Dear friends,
It is my *huge* pleasure to share with you an analysis written by American Kulak. I got it a few days ago exactly as he describes: no questions, no warnings, no heads-up, nothing but the article itself. I *love* this “just do it” approach as it makes it easy for all sides to make good things happen. And good his piece really is. When I read it the first time I was absolutely delighted. Not only was this first-rate analysis, it was also “deep”. AK draws an absolutely correct and spiritually valid parallel between Scotland and Novorussia and I can confirm that Russian history also records the ancient events AK mentions. And, of course, any mention of the past of Europe when it was truly united into one Christian world by such figures as Saint Andrew, Saint Patrick, Saint Ambrose, Saint Martin (the Pope), Saint Bede or Saint Gregory and many others is dear to my heart and I rejoice each time their real lives are remembered in the West (and not only during Saint Patrick parades!).
I hope that American Kulak will contribute more articles to this blog on this immensely interesting and important topic or on any other topic he wants to look into.
Enjoy and kind regards to all,
The Saker
The Last King of Scotland: Splitting the ‘Anglo’ in ‘Anglo-Zionist’
by American Kulak
This is my first contribution as a guest to the Saker’s blog and hopefully will not be the last. It is submitted in the spirit of the Saker’s admonition ‘if you want to do something [constructive to this online global community], just do it!’
My topic today is the Anglo-American or Western media’s increasing unease if not outright opposition to the looming independence vote in Scotland, where credible polling shows the momentum is clearly increasing behind a ‘YES’ vote for secession. A ‘NO’ vote in this case would mean the continuation of the United Kingdom and the union between Scotland, England and Wales passed by the English parliament in 1706 and ratified by the Scottish parliament of 1707.
Although many in the ‘Better Together’ campaign against Scottish secession have insisted in recent days that Scotland can receive more autonomy and control over its local tax revenues while still retaining the economic and military benefits of staying in the UK (this will sound familiar to those Saker readers who are reading Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s boasting that Novorossiya will remain in Ukraine and his government will not cede on square meter of 1922 Bolshevik ‘gifted’ ‘Ukrainian land’), it appears that hope is weak sauce. Fear of economic disruption or of long term subversion of the (Atlanticist, read what Saker calls ‘Anglo-Zionist’) European project is already being ramped up as the pro-unity forces in London and Brussels become more desperate.
On the one hand, Scotland’s push to secede has very little to do with the war in Ukraine and for Novorossiya. On the other hand they seem to have every bit to do with it because Catalan, Basque, northern Italian, and even Novorossiyan independence supporters are all backing Scottish independence on social media like Facebook and Twitter. The lone exception I’ve identified thus far being Graham W. Phillips, the British reporter who was expelled from Ukraine after being held hostage by the Kiev regime who slipped back across the border into Lugansk. Mr. Phillips identifies himself both as a supporter of Novorossiya and a Scotland-born British patriot, seeing no contradiction between the two. Graham remains opposed to Scottish secession and has expressed his opposition on his Twitter feed.
In spiritual and symbolic terms, there is indeed a connection between Novorossiya’s flag and that of Scotland — the ancient cross of St. Andrew which is called the saltire or Scottish flag, a white X cross on dark blue. This flag also makes up Scotland’s contribution to ‘the Union Jack’ which mixes Scottish blue with the red of England’s St. George’s cross. St. Andrew the Apostle according to ancient Christian tradition dating to the undivided, pre-1054 Schism Church stretching from Ireland’s County Kerry in the West to Kiev in the East and Ethiopia and India to the South preached the Gospel from Spain all the way to the Greek-colonized Scythian lands that later converted to Orthodox Christianity under the Rus Prince Vladimir near what is today Kherson in Ukraine. The Holy Apostle Andrew according to tradition was martyred in Achaia (modern day Greece) on an X-shaped cross, because like St. Peter who died in Rome on an upside down Cross Andrew did not consider himself worthy to be crucified in the same manner as the Lord Jesus Christ. The X also corresponds to the Latin numeral for ten which in Biblical numerology derived from the ancient Hebrews represents the Ten Commandments God gave the ancient Israelites on Mount Sinai, symbolizing God’s Holy Law.
Today the St. Andrew’s cross is visible in the red and blue battle flag of Novorossiya seen on the shoulder patches of the Donbas soldiers, and on the naval ensign of the Russian Federation which flies over Sevastopol. This symbolism has not been lost on the Empire’s more clever shills. Indeed, when Novorossiya first debuted its flag two months ago paying tribute to both St. Andrew and the Anglo-Scottish industrialists who founded Donetsk as a coal-mining center in the 18th century Russian Empire, there was a great deal of snark on Twitter about it resembling the battle flag of the Confederate States of America (CSA). The snarkists, of course, having no idea about the St. Andrew’s heraldry preceding the CSA by centuries and inspiring the Scots-Irish settlers of the American South who chose it as their battle flag and whose war-like settler/soldier traditions were highlighted in former US Secretary of the Navy Jim Webb’s folk history, Born Fighting.
While there are many Saker readers who maintain that absolutely no geopolitical shifts can take place without a full consensus among the globalist Western elites that Saker refers to collectively as the ‘Anglo-Zionist’ empire and whose confabs at Bilderberg, Davos, and the recent NATO summit in Wales are well documented, the increasingly shrill propaganda directed against Scottish independence suggests otherwise. The BBC in particular has led the charge against a ‘YES’ vote, calling into question its phoney pretense to objectivity and highlighting ‘Auntys’ total subservience to the British Deep State. But the BBC and other British media have to be careful not to excessively offend their Scottish audiences. Meanwhile, American and Atlanticist ‘think tank’ agitprop against the Scots has often been crude and pathetic.
The online magazine Business Insider (which the Washington-based independent investigative journalist Wayne Madsen has linked to a smear campaign run against Madsen in mid-2013 by an ex-National Security Agency officer named John R. Schindler) recently ran an article claiming the departure of British nuclear ballistic missile and attack submarines from their base at Faslane, Scotland could leave the peninsula open to a Russian invasion. The article was widely panned in BI’s comments section as ridiculous propaganda. [http://www.businessinsider.com/scottish-independence-and-russian-submarine-invasion-2014-8]
The former London-based Henry Jackson Society neoconservative front man Michael D. Weiss, who now runs the pro-Kiev propaganda site The Interpreter Mag, tweeted “if Scotland secedes, then Europe can expect to see a foreign-policy Venezuela created overnight on the North Sea. Putin will rejoice.” [https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/508962026690187264]
Not surprisingly considering their overlap on issues of anti-Russian foreign policy, NSA surveillance, and other matters, Weiss tweets a link to a more Business Insider article warning that Scotland will have to win ‘four bets’ to avoid being doomed to poverty as an independent state. [https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/508961378678214656]
The World Affairs Journal, the bimonthly publication of the ‘former’ Central Intelligence Agency operative run quasi-NGO Freedom House, published an article by former Time magazine journalist Roland Flamini titled “European Disunion: Cameron, the EU and the Scots” which concluded with the lament: “If separatism triumphs in the referendum, David Cameron will be remembered as the prime minister who lost Scotland. He also faces the further prospect of being the man who led Britain out of the European Union.” [http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/european-disunion-cameron-eu-and-scots]
Note the prominent use of the word ‘separatism’ which has become a dirty word in Atlanticist circles since the Novorossiya uprising began in March. The same September/October issue of World Affairs Journal featured Peter Pomeranstev saying, “The channel [RT] has its fans in the West and has been nominated for an Emmy for its reporting on the Occupy movement in America. And it’s not just the left that’s applauding. Nigel Farage of the right-wing non-parliamentary [not for long – American Kulak] UK Independence Party is regularly featured in its newscasts.” Farage of course has been a vocal critic of the EU’s relentless eastward expansion, which he has blamed for sparking the Ukraine crisis and antagonizing Russia. Farage also believes the EU’s policies towards Romania and Bulgaria have led to an influx of impoverished job seekers from these countries at a time when the UK is already facing high unemployment and is one of the most crowded countries in Europe.
[http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/yes-russia-matters-putin%E2%80%99s-guerrilla-strategy]
The connection between Farage, who has half-heartedly campaigned for the ‘No’ side in Scotland this past week, and the Scottish secession vote isn’t clear. Except when one considers that Scotland’s secession will weaken the British Labour Party’s position in parliament, thereby allowing more Tories to split with their EUrocrat leadership and defect to UKIP. But the broader concern for the Empire’s ideologists is that Russia sympathizes with almost any group of European nationalists who wish to deviate from the NATO or EU party line, and European nationalists from Hungary to Greece are returning the favor by empathizing with Russia’s position on Crimea and the Donbas. It is noteworthy, for example, by its absence that Anglo-American media are not interested in reporting the foreign fighters fighting for Novorossiya, including a half dozen French veterans of combat in Afghanistan and Chad [https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1suDxke9jBQ], nor in interviewing the Swedish Nazi Mikael Skillt fighting for the openly Nazi Wolsfangel-armband-wearing Azov Battalion. The BBC did do one report that curiously even mentioned Novorossiya Armed Forces’ (NAF) allegations that Polish military contractors are fighting for Ukraine, a charge the Polish government denies, but this story was the exception that proved the rule. The internationalization of the Novorossiya war, the possibility that it could become a second Spanish Civil War if it drags on for months or years, is not something either Washington or London wishes their propaganda outlets to emphasize. Why? Perhaps Mr. Pomerantsev’s essay provides a clue.
After getting in his digs at Mr. Farage from his perch in London, Mr. Pomerantsev like many Russian liberals (who some Russians like Mark Sleboda refer to as liberasts for a perennial pedestal-lization of the West dating back to the late 19th century St. Petersburg liberals lampooned by Dostoevsky [https://twitter.com/MarkSleboda1/status/508675733489995776]) gets to the heart of his complaint about Russia’s support for nationalist parties dissenting from Anglo-American Empire politics in the West. That complaint is that the Kremlin is trying to cast doubt on whether it is Washington or Moscow that maintains ‘Captive Nations’:
“It is no accident that a recurring feature of RT programs is conspiracy theories, ranging from tales of the Bilderberg Group to lurid reporting on how Western media cover up their governments’ crimes. Appealing to the conspiracy mind-set (read: anti-Washington, anti-Anglo-American empire, and anti-central banking) reinforces the Kremlin’s underlying message that the Western model of democratic capitalism is a failure and a sham [hence the urgency with which people like Pomerantsev invoke Western economic ‘recovery’ from the crash of 2008 and the myth that the US and EU could crush the Russian economy with sanctions if they but had the will to do so]. In a recent paper titled “The Conspiratorial Mindset in an Age of Transition [transition to what, Eurocrats?], which looked at the rise of conspiracy theories in France, Hungary, and Slovakia, a team of researchers from leading European think tanks showed how supporters of the far-right parties the Kremlin supports in Europe are also the ones most prone to believing in conspiracies [read: any facts or events outside or parallel to the Anglo-American led media Narrative, like the evidence that Ukrainian forces shot down MH17], and that this factor was becoming more pronounced as trust in the power of national governments is eroded by globalization [read: people don’t trust governments that have completely handed over the people’s sovereignty to banker-led globalists by design] and populations turn to outlandish theories to explain crises [meaning Westerners no longer believe the mainstream media explanations or cheery economic numbers, but believe ‘their lying eyes’ that things are deteriorating culturally and economically across the Western world].”
Another article in the same issue, hidden behind a pay wall, written by Woodrow Wilson International Center scholar Alina Polyakova, laments “Strange Bedfellows: Putin and Europe’s Far Right”. [http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/strange-bedfellows-putin-and-europe%E2%80%99s-far-right ] In the portion of the article that isn’t pay-walled, Polyakova confidently calls Marine Le Pen and the Front Nacional in France “a far right party”, despite Le Pen now drawing more support from likely voters than current French President Francois Hollande if run-off elections were held this week. [http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/6ecbb6c4-34d5-11e4-aa47-00144feabdc0.html]. Ms. Le Pen for her part has deflected the ‘radical right wing/fascist’ charges by appealing to socialist voters with calls for the preservation of France’s social welfare state, and insisting France can no longer remain a poodle of US foreign policy when it comes to Russia {her real crime in the eyes of the same Atlanticists who constantly downplay the anti-EU fascist elements in Ukraine so long as their members are fighting Russia’s proxies in Donbas]. She has also tied her anti-immigration and ‘France out of the EU’ positions to the defense of French secular values in the face of Islamism and EU political correctness, appealing to both the left and the right.
In the most telling sign that Ms. Le Pen believes she can win the presidency of France, she has even sent FN representatives to Israel to distance herself and the party from her father’s anti-Israel views, openly courting the votes of French Jews. It is of course, no accident that Ms. Le Pen is gaining support across the French political spectrum, if only as a protest candidate, while the US government is fining France’s BNP Paribas to the tune of $10 billion and trying to block the sale of the Mistral warships to Russia. Gaullism whether left or right wing is stirred up when French banks are used as Washington’s doormat and the creaky financial stability of France is put at risk by Washington and Brussels’ fanatical attachment to keeping the impoverished Greek, Spanish and Portuguese economies trapped in the euro straight jacket.
Perhaps in the back of their minds, the Empire’s ‘political technologists’ still hold that old bugbear of anti-Communism in Southeast Asia during the Cold War, the domino theory. If Scotland successfully votes to secede from the UK, and Britain’s pound sterling and banks take a beating in the subsequent fallout. With Royal Bank of Scotland, Deutsche Bank and other rotten derivatives-stuffed houses on the brink, the dominoes of rotten financial and political structures start to tumble across Europe. After Scotland, comes Catalonia. After Catalonia departs as the richest and most innovative part of Spain, the Spanish cry ‘no mas’ to continued Depression era levels of unemployment. The Lombards and Venetians move to more than symbolic independence. The Greeks, spurred by the Spanish example, finally throw out their austerity imposing eurocrat Quisling overlords, if necessary exiling Greek ‘technocrats’ with charges of massive financial fraud and embezzlement. Portugal’s too big to fail banks led by Espiritu Santu are finally allowed to fail, with rumors about the solvency of French and German banks including the aforementioned BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank running wild.
The secession of Scotland is going to bring home awkward questions of identity to Britons: what does England now stand for, besides total subservience to Washington in return for ‘a seat at the table’ and a bloated financial sector in the City of London? What does it mean to be English in an age of open borders and mass immigration? How can English identity be preserved even if the faces or colors of those holding to the ideals that made the British Empire successful change, when so many young Muslim men are rejecting the UK’s diseased postmodern values in favor of fighting for ISIS in Syria?
On this side of the Atlantic, the question will continue to be where does the USA go from here as the cries for regionalism, Southern and Western state government defiance of Washington’s executive orders, and increasingly assertive ethnic identities roil the USA in places like predominantly black Ferguson, Missouri or an increasingly Mexican Los Angeles ruled over by a shrinking white elite? On the topic of immigration, for example, Texas is placing its National Guard troops on the border with some Texan lawmakers denouncing President Obama’s ‘executive actions’ on the non-deportation of undocumented Mexican migrants as unconstitutional, and thereby null and void. Meanwhile, California’s governor is basically nullifying the southern border through the announcement of ‘sanctuary cities’. The point is not which state is right or wrong. The point is both states are making policy assertions that contrast with either federal law either as it is written or as an administration chooses to (not) enforce it. This can only lead to further proclamations of the United States being more united than ever while real disunity festers along class, racial and regional lines.
Part 1:
Anyone who’s ever seen the movie Braveheart has heard of William Wallace, one of the original heroes of Scottish independence.
Though Mel Gibson’s highly fictionalized account was one of the most historically inaccurate movies in modern cinema, Wallace did, in fact, lead Scottish rebels against English invaders. And he died for his cause.
Wallace was severely tortured after being convicted of high treason against King Edward I; he was dragged by horses, hung nearly to the point of death, revived, relieved of his manhood, ritualistically disemboweled, made to watch his entrails set ablaze… then finally beheaded.
Not the way you want to go.
That said, the movement for Scottish independence lived on, and England folded in 1357, ending a 60-year war between the two nations.
For the next 350 years Scotland remained an independent state until… go figure… a financial crisis.
In a desperate attempt to become (almost overnight) a major world trading power in the 17th century, the government of Scotland backed a comically ill-fated attempt to colonize Panama.
It failed miserably. Yet the investment in the Darien Scheme (as it was known) amounted to up to half of Scotland’s total money supply.
When it went bust, Scotland was nearly broke.
There had already been a push to reunify with England for some time. And with the country’s economy in shambles, unification seemed like a good move.
Today Scotland again finds itself debating the question of its independence, fueled once more by economics.
It’s easy to point to a number of different causes of rebellion, revolution, and dissent. But ultimately it’s economics that matter more than anything else.
When times are good and everyone is prosperous, few people want to rock the boat. No one has an incentive to change the system when it’s working so well.
Only when the prosperity begins to collapse do people have a strong motivation to change the status quo.
Suddenly the jobs are less plentiful, the taxes are higher, the standard of living is lower, and the costs are greater. And people demand change.
Part2:
The greater the pain, the greater the desire to shake things up. And it’s happening across the world.
In Europe, separatist and extreme parties are gaining ground on the heels of an economic depression that has besieged the continent for several years now.
In France, Spain, Italy, Greece, etc., people are fed up with the current state of affairs, and they are agitating to split off from their current political leadership.
Likewise, Scottish voters are going to the polls in just over a week to decide if they should break away from the UK.
And from the looks of things, the independence movement has a very strong chance of winning.
Whenever major changes happen, this brings opportunities as well.
For example, a newly independent Scotland would create its own tax and corporate laws, potentially providing a number of major incentives to attract foreign talent and productive companies.
A Scottish passport would also be attainable for many people. Some basic guidance has already been issued:
British citizens living in Scotland on day one of independence, plus Scottish-born British citizens living outside Scotland, would be automatically considered Scottish citizens.
After independence, children born in Scotland, and children born outside Scotland to at least one Scottish parent, will be automatically considered to be Scottish citizens.
A person who has a parent or grandparent eligible for Scottish citizenship, will be able to register as a Scottish citizen by descent.
Scotland will also allow dual citizenship, so no one would have to renounce his/her existing citizenship.
Presuming the independence movement wins, Scottish citizens will be able to apply for a Scottish passport from day one of independence.
People will be able to continue using their existing UK passport until it expires. They can then choose to get a Scottish passport when their existing passport is due for renewal.
Scotland’s Future sets out that Scotland will remain part of the Common Travel Area between the nations of the British Isles, which means that the Scots won’t need a passport to travel to the rest of the UK or Ireland.
These are exciting times and this once again illustrates that there are opportunities hidden within every crisis.
We’ll be carefully following the results of this event and will have more details for our premium members as things unfold.
Until tomorrow,
Simon Black
Dearest AK,
Excellent Write-Up. The domino is about to fall.
Best regards,
Mohamed.
Netanyahu days are numbered. Thanks to him lecturing the African American President year after year as Underling, in front of Americans, in their own Country in their own White House.
Cuckoo’s Nest!
Best regards,
Re: Dissident American States—The Federal Government has announced that the California National Guard will send trainers to help the Ukrainians in 2015. Let us see if Governor Brown goes along with this or if he can or will block it.
The English really don’t care – it is just federalism WITHIN THE EU.
The problems of Northern Ireland largely disappeared because catholics and protestants are all Europeans now.
Issues between Scotland and England are also pretty irrelevant now.
Ukraine is different – federalism is a no no – Easterners will not put up with a government that shelled their houses.
Scotland/Britain is a breakup under the umbrella of one empire – the EU.
Ukraine / NovoRussia is a break up of a country currently between 2 empires being ripped in half with one quarter going to Russia and three quarters going to EU/US.
Not the same at all.
And while Scotland (which votes mostly Labour) will still (probably) have British MPs at the next election in 2015, the next time 2020 they will have none. And Scotland has long had too many MPs per voter. So England will no longer be controlled by the Scottish block of labour voters.
Go Obama and Putin for the Greater Good.
Yes, Putin we all love you, especially when you readily agreed to be called, “Hitler” for the Greater Good.
Yes, Obama we all love you, especially when you readily agreed to be called, “Dumb” or a “Black Kid” for the Greater Good.
God Bless the Peace Makers!
Mohamed
Thank You, I was wondering what day is the vote?
Thanks for the write up American Kulak ..
Personally I am against independence and separatism. But I dont think the human race is ready just yet to live together as one. For a while there I had hoped the US would be the one to do it since they had the power.. Now if Russia is still standing maybe in the future sometimes humanity will have a chance again.. Although I feel that just like the US financial system, humans dont have all that much time left either.. Seems even Stevens Hawking have come to see my points of view and says humanity has less than 1000 years left.. When you look at it like that, US, Russia, Burma, dont really matter all that much..
AK
Always good material from you.
In modern business, particularly technology, the mantra is “creative destruction”.
Apple led the way with tech upheavals in music, retail, phone, camera, PC, laptop, tablet, and today, wristwatches.
However, when demos, the people, want their own Liberty defined by themselves, with separatist or secessionist or breakaway movements, it is the gravest political sin.
It never is considered creative. It is always too dangerous to discuss. And it is always targeted for disruption and destruction if it comes to a vote.
As for Scotland, I hope they break the bond.
For Novorossiya, I hope they finish the destruction of the Kiev junta.
Thus we would have the calm resolution with votes and the violent resolution from war. Thereafter, the tyrants will see which path they want to walk.
Borders suddenly become sacrosanct when the people want to change them. For the Hegemon and the one-worlders, we know they want to ultimately break down nations, so they can rule the world in one unified entity. They can open their borders and swamp a society with illegals. But, God forbid the people of a region want a better life and want their own state. Forbidden!
Re: the Anglo-American or Western media’s increasing unease if not outright opposition to the looming independence vote in Scotland
For the sake of appearances there has to be some expression of concern, but it is Imperial policy to facilitate the split: break up the powerful nation states, the better to subordinate the pieces to the undemocratic international institutions, the UN, EU, NATO, WTO, etc., which under the control of the financial interests, will dominate the world under the long-planned New World Order. That is why No. 10 Downing Street is today flying the Scotch flag the Saltire, and why Prime Minister Cameron has left leadership of the anti-independence campaign to Gordon Brown, an unpopular back bench opposition MP
Always seek out your comments here and this piece is no exception.
As a Californian brings me to long held believe, California should secede from the United States. If such “referendum” should ever offer, I’ll vote to secede (without the Democrats and Republicans but Green Party).
Beside California, only Taxes and Florida can stands alone without the rest of the 49 States. Excellent American Kulak!
Kindest Regards
JC
@American Kulak,
Always seek out your comments here and this piece is no exception.
As a Californian brings me to long held believe, California should secede from the United States. If such “referendum” should ever offer, I’ll vote to secede (without the Democrats and Republicans but Green Party). Beside California, only Taxes and Florida can stands alone without the rest of the 49 States. Excellent American Kulak!
Kindest Regards
JC
@ 09 September, 2014 21:10
Larchmonter,
Thank you. I emphasized Peter Pomerantsev in part because he represents the howl of anguish by a Russian liberal that the West is slowly losing the information war. He claims that it’s Kremlin TV creating an air of unreality but omits the massive hiding of Ukrainian combat deaths, the fanatical insistence there couldn’t possibly be Nazis with any influence in Ukraine much less fighting for it, and his claim that Novorossiya is a fake invented notion while Ukrainian nationalism largely cobbled together since the early 1990s through historic falsification and claims of eternal victimhood at the hands of Russians is timeless.
The panic in Atlanticist and hardcore anti-Russian circles about Europe’s pro-independence movements is palpable. Here’s another example:
http://20committee.com/2014/09/09/putins-secret-friends-in-paris/
It is probably only a matter of time before the Atlanticists try to come up with more aggressive measures than just trolling or accusations of being Putin stooges. As in denial of service attacks, hacking for dirt, and possibly even politically motivated arrests and cases. The DumpHarper commenter has been particularly useful with his updates on how many Canadian cable providers are trying to quietly drop RT and I suspect there will be many more cases of such stealth censorship going forward. The trial balloons for such repressive measures always get floated at the margins — the American Oliver North groupie Cliff Kincaid of some ‘think tank’ called ‘Accuracy in Media’ is already advocating that the US ban not only RT but also Al-Jazeera which employs hundreds of American citizens in the U.S.
My thanks to whoever posted the Simon Black article on Scotland’s transition to independence and how it would work with passports, migration and the pound. I didn’t want the piece to get too long as my focus was on the spiritual origins of Scotland’s Celtic nationalism, the common symbolism with Novorossiya and the general idea of separation and devolution into smaller more governable spaces spreading like wildfire (hopefully) across Europe with consequences for the EU(SSR) as that Evil Empire crumbles.
Yes!
Bitter Together – What many of we Scots call the massive campaign being waged to frighten our simpler brethren. No bombs dropped on us here yet, though the journey is barely begun…
Better Together – The result of like minded people coming together in a shared, future vision. Free, and of our own making, with old friends and new.
The deep roots of Novorossiya’s St Andrew’s cross symbolises the inalienable rights of free people!
Please watch ‘My Generation’ – Contains the Bitter together message, and a clear rebuttal from half way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbW_AT64m8E
Avis la Fin (Until the End)
Good work, AK. You’ve put a lot of really interesting stuff together here and it’s very good food for thought. As an addendum, let me urge anyone who hasn’t seen these numbers yet, to take a good look at the role of Scottish North Sea oil in counterbalancing current UK deficits, bc it’s really rather eye-popping:
http://www.neweconomics.org/blog/entry/scottish-independence-uk-dependency
Otoh, I’m not so certain that many young British Muslims are going to fight for ISIS — whom we created, funded and armed, with a little help from some Middle Eastern friends. Those claims smell far more like a scare-tactic used to gin up support for going after Assad. Again.
And finally, while I’m wondering too if we might not do better breaking up along regional lines, I honestly don’t see the vast, vast majority of people of color in this country wanting to break away *at all*. Instead, they just want to be an equal part of us. We’re the ones who still can’t get comfortable with that, and we’re all of us weaker for it.
Too tired to write anything from here in sunny Scotland, great article AK, thanks. Here’s a good piece i read earlier by Irvine Welsh in Bella Caledonia. Buenas Nochas amigos
http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2014/09/08/labour-pains-labour-of-love/
Another fascinating read from American Kulak. History is indeed strange. Ireland’s 1916 rebels for example. They were despised by Dubliners at the time because their actions had led to widespread destruction when British forces bombarded the city. However, when the British prevailed militarily, they decided to execute the leaders of the Rising. These men then morphed into heroes and martyrs from amongst the general public , which of course paved the way to the War of Independence just a few years later. The new Irish state was fundamentally hostile to British interests which led to economic warfare in the 1930s and then neutrality in WW2 (although it was a form of pro-Allied neutrality in many respects).
I wonder though if an independent Scotland will really be independent. Even from the Yes campaign there has been a lot of reassurance that the country will in fact be a part of the EU AND NATO! I mean, come on! You want to be free of London but then jump into bed with Brussels & Washington??? Perhaps this is why the MSM, whilst being opposed to independence, hasn’t gone “full hate retard”like it has in relation to the Novorossiyans.
But if Scotland were to quit the UK, wouldn’t England then be again threatened by kilt wearing, bagpipe playing, woad covered barbarian Pictish hordes? The English would need to rebuild Hadrian’s Wall and send all those public school bois to man the battlements – and that could cause a lowering of real estate costs in London to decent levels. That would be a disaster to the London bankster cabal.
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AK
Regarding the USA splitting up, have you ever read a book called Ecotopia?
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/550165.Ecotopia
It’s a fictional novel about the west coast of the USA (north of LA) forming their own country from the POV of an American journalist who visits the new country after it’s independence. Sort of similar scenario as western journalists visiting a newly formed USSR in the 20’s and 30’s. It’s a lot of fun. My main objection in it was the inclusion of Washington state in the new country since Washington is much more like the flag waving midwest than the west coast in attitude and politics. They are also a main hub of ziofascist and fascist webtrolling, for some reason.
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There is an excellent opinion piece by George Monbiot in The Guardian (or preferably at his own blog) outlining the advantages of Scottish secession. He is, of course, too optimistic regarding the future of an independent Scotland, which will face the inevitable aggression of the global money power and the treachery of political opportunists, but the shock to the global over-class of such an act of insubordination by a bunch of serfs will be interesting to watch. I expect the punishment will be condign, and in my wildest dreams I see Scotland rushing to join BRICS, and use Chinese largesse to survive, then perhaps turning over the Trident submarine base to Russia. After all, unlike England, Russia never did Scotland any harm. It must be something I ate.
There is an excellent opinion piece by George Monbiot in The Guardian (or preferably at his own blog) outlining the advantages of Scottish secession. He is, of course, too optimistic regarding the future of an independent Scotland, which will face the inevitable aggression of the global money power and the treachery of political opportunists, but the shock to the global over-class of such an act of insubordination by a bunch of serfs will be interesting to watch. I expect the punishment will be condign, and in my wildest dreams I see Scotland rushing to join BRICS, and use Chinese largesse to survive, then perhaps turning over the Trident submarine base to Russia. After all, unlike England, Russia never did Scotland any harm. It must be something I ate.
“Catalan, Basque, northern Italian, and even Novorossiyan independence supporters are all backing Scottish independence on social media like Facebook and Twitter. The lone exception I’ve identified thus far being Graham W. Phillips.”
“All” is a very inclusive word. I would suggest that people’s support for various independence movements is very much a “it depends” sort of thing. I don’t know how I feel about Quebec independence and the Quebecois seem to have lost interest in it for now. Probably best to ask Graham himself about his feelings – yes, they are very likely feelings. He says he will support whatever decision the people of Scotland make.
There is also Brit MP George Galloway, who thinks that the line should be drawn, not between states, but between social classes, and that a united British people would be better able to defeat the 1%. I might be paraphrasing him badly.
Nora you are, in my opinion, quite correct. The whole IS charade is designed to fulfill the ‘Zionist Plan for the Middle East’ of Oded Yinon and multitudes of Zionazi planners, to destroy Iraq and Syria and smash them into fragments. The USA if it, completely illegally, bombs Syria without the Syrian Government’s approval, will find some excuse to turn on the Syrian armed forces. If no Syrian response eventuates, the West will invent one, as ever. Then, to the MSM’s surprise, it will be the ‘moderate opposition’ (ie jihadists under another alias) who will be bombed to victory, as in Libya, whereupon the same chaos and suffering that are engulfing Libya will consume Syria. The guffawing in Tel Aviv will be hard to miss, but the MSM insects will manage to do so, somehow.
Anonymous said: I wonder though if an independent Scotland will really be independent. Even from the Yes campaign there has been a lot of reassurance that the country will in fact be a part of the EU AND NATO! I mean, come on! You want to be free of London but then jump into bed with Brussels & Washington???
Excellently put.
Escape from Freedom
“Escape from Freedom, known as The Fear of Freedom outside North America, is a book by the Frankfurt-born psychologist and social theorist Erich Fromm. First published in the United States by Farrar & Rinehart in 1941, the book explores humanity’s shifting relationship with freedom, with particular regard to the personal consequences of its absence. Its special emphasis is the psychosocial conditions that facilitated the rise of Nazism.”
Best regards,
Mohamed.
A Warm welcome to American Kulak.
A fine opening piece -this contribution – to the Vineyard of the Saker This will help to relieve the pressures on Mr. Saker.
Looking forward to more of your articles and your insightful comments.
Cheers to Mr. Saker
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AM
American Kulak, have you read Ginna Husting’s 2007 paper on the term “conspiracy theory”? The whole paper is paywalled but the abstract, just one simple paragraph, ought to be read by every human as a most liberating relief from MSM/bourgeois gaslighting.
Espina,
Hope you’re rested; I’m sure there’s a lot of work to be done and it’s almost crunch-time. That piece was terrific! It gives a very good view of it all for people not part of it — and of course I just loved this part:
“I’ve been greatly inspired by the post-devolution generation, and their pragmatic thinking on the issue of independence. I believe they have enabled an emotionally backward and immature country (as all countries, by definition must be, when they are governed from elsewhere) to grow up and move forward. It’s this generation who have given us phase three of the independence debate: beautiful, wonderful phase three, which says that it doesn’t matter who is to ‘blame’, the important thing is to fix it.”
Excellent essay AK.
Almost every time I write the word “Anglo-Zionist” I feel like a dick. I know its use offends the sensibilities of many and despite my insistence on doing so, it’s something I would prefer to avoid. I sense the same turmoil in many.
Atlanticist is another of the many words which has been stripped of its most essential meanings, conotations and therefore fits perfectly into the world of mainstream and consensus reality discourse: which is why I dislike it so much. I think it delivers the mind of a reader into the same pot of slowly boiling water that is the very definition of Western Liberal Democracy.
In the days of communism, Russian ideals — or what were perceived as Russian ideals, i.e. communism, inspired people around the world. In a sense the Bolsheviks used one of Russian civilizations most essential qualities, of tolerance for diversity, and hijacked it for the purposes of the so-called ‘global revolutionary struggle.’ Those people have today devolved into full on globalist liberals.
Recent events have allowed Russia to resume her role in this unique position, leading the world by inspiration, only this time it is in support of all the people marginalized by Liberalism. I am profoundly optimistic about what this means for all of humanity. Finally we have a nation that is willing to represent the local people against the marauding parasites of globalism. I sincerely hope we remain mindful of the nature of our struggle and how it affects everything and everyone. It is not Anglo-Zionist values which are universal but rather those of Russian civilization. I hope the people of Scotland can be inspired to be courageous and vote Yes to independence. In doing so they will be assisting Russia with the creation of a better world order based on the more spiritual values of Russian civilization.
Excellent and thought provoking write up AK. Thank you.
Extraordinary contribution, AK.
I am looking forward to another one in the not too distant future.
Good to know that Business Insider continues its downward spiral. I stopped reading it right on the Sochi Winter Olympics closing day, and will never touch it again.
” The Barclay Twins’ Daily Telegraph ignores it entirely, in favour of more nonsense about a Buck Palace intervention, and an entire page devoted to telling the Scots that Yes = Doooom.
The FT dropped the story overnight. The Dacre Mail is a poll-free zone. Nothing in the Express. Zilch in the Guardian. Fanny Adams in the Independent.
Yes folks, the lead story this morning in Britain’s press media is….Apple’s new phone. “
http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2014/09/10/scotsvote-breaking-big-westminster-three-race-to-rescue-yes-lead-doubles-to-eight-points/
The details of the poll can be found here
http://barker.co.uk/scotlandpoll
@Nora: And finally, while I’m wondering too if we might not do better breaking up along regional lines, I honestly don’t see the vast, vast majority of people of color in this country wanting to break away *at all*. Instead, they just want to be an equal part of us. We’re the ones who still can’t get comfortable with that, and we’re all of us weaker for it.
Dearest Nora,
It will have nothing to do with people of color.
It will have to do with religion and religious values versus those who are breaking down the religion and religious values.
Best regards,
Mohamed.
Mohamed,
The problem with that is that altogether too many white folk upholding traditional religious values, uh, are upholding an utterly perverted, heretical version (Christian Zionist fundamentalism) that focuses on the OT and, bluntly, altogether too many of them tend to be racist as hell. They’ll disguise it (“It’s blacks who are the real racists” or “entitled” or whatever other rot they’ve been taught to say) but the last thing on earth these folks can genuinely handle is a level playing field. My guess is that’s bc they’re scared to death they’d lose.
@American Kulak,
First, we would like to thank you for th e kind mention in one of your comments. But, the credit re: tbe RT issue here was actually brought to our attention by “E” within one of our comment threads who presumbly also mentioned it here. For that reason we must give credit where credit is due. Sadly our interwebz infrastructure is piss poor and many have dumped Bell along with the other various cable providers ’cause they are profiteering globalist capitalistic vulture whores in disguise. As far as our interwebz infrasrructure, since most is “piped” via the US thanks to NAFTA, most are unable to effectively view live streams and instead rely upon the ever buffering ytubes, etc. Added to the level of opaquely secretive and subversive Harper Regime interference, this makes the “issue” hard to verify.
Secondly, (maybe it should have been typed first actually, but waddya do, eh? decisions, decisions, lol), thx for your excellent overview and tie into the bigger picture and broader context!
Lastly, but certainly not least by any means, we would like to appeal to you if we may. Since the topic and gist of your article has created some serious dialog amongst many here, would you possibly consider crafting a similar article or revision of sorts for our audience and domestic consumption?
Your way of connecting the dots seems like a good fit within the way we have been building our case vs the contemptuous Harper Regime and their fanatical Loyalists, Monarchists and apologists. If so please let us know as it would be most welcomed by many.
The discussions some of us had were fascinating to say the least and it would seem as if the message were not specially targeted to the Vineyard, it could be spread further up here amongst various segments, especially Veterans, First Nations, non-Euros and the Francs, who can relate and resonate as well as translate the message.
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Feel free to contact us and keep in mind that since we are always seeking contributors, we can consider providing an authors account to you (and any others that may be so inclined from Canuckistan) to make it easier to publish articles and summaries that might assist us in our endeavours to expose and remove the likes of the Harper Regime and their zioneocon ilk.
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A few comments by a Frenchie about Marine Le Pen, and a bit about Venetia and Lombardia.
I have been knowing the Front national, Marine Le Pen’s party, for more than ten years and by then, it was as a whole, a party where, like at its origins, many tendencies were rather free although in fact serving Jean-Marie Le Pen’s, Marine’s father, more than their own causes (several branches of monarchists, several religions but mainly Catholics, ancient WW2 resistants, even Charles De Gaulle, a grandson of the statesman… and a tiny minority of “Nouvelle Droite”, who already flirted dangerously with neo-nazism). They were nationalists, that is, a bit excessively patriotic, I would say, but I never met there with racism or antisemitism (antizionism sometimes, although most were not interested); but I didn’t know any of the “Nouvelle Droite” among them, only knew there were.
Then, in 2007, Marine Le Pen took the power in the party.
She had the support of the Nouvelle Droite and in two waves, 2007 and 2009, she expelled the great majority of “traditional non-fascist, Catholic members” and others “not hateful enough”.
Of course, for such high facts, she became much more “frequentable” to the mainstream media and her popularity soared, while her troops were becoming like Praviy Sektor dudes, at least on the Web, with all racism and antisemitism you can guess.
In 2012, she required her troops to vote for François Hollande, and asked her “mere voters” not to vote, which made elect Hollande. Her purpose was to win in 2017 on a ruined France, rather than to lose in 2017 in a sick but not ruined France.
About Ukraine, I do not think she is sincere because I know her no sincerity. Of course everybody can make amends but it is rare in politics… Political affinities would have made her chose the Ukies, but political shrewdness made her know she is more successful in opposing mainstream ideas whichever they are, and guess this time, mainstream may not be the winning choice…
These may be the reasons of President Putin’s defiance towards her.
Instead, President Putin gave an interview to Philippe de Villiers, another former presidential candidate, from traditional, Catholic, anti-European-integration right-wing, who is now a successful county-ruler and scarcely more, but who is much less unable to be, even a President, than Marine Le Pen or François Hollande.
Now, for Venitians and Lombardians.
In Middle-Ages, they were exactly what AngloZionists are in present world, provoking wars, famines, crises as they wanted.
In XIXth Century they were underdevelopped, unlike the Two Sicilias Kingdom. They invaded this pacific, prosperous kingdom, dismantled plants to rebuild them in the North, and made reign the terror; for instance, a person “suspected of neutrality” could be killed immediately!
The result was the ruin of the South, and the South has not recovered yet, still under the evil influence of what has become Rome.
And now they want the separation, but keeping the money…
It is a bit as if the Novorussians had not had military culture and Russian (even limited) support, had been invaded, all their riches stolen by Ukies, mass murders, ethnic cleansing etc, and after that, the Ukies would declare the East is a country of beggars they could spare…
Is it fair?
TR
If terms like “Anglo-Zionist” and “Zionist” are acceptable in describing Western elites then why not “Jewish interests,” which reflects the real horseman behind our current Western apocalypse? If we are going to use ethnic identifiers in describing our elites why is mentioning this one particular ethnicity taboo?
When I look around me at the West, it seems it is primarily Jewish or Jewish-affiliated interests that are creating, promoting and propagandizing most of the evils. I am not sure where “Anglos” fit into this picture except as paid-for stooges or lesser players in the Western elite. There is a “Conservative (and Labour) Friends of Israel” in the UK, but no Likud Friends of the UK (or US) in Israel, rather reflecting the real power dynamic between these entities.
I am not trying to say Jewish elites have a monopoly on evil or that all Jews are part of a cabal that serves the interests of financial gangsterism or benefits from it–far from it. Jews are often as much the victims of the predations of the Jewish elite as everyone else. But can’t the same be said of “Anglos?” People of English descent are hardly a monolith acting with one mind, either.
But it does seem that Jewish interests are the dominant players in our Western ruling class. Is it wrong to say this?
The term “Anglo-Zionist,” is simultaneously over-broad (Anglo) and not broad enough (Zionist).
The term “Zionist” implies all the evils of the West are perpetrated in the name of Israel, because that is what a Zionist is: a supporter of Israel. But Israel for all its evil and the barbarism being perpetrated on its behalf in the Mideast is nothing more than a pirate base for Jewish elites to flee to in the event the pitchfork militia finally shows up at their door. The abuses of the Jewish elite extend far beyond Israel’s borders.