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Snowden, Putin, Greece: It’s All The Same Story
Submitted by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog,
Through the last decades, as we have been getting ever more occupied trying to be what society tells us is defined as successful, we all missed out on a lot of changes in our world. Or perhaps we should be gentle to ourselves and say we’re simply slow to catch up.
Which is somewhat curious since we’ve also been getting bombarded with fast increasing amounts of what we’re told is information, so you’d think it might have become easier to keep up. It was not.
While we were busy being busy we for instance were largely oblivious to the fact the US is no longer a beneficial force in the world, and that it doesn’t spread democracy or freedom. Now you may argue to what extent that has ever been true, and you should, but the perception was arguably much closer to the truth 70 years ago, at the end of WWII, then it is today.
Another change we really can’t get our heads around is how the media have turned from a source of information to a source of – pre-fabricated – narratives. We’ll all say to some extent or another that we know our press feeds us propaganda, but, again arguably, few of us are capable of pinpointing to what extent that is true. Perhaps no big surprise given the overdose of what passes for information, but duly noted.
So far so good, you’re not as smart as you think. Bummer. But still an easy one to deny in the private space of your own head. If you get undressed and stand in front of the mirror, though, maybe not as easy.
What ails us is, I was going to say perfectly human, but let’s stick with just human, and leave perfection alone. What makes us human is that it feels good to be protected, safe, and prosperous. Protected from evil and from hard times, by a military force, by a monetary fund, by a monetary union. It feels so good in fact that we don’t notice when what’s supposed to keep us safe turns against us.
But it is what happens, time and again, and, once again arguably, ever more so. What we think the world looks like is increasingly shaped by fiction. Perhaps that means we live in dreamtime. Or nightmare time. Whatever you call it, it’s not real. Pinching yourself is not going to help. Reading Orwell might.
The Sunday Times ran a story today -which the entire world press parroted quasi verbatim- that claimed MI6 had felt compelled to call back some of its operatives from the ‘field’ because Russia and China had allegedly hacked into the encrypted files Edward Snowden allegedly carried with him to Russia (something Snowden denied on multiple occasions).
Glenn Greenwald’s take down of the whole thing is – for good reasons- far better than I could provide, and it’s blistering, it leaves not a single shred of the article. Problem is, the die’s been cast, and many more people read the Times and all the media who’ve reprinted its fiction, than do read Greenwald:
The Sunday Times’ Snowden Story Is Journalism At Its Worst
Western journalists claim that the big lesson they learned from their key role in selling the Iraq War to the public is that it’s hideous, corrupt and often dangerous journalism to give anonymity to government officials to let them propagandize the public, then uncritically accept those anonymously voiced claims as Truth. But they’ve learned no such lesson. That tactic continues to be the staple of how major US and British media outlets “report,” especially in the national security area. And journalists who read such reports continue to treat self-serving decrees by unnamed, unseen officials – laundered through their media – as gospel, no matter how dubious are the claims or factually false is the reporting.
We now have one of the purest examples of this dynamic. Last night, the Murdoch-owned Sunday Times published their lead front-page Sunday article, headlined “British Spies Betrayed to Russians and Chinese.” Just as the conventional media narrative was shifting to pro-Snowden sentiment in the wake of a key court ruling and a new surveillance law, the article claims in the first paragraph that these two adversaries “have cracked the top-secret cache of files stolen by the fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden, forcing MI6 to pull agents out of live operations in hostile countries, according to senior officials in Downing Street, the Home Office and the security services.”
Please read Greenwald’s piece. It’s excellent. Turns out the Times made it all up. At the same time, it’s just one example of something much more expansive: the entire world view of the vast majority of Americans and Europeans, and that means you too, is weaved together from a smorgasbord of made-up stories, narratives concocted to make you see what someone else wants you to see.
Last week, the Pew Research Center did a survey that was centered around the question what ‘we’ should do if a NATO ally were attacked by Russia. How Pew dare hold such a survey is for most people not even a valid question anymore, since the Putin as bogeyman tale, after a year and change, has taken root in 99% of western brains.
And so the Pew question, devoid of reality as it may be, appears more legit than the question about why the question is asked in the first place. NATO didn’t really like the results of the survey, but enough to thump some more chests. Here’s from an otherwise wholly forgettable NY Times piece:
Poles were most alarmed by Moscow’s muscle flexing, with 70% saying that Russia was a major military threat. Germany, a critical American ally in the effort to forge a Ukraine peace settlement, was at the other end of the spectrum. Only 38% of Germans said that Russia was a danger to neighboring countries aside from Ukraine, and only 29% blamed Russia for the violence in Ukraine. Consequently, 58% of Germans do not believe that their country should use force to defend another NATO ally. Just 19% of Germans say NATO weapons should be sent to the Ukrainian government to help it better contend with Russian and separatist attacks.
Do we need to repeat that Russia didn’t attack Ukraine? That if after all this time there is still zero proof for that, perhaps it’s time to let go of that idea?
Over the past week, there have been numerous reports of NATO ‘strengthening’ its presence in Eastern Europe and the Baltics. Supposedly to deter Russian aggression in the region. For which there is no evidence. But if you ask people if NATO should act if one of its allies were attacked, you put the idea in people’s heads that such an attack is a real risk. And that’s the whole idea.
This crazy piece from the Guardian provides a very good example of how the mood is manipulated:
US And Poland In Talks Over Weapons Deployment In Eastern Europe
The US and Poland are discussing the deployment of American heavy weapons in eastern Europe in response to Russian expansionism and sabre-rattling in the region in what represents a radical break with post-cold war military planning. The Polish defence ministry said on Sunday that Washington and Warsaw were in negotiations about the permanent stationing of US battle tanks and other heavy weaponry in Poland and other countries in the region as part of NATO’s plans to develop rapid deployment “Spearhead” forces aimed at deterring Kremlin attempts to destabilise former Soviet bloc countries now entrenched inside NATO and the EU.
Warsaw said that a decision whether to station heavy US equipment at warehouses in Poland would be taken soon. NATO’s former supreme commander in Europe, American admiral James Stavridis, said the decision marked “a very meaningful policy shift”, amid eastern European complaints that western Europe and the US were lukewarm about security guarantees for countries on the frontline with Russia following Vladimir Putin’s seizure of parts of Ukraine. “It provides a reasonable level of reassurance to jittery allies, although nothing is as good as troops stationed full time on the ground, of course,” the retired admiral told the New York Times.
NATO has been accused of complacency in recent years. The Russian president’s surprise attacks on Ukraine have shocked western military planners into action. An alliance summit in Wales last year agreed quick deployments of NATO forces in Poland and the Baltic states. German mechanised infantry crossed into Poland at the weekend after thousands of NATO forces inaugurated exercises as part of the new buildup in the east. Wary of antagonising Moscow’s fears of western “encirclement” and feeding its well-oiled propaganda effort, which regularly asserts that NATO agreed at the end of the cold war not to station forces in the former Warsaw Pact countries, NATO has declined to establish permanent bases in the east.
It’s downright borderline criminally tragic that NATO claims it’s building up its presence in the region as a response to Russian actions. What actions? Nothing was going on until ‘we’ supported a coup in Kiev, installed a puppet government and let them wage war on their own citizens. That war killed a lot of people. And if Kiev has any say in the matter, it ain’t over by a long shot. Poroshenko and Yats still want it all back. So does NATO.
When signing a post-cold war strategic cooperation pact with Russia in 1997, Nato pledged not to station ground forces permanently in eastern Europe “in the current and foreseeable security environment”. But that environment has been transformed by Putin’s decision to invade and annex parts of Ukraine and the 1997 agreement is now seen as obsolete.
Meanwhile, Russia re-took Crimea without a single shot being fired. But that is still what the western press calls aggression. Russia doesn’t even deem to respond to ‘our’ innuendo, they feel there’s nothing to be gained from that because ‘our’ stories have been pre-cooked and pre-chewed anyway. Something that we are going to greatly regret.
There are all these alphabet soup organizations that were once set up with, one last time, arguably, good intentions, and that now invent narratives because A) they can and B) they need a reason to continue to exist. That is true for NATO, which should have been dismantled 25 years ago.
It’s true for the IMF, which was always only a tool for US domination. It’s true for the CIA and FBI, which might keep you safe if that was their intent, but which really only function to keep themselves and their narrow group of paymasters safe.
It’s also true for political unions, like the US and EU. Let’s leave the former alone for now, though much could be said and written about the gaping distance between what the Founding Fathers once envisioned for the nation and what it has since descended into.
Still, that is a story for another day. When we can find our way through the web of narratives that holds it upright. Like the threat from Russia, the threat from China, the threat from all the factions in the Middle East the US itself (helped) set up.
The EU is much younger, though its bureaucrats seem eager to catch up with America in fictitious web weaving. We humans stink at anything supra-national. We can have our societies cooperate, but as soon as we invent ‘greater’ units to incorporate that cooperation, things run off the rails, the wrong people grab power, and the weaker among us get sacrificed. And that is what’s happening once again, entirely predictably, in Greece.
That Spain’s two largest cities, Barcelona and Madrid, have now sworn in far-left female mayors this week will only serve to make things harder for Athens. Brussels is under siege, and it will defend its territory as ‘best’ it can.
What might influence matters, and not a little bit, is that Syriza’s Audit Commission is poised to make public its findings on June 18, and that they yesterday revealed they have in their possession a 2010 IMF document that allegedly proves that the Fund knew back then, before the first bail-out, that the Memorandum would result in an increase in Greek debt.
That’s potentially incendiary information, because the Memorandum -and the bailout- were aimed specifically at decreasing the debt. That -again, allegedly- none of the EU nations have seen the document at the time -let’s see how the spin machine makes that look- doesn’t exactly make it any more acceptable.
Nor of course does the fact that Greece’s debt could and should have been restructured, according to the IMF’s own people and ‘standards’, but wasn’t until 2012, when the main European banks had been bailed out with what was subsequently shoved onto the shoulders of the Greek population, and had withdrawn their ‘assets’ from the country, a move that made Greece’s position that much harder.
The narrative being sold through the media in other eurozone nations is that Greece is to blame, that for instance German taxpayers are on the hook for Greek debts, while they’re really on the hook for German banks’ losing wagers (here’s looking at you, Deutsche!). And that is, no matter how you twist it, not the same story. It’s again just a narrative.
Once more, and we’ve said it many times before, Brussels is toxic -and so is the IMF- and Greece should leave as soon as possible, as should Italy, Spain, Portugal. And we should all resist the spin-induced attempts to demonize Putin, Athens and China any further, and instead focus on the rotten apples in our own basket(s).
In short, the propaganda we should be worried about is not Russia’s, it’s our own. And it comes from just about every news article we’re fed. We’re much less than six degrees removed from Orwell.
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Yes, we must sacrifice our jobs, our incomes, our liberties, our freedoms, our very morals, principles, and ethics - so that we can be protected by those stealing everything from us.
When fear, guilt, shame, and paranoia are the motivators you know you are in a dysfunctional and abusive relationship.
The worst thing about an abusive relationship ebworthen is the person on the receiving end, when shown what is going on, will often times PROTECT the abuser, and make up the damnedest excuses to explain away whatever one may bring up.
They simply live in an alternate reality, and worse, want to spread it to yours.
Another fine example of Meijer´s pathologic germanophobia. A worthless piece of drivel. And btw,
Throw those pathetic Greek dead beats out of Europe already, they are just liars, cheaters, thiefs and blackmailers who have no place in a union of civilized countries.
I started waking up to how things are around 2011-2012 or so. I fell for the Ebola bullshit, which suddenly ceased and desisted once the election day had passed. That woke me up big time to what they're doing. Now I find myself amazed to see people STILL rushing to the forums to relate the latest story they've heard from the "news", with their outraged opinion on it, or their calculations and discussion on how these "facts" fit into their "body of knowledge" and predictions, and the whole argument begins again because they haven't learned anything. The media can be proven liars about one thing, and they will see that and acknowledge it, but as soon as another story comes out, the whole process repeats over again. Very frustrating.
Not a single baseless fiat nation is financially sound.
Greece is rolling the dice that these in pari delicto money changers won't bring the whole stinking Ponzi down over Greece's nominal (in the scheme of things) debt.
Fuck you Raul!
Is there one problem -- just one problem in the world from your perspective that isn't Germany's fault?
FEW blame Germany H-T you've been annexed for the best part of 70 years.
If we got to choose between Security or Freedom, that would be GREAT.....
It's just too bad that, that decision is made without our vote....
This oligarchy is beyond out of control, it's a tyranny!
lets see, electronic voting, and fake polls we believe. anything else needed? besides of course lying media of all sorts.
Prison-guard Police force, armed to the teeth with military toys and big strong badges, bound together by the "blue line" of institutionalized brutality and corruption. Just as an add-on, of course.
Here's the real back story --->
NWO Cabal Pursues Total Dominion Over The Earth’s Weather And Natural Resources
I know few blame Germany, but among the said "few" Raul is definitely one.
All of Europe's problems, according to him, can be directly attributed to Germany in some form or fashion.
If you classify "blaming" as calling out someone for practicing double standards, then yes it is Gemany's fault.
Want to get rid of the blame? Well, H-T, that puts Germany in same basket with Greece - countries that need to grow a pair and shove it to the international banksters (see Iceland).
germany is a cog of western bankster/oligarchy wheel. the spokes(from cent. bank power base) are the media, forming lies for the sheep to parrot as knowledge to other sheep. bahaaa, baaaaa, dan rather(i sure miss brian williams-that media groomed cock sucker s/) said it so god damn it, it's reality, it musta happened s/.
fucked up facking joke, and im talking about fellow humans...
as o says "folks"
HT- skin getting thin? Germany has a lot to answer for, so get used to it. A couple of acquaintances of mine are BMW engineers stationed in California for a few years. When asked about Greece, or Germany's industrial domination of the continent, they express great glee over their captive markets within the Eu/euro. Not every German plays dumb!
H-T It's the German government and the banking powers behind the scenes that are being identified for what they have done. Raul is not blaming the German people any more than the other sheeple-like population of NATO land.
Hey we appreciate learning that Germans poll decidedly against the propaganda. So what are you crying about?
seem to me 10 percent are conspiriacy nuts(or question authority types), like fellow zh ers, 85 percent mush brained parrots and 5 percent sociopathics fucks contolling the dialog. accept it, work with these numbers and carry on descretly minding you own affairs counteracting the establishment of lies/propaganda...
It's hard to be all rah rah pro-war when people who were alive during WW2 are still alive today and tell you of the horrors inflicted upon the defeated people. In America the WW2 vets are all, "yea it was a good time, went over there, killed me some Krauts, drank some bier, fucked me some frauleins, good times." In Germany it's, "my brothers and father were killed, my sister was gang raped by Russians then killed, my family house was bombed to rubble for fun by the British, oh and we had to evacuate the whole town last week because they found another unexploded 2,000 pound bomb from WW2."
All the major powers/victors in WW2 are on record stating that they purposely inflicted immense suffering (the slaughter of millions) on the civilian population of Germany and Japan specifically to break the will of the people - forever. Well, you can't whine now that they are a broken people run by an old woman and don't want to fight.
Merkel really inspires a nation of warriors.
Fuck Germany, Hitler, Nazis, Brown Shirts, SS, and all the Nazis that went to America after the Second World War. Moreover, Germany was blown to bits at the behest of the Jew banksters that Hitler was attempting to genocide throughout the World. Frankly, Germany is expendable, and so are all the fascists in Europe, and America. The CIA is no different from Hitler's SS, and O'Bummer is as pure a fascist as any in history. FEMA Camps are contemporary concentration camps just like Hitler used to make, and the NSA is modeled after the German Ministry of Propaganda.
FUCK America, Israel, and Germany, as well as all their so-called 'leaders' of sheep. Furthermore, Hitler, and de Rothschild Bank, made their collective beds and now they can sleep in them for all I give a rat's arse.
One for Raul....
Benjamin H. Freedman 1961 speech, a zionist Jew who blew the whistle on the Zionists and their wicked game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8OmxI2AYV8
Absolutely agree. The Greeks created their own mess. They may have been aided and abetted by others and if so it shows a weak society. The article doesn't make any interesting points and actually the authors comes across as hypocritical because the author is trying to do exactly what he complains about but in a rather superficial way. Another example of pollution.
The Greeks were enabled totally by GS fixing the books. GS then took enormous fees, and shorted the Greek economy.
Mmmmmm. Strong the dark side is in this one, Hard will be his fall, when it comes.
The IMF is a predatory lender. If you do not take the loans, you might have "protection" problems. Then maybe assassinations here and there culminating military invasion. Syria took no IMF loans (aside from its other misdemeanors).
so
for a minute I thought you were referring to the Land of the free and home of the brave.
But you meant Greece. Carry on.
The FBI just arrested 7 FIFA executives for $150mn in bribes.
How many white American bankers and mortgage brokers did the FBI arrest for selling trillions of worthless -- or soon to be worthless -- MBS?
ha ha you're being sarcastic
Back room book on FIFA: arrested the day before a scheduled vote to expel Israel from competetion on account of human rights violations in Gaza. Search for it.
I don't doubt Eric Holder had this thing set up for a while and handed off the trials and convictions of the FIFA guys to Loretta Lynch so she would have somethig to run for Senator on in 2016.
u r the original 'one trick pony' lmao
methinks Wolfie is definitely sadomasochistic. How else to explain the glee he revels in day after day accumulating hundreds, if not thousands, of downvotes. Mein lieber Herr, hast du gern deine Lederhosen scheissen?
methinks Wolfie is definitely sadomasochistic. How else to explain the glee he revels in day after day accumulating hundreds, if not thousands, of downvotes. Mein lieber Herr, hast du gern deine Lederhosen geschissen?
Abusive relationships are complicated. They are ilnesses on each side of the relationship, mainly in the form of co-dependency. When such is all that one knows of the world, then it is difficult to leave it. We want(ed) it so much to work out right even though on a moment's clear thinking it is evident it had failed. And so, the co-dependents each fail along with it.
Among individuals there are ways to break away--assistance groups, for example, and all manner of counselling and education. Among masters and slaves there are no such ways to break away. The only end to it is when the abused fights back or walks away, or when the abuser walks away or kills the abused.
And here we are.
Superb article.
NATO.
EUSSR.
USA.
UK
IMF.
Banksters
Presstitutes/MSM
Stink to high heaven.
Warmongers, war criminals, liars and thieves.
What have we become?
Same as it ever was.
Red pill.
Welcome to Earth.
Actually its not.
You are probably too young to remember.
The USA - we NOW know - was always rogue - but never to the extent of being terrorist and a sponsor, financer, armer and trainer of terror.
The UN used to have a few teeth - not just lackeys of the USA/Israel.
Our media we NOW know has lied for ever - but not openly, blatantly and in your face treating you as fools and serving little else.
The tipping point?
Yugoslavia and the creation of the KLA and, in Afghanistan, theTaliban.
The beginning of the western creation of radical islam and its alliance with it.
Excellent article from Voltaire - http://www.voltairenet.org/article187738.html
In the USA - the assault and murder at Waco.
The Oklahoma City bombings?
When did the West garbage international law, any sense of decency, truth or integrity?
Answers on a post card..
The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
For idiots, something new happens all of the time though...
Take the elite for example, they are constantly plotting on us, constantly!
You haven't gone back far enough. Read your history:
Assassination of Diem
Bay of Pigs
Gulf of Tonkin
Guatemala
Mohammad Mossaddegh
I could go on.......
What have we become?
Slaves.
Welcome aboard; choose an oar/or rise up.
Them's your choices.
Dramatic days are here.
Know thyself is an inscription above the Oracle's doorway at Delphi.
Her message, before you sought advice, was given freely. That way you'd know which direction to take on applying her advice. Her message; Be true to yourself and your beliefs, (as her advice wouldn't account for much as you are going to do what you were going to do anyway). Know Thyself. Simple, soul-searching.
The same could be said for the founding fathers of The Republic of America. Their message is above the doorway to a nation of freedom. Look through the veil of tyranny and its still there. Step in, freely, if you're game or man enough. I'm speaking generally here, not singling you out. This is a question we are all going to have to make. Do we want them ruling our country or do we want our liberties returned? Will we be beholden to false debts of coiffed and besuited conmen and will we doom our children and future generation to the tyranny of their rule?
Which way do you want this to go? Are you going to accept what they dish out or are you going to be proactive in at least attempting to get what you believe is just for a free man?
The path is yours.
The decision ours.
"choose an oar" - that made me snorkle my coffee.
I think we can sum it up via the Firesign Theater: "Everything you know is wrong".
Quintus Arrius: Now listen to me, all of you. You are all condemned men. We keep you alive to serve this ship. So row well, and live.
Quintus Arrius: Your eyes are full of hate, forty-one. That's good. Hate keeps a man alive. It gives him strength.
(Source: IMBD: Ben-Hur)
Blow up the planet and unclog the Ponzi shithouse of the chosen racer banksters' Wall St casino and their blood-spattered Saudi Mercan petroscrip IOU toilet paper dollah and "save" the USSA Potemkin Village of rigged market "capitalism" and the Anglozionazi Empire of Chao$.
C'mon Germany the Pentacon Kill Industries oligarchy's Third World Fourth Reich and Washing town thugocracy are counting on you morons to do the "right" thing for the third time. If Mutti Merkel ain't Uncle Adolf's long lost "love" child...she damn well should be! Onward with I$I$ and our Anglojudo "value$"
Very good and as I have kept repeating "news rigging has arrived"...and it's oh so much easier to do with jounobots. We have knock off news too as it takes one real human to write a story and the rest of the networks sick their bots on it and within a few minutes post a new story as the bot can do this with avoiding plagiarism eaisly.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2015/04/news-rigging-has-arrived-astroturf-and.html
I'm with you guys, I don't like it, and have seen it coming and Nanex and I talked about news rigging over a year ago as of course when you rig the news, you rig the market bots too. Then the journobots can read what the market bots do about it and write yet a new story on the stat from the market bots and we've gone full circle, right?
"It's easier to keep fooling people than to convince them they've been fooled"...Mark Twain...and more on Duperville, USA as the intangible threat model has changed significantly.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2015/05/privacy-duping-of-america-intangible.html
As a foot note I go way back to watching the early days of California HMOs ripping off doctors with code, so been there and seen that. It's code hosing world.
And now we've reached the point where mugshots can also be computer generated, to look passably real, thus providing "photo evidence" to back up these completely fake stories.
Like the "arrestees" in the "biker shootout", for instance. All fake. Many dead-ringer celebrity lookalikes in that crowd. The look on "Rob Schneider's" face, and that jihadi beard....LMFAO!
Or a news article recently seen on a web site about "man arrested with 300 marijuana plants." That mugshot looked like it was generated from the same algorithm. Very curious.
Yellow journalism. New and improved for the 21st century.
When the arrestee list came out, I suspected it was fake. I searched the names of several of them and they actually do appear to be real people. Whether or not they were really arrested on the day of the "biker shootout" remains to be seen.
Got any links/evidence/info to support what you're saying?
Do you have any links/evidence/info to support what YOU'RE saying?
I looked at the pictures.....they look obviously FAKE. That, combined with the general suspiciousness of the entire affair, is all the evidence I need.
I suggest to an infallible option. Indebted nations have leave the union and those, who subsidided this should exit as well. Everybody happy therafter!
Nice article. "News" reported by The Murdoch Daily Slime has to be taken for the washed & rinsed super-spun lies and distortion that it is.
Nice article.
There is a very good movie out about Martin Armstrong.
I would highly recommend you watch it - 11 years in jail is beyond propaganda.
http://forecaster-movie.com/en/the-forecaster/
Watching this film is not free by the looks of it.
NATO is the starting to look like the Evil Empire. I wish Canada would leave it and go alone, maybe Harper will shut his mouth and stay out of other countries affairs.
"Starting to look like"?
Have you been criogened for the last 20 years?
Here is why all this paranoid delusions spewed by US and Western Europe propaganda about Russia. All those politicians, impotent puppets of global oligarchs are shitting in their pants since they destroyed sovereignty of their own countries first of all by, among others, destroying their own national military forces. The reality check!
NATO is US military, nothing else. The others only have ceremonial functions or useful but not always successful in suppressing shoeless rebels with gun on the rope, God knows where in the world. That's all.
For example Poland officially has 45k army (dismantled 250k army on orders from NATO) and actually 7 thousands ready to fight as was disclosed by polish general, professor of military academy, later fired. Now the immediate enemies:
First Beloruss, ally of Russia, 2 million army, 300k combat ready at whim located as close as 90 miles from Polish capital, Warsaw. Should I continue about Russian forces located as close as 180 miles from Warsaw.
In all the Anti-Russian war mongering rhetoric last year the same general was asked what are chances of defense. He said. Russians or allies could be in Warsaw in matter of hours since there are no NATO defense plans to fight in eastern part of Poland whatsoever, NATO battle theater would be in western Poland and Germany. The NATO only option to safe Poland is nuclear option i.e. to destroy village to save village.
No wonder why France and German leaders fled from those Washington maniacs to Moscow and sign any kind of agreement with Russia just to shut them up. But all those agreements are being sabotaged by US just like last year's agreement between Germany, Poland etc., and Yanukovitch was sabotaged by Nulan, and a coupe ensued next day.
In such situation of complete impotency of Europeans it would be advisable to Polish and other western leaders to tone down the Anti-Russian propaganda by top government officials and politicians just for diplomatic reasons if not acknowledging simple reality on the ground.
Imperial Russia and Soviet Union had their periods of expansion and aggression so western imperial powers, Americans, British, German and Japanese had, but modern Russia has proved so far not be aggressive nation and in contrast is desperately trying to keep unity and national cohesiveness over lat 25 years under western assault including Ukraine events.
The renewed viciousness bordering with madness within neocon cabala is due to the fact that it had opposite effect namely increased national unity and strength of Russian nation.
Again neocons skipped their homework, proudly refusing to learn.
https://contrarianopinion.wordpress.com/2015/01/18/ukraine-no-country-fo...
We are told that this is Satan's world. He is the father of lies. What did we expect?
Beautiful world ... crappy management.
The joke is on us folks.
Big Bro is us.
When Jenner decided to put on a dress, paint his lips and tell his kids it's ok to call him 'dad', even though he was wearing panty hose, anyone who in the slightest way would say something uncomplimentary about the superficial transformation he decided to torture the world with, was quickly brought down in an avalanche of hate spewing citizens on the bird feed Twitter and other stupid 'social' media sites.
The may lie to themselves about what they think is right, but I ain't buying it.
If a person can no longer speak against the system which these politically correct sheep kow tow to without paying a drastic price then freedom is lost. The politicians and corporations are as much sheep as these people.
When Tarabel suggested to throw Jenner in a volcano to end California's drought, she may have been closer to the truth than she realizes, but we, the self righteous prefer to drone others in far off lands and woe to those who dare object.
Dude, stop bringing this shit out or go back to Drudge. Nobody wants to hear about your Tranny fetish.
Excellent article! Thank you!
I have a simple rule of thumb measure when it comes to Sovereignty. You don't QUALIFY as ONE if Edward Snowden doesn't consider you a SAFE HAVEN.
I know i've set the BAR very HIGH
Fuck the EU.
Western governments are undermining and subverting the very ideals and institutions they claim to be upholding.
All the boogeymen and threats are deliberately exaggerated for maximum irrational impact...and the facts and evidence, reason and logic, swept under the carpet. A nation of idiots and unenlightened fools can only *think* they are free...
Is it nato's idea, to rebuild the 'Berlin Wall' further towards the East using tanks and field artillery in lieu of concrete blocks ?.
Ironic, to say the least that the west are the 'New Communists ' !.
" heavy weaponry kept in warehouses" "Spearhead Force"
They're having a laugh !
If that's the case are we expecting geriatric russky , give us time to unpack warehouse!!
This Raul Ilargi Meijer .... doeswn't pass the German DNA smell test .... towing, touting and taking the socialist meme .... hook, line and stinker .... Rosenberg Red Journalism !
Russia is more pathetic .... Muslim invasion .... Zero Smegma birth rate .... divisive and dangerous intrigues .... more obsessed with old enemies .... than the new Muslim threat .... prefers fratricide over working cooperatively with the anti-Muslim defense coalition .... pathetic pimps without a plan !
Odd that. Russia's the only nation who's managed to make her Muslims behave and successfully put down terror campaigns bankrolled by Riyadh.
Go figure. Must be the whole self-sufficiency in oil and not having to kiss Saudi arse thing.
We live together with muslims for 500+years. We don't manage Muslims to behave, we live together with them.
It's very hard to explaine difference(
The main point that you need to understand different cultures and religions.
I don't want to understand a culture of savagery and murder like Islam. I want them kicked out of all civilized nations. So fuck your Leftist bull shit, you sound like Scandinavian telling a white girl she needs to "respect their culture" after she is raped and the police won't do anything.
"I don't want to understand a culture of savagery and murder like 'Muricanism."
There, fixed it for you.
" former eastern bloc countries concerns re Kremlin expansion"
This would be the country with aspirations of Another 1000 year Reich
Unintended consequences !. Brought hitler to power
Capitalism has been severely distorted in the USA* by a collection of priviledged, rentier parasites who exercise immense influence in politics. And standing next to them on the podium, albeit in second place, is the willfully ignorant, apathetic populous. Whatever station in life we currently occupy, if we allow these parasites to drain the economy and corrupt our leaders, then we will get what we deserve.
Privatizing the profits and socializing the losses is not capitalism. Usher in the technocratic takeover. These sheep aren't paying attention.
First major step towards globalization and it was a complete failure. Imagine that
The US is now a Corporation, or rather a number of corporations which control the US, the President and congress merely front these corporate interests to the people to give an illusion of democracy, TTP and TTIP are the controlling corporations flexing their muscle.
Look deeper into who controls those corporations.
Hint: Who or what is capable of creating money at will?
Found new Acronyms today TAP, TTIP(T-TIP), TISA, TAA, TPA
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-15/frontrunning-june-15#comment-61...
- GOP Leadership’s Latest Obamatrade Ploy Revealed: Small Business Tax Hike That Violates GOP’s Anti-Tax Pledge
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/14/gop-leaderships-lates...
Ah, here is a link to describe what will happen to the USA after TAP, TTIP, TISA, TAA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandy#Colonial_era
"...under British rule for 32 years, in which the British had expropriated the common land of the peasantry and reduced them to extreme poverty. The Kandyan villagers were forced to abandon their traditional way of life and become wage-workers in the abominable conditions that prevailed on these new estates and plantations that had been introduced, despite all the pressure exerted by the colonials the Kandyans refused. This forced the British to bring in hundreds of thousands of Tamil coolies from southern India. The Rebellion began on the 26 July 1848..."
There must be more than 100 posts from me on ZH lamenting the outright lies and lies by omission spotted in the msm. Particularly the BBC to begin with, but now they are all at it, 24/7. The things that shocked me the first time I really looked into this were how widespread a propaganda narrative could be and how concerted they were.
When it came to news about Syria, Russia, Greece, economics - well everything that mattered really - it was truly shocking to see that there was not a SINGLE msm journalist willing to tell both sides of a story, ie to tell the truth. We do have organizations in the UK like OFCOM to make complaints about bias in the news and I used to spend some considerable time writing to them about the editorial depts of broadcast news to no avail.
How on earth can they work in concert with each other? Well, I used to think that some stories were the result of simply relaying govt press conferences without any researched questions being asked, but if you look at the list of attendees at "secret" meetings like the Bilderberg Conference, you can see that there is proof collaboration between at least 22 of the largest media outlets in the world. They set the narrative. They feed the public the utter bullshit that passes for news. They write and produce the most popular films and tv that reaches the widest possible audience. Add to this the fact that we're more than half a century from the start of the CIA's "Operation Mockingbird" to influence the media and it should no longer shock me the extent to which the freedom of the press has fallen, but it does.
We live in a world where telling the truth is a dangerous occupation - that has been proved beyond doubt by the deaths of investigative journalists and treatment of whistleblowers - so if you still believe that living under tyranny is merely a concept for a dystopian future, think again.
This blog summarizes the numerous episodes of genocide committed by Britain in its perfidious and ongoing ambition to maintain its imperialist grip on the indigenous world. For too long the world has been duped by the treacherous and viperous anglosphere which eagerly points their blood-stained finger at demonized foreign (i.e. non-white) individuals and groups to conceal their own massive, unsurpassed and unpunished crimes against humanity.
http://worldsworstmassmurderer.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/britain-worlds-wo...
Jared Diamond wrote an article you should check about how contact with the first Europeans, Spanish probably, brought disease which decimated the whole Mississippi Value. Later reports seemed to be that the people were scattered after than. But who knows if some of the reports were from British.
http://discovermagazine.com/1992/oct/thearrowofdiseas137
Just wanted to present another view.
Your link is interesting. I may forward it on to someone.
Members of the cabal want to be seen together and they want to be recognized by one another, and for some even liked by one another. They don't have to explicitly plan collaboration, they simply share a group reinforced world narrative that becomes their reality and provides the context for ours. It's all man made and if consrnsus wavers it can be undone. Such are empires.
Thanks for that. Yes, the Press stays on Narrative and Omits so much information. Well it compares probably exactly with government spokesmen and most congressmen.
That is why I tend to jump into Bullets in my posts. I am trying to make up for what I see as missing.
Public & Private Executives put out short messages in order to create a meme. Make things appear to be black and white. It certainly helps to look at what trolls do or just look at cognitive errors or cognitive distortions. We all can have Bias, but when info is missing it is hard to say time and space requirements prevented an opportunity for real discussion.
There was a CIA guy on CNN this morning. Of course there was no dirt on the USA, EU, NATO, Economics, Trade, Jobs, Budgets, Spending on MIC, cost of another Cold War, Cost of the last Cold War, the Dangers of WWIII, the probability that the US & EU would trend further to the Right Politically as the Culture become More Militaristic. And on and on.
What was the Background of World Wars in Europe, how terrible were they, who gained from world wars, who funded world wars? Black and White, huh? Russia is evil, huh?
Group think is so dangerous to all of us.
But as humans we have another danger. That we all want to follow a leader and be part of something bigger than ourselves. Imagine being at Bilderberger as a Media guy feeling like greatness or history was happening in front of you. But you are told to spread the message that Russia is Evil and responsible for aggressive activities. And that you will not muddle up the Narrative with extraneous facts and historical background. And these chosen people all do it since they have political & business "Biases".
Forth Estate or Fifth Estate. We have to convince Media that they are crucial in keeping corporations and governments in check.
ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, USAToday, Foxnews, Skynews,... I guess they won't change since they are big Corporate types.
The U.S. Civil war was more about the south seceding from the north, rather than slavery.
I now hope that Texas and neighbouring states fully appreciates that the federal goverment are an out of control malevolent force!
I envisage a slow movement to distance the southern states from the north
Putin can relax.
That's absurd. Texas is going to be majority Mexican in about 10 years. The only thing that will separate "the South" today from the North is the fact that "the South" is majority Mexican and wants to break away to form its own nation (Atzlan they call it).
Not many UK residents read NewsPapers. Sales in the last 10/15 years must be down 50%. Online subscriptions , well i doubt 5% of the 50% drop can be accounted for.
How many people under 35 watch BBC News Propaganda?
Reality TV's where they're at; Sitting in a house watching other less than ordinary people sitting in a house, Big Brother, Uk's got No Talent. Pop Idol, Cupcake wars; Life on the Benefits etc etc
Nah, the UK is one giant Cesspool. Gone are the Good(haha) bad old days when they RULED THE WAVES. Those Waves ( sonic ) have rendered them INFERTILE.
4,000,000 Brits just proved they don't.
And due to a corrupt and unfaiir voting system that would shame Zimbabwe - ended up with one representative in the House of Commons.
Not all Brits are as you describe.
But the elite, the political class of the lib/lab/con, their treason, corruption, lies, distortions and corporate backsides have led to an utter betrayal of country and its people.
The new regime of David Cameron has just hijacked the government on just over a third of the vote - taking over the half the seats - it stinks..
And 28% of those eligible to vote.
This is the level of political cheating built into a British rotten archaic system.
This is British 'democracy' which, apparently, gives David Cameron the right to bomb half the planet to impose.
The old don't do what we do -and fiddle the electoral system - do what we tell you to do.
Bring in your Central bank and bend the knee to NATO.
S & P is already threatening the UK with a downgrade if they withdraw from the EU.
Just like they did to SCotland.
Dissent to the NWO will not be tolerated.
Rule Britannia Oh marmalade & Jam, 5 chinese crackers up your arsehole, bang bang bang bang bang.
Remember that old lady at the wrasslin' matches (ringside) who'd raise hell and shake her cane at the heels ?
Today's old ladies watch Fox "news".
How many under 80 watch/read *any* waste-stream "news" ?
The problem will have solved itself in 10-15 years.
"If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed.
If you *do* read the newspaper, you are *misinformed*."
Mark Twain
the reason is, the usa will loose its leading position, due to other blocks catching up
therefore it have to destroy growing opponents
but, if there are no opponents it will collaps from inside(economy etc), so it creates alwys new enemies(mostly ideology based), by funding them with money and weapons to the point untill they become independent
in my opinion capitalism means nothig else but "legal corruption"
ideology is alwys destroyable via corruption over the long time, i would even say over the time any ideology destroys it self, due to corruption
in soviet union free speech was forbidden, thats why west block promoted free speech, now free speech is no longer needed, sooner or later, in 100 years, in 1000 years, free speech wont be possible in western countries
you alredy now have to talk "politically correct" <- this is not free speech
"politically correct" is nothing else, but a ban of criticism of the actual agenda
just a few more actual examples for every one to understand
you are not allowed to talk bad on tv(officially) about:
gays
jews
multiculturalism
israel
you are not allowed to talk good about
russia
islam, especially "radical islam", how they call it (btw they created it themself)
nuclear weapons for iran (isreal got them alredy, but no one is complaining)
they create key-words and associate them with good or bad, but not giving them any true explanation, only people, who are intilligent and reserch on their own AND come to the right conclusion, will understand.
are you one of them?
If you are not allowed to talk good about Russia, then how is it that you are doing it?
If the media is so massively anti-Russian, why is it that we see those who criticize Russia down-voted, and only those who support whatever Russia says, without boundary, up-voted?
Life is too short to live under someone's thumb. If Russia is so strong that we all must cower and race each other to agreement with its latest statement, then I wish they would shut the hell up and launch already.
We will all die anyway. A world where I have to bow and scrape to every opinionated synchophant is more unpleasant than a sudden departure from life.
If a person honestly thinks I am wrong. Fine.
If you are just singing with the Pro-Russia choir, then just up and shoot already.
But don't sit here and tell me how no one is allowed to publicly praise Russia, while you are in the process of publicly praising Russia.
If you want to claim you don't masturbate you need to take your hand off your crotch first.
"If a person honestly thinks I am wrong. Fine."
That's why I junked ya. Nobody praises Russia for anything and everything, just because, moron.
"But don't sit here and tell me how no one is allowed to publicly praise Russia, while you are in the process of publicly praising Russia."
Try "publically praising Russia" around 90% of Americans and see what happens.
Watched the Sunday morning main stream media for ten minutes yesterday, Clinton, Bush 2016 campaign bullshit, no choice but more bush and clinton assholes...blah, blah, blah, talking heads, The official narrative, China, Putin, Snowden all evil bastards, blah, blah, blah, blah. The presidents secret trade deal that nobody is supposed to know about until its passed, we should all be supporting the dictator, I mean president on this...blah, blah, blah...blah, blah...Switched to RT and then heard the real news.
The IMF bailout of Greece was supposed to reduce debt? No, I don't think so! This is not even a purported aim. They are evil but not so presumptuous. The debt hole which Greece now lies in was purposefully dug.
What is plain is top down control anyway it will work - on all three of these subjects - Snowden, Putin, Greece.
The 'news' has for some time now been infommercials in the USSA and I suppose if there are enough pharmaceutically enhanced couch sitters glued to the TV medium, the result is utter brain death. Brainwashing has always been a major feature of USSA life from birth to death and it is more pervasive and pernicious these days. Has to do with consumerism/advertising and finally CONTROL.
Clearly there has to be a BAD GUY. Villafying Putin or Snowden or whomever is normal fare. It diverts the zombified population's attention away from their own government which is the real bogeyman.
These arrogant half-assed thinkers who are our so-called 'elite' are quickly running out of wool to pul over the sheeple's eyes.
Profit off of their rigged markets, then get the hell out - or refuse to do any commerce within their systems. It can be done.
"The narrative being sold through the media in other eurozone nations is that Greece is to blame, that for instance German taxpayers are on the hook for Greek debts, while they’re really on the hook for German banks’ losing wagers (here’s looking at you, Deutsche!). "
Excuse me, but this statment is simply, and PROVABLY, incorrect.
Money-printing always lowers the value of currency. The EU is printing money (EU QE). Lower valued currency hurts savers because their savings will buy less. The Germans are savers. Lower valued currency helps debtors, because their debts lose value along with the currency. The Greeks are very well publicized debtors.
That is the monetary angle.
But the banking angle is even more incorrect.
German banks are not those going into bankrupcy, and suffering bank runs. The world runs on fractional reserve banking. When you deposit money the bank lends that money out, while simultaneously promising it to you...ergo the money is multiplied and not everyone can get those same bills back.
When Greeks cannot get their money from Greek banks it is not because German banks are bankrupt, but because the Greek banks are bankrupt. They are bankrupt because they made loans which could not be repaid. They made bad loans that could not be repaid because the Greek government spent money that it did not have, and the attempt to pay even a portion of those debts is draining Greece of money. Worse...they knew what they were doing when they over spent, intending only to put themselves in a position where others would have to pay their debts.
The EU and ECB are covert theives. The Greek government are OVERT theives.
Can ZH honestly be making the argument that overt theft is better than covert? Is there so little understanding of the effect on people if they see people profiting overtly from theft? People will stop working at production, and work only at theft.
As for the Russia question. Come on. We saw photos of Russian troops on crimean streets while it was still a part of Ukraine. The fact of those troops on the ground in someone else's country is an indisputable fact with massive photographic, testimonial, and even Russia's own admission to support it.
The vote for Crimean independence was probably true. To pretend the presence f foreign troops on the streets before any vote doesn't matter because the vote was for Russia is crazy.
The vote MIGHT have been actual and factual, while the presence of foreign troops was UNDISPUTEDLY actual and factual. Even Russia admits this.
This article is asking everyone to ignore known facts - the FACT - that Russian troops were on Crimean streets BEFORE ANY VOTE, WHILE IT WAS STILL A FOREIGN COUNTRY... and simlutaneously accept the UNPROVEN ASSERTION that the vote was honest.
It probably was an honest vote to rejoin Russia. But does anyone really expect Russia's neighbors to gamble their lives and independence on that assertion????
Come on. If it was your neighbor, wouldn't you think that a foreign Army might arrive in the night, take control, and then 'declare' a vote to have happened????
We were born in the morining... but not this morning.
Victoria "Fuck the EU" Nuland.
We instigated the coup.
Now go back to NSA.
The Greeks are bankrupt because Goldman Slachs sold them OFF BALANCE SHEET loans which they can now not repay.
Goldman Slachs helped them evade the laws.
As for Ukraine, we promised Yeltsen NOT to surround Russia with unfriendly forces.
U.S. plans to store heavy arms in Baltic, Eastern Europe: source Reuters via Yahoo! NewsJun 14 07:30 PMThe United States plans to store heavy military equipment in the Baltics and Eastern European nations to reassure allies unnerved by Russia's intervention in Ukraine and to deter further aggression, U.S. officials said. The move would be the first time Washington has stationed heavy military equipment in the newer NATO member states that were once in the Soviet sphere of influence
Illargi has improved quite dramatically over the past year, and this is the best piece yet!
Fire Angel
Excellent! The world must immediately put WMD(weapons of mass deception) under strict control. I wonder how much time it would take for the MSM to persuade the public that we have just been attacked by the Martians?
I cannot help but believe that the elite have all of their bases covered, and their plan has progressed to the point where there is little, if anything, that can be done to prevent it from playing out. I hope I am wrong.
Great rant!!!
They lie to us, we know they lie to us, we continue to allow them to lie to us.
What will it take ?
The stupid burns...