Dear friends,
I sometimes get very interesting emails in my inbox and this happened today when I found the email below sent to me by “M”. Having read it I immediately contacted “M” to ask for his permission to post it here. I felt that this would be especially important since I posted the “Appeal” of Egor Prosvirnin which some of you interpreted as anti-German and then accused me of also harboring anti-German feelings. As I explained it later, my intention had been to make people aware that there is a growing anger against Germany in Russia and that even though I personally did not feel that anger, I considered that anger legitimate, if not necessarily deserved (I soon realized that the most vociferous and nasty protests against this post did not come from Germans or even Germanophiles, but from the same old crowd of neo-Nazis who strongly feel that defending anything German is part of their ethos). Still, I have to admit that I felt bad about the whole thing (because, believe it or not, I am not only not anti-German, I don’t even believe in collective, nevermind inherited, guilt). For one thing, as an anti-Soviet Russian myself, I know the very difficult situation of a person who opposes the regime in power in his country, but still feels that his own people are also victims. There are quite a few countries and nationalities who still are resentful and angry with Russians, especially for things which the Soviet forces did during WWII, and I consider that this resentment and anger is legitimate even if sometimes historically one-sided. It is always tough to be at the receiving end of somebody’s anger – whether fully deserved or not – and so when I saw “M” email I decided to share it with you and I am grateful to “M” for giving me his permission.
The Saker
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Seeing the hatred and outright ill will some have towards Germans really brought me down. It makes me wonder how we are ever going to manage to have some kind of stability in Europe and the world…
Here are some of the dynamics in Germany, as I see them. Most likely many will disagree and want to debate them, I don’t claim they are how it is, just how I see it. I don’t claim to know and understand it all. But it’s something I would like people to think about, before they write off the German people as a whole.
Where do I start? Something that should be obvious is that Germany is not a free and sovereign country. From the start, when the Federal Republic was conceived, the Allies had a great influence on shaping the new Germany. Especially the Americans. It is somewhat subtle if you are used to how things are, but once you start observing it becomes clear that the American political circles have great influence on ours. Anyone interested can take a look at how many of our Politicians in the various established parties are members in transatlantic clubs. So guess where their allegiance lies? They are not even ashamed of it, it’s normal to them. For decades we’ve had what you can call US whores. Not long ago I complained about that on a page of young transatlanticists and was quickly accused of being anti-American, they weren’t interested in any of my arguments. Being anti-American is hardly possible since I am an American citizen. There is a divide between the common people, many of whom don’t have anything against Americans but are not too keen on having them involved in German affairs, and many of our leaders who try to make us all believe that we need the United States as partner, come what may. One fact that should make anyone pause is that there are currently still around 40.000 US troops on German soil and various US bases. It may not sound like much, but in principle should any be here at all? We have US nuclear warheads here, the maintenance of which is also paid for by German tax payers money. If you asked the average German what he thought about that, you can be sure that they would be against that. “Ami go home” is a more and more open sentiment here. “American go home”. But will the Americans go? I doubt it. It seems they do not have the slightest interest in granting Germany full sovereignty and of letting go. So the question begs: how free are German politicians to do what they want? And then, how “natural” is the influence Germany has on the shaping of European affairs?
I can fully understand that many in Europe resent Germany, due to the dominating of EU policies and the problems they cause. What many don’t know though is that the current administration and the previous ones have been equally harsh on Germans. German politicians don’t just sell Europeans out, but their own people. The climate here has changed drastically in past years. People are having increasingly hard times to make a living and are in fear, fear of loosing their jobs, fear of making ends meet, fear of loosing what they have. Fear is the perfect mechanism of keeping people in check. The contempt and the lack of any shame on the part of our government has never been this drastic before. Careful observers have seen it for years. Why people keep voting for the same parties is beyond me. There are some who say voter fraud could be at play. It would not surprise me. At the very least the media have been extremely pro Merkel for years, even campaigning for her and her party, when they should have been neutral. Every once and a while that has been criticized but nothing changes and many don’t even notice. Merkel’s policies are always aimed at business elites, not the common people. I remember how years ago she spoke of “market conformed democracy”. There was no outcry, no outrage. No one seemed to care. As in most places, the elites own the media as well. So honest and critical reporting has become a thing of the past, unless one watches carefully and knows where to look. The average person doesn’t. So if people are angry with Germans, I wish they would know that Germans are angry with our leaders as well and have been screwed over as well. Why Germans put up with that? Good question. This is a subject of its own. My impression is that Germans have always been people that are good at following and bowing to higher ups. They are terribly long suffering, in a bad way. After the Second World War Germans have been pacified as a people, in my opinion. Imagine having the mindset of being aware of things you dislike and that anger you, but thinking that somehow it’ll be alright, that life must go on. You go through the motions. And then add a state of paralysis and helplessness. Perhaps that is what is going on with Germans. Of course those that have the upper hand and benefit from the current status have a vested interest in keeping things the way they are. It is unrealistic to expect Germans to magically snap out of it and overthrow the status quo. And though it is not obvious we do have a police apparatus in place that can quickly stomp out any uprising.
I will not deny that Germans can be arrogant in their views. But there is a constant stream of medial manipulation feeding them that perspective. I know that deep down Germans want peace and have no interest in dominating other Nations and people. Many are actually appalled and shocked because our leaders are calling for more involvement in conflicts and taking on more “responsibility”. People see that as dangerous and hypocritical. The problem is that the (you can only call it) “political cast” is so far gone and so far out of touch with the common people. There is a complete disconnect. I see it on Facebook postings of Steinmeier, Gabriel and many others. They live in their own world, facts and reality do not exist for them. And their personal integrity and values are non existent. Calling them pathetic would still be a compliment. It is not any different with our media. Regularly you get to see statistics that suggest people to be skeptic of Putin and Russia. Every time many speak out and question these. Sometimes there are polls in which readers can take part and they say the opposite, that people see through the lies and are not in favor of sanctions and do not want a conflict with Russia, that they do not want anything to do with the crimes committed in the Ukraine. There’s a saying “don’t trust any statistic that you haven’t forged yourself.” There have been statistics for years, that suggest Merkel having very high support among people.. To me it’s a mystery how she has been in power for so long. I guess there still are many idiots who believe in her, but there are also very many who would like to see the worst happen to her.
Many people see that when the wall came down and the two Germanies were reunited, the Soviets/Russians were fair. Just think about how much time has passed, when have the United States and the British made an attempt at the same fairness? I’m afraid the US would rather see Germany in ruins yet again, rather than leaving and giving the Germans freedom. I understand the resentment that many have for Germans, but am also shocked by how much hatred there is. Is it not the same principle in most places, that Governments do not act in accord with and represent the will of the people? And to what degree can we count on the will of the people when they are not given accurate information and facts, but are fed half truths at best and outright manipulation most of the time? Ironically I see a lot of Americans accusing us of cowardice for not taking a more aggressive stance against Russia. The same with the Polish. Merkel’s behavior in this crisis makes no sense to me at all. At times she is bullying Russia, like the perfect US poodle, but then there are reports of her reaching out to Putin. Either she is completely soul less without a personal sense of direction, or she is more devious than she appears. No idea what her true aims are. They certainly don’t seem to be what they should be. Part of her vow when sworn into office is to avert harm from the German people. She is steadily doing the opposite. She and her cronies along with her.
It seems that we are prisoners of a political apparatus gone insane, both on a German level and a EU level. Then there’s NATO on top of that. And lets be realistic, the cards are stacked in favor of the higher ups. That is no excuse for giving up, which I am not suggesting, but haters need to take a close look at reality. Finding solutions is not that easy, is it? So, this is part of what I observe, I bet I forgot a lot. My health is not too well and my strength limited.
Best regards,
“M”
Dear all,
Please, do not speculate about Angela Merkel. She has a DDR upbringing, most Germans know that she worked for the STASI, but nobody cares about that anymore, so there is no food for blackmailing.
Volker Pispers, a German cabaret artist, who is well known for his political satire, said last autumn about her:
“The woman is not interested in politics. She just likes to be Chancellor. Or she is not happy at home. The voters don’t want to hear any bad news, and they don’t really want a democracy but a benevolent king. Merkel has recognized this – and since then she hypnotizes herself and her counterparts with her “rhombus of power”, her famous hand position. She does not care who pays the litter in which she sits. Meanwhile, she even could care less where the litter is heading: She just wants to sit there!”
Amid the politically alert Germans she is known as the best “U-turner” Germany ever had. If ever during her time the decline of the American power becomes visible, she will just pirouette to the other side.
As for the people in West Germany, one should remember that the generation of the 50+ have been brought up with “Die Russen kommen!” (Pispers again: “Der Russe steht vor der Tür”.)
The educated youth is apolitical but also tolerant, many of them have been to other countries during their studies, speak English and have foreign students as friends (this should not be confused with the neonazi youth, mostly from the Unterschicht). My own son said back in March, why should Russia not take over Crimea as in “What’s the fuss about that?” They are against any war, but being apolitical there is no real opposition, at least not at the moment.
Greetings
Angelika (a remnant from the 68 generation in political exile in my homeland)
JC – “After the blatant lies from The Guardian and some News media, which I trusted. Now took an about 180degree turn, becomes suspicious of the people mentioned above. Are they part and parcels spies planted to destroy Edward Snowden or Russia Federation? Maybe Edward Snowden too parts of the overall conspiratorial theory?”
I just wanted to respond to this briefly. I can’t add too much to it, but I have been perusing alternate media and it has become clear that journalists I formerly trusted have been covering up events in Ukraine on behalf of the neocons. Many reputable writers on the left in the US fall into this category now. I think these people spent years cultivating public trust and now at this critical time they are betraying that trust and revealing their true allegiances. Unfortunately, most people will not understand the deception.
@American Kulak
Thank you. Appreciate your effort and need time to digest your (two postings) extensive assessments. I have more follow up questions either here or in Saker’s latest posting.
Kindest Regards
JC
Reaging M’s letter I have the impression that everything he says is correct. Maybe this can be seen in the following context:
The founder of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, Dr Jan Oberg, was interviewed by Oksana Boyko in ‘Worlds Apart’ in RT (Shows).
Thanx Saker for this excellent elucidation of “M”.
It sets Edgor Prosvirnin’s justly outburst of anger on a practicable level.
In spite of William Golding’s “The Lord of the Flies” and Sigmund Freud’s warning that the instinctive impulses, rather than our ratio, controls the mind (BBC Documentary: ‘The century of the self”), I have to believe that fascisme—as ingenious formulate by Georgi Dimitrov—is manageable.
But… if this will suit the higher circle?
In their eyes, We, The Mass, is the essential tool to reign the flock, and they are more than everything else very cautious to let sleeping dogs lie.
Feng
Oh I see. You are “just following orders”. As always. You Germans are pure as snow. Once again you are “victims” of some bad politician that “makes you do bad things”. Poor, poor souls…
How about your imperial dreams, oh Germans, your dreams of a 4th Reich in the making, that you talked about so much in the recent past? (Oh, I see, no money, no honey… Right! Scrap that!)
How about the Southern European debt colonies of yours? Is that the evil Americans on their own doing it, again? Are you really not having any part whatsoever in punishing these Untermenschen for “living beyond their means”? (and their punishment is death, devestation and poverty)…
How about the recent significant increase in your wages and pensions, dear Germans, on the expense of those “lazy”, “thieving” Southerners, that “had it coming”? Tell us about the tens of thousands of deaths by suicide out of neo-poverty and desperation, in the lands you send your Troika storm troopers, along with your good partners, who you now call… “occupation forces”? Of course you have no part in that! The nazi concept of Collective guilt is meant for imposing upon others, i.e. the inferior Southener victims of yours… Imposed, along with your Calvinistic version of Hell on Earth, in which you sink them in. Eternal torment for resisting you and not being able nor willing to pay what YOU say they owe you.
Is it just that old girl Merkel doing this or haven’t you Germans voted for her and her policies by a large majority, just recently? Are your bad, oh so bad MSM make you do it, or is it just your desire and greed to get more money our of your wages and pensions, on the expense of others? Isn’t you, everyday Germans, that are blaming your European policy’s victims for “stealing your money”, while in reality your country has a huge hundreds-of-billions-maybe-trillions-of-euro surplus out of plundering your EU ‘partners’ and sucking their wealth into your own economy? You had nothing to gain out of their misery, you say. Really, now?
Hasn’t your super corrupted political culture being poisoning the rest of Europe for decades with bribes and blackmail, all planed and executed by your pride and joy, the Siemens corporation, on behalf of your State and Industry? Isn’t your banking system, Frankfurt, competing to rule the European continent and causing utter chaos, like the Cyprus banking collapse business? Isn’t the ECB ruled by your puppets, that dictates policy upon your minions? Policy on how to strip them from their posessions and funnel their wealth to its new Masters, i.e. your elite – and you, the German people, getting some of the bones?
When I read this “poor Germany under occupation” meme, it makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time. It is a perfect example how a villain claims innocence and purity, with fake crocodile tears in their eyes, after just having being cought on the act of commiting a bloody murder.
Good input as usual on this blog.
Re: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/15/russia-fledgling-independence-movements, see:
http://www.voltairenet.org/article185074.html
Intro:
“Anglo-Saxon agression against Russia is taking the form of financial and economic warfare. However, Moscow is preparing for armed hostilities by developing its agricultural self-sufficency and multiplying its alliances. For Thierry Meyssan, after the creation of the caliphate in the Levant, Washington would lay down a new card in September in St. Petersburg. The ability of Russia to maintain its internal stability will determine the course of events”
Later:
“Moreover, the Anglo-Saxons have planned to paralyze Russia from within. First by activating, via the Islamic Emirate (EIS), terrorist groups within its Muslim population, and organizing a media challenge in the municipal elections of September 14. Large sums of money have been distributed to all opposition candidates in the thirty largest cities involved, while at least 50,000 Ukrainian agitators, mixed with refugees, are regrouping in St. Petersburg. Most of them have dual Russian citizenship. This is clearly to reproduce at the provincial level protests that followed the elections in Moscow in December 2011 – with the addtition of violence; and engage the country in a color revolution process to which certain officials in the ruling class are favorable.
To do so, Washington has appointed a new ambassador to Russia, John Tefft, who had prepared the “Rose Revolution” in Georgia and the coup in Ukraine.”
The point about feeling hopeless/passive or not is important, and relates to the 99 vs 1% theme, aka ‘elites’ etc.
I believe that two main things must be encouraged:
a) local governance and taxation vs. overly centralised/nationalised/global taxation and governance
b) spiritual awakening via authentic congregations meeting together regularly which distributes and thereby strengthens sanity and decency
which by their very nature confound materialist power freaks.
People have the power to choose local over global in small ways, but the more they do so (like with food choices), the more such momentum could grow. I offer this because I doubt anything can be effected with hard power, political organisations, elections etc.
Both ordinary Germans and Russians bore huge casualties in WWI and WWII; soldiers and civilians endured loss of life and extraordinary hardship, largely out of human solidarity, although in all cases they were being misled by psychopathic elites. So this is not a new situation, rather same-old same-old.
Coming up with a solution is perhaps the single greatest challenge for human societies.
If Germany were to join BRIC and leave NATO/EU, that would be a tectonic shift of millenial proportions.
the author of that Guardian article:
http://www.interpretermag.com/author/paul-goble/
“Paul Goble, a longtime specialist on ethnic and religious issues in Eurasia, currently prepares daily reports on developments in that region for his blog, Window on Eurasia. Paul has worked at the Central Intelligence Agency, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, he served as Special Assistant for Soviet Nationalities and Special Advisor for Soviet Nationality and Baltic Affairs at the US Department of State, he was the director of research and director of communications and technology at Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has taught at the University of Maryland, George Washington University, Georgetown University, the Institute of World Politics, the University of Tartu, and Audentes University in Tallinn. Trained at Miami University and the University of Chicago, he is the editor of seven volumes on ethnic and religious issues in. He currently lives in Staunton, Virginia, and can be reached via email at paul.goble@gmail.com“
analyst pro par excellence. So he is writing an article pretty much laying out what they are undertaking to destabilize Russia. No doubt they have plenty of other such ‘analysts’ doing similar things in Germany.
No matter what the excuses given, the citizens of any country that has democratic elections are wholly responsible fir the actions of their government.
I don’t care what the excuses are that come from The Germans, Poles or Britts. It is your government and you share collective guilt for any action they take just as surely you share collective praise.
As far as Merkel is concerned, if she is blackmailed then the honorable thing to do is resign and let someone else lead. Chances are she enjoys seeing the Russians pushed around. It matters not that she’s from East Germany which was under Soviet control for decades. As a German she must harbor resentment for the crushing defeat that her nation suffered at the hands of the Soviets, and in most Europeans’ minds Soviet = Russian.
AK,
Yup, they’re all duking it out — and we don’t even know who the team leaders really are, let alone what they’re fighting for or about! But we didn’t switch sides in the War on Terror — we created it. All of it. You don’t really think we rescued the Yazidi, do you? The PKK did that on Tuesday; we went in on Friday to protect our all our folks (whole lot of ’em there) because this looks like yet another venture gone wrong. In which art we seem to specialize. But yeah, it’s inconceivable that Putin wouldn’t know all about all of it. I just wish We The People did, you know? After all, we’re paying for it (at least in money — the rest of the world, of course, is paying for it with their lives).
@вот так 01:53
My own impression of the German Monday demonstrations was quite different from what your link says. First of all the audience was mostly typical young Germans. I speak fluent German and I listened for ~20 minutes to one of the organizers (a young trainer for skydiving). And I was quite astonished to hear that this demo was against the US Federal Reserve (!!) and one of his main themes was that “the MSM were full of lies”. Another speaker harped on the same subject. And I would add that in a polling interview by phone that I accepted a few weeks ago I somehow got into a conversation with the interviewer and this young man told me the same thing “MSM media are full of lies” (this from a government employee !). So I have the feeling that there is somehow some sort of awareness growing in the new generation.
Danger signs and signs of hope – as the Chinese say we live in “interesting times”.
I thank M for explaining that the Germans are just the same as the rest of us,the slaves of modern life.
There is less chance of a change from the top down,and a greater chance of a complete breakdown of this BS world that has been manufactured by the olies,the pollies,the ukies and the pukies.
face it, it HAS to go up,the balloon will burst shortly.The life you all led up to this point will be a fairly pleasant dream.
the preppers will have their party,the gun owners will get their shot,shot and any left over will make a new world out of the ashes of the elitist swine.the rest is all waiting,waiting for the big one.
Thats my story and Im sticking to it.
XbNB
@American Kulak
Here is an article, along with an intro clipped from another resource, that may be worth a look…
Edward Snowden with Jim Bamford in WIRED: Next NSA Revelations “Would Be the Death of All of Them Politically”
The most wanted man in the world
Jim Bamford
WIRED, 13 August 2014
EXTRACTS
“It’s like the boiling frog,” Snowden tells me. “You get exposed to a little bit of evil, a little bit of rule-breaking, a little bit of dishonesty, a little bit of deceptiveness, a little bit of disservice to the public interest, and you can brush it off, you can come to justify it. But if you do that, it creates a slippery slope that just increases over time, and by the time you’ve been in 15 years, 20 years, 25 years, you’ve seen it all and it doesn’t shock you. And so you see it as normal. And that’s the problem, that’s what the Clapper event was all about. He saw deceiving the American people as what he does, as his job, as something completely ordinary. And he was right that he wouldn’t be punished for it, because he was revealed as having lied under oath and he didn’t even get a slap on the wrist for it. It says a lot about the system and a lot about our leaders.”
Read full article with many new revelations.
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/edward-snowden/
How many “minions” there are in this world! Astonishing to ponder! You can’t really blame them too much, just trying to make their way in this nasty bit of business. Fresh faced youth fresh out of their scripted narrative, school, work, marriage, homes, children.
Mom and pop preached the conformist rules of happiness in this life meant obeying these rules, so they go to work all full of enthusiasm in their state department, sent to schools in backward countries, knowingly convinced that their youthful thoughts are exalted wisdom.
Philosophy majors who opted out of the scene became cab drivers and such even though it sucked and their partners and spouses heaped abuse on them for gross inadequacies, eventually dumping them for a “fatter wallet.”
There’s such a necessity, a pressure to conform. . .at all costs, to violate that innate truthfulness and succumb to full bore unabashed hypocrisy. How many souls do you meet from the 40’s – 2000s managed to survive the fate. They’re still out there!
Whichever lie meets up with its inevitable comeuppance, blinks first, gags on itself spitting out some useless information, perishes. Putins biding his time, but in the goodness of time, the revolutionaries win, it will all be what it ever was, just like in the spaghetti westerns where the revolutionary becomes the latest tyrant du jour..
Meanwhile, god’s been confined to a particle whirling around an underground tunnel somewhere in Switzerland, being bombarded by laser beams, and is going to be brought to heel come hell or high water.
Small coteries of powerful people have ever yet more minions come in and group think how this time the essence of the bahagavad gita will be turned on its head, and the meek won’t inherit the wind this time around, losers.
Arjuna’s biding his time, living on some ashram somewhere, smoking weed and reading Pepe Escobar, trying vainly to recover from carcinogenic poisons in the water, air, and food, spinning vinyl, despairing of the outcome at the end of an age.
It’s not people, it’s the cultures that deprive of us of the freedom to be, that’s where the war rages. Wicked is little more than indiscreet, so grab all your stuff, tell your beloved cat, “fare thee well, but you’ve got to fend for yourself, try not to get run over. I love you but I’ve got my dwindling possessions to think of!” And head for the exits.
Online it’s important to bear in mind that some people like stirring things up for fun.
They’ll pretend to be from group A and say something bad about group B and then pretend to be from group B and say something bad about group A.
When everyone on the forum or thread are yelling at each other they are laughing.
“Let’s you and him fight.”
Essential reading IMO.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Cultural-Cold-War-Letters/dp/1565846648
I can see why Anonymous @ 18 August, 2014 11:15 didn’t sign his screed. I wouldn’t either.
Perhaps he may wish to have a look at this ECB report. If he does, he may begin to see a another world, where facts run in counterpoint to his fantastic visions.
http://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/ecbsp2en.pdf??53288960625588e88e973b611451d64b
It is important to keep in mind that this study looks at private wealth, rather than State accounts. It shows clearly that European citizenry is split between a rich south and a poor(er) north. The numbers say that Germans are the poorest citizens in Europe, while the citizens of the most troubled countries are the wealthiest.
The implications for Europe won’t escape anyone reading this blog.
Erebus
It is always going to be more profitable and politically comfortable to destroy Russia and steal her resources than to do business and buy them.
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Sure.
Just ask Napoleon, uncle Adolf and Carlo XII…..
Saker, soviet era has been the best contribuition of russian civilization for humanity.
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Sure.
Just ask to the tens of millions of Russians killed by the Jewish revolutionaries known as Soviets.
If you then need a confirmation, ask to the hundreds of millions killed by Communism worldwide.
Its clear NATO is planning for war in Europe against Russia. Stalin is turning in his grave. Its the Hoffman plan 3.0 all over again. But first, they will attempt to weaken the social and economic fabric of Russia. Then, they will unleash modern fascists and Russian fifth column from St. Petersburg, Ukraine, Odessa and Southern Caucasus. And then NATO will strike with new weapons/technology as fast as they can hopping to paralyze, frighten, confuse and demoralize Russia before the invasion. The middle East is key to the next war too. I hope I’m wrong.
America is the Continent NOT a country stupid.
All inhabitants of America(s) are Americans including U.S.Americans aka Gringos, same as all inhabitants of Europe are Europeans or other continents.
Anonymous,
America is what Americans call their country. It’s also in their patriotic songs. It is common to refer to citizens as Americans. People from all over the globe know what American means.
It’s not North Americans, not Central Americans and not South Americans.
Sort of like people complaining about the baseball World Series not really a World Series because only American teams play it (Toronto being an American team because it belongs to the syndicate of MLB). Bogus logic.
For instance, you call yourself Anonymous. But you’re not really anonymous. Google, who owns Blogger, knows you. The NSA knows you. And probably lots of people know you. But we go along with your anonymous moniker because we don’t give a damn who writes. It’s what they write that matters.
And don’t call people names like moron. And you should use a comma before the appellation, Anonymous.
Have a good day.
@Larchmonter445:America is what Americans call their country.
Indeed. And that is what is so offensive to the rest of the planet
It’s also in their patriotic songs.
That is because they are ignorant and self-enamored.
It is common to refer to citizens as Americans.
Mostly in the USA and in the countries not affected by that arrogance. In Latin America they use “estadounidense” (USAsians) for example.
People from all over the globe know what American means.
Yes, and this is why they find it offensive that one country has the arrogance to mistake itself for the full continent, especially since historically the USA did consider all of the Americans as its “back yard” and treated it like it belonged to it.
Now, I do agree with you that calling you a ‘moron’ is rude and uncalled for. And I will also agree with you that often people say “American” when they mean “citizen of the USA”, but that is because of the deliberate paucity of the English language which does not have the equivalent of “estadounidense”.
The US imperial mindset and arrogance is also reflected in the so-called “world series” and in all the stupid commercials with “best in the world” whereas in reality most “Americans” are completely ignorant of the rest of the world. Even though I have lived in the USA for a total of 17 years or so I sill feel disgusted every time I hear the locals speak of this or that “in the world”. Those who speak like that are both ignorant and arrogant (the two usually go together).
Forgive me for saying so, but you probably don’t realize how offensive the typical “American” mindset is to the rest of the planet. Believe me, it is.
Kind regards,
The Saker
Anonymous said…
This old Native American prophecy seems apt:
Children of the Rainbow
“When the earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people shall come unto the earth from many colors, classes, creeds and who by their actions and deeds shall make the earth green again. They will be known as the warriors of the rainbow.”
http://www.sun-nation.org/sun-rainbow-prophecy.html
Thank you, for he propehcy,it made me cry. Don´t worry, it´s only emotion.
I love to read and hear these words about different religions and ancient wisdom of the different races that inhabit this beautiful planet. They moves me and gives me hope.
Sometimes, when everything is so horrible, I find a moment of peace, at sunset on the beach, or in the quiet of night, look toward the horizon, look into the vastness, and think, somewhere in the universe is unfolding changes we expect.
The energy we waste here is not in vain, for sure.
Peace to you, brother.
Humanity still is bound in the age of patriarchy. The competition by wars is the base.
The result in average’s daily life is the order that can’t be refused.
This system is our problem and there is no way you can come out of it if not put in question the joke that maintains the order, the matrix, that system.
Since the early days of this competition people were unlucky about the results, high spirits on the side of the winners and naturally the ones who have lost in the course of this conquest.
All sort of changes have been tried, changing people, changing governments, but none of these efforts could reached not to fall back sooner or later to the basis connex the adventure of that competition is driven.
Do what I have told you or war on you.
Don’t forget it’s still a men’s world where the father of all is war. Isn’t it stunning how the fighters in the acutual conflict look, if not dead, quite happy in fullfying their “duty”. Warriors, men at their best. The gang of brothers. Holy it is. Completely trenched with the bad joke.
The money dictate had a huge civilization effect to that competition. Pay or die is the smug formula now. No warriors in the old format are asked, giving a huge blast to other forms of intelligence, able to commit war on a higher level but with the same goal. To press other into the service of the ones who give commands.
The competition with money has the same “psychopathic” background as the one laid beyond, the war competition. That’s why we understand and do not want to understand in same time the ongoings.
What I would call a revolution in this situation would be a break against the money order. Yes, I see, you have the money, but my attention is not to pay with it. Such a step is asked to bring us out of the cycle, the detrimental competition to dominate the world.
Such a step is, in the time were that joke has been settled and netted over the planet the most difficult to go. The idea to meet here the World Spirit is rather slowly developping. At all if there are open conflicts burning all attention.
Actually. World is trying to compete by separatist movements in hope the local leaders would be less infected to respond to the “psychopathic” competition. We will see how this is working out.
Tell that the men that are cuddling and hugging their shooting phalli on each side. Tell that to the audience that has a superior wealth above others: do not obey an order you disagree.
Anyway, there must be an upgrade to the bill of rights. No enforcement practice is allowed to gain attention. For the sake to free the way humanity can evolve through the shady, shabby and erring age of patriarchy.
Ukraine. Some weeks ago I had a rough idea were the country is situated. Now I can count down a considerable number of populated places of which I previously knew nothing and in this state was not unhappy.
From one war theater to the next our attention is getting sucked in complete hopelessness to achieve anything to the better. Isn’t it a disgrace to run behind from one war spot to the next in a fruitless effort to compete with thought better solutions or to put options on this or that warlord and wasting time to find out under which one you would be conserved better.
To end the way the system is running, this isn’t utopia. It’s a must.
Sorry if you think the post isn’t quite appropriate.
I am German, believe me, we, the German people are against the sanctions imposed by Russia.
Russia took place in the second world war gruesome crimes to us German, because of propaganda in their own country, as did this USA, France, England and Canada.
We will never forget this, but we also know who the true driving forces in the background … the same who call themselves today in Ukraine “oligarchs”!
In Germany there are currently about 5,000 people for public expression in prison up to 12 years, we can not tell the truth of a statute, § 130. The Constitutional Protection supports the murder of innocent people to blame for German.
We live in a stupid Merkel dictatorship in Germany, she is a puppet of the USA and thus the FED like all others of the EU.
We have more than 10 million unemployed only in Germany, low-wage and be robbed by taxes.
We, the ordinary people are not rich, but it is told in the public.
We have no rights but our thoughts are free, that’s all, the truth!
1) Anonymous on 17 August, 2014 22:17 is absolutely right
2) There is a basic “mittelstand” that has grown over the years and forms the majority. Take 41% for CDU/CSU plus at least half of SPD support (10-15%) plus most of the Grünen (ca 7%)and you will get a good majority of the German electorate which are genuinely either pro-American or positively disposed to follow their leaders. Most of the remaining Germans live in low to miserable conditions and many do not have the time and the guts for political attitudes. You are left with a tiny minority who genuinely oppose the Amis and see RF as a friend. This minority includes people from all walks of life, from the most marginalized to respectable intellectuals. It is not significant to make a difference. One source of getting to know this minority is http://juergenelsaesser.wordpress.com/
3) For years I have thought that Putin has put his money on the wrong horse by insisting on a “special” relationship with Germany.
angelika
Merkel is receiving bags of money from Washington…there’s no other explanation for her duplicity
Although I grew up in North America and had no contact with Europe until aged 40, I afterwards lived in Germany a stint. I observed their psyche with great interest. The following is only a generalization. Firstly, they obsess over the Holocaust and the Jews. They believe that the Jews are Europe’s saving grace, that without the Jews there’d have been no European culture and civilization. Any mention, no matter how inane, that someone is anti-Jewish causes them to hate that someone whether it’s true or not. Their reaction is Pavlovian. It’s a religion with them, and they are the radical fundamentalists. I believe that the NeoCon propaganda that Putin is anti homosexual and anti Jewish brings the typical German to hate him and Russia without checking the facts. Of course, I also believe that there’re other reasons for Germans and German leadership to side against Russia. Some distrust Russia over WWII. Also, I’m certain that Merkel is being blackmailed. Not sure what. Maybe sexual. Maybe she spied for the Stassi? Wouldn’t surprise me if every politician in Germany’s blackmailed. I also believe that Merkel is weak in character and intellect, and might be simply unable to oppose America’s intentions. It’s too bad. I also am not anti-German. I like them. I like their ancient history. But I also think that Germany’s dead. After the post WWII occupation, they’ve been rendered too weak culturally and spiritually. Hope Russia survives.
US economic and political policy run by a committee of the Trilateral Commission—the Commission had been been created in 1973 as an “informal discussion group” by David Rockefeller and his sidekick, Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Keep in mind that the original stated goal of the TC was to create “a new international economic order.”
In the run-up to his inauguration after the 2008 presidential election, Obama was tutored by the co-founder of the Trilateral Commission, Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Brzezinski wrote, four years before birthing the TC with his godfather, David Rockefeller: “[The] nation state as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force.
International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation state.”
Any doubt on the question of TC goals is answered by David Rockefeller himself, the founder of the TC, in his Memoirs (2003): “Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure—one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
NOVAK (the reporter): Is it true that a private [Trilateral committee] led by Henry Owen of the US and made up of [Trilateral] representatives of the US, UK, West Germany, Japan, France and the EEC is coordinating the economic and political policies of the Trilateral countries [which would include the US]?
NOVAK: Yet, in your recent paper you state that this committee should remain informal because to formalize ‘this function might well prove offensive to some of the Trilateral and other countries which do not take part.’ Who are you afraid of?
KAISER: Many countries in Europe would resent the dominant role that West Germany plays at these [Trilateral] meetings.
Patrick Wood, author of Trilaterals Over Washington, points out there are only 87 members of the Trilateral Commission who live in America. Obama appointed eleven of them to posts in his administration.
For example:
* Tim Geithner, Treasury Secretary
* James Jones, National Security Advisor
* Paul Volker, Chairman, Economic Recovery Committee
* Dennis Blair, Director of National Intelligence
Several other noteworthy Trilateral members:
* George H W Bush
* Bill Clinton
* Dick Cheney
* Al Gore
full report’..
http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2014/08/17/the-press-takes-a-holiday-every-day/
MCExorzist You do realize that Germany attacked the soviets first right? And that Germans killed 4 million or so soviets in the first year itself? And that the total number of dead soviets outnumbers the total number of dead off everyone else combined? You also realise that you forced the soviets to eat grass and rats and would not even let them surrender..
And you say the Russians committed crimes against Germany! You also realize that the allies killed more German civilians than the soviets as well? In the good ole days, the romans sent all the males to the mines and women and children to work the fields and households. You should thank Stalin for his graciousness. If it was Lenin he would have most likely killed most of the males and sold the women into slavery as they did with the white army. Stalin was far too busy killing Russians and Ukrainians to be bothered killing some Germans.
I would like to add this comment
http://truth-zone.co.uk/forum/government-and-authority/63994-the-nsu-pink-panther-false-flag-national-socialist-underground-debunked-graphic.html?start=40#123888
to MCExorcist’s, explaining in a nutshell the illegal situation in Germany and the reason why no chancellor was ever elected by the people in the FRG, which is no state, lacking a defined state territory, but a Non Governmental Organization.
@Alien Tech: I don’t want to mess up with: who killed more than the other one. War is murding by everyone!
I talked about the massraping of german women and childs, after the war… and, that we in germany can’t speak about it!
We know that the allies killed Germans “just for fun” (Rheinwiesenlager).
Moreover 50.000.000 humans were killed in WWII.
What I want to say, the Russia and German people should never ever devided by the “forces in the back”, you knew what I mean.
The Money and EU/USA/IL fights against Russia, not we, the german people.
Sorry, if I couldn’t write in “perfect” english, it is not my homelanguage.
PEACE!