehran. In July of last year, Trump's
personal lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani gave a paid speech at the
cult-like group's compound in Albania where he not only referred to the group as Iran's
"government-in-exile" but stated
the U.S's explicit intentions to use them for regime change in Iran. The MEK enjoys high level
contacts in the Trump administration and the group was elated at his decision to murder
Soleimani in Baghdad.
From 1997 until 2012, the MEK was on the State Department's list of terrorist organizations
until it was removed by the Obama administration after its expulsion from Iraq in order to
relocate the group to fortified bases in Albania and the NATO protectorate of Kosovo. The
latter disputed territory is a perfect fit for the rebranded group having been founded by
another deregistered foreign terrorist organization, the al-Qaeda linked Kosovo Liberation Army
(KLA), whose leader, Hashim Thaçi, presides over the partially-recognized state. The MEK
are no longer designated as such despite the State Department's own account of its
bloody history:
"During the 1970s, the MEK staged terrorist attacks inside Iran to destabilize and
embarrass the Shah's regime; the group killed several US military personnel and civilians
working on defense projects in Tehran. The group also supported the takeover in 1979 of the
US Embassy in Tehran. In April 1992 the MEK carried out attacks on Iranian embassies in 13
different countries, demonstrating the group's ability to mount large-scale operations
overseas."
Declassified documents revealing the sinister plans in Operation Northwoods which shockingly
made it all the way to the desk of the president of the United States and the foreknowledge of
Cubana Airlines Flight 455 are just two examples of solid proof that false flag attacks against
civilian passenger planes are a part of the Pentagon's modus operandi as disclosed in its own
archives and there is no reason to believe that such practices have been discontinued. That the
U.S. is still cozy with "former" terror groups like MEK seeking to repatriate is good reason to
believe its use of militant exiles for covert operations like those from Havana has not been
retired. If there were jumps to conclusions that proven serial liars could be looking for an
excuse to stage an attack to lay the blame on Iran, it is only because the distinct probability
was overwhelming. Even so, a stopped clock strikes the right time twice per day and that is
all Iran's acknowledgment of its liability proves -- that even the world's most
unreliable and criminal sources in Washington and Langley can be accurate sometimes
What no one is mentioning is: the US airstrikes on Iraqi military bases, and Soleimani's
murder contributed greatly to the hair trigger response of Iran's air defense forces. If
Washington did not turn the heat up on both Iraq and Iran there would have been no need for
Iran's retaliation, and thus the level of Iran's domestic defense forces would not have been
so nervous as to pull the trigger downing the airliner.
But, if's a huge word.
Israel has had control of Iran's Russian middle systems for years. Russia gave them the
codes.
I think Israel blew up the aircraft. I can't find a link but I heard a huge number of
Soleimani loyalists were arrested in Iran. Someone should have a link to that from Twitter or
somewhere.
I think that there was some kind of collaboration between Khamenei, Israel and the US to
remove Soleimani who had designs on a coup.
I don't know if this is a good or bad thing.
I also don't know who was on that plane. So it's unclear if it was good or bad it was
destroyed. Who knows who those 176 dual Iranian Nationals were.
I just know that if Israel had control of those missile units and it would embarrass Iran
for that to be revealed it makes sense for Iran to claim the lesser of two deep shames.
Particularly if there has been some kind of tacit acceptance of a status as a vassal state
to either the US or Israel behind the scenes to preserve the regime.
Perhaps the MEK or a different vassal ruler who is really crypto Jewish will be appointed
in Solemeinis place, and Iran will hence offer a symbolic enemy to justify the continuation
of the military industrial complex in both Israel and the US.
Even a blind squirrel, even a broken clock twice a day.. The Empire's statements and blind
accusations could have been for any tragedy in a country they were psyopsing, only a matter
of chance for them to be right at some time. In any case, it wasn't intentional on Iran's
part.
Only if accidental means a joint Russian/Iranian hit on a Ukrainian plane carrying fleeing
cia/mossad agents.
This whole situation has once again displayed how easy it is for the zio-media to control
what we see and hear and believe. Disturbingly, that means that things like metoo and
"believe all women" are operations too.
@the grand wazoo I wouldn't be surprised it the FDR shows that the plane strayed off its
registered Flightpath and was involved in a covert recon mission that went bad.
It reminds me too much of MH-17, which was not hit with a BUK but with bullets. Iran should have closed its airspace
because such tricks are to be expected, irrespective of the cause of the current accident. There is no immediate reason
for Iranians to fly to Ukraine, or anywhere else. It may sound silly but flying is still a special and dangerous thing and
should not be taken for granted.
For someone who doesn't watch television or read Iranian newspapers it was only reported
on Twitter and then repeated by PressTV and others on internet. Which parts of the story are
real?
Of course, it was a huge and most regrettable mistake. Doubtless, the Iranians will
compensate the victims for what that is worth. Most of the passengers were Iranians. I
suspect that many of the "Canadians" Trudeau is on about are of Iranian descent. They would
certainly be considered to be Iranians in Iran.
The series of coincidences highlighted in this article are remarkable. It has
synchronicity splashed all over it.
I worked at Tehran airport for some years prior to the Revolution. After the Revolution, I
volunteered to return on behalf of Raytheon (of all companies) to get some money owing. No
one else was prepared to go there. Iran Air personnel were delighted to meet me again and
they promptly paid the bill. I took a holiday to the Caspian with my ex-girlfriend.
A further piece of synchronicity is that I am currently visiting Kiev. The world is a
truly incestuous place.
Set aside the beatup of two operations that neither the CIA or any American agency carried
out the author has apparently failed to see the obvious. That is that the Iranians had no
possibility of covering up the missile strike. Or did he imagine that everyone who might tell
the truth could be kept permanently separated from plane parts and bodies which would have
shown unmistakeable and undeniable evidences of the strike.
Another leak (ukr) from the
Ukrainian side of the investigation gives some hints on how the plane came down (machine
translation):
"We took up the restoration of fragments of the aircraft. It was necessary to determine how
these pieces of metal dumped into a huge pile should be interconnected.
The intrigue remained until late. The fact is that there were no damages on most parts of
the aircraft. There was no explosion and no fire in the engines or on the wings. It is
possible that the plane could fall almost intact. Unlike the remains of the Boeing MN-17,
there were no immediately visible signs of defeat by combat elements on the fuselage and
wings. A lot of damage to the case is the result of a fall. But after laying out all the
fragments of the aircraft, it became obvious that the bottom of the cockpit was missing.
Among the wreckage, fragments of the upper part of the cabin were identified. And then the
find finally took place - at about 22 hours. On a fragment of the cockpit, we found holes in
the damaging elements of the warhead of the rocket, which pierced the skin. We found! For the
first time, direct evidence appeared in this case, which made it possible to prove what
caused the death of the aircraft. For us it was a turning point.
So what we now understand:
Russian anti-aircraft missile "Tor" hit the liner in the lower part of the front of the
fuselage, directly under the cockpit.
A direct hit and the cabin flared up inside. Instantly turned off the transponder of the
aircraft, which gives signals about the flight. Instantly lost contact.
While there is no data, one or two missiles have caused such damage. It is possible that
the second missile also hit the fuselage from below close to the first. But all this remains
to be clarified.
We continue to lay out fragments of the aircraft until the complete collection of all
surviving parts.
We expect that today we will gain access to all objective control data.
In cooperation with Iranian colleagues, we get the impression that those who contact us
sincerely want to help themselves and figure it out, in general, there are no problems. Let's
hope that such a mood and working contacts remain with us now."
They really are able to turn white into black and black into white.
Notable quotes:
"... 1) Occurs as Iran is on brink of war with USA?; 2) Indications of USA using info war tactics; 3) airliner owner by Kolomoisky? 4) No communication with tower? 5) USA and Israel history of duplicity and narrative management (example: MH-17). ..."
"... NATO has weaponized aircraft accident investigations. Lawfare in combination with state terrorism. ..."
"... The Ukies know how to obliterate a debris field. MH-17 -- They used artillery for months to keep OSCE and Dutch officials away, and despite the locals working to protect the deceased and the debris, body parts have been found years later. ..."
There were also clear sightings of a missile to bring down TWA 800. Except it didn't. As an
Navy Pilot , flight instructor and 737 captain this does not at 1st or 2nd glance appear to
be a missile strike. Catastropic engine failure is my bet. They made most of the turn back to
the airport before losing integrity or loss of thrust.
On Wednesday, Boeing's shares plummeted by 2.3 percent ($3.4bn) after the Ukrainian Boeing
737-800 aircraft crashed in Tehran due to encountering a technical glitch.
On Thursday, the stock rose by 3 percent after unnamed Pentagon officials claimed that
the Ukrainian passenger plane was most likely brought down by anti-aircraft missiles, and
US President Donald Trump implicitly supported the claim. This has been read by analysists
as an attempt to manipulate the stock market; a measure that would both overshadow Trump's
failure in Iraq and save Boeing from bankruptcy.
I didn't find the article on TASS. Maybe it was in its Russian version, or in its
TV/Radio/Podcast version.
I don't discard a terrorist attack from the inside, or sabotage of the plane by the
Ukrainian government. What I think is missile attack can be pretty much discarded: the
evidence the Iranians already have through their air control data discard any possibility, by
sheer logic alone, that that was the case.
Unless, of course, the Iranians are lying. But then there isn't any cui bono for Iran to
lie about it (if it was a mistake they wanted to cover, they could blame a random independent
militia so as to give plausible deniability) with the technical malfunction argument, and now
Russia's foreign minister Ryabkov is on the boat with it - so I don't see the cui bono for
Russia either.
Perseus wore a magic cap so that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. Some of
you choose to draw the magic cap down over your eyes and ears so as to make-believe that
there are no monsters in Iran.
"Some of you choose to draw the magic cap down over your eyes and ears so as to
make-believe that there are no monsters in Iran."
No, it is a lot easier than that.
Most of us dont get paid to post bs about the imperial enemies like you, and most off us
still know how to use our brain.
That is it, nothing more nothing less.
Rob@2 - What do you make of the loss of ADS-B? Could a catastrophic engine failure take out
both power buses? The ADS-B transceiver? I know a the turbine blades turn into little missile
blades when they decide to leave the engine, but I have no idea of the way power is
transferred when either bus or the standby goes down. I assume automatic? Are the transfer
switches anywhere near the engines? Does the APU automatically fire up? I assume the ADS-B
box is in the electronics bay, but where is the antenna?
Thanks b! As I commented towards the end of the previous thread on this topic, the mundane
evidence has already been shown. IMO, if a missile or bomb was employed, the Iranians would
be yelling louder than anyone and the denials would be coming from BigLie Media instead of
accusations. And as I answered psychohistorian, the massive coverage by BigLie media serves
as narrative distraction from what's being obfuscated--casualties taken by Outlaw US Empire
troops and the BDA presented by Iranian Military.
In that regard, The
Saker's update sticks to the important facts of the now escalated ongoing war between
Iran and the Evil Empire.
Sorry, but there's good reasons to suspect foul play - as I and others have explained on the
last thread.
1) Occurs as Iran is on brink of war with USA?; 2) Indications of USA using info war
tactics; 3) airliner owner by Kolomoisky? 4) No communication with tower? 5) USA and Israel
history of duplicity and narrative management (example: MH-17).
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Also: IMO it's dangerous for Iran to invite experts from a group of Western countries.
What is likely to happen is that all the Western experts will be pressure to disagree with
Iran's findings. CIA knows that people will believe the "group of experts!" over Iran.
I don't know how anal Iran is about keeping track of ordinance but they must be pretty
certain as to whether they downed the plane or not! Looks like they are being transparent and
open. If they come out of this proving engine failure or something else then this could be a
great pr coup.
There would be a lot of egg on many faces trying to explain how the intelligence is wrong yet
again. I look forward to watching trudeau walk that back. Hopefully!
One explanation is the Boeing was used as a human shield, a military plane hides behind a
slow moving plane when detected. The ukrainians did it with the MH17 and the israeli with the
russian plane and tried it with the attack on damascus. In both cases there was a lot of
dis-info and blaming right away. But the iranian would have known what the target was, and
mentioned it, so very unlikely.
Another question is the possibility a smaller missile only damaged the plane, also very
unlikely.
Head of Iran Civil Aviation Organization Ali Abedzadeh exaggerates: "From a scientific
viewpoint, it is impossible that a missile hit the Ukrainian plane."
"We can say that the airplane, considering the kind of the crash and the pilot's efforts to
return it to Imam Khomeini airport, didn't explode in the air. So, the allegation that it was
hit by missiles is totally ruled out," the official noted.
Dude, when you're in Wyoming and see critter tracks down by the creek, you would assume it
was Martians rather than antelope? Get real. The Ukie blew a crappy GE engine...they have
this characteristic...
Stay real, use Occam's Razor + physical evidence. Otherwise it's distraction and
TBS...
Craig Murray has been tracking a propagandist Wikipedia editor called "Philip Cross", here
is the main article, but there are others on his site The Philip Cross
Affair
ICAO is in contact with the States involved and will assist them if called upon. Its
leadership is stressing the importance of avoiding speculation into the cause of the tragedy
pending the outcomes of the investigation ...
ICAO may be a worthy organization (some staff changes seem to be warranted), but isn't it
a bit too much?! If this is a sincere wish of democratically elected heads of democratic
nations that they want to form a harmonious chorus and speculate, then no mundane power can
stop them. BTW, what is wrong with Zelensky that he did not join? PTSD after the brutal
telephonies calls? I would add it to the list of proven damages to the security of those
several states that will be debated in the Senate. [end of snark, "several states" is the
entity named in the so-called Constitution of The United States of America].
The flight originated in Teheran, bound for Kiev, but where was it before it arrived in Iran?
It could have been sabotaged anywhere; then easy, right, to set off an onboard bomb by remote
control from the ground? I'm sure Iran is crawling with Mosssad/MI6/CIA spooks.
So you turn a blind eye to atrocities committed by other countries or peoples because the
US government is responsible for the most? Did you even complete your high school education
with that sort of reasoning? I never absolved the US or any other country. Simpletons like
you seem to live in a black and white world in which one side must be chosen over the other.
I feel unfortunate for b or anyone else who frequents this blog who does not view the world
in such a profoundly problematic way.
I am far more informed about Iranian politics, history, culture and religion than most
people here. Please don't allow your hate for the USA, well justified, to cloud your
judgment.
NATO has weaponized aircraft accident investigations. Lawfare in combination with state
terrorism.
It's time for new rules and regulations. ICAO Annex 13 was drafted in different times. A
rule based order is ancient history.
People should be able to chose their destination, route and carrier based on personal
preferences like price and comfort, not on factors like the latest or next conflict zone,
corruption in the countries along the route, military and political adventurism, etc.
- As said before: I didn't believe for one second that that ukrainian plane was shot down. It
would have given the US simply another stick to beat up the iranian government. I assume the
iranians are smart enough to know that. They simply don't want to escalate the situation
more. Although Iran has now the "moral high ground" it is still (very) vulnerable in a number
of ways.
- I think the ukrainian tourists were small traders. I.e. buy stuff e.g. clothing and other
"merchandise" in Teheran, bring it into the Ukraine and then sell that "merchandise" in
Ukraine with a (big) profit.
We have a distinguished professor in our midst! Quite unlike the lowly regular
professors or inconsequential adjunct instructors that normally grace these pages. Let me
kick back and get a tan from the brilliance pouring out of this one! Us high latitude types
have to get our Vitamin D wherever we can.
As for my lack of criticism of Iran's government, that's the business of the Iranian
people and none of my own. The Evil Empire attacking Iran? That, unfortunately, is everyone's
business whether they want it to be or not.
Why is it that these wise guys from the West (Americans mostly) feel it is their duty to
criticize everyone else's governments and cultures when the examples they are setting
themselves are so appallingly bad? Maybe these distinguished critics of other peoples'
ways of life feel that it is easier to fix those other peoples' societies than it is to fix
their own. After all, they apparently feel that fixing other countries just requires some
number of bombs, while fixing their own country... where do they even start? How do you fix
perfection?
I'd be curious to know whether the flight crew on board Flight PS752 had had sufficient rest.
Three hours of resting do not seem like sufficient time but that depends on the journey the
plane made to Tehran, the duration of that journey and where it started. Was the plane also
checked for signs of wear and tear during the three-hour-plus pause?
Are UIA's owners (among them Ihor Kolomoisky) working their employees and hardware assets
too hard and too cheaply as well?
Yes. I think so too. Looks like the engine ran at reduced thrust as they turned, and then
failed entirely at below minimum control speed, with the expected result, asymmetrical stall,
yaw, roll, bang.
There are pictures of severe erosion of what looks like compressor wheel from, presumably,
ingestion of foreign material. Crap on the runway probably, and pencil-whipped maintenance, I
should imagine.
journey80@26 - Kiev is Ukrainian Airlines main hub. The 737 arrived from Kiev earlier that
morning and was returning there.
Jen@36 - No reason to do anything but a cursory safety check at Tehran. The airline's
mechanics are in Kiev - anything beyond a normal pre-flight check involving maintenance would
be done there, not Tehran. I doubt the crew was rested. That's not how UAI rolls on it's hub
round-trips.
UAI is also bleeding money like crazy. They're nearly bankrupt and stole the money they
collect from passengers for the Ukraine Civil Aviation Authority fees. Tens of millions USD.
The new CEO promises to fix everything somehow. I guess by overworking crews, skipping
maintenance and crappy service. Those are always money-savers for cheap, poorly-run airlines
(prior to bankruptcy). Too bad. Supposedly it wasn't that bad of an airline when they first
added passenger service to their existing cargo ops a decade ago, but has been going downhill
ever since.
"Some real gems you got following your blog b." So why are you here?
Ocams razor... bookies odds... planes fall out o the sky from time to time for all sorts of
reasons not related to malicious activity. What are the odds of this occurring in Iran
shortly after an Iran strike on a US base.
The US has and does use terrorist tactics such as shooting down passenger jets. Trump
threatened Iran with retribution against cultural sites and so forth (terrorist actions).
Fifty two targets of fifty two ways of getting back at Iran.
What are the odds US would down a passenger jet in Iran within hours of Iran's strike against
their base.
I have to go with US terrorist actions for that one. Similar to the protests in Iraq. The
people had genuine grievances as do all good color revolutions but the were just too
advantageous for the US for it not to be a made in the US color revolution style protest. We
now know from the Iraq PM that is exactly what it was.
The odds are unrelated unless there's agency. No agency has been credibly proposed. You know
this is so, as the probability maths in se have been discussed previously @ MoA.
But of course, the US does murder all over the place, so if there is agency, then I tend
to agree with the idea that "they" or their cohort in zionishland may be causative. What are
the "odds" that the engine shown has severe blade erosion? Again 100% . Engine swallows scrap
off the tarmac...a dependent relation, drop junk in engine, blades damaged, run at 100%, 100%
"chance" of engine failure.
Repeating the essence of the matter of odds>
"Two events are independent, statistically independent, or stochastically independent if
the occurrence of one does not affect the probability of occurrence of the other
(equivalently, does not affect the odds). Similarly, two random variables are independent if
the realization of one does not affect the probability distribution of the other."
ie without a dependent relationship the odds are whatever the odds are for engine failure
and crash. And the other odds don't exist, because those events, the shooting, was not random
or accidental. The odds of Iran firing rockets in reprisal was dependent on the US attacks,
ie 100%
But if you're building engines at GE, or obsolete defective airplanes in Seattle, then of
course the odds are that you devoutly wish it was a rocket up the tailpipe... Pay-day's come
Friday, and all of that...
I know NYT is a sham, and believe me I held my intellectual nose as I went into its site.
It's not somewhere I frequent at all.
I did think about the point you made too, but there are 2 issues:
1) In the other 2 videos we see the plane as it's already burning, we don't see it in its
"before" state. For me it's reasonable to imagine the hit on the impact caused some initial
burning which was extinguished due to wind, and then started back up again a few moments
after the NYT video ended and before the other 2 videos began.
2) If the NYT video is indeed doctored (and for me it would be a pretty convincing
doctor), why wouldn't the creator simply keep the light going until the end of the vid?
Iran will announce the cause of the Ukrainian Boeing 737 crash after the accident
investigation commission meeting on Saturday, the Fars News agency reported on Thursday,
citing a source familiar with the matter.
"Tomorrow, after the meeting of the civil aviation accident investigation
commission, the cause of the crash of the Ukrainian passenger plane will be announced", the
source said.
Domestic and foreign parties, whose citizens died in the crash, will take part in the
Saturday meeting, the outlet added. They will announce the reason for the accident after
reviewing the preliminary report.
[.]Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko asked that the media not spread "unconfirmed"
information on Friday, pleading with reporters to "reduce the level of speculation" while
the probe continues. The experts are still analyzing evidence, looking at the bodies of the
victims and the wreckage in hope of gaining insight into what took down Ukraine
International Airlines Flight PS752, killing all 176 people on board.[,]
If no one had engaged with nine-drongos the thread would not have been disrupted and perhaps
a useful dialog about the plane crash could have ensued. Those who did swallow the hook are
just as guilty the original whatabouter of making this thread useless - good job. I would say
exercise some discipline but that would be a waste of breath given the insecurities about
their beliefs too many here apparently have. Letting some arsehole spout uninterrupted is a
better indication of your point of view than anger, hysteria or ad hominem. Your stupidity
has caused a thread to fail.
The Ukies know how to obliterate a debris field. MH-17 -- They used artillery for months to
keep OSCE and Dutch officials away, and despite the locals working to protect the deceased
and the debris, body parts have been found years later.
#57 posted by Poor Ramin Mazaheri who works for Press TV and has had many articles published
on The Saker. He would describe the Iranian economy as socialist with Iranian charters. The
link to the article below is an excellent source for information on Iran's economy.
What comes as a surprise to me is ICAO seems to have some integrity. It seems the US and
friends haven't completely taken it over.
You can judge someone by their friends. NATO and the terrorists in Idlib have backed the
killing of Soleimani. Who seems to enjoy killing civilians? The US just droned killed 60
civilians in Afghanistan. Information provided by the Iraqi prime minister showed the US is
willing to use snipers and paid protesters to tear Iraq apart. They utterly destroyed Mosul
and Raqqa without regard for civilians. The Syrian government has tried to avoid civilian
deaths, which is why those who want to cause chaos in the region always accuses them of
targeting civilians. So the US would have no problem getting MEK to or some other group to
shoot the plane down but I'm leaning against that scenario.
The US has been planning to control oil for a long time. In 1975 a feasibility study was
prepared for the Special Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on International
Relations on "Oil fields as military objectives", better described as bringing Democracy to
the Middle East. Well, they did that sorta in Iraq, and now the Iraq government has politely
asked the US to leave and the Iranians have demonstrated to them why they should leave. I'm
not sure if the Ukrainian plane crashing is the next move the US has made in this great game,
but I would put my money on shoddy management of the Ukrainian plane. Why not, the country is
barely functioning. I doubt the plane was hit with a missle. More likely the US can't pass up
an opportunity for stirring trouble and the MSM has no problem memory holing another lie.
Jen Flight PS752 passenger
list shows that the huge majority of passengers carrying Iranian, Canadian and EU passports
were Iranian.
These people were most likely visiting relatives in Iran over Christmas / New Year and were
returning home. They were using UIA because the airline offers cheap flights between North
America, Europe and western Asia with Kiev as a stop-over. Most of these people would have got
off in Kiev and flown back to their home countries on other connecting flights.
Also as far as I know, the plane crashed not long after take-off. That, er, might suggest a
problem with the plane itself. But the Boeing plane is not of the same model as the two Boeing
737 MAX 8 planes that crashed in Indonesia in 2018 and Ethiopia in 2019.
Incidentally there is a new documentary "MH-17: In Search of Truth"
doing the rounds of online alternative news media. The fellow who made the documentary, Vasily
Prozorov, is a former SBU security officer. It makes an interesting claim about the involvement
of Western intelligence agencies and the SBU in creating and carrying out an incident and
distraction, and in controlling and shaping the narrative and the disinformation.
I'm now starting to wonder if there may be a link between the MH17 shoot-down and the
Skripal poisoning incident in March 2018. 3 -1 Reply Jan 9, 2020 9:42 PM
richard le sarc ,
No visual sighting of missile tracks, I see, and the video of the explosion then crash does
not appear to show any. Details, mere details-the presstitute vermin are in full vilification
propaganda mode already.
richard le sarc ,
I'm sorry-Iran ' refuses to hand over the black boxes'???!! To whom? To Bibi Nuttyyahoo,
perhaps? Iran leads the investigation, so they decipher the 'black boxes'. The case of MH17
where the black box information has simply disappeared, tells you what you could expect if
the West ever got their hands on these.
Never mind 9/11 where any blackbox data was most likely fabricated like the planes
themselves.
Yonatan ,
Iran is apparently refusing to hand over the black boxes from the crashed plane.
should be
Under ICAO rules, Iran has no obliation to pass on the black boxes from the crashed plane
to the maker. All it need do is pass them on to any laboratory of its chosing that has ICAO
certification.
Eyewitnesses saw one engine on fire before the crash, the plane still on a glide, but the
737-800 can fly on one engine, others have done so and landed safely.
This leads one to believe this was not a simple "engine on fire" situation.
If indeed it was a shoot-down, it was far enough away from the security-protected area of
the airport, but not so high that a simple manpad-type weapon would be ruled out.
Another option is a small bomb placed in an engine cowl, which could be activated by
altitude sensing or remote control (the plane wasn't very high, and the probable flight path
well known). Big enough device to damage the engine and start a fire and maybe knock out the
shut-off and fire suppression systems, but not big enough to be obvious. The engine fails,
spits out turbine blades which damage the wing and puncture fuel tanks, damage the avionics
for the whole plane. Rotor speeds will be in the multiple-10,000s RPM, so a LOT of kinetic
energy when these things come apart.
Cui bono? The obvious answer is the Deep State Zionists in Israel and the US, so this may
have been a Mossad operation, with or without the knowledge of the CIA or US military.
The fact Trumpty Dumbdy is playing the "deescalation card" so strongly could indicate he
didn't authorize it and hopes to stop Nuttyyahoo/Mossad from frog-marching him into a war
that would lose him the next election for being a flip-flopper on his last election "end the
endless proxy wars" rhetoric.
"By deception shall you do war"... the Mossad mission statement.
If US officials claim they are "confident", that actually means they don't have a shred of
evidence. Intelligence lingo.
It's too early to call but POTUS claims Iran shot down the Ukrainian 737 near Tehran. On
CBS fake News they suggest that the US have satellite imagery showing two SAM launches right
before the crash.
Almost six years down the road we are still waiting for the MH17 satellite imagery that
exist according to John Kerry. He was lying or the images and the narrative don't match.
Hint: the second option.
To prevent crashing airliners, PSYOPS, sanctions, fake trials etc. steer well clear of the
Ukraine, Ukrainians, Ukrainian airspace, the Ukrainian army, Ukrainian missiles and Ukrainian
planes. You don't want to touch the Ukraine, not even with a very long stick.
We can be confident (in the normal sense of the word) that Bellingcat will be involved.
Those NATO sponsored citizen propagandist will spend countless hours doctoring "evidence" and
spinning neocon lies to their heart's content.
It must have been a Russian BUK that was driven on the back of a trailer by Putin's niece
all the way from Kursk to Tehran, a direct order from the Kremlin!
In Turkey the trailer almost overran Bana Alabed and evil Assad provided some Novichok
along the way to coat the throttles of the 737 in case the missile wouldn't hit its intended
target. Boeing 737's don't fall from the sky on their own.
A fact finding mission from the OPCW has left The Hague for Tehran, they might even find
some cannisters containing chlorine in the wreckage. It looks like they dropped from the air,
they were not placed there manually.
The Dutch Safety Board is 100% independent from NATO influence and could conduct the
accident investigation in an impartial way. No conflict of interest whatsoever.
The Ukraine will be part of the Joint Investigation Team that does the criminal
investigation and to assure everything will be done according to law they will even get a
veto right over the investigation.
Iran can be confident that justice will be served.
The Ukraine wants to do the 737 accident investigation. Why? To delegate it to the Dutch, get
Bellingcat involved and blame it on Russia?
I am sure Bellingcat will find some shitty video online of a Russian Buk that backed up
all the way from Kursk to Tehran without nobody else noticing it. Putin's niece was driving
it by direct order from the Kremlin!
Mike Pence will blame Iran for MH17 and Iraq will be sanctioned for it. Don't you just love the rule based order?
Ukraine is now a pawn in a big geopolitical game against Russia. Which somehow survived 90th when everybody including myself has
written it off.
That's why the USA, EU (Germany) and Russia pulling the country in different directions. But the victory of Ukrainian nationalists
is not surprising and is not solely based on the US interferences (although the USA did lot in this direction) pursuit its geopolitical
game against Russia. Distancing themselves from Russa is a universal trend in Post-Soviet space. And it often takes ugly forms.
So Ukraine in not an exception here. It is part of the "rule". Essentially the dissolution of the USSR revised the result on WWII.
And while the author correctly calls Ukrainian leader US stooges, they moved in this direction because they feel that it is necessary
for maintaining the independence. In other words anti-Russian stance is considered by the Ukrainian elite as a a pre-condition for mainlining
independence. Otherwise people like Parubiy would be in jail very soon. They are tolerated and even promoted because they are useful.
It repeats the story of Baltic Republics, albeit with a significant time delay. There should be some social group that secure independence
of the country and Ukrainian nationalists happen to be such a group. That's why Yanukovich supported them and Svoboda party (with predictable
results).
Notable quotes:
"... The ideological fissures that are growing in the United States are beginning to resemble the warring camps that characterize the Ukrainian political world. The divide in Ukraine pits groups who are described as "right wing" and many are ideological descendants of real Nazis and Nazi sympathizers against groups with a strong affinity to Russia. This kind of gap cannot be bridged through conventional negotiations. ..."
"... Jump ahead now to the April 2014 "uprising" of anti-Russian forces in the Ukraine (Maidan 2). The US was firmly on the side of the protesters, who ultimately succeeded in ousting the elected President. And who were helping lead this effort? ..."
"... The US support, both overt and covert, for Ukrainian politicians is grounded in an anti-Soviet (now anti-Russian) ideology. We have convinced ourselves that Russia is hell bent on world domination. Therefore we must do whatever is necessary to stop Russia, which includes uncritical, blind support for elements in Ukraine that also detest the Russians. But in doing so we have closed our eyes to the filthy underbelly of the virulent anti-Semitism that lurks in western Ukraine. ..."
"... US meddling in the Ukraine is astonishing in its breadth. It ranges from the fact that the wife of former President Viktor Yuschenko was an American citizen and former senior official in the US State Department. Do you think there would be no complaints if Melania Trump was born in Russia and had served in the Russian Foreign Ministry? Yet, most Americans are happily ignorant of such facts. ..."
"... US interference was not confined to serendipitous relationships, such as the Yushchenko marriage. It also included the open and active funding of certain political groups and media outlets. The US State Department sent money through a variety of outlets. One of these was the Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening aka CEPPS. ..."
"... This is : ..."
"... Count me as one of the people who is outraged by the hypocrisy and stupidity now on display in the United States. I am not talking about Trump. I am referring to the Republicans and Democrats and pundits and media mouthpieces who are fuming about Russian citizens writing on Facebook as one of the worst catastrophes since Pearl Harbor or 9-11. ..."
"... There clearly is meddling going on in America's political landscape. But it isn't the Russian Government. No. There are foreign and domestic forces aligned who are keen on portraying Russia as a threat to world order that must be opposed by more defense spending and tougher sanctions. That is the propaganda that dominates the media in the United States these days. And that is truly dangerous to our nation's safety and freedom. ..."
"... A CIA guy recently said the US only interferes to 'promote democracy' - tell that to Australia, Vietnam, Mexico, Chile, Congo, Russia, Ukraine...it's a long long list. ..."
"... An independent Ukraine was also a project of German foreign policy after the Brest-Litowsk Treaty (the equivalent of the Versailles Treaty, only aimed at Russia) SO I have o wonder how much of the enthusiasm for Vicky Nuland's Israel friendly Nazi state-let (oh what irony!) is a product of Germany wanting to reassert itself in the east, using NATO solidarity as a fig leaf. Maybe they will make Ukraine import a lot o Africans "refugees" so that Soros' project of creating a brown Europe will be advanced in the Slavic sphere as well as the west. ..."
"... The liberal party - who provides the prime-minister - EU leader Hans van Baalen and Belgian ex-prime minister Guy Verhostad held a controversial speech on the Maidan square in support of the protesters that the EU will support them. ..."
"... I wouldn't put to much stress on Bandera having been a bad guy. His enemies were no better. They just won the war and the victors write history. The deeper problem of Ukraine is the fact that in the East of the country (and maybe even the majority of the country) Bandera is indeed regarded as a villain. But in the West he is a hero to this day. Even in Soviet times people from Western Ukraine were regarded as "fascists" by much of the rest of the country. No wonder as there were anti soviet partisans until late in the fifties. ..."
"... "Prorussian" Kutshma turned into a Ukrainian "patriot" (such is the logic of statehood) and the same thing happened with Yanukovich. People forget that he would have signed an association agreement with Europe had Europe not refused because he was insufficiently "democratic". ..."
"... But the West wanted it all. They wanted Ukraine firmly in the "Western" camp. Thereby they ripped the country apart. As a good friend of mine who has studied in Kiev in Soviet times remarked: to ask Ukraine to choose between East and West is like asking a child in divorce proceedings who it liked more: daddy or mummy? ..."
"... A very interesting conversation between Victoria Nulland and ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, caught at picking the future rulers of liberated Ukraine : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QxZ8t3V_bk This is not meddling. This is a defensive (preemptive?) action against Russian agression. ..."
"... I've never seen such an intense barrage of propaganda before in my life. America is fracturing apart like Ukraine. This is no coincidence. In both countries, oligarchs have seized power, the rule of law abandoned and there is a rush of corruption. ..."
"... What we did to Ukraine is shameful in every way. A remember a video of a pallet of money being unloaded from a USG place at Kiev during Maidan 2. That's in addition to Nuland's bag of cookies. I always thought that one of the objectives of our meddling in Ukraine was to make Sevastopol into a NATO naval base. ..."
"... Our leaders are the biggest hypocrites on the planet. The Ukraine was almost evenly divided between pro-Western and pro-Russian sides. Our government, rather than waiting for an election, assisted an armed rebellion against the elected pro-Russian government. Among the groups our government allied with in this endeavor were out and out Nazis. ..."
The ideological fissures that are growing in the United States are beginning to resemble the warring camps that characterize
the Ukrainian political world. The divide in Ukraine pits groups who are described as "right wing" and many are ideological descendants
of real Nazis and Nazi sympathizers against groups with a strong affinity to Russia. This kind of gap cannot be bridged through conventional
negotiations.
Who is the United States government and media supporting? The Nazis . You think I'm joking. Here are the facts, but we must go
back to World War II
:
When World War II began a large part of western Ukraine welcomed the German soldiers as liberators from the recently enforced
Soviet rule and openly collaborated with the Germans. The Soviet leader, Stalin, imposed policies that caused the deaths of almost
7 million Ukrainians in the 1930s--an era known as the Holomodor).
Ukrainian divisions, regiments and battalions were formed, such as SS Galizien, Nachtigal and Roland, and served under German
leadership. In the first few weeks of the war, more than 80 thousand people from the Galizien region volunteered for the SS Galizien,
which later known for its extreme cruelty towards Polish, Jewish and Russian people on the territory of Ukraine.
Members of these military groups came mostly from the organization of Ukrainian nationalists aka the OUN, which was founded in
1929. It's leader was Stepan Bandera, known then and today for his extreme anti-semitic and anti-communist views.
CIA documents just recently declassified show strong ties between US intelligence and Ukrainian nationalists since 1946.
Jump ahead now to the April 2014 "uprising" of anti-Russian forces in the Ukraine (Maidan 2). The US was firmly on the side
of the protesters, who ultimately succeeded in ousting the elected President.
And who were helping lead
this effort?
Secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council is Andriy Parubiy. Parubiy was the founder of the Social National
Party of Ukraine, a fascist party styled on Hitler's Nazis, with membership restricted to ethnic Ukrainians.
The Social National Party would go on to become Svoboda, the far-right nationalist party whose leader,
Oleh Tyahnybok was
one of the three most high profile leaders of the Euromaidan protests. . . .
Overseeing the armed forces alongside Parubiy as the Deputy Secretary of National Security is
Dmytro Yarosh , the leader of the Right
Sector – a group of hardline nationalist streetfighters, who
previously boasted they were ready for
armed struggle to free Ukraine.
The US support, both overt and covert, for Ukrainian politicians is grounded in an anti-Soviet (now anti-Russian) ideology.
We have convinced ourselves that Russia is hell bent on world domination. Therefore we must do whatever is necessary to stop Russia,
which includes uncritical, blind support for elements in Ukraine that also detest the Russians. But in doing so we have closed our
eyes to the filthy underbelly of the virulent anti-Semitism that lurks in western Ukraine.
US meddling in the Ukraine is astonishing in its breadth. It ranges from the fact that the wife of former President Viktor
Yuschenko was an American citizen and former senior official in the US State Department. Do you think there would be no complaints
if Melania Trump was born in Russia and had served in the Russian Foreign Ministry? Yet, most Americans are happily ignorant of such
facts.
But Viktor Yushchenko is not an American who speaks a foreign language. He is very much a Ukrainian nationalist and steeped in
the anti-Semitism that dominates the ideology of western Ukraine. During the final months of his Presidency, Yushchenko made the
following declaration:
In conclusion I would like to say something that is long awaited by the Ukrainian patriots for many years I have signed a decree
for the unbroken spirit and standing for the idea of fighting for independent Ukraine. I declare Stepan Bandera a national hero of
Ukraine.
Without hesitation or shame, Yushchenko endorsed the legacy of Bandera, who had happily aligned with the Nazis in pursuit of his
own nationalist goals. Those goals, however, did not include Jews. And here is the ultimate irony--Bandera was born in Austria, not
the Ukraine. So much for ideological consistency.
US interference was not confined to serendipitous relationships, such as the Yushchenko marriage. It also included the open
and active funding of certain political groups and media outlets. The US State Department sent money through a variety of outlets.
One of these was the Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening aka CEPPS.
This is :
a USAID program with other National Endowment for Democracy-affiliated groups: the National Democratic Institute for International
Affairs, the International Republican Institute and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems. In 2010, the reported disbursement
for CEPPS in Ukraine was nearly $5 million.
The program's efforts are described on the USAID website as providing "training for political party activists and locally elected
officials to improve communication with civic groups and citizens, and the development of NGO-led advocacy campaigns on electoral
and political process issues."
Anyone prepared to argue that it would be okay for Russia, through its Foreign Ministry, to contribute several million dollars
for training party activists in the United States?
What we do not know is how much money was being spent on covert activities directed and managed by the CIA. During the political
upheaval in April 2014 (Maidan 2), there was this news item:
Over the weekend, CIA director John Brennan travelled to Kiev, nobody knows exactly why, but some speculate that he intends to
open US intelligence resources to Ukrainian leaders about real-time Russian military maneuvers. The US has, thus far, refrained from
sharing such knowledge because Moscow is believed to have penetrated much of Ukraine's communications systems – and
Washington isn't about to hand over its surveillance secrets to the
Russians.
Do you think Americans would be outraged if the head of Russia's version of the CIA, the SVR or FSB, traveled quietly to the United
States to meet with Donald Trump prior to his election? I think that would qualify as meddling.
Count me as one of the people who is outraged by the hypocrisy and stupidity now on display in the United States. I am not
talking about Trump. I am referring to the Republicans and Democrats and pundits and media mouthpieces who are fuming about Russian
citizens writing on Facebook as one of the worst catastrophes since Pearl Harbor or 9-11.
There clearly is meddling going on in America's political landscape. But it isn't the Russian Government. No. There are foreign
and domestic forces aligned who are keen on portraying Russia as a threat to world order that must be opposed by more defense spending
and tougher sanctions. That is the propaganda that dominates the media in the United States these days. And that is truly dangerous
to our nation's safety and freedom.
Good post pt.. thanks... i never knew ''the wife of former President Viktor Yushchenko was an American citizen and former senior
official in the US State Department.'' That is informative.. i recall following this closely back in 2014.. the hypocrisy on display
in the usa at present is truly amazing and frightening at the same time.. it appears that the public can be cowed very easily..
On the twitters, you would be accused of "whatabouttism" - which is the crime of excusing Putin's diabolism by pointing out
American interference with the internal politics an elections of other nations. A CIA guy recently said the US only interferes
to 'promote democracy' - tell that to Australia, Vietnam, Mexico, Chile, Congo, Russia, Ukraine...it's a long long list.
An independent Ukraine was also a project of German foreign policy after the Brest-Litowsk Treaty (the equivalent of the
Versailles Treaty, only aimed at Russia) SO I have o wonder how much of the enthusiasm for Vicky Nuland's Israel friendly Nazi
state-let (oh what irony!) is a product of Germany wanting to reassert itself in the east, using NATO solidarity as a fig leaf.
Maybe they will make Ukraine import a lot o Africans "refugees" so that Soros' project of creating a brown Europe will be advanced
in the Slavic sphere as well as the west.
It's not only the US. The EU borg are also meddling. In my country we had a referendum about Ukraine. The population voted "Against"
on the question: "Are you for or against the Approval Act of the Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine?"
This was the only referendum that was done since it was implemented in 2015. A second one is being organized on the Intelligence
and Security Services which has controversial parts with regard to access to internet traffic.
This referendum will take place on March 21, 2018 and will probably be voted against because of the controversial elements
(in part because there is still living memory of our Eastern neighbors in the second world war)
These 2 will probably be the last. Our house of representatives have voted yesterday to end the referendum law (with a majority
vote of 76 out of 150 representatives!)
So much for democracy. The reason stated that the referendum was controversial (probably because they voted against the EU
borg). Interesting is that the proposal was done by the party that wanted the referendum as a principal point. This will almost
certainly ensure that the little respect left for traditional parties is gone and they will not be able to get a majority next
elections.
The liberal party - who provides the prime-minister - EU leader
Hans van Baalen and Belgian ex-prime minister Guy
Verhostad held a controversial speech on the Maidan square in support of the protesters that the EU will support them.
I wouldn't put to much stress on Bandera having been a bad guy. His enemies were no better. They just won the war and the
victors write history. The deeper problem of Ukraine is the fact that in the East of the country (and maybe even the majority
of the country) Bandera is indeed regarded as a villain. But in the West he is a hero to this day. Even in Soviet times people
from Western Ukraine were regarded as "fascists" by much of the rest of the country. No wonder as there were anti soviet partisans
until late in the fifties.
Even in the nineties anybody who travelled in Ukraine could feel the tension between East and West. The Russians were certainly
aware of it and mindful not to rip the country apart they cut the Ukrainians an enormous amount of slack. Of course they supported
"their" candidates and shoveled money into their insatiable throats. Only to be disappointed time and again. "Prorussian"
Kutshma turned into a Ukrainian "patriot" (such is the logic of statehood) and the same thing happened with Yanukovich. People
forget that he would have signed an association agreement with Europe had Europe not refused because he was insufficiently "democratic".
Really the West should have been content with things as they were.
But the West wanted it all. They wanted Ukraine firmly in the "Western" camp. Thereby they ripped the country apart. As
a good friend of mine who has studied in Kiev in Soviet times remarked: to ask Ukraine to choose between East and West is like
asking a child in divorce proceedings who it liked more: daddy or mummy?
Really the West (not only the US -the Eu is also guilty) is to blame. It is long past time to get down from the high horse
and stop spreading chaos and mayhem in the name of democracy,
An informative column. The coup & later developments soured me on the MSMedia. I'm an initiate into modern Russian
history: NATO in the Ukraine = WW3!
Some additional history:
A Ukrainian nation did not exist until after WW1; one piece was Russian, another Polish and another Austrian. The Holodomor
is exaggerated for political purposes; the actual number dead from famine appears to be 'only' 2M. It wasn't Soviet bloody mindedness,
it was Soviet agricultural mismanagement; collectivizing agriculture drops production.
They did this right before the great drought of the 1930s - remember the dustbowl. There was a famine in Kazakestan at the
same time; 1.5M died.
The Nazis raised 5 SS divisions out of the Ukraine. As the Germans were pushed back they ran night drops of ordnance into the
Ukraine as long as they could. The Soviets had to carry on divisional level counter insurgency until 1956. After the war, Gehlen,
Nazi intelligence czar, kept himself out of jail by turning over his files, routes & agents to the US. He also stoked anti Soviet
paranoia.
The Brits ended up with a whole Ukr SS division that they didn't want, so they gave it to Canada. Which is why Canada has such
cranky policy around the Ukraine!
A very interesting conversation between Victoria Nulland and ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, caught at picking the future rulers
of liberated Ukraine : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QxZ8t3V_bk
This is not meddling. This is a defensive (preemptive?) action against Russian agression.
I'm sure you'd like us to ignore Bandera. I bet he liked children and dogs. Just like Hitler. Bandera was a genuine bad
guy. There is no rehabilitating that scourge on society. Nice try though.
I am giving you the benefit of the doubt that your final comment is sarcasm. When you have two senior US Government officials
who will and will not constitute a foreign government, you have gone beyond meddling. It is worse.
The media is hysterical. Today, Putin's Facebook Bot Collaborator contacted the Kremlin before his mercenaries attacked Americans
in Syria.
I've never seen such an intense barrage of propaganda before in my life. America is fracturing apart like Ukraine. This
is no coincidence. In both countries, oligarchs have seized power, the rule of law abandoned and there is a rush of corruption.
A World War is near. The realists are gone. The Moguls are pushing Donald Trump pull the trigger. Either in Syria with an assault
to destroy Hezbollah (Iran) for good or American trainers going over the top of trenches in Donbass in a centennial attack of
the dead.
Hallelujah and jubilation! We're in full agreement on this subject. What we did to Ukraine is shameful in every way. A
remember a video of a pallet of money being unloaded from a USG place at Kiev during Maidan 2. That's in addition to Nuland's
bag of cookies. I always thought that one of the objectives of our meddling in Ukraine was to make Sevastopol into a NATO naval
base.
I would definitely want to see a full account of what support we provided to the nazi thugs of Svoboda and Pravy Sektor. We
have a long history of meddling, at least twice as long as the Soviet Union/Russia. But that does not mean we should stop investigating
the Russian interference in our 2016 election. Just stop hyperventilating over it. It no more deserves risking a war than our
continuing mutual espionage.
Our leaders are the biggest hypocrites on the planet. The Ukraine was almost evenly divided between pro-Western and pro-Russian
sides. Our government, rather than waiting for an election, assisted an armed rebellion against the elected pro-Russian government.
Among the groups our government allied with in this endeavor were out and out Nazis.
As a result of this rebellion, the Russian majority in Crimea overwhelming voted to leave the Ukraine and rejoin Russia, which
they had been part of for over 150-years. While our government continues to provide military aid to Israel, which used force of
arms take over the West Bank, it imposed sanctions against Russia when the people of Crimea voted to join their former countrymen.
Mind boggling.
Journalist Alexander Petrakov in his article he stated that the Russian Federation is a lot
of evidence of innocence Russia and militias DND in the collapse of the Malaysian "Boeing".
"Your problem is that you have lived your whole life if there are rules. But there are no
rules." Lorne Malvo (series "Fargo", 2014)
Intelligence agencies recruit pornographers to lead their disinformation operations,
apparently because porn purveyors are so lacking in ethics they will tell public lies about
anything
Optimists probably should not read any further, as well as those who think that the higher
you sit the better you know. As well as pacifists, all those for thom "peace, friendship, and
chewing gum" has the absolute value, some kind of religion. I can't convince those types for
sure.
So I address this article to those who like me understand that it's time to start to think
independently, be skeptical. And do not absorb blindly what TV talk heads are saying, no matter
in what country you currently live and you nationality.
After the terrible catastrophe Malaysian liner we can see two major hypothesis, two points
of views and two "truth": one is Russian position and the second version promoted by Ukraine
and supported by the USA (or vice versa).
Which one you should believe more? The one that promoted by MSM of G7 countries or one that
is promoted Russian MSM by and some other from the "the rest of the world". The answer, in
fact, already evident. The "world-at-large" typically assumes that the "truth" is the view
represented by CNN, Fox News and Euronews. The one that is written on the pages of The New York
Times and republished by referring to "an unnamed source in the state Department" (or our very
special Jen Psaki) Washington Post.
I personally am confident that most of as see that despite is growing evidence of innocence
of rebels in the terrible tragedy the rest of the world these days and hours sees and hears
another, "alternative" hypothesis only.
"Civilized world" talk about "persuasive evidence" of the guilt of the Russian Federation
and the rebels of Donbass. Of evidence, however, is weak and contradictive. But it does not
matter. If you repeat a lie clearly and firmly, with honest eyes on a brave face of various and
sundry talking heads let's say one thousand times - people will say it's the fact; that it is
the axiom based on which events need to interpreted. This isan all trick but it works. "Why,
everybody knows about it", "all about this and they say".
This basic factor here is the power of PR. It is like artillery in was and as Napoleon noted
God is firmly on the side of those with better artillery. Repetition lead to adoption of
information and gradually a person begins to perceive it as his/her own point of view.
Especially if the same information is provided by the whole spectrum of media outlets - TV,
radio, Internet, and newspapers.
The average American, European, Japanese or Australian are brainwashed and belave that the
rebels robbed the dead people on the aircraft and then cash credit card dead in Russia. While
adding sure that this is "Russian rebels." As these "Russian rebels" learn or pick up in the
open field access codes, passwords to the cards are for some reason forgotten. And why? In a
democratic and free world video information rules and does not require any critical thinking:
many of wisdom is much grief...
In each of the first CNN necessarily adds that "Russia is hampered the investigation", but
it owes "effective and really help Ukraine," and that it "remained days or even hours, to show
good will".
How can "interfere" investigation on foreign territory nobody elaborates. And why...
everything is clear.
Then this phantasmagoria was added to the story of the companies Dutch and Malay over which
bogumiles... and again refrain is "Russian".
From the first day of Maidan in the focus of the world media was not Ukraine, and Russia -
all of us. Saying "Russia", "Russian" we have formed a new image in the eyes of the whole
world". First it was the image of aggressor, now it is the image of criminal, terrorist. Not
only conqueror, but the murderer.
And we are from the last bum up to the first person in the state did not understand, did not
want to understand that our actions, words, "signals" nothing depends on it. Because no matter
what he says and does Putin. It is important that will show and tell CNN.
Imagine that you are playing chess. On the table is a chess Board, the figures are placed in
the proper order. You sit down and make a move, then another. All as it should be. And your
opponent starts to move the pieces in random order. Then do sweeps them away from the Board and
yells at the whole audience that he won, and you're a cheater and a crook, but when you open
your mouth begins to beat you Board on the head.
So even if the Kremlin together wore embroidered shirts and jumped around the flag "right
sector, the world would have seen more. That will show and tell him free and NeroLive media.
That's why I did not believe and do not believe that our "restraint" someone and something to
"keep" and anybody, and I will convince.
We talked about the inhumanity, the horrors of the moods of Nazism in Ukraine elites in the
US and Europe. Told those who everyone knows and understands. And who simply don't care. This
same "Russians" harness, hammer, rape, blow up, shoot... the "Russian barbarians", not
"civilized people".
Maidan created the project "Banderovskiy-oligarachat" in Ukraine" and far right nationists
were allowed to do this by the west and after the victory pumped hatred to Russia to the skies.
To suspteinit they badly need a flase flag operation like MH17 to present Russians as the
monsters.
Unfortunately Russia was caught by this false flag operation with hands down and initially
tired to play by the rules of the normal world. But that faith that the West will dela tih
Russia bases on common rules applicable in notmal world fell a few days ago from a height of 10
km and shattered into many tiny fragments.
Ukraine IMHO originally I wrote about this in March, April, may and not designed it as a
trap. It might be an unfortunate incident due to decrepit state of Ukrainian air defense forces
(but the question why they moved them to this area remain in this case unanswered). But as soon
the shooing happened the plan emerge to blame it on Russia. To present it as an act of genocide
by Russian mercenaries.
But most importantly, it was to become a stage on which the imagies of the wreckage were
used to project the horror and disgust on Russia. They want to punish, to destroy us any cost
and any methods from economic to military.
We tried to convince ourselves of the last already strength (and many still do)that any -
even the most secret of our intervention, give a reason for the aggression against us. As if it
were a "pretext" for example, you cannot create a virtual, on the computer and then show around
the world. Or not to create artificially: blowing up the plane, the train, the city, nuclear
will dance...
Remember, as Secretary Powell was shaking in the UN powder with Siberian ulcer" from Saddam.
"The plague" was then washing powder. The country was bombed to the stage of democracy, and
Powell... apologized sparingly in his memoirs.
Remember about the plots of terrible Serbian concentration camps in 1994, in Srebrenica.
It's people came out in Europe on the streets and demanded to bomb, to punish, to stop. When
the "bombed, punished, stopped, it became clear that terrible place belonged... to Bosnian
Muslims of Izetbegovica, and dying people were just Serb prisoners. At that time anybody
especially did not even apologize.
Finally, remember about the shocking footage of atrocities troops Gaddafi, killing women,
children and the elderly. Already when Gaddafi was executed so that the footage was dashed
against this background, and Libya drowned in real blood, it turned out that all the
"atrocities" were shot in Qatar at a local Studio. Filmed venerable Hollywood Directors "at the
request of the sheikhs".
Why the attack with "Boeing". No, this is not an excuse to enter NATO troops (it different
enough to sign a bilateral agreement on military assistance, and then to show images of the
"Russian occupation of Kyiv"). This is a PR-move, information technology.
In the history blown up with "Boeing" are three possible answers, but the whole world hears
only one - it blew up "Russians" militias and the Russian Federation, we all are responsible
for that. No matter what the investigation has just begun, which is not examined a "black
boxes". Tube Powell is already lying on the table Obama, and the "free media" ready to show
people the terrible Serbian concentration camp".
Russian experts have already talked about all the falsifications. Posted we have trumps,
evidence. Only the world could see and hear more. About "Russian", nadrugalas over the dead and
robbed them. And about the "Russian" the terrorists of Donbass.
The testimony of our experts, Ministers, diplomats referred to as "doubtful" and "require
additional verification". Brad Avakov, screeching Poroshenko and all the hysteria over the
possessed Yatseniuk called "serious" and "convincing" evidence. It's hard, it's really not want
to believe we are living by the rules that don't exist. But it is a reality. And other reality
and never will.
The verdict is still pending, but already discussed future sanctions and made the first
proposal for "punishing Russia". Began policy - real and cynical, as usual.
What will be after the judgment has already announced the verdict?
Kiev junta now at the level of negotiations with heads of state and official requests of the
international organization requires to recognize the militias and their educated patterns -
terrorist network. As soon as the version on the guilt of the rebels is recognized by the
Western countries, LNR and DND declared outside the law from the point of view of the
international law.
Then Ukraine will likely together with one of the permanent members of the UN security
Council (USA, France or the United Kingdom) requests to enter into the conflict zone "blue
helmets of the United Nations, but not for peace, and for "police" transactions - by analogy
with African countries, where the UN staff often help governments to disarm or destroy
terrorist groups. No "cultivation and separation of the parties in such cases is not
performed.
The composition of the police corps, representatives of Russia, as we all understanding,
will not turn on. We now state - sponsor and accomplice of terrorists." As Iran, for
example.
How many will vote for our country - I don't know and guess not want. If you support a
resolution sadly, the South-East will be cleared by the Ukrainian guards and legalized under
the UN flag armies of Western countries. Around the Crimea they will also be created land and
then Maritime cordon.
If you use the right of veto, the world media will announce that we are "proved" his guilt
and continue to cover terrorists and murderers".
Sanctions against Russia in any of these scenarios would multiply and they will be really
ambitious, hard and long. States sponsoring terrorism "South stream" is not build and Mistral
they do not sell. And we are so seriously to sanctions not prepared, more talked about it on
TV. Of course, we will survive, but we have very hard and difficult.
Ukraine will begin to arm to the teeth as she bids to join NATO despite the fact that NATO
Charter prohibits to NATO countries with unsolved territorial problems from joining. They will
assign the status of associate member bloc.
But nothing is finished. Because first we were framed as aggressors. And the rest of the
world believed. Now we were framed as terrorists. And as soon as the "civilized world" would
believe it will become a logical last move: to put us beasts.
"It remains to figure out how to save the current US administration, while avoiding a world
war
"the Plane was shot down by Ukrainians, shot down by accident, there will be no
investigation, no one needs it
in the blog print version
The expert debate about Boeing will now be about how many demons can fit on the tip of a
needle. Everyone is already clear, it remains to figure out how to save the current US
administration, while avoiding a world war.
All the latest news about the investigation of the disaster over the Donbass say only one
thing: everything is clear, but the problems are still ahead.
The main theses are as follows: the plane was shot down by Ukrainians, shot down by accident,
there will be no investigation, no one needs it. I'll explain in more detail.
A lot has been said about the information war: the Americans started it, and they are now
out of it, sadly. There is no point in sorting through the array of objective evidence –
we must give the American side the opportunity to get out of all this with honor, because if
the United States does not succeed, we will all again face the threat of total war.
One
Never and under no circumstances will the Ukrainian side make public its means of objective
control, if they exist at all. Most likely, they have already been destroyed. Recognition of
the randomness of the shot – however it may be classified-is the last chance for the US
to get out of the dirty Ukrainian swamp. Yes, an accident, it happens in war. But it needs to
be explained to a Western audience.
And if it is impossible to understand, then you just have to remember: the Ukrainian army
shoots where it wants and what it wants to objects. And sometimes nowhere at all.
Let me remind you that in old Yugoslavia for a long time hunted for the officers of the
Serbian artillery, which with a rare drunk once (!) shot in the direction of Croatian
Dubrovnik. They were found ten years later and sent to the Hague. Why? Because the Croatian
side in time declared everywhere where reached, including UNESCO in which list the
city-monument Dubrovnik is entered, about atrocities of the Serbian artillery.
Two
Yes, we are all here at the level of unfunny jokes know that the Ukrainian rocket, if you send
it to the plane, will definitely fly to the tree. And vice versa. For those who were born and
raised in the Soviet Union, this is a given. But the Westerner has to prove it and explain it.
He, a Westerner, used to think that if a guy could speak APE English fluently, even if he had a
strong accent, he was still our local guy. So it was with Saakashvili and Yushchenko. They were
also married to Western ladies. And then with Yatsenyuk Turchynov, tied to both the American
sect. They're twice their own.
The guy from the West used to think that if the missile system is put on combat duty, it is
worth something. He can not explain that for twenty-three years, the Ukrainian army conducted
only one air defense exercise – in 2001. And it ended up being shot down over the Black
sea by a Russian plane. After that, no (!) and never (!) there were no exercises in
Ukraine.
Three
References to the war in South Ossetia, in which it was the Ukrainian crews of "Buks" perfectly
proved themselves by shooting down four Russian objects under the Georgian obscene hooting,
also do not work. Georgians with great difficulty found across Ukraine two crews for all the
same "Buks", whose commanders of calculations were Americans of Polish origin.
Most of these brave Ukrainian anti-aircraft gunners after the war 08.08.08 died under unclear
circumstances, and the survivors were drunk (the city of Stryi, Lviv region, the former air
defense base of the Carpathian military district of the USSR armed forces). And no one has
tried to train the new crews as unnecessary.
Inventory of missiles, by the way, no one held, and it did not make sense, because the missiles
were sold right and left, and that is especially sinful-it is to the left, that is, to
countries that the same US declare "outcasts". Target capture guidance system-a complex thing,
" Buk " is able to simultaneously conduct up to 24 goals, and it is not clear what exactly saw
on the radar specific lad.
Four
The Boeing could give additional signals. It could be untried equipment, which will now be
difficult to admit to the Malaysian airline.
Even if the "Boeing" shone an additional beacon-it could cause the launch of the rocket. And
there were several objects on the radar that were moving towards the war zone – here a
spontaneous launch of a missile is more than possible. During the cold war, passenger planes
were very often used for reconnaissance purposes, loading them with photographic equipment.
This, of course, is not our case, and the times are quite different – satellites fly with
impunity, but still no one has yet shown how perfect was the plane itself, its crew and strange
course.
Five
By the way, the base of American drones working for the Kiev government is located in Kanatovo
near Dnepropetrovsk, just in the area of the flight of the "Boeing". This is an old abandoned
Soviet air force base of those that grew sunflowers by the end of the 90's.
But recently there arrived Americans, all rebuilt, and now this former collective farm field is
called the 66th separate brigade of the air force of Ukraine, although from the Ukrainian there
are only signs and dogs. Live there American military, and are based only American drones, of
which two have already been shot down. The first – in the spring on Perekop Russian
fighter, the second-over Donetsk militia, and it almost entirely fell into their hands.
For the United States, the explanation of all that has happened is a kind of unintentional
accident, or even better-the synergy of many accidents-almost the only way to calmly and
technically get out of the game.
Technically, you just need to "chat" for a couple of weeks. And then the evidence from the
"black boxes" will not be so relevant, and in General the whole story will be erased from
memory, perhaps against the background of other circumstances.
Six
But it will not be possible to talk about the circumstances of what is happening in Novorossiya
at all. Many found this place on the map. Many began to watch the news. And there, for example,
the tone of CNN correspondents radically changed after they got access to Lugansk and Donetsk
on the tail of Malaysian representatives.
No Western journalist had been in the combat zone for three months, and now they were
impartially reporting live that civilians were being killed, that heavy artillery fire was
being fired from Ukrainian positions on residential areas, and, most interestingly, the
presenters in the Studio never interrupted them. And this on CNN and Foxnews do at times. But
now the words are accompanied by a picture of the bodies of apparently civilians torn apart.
And just like that, even Christian Amanpour won't interrupt anyone.
Seven
Most likely, it is the discussion of the set of accidents that led to the missile salvo that
will soon become dominant. A half-trained or even never-learned APE with a grenade sat at the
controls. She didn't identify the objects.
The fighter that accompanied (or whatever he was doing with this "Boeing", did not push out of
the track?), seeing the rocket, was forced to make the same emergency evasion maneuver, which
indicates the objective data of Russian surveillance-he abruptly went up to the limit and even
beyond the height.
Something on several radars, presumably defined as a "small-sized, high-speed flying object",
that is, a fighter, not a UFO, made a routine maneuver to evade a missile salvo from the
ground. So taught in the Soviet flight schools. All Ukrainian pilots came out of the same
greatcoat.
Scholastic dispute about whether it was exactly " Buk " or the old C-200, which is also the
same 25 years of vodka brewed, does not make sense. Good people who are leading this highly
professional dispute, come from some ideal circumstances, forgetting that all this-Ukraine.
The salvo was obviously spontaneous, and this-again-is the only thing that will save the West
now.
* * *
But we will never hear or see this, because no one will drown Poroshenko now, he will drown
himself in two or three months. The American security service is forced to "keep a face",
because Barack Obama first said, and then there was objective tracking data, and how to get out
of this – no one knows.
Further expert debate will be about how many demons can fit on the tip of the needle. Everyone
is already clear, it remains to figure out how to save the current US administration, while
avoiding a world war.
It is in the interest of world peace to ensure that the investigation into the deaths of nearly
300 people is delayed as long as possible. And then it was forgotten.
Is it possible? Yes, perhaps. We did not see the unfortunate relatives storming the building of
Schiphol airport, although relatively recently the same crowd almost demolished the government
of Malaysia because of the unknown where the disappeared similar "Boeing".
European governments can make sure that the relatives of the victims stop asking questions.
Although they, those who lost loved ones, could be the driving force of the entire
investigation. It's very cynical, Yes. But what other choice is there?."It remains to figure
out how to save the current US administration, while avoiding a world war "the Plane was shot
down by Ukrainians, shot down by accident, there will be no investigation, no one needs it
in the blog print version
The expert debate about Boeing will now be about how many demons can fit on the tip of a
needle. Everyone is already clear, it remains to figure out how to save the current US
administration, while avoiding a world war.
All the latest news about the investigation of the disaster over the Donbass say only one
thing: everything is clear, but the problems are still ahead.
The main theses are as follows: the plane was shot down by Ukrainians, shot down by accident,
there will be no investigation, no one needs it. I'll explain in more detail.
A lot has been said about the information war: the Americans started it, and they are now out
of it, sadly. There is no point in sorting through the array of objective evidence – we
must give the American side the opportunity to get out of all this with honor, because if the
United States does not succeed, we will all again face the threat of total war.
One
Never and under no circumstances will the Ukrainian side make public its means of objective
control, if they exist at all. Most likely, they have already been destroyed. Recognition of
the randomness of the shot – however it may be classified-is the last chance for the US
to get out of the dirty Ukrainian swamp. Yes, an accident, it happens in war. But it needs to
be explained to a Western audience.
And if it is impossible to understand, then you just have to remember: the Ukrainian army
shoots where it wants and what it wants to objects. And sometimes nowhere at all.
Let me remind you that in old Yugoslavia for a long time hunted for the officers of the Serbian
artillery, which with a rare drunk once (!) shot in the direction of Croatian Dubrovnik. They
were found ten years later and sent to the Hague. Why? Because the Croatian side in time
declared everywhere where reached, including UNESCO in which list the city-monument Dubrovnik
is entered, about atrocities of the Serbian artillery.
Two
Yes, we are all here at the level of unfunny jokes know that the Ukrainian rocket, if you send
it to the plane, will definitely fly to the tree. And vice versa. For those who were born and
raised in the Soviet Union, this is a given. But the Westerner has to prove it and explain it.
He, a Westerner, used to think that if a guy could speak APE English fluently, even if he had a
strong accent, he was still our local guy. So it was with Saakashvili and Yushchenko. They were
also married to Western ladies. And then with Yatsenyuk Turchynov, tied to both the American
sect. They're twice their own.
The guy from the West used to think that if the missile system is put on combat duty, it is
worth something. He can not explain that for twenty-three years, the Ukrainian army conducted
only one air defense exercise – in 2001. And it ended up being shot down over the Black
sea by a Russian plane. After that, no (!) and never (!) there were no exercises in
Ukraine.
Three
References to the war in South Ossetia, in which it was the Ukrainian crews of "Buks" perfectly
proved themselves by shooting down four Russian objects under the Georgian obscene hooting,
also do not work. Georgians with great difficulty found across Ukraine two crews for all the
same "Buks", whose commanders of calculations were Americans of Polish origin.
Most of these brave Ukrainian anti-aircraft gunners after the war 08.08.08 died under unclear
circumstances, and the survivors were drunk (the city of Stryi, Lviv region, the former air
defense base of the Carpathian military district of the USSR armed forces). And no one has
tried to train the new crews as unnecessary.
Inventory of missiles, by the way, no one held, and it did not make sense, because the missiles
were sold right and left, and that is especially sinful-it is to the left, that is, to
countries that the same US declare "outcasts". Target capture guidance system-a complex thing,
" Buk " is able to simultaneously conduct up to 24 goals, and it is not clear what exactly saw
on the radar specific lad.
Four
The Boeing could give additional signals. It could be untried equipment, which will now be
difficult to admit to the Malaysian airline.
Even if the "Boeing" shone an additional beacon-it could cause the launch of the rocket. And
there were several objects on the radar that were moving towards the war zone – here a
spontaneous launch of a missile is more than possible. During the cold war, passenger planes
were very often used for reconnaissance purposes, loading them with photographic equipment.
This, of course, is not our case, and the times are quite different – satellites fly with
impunity, but still no one has yet shown how perfect was the plane itself, its crew and strange
course.
Five
By the way, the base of American drones working for the Kiev government is located in Kanatovo
near Dnepropetrovsk, just in the area of the flight of the "Boeing". This is an old abandoned
Soviet air force base of those that grew sunflowers by the end of the 90's.
But recently there arrived Americans, all rebuilt, and now this former collective farm field is
called the 66th separate brigade of the air force of Ukraine, although from the Ukrainian there
are only signs and dogs. Live there American military, and are based only American drones, of
which two have already been shot down. The first – in the spring on Perekop Russian
fighter, the second-over Donetsk militia, and it almost entirely fell into their hands.
For the United States, the explanation of all that has happened is a kind of unintentional
accident, or even better-the synergy of many accidents-almost the only way to calmly and
technically get out of the game.
Technically, you just need to "chat" for a couple of weeks. And then the evidence from the
"black boxes" will not be so relevant, and in General the whole story will be erased from
memory, perhaps against the background of other circumstances.
Six
But it will not be possible to talk about the circumstances of what is happening in Novorossiya
at all. Many found this place on the map. Many began to watch the news. And there, for example,
the tone of CNN correspondents radically changed after they got access to Lugansk and Donetsk
on the tail of Malaysian representatives.
No Western journalist had been in the combat zone for three months, and now they were
impartially reporting live that civilians were being killed, that heavy artillery fire was
being fired from Ukrainian positions on residential areas, and, most interestingly, the
presenters in the Studio never interrupted them. And this on CNN and Foxnews do at times. But
now the words are accompanied by a picture of the bodies of apparently civilians torn apart.
And just like that, even Christian Amanpour won't interrupt anyone.
Seven
Most likely, it is the discussion of the set of accidents that led to the missile salvo that
will soon become dominant. A half-trained or even never-learned APE with a grenade sat at the
controls. She didn't identify the objects.
The fighter that accompanied (or whatever he was doing with this "Boeing", did not push out of
the track?), seeing the rocket, was forced to make the same emergency evasion maneuver, which
indicates the objective data of Russian surveillance-he abruptly went up to the limit and even
beyond the height.
Something on several radars, presumably defined as a "small-sized, high-speed flying object",
that is, a fighter, not a UFO, made a routine maneuver to evade a missile salvo from the
ground. So taught in the Soviet flight schools. All Ukrainian pilots came out of the same
greatcoat.
Scholastic dispute about whether it was exactly " Buk " or the old C-200, which is also the
same 25 years of vodka brewed, does not make sense. Good people who are leading this highly
professional dispute, come from some ideal circumstances, forgetting that all this-Ukraine.
The salvo was obviously spontaneous, and this-again-is the only thing that will save the West
now.
* * *
But we will never hear or see this, because no one will drown Poroshenko now, he will drown
himself in two or three months. The American security service is forced to "keep a face",
because Barack Obama first said, and then there was objective tracking data, and how to get out
of this – no one knows.
Further expert debate will be about how many demons can fit on the tip of the needle. Everyone
is already clear, it remains to figure out how to save the current US administration, while
avoiding a world war.
It is in the interest of world peace to ensure that the investigation into the deaths of nearly
300 people is delayed as long as possible. And then it was forgotten.
Is it possible? Yes, perhaps. We did not see the unfortunate relatives storming the building of
Schiphol airport, although relatively recently the same crowd almost demolished the government
of Malaysia because of the unknown where the disappeared similar "Boeing".
European governments can make sure that the relatives of the victims stop asking questions.
Although they, those who lost loved ones, could be the driving force of the entire
investigation. It's very cynical, Yes. But what other choice is there?
"... Bellingcat is an alleged group of amateur on-line researchers who have spent years shilling for the U.S. instigated war against the Syrian government, blaming the Douma chemical attack and others on the Assad government, and for the anti-Russian propaganda connected to, among other things, the Skripal poisoning case in England, and the downing of flight MH17 plane in Ukraine. ..."
"... The Intercept , along with its parent company First Look Media, recently hosted a workshop for pro-war, Google-funded organization Bellingcat in New York. The workshop, which cost $2,500 per person to attend and lasted five days, aimed to instruct participants in how to perform investigations using "open source" tools -- with Bellingcat's past, controversial investigations for use as case studies Thus, while The Intercept has long publicly promoted itself as an anti-interventionist and progressive media outlet, it is becoming clearer that – largely thanks to its ties to Omidyar – it is increasingly an organization that has more in common with Bellingcat, a group that launders NATO and U.S. propaganda and disguises it as "independent" and "investigative journalism." ..."
In the 1920s, the influential American intellectual Walter Lippman argued that the average
person was incapable of seeing or understanding the world clearly and needed to be guided by
experts behind the social curtain. In a number of books he laid out the theoretical foundations
for the practical work of Edward Bernays , who developed "public relations" (aka propaganda) to
carry out this task for the ruling elites. Bernays had honed his skills while working as a
propagandist for the United States during World War I, and after the war he set himself up as a
public relations counselor in New York City.
There is a fascinating exchange at the beginning of Adam Curtis's documentary, The
Century of Self , where Bernays, then nearly 100 years old but still very sharp, reveals
his manipulative mindset and that of so many of those who have followed in his wake. He says
the reason he couldn't call his new business "propaganda" was because the Germans had given
propaganda a "bad name," and so he came up with the euphemism "public relations." He then adds
that "if you could use it [i.e. propaganda] for war, you certainly could use it for peace." Of
course, he never used PR for peace but just to manipulate public opinion (he helped engineer
the CIA coup against the democratically elected Arbenz government in Guatemala in 1954 with
fake news broadcasts). He says "the Germans gave propaganda a bad name," not Bernays and the
United States with their vast campaign of lies, mainly aimed at the American people to get
their support for going to a war they opposed (think weapons of mass destruction). He sounds
proud of his war propaganda work that resounded to his credit since it led to support for the
"war to end all wars" and subsequently to a hit movie about WWI , Yankee Doodle Dandy
, made in 1942 to promote another war, since the first one somehow didn't achieve its lofty
goal.
As Bernays has said in his book Propaganda ,
The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world
today.
He was a propagandist to the end. I suspect most viewers of the film are taken in by these
softly spoken words of an old man sipping a glass of wine at a dinner table with a woman who is
asking him questions. I have shown this film to hundreds of students and none has noticed his
legerdemain. It is an example of the sort of hocus-pocus I will be getting to shortly, the sly
insertion into seemingly liberal or matter-of-fact commentary of statements that imply a
different story. The placement of convincing or confusing disingenuous ingredients into a truth
sandwich – for Bernays knew that the bread of truth is essential to conceal untruth.
In the following years, Bernays, Lippman, and their ilk were joined by social "scientists,"
psychologists, and sundry others intent on making a sham out of the idea of democracy by
developing strategies and techniques for the engineering of social consensus consonant with the
wishes of the ruling classes. Their techniques of propaganda developed exponentially with the
development of technology, the creation of the CIA, its infiltration of all the major media,
and that agency's courting of what the CIA official Cord Meyer called in the 1950s "the
compatible left," having already had the right in its pocket. Today most people are, as is
said, "wired," and they get their information from the electronic media that is mostly
controlled by giant corporations in cahoots with government propagandists. Ask yourself: Has
the power of the oligarchic, permanent warfare state with its propaganda and spy networks
increased or decreased over your lifetime. The answer is obvious: the average people that
Lippman and Bernays trashed are losing and the ruling elites are winning.
This is not just because powerful propagandists are good at controlling so-called "average"
people's thinking, but, perhaps more importantly, because they are also adept – probably
more so – at confusing or directing the thinking of those who consider themselves above
average, those who still might read a book or two or have the concentration to read multiple
articles that offer different perspectives on a topic. This is what some call the professional
and intellectual classes, perhaps 15-20 % of the population, most of whom are not the ruling
elites but their employees and sometimes their mouthpieces. It is this segment of the
population that considers itself "informed," but the information they imbibe is often sprinkled
with bits of misdirection, both intentional and not, that beclouds their understanding of
important public matters but leaves them with the false impression that they are in the
know.
Recently I have noticed a group of interconnected examples of how this group of the
population that exerts influence incommensurate with their numbers has contributed to the
blurring of lines between fact and fiction. Within this group there are opinion makers who are
often journalists, writers, and cultural producers of some sort or other, and then the larger
number of the intellectual or schooled class who follow their opinions. This second group then
passes on their received opinions to those who look up to them.
There is a notorious propaganda outfit called Bellingcat , started by an unemployed
Englishman named Eliot Higgins, that has been funded by The Atlantic Council, a think-tank with
deep ties to the U.S. government, NATO, war manufacturers, and their allies, and the National
Endowment for Democracy (NED), another infamous U.S. front organization heavily involved in
so-called color revolution regime change operations all around the world, that has just won the
International Emmy Award for best documentary. The film with the Orwellian title, Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World, received its Emmy at a recent ceremony in New
York City.
Bellingcat is an alleged group of amateur on-line researchers who have spent years
shilling for the U.S. instigated war against the Syrian government, blaming the Douma chemical
attack and others on the Assad government, and for the anti-Russian propaganda connected to,
among other things, the Skripal poisoning case in England, and the downing of flight MH17 plane
in Ukraine.
It has been lauded by the corporate mainstream media in the west. Its support for
the equally fraudulent White Helmets (also funded by the US and the UK) in Syria has also been
praised by the western corporate media while being dissected as propaganda by many excellent
independent journalists such as Eva Bartlett, Vanessa Beeley, Catte Black, among others. It's
had its work skewered by the likes of Seymour Hersh and MIT professor Theodore Postol, and its
US government connections pointed out by many others, including Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal
at The Gray Zone. And now we have the mainstream media's wall of silence on the leaks from the
Organization for the Prohibition on Chemical Weapons (OPCW) concerning the Douma chemical
attack and the doctoring of their report that led to the illegal U.S. bombing of Syria in the
spring of 2018. Bellingcat was at the forefront of providing justification for such bombing,
and now the journalists Peter Hitchens, Tareq Harrad (who recently resigned from Newsweek after accusing the publication of suppressing his revelations about the OPCW
scandal) and others are fighting an uphill battle to get the truth out.
Yet Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World won the Emmy , fulfilling Bernays'
point about films being the greatest unconscious carriers of propaganda in the world today.
Who presented the Emmy Award to the film makers, but none other than the rebel journalist
Chris Hedges . Why he did so, I don't know. But that he did so clearly sends a message to those
who follow his work and trust him that it's okay to give a major cultural award to a propaganda
outfit. But then, perhaps he doesn't consider Bellingcat to be that.
Nor, one presumes, does The Intercept , the billionaire Pierre Omidyar owned
publication associated with Glen Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill, and also read by many
progressive-minded people. The Intercept that earlier this year disbanded the small
team that was tasked with reviewing and releasing more of the massive trove of documents they
received from Edward Snowden six years ago, a minute number of which have ever been released or
probably ever will be. As
Whitney Webb pointed out , last year The Intercept hosted a workshop for
Bellingcat. She wrote:
The Intercept , along with its parent company First Look Media, recently
hosted a workshop for pro-war, Google-funded organization Bellingcat in New York. The
workshop, which
cost $2,500 per person to attend and lasted five days, aimed to instruct participants in
how to perform investigations using "open source" tools -- with Bellingcat's past, controversial
investigations for use as case studies Thus, while The Intercept has long
publicly promoted itself as an anti-interventionist and progressive media outlet, it is
becoming clearer that – largely thanks to its ties to Omidyar – it is
increasingly an organization that has more in common with Bellingcat, a group that launders
NATO and U.S. propaganda and disguises it as "independent" and "investigative
journalism."
Then we have Jefferson Morley , the editor of The Deep State, former Washington
Post journalist, and JFK assassination researcher, who has written a praiseworthy review of the
Bellingcat film and who supports Bellingcat. "In my experience, Bellingcat is credible," he
writes in an Alternet article, "Bellingcat
documentary has the pace and plot of a thriller."
Morley has also just written an article for Counterpunch –
"Why the Douma Chemical Attack Wasn't a 'Managed Massacre'" – in which he disputes
the claim that the April 7, 2018 attack in the Damascus suburb was a false flag operation
carried out by Assad's opponents. "I do not see any evidence proving that Douma was a false
flag incident," he writes in this article that is written in a style that leaves one guessing
as to what exactly he is saying. It sounds convincing unless one concentrates, and then his
double messages emerge. Yet it is the kind of article that certain "sophisticated" left-wing
readers might read and feel is insightful. But then Morley, who has written considerably about
the CIA, edits a website that advertises itself as "the thinking person's portal to the world
of secret government," and recently had an exchange with former CIA Director John Brennan where
"Brennan put a friendly finger on my chest," said in February 2017, less than a month after
Trump was sworn in as president, that:
With a docile Republican majority in Congress and a demoralized Democratic Party in
opposition, the leaders of the Deep State are the most -- perhaps the only -- credible check
in Washington on what Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) calls Trump's "
wrecking ball presidency ."
Is it any wonder that some people might be a bit confused?
"I know what you're thinking about," said Tweedledum; "but it isn't so, nohow."
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it
would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
As a final case in point, there is a recent book by Stephen Kinzer , Poisoner in Chief:
Sidney Gottlieb And The CIA Search For Mind Control, t he story of the chemist known as
Dr. Death who ran the CIA's MK-ULTRA mind control project, using LSD, torture, electric shock
therapy, hypnosis, etc.; developed sadistic methods of torture still used in black sites around
the world; and invented various ingenious techniques for assassination, many of which were
aimed at Fidel Castro. Gottlieb was responsible for brutal prison and hospital experiments and
untold death and suffering inflicted on all sorts of innocent people. His work was depraved in
the deepest sense; he worked with Nazis who experimented on Jews despite being Jewish
himself.
Kinzer writes in depth about this man who considered himself a patriot and a spiritual
person – a humane torturer and killer. It is an eye-opening book for anyone who does not
know about Gottlieb, who gave the CIA the essential tools they use in their "organized crime"
activities around the world – in the words of Douglass Valentine, the author of The
CIA as Organized Crime and The Phoenix Program . Kinzer's book is good history on
Gottlieb; however, he doesn't venture into the present activities of the CIA and Gottlieb's
patriotic followers, who no doubt exist and go about their business in secret.
After recounting in detail the sordid history of Gottlieb's secret work that is nauseating
to read about, Kinzer leaves the reader with these strange words:
Gottlieb was not a sadist, but he might well have been . Above all he was an instrument of
history. Understanding him is a deeply disturbing way of understanding ourselves.
What possibly could this mean? Not a sadist? An instrument of history? Understanding
ourselves? These few sentences, dropped out of nowhere, pull the rug out from under what is
generally an illuminating history and what seems like a moral indictment. This language is pure
mystification.
Kinzer also concludes that because Gottlieb said so, the CIA failed in their efforts to
develop methods of mind control and ended MK-ULTRA's experiments long ago. Why would he believe
the word of a man who personified the agency he worked for: a secret liar? He writes,
When Sydney Gottlieb brough MK-ULTRA to its end in the early 1960s, he told his CIA
superiors that he had found no reliable way to wipe away memory, make people abandon their
consciences, or commit crimes and then forget them.
As for those who might think otherwise, Kinzer suggests they have vivid imaginations and are
caught up in conspiracy thinking: "This [convincing others that the CIA had developed methods
of mind control when they hadn't] is Sydney Gottlieb's most unexpected legacy," he asserts. He
says this although Richard Helms, the CIA Director, destroyed all MK-Ultra records. He says
that Allen Dulles, Gottlieb, and Helms themselves were caught up in a complete fantasy about
mind control because they had seen too many movies and read too many books; mind control was
impossible, a failure, a myth, he maintains. It is the stuff of popular culture, entertainment.
In an interview with Chris Hedges, interestingly posted by Jefferson Morley at his website, The Deep State , Hedges agrees with Kinzer. Gottlieb, Dulles, et al. were all deluded.
Mind control was impossible. You couldn't create a Manchurian Candidate; by implication,
someone like Sirhan Sirhan could not have been programmed to be a fake Manchurian Candidate and
to have no memory of what he did, as he claims. He could not have been mind-controlled by the
CIA to perform his part as the seeming assassin of Senator Robert Kennedy while the real killer
shot RFK from behind. People who think like this should get real.
Furthermore, as is so common in books such as Kinzer's, he repeats the canard that JFK and
RFK knew about and pressured the CIA to assassinate Fidel Castro. This is demonstrably false,
as shown by the Church Committee and the Assassinations Record Review Board, among many others.
That Kinzer takes the word of notorious liars like Richard Helms and the top-level CIA
operative Samuel Halpern is simple incredible, something that is hard to consider a mistake.
Slipped into a truth sandwich, it is devoured and passed on. But it is false. Bullshit meant to
deceive.
But this is how these games are played. If you look carefully, you will see them widely.
Inform, enlighten, while throwing in doubletalk and untruths. The small number of people who
read such books and articles will come away knowing some history that has no current relevance
and being misinformed on other history that does. They will then be in the know, ready to pass
their "wisdom" on to those who care to listen. They will not think they are average.
But they will be mind controlled, and the killer cat will roam freely without a bell, ready
to devour the unsuspecting mice.
Edward Curtin is a writer whose work has appeared widely. He teaches sociology at
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. His website is http://edwardcurtin.com/
"... With Nordstream II becoming operational, Russia can bypass Ukraine completely in supplying gas to EU countries and Ukraine will only receive enough gas for its own needs. Ukraine becomes a liability to the West as that country continues its slow and agonising collapse. Perhaps in 2020 the Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts may officially declare their independence and apply for inclusion into the Russian Federation, or combine into a new nation. Other adjoining oblasts (Kharkiv?) may follow suit. Transcarpathia oblast in the far west of Ukraine may declare independence and then apply to join Hungary. ..."
Nordstream II should be completed in 2020 in spite of the many handicaps and threats of
sanctions the US has applied against Germany if the pipeline project continues. Its
completion is bound to change the geopolitical landscape in central and eastern Europe
considerably.
With Nordstream II becoming operational, Russia can bypass Ukraine completely in
supplying gas to EU countries and Ukraine will only receive enough gas for its own needs.
Ukraine becomes a liability to the West as that country continues its slow and agonising
collapse. Perhaps in 2020 the Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts may officially declare their
independence and apply for inclusion into the Russian Federation, or combine into a new
nation. Other adjoining oblasts (Kharkiv?) may follow suit. Transcarpathia oblast in the far
west of Ukraine may declare independence and then apply to join Hungary.
Volodymyr Zelensky may not last long as President and is likely to be turfed out in a
coup. Civil war will come again to Ukraine but not in its Russian-speaking east.
Belarus should be monitoring its own southern borders. Maybe crunch-time is coming for
President Lukashenko there as to whether he should align Belarus more closely with Russia or
with the EU instead of trying to get the best of both worlds by playing one against the
other.
My predictions for 2020 are that Ukraine's final collapse and fragmentation will start,
that the use of threats and sanctions continues to isolate the US to its detriment, and that
(maybe, just maybe) the collapse of Ukraine will lead to some of the truth of what actually
happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 becoming public with whistleblowers in the
investigation finally coming forward.
Re Jen @37 "With Nordstream II becoming operational, Russia can bypass Ukraine completely in
supplying gas to EU countries and Ukraine will only receive enough gas for its own needs."
I am hoping this is a bad joke, but perhaps not. I suppose, if true, it will prevent a lot
of Ukrainians from freezing to death this winter. But considering the benefits it will
provide to the Ukro-nazis who hate Russia, I have to wonder about the decision-making process
in Moscow.
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and from the evidence of Jewish Holocaust museums around the world. Chomiak was editor in chief of the newspaper after a Jewish editor was removed. The newspaper itself was set up in January 1940, publishing three times weekly in Cracow, until October 8, 1944. It was then published in Vienna from October 16, 1944, until March 29, 1945. The precision of the dates is important. They coincide with the movement of the German Army into Cracow, and then out of the city and into Vienna. The newspaper itself was established by the German Army; and supervised by German intelligence. Chomiak was employed by an officer named Emil Gassner (above). His title in German indicates he was the German administrator in charge of press in the region. When Gassner moved from Cracow to Vienna, he took Chomiak with him.
then US supervision, Freeland did not reveal in the Financial Times when she reported Bandera as one of the Ukraine's all-time heroes. "Yaroslav the Wise, the 11th-century prince of Kievan Rus, was named the winner in a last-minute surge, edging out western Ukrainian partisan leader Stepan Bandera, who led a guerrilla war against the Nazis and the Soviets and was poisoned on orders from Moscow in 1959 .The Soviet portrayal of Bandera as a traitor still lingers. That would be a mistake."
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