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Paul Craig Roberts: Pushing Toward The Final War
Authored by Paul Craig Roberts via his blog,
Does Obama realize that he is leading the US and its puppet states to war with Russia and China, or is Obama being manipulated into this disaster by his neoconservative speech writers and government officials? World War 1 (and World War 2) was the result of the ambitions and mistakes of a very small number of people. Only one head of state was actually involved–the President of France.
In The genesis Of The World War, Harry Elmer Barnes shows that World War 1 was the product of 4 or 5 people. Three stand out: Raymond Poincare`, President of France, Sergei Sazonov, Russian Foreign Minister, and Alexander Izvolski, Russian Ambassador to France. Poincare` wanted Alsace-Lorraine from Germany, and the Russians wanted Istanbul and the Bosphorus Strait, which connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. They realized that their ambitions required a general European war and worked to produce the desired war.
A Franco-Russian Alliance was formed. This alliance became the vehicle for orchestrating the war. The British government, thanks to the incompetence, stupidity, or whatever of its Foreign Minister, Sir Edward Grey, was pulled into the Franco-Russian Alliance. The war was started by Russia’s mobilization. The German Kaiser, Wilhelm II, was blamed for the war despite the fact that he did everything possible to avoid it.
Barnes’ book was published in 1926. His reward for confronting the corrupt court historians with the truth was to be accused of being paid by Germany to write his history. Eighty-six years later historian Christopher Clark in his book, The Sleepwalkers, comes to essentially the same conclusion as Barnes.
In the history I was taught the war was blamed on Germany for challenging British naval supremacy by building too many battleships. The court historians who gave us this tale helped to set up World War 2.
We are again on the road to World War. One hundred years ago the creation of a world war by a few had to be done under the cover of deception. Germany had to be caught off guard. The British had to be manipulated and, of course, people in all the countries involved had to be propagandized and brainwashed.
Today the drive to war is blatantly obvious. The lies are obvious, and the entire West is participating, both media and governments.
The American puppet, Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, openly lied on Canadian TV that Russian President Putin had invaded Crimea, threatened Ukraine, and was restarting the Cold War. The host of the TV program sat and nodded his head in agreement with these bald-faced lies. http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Stephen+Harper+accuses+Vladimir+Putin+being+stuck+back+USSR/9663692/story.html
The script that Washington handed to its Canadian puppet has been handed to all of Washington’s puppets, and everywhere in the West the message is the same. “Putin invaded and annexed Crimea, Putin is determined to rebuild the Soviet Empire, Putin must be stopped.”
I hear from many Canadians who are outraged that their elected government represents Washington and not Canadians, but as bad as Harper is, Obama and Fox “News” are worse.
On March 26 I managed to catch a bit of Fox “news.” Murdoch’s propaganda organ was reporting that Putin was restoring the Soviet era practice of exercise. Fox “news” made this report into a threatening and dangerous gesture toward the West. Fox produced an “expert,” whose name I caught as Eric Steckelbeck or something like that. The “expert” declared that Putin was creating “the Hitler youth,” with a view toward rebuilding the Soviet empire.
The extraordinary transparent lie that Russia sent an army into Ukraine and annexed Crimea is now accepted as fact everywhere in the West, even among critics of US policy toward Russia.
Obama, whose government overthrew the democratically elected government in Ukraine and appointed a stooge government that has threatened the Russian provinces of Ukraine, falsely accuses Putin of “invading and annexing” Crimea.
Obama, or his handlers and programers, are relying on the total historical ignorance of Western peoples. The ignorance and gullibility of Western peoples allows the American neoconservatives to fashion “news” that controls their minds.
Obama recently declared that Washington’s destruction of Iraq–up to one million killed, four million displaced, infrastructure in ruins, sectarian violence exploding, a country in total ruins–is nowhere near as bad as Russia’s acceptance of Crimean self-determination. US Secretary of State John Kerry actually ordered Putin to prevent the referendum and stop Crimeans from exercising self-determination.
Obama’s speech on March 26 at the Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels is surreal. It is beyond hypocrisy. Obama says that Western ideals are challenged by self-determination in Crimea. Russia, Obama says, must be punished by the West for permitting Crimeans to exercise self-determination. The return of a Russian province on its own volition to its mother country where it existed for 200 years is presented by Obama as a dictatorial, anti-democratic act of tyranny. http://on.rt.com/sbzj4o
Here was Obama, whose government has just overthrown the elected, democratic government of Ukraine and substituted stooges chosen by Washington in the place of the elected government, speaking of the hallowed ideal that “people in nations can make their own decisions about their future.” That is exactly what Crimea did, and that is exactly what the US coup in Kiev contravened. In the twisted mind of Obama, self-determination consists of governments imposed by Washington.
Here was Obama, who has shredded the US Constitution, speaking of “individual rights and rule of law.” Where is this rule of law? It is certainly not in Kiev where an elected government was overthrown with force. It is certainly not in the United States where the executive branch has spent the entirety of the new 21st century establishing government above the law. Habeas corpus, due process, the right to open trials and determination of guilt by independent jurors prior to imprisonment and execution, the right to privacy have all been overturned by the Bush/Obama regimes. Torture is against US and international law; yet Washington set up torture prisons all over the globe.
How is it possible that the representative of the war criminal US government can stand before an European audience and speak of “rule of law,” “individual rights,” “human dignity,” “self-determination,” “freedom,” without the audience breaking out in laughter?
Washington is the government that invaded and destroyed Afghanistan and Iraq on the basis of lies. Washington is the government that financed and organized the overthrow of the Libyan and Honduran governments and that is currently attempting to do the same thing to Syria and Venezuela. Washington is the government that attacks with drones and bombs populations in the sovereign countries of Pakistan and Yemen. Washington is the government that has troops all over Africa. Washington is the government that has surrounded Russia, China, and Iran with military bases. It is this warmongering collection of Washington war criminals that now asserts that it is standing up for international ideals against Russia.
No one applauded Obama’s nonsensical speech. But for Europe to accept such blatant lies from a liar without protest empowers the momentum toward war that Washington is pushing.
Obama demands more NATO troops to be stationed in Eastern Europe to “contain Russia.” http://news.antiwar.com/2014/03/26/obama-wants-more-nato-troops-in-eastern-europe/ Obama said that a buildup of military forces on Russia’s borders would reassure Poland and the Baltic states that, as NATO members, they will be protected from Russian aggression. This nonsense is voiced by Obama despite the fact that no one expects Russia to invade Poland or the Baltic countries.
Obama doesn’t say what effect the US/NATO military buildup and numerous war games on Russia’s border will have on Russia. Will the Russian government conclude that Russia is about to be attacked and strike first? The reckless carelessness of Obama is the way wars start.
Declaring that “freedom isn’t free,” Obama is putting pressure on Western Europe to pony up more money for a military buildup to confront Russia. http://news.antiwar.com/2014/03/26/us-presses-eu-nations-to-hike-military-spending-to-confront-russia/
The position of the government in Washington and its puppet states (Eastern and Western Europe, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Georgia, Japan) and other allies purchased with bagfuls of money is that Washington’s violation of international law by torturing people, by invading sovereign countries on totally false pretenses, by routinely overthrowing democratically elected governments that do not toe the Washington line is nothing but the “indispensable and exceptional country” bringing “freedom and democracy to the world.” But Russia’s acceptance of the self-determination of Crimean people to return to their home country is “a violation of international law.”
Just what international law has Washington and its puppets not violated?
Obama, whose government in the past few years has bullied Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Lebanon, Iran, Honduras, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Venezuela and is now trying to bully Russia, actually declared that “bigger nations can not simply bully smaller ones.” What does Obama and his speech writers think Washington has been doing for the entirety of the 21st century?
Who can possibly believe that Obama, whose government is responsible for the deaths of people every day in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and Syria, cares a whit about democracy in Ukraine. Obama overthrew the Ukrainian government in order to be able to stuff the country into NATO, throw Russia out of its Black Sea naval base, and put US missile bases in Ukraine on Russia’s border. Obama is angry that his plan didn’t pan out as intended, and he is taking his anger and frustration out on Russia.
As the delusion takes hold in Washington that the US represents idealism standing firmly against Russian aggression, delusion enabled by the presstitute media, the UN General Assembly vote, and Washington’s string of puppet states, self-righteousness rises in Washington’s breast.
With rising self-righteousness will come more demands for punishing Russia, more demonization of Russia and Putin, more lies echoed by the presstitutes and puppets. Ukrainian violence against Russian residents is likely to intensify with the anti-Russian propaganda. Putin could be forced to send in Russian troops to defend Russians.
Why are people so blind that they do not see Obama driving the world to its final war?
Just as Obama dresses up his aggression toward Russia as idealism resisting selfish territorial ambitions, the English, French, and Americans presented their World War 1 “victory” as the triumph of idealism over German and Austrian imperialism and territorial ambitions. But at the Versailles Conference the Bolsheviks (the Tsar’s government failed to gain the Straits and instead lost the country to Lenin) “revealed the existence of the notorious Secret Treaties embodying as sordid a program of territorial pilfering as can be found in the history of diplomacy. It appears that the chief actual motives of the Entente in the World War were the seizure of Constantinople and the Straits for Russia; not only the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France, but the securing of the west bank of the Rhine, which would have involved the seizure of territory historically far longer connected with Germany than Alsace-Lorraine had ever been with France; the rewarding of Italian entry into the War by extensive territory grabbed away from Austria and the Jugo-Slavs; and the sequestering of the German imperial possessions, the acquisition of the German merchant marine and the destruction of the German navy in the interest of increasing the strength of the British Empire” (Barnes, pp. 691-692). The American share of the loot was seized German and Austrian investments in the US.
The secret British, Russian, and French aims of the war were hidden from the public, which was whipped up with fabricated propaganda to support a war whose outcomes were far different from the intentions of those who caused the war. People seem unable to learn from history. We are now witnessing the world again being led down the garden path by lies and propaganda, this time in behalf of American world hegemony.
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+100 to Paul Craig Roberts.
An excellent article.
Germany was becoming to powerful and had to be destroyed. This was the one and only reason for WWI. And Germany was a sitting duck. Not prepared for such a war.
At the begining of WWI all gunpowder used for grenades and bullets was based on salpeter (nitrate) from the mines in Chili and Peru. When it became obvious, that the alliance against Germany wanted to have this war at all costs Germany had only reserves of salpeter for 3 months. After 3 months it was game over. Since Britain was fighting Germany and Chili was under British control at that time Germany had no possibility to receive salpeter. In my opinion this fact made the allies believe that the war against Germany is a simple thing.
But Fritz Haber changed this all. Because of him WWI was not over within a few months and because of him poison gas was introduced into the battlefields and it was also him who founded DeGeSch the producer of Zyklon B. Haber was also the first director of this company. Zyklon was the first modern pesticide but later also used in Auschwitz.
But his invention, the Haber-Bosch process made it not only possible to produce gunpowder on a grand scale. Another product was the production of fertilizer out of the air. Thus feeding the world of today.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01nbn85
Da Absolute truth
I can understand why some readers find his articles or, opinions incendiary.
I've been reading his articles for years and I think the "incendiary parts" are him getting frustrated and dumbfounded how these "so called" leaders can lie through their teeth and get away with it.
He must be also missing the days of Nixon and Watergate when investigative journalism was something to reach for and be proud of. He, like me must be wondering "what the fuck ever happened to Journalists"
PCR is strait shooter...
There is honorable men in real...
@Volkodav I couldn't agree more.
I e-mailed PCR a couple of years ago to compliment him on an excellent article that appeared on the editorial page of a tiny local newspaper. He replied and inquired about the paper, town, and state!
>>>"what the fuck ever happened to Journalists"
One problem with "journalists", at least in the USA, is that they slowly came to understand themselves as skilled professionals, often with degrees in "journalism", and began to function as political advocates, rather than hard-nosed truth-seekers.
It's a pretty small step from political advocate to brown-nosing party suck-up.
End the FED!
And then tell the world the truth that US has no gold. 100 years of lies, fuck.
PCR is spot-on and isn't it amazing how Faux news gets behind Obama when it's all about the neo-con agenda?
I guess when you have debt that can never be repaid, the only option is war. /sarc
http://www.globalresearch.ca/crimea-putins-triumph-now-the-confrontation-moves-east-to-new-russia/5374710
Same problem as there ever was. Supposedly superior people still dont know how to be human beings. Nothing will ever change with them because once the rest of us are gone theyll highlander eachother till none are left. Believing your superior confirms your inferior.
That is why good is the only evolutionary step available to us and we arent taking it. The road of deception is pretty short.
I think they should blow it all up and get it over with. I dont think i would want to be around if all thats left on this ball is the assholes.
@ALL my brethren
I am going to go watch "F Troop"
Good ole Larry Storch, Ken Berry, Forrest Tucker
and then I am gonna git some Hogan's Heroes
Hogan, Klink, LeBeau, Schultz
and then for the good stuff
Combat - Vic Morrow et al.
It don't git no better than that bros! (Oh forgot World @ War)
FLUSH - Osama bin Obama - So tell me how long was bin laden REALLY dead before you all killed him again? I'm guessing a few years - nephritis is a bitch in the wild, and I hear there are a ton of dialysis units in the Hindu Kush
...we be going to "hell in a bucket" - Grateful Dead
but we ain't enjoying the ride
Windows to Russia: http://windowstorussia.com/
Gorby past comment on Nato broken word and Crimea.
Russians hate Gorby...but here he tell righteous truth
It is funny to see some blaming the 'neo-cons' for 0bama's actions; either 0bama is a 'neo-con' in disguise or an imbecile who is unable to distinguish when he is being manipulated?
This 'pushing towards war' post is a remarkable piece of communist propaganda.
Why did no one in Obama's European speech applaud?
Perhaps because they recognize a real socio-fascist when they see one?
Even the leftists can no longer stomach his bile.
If you consider 0bama 's actions it is clear for all to see that he is a narcissistic communist.
Obviously a product of American public education, throwing around the word communist as if one had a clue what communism is. Obama's giant wealth transfer program from Americans to the banker eiltes is documented in the economic and income numbers. This would be the first communist revolutionary, i.e. Obama, who has generated all income growth to a select portion on 1% bankers, speculators and wall-street market manipulators, whose failed business models are funded by American tax payers and Federal reserve genrated dollar devaluation. As Americans grow poorer in the drive to enrich a tiny monority and corporate power in congress and the courts is at never before seen levels, someone calls this a commuist revolution. Seriously, what would Lenin say, or Marx for that matter. One can see the dark shadows of the public educations sytems coupled with the greatest lie machine in human history, i.e FOX liar news propaganda Zionest stooges.
Yet, here we have it, the American public in all it's breathtaking ignorance and deluded belief in the terrible crimes being commited against the 1% by the communist Obama. Actually, Obama has transfered far more wealth to the 1% than Bush, Obama carriers on more secret wars than Bush, Obama stages more fascist coups than Bush, yet Obama is a leftist. This is an amazing example of what Americans can do when they worship at the feet of Israel and it's agent in America FOX news. All Israel and All bankers all the time. One hopes history will document this bizzare belief system as it surely represents the dawn of a new Dark Age, 1348 in the year 2014, brought to you by America's finacial elites and their puppets and stooges in the media nd education.
As for bile, that is a great word, straight from the mindless liars propaganda play book. CNN, Israeli News, FOX Israeli news with extra lies, and MSNBC the liberal fascist face of America's zionest 1%, who have taken all income growth in America since Reagan, and claim to be victims of Obama stealing all their hard earned wealth. The bigger the lie, the more often it is told, the more the American people sink into their own personal Dark Age. A very Dark Age.
Typical move out of the Mein Kampf playbook - portray the Jews in as the cause of the malaise of the day.
Has it ever occured to you that Jewish people suffer as much as the general populace does from bankster crimes? (if not more; see Madoff)
Then maybe they should be the ones screaming the loudest? Other than screaming antisemite. That would surely stop the labeling of them all as criminals would it not?
If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem.
They are. Make a list of the most prominent libertarians/anarcho-capitalists and you'll see plenty of Jews. Friedman, Rothbard, Nozick, Ayn Rand, Von Mises. And many more you probably never even heard of.
WTF are you talking about?
When the Euros see Obama they see an image of all their utopian aspirations gone up in smoke. He manifests the dead end they realized they've reached.
Some would willingly give thier lives for their country (albeit a very few), but I would give mine to see my government get its just desserts for its arrogance.
Even how bad it might become in the USSA, you do not want it to be USSR, trust me, its worse.
You still have your dignity and you still can defend your freedom, while Russian people and Crimea now are deprived of that for a very long time.
Russians are more free in many ways...
one example is 13% Flat Tax only
also..healthy natural foods and no GMO
You must have missed Olympics success...though many sick minds wanted to see failure
And Crimea people still celebrate days after real vote....
Can't stand it?
"Why are people so blind that they do not see Obama driving the world to its final war?"
Follow the strings. But then we know where they lead. Don't we now?!
I have done some more research on the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of the oligarchs in Russia and the Ukraine. Together with my research on what is transpiring in the current tit-for-tat Ukraine-for-Syria battle, I have come to a new maxim on world events, at least in the West: "Follow the money and the Jews too."
Everywhere I look I always seem to find Israel attached to the tail and wagging the hell out of the dog.
Hey Jack Burton, here's your Prosecutie!
http://rt.com/news/prosecutor-natalia-poklonskaya-crimea-101/
The best thing about WW3, it will be over before you know it.
The best thing about WW3, it will be over before you know it.
Maybe. But my bet is that you'll get a few days of diffuse bleeding and diarrhea from a weaponized microbe.
"I hear from many Canadians who are outraged that their elected government represents Washington and not Canadians"
The world needs to know that many informed canadians are disgusted with our idiots in Ottawa, be it their position on tar sands extraction, keystone pipeline idiocy, the enviorment or warring and killing people around the world where we have absolutely no business being. My government no longer represents me. Although I was born and raised in canada, I am ashamed to be a canadian.
@grady8
Agree wholeheartedly. Pissed off Canadian here.
Canada has always represented western imperialist interests. Just like the states, it doesn't matter who is on the hood ornament, it's always the same people behind the wheel. I am amazed people still think they can vote it away.
Exactly.
It will take an "accidental President" and a whole lotta luck and surgical killings to right the ship here.
LOTS of surgical killings. Globally. Not this mass war shit.
What need to be "culled" ARE the elitist fuck bankerRothschild/Bildebooginarmywarringmoneygreedysnotcunts - by the thousands
Too bad Franklin's words ring true today;
"You have a Republic...if you can keep it".
That would be a "NO"
I don't blame you. It may be a bit worse being an American these days. Look at the crap being done in my name.
I grew up near the border and have always had a high opinion of Canadians. I was lucky enough to get to hang out in Creston, BC, sometimes. Home of legendary Kokanee beer. The streets, houses, and yards were so tidy and orderly. Lots of beautiful flower gardens. Polite and friendly people.
I am going to cheer you up by reminding you of a few popular and obscure recording artists from Canada. Loreena McKennitt, Sarah McLachlan, The Irises, The Wailing Jennys, Stars, Amy Millan, Metric, Basia Bulat, Coeur de Pirate, Lynn Miles, Sarah Harmer, Ingrid StPierre, Aimee Mann, and many more I can't remember at the moment. Maybe only Sweden has a higer per capita output of beautiful pop music and the Swedes can't compete with you in authentic folk and country folk (except maybe Sofia Talvik). Listen to some beautiful music. That is my anodyne when all this stuff gets me down.
Kris Kristofferson to Sinead O'Connor when she was booed off the stage,"Don't let the bastards grind you down."
Not as obscure maybe, but don't forget BTO!
Not Fragile
No time for the killing floor...bitchez
WTF Russian propaganda on ZH, I did not even have to finish reading it to see this shit through.
You can applaud Putin as much as you want, but the reason it is impossible to live in Russia, because human dignity is a foreign concept overthere and anywhere else Putin spreads his power, now that will be Crimea.
There are millions of Russian people living in Russia without understanding that "human dignity" exist somewhere else. They just do not know that.
useless talkings
you know nothing about Russia
I know much more than you think, I was born in the USSR. anything you can counter back with? Besides, Putin's KGB friends were hunting me back than in Moscow. I know way more shit that you can even imagine.
Yeah.........I can.
I banged 4 women in Leningrad/Petrograd/St. GreatthePeters"bourg" recently.
Fuckin HOT.
Stop with the pissing contest kids...
Oh a internet tough guy, knows more than anyone can "imagine" .
Maybe you should start a religion with a line like that?
Thx M1 - Jacob Rothschild
Rothschild inherits Patent after 4 co-owners disappear on MH 370 Fligh
| M I N A: Macedonian Intl News Agency
28 March 2014
The disappearance of four members of a patent semiconductor traveling on Malaysia Airlines MH370 makes the famous billionaire Jacob Rothschild the sole owner of a very important patent…
The company says they were flying to China to improve its consumer products operations, but Freescale’s fresh links to electronic warfare technology is likely to trigger more speculation and deepen the mystery.
Experts have been baffled how a large passenger jet seems to have flown undetected and possibly beaten military radar systems for up to six hours even though today's satellites can take a crystal clear picture of someone crossing a street. // Read Entire Report Here
http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/24972/56/
Rothschild Takes Down Malaysian Airliner MH370 to Gain Rights to a Semiconductor Patent – Getting Rid of Those Who Stood in His Way!
Monday, March 24, 2014 13:43
If the patent holder dies, the other owners share equally in dividends from the deceased. If four of the five patentees die, then the patentee left alive gets 100% of the patent. That remaining patent holder is the company Freescale Semiconductor. Who owns Freescale Semiconductor? The answer is: Jacob Rothschild. British billionaire owns the company Blackstone, which in turn owns the company Freescale Semiconductors. Several speculations on the Internet now pay attention to this circumstance. The Rothschilds are a dynasty of financiers and international bankers of German-Jewish origin . The family is from the nineteenth century one of the most influential families of bankers and financiers of Europe.”
: http://truthnewsinternational.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/us008671381.pd
Interesting, but what about heirs of patent holders? No claims to the patent rights for the widows & family?
Apparently not, gwar5. Like Bill Gates' dad, you gotta know how to write a contract.
propaganda
A draft full of hipsters in onsies will save the West in WWIII. Right???
Just like their leader in Moms jeans.
Meanwhile, back in Russia, the kids are learning something.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrxjYfl05ek
Meanwhile our children are brainwashed to believe in 'climate change', unions, communism and that guns are evil.
About time for a change in leadership - really tired of the communist stupafesto crowd.
This is how tyrannical dictators come to power - vote wisely.
Feminists and gays fought long and hard to be allowed in the military and ultimately succeeded, making daily life in the barracks a minefield for cis-gender heterosexual men. Now they have another mission -- a mass landing at Zaliv Svinej to liberate Crimea from sexist, homophobic Russians who don't know that women and gays fight just as well as real men!
U tosser fuk off
Yeah....them pillow fights can get rough I heard....
I cast a critical vote at our county convention against a traditional marriage inclusion in the platform. Why would a paleoconservative do such a thing? Because I was in solidarity with Ron Paul supporters and did not believe that divisive social issues belonged there.
I believe in live and let live. You are not satisfied with that, and once your deviant behavior is accepted, then you move on to proselytyzing. Many of you seek to shock, outrage, and offend.
Your sexuality seems to be the center of your universe. You need to keep your universe from colliding with mine or I am unlikely to be sympathetic to your cause.
BTW I am annoyed at the Orwellian and inaccurate term that homosexuals have successfully forced everyone else to use. I despise politically correct euphemisms in general. If no fear is involved, then it really couldn't be a phobia, could it?
Tyler, I bet someone with Russian connections made you an offer to publish BS like this, you could not refuse. That how Russian Dictatorial Goverment operates, they let you sell your human dignity for money first, than, they take your money back and imprison you for life. If you do not believe me, ask Mr. Khodorkovsky.
It's Americans outraged at the neocon adventurism. And the propaganda used to slide it on through. Don't start with that Real Americans stuff, the backers of the Tea Party buffoons are backing out even as we speak.
No, its not. With the amound of negatives I get, it feels like Putin's Government payed assholes, who sold their dignity for money are pressing arrows down for every of my posts, just because they are paid to do that. It could not be Americans or Canadian, just because I have more credibility in knowing this shit, being born in the fucking USSR. It is painfull for me to see how Putin turns Russia back into USSR or worse.
Alentia
You forget the USA has some of the dumbest 'educated' people in the world, so dumb they cannot even identify the state in which they live on a map. They voted these communists into power - twice!
Putin with his flabby man boobs has been indulging in a bit too much testosterone treatment and must prove his manhood to his mirror.
Aren't the libtards in charge right now? I thought ZH readers were too smart to think that political parties come up with these ideas...
We may have a different understanding of Tea Party and it may explain the down arrows on this post, when all your other posts get lots of up arrows.
You may see Palin, Bachmann, Hannity and other Neocons when you think Tea Party. Just because Neocons pretend to be Tea Party and have highjacked the movement in some cases, does not discredit the entire movement to me.
Originally, Tea Party was about avoiding foreign entanglements, smaller government, and lower taxes. Tea Party is anti-neocon when not highjacked. Indeed, I consider it the closest thing to a paleoconservative revival that we are likely to see.
BTW Good post except I have trouble with the phrase "Tea Party Buffoons." I gave you an up arrow, anyway.
Signed, Tea Party Buffoon
Freeing DC the antidote for WWIII
http://usnvrepcan.blogspot.com/
When the truth becomes common knowledge, when finance is exposed for what it is, when the lies no longer work, when there is no common enemy real or created to hold this society toghter, they`ll try to save their wealth and power with war.
I understand what PCR is saying but Obama is blustering and running away, not beating war drums. Just follow the MSM propaganda -- they are doing everything they can to avoid any mention of Ukraine.
Looks more like Obama is angling for a 'little' proxy war in Syria instead of taking on the Russian Bear in his own backyard. Things could get out of hand in Syria, but not so much.
Obama is just setting the table for the next round of violent unhinged sociopaths that will get elected in or force their way into power (if we let them). You know the supposed strong leaders who come in to fix the mess that are allegedly not part of the previous power structure then don't leave once the job is done.
I'm pretty much convinced that they let this grey alien looking asshole stay in office this long that they are using him for hegelian dialectic purposes now and will depose of him either through impeachment or other means as long as they can hold onto control the power structure behind the scenes come election time 2014 or afterwards. That is when the final blow comes unless we deal with the globalist backdoor control structure now to wrest control of our country back before the final nails are sunk into the coffin. Same with Europe before it is too late for each country.
http://www.fhu.com/hegelian.html
The technique is as old as politics itself. It is the Hegelian Dialectic of bringing about change in a three-step process: Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis.
The first step (thesis) is to create a problem. The second step (antithesis) is to generate opposition to the problem (fear, panic and hysteria). The third step (synthesis) is to offer the solution to the problem created by step one: A change which would have been impossible to impose upon the people without the proper psychological conditioning achieved in stages one and two.
Applying the Hegelian Dialectic, and irresistible financial influence, concealed change agents seek to dismantle social and political structures by which free men govern themselves — ancient landmarks erected at great cost in blood and treasure.
Their objective is to emasculate sovereign states, merge nations under universal government, centralize economic powers, and control the world's people and resources.
i slept through the discussion of Hegelian philosophy in college. I have been brushing up on it and i would agree with you.
Every military person knows;
Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery (Viscount Alamein) in a speech in the House of Lords on 30 May 1962: "Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war is: 'Do not march on Moscow.' ... Rule 2 is: 'Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.'"
So the war you all are hoping for is not going to happen, at least not in the Ukraine.
Pick a different playing field.
Most humans are decent and, so, cannot see profound evil in others. And that seems to be what we need here. The ability to see profound evil.
53% of voting Americans seem to lack the ability to recognize perfectly banal evil.
Most humans are decent and, so,...
I couldn't disagree more. Human beings are inherently evil. Any lie that would promote the idea we are basically good prevents us from developing the ability to see the profound evil you allude to.
Though we are fundamentally evil, we are capable of good. “Goodness” is a choice, evil is the default conduct. And since it’s what we all start off with, those who have never chosen to act against nature degrade themselves and those within their power to ever increasing wretchedness and perversity.
We are living the curse. There is no good news until and unless evil is exposed for what it is and goodness is acted on. Simply removing evil, i.e., enforcing “Thou shalt nots”, does nothing to improve our future. Actively seeking and delivering justice and mercy in place of our natural instincts however, will.
jmo
This whole thing strikes me more as a necessary ingredient to finally close the vise on freedom. You can build all the tech, bastardize the laws, pervert the interpretation of rights, but it isn't enough to ensure 1984. They tried to make Jihadist terrorism and fundamentalism the big baddie, but it wasn't enough to solidify into Eastasia. Now Russia and China, add in Iran, Syria and the Fat Boy King Jong Un...with that block they get to have a Eastasia enemy. The Manaquin/Mandarin is just playing his part.
I can visualize a few years from now the talking head on the FoxCNNMSNBCABCCBSNBCBBCSKY single channel telling us every night "we are at war with Eastasia. We have always been at war with Eastasia."
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
The communists and socialists are firmly in control of the US government and its current moronic ways.
This has nothing to do with 'neo-cons' and everything to do with what leftists always revert to - destruction.
Solely because they are dumb fucks. Just saying....
"...and everything to do with what leftists always revert to - destruction"
Amen to that.
Finally, someone who calls out the helter skelter nature of this OpEd. The US is no longer a nation governed by a Constitution or even well intentioned men. We are the blame and we will do nothing about it no matter how corrupt and evil our various governments become. Period
I get what the author is saying here, but let's be adults about this. Putin is no angel, there IS a russian army in Crimea and it does appear to be under the control of Russian, or Russian speaking troops.
This was a chess game to edge Russia out of one square, it didn't work out. There are still alot of moves left in the game. Gas pipelines from North Africa are going to break his monopoly on European energy in the next few years and he is being squeezed on one side by NATO and the ChiComms on the other end.
The US is not a toothless paper tiger and the Red Army and Navy are a shadow of what they were in the 80's. The Red Army is not the Steam-Roller that it used to be, but it is not to be dismissed entirely either.
Mr. Putin is an interesting fellow, he make descisions based soley on what is good for Russia, and I find that admirable/ refreshing. But he is shaping up to be a tin pot despot that swindles elections and rules a kingdom riffe with graft and corruption. He is acting not out of might, but out of weakness in this situation. So lets not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet. (Clint Eastwood, not me)
And by the way, Paul Craig Roberts has come off the hinge completely in the last year. What's up with this guy?
I must have come off the hinge too then, because I've been saying for 3-4 years that the state of the Western world's economies can only lead to war.
It seems obvious to me. Virtually every sovereign government is bankrupt after years of socialism and welfare statism, the "leaders" of our countries are addicted to spending, their debts are unsustainable and unrepayable and they've now started stealing bank accounts from citizens. The whole financial system is teetering on the brink of collapse. There is no growth, there is no recovery. The politicians are lying thru their teeth.
Something has to give. It can only be war.
go back to your decompression chamber. your suffering nitrogen narcossis. PCR appears to be the only guy who can eloquently connect the dots....
Screw Putin. What the hell has the US been doing there for years? It is not our neighborhood.
You don't get it.
Russia is a very important business partner for Europe. And this is not going to change.
It maybe looks different for you from abroad from amerika, but Russia is not conquering the planet like United States by killing millions of people, lying and stealing wealth of others.
It's not about Putin, it's more about western banksters seeking the final confrontation, it's all in.
You have never been to Russia have you? You don't seem to understand. I will give you a hint, who speaks Russian in Crimea?
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I believe the lease they have on the naval base allows ~25,000 troops in Crimea. Even with the increase to 16,000 they were nowhere near this number so... invasion?
Sorry,.. Haliburton, Blackwater, Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon, General Dynamics. the F22, the F35 programmes etc etc etc. The USA is every bit the Plutocracy that Russia is. It seems Democracy is dead everywhere. In terms of the Crimean referendum, I saw videos of tens of thousands of Russians out celebrating the restults. There's a large Russian population there. i.e. the majority of the population.
And in terms of Putin's "weakness"... Well he's certainly reacting to western agression both in Syria and Ukraine, so that could be seen as weakness, I'm not sure I'd put it in terms of strength or weakness though, it's a rather psychopathic way of describing war and thousands of deaths caused by the overthrow of existing governments.
Hate to break it to you Mr. Divingengineer, grumpy old man. We are no longer in the 20th century. Your automatic reflex that Russians are bad is out dated.
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So funny to read bullshit praising Putin.He's not your savior bitchez
Just because the Unreality Industry puts a black hat on him, doesn't mean we all have to growl at him when we're told. Think for yourself.
I see no praise of Putin here, just a recount of history. My Savior is greater than Putin.
A huge thanks to Zerohedge for brigning Paul Craig Roberts on these pages.
It is hard to beat PCR for hard core analysis based on exceptional depth and experience, with no ulterior agenda.
PCR is usually excellent. It's still confounds me how he disses Dr. Judy Wood. Perhaps, he, like other critics of hers, have issues with women solving the big mysteries.
Becuase the worst lies are those that take the truth and twist it. Taking the technical absurdity of carpet fires collapsing steel frame buildings and grafting on the woo-woo of Free Energy Technology sure makes anyone who doesn't buy the official story look like a crank. Helps stamp out doubt, or at least, keeps them out of polite society.
All War is a Fail of Trade, of Economic Communication. The old in-and-out got jammed out there, however, beware of locals.
Marc Faber is widely quoted as having said about America's Bankers and Military Industrial complex that they "would print and print and print. Then they would take us to war." When asked with whom America would go to war, Marc responded. "It does not matter, America can always find someone to go to war with."
Russia is the target Marc Faber pointed out all the way back in 2008. America must maintain the dollar as world resreve currency or fail as a state. Where does the Dollar as world reserve currency get it's foundation and it's lasting power to hold reserve currency status? From the barrel of a gun, or a mob of American funded fascists and Al-Qaeda. Those who question King Dollar will be eliminated by the American 1 trillion dollar a year Police, Military and Spy state apparatus. Iraq, Libya, Syria ahve already paid with mass death for their lack of support for king dollar. The American funded and directed coup in Kiev is aimed at Russia for their moves away from King Dollar and their buyin of gold and selling oil to the east without dollar conversions.
Point of fact, America spend twice as much money every year than it's economy can produce. The balance is printed dollars that the US military insures the world accepts in return for energy, food and manufactured goods that are no longer produced in import dependent America. The 1 key export if America are armed invasions and well funded coups by hired terrorists. Accept the dollar or face invasion.
If I include the UK, EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, and Israel I'd have to say you are right. America is just the muscle behind the might.
I agree with your points Jack.
I do believe that this Russian isolation is starting to back fire, on what will be a US isolation. I think the rest of the world are fed up of all the bullshit the US and the West's government spin such as:-
Russia has been busy behind the scenes talking to the eastern countries about future trade and relationships, China is taking large strides towards making the Yuan more of an international trade and making bilateral trading agreeements. In general terms if the US want to keep the reserve currency and the king dollar then they will find themselves at war with more than just Russia. We are seeing a total loss of faith and control of the US by Washington and the continued fall of the US empire.
Either they accept this, or go to war.
I used to think that by going to war they would need the public backing by creating a false flag event, but now with the capabilities of machines and drones this war can be done without the support of the masses
Why are people blind? IMO, it is because the people are generlly good, trusting and respectful. It is not conceivable to them that there is an evil group of "so called" people in this world who want to first divide, corrupt and then kill them ... even though the general populace targeted have done nothing wrong and simply want to live their own lives in peace.
Personally I think that the author is being kind to Obama (and his cronies, who include Putin. the Clintons and Bushes) and those who more than just pulling his strings. They are DIRECTING him toward a goal for which he was designed). My belief is that it is not "neocons", nor is it politicians, nor communists nor bankers ... nor the Bilderbergs/CFR etc who are trying to alter the world to suit some plan of theirs. It is all of them, who are coordinating their efforts with the belief that the people are just stupid animals who are too ignorant and disorganizaed to fight back. The evil ones most likely cannot concieve of good people and think that everyone would be as corrupted and dark as them, if given the opportunity.
Are we headed to war? Probably. It is a war that no one in the general populace want or believe in. The people have seen the government politicians lie too many times to believe that there is an enemy out there that is made of people like them and wants to destroy them. The people incrasingly know that the enemy is made of those who want to take them into another unjust war.
Why have, on the average, 22 of our sons and daughters in the military committed suicide every day since the beginning of this year? It should be obvious. People are so superior to the so called leaders because they have a conscience and the majority cannot be fully corrupted by the evil ones in power.
If American people refuse to fight they lose their enforcement mechanism you know. Don't give consent even if in uniform. Force the global corporate structure and entities to do the heavy lifting out in the open so everyone can see. People can always not give consent by not participating and only lifting their weapons in self defense within the US.
That leads me to another point of contention. When the revolt starts in the US you have to wonder how many 'trip wire' groups they have ready to unleash on the populace to cause F.U.D. if the people riot. Regardless of what most people think most DHS probably will not shoot other US citizens when it comes down to it. I would bet they have 'sting' operations going on that really serve to put contacts and control mechanisms in these groups here in the US. Someone might want to do an audit of all those guns and bullets the DHS is purchasing for starters......... If people start revolting or protesting like Euromaidan you can bet these organizations will be put to use if they have them in their back pocket. No reason to assume they wouldn't considering past ties to the Italian Mafia in the US.
Start with the History, National Geographic, Military Channel, etc. and take a look at the programming on some these grade A first class pyschos they give airtime to on certain shows. They might just be serving other purposes other than informational like recruiting informercials akin to CNN International aka the Bahrain informercial news pieces.
Very inciteful article by Paul Craig Roberts. I look around and feel the same way. It's like politicians are puppets. Puppets with glaringly poor dialogue that is designed to incite revolution. A three-pronged trident is stuck in the side of Lady Liberty. To comprehend "truth" with attacks from every angle is difficult for many and impossible for most.
This is a scene from Marat/Sade where the Asylum Director approves of the play but the insane inmate players have other ideas about the script and deliver the wrong lines that results in chaos.
Putin is the author Marquis de Sade who looks on in bemused silence. He knows how the play is supposed to go but really doesn't care.
And not undercut the original poster but I don't feel like going through the responses again to find him, an important little tidbit in the link they posted. It is key to understand this to decipher the bigger picture.
http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com/keytopics/threats.html
To fully understand the globalist mode of operation, we must address one of the great inconsistencies in US foreign policy: Why have US leaders (especially from Truman onward) actively undermined other pro-Western governments and secretly armed and supported Communist guerrilla operations in such countries as China, Korea, Cuba, Nicaragua, Laos, and Cambodia? Why do globalists attack some Communist regimes and support others? The main reason is that globalists are dedicated socialists, in terms of commitment to control, but want the benefits of a partially free market to finance that control system. They have a code name for this dualism--the Third Way--which is a euphemism for the old Fabian socialism (private ownership but government regulation and control). Naturally, globalists like the trappings of wealth that the capitalist component of a controlled economy provides.
Communism has been a useful tool for the globalists to subvert liberty in the world. Communism takes the rap, while the globalists steadily undermine world independence and national sovereignty. The NWO boys are experts in the use of Hegelian tactics of creating enemies that produce a desired response. For example, Communism is often characterized by certain excesses in tyranny that engender a call for global intervention--very convenient. The Communists do the dirty work and the globalists step in to control the final outcome, after the Left has destroyed the middle class and created a large benefit-corrupted majority of voters.
Often, the setup is not easy to control. When a Communist tyrant becomes unpredictable or messy the US State Department has to go in and undermine their own tyrant and replace him with another. Ultimately, US global leaders have to undermine any strongman, such as Milosovic in Serbia who refuses to become subservient to NWO control. Globalists have a nasty record of not being able to find moderate tyrants, especially in Africa and the Middle East.
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Thanks DCH. Nice contribution.
hell no, we won't go!
PCR: not entirely wrong, and not entirely sane.
His big mistake, like so many, is expecting the world to make sense. It never really does. Lots of people doing dumb stuff for dumb reasons, is more like it. So all these arguments precise to twelve decimal points are fun, but mostly gibberish.
But in the immortal words of Hunter S. Thompson: When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. And these are the weirdest times in about fifteen hundred years.
Agreed. Looking for order in chaos is a fatalistic human flaw.
But those that look for order in chaos are the ones that give us all those wonderful conspiracy theories.
Shit, I'm not of the opinion that WWIII is against my interests, as long as I can survive via my self determined preparations. The herd is desperately in need of culling. Herd mentality in the mass society and herd mentality in the Zionist under the bed mentality here. good luck folks, but you'll need substantially more than luck to sustain yourselves. I doubt one in ten here has made any preparations. A lot of trash talk about Jew this and Neo that. Your 'truth' is a horse blinder view point as well.
I can't really disagree with your first sentence, but if the herd needs to be culled, cull the goddamed treasonous fucks from the Oval Office on down to the local taxman/cop/alderman/judge/fill in the blank, who pisses on the Bill of Rights daily and as a matter of course.
Using the word 'final' and 'war' in the same sentence lowers the credibility of Paul Roberts.
How do you know that the winners won't hunt down evwry last MFer on the losing side. The winner can then write the history. Imagine a Chinese only planet.
In such a chinese only planet, subsects would fight each other through such such a fictional future. Read Sun Sue where the chinese think they developed war into an artform.
"Using the word 'final' and 'war' in the same sentence lowers the credibility of Paul Roberts"
ONLY if you have a narrow interpretation of the term.
I recall seeing a short BBC TV interview in London about 10 years ago where a high-ranking American Neo-con (sorry I can't recall his name) being interviewed said (paraphrased) we have about 10-15 years to face China. After 2020-2025 China will become too strong militarily.
Sadly, the BBC interviewer did not press the issue or ask more questions, so we didn't get to learn exactly what he meant.
But what we are seeing now fits exactly into that gameplan.
The USG is deliberately creating chaos across the M/E and elsewhere and is slowly moving East with NATO and preparing for a final showdown with Russia and China. At this point it believes it has military superiority and can win such a showdown, thereby turning the whole world into part of the American Empire. There won't be anybody else to fight. That is what is meant by Paul Craig Robert's "final war". Not that mankind will be obliterated, although it is possible.
Obama is a puppet for the people who really run the show.
Doesn't absolve him of guilt nevertheless.
We are headed to war not because of a small group of very clever people wish it, but because a small group of people are so effing stupid. 0bama, Kerry, Hillary etc. This will turn out badly.
They may just be evil, not stupid.
Duct tape and plastic. Seal those doors and windows after the blast. D'uh. As long as the blast was a few miles away you have a chance.
I liked the history info from the Barnes and Clark's books. Yes, EU and USA has been meddling however Russia is not innocent in their dealing with Ukraine nor the corrupt politicians in Ukraine.
I can't see a new WW3 starting when you have nukes involved. Poltiicians have to rattle the saber to inform the masses that they are doing something but that is bark with no bit.
the only thing useful about Obama is that he isn't leading us anywhere
This guy gives Obama way too much credit. He isn't Machiavelli, he's a blunt instrument formed daily to do others dirty work.
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Good dialog on this thread!
Ahh, I must have cut deeply in my original post........ all 31 of you logged in. And I reduced vic and blood to a mis-spelled "your mama wears army boots" response. So please continue to inform us; if the church of neoconservatism (I do not attend services there) has a congregation of the elite, it must be attended by the Clinton's, the Kerry's, the Obama's, and a long list of academics, lawyers, media moguls and holywood power players. Harvey Weinstein's a neo-con? Most "western", as you put it, media outlets are controlled by neo-cons. Yes, I'm still laughing.
delusional much?
war is peace. freedom is slavery. ignorance is strength.
So many DHS shills here...i love how they say we are all 'communist shills' for seeing it like it is - that the US is out of control and is run by war mongering bankers and idiot politicians who let US citizens starve in order to underwrite Ukraine. fucking idiots.
i was born and bred to kill "soviet communists". my first movie i was allowed to see was "The Day After". in the 1980s my dad used to take me to the airbase and show me the planes he was working on...and my dad worked on them all B1, B2s, F117...i was raised in a well funded home paid for by Lockheed to kill communist and so I joined the US military at 17 (eventually going to OCS and various military schools) when the USSR still existed! And you know what, PUTIN IS REALLY IS THE ONLY CIVILIZED FUCKING GUY AT THE CHESSBOARD RIGHT NOW.
all it takes is some reading and paying attention to see what this is about - money and power. has not a damn thing to do with democracy and certainly not liberty. Anyone else rooting for 'Team America' really hasn't a fucking scooby doo.
Yeah. Learning stuff about him I never knew.
"Still, Putin’s religiosity is a blessing to some in the international community. The Eastern Orthodox Church has asked him to protect Christians worldwide, and he has agreed. Russia’s controversial support of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria is due to Putin’s concern that the Christian minority in that country will be persecuted if Assad is toppled.9"
http://hollowverse.com/vladimir-putin/
Our leaders share no such worry apparently.
I forget which was the main ethnic and religious group who had pontius pilate crucify that guy who Christianity is named after?
That would be the Romans, who are now the Catholics.
I would rephrased that, if I were you .
That would be the Romans, who are now the Vatican Operatives.
Explanation (Below) for my thinking which may be challenged of course.
For your information Church or the Greek equivellant is Ekkllissia or the French Eglise means the GATHERING OF PEOPLE for a specific task. Either to make o POLITICAL DECISION (as in Ancient Athens) OR a Religious commitment or in a Jewish SYNAGOGUE.
THEY ALL MEAN MORE OR LESS THE GATHERING OF PEOPLE in a place.
The place or building may be a Temple or a Naos.
But the Clerical CASTE has taken ADVANTAGE of the meaning and SERVE THEMSELVES.
Of course there are always EXCEPTIONS TO THE RULE.
interesting article on Putin's religion.
think about this:
we live in a world with more choices than ever in human history and with the least amount of moral guidance ever in recent history.
you don't need to be a hard core bible thumper to realize that the Bible has some decent advice and guidance in it. Not rocket science advice but still quite reasonable IMHO.
I do not understand why the author says USA where it should be said Zion's financial Sanhedrin...
This is why. Late last year praise be to amen. We started our digging operations. Join me my brothers..we are few right now but soon we will be many. Our goal is to dig to the center of the earth and we shall start our own society. I had a vision the angel biff the unruly was going to smite the earth last summer i pleaded with him and the earth was saved.
god speaks to me i speak to my 6 followers. join me in salvation. we shall be celebrating as we rent a big digger this month donations to help us fulfill the mission of building zion 50 miles below the earths surface
why did i get downvoted
Because...you sound like a religious fanatic who has been wolfing down magic mushrooms?
Because people on ZH really are as stupid as they seem. I don't like Denninger, either, and your parody (any parody) of him deserves better than to be downvoted.
I know this is not all that important, but I will ask anyway. On this vote they took in Crimea, did they have three choices or only two? What I mean is, did they have the option to choose to disconnect from Ukraine, but remain independent? Or was the only "choice" (false alternative) to remain slaves of Ukraine or become slaves of Russia?
Your question is important. It was answered and settled some time ago. You missed a previous thread concerning the subject. Someone here went into detail on that question and went so far as to post a link to a translated ballot. The Crimeans DID have a real choice and chose to return to Russia. I think that the Crimeans were realistic and knew that they lacked the resources to go it alone.
Be undaunted by the down votes. People may believe that your question is actually editorializing, since the issue was debated here, and the Russia haters suffered a resounding defeat on a non-issue. Geographically, they are Crimeans, but the majority are ethnic Russians. Obviously, most ethnic Ukrainians living in Crimea also voted to join Russia. Maybe compare it to when Texas joined the USA. Remember that Crimea was a Russian province for a couple of centuries until Khruschev, an ethnic Ukrainian, gave it to Ukraine by fiat in the early 60s, if I recall.
They are not slaves to Russia. They are now Russian citizens living in Russia. It is called self-determination. We used to support that sort of thing.
BTW I will upvote your comment because I think you are sincere in your question.
Thanks. And I was just asking the question.
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As for my term "slave", please understand that I do not believe that being a slave of a so-called "majority" is somehow magically "not a slave". So in my [rational] mind, being forced to comply with dictates and taxes by ANY entity is in fact slavery.
To claim otherwise is to totally eliminate the concept that means "non-slave" for all practical purposes, and I do not accept that.
The essential difference is:
- own yourself, your time and what you produce
versus
- NOT own yourself, your time and what you produce
While I understand there are real differences between the various forms of slavery, they are all similar in the crucial sense: someone ELSE controls you, your time, your efforts, your resources and what you produce. THIS is why they are all forms of slavery, and only when you are FREE of such manipulation are you not a slave.
PS: If some gang of thugs grabs you, locks you in a cellar and makes you work for them the rest of your life, the fact that they "out-vote you" is of ZERO theoretical OR practical significance. You will be treated the same as if they have a single "leader" who makes those decisions. In both cases --- YOU ARE A SLAVE.
And no... if they allow you to order Chinese food once a week, or relax 4 hours per day, that does not make you any less a slave. THEY decide whether to let your order Chinese food, and THEY decide whether to let you rest 4 hours. You are 100% a slave.
The number of scumbags who vote you into that cellar is irrelevant. If the entire freaking planet full of human beings votes 99% to stick you in that cellar, you are just as much as slave as if the decision is made in any other manner, or by fewer people, or even by a random number generator executing on a computer.
Economic reality means it was one or the other
how many choices did you have last election?
I always have the same choice:
VOTE or DO NOT VOTE.
Since I have never accepted the fictional notions of "law" "rule" or "nation" or "official" or "authority" or "government"... there has never been a reason for me to vote.
So I have never voted.
But if you want to take a poll of favorite ice-cream flavors or something like that, I might "vote" in such a poll.
This is one the best written articles I've read in a while.
The globalists that are being controlled by a few wealthy interests are depicted as the most dangerous people on the planet at this time. An Osama Bin Laden behind each head of state.
In a world war as I recall there are people within the warring nations that represent the resistance. How can Western Globalists expect to win this one when most are against them in the countries where they reside. The way would be by brute force but that would mean fighting a war in which the globalists are surrounded on all sides, from within and without. The globalists are on a suicide mission. And that is what does not make sense unless they intend to destroy Western civilization and become the leaders of what arises out of the war. In other words the Globalists and their representative heads of state are the actual ones declaring war on Western civilization.
The globalists? 'Americanism' is a global project, tied to humanity through the natural rights.
'American' societies are not controlled by a few. They are controlled by the master class, WeThePeople aka the 'american' middle class.
The few are rewarded when they serve well the 'american' middle class.
This is how you grow rich in an 'american' society: by serving well the 'american' middle class.
Take a list of 'american' successful people: so many in it that got there by serving the middle class, so few that went by not serving.
Coming to a city near you! Nuclear explosions.
Am I the only one who thinks that this is the biggest crap in ZH ?
Yes you are all alone in your little bubble universe of lies.
The whole article is about How the West will start a WWIII. Russia can have fucking nuclear drills every year but when NATO decides that its time to wake up then the West is going to start a fucking War. Maybe you need to wake up muppet ?
If Russia were to start riling up Texans to rejoin Mexico, how do you think the US would react? Sit back and watch or start flexing? this all started by us helping to install NeoNazi thugs handled by oligarchs.
Texas is going to rejoin Mexico anyway, simply based on demographic trends. Give it time.
What Fucking NATO?
Have you seen Your Allies? Greece AND Turkey? and these two countries are going to fight not amongst themselves but BE ALLIES AGAINST Russia. Are you Nuts?
Who is going to attack Whom?
You forgot 1974 Invasion of Cyprus?
Is Poland going to be friends WITH GERMANY? Against Russia? Are they going to be suicidal?
Is France AND Britain going to WAR NOT for Profit? When did anything like that happen before? Dates please.
Are the PIGS going to fork out money for a war when IMF is raping them on a daily basis, Morning Afternoon and Night?
The motivation of the domestic enemy Usurper (Obama was born British, of a British subject father, and is not a natural born Citizen, as req. by A2S1C5) is to oversee the destruction of the US from within. He was put there by the NWO specifically because he is not a legal POTUS, and his illegitimacy means that the law is only what he says (and is told) it is.
This administration, protected by praetorian guards in the DOJ and a prostituted media, has attacked every aspect of American life--- from weakening and purging the military, to destruction of the family unit, to destruction of currency, attacking the right to bear arms, atttcking 4th Amendment rights, promoting class warfare, etc. etc.
War will be the final straw, and martial law will follow.
unfortunately its much worse than that and applies to the entire world. Expect to have "masters" in your very near future. You wont even get to fight them.