Yesterday, the EU published it’s newest list of individuals and companies included in its anti-Russian sanctions list. The latest list include Mikhail Fradkov, the Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service SVR, Alexander Bortnikov, the Director of the Russian Federal Security Service FSB, Nikolai Patrushev, the Secretary of the Russian Security Council and Ramzan Kadyrov, the President of Chechnia.
Previously, the EU had already “recognized” the outstanding service of Igor Sergun, the Commander of the Russian Military Intelligence Service (GRU) who was also included in its sanctions list. But what did Ramzan Kadyrov do to deserve to me included in such distinguished company? According to the EU, he
made statements in support of the illegal annexation of Crimea and in support of the armed insurgency in Ukraine. He stated inter alia on 14 June 2014 that he ‘will do anything to help revive Crimea’. In that context, he was awarded the medal for ‘the liberation of Crimea’ by the Acting Head of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea for the support he provided to the unlawful annexation of Crimea. In addition, on 1 June 2014 he expressed his readiness to send 74 000 Chechen volonteers to Ukraine if requested to do so.
The EU makes it sound like Kadyrov is guilty of nothing else but crimethink. But, of course, this is not quite true. We can all be sure that Kadyrov, just like the other four outstanding anti-Nazi heroes honored today, did much more to protect the culturally Russian people of the Ukraine from the ethnic cleansing policies of the junta in Kiev. Maybe he should get yet a second medal of “Hero of Russia”? :-)
As somebody who remembers the Cold War very well, who spent most of his life fighting against the KGB (in both my professional and private lives) and who remembers the truly satanic horrors of the wars in Chechnia, it is amazing to now see the heads of the Russian security and intelligence services being thus “honored” by the EU alongside the President of Chechnia. True, it is also sad for me to see how low Europe has fallen to sanction those who did the most to fight a illegal, racist and terrorist regime in Kiev. For seven decades the West European elites have passed all sorts of laws banning the free investigation of the “Holocaust” under penalty of incarceration, for seven decades they have been completely paranoid and looking for even minute signs of possible “neo-Fascism” in various right-wing parties and for seven decades they have solemnly nodded their heads in heartfelt agreement with the warning of Brecht “the belly where from the filthy beast came out is still fecund”. And now it turns that that this “belly” is them! Not only are the western democracies the belly from which the filthy beast came out, but ex-KGB types and former Chechen insurgents are now at the forefront of the struggle against this beast, and for self-determination, international law, human rights and freedom.
Amazing, no?
And does this not beg a disturbing and painful question for me and maybe many of you also: who/where was the real ‘Evil Empire’ in the 1983?
The Saker
Комментарий МИД России в связи с введением Евросоюзом дополнительных антироссийских санкций (The comment of the Russian foreign Ministry in connection with the introduction of the EU for more anti-Russian sanctions)
http://www.mid.ru/brp_4.nsf/newsline/19F397DB373D434644257D2100337F9D (trans) http://translate.yandex.net/tr-url/ru-en.ru/www.mid.ru/brp_4.nsf/newsline/19F397DB373D434644257D2100337F9D
“Once again, by accepting Washington on the issue of additional anti-Russian sanctions, the EU has acted as a “non-commissioned officer’s widow”, actually posing a threat to international cooperation in the field of security.
Additional sanctions list is a direct indication that the EU has embarked on a complete collapse of cooperation with Russia in questions of international and regional security, including the fight against proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, organized crime and other new challenges and threats. We are convinced that such decision will be enthusiastically embraced international terrorist international. What he failed in the last decades, is to drive a wedge into the ranks of the international community is easily made in Brussels. And that Brussels takes all the responsibility for this step, which was made on the background of a sharp deterioration of the international situation, including in Afghanistan, the middle East, North Africa and elsewhere.
At the same time the European Union finally sat down “on needle” of Washington and Kyiv fairy tales about the events taking place in Ukraine, depriving themselves of alternative and objective source of information.
You know in the capitals of the countries of the European Union, what can bring these irresponsible steps, whether in the political or economic spheres?”
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Заявление Главы ЧР Рамзана Кадырова (The statement of the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov)
http://www.chechnya.gov.ru/page.php?r=200&id=125 (trans) http://translate.yandex.net/tr-url/ru-en.ru/www.chechnya.gov.ru/page.php?r=200&id=125
“Dear friends! The whole world witnessed the tragedy Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan. And lately and Ukraine. Under the guise of export of democracy in these countries, kill civilians, women, old people, children, destroy cities, religious shrines. Direct responsibility for the situation rests with the US and the EU. The actions of their leaders are state terrorism directed against the countries and peoples. And in most cases shed Muslim blood. Today I decided to create a sanctions list to include U.S. President Barack Obama, President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Council Herman van Rompuy, the EU high representative for foreign Affairs and security policy Catherine Ashton, President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz. I instructed to freeze their Bank accounts and assets of every kind. From 27 July listed policies are banned entry to the Chechen Republic.”
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Colonel Cassad on post industrial mobile warfare
The Voice of Sevastopal has many high quality combat videos, interviews, and essays. The essay on mobile warfare is an english translation on a phenomenon of civilian vehicles mounted with high caliber machine guns or rockets becoming an effective tactic for use against conventional forces. Interesting developments in the technology of war benefiting people’s militias.
«Брифинг Минобороны – это острый гвоздь в гроб преступной провокации» (“Briefing of the Ministry of defense is a sharp nail in the coffin of criminal provocation”)
http://www.km.ru/world/2014/07/24/katastrofa-malaiziiskogo-boinga-pod-donetskom/745703-avasserman-seichas-idet-ozhest (trans) http://translate.yandex.net/tr-url/ru-en.ru/www.km.ru/world/2014/07/24/katastrofa-malaiziiskogo-boinga-pod-donetskom/745703-avasserman-seichas-idet-ozhest
“… Provocateurs have lost a significant share of its former art
The last briefing of the Ministry of defense is a sharp nail in the coffin of criminal provocations. Even very interested persons it is clear who and how committed this crime. I think guilty now remains only to be interested in the sort of soap, remembering the fate of the defendants at the Nuremberg trials.
Much has been written about the Parallels of the downed South Korean “Boeing” in 1983, but then the provocation was much trickier than it is now. Then released in parallel flight of passenger aircraft and looks almost indistinguishable from it “Boeing” of radio razvedka. They were near enough long and carefully so that our air defence was forced to shoot down one of them.
By the way, is still quite popular version is that we hit exactly the radio reconnaissance plane, passenger plane was shot’t we, as the organizers of this crime, i.e. the Americans. Looking at their subsequent activities, I see no reason to exclude this version from consideration. So now I can only say that since then, professional provocateurs have lost a significant share of its former art. Now they are openly kulturno.”
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Putin could put a stop to all this engineered distraction by disarming the Nazis in Kiev, or just wait while the US ready themselves to destroy him and Russia, as they did Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi.
No amount of appeasement will make those intent on destroying Russia stop, but only force and the exercise of it.
At this very moment a bill is being rushed through congress to give them the platform to attack Russia and defend its “enemies” from it: the Senate Bill S.2277 “Russian Aggression Prevention Act 2014”
So what is Putin doing? being a coward or being a man?
Stop hiding like a babushka behind “rebels”.
5 March 1946, Fulton, Missouri. Churchill declares war on the Soviet Union. “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”
In 1946, the US powers put to Stalin’s régime a plan for World Government, created by Bernard Baruch who had “served on the Supreme Economic Council at the Conference of Versailles, where he was President Wilson’s personal economic adviser.” (Encyclopædia Judaica Jerusalem, 1971). Baruch had been heavily instrumental in the US contribution to destroying Europe’s last effective monarchies in the First Great War, and to targeting Germany for annihilation. What unnerved Stalin was that American Jews particularly, with their immense financial power, would dominate, and that Moscow would lose control of Russia. The “Baruch Plan” was condemned in the Russian press as an attempt to impose American atomic world domination. By the end of 1946, Stalin had rejected it because it demanded submission to Washington, and the Cold War had begun ten years after Churchill had begun unprovoked propaganda war against innocent Germany for satanic mastery of the world.
Andrew,
Nonsense! Lincoln, Reagan, Truman, both Johnsons, Carter and Clinton were the ONLY non-elites EVER elected to the Presidency. And I live in rural/small-town America and I don’t see any more “normal” people here than I did during my time in any suburb or city — or during my Ivy League education. That’s just hogwash; people are people, period. I also would never call Ronald Reagan normal in any way shape or form, frankly. He was none-too-bright and delusional as hell from the git-go plus showing *all* the soft signs of Alzheimers before he even got into office. All right there, every one of them. I’ll sure agree with you that things went downhill fast from that point, but he and his cronies (yes, cronies) were responsible for setting it in motion. And in terms of “societal values and norms” here always getting worse, uh, I’m not sure of your background but unless it was 100% WASP you’d not have seen 1912 as any kind of pinnacle, or 1962 either, truth be told. Hogwash, Andrew. Small-town America has its good points but it’s got some pretty awful ones too; it’s not worth worshipping blindly, and never was. That’s just rightwing propaganda worthy of Sarah Palin, and every bit as fact-free and vacuous.
Espina,
Yes. It makes me cry bc I really still do believe very deeply in those things, but I can also see how the people in various parts of the Ukraine, not just the Donbass, already learned those lessons, or at least heard them all the time from their parents. And I do think that is part of the reason why so many of them are still lying low, you know?
Nora:
Carter attended the Naval Academy. Clinton went to Yale. I reject the notion of either one of them as not becoming honorary elite by age 21. They’ve certainly faithfully served the ensconced powers ever since then.
Regarding you characterization of Reagan during his term, I don’t agree with the oft-repeated tripe about Alzheimers. My grandparents family physician Dr. Otis Bowen, was his Secretary of Health and Human Services in his second term (I know, small world, huh?). We heard a lot of stories, but nothing like that. It was really during his second term that Reagan was able to do a lot of honorable work with Gorbachev for the sake of world peace.
“Soceital norms and values” – accepted behavior in society – criminality, divorce, drugs, filth, dress, cultural expression, etc. on the one hand, and personal freedom, tolerance, responsibility, etc. on the other. There isn’t a single indicator that hasn’t been in decline for a long time, but they really dropped off the charts from my view around the period 1989-1994 in the inebriation of Cold War victory. I mentioned 1912 only to take us back before the rot of President Wilson and World War I.
I’m not worshipping small town America, I’m speaking of ordinary average people from outside the elite enclaves on the east and west coasts and in wealthy suburbs of Texas and Chicago, and also those socialized into said elites via the Ivy League and similar schools. This has become much worse in recent years. Since Reagan, nearly everyone on the ballot has been a graduate of either Harvard or Yale (or both), and it looks like we may be headed for a situation where the presidency is passed around between a few families who front for the Neo-Cons and the Oil-Financial-Military interests. I’d just like one person from outside the echo chamber to get into power again.
@Nora,
Just in case you did not see my post earlier today thanking you, I would like to again say thank you for helping/ directing me to where I could get the translation.
I don’t want you thinking I did not say thank you for your great help.
Thank you Nora!
Sincerely,
Carmel by the Sea
The Saker,
All Empires are evil.
The present opponents but well before 1983.
“Nora said…
Andrew,
Nonsense! Lincoln, Reagan, Truman, both Johnsons, Carter and Clinton were the ONLY non-elites EVER elected to the Presidency. And I live in rural/small-town America and I don’t see any more “normal” people here than I did during my time in any suburb or city — or during my Ivy League education. That’s just hogwash; people are people, period. I also would never call Ronald Reagan normal in any way shape or form, frankly. He was none-too-bright and delusional as hell from the git-go plus showing *all* the soft signs of Alzheimers before he even got into office.”
YEAH BABY! Tell it to the troll. And, I quote the troll:
“And actually I would point out that Reagan was the last relatively normal person to be allowed to hold office in the US (from a small town, no Ivy League education), who shared the values of ordinary Americans”
King Ronald and Queen Nancy shared the the values of ordinary Americans (sarcasm).
RMAOL!
Best regards,
Mohamed.
Phone conversation between Poroshenko -Obama
http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/2125404/post331795866/
For English speakers please use translator
“AGS said…
To 14:20 who said –“…As some have already said, this is essentially a spiritual war manifesting itself on this earth. As Mohammad said in another thread, evil can only whisper evil, that is all it is allowed to do. Don’t listen to the whisper…” — PRECISELY! The war is always waged from the point of consciousness.”
Dearest Sister,
Well said and I couldn’t have said it better. Yes, it is conscious decision to allow the “Evil Whisper”
God tells us that those who are His True Abidis (Those Love God To Extreme) the “Evil Whisper” and no Power Over Them. And, satan agrees.
Yes, it is the conscious decision not to allow the “Evil Whisper” and to counter it with “Good Whisper”. We are capable of both.
Dearest Sister you carry the guilt of 1000s on your shoulders. It must be very heavy and especially if you pass this guilt to your children who never been part of this aristocracy.
You are absolutely right sister, that one should never wish bad for anyone even for one’s enemy, let alone one’s own. Nothing should happen bad to any country let alone our beloved USA.
It is the regular people suffer, the masses who had nothing to do with it.
God Bless All His Children, and show them the right path. A path that they should live with love and mercy with each other.
Amen,
Mohamed.
“Nora said…
AGS,
Also, I don’t think it’s fair to compare Russia and the US unless you’re specifiying in what kind of way: in the past 100 years Russia was governed by Czars, Bolshevik dictators and now a parliamentary/presidential system and all three worked very differently both inside the country and out. We’ve gone from bad to worse, but it’s just been an evolution of the same two-party system — no real rupture or 100% change, like Russia suffered twice.”
Dearest Sister,
With due respect, I disagree with above. The USA been under Bolshevik since it inception. Under the motto:
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free;
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless,
Tempest-tossed to me
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
There is no culture, religion, and/or ethics left. Every decade, with masses of new comers, who supposedly pay taxes, the masses are raped over and over, the culture keeps on being diluted.
It is supposedly a Christian Country, with all the Holidays which revolve around Christianity, but on the Holy Christmas, one cannot say:
MERRY CHRISTMAS (A Joyous Day When Prince of Peace Jesus (as) Was Born)
I live in Middle East. We have Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and we celebrate and greet each other on every religious occasion. The more the religious occasions the more the celebrations.
I remember as a kid maybe 7 years old, the Muslim women used to only celebrate Prince of Peace (as) birthday. A beautiful 16 years old, was dressed as a bride Mother Mary (as) with a pillows over her belly under her clothes. All the giggling and poking going around, and we kids used to watch the beautiful mother as a bride …..
Now, all Muslims countries beside Saudi Arabia, celebrate the birthday of Prophet Mohammad (saws). Nothing very much religiously happens but we get a paid day off for celebration. Only the “Liver Eaters” who hate this Holiday.
The masses have no say in USA under the Bolshevik control from the inception. The masses were quiet when the going was good, but you are absolutely right when the going is getting rough and rough, the masses will rise against the Bolshevik, just like in Russia.
Best regards,
Mohamed.
@вот так 26 JULY, 2014 19:14
“They may have to regime change the Ukraine again. This time blatantly nazi without pretenses.”
Probably not, the nazis as their name says are also nationalists and were likely part of the opposition to this sellout.
They come handy to terrorize the population but no so much to play into the plundering game, which makes for an interesting conundrum for the US/EU.
Espina said
Nora@ 01:42
http://www.sambarforpins.com/quotes.htm
Espina
Mohamed,
You always have a good point of view. I appreciate that.
However, to define America’s inception as Bolshevik is mistaken.
America was for most of its history a very harsh reality for the huddled masses. People set out into frontier lines and carved from nature their future. There were some communities, but America was always about the individual. That is what made it unique. And still is for some who come with a passion to succeed.
My grandfather came before the turn of the 20th Century from Sicily. He was 29. Probably, had little money in his pocket, one suitcase of clothes and ambition. He started a laundry business in Little Italy. Soon he opened a saloon on the East Side, 107th Street, third Avenue. (low rent district). He worked with his hands, his brain and built a large family, many businesses, and was working until he died in his eighties.
Work is the American experience. Work on farms, work in stores, work in factories and work in businesses. America never was about government doing things for people. That started with the New Deal and post-war conditions. Now there is no work, few careers, and no liquidity and credit for middle American citizens. Banks hold all the liquidity. It goes into the stock market and builds more wealth for the few, the super Elite, the .1%.
For immigrants, especially refugees from war and oppression, America continues to be paradise. They can get education and start a career or business with relative ease. They can work.
Most who come today have money. Chinese, Indian, Russian come with money and do very well. But they are coming with bundles of money, not one suitcase of clothes. So their experience is not like my grandfather.
For established Americans, the deck is stacked against them. They pay the bills of the wars, of the central bank debts, of the corruption of their governments. You can see the change in one large experiment—California. It had everything until thirty-forty years ago when Liberals took over from laissez faire conservatives and destroyed the economy with high taxes, regulations and corrupt elections.
They destroyed the number one educational system (Reagan began the destruction by attacking the University system), and they have only Silicon Valley and Venture Capital hubs left as high water marks of an economy.
There are ten million illegals soaking the taxpayers with enormous families that flood the educational and health systems. They also bring crime from drugs, vice and violence.
America has changed. But it was not Bolshevik. Ever.
It is now a Cult of Liberalism personified by the degenerate Obama and the perverts of his government. They are useful tools of the Elite Establishment. A layer of protection that the American people cannot penetrate without being demonized as intolerant or retrograde.
There remains enough Americans of morals and decency. They confuse their love of Constitution and Rule of Law and moral rectitude with patriotism that instinctively rallies around government. This is their ignorance. Government is always the enemy. It is a construct to rule. Government is not the country, not the nation, not the heartland.
When they awake, if they do, they might make a stand. But the government has all the tools and will kill them, as we see Kiev kill the people of Donbass. That’s what governments do.
By the way, for all who think I have some ideology, left or right or whatever, I don’t. I abhor ideology. It is the bane of humanity in any form.
Ideology is like trying to grow food for a nation in one 4-inch plant pot.
I will admit I have a focused animus against authority from all mortal institutions. But I look at that as a sniper would defending the village. My focus is not a narrow mind.
The enemy is known to me from all history, from my life’s work, from our most recent shared experiences. Only the ignorant or the Cult members don’t understand that self-preserving animus. It begets from our knowledge of satan’s evil and God’s grace.
Espina,
Those are keepers — Saker should put them up on the blog for everyone to read. And yes — I’ve always been a non-violent type *and also* a deep, deep believer in fighting for one’s land. The Euripides quote literally made me cry. Mr. Nora and I both thank you for these!
As a somewhat irreverent antidote/approach, looking forward to September 18 ;~) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK6LkpfZ94s
Carmel by the Sea,
You’re quite welcome! I’m not real adept at this stuff either, to put it mildly. ;~)
Andrew,
Hogwash.
I’ll rebut you a bit but you’re not worth the time. From the mid-1960’s until maybe the later 1990’s, the first-tier schools were open to bright non-elites; as loans replaced merit-scholarships and, frankly, Jewish money developed real power on even non-elite trusteeships, that changed and our newer elites now run the show. So *going* to an elite school was a ticket for many during that period to become elites, but in no way were Clinton or Carter born into it: you’re just shape-shifting again. Reagan was a radio jock/actor in B-grade movies until his chute was greased by virtue of Nancy Dearest’s daddy and his cronies. He could “act” presidential when his neurons were firing right, but that’s it; he never called any of the shots. I won’t yammer about any connections but let’s just say I know it for a fact.
And ordinary average people live everywhere, even in wealthy suburbs — and I know damned well you know that too. Also, don’t slam me for my education, baby: it was much better than yours because I learned how to sift and weight facts, not just randomly spew them. In any case, it’s not the school, it’s the department that matters, always, and you should know that too. As far as the Ivies, check our earlier presidents, please: them what was born elite went to elite schools, and we have never YET been a democracy.
Finally, if you think small-town America has EVER been tolerant, or its residents even now demonstrate “personal responsibility”, you’ve never lived in one.
Case closed.
“As somebody who remembers the Cold War very well, who spent most of his life fighting against the KGB (in both my professional and private lives) and who remembers the truly satanic horrors of the wars in Chechnia, it is amazing … ex-KGB types and former Chechen insurgents are now at the forefront of the struggle against this beast, and for self-determination, international law, human rights and freedom.
“And does this not beg a disturbing and painful question for me and maybe many of you also: who/where was the real ‘Evil Empire’ in the 1983?”
Saker, once again your humanity, humility and warrior spirit shines.
There appears to be a great transformation, a great realignment underway, globally and nation by nation, community by community. Events in Ukraine are pivotal in this revolution, and showcase it. Much of this great shift is still unconscious, people not knowing or understanding their parts or discerning where it is taking us. I don’t know if it even has a name yet. Your posts, and the comments on your blog, both help chart the path and illuminate it, and your searing honesty draws us in.
Reading your posts the immortal words penned by Julia Ward Howe, penned during the American Civil War 150 years ago:
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His day is marching on.
Mohamed,
Did you really write that at 07:15? Somehow, it just doesn’t sound like you. Also, when did you and your wife move to the Middle East?
Saner, if you haven’t already, please delete my comment critical of the post. It was uncalled for. Thank you.
Dearest Mohamed,
“…they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge…”
I do not believe in collective guilt nor of the sins of the fathers. I do not carry guilt for others. The only guilt is for sin I don’t reject. And I’m working on that as best and fast as I can!
You remind me of stories my sister-in-law tells about growing up in Beirut. She still loves that city above any other place. And morns what the entire middle east has become. Her dad was a US diplomat. Not CIA.
I agree with you regarding the Bolshevik-fascist influences in Ivy League schools. Wouldn’t send a child there if you put a gun to my head or offered a full scholarship. Unfortunately, the same influences have eroded most colleges in the US. I say this having had family members since about 1820 who attended Yale and Princeton and Harvard. As well as the boarding schools that fed into them. Not one in the 25 years has attended those schools. So its not as if I have some deep seated resentment or unrequited jealousies. I know them for what and who they are. And I have NO illusions about them.
Disagree with you calling Andrew a troll. I rather enjoy reading his comments. I don’t EVER have a problem with those who see things differently — as long as their statements are based in truth — and not trying to manufacture or skew facts to obscure truth. I don’t think that’s what Andrew does. But that’s my sense and you may believe otherwise.
I also tend to be more forgiving of Reagan — and less so of all the others. My favorite US President was Teddy Roosevelt. And Washington. Unless Ron Paul runs again — I won’t be voting in any upcoming elections. There IS no point as the elites will choose the candidates and the winner. Not participating in madness is the only sane and logical response.
Cheers
“Larchmonter445 said…
You always have a good point of view. I appreciate that.
However, to define America’s inception as Bolshevik is mistaken.”
Dearest Larchmonter,
Instead of saying Bolshevik, I should have said Deep State. I didn’t say Jewish or AngloZionist as I was trying to be diplomatic. lol
Reality looks different if seen behind a curtain. For example, the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) in the ME (Middle East) were given freedom in 1970 from being British Colonies. They didn’t ask for it, but they were given FREEDOM. REALLY!
Supposedly the Tea Act and Boston Tea Party got the Independence in 1776. Do you really think so?
The White Slaves were brought first and then the Black Slaves. The rest is history.
Best regards,
Mohamed.
AGS,
Our institutions reflect us at any given time. Up until the 60’s, the Ivies and other elite first-tier schools were safely conservative (including gentleman C’s for the well-placed not-too-bright ones, etc.), enough so to also “indulge” in some non-conservative types as long as their scholarship was solid. Then that started to shift, kind of in consonance with admission policies. Never many Bolsheviks in the Ivies though, just standard-issue liberals — even Genovese ended up turning quite rightward and he never did teach at an Ivy. Then came the utterly nauseating PC crap in the 1990’s, not just in the Ivies but frankly, damned near everywhere. And yes, absolutely, the education my kids got in the 1990’s (one Ivy, one not) was vastly inferior to mine in every way imagineable. But the current campus zeitgeist in the Ivies, for the spawn of our current Neoliberal elites, is Neoliberalism, adhered to as a belief system every bit as firmly as the old PC crap. And every bit as awful, imo. Our educational system is rotten from the top down and the bottom up. And I don’t care what direction the indoctrination is, they’re supposed to learn how to think, not what to believe — and that’s just not happening anywhere any more.
“Nora said…
Did you really write that at 07:15? Somehow, it just doesn’t sound like you. Also, when did you and your wife move to the Middle East?”
Dearest Nora,
I really wrote at 07:15. Please see my above response to Larchmonter445.
I arrived in USA in 1972 in Miami Florida in the Middle of Republican (Nixon) Convention. All the Hippies were camped out there for months. Was induced to the Hall of Fame, I mean introduced to the Rock ‘n’ Roll music.
Married in 1975. Got my Bachelors in Accounting and Master in Finance & Economic. I am CPA (Certified Public Accountant) and registered as such in one of the States in the USA. Worked for the Biggest Auditing & Accounting Firm in USA.
In 1983, moved with the same firm to London, UK. Moved to my home country in 1985 with the same firm. After two years, quit as we didn’t have children.
The son was born in 1989, through GIFT (Gamete IntraFallopian Tube Transfer) done in London, UK, all expenses paid by my country. The daughter was ala naturale and was born in 1992. The rest is history. Have been thoroughly blessed by GOD.
The OIL belongs to the masses, we don’t have much, but we have a very belovent King. Unlike, in USA where SAM WALTON owns all the OIL wells, the biggest Bullshit.
“Nora said…
Reagan was a radio jock/actor in B-grade movies until his chute was greased by virtue of Nancy Dearest’s daddy and his cronies.”
You are very generous to the BONZO. I would rate him a D-grade movie actor. I see, you mean, “B-grade movies” and not B-grade actor. ~:)
Best regards,
Mohamed.
“AGS said…
I do not believe in collective guilt nor of the sins of the fathers. I do not carry guilt for others.”
I am so thrilled to hear the above. In my stay in USA, I mostly found people going around feeling guilty all the time. Believing that they will never make it to Paradise, so WHY TRY, thus they were always in a state of revolt.
“AGS said…
Disagree with you calling Andrew a troll.”
You are absolutely right dearest sister. My sincere apologies to dearest Andrew.
Best regards,
Mohamed.
Mohamed,
Wow. For some reason, I thought you lived in Canada; wonder why? But now I get it, especially re: the Bolsheviks comment; that just didn’t sound like you. And yeah, Reagan was a D-grade actor; should have stated that better but everyone here fell for his “Morning in America” bs rather than accept the fact that, you know, we lost the Vietnam war bc it couldn’t be won, deal with that fact and go on. So yes, we all fall for the propaganda to one extent or another. And wherever you’re living over there obviously treats Shi’a alright. Your white slaves/black slaves comment was a keeper, btw. That one knocked me back some too, but you’re right.
Mohamed,
The Brits and Dutch were the slavers of Africans.
Puritans and subsequent waves of immigrants from Northern and Southern Europe were not slavers or owners. Most went to plantations in the South.
White Slaves, again, debtors from Britain who were sent to Georgia to work off the debt. Indenture servants were common in Britain’s colonies.
So, don’t paint all of Americans who formed what became America as slavers or slave holders.
My relatives certainly worked for themselves.
Most Americans never slaved anyone. Though of course, it was real, it was a fact. But once the Constitution was in force, many states abolished it.
We all inherit here the genocide of Indians, the history of slavery and all sorts of inequities across the centuries. But our system, until the Democrats went Socialist, was primarily property ownership and small business enterprises, industrial unions, and a retail stock market where equity was held by ordinary people. Then everything got changed. The FED, the New Deal, the Great Society and the Cult of Liberalism (personified by Obama, Illinois, California, Massachusetts and New York) distorted the internal dynamics of America to match the external hegemonic policies. A weak, manipulated populace allows an Elite to create hell for other nations.
The middle class is devastated, the last 30-40 years is a long theft of value and the compilation of tens of trillions of debt wrapped around their neck like a yoke.
So, in a way of looking at the situation, we now are all American slaves.
I prefer not to term it racially who stole our future and most of our holdings. But the herd of bandits needs to be culled.
Sorry Nora. I disagree. The Ivy’s are full of what’s WRONG with America.
Yep. Plenty of Gentleman “Cs” matriculated at Yale, Princeton and Harvard. Happens today too. Kids of billionares and welfare recipients have a special box. And those like Elizabeth Warren. That check next to “Native American” for extra-Ivy-street-cred. As if the self-validated DNA of her great-great-great grandmother with high-cheekbones should be a qualifier for Harvard. It would be amusing if it wasn’t so sad.
If your measuring stick is IQ — mine is hubris, schadenfreude and mendacity perpetrated by “my Ivy League betters”. Thanks. For. Nothing.
The ancestor who attended Princeton died at Andersonville. My husbands went to Yale. They died in WW1+2. I guess Gentleman C’s make good cannon fodder. We know that the current crop of “A” class Ivies are not marching in the front lines these days. Unless its the IDF.
Every single asshole I worked with on Wall Street was Ivy League. Obnoxious, sexist, dishonest pieces of excrement. They bilked and stole from honest, decent HARDWORKING Americans. Then got bailed-out by other Ivy League grads. Oh well. It’s all in the family.
First time posting, after several months of reading.
Mohamed, Nora, and Larchmonter:
“US as Bolshevik from Day One” – Larchmonter says that his grandfather made it, here, over 100 years ago, on his wits alone, coming from Sicily. – Let us spell it out: made it in somebody else’s stolen land (the whole continent). Well, did he make it on his own? or behind the US occupying army, in the name of the new settler class ?… Wasn’t the new settler elite class the “Bolshevik” (not the “Socialist/Communist”) takeover of the American continent? Wasn’t new settler elite class at the time in need of fellow travelers? To populate the new “promised land”? Wasn’t that a form of NEP (New Economic Policy) ? Yes! It was. For 200 years, we in America, had the NEP phase of the Bolshevik takeover, financed from East Anglia. The Bolsheviks, such as Trotsky, eventually lost in Russia to Stalin and the Russian nationalists, i.e., the indigenous national interests. But in the US, the indigenous constituency, the Native Americans, were not so lucky, being, as you know, wiped out. The difference is that the international cartels of East Anglia (Anglo-Zionist), takeover of Russia did not succeed, while it did succeed in the US. So waves and waves of Sicilians and Polish and Germans, etc., enthusiastically contributed their lives and blood to the success of feudal corporatism, what Lenin called concentration and centralization of wealth, thinking that it was for their own good.
How would we define “Bolshevik” here? Wasn’t Bolshevism in its unspoken hidden agenda a conspiracy akin to Fascism? Which is basically the takeover of the State by private interests? One can say that Trotsky paid lip-service to the “common good”, to “socialism/communism”, while in fact serving a minority’s interests, just like Kolomoisky in Ukraine today. In the same way, the anonymous shareholders in the East Anglia joint stock companies (East India Company, Hudson Bay Co., etc.), and later the Fed, effectively owned the American State for their private interests, and not for the national interest of the “Americans”. Here is where Stalin, and what the Soviet Union became, differed from the Bolsheviks. No matter how successful (or not) the Soviet Union’s economy came to be, it was definitely not run for the benefit of a private cabal, but rather for the national interest of its constituencies.
AGS,
I think that was what I was saying! ;~) In any case, absolutely agree.
Larchmonter,
Larchmonter,
I agree with everything else you said, but some of the biggest slave traders were in New England (check out the Brown family in Providence; yes, *that* Brown family), and yes, slaves were owned EVERYWHERE, not just the South. Various states abolished it at various times, and in various ways — in the 19th century. I forget the dates offhand but slave auctions were still held in New York State in 1812 and some people were still held in bondage in PA as late as 1845. Oh, and the last “witch” burned at the stake in NE was an Irishwoman originally from Galway, I believe, bc when asked to recite the Lord’s Prayer, she did so in Gaelic. So no, it wasn’t just the South — but slave labor and then slaves themselves (thanks to T. Jefferson’s very careful calculations) were the basis of the Southern economy in a way they were not in the North (Northern mills just wove cloth from the cotton they picked, etc.)
Dacian,
I get your point but I have to say my head is spinning a bit: aren’t you calling Capitalism (i.e., the various corporate entities originally plunking people down here) Bolshevism? Corporate profit, always The Name Of The Game here since it was stolen from my ancestors (not all of us died, just most of us) certainly cared/cares nothing for the public good but Bolshevism was at least supposed to, no?
What I see as a credible distinction between Bolshevism and Socialism/Communism is the answer to the question: kto kovo? Bolshevism was not so much anti-Russian Capitalism as it was pro-Jewish Capitalism. Once Trotsky was out, we didn’t hear much more about Bolshevism.
I’ve been a student of Marxism for about 50 years now and yes, socialism/communism were meant to be a new social order for the benefit of the working class. Nothing in dispute here. In hind sight, however, there were also the fellow traveler demagogues of the special interest type, just like Kolomoisky today. They talk the talk (Kolomisky talks about Ukraine’s national interests) but at the same time undermined the noble cause on behalf of their narrow special agenda. All we know about Stalin is that he killed his fellow countrymen, when in fact, for the most part, he was eliminating the 5th column. Same column as today. The 5th column acted as both “revolutionaries” and the “anti-revolution” smear campaign perpetrators.
In hind sight, the 5th column attempted to hijack the anti-corporate, anti-private-profit revolution in the name of an even more rapacious private clan.
The mind, she is boggling. More details, please? And why just East Anglia? Weren’t a lot of those corporations out of London?
Larchmonter,
I am confused. When did the Democrats turn Socialist and what did they do once they were? When did people first start buying houses? When did ordinary people invest in the stock market? What happened to unions, and why? I loathe the Fed too but given that it’s been around for a while, how did we get to the mess we’re in now? What exactly is the Cult of Liberalism and how does it impact whatever you consider our primary problems? (To me, they’re unemployment/underemployment, largely due to offshoring; Wall Street; our out-of-control military-industrial-spook complex; a tax burden borne primarily by (the remains of) the middle class; our fiat currency debacle which, for lack of a better starting point, had its roots back in 1971 when Nixon took us off the Gold Standard; and the growth since that time of an oligarchy given increasingly free rein to buy and sell all of our politicians while managing to reduce their tax burdens through various means, legal and otherwise. Oh, and let me throw in the environment, for good measure.)
“Larchmonter, AGS, Nora and Dacian:
The middle class is devastated, the last 30-40 years is a long theft of value and the compilation of tens of trillions of debt wrapped around their neck like a yoke.”.
Why Reagan was the WORST President:
1. Reaganomics, which George H.W. Bush named it in 1980, “Voodoo Economics”.
Have we forgotten the Voodoo Economics?
2. Alan Greenspan. Yes, Alan Greenspan was appointed by Reagan until Dubya.
Are our memories that short?
In all the countries beside USA, the mineral rights are owned by the State. Anything, that is below 3+ meters belongs to the Government for the masses. Not need for this tax and that tax, but the minerals are the wealth of the Government for the masses.
Not in USA, where the mineral rights are owned by individual land owners. These mineral rights are then sold off for measly $1. The subsequent owners don’t own any mineral rights.
It is all owned by SAM WALTON.
Wave after wave of immigrants are nothing but adding more and more slaves to the system, as older slaves are better off and don’t serve the system any longer. First the White slaves, then Black slaves, then Asian slaves, then South American …..
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free;….”
At the same time the Whole Universe Resources were and are to this day, RAPED AND STOLEN.
Yes Larchmonter, you are right about the last 30-40, where the middle class is devastated. The White slaves and Black slaves are back in the system.
Enough Said,
Mohamed.
“Nora said…
I am confused. When did the Democrats turn Socialist and what did they do once they were? When did people first start buying houses? When did ordinary people invest in the stock market? What happened to unions, and why? I loathe the Fed too but given that it’s been around for a while, how did we get to the mess we’re in now? What exactly is the Cult of Liberalism and how does it impact whatever you consider our primary problems?”
Dearest Nora,
Please see my response about Reaganomics (Voodoo Economics) and Alan Greenspan.
I am a CPA and USA used to have the best financial systems and controls in the world. They were thrown out the windows during the last 30-40 years, and for this reason we had the Enron Scandal.
Systematic RAPE from Reagan to Obama. Seems to me, Obama in his second term is trying to do something about it. Too much mess on Obama’s Plate.
Best regards,
Mohamed.
Mohamed,
We are VERY much on the same page — and now I totally get your comment on immigration too! Not sure about mineral rights though — they’re actually separate, yes, but depending on the state AND THE DEED landowners may or may not own those rights. For example, we do, but not everyone in our state does and — worst part — not everyone buying or owning property even knows to check to find out!!! So if you think you do but they never were part of the original deed, Big Oil can snarf them up cheap without your even knowing it. It’s its own body of law and a tangled mess but — SURPRISE! — guess who always comes out on top. (I was asking those questions, btw, to maybe help some other folks start to think about the reality behind the words they throw around so easily, but it’s probably too late in this thread, darn it.) ;~) Let’s us try again when the moment is ripe and everyone’s still around, ok?
Mohamed,
Your last two posts are absolutely right on.
Reagan began the destruction of California and continued to accelerate the Democrat ruin of the whole national economy. Quite ironic that he helped the Dems. so much.
He recognized Federal unions, he waged 57 secret wars, he was a Statist (Deep State), he federalized local police, he was a prop, a stand-in for the MIC.
I will never forgive him for bombing the University of California Berkeley with tear gas bombs from National Guard plane when he was governor. His Federal attorney general was the Alameda County district attorney who ordered the bombing to proceed under the law. (Ed Meese).
It hit the Dwinelle Plaza right next to the Library (second biggest Library in America) and the East Asia Library, crucial at the time for Vietnam studies. Front page of NYTimes picture I keep to this day.
I went to Berkeley, so that’s why I was so incensed.
Now, the Cult has possession of the University with Napolitano in charge. It will be totally destroyed from within.
In my day, it was a treasure of research, Noble Prizes in science, a leader of the world, and conservative in nature, not the liberal bastion Reagan demagogued from Santa Barbara to Irvine to Berkeley and UCLA. He was maniacal against the system of education. It went from #1 to #49, while the union has its teachers’ pay at the highest. He hated Clark Kerr and did all he could to destroy the Master Plan for developing the UC system. He was so petty, he raised the state college system to a university system to try to belittle the UC majestic stature in the world.
It was Reagan who ended good ethical regulation of food inspection, the SEC (run by one of his young ideologues during the 2008 collapse), and allowed corporations free run of Wall Street, banking, insurance, finance, credit. Corruption at the regulator level was pandemic during Reagan and the Dems took it from there.
That led to the destruction of Savings and Loans under Bush 1, and the eventual development of derivatives as wild cards under Clinton.
All the while, the Liberals took over California government and the Environmentalists got enormous power that led to flight of jobs by the millions to the sunbelt states.
Reagan was singularly the nuclear attack everyone dreaded from the USSR. He did the damage to the economic system, the governmental regulatory system, the balance of political parties, and the increase of debt as a way of life for Federal government.
The Wall fell, but so did America, all under his watch.
He was a rat for the FBI inside Hollywood, and he was a pre-senile stooge for greed, incompetence and Statists.
The only worse President was Johnson. And the only more naive one was Bush 2 (“W”) who blundered in every way, foreign and domestic.
Reagan was a true believer, that’s why he was so effective in his destruction.
Larchmonter,
Absolutely. But why do you call it Democratic or Socialist? By the time Reagan became Prez, neither one really existed: both sides were Neoliberal and ruining us all! Remember Reagan and the Air Traffic Controllers Union? He only went along with unions when he was sure they wouldn’t be good foot soldiers for the Dems. I personally don’t see a dime’s worth of difference in awfulness between the Dems and Repubs since Reagan. Remember Perot? He made his money from the Neoliberal system, then saw how destructive it was.
They’re ALL crooks. But Clinton was the last one who even semi-called the shots. Obama is just Dubya v.2.0. I.e., the whole system desperately needs rot-rooting.
@Nora and Larchmonter,
In a few words….
Democrats & Republicans.
Different circus.
Same clowns.
Larchmonter,
You’re shape-shifting just like Andrew, and every bit as logically incoherent. Regardless of how many Native Americans you claim to know, institutes you claim to have founded, names you have dropped or sweat lodges you claim to have done, “the sciences” you cite hardly speak in one voice, let alone support your contentions. Your original statement was absurd, though I’d sure like to learn more about your institute: couldn’t find anything about it on Teh Google. But I’m also curious as to how anyone who even walked by Berkeley back in the day could simultaneously criticize Reagan for eviscerating higher education in California and accuse him of even inadvertantly fostering the “Socialism” on which you blame our current problems.
Carmel by the Sea,
chuckle. I’d actually say it the other way around: same circus, different clowns, but yeah, we’re on the same page for sure! ;~) And until we figure out what to do about it, we’re strapped on the roof of the car.
Nora,
Why East Anglia? A good source of that story is in “The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, And The Triumph Of Anglo-America” by Kevin Philips.
Here is a bit more from a different author.
On August 26 1629 twelve wealthy Puritans met at Cambridge to solidify plans they developed at a July meeting to emigrate with their families and others of like mind either to New England or, to the West Indies. Knowing that Charles would never issue Puritans a charter, Winthrop, who had been asked to join them, proposed that the group purchase the commercial charter that had been issued to a trading company the previous March 4. Titled the “Governor & Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England”, the charter confirmed a land grant that had been made in 1628 to twenty-six stock holders, merchants and landed gentry. The Company’s Constitution dated April 30 outlined the form of government to prevail there and confirmed its right to colonize, and establish trade.
In many ways, the charter was similar to other royal grants, but there was a marked difference. While the Virginia Company charter of 1612 named London as the Company’s legal address, where its directors met quarterly and where the charter was kept, no such reference was written into the Bay Company charter. Winthrop was aware of the oversight and that it had not been noticed at Whitehall, seat of the Crown. The meeting in Cambridge concluded with a signed agreement that purchase of the Massachusetts Bay charter was contingent on the grant itself being “legally transferred and established to remain with us”. In other words, unless someone discovered the significant omission in the charter before they left, the Puritans could take the document with them and establish their own autonomous government. That requisite would have a profound effect on both sides of the ocean.
Saker,
BTW, how helpful it would be to have different chat threats listed on the main page.